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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
1
Reports from St Petersburg describe a tense climate with a massing of troops in major cities, a rising revolutionary mood among peasants, and a fragile cabinet balance. The Baltic provinces show renewed activity by revolutionary councils while Parliament debates ministerial changes and famine relief funding as unions mobilize and arrests rise.
A Kentucky judge issues an order summoning 300 men to capture feud leaders dead or alive from Beaver Creek. Sheriff Hall travels to Beaver Creek to confront the Hall and Martin families under indictment for murder as armed partisans hide in the mountains near Dick Hall's home. Wyatt Martin is reported with fifty armed followers.
Miss Millie Brown of Spencer Iowa and two other Americans, jailed on Isle of Pines for operating a private 1800 foot telegraph line to speak with a fiancé, are to be pardoned by Cuba’s cabinet after government inquiry. State Department notes ignorance of the law and undue imprisonment, compares jail conditions to Evangelina Cisneros era.
A convoluted tale describes two suspects seeking to sell bodies for money and end their lives with chloroform, as physicians refused to assist and alerted authorities. Downhour and Green, once wealthy families, faced poverty and planned drastic action amid social pressure and failed savings. A separate note covers a Confederate Veterans reunion in Isle of Wight County and local rail and lumber market notices with various prices and schedules.
Ohio Republicans predict a GOP victory with President Roosevelt’s support. Senator Dick, Cleveland-born leader, returns to Oyster Bay to secure speeches and literature from Shaw. He asserts unity, cites safe congressional districts, and notes national issues like tariffs will dominate.
A lengthy political dispute in Ohio centers on Secretary raft's remarks about George B Cox and bossism. Reformers and independents in the Republican Party clash with President Roosevelt supporters, with Senator Dick signaling aims to secure an administration certificate and portray rivals as true Rooseveltians. The feud touches who will shape Ohio GOP and how voters may be steered in upcoming campaigns.
Testimony on July 11 at the Plaza Hotel inquest revealed Special Officer Butler identified four suspected assailants before dying and that seven men are under arrest. Police and union members testified amid labor tensions as Butler’s alleged push from the unfinished Balding building was debated.
Stockholders charge George Westinghouse with funding private ventures using company funds as James Carruthers leads critics over assets in Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Rapid Transit. Subscribers fight over stock versus bonds. old directors re-elected with minor changes amid heated confrontation at the Pittsburgh meeting.
An explosion at ME Caffrey & Bons saddlery and leather plant in Newark New Jersey seriously burned four workers and lightly injured three others. The blast wrecked a naphtha tank and followed a fire that destroyed the plant. The most seriously hurt were Matthew Caffrey the head of the firm and his three sons Matthew junior John and James. James Caffrey age seventeen died at St James Hospital.
Cleveland July 2 mayor Tom L Johnson ignored a temporary injunction and ordered hundreds of workers to tear up Fulton street tracks, defying a court order amid a fight with the Cleveland Electric Railway Company over franchise extensions and a Municipal Traction plan. He was cited for contempt and a court hearing set for tomorrow morning.
In Cincinnati Ohio H Holmes a West Union merchant fired on Policeman J L Rossiter after behaving oddly while singing and staging part of a hymn. Rossiter was wounded and Holmes was shot and died soon after. The incident occurred near the government building.
A rock slide at a New York Central Railroad subway excavation at Forty-fifth Street and Tark Avenue killed foreman James Tonton and seriously injured James Barskelle, with one or more fatalities among thirteen Italian laborers. Nine workers were unharmed, while panic and a toppled crane followed the collapse.
Frank J. Constantine, a 25 year old held in the county jail, has been positively identified as the Chicago murder suspect. He was arrested near Tivoli after a long search. a Chicago restaurant cashier, Ellen Schreiber, identified him with certainty after he shaved. The case follows a brutal attack on Mrs Louise A. Gentry in her apartment, with a razor found nearby servering her throat. Constantine admits past burglary time but claims to be innocent of the Chicago murder.
The Washington Star reports Miss Anna Crane, a 50 year old masseuse, testified to the district attorney about Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Thaw. Crane says she was sent to Paris by Stanford White in 1904 to aid Nesbit, who faced brutality and a breach of promise suit. Cranes account details Thaws alleged violence, Nesbits distress, and Whites connection with the girl before returning to New York.
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