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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1905
Page
8
An advertisement invites readers to write The Ladies Advisory Department in Chattanooga Tennessee describing all symptoms and promises a letter of advice. It also promotes securing an 81.00 bottle of Wine of Cardus from a druggist today.
Mr Jim Flea and Mr John Flea duel in the street over Miss Mary Matilda, ending with her rejecting both and announcing plans to marry Mr Richard Henry Jackson Flea. Other items note Mrs Dutton and her son Vernon leaving for Davyemport after a visit to the Barr home.
Paris reports orders to civil and naval authorities in French Indochina to prevent any Russian naval forces under Admiral Rojestvensky from entering French waters. Instructions also sent to Admiral De Jonquieres to ensure Rojestvensky honors his pledge to leave French waters. Tokyo notes rising sentiment in the Far East against France over the second Pacific squadron and suspicions of outside influence.
George Prosser of St. Regis Falls sues Herbert Douglas George Dow and W M Babcock for 5000 each claiming the Holy Roller sect caused the loss of his 18 year old son who followed the group to meetings last fall and is now in an insane asylum after a disorderly gathering and removal by his father.
Arthur Haserot a Yale senior living in Cleveland was found shot to death in his Welch Hall room on campus. Medical Examiner Bartlett suspected accident or suicide but offered no details. A revolver lay near Haserot and the case remains quietly handled with little official comment.
Plymouth Massachusetts May 10 A brisk shower cheered firefighters who had worked since Friday to control a forest fire raging through Plymouth Plympton Kingston and Carver destroying timber and endangering buildings The rain brought some relief and improved their efforts to check the blaze for the first time since it gained headway.
Carnegie Steel announces plans to build five 500 ton per day blast furnaces and fifty 100 ton open-hearth furnaces in Youngstown Ohio. The project will add plate and structural mills and require about 3000 additional workers at an estimated cost of 20 million dollars.
Mrs. Pearl St Clair, 15, wife of a young farmer, gave birth at home in Clark County to triplets all girls. They weighed a little over five pounds, are all alive, and the physician expects they will survive. She is already mother to four children.
Omaha May 1 Governor Mickey sent a greeting to President Roosevelt at North Platte congratulating him on a successful outing and wishing him a safe journey across Nebraska to Washington.
In Saginaw Michigan on May 10 Barton Lazelie an elderly man rushed to summon a doctor for his wife who was critically ill with heart trouble. He himself suffered a heart attack on return and died in a room adjoining hers.
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