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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1905
Page
3
England and Japan pledge mutual aid in Asia to deter conflict and press for regional peace. Each nation promises support if the other is threatened, signaling a unified stance in East Asia amid rising tensions.
London reports the text of the Great Britain Japan defensive alliance signed August 1. The agreement pledges mutual aid if attacked, defines Japan’s interests in Korea, and safeguards India and British interests. Baron Hayashi says the treaty guards against Far East disturbances and aims to maintain peace among powers with commercial interests. Sir Charles Dilke notes France accepts the pact but Germany may feel slight irritation over Shangtung.
George Berger, Pullman car service local superintendent, and F G Stevens and wife were arrested by customs officers in Seattle on a smuggling charge. Berger claimed he was a victim of circumstances. The trio was found with 30 pounds of opium at the depot. Stevens had recently completed prison time for smuggling opium from Victoria to Seattle.
State examiner details show 28 small insurers merged into Western Life Indemnity leaving policyholders uninsured yet still paying premiums. Critics claim the company is being milked dry as assets plummet from 917000 to about 300900 while hearings consider a merger and possible court restraints.
In Tepic district near Hostorpaquillo Jalisco two Mexican mine workers Manuel Paredes shipping foreman at Bueng Vista mines and one assistant were killed when bandits stopped their mule train returning with 6500 pesos for miners. The other assistant escaped with 1000 pesos. About 12 bandits were involved, Paredes’ body was riddled with bullets and the second victim was shot multiple times.
The executive committee of the board of regents of state normal schools will convene in the capital to audit monthly accounts for seven institutions and address autumn openings. Possible action on Platteville normal site may occur. The committee includes President Freeman H. Lord and Regents James A. Peacock and Frank Ress.
The Ohio stake for 220% trolleys, purse $10,000, drew contender Angiola who won six heats to claim the event at Park yesterday. Ned Lac won heat one with a 2:07 lap, setting a new record, while Woody Wt crashed near the finish and died the race.
A batch of incorporations was filed including Rockford Miniog Ca fuer ville to operate in Guantawa and La Fayette counties with 100000 capital. Wisconsin-Osage OO and Land Co Winkesha with 300000 capital. Famous Mining & Mining Co Clifton Grant county with unknown stock. Wagledom Publishing Co to publish Fruenal Order of Eagles with 1000. Langaster Commercial in Langaster Grant county with 4 million stock. Athulstane Cheese Co Lown of Athelstine Marinelle county with 200. Randolph Wagon Works Randolph Columbia county with board increased to 9. Lakeside Land v Superior with 600000 stock.
In Cleveland on September 27 John D Rockefeller hosted several hundred representative men at his Forest Hill home. Andrew Squires and L E Holden praised him as a citizen and businessman while Rockefeller urged youths to seek higher aims than wealth. He urged service to humanity and using success to endow hospitals churches schools and worthy causes.
Secretary Hitchcock yesterday arrived in Washington after a three month sojourn at Mondanogk, Wisconsin, where he spent the summer.
Mosca Sept 27 The congress of zemstvo and municipal representatives outlined a political program urging universal suffrage representation based on patronage rather than class, equal rights for peasants, abolition of guardianship, inviolability of person and domicile, freedom of conscience press and assembly, and a new budgetary system with legal oversight. It also calls for village administration reform and direct election of delegates.
The department of commerce ordered inspection of all steamboats in the United States. The move follows a May rule revision aligning with recent laws after the General Slocum disaster in New York.
Mrs Peter Bach was shot by her husband in Manitowoc Wisconsin on September 27. Four shots were fired three hit and the dying woman tried to prevent police arrest of her husband her struggles ending when she collapsed from blood loss. Police say Bach returned home intoxicated and began to abuse her before the shooting.
Elgin police report exconvict Harder and companions Bill Brown and Bennie Dess confessed to entering the Feen residence at Spring Lake on September 1. The intruders reportedly gagged Andrew and John Feen during the break-in.
Joseph Porter aged 84 was found dead beside a road in Caledonia. He lived as a fisher, trapper, and former wanderer along Black River. After seeking a brief stay near a farmer's, he took rat poison, leaving a pack of rat biscuits in his pocket. In Port Washington a separate report notes a man found hanged near Fredonia, with a gold watch on his person.
Des Moines reports Secretary of the Treasury L M Shaw will leave the cabinet February 7 to begin a presidential campaign. In a letter to a Republican club he said he would not return to Iowa until February 1 and planned to retire from the cabinet to pursue his providential campaign. The Washington dispatch notes his prior commitment to leave around February 1 and his intent to stay longer only due to certain interests.
New York Sept 27 Jockey Redfern was injured when his car collided with a motorcycle en route to a race track. He sustained a fracture of the right arm and will retire from riding for the year.
Washington reports that Cuban minister Quesada released an autopsy on the police chief killed last Friday in Cienfuegos. The findings show bullets entered from the back and the chief fired no shots, indicating he could not defend himself.
A man accused as the supposed conspirator in the attack on the American consulate shield was arrested. Elections favored the moderate party causing a sharp rise in Havana stock prices, some advancing about 20 points as markets reacted.
Assistant Attorney General A C Titus met in Appleton with W C Slattery to discuss the Walsh case tied to the Brandon death of Mrs J A Walsh. Slattery says no decision will be made until two sisters return from Europe in about three weeks and the family will decide on reopening the investigation. He questions a priest confession and notes the sister did not regain consciousness after the shot.
Reported leads suggest lead poisoning linked to canned condensed milk purchased by Cana, alleged to be connected with the deaths of six month old Archie Bauwbais and a sister, amid ongoing investigations dated September 27.
Robert Manners, 24, entered Chicago county hospital last night and told a doctor he swallowed a lead pencil two years ago. Surgeons operated for appendicitis and removed a sharpened pencil fragment five inches long from his appendix. Doctors expect a quick recovery.
The Wilby title bout advertised for last night was canceled after Family Attorney Christensen issued an order halting the fight. The action blocks the prizefight and prevents the scheduled event from taking place.
By the will of Charles Parsons longtime president of the State Bank $50 000 is bequeathed to endow the Parsons College chair for Martha Parsons professorship at Parsons College Palrflel Iowa.
Sioux City reports former Democratic city chair May Gud exalted ruler of the Elks arrested to answer an indictment for embezzling $200 collected for an insurance company.
A speaker argues that English has over a quarter million words though use is limited to a few thousand. He shows a coded line about recovering a drum and chuckles at the idea of writing a universal story. The discussion flips between language and a drum puzzle.
A compact prayerful verse thanking the Lord for deliverance from addiction. The speaker chronicles relief from temptation and bondage, praising divine aid that locked away the snares of drink and freed the feet from imprisoning chains. The tone is penitential and grateful.
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