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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1904
Page
2
The Herald cites sensational chatter on international danger, misprints about the king, health falsehoods about Joseph Chamberlain, Vanderbilt selling racing cars, and noisy talk on taxes and navy strength. Miscellany covers front-line coverage, education, marriages, travel, and oddities with a playful, rippling tone.
A Philadelphia rumor asserts a wife has no claim to her husband’s wages while a San Francisco inventor unveils a flying airship. Critics call the legal view an old technicality while the airship, powered by a quirky horse engine, promises dramatic first tests and potential damage on its first landing.
The piece highlights heart massage as a new surgical treatment likely to save many baseball enthusiasts as the season begins. It notes Japan's Yalu victory overshadowing wartime suffering and mentions Dr. Greth's six mile airship voyage from San Francisco, suggesting a potential engagement at Port Arthur despite ongoing medical advances.
The excerpt portrays a de spendent man in New Jersey who commits suicide, urging friends to abandon their own bad habits. Lillian Russell denies a soft marital impeachment and claims stage happiness surpasses the joys of marriage, drawing on her varied experiences with both careers and relationships.
Mayana Walters acts against an order prohibiting serving soup with whiskers. The authorities may amend the rule to ban whiskers in soup, prompting quick reconsideration of the restriction.
A New York man aged 86 has just wooed and won his fourth bride, a springtime romance that echoes the old saying about spring and young hearts. The unusual nuptials highlight enduring affection and a late-life pledge, drawing local attention to a notable, joyful matchup.
The North American Review features editor Joseph Pulitzer asserting that the ability to think rightly instantly and intensely is the secret to success in journalism, a claim he says applies to every other calling as well.
Springfield Illinois May 16 The Republican convention after a chaotic session adjourned until 2 o clock Monday following a long fight over when to pause and how to proceed The uproar centered on a roll call and multiple adjournment motions with delegates from Cook and other counties pressing for different times and the chair ruling Finally the gavel dropped and the convention adjourned with a 2 PM revival scheduled.
A jumble of standings from multiple leagues lists win loss records and cities including Boston Detroit New York Cleveland Cincinnati St Louis Milwaukee Detroit Indianapolis Minneapolis Rock Island Springfield Wheeling Fort Wayne South Bend Dayton Terre Haute Evansville Grand Rapids Milwaukee Minneapolis Denver St Joseph Colorado Springs Nashville Birmingham New Orleans Shreveport Memphis. Data appears fragmented with many misspellings and incomplete figures.
Mrs. Jane Pitcairn Campbell aged 70 died of heart disease at the Pennsylvania railroad station in East Liberty after hurrying to catch a train with her two sons. She was a cousin of Robert Pitcairn, assistant to the railroad president.
W D Coles referee in bankruptcy announces a 2 percent dividend on all approved claims against J Arnold & Co a turf investment firm that failed last year with liabilities of 3 000 000 and assets of 75 000. The dividend will be paid by the trustee for the bankrupts.
P Zimmerman, a leading stockman in this section, was shot and killed at his ranch about thirty miles north of Dickinson, North Dakota, on May 16.
Mrs. A. F. Alexander of Franklin Indiana died after being horribly burned by a gasoline stove. Heavy rain drenched Nebraska and western towns Saturday and Sunday night, totaling about two and a half inches in twelve hours.
Delegates at the Methodist General Conference in Los Angeles plan a lively session on whether dancing card playing and theater going should be allowed as advisory restrictions without penalties. The agenda includes divorces and remarriage and retirement of five bishops Vincent Walden Andrews Mallalieu and Foss.
Milwaukee May 16 The final counties reported in Wisconsin caucuses show La Follette winning 26 more delegates from Sawyer Fairfield and Dunn counties. Bayfield Pierce and St Croix results incomplete. La Follette union claims 683 votes to 500 for stalwarts, with both sides asserting control of the state convention.
