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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1904
Page
1
Reports from Manchuria describe heavy fighting around fortifications on ridge and near Mukden. Both sides clash for control of moats and galleries with Russian forces reinforcing, while Japanese efforts to breach eastern fortifications continue amid rising casualties and ongoing patrol skirmishes.
The Lawson McGhee Library building in Knoxville Tennessee burned this afternoon gutting the structure. The ground floor housed Vance Furniture Co the second floor held the library and Commercial Club offices and the third floor housed Knoxville Business College. Losses total about 54000 with 37000 insured. Fire originated in the basement from the furnace and firefighters saved adjacent property after a hard fight.
Norfolk reports Frederick G Kingsley an inmate at the Hampton Soldier Home aged seventy two pleads valiantly in United States Court for murder of Cant A C Paul. He is too weak to testify standing and staggers as he recounts the sequence, claiming self defense. Witnesses heard a crash but no broken mug found. Kingsley, Civil War veteran and former minstrel, remains in trial as it resumes tomorrow.
The American Ling steamship Merion from Liverpool and Queenstown ran aground on Chester Island flats in the Delaware River, seventeen miles below Philadelphia, during a severe Sunday storm. About 1,000 passengers remained aboard until this afternoon when Columbia ferried them to American Lane pier. Tug and lighter work ongoing. no serious damage reported.
Unofficial reports say J P Morgan Co and H B Hollins Co hold an option on a majority of Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton Railroad stock. Morgan Hollins tour of property signals possible control shift with a merger plan linking New York Chicago and St Louis via a three thousand mile trunk line.
San Diego reporter Nov 14 Miss Isidore Rush an actress died of heart failure while bathing in the surf. An immense wave swept her into deep water and six fellow performers struggled to help. She was unconscious on shore despite an hour of treatment. Milton Heriot, another company member, was knocked unconscious but revived after treatment.
Aged physician Dr Waldemar Bille, seventy, was beaten and robbed in his St Charles street office. He was found unconscious in a pool of blood and, after being treated at a hospital, investigators seek the burglar who stole about $10 and several checks. Phillip Weinseimer is sentenced in New York to prison for extortion. Norfolk and Newport News steamers advertise daily service via the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co.
Mrs. Wannie Fohs, a 26 year old widow and cloak model, sues Lieut Charles E D Lord for 50000 alleging deception and marriage to another woman, after meeting him in San Francisco and following him to New York. She previously sued Lieut O G Haints for 10000 for breach of promise. he is now stationed at Blas Island.
Republicans of Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia held a large victory celebration in Wheeling on November 14. The Americus Club of Pittsburg and many outside clubs led the parade with the Wheeling Rough Rider Regiment. Goy A B White and Goy elect W M C Dawson spoke from a hotel balcony, Dawson pledging to carry out the tax reform program from his campaign.
In Auburn California November 4 the Weber murder case moves slowly as ruins are processed by a miner’s sluice. The missing weapon remains undiscovered. If the revolver is not recovered the father Julius Weber may be partly vindicated. Officers allege evidence implicating Adolph Weber in a bank robbery last May. The coroner’s inquest will resume Wednesday.
Henry K. Thaw, returning east from St Louis, denounced Pittsburg rumors as false. He rejected reports of a $250,000 claim and said Miss Meshit, a young American actress, has not sought any money or favors and is at home with family.
In Dingess Mingo County W Va a bet on a local election led to violence. Will Kirk refused to pay money to Dingess who then shot Kirk three times hitting the heart causing instant death. The incident followed a wager between life long friends Kirk and Walter Dingess.
Rome November 14 Pope Pius XI presides as pallia for three American archbishops is postulated amid news of ten American bishops proclaimed. Cardinal Mocenni dies during the ceremony. The Pope denounces Napoleon era articles and French government breaches of the concordat while hoping for mutual understanding to appoint bishops in France.
Mexico City reports Pope Pius has granted unique authority to Mexican prelates and priests taking part in the pilgrimage to Londres Rome and the Holy Land to say masses on the ocean. The dispensation is described as unprecedented and is welcomed by church leaders.
Cardinal Mocenni, administrator of the apostolic palace under Pope Leo III, died at the Vatican of heart disease during a consistory. He had earlier shown momentary improvement but grew worse after attempting to rise. Dr. Lapponi announced his death as the Pope prepared to go to the death room. Funeral set for Thursday.
