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Newspaper
Rock Island Argus
Location
Rock Island, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1906
Page
1
The Senate approved a lock canal plan by 36 to 31 and asserted the president has authority under the Spooner act to build a lock canal. Also, a direct vote on senators was defeated 89 to 86, while a baggage checking bill for interstate carriers passed the House, aiming to curb railroads' ticket practices.
London June 21 Miss Billington Miss Kenny and three other Militant Women Suffragists were arrested for creating a disturbance outside Chancellor Asquith's house. Billington fined 50 or two months imprisonment and said she would become a martyr. Hearing of other cases adjourned.
In San Francisco a suit seeks an injunction against a city relief committee claiming a conspiracy to misuse relief funds. Alva Udell William Howard and Dr. F Pearce represent 10000 homeless refugees and seek trusteeship over the funds. In New York Paurne Hall, comic opera star, and sister were injured in a railroad accident near Yonkers with others bruised but uninjured.
Saginaw Michigan June 21. Woodbridge N Ferris of Big Rapids declines the gubernatorial nomination citing lack of public enthusiasm. Bangor Maine June 21 Cyrus W Davis of Waterville nominated for governor by acclamation at the Democratic state convention, with a platform focused largely on state issues.
St. Louis reports Mayor F W Brown of Lincoln Neb in talks to organize the official welcome for William J Bryan on his homecoming from a world tour. Bryan arrives Aug 29 in New York. Brown argues Lincoln should host the welcome with Colonel Moses C Wetmore, Bryan’s Missouri friend, set to join in Europe July 5 and return with him.
Springfield dispatch reports the Supreme Court denying a motion to file a fuller record in the Ivens murder case. Gov Deneen and the state pardons board heard Foltz’s bid for a stay of execution to October next to allow full presentation at the next term. Also notes American Rider First at London races and a 14 percent wage rise for Fall River cotton operatives affecting about 25,000 workers.
A sprawling set of notices from June 21 recounts varied events. King Haakon VII welcomed a special American embassy to his coronation in Trondhjem while William J Bryan arrived for the ceremony. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with their children, were greeted aboard the Victoria and Albert and salutes from British and Norwegian forces followed. Separate reports cover a sharpened legal battle in Peoria over insanity claims in the McKinney case, a push by Illinois pharmacists to curb dope sales, a sighting of a sunken steamer in Lake Huron, and political developments in St Petersburg including parliamentary probes and mutinous incidents.
Milford Ohio June 21 After simple funeral services attended by high state officials party associates and friends from all parts of the country the body of John M Pattison late governor of Ohio was this afternoon consigned to the grave his family alone being present at the grave At noon the residence was opened to the public and for two hours a steady swarm of home people and state visitors kept passing the casket in which the governor lay until 2 when the funeral services took place.
Lincoln June 21 The Nebraska supreme court quashed the bill of exceptions in the Bartley defalcation case ruling the state cannot recover 500000 from former State Treasurer Joseph S Bartley who served 1893 to 1896 The decision ends the state s bid to recover the funds on procedural grounds.
Disowned by John Murray Dowie the elder arrives in Chicago from Essex Iowa with birth proofs to refute his son John Alexander Dowie claims. He carries two antique valises and a laundry item, noting a 21 year age gap and resembling his son. Dowie says a court will confirm paternity, while John Alexander testifies he is not his father.
Springfield June 21 Mae C Adkinson a young woman from a prominent family is dying from burns after a gas line stove exploded. She had vanished from home three weeks ago and her parents did not know her whereabouts until she identified herself while being taken to a hospital from the wrecked house.
Paris reports the foreign office says China signed a treaty to satisfy France over the Yan Cheng massacre of six Jesuit missionaries in Kiang Si province. China pays 200000 in demnity to the missions and 400000 to their families, builds a memorial hospital, and punishes the rioters' ringleaders. Anthony Trude of Sterling Ill reports his father died in Montreal at 116. his mother had died at 119.
Washington reports summarize yesterday's Senate and House actions. Senate debated meat inspection and Panama Canal topics. sundry civil appropriation near 102 million with a night session. House passed bills on president travel expenses and insular bureau rank, but failed direct senatorial vote. Conference reports on major appropriation measures approved. pure food bill rule set for today. Adjourned 5:30 p m.
The Bald Eagle’s propeller shaft snapped before daylight near Hardin Illinois. The steamer tumbled in the Mississippi current with nearly a hundred passengers aboard and a panic ensued. Officers restrained passengers from jumping overboard until the vessel was landed.
Former Missouri Secretary of State Sam B. Cook won a $50,000 verdict against the St. Louis Post Dispatch over a libel suit. The article alleged criminal neglect in not reporting a bank failure tied to Cook’s friendship with a bank president. In a separate dispatch four convicts were killed during a mutiny at Angola state convict farm in Louisiana.
Chicago officials announce completion of a positive block system over 4000 miles of main lines. The final sections between Kansas City and Cornell Bluffs and lines west of the Missouri river are now equipped. Trains occupy six to eight mile blocks with telegraph operators on duty. a train cannot enter a block until clear. Collisions become almost impossible.
Alfred Millard cashier of a major Omaha bank was confirmed by the city council as pound master and dog catcher. Millard, president of the Nebraska Humane Society, said he would elevate the office with greater respect and treat animals with more consideration. Two killed in Calumet mine shaft accident near Quincy mine. Court of Honor delegates elected Taylor Frier and J L McCord to attend the national fraternal congress in Montreal August 2.
One hundred prominent Sioux Falls women seized the moment to jail Mrs Emma Kaufmann over the Agnes Potters murder case. The mob threatened lynching as authorities hurried a rushed hearing ending in Mrs Kaufmann being jailed. She faces a murder trial in November in connection with alleged severe beating of Potters at the Kaufmann home.
Black and Tan of Des Moines won first in the state paid fire department race at Clinton Iowa for 400 dollars with a 1 minute 18 and 4-5 seconds time. Jack and Jack of Des Moines did not finish due to a coupler fall. Nine teams competed. Jack and Jim of Council Bluffs took second in 1 19 3-5. Charley and Mike of Sioux City were third in 1 20. Tom and Jerry of Clinton started on an alarm with no time recorded. Neola hose company won the straightaway hub hose race in 0 27 4-5 at 250 yards with cart. West Branch placed second. Marion won best appearing company. Muscatine first for largest company.
Illinois board of health adopts a resolution requiring nine months of study in chemistry biology physics and languages for medical college entrants in addition to grammar and high school work. The new lengthens the medical course to a full year and takes effect January 1 1910.
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