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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
1
Jaffa, Prager & Co announce need for 25 salesladies for Saturday with applications due Friday between noon and 1 p m. The paper also reports a railroad accident that claims six lives in a single day.
A Santa Fe Limited bound for Chicago collided with a Belt Line freight in Kansas City causing multiple deaths and numerous injuries. In Ohio a Pennsylvania East Bound Fast Train derailed at Atwater near Cleveland killing one passenger and injuring a dozen others. engineer Baldwin seriously hurt. Another collision at a street crossing in Kansas City left two dead and several injured. An additional Union Pacific westbound passenger train struck a freight at Ellis, Kansas, killing the engineer J. H. Kinney and two presumed tramps.
The New Mexican reports a pivotal issue before the territorial supreme court now in session. It concerns Torrance County’s assignment to the second or sixth judicial district under Congress and the impact on future civil and criminal trials. Four attorneys are listed for and against the statute, with possible transition to the U S Supreme Court for final ruling.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg reports complete chaos in Odessa with mutinous sailors and workers clashing with troops. Fire and smoke drape the city as ships burn, warehouses burn, and fighting spreads through the streets. The Cossacks are the sole dependable force while mutinies threaten control of the Black Sea Fleet and Odessa’s wartime role. Mutinies aboard ships at Libau and Sebastopol escalate tensions as troops move to suppress the uprising.
Reports from embassies describe Odessa in mutiny among troops and sailors. Consuls note troops refusing to fire on rioters as mutinous crews seize officers from transports and join battleships. Casualties and widespread unrest are reported amid chaotic clashes and suspicions of widespread dissatisfaction.
Reports from Odessa and Wallingville describe violent night losses as mobs and troops clash. Fires gut warehouses and ships burn while authorities declare martial law and seek order amidst chaotic scenes. A separate incident near Roswell details a wagon accident injuring a man by dislocating his elbow.
Harvard wins both contests as Yale is defeated in two events. Notable performances by Harvard athletes secure a decisive pair of triumphs over the rival.
Yale and Harvard met in a tight regatta with Harvard winning the four oared race by three lengths in 11 22 to 11 27. The eight oared freshmen race also concluded with Yale and Harvard crews competing amid reports of mutiny and Black Sea fleet turmoil.
Arthur Stevens, a Harvard resident, is reported to have been dislocated when his wagon toppled from a bridge. The incident occurred near Harvard with time noted as 10 04 while Mrs. L W Mitchell traveled from Hagerman to visit her son E W Mitchell and attend a domino party at Mrs. Fred Hunt's home.
Reports say David B Henderson, speaker of the U S house, after a paralysis stroke last night, rested easily and grew stronger this morning in Dubuque Iowa. Other items note signed boxing articles for a July 21 San Francisco bout and Southern Cotton Growers meeting on census leaks.
Six people die and twenty are injured, with sixteen seriously, when a violent storm hits Phillipsburg Kansas last night. Property and crop damage will run into thousands of dollars. The dead include Mrs. Robert Alexander and two daughters, Mrs. Jane Alexander, Elmer Lanham, and Daniel Weaver. In Oyster Bay Roosevelt arrives at Sagamore Hill after a midnight trip aboard the Sylph.
Roswell adopts a new high saloon license ordinance set to take effect at midnight July 1. The change aims to reduce the number of saloons while boosting city revenue as officials anticipate effects on local commerce.
For Roswell and Vicinity, tonight and Friday are partly cloudy with local thunder showers. Cool temperatures expected, especially in the northeast portion, and cooler in the southeast portion on Friday.
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