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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1905
Page
3
A collage of quirky lines notes fashion shrinking swimsuits in Linton North Dakota and jokes about New Yorkers, philosophers, locusts and radium. It mentions Gen Weyler in Spain, a two heart man in New York, Sultan Morocco concessions, Canadian Gaynor Greene rulings, and Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia, all in witty, fragmentary form.
The London scientist who claimed to revive life from sterilized bouillon with radium shows that the bouillon was not completely sterilized. This finding challenges earlier assertions and underscores lingering contamination risks.
A Boston editor mocks college guidance and office boy control while lampooning political and social issues. The piece ridicules a Tennessee congressman in a laundry quarrel and comments on immigration policy. It notes a St. Louis marriage on a merry go round and cites President Wheeler urging the abundant life amid scarce money.
In London a banquet honored Whitelaw Reid as Sir Henry Irving read an Alfred Austin poem composed for the occasion. The event is described as cheerful with light social chatter and musical moments.
A Washington claim states brewers must pay higher taxes to fund digging the Panama Canal, and that the resulting thirst will drive beer sales to fill the canal.
Speculation suggests Lord Curzon may resign as viceroy of India while retaining his post as warden of the Cinque Ports, a role viewed as a secure fallback before any political rearrangements.
A Chicago woman seeks divorce claiming her husband takes an actress on tours in his car. She argues she needs haste or proof he is unusually careful at the wheel, suggesting risk in his driving to accompany the actress.
The judge orders a man to pay bills his wife ran up before marriage. The note suggests cautious men may demand receipts before marriage. Rumor claims Lords Kitchener and Curzon clashed in India and Curzon may resign. It jokes Curzon could move to New York for high salary in transit or insurance work.
A group of well meaning citizens plan to petition Andrew Carnegie for thirty million dollars to fund a universal peace program. They ignore the likely fierce competition to obtain a share of the vast fund.
W J Calhoun of Chicago named special agent to examine New York Bermudez Asphalt claims in Venezuela. Adee returns to act as secretary of state. immigration chief Sargent backs aiding Hawaiian settlement. Metcalf rumors of replacement swirl as Cortelyou grants rural carrier holidays. Holmes fired over cotton report leaks. Panamanian fever claims tolls of August Schimpf and William Cox. Nash and Baroness Ina Magneri announce Venice engagement. French senate grants amnesty to 1899 conspirators. Mexico seeks higher cotton duties from Diaz.
A roundup of self inflicted deaths and violent acts. Beverley Letcher dies from opium poison in crisis. John L Markle, vaudeville actor, shoots self in New York hotel. Paul Lorelle kills himself and stepdaughter Blanche Lorelle in Wisconsin jealousy case. John W Woten, New York lawyer, jailed for grand larceny over a $1000 check. Sam Levine attempts arson escape from Brooklyn HQ and falls. John Costello stabbed fatally on Staten Island. Edward H Mitchell hangs in Salt Lake City after murdering his wife. A Keith Dargan drinks carbolic acid after stealing funds. Henry Weidmann and brother Henry commit mutual self harm after quarrel in Iowa. Gill Neal shoots himself after tobacco driven ruin note to wife.
The Korean legation at St. Petersburg has closed and its furniture is being sold. The report mentions other world events including a shipwreck near Costa Rica and a duel in Panama over a newspaper article.
A series of destructive fires and accidents reported nationwide cause large property losses, deaths, and injuries. Gridley, Guntersville, Goldfield, and Spokane suffer multi million dollar blazes. mining and train accidents claim lives. Detroit and Lick Observatory workers face dangers as fires threaten power and safety.
Andrew Morrissey resigns the presidency of Notre Dame University in South Bend Indiana. The report notes a broader energy around major local and national developments including a Detroit hotel deal worth 2 million dollars and other prominent events.
Revolvers are flourished and ballot boxes smashed as ballots are torn up during the election of officers of the federation of labor. The chaotic scene marks a violent disruption of the voting process.
Bloodshed marked the Chicago Federation of Labor officer election. Michael Donnelly, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers, was beaten and badly injured after sluggers forced judges to the wall and smashed ballot boxes. A new election will be set at the next meeting.
