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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
8
Petersburg reports detail a revolution turning into armed rebellion as insurgents clash with government troops. Mos cow faces uprisings with barricades, mutinies claimed by revolutionaries, and mass arrests while authorities seek to crush the 3,000 strong student militias and seize arms caches.
Moscow reports ongoing artillery and rifle fire across multiple districts including Trabnols square and Sadovia. Revolutionaries suffer heavy losses, with 500 dead estimated and widespread civilian casualties. Gendarmes are targeted in Karetnaya street while dragoons burn debris and seize rail cars along the Kezan siding.
In Odesea on December 25 the general political strike has begun. The garrison adopts a passive attitude and fears grow that the cry will fall entirely to the revolutionaries. Residents are panic-stricken and anxious about the situation.
Warsaw reports rail lines operate but the situation is serious as socialist parties issue proclamations from Moscow calling for people to see an armed rebellion.
In St Paul on December 20 the jury found W T Horsnell and Royal D rns guilty in a United States court fraud case. The men faced charges related to land schemes in South Dakota and were declared guilty by the jury.
The Senate debated whether to strip a convicted member from standing committees and keep him on the roll, then dropped the issue. House talks covered insurance, hazing, Jewish refugees, and immigration, with the canal appropriation sent to conference. Landis of Indiana offered a notable maiden speech on insurance. The Panama canal emergency bill advanced in conference, minor bills passed, and holiday adjournments followed.
Final returns from the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Agriculture, detail 1905 acreages and production for main crops. Corn shows 94,011,369 acres producing 2,707,998,540 bushels. winter wheat 29,864,018 acres 428,462,834 bushels. spring wheat 17,990,961 acres 264,516,655 bushels. oats 28,046,746 acres 953,216,017 bushels. rye 27,616,045 bushels on 1,000? acres. tobacco 776,112 acres 633,035,719 pounds.
Abraham H. Hummel, lawyer, found guilty of conspiracy in the Dodge Morse divorce matter. He received a one year prison term and a $500 fine, the maximum penalty for the misdemeanor.
A group formed to buy the Theodore Roosevelt birth house at 28 East Twentieth Street, New York, has completed the purchase for 60000 dollars. The plan covers restoration to its original condition with available furniture and fittings.
Fifty three released Russian prisoners have arrived in Victoria British Columbia from Japan seeking homes in the United States. Japan would not naturalize them. One party said thousands of Russians in Japan are determined not to return to Russia until a constitution is secured.
James E. Martin a prominent New York society member of the New York Yacht Club the Metropolitan Club and the Country Club was instantly killed near Flushing Long Island Sunday when his car struck a strip of loose dirt and overturned on the road.
The Liberal party executive committee in Havana on December 22 announced that Liberal congressmen must attend all sessions of both houses in the future, concluding months of practical deadlock.
Oakland December 25 Miss Lulu Bowen a clerk at Sub Station No 1 Oakland post office is in custody on embezzlement charges. Her accounts are reported short about seven thousand dollars.
A Philadelphia police officer halted Ben Hanford while he denounced Roosevelt at a theater gathering of socialists protesting Russian massacres. Hanford, marked as a 1904 Socialist vice presidential candidate, was warned to tone down remarks, prompting protests from Edward Mroore who called the action an infringement on free speech. Police summoned a larger detail. a New York socialist speaking in Russian went on without interruption, and the meeting continued.
A Washington bulletin shows U S exports to China totaled over 50 million dollars in the ten months ended October with 1905, while exports to Japan reached about 46.5 million dollars for the same period. The gains far surpass those of any other export destination.
Bradstreet's reports holiday buying gains, early predictions of unprecedented business realized. Spring business remains excellent, manufacturing active, iron and steel loading at large outputs with record engagements ahead in crude and fabricated products.
Washington December 20 The jury found William G Crawford a former deputy auditor for the post office department guilty on the conspiracy charge with August W Machen and George E Lorenz regarding a contract to supply letter carriers satchels and straps defrauding the United States.
Lieutenant General Chaffee received a letter from New York Mayor McClellan offering him the police commissioner job. He sent a courteous decline of the appointment.
Market notes show wheat at 89c for No 2 red in Indianapolis with corn at 43 1 2c and oats at 31 4 4c. Hay prices range from 6 to 11 dollars, cattle from 2 50 to 5 75, hogs 4 25 to 5 20, sheep 3 50 to 5 00, lambs 4 50 to 7 50. Receipts include 9 500 hogs, 1 100 cattle, 50 sheep with supply mix.
Brief dispatches report serious rioting spurred by foreign boycott leaders in Shanghai. The southern Livonia and much of Courland are under insurgent control with threats to major cities. Also noted are Mary Lacey Quigley’s death in Rochester at eighty five and New York port diamond imports totaling thirty seven million dollars this year.
The senate agreed to the confer ence report on the canal bill. New York City spends 1,000,000 dollars daily for drinks per Rev. Madison C Peters. The Bolivian congress ratified the treaty of commerce with Peru. The first annual convention of the National Gunners association is in session at Dellas Texas. Cracksmen looted the Baldwin Illinois bank safe of about 2,000 dollars and escaped. Seven men were selected by both sides for the Chicago meat packers jury. Leonard Smpden and James A Hill bankers were found guilty of conspiring to wreck the Denver Savings bank. Union Pacific stock rose to a new record on heavy buying.
