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Newspaper
Goreville Record
Location
Goreville, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1905
Page
2
A northern Carbondale tornado demolished a score of houses, barns and railroad cars with no deaths. Three dwellings destroyed, ten overturned, fifty damaged. A cow remained unharmed inside a barn blown away, a horse found maimed on a porch two hundred feet away. A six inch beam pierced a door and ground floor then vanished three feet underground.
National League standings show New York at 83 34 and Cincinnati 61 57, with Chicago 70 50 and Brooklyn 87 80 among leaders. Western League lists Des Moines 79 43 and Omaha eight four, with Sioux City 65 53. Also notes former Speaker Henderson’s declining condition, a 41 year marriage divorce petition by John J. Grafton, Philippine disturbances, a Kentucky horseman jailed for contempt, a horse dying after fear of a car, yellow fever spreading in Louisiana sugar estates, tenor Francisco Tamagno dies in Italy, and Raul Morton halts Mrs Hyde’s $25,000 pension.
An official Portsmouth statement announces Japan virtually concedes all key points in the Portsmouth talks, waiving indemnity and the Sakhalin purchase. The peace terms honor both sides, with Russia losing naval power and Manchuria but preserving honor, and Japan gaining prestige without humiliation as Roosevelt's mediation yields lasting settlement.
The piece portrays Baron Komura and Takahira as downcast, claiming the concessions stemmed from the Japanese emperor’s orders after Roosevelt’s influence. It contrasts Kaneko and Marquis Ito’s leverage with Baron Komura’s failed stance and praises Russia’s wartime envoy Witte for securing terms despite pressure.
Agreement outlines Japan's influence in Korea while preserving open door policy. Russia surrenders Liaotung leases including Port Arthur and Dalny. Manchuria to be evacuated and Chinese sovereignty restored. Sakhalin to be divided with fishing rights for Japan. ports and railways to China with limited 1896 privileges. Russia to pay indemnity for war costs and surrender warships. mutual most favored nation and open door guarantees.
Japan waives claims on interned vessels and will return them. The battleship Czarevitch lies at Tsingtau China. The cruiser Askold, gunboat Mandjur and destroyer Grozovoi are at one port. The cruiser Fiana and others are located at Saigon and Mare Island.
A woman described as a miser and owner of two tenement houses in New York was found dead in two rooms she occupied. The report notes she was reputed to have large bank sums and keep accounts across institutions. The article also mentions a series of unrelated items including a prison caterer suing over a rabbit foot loan, Batavia rebels killing officers, the death of architect Alfred Waterhouse in London, and a surgery in Cincinnati following a toy cannon explosion injury from 29 years ago.
The Hodgenville farm known as Lincoln’s birthplace sold for about 3,606 dollars at auction with New York buyer Collier named as purser. The 120 acre tract near Hodgenville lies along a main thoroughfare and has long been discussed as a potential site for a national park. Local postmaster Thomas B. Mirkpattick urged patriotic action to preserve the property.
The Weather Bureau reports exceptionally favorable conditions for corn in central valleys with bulk early corn safe from frost by Sept 15. Cutting underway in Oklahoma Indian territories southern Missouri and much of Kansas. Spring wheat harvest finished with good yields. Tobacco patchy with wet weather in Kentucky Virginia and Maryland. apples fare better in Maryland and Virginia but poor elsewhere. Potatoes outlook very unfavorable.
Chicago Typographical Union No. 16 threatens a general strike across major cities from Ohio to Missouri and Minnesota if demands for a new agreement are not met. Members plan to halt non union compositors as a show of force while warning of a broader work stoppage in the industry.
Fifty five cases of yellow fever are reported in Jefferson Parish with fishermen along Lake Pontchartrain area. L Milorady directs under the Board of Health guidance. Deaths occur mainly in nearby regions and relief teams, including two nurses, are being dispatched with medical supplies to the affected districts.
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