Favorable Results Expected After Tsar’s Audience With St Petersburg Workers
Emperor Nicholas granted a 25 000 relief fund to families of Jan 22 victims and urged workers in St Petersburg to end internal strife. Manufacturers concession to strikers and relief support noted amid strained Poland and Siberian towns. Minister Sviatopolk Mirsky’s retirement seen as shift to favor Grand Duke Sergius.
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Tsarskoe Selo
St. Petersburg
Poland
Irkutsk
Siberian
Sviatopolk- Mirsky
Ministry of the Interior
Mr. Bouligan
Interior
Sergius
Alexander Palace
Trepoff
Kokovsoff
Russia
Moscow
Bouligan
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
General Trepoff
Resignation Signals Shift in Moscow Political Circles
The note says Sviatopolk Mirsky resigns and those posted should select another Moscow man and a friend of Grand Duke Jereinus to receive the portfolio. This shows growing appreciation for the emperor's uncle and a shift in favor among officials.
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Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Jereinus
St Petersburg Manufacturers Seek End to Strike Turmoil
The St. Petersburg Association of Manufacturers advances four resolutions. It calls submitting eight hour day and pay debates to the finance minister for legislative settlement. It urges resumption of work before discussing special demands and vows no bitterness toward strikers while raising funds for victims families. It offers aid to the needy without repayment.
Timber claims and Russian strike notes dominate Minnesota pages
In Minnesota the pine timber stock is estimated between 10 and 30 billion feet, with Wisconsin at about 10 billion. Separately, St Petersburg officials report Emperor Nicholas addressing striking workers, pledging reforms and aid, amid a spreading labor wave across Russia.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
J. E. Rhodes
Mississippi
Wisconsin Valley
Northwestern Lumbermen
R. A. Kellogg
Washington
Inland Empire
Kellogg
Cliff Millard
Chicago
W. H. Collins
Pacific Coast
Battle on Huan Mountain Traps Russian Assaults in Arctic Winter
Russian forces endured five days of brutal shelling and cold as they attacked Chinese fortifications around Yen tai and the Sandepas hamlet. Reports describe frostbite, frozen wounds, high casualty rates, and most limbs saved only by rapid aid.
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Huan Mountain
Yentai
Lidaioun
Tanlipu
Sandepas
Triumph for Jap surgeons report triumph in war disease cure
From General Oku's headquarters in Tientsin on February 2, statistics claim only 40 deaths from disease among Japanese forces since May 6, with 24,642 treatments up to December 1 and 18,578 recovered. Typhoid 193 cases, dysentery 542, beri beri 5,070. total casualties include 210 officers and 4,197 men killed, 743 officers and 20,337 men wounded, and 402 missing.
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Oku
Tientsin
Japan
Beri Beri
Five days’ battle on the Hun river ends with no palpable result
The five days of fighting on the Hun river leave both sides in their original positions. Russians drove the Japanese from advanced posts and repelled a flanking column at heavy cost. Russian cavalry proved highly effective. A lull in operations suggests possible suspension until late February.
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Huan Mountain
Hun River
Quiet Warsaw Amid Uncertainty As Strike Binds
Warsaw reports calm yet fragile order as shops reopen and soldiers thin. Strikers unlikely to return before Feb 5 amid looting by hooligans. police face rising disorder elsewhere, with Coal districts near Bombrova rumored to join. Outside Russia editors forecast sweeping political changes and new Chamber. Temperatures plunge across the Midwest with Chicago at 10 below zero and several towns reporting subzero readings.
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Warsaw
Kucukain
Lodz
Bombrova
Oregon Senator Mitchell indicted for bribery in land deals
Federal grand jury accuses United States Senator John H. Mitchell of taking four thousand two hundred ninety dollars in seven payments from timber land dealer Frederick R. Kribs to influence land appraisals and patent approvals via former General Land Office official Binger Hermann. State Senator George C. Brownell charged with subornation of perjury for pressuring witnesses in the Eastern Oregon land survey.
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Portland
Ore
United States
John H. Mitchell
George C. Brownelie
Mitchell
Oregon
Frederick R. Kiibs
Binger Hermann
General Land Offce
Washington
Senator Brownell
Brownell
Fred Sievers
John Hoenland
Kribs
Roseburg
Strikes and unrest ripple across regions with varied actions
Reports indicate a threatened mine flooding if pumping stops while fresh strikes surface in outlying districts though unconfirmed. In Libau the governor urged strikers to return to work as a precedent for concessions. Kalisz mill workers struck with newspapers suspending publication. In Saratoff railway workers have resumed labor.
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Libau
Feud Over Line Fence Leaves One Dead Five Wounded
In Abbeville Georgia on February 2 a feud over a boundary line escalated. Battis W H Livingston was killed and five others including M A Burnham W B Bryant W T Bryant Tom Coffee and Mrs Georgia Ray were wounded. A prior assault on Burnham by Bryant preceded the shootout.
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Abbeville
Battis
W. H. Livingston
Hichine
M. A. Burnham
W. B. Bryant
W. T. Bryant
Tom Coffee
Georgia Ray
Livingston
Bryants
Burnham
Bryant
Ray
Slaughter in Borneo Town Reported by Shinane Arrival
The Japanese steamer Shinane, arriving Feb 2, brings word of a madman attack in a small Borneo town. Eight people were killed and seventeen wounded before authorities halted the spree.
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Victoria
B. C
Borneo
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