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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1905
Page
3
Edward Casper Stokes was sworn in as governor at Taylor Opera House. He outlines New Jersey policy on corporate supervision, proposes a state commission to refine corporate laws, and notes the state’s finances show most revenue from railroads and firms domiciled in the state.
Notices of marriages and deaths appear across multiple morning papers including New York Times Boston Globe Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Ledger. Obituaries list names ages and residences with funeral details and telegrams from Trinity Newark to Washington DC.
The text argues for preserving current revenue sources while taxing existing corporations. It cites interstate incorporation figures showing substantial capital linked to other states and cautions against unsound revenue-focused laws. It urges honest legislation to safeguard public rights, attract capital, and protect corporate interests amid calls for national incorporation standards.
Dover, January 17. Preston Lea inaugurated governor of Delaware. Senate sessions included informal inauguration of Lt Gov Isaac Thomas Parker. Parker Govea urged ballot reform to abolish poll taxes and a simple, accessible ballot. He criticized current system as costly and confusing and warned against enforcing money qualifications to vote. No action to break senate deadlock during third week of stalemate.
Special to the Washington Post from Richmond Virginia reports that Republican State Chairman Park Agnew is practically certain to resign at the state committee meeting in Lynchburg next Saturday. The move is driven by several reasons, chiefly that such active political duty does not aid his prospects for a federal appointment.
Representatives of Pennsylvania's agricultural and dairy interests meet in Harrisburg to oppose repeal of the Groat law taxing colored oleomargarins ten cents a pound. Gov Pennypacker and Senators Knox and Penrose attend and pledge efforts to prevent repeal. Resolutions commend the President for beef trust investigation and oppose tampering with the Groat law. In Madison, Wisconsin, a Senate resolution commends the state delegation for tariff readjustment and urges adherence to Republican platform promises.
A long list of marriage licenses issued to individuals from Maryland Virginia and Michigan includes Hdward Philpott with Linnie Schaefer and others such as C A Frith with Ruby E Tingle James Procter with Mary Thompson Charles D Handford with Louise Sweeney Robert M Campbell with Lilie B Vollmer Walter E Hilton with Miriam Bangs Francis McAdam with Josephine Fitchert Hubert O Hudgins with Elizabeth McShaw William J Flanigan with Mary Ann Cunningham John J Ring with Mamie Langley Jones Robinson with Therese Earnest and more couples from Richmond Jersey City and surrounding areas. The announcements read like a roster of prospective nuptials across multiple counties and states.
Health office record lists numerous deaths with ages and addresses including George Berg 69, Honora Broadfoot 47, Samuel Brown 7, Ignatius Butler 75, Doscas Colley 60s, Bridget Fallon 67, Lillie Green 4, Willie Green 8, Peter Grimes 8, Amanda Lewis 62, Edward Niles 86, Elizabeth Powell 65, Felix Queen 75, Anna Ramsburg 6, Andrew Reynolda 20, Mary Stratford 5, Walter Taylor 9, Maria Turner 74. Movements of ocean steamers show arrivals in New York and sailings to Antwerp Dover Liverpool and Bremen.
More than 100 officers and directors of Washington banking institutions gathered at the Raleigh for the District of Columbia Bankers Association fourth annual banquet. President Albion E. Parris congratulated the association on the past year while Capt John H. Moore urged a national clearinghouse. The event featured elaborate decor, portraits, and a mix of toasts and songs, signaling strong financial ties and optimistic growth for the city.
A district bankers banquet honors Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency with a toast by Mr Mayer Cohen, praising the office over the man. Lewis J Davis, retired banker, is celebrated as the elder statesman of local banking. John Joy Edson discusses the district’s first banking association formed in 1880 to prepare for national emergencies, urging directors to build trust and guide public affairs. The event lists numerous attendees from Washington’s major banks and trust companies.
Suits for divorce filed in the District Supreme Court name Mrs Charlotte M Conger as plaintiff against Frank B Conger formerly post master. Infidelity is charged. The couple married January 14 1879 in the city. Six children are named with one dead. Custody alimony pendente lite and counsel fees are sought. Several other divorces are noted with grounds of infidelity and named co respondents.
Agnes Ware, aged woman, was thrown down stairs in Fighting Alley South Washington last night. She is in critical condition at Emergency Hospital. Tyler Jones, her assailant, is in Fourth precinct custody after resisting police. witness Sarah Gray saw the attack and the room break in. Ware's scalp lacerations and skull fracture leave little hope for recovery.
London cablegram reports Port Arthur harbor ships Sevastopol sunk in 150 feet of water Retvizan and Pobieda heavily damaged below and above deck refloating unlikely Peresviet Poltava Pallada Bayan lightly damaged likely salvageable turret guns destroyed most secondary weapons removed amid fires and mined explosions before surrender No dock for battleships complicates rescue efforts
The French steamer Australien carried Gen Stoessel his wife and 665 Augsiang plus 245 officers to Marseilles. Nagasaki reports quote Stoessel saying the New Year capitulation was a coincidence and blame Port Arthur fortifications and Admiral Alexieff for failures while officers chose imprisonment or captivity under looming courts-martial.
A letter from AR Reynolds, Chief of Police in Columbus, praising Swamp Root for kidney and liver troubles. The ad claims the remedy is endorsed by physicians and used in leading hospitals, detailing urine test tips and citing dramatic personal cures.
St Petersburg reports Gen Mistchenko’s raiders clash with a Japanese detachment as he moves northward on January 14. Heavy Russian artillery fire inflicts losses, with five officers and forty men killed or wounded. Russian patrols also report destroying a mile of telegraph and railroad near Tatchekino.
Henry J Scheligen fifty five, sculptor and designer of architectural decorations, killed himself today by cutting his throat with a modeling knife. Experts cite mental aberration from two weeks of continual rain and a failed throat tumor operation. He crafted the Riverside Park Soldiers and Sailors monument arch design and a plaster panorama of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis shown at the World's Fair.
A Japanese torpedo boat destroyer captured the Dutch steamer Wilhelmina carrying coal from Cardiff to Vladivostok in the Teu shumis Straits and brought her to Sasebo. The Olympia will sail from Astoria for Moji for orders, with coal for Vladivostok and Bristol Bay, then on to Alaska and Moji.
St. Petersburg January 17 The admiralty denies a Paris Matin dispatch saying Admiral Rojestvensky is leaving Madagascar without awaiting Botrovsky's division and plans to cruise the Indian Ocean likely until Botrovsky's arrival. The squadron passed the Perim Straits at six this morning bound for Tibutil in the Gulf of Aden.
Ishpeming Michigan January report lists former Secretary of State John W Jochim dying of diabetes at fifty nine. Cadillac Michigan obituary for Iva Brown aged ten years eight months at home with daughter. Weimar Grand Duchy Caroline duchess dies from lung inflammation born 1884. Newark report notes Edward L Phil hips long-time amateur athletics figure and Cornell rowing captain. Venice reports Gustav Ludwig art critic dies after tracing Carpaccio Virgin legend.
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