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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1906
Page
1
Reports from Moscow dated January 1 indicate the December uprising is fading as white flags fly over Presna district factories and troops occupy the area. Government vows to crush any renewed revolt, with details of heavy bombardment at Prokharoff mill and mass arrests as repression intensifies.
Fritz Bor chart, 54, a grave digger at St Matthew's cemetery in St Louis, has been detained at the city hospital after seeming to converse with unseen spirits. He raved about the dead and claimed a sacrilege for using a profane word, then heard spirits demand silence for a sea days period.
Boise authorities arrest a Caldwell man suspected of killing former Gov. Stennenberg. Bombs used in the plot, dynamite traces found, and a $10,000 reward offered by Shoshone County. The funeral is likely in Boise with the body in the capitol building.
In Oelwein Iowa Mrs Lou Carr lies in critical condition after two bullets pierced her heart while her husband a barber named Carr died within an hour. A 15 year old boy from a prior marriage is blamed for domestic troubles fueling the deadly incident. Police investigate who fired the fatal shots as Carr had just moved from Des Moines two years ago.
Louisville dispatch reports Kentucky lieutenant governor Thorne publicly offered to resign if Gov Beckham seeks the US Senate. Beckham’s candidacy could unlock a stubborn Kentucky deadlock as Democratic caucuses loom. The piece notes rival leaders Blackburn Paynter and Haldeman factions and a shifting House race context.
Mayor George B. McClellan started his second term proclaiming a goal of clean, efficient, honest government. He swore in new department heads including Gen. Theodore A. Bingham as police commissioner and warned that he may remove officials failing to meet his standards. He called the current post likely his last public office.
Jan 1 Peoria reports reveal former school superintendent Dougherty in Joliet serving time now linked to embezzlement surpassing 1 million dollars. Everett Audit findings show 600 thousand plus defalcations over seven years with ten more years under review. Bank of Peoria National may cover losses, risking stockholders. Censures target current and former school board members and prominent local businessmen.
Washington dispatches report near term clash as rebels in Monte Cristi take surrender from Gen Perez and Dominican gunboat Independen cia anchors off Puerto Plata. Officials in Washington see unsettled but quiet conditions with potential for a clash of contending interests.
Washington observes New Year with lavish White House reception as President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt greet thousands. Miss Eleanor Roosevelt and Mr Longworth mingle in the East Room amid bright weather and orchids. The Roosevelts return to Washington after a Pine Knob trip, arriving amid fog and travel delays.
A St Louis report exposes a scheme around Miss Wilhelmina Busch and Lieut Eduard Scharrer. Scharrer allegedly sought a $1,000,000 dowry to wed, provoking Adolphus Busch to reject the match. Elopement to Belleville draws scrutiny as Scharrer faces public and familial backlash.
In Indianapolis the fifth trial of Receiver E. E. Stevenson against John C. New and J C Wright ended with a jury verdict for the defendants. The suit, tied to the sale of First National Bank stock to Indiana Banking Company, has dragged on for 20 years with prior trials unsettled. An appeal may follow if a new trial is denied. A separate report notes a Brockton Massachusetts fire at Main and Ward streets causing $200 000 in losses with the City theatre saved but damaged by water.
In a Martha Washington hotel parlor Miss Martha Craig told about 50 women and a few men that death could be eradicated through scientific study of vibrations. She said humans can dissolve their bodies with electric flame, and claimed Newtonian gravity is wrong, proposing propulsion instead. She touted reincarnation and demonstrated a wireless instrument to prove the body is not purely material.
James A Callis a six year old boy who calls himself a retired capitalist has learned to burn designs into wood. He decorated his home with burnt wood pieces and began a coffin project for himself ending the lid with an inscription At Rest and lid motifs of lilies of the valley. His unique coffin is described as probably the only one of its kind in the world.
Rockefeller's church men's club plans a New Year outreach in Cleveland redlight districts beneath a brass band sacred music aim to win converts amid rising oil prices. Also a Lake Erie and Western eastbound passenger train collided with a box car near Bloomington, causing engine damage but no injuries.
Fragmented report describes an Alaskan millionaire in personal crisis in Frisco. It mentions self harm by razor and references Dawson, Michigan, and a notable ball player from Kansas City, with incomplete lines about a poisoning incident and an aged individual.
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