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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1904
Page
28
Ten year old Robert Skidmore died after a 120 volt shock from a Ferris wheel at the Mardi Gras and Fall Festival on H Street Northeast. Police and coroner investigations await autopsy to determine cause.
The Weather Bureau reports a moving disturbance from Minnesota to the St Lawrence Valley bringing showers and thunderstorms in the Ohio Valley and lower Wake region. High pressure over the Eastern Rocky Mountain range shifts south with cooler temperatures in the Lake region and Midwest. Saturday will be largely fair, except Gulf states and Florida. Winds shift along the coasts, with fresh westerly to brisk northwest along the Atlantic coast. Special storm warnings persist on the Lower Lake and Atlantic coast. Temperature readings span midnight to late afternoon with a high of 87 and a low of 63.
Judge Millis dismissed the false pretenses charge against John B. Skinner, an employee of People's Bank, after George Harrison’s complaint alleged $18 obtained by false representation. Officials said the bank and Surety Loan Company are separate. Skinner acted as note teller collecting for a customer. Skinner also complains of overzealous detectives at police HQ.
A jailed District man, John Burley, awaits execution for the 1908 Ward's alley assault on a 14 year old girl. He remains calm and declares he is going to heaven. Execution to occur between noon and 2 pm, with private ceremony and no speech.
Four precinct detectives from the First Fourth Sixth and Ninth precincts raided a policy shop in South Washington at 433 Sixth and a half street southwest. They captured George Marshall a 34 year old Black man and seized the complete outfit used for numbers betting. Cash totaling 139 dollars was also taken. Marshall was jailed at the Fourth precinct station pending Police Court today.
Thom as E. Waggaman expected to answer bankruptcy petition with an admission of current inability to pay notes. Attorney Irving Williamson said assets may cover creditors with proper management, and Waggaman might resign from the Catholic University board. Schedule work delays hinder asset and liability estimates. rental accounts to be protected in a separate deposit system.
Four arrests were made for occupying space without a permit along the country line as part of the market-house dispute. Only one defendant, George Creveling, disclosed an occupation, while Robert Scott Wilam Grove Jr and Maurice Pumphrey claimed to be farmers. All posted $20 collateral at the First precinct station for Police Court appearances.
Charles W. Evarts of 602 M Street SE reported a five piece parlor suite six dining room chairs an oak dining table three kitchen chairs a kitchen table a pair of poyieres and other property worth 80 dollars missing from his home while the occupants were away August 2. Rose Marshall was arrested on suspicion of theft and sent to the House of Detention after questioning. Funeral services for Mrs Mary ONeill wife of War Department messenger William ONeill will be held tomorrow at Holy Trinity Church followed by interment at Holy Rood Cemetery.
New York reports arrivals of ships from Bremen Havre Hamburg and New York with several steamship names listed including Deutschland La Lorraine Blucher Barbaresa Baltic Patricia La Touraine in a daily shipping bulletin dated August 25 and August 2. The ships arrived at Queenstown and Hewbdurs from New York via Dover Havre and Cherbourg in the recent movements.
London and St Petersburg clash over the Russian auxiliary cruiser Smolensk and events around neutral ships. Premier Balfour said two Cape of Good Hope cruisers would locate Smolensk and relay Russian orders to desist. Britain seeks an amicable end to the volunteer fleet episode and warns against any further captures.
Miss Rhoda Pyres and her sister Miss Ethel Pyles were visiting Delaplane Virginia when a shortcut across a trestle led to Rhoda clinging between timbers as an express train passed overhead. Rhoda fell twenty five feet, breaking bones and suffering internal injuries. Ethel escaped unharmed. Rhoda was brought home after initial treatment. Also August Achglele, 27, was kicked by a horse and sustained a deep cut to the forehead, admitted to Providence Hospital.
Russian dispatches from Chefoo dated August 25 and St Petersburg summarize again that Japanese assaults on Port Arthur on August 21 and 22 were repulsed with heavy losses. Forts held and attacked include Fort No 1 Fort Blaeshaw and Fort No 6 with many casualties. Russian forces remain hopeful amid continued bombardment and trench digging near Suyshin and Sunkhe Valley.
St Petersburg dispatch quotes Russian foreign office officials denouncing Japan for violating Chinese neutrality by entering Chefoo harbor and attacking the Russian disarmed steamer Ryeshitemi. Officials reject Japan’s claims of a neutral wireless station and reject China’s alleged failure to protect its sovereignty.
Harriman Lines announce Pacific mail steamship units resume freight from San Francisco and Portland to Yokohama Kobe and Nagasaki Japan with through routes beyond and to Chemulpo Gensan Fusan Korea. Freight must be billed with consignor charges at Nagasaki paid by consignee. certain ports barred. Shipments of firearms cartridges and ammo shells to restricted destinations are not accepted.
report from St Petersburg details the August 16 engagement off Korsakovsk near Sakhalin. Novik sustained critical damage, tried to flee, then Sank in shallow water to prevent capture. Officers and stores were evacuated. Chitose fired on the wreck as the Japanese pursued.
In St Petersburg the conservative faction gains favor as the emperor honors ministers with orders of St Alexander Nevsky and the White Eagle of M Witte. The manifesto draws praise for broadening reforms, including abolition of corporal punishment and tax remissions for peasants.
J T O Neal a thirty year old self described types writer from Washington was arrested in Richmond on four warrants for stealing ten dollars from Nellie Warren Bertha Decker and Mrs J M Varden and for being a suspicious character The food law charges against Morgan O Donoghue and George Russell involved cider vinegar below standard Adulterated milk charges against Henry T Kensington and Charles B E Wise were settled or postponed A trolley accident left 33 year old Bydenham B Pietz injured and hospitalized The yacht owner Warren Cochran offers moonlight and Labor Day trips on the Potomac The report also notes the death of Mark J Moran killed by a railroad train near Gap to Christiana and identifies him as Eagles member from Denver Colorado
A Tokyo dispatch details further medical reports of brutality by Russian soldiers against Japanese dead and wounded. It cites the Siberian Rifles sixth regiment on August 19 and notes a massacre of Japanese fishermen near Kamchatka. A fishing craft with 172 men on the Kompa River was attacked on August 8, leaving 23 dead.
Hazel Chaffee of Minneapolis eluded her parents and rode a train to Chicago to join Henry W. Savage's Yankee Consul company at the Studebaker Theater. She is twenty, socially prominent, daughter of S A Chaffee, and niece of Lieut. Gen. Adna R. Chaffee, chief of the U S Army staff.
Dr. William R Brooks, director of Smith Observatory and Hobart College professor, is awarded the Astronomical Society of the Pacific medal for his discovery of the latest comet, the Brooks comet. He has now found twenty four comets, the most of any living astronomer. In Alabama, during a United Mine Workers strike, dynamite damaged a miner’s house at Dolomite and the Lacy Buck mine water main, with a reward offered for the perpetrators.
United States Senator A. C. Latimer of this State received a telegram accepting his offer to speak at Bridgeport Connecticut next Wednesday, opening the campaign in that state. He will then deliver further speeches across the North and West.
A long distance message from Jernings Louisiana reports three Morse oil wells burning and five others in danger of ignition. The fire is likely to devastate the oil field with little chance of saving it. No injuries reported though the cause is friction in pipes of Morsewell No. 6.
Edward Costello and James Lenihan were drowned when their rowboat capsized in the Illinois River near Morris Illinois. They were with John Noonan and Hidward Kelly who clung to the boat until help arrived. Noonan and Kelly survived. The accident occurred today in the vicinity of the drainage canal workers.
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