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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1905
Page
9
Saturday night a camp fire gathering for visiting and city veterans was held at the Second U P church. The program opened at eight with Muel Gardner of the 2th Iowa as chairman. Rev Wt of the 1st Ohio Heavy Brigade gave a speech followed by J. name regiment. Capt J J Kel led a talk and additional remarks by others.
Market notes show mixed hogs and shipping grades steady to lower, with hog receipts around 15000 and shipments varying. Cattle and sheep receipts reach around 14000 and 24000 respectively, with cattle prices higher on beeves and cows, while sheep trend weaker across regions.
Russian naval forces suffer heavy losses as Japanese ships sink at least six vessels including a battleship. The czarist navy may have lost more, with reports indicating perhaps two battleships sunk.
The report from Nagasaki states the Japanese sank the Russian battleship Borodino along with four other warships and a repair ship in the Straits of Korea. Dispersal of the Moscovite fleet is noted as Japanese forces pursue.
Reports from Tsingtau and Tokyo describe naval actions in the straits of Korea and near the island of Oki. Claims include Russian losses of ships and torpedo craft, while other dispatches say the full Russian fleet may not be engaged and battles continue with cannonading heard from shore.
Hunted fugitive Michael Capen, accused of killing Frank Pollcar, is believed sheltering in swamps near Moose Lake after evading deputies and police. Guards guard exits. Capen had been working on Modose Lake farm before vanishing.
Whitelaw Reid, newly named ambassador to Great Britain, has sailed for England. Missouri ex governor D B Francia, who injured his leg in a Cincinnati car crash, arrived in St Louis barely limping. A Brooklyn baseball game between New York and Brooklyn was halted by threatened police interference.
Washington May 29 Special to the Evening Journal reports that Japan has captured the Russian battleship Sissol Veliski and seriously damaged the Russian flagship. Rear Admiral Nebogatoff and 32000 other Russians were captured, while Rojestvensky appears to have escaped. Japanese pursuit of the Russians continues.
The body of Isaac Walters, secretary of the Mississippi Cannel Coal, was found in front of his Woodlawn home. He had been shot in the head, a revolver belonging to Walters was found nearby with one chamber empty, indicating he fired before his death. Walters was robbed of his watch and money.
Captain B. S. Reynolds, 81, chief engineer of the Omaha waterworks, died at his Florence home. He formerly led the steamship Pioneer which in 1886 aided the John Franklin arctic expedition and recovered Franklin and six companions. Reynolds had visited nearly every major port worldwide.
Miss Mamie Farrell on Ohio Avenue was shot by Frederick Bibbitz who then killed himself. Bibbitz died, Farrell taken to hospital fatally wounded. Neighbors say Bibbitz had been demented and quarrelsome for days. The shooting occurred as she went upstairs to her room.
Rossen, convicted of sending an infernal machine to the plier of the Steamship Umbria in March 1908, is sentenced to from three to five years in state prison. He proclaimed innocence and called the evidence ridiculous in a lengthy statement.
In Boston a young lawyer known for a busy persona found his door marked with We be back an hour as he left. On his return he found an envious rival had scrawled What for? beneath the note.
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