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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
2
A string of fragmented observations quotes on politics society travel and history. It mentions Washington agreements at Portsmouth Maine Fitzsimmons boxing return Yale professor New Jersey mosquito war and Swiss neutrality. A Dutch expedition in Celebes and a remark on millionaires and lifelong service close the column.
Mann condemns sending hides worldwide to bind "Facts and Fancies" and questions why subscribers' hides are not used instead. The remark targets a broader practice and implies a critique of sourcing materials from local readers.
E. H. Harriman complains there are too many reporters. He finds unlikely allies in Nicholas Romanoff and Samuel W Pennypacker who back his view.
The piece mocks Wizard Burbank’s boast that perfect men can be produced like superior fruit. It argues that even a genius would struggle with unruly boys, suggesting his methods would fail with the Washington baseball club nicknamed the senators.
A social entry barrier shifts from simple charm to tragedy driven by the era’s risks. The text notes that gasoline once unlocked society, but now the gatekeepers demand proof of injury from a car wreck, reflecting changing social norms and dangers.
A woman recalls a dream where her husband provided the ecods for a new gown and awakens to the poet’s warning about the baseless fabric of vision. The line highlights illusion versus reality in poetic imagery.
Statistics show only 15 percent of people run over by automobiles die from injuries. Yet the distinction of being run over by a car is hardly worth the risk.
The passage notes William Waldorf Astor as the sole member of the Vanderbilt and Astor families to refuse subscribing to the renowned Facts and Fancies book.
A New York Times letter cites a cabinet resignation in the Netherlands and notes the persistent gap between press accuracy and public perception. The author from The Hague comments on the challenge of tracking media misstatements, reflecting on press reliability.
Eight Pittsburg women were seriously injured in a chaotic bargain counter rush for men's 10 cent overalls and shirts. The scene suggests a rush driven by a perceived bargain and social pressures affecting shoppers.
An English writer to the Westminster Gazette argues the term gerrymander comes from former MP Gerald Mander. He suggests this would astonish Elbridge Gerry if alive.
Ten powers have accepted the sultan's invitation to the international Moroccan conference. The United States, Sweden, Norway and Portugal have not yet replied. The gathering is described as a promising forum to study modern languages.
The President altered his August 5 proclamation returning about 85 000 acres of land to Uintah lands. The Bonaparte announces interment ceremonies for John Paul Jones will be held next spring with a French squadron possibly attending. William C Sanger of New York rumored to become assistant secretary of state this week.
The report lists diplomatic and military updates from around the world. It notes Madrid hosting a Moroccan conference, Berlin hosting an earthquake conference, and U.S. ambassador towers being instructed by cable. Feizi Pasha fights insurgents in Yemen with heavy losses, while Mexico streams oil fuel upgrades for the Central railroad. Canada plans forts near Kingston and Quebec to guard the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence entrance. MacArthur tours Asia, and a massacre of French missionaries is alleged in Honan. Venezuela signs a $1,000,000 contract for artillery, Castro returns to Caracas, and port salvage work is underway on ships raised at Port Arthur. An artist Miss Helen Dunlap Hunt drowns near Brest after a diving accident.
Reports recount head on wrecks near Fremont Ohio killing two freights workers Brakeman George Wells Nor walk and George Peck Toledo and others injured. A Lake Erie & Western train rear ended a carriage killing Mrs William Imamel and her nine year old son. A storm causes multi state damage and a fire destroys a Iowa opera house block. A boy dies near Sioux Rapids from a hay fork accident and a Chicago man causes unintended child deaths and injuries with a live wire test.
Reports detail attacks in Mechanicsville and Saratoga leaving Bernard Schultz and his wife gravely injured. Iowa farmer J B Ruschie ends his life at home. Chicago bartender James Daley shoots wife as mob threatens lynching. Michigan's Mrs Nomi Aldrich arrested for murdering her two sons for life insurance. Albert Gunderson found dead near Cheyenne Wells. Saloon blast at Millersburg, Ohio. Local option election called September 2 amid temperance debate. Bluebeard Hoch’s case stalled on appeal. Illinois Supreme Court printing costs short. $400 raised in St. Louis returned. Anniston man John Jebeles fatally shoots Lola McBride then commits suicide. jealousy cited.
