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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
6
A vain appeal to Northern Railroads seeks to overturn a decision on arbitration. The filing argues the process failed to consider key evidence and requests review by the appropriate adjudicator.
News from St Paul and Seattle report no arbitration for the Great Northern strike. General Superintendent Slade says ninety percent of men returned to work and the railroads will not arbitrate with the remaining ten percent. Governor Johnson and officials discuss possible settlement while 68 closed stations are noted along the Great Northern line. Northern Pacific allocates fourteen deputy sheriffs amid reported operator ejection at Covington and wire interference at several points.
At the convention delegates voted to send 2000 to Chicago drivers asking for relief funds. After further appeals from other locals and heated debate, an additional 6.50 was approved for Chicago as the session sought to aid strikers.
Samuel Kurtz, leader of the gentile bakers, reports sending a telegram to Chicago asking guidance on a sympathy strike. Fourteen unions totaling about seven thousand bakers, overworked and underpaid, consider stoppage if Chicago responds favorably. General Organizer Henftz of the international union attended the New York meeting.
NEW YORK. Secretary of State Elihu Root has reportedly severed connections with several financial institutions where he formerly served as director. He resigned from the boards of Morton Trust Company National Bank of Commerce Continental Fire Insurance Company and others.
In a domestic exchange, a husband questions why his wife keeps her fur boa drying on the line while she explains it signals her unusually sensitive reaction to the weather.
A Chinese airbrinders event in New York drew attention as attendees report 2 percent acknowledgment of the name. Organizers highlight the technology and potential future uses while critics call for further study.
Police broke up a clash between Hip Sing Tong members and others at a Dover Street Chinese theatre crowding a 400 seat venue. Gunfire killed three, wounded others, and caused mass arrests across Elizabeth Street stations as authorities rounded up Hip Sing Tong suspects and alleged leaders.
Albie, listed as dead, appeared at Sheriff Bauman's office in Fremont to retrieve his possessions held since his disappearance. A body matching his description was found near Ames and sent to Lincoln for study. Albie, a wealthy stockman, had last been in Worth Bede boarding house before reporting from California.
Anxious crowds await Francis B Loomis and Mr J Bierpost Morgan at Oyster Bay after a long conference with the Chinese minister. The East Side police face a day of trouble as prominent Nebr residents near Crowell come under suspicion in connection with late local robberies.
A large merger unites California Raisin Growers and Mercantile Packing into the Central California Raisin Packing company. Eleven directors will run the firm with five growers and five packers. an independent president, Henry Crocker, holds the deciding vote. The new entity aims to cover all state growing and packing interests while harmonizing brands and goodwill.
Four men Charles Morrison Ed Lee James Smith and George Conneley were arrested by Sheriff Kloke and Scribner marshal Seinel for robbing Smith brothers store at West Point. A search of Crowell hotels yielded 150 suits and 1000 pairs of shoes from Hernan Diers stock believed stolen from a former Crowell business. Police anticipate further developments.
Central City hosts old soldiers reunion as C W Armstrong lies seriously injured near Adams after a runaway. Falls City deputy postmaster Hedges' daughter dislocates her arm. Oakland teen Alex Johnson loses toes in a train incident. Hog sale, marriages in Ashland and Antigo, railway depot damage, land sales near Falls City, poisoning scare in Plattsmouth, Beatrice weighs in. Northwest hotel in Leigh changes hands. Various local incidents and legal moves across Richardson county.
In Norfolk Nebraska efforts seek clemency from Governor Mickey for John Clark serving a penitentiary term over an assault on a girl in South Norfolk. Jury members support the pardon, Clark’s employer backs his alibi, and his mother remains unaware of his location. Clark, from the east, married drunkenly in Sioux City, fled west, then worked in Norfolk. He is described as ill with consumption and feared to be near death without liberty.
C L Melvin of Iola Kansas was located in Kansas City Kansas and jailed at Wyandotte county at the request of Iola sheriffs. He was arrested by Sheriff Richardson of Iola in a Keystone Iowa railroad camp and brought to Wyandotte jail. Melvin claimed sole responsibility for wrecking three joints and denied being insane.
OSCEOLA Neb. The second regiment of the Nebraska national guard will endure a ten day training march starting on foot to Silver Creek then by train to Kearney on the Union Pacific line. Veteran unit members tease the new recruits about the sixteen mile march ahead.
Michael Conrey, sentenced to three months for attempted murder, leaped from a third story window at Brooklyn court of special sessions. He suffered a skull fracture and internal injuries likely to cause death, after two months of pursuing a romance with a Brooklyn woman that led to his arrest.
A street riot in Blaine Washington between Japanese and white men left at least one white man seriously injured and four Japanese hurt. The clash stemmed from a quarrel at a cannery between an American and an Oriental. The Japanese assailant was arrested and jailed, and a frew followed as both sides clashed again.
News received by the Kanagawa Maru from Hong Kong reports a sensational gun running scheme to revolutionary bands in Samar and other unsettled Philippine districts. The syndicate was well funded and planned to deliver munitions to guerrilla groups along the coast and in unfrequented areas.
Dissensions among stockholders spark a bank run at Denver Savings Bank in Denver Colorado. In early trading, President F P Jones imposes a 10 percent withdrawal limit for the day as permitted by law after the first fifteen minutes of business.
An unidentified woman registered as Mrs. Gibson from Lincoln, Neb., at the Lier Grand hotel and died from laudanum poisoning while awaiting her husband. Her effects included a card for L. R. Gibson, a Chicago traveling man selling specialties. Letters suggest trouble, contents not released. Traces of laudanum found in her stomach and a bottle on the dresser.
A freight wreck on the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific near Limon Junction, Colorado, killed Dr. Wright Andyman and Joseph Miller, both of Omaha Nebraska. The two men were said to be riding in the car. The incident drew scattered speculation and mentions of railroad officials and commissions in Nebraska and Louisiana reports.
Fragmentary text describes warm water baths and tub therapies for ADHD like symptoms, along with cleansing actions and gear. It mentions a cleaning machine, mud application, a skin tonic from a cartonal powder, and a note about doses and dissolving agents.
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