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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1906
Page
1
The Times building rises at Broadway and Seventh Avenue with a subway station beneath and press rooms below. Its height and design spark modern engineering interest, earning it the nickname the giraffe building for its peculiar appearance.
Major Alfred Dreyfus wore full rank uniform as he received the chevalier cross of the Legion of Honor in a ceremony at the military school courtyard. The event honored his return to the army after twelve years since his sword was broken and buttons stripped.
Dreyfus and Targe, sabers drawn, move to the center before General Gillain. Gillain decorates Dreyfus as a chevalier of the Legion of Honor and bestows the military accolade as trumpets sound. The crowd watches the march past and the reunion with Mme Dreyfus.
A concise quotation reflects on shared duty and virtue across beings both celestial and human. It emphasizes that right action binds angels and people in a common moral standard.
A constabulary detachment led by Lieutenant Williams confronted a band of about 600 Pula Janes near Kur aen Leyte. Lieutenant Warwick twelve privates and civilians and a scout named Mc Bride were killed as the constabulary were driven back.
Ex-Judge J B Ricks of the Illinois supreme court died this morning in Taylorville, reports from Springfield indicate. The jurist, who served on the high court, passed away July 23.
The City of Mexico rejects sensational reports of a September 1 anti foreign demonstration and any plots linking Mexican labor unions to unrest. Government officials assure internal peace and deny conferences or hotbeds of revolution. Foreigners express regret over alarm caused to international interests.
Society reports Captain Marian Ewen McClurg now holds the title master and pilot on the Great Lakes after receiving final papers from Captain Mansfield. The Chicago woman, praised by Mansfield as an exceptional sailor, trained at the Chicago Nautical School under Lieutenant Wilson and passed rigorous exams to become the lakes deep sea navigator.
Rev Dr Nevins rector of St Pauls American church in Rome travels to Chicago to secure a profile likeness of Abraham Lincoln for a mosaic in the church. He will join seven world champions of Christiendom alongside Lincoln Grant Hay Gladstone Roosevelt and potential Rhodes or Diaz in the final panel.
In Sioux City Iowa the overturning of a boat in the Sioux River near Riverside Park caused two deaths. The victims were Carl W. Garrick, 21, and Joseph Berries, 25. James Hayes and Carl Anderson survived by swimming to shore.
Mrs. Gus tav Obert wife of the Springfield waterworks pumping station engineer has given birth to triplets. She previously bore five pairs of twins and Obert plans to inform President Roosevelt of the news.
Mr and Mrs J F McArthur and Miss Florence Tostevin of Superior were drowned when a small boat capsized during a severe electrical storm in Superior bay on July 23.
A powerful leader rallies supporters and forces lawmakers to flee, triggering a pending parliamentary election after a volatile confrontation. The call to action signals a defining shift in power as authorities move to reestablish order and legitimacy.
Telegraph dispatches report Stolypin becomes premier as Russia faces a parliament crisis. A ukase dissolves the Duma and delays new elections to March 5, 1907. St. Petersburg is placed under extraordinary security while government and army tensions rise.
The text reports M. Goremykin being relieved of the premiership and M. Stolypin appointed premier while he remains minister of the interior. M. Stichinsky resigns as minister of agriculture. The parliament building is closed and guarded by police, allowing admission only to the president and the vice president of the house.
General von Schwanebach and a senior minister defend the move as not a return to absolutism. They say the emperor remains committed to representative government and that Parliament failed under abnormal conditions, risking a political vacuum and ongoing terrorism if a stable regime is not soon established.
A severe rain and electric storm swept Evansville and southern Indiana causing long trolley outages on the Evansville and Mount Vernon line. Wheat crops were badly damaged and other growing crops suffered.
Chicago, July 28. Baseball scores listed for leagues and associations with games in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St Louis, Chicago, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, Washington, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Toledo, Sioux City, Lincoln, Omaha, Denver, and more. Multiple doubleheaders and ten innings noted.
Emperor Nicholas approves the plans of the Tinnish diet for a new legislative body to be elected on universal suffrage without distinction of sex. The decision signals a major step toward broader voting rights in Pinland, St Petersburg, dated July 25.
In Milan on July 23 Eurico Spada, a workman, handled a bomb car that blew up in his hands. He died, his wife accompanying him was seriously injured. In Chicago Dr. Ira Prank, a noted physician, was killed in a collision between an auto and a delivery wagon.
Chicago hog prices ease to steady amid strong demand while cattle and sheep show mixed to lower moves. Estimated receipts 37000 hogs and 29000 cattle with heavy selling of light hogs and mixed packing grades.
The American Federation of Labor executive council issues a campaign program urging members and friends to back political candidates favorable to labor. It warns against partisanship and aims to secure essential legislation for workers, citing British union success as inspiration and naming a labor representative committee led by Samuel Gompers, James O'Connell and rank Morrison.
Mrs. Frank Galliher born six months married dies from internal injuries after a tightrope fall at a Sheridan street fair. Her husband, Frank Galliher, and performer Guy Meadows are hospitalized in critical condition after the wire broke and toppled them from thirty two feet. Meadows survived with head injuries but remains in doubt.
The Marshall incident remains the main topic in Milwaukee with growing sentiment that the justice should retire. If he does not he faces potential concerted action by other supreme bench members over his demand for an insurance premium rebate.
Rev. Lemuel Robson of the United Brethren church was shot and seriously wounded by A. V. White, a farmer, who accused Robson of adultery with Mrs. White. The shooting happened in Mitchel, five miles south of Bedford, Indiana. White was placed under arrest.
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