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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
1
Alfred Henry Lewis argues in The Saturday Evening Post that Roosevelt should seek another term and that the public alone should decide. He contends the president is not master of his destiny and warns that the White House is not a toy.
In New York on July 20 a crowd of five hundred including women and children seized a wagon of free distributed ice. Ticket holders from dispensaries and hospitals rushed the scene at Cherry and Jefferson streets. As blocks were chopped, a piece was grabbed and a melee erupted before police arrived to find the wagon empty.
The Missouri Retail Merchants' association adopted resolutions directing its legislative committee to draft a bill imposing a $5,000 annual tax on trading stamp companies. They also seek a law aligned with the federal pure food act and repeal of the oleomargarine tax of 10 cents per pound.
Cambridge Mass July 20 Thirty eight Chinese students arrive to study in the United States at the expense of the Chinese government and register at the Harvard summer school. All are from northern provinces and were sent by Viceroy Shi Kai.
Wright Harrawood aged 20, son of John Harrawood of Dale HL, committed suicide by shooting himself in MacLeansboro Illinois on July 20. The tragic death was reported as an act of self harm.
Thomas E. Stillman, a New York lawyer, is in critical condition after a collision between an automobile and a heavy truck on a road five miles from Lisieux France. Stillman, his daughter Charlotte and friends were returning from Paris when their car struck miller Touchard’s truck.
George Bevans a night watchman at the Illinois Hospital for the Insane in Momence was struck on the head with a heavy roller towel by a patient. Nurse John Campbell and watchman Clemons aided in subduing the assailant. Bevans is critically injured and unconscious.
Chicago July 20. Dr. O C Wilhite, new superintendent at the Dunning institution, lured Joseph Daly from the five story main building cornice after Daly fled into the roof. Disguised as a patient, Wilhite led Daly down a ladder and Daly was seized by attendants once on the ground.
The steamship Stanley Dollar returns to San Francisco with a tale of Japanese efforts to raise the battleship Mikasa sunk at Sasebo after the war. Divers have surveyed the wreck and built a to scale model showing explosion rents. as patches on the model are completed, pumps will lift water from the real hull.
Three thousand coal miners in the fifth Ohio district will return to work at once as a result of the settlement. Practically all the large cotton mills in New England by the first of August will be paying increased wages to their employer. Mrs. John Hay, widow of the late secretary of state, who has been ill at her summer home on the shores of Lake Sunapee, is slowly regaining her health.
Governor J Frank Hanly of Indiana has a public tilt with Thomas Taggart of the Democratic national committee over gambling at French Lick Springs and West Baden. Hanly has held varied roles from day laborer to congressman and is a member of the International Policy Holders committee. He will help name directors for New York Life and Mutual Life Insurance companies.
St. Petersburg reports claim the government may dissolve parliament and order new elections on universal direct suffrage, with a potential dictatorship if revolutionary movements arise. Denials in Vienna and by diplomats question any broadened Holy Alliance revival or foreign troop arrangements.
St. Petersburg reports that the lower house approved a country address at 2 AM outlining the parliament’s stance on the agrarian issue and reasons for delay, though the document was issued in an emasculated form with changes.
Lord Curzon of Dodleston receives condolences from India the United States and Great Britain including King Edward and royal colleagues. The Princess of Wales sends a secretary with personal grief over his wife death. Funeral at Weedleston July 23 with family only. memorial service in London scheduled for the same time.
Scottish members in the house of commons select Perie, Liberal MP for the North Division of Aberdeen, to introduce a bill establishing a parliament for Scotland amid dissatisfaction with limited discussion of Scottish questions and Irish local autonomy promises in the king's speech.
The Bee reports a strong wind on Tuesday bending Prairie avenue at multiple spots and blowing in three rods at Lake hill. Judge Connitt staked the street and it now serves as the main thoroughfare.
A telegram from Professor T. L. Wright reports Rev. Royal Cheney, pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Beloit, was killed in an elevator accident in Florence. His widow is visiting in East Elmira, New York. Cheney was 38 years old.
A disastrous blaze at the bonded warehouse of James Watson & Co in Dundee caused whisky to run into the streets. The loss is estimated at 1500 pounds.
Denver notes mark the twentieth Bikes reunion with an animalioe ride drawing about fifteen thousand people from roughly ten thousand lodges. River lodge lacked a distinctive uniform.
Chicago July 20 baseball results list American and National League games with scores in Pittsburg Philadelphia Cincinnati St Louis Brooklyn and Chicago New York Cleveland Washington Boston Detroit Milwaukee Indianapolis St Paul Minneapolis and Sioux City. Umpire Owens reportedly pelted by the crowd in a riot incident.
Scranton says Hollister and Bowman's company store at Avoca suffered a dynamite blast that blew out the entire front and shattered doors and windows across three buildings. Authorities suspect miners set off the explosion in revenge.
Chicago July 20 1906 markets show hog receipts 13000 with strong demand up to five cents higher. Cattle receipts 5500 and sheep 5000 steady with mixed packers and heavy shipping hog grades advancing. Officials list yesterday receipts 17140 and shipments 340. today receipts 13000 with bulk hogs 86.65 to 86.85 and cattle steady to higher across key categories.
Washington July 20. President directs all government officers in charge of public works to report any violations of the eight hour law of 1902 to the Department of Justice. Prosecution will be at government expense, aiming to curb overlong shifts and reduce contract bids. Thousands of workers nationwide will be affected by the order.
The state department says the Central American armistice is being respected and preliminary negotiations are going well. Peace commissioners have not been named yet and are aboard the Marblehead nine miles offshore. Dispatches claim Guatemala won Platanar and Metapan. Salvadoran reports deny these losses and say Guatemala was defeated in those battles.
Survey work has begun for a new railroad from Zeigler to Duquoin, a line promoted by Iron Mountain. Tensions with Burlington railroad over its Zeigler spur threaten disruption of existing access to Leiter's mining town.
In Princeton Indiana on July 20 J M Scantlin displayed a strange plant from a corn ear. A fully matured blade of wheat grows from the top with a well filled head and a small nubbin of corn forming from the wheat spike. It was taken from a corn field west of the city.
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