Congress in 1905 Faces War News and Local Disasters
The week’s brief reports cover Russo Japanese War developments in the Far East, new Bishop Talbot charge in Philadelphia, and Bishop Spalding’s stroke. Other items note bail denial for Nan Patterson, clashes between strikers and Cossacks, Springfield fire loss, and eleven Swiss frozen on Mount Saint Bernard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talbot
Pennsylvania
Protestant Episcopal Church
Philadelphia
Japan
John L. Spalding
Peoria
Ill
Justice Greenbaum
New York State Supreme Court
Nan Patterson
Caesar” Young
Balakhany
Transcaucasia
Springfield
Masé
Mount Saint Bernard
Missouri
Tubbs
Harrem
Harlem
Kansas City
H. O. Barber
Commercial Bank
Cambridge
W. W. Kimball
Chicago
Dunning
Theodore Thomas
St. James’ Episcopal Church
Orchestra Hall
Congress
California
Henry V. Poor
Brookline
Mass
Niedringhaus
William L. Douglas
Brocton
Masachusetts
Hay
Morocco
Nathaniel Collins McLean
John McLean
Monroe
Jackson
Bellport
L. I
Roosevelt
Robert W. Taylor
United States
Northern District of
Ohio
Francis J. Wing
James Gillespie
Belle Seward
Myron Barbour
Elizabeth Gillespie
Rising Sun, Ind
Congress reconvenes as statehood bill dominates Senate
Both houses resume after recess with focus on the joint statehood bill in the Senate. The Senate also discusses Lawson and Parker campaign allegations, while approving army medical corps reorganization and ordnance officer promotions. The House tabs a cotton statistics demand and passes the fortifications appropriation and a Charleston customs post nomination by 33 to 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Senate
Thomas W. Lawson
Alton B. Parker
Judiciary Committee
House
Representative Mahoney
Illinois
Mann
Medical Corps
Army
Ordnance Department
Secretary of Agriculture
House Committee On Appropriations
Bard
United States
W. D. Crum
Charleston
S. C
Crum
Fall of Port Arthur Reshapes Russo Japanese War
Dispatches detail surrender terms for Port Arthur with officers allowed parole while privates become POWs. Russia suffers 11,000 dead and 50,000 combined Russian and Japanese casualties. Gen Stoessel faces court martial as 35,000 prisoners, 21,000 ill, are left under Japanese care. Russia accelerates fresh forces. no peace overtures from Japan appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur
Russia
Japan
Nogi
United States
Port Dalny
Moscow
Sergius
Stoessel
Kuropatkin
Rosestvenskys
Kniaz Souvaroff
Trains Crash On Ninth Avenue Bridge Kill Several
A rear end collision on the Ninth Avenue Elevated in New York left one man dead and six or more seriously injured as three trains crashed together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Avenue
New York
Roosevelt proposes fall special session on tariff and railways
President Roosevelt submitted to a joint committee an ultimatum on tariff revision and railway legislation. He plans a special session of the Fifty-ninth Congress in the fall to revise the Dingley schedules and to consider interstate commerce laws if the current session fails to finish them. A naval appropriation bill and other topics were discussed with leaders Allison Aldrich Spooner Platt Cannon Tawney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
The
Chronicle
Washington
Roosevelt
Fifty-ninth Congress
Congress
Allison
Iowa
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Spooner
Wisconsin
Platt
Connecticut
Cannon
Serena E. Payne
New York
John Daizell
Pennsylvania
Gen. Grosvenor
Ohio
James A. Tawney
Minnesota
Loeb
Thousands of Japanese POWs From Port Arthur Route
Telegram from Tokio dated Sunday reports Gen Nogi completed Russian prisoner delivery by Saturday totaling 78 officers and 23 491 men with 441 officers and 229 orderlies paroled. Generals Smirnoff Fock Gorbatovsky and Admiral Willmann to be sent to Japan as prisoners. Stoesse will depart Danny for home January 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Foreign Office
Tokio
Nogi
Smirnoff
Fock
Gorbatovsky
