All Kinds of Supplies Needed for Schmitz Rush
Wires and all essential materials are urgently required to support Schmitz. Request issued to expedite delivery of tools and equipment for immediate use.
30 Apr 1906
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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1906
Page
1
Wires and all essential materials are urgently required to support Schmitz. Request issued to expedite delivery of tools and equipment for immediate use.
Des Moines reports Mayor Schmitz urging rapid donations of funds clothing and provisions for San Francisco sufferers. Honolulu notes Red Cross funds sent and a Pacific yacht race to San Francisco. experts discuss financing the city with U S government insured bonds to aid reconstruction after earthquakes.
Athens April 30 Paul Pilgrim of the New York Athletic club won the final 400 meter race in 53 15 seconds and J D Lightbody of Chicago university took first in the 1500 meter in 4 minutes 12 seconds Eruption in Iceland Edinburgh April 30 steamers report Mount Hecla eruption not serious Manila April 20 Moros on Samar encounter with Pulajanes killed 20 of the latter
April 20. Police arrest M. Griffnelhe secretary general of the Confederation of Labor and organizer of May day demonstrations M Bibert a newspaper man and Major Fouillant a Bonapartist. Count Durant D Beauregard taken at Nice. Arrests also at other places. Charged with complicity in rebellion and intrigue with anarchists.
Gol a former assistant chief of the First National bank of Milwaukee was found guilty by a U S district court jury on 19 counts. The misapplications totaled about 250000 with false entries and embezzlement cited. Telegram-related counts were dismissed. He was remanded to the U S marshal.
Two Knox county towns Rapatee and De Long suffered safeblowing raids over consecutive nights. In Rapatee a safe was blown open. in De Long the post office safe was raided and $100 in government money stolen.
The National Educational Association executive committee canceled the San Francisco session set for July and announced no meeting will occur until next year with date and place to be decided later. Henry C. Rouse, chairman of the Missouri Kansas Texas Railway board, died in Cleveland at 56 from pneumonia.
In Chicago on April 30 Dowie, exhausted but claiming renewed control of his Zion institution, addressed two meetings while Voliva led a large open air gathering. Dowie’s wife and son accompanied him, marking a notable family moment amid tension with Voliva. Governor Pardee acknowledged Rock Island’s generosity for California’s earthquake relief, with further dispatches detailing ongoing needs and relief challenges in San Francisco.
Rock Island three banks accept subscriptions for San Francisco relief. The Rock Island National Peoples National and State Bank posted donations totaling 88 67 percent with new amounts added since drafts to Governor Pardee. The Barber Union added 25 to a direct grant, lifting the union’s total contribution to relief funds. A Y M C A mass meeting followed in the afternoon.
A Panama isthmus correspondent recalls walking the rail line from the Atlantic to the Pacific in seven days. He notes Paraiso Miraflores Corozal as stops, describes canal zone sanitation, the Miraflores insane department, and a disputed Corozal hotel site with abandoned piers and drainage issues.
In Cleveland and Washington a flurry of relief requests and funding actions unfold. Hearst urges Congress to provide 2.5 million for California after the earthquake, while San Francisco relief drives push donations through Royal Neighbors and Rock Island lines. Additional items note navy and post service needs at Mare Island and a push for a 50 million annual river and harbor bill.
Boston opens the 17th annual congress of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution with strong national representation. The conference runs from April 30 through tomorrow with all sections of the country well represented.
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania dates unknown, miners elect delegates to Scranton convention to decide on striking amid union recognition demands. Mines report more workers and potential resumption after the miners convention, with several coal firms warning wage and condition terms May 1. In Carmel Pennsylvania two clashes leave a miner fatally wounded as strikers clash with state troopers.
Washington reports on April 20 say Secretary Bonaparte, then at home in Baltimore, is believed ill and possibly threatened with pneumonia. By April 30, Bonaparte is confined to his Baltimore residence with acute indigestion, doctors say not serious.
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