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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1904
Page
1
Moscow reports confirm General Kuroki was killed October 4 at Liaoyang after a shell splinter struck his chest his body sent to Japan. Russian scouts repulsed a Japanese left flank attack while both armies hold entrenched positions amid ongoing artillery duels and tense fronts in Manchuria.
November 12 Schenectady New York headline reports official tests of a high speed electric locomotive built by General Electric for the New York Central. The test run over four miles reached 75 mph with nine heavy cars, suggesting potential for 90 mph. An exciting race with No. 3 mail showed the electric train pulling away, maintaining a lead for nearly two miles.
In Dothan Alabama on November 12 Jesse Barfield and Thad Pennington both white men sentenced to life for first degree murder allegedly escaped a steel cage jail overnight. Barfield reportedly killed himself at a cousin’s home in Headland by shotgun, while Pennington left a note claiming self defense and praying as the jail door allegedly opened. Sheriff Walker investigates. Judge Pearce considers action.
Henry Curtiss, president of the Connecticut Tidewater Trap Rock Company, was found bound and gagged on Consolidated Railway tracks in East Haven after a fake telegram lured him to an appointment. He escaped death when a slowly moving car stopped, but suffered a head injury and remains in dangerous condition. $10 was stolen from his overcoat. The officer’s office of the Tide Rock Company was burned about an hour earlier.
Payton Noble, brother of Daniel Noble surrogate of Queens, was found dying with two bullet wounds in his chest in Long Island City. Mrs Noble, in hysterics, told police she took a revolver her husband had been cleaning from a drawer and that during a playful struggle he tried to take it from her. the weapon discharged, killing Noble. She was placed under arrest on a homicide charge.
O'Donovan Rossa sails for Ireland on the Cunard steamer Etruria to unveil a monument commemorating the Manchester martyrs in Skibbereen. The ceremony is set for November 8, with the shaft honoring All r Martin and O'Brien, who died after a police shooting during prison riots.
Maryland officially canvassed returns show seven Democratic electors and one Republican, Charles J Bonaparte. Brown leads Bonaparte by margin in Baltimore City, Talbot and Charles counties cannot change outcome. Betsellers seek legal counsel as stakes trigger potential court challenge from Republican leaders Hanna and Collador Stone.
New York reports a jubilee dinner to celebrate the victory of the Republican national and state tickets. The event will be held at the Hotel Astor on Wednesday November 30 with Secretary of State John Hay as principal speaker. Attendees will include Senator Thomas C Platt Frank B Black Gov Odell Gov elect Frank W Higgins Timothy L Woodruff and Senator Scott of West Virginia. Arrangements cover more than 1000 guests. Contact numbers West 424 day West 163 night.
In Macon Georgia Fred Tharpe a contractor is killed and Frank Christiani a contractor and painter mortally wounded after a knife duel in a Mulberry street saloon. Tharpe related to Rafe Plunkett by marriage and business ties. Plunkett allegedly shot himself earlier, fueling a dispute over the shooting. Tharpe died almost instantly as Christiani killed him with a throat cut after grabbing Tharpe's hair. Christiani also cannot live.
In Wrightsville Georgia a coroner's inquest into the death of Clayton G Williams a young Spain merchant in Johnson County concluded with a verdict that six people should be held for murder four white men and two white women named Rufus Price Lotton Gutlow Arthur Norman Walter Walker Mrs Lizzie Edge and Mrs Belle Williams All defendants are in custody evidence is circumstantial and the case remains shrouded in mystery with several defendants related to prominent local families.
A fire on Gay street Knoxville with an explosion, likely dynamite or powder, caused about 230000 dollars in damage. Six firefighters were injured including J B Hawkins who suffered both legs broken. Woodruff Hardware seven story building burned, Woodruff site unknown cause. Cable Piano marble front building wrecked and Arnold Onegar Davie wholesale shoe house damaged by fire and water.
Austro-Hungarian Consul warns Chicago police and Secret Service to watch for two swindlers who reportedly victimized banks and Vienna businessmen with bogus American bank securities and posed as Japanese secret agents buying army horses. Also: Savannah warehouse fire causes about 34000 damage with two hurt. Gunshot wounds in Crawford County during a dispute over a pole erection on the old line project.
