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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1905
Page
32
Newark editorial warns that Esch Townsend rate control would curb industrial centers and hand a powerful, unaccountable body the authority to fix rates. It argues the plan echoes commercial lynch law, strips due process, and would push commerce into narrow, government dictated zones.
Chicago Oct 11 Hearing on demurrers to the federal indictment against five large packing firms and seventeen employees ends with Judge Humphrey indicating he may sustain half the counts for conspiracy while overruling others. Edward Tilden is summoned to testify and ordered to produce books and papers by Nov 1.
Clearfield Icona Oct 1 0 When Congressman William F Hepburn returned to his district he found its seat in danger due to disclosures about his son in law William F Thummel. A T Smith seeks the Republican nomination by presenting testimony showing Thummel represented life insurance firms and that Congress was in his district. Thummel was appointed to oppose in New York customs but refused after Mutual Life raised his pay. Railroads are backing Hepburn’s opponent.
Wilmington Del October 11 United States Marshal Finn sold on the 345000 judgment of Charles and Hinchman of Camden New Jersey the one half interest of J Edward Addicks in the personal property on his Riverside farm two miles below Newcastle The sale netted only 510
A listed roster shows numerous couples connected by marriage licenses from cities including Baltimore Maryland Roanoke Virginia Richmond Virginia and Hampton Virginia. Names include Chartes E White Amanda V Howeton Mayer Mery Hickey Meyers Swain Jeter Graves Offerdinger Kantrowitz and others. The excerpt reflects multiple couples and their home jurisdictions as part of wedding license announcements.
A Washington Post report notes A C Mielder of Mutual Life can explain state insurance company ties to Albany politics. Fields, a longtime Mutual supervisor, has not been located. committees plan to subpoena him, believing he may be in Dobbs Ferry or the Thousand Islands.
Peoria Illinois October 1 A grand jury heard that Dougherty realized about 18000 over three years by using the name A H Andrews Co of Chicago to cash checks and issue school scrip. He forged dozens of fictitious firms and paid rolls, with losses estimated between 60000 and 100000, while new school houses were built. The grand jury expects more cases against him.
In Omaha an extraordinary scene unfolded as Mayor Moore placed police at chamber doors to block three council members from leaving, preserving a quorum. The majority moved to approve and contract the city to receive illuminating gas from the Omaha Gas Company, with the mayor returning the ordinance and bond amid heated exchanges.
Ramsey's bid to take the Wabash board collapses. George J. Gould secures reelection with six directors chosen by stockholders and bondholders' votes. Ramsey protests citing cumulative voting limits but is defeated, leaving Gould’s administration endorsed.
A dispatch from Fukyo via the Empress of Japan reports Japan plans stern control of Korea after the Anglo Japanese treaty. Tokyo aims to eject Korean ministers, recall Korean officials, and establish practical suzerainty. Reports note Russian agents, uprisings in the north, and starvation among dispossessed Korean peasants as factors driving strict measures. Yi Yong Ik is said to be on a secret mission to Europe from Shanghai.
Emperor Nicholas I I turns final settlement for abolition of Jewish admission restrictions to the national assembly. He informs the faculties of St Petersburg and Moscow universities of plans for unrestricted entry and authorizes excess Jewish admissions this year while a ministry bill to remove restrictions is prepared.
Ten torpedo boats built by Lewis Nixon of New York have been sent by rail to Sebastopol and will join others to form a mosquito fleet for Baltic defense while Russia rebuilds its offensive navy. No new naval changes are reported. A Copenhagen claim that American capitalists leased Russian shipyards for warship building is denied.
The Venezuelan telegraph department sent the money collected for cable message transmissions on French Company lines for the last fortnight of September to the Caracas bureau chief, who refused it, saying he had no instructions to accept the funds.
Berlin reports Major von Etzel is reassigned to the general staff and Major Koerner, formerly with the Prussian War Ministry and lately on the general staff, will succeed him as military attaché in Washington. Cuban Liberals plan party reorganization to include Liberal Nationalists allied with Moderates. In Nagasaki Japanese forces capture several vessels including the Arnhid Kowloon Hans Wagner and M Struve as they voyage to Vladivostok.
In Berlin preparations are underway for King Alfonso of Spain to visit from November 6 for five days. Premier Montero Rios will head his suite with a review of an army corps, a stag hunt in Orenienburg Crown forest, and state dinners. Madrid notes the visit follows Loubet, linking it to royal marriage plans and reforms.
The wedding at a royal castle in Gluecksburg united Princess Victoria Adelhelé of Schleswig-Holstein with Prince Charles Edward Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in the presence of Emperor William and Empress Auguste Victorie and most of the German court. Crown Prince Frederick William was absent.
Berlin reports indicate a deepening meat shortage as cities adopt rabbit markets and sea fish sales at cost to residents. Municipalities from Eisenach Solingen and Posen to Bavarian towns use new rations and price rises persist. Officials urge imperial action after failing petitions to Prussia's agriculture minister.
Tokyo reports the British steamer Leho struck a floating mine ninety miles east of Shantung lighthouse on September 30. Fifteen aboard are missing, including two foreign engineers, after the disaster. Edhem Pasha in Constantinople is alive and in good health, clarifying a death rumor about a namesake.
The Weather Bureau reports a general temperature drop east of the Mississippi with rain in the Middle Atlantic and New England. A storm moving from Tennessee toward Western New England will bring rain then clearing skies, cooler temperatures, and strong northwest winds along the coasts. Local readings show varied temperatures from the mid sixties to upper fifties with rainfall measurements and sunshine percent noted.
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