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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1906
Page
1
King Alfonso and Queen Victoria ride through Madrid amid cannons and crowds when a bomb explodes. General Weyler is seriously wounded, twenty killed and sixty wounded. An English suspect is held as police search for others amid panic and calls for calm.
In Madrid the English bomb suspect Robert Hamilton was released as a tourist. Across Cananea Mexico American citizens face deadly race trouble with reports of killings and property being dynamited, prompting urgent U.S. diplomatic contact.
Dun and Co reports wholesale distribution strong while some manufacturing plants idle due to labor disputes. May railway earnings exceed last year by 11.1 percent and U S foreign port trade up with imports rising 1 704 081 and exports 191 743. A schooner George May was damaged in a collision and may have sunk with all hands. a youth dies after drinking in a barroom in Carlyle Illinois.
In St Petersburg on June 2 deputies heatedly debated the agrarian measure. Constitutional Democrats find fault with compulsory expropriation and nationalization while socialist and peasant factions demand land and farm implement subsidies. Internal ministers push administration plans as right and left balk. Also reported is a Courland terror campaign with witnesses terrorized and murders daily.
Representative Crumpacker of Indiana cites postal orders as a threat to civil rights, noting government intrusion into private affairs and lack of review. He points to a whisky firm fraud order as an example of directive without due process. Chaplain Couden reflects on public events shaping policy.
In a Philadelphia Telegraph summary, lawmakers discuss fast tracking a statehood bill to conference while members joke about long tenured peers. Perkins cites that among 600 up to 1881 only one served ten terms, three currently served eleven, and reasons given include changes in appointments and workload.
Chicago market report shows cattle receipts 300 and sheep 1000 steady. Hogs active with light and mixed packers trading around 4 20 to 6 40, bulk 6 35 to 6 42. Official receipts yesterday 2415, shipments 271, with estimated receipts today around 1000.
The Pennsylvanian representative Robert Adams Jr. was found dying in his room with a pistol wound. A note to Speaker Cannon indicated he was penniless and had speculated in stocks. Sulzer recalled Adams warned of dead at the General Slocum disaster.
A May 31 1906 note from Robert Adams requests burial at House expense but no committee memorial. He shot himself with a pistol purchased two weeks earlier in a Pennsylvania avenue store after resigning from his duties. Adams was a long time stock broker with recent reverses, and an escort from the House was planned to Philadelphia. Montagu salvage work near Lundy Island halted by gale with heavy seas endangering operations.
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