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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1905
Page
1
Imperial and Japanese dispatches describe July 27 and 28 actions on Sakhalin Island with heavy fighting around Rykoff and Vydernicovsky. Allied reports claim 200 Russians killed or captured while Japanese forces report significant gains and multiple gun positions overrun.
Secretary of War Taft and his party were warmly welcomed in Kioto and Kobe as they toured temples and attended church. Crowds cheered the arrivals with bands playing national songs and toasts to the president and the mikado. The Manchuria steamed out for Nagasaki after a reception at Kobe.
Mrs John Hay refused a statue gift proposed by the New York graduate association of Theta Delta Phi to honor her late husband former secretary of state John Hay in New York City.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa on July 31 Lloyd C Grout aged 15 son of R A Grout traveling auditor for Rock Island railway was hit on the head by a ball during a game. He died six hours later.
New Orleans reports over three hundred cases of yellow fever with forty new cases detected today. Fear grows as fever hospitals overflow and authorities impose shot gun patrols on the northern border of Louisiana and strict sea quarantine at the southern border.
A conference at Oyster Bay discussed the Russian Japanese negotiations. Bar on Rosen appeared before the president while Secretary Wilson joined for a period and the Department of Agriculture scandal was reviewed.
Dell Stewart former Osceola Iowa mayor and former district judge in Town dies in a Portland hospital following an operation. He was 55 and had shown signs of recovery eleven days earlier before the procedure. King Edward receives U S Senator Lodge at Buckingham Palace in London.
The eighteenth annual Rock River Assembly opened in Dixon Illinois. William J Bryan delivered his lecture The Value of an Ideal to about 6000 attendees.
Scores from Saturday and Sunday games across the League Association and Western circuits include Pittsburg and Brooklyn in a 0 to 13 result, New York sweeping Cincinnati, St. Louis 2 Chicago 4, Philadelphia 5 Chicago 2, and multiple intercity contests in Indianapolis Louisville Columbus Milwaukee and others with several rain-affected or shortened games.
Baron Jutaro Komura is a Japanese peace envoy and foreign minister known for his long tenure as diplomat. He studied in the United States and Harvard Law School and has served as minister at Washington, thriving as a leading diplomat for Japan.
Oyster Bay July 31 Secretary Wilson is due at Sagamore Hill to discuss investigations into graft within the agriculture department. Roosevelt supports Wilson as efforts to clear all graft from the bureau of statistics and other units continue. Moore case and nitro culture ties prompt justice department probe.
Harman cites articles in Pearson's Magazine April 1905 and other magazines such as Century to highlight exploitation of nitro culture merits. The note urges reader attention to the published discussions and related writings.
July 31 Chicago reports a California express on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe derailed at a curve near Le mont thirty miles southwest of the city. The smoking car and a reclining chair car overturned into a ditch. One man crushed beyond recognition. Three others fatally injured and about twenty with minor injuries. William McVey Joliet IL arm crushed likely amputation. Conductor G F Featherwax Chillicothe IJ head injuries and internal injuries. H G Powers express messenger head injuries. James Sheehan baggageman badly bruised.
Two deputy U S marshals J H Noble and E S Edwards killed J B Coleman and his wife after a fight on Deep Fork river twenty five miles west of Checotah in Indian Territory. They arrested their 15 year old son. The Colemans had been involved in a confrontation that led to the deadly exchange.
In the Choctaw Nation thieves stole horses and cattle and moved through Checotah and Deep Mark. Officers pursued and the gunmen opened fire injuring no one but killing Coleman and his wife. The posse later reported to a U S commissioner at Kutala. Nearby, deputy marshal Jonas McIntosh was killed near Deep Post while Lt McIntosh faced murder warrants and resisted arrest with a pistol.
Chicago markets report steady hogs and cattle with varying grades. Receipts for the week total 123030 with shipments 48152. pigs bring 5.10 to 5.70. beef cattle steady 3.60 to 5.95. natives 3.20 to 5.10. western 3.20 to 5.10. lambs 4.50 to 7.10. overall market strength noted with price gains.
New Orlean s records show 20 new cases and 61 total deaths 64 to date with 7 new deaths. For yesterday 27 new cases bring totals to 283 cases and 57 deaths. Sanitation fumigation oiling and screening continue daily to make the city mosquito proof. Health officials defend timing amid political criticism by Governor Vardaman and Governor Blanchard.
Wabash Indiana July 31. George Craft prominent music dealer and North Manchester postmaster learns his father, separated from his mother forty years ago, is alive in Kansas. The mother had obtained a divorce for desertion and remarried. The father vanished then was believed dead, later found living with a Kansas sister of Craft’s half sister. Craft plans to visit him at once.
San Diego dispatch reports two more fatalities from the Beauvist er disaster raising the total dead to sixty four. Names B C Greis and Peter Nieiman reported dead in the latest casualty list.
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