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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1906
Page
10
The Northwest notes report the Silver Peak railroad completion and first train into Har, Nevada. Denver hosts a mass gathering for industrial minting, while regional incidents include Oregon & Washington rail expansion, Aetna Banking closure, a freight wreck near Monroe, and various political and crime mentions across Montana and beyond.
A governor appointed commission reports that life insurance rates are too high and that mutual and stock companies have indulged in extravagance and abuses. It says maximum premiums enable management excesses theft of funds and profit divisions while keeping solvency. Indiana firms and others share the issue.
N F Thompson of Chattanooga visited the White House twice seeking Roosevelt's attendance at a Nashville immigration and quarantine conference next month. He proposed using idle southern negroes for Panama canal labor, claiming the better class would help White people obtain such labor while idle blacks cause trouble for the south.
An incident at Cole Camp near Warsaw features Mrs. Alice Winemiller and her five children as gunfire shatters the home. A son aged four wounded. Felix Crawford and Lone suspect in the shooting. Authorities search for Long amid chaotic reports from the scene.
A Havana cyclone from Wednesday intensified by Thursday, wrecking docks and ships, sinking several vessels and houses. Twenty Cubans died, many sailors and longshoremen injured as rain halted streetcars and wind toppled trees. Telecommunication collapsed. Matanzas City escaped. General Bell reports two soldiers injured, one fatally, while ocean shipping remains in marginal condition.
Florida coast reports grim losses from a cyclone. The steamer St Lucia sank near Elliott Key after a surge that washed 250 residents from the island. Fifty aboard a barge were drowned. 28 bodies recovered and 60 injured hospitalized.
A decade long tempest battered the republic causing floods in Majada and other towns. Cattle and crops were ruined, bridges washed away, homes buried, and reports say many lives lost. The San Salvador naval vessel Ilgalen was lost near Rejulla amid widespread damage. Guatemala and Honduras also suffered heavy losses with totals running into millions of dollars.
In a rapid sequence Premier Sarrien officially resigned along with his ministers after delivering the move to President Poincaré. President Waltherd will return to Paris as Clemenceau is poised to form a new cabinet in what appears to be a foregone conclusion.
The American Bankers Association outlined a coalition approach and reform plan to be drafted by an executive committee. It will coordinate with the New York Chamber of Commerce to push the proposal toward passage into law, naming key figures and locations in the process.
A ferocious windstorm battered Utah from Saturday night through Monday morning, killing J H Sorenson in Murray and William Gibbs in Ogden while saving a barn. Dozens injured and telegraph lines down delayed rail traffic, with damages exceeding $100000 in Ogden and over $10000 in Lagoon.
Descriptions from San Salvador and Halvador detail widespread disaster after a fierce storm. Reports say at least dozens drowned near Coatepec and Panchiano, with sulfur-laden floodwaters from Hilo volcano inundating towns and killing many infants. A schooner Azelene carrying passengers was lost between Corinto and Amalapa, Honduras, with all hands drowned. Railways in Manuriaras sustained heavy damage as floodwaters carry away cemeteries and bodies.
A severe storm wrecked overhead wires including telephone telegraph and power lines. Public service crews struggled to restore service as the city faced a total communications blackout for a time on Saturday with only lines to Park City Hingham and Provo remaining intact while utilities worked northward from the city.
Report suggests major cabinet shifts as Parliament closes its autumn session or begins the next. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman may be raised to the peerage, leaving the Liberal Party to place a new leader in the Lords while remaining Prime Minister. The aging Marquis of Lichfield could retire the Liberal leader in the Lords, with A. W. A. likely to become Liberal leader in the Commons.
A New York preacher praised Root and Taft in a Yale Chapel address before students, evoking travels to Cuba and South America. The speaker named no individuals, but alluded to a figure who “brought order out of chaos” and another who journeyed through South America arousing interest among the audience.
In London the reopening of parliament drew about 100 women suffragists who entered the outer lobby of the House of Commons to rally MPs for votes. Police reinforced and gradually ejected them, as militant protesters clung to railings and rail observers shouted threats and slogans.
Washington reports a White House statement outlining cabinet reshuffles upon the retirements of Secretary Shaw and Attorney General Moody. Proposed appointments include George B. Cortelyou as Treasury secretary, George Von K. Meyer as Postmaster General, Charles J. Bonaparte as Attorney General, Victor H. Metcalfe as Navy secretary, and Oscar S. Strauss as Commerce secretary, with Moody expected to retire January 1 and Shaw by March 4.
Reports from Tokyo reflect irritation over perceived unfair treatment of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco while noting broad public support for President Roosevelt to preserve U S Japanese friendship. Officials stress anti American demonstrations unlikely despite tensions.
In Guthrie Oklahoma robbers blew open the safe of the Suite Hawk of Parks at Parks Gila fifty miles east. They took about $2,000 and escaped with a number of citizens drawn to the scene by the explosion. Authorities sent a special train with officers and bloodhounds from Shawnee in pursuit.
New Orleans steamer Anal ma reports destruction from a hurricane that hit Cuban storm region and Spanish Honduras. It found 4,000 bunches of bananas aboard, far below its usual 16,000, with much lost to the weather.
Reported in Tangier that Mohammed Kb Taree, representing the Sultan, has not sent aid to quell the heandares tribe’s marauding. Tribesmen plunder the town, sack buildings, and threaten inhabitants while authorities promise to restore order. Spanish forces are deployed to protect civilians amid growing violence.
The article reports that Chiao Alre and Margaent Lawdle were found dead in a Palace hotel room on the first, with a confession that the murder involved a drug clerk and a woman’s diamond motive. Statements from investigators reference the alleged crime and key figures in the case.
Reports from Augustine and Key West describe a severe hurricane sweeping from Cuba to Florida’s lower east coast. In Miami over 100 houses blown down, churches toppled, jail tilted, car sheds destroyed, and the city left in a demoralized condition as trains bring word of widespread destruction.
Governor James K. Vardaman of Mississippi declared plans to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment and curb black equality, speaking in Chicago at a Railway Clerks convention. He vowed to press the issue in the U.S. Senate if elected, framing it as a southern crisis over white supremacy versus black domination.
Preliminary inquiry into Rear Admiral Nebogatoff’s surrender of the squadron at the Sea of Japan battle is said to favor the admiral. Official protocol for his forthcoming court martial notes the disabled condition of his two main ships and crew exhaustion. The battleship Orel, almost uninjured after the battle, was near sinking by next morning. The Nicholas I of the Kamé squadron suffered a broken gun and damaged boats as surrender followed.
Lou Angeles-Lucian W. Perking, once notorious for persecuting Misa Core Otten of Pasadena, daughter of a Chicago manufacturer, and committed to Highlands asylum after being judged insane, has resurfaced and is now reported as dangerous near Sargea.
The Hall of Records in New York City costs ten million dollars and remains unfinished. County and city offices began moving into the building after months of delays, as workers completed heating and plumbing in the vast chambers at Chambers and Center streets.
In a late May accident at the foot of a road between Mayland and Sunbury Center an automobile left the embankment. Mrs. Fred N. Dillon of Fitchburg was killed. Mrs. George P. Grant Jr. of Fitchburg suffered a fracture and injuries. George P. Grant Jr., the operator, received minor injuries. Mrs Dillon was en route to Boston when the crash occurred.
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