Mutinous Cossacks and Petersburg Revolt Reach Crisis
Special dispatch from St. Petersburg reports Maximovitch ordering Cossacks to shoot rebels and malcontents to curry favor with the czar. Mutinous marines flee Kronstadt while Shusse.burg fortress demands political prisoner releases as 50,000 armed peasants rise in Maximovitch’s district.
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Maximovitch
Warsaw
Sakharoff
Saratoff
Vladikovkaz
Aiman
Assinate Durnovo
Sevsationoff
Maximoviteh
Investigation of Public Service and Insurance Corporations
Madison Wisconsin December 9 A bill was introduced to appropriate funds for a committee to investigate public service and insurance corporations. The panel will include four Assemblymen and three Senators to probe political contributions from railroads and life insurance, lobby expenses, lobbyists, officer and employee compensations, and investment methods.
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Madison
Wis
Railroads face push for lower passenger rates in Midwest
Special to the Tribune reports a December meeting in Chicago with Governors Hanley Indiana Warner Michigan and representatives of Illinois Deneen and Ohio Herrick. Hanley vows a two cent per mile flat rate while others seek larger concessions. Also on December 9 Rear Admiral George Dewey, hosted by John R. Morrow, will speak at a Merchant's Club banquet in Chicago.
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Tribune
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Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Hanley
Warner
Deneen
Herrick
Dewey
George Dewey
John R. Morrow
Merchant’s Club
Hart pleads guilty in Irene Klonkow murder case
Special to the Tribune Oliver Hart today pleaded guilty to the murder of eleven year old Irene Klonkow. A grand jury in Boston did not indict Thomas W Lawson on a Barron criminal libel charge. The battleship Idaho, sister to the Mississippi, was launched in Philadelphia. Illinois weather forecast for the next twenty four hours calls for fair and colder conditions.
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Tribune
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Oliver Hart
Irene Klonkow
Philadelphia
Idaho
Mississippi
Illinois
Mitchell of Oregon Dead After Teeth Extraction
Senator John H. Mitchell died in Portland after hemorrhages following the extraction of four teeth. He had battled illness for a day, with saline injections used to keep him alive. Born June 22, 1855, in Washington County, Pennsylvania, he rose to long political service in Oregon, with multiple Senate terms and a recent land fraud conviction awaiting appeal.
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Portland
Ore
John H. Mitchell
Tie
John Hipple Mitchell
Washington County
Butler County
Mitchell
Paty Hie
United States Senate
Paris
France
Duke de Rochefoucauld
United States Army
United States Supreme Court
Open Shop Declared by Employers in New York
Ten thousand structural iron workers in New York were informed the open shop is officially in effect. Applicants must register at the employers' bureau in East Fourteenth Street. The emergency committee said there will be no discrimination between union and non union men but no recognition of the Housesmiths and Bridge men unions. Iron League members justify the action as a violation of the arbitration agreement by the employees.
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New York
Employers
Employers’ Bureau
East Fourteenth Street
Building Trades Imployers’ Association
Bridgemen's Union
Iron League
KUROKIS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY IN TOKIO WINS PRAISE
General Kuroki and staff rode into Tokyo to a triumphal reception marking his land victory. The parade highlighted his status as the first land victor of the war, amid widespread enthusiasm in the capital on December 9.
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Manchuria
Tokio
Kuroki
Ryan Defies Inquisitors On Hyde Stock Shareings
New York December 9 The legislative committee investigating life insurance sought district attorney action against Thomas E Ryan for refusing to answer questions about Harriman’s demands to share control of the Equitable Life Assurance Society Ryan refused to say what Harriman had told him or whether any legislature or government officer would act unless he yielded stock Ryan did admit paying 2 600 000 for 50 2 shares of the society and said relations with Harriman were strained though he would proceed with his plan.
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New York
William '. Jerome
Thomas E. Ryan
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Ryan
J. H. Harriman
Union Pacific
Souther Pacific
Harriman
Equitable Society
Paul D. Cravath
Armstrong
Tardman
Hyde Steck
Iryun
James Nf. Hyde
Harrian
Hughes
Jerome
Nadea
Ryan Prosecution Hints From New Testimony
The committee planned to send Ryan's testimony to District Attorney Jerome with a request to press proceedings for refusing to answer questions. Ryan defended his $5,000 per share stock purchase to avert a potential nationwide crisis and a dangerous receiver, saying plans to keep a perpetual trust may continue unless lawmakers decide otherwise.
Canada Law Hits Hard Toronto Out Dec
Charges against the Master Plumbers' association and the Central Supply association of conspiracy in restraint of trade were sustained by Justice Clute. Flo In imposed a fine of 5,000 dollars on the two groups. Explosion cost the Washington Gas Light Company 170,000 dollars in damages. A later fire in Hoboken, New Jersey left ten houses damaged and twenty families homeless with losses around 100,000 dollars.
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Toronto
Master Plumbers’ Association
Central Supply Association
Clute
Flo
Costa A Gas Co
Washington
Washington Gas Light Company
New York
Dee
Hoboken
N. J
Bloodshed on the Isle of Pines sparks US-Cuba clash
A letter from Charles Raynard, president of the American club in the Isle of Pines, argues the island should be US territory under the 1898 treaty. He claims Cuban authorities would oppress Americans and urges US support. Also reports on Chinese exclusion debate and other December dispatches.
