28 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
1
A regional survey shows a steadily increasing sentiment against foreigners with rising incidents of discrimination. Experts urge policy action and community outreach to address tensions and promote inclusion. Local officials condemn xenophobia and call for dialogue among residents and organizations.
A Pekin dispatch says Chinese hostility to foreigners widens from anti American actions to all foreigners. The boycott pressures American trade as President Roosevelt’s conciliatory orders show results but remain in force. Dr Long notes spread to all provinces and mills started in Tientsin. Women join the movement, refusing cosmetics made in the United States, aiming to adjust law and administration to end perceived injustice.
A sweeping electoral reform expands suffrage to factory workers and many property holders while keeping indirect voting via provincial electorates. The law, gazetted in October, extends voting to real estate owners, license-paying shopkeepers, lodging providers, and government workers, with worker electors set at one per 10,000 men.
Report from St Petersburg says the Moscow uprising will be crushed within four days as troops are stretched thin. Slavo notes fresh units arrived and cites heavy bloodshed with casualties near 15,000. Some 100 Red Cross workers were sent from St Petersburg to aid the wounded.
Odessa December dispatch says fronts cut beyond Zehmerinka with train and telegraph service uncertain as strikes rise and a general stoppage looms. Military quelled street disturbances, peasants quiet in Kherson, exodus from Odessa continues, ships crowded, banks nearing closure as revolutionary leaders act.
In Birmingham on December 27 Mrs. Alice Johnson, operator of a rooming house at 529 South Twenty-third street, was found dead with a bullet wound. Nearby lay A. Cochran, a railroad man, mortally wounded. A pistol near Cochran’s body suggested he killed Mrs. Johnson then shot himself. No motive has been disclosed. Cochran is unrevealing. Mrs. Johnson was a widow.
Syracuse N Y Dec 27 John Mc Carthy undertaker died at his home aged fifty nine years He was known throughout the country as an enthusiastic Democrat In 1884 he bet everything he possessed even his hearses on Grover Cleveland He was a warm supporter and personal friend of William J Bryan.
In Pottsville Pennsylvania on December 27 George Allman fifty years old, a railroad section foreman, killed himself by placing dynamite on his daughter's grave after mourning her recent death. The blast blew him to pieces.
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