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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
1
Memphis dispatch reports Kemper County and Scooba violence with at least five killed and troops deployed. Incidents spread from Wahalak and Crawford to Artesia and Scooba as Governor Vardaman orders peace. A separate Congo report cites inhuman practices, urging reform and U S moral support for ending abuses.
Washington December 26 officials said a letter from J Pierpont Morgan Dr Lyman Abbott and other New York notables to Secretary Root urging U S moral support to correct alleged abuses in the Congo Free State would be considered along with similar communications The group asked Belgium be urged to act more vigorously at a New York meeting Morgan Abbott and others appealed to Root for attention to conditions in the Congo Free State in a public letter reported yesterday
London dispatch reports two inches of snow across the metropolis with deep drifts hindering mail distribution and railway traffic. Coastal blizzards cause several schooner wrecks as storms continue to lash the coast.
Arch-Duke Leopold Salvator who abandoned his titles four years ago and wed Wilhelmine Adamovic near Geneva now seeks divorce. The reports also note King Oscar’s temperature has fallen but heart and lungs remain unchanged.
Vice Grand Master Shea of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen says he will present peonage charges to Labor Commissioner Neill tomorrow in Houston alleging the Southern Pacific Railroad forced African American workers to serve as firemen against their will. SP officials deny delays, stating trains run on schedule.
Fire in Perry Iowa from a defective lighting system destroys three business blocks. Loss estimated at 100000 with extensive damage to nearby buildings and a ruined law library in Denver era article notes. Other fires in Decatur Indiana and Newport News Virginia add to holiday season blazes. grand jury indictments in New York Life matter loom as legal actions proceed.
In New York on December 26 a quarrel between two grooms at a fashionable riding academy on East Fifty-eighth Street led to a duel with pitchforks. James Cassidy struck Thomas Connelly with a fork, piercing his eye and brain and causing likely fatal injuries. The dispute centered on tip money from patrons.
Havana December 26 Julio Auza a policeman who kept his money in an ash barrel with no fear that it would be disturbed has lost his hoard of 1500 dollars The barrel was emptied yesterday and the ashes taken away with the money inside
The New York tug I. J. Merritt reports losing a barge at sea near Delaware Breakwater with uncertain number of men aboard. Also notes a riot in Bucharest between Zionists and anti Jews injuring several people. A Topeka Christmas brawl left one dead, one fatally wounded, and two seriously hurt. The shah’s death is expected at any hour in Teheran.
In Chicago on December 26, defense lawyers pressed to admit prior controversy between Montgomery Ward & Co. and garment workers, predating the strike by the teamsters. The state objected, and Judge Ball ruled that evidence about the dispute could be admitted but not about the merits of the trouble.
In Sturgis Union county, three men were killed and four wounded, two fatally, after a downtown street battle between guards for West Kentucky Coal company and striking miners. The miners have been on strike for a year while nonunion workers were employed. sheriff and deputies rush to the scene to prevent further trouble.
Japanese workers at the Charter Oak ranch irrigation reservoirs near Colorado Springs quit in a dispute over overseer Alexander Ronconvitch. The force demands either a Japanese overseer or Russian workers to resume, delaying operations.
Attorney General Young of Minnesota filed action to stop the Great Northern Railroad from issuing stock recently authorized by its New York board of directors. He seeks a restraining order against receiving or collecting on subscriptions and blocking actions to implement the issue until written application to and consent from the railroad and warehouse commission is obtained. The suit requests a temporary injunction pendente lite.
Ha vana dispatch reports Governor Magoon investigating a planned February insurrection by Japanese in Cuba, the Philippines, and Hawaii, prompted by a Cuban official who overheard five Japanese discussing a simultaneous revolt among Afro Cubans. Washington dismisses the claim as absurd.
Washington dispatch notes the bureau of manufactures offers samples to American manufacturers aiming to capture trade in the orient and other regions. Items include cotton yarns, belts, braids, handkerchiefs, gloves, laces, toweling, and clogs hardware from Edinburgh. Samples come from China, Japan, India, Australia, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa, and South America.
Chicago dispatch reports Sergeant Griffin fatally shot Corporal William Taylor during a hand to hand quarrel over a woman at Fort Sheridan during the Christmas feast. Witnesses speculate on how Black soldiers will testify given the Brownsville precedent. Major Macomb reported no further discipline issues.
Despondent over his wife’s death a year earlier, Peter Medio a contractor in Minneapolis hanged himself with a rope near Minnehaha Falls. He tied one rope end to a tree, looped the other over a limb and stepped forward to strangulate himself, ending his life.
Paris reports the first instance of a church closure under the separation law. Oscay, Sur Indre, mayor orders the cure to leave both presbytery and church, with communal authorities to take over. The move sparks controversy over legality.
In Columbus on December 26 a worker identified as H D Van Kirk fell into a sponge dough mixer while feeding it. He was pulled free after the machine turned, suffering fatal injuries described as crushed bones. The incident ends with his death confirmed.
Washington reports repairs on the Colorado River break just across the Mexican California line have begun. Work follows instructions from H. Harriman to mitigate damage feared in the Imperial and Colorado valleys.
Washington reports from Havana indicate unsettled affairs in parts of Cuba with lawless bands pillaging in Santa Clara. General Bell orders reinforcements for the garrison as native troops prove powerless to quell disorders. General Bell and General Wint, set to succeed him, tour the island assessing military needs amid potential disturbances.
In Washington on December 26 a car owned by Joseph Letter struck Samuel West, 14, a colored boy, near Fourteenth Street and Columbia Road. Witnesses say a street car halted, Graff and his son followed, but the auto approached and struck West, crushing his head. the coroner’s jury called it an unavoidable accident and chauffeur Charles H. Raymond was released.
An interurban train from Seattle collided with a work train a mile north of Milton, Tacoma. Four people were killed and 12 injured, including conductor Ross. A flagman attempted to stop the passenger train but failed.
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train traveling about 70 miles per hour derailed three miles east of Defiance Ohio as rails spread. The coach turned over into the ditch. Three passengers were injured but none severely. Also in Denison Texas Rev T K Crowley of St Patrick’s church collapsed and died while preparing to celebrate Mass.
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