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Newspaper
Norfolk Weekly News Journal
Location
Norfolk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1905
Page
1
A dated dispatch claims Mukden fell at 10 am as Russian forces retreat amid heavy casualties. It cites thousands of prisoners, vast stores and guns seized, and Japanese pressure along the Hun river with Kuroki advancing northward.
Reports from Manchuria describe Japanese forces occupying Mukden after intensified fighting near the Hun river. Russian resistance remains stiff as Oyama presses toward strategic targets. casualties and battlefield chaos are noted with ongoing weather and transmission disruption.
New York March 10 labor leaders deny local orders to strike. Grand Chief Warren Stone and President W D Mahon say strikers must return to work. Joint statement counters Stone, claiming national body not in sympathy with the walkout and vowing to fight on.
The Connecticut Supreme Court upheld the Superior Court ruling that the sealed letter in Philo S Bennett’s will is inoperative. It preserved W. J. Bryan as beneficiary of fifty thousand dollars from the residuary estate, with Bryan’s status as executor noted.
In Milwaukee on March 10 the court decision in Beonell was read by Mr. Bryan over the telephone after his lecture. Bryan said he had not received formal notice and offered no further comment beyond assuming the decision ends the contest.
In Ann Arbor on Tuesday night two sophomore students stabbed during hazing are improving and expected to recover. The freshman attacker remains at large after warning he would defend himself with a knife when the sophomores advanced to cut his hair. In Nashville, Tennessee the legislature adjourned after a brief session to elect a successor to the late Senator Bate with Governor H. W. McMillin widely expected to win.
West Point Neb March 10 A special report says Charles Zetlin about sixty years old was riding along the Northwestern railroad tracks north of town when the horse stumbled and pitched him over its head He fell on his chest and died believed from heart failure The tragedy occurred last night near the rail line observed by Nye Schneider Fowler Wu.
Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University hold three simultaneous debates under the Triangular League. The topic urges federal power to fix railroad rates after hearings, with operable orders subject to federal court suspension. Judges include General Hlovitlo C. C. King and former New York Supreme Court Justices Goodrich.
Washington March 1 charges of scandal arise from the St Louis exposition company affair to which suspected collusion in awarding salvage contracts and selling exposition buildings at inadequate prices is linked. Senator Carter resigns as government commission head and points to a possible 1.9 million profit to favored bidders and US loss. commission to report to the president. Senator William B Bate of Tennessee dies at 78 in Washington apartments due to pneumonia and heart failure after long service in war and Congress.
Chicago March 10 reports the United States Weather Bureau bulletin from the Chicago station. It forecasts Nebraska will see probably light snow flurries tonight and Saturday with slightly colder temperatures tonight.
A stove ignited a blaze in a small second floor room of the Davenport Cold Storage Plant on Madison Avenue. The fire caused about 12000 dollars in loss, with insurance around 8000 dollars on the building and stock. Firefighters battled the spectacular blaze, still burning as flames spread through the structure.
Grand jury witnesses at Logan Avenue testified about promises by Thomings regarding costs paid by the Civic Federation of Ouaba in the Indictment alleging receiving stolen property and complicity in the Palock diamond robbery. Several jurors described statements made after meals were returned, while Hammer denied defense affidavits claiming inducement.
A massive blaze gutted the Davenport Bros cold storage building at the Madison Avenue Seventh Street corner in Norfolk. Officials say insurance on the building is 5000 and on stock 2000, but losses far exceed coverage as flames consume 600 tons of ice in the south top section and 10000 empty barrels in the north. The fire started from a stove in a second floor passageway. lockdown doors prevented earlier evacuation.
Proceedings discuss a court ruling on governor vacancy and the Peabody Adams race with two amendments. In Amiens, a large gang led by Marines Jacob faces trial for organized robberies across France, with millions in booty and violent methods.
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