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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1906
Page
5
A New York Home Colony Association meeting at West Fifty seventh Street Gymnasium debates communal living rules. Sinclair defends personal liberty while others fear tyranny from a five member board as issues like dining, dress, and parlor use spark wide contention.
Died entries note Aug 11 1908 funerals at various Washington area residences and churches for Agnes P Butler Song? Butterworth Cornelia button knot? Hutchingson Frutchingson Koontz Madella Anna Veking Magruder Parrott Van Riswick Ganora and others. Interments in Petersburg and local cemeteries.
Chicago banks faced a sweeping extension of the Clearing House examination system after revelations of Paul O. Stensland’s alleged looting of the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. A secret ledger and new audits surfaced as Bank Examiner C. G. Jones admitted difficulty detecting the fraud, with shortages estimated up to 1,000,000. The probe implicates Stensland, his son, and bank staff amid calls for tougher oversight.
In Montevideo on August 12 guests celebrated Secretary Root with many entertainments. Banquet by American Minister O'Brien and a grand ball at the Uruguay Club closed the day. President Ordonez and cabinet ministers attended as speeches praised Root's frank policy declarations. Crews of the Argentine cruiser Buenos Ayres and Brazilian cruiser Barrosa were not allowed ashore to avoid traffic disruptions.
About five thousand Filipinos with ten bands and 300 race horses paraded Manila streets to protest to Philippine commissioners against proposed legislation to suppress race-track betting. The bill was drafted at the urging of the Moral Progress League recently formed by an American lawyer and two Protestant ministers.
Mark Myers thirty three, placed in a Trenton police cell, tried death by hanging five minutes after arrest. He fashioned a noose from his shirt and was found by the janitor in time to save his life. He is under close guard after acting strangely.
Captain J McCaffrey his wife son daughter and nine crewmen were rescued from the sinking J H Hurd off Grosse Pointe by the freighter Mohawk. The barge bound from Alpena to Chicago with telegraph poles sprang a leak about 3 clock this morning in heavy seas. All aboard were forced to abandon ship in a small boat and were towed to port. only a portion of the bow remained above water and much of the cargo had floated away.
In Scranton Pennsylvania on August 12 Susie Gala a 16 year old girl from Throop killed herself after her father scolded her for dating a young man he disapproved of. He reportedly confronted them, forced her home, and she then fired a bullet into her brain in the yard.
Four occupants of an automobile were struck by a Chicago and Milwaukee electric car at Noyes street in Evanston. Elizabeth Slaughter was killed instantly. another woman fatally injured. two others from Evanston slightly hurt. Injured include Mrs H B Slaughter with broken arm and jaw, and Mrs Christine Daulby. The car was crossing when the trolley overtook it, throwing the auto forty feet against a telegraph pole. The trolley crew was arrested in Highland Park after care for the injured.
Chicago August 12 Wilbur Glenn Voliva seeks to stabilize Zion City finances by placing notices urging stockholders to sign powers of attorney to back a planned 1 million dollar loan for working capital. The power move accompanies a dispute with Alfred Bills over city leadership and the town's economic future, contrasting manufacturing revival with agriculture wealth.
Seventeen typhoid cases traced to a dairy east of Trenton. Milk shipments to Washington halted for investigation. A man from Washington who came here for a climate change and was treated for malaria was found to have typhoid fever after hospital admission.
John Towey of Manchester returned home ill from the West and died of typhoid fever in Richmond on August 12. He was a talented, roaming young man and brother of actor Tony Towey known as Bidy Leonard. A letter from Alexandria hinted at trouble before his arrival. Destroyers to Join Fleet.
In the Cleveland Leader a fragmentary poem notes a mother’s whispered warning before leaving a son to roam with Aime and a ho bo tragedy. It recalls the freight wheel incident and the claim Willie died a natural death as friends comment.
Miss Anat Gray, twenty one, visiting her Harrisburg relatives, drowned on a dock while on a boat trip to attend a friend's wedding. A rescuing engineer grabbed her gown but it slipped, and she sank after losing balance. Her brother Samuel and cousin Elizabeth Brady were among those affected. the body had not been recovered by afternoon.
Tremendous storms flood the Richmond area washing out the railroad roadbed near Ashland. Passenger trains on Cadat Line Seaboard Air Line and Southern were halted while Chesapeake and Ohio crews tour the line to assess damage and restore service.
A Randolph-Macon College physician, A Ellis, drowned while crossing a swollen creek four miles from Ashland as his horse was washed down the stream. The buckboard entangled the overhanging limb, and Ellis rescued his four-year-old before succumbing. He was a native of Northampton County, NC, survived by wife and five children.
Special to The Washington Post reports Bristol Virginia August 12 that Democrats of the Ninth Virginia district plan to meet in Bristol next Thursday to nominate a candidate to oppose Congressman Slemp, the Republican nominee. The piece notes a shift from reluctance to challenge Slemp, with indications of renewed action in the race.
Police apprehended Moses Copeland and William Richards after each allegedly threatened to kill the other. The two men appeared in court Monday to face the charges and discuss the case.
Fragmentary report notes a death by despondency with references to self harm and medical context. Details are incomplete and unclear due to damaged text.
In Luray on August 12, a fatal stabbing occurred between circus workers from John Robinson's show. Harry Gill, a Black Charlestor man, was killed at the scene after a confrontation. The assailant remains at large and no arrest has been made.
A fragmented Washington Post item from Winchester Virginia describes a woman’s confrontation with a highwayman. Despite threats, she resisted and Vara managed to hamper the assailant as the struggle moved along a lonely stretch.
In Middletown and Washington state areas, delegates report a contagious horse disease affecting several animals. Officials urge veterinarians to monitor herds and report cases promptly to authorities.
A comic misdirection unfolds when a caller asks for the chief justice and a clerk of the Supreme Court. The Alexandria police Lt. pursues the strange line until learning the caller seeks a marriage license for Miss Divan F. Semple. The couple, denied due to age, leave for Washington, while other local notices report a funeral and land deals in Cedar Creek Valley and surrounding counties.
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