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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1906
Page
1
London reports say Chile earthquakes ended and fires out as Valparaiso and Santiago organize relief. Public subscriptions open for money clothing and provisions while refugees are aided. Death tolls uncertain with Valparaiso likely in the hundreds and national losses ranging up to 300 million dollars.
Food and water are scarce as Valparaiso ruins spread. Sizable districts are cut off while relief from Santiago arrives. Valparaiso is described uninhabitable with Almendral streets ruined. Santiago reports twenty deaths. six to eight towns destroyed and Tacla reports fifty dead and twenty wounded.
A report from New York on August 21 states the Juan Fernandez island off Chile’s coast was destroyed by an earthquake. The island housed a penal settlement and fort and is famed from Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
Carterville August 21. Bloodhounds trail Drew the man accused of killing three men at Zeigler in swamps north of town. Harrisburg city marshal aided the search. Drew is heavily armed and may hold his pursuers at bay. Reward raised to 1600 dollars.
A fresh tremor struck Valparaiso with a second quake near Quillota, a 10 000 population town, now destroyed. In Pittsburg fourteenth men died when gas blew out at the Eliza furnace of Jones Laughlin Steel Co. victims died at Emergency Hospital.
Roy Knabenshue, famed for sailing an airship around the capitol dome and ballooning over New York with Dor and Mrs. Juliana P. Thomas, now demonstrates his aeriad passenger boat in a theater. He runs it through stage space, keeping it steady between orchestral scenes while explaining its mechanism to a captivated audience.
A Roosevelt letter to Representative Watson endorses Republican tariff policy and warns against House leadership changes. It favors protecting a tariff with revisions only when benefits exceed costs, and stresses handling trusts through current laws. The piece also notes Bryan’s likely presidential endorsement by the state convention amidst anticipated turmoil.
Aug 21 Mount Carmel Illinois reports rich pearl finds in Wabash river mussels. Diggers camp along the river with tents and boats, pulling pearls valued from five hundred to one thousand dollars. Notable finds include Ben Foster's thousand dollar pearl bought by B R Pepper and John Schoenfield selling a one thousand dollar pearl.
A well dressed stranger registered as H. Smith at Hotel Riverside Colusa and met John Hartog of the Colusa county Chamber of Commerce. Hartog cites a familiar look, but the man vanished after the evening encounter. Local reports tie the stranger to Paul O Stensland, president of Milwaukee Avenue State Bank Chicago, who is said to be in Colusa.
Oma B Crook an 18 year old returns home in Logansport Indiana after time with her sweetheart. Her mother Mrs Mark Seward fires twice with an 88 caliber revolver wounding only clothing and skin slightly. Neighbors intervene and rescue the girl as the mother vows to keep her at home by 11 each night or shoot.
Judge Owen V. P. Thompson of Jacksonville says William J. Bryan wants Illinois to send no instructed delegates to the next Democratic national convention unless National Committeeman Roger Sullivan is repudiated by the state convention.
Springfield officials report the Republican state convention will endorse Speaker Cannon for the 1908 presidential nomination and re elect Senator Cullom to the U S Senate. Four candidates seek the state treasurer post with tight on first ballot support. four vie for superintendent of public instruction. No major contest for state university trustees.
Joseph Sheedle, a homesteader near Lathrop in Marquette Mich, shot and killed Guy Harlow in what he says was a mistaken foray in a deer hunt. He admits the killing and faces arrest and a possible ten year penalty if convicted.
Chicago news briefs list baseball results for August 21 with league and American associations. Pittsburg loses 1 2 to Brooklyn while Cincinnati nicks Boston 2 1. Chicago loses to New York 0 3. Other scores include Philadelphia 7 1 over St Louis and Boston 4 over Detroit.
Private letter from District Attorney Lawson to Moran accuses Stenry W. Whitney of bribery ties with the oil trust and warns that if Whitney wins the Democratic nomination he should be opposed. Lawson vows to defeat corruption in Massachusetts and urges Moran to back Guild.
Reports say a negro in New Iberia is ill with yellow fever as President Irmon of the state board of health arrives with his staff. Fumigation and screening will be enforced under health officers. No exodus from New Iberia yet. quarantines not imposed but travel will be restricted. Doctors suspect importation from along the Mexican coast.
Washington reports the funeral of Thomas H. Martin ex senior vice commander in chief of the G A R. He died suddenly in Minneapolis during the recent encampment. Services were held at Hamline Methodist Episcopal church and burial was at Rock Creek cemetery.
Openings show steady hog receipts and mixed packers prices in Chicago with heavy shipping grades around 85 75 to 66 24 cents and light hogs at 86 05 to 66 60. Cattle and sheep demand softer with cattle slow and sheep lambs down about 10 lower across reports.
Washington reports secretary Shaw says when small bills are short the treasury will prefer issuing ones over fives. Banks can supply currency under $5 by using silver certificates backed by silver deposits and gold certificates, easing small money scarcity once banks convert deposits to notes.
Washington reports Ecuador issued a new tariff schedule effective November 1. It classifies and reduces duties on some US imports to Ecuador while keeping chief port rates steady. Steel iron brass copper and tin duties rise from about 4 to 8 cents per pound, flour and lard duties unchanged. 1905 US flour exports to Ecuador valued above $290 000 and lard similar in amount.
St. Petersburg reports US negotiations to buy the Nerchinsk gold mines amid a scandal that voided several grand dukes. The mines are said to hold quartz worth 2 million dollars and the court camarilla is eager to sell, but American buyers fear a parliamentary repudiation.
The Connecticut peach crop is being ruined by a plague of yellow jacket hornets. Hornets sting peaches causing rapid decay and fall to the ground. Growers are at a loss for a means to combat the pests and many are severely ill trying to get rid of them.
In Freeport Illinois on August 21 L W Kaer Harry Sweeney and Oscar Den drowned when their launch capsized on the Pecatonica River. Three companions were rescued from the water.
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