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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1905
Page
3
A collage of satirical snippets from social gossip and public affairs. Topics include Lipton, Henry Irving, humor in American politics, coastal and national figures, fashion, crime jokes, and remarks on wealth and salaries. The piece blends comments on culture and current events with quips about manners and morals.
Reports from Iowa describe multiple fatalities and injuries including Martin Lockard struck by a locomotive at Oskaloosa and baby Viddy Connerton killed by a freight train near Reinbeck. A Council Bluffs suit seeks damages over a drowning, while a Corning bank dividend promises partial repayment to depositors.
A collage of brief reports from Iowa towns details crimes, fires, accidents, and legal actions. Included are a former bartender sentenced to three months for sodomy, a man indicted for assault with intent to do bodily harm, a train holdup foiled by Burlington police, a wreck at Sue Reinbeck Strudard’s office, and a farmer’s loss from a fire. Also noted are wolf bounties, county debt clearance, a child’s injury from a sow, estates involving Myra Etta V. Chapman, plans for a Great Northern bridge at Sioux City, and local business and rail developments.
Reports from Paris St Petersburg and Saigon detail Russian and Japanese naval activity around Kamranh Bay with neutralities concerns, protests, and diplomatic exchanges. The scene includes Motono's representations to France, Delcasse assurances, and Russian claims of neutrality within waters.
Jefferson, eminent actor, dies at The Rostern Palm Beach Florida at 6 16 after a day of illness. His wife Mrs Charles B Jefferson and nurse Miss Bibel Bingham, Dr B Potter, and servant Carl Kettler attended. The illness followed a recent trip to meet his son Charles Jefferson in High Sound near Palm Beach.
Washington April 24 Senator Orville Hilchert Platt of Connecticut died at his summer home in this town at 8 63 last night from pneumonia the immediate cause being the breaking of an abscess in the right lung His public career spanned from 1879 when elected to succeed W H Barnum to his last term in 1903 Platt was a plain spoken leader with deep ties to Connecticut and federal affairs born July 18 1827 he would have been 76 years old.
Pekin April 22. Paul Lesser Russian minister to China dies Thursday night after his foot was amputated. Appointed July 12, 1901, Lesser was noted for meetings with Prince Ching and Wang Wen-bu urging changes to the Manchurian treaty to preserve Chinese sovereignty. Russia paused negotiations after the war with Japan.
A New York report cites a czar plot among imperial guard troops with several noble conspirators and dynamite in their possession. Governors direct provincial officers to stay at their posts during Easter as authorities brace for disturbances. In Polish Russia an unknown assailant killed a passerby and two men shot at a police inspector, injuring none. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Missouri beer inspection law, sustaining state authority over commerce.
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