29 Jun 1905
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Newspaper
Reno Evening Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
1
The Reno crowd gears up for a high stakes boxing event with promoters, ringside officials, and a large usher corps as talk centers on who will fall next in the squared circle. Old guards like Lavigne and Walcott figures are recalled amid forecasts of punishment tolerance and ring strategy as fans await the bout.
Eastbound Atelson Topeka and Santa Fe and westbound Kansas City Southern stock trains collided head on on Belt line tracks near Dailing Street, two miles from downtown. Two dead, three injured including Engineer Willis severely scalded who crawled to a shanty porch before collapsing. Passengers unhurt continued to Chicago. Blame not yet fixed.
A mob of white men took eight prisoners from the Watkinsville jail after midnight and shot seven of them to death. The victims, all Negroes, were accused of assaulting Mrs Weldon Dooley and were linked by reports to the Holbrook murders. Lon Aycock, a white man, was also seized but escaped. The jailer guided the mob and accompanied them to the scene.
Washington reports that Russia and Japan will name two plenipotentiaries each for the peace talks. Japan has named its officials. Russia’s picks are tentatively mentioned, with possible changes due to health. Each side will also send experts and attaches to Washington.
News from St Petersburg reports government panic over mutiny in Odessa as blue jackets may join mutineers. Fears of civil war grow if troops defect, with reports of mutinies aboard Kruger squadron ships and possible murders of Potemkin officers. Admiral Avelian summoned as authorities withhold details.
San Francisco June 29 The Bulletin faces a newsboys protest as hundreds boycott the paper in response to editorials accusing Mayor Schmitz and adviser Abe Reuf of graft. Mayor Schmitz sought to woo the boys by offering four papers for a nickel after the Evening Post did so for them. The boycott spreads amid barricades and threats as police and troops are deployed to safeguard Bulletin deliveries.
Dr George F Kelley while fishing in the Truckee river at night hooked a hawk and a trout at once. The hawk seized a fish on the line, pulled forty feet of line, then both fish and bird were saved. The bird was given to Dr Bryant but refused to eat and gained its freedom. In Oyster Bay, Chief Engineer Wallace resignation from the Isthmian Canal Commission was accepted.
Train wrecks reported near Ellis Kansas City bound No 101 collides with freight. Engineer J H H Kinney and two unknown men die. No passengers injured. Roosevelt visits Bridgeport with humorous bear placard gag on Sylph voyage. In Phillipsburg a June storm kills six and wounds twenty. Property and crops suffer heavy losses.
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