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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1905
Page
2
A garbled New York page fragment lists diverse topics from politics and poetry to finance and travel. It mixes names, events, and observations with misspellings and broken phrases, offering little coherent narrative beyond a general sense of a late nineteenth or early twentieth century miscellany.
A declamatory proclamation from mutinous Russian sailors declares war on their countrymen and requests delivery to Romanian authorities. The Kniaz Potemkine voyage and mutiny activities provoke naval warnings, torpedo boats, and heightened patrols near Romanian ports as loyal forces confront the rebellion.
Disturbances in the Odessa area involve forcible land occupation and livestock seizures. Troops are deployed to suppress unrest, martial law tightens city control, and thousands of unemployed workers are given tasks. Harbor trade halts and guards surround consulates banks and public offices, while Nicholas Boulevard grows desolate.
The jury found United States Senator Joan H. Mitchell guilty of accepting pecuniary compensation for lobbying before federal departments. Judge Bennett denied a new trial motion, and Senator Mitchell signaled potential appeals to the circuit court and possibly the Supreme Court.
Odessa reports government plan to seize mutineers and take control after the Knine Potemkine remains at sea. The move risks loss of the battle ship and a torpedo boat destroyer as mutineers are contained. Sixty seven mutineers from the Georgi Pobledonoxete are jailed in the citadel. The British consul general notes no danger now and inspects vessels with the Russian garrison apologizing for earlier tensions.
Reports claim the Kniaz Potemkine did not surrender and sailed toward the Roywanian comet. Official briefings note mutiny fragments seeking to surrender, while Admiral Kragers and forces depart Sebastopol. British and Norwegian steamers remain off port to evacuate foreign subjects as censorship hides harbor events. An unconfirmed dispatch mentions transfer of revolutionaries to a British steamer.
Reports from Odessa and surrounding ports describe mutiny aboard the battleship Kniaz Potemkine with crew killing officers and seizing control. Fires burn warehouses and ships as martial law spreads. hundreds of rioters killed and large losses reported amid clashes with troops.
Newbury New Hampshire Secretary of State John Hay died at 12 25 am after a sudden pulmonary embolism. He had shown signs of improvement on Friday and was resting with Mrs Hay and doctors Scudder and Murphy at his bedside when death occurred.
Chicago officials report a federal grand jury indicted seventeen men prominent in the packing industry for Sherman antitrust violations and four Schwarzschild & Sulzberger officials for alleged railroad rebates. Indictments also voted against Armour & Co. Swift & Co. Nelson, Morris & Co. He Cudahy Packing Co. and Fairbanks Canning Co. Each indictment lists ten counts.
A teen, Charles Stretow aged 18, was shot and killed in Chicago by four unidentified men who escaped. The victim was with companions when the assailants opened fire during a party, with conflicting reports about the weapon and sequence of events.
The report details a massive city flood causing two hundred deaths and widespread damage. Hospitals flooded and patients drowned as the disaster overwhelmed a hospital district. Authorities estimate property loss near two million dollars while a murder trial unfolds with a dramatic courtroom moment involving the key defendant and a tearful defendant’s attorney.
A hazy recount describes a boxing bout ending in a twelfth round defeat for Rest at the hands of Mart. The match, held before a crowded arena, features several notable exchanges and a crowd-pleasing finish as the fighters trade blows.
A chaotic melee, described in garbled text, ends with a fatal shot during a celebration. Names and organizations are unreadable, but the report notes a person died and another injured in a distraught moment aboard a vessel or public gathering.
The readable segments list various garbled names and phrases with no coherent events or facts to summarize. It shows scattered proper nouns and phrases lacking context or structure.
Montpelier Idaho resident Arthur Douglas was shot dead at Mrs. Caddie Shupe's home early Sunday. Shupe says Douglas shot himself with her pistol. authorities detained Shupe for inquiry. Douglas, a longtime telegraph operator, previously worked for the Short Line and operated a local saloon business. Fire at the snow shed and buildings on Marshall Pass belonging to the Denver and Rio Grande railroad caused substantial losses.
Unprecedented rains and a cloudburst near Tas Vacas flood Las Vacas on the Mexican side. Eighteen people drowned, sixteen Mexicans among them, and many more are unaccounted. Great property losses leave Las Vacas largely submerged. Del Rio aids victims as rescuers search for survivors.
Nine prisoners were taken from the Watkinsville jail and eight were shot to death near the town center by a night mob of masked white men. One prisoner survived by feigning death, while the others were in custody for murder and attempted assault.
Lodz shows quiet streets and resumed factory work as martial law stabilizes life after January strikes. Holidays draw crowds, churches reopen, and workers picnicked while authorities tighten curfews and patrols to prevent renewed disorder.
The Russian government struggles after Odessa disasters and Libau mutiny as Poland rises, agrarian unrest spreads, and civil war fears grow. The fleet mutinies join the Odessa mutineers and the Kalay Potemkine crews seek surrender amid threats of firing.
St Petersburg Rear Admiral Skryldem says in an interview that he favors an alliance with Japan. He believes Japan will require careful testing of Russia before attacking Vladivostok and expects Japanese demands to be moderate to avoid a costly confrontation.
The Alaskan town of Metlar kahila on Annette Island near Kelchikan appears destroyed by fire. Crew from the steamship Collage City report flames were burning on June 26 as news reached nearby communities. Father Duncan, a pioneer minister, had established a mission on the island years ago.
The emperor addresses the ruling senate announcing a move to guarantee public safety. He states the need to deplore a state of disorder in Odessa and surrounding areas and to invest the Odessa military district commander with rights of military authority and special civil administration to defend order and tranquility.
President Roosevelt visited Harvard University in Cambridge for the Wendlyeath anniversary events. He was an honored guest among the class of 1880 members with no honorary degree awarded, the welcome described as warm and cordial by city and college officials.
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