Russian Emperor Announces Continuation of War
The Russian Emperor declared today that the conflict will continue. He asserts the position remains firm and unchanged despite ongoing hostilities.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1905
Page
1
Emperor of Russia to Continue War Says Court Advised
Berlin February 23 Special The Emperor of Russia elects to continue the war and says his position is absolutely firm The German court has been advised to that effect The war will be pressed with the utmost energy now that the domestic situation is within the authorities control
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Russia
Street fighting at Baku reports 700 killed
Berlin reports 700 people killed in street fighting at Baku. Warsaw reports workmen in factories of the Czarniakowska districts have struck and disturbed areas with troops firing on strikers but no casualties noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Baku
Warsaw
Czarniakowska
Farmer Holds the Fort at Havana Farm
James Lane, once a wealthy farmer, occupies his Havana farm with a double barreled shotgun and ammunition. He bans anyone entering without permission. A mortgage foreclosure forced Lane from the Old homestead, but he returned his goods and keeps the home to block his daughter Genevieve who holds the mortgage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
James Lane
Genevieve
Lane
Reunited by a Horror in Chicago Fire
Johnson Richards of Detroit found his wife alive at Grace Hospital after believing she died in the Iroquois Theater fire of December 30, 1908. The couple, once estranged after a Chicago marriage, reconciled after his discovery and her recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Johnson Richards
Macomb Street
Chicago
Grace Hospital
Richards
Ife
Miller disappears with rope and razor in Marion
William J. Miller vanished from his Marion home on Saturday taking a rope and a razor and telling his wife he planned to die by his own hand due to the hard winter. Police conducted a thorough search near the Miller residence but have not located a body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
William J. Miller
Miller
Hoosier Solon 8 Offered a Bribe in anti Cigarette Bill Fight
In Indianapolis Feb 23 Ananias Baker representative from Fulton and Cass counties revealed a letter purportedly from the cigarette trust and displayed a $100 bill claiming it was offered to influence the anti cigarette bill. He cried out that the envelope was $9 900 short of $10 000 and voted no as a stand against bribery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
House of Representatives
Ananuias Baker
Fulton
Cass
Cigarette Trust
Baker
Speaker
Senate
Tobacco Trust
Boston Statehouse tale nets $20 bribe and gunfire
In Boston a scheme to defeat a bill led to a sealed envelope with twenty dollars found by an associate, a gunshot from an upstairs window, and a pursued suspect likely to be captured. Separately in Minnesota Parker A. Jacobson and John A. Bangs were subpoenaed to testify in Chicago on the beef trust inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beef Trust
St. Paul
Minn
Parker A. Jacobson
Armour Packing Company
John A. Bangs
Swift Packing Company
United States Grand Jury
Chicago
Bribery Probe Targets Legislator Overbribe Claims
Speaker Cantwell ordered an investigation into who mailed bribe money to Baker while O A Baker of Marion faced arrest as an ex state senator on corruption charges. Baker claimed the money came from the cigarette trust and would not name the sender, despite committee efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cantwell
Baker
Eli Stansbury
Committee On Judiciary
Cigarette Trust
Taja Hot
Miller
O. A. Baker
Marion
Creo
Seventy Five Bodies Recovered From Virginia Mines
Birmingham reports seventy five bruised disfigured bodies recovered from the Virginia mines with rescuers still at work. Diggers find more burned and mutilated remains as they proceed deeper, and claims of a barely living man turning out false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Virginia
Man Arrested in Iowa Bank Robbery Case
Chicago detectives arrested Joseph Menard and his wife Nellie at their home on 186 Sheffield avenue after an eight hour watch. Menard is tied to the 1897 Elden bank safe robbery in Indiana in which $12,000 was stolen and was indicted but not sent to Iowa. He will be detained locally for suspected burglaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Central Station
Joseph Menard
Nellie
Sheffield Avenue
Harrison Street
Menard
Elden Bank
Elden
Iowa
Rumor of Kuropatkin Flanking Action Near Sinmintin
Startling rumor in St Petersburg at 3 a m reports General Kuropatkin outflanked by Japanese forces near Sinmintin and retreating from the Shakhe river. Official dispatches and Mukden advices deny any such contingency. military circles scout the report as unfounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Kuropatkin
Sinmintin
Shakhe
Associated Press
Mukden
Mob of farmers threatens intruder after threat to farmer’s wife
In Bloomington Illinois on February 23 a mob of angry farmers hunts a man who threatened to kill Mrs. Walter Kiebe wife of a local farmer near Fletcher. The intruder called in the absence of her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bloomington
Lynehing
Walter Kiebe
Fletcher
Kibe
Buffalo Banker’s Son and Miss Colt Marry in Chicago
A 17-year-old schoolboy W Lamb McDougall and 23-year-old Miss M Horton Colt of Lancaster N Y traveled from Buffalo to Chicago to wed. McDougall is the son of Eliott McDougall a Buffalo bank president and prominent financier. The marriage came as a surprise to his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Buffalo
W. Lamb McDougall
M. Horton Colt
Lancaster
N. Y
McDougall
Eliott
Monks Die After Mill Stone Burst At Oka Abbey
