War in the Far East and Washington Notes
Week by week a roundup shows Russia and Japan denying peace indications with no US mediation asked by either side. Czar may abdicate if peace comes, while Kuropatkin blames ten generals for Mukden defeat. Japanese forces press forward, Russian rear guard falls back near Gunstu Pass. Mukden losses pegged at 1.75 million dollars in supplies. A new Japanese loan is heavily oversubscribed in New York and London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Japan
Roosevelt
Washington
Nicholas
Jusserand
France
Imperial Commission
Kuropatkin
Mukden
Bilderling
Gunst U Pass
United States
London
Fireside Tragedies and Trials Stir Nation
Summary of varied items: Summer Hazen and John Hall die in a pistol exchange at Hall’s home over a marriage dispute. Charles Reed, a 60 year old lawyer, held in Boston on $10,000 bail. Photographer Albert Butler killed in a saloon powder explosion in Omaha. Coffey Murray and Levy severely hurt. A man vanished from a roller ride at Paul Minnesota into the Mississippi. Exposition admission set at fifty cents. Beloit College professor Montague White drowns in Rock River. student Roy Andrews survives. Alonzo Whitman released on $10,000 bail after prior grand larceny acquittal. New York City port immigration in March hits 97,000, up from 47,877 the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Summer Hazen
John Hall
Malone
N. Y
Hall
Hazen
Charles M. Reed
Boston
Omaha
Neb
Albert Butler
William Cof Tee
W. J. Murray
M. Levy
Paul, Minn
Mississippi River
Montague White
Beloit College
Rockriver
Beloit
Wis
Roy Andrews
Alonzo J. Whitman
Buffalo
Whiteman
New York
Bank closes as three embezzlers drain Citizens Savings
Lorain Ohio bank closes after an aggregate defalcation of nearly 100000 dollars by three employees. Other items note railroad rate probes, university presidents recovering, deaths, legal cases, and fiscal data.
Michigan House Bans Sale and Use of Cigarettes
Reports show a legislative move in the Michigan lower house to prohibit sale and use of cigarettes and cigarette material in committee of the whole. The broad sweep mirrors the era’s anti tobacco campaigns and raises questions on enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Ciudad Juarez
Mexico
Sam Sanders
Crete
Greece
Olympian Jupiter Square
Athens
Sandstone Creek
Mingo County
W. Va
Walter Farrell
Hisgen Bros
Albany
N. Y
Stanley A. McKay
Shurtleff College
Alton
Ill
Edward Hines
Chicago
N. Ludington & Co
Marinette, Wis
Disorder in Poland as police fire on crowd during Bund march
In Warsaw on Dzika street a Bund demonstration crowd of over 1,000 Jews clashed with police and a 20-man patrol. Police fired into the crowd, killing four and wounding about 40. Police arrests followed as more disturbances were reported in Lodz where Police Commissioner Szabalovicz was severely injured by a bomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warsaw
Dzika Street
The
Bund
Lodz
Russian Poland
Szabalovicz
Second District
Konstantinowsk
Zawarski
Shonts Named Chairman of New Isthmian Canal Commission
Theodore P. Shonts of Chicago will accept the chairmanship of the new Isthmian canal commission after talks with Judge Charles R. Magoon and Col. Clarence Edwards at the war department and the White House. The salary will be large to offset his likely financial sacrifice in leaving his railroad post. Shonts, born in Crawford County Pennsylvania, has risen through the Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad to its presidency and is Monmouth College a graduate and brother in law to John Drake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilinois House of Representatives
Nan Patterson
Cincinnati
Young
Russia
Castro
Venezuela
Roosevelt
Bowen
New York
United States
Monte Christi
San Domingo
John D. Rockefeller
American Board of Foreign Missions
Boston
Thomas H. Watts
Montgomery
Ala
Zhukoff Oil Works
St. Petersburg
Jamestown
Mickey
Nebraska
McMullen
Margaret Gindelsperger
Carl Ballard
Chillicothe
Edmond Booth
Anamosa
Anamosa Eureka
Springfield
Mass
Jacob L. Greene
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
Daniel Shaw
Chicago
Laporte
Ind
Wisconsin Senate
Omaha
Jorade
Mankato
Minn
Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Adrian Iselin
Iselin
A. Iselin & Co
