Turbulent unrest spreads from Riga to Moscow
Reports from St Petersburg through East Prussia describe bloody clashes between troops and peasantry in Riga with machine guns, a collapsing country estate defense, and rising revolutionary activity. The Moscow situation grows dire as troops are withdrawn, amid race tensions in the Caucasus and authorities nervously awaiting a national assembly and constitutional actions. Meanwhile, New York financiers Thomas F. Ryan and E. H. Harriman exchange dramatic testimony before an insurance committee over control of the Equitable Life and related political influence, with Harriman denying orchestration of legislation and Ryan pressed on motive.
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St. Petersburg
Eydtkuhnen
East Prussia
Riga
Baron von Loewis
Lamsdorff
Meyer
National Assembly
Witte
Durnovo
M. Duchkofff
Moscow Zemstvo
Trarskoe Selo
Moscow
Kremlin
Caucasus
Elizabethpol
Kharkoff
New York Life Insurance Company
Associated Press
New York
Legelative Insurance Investigating Committee
Thomas F. Ryan
E. H. Harriman
Ryan
Harriman
James H. Myne
Equitable Life Ass@rance society
Mr. Harriman
Mr. Ryan
Hyde
Equitable Society
Charles E. Hughes
B. B. Odell, Jr
Odell
Equitable Life Assurance Society
James W. Alexander
James H. Hyde
Alexander
William W. Armstrong
Hughes
Higgins
Nixon
Armstrong
Albany
State Insurance, Department
Capitol
Vessel Driven Ashore and Likely a Total Loss
Norfolk Va Dec 16 After a forty eight hour struggle with wind and wave the Belgian steamer Antigoon Captain Call metta ran aground at Little Island about twelve miles south of Norfolk. Nineteen crew members were saved by Little Island and False Cape lifesaving stations, no lives lost. The ship is probably a total loss.
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Norfolk
Callmetta
Little Island
Falsecape
Virginia Beach
Beachy Patrol
False Cape
Cape Henry
Cape
Norfolk and Southern Railway
Elizabeth City
N. J
Pamlico Sound
Roanoke Island
Chicago printers press for nine hour day post January
The Chicago Typothetae and the International Typographical Union moved to extend the strike after January 1. Independents were asked to join by ending eight hour contracts and telling workers they must put in nine hours daily after January 1, risking a citywide printers strike. About 706 independent shops employ 1,700 Typographical union members. The ITU urged international affiliates to back the campaign and called for sympathetic strikes.
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Chicago
Chicago Typothetae
International Typographical Union
Typographical Union
Des Moines Fire Destroys Major Rothwell Block
Early morning blaze in Des Moines destroyed the Rothwell block, a large city business hub, with losses estimated at 150000 dollars. Nearby structures were endangered as flames threatened adjacent buildings.
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Des Moines
Dee
Rothwell
Angers Revolt Sparks Resistance In Russia
Paris dispatch reports revolutionaries angrily denouncing the government after reactionary measures return. Meetings issue resolutions to resist, sent to ministers who offer no reply. Engineers demand Schmidt’s immediate release, while troops show disaffection in Moscow. Petrovo clashes between armed crowd and railroad officials lead to car pillaging.
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Paris
St. Petersburg
Mafin
Schmidt
Sebastopol
Moscow
Petrovo
Novgorod
Fire kills three Ingersoll children near Fife Lake
Traverse City Michigan December 16 three children of Mr and Mrs Albert Ingersoll are dead after a fire destroyed their home near Fife Lake The children aged three to six were left inside the house alone while their mother visited a neighbor.
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Traverse City, Mich
Albert Ingersoll
Fife Lake
Mich
Pfister Case Dismissed in Milwaukee Court
Milwaukee December 16 Judge Hrazee of the municipal court ruled Charles F Pfister not guilty of larceny as bailee in the Aug grand jury indictment. The order followed a lengthy motion to dismiss after the state rested its case. Pfister acted as stakeholder for Wisconsin Rendering Co in a Milwaukee garbage contract dispute involving 14000 unaccounted dollars from a 25000 sum.
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Milwaukee
Hrazee
Charles F. Pfister
Pfister
Banlee
Wisconsin Rendering Company
Jewel Theft Hits Mrs Morgan in Pasadena Hotel
In Pasadena on December 16 a thief stole diamonds and other jewels valued at 15000 dollars from the rooms of Mrs James Morgan a wealthy widow at a local hotel. No clue has been found.
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Pasaidena
Cal
James Morgan
Court Panel Selections End With Four Admitted
Chicago December 16 jurors for the beef trust cages case were chosen by both sides with four men admitted. Judge Humphrey adjourned court until Monday.
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Chicago
Des
Veniremen
Humphrey
Miners Do Not Reveal Demands to Coal Operators
Shamokin Pa Dec 16 The United Mine Workers tri district convention adopted several resolutions and referred many to the special committee to present demands to coal operators The federation of miners protests a fund for aged miners homes and argues taxes should finance poor houses The committee will organize before leaving and prepare a list of demands within a week or two to present to the coal companies The safeguards keep the list secret until after talks with operators
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Shamokin
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Met of Assembly
Hummel Trial Sees Witnesses Refuse Answers
In New York on December 16 the Abraham OH Hummel trial for conspiracy and subornation of perjury in the Dodge-Morse divorce case saw two witnesses, including the defendant’s nephew, refuse to answer questions related to the charges, claiming replies could degrade or incriminate them. They acknowledged no knowledge connected to the case.
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New York
Abraham OH. Hummel
Dodge-Morse
Hummel
Tunnel cave meets train on Queen and Crescent route
Report from Chattanooga says tunnel number twenty seven caved in on a passenger train at night with details unavailable. In Columbus, Oliver Pairland ten was stabbed to death and William Lothridge twelve was seriously wounded by eleven year old William Smith in a dormitory quarrel at the state institution for feeble minded youths.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Queen and Crescent
Columbus, O
Oliver Pairland
William Lothridge
William Smith
State Institution
Iowa Supreme Court Upholds Whitnah Duel Conviction
Des Moines Dec 16 The Iowa Supreme Court affirms Fenton Whitnah of Page county for killing Charles Middaugh in a drunken duel. The men fought with fists then blades near the town edge. Middaugh died from a wound to the jugular vein. Whitnah is sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Supreme Court
Fenton Whitnah
Page County
Charles Middaugh
Whitnah
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House Committee On Militia
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