Night Walking Boss Andy Johnson of Harriman Tenn was fatally shot in a fight at a railroad camp near Copper Ridge tunnel on the Knoxville la Follette and Jellico railroad seventeen miles from Knoxville. George Earl an Alabama worker shot Johnson and was then killed by Deputy Sheriff Step of Knox County.
Metz Missouri May 14 burglars blew open the bank safe and carried away two thousand dollars. Three thieves fled town in a rubber-tired buggy toward Fort Scott Kansas.
In Jacksonville on May 16 a Chinese residence certificate bureau was found issuing certificates entitling holders to reside in the United States. A number of counterfeit certificates and photographs were seized.
E B Imbecker, a professional aeronaut, made a parachute leap at Van Buren Arkansas on May 16. He alighted in the Arkansas River and was drowned. His body has not been recovered.
Edwin Brinkerhoff, 80, was found dead in his bed in Cleveland on May 16. Police found two morphine bottles empty and two full bottles in the room, indicating a possible overdose or self-harm.
One hundred fifty boys in Baltimore take the temperance pledge at Cardinal Gibbons request after a lecture.
The U S justice department will reexamine peonage in the south with new reports of negroes held in servitude on plantations near Monroe Ouachita parish Louisiana. Judge Melaniel cites complaints from relatives. officials fear collusion with those detaining the workers and will pursue prosecutions if truth is shown.
In Marquette Michigan convicts in the state penitentiary petition authorities to dissolve a trust they claim violates federal law. The so called trust, run by inmates, operates a cell grocery and trades illegally after hours. Accused partners include A V Freeman serving five years for embezzlement Edmund Holzhey a feared peninsular figure and a third convict Manning.
William L Londen shot his sweetheart Nora Howells near Yates City after she refused to marry him. She is at death's door. Londen fled, claimed accident, then confessed when told she would die. He was captured at a farmhouse. both are 27.
May 16. The Radical press of Cuba urges Congress to expel French and Filipino Catholics who arrived in the last six months. They first settled in Vavana then moved to interior towns and started missions. Cuban Catholics seek their expulsion citing distasteful methods to local clergy.
Custer South Dakota May 16 The funeral of CG M Fearings five year old daughter was halted when a physician suspected fever signs in the girl. She had been pronounced dead after scarlet fever. The child was removed from the casket and revived. It is believed she will recover.
The naval inspection board reports the Missouri was in first class condition after a forty eight hour sea trip and that the ship passed a successful test on its final trial run.
Seven crewmen from the schooner Ottawa escaped as their vessel capsized off the Sturgeon Bay canal. They navigated on a yawlboat and finally reached shore in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin on May 16.
Carrie Nation announced in Mexico Missouri that she proposes to build a WCTU college and mission in every state modeled after the Kansas institution she already runs. She aims to spread the reform movement through new educational and religious centers.
Minneapolis Minn May 16 The jury in the case of former Mayor A A Ames on bribery charges was discharged after forty hours of deliberation without reaching a verdict.
May 16 Fairfield Iowa Rex Subba aged 17 died after consuming a quart of salted peanuts. Death was caused by an abscess of the intestines linked to the feat.
London dispatch reports Gen. Koupatkin facing 186000 Japanese troops with 60000 horses and 26 guns, while Japanese aim to envelop Port Arthur and strike from Newchwang to Mukden. naval action at Talienwan bay sees a Russian launched torpedo cripple a Japanese cruiser, then beached near Dalny as crews fight fires and the fleet shifts tactics amid new battlefield movements.
London dispatch reports a major religious meeting in Tokyo to decide founding a church in Japan with Christian character yet independent lines. Prominent figures favor adopting a modern national church model approved by civilized nations. An edict establishing a national church is not unlikely.
In Dayton Ohio on May 16 a dispute over drinks in the Heel Co saloon led to the death of laborer G Conley by a wound through the heart. Otto Frees, who recently arrived from Xenia, is connected with the crime but not yet jailed.
Washington reports United States and Danish authorities are reacting to a Rotterdam incident amid a miltbrand strain on cattle trade. Details remain unclear as officials confirm a breach affecting Holland markets and cross border stock movements.
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