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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1905
Page
1
Reports claim Weree Hundred Moros and seven Americans killed amid fighting in Jolo. Chief Pala fled to a British island after American forces occupied the Philippines and organized an insurrection. British authorities say they demand his return.
Fierce two week battle on Jolo Island pits outlaw Moro chieftain Pala and 600 followers against Maj Gen Leonard Wood's forces. Pala has 300 killed to Wood's 19 wounded, as Wood drives rebel units into a swamp. Pala, once a slave trader, fled to Pula Sekar then Lahad Datu after massacres, with British authorities seeking his capture.
In May at Usseau, a village in Nievre, Roy, a wanted gamekeeper, barricaded in his cottage and battled 70 soldiers, engineers, officers, magistrates, and police. Troops used a small explosive to blow the cottage, Roy escaped but was mauled by villagers before being captured and hospitalized as 8000 spectators watched.
In Chicago today May, Matilda Buettgen aged twenty past years and Charles Henderson aged seventeen drowned when a yacht capsized off Lincoln Park. Edward Bodmer and Daniel Moheiser were rescued. The main sheets tangled caused loss of control and the victims were thrown overboard. Bodmer recovered Buettgen to the upside down craft and Moheiser. Buettgen later sank. Henderson could not swim and perished.
Chicago May 14 followed by a grand jury probe into packing, drug, and steel industries, with federal officials pursuing anti trust violations. Secret service and Attorney General Moody outline new inquiries as officials, attorneys, and industry leaders respond to the investigations.
Spector to the Wasnt Post. Lincoln, Web., May 4. Mr. Bryan debuted as a preacher at the Normal Methodist Church. A large crowd attended as he spoke on the Mount and blessed are the pure in heart. He urged kindness, charity, and personal purity over dogma and creed and warned against higher criticism. He said daily life reveals more mysteries than the Bible and stressed selfless duty for real worldly success.
Kansas City police conclude their inquiry into Herbert Croker’s visit to local dens before his death near Newton. Richard Croker Jr identifies the body in Newton and arranges shipment to New York aboard a Santa Fe train. Prosecution targets opium resort owners for illegal business. Croker’s family accepts no further action.
Initial reports overstated fatalities at the South Harrisburg wreck. Officials now state twenty two deaths, not twenty three, with most victims in hospital. Among the injured are George Loeffler and Harold Elfreth, while Col H P Bope and J W Anderson leave for home as conditions vary.
Erie Pa May 14 Police Sergeant James Higgin, 22 years in service, was murdered at 3 am while detaining a burglar leaving the Central School. The burglar drew a revolver and fired three times, all hits. Mayor Saltsman offered 200 dollars reward, city and county add 2000 dollars, as reports place an accomplice waiting in a car in Girard after the escape.
Chicago unions mourn 2,000 drivers after a striker is killed and a lunch wagon owner beaten. George Pierce leads a 2000-strong procession with draped banners to union station for burial, while President Shea pleads for nonviolence and a peaceful settlement to the Chicago Team Owners Association dispute.
Charles J. Casey, business agent of Carriage and Wagon Makers Union Local No 4, confessed to police that Carlstrom, who died weeks earlier, was fatally beaten by men paid five dollars each from an Educational Fund. The attack left an old man dead days later, with Casey detailing the payment and source.
Police say Charles J. Casey and Henry J. Newman confessed involvement in a killing. Charles Gilhooley allegedly named by Casey as a participant in beatings and slugging tied to strikes. Investigators identified four teens attacked by hired sluggers linked to multiple unions, with more arrests expected as they pursue allied crews. Two more wagon workers officials Timy frenk Movak and John Hetien were arrested.
Frank H. Platt, Crimmins policy holders counsel, counters Hyde charges claiming Crimmins switched sides after private talks with Harriman. He says Hyde sought stock control, Crimmins opposed the four year plan, then allied with Harriman and May rea, with retirement of Hyde as the eventual outcome.
Artillerymen at Fort Monroe form a $3,000 fund to hire Abram Lavy, the New York lawyer, to aid the Commonwealth's attorney in Elizabeth City County's prosecution of Policeman Phillips for shooting and killing George Dowrey, a Lowell, Mass., artilleryman. Phillips waived preliminary examination and was bound to the grand jury on $5,000 bond.
The annual convention of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers ended last night in Buffalo. Next year’s meeting will be in Minneapolis. Elected officers include President H. B. Perham of St. Louis and Vice Presidents John A. Newman of St. Louis and T. M. Plerson of Indianapolis, with L. W. St. Louis serving as secretary and treasurer.
