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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1906
Page
1
Reports from Wahalak and Scooba detail a deadly race clash as white and black factions fought with militia sent from Meridian. Prominent white men and numerous Black residents were killed or wounded, bodies left in the streets, with Scooba and Wahalak request ing troops to quell continued unrest and prevent further violence.
Mrs. Stephen Herben wife of the Rev Stephen Herben editor of the Chicago Epworth Herald was wounded by a revolver and taken to Evanston Hospital. Police investigate a shooting affray near the Evanston Wilmette boundary as the family refuses to discuss details.
Congressman Keifer returned to Springfield Ohio from Washington and spoke on the discharge of colored troops. He asserted President Roosevelt erred, the evidence will show innocence, and a white conspiracy to blame troops. He defended the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, stating its discharge was regular and honorable.
In Belgrade public fury rises after the Skupshtina approved a loan bill. Demonstrations flare at the King's palace and outside the university as a student is wounded in clashes with police and gendarmes. A commission will probe the loan issue, but unrest continues.
Fire devastated the Ernest Crammer Building at Seventeenth and Curtis streets, destroying the seventh and eighth floors and causing an estimated loss of $200,000. The top floor housed a valuable legal library and was ruined.
London dispatch reports the regent facing resistance from the new assembly after proposing a constitutional revision. The draft would create a senate of sixty with a government and royalist majority, requiring the assembly to approve all reforms. The religious party strongly opposes the plan.
Policeman O Neill at King s Bridge station found the mangled body of a sailor with Iowa in his cap. The corpse lay 15 feet north of the Fordham landing station of the Putnam Division Railway. Name on the ship s cap appears to be H A Grabest of the Iowa s crew. Body sent to Fordham morgue. Police say the man was likely struck by a train as he crossed the tracks.
Mrs. Susan Kely, 50, perished in a blaze that gutted their West Sixtieth Street apartments. Her husband escaped with injuries as tenants fled to the roof and were aided to safety by firemen. The fire forced others to the roof before they were removed.
The Roosevelt, which carried Commander Peary and his expedition into arctic seas, will be open to public inspection at her anchorage off the West of my-second Street North River tomorrow and Thursday. On Friday she will go into dry dock for repairs and overhaul.
Ohio lawyer Martin L. Smyser argues the Brownsville battalion dismissal was hastily based on weak evidence. He cites grand jury failure to indict as proof of insufficient proof and suggests white residents may have driven the incident to prejudice. Senator Foraker returns from New York and will speak in the Senate on investigating the matter.
Fourteen cavalrymen, many from the Ninth Cavalry, were arrested after a street car riot in Leavenworth Kansas last night. White soldiers aided conductors as colored troopers were ejected after a fight over fare. Several shots were fired and windows broken with two women and four civilians aboard. Cars manned for guard duty as authorities plan court martial. President Roosevelt apprised of the incident as tensions over the Brownsville affair echo in military circles.
William G Russell, 50, of 6102d Street, jailed at Tombs for examination after failing to pay 1000 dollars he owed. He claimed financier Timothy D Sullivan was out of town, and police say he was indicted in Washington DC last June for alleged theft of 175 dollars from Mrs Mary G Buckley, whom he had bet on horses with, losing both races. He said he would repay the 175 when he sees Sullivan.
Special to The Washington Post Chicago December 25 tragedy belies Christmas at Fort Sheridan dining hall. Sergeant John Griffin of troop I fatally shoots Corporal William Taylor of the gate troop during a hand to hand struggle over a dispute about a woman. Taylor dies en route to hospital. Griffin held in guard house as fort weighs potential testimony amid Brownsville memory and tensions among colored troops.
Three men died and four were wounded in a clash between West Kentucky Coal Company guards and striking miners in Sturgis Union County. The dead are J Dougherty Billy Malloy and William Gray. Wounded include L I Moore Samuel Barnaby William Go ch Henry Delaney. The fight broke out in a downtown street after a long strike and a panic followed with a brief reign of terror. Union County sheriff and deputies arrived to restore order.
North Atlantic Fleet sailors at the Brooklyn Navy Yard celebrate Christmas with trees and greens aboard ships from Maine to Manila. Rear Admiral Coghlan orders dress ship at sunset, bands play, and a mast head race follows. After a day of masses and feasting, sailors head to the Bowery for shore leave amid vaudeville at the Navy Y M C A and a gift from Helen Gould.
Special to The Washington Peal reports Mrs. Nancy Wallace aged ninety died after a bulldog in the home dragged and bit her badly lacerating her arm and pulling out hair. Her granddaughter Mrs. Leons Benson was out shopping when the incident occurred. The assault led to her death about midnight.
Thomas Cardin of Philadelphia died of heart disease moments after presenting a Christmas gift to his wife on December 2. The gaiety at the Cardin home turned solemn as he handed the neatly wrapped parcel, kissed his wife, uttered a final greeting, and collapsed. He was sixty-two.
New York December 25 John K O Rourke twenty eight an electrician shot and wounded his wife Lilian twenty four and then killed himself with the same weapon at their Richmond Hill Long Island home after a quarrel Mrs O Rourke was struck twice once in the arm and head Her husband shot himself as she fell The ambulance surgeon revived her and she was taken to hospital where her injuries were not fatal
East bound Big Four passenger train collided with freight No 96 in western Springfield injuring eighteen passengers. Several were seriously hurt including Mrs Alice King Hershman of Ohio Busle Walsler of Osborne and Mrs Mary Redmond of Osborne. Three freight cars demolished and passenger engine damaged as brakes reportedly failed.
Henry Siebele, sixteen, shot and fatally wounded his stepfather Henry Brinker, forty four, in Cincinnati Ohio after Brinker attacked his wife with a hatchet. Siebele said he bought the revolver with saved money to protect his mother. Five shots were fired. three hit Brinker in the chest and two in the neck. The boy was arrested.
New York December 25 Otto Voglesisky a contracting plumber killed his wife during a dispute at an apartment on East Sixth Street Brooklyn. After pleading for her return he fired three times then killed himself, leaving a separated couple in turmoil.
Four youths ages sixteen to eighteen narrowly escaped death while coasting on a sled near McKeesport. A seven person party hit a moving freight wheel at the foot of the grade. one boy was buried under cars but escaped with minor injuries. Mabel Philips suffered a fractured right leg and cuts, Margaret Vinney was severely cut about head and body, John Ryan and Albert Fieley were cut and bruised.
Special to The Washington Braddock Pa December 25 no present came to Braddock this Christmas from President W Ellis Corey of United States Steel Corp friends and relatives say he forgot them to hurry to Paris where he will wed Mabelle Gillman It seems his divorce foes are now aligned with Mabelle and Corey’s relatives see Christmas as test and Mabelle Gillman appears to have won
A letter signed by J Pierpont Morgan and Dr Lyman Abbott urged Secretary of State Elihu Root to press for reform in the Congo Free State. The document cites flagrant inhumanity including labor taxes, land appropriation, forced labor of children, abuse by white company agents, and cruel punishments. It notes reports by a royal commission and calls for U S moral support to curb abuses and restore civilization.
Miss Nel Sloan of Fairlee Baltimore County hosted a Christmas dog feast after hanging dog treats on a tree at her home. O B Magruder suggested the idea and the three dogs a fox hound a fox terrier and a pug eagerly ate chicken turkey and other delicacies until the tree was bare and the floor littered with pine needles.
New York reports Neil Florence an actor age forty five found dead in his West Seventy third street boarding house room today. The room filled with illuminating gas from two open jets. A Christmas dinner had been prepared for the residents and Florence was expected to preside. He had recently returned from a theatrical tour.
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