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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
1
A Denver and Rio Grande express near Salida is halted by three robbers. Two passengers and one train crew member are shot dead. The bandits, who flagged the train with a red lantern, flee after looting is not yet confirmed. Posses pursuit follows the audacious assault.
Frank K. Mott reelected mayor of Oakland California over Socialist candidate Thomas Bowers by 11 806 to 9 532. The report notes a clear victory in city politics and details the margin of defeat for Bowers.
Habib Allah an Afghan was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for shooting and wounding two American women in Jerusalem on March 9 1910. The victims were Miss Natalie Morris of Manhasset New York and Miss Agnes Parker Moore of Terre Haute Indiana. The trial followed delays after he was arrested. The dispatch from the American consul in Jerusalem confirmed the sentence.
Fire rages along Lake Superior shore west of Calumet and along the south Range line of towns but not as bad as feared. Heavy rainfall needed to curb spread. no injuries reported though farm property and timber destroyed. Fires at Palkie and Chassel nearly out.
May 11 1911 Mexico City reports Navarro surrender paves path to peace. General Rabago marches from Chihuahua as rebels threaten Durango Torreon Tuxpan and Saltillo. Government warns of possible retake but no decisive action confirmed while trains to Cuernavaca run.
Grand Rapids reports daily arrival of strike-breakers led by John Barry from Chicago to reopen idle furniture industry. The Grand Rapids Piano Case Co. employs about sixty imported workers while 312 strikers have left the city for other towns. Local hotels refuse accommodations to imported men, landlords fear demonstrations.
New York May 11 Harvey Phillips former secret service man and head of a Washington private detective agency was arraigned on a charge of falsely labeling thirty two cartons of cartridges shipped to El Paso Texas. He pleaded not guilty and posted one thousand dollars bail.
Mrs Louis Ridel of Geneseo Illinois died in hospital after being shot by Mell Van Loo a suitor who later killed himself at Atkinson Illinois ten days earlier Van Loo had pursued Mrs Ridel after she rejected him the Ridels had moved to Illinois four weeks ago from selsium
President Taft tentatively accepts invitation to address the America Mining Congress in Chicago in the fall. The announcement comes from Washington and sets plans for a high profile speech to end the year.
A garbled section reports multiple games with scattered player names and teams. Mentions Philadelphia Brooklyn New York Boston and Chicago with partial lineups including Nagle Perry Gilhoon Moore Doomn Burns Fromme Chris int Curtis Mariolin Litteen and Wiltse Myers Wolon.
Fragmented OCR lists names and cities including St Louis Philadelphia Chicago Detroit Cleveland Boston and New York with various surnames and initials unclear. The text mixes people such as Bailey Bowell Petty Plank Stephens Sollee Johnson Sherry Gray and others with scattered city pairs and numbers, lacking coherent events or context.
Fragmentary OCR shows numbers and abbreviations with names like Lopis and locations such as St. P and Minn. E, hinting at a dated ledger or accounting line. No clear event or narrative present.
Lieutenant Mok. Kelly of the Thirtieth Infantry U S A died after a Curtiss aeroplane accident at Fort Sam Houston San Antonio Texas He fell from about fifty feet striking his head and dying minutes later He had come from San Diego California three weeks earlier to study aviation and the engine startle allegedly caused the mishap
Irvine Wendt an eighteen year old pupil at Alpena high school was blinded in one eye and may lose sight in the other after nitric acid and mercury exploded while he was using the mixture to plate pennies in the school laboratory.
Weather forecast notes rain and cooler today in Indiana and Illinois with unsettled conditions. Brisk winds expected from the south to west and clearing tomorrow in Wisconsin with higher west and northwest winds.
John Strange a Wisconsin paper maker berates President Taft before the Senate Finance Committee accusing him of cowardice and seeking re election. He blasts the Canadian reciprocity bill as unpatriotic and says it was born of cowardice. Grangers, fishermen, and paper manufacturers oppose the measure as the hearing lasts over five hours.
May 11 witnesses examined include Welter Drew attorney for the National Erectors Association and J A G Radort ils as assistant. Wives and sons of W T D Jones, Jesse D. Smith of Newcastle, and Walter Golt bank cashier testified. McNatara allegedly deposited funds at several times.
Rebels under Francisco J. Madero seize Juarez after a battle that leaves General Juan J. Navarro and several officers dead or wounded. Madero arrives in a decorated car, vows exchanges for prisoners, and enforces saloon closures as casualties mount with an estimated fifty to seventy five killed and up to three hundred wounded.
At a railroad crossing in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio Dr A H Willes aged sixty and Mrs Frank Fox were killed when a train struck their buggy. Mrs William Cox riding with them was injured probably fatally and the body of the man was carried on the engine pilot to Hudson about eight miles away.
Thomas Bowers a Valparaiso college student robbed a San Francisco cafe keeper, forcing him to yield 2.70 dollars before fainting on the sidewalk after three days without food. In Detroit, the American Railway Industrial association elected Dr. B. King as president and J. L. Lawrence as treasurer.
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