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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
2
A collage of brief items from The Standard notes New York obituaries and costs, fashion hints, police vaccinations in Paskalo, a woman’s plan to reunite with her dog after death, and comments on canal vanity. It cites Mark Twain, a Philadelphia bank loss, and a Perry Herald remark on marital authority, plus stray jokes about sailors, snakes, and dinners.
Reported items include yellow fever concerns on the canal. calls for railroad antidiscrimination investigations in Cincinnati. Loomis Bowen testimony nearing completion. deposition filings to support charges against Loomis. various military and political updates from China, Europe, and the Americas. Notable notes: Japanese intelligence concerns, rail and forest policies, railway posts disposed, the first locomotive crossing the Yellow River bridge near Shanghai, Chilean cabinet resignation, Baron Rothschild death in Vienna, British consul in Mexico City to be abolished, German torpedo boats, labor disputes in Westphalia, Chinese boycotts of American goods, and Caribbean volcanic and flood developments with Mont Pelee activity and Paraná flood impacts.
A compiled casualty list reports extensive losses and deaths from fires in Williamsburg New York trolley car crashes in New York state a factory fire in Winnives a gas explosion in Bullivan and a furnace accident in Chicago. Notable fatalities include Miss Sadie Michaels Arthur Phillips Jom and others and Lieut Blasdell drowning and a New York broker Carl Clausen.
A collage of violent incidents and criminal cases spans the country. Arrests include Charles L Bridge in Trinidad charged with embezzling 400 dollars from American Sayings bank. A Nebraska man, Max Ploehn, killed his former lover Alma Goos and wounded Emma after a jilting. A Connecticut style suicide follows professional despondency while a Long Island steamer death occurs from a jump. Five murder warrants issued in Michigan for gunfire on a trolley car killing Henry Wieck. A deaf mute student at Gallaudet College in Washington commits suicide. A Troy stockman dies by suicide or foul play with wife involvement disclosed. A prisoner in Michigan City receives 10000 dollars from an estate. The Charleston trolley riot ends in a death and two serious injuries amid racial tension.
A Japanese student received the Wayman Crow Medal for 1905 at the St Louis School of Fine Arts. The award accompanied a $40,000 Carnegie library dedication in Topeka Kansas. The report notes other 1905 events including gifts to the University of Chicago and Rockefeller support for a Louisiana Baptist college.
Russia and Japan decide to appoint three envoys each for ongoing peace efforts. The czar accepts a Washington request for reconsideration, but waives it by imperial order, signaling a cautious stance yet openness to dialogue.
Russia and Japan tentatively appoint three plenipotentiaries each to the Washington conference. Russia accepts Washington as meeting place with strong diplomatic support, while Manchuria campaigns move toward a major engagement near Fukumen and Sipinghai.
A Western Maryland passenger train collides with freight cars near Westminster Baltimore on June 20 killing 25 and injuring many. Survivors describe a scene of mangled cars, scattered bodies, and hurried aid from locals and relief trains.
Although France and Germany push for an international conference on Morocco, officials caution that a clear scope is needed. Premier Rouvier seeks Germany’s objectives first while Prince van Radelin outlines the German position to avoid threats to French prestige. Britain signals willingness to participate if the conference scope is well defined.
A Manchurian front report describes June 16 cavalry thrusts at Kuyushu repulsed in Weiyuanpaoman district and Chuamot y district action where Japanese advanced force drove enemy from Sumiencheng and occupied the village.
Berlin reports a semi official Paris newspaper stating Britain will not oppose France. Germany sees this as aligned with its aim to push France into the international conference. Germany says Britain would join the conference if France does.
Grand jury hearings reveal a suspected vast conspiracy linking improvers, labor leaders, and union pickets to a strike against Montgomery Watt & Co. Rival interests allegedly instigated the action as witnesses describe a coordinated plot. Officials indicate potential joint defendants and far reaching charges.
Philadelphia reports circulating that several prominent city and state figures may be arrested in graft probes tied to city contracts. Names include State Insurance Commissioner I W Durham State Senator James P McNichol former Public Works Director Peter E Costello John W Hill and others from the filtration bureau and inspectors.
Philadelphia reports the first such conviction in the country. C v Hart was found guilty of fraud in an application for a passport after falsely claiming birth in Milwaukee. He faces penalties for the wrongdoing.
Pittsburg paper reports two bodies found in the Monongahela river at McKeesport last evening. Believed to be a mother and child who took their own lives together in a double tragedy.
Washington June 18 The president approved findings in two trials of Captain George W. Kirkman of the Twenty fifth Infantry sentencing him to dismissal from the army and confinement in the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth Kan for three years Kirkman was connected with the sensational case that led to the death by self destruction of the wife of another army officer at Omaha
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