14 Apr 1905
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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1905
Page
1
A conservative buyer appeal urges comparison shopping during two weeks of bargain listings. The piece highlights deals like 50c silk dress goods sold for 68c and 20c stockings available at 1c, prompting readers to consider who profits from mispriced goods.
Four men connected to Schwarzschild and Sulzberger including an attorney and three company officials were named in a grand jury indictment over obstructing Deputy Marshal Bach from serving a subpoena on clerk Irwin B. Fish. The group allegedly helped Fish flee to Canada to avoid the court. All four were taken into custody and released on $1,000 bonds.
Mrs George Lucke faced her husband as he drank carbolic acid without warning. He died within ten minutes after the act. Lucke had recently moved from Clinton Iowa and worked at the Minneapolis Steel and Machinery works. The couple had appeared happy and he had asked for his wife and child to visit.
The city police commissioner Olehesky Wes was wounded in the chest by a bullet from a rover during an attack. The shooter was captured but refuses to reveal his identity.
St. Petersburg April 14 The northward movement of Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron and readiness to fight whenever Admiral Togo offers battle dominates news and detaches peace efforts. Speculation ties the fleet to Formosa or Vladivostok with possible bases in Japanese territory and rumors of landing riflemen aboard transports.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky's hospital ship arrived at Saigon on Wednesday to take on provisions coal and medicines before departing Friday to rejoin the main squadron in Indo China.
Paris reports General Dragomiroff advises Emperor Nicholas to press a defensive war until the Transsiberian line is doubled then send reinforcements to Manchuria and build the fleet. He says Russia will take four years to surpass Japan at sea and believes the strategy would succeed.
From Tokio reports the Russian garrison at Vladivostok is being strengthened as work on the fortress continues. Plans call for about 100000 troops and 500 guns with new batteries redoubts barriers and pits and large ammo stores to enable the fortress to withstand a siege.
Dispatches from Tiflis report wide peasant agitation in the Caucasus with forced participation in looting schools and public buildings. Troops are sent to restore order amid Armenian Tartars tensions. a Pan Russian women’s congress movement also forms. In Bloomfield Iowa Claude Whistler is bound over for manslaughter in the murder of Frank Ogden.
An imperial rescript to the minister of the interior forms a special commission to study peasant tenure of lands and measures for land use, peasant bank funding to expand holdings, and defining boundaries to protect private property. discussion steps outlined. Also noted: Collector Leach and Mrs. Chadwick examined $10,000 in rare fabrics and lace, with $5,000 to be held for further review, duties at 60 percent on unpaid items, including Swiss embroidery and Bernina Brussels lace.
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