Turning Tide of Strikes Stirs St Petersburg Crises
A wave of post and telegraph strikes cripples Russia's capital with broader insecurities. Marshall law rumors fade as Father Gapon urges moderation and workers rally against revolutionaries, while authorities organize loyal forces to brace for the Douma meeting.
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St. Petersburg
Eydtkuhmen
East Prussia
Moscow
Law and Order Party
Father Gapon
Wortmen
Russia
Father Capon
Peuite
Sicere
Gapo
Peasants Riot in Livonia and Courland region
Reports from Liban describe attacks on nobility and residents in Livonia and Courland. Baron Camrenhausen is severely wounded as hundreds of peasants loot and kill. A general insurrection of peasants and laborers is feared across Prussia.
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Privacts
Koeninsburg
East Prussia
Liban
Livonia
Courtland
Camrenhausen
Philippine Conditions Improve as Rail Links Planned
General Luke E Wright arrived aboard the Manchuria to watch railroad bids open in Washington while noting hopeful conditions in the Philippines. He cited progress in Luzon, better health from sanitation regulations, and rapid assimilation of American ideas by the young natives, with railroads expected to advance national development.
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San Francisco
Luke E. Wright
Philippines
Manchuria
Washington
Luzon
Foreigners in Little Danger in Russia Turmoil
London dispatch says a deadlock may lead to violence but few deaths while foreigners remain at low risk. Government plans a Baltic province governor generalship as Esthenians and others rebel. Oberlin Gift Sets Slavic Push as Miss Walworth’s Cleveland estate valued at 75000 is to aid the college.
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London
Daily Telegraph
St. Petersburg
Baltic
Oberlin
Oberlin, O
Oberlin College
Anne Walworth
Cleveland
Theological Seminary
University of Chicago seeks football reforms
Chicago reports the University of Chicago has formed a committee to study football rules. Changes are planned to reduce player danger and address moral evils alleged to exist in the game. In another dispatch from St Petersburg, villagers near the Baltic form the Republic of Novargansk, abolishing both emperor and deity in a manifesto read in churches and assemblies.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
St. Petersburg
Eydtkuhnen
East Prussia
Baltic
Novargansk
Cracksmen Routed In Bank Robbery At Fairland
An explosion awakened Fairland residents as four robbers blew open the bank safe of Robert Smith. A violent exchange of over twenty shots between citizens and the thieves drove them off without taking any money or valuables from the bank.
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Fairland
Ind
Robert Smith
Murdered by Bandits in Mexican Gold Mine
Information reaches Altoona that Samuel T. Simonton his wife and son were waylaid murdered and robbed of 2900 dollars at an unnamed Mexican location. Samuel Simonton reportedly served as superintendent and paymaster of a Mexican gold mine operated by Philadelphians.
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Altoona
John Simonton
Samuel T. Simonton
Mexico
Samuel Simonton
Graft Alleged In Insurance Probe
George D. Eldredge vice president of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Co testified before the regulatory insurance investigating committee that the company withdrew from Iowa in 189? to avoid paying 4800 demanded by Insurance Examiner Max Bechler for an examination of the firm.
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New York
Registative Insurance Investigating Committee
George D. Eldredge
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Iowa
Max Bechler
Market Report Indianapolis Grain and Livestock
Market data from Indianapolis Cincinnati Chicago and New York shows varied prices for wheat corn oats hay cattle hogs and sheep with receipts of hogs and cattle and a note on Pennsylvania railroad free transport ending. Also reports American Consul General Parsons killed by an electric car in Mexico City and a large incendiary fire in Wayne West Virginia causing major losses.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Chicago
Parsons
Mexico City
Sensational testimony on Miss Rhoades at Indiana prison inquiry
Mrs. C E Coffin testifies against Miss Rhoades alleging incompetence and cruelty at the girls industrial school. Lena Cook details beatings and limited meat. Flora Kerr describes hair pulling and floor abuse. Governor Hanly orders restraint on reporters amid the probe.
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Indianapolis
Woman’s Prison and Girls’ Industrial School
Emily Rhoades
Board of State Charities
Rhoades
C. E. Coffin
Miss Rhoades
Flora Kerr
Miss Jones
Minnie Mohler
Mliss Rhoades
Forgery Charged in Chicago Case Involving Straus Co
Samuel N Hofheimer was arraigned on charges of swindling S W Straus Co out of 256000. The case was continued until Thursday after testimony. Nelson Morris, a packer, testified with three checks totaling 192,658 made by Union Cotton Seed Co and endorsed by Morris. both Morris and his son Edwin denied knowledge of the checks.
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Chicago
Samuel N. Hofheimer
S. W. Straus & Co
Colchrane
Thorsday
Nelson Morris
Packer
Union Cottonseed Company
Morris
Edwin Morris
Senator Farnum Arrested in Kopf Murder Probe
Chicago officials report State Senator Frank C. Farnum was arrested on murder charges tied to the killing of county commissioner John Y. Kopf amid a political feud. George C. Roberts, an election clerk, is accused of the murder and was arrested shortly after the crime. Detectives remain active and other arrests of prominent politicians are anticipated.
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Chicago
Frank C. Farnum
John Y. Kopf
George C. Roberts
Farnum
Roosevelt's Message Sparks Long Congressional Reading
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt's 1908 address read in both houses with close attention and applause after a two and a half hour session. The message urges national regulation of interstate commerce, abolition of corporate graft, reform in elections, tariff adjustments, currency elasticity, and moves toward stronger federal supervision of railroads and large firms. It calls for citizenship measures, immigration controls, and statehood plans for territories, plus fortification for Hawaii and Panama Canal considerations.
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Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Indiana Railway Commission moves to dismiss Monon appeal
The Indiana Railway Commission filed a notice to dismiss the Monon railway company's appeal from its coal rate decision. The action concerns reducing freight rates from Indiana coal fields to the Ramana Oolitic Stone company at Oolitic and centers on the commission’s authority.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Railway Commission
Monon Railway Company
Indiana Coal Fields
Ramana Oolitic Stone Company
Oolitic
Roof collapse at Charing Cross station injures workers
In London the southern end of Charing Cross station roof fell ninety feet during repairs. Forty workmen were on the roof. two killed, two missing and likely buried, eight seriously hurt and twenty slightly injured.
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London
Charing Cross
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