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Newspaper

Washington Evening Journal

Location

Washington, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 07, 1905

Page

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The Rioting Continues Are Frightened

The fragment describes ongoing unrest with frightened parties amid continuing rioting and public concern. No clear names or places are provided in the readable text.

Rioting in Warsaw as shortages spark deadly clashes

Rioting broke out in Warsaw with several men killed among strikers at bakeries and other workplaces. Provisions rise in price and shortages leave people hungry. Endom reports twenty workers killed or wounded. troops sent to Kutno amid grave troubles. Skaryske reports twenty four killed today.

Warsaw Evening Journal Kutne Skaryske

Joseph H Manley Dies In Augusta After A Long Public career

Joseph H. Manley died suddenly in Augusta Maine. He chaired the National Executive Committee of the Republican party and served in the state legislature in 1887 1888 1889 1890 1899 1900 1901 becoming speaker of the house in 1901. He led business ventures and once presided over the Augusta Savings Bank while serving as a director at the First National Bank. He attended Republican national conventions in 1876 1880 1884 1888 and 1900.

Augusta Maine Evening Journal Joseph H. Manley Republican Party House of Representatives Tle Augusta Savings Bank First National Bank

Newfoundland Fish Treaty Likely Not to be Ratified

Washington reports the senate foreign relations committee amended the reciprocity treaty with Newfoundland by stripping duty free salt fish and allowing only fresh fish to enter free. Administration expects no consummation as Newfoundlanders likely reject the changes.

Ramlet Washington Senate Committee On Foreign Relations United States Newfoundland Senate Committee

Keyport Magistrate Said Sermon Was Not Disturbing Peace

The Keyport village magistrate ruled that Rev. G W Jones did not disturb the peace of W R Trailor when he implied a church member caused another to fall from grace in a sermon. The pastor was discharged and Trailor says he will pursue legal action elsewhere.

Carlisle Keyport G. W. Jones W. R. Trailor Trailor

Steamer Iowa Reaches Port After Ice Battle

The Goodrich steamer Iowa arrived in Chicago port after a day and night of ice conflict. Eighteen passengers endured the voyage listening to crew shouts and ice crashes, but none suffered from the cold as steam pipes kept cabins warm.

Chicago Goodrich Iowa

Assassination of Finland’s Procurator General Soininen

Sogen son Soininen, Finland’s procurator general, was killed by a young assailant at his residence in Helsinki. The attacker fired four shots, wounding Soininen and his son who tried to intervene. The motive appears political and linked to Russia. The shooter, identified only as Alexandre Gadd, was captured after a gunfight and is hospitalized.

Helsingfors Finland Sogenson Soininen Gof Jameson Soininen Blain Alexandre Gadd Russia Hrave Soiinen Johnsson Senate Duchy of Finland Bobrikos

Precursor of Terrorism in Finland Assassination Sparks Turmoil

Reports from St Petersburg note the assassination of Soininen Finland’s procurator general as a political act signaling a new era of terrorism. The crime’s motive remains unclear while Finland’s Russification policies and opposition movements fuel bitter tensions following January events across Russia.

St. Petersburg Soininen Finland Russia Robrikoff Party of Active Resistance Party of Passive

Maxim Gorky and the Russian revolutionary movement

Maxim Gorky the famed Russian writer and revolutionary was imprisoned for his views. He joined eighty Russians who formed a provisional government to replace the czar. At a Berlin conference last November representatives of Finnish and Polish groups drafted a programme for united action.

Maxim Gorky Russia Tolstoi Gorky Revolutionary Parties Finnish Active Resistance Party Polish National League Russian Emancipationists Berlin Soininen

Schaefer Murder Case Comes to Preliminary Close

Bedford Ind February 7 Justice Mc Lachlan announced the preliminary rulings in the Frank Evans and Elmer Browning murder case over Miss Sarah Schaefer. Evans was released Browning is bound over to the grand jury which convenes February 20. Court room crowded for the decision.

Schaefer Bedford Ind Justice McLachlan Frank Evans Elmer Browning Sarah Schaefer Evans Browning

Sailor Describes Harsh Life Aboard Navy Ships

Kokomo Indiana February 7 Guy Mast recounts after four years in the U S Navy that sailors endure severe living conditions. He says on the Dolphin the diet was ample only when funded by price funds while on other ships crews banded together to buy food. He recalls stale bread and questionable meat with harsh meals and poor quality rations described as tough and dubious in origin.

Kokomo Ind Guy Mast United States Navy Uncle Sam Mast Delphin

House managers to Judge Swayne in impeachment case

The House set aside part of yesterday today and Thursday for debate on the Besch Townsend bill with a 3 p.m. Thursday vote and no amendments. The electoral vote tally will be taken then. Locomotive Firemen See Grievances in Philadelphia Meet.