Special services mark the 35th anniversary of Rev Dr Robert Stuart MacArthur’s pastorate at Calvary Baptist Church New York beginning with today’s morning service He notes Baptist growth during wartime and Rockefeller gifts as acts rising to the throne of God He praises Japan’s progress and Russian civilization hopes.
Mrs Flora T Neff, Logansport Humane Society secretary, placed an ad inviting childless wives to adopt a well formed baby. Twenty three responses followed as women courted the infant, with Mrs Otis McCracken winning the child for three months. Neff says the stunt shows women do not avoid motherhood and supports her stance against Roosevelt’s views.
Snyder Oklahoma May 14 four more tornado victims die bringing known dead to. Misa Mise Paulson John McCart and Miss Buser among the dead. Citizens dig five thousand cyclone cellars for protection as rain ends and mood lightens amid disaster. Local notices urge caves and towns pass ordinances. public safety measures include sentries in bell towers with shotguns.
Chicago May 14 Joseph Leiding was arrested after his seven year old stepdaughter accused him of killing his wife and infant by pouring kerosene on their bed and setting the bedding on fire. Leiding denies the tale saying the wife’s dress caught fire while she used kerosene to start a fire.
The Sunday Post carried 21 columns of advertising, 13 more than its 1904 level and outpacing its two rivals combined. Over the past six weeks, the Post shows substantial gains versus the prior year, with reader reach and tax paid for press promotion noted as key factors. Merchants advertise to reach the people.
Racing boats from Port Mahon to Toulon faced a cyclone as waves five stories high swamped several autoboats. Two cruisers and multiple destroyers towed and saved crews with no loss of life though Quand-Memo and Arbalete remain missing. Survivors recount brutal seas and daring rescues by warships.
A Paris meeting May 14 formed the National Interests and International Conciliation Association. It unites European and American public men led by Berthelot, Bourguois, and Destournelles de Constant with Carnegie and the Duke of Marlborough. Aims to advance domestic interests via better international relations with broad support from prominent professionals. Kaunas hosts World's Exposition. Sloan's showroom at 147 G Street markets Gordon Bale items and other antiques, inviting buyers.
Today’s issue highlights fierce fighting in Jolo with plans to settle the Chudge strike, disasters to auto-boats, and a tale of deception by a pretend Queen. It also covers Coghlan’s Manila Bay story, railway men departing, and the President at church.
May 14 in Memphis Tennessee a night watchman Thomas McCall shot and killed Edith Ferguson and Hal Williamson on Calhoun Street. He fatally shot himself an hour later. Jealousy cited as motive. Ferguson had recently arrived from New York City.
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train wrecked just outside Emporia Kansas after rail spikes and fishplates were removed on a curve. Four months of prior attempts noted, six passengers injured including a 79 year old man. two expected to die. Wreckers suspected as three men seen near the Howard branch area. tools found nearby.
In St. Louis on May 14 Cardinal Gibbons presided as the pallium was bestowed on Archbishop John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis. Mass followed. a sermon by Archbishop Ireland and a reception announced funds of $750,000 toward a new cathedral, plan to exceed $1,000,000.
Barron Michigan May 14 After fifteen hours the recorder's court jury examining Mrs Rose Barron charged with arsenic in baking powder failed to reach a verdict and was discharged by Judge Phelan at 1 am. About twenty people fell ill at the first, all recovered. The defense urged a proaimed theory and had been named. Ex Minister Conger Returns from the Orient arriving on the Siberia with his wife aboard.
A Boston woman posed as Carlotta wife of ex emperor Maximilian and claimed the Austrian throne. She gathered about $40,000 from Italian residents and others with promises of ministerial ranks and vast estates. She sat on a regal throne in a South End room and allowed tributes to be paid with hand kissing. Authorities say she fled after eight years of cons, leaving victims skeptical as Italians whispered of her disguise and power.
Newburg May 14 Mrs Henrietta Robinson eighty nine years old known as the veiled murderess died at Matteawan State Hospital. She was convicted of the murder of Timothy Linagen and Catherine Labee in Troy in 183. During the trial she wore a heavy veil and refused to remove it. She said she would rather have any verdict pronounced than reveal her identity. Her sentence to be hanged on June 19 188 was commuted and she was confined in Auburn and Matteawan. She claimed royal English origins once to a physician but would say nothing more.
Eve Dakin a 2 concert hall singer shot and killed one of two men who attacked her and tried to rob her. The slain man was identified as Charles Bennett by detectives. The other assailant fled with Dakin’s pocketbook as she was on her way home from a South Side hall. Dakin was detained at the police station for investigation.
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