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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1904
Page
2
Heavy rains trigger a two day flood in Trinidad and the Las Animas valley. River overflows flooding more than thirty city blocks with two to four feet of water. Rail lines and telegraph services down. Bridges out and residents flee by improvised rafts amid casualties and missing persons.
A severe blaze at a meat packing and refrigeration facility in Avenue New York burned through the night, weakening floors and trapping workers. Heaviest losses fall on Ouldahy & Wheeler Co. and Croker, with injuries reported as workers are rescued. The disaster follows ash falls and strong winds blamed on a volcanic eruption in the region, with widespread warnings in southern Italy and Rome.
Massachusetts statesman Senator George Frisbie Hoar dies at his Worcester home on Friday morning after a long illness. Hoar, famed for towering intellect and independence, served nearly thirty years in the U S Senate and was celebrated for his courage in opposing wrongs and his scholarly, nonpartisan approach.
Report notes high school pickets aged under 16 outside McAllister public school in Chicago. Pupils prevented from entering as they shouted at teachers, some wore makeshift badges reading Union. Police maintained order amid racial tensions as strikers dispersed, imaging a broader conflict near the school.
United States Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada, chair of the Indian Affairs Committee, reports vast land frauds in the Indian Territory. He warns that speculators and wealth-connected interests control the field, hindering actual settlement and complicating restoration to honest Indians or white settlers, potentially delaying statehood.
The will of Boston socialite Mrs. Sarah Potter filed for probate awards over 1.9 million in public bequests. Major gifts include 250000 to New Bedford city, 150000 to Boston Medical Library, and 100000 to the Jamaica Plain kindergarten for the blind. Numerous other public bequests to Harvard, Boston Home for Incurables, and local hospitals are listed.
Indictments returned by the Buffalo grand jury charge Alderman J Thomas Harp Henry Moost Orring Pierce and former Alderman Edwardo Beizer Laula G Roedel Henry G Schneider and John C Buson with grafting. They pleaded not guilty Thursday and were released on bail. Schwab’s party departs San Francisco by special train after stock market excitement. Treasury officials consider cigars customs stamp issue. no definite information yet. Trans Miss Commercial Congress calls for oct 25-26 in St Louis under Tom Richardson. Cigar stamp problem and railroad shop curbs noted.
Grand jury indicts engineer Frank J. Hoxie conductor Frank Caspex and brakeman Chas Wright in the Sun day school train disaster on the Chicago and eastern Illinois Railroad at Glenwood Illinois July 13. Eighteen killed and over 100 injured. Manslaughter charges stem from disobedience of orders. Froderick White and Patrick Costello exonerated.
George Brown of Chicago, driven mad by grief after an accidental shooting that killed Edward Hartman, was restrained by six officers on Peoria street. Hartman and Brown were handling a loaded revolver when it discharged.
A Wednesday wreck on the Grand Trunk Ite Yroad near Woodstock Qnt killed both enginery and hatch conduct ors and left one fireman scalded.
Chas A Bird farmer near Robertson Iowa returned from a meeting to find his home ablaze. Mother and three children perished and two bodies were recovered. A hired man helped rescue the remaining child as Mrs Bird was badly burned and taken to safety. Exact cause of the blaze is unknown. The Bird household included Ruth, Edith and Tarnest among five children.
Marshalltown editor TH Ayres of the Evening Herald, about 11 p.m. Saturday, was assaulted by two men near the Spencer Lett Coffee Co. plant on Second Avenue North. He grappled one robber by the throat as the other fired a shot to the head, wounding him in the neck but causing little injury. The assailants fled, taking a gentleman’s watch chain.
A Des Moines report shows the town treasury with 28963 surplus after the 1904 fair. Secretary Smitson announced 15000 carried as prior surplus and 18068 as this year’s profits, with total receipts 465920.41 including 88333.05 from gate sales. Net receipts for 1904 reached 114461.61 after expenses of 28000.
