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Newspaper
Flora Enterprise Sentinel
Location
Flora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1904
Page
6
The war office admits Russian hopes faded after Liaoyang defeat and Kuropatkin will retire and wait for next year's campaign. Russians rest north toward Harbin while the Japanese ponder further actions as winter looms and reports of leadership changes swirl.
Prince Bertold Bismarck eldest son of the late Prince Bismarck lies seriously ill at Friedrichruhe. Doctors Schweininger and Von Poe pronounce his liver cancer hopeless. born December 24, 1849, he married Countess Margaret Hoyos in 1892.
Washington reports Japan formally protests US delay on Lena the Russian auxiliary cruiser remaining in port beyond 24 hours. Roosevelt sees reports and orders possible dismantling or rapid repairs depending on seaward readiness and expert findings.
Fred Strube pleaded guilty to the November murder of his sweetheart Alice Henninger in Havana Illinois. Judge Higbee sentenced him to life imprisonment after a 26 minute court appearance that surprised onlookers.
Three people were injured in a collision between a large racing automobile and a park trap at Lang and Penn avenues in Pittsburg. The three victims C. B. Lawton Miss Dora Murdoch and Ming Carrie Murdoch, all of Pittsburg, were trapped beneath the overturned trap as firemen freed them. The car belonged to an architect under indictment in a separate death case. He was not in the car at the time.
In Green Bay Wisconsin on Sunday Charles Farrow of Philadelphia and Alma Heck of Crystal Falls were drowned when a boat overturned. The tragedy occurred while the pair were in Green Bay.
The executive Board of the union butcher workmen abandoned the eight week strike and ordered members back to work. Terms mirror those offered by J Ogden Armour with reinstatement priority, wage parity for skilled butchers, and no retaliation for union ties. Total estimated losses reach 13 375 000 across wages and related costs.
Wiley Gibson held at Lee county jail in Jonesville Va escapes by disguising as his mother in her dress and bonnet. His break comes as authorities plan to move him to the Richmond penitentiary for a five year robbery sentence after his jail departure was noticed when a fellow inmate found the elderly woman in the cell.
Attendance at the World’s Fair in St Louis broke weekly records with 874954 admissions, nearly 100000 more than any prior week. Labor Day drew 209602, the highest single day total, pushing cumulative admissions to 9994510 since opening.
The Delaware steamer Columbia traveling from Philadelphia to Bristol, Pa., struck a small steam launch ten miles north of Philadelphia on Sunday night. Eight of the dozen occupants perished, all Philadelphians, with the rest rescued or unaccounted for.
A lightning bolt struck a bara causing the deaths of Hammond Burkholder and another person. Investigators are assessing the circumstances at the location described as a bara.
Five bandits attacked Rock Island No 11 near Letts Iowa just after midnight. They dynamited the safe and took contents including merchandise and company papers but no money was found. Reports say $10 000 to $20 000 was taken from Muscatine. A similar masked robbery occurred near Mission Junction Saskatchewan where four men seized valuables and $6 000 from the express safe.
Train No. 41 derailed south of the Catawba river in South Carolina, 22 miles southwest of Monroe, killing Engineer E. Y. Barksdale and Fireman Ed Roberts among four dead and 35 injured as cars tumbled from a 25 foot trestle. A following freight struck the Pullman, worsening the wreck. Separately, a warrant is issued for Capt Ira Keithley former Philippine constabulary commander on embezzlement charges.
Boston reports the death of Dr. George Claude Tremont Temple in Aix les Bains France after lung illness and complications. Topeka notes Dan Patch the great racer owned by W M Savage of Minneapolis sick with strangulated hernia at the state fair leading to doubtful prognosis.
Oyster Bay Sept 12 President Roosevelt has written his letter accepting the Republican nomination. He argues the Democratic platform lacks defined issues and defends administration policies on Panama canal affairs currency anti trust laws and reciprocity. He asserts Republican sincerity and outlines foreign and domestic policy records and aims.
Maine returns from 450 of 552 towns place William Cobb ahead of Cyrus Davis by about 25,947 in statewide results. Congressional districts reelect four Republicans with 5 000 to 7 000 margins. Next year Senate could be 27 Republicans to 4 Democrats, House 121 to 30.
The interparliamentary union’s second session adopts two resolutions. The first urges world powers to intervene in the Russian Japanese war now. The second invites world nations to join a second Hague conference with President Roosevelt urged to call it. The intervention resolution is amended for immediate action.
The week ends with obituaries for Judge A. Kingman in Topeka and a Paris accident that killed a man aged about 84. Rail, fire, and collision incidents cross Idaho to Indiana, with floods of losses in New York tenements and Alaska salmon shortages.
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