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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
6
Washington hosts talks for peace with Russia and Japan as Manchuria operations resume. Reports note Liao yang capture, shifts in Russian leadership, and war indemnity concerns. Other items include Roosevelt Taft policy hopes, Elmira College anniversary, and a series of murders, accidents, and political moves across the United States and Europe.
John C Driscoll testifies before the Chicago grand jury claiming he paid about $50,000 to bribe labor leaders to settle hundreds of strikes. The probe uncovers graft on both sides in ongoing labor disputes as Henry Huexfold a nonunion painter is killed and Cleave White a union driver shot by a deputy.
Justice Anglin rules Canada’s alien law invalid and labels retaliation by deporting workers illegal. Panama canal zone justice Lorin Collins named associate justice. Cuba’s Gen Maximo Gomez dies after long illness. Western Maryland railroad collision near Baltimore kills 25 and injures many. Gen Arthur Wagner dies in Asheville after Phili ppines service. Ben and Leigh Hollingsworth drown in Ottumwa. Khartisk explosion in South Russia kills 500. Chief Justice Fuller resignation denied. Franco-German talks or Roosevelt arbitrator possibility. Nevada irrigation canal opens for homesteads. Royal shoe factory and Smith Cator Smith window shade plant fire in Montreal causes $75,000 loss. Eddie Guerin escapes from French penal colony. Greater Boston stops business as Bunker Hill anniversary is observed in Charlestown.
Twenty five railroad workers died and many were injured when Western Maryland No 5 passenger train collided with an eastbound extra freight on a sharp curve near Patapsco station. The wreck hurled coaches, damaged the baggage and mail cars, and raised fears the death toll would rise. All victims were railroad employees returning home after repairs.
Paris reports a semi official account of the Saturday meeting between Premier Rouvier and Prince Radolin the German ambassador. Germany seeks an international conference with details to be settled later. Rouvier asks for Germanys objective and the conferences scope. Berlin instructions let Radolin outline German ideas and limit the plan to avoid threatening Frances prestige in Morocco.
Havana reports the death of General Maximo Gomez at six o clock Saturday night after a lengthy illness. He endured a May operation in Santiago for gangrene and an abscess on his hand. He had returned home to Havana June 7 and showed brief improvement before slipping away.
The Russian foreign office, at the personal direction of the emperor, agreed to Washington as the meeting place for the Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries. After a conference with Ambassador Meyer, Count Lamsdorff and the foreign ministers informed the emperor, who ordered acceptance to avoid jeopardizing the negotiations.
Ohio representative Kyle, famed for a high tenor, stayed at a country hotel during his district campaign. Drummers in the same house complained of loud snoring from room 16, while Kyle asserted he slept fine from bed to breakfast.
Sedgwick Arkansas reports a astonishing recovery of W S Taylors son from dropsy after eight days with three pills daily and eleven more to complete thirty five. the child recovered and could run and dance. The father credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his child's life. The note closes with a proverb from The Commoner.
Special Law announces rates to the N E A meeting in Asbury Park New Jersey from July 3 to 7 via Nickel Plate Road with long return limits and stopovers at Chautauqua Lake New York Niagara Falls and New York City. Full information from agent J Y Calahan general agent 111 Adams St Chicago Illinois. A man never has to hunt long to find a ie in the dark Chicago Record erald.
An advertisement for Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound touts cures for a wide range of female medical issues including ovarian troubles womb displacement and irregular menstruation. It claims to ease backache nervous symptoms and even kidney complaints while offering confidential correspondence with Mrs Pinkham.
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