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Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
1
Guns Speak Peace at Portsmouth Treaty Signing
The Portsmouth peace treaty between Russia and Japan was signed just before 4 pm in the navy yard conference room. A 21 gun salute rang out as bells rang in Portsmouth Maine and neighboring towns, signaling the accord reached after hours of deliberation.
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Portsmouth
Navy Yard
N. FL
Kittery
Newcastle
Russia
Japan
M. Witte
Baron de Rosen
Baronwomura
Mr.Takahira
Baron Womura
Baron Konura
Mr. Takahira
Liege
Belgium
N.hw
Mob Storms Butte Jail Overlynch Bid After Miner Killing
A mob of more than a hundred men stormed the Butte jail at 3 a.m. Tuesday to lynch James I. Barnes, who had shot Patrick Hanley after a minor dispute. Deputies held the corridors with rifles as the crowd battered steel doors and tried to gain entry toward the courthouse. Dynamite was sought but not delivered, and the rioters eventually dispersed under police pressure.
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Butte
Mont
James I. Barnes
Patrick Hanley
Hanley
Court House
Grooms Seventy Unites Chicago Pair at Westminster
Marshall Field and Mrs Arthur Caton were wed at St Margaret s Westminster in a private ceremony attended by Relatives and American embassy staff. The London dispatch notes a closed church and a small mourners list.
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London
Marshall Field
Chicago
Arthur Caton
St. Margaret's Church
Westminster
Herbert Hensley Henson
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Samuel Kirschbaum
St. Margaret’s
Sioux City Stock Market Quotations
Sioux City market quotes show cattle at 5.10 to 5.60 and hog prices at 5.45 on Tuesday with range details.
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Sioux City
Houston oil output in August falls from July figures
Reports from Houston Texas district show August oil production declined compared with July by more than 1 000 000 barrels. July output was 4 585 000 barrels. All fields in the district shared in the downturn. Missing steamer Gilchrist safe at Duluth after anxiety over its fate.
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Houston
Lex
Texas
Gilchrist
Duluth
Perils of the Lakes claim many ships lost in Superior storm
A Duluth special reports a fierce Lake Superior storm Sunday and Sunday night costing up to eighteen to twenty lives and about 500000 in property. The steel steamer Sevona wrecked, seven crew lost, two more ships may be lost including the Pretoria and Olive Jeannette. The Stackhouse and Samuel Mather also suffered heavy damage and loss. Estimated totals reach 3200 170000 for Sevona and 150000 for Pretoria.
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Superior
Duluth
Minn
Lake Superior
Sevona
Stand Island Reef
Pretoria
Bay City
Mich
Olive Jeannette
Windig
Mary Boyle
Apostle Group
Portage Entry
The
See
Samuel Mather
Severn
Emperor Nicholas thanks Roosevelt for Portsmouth peace effort
Emperor Nicholas sent a cablegram to President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay praising his personal, energetic work in bringing the Ports mouth peace conference to a successful conclusion. The message acknowledges Roosevelt’s role in securing peace between Russia and Japan and is considered one of the most remarkable diplomatic dispatches.
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Portsmouth
Nicholas
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Japan
Mass Casualties Reported in Baku Fighting
Dispatches from St. Petersburg estimate about 50 people killed in the Baku Caucasia clash on Sept 2 with many wounded. Private reports say corpses litter streets and fires have destroyed 151 buildings as incendiaries spread, while officials have not confirmed Sunday's or Monday's casualty figures.
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Ministry of the Interior
St. Petersburg
Baku
Caucasia
Havre Fire Destroys Half of First Street Area
A Havre special reports a restaurant fire starting at 12:30 A.M. Tuesday that wiped out all houses on one side of First Street including the St. Paul Hotel. The Great Northern Railway aided but water was unavailable and the fire dept was hindered. Estimated loss is $100,000.
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Havre
Mont
First Street
St. Paul
Great Northern Railway
Engineer Falls at La Crosse Bridge Draw
Engineer W. E. Boycott fell dying at his post while opening the draw of the Mississippi wagon bridge at La Crosse Wisconsin. The partial opening led to a collision with the steamer C. W. Cowles and a raft, badly damaging the steamer and destroying the raft.
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la Crosse
Wis
W. E. Boycott
C. W. Cowles
Sanitary team to fumigate Colon with 200 workers
Panama health authorities deploy a 200 man team to refumigate Colon to improve sanitary conditions in the town.
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Colon
Panama
New Assistant to Hoot Appointed Secretary of State
Robert Bacon of New York has been named assistant secretary of state succeeding Princis L B Loomis who resigned.
