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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
1
Akron records from The Register-Gridine publish notes in Iowa. Readable lines reference local notices and brief news items from Round and Smith publishers.
A Mankato special reports Dr. Koch was acquitted on the murder charge in the death of Dr. Gebhardt at New Ulm. The jury, after one ballot, delivered a verdict of acquittal at 3:10 p.m. The scene was emotional as relatives celebrated and Judge Gray discharged the jury. Koch may not resume practice in New Ulm but will return there.
Fever reports show 21 new cases by 6 p m Monday in New Orleans. Total cases reach 14 with 62 deaths and five new foci, three deaths linked to emergency hospital patients with Italian names. An Italian returned from Morgan City and a new case was found there, diagnosed yellow fever by Dr Tarleton and Dr Goldberg. Officials note 2 640 inspections yield 39 fever cases sent to the emergency hospital. Mississippi accepts marine hospital detention certificates. Alabama imposes tighter restrictions.
Grand Junction Colorado hosts an influx of 10 000 to 50 000 landseekers for the Uintah reservation opening in Utah. Eight private detectives assist local authorities as mayor appoints special police. Gambling is prohibited. About 6 000 homesteads will be distributed. Registrations must be in person and eligible registrants receive numbers to be drawn at Provo beginning August 17.
Chicago reports indicate Johann Hoch faces retrial and possible acquittal on murder charges linked to Mrs. Marie Walcker Hoch while Cincinnati and St Louis officials meet with Attorney Olson on Hoch’s alleged bigamy and murders. Even if Hoch escapes, Cook County prosecutions loom for years. In Madras cholera swells among famine refugees, with many dead or dying in streets and a death rate near 89.7 per thousand.
Roy Courtwright of Kansas City and his wife believed their son missing until a last visit to the Jefferson City penitentiary revealed the boy serving a two year sentence for stealing four sweaters at Springfield Missouri. To protect his parents names the boy claimed they were dead and efforts will be made to secure a pardon.
A New York special reports both the influx of immigrants from across Europe and a rise in deportations. Commissioner Watchorn notes about 48,000 arrivals in July, up from 36,000 the previous year, signaling an increase in undesirables among departures and entries.
Mystery surrounds the death by self harm of Prof. 8. O. Lewis, Tempe Arizona public schools principal, unmarried and respected. Body found after weeks, strong odor. investigation followed. Woman Ends Life in River in St Joseph Michigan. 18 year old wife of a merchant tailor jumps into the river before onlookers amid domestic troubles. Three Women Killed when a Chicago Milwaukee St Paul train strikes them near Freeport Illinois. Sioux City stock market quotes for Tuesday: Butcher steers 4.35 to 4.85. lop hogs 5.71. Telegraphers locked out on Northern Pacific from St Paul to coast. Chicago police removed from wagons. union drivers restored.
A Dutch force against the rebellious native state of Boni in Cellebes East Indies inflicted severe punishment. About 260 natives were killed as fortifications at Bidjoewa were razed by guns from warships.
Gen. Childs for the state completed his arguments to the jury in the Koch case at 11 20 o clock Monday morning. Brown opened his argument to the jury and spoke all day.
In Cleveland Ohio a thunderclap awakened Leola Morton daughter of Melville Morton early Sunday morning. Her quick warning saved her father from death after burglars had chloroform he was about to be rendered unconscious. The incident highlights a dramatic rescue amid a home invasion.
Senator Depew attended Mondas's Equitable Society meeting in New York and stated he has not resigned as director nor intends to resign. Meanwhile a passenger steamer Argyle ran aground near Oshawa Ontario and 150 excursionists were safely evacuated.
Saundere, president of the Aero Club, and a companion were aboard a balloon conveying NM when it collapsed on the roof of the Grand Palace in the Elysees area of Paris on Monday. They were not injured.
The Navy Department in Washington was advised of the death of George H. Hallet, an apprentice seaman, who was wounded by an explosion on the gunboat Bennington off San Diego, California.
A fierce thunderstorm over New York Sunday evening killed six and seriously injured nine at Coney Island Parkway beach and Gravesend beach. The bolt struck the parkway bath house crowd after hitting a flagstaff, trapping dozens under heat and fear. More bolt incidents followed citywide with a death at Gravesend and fires in a Brooklyn store and a Manhattan car. Residents and ambulances rushed to aid the injured amid ongoing outages at Belle Vue Hospital.
A Philadelphia society man John R Valentine his wife and two friends rode in a car struck by a trolley in Camden New Jersey early Sunday morning. Mrs Valentine suffered a collar bone fracture while Mr Valentine was cut and bruised about head and face. They were hospitalized at Cooper. The other occupants were uninjured. Mr Valentine is master of the Radnor Hunt Club Bryn Mawr.
A severe cloudburst in Warren Pennsylvania Saturday night caused rapid water rise along Glade Run washing homes from foundations and forcing occupants to upper floors. Many lives were endangered and the town suffered great property damage with lines down and residents rescued. no fatalities reported.
A cloudburst near Lyons Creek six miles south of Junction City, Kansas, sent floodwaters rising over twenty feet and washing away camp gear. About thirty campers from Junction City, Chanute, and Topeka fled in night clothes as the party slept. Two boats in a separate sector barely avoided disaster near Wisconsin shores after weather damage.
Rev J G Rawlins found guilty as accessory to the murder of two children of Rev and Mrs W D Carter in Valdosta Georgia on a Sunday. If not overturned by a higher court, Rawlins and his sons Milton and Jesse and Alf Afcore a negro face hanging. Capt Parson Kiser Dead in Mechanicsburg Illinois ages 85 a former manufacturer of corn planters and Civil War veteran and Mason.
