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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1905
Page
7
Riot in Yokohama after midnight Tuesday involved about 5500 mostly outcasts. Police boxes were burned, three targets attacked, and 98 mob members arrested while 40 policemen were wounded. Four hundred troops mobilized to guard consulates, depots, and oil tanks.
In federal court at Portland on September 14 Joel E. Calavan testified in the Williamson trial, admitting subpoena presence at prior trials but saying he was not recalled by the government. Henry Hudson provided lighter moments as testimony continued, with the defense relying on others to present their case.
Regulator Line steamer delivered wheel scraps and supplies to landings along the Columbia from Washougal to White Salmon for construction gangs building the north bank road. Northern Pacific and Great Northern trains will access Portland via this route. Charles M. Levey of NP may visit Portland with plans for the Portland & Seattle company as an auxiliary firm.
New Orleans reports ongoing yellow fever cases despite officials remaining calm. The epidemic has struck hard at the Catholic church with the death of Sister Marie at Mount Carmel asylum, adding to the church's losses that include its archbishop and Father Green.
Telegram reports from Belgrade and Sofia reveal a plotted general outbreak in the Balkans aimed at forcing foreign powers to intervene and declare Macedonian autonomy. The plan allegedly included the assassination of King Peter I of Servia and Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. principals have been imprisoned.
Victoria B C September 14 Tien Tsin papers report a broad Shantung conspiracy to rise against the Germans on September 16. Each family is to provide a fighting man whose equipment will be paid for by subscription.
The Oregon Library Commission offers traveling libraries of 50 volumes each to farming communities and small villages. A community earns one by organizing a library association of at least ten taxpayers, electing a secretary, and agreeing to circulate books freely and maintain the collection. Early applications favored. two libraries per year may be added if a location accepts the program.
New York Sept. 15 Through American enterprise a direct submarine telegraphic link will connect the Western continent with Japan and China. Clarene H. Mackay president of the Commercial Pacific Cable company announced concessions to land at Yokohama and Shanghai after three years of diplomacy led by President McKinley. The system will extend two thirds of the globe and use existing lines from San Francisco to Manila to reach Yokohama and Shanghai.
The Berlin official bulletin reports 15 new cholera cases and four deaths between noon yesterday and today. New cases appear in Flatow Stuhm Obernik Czarnikau Wirsitz Bromberg Marienwerder Grandenz and Schubin districts. Four earlier suspected cases ruled not cholera, totaling 179 cases and 65 deaths to date.
Stockholm reports that Swedish circles deny any wish to oppose Norway's arbitration treaty but say only preliminary talks are possible. A final treaty hinges on Norway accepting Sweden's terms and recognizing Norway as an independent state. Swedish intentions are described as wholly pacific.
London dispatch reports English oil companies forced to abandon work at Bakure due to threats by revolutionaries. The protest action disrupts London backed operations in the region as security concerns rise.
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