The mother of poet Joaquin Miller died at his Oakland California home. Other wire notes report General Felix Gustave Saussier former French army commander is dead. U S Steel shows orders on books exceeding 7 three million tons. Rio Grande Western Salt Lake repair shop destroyed by fire. Warsaw fire department employees strike for higher salaries. Will Carter a negro hanged in Kenansville North Carolina for assault on a six year old girl. Delaware Lackawanna ferry house fire causes half a million dollars in losses.
Bids for Philippine railroad concessions rejected with new bids called. Baltic estates suffer peasant devastation. fifty estates burned. Sinaloa floods wreck villages causing property damage and loss of life. Ex Alderman Rudolph sentenced to one year for soliciting a bribe. Johnstown fire kills William and Jefferson Davis.
Panama's attorney general Gabriel Guisado Costa is reported dead. The brief notice notes his unexpected death amid political tension and prompts condolences from legal circles in the republic.
The State of Mexico bank will double its present capital from a million and a half dollars to three million. Walter Juntgen, bookkeeper of the Paris Illinois National Bank, was acquitted after being accused of dynamiting the bank. Three boys drowned after breaking through ice on a St. Louis park pond. In St. Louis police raided nearly 100 clubrooms Sunday and arrested those selling liquor. In Ironwood Michigan eight men died when a 1000 ton ore slip collapsed at the Newport mine on the 1800 foot level. China Japan treaty talks show Yuan Shikai succeeding Li Hongzhang as the throne’s mainstay.
Indiana report details secretary Storms needing about 20000 to cover a October quarterly settlement, after owing the state around 77000. Governor Hanly denies any special treatment or knowledge of Storms affairs, promising prompt action if evidence shows indebtedness.
Indianapolis reports Governor Hanly released a statement with a Sept 14 letter from Storms saying he would comply with quarterly settlements. Storms's friends claim he won't resign, while Sherrick's allies question the governor's vigor in Storms's case as public pressure rises.
Newton county commissioners win in appellate court as temporary injunction is overruled. They may proceed with construction of the new courthouse at Kentland, county seat, in the ongoing court fight over the project.
Indianapolis December 25. James L. Myers is released from Michigan City prison after serving two years of an indeterminate sentence. Myers was convicted of murder near Darlington in Montgomery county in 1876 and now gains clemency from the Indiana Board of pardons.
Michigan City reports death of James Blackwood, aged eighty, the state’s oldest convict. Convicted twenty years ago for wife murder, he had a life sentence and will be buried beside his wife.
Riddie Gates a six year old boy in Jonesboro Indiana died after accidentally shooting himself with a revolver he believed was unloaded. He found the pistol on a table while his mother was away from home.
Chicago reports unhampered control of most Walsh interests except three suspended banks as the clearing house committee ensures progress on the Chicago Sautners line. A $700000 guaranty to Kinser funds work on the Ghié cago route, signaling railroad completion aims. Work halted last week left 4 percent unfinished to connect with Chicago belt lines and access Walsh coal fields.
Harrington Brothers, contracted to grade five miles of the Southern Indiana to Indianapolis branch, were ordered to stop work after unloading equipment near Mooresville. They estimate a $2.00 loss plus the canceled contract, with grading expected to resume in spring as other contractors halt work at various points.
Admiral Dewey has prepared a Christmas message to officers and men of the U S Navy worldwide urging unity and service for the country. The message emphasizes leaving cliques and grudges behind and standing together for the good of the nation and the service. GEORGE DEWEY is quoted.
Clay City Indiana reports hundreds of miles of drain tile laid in the Eel river bottoms. One landowner ordered twenty miles or 150000 pieces. Production capacity will double, adding millions of bushels of corn. Two clay plants here are crowded with orders for tile.
Drills for testing the 20 000 acre coal field optioned by the C I E railroad have arrived in Petersburg Indiana. The tests will start at Emory Lett’s farm five miles east of town using the new equipment.
Huntington Ind Dec 23 William Reilly a patrolman shot in a pistol duel with a burglar Wednesday morning probably will recover Marvin Thompson the man who did the shooting is in Huntington county jail and declares he wishes the officer would die
Nellie Potter four year old daughter of Richard Potter a Vandalia mine boss died after falling into a tub of boiling lard on the rear porch where her father was rendering lard. The accident occurred in Linton Indiana on December 25.
The steam er John W. Thomas sank in several feet of water and was practically destroyed by fire in Tell City Indiana. The Louisville and Evansville Mail Line company owned the steamer which was valued at fifteen thousand to twenty thousand dollars.
Wabash Indiana December 25 Indiana Northern Traction line from Wabash to Marion eighteen and a half miles five interurban cars and the power house at Marion sold for 500000 to the Indiana Union Traction.
The vice president and Mrs. Fairbanks opened a series of dinner parties in Washington on December 23 in honor of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Among the guests was James Whitcomb Riley.
Judge Dodge rules that the disbarment case against Mayor Darrow and City Attorney Warder of Laporte and John W. Talbot of South Bend must be tried in Goshen on a change of venue from South Bend.
In Faton Indiana on December 22 Mrs Samuel Brainer suffered severe burns when a lamp exploded she died several hours later after the incident.
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