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United States
Isle of Pines
Tirana
Dee
Associated Press
Charles Raynard
American Club
Root
Rayhard
Paris
General Wood
McKinley
Secretary Way
Cuba
Chicago Markets Reported Quotes and Livestock
Chicago Board of Trade quotations for Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard and Live Stock show Dec May and July futures with varied open high low and close figures. Hogs cattle sheep and lambs were listed with estimated receipts and price ranges at various Chicago area markets and at East Buffalo consignments.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Aia
Choice Prairie
Enat Buffalo
Mast Buffalo
N. Y
Dee
B. Timning & Stevens
East Buffalo
N.Y
Death of Mrs Wood Prominent Chicago social figure dies
Reports from Chicago detail the death of Mrs Fernando Jones at 1145 p m on Prairie avenue age 70 plus born in Duban Indiana in 1835 She was a Chicago pioneer founder of the Twentieth Century club and promoter of women and children's hospital funds Her funeral set for 2 pm this afternoon from her residence Coroner reports list 3182 cases since 1904 with 1185 natural deaths and various accidents and crimes Kopf to succeed brother John after Thirteenth Ward Republican clash deathbed remark to Dr Davidson
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Chicago
Fernando Jones
Leslie Grant
Pernando Jones
Peter Hoffman
J. Brandage
Charles W. Kopf
John W. Kopf
Thirteenth Ward
Grace Hospital
Charles Davidson
Charlie
Wounds Stricken Girl As Father Fires Shotgun
In Shipman Illinois Dee 9 the girl's father Dee Beltz shot at Samuel Miller and Miss Jesse Beltz in the hall as they kissed in a doorway. Miss Beltz is likely fatally wounded Miller escaped with minor wounds. Beltz had warned Miller to stop visiting his daughter 15 then Beltz surrendered. In another incident 10 year old John Terry died after being fatally shot by his elder brother William during a hunting outing near Magnon. A Sunfire caused by sun rays through a lamp ignited a 12000 fire in Mendota. A receiver for the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railroad was appointed in Illinois. Belleville man Hiram Meddington committed suicide at a county hospital by leaping from a second story window.
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Dee
Shipman
Jesse Beltz
Samuel Miller
Beltz
Miller
Ife
St. Louis
Heltz
Peoria
John Terry
Magnon
William Terry
Belleville
Hiram Meddington
Bulelde
Peruna Endorsed by Cuban Minister and U S Officials
A Cuban minister praises Peruna as a strong tonic and catarrh remedy. Jinkhead and J H Bankhead, influential U S representatives, endorse the medicine. The ad claims Peruna is a radical catarrh-specific cure with a half century track record and offers free medical advice via Dr. Hartman.
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Gonzalo de
J. H. Bankhead
Hartman
Martinan Sanitarium
Columbus
Peruna Alminac
Resignation rumors denied in dispatches from St Petersburg
A St Petersburg dispatch dated February 7 denies Count de Witte offered resignation. Other reports around Warsaw and Paris note disrupted telegraph and postal services, with claims of officers killed by rebel troops and telegraphers returning to duties amid province-wide disorganization.
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London
St. Petersburg
de Witte
Martin
Warsaw
Poland
Manohurst
Burg
Postaltelecos
Varis
Eydtkubnen
Threat of Assassination Alleged Against Striking Miners in Injunction
Sensational accusations in a Webster and Dalton county petition seek a restraining order against eighteen United Mine Workers members. Complainants claim miners threaten mine explosions and operator assassinations to stop the company from labor actions. A separate item notes a new ten dollar counterfeit note sighting by the Secret Service in Washington.
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Kentucky
Tlouisville
United Mine Workers
Webster
Dalton
Kentucky Coal Company
Dodge Evans
Owensboro
Aption
Mi Jon
Wnton
Allieis
Sny
Tle Indnes
Niles
Orimary Way
Com Vralants
Tyleresta
Washington
Dee
Secret Service
United States
Buffalo
Serius
Lyons
Register
Iolervts
Fire Insurance In London
Fire insurance in London coverage details show the Froes amount insured against from Lanon iy 2 LN OT01 45S.
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London
Lanon Iy
Alderman Guilty of Bribe in Milwaukee Case
Ex-Alderman William Murphy found guilty of accepting an $80 bribe from Oscar Divis as a common council member to secure passage of a sidewalk ordinance. Sentence deferred pending motion for new trial.
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Milwaukee
William Murphy
Common Council
Oscar Divis
Ore Shipments Suspended at St. Paul Dock
Ore shipments from the St. Paul dock are suspended for the season. The company forwarded 1,250,000 tons this season, an increase of 460,000 tons over last year.
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Esenanaba
Mich
Dee
St. Paul Dock
Fire Destroys Evie Transfer and Dry Dock Shops
A blaze wrecked the Evie transfer and freight house and Union Dry Dock shops in Buffalo New York, causing losses around 131000. Reports note casualties are not listed and the fire's cause remains undetermined.
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