President Visits Arkansas at Little Rock Welcome Event
The president arrives in Arkansas for a welcome event at Little Rock. Local officials host the ceremony, thanking the guest and outlining state priorities for the visit.
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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1905
Page
1
The president arrives in Arkansas for a welcome event at Little Rock. Local officials host the ceremony, thanking the guest and outlining state priorities for the visit.
President Roosevelt and party arrived from Birmingham amid a cheering Arkansas welcome. In Argenta they were greeted by Senators Berry and Clark Governor Davis and Judge Treiber before visiting Fort Roots. En route to the city hall the president was cheered from crowded streets and at the park speakers stand he gave thanks for the cordial reception.
Senator Elkins, chair of the Senate committee on interstate commerce, calls a November 21 meeting to review summer testimony on railroad rate regulation and to consider reporting a bill. The panel has gathered extensive data and plans to work through the opening of Congress, likely beyond December 4, with Senator Foraker’s bill also to be reviewed.
Three men robbed the private Harvey Hoag Bank of Barker in Niagara County early today. They cut telephone wires, blew the safe, and fled with gold. Hoag later recovered 2800 dollars in bills found near the bank.
New York October 26 Emory McClintock actuary of Mutual Life Insurance resumed testimony before the insurance investigating committee. McClin t Iock is cited as a key expert in the technical examination of policy and reserve matters.
Tock testified at Tengih about the details of the life insurance technical phases, outlining procedures and standards. The testimony covers policy structure, beneficiary designations, and risk assessment methods used in the life policy process.
Jerry Simpson's body was laid to rest at Maple Grove cemetery after Masonic rites at the Scottish Rite temple. Congressman Victor Murdock delivered the address paying tribute to his predecessor in Congress.
Patrick McGrath of Chester ton Indiana bet to wake up the town in ten minutes. He jumped an engine, pulled the throttle, and crashed into a freight train, injuring four Italians. He was jailed with minor injuries.
A seven story tenement at Grand and Moit streets in New York was rocked by a dynamite blast placed on a ground floor butcher shop steps. The explosion panicked hundreds of tenants. the shop was wrecked while most of the building suffered only window damage. Dr Vincenzo Seltro, whose office is in the building, said the device likely targeted him after receiving threatening letters demanding money and a warning of Black Hand vengeance.
Terre Haute Indiana October 26 three trainmen were seriously injured when a freight engine exploded at Jackson yards north of the city. Several railroad cars were wrecked in the blast.
Obituaries report Mrs. Sarah Watson Andrews dying at 102 in Silver Springs New York and Charles T. Searle of California the St. Petersburg dentist succumbing to typhoid. Wisconsin women’s clubs hold their convention in Kenosha with 150 delegates as the national Baptist convention gathers in Chicago with 3,000 attendees. Eighty miners at Alta mines Telluride Colorado strike over union card rules. Howard Elliott of Northern Pacific calls rail harmony intact amid rumors of a split. Henry S. Storrs of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern dies in Cleveland at 57.
Oscar Mosthier, 25, employed at the Swift & Co refinery on South Street Paul, was fatally injured when he became entangled in machine belting and drawn into the equipment at work.
Madison reports that the mystery of cut ropes freeing rowboats on Lake Monona is solved. Investigators accuse muskrats of gnawing ropes, with a watchful vandalism suspect previously under scrutiny.
Rail stoppages grip Europe as half the continent experiences a general strike. Moscow faces fuel and water shortages while St Petersburg remains connected to Finland. Social Democrats gain leverage as government troops cannot be moved, with clashes reported and famine relief disrupted.
Five men in black masks robbed Abraham Fox's Seventh Avenue shop in broad day light as matinee crowds looked on. William Beckett, one alleged robber, fled with accomplices who scattered among theatergoers. Fox pursued, a fight ensued, and a policeman intervened to subdue Beckett.
Moscow endures siege like conditions. Meat prices have tripled and the poor suffer greatly. People from nearby towns camp in streets and 2,000 residents live in cars. Troops control Kazan line stations and Cossacks guard post and telegraph offices. Panicky populace.
In Warsaw on Oct. 26 and Russian Poland conditions report communication with St. Petersburg cut off. Agitators have drawn Vienna railroad employees into a strike affecting infantry and cart operations as the German Associated Press proposes actions.
The Chilean capital entered a calmer phase after a reign of terror that killed 15 and wounded 100 as of Monday. Mob violence closed business districts and the Alameda was the focus of inflammable rhetoric and clashes with police. Gas lamps along the Alameda were destroyed and flames burned in columns throughout the day.
Paris reports French delegates in St. Petersburg announce completion of negotiations on the Russian loan. The French portion totals 120 million dollars, with Germany taking 80 million and Britain and the United States each allotted 20 million. Interest set at 4 percent, bonds expected near 90.
In St. Petersburg a late afternoon meeting of the committee of ministers, presided by Count Witte, considered the strike situation. Minister of Justice Manukhin, returning from Peterhof, could not reach the capital by train and rode back in a carriage to attend. The emperor remains cut off from railroad communication with the capital.
The Norwegian government, in a secret session, asked for full power to negotiate with Prince Charles of Denmark for his acceptance of the crown of Norway. A referendum by the people would endorse the decision, similar to the August dissolution vote. The debate was postponed until Friday.
Odessa oct 26 the entire black sea fleet except the battleship pat_elemion formerly the kniaz potemkine has departed sevastopol under vice admirals birileff and chouknin speculation says the government may stage a naval show if powers demand such action in response to ongoing pressures and demands abroad
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