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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
6
A collection of caustic vignettes from New York society and national affairs. Mentions reforming Georgia legislature, Kipling and Austin, Lord Milner verses, Baron Komura, Pierpont Morgan, Reginald Vanderbilt, and the Missouri as naval show ship. Highlights gossip on spouses, taxes, autos, and a theater mice incident.
Portsmou th N H reports the Washington conference prospect improves as terms from Japan begin to be discussed with indemnity and Sakhalin still postponed. Delegates keep main points uncompromising with private understandings unconfirmed while Witte Rosen and Komura maneuver. Plenipotentiaries adjourn to Monday at 3 PM after dispute over Sunday session.
Paris reports claim German bankers may have lent 2 million dollars to the Moroccan sultan amid questions on legality and status quo. French sources compare the sultan to Ismail of Egypt and note German delay in replying to a conference note, suggesting the issue is being vetted by the guitan before an answer.
Detroit police report Harry Johnson and Harry Parker detained in the killing of pawnbroker Joseph Meyer on July 28. Johnson sought immunity to confess but prosecutors said no promise could be made and he did not press the statement.
In Warsaw the mutiny of a regiment last Friday led to several Cossacks being mortally wounded. Authorities claim the revolt stemmed from a plot by three Jewish soldiers in the company. The mutineers fired on a Cossack patrol from their barracks before the disturbance was quelled.
In Manila Secretary Taft leads a Taft party that has discussed free entry of Philippine products into the U S markets. The consensus among its members favors tariff reduction on sugar and tobacco, and opposition leaders have softened their stance since arrival. Taft’s speech on the islands’ political status and possible delay of independence is welcomed by administration backers and local American merchants.
President Roosevelt will observe the Plunger submarine in Long Island sound within ten days. Lieutenant Charles Nelson leads the vessel out of the Brooklyn navy yard and will meet the president aboard the naval yacht Sylph. The president aims to encourage naval officers to take bold, innovative risks for the service and the nation.
In Santa Fe New Mexico three attempts to kidnap Governor Oteros son Miguel A. Otero failed when the boy was away from the summer home of Mrs W B Childers. Six armed men demanded the boy at the cottage on the Pecos river but found no one. Mrs Childers and servants were present. The leader is believed to be an ex convict recently pardoned by Governor Otero.
New York reports 24 religious denominations with 18 million communicants appoint five to fifty delegates to a November 15 interchurch conference on federation. The meeting aims to unite Protestant forces in America, with President Roosevelt and cabinet members expected to participate. Topics include religious education social order evangelization missions and Christian progress.
An unidentified man in Council Bluffs Iowa killed himself with a revolver Wednesday night. Seated on a cemetery stair near the Cochran family lot at Fairview Cemetery he shot himself through the head. A conductor identified the body as a Kansas City visitor who had arrived days earlier.
Muskogee Oklahoma Territory Dan Williams a 12 year old Indian boy faced a preliminary hearing on a charge of murdering his companion Sam Tiger about his own age He was held to the next session of the grand jury without bond.
Anthony Fiala leader of the Fiala Ziegler polar expedition reports the Terranova relief ship saved all but one Norwegian seaman after the America was crushed in ice in 1903 04. The 37 expedition members returned in good health with stores saved by Franz Josef Land relief and science progress led by Willian J. Peters of the US Geological Survey.
Pittsburg capitalists led by W. L. Mellon failed to complete the merger of Kansas and Indian Territory oil interests. Western representatives have returned home after a long conference. Colonel J. F. Mundy and attorney delegates left for Chicago with no clear update, though Mundy expressed cautious hope for a future settlement.
In two days four accidents within ten miles near Anadarko Oklahoma caused one death and three serious injuries. A boy named Hobbs was killed when a house toppled onto him. Farmer Hines died after falling from a wagon. Chester Harned near Verden was badly wounded by his own pistol. The Pullman boy near Binger suffered severe burns from a gasoline explosion.
Several hundred strangers have arrived in Platte Nebraska as a quarter million acres will enter section homestead entries starting Monday. A former homesteader does not bar entry to three quarters of a section. The land is suited to grazing and cattle raising.
Reports from Western Montana describe extensive forest fires burning in thick pine forests near Butte. The fires threaten large areas and the anticipated damage is condemnation significant, with authorities warning of possible loss and ongoing efforts to contain the flames.
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