In Montreal on February 23 a flour mill accident at the Trappist monastery at Oka caused two monk deaths. Brother Marc Ducharme was instantaneously killed and Brother Abel Cousineau died soon after. an assistant was severely wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Que
Weber Convicted of First Degree Murder in Cal Town
Adolph Weber convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of his mother. Jury deliberated fifteen hours. He faces related accusations of killing his father sister and brother and setting fire to the family home in Auburn California on November 10 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weber
Auburn
Cal
Adolph Weber
Three Months Bride Tries Suicide by Hanging
Mrs Effie Stanfield wife of Howard Stanfield of this city attempted suicide twice by hanging. Found unconscious both times she was cut down in time to save her life. The couple were married at Mattoon Illinois three months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Effie Stanfield, Bude
Howard Stanfield
Mattoon
Lil
Boy Shot in North Fork. Motive Tied to Lovers
Huntington report says 12 year old John Gordon was shot dead at North Fork by WI Powell. Powell fled after the killing while the boy's mother concealed the crime, allegedly to shield Powell, who was her lover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Jobhn Gordon
North Fork
WI Powell
Powell
Tragic Hunting Accident Claims 18-Year-Old Robert Kile
Paris Illinois February 28 Robert Kile 18 was fatally injured northwest of town when he used his gun to prod a rabbit from a brush pile and the weapon discharged. The entire load of shot entered his abdomen in the accidental shooting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lll
Robert Kile
Trial of Governor Taylor at Drake University
Ex Governor Taylor of Kentucky sent a detailed letter to O F Missman who impersonates him in a mock trial at Drake University. He outlines his defense as if facing real balance and explains he helped bring the mountaineers to the state capital to use for moral effect during the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Taylor
Kentucky
O. FP
Missman
Drake University
Assalss
Trial of Caleb Powers Part of Goebel Assassination Case
The text notes five conspirators departed before the Goebel assassination. Goebel himself had no knowledge of the plot and did not reveal it to any conspirators. Governor Taylor and Powers counsel are actively involved, preparing students with all available information, and the trial proceeds as if Taylor were on trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goebel
Taylor
Caleb Powers
Rankfort
Devlish Atrocity in Rochester Haunts Police
Rochester engineer G W McCaffery reports an overnight break in at a Furimice Street boiler room where two men and a woman attacked him with revolvers and tossed a burning package onto hot coals. A baby cried as the bundle was placed. The trio fled after threats, leaving McCaffery distressed and unable to sleep. In Watertown, rural carriers back Frank H. Cunningham for national president after his discharge for lobbying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N.Y
G. W McCaffery
Furimice Street
Mc Caffery
McCaffery
Watertown
N. Y
Jefferson County
Frank H. Cunningham
South Omaha
Neb
Chicago Markets Turn Lower on Hogs and Cattle Receipts
Opening market report from Chicago on February 23 1908 shows hogs with mixed packers and shipping grades selling from 4.55 to 4.95 per cwt and a total receipts estimate near 38000. Cattle receipts around 11000 with beeves and cows steady to 4.50, stockers 2.00 to 4.30. sheep and lambs weak with lambs 6.75 to 8.00. grain market noted as more active early with general declines in some segments.
WORK ON THE CANAL Soon To Be Eight Large Steam Shovels Operating
Reports from Commissioners Parsons and Burr arriving from Colon say substantial progress on the Isthmian canal. In Culebra Cut steam shovels are at work with many more to be installed. about four thousand laborers are employed, with one thousand more engaged in West Indies and Central America. Plans for contracts will be submitted to Washington, while sewer and water systems advance in Panama and Colon for first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steam & Els
Culebra Cut
Sanitary Facta
New York
William Barclay Parsons
W. H. Burr
Alliancia
Colon
Fessor Burr
West Lidies
Central Ameries
Commission
Washington
Panama
Panama Isthmus Health Efforts Parade and Legal Clash
Jessor Parr discusses yellow fever risk on the isthmus noting improvements from sanitation and crusade efforts in Havana and Panama. He says construction can begin soon and cites engineering studies. Parsons defends panama railroad fees. Judge Little arrives to defend a lottery ticket case on appeal to the US Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessor Parr
America
Alliancia
Supreme Court of the United States
Missouri Silver bill grants immunity to bribery witnesses
The Missouri lower house passed the Silver bill by 120 to 1, granting immunity from punishment to witnesses in bribery trials. Governor Folk backed the measure in a special message, while a similar Senate bill failed. Folk is expected to press for passage in the upper chamber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Folk
Senate
Kinsey Wins City Solicitor in Philadelphia Vote
The February election in Philadelphia shows John L. Kinsey as city solicitor with a 155,86 vote plurality over Brennan. The Republican slate elects ten magistrates while the Democrats gain five, and all Good Government League backed candidates were defeated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
John L. Kinsey
Brennan
Good Government League
Bury
Citizens
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L. A. Baker
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Virgil
Theown
Cunningham
Beach-Wickham Grain Co
Nts
McCall Bree
Aas
CAGO
Panama Isthmus
Bill
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