Thomas J. Connors
Armner & Co
Beef Trust
Connors
Washington
Theodore P. Shonts
Toledo, St. Louis & Western Railroad
Isthmian Canal Commission
War Department
Charles R. Magoon
Clarence Edwards
White House
Mr. Shonts
Crawford County
Pennsylvania
Monmouth College
Illinois
John Drake
John W. Gates
Des Moines Farmer Kills Daughters Then Ends Own Life
Michael Nelson of Poplar Iowa killed his two daughters aged 10 and 13 and then shot himself in a woodland home. Neighbors alerted county officers who found the bodies after breaking in. Nelson had been suspected in the disappearance of Francis Richardson a wealthy money lender seven years ago. An effort via a spiritualist was made to locate the missing man. It is believed Nelson feared accusation and chose death over arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Michael Nelson
Poplar
Audubon County
Nelson
Hns
Francis Richardson
Errors of Modern Life and Pusheck's Kuro Advertisement
An advertisement extols Pusheck's Kuro as a cure all for debility and nerve fatigue, promising appetite boost, purified blood, and restored vigor. It claims permanent cures, urges immediate mail orders from Dr. Pusheck in Chicago, and cautions against opiates and liquor. A separate line notes investing in cheerful words as a counterpoint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pusheck
Psheck
Washington &I
Chicago
Kuro
Cure for eczema with Cuticura products promoted
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent Pills as a complete treatment for eczema crusts scales itching and hair loss. It claims a single one dollar set can cure severe skin scalp and blood humors when other remedies fail. The copy concludes with a quip about optical illusion from Puck.
The Strain of Work Kidney Pills Endorsement
Lieutenant George G. Warren of No 8 Chemical Washington D C says Dean's Kidney Pills helped after kidney trouble from lifting. He claims lifting 600 pounds with no relapse after five to six years of pain, and recommends the remedy priced 50 cents from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George G. Warren
No. 8 Chemical
Washington, D. C
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N.Y
A Practical Protectorate in Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo reports a practical American protectorate now in place as American agents run the customs houses. The decree was suppressed and while masses fear annexation, merchants and creditors are satisfied and the government remains confident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santo Domingo
United States Senate
Also Mentioned on This Page
Westville
Indiana
L.Q
Web
Far East
Citizens’ Savings Bank
Lorain
Elkins
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
West
William R. Harper
University of Chicago
Lakewood
N. J
Hugh McGoarty
Wilkesbarre
Frank Byers
University of Michigan
Harlan
Ann Arbor
Mich
E. C. Hewett
Illinois State Normal School
Bloomington
John Young
Waxahachie
Tex
Alburtis Moore
Robley D. Evans
Fighting Bob
Pensacola
Fila
Drake University
Leland Stanford
Stanford University
United States Steel Corporation
Alexander
Equitable
James H. Hyde
William
Morocco
Congress
Taft
Panama Canal Commission
Morales
Republic
J. Ross Gould
Baltimore
Michael Novackovich
Pittsburg
Annie
Collinsville
John Berta
Barney Vassallo
Stewart A. Felton
Lafayette Memorial Commission
John S. Allen
Guananty Loan
Minneapolis
Charles Scott
Ray Scott
St. Charles
James A. Logan, Jr
Delia Howe Tracey
Poland
Theodore P. Shontz
Iowa
Eczema
Ean
Puck
Mother Gray
Children’s Home
New York City
Atall Druggis
A. S. Olmsted
le Roys N.va
Nevermyss
New York Elevated
Meu St
Siddletown
Babcock, Perfumer
West 18Th St
Fitzgerald & CO
Box BK
Washington, D.C
Beye
Lane
Fane
la Roy
Texas
Montana
A.J. Tower CO
U.S
Tower Canadian CO
Toronto
Canada
Ash Reno
Western
Ottawa
Ld. Brorenton
Quincy
Wil Rostard Theor
Indianapolis
T O. Werk
Callahan Block
Milwauee
J.s.crawford
West 9Th St
Kansas City
Metinixus
Ave
Detroit
Illinois Central
Yazgo
Mississippi Valley
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
J. F. Merry
Dubuque
Panhandle
American Pastoral Company
P. O. Box
Denver
Colo
Lion Coffee
LION
Grocers Everywhere Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Ohio
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