25 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
The Aberdeen Democrat
Location
Aberdeen, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
1
A Ports department report highlights a significant factor boosting activity in trade. Officials cite strong port utilization and ongoing infrastructure upgrades as key drivers. Local businesses express optimism about increased throughput and job opportunities.
Report outlines a potential compromise where Japan purchases half of a disputed island from Russia to end hostilities. The plan proposes arbitration to decide remaining boundaries and a framework for war indemnity and occupancy costs tied to a broader peace agreement.
Disjointed text describes negotiations among US, Russia, Japan, and China on Korea, territorial integrity, and East Asia. References include surrender and cession talks over Port Arthur to Japan, Liaotung, and concessions from 1898. Complex proposals touch on evacuations, commerce, and the status of Manchuria and Harbin rail links.
Twelve nations agree to grant Japanese citizens the right to fish in the Russian littoral from Vladivostok north to the Behring Sea. The accord aims to ease naval power tensions in Pacific waters.
Four men were killed when the engine exploded on a dredge boat near Norborne Missouri on Tuesday. The dead include James Lynch of Bosworth and Isaac Wade of Norborne along with two unidentified laborers.
Judge E W Cunningham of the supreme court died at Boulder. The Sts Claire of Detroit won the Lipton cup final at Chicago. Viennese factory workers went on strike amid threats. A Cincinnati crash killed three and wounded ten. A wind storm damaged Kansas City property. Six Mexican track laborers died near Corona California in a rail collision. Walter Stimpson, rowing expert, died in Cambridge. Lancashire cotton operatives nearly struck but averted by compromise. Soo line seeks 5000 harvest workers. British steamer Athes sailed with fruit to New York. W W Taylor, lumber and coal man, died at La Crosse. Japanese negotiations with Krupps for armor plates. Eccius of Krupp arranging contracts in Berlin. A severe storm damaged Wisconsin and Minnesota. Dr Lewis H Landy died of apoplexy. Flea disinfectant spray injures two Cincinnati men. R H Davidson missing in Chicago amid mugging fears. Eight hour day committee report adopted by International Typographical Union in Toronto. Francisco Tamagno dying in Italy. Adolphe Bouguereau died in France. Daniel Kan of Cumberland Maryland died at 101. Kansas City chosen as 1906 convention city. Turkish troops called for Macedonia. Milton Brown of Buffalo died in Portland of typhoid. San Francisco Gas and ElectricTransfer to Rockefeller interests. National irrigation congress opened in Portland. Heat caused deaths in Chicago. Steamer Siberia arrives Honolulu breaking records. French foreign office dismisses American embassy in Paris.
Amidable condition of 250 employees of MacCaddon’s American circus stranded at Grenoble since Aug 10. General Leonard Wood leaves Boston for Washington after head operation and plans call next month for the Philippines. A trolley collision on Brooklyn Bridge kills one and injures five. Alfred Waterhouse, famed architect, dies in London. Schooner Marion E Rockhill goes ashore near Amagangsett Bay with five crew rescued. J C Lavery dies at Anaconda aged 83. Imperial Japan Railway reps visit Chicago, travel to New York to study US locomotives and buy rail supplies.
New Orleans reports 1,402 cases and 201 deaths as fever decline appears from mosquito control. Marine hospital surgeons express cautious confidence while Riverside plantation in St Marys Parish faces ongoing breeding grounds for the vector. A new incubation case appears in Missouri near Keokuk with a Greek laborer quarantined after arriving from Natchez.
The Chicago meeting concludes with a 15 member committee to push reciprocal tariff plans. The group favors a maximum and minimum tariff and proposes a permanent tariff commission to be appointed by the president and Congress. Governor A B Cummins of Iowa condemned opponents of reciprocity.
The storthing voted 104 to 11 to authorize the government to open negotiations with Sweden for dissolving the union. The government will report the referendum result to Sweden and seek consent to abrogate the act of union and pursue pacific settlement talks. It also granted power to appoint officials to conduct negotiations.
Sioux Falls schedules a September 5 special election to decide leasing the municipal waterworks amid a lawsuit with a private company. Sisseton promoters back an electric line toward the Twin Cities and northeast to Hankinson. Prairie fires loom with heavy grass growth. residents urged to build firebreaks. Willow Lake church dedication marks storm anniversary. Governor Elrod to speak at Wagner Labor Day celebrations. Mrs Hannah Sage of Parker dies at 101. Miner Thomas Forrest dies after a fall at Homestake. Mining firms oppose a state assessment hike. Burglars strike Stockholm and Strandburg. Woonsocket reaches marshal accord. Carthage fire damages several businesses. artesian well connection cited. Kermit Roosevelt to hunt in Deadwood.
Czarist manifesto from St Petersburg announces the national assembly as a consultative organ tied to the council of the empire. The emperor preserves absolute power and lawmaking. the douma can only advise, with two thirds majorities needed to block laws. Suffrage is limited by property, excluding many urban residents, women, soldiers, and civil functionaries.
President Perham of the Order of Railway Telegraphers calls off the strike on the Northern Pacific after a close vote. A similar action ends the Great Northern dispute, with members free to return to work under the previously offered schedules.
Lord Curzon resigns as vice royalty of India. The Earl of Minto is chosen as his successor. Resignation stems from Home Office refusal to back Curzon’s recommendation to appoint Major General Sir Edmund Barrow to the viceroy’s council. Correspondence reveals sharp friction with Lord Kitchener over India policy.
Kamchatka squadron commander reports seizure of the Russian transport Australia at Petropavlovsk harbor on August 13 in the Petropaylevel area.
Aug 21 Butte Montana report of a collision between a street car filled with merrymakers from Columbia Gardens and a freight train on the Butte Anaconda and Pacific line. Nine killed and about a dozen injured including several young women and girls. Conductor on train warned motorman who continued crossing into the freight cars.
Sunday night's storm left multiple dead and missing across Minnesota towns. Crops were destroyed, railroad tracks swept away, and farmhouses wrecked. Tosten Danielson died at Pilot Mound when a church collapsed. At Lanesboro Rushford Root Prairie several others were killed or injured. casualty list expected to grow as reports come in.
Findings of a court of inquiry into the Bennington tragedy point to Ensign Charles T. Wade as the only surviving officer likely to face court martial. The report rejects boiler defect theories and instead cites a valve closure causing boiler pressure to spike, while praising crew conduct during the aftermath.
Oyster Bay reports Edwin H. Conger of Iowa has resigned as American ambassador to Mexico. The resignation takes effect October 18 next, with Conger planning to retire from public service.
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