Baron Sannomura Yoshitane dies of cancer in Japan as ceremonies wind down. Secretary Scott invites Baron Komura to visit Canada after the peace talks, if engagements permit. Lexington postmaster F Clay Elkin dies of heart disease at 34, youngest first-class postmaster. Yaqui seek peace in Sonora with ongoing negotiations. William L Russell named American minister to Venezuela, Judge Calhoun travels as special commissioner. Mokuaweowee crater at Hawaii vents smoke amid Mauna Loa lava history. Capt. Mosher and crew of the Garland reach Port Morienne after being reported lost. Chauffeur William H. Myers convicted for involuntary manslaughter of a five-year-old in Philadelphia. Edward M. Teall reports Chicago burglary of insurance policies with humor over thieves. Nebraska Insurance Auditor Pearce announces multi-state probe into Equitable, New York Life, Mutual. Peter Henkel estate dispute in Wayne County Michigan. heir gets $500. Cole Younger leads electric railroad plan from Lone Jack to Kansas City. Kansas City firm formed for Kansas City Lee's Summit & Eastern Electric Railroad. Guiseppe Nicolao, Patti’s early teacher, dies in poverty in New York at 80.
Report states a proposed arbitration path was suggested to the czar via Witte through Rosen and sent to Nicholas. The text notes a heroic effort by the president to secure peace at the conference.
President Roosevelt’s intervention raises hopes for peace as decisions move from diplomats to Russia and leaders in St Petersburg Tokyo and Portsmouth. Baron de Rosen and Mr. Witte confer while arbitration is floated, possibly on indemnity and Sakhalin. Japan remains reticent on terms.
St. Petersburg reports Russia's attitude on the final reply to Japan remains unchanged. Only a very great concession by Japan on indemnity and Sakhalin cession is seen as making peace possible. Naval power limits and the surrender of interned warships are deemed negotiable toward a satisfactory arrangement.
Fifteen Italian laborers were trapped when a section of a wall fell in the ruins of the Avenue theater in Pittsburg. Thirteen were badly battered and five are seriously hurt. doctors at the hospital say none will die.
Pueblo repeating tragedy as Frank Ward, foreman at the Pueblo Steel works, forced his sixteen year old daughter Frances to ingest poison and then took the same poison himself. Neighbors report Ward had been drinking heavily and had threatened to kill both himself and Frances. Ward was a widower.
New Orleans Aug 22 Citizens back Dr Leach of St Paul plan to test his experiments under local observers. A mass meeting will appoint a committee to observe tests and seek homeopaths and laymen observers. Mosquito fumigation by sulphur aims to curb the fever with officials distributing free packs and urging public participation.
On the steamer Virginia near Racine a fatal looking stabbing occurred at 1 30 am. George F Dittviller a Chicago Postal Telegraph operator on the board of trade is in a dangerous condition with fifteen knife wounds near the heart at St Luke's hospital Racine Detectives Frank Malczewski and John Hammer arrested George O Hearn and Joseph Miller both of Chicago who hid in the hold and are charged with the assault
London announces Lord Curzon's resignation as viceroy of India. The White Book shows bitter exchanges with the India office and Lord Kitchener. Curzon quits after the cabinet rejects his choice for military supply member of the council, Maj. Gen. Sir Edmund Barrow.
Berlin reports native messages say Bishop Sples and two missionary brothers along with two sisters were killed between Kilwa and Liwale. The dispatch cites the governor of German East Africa as the source.
