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Newspaper
Postville Review
Location
Postville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1906
Page
1
News from Russia reports renewed unrest with a Cronstadt revolt threatening the czar, a broad call to arms from deputies, and a failing general strike as workers' councils try to discipline rail workers. Also noted: political campaigns in South Carolina, Illinois and Chicago results, and various international incidents.
Domestic notes recounts imply Daniel R Wesson’s fortune linked to an aged gun maker’s death. Roosevelt to join coyote drive in Oklahoma. F E Coyne, ex Chicago postmaster, bankrupt over political aims. Lestershire NY post office robbed of 31000. John Mitchel hanged in Dyersburg. Lutheran Cleveland church reference. Adee on eight hour rule. J P Morgan aided swimmer in New York harbor. Pierce named American minister to Norway arrives Christiania. William E Wildher hanged in Lexington for murder. Passenger arrivals noted.
Nathan M. Riggs writes his mother from Elroy Wisconsin claiming innocence after arrest for the Minneapolis murder of Millie Ellison. He laments his wife and child and predicts possible death by his own hand, insisting circumstantial evidence cannot prove guilt.
Topeka August 11 Kansas moves to prosecute alleged miller and lumber combines. Attorney general holds evidence and will seek subpoenas for grain men to obtain further evidence from their books.
Washington August 11 Treasury Department received a telegram from Captain Hamlet of the revenue cutter Theatis reporting a new island birth, details pending, with dispatch awaiting further confirmation and location.Downtown officials cautioned readers awaiting official coordinates and nautical notes.
Hamlet reports visiting the Bogoslot group about July 20 and believes a new island emerged around July 10. He could not approach closely due to lava issuing from fissures, placing the event about 160 miles northwest of Unalaska.
Toledo authorities announce federal probes into the ice trust and railroads linked to it. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Clements and possibly Commissioner Cockrell will visit next Tuesday for hearings. President Roosevelt has followed the Toledo case after Judge Kinkaid sentenced the ice men. Special Agent Walter of the commission had recently gathered evidence on ties to the Ann Arbor and Pierre Marquette railways.
Vienna reports the sultan’s indisposition led to yesterday’s selamlik cancellation as foreign representatives fled the scene and troops were dispersed. It is said the sultan must undergo an operation and may have already done so, a development that has stirred deep concern among observers.
Scranton Aug 11 announcement that the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad will soon dispense with all telegraphers on its system and will control train movements with an automatic block signal system and added telephone facilities.
Miss Cynthia BE Webster of Oneida waited at Hobart church for the wedding of James W. Silas to proceed. Silas, son of a prominent Oneida family, vanished the morning of the ceremony after his father received a letter offering no explanation. Silas, a Haskell School graduate and former Northwestern railroad fireman, and Webster, a government school teacher, drew concern as relatives and the Oneida community searched for him.
Fourteen miners were killed when a rope broke as a cart descended in the Renard mine near Sielce in Prussian Silesia on Saturday.
Secretary Root arrived aboard the Charleston to a scene of overwhelming popular support. Crowds packed vantage points, cheered "long live Secretary Root" and "long live the republic," as Edward C. O'Brien met the party and a reception at government house followed a military parade and gala theater.
In Montevideo on August 12, Secretary of State Root was greeted by cheering crowds during an auto tour, municipal reception, and a banquet by President Ordonez. He praised Monroe’s assertion that Latin Americans can govern themselves and urged friendship and peace to advance order and prosperity.
Washington August 11 The navy department has ordered a court of inquiry to determine responsibility for the grounding of the collier Nero on Block Island. The vessel carried a civilian master and crew but was government property, so fault must be fixed or those in charge exonerated if no blame attaches.
Paul Neumann of Sturgeon Bay, a dredge worker in Manitowoc Wisconsin, found a clam shell unearthed by the dredge scoop containing a near perfect silver gray pearl valued between fifty and one hundred dollars.
Cole Head of Mining Institute Calpmet Mich Aug 11 Thomas F Cole of Duluth was elected president of the Lake Superior Mining Institute.
A light breakfast causes distress for a teacher until she switched to Postum and Grape Nuts with cream. She credits a hot cup and cereal with stabilizing digestion, improved energy, and a ten pound weight gain after years of indigestion. She endorses the product with testimonial tone and urges reading The Road to Wellville.
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