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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1905
Page
5
Dr. Douglas Hyde, president of the Gaelic League, urged Irish self reliance and the restoration of Gaelic literature, music, and art at a Boston Theatre demonstration. He warned against Anglization, called for renewed Irish identity, and celebrated support from Boston figures and publications.
Dr Hyde appeals for continued backing of the Gaelic movement praising its spread from six to 3000 schools and 250000 readers. He notes Irish language signs in Dublin andIrish columns in daily papers. The movement unites Protestants and Catholics and aims to save Ireland with support from Irish in America.
Dr Douglas Hyde, who pleaded for the Gaelic revival in Boston, is accompanied by his wife who says she is charmed with America and its people. She thanks Americans for helping his mission succeed and hopes they will teach Irish to their children.
In view of the city being cut off from St. Petersburg and controlled by local authorities the Jewish community appeals to civilized nations to take measures at St. Petersburg to prevent a catastrophe beyond any previously seen.
A civilian clothed guard bound for the American Embassy at St. Petersburg was seen in Berlin today. He is believed connected to the cruiser Minneapolis then at Gravesend England.
Mutinous sappers and Cossacks clash with workmen and Black Hundred bands in Kieff. Scores are killed or wounded as martial law is proclaimed amid serious street fighting in the Russian capital.
Seven hundred post and telegraph officials strike in Warsaw. About one hundred refuse to join. Strikers pour vitriol into letter boxes and 200 bags of foreign mail lie unopened. Governor-General Skallon bans street processions and arms, orders shop closures, with fines and imprisonment for disobedience. Factory workers threaten eight hour day. unions send delegates to St Petersburg congress.
Intense alarm grips St Petersburg as Finnish operators join Russian lines causing communications to halt. Embassies legations and banks mobilize courier services to Finnish and German frontiers amid panic fears of railroad closures and flight restrictions in a looming cataclysm.
Undated despatches from St Petersburg via East Prussia report sailors pushing for disarmament of warships. Officers release a workman arrested for revolutionary proclamations. Soldiers and sailors roam streets at night, authorities plan repressive measures as artillery arrives. Tsarskoe Selo officers refuse to order firings if needed.
In St Petersburg on December 3 authorities brace for a feared outbreak by mutinous troops from Sebastopol. Naval battalions are said to be loyal to revolutionaries, deprived of arms and nearly out of control. Telegraphists claim funds and defiance, while railroad telegraph offices block government and private dispatches except railroad related messages.
A terse dispatch from East Prussia dated Dec 3, sent by a courtier to Eydtkuhnen, notes that there is perceptible progress regarding ongoing events and conditions in the region. Further specifics were not provided in the readable fragment.
Officials report confidence that a strike and railroad tie up are averted as the workers council backs a compromise to keep government and private factories open while negotiations continue. Premier Witte hosts discussions on election law with M. Petrunkevitch and zemstvoists amid threats of a dictatorship. The court and imperial guard seek Witte’s downfall with Generals Ignatieff and Skalloj named as potential dictators.
Dated in St Petersburg December 83 the report says a financial crash is highly likely. Citizens and businesses withdraw funds from banks convert to gold hoard or seek foreign exchange. London exchange rose to 9.50 per rouble. A police and house porters strike occurred in the city.
Mary Rogers faces imminent execution after legal efforts for commutation or a stay failed. The U S Supreme Court ruling seals her fate and the speaker declares no protest or intervention can avert the doom, while Vermont's attorney general declines to comment on any intervening illness as a precedent.
Mary Rogers, confined in Windsor, Vermont, endures a final Sunday as rain and sleet soak the earth. She gazes from a prison window, silent, obsessed with seeing living beings as human, attempting to drink in life before its denial. The piece hints at a psyche drawn to life amid a looming end.
Mary Rogers endures tears and stoic calm amid death watch in prison. She clings to life during visits with her child Marguerite and reads scripture as preparations for a hangings day proceed with sheriffs and deputies arranging witnesses and the gallows.
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