Turbulent Baltic Provinces Panic Amid Mutinies and Telegraph Blackout
Intense alarm in St Petersburg as telegraph links fail after Finnic workers join Russians. Rumors claim mutiny in Tsarskoe Selo palace guard and possible revolution in the Baltic, fueling bank runs and gold hoarding. Reval troops mutinous, cabinet meets, police strikes loom, Witte resists telegraphers while Durnovo dismissal nears. Government authorities struggle to issue orders via strained rail and telegraph lines.
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Yliehe
Boris
London
Associated Press
Baltic
Reval
Tsarskoe Belo
St. Petersburg
Count Witte
M. Durnovo
Interior
Supposed guard moves to the Russian capital route
Berlin reports a civilian dressed guard unit en route to St. Petersburg for the United States embassy. Believed to be from the Minneapolis cruiser at Gravesend. In Washington, officials say the men are likely Embassy Meyer’s servants in St. Petersburg.
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Berlin
United States
St. Petersburg
Minneapolis
Gravesend
Eng
Washington
Dec
Meyer
Times correspondent predicts general strike in Russia turmoil
The St Petersburg Times correspondent says union of unions may resolve on a general strike. Reaction strengthens at Tsarskoe Selo as troops are drafted to St Petersburg. Bloodshed seems imminent and Count Witte struggles to halt the tide. The people hope for a miracle to avert catastrophe.
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Tsarskoe Selo
London
St. Petersburg
The
Times
Union of Unions
Ismaili and Donau Regiments Mutiny at Odessa
Vienna dispatch notes Ismaili and Donau regiments stationed in Odessa mutinied but the authority managed to quell the unrest and prevent a broader outbreak.
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Vienna
Tageblatt
Odessa
Turbulent St. Petersburg braces for potential crisis
Dispatch from St. Petersburg reports shifting government mood as a workers council may accept a compromise to reopen factories while the government moves to handle telegraphers. Troop actions in the Baltic provinces reassure and threaten renewed clashes with revolutionaries. Jewish groups warn of possible massacres and urge international intervention as the city remains sealed off and volatile.
Jews Apprehensive of Slaughter at Odessa
Odessa report by Special Courier describes Jews fearing a massacre in the city as authorities move to control unrest. Shots and rumors ripple through Odessa as crowds gather near synagogues and government buildings.
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Odessa
Mutinous sappers clash with Cossacks in Kieff
In Kieff via Warsaw on December 4 serious fighting occurred between mutinous sappers and Cossacks and between workmen and bands of the Black Hundred. Scores of people were killed or wounded as martial law was proclaimed.
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Kieff
Russia
Warsaw
Black Hundred
Explosion Kills Eighteen Miners in Diamondville Mine
In Diamondville Wyoming on December 4 a mine explosion at Diamond Coal and Coke Company No 1 killed eighteen miners. Officials believe a blown out shot caused the disaster and the blast wrecked the mine. The shock rocked town buildings and sent residents fleeing outdoors.
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Diamondville
Wyo
Diamond Coal and Coke Company
Twilight Sinks At Monongahela River Lock No. 2
The steamer Twilight sank in twenty feet of water at Lock No. 2 on the Monongahela River. Twelve crewmen escaped by scrambling to the roof and were rescued by skiffs.
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Pittsburg
Monongahela River
Tokio Commander's Welcome At Ujina marked by ovations
Field Marshal Oya ma arrived at Ujina today amid several great ovations from cheering crowds in a formal reception.
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Tokio
Oyama
Ujina
Woman Killed by a Bullet in East Forty third Street Home
New York December 4 A telephone superintendent Roy A Miller aroused residents by shouting that someone had been shot In Miller dining room a fully dressed unconscious woman lay on the floor Miller fled with a policeman and a doctor later finding the woman dead Neighbors heard no quarrel and no pistol report The woman identified as Nellie Brod recent arrival from British Columbia had letters urging her to return home and had packed belongings as if preparing to leave Miller
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New York
Roy A. Miller
East Forty-third Street
Horace Hedden
Miller
Hidden
Nellie Brod
British Columbia
Woman seizes railroad car in Kansas standoff
In Girard Kansas on December 4 Mrs Ida Berry, traveling with a ticket from Spekave Washington to Tulsa Indian Territory, took command of a passenger car. She drove out occupants with a pistol, refused to be persuaded, and fired at a dummy near the toilet fort. No attempt to capture her has succeeded.
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Girard
Kan
Ida Berry
Spekave
Wash
Tulsa
I. T
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