Widescale Riots Hit Viadivostock and Moscow
Reports from Victoria and Washington describe deadly revolts in Viadivostock with over 500 Russians and 2,000 Chinese slain and streets wrecked. Moscow sees barricades on Tverskaya Street, clashes as troops and police clash with revolutionists, and schoolhouse bombardment. China Japan treaty details open Manchuria ports including Harbin, with Liao Tung leased to Japan and rail access extended.
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Demolished by bombs in Moscow barricade fighting
A St Peters burg dispatch says the prefecture police in Moscow was blown up by bombs, killing several and wounding many. The prefect escaped at the Kremlin while barricades nearby saw soldiers victorious and revolutionaries wounded. Another report notes eleven killed and eighty wounded by troops at a Moscow barricade, with Friday casualties around 150.
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Emperor Rejects Universal Suffrage in Russia
In St. Petersburg on December 23 the emperor and cabinet finalized a limited electoral law. They will extend the Aug 19 law to include workers and educated classes and small urban rent payers while maintaining limits. Dogma will convene in March and officials expect the general strike to fail.
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St. Petersburg
Russia-wide strike disrupts communications
A telegraph from Saint Petersburg reports a strike now covering all of Russia with provinces and abroad cut off. The Novoe Vremya notes rapid disruption and the ministry may become helpless. In Fetkoi village, two revolutionary emissaries were killed one beaten and one burned.
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Strikes and Violence Across Russian Rail Lines
Reports from Vladimir and several provinces describe peasant mobs attacking railroad workers and killing agitators while troops restore order. Despite turmoil, many lines resume service with troops aiding traffic. a provisional government movement emerges in Kursk as martial law spreads. A New York market report notes Saturday holidays on cotton, coffee, and sugar exchanges.
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New York
Admitted His Guilt In Negro Wife Murder
Edwin J Tapley a Black man was hanged at the Jersey City county jail on Friday for the murder of his wife He allegedly planned signals with a clergyman to show he was alive after the drop Rev Emil Henry witnessed the execution but would not confirm the prearranged hand signals Tapley confessed saying he was guilty and unjustly punished stating his wife tortured him and led him into the crime
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Schooner Severn Wrecked in Lake P During Storm
In New Orleans a dramatic Lake P tragedy ends with the schooner Severn going down after striking pilings near a railroad bridge in twelve feet of water. Captain Kathmann’s son Willie Kath Mann swam to the bridge to aid his father. a sailor named Dad and an unknown man survived.
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