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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1904
Page
2
A rough passageway scene unfolds as masked men seize a suitcase with 4000 dollars and valuables from a station vault. Clerks are forced to open a rear room while officers pursue. one captive is released, a constable holds a suspect with an alibi, and a pistol threatens Mrs. Boggan.
Distressed report describes a deadly incident at a school where children fell into a vault amid a disastrous rush. Authorities investigate the cause and safety lapses as mourners gather.
Fragmentary OCR describes a train incident involving detached components and a damaged engine. It notes brakes, a break at the boiler, steam exposure, and a delayed recovery, with unclear names and locations due to garbled text.
A Boston area accident when a wagon man, Roy Venton, dropped a dynamite box near a train carrying President Roosevelt. Six to eight injured, with three dead on site and others dying later. The blast shattered windows of the nearby Masonic Building and caused widespread chaos. Authorities investigated, hospitals overwhelmed, and the incident drew a large crowd as the president's party rode through.
Citizens of New Winchester Ohio probe the deaths of Mary and Lizzie Maher found on the Ohio Central track. Initially deemed self-inflicted, the investigation finds no wounds on Mary and no injuries on Lizzie except amputated legs. Authorities now suspect murder with bodies placed on the track and a prepared breakfast in the farmhouse, a necktie found nearby.
A large multi-county posse pursues William Britton after he killed James Cockrill, Jackson marshal, shifting the hearing from Breathitt to Lexington, as Britton is arrested ten miles from Jackson and brought to the city with no resistance.
Russia has presented a protest in Peking over the Anglo Tibetan treaty. Minister Lessar reportedly warned the Chinese foreign board that ratifying the treaty would abandon Chinese suzerainty over Tibet and create a British protectorate. China’s reluctance to ratify is seen as a direct result of the protest.
A report from Macon Georgia details a clash near a town where a crowd of African Americans was fired upon from an ambush. Four were killed and others wounded. A sheriff and posse head to the scene while communications are disrupted. Separately, a young English woman Florence Gray travels to England to fulfill her uncle’s will commitments at an immigrant station in New York, then returns home. In New York a deadly fire on Seventy First Street leaves four dead, three men and one woman, all suffocated. Joseph Briggs, linked to a murder in Chicago, is positively identified as the shooting suspect in the Harold Peterson case. A Colorado wreck endangers a Santa Fe eastbound train at Nepesta with three sleepers off the track. few injuries are reported.
The Diamond Special passenger train derailed at Barclay seven miles from Springfield, Illinois. Thirteen coaches left the rails. the fireman was killed and the engineer seriously injured. One passenger had minor injuries. Authorities blame malicious tampering as the switch had been partially opened and an obstruction placed to stop it.
The coronation of King Peter Karageorgeviteh in Belgrade, Servia, occurred Wednesday morning without incident. A three hour Greek church ceremony and a grand state procession followed, seemingly silencing the prior ruler’s murder. In Topeka, a murder confession arrives from J Max West claiming he killed John Collins five years ago. Collins is now serving life for matricide.
The first break in the steamship rate war occurred in London Tuesday as North German Lloyd raised steerage to New York to $15. Hamburg American Line followed with the same rate. Billy Matthews, a well known Michigan hunter from Bad Axe, drowned in Saginaw Bay near his bungalow between Sebensing and Bay Port. Robert S. Scott, senior member of Carson Pirie Scott Co., Chicago, is dead. A large fire in Montreal destroyed the Canada Hardware Co and related concerns, with losses around 750000. Snow fell briefly in Saratoga Lake and Adirondack points as temperatures dipped below freezing.
In Seney near LeMars a 6 year old boy died from what is described as poison in pressed chicken at a birthday party at Arthur Reeves home. Several children including Jessie Reeves 17 and Luberta Reeves 10 are ill with severe symptoms. doctors from LeMars treat victims as conditions worsen with many listed names and ages.
