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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1905
Page
1
Portsmouth August reports on the peace talks indicate impasse persists over Article 11 and 12 with双方 obstinate in demands. Witte favors postponement to consider Russian positions while Komura seeks government guidance before Friday action.
London reports Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to Great Britain, dismisses pessimistic dispatches from Portsmouth. He says if war continues Japan will seize Vladivostok and Harbin, entrench a favorable line, and demand a treble enemy force to be dislodged. He claims peace terms can be ratified by plenipotentiaries. In Philadelphia, Joseph Thompson, living under an assumed name for 25 years, commits cyanide, leaving letters revealing a double life and ties to Pittsburg. police investigate family connections.
The Tokyo correspondent reports a shift in influential circles toward optimism for peace while a powerful memorial from Field Marshal Oyama and generals urges harsher terms at the front.
A brief notice reports that an individual using an alias disclosed a key fact, with emphasis on the legal or social implications and the potential identity behind the pseudonym.
Washington reports Mr. Shonts and expert accountants found the Isthmian canal commission could pace work within a $10,000,000 appropriation. Monthly allotments were set to prevent stoppage and delays until Congress provides more funds, with one exception for extra transportation facilities. The plan aims to avoid issuing bonds.
The Great Western Limited departing Chicago at 8 50 P M was wrecked by a sand slide at Annapolis street in St Paul injuring engineer T Kennedy and express messenger Robert Heath. About thirty passengers were bruised but none seriously harmed.
Portland Ore Aug 18 speakers at the Transmississippi Commercial congress urged a less stringent exclusion law or limited Chinese labor admission. Hon John Barrett U S minister to Columbia and Theodore B Wilcox president of the congress argued China’s needs and potential boycott consequences to Pacific coast manufacturers. Parrett noted the issue is not excluding coolie labor but detention of noble Chinese at ports and their mingling with lower classes during ten day holds.
Government agents investigate jail deliveries in Wisconsin where four top safeblowers escaped from La Crosse Madison and Janesville. Authorities say Chicago women aided the escapes and police seek to identify them.
Sydney reports confirmation that the Marshall Islands were visited by a hurricane and tidal wave on June 30. One hundred lives were lost.
John Mocklock and Oscar Reynolds died after Mocklock touched a live wire powering an ice box on a Tuesday. Reynolds attempted to help and was also fatally injured in the accident.
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