New York real estate owners association urges Fire Exchange to curb overvalued policies after a spree of fires. They blame insurers for generous rates on high value properties and suggest safer risk placement to curb profitable fires and protect nonhazardous risks.
A large five story structure at Madison Street and Wabash Avenue housing Browning King Co and others is destroyed. Losses total around 200000 with no injuries. Explosions preceded flames forcing panic at the Continental Hotel. The Montgomery Ward complex narrowly escaped damage as flames were contained to the Browning King building. The tenants suffering total losses include Browning King Co, Chicago Millinery Co, and Chicago Feather Dye Co.
Pittsburg reports from the Steel Founders Society of America show the steel trade's business for the year ended June 1904 worse than prior. Output declined from 85 to 47 percent, with the sharpest drop in the last six months. compared to the same period last year, declines ranged from 56 to 8 percent. Ferdinand Harff, a former Cincinnati and St Louis candy maker, died in New York after a suspected opium poisoning amid a personal crisis at age sixty four. Two remaining World’s Fair excursions via Pennsylvania Railroad run on Wednesdays, November 16 and 23, with day tickets valid in coaches.
Eleven people die and ten to fifteen injured when Union Pacific westbound No 3 and an eastbound freight collide one and a half miles west of Azusa Wyoming. The crash followed a telegraph order error delivering a thirty minute time to meet instead of fifty. Many crew members listed among the dead, injured rushed to Rock Springs hospital as inquest opens.
Index to today’s issue lists multiple pages across four parts including major headlines such as Kuroki Killed Parker Gets Seven Maryland Votes Eleven Killed in Wyoming Wreck and West Virginia Man Hunt. The table of contents notes editorials on defenses of the coast rail world and Wall Street, society notes, real estate, sports features, and women’s pages.
John G Carlisle former Secretary of the Treasury arrived in Lexington to represent Berea College in an indictment challenging co racial education. The Day bill passed by the Kentucky legislature targets the college which serves both white and Black students and the case will move from Madison County to Nicholasville then to higher courts to test the act’s constitutionality.
In Bellingham on November 2 the receivers sold the Pacific American Fisheries Company property for 310000, bought by Seattle attorney W A Peters for undisclosed New York creditors. The Pacific Packing and Navigation Company drew no bids at its 500000 minimum, sale postponed to December 10, and receivers seek court orders to maximize returns by separate disposition. The two companies, allied and formed as a New Jersey firm with 25000000 capital, faced heavy indebtedness and were placed in receivership. Pacific American had ?16 mis. Pacific Packing and Navigation had 4328430 debt and 13000000 stock, over half preferred.
Chicago police were notified today of a bank robbery at the Bank of Rio in Rio Til by eight men who blew open the bank with dynamite, took $2000, and fled toward the south on a handcar. The sheriff pursued toward Galesburg but lost all trace. surrounding towns alerted.
Buffalo Lodge No 23 votes prizes for the grand national reunion to be held in Buffalo the week of July 10 1905 Best appearance and most unique uniform prizes 500 each highest mileage in line and most ladies in parade Common band prizes 600 259 400 250 Musicians must be AFM members Also GAR anniversary in Pittsburg and travel notices for scenic tours and excursions.
Huntington West Virginia November 12 Chief of Police Nash orders fifteen specials to pursue Edward Jackson who shot and killed Sheriff Daniels at Montgomery last Wednesday Jackson and many friends head toward Montgomery and warrants issued for his backers. Governor White offers a bounty of 1000 for Jackson dead or alive and 2000 for George Jackson.
Coroner's inquiry into the Weber deaths yields limited new details. Adolph Weber testifies his father was volatile and angry yet not insane, with no quarrel on the murder day. A San Francisco dispute over property is noted, a downward gunshot path suggests not self-inflicted, and the 32 caliber pistol remains missing. Neighbors recall screams and pleas as a fire alarm sounds.
News from Nov 12 reports Andrew Carnegie funds a $350,000 McKeesport library and a $250,000 Duquesne library formally dedicated with Burgess Pirl receiving turnover from Thomas Morrison. A 10,000-strong parade adorned the town as Schwabs and other industrial figures attended. Governor Odell denied rumor of Pacific Mail presidency and the report of five suspected safe blowers in Chicago Junction circulated.
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