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Robert Bacon
New York
Princis LB. Loomis
Miller Dies of Wound After Wounding Wife and Rival
George C. Miller a former Chicago board of trade operator died from a self inflicted bullet wound after wounding his divorced wife and her husband Louis JB Hill on Sunday night. Police arrived to arrest him. In Montana Dr. Coventry known as Dr Abbo an eye specialist from Deadwood while bobcat hunting near Clyde Park accidentally shot and killed his wife.
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George C. Miller
Board of Trade
Chicago
Louis JB. Hill
Montana
Coventry
Abbo
Aveling
Deadwood
8. D
Clyde Park
Cholera in Europe prompts Berlin health push
Berlin dispatches report forty three cholera cases and nine deaths with many suspected patients under observation. Prof Sonnenberg says authorities have built a firm system since 1892 to detect and halt outbreaks, while Berlin coordinates with police and sanitary services to isolate suspicious cases and monitor nearly 1000 people under medical scrutiny including Brunshaven emigrants. The West Prussian region remains most affected with Hamburg reporting a single death.
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Berlin
Edward Sonnenberg
Sonnenberg
Hamburg
Brunshaven
British Train Crashes Into Witham Station Tragedy
AGreat Eastern Express from London to Cromer derailed at Witham station Enr. on Friday morning. Ten people died and score injured as rear cars left track while engine and front cars mounted the platform destroying buildings. Gasometers beneath cars ignited but all bodies were removed before flames spread. Six of the deceased were women.
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Witham
Enr
London
Cromer
Great Eastern Railway
Norway and Sweden Near Agreement On Union Dissolution
Copenhagen dispatch reports expected talks will soon yield a full agreement on dissolving the union. Sweden likely drops the fortress razing demand if forts remain unarmed. The Swedish court backs Prince Charles for the Norwegian throne, but the Riksdag may reject Norway’s 700,000 crown yearly allowance.
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Copenhagen
Norway
Sweden
Charles of
Riksdag
Cholera Cases Reported Across Prussia Friday
Seven new cases were reported to the provincial government at Danzig with three deaths and five suspected cases in several towns. In Culm two new cases one death and three suspects were noted, while Marienwerder in West Prussia reported one death and five suspected cases.
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Danzig
Prussia
Nakel
Usch
Forden
Culm
Marienwerder
West Prussia
Three Drowned in River Off Belle Isle Bridge
Percy Pound aged 19 son of a Detroit attorney and two young women Miss Maloney and Miss Anne Waldron were drowned when a canoe upset in the American channel of the Detroit River near Belle Isle bridge Monday evening.
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Percy Pound
Detroit
Maloney
Anne Waldron
Detroit River
Belle Island Bridge
Villages Destroyed By Cloudburst Near New Berlin
A cloudburst Sunday night nearly destroyed the villages of New Berlin and Edmest on N. A communication cut off Monday prevents full damage details. Reported one woman drowned in the flood.
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New Berlin
Edmeston
Boycott Ban Enforced by Imperial Edict in China
An imperial edict orders viceroys and provincial governors to suppress the boycott on American products and holds officials strictly responsible for enforcing the ban. The measure signals a government wide crackdown as tensions rise over trade actions.
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China
Giant Skeletons Found Near Fond du Lac Forest
Two skeletons over seven feet long were found Friday in a gravel pit in a Wis. forest near Fond du Lac. The skulls dwarfed those of two ordinary people, and thigh bones measured nearly six inches longer than a six foot man.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
Des Moines State Fair draws 60000 visitors on State Day
Des Moines hosts the State Fair with about sixty thousand attendees on State Day. Records for attendance and cash receipts are reported as the fair runs through the week, with judges awarding prizes for best corn and top Iowa cars. Postmasters League events also draw sizable interest despite meeting location confusion.
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Des Moines
Walnut Street
Towa
Fred McCullock
Hartwick
Fred Hettershaw
B. Nims
Emerson
Iowa
Nims Bros
Asa Turner
Farrar
Polk County
Des Moines Official Predicts Corn Short of Expectations
John Cownie, Iowa state board of agriculture chair, warns in an interview that this year’s corn will fall short of optimistic forecasts. He estimates the yield could be 100 million bushels less than potential if good seed had been used last spring.
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Des Moines
John Cownie
State Board of Central
Iowa
Mr. Downie
Ministers close saloons on Labor Day in LeMars
Ministers from LeMars pressured to close saloons on Labor Day. County Attorney Struble offered no action and Mayor Jinden did not intervene. In the afternoon saloons shut at 3 o'clock, upsetting many carnival visitors on the opening day.
