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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1905
Page
2
A cyclone storm in Woodbury County caused damage to crops and small buildings. Four twisters were sighted near Luton Lawton Moville and Brunson. No lives were lost. Winter wheat and rye suffered the only crop damage.
Chicago announces the Golden State Limited of the Rock Island will be kept in service daily all year. Government weighing mails in Kansas City for seven days to set compensation after Santa Fe lost contracts. Santa Fe California Limited will run Sundays and Wednesdays only this summer, shifting transcontinental mail to the Rock Island train. The Golden State carried 55,000 pounds of mail from Kansas City Monday night.
Muscatine reports the first rail shipment from Glentora Wisconsin to the South Muscatine Lumber Co. Containing 30 car loads and over 200000 feet of lumber, the logs are stacked ten feet high and chained. The company expects more than 600 train loads this summer.
The will of William Zeigler patron of Arctic explorations was filed. The estate is estimated at 830000000. A 50000 dollar annuity to Mrs Zeigler and use of Zeigler city and country homes are provided. The residue goes to his adopted son William now fourteen with gradual enjoyment from age twenty five to forty.
The Iowa National Guard will join the Eleventh Cavalry at Fort Des Moines rifle range for a seven day state encampment competition starting August 11. The event will follow strict military competition rules and occurs during the state association meeting held Monday afternoon.
Cedar Falls trustees announced the hiring of E. J. Cabble honors Cornell and Chicago for physiography aid, Bertha Martin of Columbia School of Oratory as elocution professor, Clara Cresse of Sioux Falls as assistant vocal music director, Minnie Gray of Osage for harmony and voice, C. L. Hawk of Winterset as manual training assistant, and Lulu Berequin of New Hartford as piano instructor. About nine hundred dollars was ...
The Iowa campus allocated funds for a new physiography laboratory and for a ladies brass band instruments. New machinery arrived for the manual training department. Construction on the physical science building began in early fall. More than five hundred alumni and friends attended an alumni dinner yesterday.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Epworth League will hold its next convention in Waterloo from October 26 to 29 as announced by Secretary G I Huffman. The executive committee aims to build a strong Iowa delegation for the International Epworth League gathering in Denver next month.
Los Angeles hosts a national Knights of Columbus gathering with thousands of visitors. Delegates began arriving yesterday by special trains from Boston New York and Philadelphia and numerous eastern cities. Delegations from nearly every state are represented in this major event.
Delavan Wisconsin June 7 postoffice inspector George Rodenback reports Adele Barnes postmistress and church leader is short in her accounts eight thousand five hundred dollars. She has been removed and bondman John Delaney is placed in charge awaiting recommendation for a successor from Congressman A. A. Cooper.
Chicago June 7 The Pennsylvania Railroad broke records by covering the 897 miles between New York and Chicago in seventeen hours flat. The test aimed to show feasibility of an eighteen hour schedule under ordinary conditions and to prove the line could sustain it.
Des Moines reports the supreme court reversed the conviction of Thomas Smith for killing W. G. Sarver during a resisting arrest, ruling the officer could shoot in a felony case. The court also upheld the hanging of Joseph C. Smith of Monroe. Kansas City notes Jesse James Jr is acquitted in a usury loan case by a justice court jury.
Floodwaters inundate the lower district of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin with extensive damage to streets and buildings. A lumber company reports the loss of 30,000,000 feet of logs due to a broken boom.
The advertisement claims deafness arises from inflammation of the Eustachian tube caused by catarrh. It asserts constitutional treatment cures nine of ten cases and offers $100 for any deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulation brochures are advertised as free from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. pills for constipation are also promoted.
Reward of 5 dollars for return of a bay mare weighing about 850 pounds with a brand on the right shoulder a white forehead spot and a white left hind foot to the ankle listed by M. A. Stranskey Riverside Iowa. 96-21.
C F Collier of Cherokee Iowa recounts severe kidney failure with backache headache and low spirits. He credits Electric Bitters with restoring health and urges others with weak kidneys liver or stomach to try the tonic medicine guaranteed by J H Stewart Druggist at 50 cents.
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