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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1904
Page
1
Chicago authorities expand inquiry into the Iroquois Theater fire to fix responsibility with Fire Inspector Monroe Fulkerson leading, 65 witnesses to be examined. The blaze caused 590 deaths as inspectors close unsafe public halls and shutter many venues until building codes are met.
Chicago faced an unprecedented funeral demand as heavy snow blocked hearses and carriages. Fraternal groups held multi‑burial services while crowds gathered for Ella and Edyth Freckelton and for the Wolff family’s quadruple funeral, with many mourners in cold winds and streets.
Gainesville Georgia January 5 funeral services for General James Longstreet who died Saturday of pneumonia will be held Tuesday in Alta Vista cemetery salutes from soldiers will honor the urn. The procession will move from the General Longstreet daughter’s home to the courthouse for viewing then to the cemetery for full military rites. The Catholic rites will be observed as Longstreet was a member. John W Strong dies on a train in Chicago the same day.
A certain report outlines causes and failures at the Iroquois Theater fire. Drape curtain caused by a flood light, asbestos curtain blocked by a reflector, staff absent from posts, locked and hidden exits, overcrowding, no sprinklers or fire alarm box, non fireproof scenery, and blocked aisles.
A veteran commercial editor of the Chicago Tribune died in his bunk on a Monon passenger train shortly before it reached Indianapolis. He had left Chicago to visit his brother, a Monon conductor, in Indianapolis. Officials suspect heart failure. The body was taken to the brother’s home at 120 West Nineteenth Street, Indianapolis.
A fire at Iowa's capitol in Des Moines started by an electric wire in the northwest attic. Eleven fire companies fought the blaze as the house ceiling collapsed and the Senate chamber caught fire. Governor Cummins led volunteers to save the state library volumes as workers scrambled to move the assembly.
Major Zeph T. Hill in Telluride imposes strict press censorship and seizes telegraph and telephone lines under a state of insurrection declared by Governor Peabody in San Miguel County.
The president sent to the Senate the nomination of William H. Taft of Ohio as secretary of war. Taft, then in Tokio, heads a slate that includes Luke B. Wright to be civil governor of the Philippine Islands, Henry Ide as civil governor, John C. Black as civil service commissioner, and Lawrence Murray as assistant secretary of commerce and labor. Elihu Root resigns as war secretary.
Chief Justice Fuller writes that Porto Rican citizens may enter the United States without obstruction. The ruling centers on the 1901 immigration act and holds Porto Ricans owe allegiance to the United States, not any other government. The case of a Porto Rican woman denied entry in 1902 for fear of becoming a public charge is cited.
Washington reports Hale opened the Senate with the invoca tion after recess and read a scriptural lesson. Senate later received Roosevelt’s Panama message as the House opened with prayers for Japan Russia peace. The resignation of McClellan of New York was announced and Wood's nomination advanced 7 to 2. Dowager Empress of Korea dies. Confucius quote.
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