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LeMars
H. J. Jinden
Struble
Carnival slide accident injures rider at Webster City
Mme Russell fell while being drawn to the top of an 80 foot pole for the slide down a 500 foot wire. She sustained a broken ankle a badly wrenched back and internal injuries which may prove fatal.
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Mme. Russell
Hfe
Webster City
Mexican War Veteran Benjamin Loss Ends Life on Farm
Benjamin B. Loss aged 90, a Mexican war veteran, hanged himself Saturday afternoon on a farm near Logan where he lived with his son Albert Loss. The motive and any message were not disclosed.
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Lincoln, Neb
Victor Alexander
Merrick County
Benjamin B. Loss
Logan
Albert Loss
Tragic Train Death in Eagle Grove Yard
Harry Cooley died Monday afternoon after being struck by a North Western passenger train in Eagle Grove yards. He had recently moved from Taldora and leaves a wife and three children.
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Eagle Grove
Harry Cooley
North- Western
Taldora
Tragic Suicide of Farmer's Wife Near Marshalltown
Mrs. Paul Radloff, wife of a farmer south of Marshalltown, took her life Sunday forenoon by drinking an ounce of chloroform. She left no note or word indicating despondency.
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Paul Radloff
Marshalltown
Fiala Arrives in New York From Liverpool
Anthony Tfiala commander of the Ziegler polar expedition lands in New York aboard the Oceanic returning from Liverpool. He arrives Wednesday amid Chicago and expedition crew expectations.
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Fiala
New York
Anthony Tfiala
Oceanic
Liverpool
Col Harrison Resigns At Indiana War Reunion
Col Russell B. Harrison of Indianapolis resigns as adjutant general of the United Order of Spanish War Veterans while at the Lafayette Indiana reunion of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry.
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Harrison
Russell B. Harrison
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Ind
One Hundred and Sixtieth Regiment, Indiana Infantry
United Order of Spanish War
Vet Cribs
Quarantine Trouble Adjusted in Cairo Illinois
A dispute between Sheriff James H. Roche and Cairo health officers over enforcing quarantine rules has been resolved. The adjustment ends their enforcement friction and restores cooperative health measures in the area.
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James H. Roche
Cairo
Pickpockets Target Officer at Des Moines Union Station
Pickpockets stole a watch from Police Officer Ed Sunberg at Des Moines Union Station as they aimed to pick out suspicious arrivals by train. The incident details how the officer was approached while observing passengers, and the theft was carried out in a public area.
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Ed Sunberg
Des Moines
Delegates Attend Sixth Annual UNAPA Convention in Cedar Rapids
About 200 delegates attended the sixth annual convention of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks, which convened Monday at Cedar Rapids.
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United National Association of Postoffice Clerks
Cedar Rapids
Elopement Rumor Ties Council Bluffs Grocer to Niece
Wife fears husband has eloped with his niece Miss Anhild Erickson. The pair reportedly left Council Bluffs together, and Norman's wife believes they may have gone to Sweden, their homeland.
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John A. Normain
Council Bluffs
Miss Anhild Erickson
Norman
Sweden
Grinnell Hospital Burns Blaze Destroys Sowers’ Building
Grinnell hospital at Grinnell was le کر? Actually readable: Sowers' hospital structure burned to the ground early Thursday. Dr. Somers and family were nearly asphyxiated in the incident.
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Grinnell Hospital
Grinnell
Somers
Mason City Odd Fellows Orphans Home Destroyed by Fire
Fire destroyed the Odd Fellows orphans home in Mason City Sunday night. Fifty children and thirteen aged inmates were saved as Mrs. Lewis, the matron, alerted staff. The brick building, about two years old and valued at $50,000, had no insurance. Citizens opened their homes to the inmates. The blaze likely started from a defective flue in an open fire Vince used earlier in the day.
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Odd Fellows’ Institution
Mason City
Odd Fellows’ Orphans
Odd Fellows and Rebekah
Iowa
Lewis
Professional racer swindles Cedar Rapids men in race scam
A man named Robinson claiming to be a professional racer tipped a race with Devoe of Atkins in Cedar Rapids. The bet reached 750 dollars as Wall agreed to substitute for Devoe when he balked at Marion. Robinson was defeated and all three men vanished with the money.
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Robinson
Cedar Rapids
Devoe
Atkins
Marion
Wall
Des Moines Train Tragedy Hits Conductor's Son
Claude Hausley twelve year old son of a Burlington conductor was run over by engine No. 57 and four cars while watching his father's train in Des Moines. He suffered a crushed left leg requiring amputation above the ankle. The boy stood on the main line between Stanwart and Shenandoah as the 40 mile per hour Burlington train moved past, then was struck and rolled under the cars.
