No lull in Moscow fighting amid heavy casualties
Despatches from Moscow report early morning casualties estimated at 5 000 killed and 14 000 wounded as fighting continues. Civilians are confined to dwellings after 7 pm amid stray bullets and looming provisions shortage. Troop loyalty noted by Tsarist observers as barricades rise and bombardment shifts between outskirts and city center.
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London
Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Inn Dispatch
Moscow
Horrific Russian Jewish Massacres Reported in Koloras and Uman
Minneapolis dispatch relays dire letters from Koloras and Uman describing massacres after the czar's manifesto. Brigands attacked, burning children and slaughtering families while police blocked aid. Three hundred Jews killed in Koloras and one thousand in Uman, with students and educated classes aiding in defense.
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Minneapolis
Koloras
Russia
Uman
Rebels Mowed Down in the Streets Strike Ends in Warsaw
Telegrams say fighting in Warsaw Sunday night to midnight used machine guns and artillery against insurgents as Cossacks with vodka fueled brutal street clashes. Insurgents held barricades, bombings from windows met with heavy cannon fire, and government forces pursued a merciless suppression.
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Warsaw
Railway strike extended in Baltic provinces amid rumors
Riga dispatch reports Baltic railway workers on strike last night. Newsmen deny rumors of Riga bombardment or a train explosion. City remains quiet with patrols, opera, and limited crowds as revolutionaries push daily meetings and a provisional government forms in Libau and Dollen. Authorities note scarce gold and paper money value, with autonomous police in Coldingen.
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Illinois fish wardens to patrol icy river banks
The Illinois fish commission will station wardens near the Illinois River as soon as fee forms arrive to prevent illegal fishing. A new ruling bans ice fishing without a warden present who is paid by fishermen. Wardens will ensure only carp buffalo and dogfish are kept and game species returned. President Nat Cohen warns that the heavy loss of game fish threatens near exinction, prompting radical action against past abuses by fishermen.
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Bloomington
Ilinois
Medical Guide catalog of remedies for various ailments
A list of remedies labeled by number addressing fevers worms teething diarrhea coughs neuralgia headaches dyspepsia suppressed menstruation whites croup skin rheumatism malaria catarrh whooping cough kidneys bladder influenza and more. Sold in small pocket pellets 25 cents each with free mailed medical guide. Cor Waisha Reber, druggist.
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Waaisha Reber
Thieves Steal Christmas Gifts and Coat in Chicago
A trio of highwaymen robbed tailor Nels Nelson on Larrabee Street, taking 16 and a gold watch after forcing him to exchange coats. In another break in, Christmas gifts valued at 200 dollars were stolen from William G Johnson’s Humboldt Boulevard flat. A nephew confronted the robbers but they fled. one thug was later arrested after being identified by bystanders.
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Nels Nelson
Larrabee Street
Nelson
William G. Johnson
Humboldt Boulevard
Harry Shefferly
Johnson
Feckin Lybeck
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Salvation Army
Oak
Townsend Streets
Boxing Bouts Highlight Peoria Card in Dec 26 Show
In Peoria WL on December 26 Kid Taylor edged Billy Finucane in a ten round decision in a bout labeled one of the hardest fought in years. Jack Tenny defeated Duddy Glover in six rounds, and Walter Parker KO'd George Rice in two minutes of the first round in the second preliminary.
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Billy Finucane
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Finucane
Jack Tenny
Duddy Glover
Walter Parker
Reeorge Rice
They Want an Accounting in Jackson County Ohio
A petition filed in the probate court seeks an accounting of the $500000 estate of Eugene Rainer of Champaign. Augustus FE Ayers son of the late, and Mrs Joseph T Alexander daughter of Chicago, request accounting from executor Eugene Rainer as he contemplates a world tour.
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Duluth
Minn
Augustus FE. Ayers
Joseph T. Alexander
Chicago
Eugene Rainer
Champaign
Two Murder Trials to Come Up in St Clair County
Nashville Dec 26 The murder trials of Trappe and William Reichman will come up in the January term of the St Clair county court. The first is alleged to have killed Henry Link a saloonkeeper of Belleville and the second Matthew Carl a grocer.
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Trappe
William Reichman
St. Chur
Henry ON
Link
Belleville
Matthew Carl
Tragedy At Mount Carmel Ends In Self Inflicted Shot
Mount Carmel scene shows 30 year old Fes Zu bred Blossinger using a keeper’s shotgun at the county fair to shoot himself, his head blown off as his mother resides in an insane asylum at Una.
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Fes Zu
Blossinger
Una
Nels the Leeds ferrier dies after record rat issue
A cross bred Leeds ferrier named Nels has just died after reportedly killing eighty rats in twenty minutes, a remarkable feat noted in contemporary accounts amid the decline of his trade and the fading of such unusual demonstrations.
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Nels
Leeds
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