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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1905
Page
5
Despatches report heavy casualties in Moscow with estimates of thousands wounded and civilians fleeing near barricades. Rebels defend key lines while authorities struggle to supply the city as bombing and chaos intensify. observers note acts of courage and fear gripping residents.
Post and Telegraph Employes in Warsaw return to work after accepting government terms. Telegraphers resume duties. Military governor bans street sales of newspapers, singing revolutionary songs, meetings and processions with up to three months imprisonment and fines up to 1500 dollars for violations. Railroad men threaten to resume work if St Petersburg comrades join strikers.
Reston report cites Andreas Stockberger, a German immigrant from Glodengard near Odessa, claiming the Odessa Wooduhed disaster stemmed from Jewish attacks on troops. He described soldiers marching in a sunless dawn with weapons, mobs scattering as troops advanced.
Eyewitness fragment depicts mobs on housetops and streets during a violent confrontation as soldiers march by. Bombs and bayonets cause many deaths and injuries while the crowd, described as largely Jewish, is described as desperate and intent on attack.
Canadian minister of marine and fisheries Raymond Prefontaine died suddenly in Paris after heart trouble worsened during a banquet eve. He had arrived with Randolph Lemieux to discuss a Marseilles to Canada steamship link and fell ill after a toast. He was treated by a specialist and received last rites before passing away.
In Louisville Kentucky on December 26 three people died in accidents tied to Christmas festivities. An eight year old girl Thresa Housman was killed by a neighbor twelve year old George Doll after a hall cartridge was fired indoors. George Irving Harper fourteen was killed tampering with a small cannon when a firecracker exploded, a broomstick driven into his neck. Ella Barrett a resident was killed by a stray shot from a neighbor’s revolver during the celebration.
Fire destroyed the Cockburn Co drugstore in a brick building owned by George A McCrea in Drayton North Dakota. The blaze caused damage to nearby structures with an estimated total loss around forty four thousand three hundred dollars. Origin unknown but suspected to involve an explosion of an oil lamp.
Reports say Homer White Ernest Johnson and W A Stanton, tied to the Udell bank raid, were arrested near Chillicothe Missouri after authorities learned of their movements. A fourth suspect remains at large and a $2000 reward is noted.
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