Swayne Philadelphia A. Wilson Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Atterbury Pennsylvania Railroad

Market Quotations and Livestock Prices Chicago Buffalo

Chicago Board of Trade quotes show May wheat at 1.17 and 1.16, corn May 0.45, oats 0.20, hogs and cattle in range with pigs at 4.70 to 5.00, cattle 4.75 to 6.25 for exsteers, sheep 5.40 to 5.70, Western calves 5.50 to 7.60. East Buffalo listings reflect steady cattle receipts and strong hogs with lambs and calves priced across multiple classes.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Buffalo N. Y G. Dunning & Stevens Live Stock Commission East Buffalo Beach-Wickham Grain Co Chi Board of Trade McCall Cits Washington

Sunday Hunting Sparks Statewide Debate in Illinois

Rockford Illinois Feb 7 State Game Warden Lovejoy reports many inquiries about Sunday hunting Farmers complain city visitors bring guns and dogs to fields on Sundays An old law revival attempt failed due to lack of statute authority Wardens seek new law to curb the nuisance and require licenses for rabbit shooting

Rockford Lovejoy

Missouri Wisconsin memorials and tariff debate in senate

In Washington on February 7 the Missouri legislature memorialized the senate urging broader powers for the interstate board while Wisconsin asked for tariff revision. The joint statehood bill was taken up and Beveridge closed the debate in favor of the bill. The replication of a prior dispute followed.

Washington Missouri Senate Interstate Board Wisconsin Beveridge

Kentucky Ghost Story Spreads From Paducah Farm

A Paducah report describes a dying tree on WH Alberts farm in Heath township that allegedly emits a voice promising buried treasures. An investigative committee of county residents found no proof beyond the tree’s slow decay and voices that frightened a local family into leaving years ago.

Paducah Heath Township Albert

Pest outbreak quarantines Michigan asylum in Kalamazoo

The Michigan asylum for the insane in Kalamazoo is quarantined as smallpox spreads through several wards. Hundreds of patients and staff are confined, after the disease is traced to a Mrs Worber from Jackson. Contagion began in the female department but soon spread to the main building.

Kalamazoo Mich Michigan Asylum For the Insane Jackson

Hog, cattle, and sheep market notes from Chicago era

Chicago market report shows hog receipts 30,000 with mixed packers and light heavy shipping grades. Cattle and sheep receipts around 18,000 each, with markets generally steady to weak and loads of $4.25 to $8.85 for cattle and pigs around $4.30 to $4.70 for porkers.

Debtors in Chadwick Case Show Modest Totals in List

Funeral of Beckwith in Cleveland as receiver Looser files creditors and amounts due in Chadwick bankruptcy. Total known claims so far about 65 910 with many losses and largest sums unlisted. Meeting set Feb 17 for creditors to elect a trustee. estate valued under 50 000 and potential distribution under 2 percent.

Cleveland Looser Chadwick United States Bankruptcy Court Ehuime Met Sims J. W. Friend Wittsburg Loeser Leon Rossees Brussels Belgium Adrian de Leveau Paris Kirkpatrick & Co New York

Funeral services for C. T. Beckwith in Oberlin Ohio

The funeral for C. T. Beckwith president of the Citizens National Bank Oberlin will be held tomorrow afternoon with simple services conducted by Dr. H M Tenney. Beckwith born September 19 1889 rose from clerk to bank president and exposed in Chadwick affair lost his fortune when the bank closed. In Cleveland Mrs Chadwick in jail said she could not pay for publication about Beckwiths death noting the shock of the news.

Oberlin C. T. Beckwith Citizens’ National Bank H. M. Tenney Second Congregational Church Beckwith Portage County Citizens Banch Chadwick Cleveland

Bondsmen surrender four men for Moundsville trip

Washington reports that bondsmen for August W. Machen George E. Lorenz Diller B Groff and Samuel A Groff have surrendered them into custody. The four men will depart for the West Virginia penitentiary at Moundsville this afternoon.

Washington August W. Machen George E. Lorenz Diller B. Groff Samuel A. Groff West Virginia Moundsville

Coaster Party Collides With Buggy in Ottumwa

In Ottumwa Iowa a party of coaster riders collided with a buggy during a snowstorm. Mr and Mrs Z T Earl were thrown from the buggy and painfully injured while several coaster riders also sustained injuries.

Ottumwa Z. T. Earl

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Jos H. Manley Young Man Rave Wasastjerna Lim House Kentucky Chigcago Grain Market Cassie L. Chadwick Srl Reynolds Herbert Newton Brook Mass Brooktine GC. T. Beckwith Oberlity Pittsburg Vittsburg Mrs. Chadwick
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