J. R. Hogers of Charlotte North Carolina, a trolley motorman, dies after two Peach line cars collide head on between Wilmington and Wrightsville just before midnight Sunday. About twenty passengers suffer minor cuts and bruises as emergency crews respond to the crash scene.
An unidentified Black man who allegedly attempted an assault on two white women was lynched by a mob of several hundred men Saturday near Avery Texas. No further details were provided on the victims or the mob.
Sioux Falls wholesale houses sue to block enforcement of section 11 of the state pure food law claiming it violates the interstate commerce clause and the fourteenth amendment. State Dairy and Food Commissioner BE W Small is named defendant as the case seeks a temporary injunction. The move targets the requirement that manufacturers’ true names and factory locations be displayed on prepared foods.
Four boys aged 16 to 20 from La Moore North Dakota identifications Frank Reeves Joe Tolle Joe Moore and Glen Wilson were arrested in Oakes North Dakota for passing what was thought counterfeit money but proved to be metal slugs from habit metal. They escaped after an oblique friend pried them out of jail. The Ellendale state attorney said no prosecution for counterfeiting as the slugs did not imitate coinage.
The Cook and Barrett circus touring the southeast part of the state purchased a 2-year-old buffalo from the Philip herd at Pierre. The roping and tying of the animal entertained riders briefly before it was safely roped and placed in a cage prepared and sent east to join the circus.
Denel county reports a total population of 7 540 with 4 046 males and 8 494 females and 1 761 foreign born. The county gains 894 since the federal census five years ago. Town figures include Brandt 182 Clear Lake 63 Gary 502 Goodwin 182 and Toronto 411.
A kerosene can exploded while Mrs. George Lodt of six miles northeast of Bridgewater tried to kindle a kitchen fire. She suffered severe burns and died shortly after. Nearby, reports mention “Jack the Peepers” disturbing Eureka homes at night, scaring women and children.
Roberts County commissioners allocate 500 dollars for premiums at the county fair next fall. The move supports exhibitors and livestock, with funds designated to prize offerings and ribbons for participants across divisions.
Judge McCoy refused to grant a divorce to either John Beyham or Julia Beyham after nearly a week in circuit court at Aberdeen. Verne Torrance of Deep Creek near Pedro drowned while crossing the creek on horseback when the horse slipped and threw him into the water.
Governor Elrod pardons Lamc bert B. Jones a life prisoner at Stows falls penitentiary after weeks of consideration. Jones meets his mother in Sioux and is released. He is son of J W C Jones once Chicago resident now in New York and linked with the Chicago Law Journal. Jones was convicted in June 1897 for the murder of Henry Van Roden a Missouri River character.
A dispatch from Alexandria states the black rust report on Hanson and nearby counties is groundless. Red rust shows in some fields but no damage. Rye harvest finished and threshing indicates light yield. Barley abundant, quality blighted but large yield. Oats harvested with excellent quality and large crop. Wheat uneven, corn growing fast with good prospects after fall. River floods damaged bottom land hay. upland hay is plentiful with no shortage expected.
A northward cyclone three miles wide struck Pine Ridge agency blowing off the agency commissary roof, scattering it 400 feet. The two-story building, windmills, and government boarding school farm crops were heavily damaged. glass panes shattered and supplies ruined. Crops north and south of the agency suffered severe damage along with the garden.
President Purdy announces that contracts for nearly all machinery are awarded for the new independent packing plant in Sioux Falls. Machinery arrives within six weeks and the plant should begin operation about Oct 1. The engine and boiler rooms will be new, three stories high and built of Sioux Falls granite.
About two hundred hoboes arrived at Aberdeen on an Milwaukee extra freight from the south last week. A carload of them was held up south of town by four men. Two kept the crowd covered while the others went through their clothes, taking watches and small cash. Several workers injured slightly while resisting the robbery.
Thomas Fastwalker, a 70 year old Sioux war veteran and government scout, worked a morning street shift on Miller Street for money to buy breakfast. He complained the pay was scant and quipped that a small man gets small pay. He receives a pension of ten dollars per month.
Five men named Frank Lewis O Johnson Henry Hebner O L Hedmark and Robert Lang are jailed in Brown County charged with burglarizing a meat market and a grocery store in Heela. Hebner and Lang confessed after the break in, while a deputy sheriff captured the remaining three attackers.
Frank Woods of Pukwana, a local section hand for the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway, was run over by a freight train about a mile west of Pukwana. His leg was so badly crushed that amputation was needed. Also reported is the death of Henry Swanson, five, of Huron, who died of heart failure while going to the river with several children.
A Pierre dispatch notes Gov Elrod has a direct link to the Japanese peace commission. Chief of staff A Sato graduated in the governor’s class at DePauw University Greencastle Indiana in 1882, sharing a common education with the governor.
A thief damaged the jewelry stock of C. V. Bates at Turon on Thursday night, amounting to several hundred dollars, and caused about 500 dollars in damage to the building owned by Joli H. Miller.
Dun's Review notes heated conditions dampening distributive trade while crop growth boosts outlook. Grain and provisions demand holds, stock receipts rise to 272,502 head amid packing-house strike troubles. Wheat prices up 6 cents, corn 174 cents, oats up with pork up 25 cents per barrel. 18 failures in Chicago district this week.
The report lists livestock and grain prices by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo New York and more. Cattle hogs sheep and various grains show wide price ranges with No 2 wheat around 85 to 89 cents and corn near 50 to 60 cents per bushel.
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