A report from Anamosa says William Rogers, jailed in Delaware County for three years after a knife-attack incident, is not the killer of Sheriff W. H. Strain. Rogers, visited by warden and Sheriff Rawlings, was found to resemble Corns only in size and is very talkative, unlike the accused. The real murderer, Sheriff W. D. Straim, remains at large.
Rt. Rev. Mathias Clement Lenihan of Marshalltown was consecrated first bishop of Great Falls Montana by Archbishop Keane at St. Raphael's in Dubuque on Wednesday morning. Archbishop Ireland delivered the sermon as Marshalltown delegates attended, the largest crowd since the Hennessey burial ceremonies, with about twenty bishops and two hundred priests present. a banquet followed.
L N Carter of three miles east of Sergeant Bluffs discovers a fire at midnight in his neighbor Fred Daniels home. While guarding Mrs Daniels, Carter leaves his own barn unscathed then learns ten horses die in the blaze from an unknown cause. The barn held eleven horses total, one survives. Estimated loss set at 2800 dollars including barn value.
Ernest Brown aged 33 was arrested Monday near Dubuque after attacking Mrs. Pierce Clary 75 on her farm. He confessed to the sheriff the revolting details as he was escorted to Dubuque by the sheriff and local citizens. Other items note a fire near Aurelia, a shooting near Hamp ton, a suicide near State Center, and bank president J I Cutting arriving with the sheriff amid grand jury action.
A barn fire destroyed W T Wonks property, killing livestock. insurance covered about half the roughly $1,000 loss. Elsewhere near Sergeant Bluffs a woman, Madam Daniels, faces insanity proceedings after a religiously driven mental breakdown. In Fort Dodge a severe storm with large hail damaged signboards and greenhouse glass. in Sioux City a Pelletier’s Furniture blaze caused around $20,000 in losses.
Bloodhounds track Rockwell City suspect Kuck Gregg for assault on a jeweler Pattee's 10 year old daughter and horse theft. Posse under Sheriff Risely hunts, with cautions if capture remains elusive. Also notes Crofford murder case delay, a cash theft at Atlantic depot, a Jalup tragedy near Bridgewater, a boy injured at What Cheer, and the sale of Fort Dodge Clay Works to J M Miner for 80000.
One hundred years ago the river crop in South Carolina was destroyed by a great rainstorm sweeping across the Southern States. Mr Dearborn son of the Secretary of War left for Algiers with presents for the rest of that country. Spain formally demanded Americas complete renification of east and west Florida. An American newspaper decided that it would be wisest to retain the inland of New Orleans and sell the rest of the Louisiana purchase to Spain for what it would bringing.
Seventy-five years ago the first public school in Balthmore Ways was established. Col Trumbull the artist recommended beeswax on the backs of pictures in the Capitol to preserve them. Preparations began to celebrate the approaching marriage of Ferdinand of Spain. The first steam sawmill in Pittsburg began operations.
Fifty years ago the British consul protested annexation plans as French and English forces withdrew. Florence Nightingale and other nurses arrived at Seuturi to aid the Anglo French army as Boulogne theater burned and the Emperor assisted as a fireman.
Forty years past, drafts spread across Northern States while Albnia districts faced 50 percent cuts. Cook County offered a $10 bounty for enlistment prospects. A Rio Grande clash saw French and Mexican forces defeated by Union and Mexican troops. New York mourned Admiral Farragut's flagship Dartford's accidental loss. Louisiana’s Kellogg was restored as governor, McInery resigned. A DC grand jury declined to charge Charles A. Dana with libel. Theodore Tilton publicly accused Henry Ward Beecher with corroborated conversations. A Chicago and Northwestern train ran 188 miles from Fulton, Iowa to Chicago in 4 hours 42 minutes. Fall River mill fire claimed 40 young girls. US paid $1,030,000 in mixed-commission prizes. Twenty years ago, czars and emperors met, Army of the Cumberland gathering began in New York, cholera cases rose in southern Italy, Gordon’s siege near Cairo reports, earthquakes in the Midwest, and England’s army in Egypt faced losses. Levi Morton nominated governor by New York Republicans.
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