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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
2
Weekly digest details progress of Russo Japanese hostilities in the Far East with notes on Washington developments and assorted international items. Includes battle progress, diplomatic moves, and regional updates from around the world.
A White House note urges both belligerents to end the war and Roosevelt is cited as key in mediation. Russia claims the last shot has been fired while a Vienna dispatch says the czar told Roosevelt the fight must continue.
A Chicago conference between teamsters and employers failed to end the strike. An affidavit claims William J. Baker was hired by the union to slug nonunion men for four fifty each. Taxpayers face a daily burden of nearly six thousand dollars. Presidents Shea and McGee were briefly jailed under new conspiracy indictments.
The storthing severs the union with Sweden, deposes King Oscar, and places the council of state in government amid consular dispute. Russia and Germany refuse recognition until the king consents to dissolution. Norway raises its tricolor over Akershus fort and nationwide. King Oscar vows to avoid war.
In Minsk Poland troops and Jews clashed near Warsaw. Two people were killed and 19 injured. William E. CramerMilwaukee editor leaves over 80000 to Milwaukee charities across denominations. Trade reports show uneven improvement with warmer weather and less rain. Arthur L Gibbon bank clerk sentenced to two years for misappropriation. Paul Morton elected chair Equitable Life. Hyde resigns as VP and loses majority control. Former servant sues Mrs Chamberlain for 100000 in Des Moines for defamation.
The Woman's Prohibition Club of America will hold its national convention in Chicago on June 21 and 22. The report lists other national issues from Milwaukee investigations to railroad speed wars and political inquiries.
A wide range of incidents from rail travel and weather damage in Wisconsin to political maneuvers for Equitable board chairmanship are noted. Highlights include storms in Wisconsin causing up to half a million dollars in damage, a Milwaukee graft confession, and a Harvard reception plan for President Roosevelt.
Washington reports that both governments have accepted President Roosevelt's suggestion and will send representatives to a peace term deliberation in Washington. Officials expect an armistice request next, as plenipotentiaries are named to arrange terms for ending hostilities. In St Petersburg the foreign office says Russia attends only to hear the Japanese basis and denies any real commitment.
Frank G. Bigelow, former Milwaukee bank president, pleaded guilty to national bank law violations and received a concurrent ten year hard labor sentence from U S District Judge Quarles at Fort Leavenworth. He arrived at the penitentiary Sunday night amid escort with fellow prisoner John Speciale.
At the Portland Oregon convention the Order of Railway Conductors unanimously endorsed President Roosevelt's stance against secret rebates and urged Congress to avoid granting a single body power over rail rates. They warned such regulation could trigger litigation, forced rate cuts, and inequitable enforcement while highlighting U S freight costs as a small share of consumer prices.
A touring car plunged from the open Rush street bridge into the river after a wedding celebration, drowning W A Hartley Jerome G Kurtzman and his wife. Four others escaped with two rescued by dredge hands and sailors. William H Hoops Jr and Mrs Jeremiah Fanyon survived.
Mrs Ogden Goelet funds a luxe edition of Hyperion manuscript and stores the sole copy in her library. Miss Ethel Bret Harte plans concert work after her father’s estate proved insufficient. A London publisher considers printing a verse novel in prose English. A E Houseman, University College London Latin professor, writes verse for which he rarely takes pay. Marie Corelli laments declining English virtue amid upper class frivolity and calls for steadfast moral weight.
An injunction targets dyspepsia by Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin described as a powerful remedy for stomach and bowel disorders. The ad urges use at the first sign of trouble and notes it is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee.
An advertisement extols Egg-O-See as a superior wheat based cereal that retains the best elements of wheat, blends whole flaked wheat with refined diastase, and malt for digestibility. It markets as a premium free package product offering only full measure of a high grade cereal with no premiums.
The column notes Alderman Hamburger of New York City in office over three and a half years and said to have married 6,000 people. It highlights Alexis Sergevitch Suvonin of Novoe Vremya as a long influential Russian journalist. It reports Joseph Davis’s arson attempt at a state prison jute mill in San Quentin. It records Deborah Chase of Chase Lake aged 84 with ten living children and a 50 year span with only one death in the family.
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