Fragmentary OCR: unclear text on electricity and ship
The readable fragments discuss electricity and a ship, but key names, places, and dates are missing, leaving the item largely undecipherable and not enough to determine a full event or outcome.
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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
7
The readable fragments discuss electricity and a ship, but key names, places, and dates are missing, leaving the item largely undecipherable and not enough to determine a full event or outcome.
General Linevitch accepts Oyama's armistice plan and proposes talks continue. Japanese plenipotentiaries Fukushima and Jovanovsky to meet next Wednesday at Chakahedz midway between fronts to decide on land and sea neutral zones with limited remaining issues for delegates.
Sept. 14 report from Youngstown Mahoning County recounts a note by Frank Byer alleging Charles Herselig or Herseig, a supposed tramp, confessed to murdering Lizzie Grombacher near Youngstown in 1874. The writer claims Sterling died by hanging in 1877 despite innocence. No body found. Herselg family unlocated.
New York dispatch reports Baron Komura plenipotentiary of Japan denying a Rome report that his family had been assassinated. He and his suite call the claim unfounded and without basis.
A steam cooker incident at Gilman Canning Company in Gilman, Iowa, seriously injures worker James Davis and likely fatally hurts co workers Elmer Clark and Andrew Baker. Affected men include Davis, Crow, and others.
A couple, Morgan and his wife, were found with severe throat injuries after a dispute. Morgan allegedly cut his wife’s throat and then slashed his own neck. Doctors reported both were unlikely to survive.
The article recounts Jennings Bryan addressing the Jefferson club, reiterating he is not seeking the presidency in 1908. He cites his public stance that a candidate should emerge from the people rather than be driven by party machinery. Supporters and speakers, including Ollie M. James and Judge James Tarvin, respond with applause.
Isaac Schamus 20 year old Jewish coal agent from Greater New York was arrested at Oyster Bay after seeking a ten minute audience with President Roosevelt to urge creation of a three man panel to regulate coal output. He claimed imminent miners' strike could harm the nation. Secretary Barnes denied an interview. Schamus was later placed under arrest.
Chairman Miles reports letters from Republican organization candidates for county offices withdrawing from the ticket. A special city campaign meeting will fill vacancies. The withdrawals followed Mayor Weaver's split with the organization and the regular convention nomination. A citizens committee seeks a reform ticket.
Detectives hunted Paul Kelly, the strike breaking motorman of the Ninth Avenue elevated, after a derailment killed a dozen and injured many. Kelly, who fled after the crash, allegedly had his sweetheart withdraw his savings bank funds. He had joined the company six months ago coming from St Louis.
Pat Crowe, wanted for years in connection with the Cudahy kidnapping in Omaha, was seen in Lincoln yesterday. He reportedly talked for about half an hour with Richard Metcalf, associate editor of the Commoner, then vanished.
G B Ellis of Red Oak Indiana caught a 612 pound shark at Avalon Catalina Island after a three hour fight. The monster fish measured 11 feet 6 inches and was weighed by a committee securing the world record for rod and reel fishing.
Eight people killed and over forty injured as a Ninth Avenue local derails at Fifty third Street and Ninth Avenue. Switchman Jackinson blamed for criminal neglect. several railroad men arrested. Passengers say car splintered, victims crushed, and crowd chaos ensued as police restored order.
Rev. Alexander Irvine reports William J. Bryan, executor, has settled the Bennett estate. Three funds totaling 30 thousand dollars go to education and charity: Bryan’s poor boys and girls funds and the Bennett prize fund. Bryan will not take executor fees, distributing them to charitable gifts. auditor confirms $50,000 distributed to educational and charitable institutions.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on September 13 the Rand powder works disaster left nineteen dead. Twelve identified bodies are recovered while six remain unidentified, plus a child killed by a wagon adds to the toll.
Chairman Shonts announced a five year feeding and housing concession for Panama Canal employees to J I Markel of Omaha. The deal runs into millions, with firm protests from Hudgins and Dumas and H Balfees claiming collusion and unfair bidding practices. They warn the contract may total at least fifty million dollars and question bid procedures and disclosures.
A Japanese messenger delivers a letter from Field Marshal Oyama to General Linovitch proposing peace and naming General Nakashima as Oyama’s plenipotentiary. He suggests Chakhedza as the armistice meeting site while Russian officers receive the note near a railway post. Chinese and Japanese merchants near Tie pass stockpile goods for the homeward Russian troops. The Russian general staff prepares full campaign records to note faults for future use.
Washington reports a post office fraud order against Nature's Health Restorer from Cincinnati. The department tested the product as a mild tonic laxa tive not a pure vegetable cure for multiple ailments. Postmaster General Cortelyou demanded proof, questioned two Cincinnati doctors, and signaled a wider patent medicine investigation.
John Trappe, accused of shooting Henry G. Link in Belleville, slipped from a sheriff's posse and quietly returned home. He allegedly choked his wife and threatened her before relenting to care for the children, then vanished as deputies closed in. Sheriff G W Thompson and eight deputies hunted him at New Athens.
Miss Dorsey struggles under the new city editor Mr. Merwin as deadlines loom and pride flares. Blanche and Merwin grow closer while Miss Dorsey clings to platonic ties until late evenings reveal emotions and a shifting workplace dynamic.
The London Express reports the Westminster Electric Supply company will open London's first public roof garden at its transforming station in Duke Street Grosvenor Square. The Italian style garden sits eight feet above the street, spans about 250 by 60 feet, and features an ornamental fountain flowerbeds and tub plants.
A brief note describes Phyllis dressing in a bathing suit for a crowded beach, attracting attention as she poses rather than swims. The scene is light and observational with no further action.
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