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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1904
Page
2
A collection of light anecdotes and cultural quips from The Herald, touching on fashion in Vienna, radium costs, jokes about presidents and poets, jokes about bathing and foggy morals, and miscellaneous remarks on Russia Japan and public figures. Includes references to Vienna trades, King Victor Emmanuel, and Vanderbilt on preacher salaries.
Des Moines reports say the Cohen's loan office safe at 308 West Walnut street was cracked with powder, diamonds and jewelry valued up to five thousand dollars stolen. One suspicious character held by police as detectives seek clues. loss estimates vary from two to five thousand dollars.
Oscar Hizely of Mason City, a Milwaukee fireman, was severely injured in Marshalltown when a Milwaukee engine leased by Iowa Central derailed in the yards. He was crushed against the cab roof and doctors fear internal injuries but he may recover. In Iowa City, Olive Smith of Kinross, missing her spleen after surgery, remains alive and well at the University hospital. surgeons removed her spleen months ago and will report to a Denver surgeons meeting.
An acetylene gas plant explosion yesterday shattered a plate glass window at the barber shop of A. E. Sminith in Lone Tree. No injuries reported and rumors of further destruction at the Burlington opera house and another building are unfounded.
Sidney reports the town temporarily without fire protection after vandals entered the hose house and unwound about a thousand feet of hose from end to end. Hose valued around $500 and damaged equipment.
The city council of Dubuque will invite councils of other towns operating under special charters to cooperate in repealing amendments to Section 1376 of the code pursued by the last general assembly. It notes a Supreme Court decision in Davenport is pending and that saving special charter cities may require repealing the deficit creating law by changing the levy basis.
Deaf residents petition to move the Iowa school for the deaf to Des Moines arguing central location and easier access. Petitions sent to senators and representatives. copies sent to state newspapers. Movement organized by outsiders. local Grant club to receive report on Pomemaniaetian at Wednesday meeting.
Des Moines reports Gov. Cummins has posted a $300 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person who killed 16-year-old Richard Robinson in Audubon township last November. The boy was found fatally attacked in a corn field after being left alone at work. authorities sought leads but found nothing until a neighbor uncovered the body on December 8. The case remains unsolved despite inquiries by the sheriff and county coroner.
Armour & Co of Chicago has leased the Tama Paper Mill & Filler Co plant from H J Ferguson as trustee for creditors and will start operations at once. The idle mill, a world leading producer of egg cases and egg case fillers, employs hundreds and serves farmers by using straw. bankruptcy and labor claims had stalled production for over a year.
Marshalltown reports Grant Drury, a Liscomt township farmer, arrested on murder charges after Mrs. Drury was found dead from a gunshot in their home. Authorities have not disclosed evidence leading to the arrest. Other items note a Belle Plaine boy shot by a playmate and a St Joseph real estate dealer killed in a hotel room.
Chicago reports 636 to 662 dead after a matinee at the Iroquois Theatre. A gas explosion and failure of the asbestos curtain caused a panicked crush of mostly women and children, with hundreds missing and many severely burned or suffocated. Coroner figures and police counts vary as the tragic toll rises.
The Paris style theater had three rear balcony doors to passageways toward the front. Most fleeing spectators went left toward the eastern stairway to the lobby. In the bath of gas, deaths concentrated in the first and second balcony doorways where women and children lay in a tangled mass. Firemen and police pulled entwined bodies from the doorway amid tears, with some rescuers collapsing. The auditorium held fewer dead, but bodies littered aisles and balcony levels.
A fragment from Bern reports the Japanese government telling powers in Tokyo the situation is bearable but Japan must strike. It notes Japan cannot wait for a final decision and mentions Portugal language statistics and a quip about the Japanese diet not including vodka.
The Russian government ordered Armour & Co. of Kansas City to deliver one and a half million pounds of mess meat for immediate shipment to San Francisco, with delivery required by January 22. The meat is said to be for the Russian army and destined for Port Arthur. Mrs Dash has decided not to pursue divorce. Percy Speciale engagement noted.
Peking reports Russian Minister Lessar says evacuation of Manchuria is not possible now due to winter, lack of barracks, and risk to Russian interests amid ongoing Russia Japan negotiations. China fears involvement and seeks settlement allowing Russia and Japan to keep treaty rights without further gains. Tartar militiamen urged to disband, but concealment persists with alleged consent from the Tartar general.
Washington reports from Monrovia detail a massacre in Liberia on March 15 1903 at John G Tate’s mission in the jungle. Nineteen people were killed as attackers from the Dou tribe surrounded the house at night. Tate and the interpreter were slain and the bodies beheaded for burial in a coffin. Reverend Lyon has notified Liberia’s secretary of state seeking full facts and punishment for the perpetrators. Separate dispatches note Argentine warships Moreno and Rivadavia sailing to Buenos Aires, with political implications.
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