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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
5
A sleeping girl leapt from a window prompting her mother to cry out for help. Neighbors dashed to assist as emergency responders were summoned to the scene and evaluated the aftermath of the incident.
Police report a 23 year old man named Sinn Barbee arrested at Lima Park by detective Barbee on larceny from a cash drawer in a telephone booth at the station. The case notes he claimed to be a telephone company representative and borrowed a screwdriver to open the drawer.
A bizarre wedding note describes twenty three year old couples marrying yesterday on August twenty three at 19 Fifth Street Northeast and 306 Catreet Northwest. Clergyman Nacelus F Hoffman tied the knot for the twenty third time this month. George B Geagan and Jeanne E Martin, both twenty three, were wed by Rey Colgar Rogers in Greensboro WNC.
The First National Bank of Birmingham sues PG Smith and the Odell Stock and Grain Co to recover 820,375 alleging teller Alexander R. Chisolm misappropriated funds after cotton futures trading with Smiths Birmingham firm. Smith is a Birmingham commission house.
Andrew J Hartzell of Hartzells Ferry and Sabra Dunham of Philadelphia drowned in the Delaware Rover. Hartzell, an elderly ferryman, was aiding a boat that began taking on water and sunk quickly. All occupants were rescued except the two, Dunham 24, an artist, and Hartzell.
The Washington Post reports Russia faces grain shortages due to heavy rains and political crisis. Forest conditions unsettle officials while peasants resist harvesting. Government may prohibit grain exports after 490000 bushels of rye and 400000 bushels of rye purchases abroad amid distress provinces. A separate Federal case delays a Philadelphia financier awaiting investigation. detectives pursue further testimony.
Tokyo reports the Japanese government will investigate the killing of Japanese poachers in the Alaska Aleutians after the Vancouver consul failed to obtain a satisfactory full report. Possibility of sending the consul to the Pribilof Islands is mentioned.
Fort Worth editor Clarence Ousley writes President Roosevelt criticizing plans to abandon Fort Brown due to race troubles and warns it would fuel black dreams of local equality. Reports from Oyster Bay note Gen Bell and the War Department discussing Brownsville, Texas, and the removal of colored troops.
At Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal Company No 9 colliery Sugar Notch an underground gas blast killed miner Vincent and badly injured his son Villar Jr. Several other workers within a hundred feet suffered serious burns as the explosion caused extensive mine damage.
Minnipeg Manitoba Aug 2 Prof eubten Andree well known in Winnipeg Portage and La Prairie returned to this city with a handful of diamonds in the rough which he asserts he discovered somewhere within the confines of the plain. He took them to several local jewelers who pronounced them stones of the first water. He has staked 2 claim and forwarded samples to New York.
Detectives arrested Edith R Robey and Mary Jane Cole after spotting them slipping soap into an umbrella during a department store theft. The women, with two children, claimed Maryland residence and were sent to the House of Detention after officers found items hidden in umbrellas and at a nearby residence.
Dr Iron states the yellow fever situation remains unchanged with no new cases. Sanitary work progresses rapidly though the source of infection is not yet discovered, according to Cr Tron President State Board of Health.
Honolulu August 8 Agents of the Enela Lulu Telephone Company visited the Manchuria to connect the steamer to shore by telephone. The Manning returned for coal. An effort yesterday to pull the ship off the reef failed when the Manning cable parted. All efforts now focus on keeping the redset inlet position until Captain Metcalf arrives from San Francisco with salvage apparatus.
A touring car party from Norfolk, led by Augustus Post, evaluates Virginia and Maryland highways to Washington for a Jamestown Exposition road plan. They document road quality, landmarks, and soil conditions, hoping to improve routes and publish findings for public use and future access to the exposition grounds.
Miss Mary H Green aged deemed underage and Samuel E Henderson sought a license in Norfolk. A judge in Washington officiated at Rev J B McLaughlins home on Fifth Street Northeast. Newlyweds plan a honeymoon then return to Norfolk to seek the fathers blessing amid age doubts and expected disapproval.
A Cuban rebel leader is reported killed amid ongoing clashes with Spanish forces. The narrative recalls Bandera’s dispersed bands and hunger driving raids, suggesting he may have acted as a pawn for regional warlords while preferring guerrilla life over orderly town life.
Oyster Bay reports no request from Cuba for eight rapid fire guns manned by American artillerymen. State Department officials say dispatches from Havana are all that has arrived, with no official inquiry for arms. Cuban unrest spreads to Santa Clara and Matanzas, but U S officials doubt the insurgents threaten American interests.
The Platt Amendment defined when the United States could withdraw from Cuba and require Cuba to include provisions allowing U S intervention. It allowed intervention to preserve Cuban independence and maintain a government protecting life and property and fulfilling Paris Treaty obligations.
A special dispatch from New York reports leading Cuban American businessmen in the city proposing a US supervised election in Cuba. They petition President Roosevelt for intervention to hasten stability, arguing the Platt Amendment grants US power to intervene and oversee a fair presidential vote.
The passage argues that whoever wins the majority of votes would quell armed forces in Cuba within 24 hours, ending the revolution. It contends U S government could prevent bloodshed and that war with Spain was waged for humanity, not self interest.
Aug 3. A man attacked Governor Nunez as he entered his Havana home. The assailant, Luis Morales, claims residency in Havana and says he planned to shoot the governor’s carriage but had no defense. Nunez, allied with Liberal Nationalists, has split from the Liberal convention during Maximo Gomez’s illness.
Charlotte Agnes Budlong, living in Washington, sues Herbert A Budlong of Bridgeport for absolute divorce with alimony, citing infidelity and alleged assault in their Fairfield avenue home. She seeks restoration of her maiden name Charlotte Dyer and notes his status with the American Graphophone Company and recent speeding arrest.
Savannah police arrest C Tabb, C A Ruth, Bernard McCabe and A B La Roach on warrants for stealing merchandise from Ocean Steamship Company docks. Bond posted, accused by John Rayenegro who had new shoes in possession. Probed for two years, others said to be involved. ship line operates Savannah to New York and Boston. Whooping cough microbe discovery reported by Belgian Royal Medical College.
Swept of Agriculture, Weather Bureau report from Washington describes a high pressure area from the Upper Lake region to the Northern Rockies while a depressions eases eastward. Rain and thunderstorms persist from the Rocky Mountain district to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts with cooler air arriving by Saturday. Winds shift along the coasts with variable Atlantic winds and brisk east to northeast on the Great Lakes. The report includes hourly temperature and humidity readings, plus notes on river conditions and a Spanish-American treaty signing in Spain.
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