Russia Faces Impending General Strike After Krustaleff Arrest
St. Petersburg reports a sweeping labor response after M Krustaleff, leader of the workmen’s council, is seized. Officials fear mass demonstrations and a possible armed uprising as strikes spread to railways and postal services. Troops and Cossacks intervene amid clashes near the post office and headquarters.
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St. Petersburg
M. Krustaleff
Krustaloff
Dev
Russia
Simeullatve
M. Durnove
M. Kruastaleff
Workmen's Council
Targeovna Street
W Krustaleff
Krustaleff
Stclkers
Soldiers refuse to fire on mutinous comrades in Warsaw
In Warsaw a procession led by about a hundred soldiers from the Kexheim regiment moved through Marzalkowska street. Grochowski troops barred the route and ordered fire, but they refused and allowed the march to pass. The commander fled amid rumors the Warsaw citadel garrison mutinied, though verification was blocked by fortress access refusals.
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Warsaw
Kexheilm
Marzalkowska
Grochowski
Kirchman Plans Bohemian Colony at Socorro
Max Kirchman of Chicago arrives at Socorro Texas to complete details for establishing a Bohemian colony. He has secured land and plans to bore for artesian water to support the settlement.
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Kirchman
Paso
Texas
Max Kirchman
Chicago
Socorro
Cannon to Announce Committees as Congress Reassembles
Washington reports Speaker Cannon will reveal the House committees, signaling the start of organizational work for the 59th Congress. Most action anticipated after the holiday recess with the Appropriations and Philippine tariff bills likely postponed.
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Washington
Cannon
House
Appropriations Committee
District of Columbia
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Committee On Appropriations
Committee On
Gallinger
United States
Lodge
Massachusetts
Mitchell
Fulton
Roumanians in Ugly Mood in Southern Hungary
Reports from Vienna describe rising Roumanian sentiment in Temes Arad and Bihar provinces with secret meetings and anti Magyar campaigning. A Hungarian opponent of a Roumanian candidate was murdered and gendarmes requested as Roumanians threaten to drive Hungarians from border areas.
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Vienna
Hungary
Hungarsa
Temes
Arad
Bihar
Frances Joseph
Chamber of Deputies
Roumania
Bloody Battle in New York
A fatal shooting in New York left one man dead and another gravely wounded as three suspects barricaded themselves in a Franklin street tenement in West New Brighton Staten Island. Police battered the door after an hour of resistance and arrested the trio as crowds surged while a telegraph pole was used to breach the barrier.
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New York
Franklin Street
New Brighton
Staten Island
Thomas Rooney
James Roach
Corbett Quarreling with Actor McCoy Drafts Challenge
New York shifts to boxing intrigue as Kid Mettoy challenges James J. Corbett after Tom O Rourke forms a Delaware club planning a 20000 dollar purse. McCoy posts 5000 as good faith while Corbett, an actor with a five year contract, says his fighting days are over and declines any match.
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New York
Kid Mettoy
James J. Corbett
Whic
Delaware
Tom O'Rourke
Corbett
McCoy
New York State
Men‘oy
Immigration Peril Looms Over United States Says Commissioner
Commissioner General Sargent presents the annual report of the bureau of immigration noting the growing alien population poses vast challenges. He states the magnitude and gravity of the issue overshadow other public economy questions related to things rather than people.
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Washington
Bureau of Immigration
Sargent
United States
Convicts mutiny at Havana penitentiary ends in many wounded
In Havana a prison mutiny escalated into a fierce clash as 160 convicts marched to supper under an armed officer. The fight left two prisoners mortally wounded, sixteen seriously or slightly wounded, and three guards badly hurt. A later gun and artillery response subdued the uprising. Also, Colonel D. Peck of Beaumont, Texas, died in Houston.
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Havana
Bec
Texas
Beaumont
Tex
Dee
D. Peck
Texas Car Association
G. A. R. of Texas
Houston
First Heavy Snow Expected in El Paso Before Christmas
For the first time in the weather bureau records snowballing and sleighing are possible in El Paso before Christmas. Snow has been falling all day from El Paso north and east for several hundred miles. It is not cold enough to hurt cattle unless a freeze sets in.
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el Paso
Texas
Dee
Weather Bureau
Nantucket lightship 58 battles fierce Atlantic gale
In a severe North Atlantic storm Nantucket lightship No. 58 sprang a leak in the fire room, hindering wireless contact at 3:30 pm but the vessel was kept afloat. The Hist gunboat proved unavailable and Agilea tender was en route from New Bedford to assist before morning. The lightship lies 42 miles offshore and carries a crew of two engineers and eight men with three Navy wireless operators aboard. Lifesaving crews at Kitty Hawk Kilt Devil and Nags Head stations saved the Aragon ship crew by breeches buoy after a long sea voyage ashore.
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Newport
R. L
Nantucket, South Shoal
North Atlantic
Hist
Boston
Agilea
New Bedford
Nantucket
Liverpool
New York
Gorgison
Navy
Norfolk
Dee
Aragon
Major Swain Acquitted of Murder in Houston Case
Major Hugh N. Swain United States Army was acquitted of second degree murder in the slaying of Charles W. Jones, secretary of the Houston Fire and Marine Insurance Co. The earlier trial had sentenced him to twenty five years. A Cadiz dispatch reports a fire at the Carrraca arsenal destroying two torpedo boats and causing damage.
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Charles W. Jones
Houston
Tex
Texas
Hugh N. Swain
Houston Fire and Marine Insurance Co
Swain
Cadiz
Carraca
French engineer aims Siberia to Alaska railroad plan
Berlin dispatch reports Baron Lisvey de Lobel and French capitalists plan a Siberia to Alaska railroad. The Russian government approves a commission to draft contract rules for the project which would bridge Behring Straits and cost about 300 million dollars with France Russia and the United States to provide capital.
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Berlin
Der
St. Petersburg
Lisvey de Lobel
Siberia
Alaska
de Lobel
Behrine Straits
France
Russia
United States
Last Act in Elephant Butte Dam Conflict
Dr Nathan E Boyd reaffirms plan to seek dismissal of United States vs Rio Grande Dam case if interior department bars further government construction. He offers to surrender rights to the dam and canals and to transfer title to the U.S. government or Elephant Butte Water Users' Association if completion proceeds within a year. Las Cruces New Mexico November 23 1905.
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Irrigation Congress
Paso
Nathan E. Boyd
H. B. Holt
Mesilla
Fort Selden
United States
Elephant Butte
United States Reclamation Service
Nathan Boyd
Felix Martinez
BE Paso Water Users’ Association
Boyd
New Mexico
Supreme Court of the United States
Mexico
State Department
Boyd Genspe
Rio Grande Alley
Congress
Martinez
Redey
Department of the Interior
Las Cruces
Rio Grande
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Las Vegas
Morning Journal
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Arizona
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Washington Post
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