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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1905
Page
7
Reports from Odessa describe mutiny aboard a government transport that joined the battleship Kniaz Potemkine, aiding an armed assault on the city. Troop numbers, naval movements, and looming warships from Sebastopol and Cape Fontaine frame a growing crisis as firing and darkness envelop Odessa.
Russian sailors in Libau mutinied late Wednesday night, attacked government stores, seized arms and fired into officers quarters. Infantry, artillery and Cossacks were deployed as intense excitement gripped the Courland base.
Report from Warsaw dated June 28 states prisons hold at least 672 detainees, mostly Jews, captured in the last day. Riots are anticipated during mobilization and a siege may be proclaimed. Meanwhile Podolia beet root laborers strike risking harvest losses and Kaunas region tenants seize estate lands.
Washington June 30 The state department received a cablegram from Mr Meyer American ambassador to St Petersburg stating vast mobilization offers in Kiev St Petersburg Warsaw and Moscow to rap up forces in the far east Under these orders between 100 000 and 200 000 men may be called into service
In Odessa a general strike with bloodshed erupts as military clash with armed workers. Two killed in initial encounter. later reports cite 400 barricaded workers repulsing a Cossack assault. casualties in Lodz total up to several hundred across Friday to Sunday.
Oyster Bay reports the Isthmian canal commission chief engineer Wallace has resigned after a New York conference with Secretary Taft. Wallace had been offered a $60,000 per year post with a major corporation while earning $45,000 as chief engineer. Roosevelt directed Taft to accept immediately.
Edward G Bellows former U S consul general to Japan arrives in San Francisco aboard the Pacific mail Inner Manchuria confirming a Chinese boycott on United States manufacturers and goods He reports boycott pressure extends to unloading aid for American products causing importers to struggle with shipments in many cases.
The president directs prosecution of railroad corporations including the Santa Fe for rebates. Assistant Attorney General Purdy will oversee the case and has left for Kansas City to begin work.
Merengo led rebels to attack Amos in the Karas mountains, Capetown reports a decisive rebel victory over Captain Siebert’s German force. German ammunition and supplies were captured. losses described as heavy. Judge says "Six months." and Cos Cob Con mocks about summer plans.
News from June reports widespread unrest in Russian Poland with riots in Lodz and spreading to Minsk Ekaterinoslav and several cities. Proclamations stir crowds while police battles erupt. printers strike. arms move toward the Caucasus as Cossacks and troops clash with rioters and Armenian fears rise in the Caucasus.
Gunshu Pass China Manchuria June 29 reports say Japanese cavalry and light infantry with field and machine guns push northward east of Kirin and west of the grand trade route to ward Bodine. General Linevitch abandons front opposition and pulls in his outpost lines under pressure.
London June 27 Premier Fal four told the house of commons the British government had assurance Russia disapproved of its cruisers actions. Orders were sent to the Dneiper at Jubinil making repetition of outrages against international law impossible.
Berlin June 28 Herr Kunert a social democratic Reichstag member was sentenced to Halle for three months imprisonment for insulting the German expedition to China in 1900. He said in a campaign speech Our soldiers in that desolated land plundered and abused women. Former soldiers testified corroborating details.
In Lodz on June 25 fighting subsided after reinforcements arrived but violence resumes at once. Ten regiments encamped. casualties exceed a hundred dead and five times as many wounded. Rioters pillaged liquor shops, set fires, and used revolvers while soldiers killed civilians including a mother and daughter. Barricades and chaos filled streets as authorities battled to regain control.
A Siam king promotes marriage by labeling nonmarried women at age thirty five and placing them in a privileged class under the king s care to find husbands. A jail prisoner can gain pardon by marrying a mature maiden, with polygamy allowed in Siam.
Reports from Odessa describe fires consuming quays and harbor buildings as mobs and armed forces clash. The mutinous battleship Kniaz Potemkine now flies red, its crew in control, with officers killed and guns trained on the city, while a general strike and street battles spread.
St Louis June 28 Governor Folk will not call out armed force to enforce the anti betting law after a single arrest at Delmar race track. Racing to continue as usual. Sheriff Herpel says arrests will be made daily and betting will be stopped until the courts decide the cases before them.
Vigo bank in Terre Haute shuts after Cashier Gus Conzman is reported short with a ledger deficit growing from 16 000 to 70 000 dollars. Bank under physician care, Bank Examiner Frazier in charge. Reports of forged checks and dubious loans emerge as mine workers and local deposits are affected. Authorities weigh liquidation with depositors to receive dollar for dollar while capital and surplus may be lost.
Nine workers are dead and twelve to fifteen injured after a dynamite explosion at Emporium Powder company three miles west of Emporium, Pa. About a ton of dynamite detonated, wrecking the mixing plant and packing house. Locals rushed to the scene but kept distance from burning buildings housing thousands of pounds of stored dynamite.
Wallace Moore an eight year old boy in Altoona Pennsylvania ran onto the track as a northbound passenger train with 128 passengers neared and opened switch caused the train to stop mere moments before a bad wreck. He acted swiftly to avert disaster.
In Linton Indiana on June 29 Louis Dablemont who was drunk fired two guns at a neighbor, seriously wounding 38 year old James Morrison. Dablemont pursued his wife from the home with a Senife and two pistols, prompting a police inquiry into the violent incident.
Washington June 29 The United States district court reduces the survivors claim from 3 million dollars to 22664 for the Bourgogne wreck seven years ago. The ruling narrows the compensation awarded to those affected by the disaster.
James Horton former president of the United States Leather company died at his residence in Middletown after a prolonged illness.
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