La Crosse reports Harry Emmett, jailed in Jeffersonville for safeblown at the post office, is wanted in Jeffersonville for safeblowning and murder. Jeffersonville police seek extradition, though federal authorities may not surrender him before September trial. Emmett escaped jail in September 1903 by sawing bars and is charged with attempted murder of the warden.
Frank Woodberry shot and killed Mrs Anton Dokken then killed himself after a ride together. He borrowed $15 from his mother and bought a revolver. The couple were found at a roadside three miles east of Brookings with Mrs Dokken in water and Woodberry dying from a self inflicted wound.
North Dakota chemist E F Ladd certifies six month analyses found adulteration under the Pure Food Law. The list names products from Davenport Refinery to Sears Roebuck and Co., detailing coal tar dyes benzoic acid sulphites and borates among mislabeling and nonstandard labels. The Emmons County auditor confirms publication July 12 1905.
Frank M. Thornton aged about 84, a longtime Benson pioneer and Minnesota settler since territorial days, died at a Willmar hospital after a sudden heart failure linked to diabetes and seven years of gangrene. Born in 1840 in Belfast Ireland, he came to America with his mother at age ten.
Gen W W Blackmar, commander in chief of the G A R, died in Boise Idaho of intestinal nephritis. His wife was with him. The body will be embalmed and sent to Boston. He arrived July 10 for a Northwest tour but fell seriously ill and declined.
Dubuque Iowa July 18 Col D B Henderson former speaker of the house is suffering from paresis his physician announces He three weeks ago suffered a stroke of paralysis affecting the right arm and leg He has regained some use and can raise his arm and walk with help but the doctor says his condition remains serious
Fred Durfee of the North-Western road reports to Pierre that flood-damaged dams along the railroad water supply for stock are collapsed at most locations. Only one dam remains intact as embankments are washed away. the railroad company will mobilize a force to rebuild the damaged structures.
Dublin reports Sir Anthony Mac Donnell under secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland has undergone a severe operation and is in a very weak condition.
Devils Lake North Dakota July 18 a severe electrical and rain storm drenched the county in two hours delivering four and four fifths inches of rain. Edward Martin a farm hand was struck and instantly killed on Milo Jones farm. At Crary a barn was struck and burned with seven horses killed.
Two men died and four were injured in a head on crash between two freight trains one mile north of Midvale Virginia. The collision occurred yesterday near Roanoke with both crews reporting fatalities and several injured workers rushed to nearby hospitals.
Two men and a woman mill operatives drowned when their boat capsized on Willand Pond in Dover New Hampshire last night. Two other occupants were rescued exhausted and taken from the scene.
Food product list with multiple entries including sugar, mushrooms, corn, and sauces. Notes indicate presence of sulfites copper salts coal tar dyes starch fillers and labeling issues. Several firms and cities cited such as Lake Mills Iowa Bordeaux France Duluth Minnesota Baltimore Maryland Cincinnati Ohio Chicago Illinois St Louis Missouri Minneapolis Minnesota and more.
Chas Burchett and Charles Stevens, sons of prominent local farmers, drowned in the Coon River west of Dallas Center while fishing yesterday. Identified by community sources, their deaths are being investigated by local authorities.
During a severe Helena thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the home of Mrs. Chatterton an elderly woman and hurled her from a chair into another room causing injury.
The body of Mrs John Hene mister of Duluth was found at the slip at the foot of Sixth avenue west yesterday. Officials believe the drowning was accidental.
A night operator paused for lunch at the nearby eating house when a fire erupted and gutted the station and freight house in Wabasha Minnesota, destroying the depot and all its contents.
La Crosse authorities agree to provide 1000 dollars annually for Carnegie Library on the North side. Andrew Carnegie has offered the library on this condition.
Five suspicious strangers in disguises caused West Salem to arm villagers. Local watchmen chased the men through the streets until midnight, driving them from town amid fears of crooks. The incident prompted increased patrols and vigilance in La Crosse County on July 16.
Private Patrick Cummings of Company E United States engineer corps was murdered yesterday at a landing place on TM creek by Hayes Donaldson who escaped. Local authorities reported the fatal incident and the search for the suspect continued.
A seventeen year old youth, formerly of Winnipeg and recently employed in Gretna, drowned while bathing in the Pembina River at Neche North Dakota. The victim's name was not established at the time of reporting.
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