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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1905
Page
3
A Louisville Courier Journal poem-era commentary argues that societal ills stem from citizens who fail to vote not from thieves or crooks. It blames the neglect of civic duty as the root cause, urging readers to exercise their franchise.
Frank Fleming, unemployed and strained by poverty, buys his wife an Easter lily to prove love over expensive finery. A chance reunion with a Colorado miner offers a risky escape, testing whether duty or money governs his future as he weighs a new scheme.
A man senses a fly by its odor in a quiet room while a woman sobs softly. He interprets her tears as a sign of happiness, revealing a delicate emotional exchange between them.
Formal notice from Berlin states the 1900 tariff treaty with the United States will end March 1 1906 when new European treaties take effect Germany signals readiness to negotiate a new commercial treaty with the United States Washington notes tentative discussions have occurred but no formal termination has been communicated by Ambassador Tower and officials fear serious consequences if terminated
A Chicago company bought the World’s Fair remnants for 450000, excluding intramural cars and street railway gear sold separately. The haul includes lumber, skylights, roofing, lighting, hospitals, greenhouses, a full fire department, fencing, desks, wagons, and equipment enough to build a small city and several fairs.
A meditation on humanity and mortality as the world decays into monuments and graveyard imagery. The speaker questions values of wealth, empire, and beauty, urging love, art, and music to elevate the earth rather than consign life to oblivion.
A diner asks about a utensil on a city inn counter. The waiter explains a one armed knife with a sickle shaped blade and a fork tip helps a one armed person cut meat by pressing down, designed on a rocking cutter principle. Restaurants keep them stocked to maintain usefulness.
Henry James recalls overhearing a Boston bookstore exchange where a young clerk asks about Spencer poems. The older clerk responds that they do not have them, sparking the brief, humorous encounter in a shop devoted to new fiction.
A new safety device attaches to each trolley wire section on an electric line. It uses a connecting car fitted to the wire, held by tension. when the wire breaks the tension is released and the current is cut off to the broken section.
A Washington Star note quotes a cautious reply to a proposal for government seizure of railways and telegraphs. The skeptical speaker argues grand juries have not yet recovered from their railway work.
Advices from Hodeida say revolutionists have surrounded the strategic town of Manakha between Hodeida and Sanaa. Turkish troops at Medina face distress as biscuits are the only rations. A caravan of Egyptian pilgrims returning from Mecca was raided near Yambo Araba 126 miles from Medina, with 17 Egyptian guards slain.
After forty eight hours of intense work Union Pacific completed three bridges and a track around Ed son mountain where a rock slide occurred last Sunday. Two passenger trains held at Rawlins and Laramie were released and sent on their way.
Washington reports the Canadian government is close to finalizing talks on a reciprocal exemption for vessel inspections by both nations. A parallel arrangement has been arranged with Great Britain, with formal acceptance by the British board of trade anticipated soon.
President Roosevelt's hunting party in Glenwood Springs reports success with five bears killed over two days. Dr. Lambert and PB Stewart of Colorado Springs participated, and Courier Chapman accompanied them with the tale carried back to town.
Frank G. Bigelow president of the First National Bank of Milwaukee is arrested on charges of embezzling over 100000 from his bank. He confessed to directors that he misdirected funds totaling about 1490000 in wheat and stock speculation and was released on 25000 bond after waiving hearing.
Reports on the movements of Admiral Ro Jontvensky and the Russian squadron suggest a possible alliance with Nebogatoff to confront Admiral Togo. Russian actions hinge on timing and whether slow ships are kept in action or abandoned to force a decisive engagement at sea.
On April 24 a Russian force attacked from five infantry battalions sixteen cavalry squadrons and one artillery battery. The Kaiyuan force engaged them defeating and pursuing north to Meinhauchiehb with 38 Chinese casualties and about 200 Russian dead. A second Russian force attacked Chanstu and Sindatsu but retreated north when the Kal yuan force won.
Governor McDonald vetoed the railroad merger exemption bill passed late in the session. The measure aimed to allow the Colorado and Southern Railway to extend lines to the Gulf of Mexico and other directions. The veto deepens a Republican split that influenced the Peabody Adams gubernatorial contest last fall.
Strikes spread as 3,100 teamsters walk out, with new accessions daily. Rioting injures three, including a police sergeant. Employers vow open shop and discharge noncompliant workers while city firms brace for disrupted commerce and a potential lockout of grocery deliveries.
Assistant Attorney General Campbell issued a decision holding that the Interior department lacks power to interfere with alcohol trade on lands under government irrigation projects nationwide. The ruling, at the reclamation service's request, aims to curb bootleggers who target reclamation workers, notably affecting the Mindakah project in Idaho where liquor sellers have already set up.
The Panama Railway executive committee cuts the fare for Isthmian canal workers from New York to Colon from 25 to 20 dollars. Chairman Shonts appoints T B Benson as general auditor for Isthmian canal affairs and the Panama Railroad. Benson, a Massachusetts native, began with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy in 1871 and later served as auditor for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. He has been stationed in Houston, Texas, as auditor in general charges for the Southern Pacific lines in Texas.
Miners traveling from Baggs report rich placer ground near Iron Springs in Colorado after a year of small work. L Calvert panned enough gold to make a walnut sized nugget in minutes, inspiring plans to set dredges and pursue a bonanza.
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