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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1905
Page
3
Whimsical notes from Wahpeton column touch on taxation of bachelors, premarital antics, a Semitic temple discovery, and reflections on public figures like Brandegee. Jokes and snippets cover ethics, a future Fourth of July, burglars, language talents of King Alfonso, typewriter use, and a Pennsylvanian judge’s unusual quips.
Public notices record Paul Grand Hiauteville of Newport Rhode Island appointed secretary of a proposed American nation and cabinet shifts. multiple crime briefs include suicides, murders, robberies, and a dynamite blast in Pennsylvania. Carnegie donations and college library grants noted along with labor unrest and political corruption cases across several states.
A run of disasters reports accidental deaths and injuries: Mrs. Margaret Orr and two grandchildren suffocated by illuminating gas in Newark New Jersey. W. Murray of Roswell New Mexico and family drown after overturning across the Rio Hondo. a street sweeper drops a lit match into a gasoline tank in Ars, causing a blaze. Albert Hubert of Menominee sustains a broken ankle during a game against Escanaba. a chimney collapse in Huntville. turpentine blaze injures four children with one death. Pere Marquette wreck near Menominee floods and destroys a train, eight engines damaged plus a small shop. Texas wind and rain storms damage crops and flood streams. a boiler explosion at Nieuer Falls Stave and Lumber in Staples Ontario kills Ralph Walen and Robert Fisher and injures seven. A Hocking Valley RR boiler explosion near Columbus kills six. Dagmar Torbers and Dora Torbers killed near Forest Glenn while fleeing a freight train. Two young stenographers killed in a passenger train incident. three others escape.
Reports from Byria note 110 killed when firedamp explosion rocked the Bostock tunnel. Glasgow firms invited to tender on turbine machines for new battleships. Austria orders torpedo destroyers and torpedo boats from a Fiume shipyard. Senor Balsora’s invention for directing torpedoes with Hertzian beams proves successful at Caiz. In Buenos Aires clashes leave seven dead and forty wounded as Socialist protests meet police. Barcelona rioting prompts siege. Paris ministers say Roosevelt will send a military mission to French maneuvers. Lahama on Mani Island reports improved Japanese strike situation as workers return. Santa Fe train No 560 collides with freight cars due to an open switch. mail clerk killed, engineer and fireman injured, five others hurt.
Reports from Tokio and St Petersburg recount a major Japanese naval victory under Admiral Togo over Russian forces. The Russian fleet suffered heavy losses with nineteen vessels sunk or captured, including the Admiral Nakhimoff and the Kniaz Souvaroff. Survivors, prisoners, and damaged ships reached Moji and Vladivostock areas as officials confirm the disaster while weighing how to inform the nation.
Wahpeton North Carolina May 30. Two Wahpeton high school educator Prot Wanner and Prot Moll will depart about June 3 for Europe. They plan a bicycle trip through Germany and will spend several weeks studying in Paris and Berlin. Moll has been engaged as professor of modern languages.
Washington May 38 The commissioner of the general land office has ordered the withdrawal from entry of 908000 acres of land in the Minot area by the Williston reclamation project, affecting land availability and future development.
Reports from Nagasaki to Washington claim the Japanese sunk a Russian battleship and damaged several ships. The battle in the Straits of Korea is described with dispersed Russian forces, Japanese pursuit, and conflicting notices from Tokyo and Tsingtau.
May 30 report from St Petersburg cites emperor and navy awaiting word on Vice Admiral Rozhestvensky and his fleet. United press dispatches note Russia’s cautious stance and Tokyo silence, with Hong Kong indicating British fleet movement northward. Washington confirms Nagasaki news of a sunken unknown American merchant ship off the Chinese coast amid heavy distant gunfire.
Burglars in Knapp Wisconsin blew the post office safe causing an explosion that woke residents. The front window was shattered and the thieves fled, leaving about $200 in cash and over $100 worth of stamps in view. Authorities investigate, suggesting amateurs may be behind the crime.
The Chilean cruiser Presidente Pinto foundered in the Gulf of Ancud off Chile. Reports say her commander Captain Whiteside died by his own hand in despair, while another version claims he was drowned. The vessel carried a crew of 171.
In Yankton Dakota May 20 a flood of counterfeit fifty cent pieces has fooled experts. One man was arrested after passing one at a local transaction and authorities found more than twenty counterfeit coins on him. The sheriff recovered twenty two such coins circulated by the prisoner.
Fire in Washburn Wisconsin leveled the Akley and Sprague sawmill. The blaze started in the boiler room and consumed the mill, machinery, blacksmith shops, and about $40,000 of lumber. The mill, built years ago for about $75,000, was among the bay area’s best.
Wahpeton N D educators Warner of the high school and Prof Moll of the R R V U will leave about June 3 to tour Germany on bicycle. They will travel via Paris and Berlin and will study in those cities while abroad.
Balaton Minnesota reports a quiet week with small rainfall and no frost damage expected to gardens. Corm planting and fox seeding are completed as grain crops look well and rainfall has been steady for eight days.
Tornado swept into Platter Woodville Call Roberta and Colbert on the Frisco road in Indian Territory yesterday causing heavy property damage but no loss of life is believed. The storm likely touched several homes barns and businesses with significant structural harm across multiple towns.
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