In Sioux City Iowa on August 22 a five year old girl, daughter of John Lundgren, was crushed under a traction engine on her family farm near Lehigh. A threshing crew worked nearby as the child climbed the wheels unnoticed. the drive wheel passed over her head, killing her instantly.
Algona Iowa August 20 A D Hatch ended his life in a sensational act placing a shotgun to his left ear and firing with a stick. His head was nearly blown off.
In Lead, Aug. 20, Mrs. Joe Julius gave birth to twins weighing eight and three quarters pounds and nine pounds, the largest recorded birth in the country.
The Great Northern Railroad cuts grain shipping rates across its eastern territory to Manitoba, effective immediately. The voluntary reductions, aligned with a profit sharing policy, are expected to save Northwestern farmers 2 to 5 cents per hundred pounds, totaling about $2,000,000 to $3,000,000.
Breckenridge Minnesota August 22 Rvra G Valentine prominent drainage worker attorney and capitalist died suddenly at his Battle Lake summer home aged fifty five death caused by apoplexy came with no warning his son and daughter unaware until attempting to wake him His death removes a prominent Northwest figure.
In Walnut Iowa on August 22 during a local ball game a grand stand collapsed. Several hundred spectators, mostly women, were injured including Mrs Edward Burke who was crushed and badly hurt with a possible fatal outcome. Others harmed included Mrs M Moore Bertha Wilmarth and Harriet Spangler with broken limbs.
Oscar Young, attempting to recover a hat from a swiftly moving Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway train, was struck by the rear coach and killed near Minneapolis. Authorities investigate the accident and fatality details.
In Jefferson Wisconsin on August 22 Frank Hall his 14 year old daughter and his 12 year old son drowned in the Crawfish river about two miles from town after a fishing incident.
A Minnesota mining district report details three fatalities. C. W. Karlin, 25, German descent, was crushed under a dinkey train after falling from a car near Stephen Stow mine. Anton Paniko, 32, Italian, died when a donkey car dumped earth on him at the stripping works. Oscar Blomfalt, a Scandinavian, was crushed between cars at the Mahming mine. Body sent to Buffalo New York.
Iowa Falls August 22 a pastor of a leading colored church began constructing a brick church with his own hands after rejection of all bids he had raised a $3000 endowment and subscription to fund the project formerly a brick mason he now works as his congregation watches the progress at the capital location
Reports from Devils Lake North Dakota say Washington experts will visit to determine if fish can thrive again in the lake once rich with aquatic life. Decline blamed on sediment changes, altered spawning grounds, and receding water, with Wood Lake on the reservation already well stocked as a related example.
President H B Perham of the Order of Railway Telegraphers has called off the strike on the Northern Pacific. The eight day dispute ends after vote counted Friday night with roughly even support for continuation. Great Northern operators voted against continuing the strike, ending the conflict on two transcontinental lines.
Prairie du Chien Wis Aug 22 Fred Noble the self confessed burglar with prior records in several states escaped from the county jail a few hours before departure time. He cut through the ceiling and lowered himself to ground on a rope fashioned from a mattress. An alleged horse thief friend failed to escape.
Samuel Montgomery’s counsel ask for a new trial in the Monroe county case from La Crosse Wisconsin dated August 22. They claim new evidence will clear their client who was convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to life after a mob threat and temporary lynching during trial.
Two young men resting in the shade of a box car were killed when an east-bound Soo Line freight train backed onto the siding and pushed the car over them in Nashua North Dakota on August 22.
Mrs Alexander McPherson aged fifty one drowned herself in eighteen inches of water in the river at Menominee Michigan while temporarily insane authorities report she was in a distressed mental state at the time and the tragedy is recorded by local police and coroner
Lieut Gen A R Chaffee Brig Gen James F Bell and William F Crozier delegated to represent the general staff of the United States army at the French maneuvers sailed yesterday from New York.
Fargo North Dakota August 22. The state failed to make a case against Mrs. Nettie Sherwood charged with abduction and the court ordered the jury to render a verdict of acquittal.
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