Willmann
Japan
Stoesse
Danny
Port Arthur
Fusan
Gen
Death of Former Gov Lloyd Lowndes Shocks Cumberland
Cumberland Maryland mourns the sudden death of former Governor Lloyd Lowndes at his home from heart failure. The report notes an ordinary morning routine before a rapid collapse, with his wife summoning help as physicians arrived too late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowndes
Maryland
Cumberland
Sndden
Lloyd Lowndes
Death of Actress Bettina Girard News From New York
Bettina Girard actress and daughter of Gen Ordway died in Roosevelt hospital after removal from her West Forty first street apartment. Coroner's office opened an investigation and hospital records list Elizabeth Witter as the name and Ordway as the claimed identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bettina Girard
Gen. Ordway
Washington
Roosevelt Hospital
West Forty First Street
Elizabeth Witter
Ordway
Bishop Spalding Improves After Paralysis Attack
In Peoria Illinois on January 9, reports say Catholic prelate Bishop John L. Spalding shows noticeable improvement after a paralysis attack at his residence Friday afternoon. He has partial use of his left arm and speaks more freely, but the left side remains largely paralyzed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ill
John L. Spalding
Explosion injures six at Wisconsin barn fire
A dynamite explosion amid a barn fire at George Wilkinson's Ashland Wisconsin property seriously injures four firemen and two spectators. Authorities report the blaze broke out Sunday and firefighters were battling the fire when the blast occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashland
Wis
George Wilkinson
Vinson Killed in Runaway Team Near Rapid City
R B Vinson, reputed son of a Baltimore millionaire, was killed when his horses bolted while driving east of Rapid City South Dakota. He was thrown and dragged to death after the team became frightened on Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
R. B. Vinson
Baltimore
Navy Chaplain Dismissed for Conduct Scandal
Washington January 9. Chaplain Joseph I McGrail has been dismissed from the navy by order of the president. He was tried by court martial on the Asiatic station on the charge of scandalous conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joseph I. McGrail
Navy
Asiatic Station
Woman Faces Second Perjury Trial in Gallaugher Murder Case
In Marengo the second trial of Mrs. Sarah Ellen Gallaugher for perjury linked to the June 19, 1902 murder of her husband opens before Judge Byington after a Johnson county venue change. Charles Halladay, implicated in the case, had been convicted for complicity and given a life term. Gallaugher testified in her own defense and was acquitted, later indicted for perjury but the verdict was set aside by the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Claflin
Massachusetts
Newtonville
Cleveland
Chadwick
Talbot
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Forestry Congress
Washington
Theodore Thomas
Chicago Orchestra
Chicago
Weatherly
Gov. Johnson
Minnesota
St. Paul
General Assembly
Illinois
Springfield
Edwin R. Niles
Goshen
Ind
Margaret Downs
Marinette
Wis
Pentoga
Mich
Silesia
New York City
Beef Trust
Supreme Court
George H. Williams
Oregon Territory
United States
Oregon
Grant
Portland
Ore
Joint Merchant Marine Commission
Congress
Muriel Byram
Chicago Board of Education
W. A
Graham
South Africa
Yates
Commissioner of Immigration
Col
A. A. Rodman
Grand Commandery
Knight Templar
Iowa
Rodman
Julius Caesar Burrows
Michigan
Greenville
N. C
Frank Noweski
Morris Run
Haven Ditzler
Earl
St. Charles
Bennie
Marengo
Sarah Ellen Gallaugher
Byington
Johnson County
James Gallaugher
Charles Halladay
Woman Cremates Self After Worry for Daughters
Mrs. T. C. Alexander of Sibley saturated her nightdress with kerosene and set fire to an outbuilding at her home. Firefighters extinguished the blaze but she died from burns. The act followed severe concern over the health of her two daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns
