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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1906
Page
1
New meat inspection guidelines restrict deceptive labels and branding on canned meats. Names implying origin must include style or brand terms, with examples such as Virginia style ham and Westphalia style ham. Pork and beef products face stricter naming, and lard compounds may use that term.
Three leviathans were launched from major shipyards in Britain. The Shannon is noted as the longest armored cruiser, the Mauretania is a new Cunard liner, and the Adriatic is the White Star vessel. Adriatic is the largest ship afloat alongside the Cunards with a 40,000 ton displacement and nine decks.
Madison readers react with indignation to Rev. H S St George speech in Milwaukee that labeled university students anti church and their faith a veneer. Pastors from Roman Catholic, Methodist and other denominations condemn the attack as unwarranted and unfounded. In Missouri, defense in Smith brothers peonage trial closes with James F E Smith denying coercion of any enslaved person.
A dynamite blast in a Louisville and Nashville car wrecked Jellico Tennessee destroying much of the town’s business area. Fifteen people were killed and thirty injured as the explosion caused extensive damage across the town and beyond. In a separate dispatch from Hong Kong the typhoon wiped out 600 fishing junks and raised the death toll to about ten thousand.
The battle ships Louisiana and Virginia and the cruisers Cleveland and Tacoma arrived in Havana this morning, signaling a significant naval presence as reported by The Evening Journal special correspondent.
The Novoe Vremya notes successful experiments in wireless messages between St Petersburg and Nauwen near Berlin. Signals transmitted 800 miles with 600 miles overland, potentially replacing the gulf and Baltic relay system to Stettin after the October strike. In Peterhof funeral crowds, arrests tied to plans to attack Trepoff's escar.
Lake City Mich Sept 21 Michael Kanause alleged spirit medium did not appear to locate Joey Heath the missing Missaukee county boy Neighbors have searched the indicated locality but regard Kanause claim with little confidence
In San Francisco on September 21 the state Labor party convention adjourned after opposing a state ticket then reconvened as a political club and endorsed Theodore A. Bell, the Democratic nominee, for governor, defeating the Sechmitaz Rueff faction.
Adolph Segal a Philadelphia promoter and Austrian native is under arrest for involvement in the wrecking of the Renal Estate Trust company. Twenty years ago he was a poor shipmaker in Philadelphia and now faces questions over borrowing over five million dollars on very poor securities. Hipple the company’s president died by his own action and the case is under court investigation.
Proposals for supplying Chinese labor to build the Panama Canal were opened. Four bids set wages from 9 to 15 cents an hour with total labor up to 15,000. Contracts require bonds of 50,000 and readiness within 3.5 months, with awards pending commission review.
Details of bids from America-China contracting company chaired by Jas R. Morse of Englewood New Jersey with wage rates for laborers cooks barbers and interpreters while International Contracting Company of Washington DC led by Carroll Purman offers varied rates for laborers cooks doctors and interpreters and Wa Me Lee Hing & Company of Baltimore is listed with partial figures for laborers and related roles.
The Southern Pacific began installing an electric motive system on its Sierra Nevada line to assist heavy freight on steep grades. A General Electric project team arrived at Truckee to supervise, with a third rail system likely chosen. The change is expected to save transportation costs and pay for itself in a few years. Chattanooga hosts Wilder's brigade reunion with Campdoe McConnell as host and a basket dinner at Chickamauga. Survivors of the Tron Brigade gathered on Snodgrass Hill, recounting 1863 combat.
Official advices from Hong Kong reveal the toll of the typhoon with Wilder, the United States consul, reporting five thousand lives lost, property losses of 400000 pounds sterling, thirty steamers wrecked, and twenty more damaged.
More than 600 physicians across New York sign a petition to Governor Taft asking a commission of disinterested medical experts to review Albert T. Patrick's murder conviction in the Rice case. The key issue is whether lung congestion found at autopsy stems from embalming fluid or from chloroform used by valet Jones.
A Calcutta statistical paper reports 1904 deaths in Tadia totaling 24,084 from snakes and wild beasts. Snake bites caused 21,880 deaths, with 2,000 from tigers and 50 from leopards. Cattle losses reached 582. The other side records 65,146 snakes and 11,121 wild animals disposed of.
Arhondale Sept 21 two quarry workers John Dunsworth and George Peterson died when a blast discharged eighty five pounds of dynamite. Peterson was blown apart and Dunsworth mangled mortally W seconds later, authorities report.
Chicago hog prices show steady to strong early bids with mixed packers paying 85 95 to 86 65 for mid grades and heavy shipping hogs 85 60 to 85 90. Cattle receipts around 4500 with beves 83 40 to 66 90 and western cattle 83 25 to 85 65. lambs 64 50 to 87 75. market overall strong at open.
Havana reports detail Secretary Taft and Secretary Bacon urging Cubans to choose their fate as a nation. Talks with Liberal and Moderate leaders fail to yield a plan for ending the turmoil as mediators weigh how to obtain sentiment without recognizing insurgents. Senator Alfredo Zayas is cited on party relations to the insurrection.
Chicago 0 Boston 1 as the League games open in Boston. Philadelphia 9 over St Louis 1. New York 10 over Pittsburgh 4 in game one and 5 to 2 in five innings. Brooklyn 8 over Cincinnati 6. American: Cleveland 7 over Boston 2. second game Boston 8 over Cleveland 4 in twelve innings. St Louis 5, New York 5 after eight. Detroit 7 Washington 0 after darkness.
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