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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1906
Page
1
A powerful quake near Valparaiso Chile on August 20 caused widespread ruin in the city and surrounding towns. Crippled infrastructure includes rail lines and fires destroyed much of the area as residents camp in hills and streets. Casualties are estimated up to two thousand with vast property losses and scarce food supplies reported.
Refugees describe a prolonged initial tremor causing panic in Valparaiso. A second stronger quake collapses buildings in Almendral, followed by darkness and fires. Destruction hits Victoria theater and Victoria street area. many low-lying areas wrecked. around 100 dead, including Admiral Montt’s wife, with 60,000 refugees in surrounding hills. Nearby ports face lighter damage and grain rates drop 10 percent for distant routes.
A daring first class mail matter pouch was rifled and found on the outskirts of Effingham. The postmaster estimates the sack held at least 200000 in drafts checks money orders and currency stolen on August 11 from a transfer platform en route to Chicago and the northwest. A similar robbery occurred here six years ago with a conviction.
A clash in Seaford Delaware injures four seriously after a dispute between local white residents and Black migrant workers from Maryland and Virginia seeking peach crop work. A traveling salesman William T. Russell and Linden Short are among the injured, along with two Black men.
At Allaire crossing on the Pennsylvania railroad near Asbury Park three people died and a fourth was badly injured when an express train struck the automobile of J. George Laffargue a piano maker of New York City. Laffargue his wife and Mrs Charles Lurch were killed. Lurch was unconscious and in a precarious condition.
Christopher Brown a 29 year old oiler of 178 Seventy Ninth street and by product coke company at One Hundred and Fourteenth street and Torrence avenue was scalded to death when he slipped and fell into a vat of boiling water while oiling an engine near the vat.
Nathan Durfee of Fall River Mass and husband of Colonel A. L. Brown’s daughter returned the Ninth O V I flag to the state flag room after finding it on a Williamsport visit, forty two years after it went missing.
San Domingo shows another revolution this year as global events report. The outline lists Regina, and General Jiminez arrival in New York, while the Second Illinois Regiment trains at Camp Harrison and other international notes include factory fire in Orange New Jersey, and Queen Alexandra traveling to Norway. The St Louis cruiser is commissioned, and Russia’s emigration exceeds 250000.
Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay is President Roosevelt’s country residence. The house sits on a knoll two miles from the post office, with a rambling style and many gables. A bay shore road leads up to a lawn where the Roosevelts play, and the area is framed by an oak chestnut and dogwood grove.
At the Niagara Movement conclave in Washington West Virginia the leaders demand the right to vote and end segregated public accommodations. They urge federal action to abolish illiteracy in the south and promise nonviolent methods to secure civil rights while urging voters to press candidates on the fourteenth amendment.
The speaker calls for equal enforcement of laws against rich and poor, white and Black, urges constitutional rights be upheld, demands federal handling of elections, and insists the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments be enforced without race-based disfranchisement.
The Norman RB Ream was launched by Chicago Shipbuilding Company on the Calumet River as a near duplicate of the J Pierpont Morgan and H H Rogers. The vessel measures 600 feet overall with a 58 foot depth and a 10 000 ton carrying capacity.
Vera Hamilton Henniker, once married at 13 and mother at 14, seeks a divorce on desertion after a separation from husband George Henniker, 20 at marriage on Oct 22 1905 in Charlotte. They had a daughter born Dec 23 1904 later adopted by Rev and Mrs Hollis of Munith.
Jacksonville reader reports former governor Yates has not quit politics. In a letter he states he will actively campaign this fall and in 1908 and will give many speeches as arranged by the state committee. He says he has not retired from politics.
A disastrous blaze swept through the Throne convalescent hospital in Belfast on August 20. Nearly half the institution burned, and inmates were rescued with difficulty amid the flames and smoke. Several wards were damaged, and fire crews battled the blaze for hours.
In Parke county farmer William Painter died of hydrophobia after a cat bite. He asked attendants to keep him in bed to avoid harming others as he convulsed and tore the bed. He was bitten June 26 by a cat that had been bitten by a dog. The Terre Haute madstone was applied but did not adhere. Everett Lowery, near Cadiz, sought a Bundy madstone treatment after a dog bite and returned home relieved as the stone adhered for 175 hours and arm swelling subsided.
The K. Y. Towns send floats the biggest Lakes steamer on water with a foam producing splash at Superior. The vessel measures 602 feet long 58 feet beam and 82 feet deep and launched without mishap.
The small passenger steamer Forest City sank near Fort Gibson on the Grand river while en route from Muskogee to Fort Gibson. Forty passengers were aboard but all escaped in small boats unharmed.
A major fire razed the Baxter Molding company plant a three story brick building in East St Louis Illinois. The loss is estimated at 150000 with 70000 insured. Four frame houses opposite the factory were burned as well.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 26000 with mixed packers and light hogs quoted 85 to 86. Remainder notes cattle receipts 27000 with beves, cows, heifers and western stockers priced from 1.35 to 5.30, sheep steady and lambs 4.60 to 8.00. Estimated totals and weekly figures listed. market seen as steady to higher in spots.
Ilivana dispatches claim uprisings in Cu and unrest near Rio de Finar del Sie where a band of about thirty led by Colonel Pozo clashed with guards and fled after a barnless exchange of shots. In Santiago Ince a band led by Enrique Mesa wounded one guard, two outlaws captured. Local reports say three outlaw bands form from discontent, with leaders Pino Gue and ex-Colonel Lora. The Havana police hunt suspected revolt leaders as veterans pledge aid to Pres Palma if needed.
In Rheims France Aug 20 B Foreman his wife and three children and Julius Strauss and wife of Chicago were detained at the police station on a charge of conduct. After a consul J Martin Miller intervened they were released. The incident began when Mrs Strauss picked up a cheap umbrella in a shop and then returned with a child. A storekeeper alerted authorities and the group was held temporarily despite the party possessing $55 000.
In Columbus Texas on August 20 two people died in a Reese Townsend Burfurd feud incident. Jo Tarleson slashed KE Pineback and was then shot by Ned Bufurd, related to Pinuchback and former Sheriff Burfurd. Tarleson died an hour later, his body found near the scene.
The George W. Bennett collided with the steamer Saugatuck eighteen miles off Bay City Wisconsin. The Bennett sank in seven minutes. the crew escaped to the tug Baldwin and were rescued. Bennett valued at $15,000, owned by the Naug Tug line of the city.
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw wife of the treasury secretary and the Misses Shaw arrived in New York from Europe aboard the stemmer New York Secretary Shaw met the steamer at quarantine. John D Rockefeller in Bed at Fore Hill Resting From stomach trouble not serious. expected to be out in a day or two.
Kingfisher Oklahoma Territory August 20. George Peck aged 72 was fatally shot by Professor Hale aged 60 in what reports describe as a fatal encounter. Local authorities investigate the resulting death.
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