05 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1905
Page
1
St Petersburg reports extreme tension amid a citywide strike tied with mail delays. Officials hint at universal male suffrage and a ready made constitution, while Count Witte questions direct suffrage for country districts and warns dictatorship would magnify the catastrophe.
A conference today between Pennsylvan ia Development Co officers Receiver Binvker and ex receiver Cunningham and reps from Wrecked Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny settled money owed. The sum reportedly exceeds five hundred thousand dollars. Agreement aims to have Receiver Maker refrain from supervising Santa Fe Central Railroad work and complete the Moriaristy to Albuquerque branch to link the Wephth iV Pnchison Topeka Santa Fe line, with hope of securing full repayment.
Testimony from Horace Brockway hotelier and Mutual Reserve Life director shows he paid 6000 to President Burnham at Burnham’s demand to gain directorship and later salary. Eldredge explains funds went to Hilary Bell for favorable articles. Senate panel expects resolution by December 34 amid broader insurance ties and possible calls for Cortevou and Bliss.
Washington December 4 The fifty ninth congress opened with a quiet session and large crowds at the capitol. Senate adjourned in honor of the late Senator Platt while the house held a three and a half hour session with Oath of office given to Aldrich Knox Warner and Frazier.
A Kiel Kiel dispatch notes seventy killed as two thousand mutinous troops march through cities. In Kieft martial law is declared with mutinies among the thirty third artillery and Kiel forces. Odessa sees telegraph and postal strikes while university resumes after a closure order.
Richard C. Wilson, working on the Belen cut-off, was riding the engine tender of train No 1 near Willard New Mexico when he fell onto the track. He sustained likely total injuries requiring amputation of a limb. Dr. J L Norris accompanied the wounded man to the hospital at Santa Fe.
Albuquerque council wrestles with street paving and a proposed $2,000 rock crushing plant sale by J. D. Tirsway. Officials eye macadamized streets at about $2.264 per front foot per side, with city funds stretched thin. City attorney to draft an ordinance for extensive crossings from Silver to Tijeras and Fourth to Fifth streets.
In the Transvaal northern districts distress rises amid cattle disease and apathy as Sir Arthur Owley and Lady Owley tour the area. New government relief faces difficulty while inhabitants live in squalor and fear economic collapse. Washington introduces land law changes and announces key federal appointments.
The Albuquerque city council unanimously endorses a joint statehood bill admitting New Mexico and Arizona as one state. The resolution calls on Congress to pass an enabling act and to allow the territories to express their will at the polls with a new constitution likely to be approved.
A vast Jewish march in New York under crepe bands and black banners honors massacre victims in Husela. Thousands of women and children join singing groups as the procession moves to Union Square for a mass meeting.
A report recounts a traveler from Spokane to Tulea who became insane after a car trip. She remains in custody as medical authorities assess her condition while the train is sidetracked.
The privy council meeting is postponed while the king contemplates attendance at Lord Allington’s Crichel House party. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman signals a potential home rule policy to win nationalist support without raising the issue, as dissolution timing remains uncertain. An Irish labor alliance is hinted, with James Keir Hardie urging a cross party bloc for numerical strength in the new parliament.
Washington informed Representative Wingham that he must decline the Senate resolution of March 1905 requesting an estimate of the cost to deepen the Delaware River to thirty five feet. The action rests on engineer reports of high expense and on a belief that Congress forbids preliminary estimates of expenditures. Representative Burton leads the river and harbor committee in discussing the proposed survey and Taft’s stance on existing law.
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