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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
3
Czar shifts stance slightly as Roosevelt presses for results. Japan urged to temporize amid firm talks on indemnity. no money payment appears linked to the final settlement. In St Petersburg Meyer meets Foreign Minister Lamsdorff at 3 24 p m.
The Futurity now features seventeen starters in what could be one of the largest fields ever assembled. The race promises a wide a field as it seeks to settle the outcome of a historic competition.
President Roosevelt privately witnessed and then rode the submarine Plunger off Oyster Bay aboard the Sylph. He submerged for 50 minutes under Lieut. Nelson guidance, watched porpoise dives and demonstrations, and expressed pleasure at the craft near the Seawanhaka Yacht Club.
Erie, Aug 26 Captain Patrick McMahon of the yacht Mystic died from burn injuries after a lighted cigar stub started a fire on the third floor of the Beck block. Eighteen others were nearly suffocated and rescued by firefighters in a dramatic early morning blaze. The damage was reported as a small monetary loss.
The proposal states Russia accepts a division of Sakhalin with liberal payment to Japan for Russian prisoners, but no indemnity. The plan presents no compensation obligation beyond prisoner care terms.
The Foreign Office announced at 2 o'clock this afternoon that the situation remained unchanged with no developments affecting Russia's position.
In Portsmouth on August 26 the peace conference began its session at 3 07 in the afternoon. The opening meeting focused on initial agenda items and anticipated talks.
Not yet successful, Roosevelt's intercession at Peterhof and Tokio yields limited progress. Russia insists on tribute payments while Berlin says emperor supports mediation. Portsmouth conference teeters on rupture as stubborn disputes over principle persist amid gloom.
The article describes dwindling hope for a peace deal as M de Witte may sign a declaration closing the conference unless Japan offers a new proposal. It notes pressure on Japan to drop the Sakhalin price and portrays both sides as wanting peace yet firm on demands. De Witte stands between tsar and people, unable to go beyond imperial orders.
Paris Illinois August 26 Metcalfe Bank a private concern owned by John R Gobin closed its doors today Cashier Smith said Gobin purchased the bank recently and then drew a note for 10000 payable to himself taking the money out of deposits Gobin left town yesterday
Edwin S. Holmes Jr., once associate statistician in the agriculture department, indicted for conspiracy to defraud the government. U S District Attorney Morgan H Beach announced after returning from New York where Peckham the broker and Moses Haas were arrested at Saratoga. Two indictments cover the three men.
New cases reach 15 with 6 deaths, totaling 1 680 cases and 238 deaths to date. Dr J H White of the United States marine hospital service says the city is absolutely under control, with quarantine preventing travel from infected points and a six day detention period for non residents returning to the city.
The Anthony powder works between Ishpeming and Negaunee, Marquette County, exploded four times last evening. Nearly all plant buildings were destroyed and windows shattered in Negaunee and Ishpeming, with plate glass fronts of about twenty business blocks broken.
Sanderson and Fletcher of Galesburg defeated Peters and Snow of Chicago 6-4 6-2 6-2 to win the middle west tennis championship in doubles as a strong wind blew over the courts.
Washington Aug 26 Former Assistant Statistician Edwin S Holmes Jr did not appear in criminal court to post bond as his attorney had promised regarding the premature promulgation of cotton crop estimates leaving the proceedings unresolved and the case pending.
The big French liner La Savoie drifts in heavy seas and contrary winds in the Gulf Stream. It has no passengers aboard but carries several hundred crew members and is unable to head into the wind.
Norfolk reports the French liner La Savoie with a broken shaft drifting in the gulf stream off Cape Henry due to a gale and heavy seas. Tug Non pareil abandoned the ship and returned to harbor seeking aid, with the ship carrying hundreds of crew but no passengers aboard. Five people drown as Elk River surge damages property near Charleston, West Virginia.
Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, guest of Chicago financier F. O. Lowden, attended a reception at the Thousand Island house in Alexandria Bay New York. He met Treasury Comptroller R J Tracewell Philadelphia Mayor John Weaver and Syracuse Mayor Alan C Fobes and heard an invitation to speak at the New York state fair in Syracuse on September 11. He would decide next Monday.
John E. Madden the Kentucky turfman was convicted of criminal contempt of court in New York and sentenced to 30 days in jail plus a $250 fine for failing to obey a subpoena to appear at the supreme court commissioner in Brooklyn during his wife’s divorce case. Deputies were searching for Madden.
Topeka August 26 Attorney General Coleman on behalf of the state has filed suit in the United States Fidelity and Guaranty company of Baltimore for 250000 and against the Title Guaranty and Trust company of Scranton Pa for 500000. The suit stems from the failure of the First National Bank of Topeka a Devlin concern in which the state had 547000 tied up.
Stockholm reports the commissioners appointed to renegotiate the dissolution of the Sweden Norway union will meet for the first time at Carlsbad on August 31.
In Canton, a traveling man who resembled Governor La Follette of Wisconsin was mistaken for the governor by a Chautauqua reception committee. He received a free ride to a hotel before being revealed as a drummer. The governor later spoke to a large crowd on Representative Government.
Kankakee Aug 26 Western Normal school at Bushnell ends 25 years of existence as the corporation dissolves. The Bushnell school once ranked among the state’s larger normals, but competition from other state normal schools, including Macomb, led to its financial decline and closure.
A gang of Italians in Buxton near Oskaloosa Iowa engaged in a dispute during a switch job and one man fired five shots into his victim. Names of the participants are unreadable in the report.
Mrs W T Hayford wife of a prominent pioneer businessman in Cedar Rapids Iowa was thrown from her buggy in a runaway today and died almost instantly as her skull was crushed by the impact authorities reported a special dispatch from Cedar Rapids Iowa dated August 26 1900s era.
Ernest Swanson of Wasco was covered with bumble bee stings while cutting weeds and is in a serious condition in St. Charles Illinois. Dr. W J Calhoun says he may not recover after the bee attack on August 26.
News from Mapile Alabama reports the yacht Margenedora owned by President T P Shonts of the Panama Canal Commission burned at Carrabelle Florida. The boat will not be rebuilt and no lives were lost.
Readfield Maine August 26 three persons died in a blaze that leveled the Maranacook hotel at Lake Maranacook. Five others were injured as more than 69 guests and staff escaped in night attire, some leaping from windows. The blaze is blamed on a defective chimney.
In New York on August 26 Carl Fischer Hansen, a wealthy young lawyer and philanthropist, recounted a remarkable tale of self sacrifice. A wellborn university student allegedly confessed to a burglary he did not commit and surrendered to Sing Sing to protect a married woman of equal social standing whom he had compromised, though the man's name remains undisclosed.
Joseph Rickett s an 18 year old Pacific Express clerk was found murdered last night near Decatur Illinois near the station and near the busy street. A hair covered express trunk brace lay nearby suggesting robbery as the motive.
In Iowa City Iowa the coroner jury found John Kelley treasurer of local labor unions died from an head injury received during an encounter on July 31. Three alleged murderers John Vizichek Matt Maher and Peter Wise remain jailed awaiting grand jury action.
Attorney C Readway faced criminal libel charges in Sioux City Iowa after circulating claims of Security National bank insolvency. He was released on bond as President Manley pressed the action. there was no bank run despite depositor unease.
Sir Thomas Lipton told reporters aboard his yacht Erin that he remains eager for a fresh America Cup challenge but says it would be futile under the New York Yacht Club measurement rules.
Special indications for Iowa predict showers tonight with warmer conditions in the east and showers with cooler temperatures in the west. Sun rises at 5 09 and sets at 6 36 with the moon rising at 12 55.
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