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Hausley
Des Moines
Claude Hausley
Stanwart
Shenandoah
Burlington
Starving Civil War Vet Sets Aim to Die by Starvation
Osceola resident Charles Armstrong, a Civil War veteran and leading taxpayer, declared on August 1 his plan to starve himself to death rather than be a burden in old age. He has refused nourishment, save occasional water, made a will, and divided his property while friends plead unsuccessfully to deter him.
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Charles Armstrong
Osceola
RUNS FOR TRAIN LOSES LEGS AT DES MOINES FAIR
Earl Roberts twelve of Durham with his parents to visit the Des Moines fair met a terrible accident while running to catch a Rock Island train in an opposite direction. He was crushed beneath the wheels, both legs pinioned. Workmen lifted the engine to free him and both limbs will be amputated with prognosis fatal.
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Earl Roberts
Durham
Des Moines
Eac
Lightning Storm Strikes Cherokee Area Causing Fire Loss
A severe electrical storm hit Cherokee city and county on Wednesday and Thursday. Lightning damaged four houses, including Dr. Beller's home. George Johns' barn in Diamond Township burned, totaling about 4000 dollars with 1100 dollars insured.
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Cherokee City
Dr. Beller
George Johns
Diamond Township
Large hog displayed at Nebraska state fair
G W Coones of near Whiting displays a 1250 pound hog described as the state’s largest. The monster is shown at the Nebraska state fair in Lincoln.
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G. W. Coones
Whiting
Lincoln
Neb
Carnegie Library Offer Prompts Manson Fund Drive
Andrew Carnegie's secretary awaits a guaranteed 600 dollars annual support to unlock a 6,000 dollar donation for a Manson library building. Also reports a Nevada tragedy where K. D. Chase alias Russell, formerly of Cherokee, shot Allie Watson and died by self-inflicted gunshot in Tonopah.
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Carnegie Library
Manson
Andrew Carnegie
Iowa
Nevada
K. D. Chase
Russell
Cherokee
Towa
Allie Watson
Tonopah
Ney
Big Price for Monona Land
A twenty acre tract belonging to J W Crefford near Onawa sold to Charles Otto for 102 dollars per acre. The land has no improvements. Horace Boies brother, William D Boies, former Cory leader, has died of paralysis at Independence. He was born near Buffalo New York in 1819.
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Monona
J. W. Crefords
Onawa
Charles Otto
Horace Boies
William D. Boies
Cory
Boies
Independence
Buffalo
N. Y
Manual Training Expanded at Onawa Schools
Onawa schools opened Monday with higher attendance as a department of manual training was added to the system, expanding the district's instructional offerings and resources.
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Onawa
Council Bluffs Jailer’s accidental shooting claims life
Charles Platner, wounded in a Saturday morning pursuit of a burglar by City Jailer Mommas Sloan and Platner, died Sunday from the injury. The incident occurred during an early morning chase in Council Bluffs. Police continue to investigate the shooting and its circumstances.
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Council Bluffs
Charles Platner
Mommas Sloan
Tennis Match Tragedy At Riverside Grounds
During a Sunday tennis game at the Riverside Boat Club grounds in Sioux City, Robert O. Tackaberry of the William Tackaberry Company suddenly died. The incident occurred in the midst of the match, with bystanders reporting a sudden collapse and immediate medical attention. The death is being investigated by local authorities, with no clear cause announced at this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside Boat Club
Sioux City
Robert O. Tackaberry
William Tackaberry Company
Envo ys Sign Treaty With Russia and Japan Peace Accord
The treaty, signed at 3 o clock Tuesday, ends the Russo Japanese War. It details Manchuria and Port Arthur transfers, Korea influence, Manchurian railways, Sakhalin cession, mutual rights for navigation and fishing, and POW restitution. Ratification by both states to occur within fifty days.
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Hussia
Japan
Portsitung
N. H
Roosevelt
Themperor
Russia
Empire of
Korea
Manchuria
Port Arthur
Danny
China
Shouang-Tchengtse
Kounang-Tchengtse
Eades
Sakhalin Island
Sea of Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Beijing
Keepini
Irene
Auercan
Bryan speech triggers frantic run in crowd at Logansport
J. J. Short, a patient from the Northern Indiana hospital for the insane, rushed through a Logansport crowd for three miles as W. J. Bryan began his Chautauqua address. A Washington census bulletin notes teachers outnumber lawyers, clergy, and physicians with about one instructor for every seventy-one students nationwide.
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J. J. Short
Norther Indiana Hospital
W. J. Bryan
Logansport
Washington
United States
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