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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
5
Report discusses Missouri and Indiana political maneuvers with Folk and Hanly on troop calls, Bookwalter versus Stalnaker for Indianapolis mayor, and Republican betting on Bookwalter. It also covers Prof Mathews predicting immortality with perfect diet, and Indianapolis fuel gas franchise bidding details including bids, deposits, and safety requirements.
Fragmentary text notes a difficult schedule with many miles of millins to lay within a tight timeframe. The garbled message hints at urgent construction or wiring tasks and possible delays or resource constraints affecting completion. No clear names or dates are present.
R J Kreuger, a leading Michigan City merchant, resigns from the Indianapolis made police board, criticizing Governor Hanly for demanding strict enforcement. He says he cannot be a special constable and argues for local control over police affairs and liquor law application. He praises Michigan City's police and states the city favors reasonable enforcement rather than puritanical measures.
The New York Press criticizes President Roosevelt over Santa Fe rebate issues, arguing the administration's documents are muddled and morally frail. It notes omissions to outside experts, questions his stance, and suggests growing disillusionment among supporters as calls for railway regulation loom.
The Master Duten ers' stochition mer last night prepared for a large barbecue at Stone Which they will edve ap Cen sives park on the Fourth of July. A band will play and athletic events are planned as 25 beeves are roasted and served free to attendees. The event is a gesture by butchers for their employees and inviting the general public. Meanwhile Odessa dispatches report unrest with strikers victorious in stopping streetcars and other traffic. In St Petersburg and Moscow mobilization began at midnight with 60 000 called to colors and many regiments forming at barracks. workers fear trouble though no rioting yet.
Riots sweep Odesa as mutinous Russian sailors seize ships and clash with militia. Barricades rise, firing breaks out, and bodies are displayed from the Potemkine after mutineers kill officers who resisted. A red flag flies, ships halt work, and a squadron is asked to restore order amid chaotic port turmoil.
Odessa dispatch reports revolutionary bands firing the quarantine station and harbor buildings. Ships prepared to lift moorings, Potemkin used searchlights and fired on Noblin boulevard. four Cossacks killed, one wounded. Rumor of four more battleships joining from Sebastopol and Dyatovo persists.
Reports from Odessa say the crew of the battleship Kniaz Potemkine mutinied over poor food. Later dispatches claim the mutiny followed the summary shooting of a sailor by order of the ship's commander. The details remain unclear.
SEVASTOPOL June 28 Eight sailors found guilty of mutiny were sentenced today to three years' imprisonment.
June 28 report from Warsaw notes Lodz workers mostly back at 6,000 men with 7,000 still out from 22 factories. Mariitt law remains, streets patrolled, Hellar shops closed, strike movement broadly condemned. Rumor of mobilization in Russian Poland stirs Warsaw. potential disturbances feared. A new strike hit coal and iron mines and foundries in Dombrowa, Strzemieszyce, and Sosnowiec districts.
From Tambov province comes word that peasants have set fire to several landowner buildings. M Bezabrazoff, head of the Yalu Timber company, has called in troops to defend his estate and his life as rumors of his role in the war spark threats of vengeance.
On Tuesday June 27 observers reported Japanese warships, likely torpedo boats, seen on the horizon off Vladivostok. The sighting added to tensions in the region as naval activity increased near the port.
Tokyo dispatch reports General Linevitch adopting a narrow front with extended flanks, troop reinforcements from European Russia barely filling gaps after Mukden defeat. Dysentery at Harbin sends 1000 patients to Tsitskar hospital facilities rise. spies arrested daily, 30 to 40 in custody. A Chinese officer at Pamickeng allegedly aids Russia with up to 2000 spies. Liao Yang and seven other cities to be opened to Japanese subjects for residence and business.
President Roosevelt attends Harvard University ceremonies in Cambridge and delivers three public addresses. He tours the Germanic Museum, meets alumni, and hosts tea at President Eliot House. A late-night security plan precedes a two o'clock train departure to Bridgeport and onward to Oyster Bay aboard the yacht Sylph.
Knights of Columbus night at the fair drew large crowds. Emblems and booths were well puronized the music program fine with Remeke's orchestra performing selections from The Show or and The Isle of Spice. Miss Reada Lamley and Miss Elizabeth Summers sang with encores and Miss Leah Cohen accompanied. The K of C Glee Club offered The Laughing Song and March of the Nations. Several prizes were awarded including a life size doll won by Miss Mamie Monshely with over 4 257 votes cast. The night featured a contest for the Gendron baby cab. The program closed with a trombone solo by W. H. Hatfield.
Dr and Mrs J W McCausland returned yesterday from Beaver s Landing Pierceton after a two week outing The Pape Furniture Company of the city filed new articles of association with the secretary of state Capital stock 30000 Directors EE Clarence Schell Charles Festcorn and Charles Pape
The Herbert Opera Company makes two cast changes for The Bohemian Girls matinee today. Miss Weemers is ill with a cold and out of work. Miss Florence Guise of Chicago becomes leading contralto. Raymond Stephens will replace James Roach as tenor, performing Thaddeus in The Bohemian Girl while Huntington sings Devilshoot and Herbert appears as Florestein.
A whimsical dialogue where a magazine asks for the secret of success and various objects respond. The pen urges writing, the clock stresses punctuality, the lamp advocates bold action, the weather vane warns against change, and the innocent flower hints at hidden strength with a pistil.
A garbled excerpt from a 19th century page mentions a necessity in St Petersburg and references a strange exchange about carrying an extra bomb in a pocket. The text blends phrases about July and Barssians with unclear dialogue, yielding a fragmentary, period-voice item.
A Terre Haute telegraph report says the Pennsylvania Railroad intends to form a coal company with eighteen mines across the Lincoln district and nearby fields. The plan would consolidate Osland, Athos, Ishind Valley, South Lincoln, Knox, Enterprise, Lynn, Big Muddy, Blacknet and Seeterville coal interests, with the Indiana field becoming headquarters as construction resumes when weather allows. The Auburn Dispatch notes the move shifts offices to Terre Haute and funds will flow through local banks.
A Indiana governor appointed commission met in Indianapolis to preliminarily review sites for a new epileptic village. The race includes Mishawaka Franklin Crawfordsville Henryville Shoals Connersville Huntington South Bend Hammond North Judson. The panel plans site visits soon. members are Dr. J L Whitesides Franklin Ezra Mattingly Washington and Prof J I Brown Knox.
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