Ambassador Bellamy Storer met with Count Goluchowski in Vienna to discuss a U S Austria arbitration treaty. Goluchowski said Austria-Hungary agrees in principle and will be represented at the peace conference, noting similar treaties with other powers. He also acknowledged Hay's note on the proposed conference.
Riots in Rio de Janeiro suspend business as military and naval detachments quell anti vaccination protests. Seven killed and thirty wounded as troops clash with demonstrators, barricades rise, utilities are cut and streetcars burn. President's palace heavily guarded at midnight.
Rome reports definite returns from the second balloting strengthening the cabinet majority. The Extreme Left loses about twenty seats. Socialist leader Situb Ferri is elected at Letteo Maggiore. Socialists protest in Milan Florence and Genoa, but troops quell the disorders. Rebels are subdued with casualties in Genoa. Qyder is re established everywhere.
Miss Mertie Reister, thirty two, died by suicide in her East Seventeenth street apartment after a day of writing letters. Four sealed letters to Baltimore recipients lay on her bureau, including to Miss Bessie Shepherd and T Jeff Milbourne. a friend said the contents would never be published. Reister, once a demonstrator in a music store, had ties to Baltimore and left a sad unresolved case.
A large crowd of Poles gathered at the rectory of St Stanislaus Church in Baltimore seeking the restoration of Rev Thomas Morya. Police dispersed the noisy demonstrators after Cardinal Gibbons refused to reinstate the priest.
Mrs Paton Noble, widow of Paton Noble, was arraigned on a homicide charge after her husband was found dead at their Long Island City home. Police say she admitted shooting him after he struck her, a statement she denies. Noble, a clerk in the Fifth Street police court, had two chest wounds on his body.
Berlin dispatch reports Lieut. Gen. von Trotha says more defections among natives in German Southwest Africa. The North Bethany Hottentots have revolted and killed four scouts, with reports of Weldschoen- drager Hottentots also in revolt.
Four year old Jesse Gill endured severe burns and dying moments at a Maryland Hospital. He forced smiles for his mother and nurses, telling them not to cry and to be like him, while suppressing cries of agony as his skin peeled away.
Nine Filipino Scouts and one American from the Thirty-eighth Company of the Hospital Corps were killed in an ambush on Samar's east coast, a report from Manila on November 14 said.
A report details a siting in the tunnels at Port Arthur and a naval officer cited in a related suit. A death investigated as a possible self-inflicted case draws inquiry amid storm aftermath reflections. Pope comments on France breach and concurrent regional concerns frame the day.
A collision at Chaddsford Junction near Philadelphia left one man dead and about twenty injured when two cars broke free from a freight train and struck a passenger train. Howard Palmer of Kennett Square, 24, died under wreckage. Nineteen passengers in a descending car escaped serious injury. No fatalities reported among other injured.
Auburn Nov 14 A group of cadets attempted to lynch a black man at the Alabama Polytechnique depot area following a fatal stabbing of Claude M Stoward by Arthur Barnes. President Thach moved the suspect to Opelika and cadets fired into the calaboose before breaking it open. An altercation left Howard with a minor scalp wound. Howard is the ex congressman father of the student involved.
Booker T. Washington urged African Americans to pursue increased usefulness, sobriety, and simplicity after the election. He stressed growth in property, education, and Christian character, and to foster friendly race relations while building confidence with Southern neighbors for lasting success.
Panama on November 14 reports Senor Guardia visiting troops barracks to be recognized as secretary of war. Friction with predecessor Senor Arias and Gen. Huertas fuels wild coup rumors, which President Amador denies. Quiet conditions overall.
Cincinnati. Douglass Neare an insurance man was killed today near Coney Island east of the city when his automobile ran over an embankment at high speed. Miss Dolores Malone riding beside him was seriously injured and is expected to die. Feared Lynching of Prisoner in Charleston. John Perry accused of killing John Wills at Salude was sent to Columbia amid claims of imminent danger from lynching. Bank notice urges savings with Union Trust & Storage Co. at 2 percent interest on deposits subject to check.
New York Nov 14 storm roared from Gulf to Atlantic coast paralyzing telegraph and telephone lines. Snow and wind cut Western Union and other services, delaying trains and trolleys, with Albany region hardest hit. Repairs slow as lines, poles, and circuits fail across several states and provinces.
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