About 150 armed farmers searched Elk Township for a man believed to be an escaped patient from the Cherokee insane hospital. A posse cornered him in an eighty acre corn field after a call for help. A third wife’s accidental death, burglaries at Adaville, and a big Menlo fire are also reported along with a Cedar Falls school census update.
William Kling shot Saniutct Kegly at Salts man school house six miles southeast of Mount Ayr after a neighbors dispute escalated during a tense meeting of six men. Kling, 45, a known Republican politician, fled toward Mount Ayr with an ax injured party later surrendering to authorities. witnesses described quick tempers and family rivalries surrounding the altercation.
A smooth fraudster in Davenport poses as a farm rep seeking butter and eggs contracts. He visits homes on Brady and Sixth Streets, claims a breakdown fund for wagon repairs, then pressures residents for quick payments. Several residents report being swindled by the man and his schemes.
Three inmates tunneled from the Primghar county jail escaping through a west wall hole but were quickly pursued by a sheriff and posse. They were spotted by two passing men who raised alarm. shots were fired as the pursuit reached a corn field. The escape occurred at night with limited chase once the men fled into darkness.
State to connect tax from Callanan estate, likely yielding $100000 or more. James Cashirman, late of Des Moines, left no direct heirs and may have made lifetime gifts instead of a will. Estate valued around $2,000,000, probate filing not yet occurred, tax implications hinge on collateral inheritance rules.
Two inmates, claiming the names Naght and Charles Patterson and asserting as brothers, escaped Fairfield jail after beating Sheriff J Wright with an iron bar. Bloodhounds pursue them. community alerted. authorities optimistic they will be recaptured.
Smith and Jennings confess at Des Moines to stealing diamonds worth 10000 from O. Cohen Jast Jane. They received fourteen-year sentences in the state penitentiary. Diamonds were taken from Cohen's safe after a dynamite blast, with the suspects returned from Chicago months ago.
One hundred years ago reports claim twelve months residence not required under France divorce laws though the note appears unfounded. The item also mentions an American squadron near Leet country and a Dutch ship entering a port, resisting customs rules before surrendering amid broader regional tensions with Cuba and expeditions from the United States.
A 75 year-old retrospective notes the thirteenth amendment’s early passage by two-thirds, a private expedition departing New Medford for the South Sea Islands, Ravenel of South Carolina inventing a pea mill to ease cultivation, and a published table listing total votes in the ten presidential election with Jackson at 71170 and Adams at 680?
The entry notes a reciprocity treaty between the United States and a country named Canned, signed by officials of Cape Hace amid a loss of over three hundred dives. It claims no women or children were saved due to crew conduct. General Santa Anna left Mexico City for Tacahuya amid popular demonstrations, and the US warship Albany sailed from Aspinwall and was never heard from again.
Forty years ago reports cite JO in 26 cents amid union victories. Fremont withdraws from vice presidency. Sheridan defeats Early for a second time near Mahifil. Governor Brown withdraws militia near Pulaski Tennessee as Confederate raids surge Ware 28 Linder Roussen. Thirty years ago Brancis D. Moulton faces indictments linked to Beecher Hilton scandal. Segre River floods Lerida Spain with deaths and property loss. Prince of Wales becomes Grand Master of the order of Tree Masonry. Beaumont and Swain noted. transatlantic steamship rates drop to 25. A typhoon in Hong Kong kills over 1,000 as many buildings collapse.
A Teich statue was unveiled in Eisenach with Tlsat Joachim Villierd and Stamford present as Judge Gresham was sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury succeeding Folger. The Wasp wreck off Donegal coast caused 52 drownings among the crew. Mormon settlers in Wilson County Tennessee faced expulsion orders from regulators. Fourteen smugglers were uncovered transporting Chinese people from British Columbia into Washington and Oregon.
In Bingyok, Poland sixty houses were burned to sump out cholera, killing tenants. A Portland, Oregon dock fire claimed three lives and $1,600,000 in property loss. The report notes a fuel oil trial on tugs and a toast in Chicago river.
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