Sibley
T. C. Alexander
Hermit Found Murdered Near Brooklyn Iowa
In Poweshiek county near Brooklyn 80 year old Thomas Reed, a Mexican War veteran, was found murdered. Indications point to robbery and a struggle, with a hammer in his hand. Snow footprints and blood hounds from Knoxville were ordered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Thomas Reed
Brooklyn
Poweshiek County
Knoxville
Davenport Merchant Hangs Self in Store Anteroom
Carl Frickel a prominent Davenport businessman of twenty years killed himself in his store by hanging in an anteroom. Life was extinct when found. His brother recently was committed to an asylum and insanity in the family is thought to be the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Carl Frickel
Charge Misrepresentation In Eldora Suit For 10000 Damages
C H Hess of Steamboat Rock sues Edward Loan Company Albrook Lundy and two lawyers for 10000 damages alleging misrepresentation overcharges unauthorized compromises and damages in Eldora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora
Edward Loan Company
Albrook & Lundy
C. E. Albrook
E. E. Lundy
C. H. Hess
Steamboat Rock
Misplaced Judgments About Attire and Social Scrutiny
A list of cautions about judging wealth by clothing and assuming others notice every detail of a woman's toilet. It warns against criticizing absent people and assuming passers-by observe fashion missteps like hats or coats being out of date.
Had a Kick Coming Short Hello Long
A humorous item notes a resident moving to the post office to protest slow mail delivery. The gag centers on a promised check that was ten days overdue, illustrating public frustration with postal service efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
Veteran Heller Endorses Doan s Kidney Pills Again
Joshua Heller of Urbana Illinois testifies that Doan s Kidney Pills relieved his kidney trouble and back pain in 1890 and again when warning of attacks appeared. He endorses the preparation as before and notes Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as proprietors with sale by all druggists at 50 cents per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua Heller
South Walnut Street
Urbana
Ill
Doan
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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Union
Hubbard
Greenland
James Keefe
Richard Birmingham
Pope
Louise
Neil
Phelps
Battle Creek
James M. A. Watson
Petty
District of Columbia
National Tube Works Company
McKeesport
John Hathaway
Winchester
Ella Thomas
Moses E. Clapp
Patrick Campbell
Broad Street
Switzerland
W. J. Bryan
Denmark
Admiral Dewey
American Naval Board
Bermuda Islands
James Slavo
Orlo Selaske
Pojianders
Southern Indiana Railroad
Clinton
Congressional
First National Bank of
Faribault, Minn
Lyman D. Baird
David B. Mulliken
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Fort Hamilton
N. Y
Ben I. Salinger
Carroll
George W. Scott
William Theophilus
Des Moines
W. H. Slingerland
Iowa Children’s Home Association
Decorah
John Pickworth
Albia
Joseph G. Smith
Monroe County
Fort Madison
Ames
Warburton
Iowa Corn Growers’ Association
Independence
Iowa Falls
Jones County
Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Herald
Hoffmann Brothers
Oskaloosa Herald Company
Charles V. Hoffmann
Phil Hoffmann
Anamosa
George B. Barrier
Barrier
Dan Murphy
Barker
Burlington
William Gillies
Nairn & Gillies
Morton E. Peck
Eilsworth College
Jieaves
British Honduras
Tom Bradley
Marquisville
Mercy Hospital
Beverly Walker
Waterloo
Christian Wolmsdorff
Brighton
Jefferson County
Eva L. Graham
Kemper
Cedar Rapids
Clayton Smith
Ayr
Ezra C. McMaster
Mortgage Security Bank
Iowa State News
Kemp's
LE Roy
Swans Down
Mississippi
St. Louis
Igleheart
Igiheart
Ingleheart Bros
Evansville, Ind
Chicago Daily Review
Chicago Review Co
Coca Cola Building
Atents
Fitzgerald & CO
Washingon
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