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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1905
Page
1
Reports from Japan corroborate claims that Gen Stoessel and Port Arthur officers surrendered to loot a vast treasure estimated at 30 000 000 rubles. Tales describe lavish spending by prisoners and officers with money possibly from the Port Arthur hoard, scarce records of the treasure found after capture.
New York July 31 Aimar Sato member of the Japanese peace delegation says he has never given any outline of peace terms or stated Japan would make any demands. He denies being spokesman for Baron Komura and rejects sensational fabrications and misquotes. He does not know what terms will be negotiated or what envoys will consider.
Freeport August 1 a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul freight train struck a buggy west of Freeport killing three women. Mrs. William J Laibelle was thrown into a creek and died. Grace Laibelle died in Freeport hospital after the crash. Miss Gladys Brine was hurled some distance and killed.
Bridgeport suffers loss of life and heavy damage after reservoirs north of the city burst during an unprecedented seven inch rainfall. Dams at Ward's mill Easton and Paper Mill reservoir failed, flooding Trumbull and North Bridgeport. Residents rescued, several drowned including Kowzeski. Starkin swims to safety.
Chicago July 29 army officers hail the event as the most remarkable shooting by a U S squad. Fifteen men scored over 400 of 500 in skirmish firing. Sergt Abraham Hill led with 178 of 200 in skirmish and 263 of 300 in slow and rapid firing.
Kingston Jamaica August first Dr Franklin Clarke of Boston is committed for trial in the circuit court for allegedly wrongfully obtaining a photograph of Port Royal fortifications. A British non commissioned officer who helped him enter the fortress will face court martial.
A longtime local moneylender fled to Honduras days ago with approximately $100,000 from clients investments. His wife learned of the move in a July 20 letter from New Orleans in which he described flight as preferable to death by own action. He had been facing felony and embezzlement charges from a client and left after word of mounting financial troubles reached the city.
London Aug. 2 The Times dispatch reports a more warlike tone from the czar in an Imperial Messenger reply to Khabarovsk addressing the war aim to crush the enemy and reject cession or indemnity. Sakhalin is deemed lost and Japan gains influence in Amur. Japan plans a Port Castries base for 30,000 men and 72 guns to occupy lower Amur river areas. Ussuri coasty Siberia largely abandoned to Japan.
Tokyo reports Japanese forces defeated Russian troops eight kilometers south of Rykoff on July 28 and later occupied Palero after fierce fighting. Russians pulled back southward. General Saraguchi, Sakhalin commander, ordered a civil administration setup on July 20.
In Carmi Illinois on August 2 a dead 67 year old farmer William Jones was identified. He had been missing since July 22 and was found with a halter strap around his neck. He carried $500 cash and a gold watch when last seen in a buggy with two unfamiliar men. No money remained on discovery.
Former Congressman John Dougherty of Missouri dies at home in Liberty after an attack of acute indigestion and heart trouble. He served three terms representing Missouri's Third district and fell ill Saturday evening, improving briefly before the decline.
A severe cholera outbreak spreads among famine refugees flooding Madras. Victims are found dead or dying on the streets as the death rate climbs to 29.7 per 1,000.
A severe Texas heat wave pushes humidity high enough to drive residents from bedrooms into streets. In Austin the thermometer stood at 99 degrees at midnight and exceeded 105 degrees during the day, marking one of the season’s most intense periods.
A board of inquiry appointed by Admiral Goodrich to probe the boiler explosion aboard the gun Sisuyue convened on the Chicago. Commodore Stevenson presides with Captains Moore and Phelps, and Lieut. Moody serves as aide. Sessions are expected to last several days to a week.
A fierce thunderstorm in New York killed five people at Parkway Baths Coney Island and left nine others seriously injured. One man died and three were prostrated at Gravesend Beach. Lightning damaged a Brooklyn store on Flushing Avenue and started a Sixth Avenue car fire. Bellevue Hospital lights and phones were struck, causing alarm for patients.
Mr Sato of the Japanese peace commission commented on Secretary Taft's reception in Tokio noting that the Chrysanthemum gardens were opened to him, a rare honor as these gardens are sacred in Japan and normally opened to foreigners only twice yearly.
Washington reports the United States welcomed 1,027,421 immigrants in the past fiscal year, the highest on record. The previous peak was 857,046 in 1903, and more immigrants arrived than in the combined totals of 1894 1895 1897 and 1898.
July 21 report from New York says sailors seek a mule to replace Billy the ship’s goat who died after drinking paint following a reprimand for insulting an officer. Sailors argue a mule fits Missouri’s rugged image as a veteran warship and friend of man. Onshore visitors are asked if they own a mule.
Fire at Swift and Co packing plant in South St Joseph destroys the poultry department, said to be the largest in the world, and the beef sheds. The fire spread rapidly, a second alarm was struck, five companies fought the blaze, with damages estimated at 259,903 dollars.
Chicago August 3 three large New York insurance companies face investigation by Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia insurance commissioners at a meeting of eight state officials. The drive aims to create interstate in depth scrutiny of large life insurers to curb misallocation of funds and mismanagement. Delegates plan to travel to New York August 10 to pursue the effort.
Missoula Mont August 3 No freight is being moved over the Rocky Mountain division of the Northern Pacific due to a telegraphers strike. Most expected workers refused to report, chief dispatcher cannot be located, trains are flagged and run slowly, described as the most complete tie up ever known on the system.
The Master Butchers of America completed organization based on one delegate per 50 members and chose Milwaukee as next meeting site set for the second Monday of August 1906. Officers elected include President George H. Shaffer of New York, first vice president Charles B. Derbel of St. Louis, secretary John H. Schofield of St. Louis, and trustee C. Christopherson of Omaha.
A Nogales Oasis letter from Sonora says Yaqui leaders and Mexican representatives will meet in Ures within days to discuss peace. Couriers travel across the state urging Yaquis to halt depredations pending the conference, a Yaqui-initiated move.
Funds for a Bennington disaster memorial in San Diego exceed $1,000 and the government will raise a shaft in memory of the dead seamen. Plans now aim to broaden the project to raise as much as $50,000 to build and outfit a sailors club house.
A major blaze leveled the four story D A Morr Storage O s brick building at the southwest corner of Fourteenth Street and Grand Avenue in Kansas City Missouri. The fire caused an estimated loss of 100000 dollars and affected about seven hundred families who stored furniture with the company making it hard to gauge total losses.
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