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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1907
Page
5
A cloudburst caused heavy damage cutting service with losses exceeding half a million dollars, putting the Baltimore and Ohio line out of commission and disrupting rail traffic across affected routes.
Washington July 18 The naval court of inquiry in the Georgia disaster finds the accident resulted from rear back where a breach of the eight inch gun was opened after discharge and burning fragments were driven upon the powder for the next charge. Lieutenant Casper Goodrich is buried at Atlantic Highlands with about 260 marines and sailors attending from Alabama and Connecticut. Sir Thomas Lipton plans another yacht race. A cloudburst in Clarksburg West Virginia causes over half a million dollars in damage along the Cheat river valley. Coleman Morris is killed by lightning. Telegraph and telephone wires are down along the region.
In Washington last night Bob Fussim mone, hailed as a top weight, was counted out in the second round against color fighter Jack Johnson at the Washington Sporting Club. Spectators paid up to $5, the house near $3,000. many called the bout a lemon. Johnson used speed and power, flooring Fitzsimations twice with left hooks and a twist, ending with Fitz unable to rise within ten seconds after the final count.
Bellefontaine Ohio July 18. A prosperous Bellcenter man William Catt bought two tickets for a Kenton circus concert and proposed to Miss Nellie Jones whom he escorted there. She accepted and they married that hour by Rev W T Pinkerton at the Disciples parsonage after slipping away from friends.
Washington announces that Britain and France chambers of commerce certificates will be weighed like German certificates for US exports. In Chicago Henry Berg, a retired grocer, killed himself from the twelfth floor after reading earlier suicides. Ashville agents found guilty of ticket violations under late law. New York directors of Amalgamated Copper declare a two percent quarterly dividend.
Karl Haul, ex professor at George Washington University, faced trial in Karlsruhe for allegedly murdering his mother in law Frau Molitor. He admitted some admissions about Paris dispatches and an elopement with Lina Molitor in Switzerland. The couple planned suicide attempts and fled to America with Hau's father aiding their marriage and finances.
Goo ds Washington July 18 The state department has been informed that the revenue cutter Manning on the 5th instant captured two Japanese sealing craft within four miles of Seal Island St Paul They were fully equipped for sealing and had fresh seal skins in small boats The Japanese embassy has not been notified and the case is treated as ordinary poaching with no expected diplomatic incident
At The Hague Conference Joseph H Choate urged the United States to propose a general arbitration treaty. He cited Pan American progress and two world wars as prompts for nations to adopt two by two or joint agreements. Choate praised Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro conferences and said a general arbitration pact should mirror existing bilateral treaties. His remarks were met with sustained applause and warm congratulations from delegates.
In Seoul on July 18 placards demanded the death of all Japanese officials. Authorities fortified ministers and guarded officials to prevent riots. The emperor, reportedly angry at ministers for advising abdication, reportedly endures unrest as part of a political maneuver.
The article reports a July memorial at a Mexican cemetery for Benito Juarez, with a long procession involving workers, government officials, scientific societies, garrison officers, and liberal committees. Orations praised Juarez while floral tributes filled the tomb with offerings.
Copenhagen reports fourteen sailors drowned when a sail boat capsized near Dar strand Sweden. In Landon a queen suffers a temporary indisposition. Also noted: Dave Barry and Jim Flyne with a Pueblo Colorado boxing round count.
Hopkinsville Kentucky reports a dynamite blast destroy a threshing machine owned by John Fields a non association farmer injured workers. Fields warned to join the association before threshing. A mob of twenty five men abducted and flogged Nathan Heater a 60 year old Trigg county farmer from his home at midnight. Heater had deserted the farmers association months earlier. New York suffers heat wave with three deaths and many prostrations as temperatures hit 80 degrees with high humidity.
John William January known as the modern Jean Valjean will be released tomorrow under a presidential pardon after five years for a Stilwater Oklahoma post office robbery. He served at Fort Leavenworth then changed his name to Charles H. Anderson and ran a restaurant before rearrest. A national petition drive totaling about 40,000 signatures aided the pardon. His wife and young daughter will greet him on release. He plans to return to Kansas City to resume work in business.
New York July 18 The Midvale Steel Co aims to raise its capital from 750000 to 9750000, with 9000000 of new stock issued as a stock dividend to preserve existing stock. No additional cash is raised, and the plan follows long withholding of dividends while profits were reinvested. Tennessee Bank in Trouble
Jealous wife Mrs Dick Williams fatally wounds husband William Je manager of the Lusky Doontown Four Hundred minstrel show at the Park hotel during a quarrel. The bullet pierced the abdomen and both were members of the show, with Mrs Williams having eaten nothing for a week amid jealousy.
Thousands line Broad Street as Benevolent Order of Elke holds annual conclave parade attracting over ten thousand lodge members from across the country. marchers in varied costumes pass the reviewing stands amid festive crowds from nearby states. The procession begins at 10 AM and lasts into the afternoon as crowds swell.
July 18 heat swept Philadelphia as Elks parade drew crowds over a thousand prostrated by heat. Hospitals near the route crowded, routine care abandoned to handle incoming cases. Parade continued despite extreme conditions and an approaching thunderstorm.
Boise July 18 The Haywood trial resumes as the defense rests after court opens. Clarence Darrow speaks for Haywood arguing deployment of detectives and mine owners against the Western Federation of Miners. Darrow accuses mine owners and detectives of planning a wreck on the Florence and Cripple Creek railroad. Mrs Mary Ralf visits Reinbeck to see Mrs Martha Bedford on Allen Street.
A stormy spell last weekend and Tuesday morning rains filled streams in Wildvection to overflow, washing out bridges and grades and hindering farm work. Fort Gra ate lags and remains idle due to flood damage, while readers report crop loss along the low lands.
A Los Angeles letter claims A W Hunton will clear himself of charges in a federal indictment naming Ollie J Watking Ira Leigh ley and Flora Peters for mailing scheme and attempting to defraud the government. The case centers on the California Fruit Growers association where H W Hanson and J B Heath ran offices in the H L Hellman Building.
Fred Peterson and his wife in Milwaukee inherit five children aged from a few months to six years after a pair seeking lodging abandoned them at a Ripon farm. The children, two girls and three boys, say their parents live in Germany and cannot the escape of the deserting couple.
Reports from Waterton indicate Rock Island and Great Western railways will jointly occupy the brick depot at Blue and West Fourth Streets. A letter from the superintendent confirms the agreement is signed and planking is being requisitioned for between the tracks. Remodeling will begin once materials arrive and the union depot status is achieved.
John T Coolidge of 405 Hust Third Street, Istory Inn, aged eighty one, has suffered a long decline, with a relapse three weeks ago due to general breakdown and kidney trouble. Once active and visiting Red Cedar Park, he now remains unconscious and weak, while serving as president of Security Savings Bank and a longtime city financier. Burt Miller of Newton has been sent to Eldora Industrial School after leaving town last March and being found serving a short sentence for theft at Rock Island.
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