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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1906
Page
1
In Viborg and across Russia the government dissolves parliament and imposes martial law. Troops, censorship, and mass arrests sweep cities while protests and strikes ignite in Poland and Kharkov as fears grow of a Jewish massacre slated for July 28.
The third Pan American congress opened in Rio de Janeiro with simple dignity. William T. Buchanan of New York led the U S delegation in presenting a history of prior congresses and their results. Brazil’s Senor Joaquin Nabuco welcomed the delegates. The session mainly set preliminaries and committee assignments for time, order of business, and subject scope for future sessions.
The sixteenth annual Longwood tennis tournament opened at Logwood Cricket club in Longwood Mass with singles and doubles events. W A Larned, last year’s Longwood challenge cup winner, will meet the tournament victor after today’s play. Matches feature best three of five sets for main events and two of three for consolation and handicap. A large field includes top players of the era.
R. Abner, an engineer at the Albuquerque Indian School and a full blood Indian, contemplates himself the luckiest man after receiving an offer of about 27000 dollars for a land strip in Indian Territory south of Baxter Springs Kansas. He bought 400 acres a decade ago for 4 to 10 dollars an acre and refused 15 dollars per acre now. He plans a trip Tuesday night to Baxter Springs then to the property, believing ore is likely given proximity to Galena lead district.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his country home in Lawrence New York on July 23. Officials cited heart failure from complications of old age as the cause. The veteran financier would have turned 90 on August 4 and his death is not expected to disrupt local financial markets.
London July 23 the fourteenth congress of the interparliamentary union opened at Westminster Palace with delegates from nearly every civilized nation. The opening focused on organization and plan. tomorrow will see the election of officers and start of substantive work on international arbitration proposals and urgent war questions.
London reports the 1906 education code relaxing vaccination requirements for teachers who claim conscientious objection. The code clarifies records and state board recognition remains conditional on the education authority, affecting pupil teacher training and school assignments. Also mentions naval academy retirements and market receipts in Kansas City and stock quotations in New York.
The Nature and Service of Submarines describes a submarine telegraph system to send and receive messages through water. Ships will have a bell transmitter and underwater microphones, enabling rapid, reliable signaling in fog and seas, with early deployments on Maine and Alaska and submarines Viper Tarantula Octopus and Cuttlefish at Fore River.
Onset Bay Massachusetts hosts the thirtieth annual spiritualist and liberal camp meeting with hundreds in attendance. Dr George A Fuller spoke in the forenoon followed by Mrs Fannie Allyn and Mrs Katie M Ham. The conference continues through August 26 with lectures on philosophy physical culture nostalgia and telepathy and daily tent gatherings.
The body of the late Lady Curzon was laid to rest today in the family vault at the village churchyard of Keddleston with only close relatives present. A wreath from President Roosevelt rested among the flowers. Millenary of Ramsey Abbey preparations begin in London with Broadlands Park granted for a pageant tracing events from King Alfred onward.
In Mauita on Leyte Island a detachment of 600 Pulajanes fought a constabulary unit Sunday. Lieutenant Wordwick twelve privates and a civilian scout Mc Bride were killed. Most bodies recovered, two privates missing. Reinforcements and regular infantry ordered to scene as about 1000 Pulajanes are said to be in the area. Wordwick was a Kansas native newly assigned to the constabulary.
A dispatch from Katiowicz reports Singer sewing machine plants at Sosnowiec and Bendzin were blown up by boats at about the same hour. Six wounded at Sosnowiec and four injured at Bendzin. The Berlin based Vossische Zeitung carried the notice.
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