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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1905
Page
3
Cast for Iowa for today and tomorrow shows showers tonight and Wednesday. Warmer tonight with cooler northwest portion Wednesday. Special weather note from Washington DC dated May 9.
Gardner and Guthrie family visitors report in from Wellman and Ainsworth while many residents travel for business and social visits. The Lewis and Clark Exposition promotes cheap round trips to Portland and features an Oregon cedar log and spruce stump exhibit from Coos county.
New York May 9 Superintendent Francis Hendricks says the Equitable Life Assurance Society is solvent. He notes the department is examining the society and is sufficiently informed to state all contracts with policy holders are fully and safely guaranteed.
Striking high school students return to classes in Superior Wisconsin after the school board rescinded suspensions of student leaders and Superintendent Jackson personally pled their case. Principal James remains until term end and the board later relieved the resignation demand as a partial concession.
W Z Silvers pool room proprietor of Olathe Kansas was arrested in Wyandotte county on a warrant from the county attorney charging him with obtaining money by false pretenses from George Emhoff of Argentine Silvers admitted gambling with Emhoff in Argentina and giving a $14 check on an Olathe bank which he later stopped payment on He was arraigned before Justice McIlough Argentine and released on bond
Mr Bowen the United States minister to Venezuela arrived in New York from La uka after a summons from Secretary Taft regarding the Loomis Bowen dispute. Bowen was told by the acting secretary of state to report when ready and Taft advised no Washington visit before Monday.
Battle Creek, May 9. Attorney George W. Mecham reports from Ketchikan Alaska that Robert Ball Mall formerly known as Charles K Mains the Battle Creek lawyer is identified as the murdered man. Authorities expect a death sentence for the cold blooded murder.
Lloya Keene, a laundry helper in Elkhart Indiana, found diamonds worth 1000 dollars and 85 dollars in a soil ed pillow slip wrapped in a chamois bag. The owner O N Brown later claimed the property. Mrs Brown hid the valuables in the Bucklen hotel after the chambermaid sent them to the laundry.
Chicago reports a victory for the Board of Trade as the U S Supreme Court rules the exchange may control its quotations as property, defeating bucketshop claims that quotes from telegraph firms or misappropriated boards are not protectable. Dissenters Harlan Brewer and Day opposed. Also noted is the execution of William Rudolph in Union Missouri for a detective murder in 1908.
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