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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1906
Page
22
Refugees report extensive destruction in Bialystok with fires, crosses marking Christian homes, martial law, and a siege by troops. Hospital scenes show mutilated and dying Jews and Christians, while Tatars raid nearby areas and Armenian villagers face killings and captures.
Petersburg June 18 The long agrarian debate closed with a speech urging partial expropriation to satisfy peasants and a sought after peaceful cooperation. A 99 member commission will be elected to study the issue as the government pushes reforms while factions clash over revolutionary agitation and summer proceedings.
Official details from Rus report clashes at Igdare Erivan began after Armenian residents killed by Tartars. Armenians retaliated with killings, leading to broader hostilities as Tartars attacked Alikmariue and Sing hie, later dispersed by Cossacks who captured forty. Kurds reported crossing from the Turkish frontier to join the fighting.
Christie, Nanson and Woods announce a sale of Lafayette relics and mementoes in King Street St James's Square London. Items include autograph letters to Washington Monroe Madison and Clay, a Free Masons diploma, and War of Independence documents. Highlights feature a silver gilt papa presented by France to Lafayette and a George Washington bust. Viewing Saturday and Monday prior to auction.
The St. Petersburg government fears a Cronstadt mutiny repeating the November riot as troops flood Cronstadt from Krasnoye Selo and Oranienbaum. Strikes spread to Yekaterinoslav Saratoff and Bakmuth coal mines with robberies rising. bread bakers halt work amid threats of shop wrecking.
Dispatches from Grodno, Lomza and Bialystok describe anti Jewish rioting and killings with two hundred ninety corpses reported in Bialystok and extensive attacks on Jewish shops. Police and troops faced protests as violence spread with volleys heard and rail stations used for attacks. In Kostroma peasants clash with police after meeting disruption and march with red flags and songs.
The Foreign Secretary refused to commit to representations to Russia regarding the treatment of British subjects by Russian officials before the fleet sails to Cronstadt. He said he had seen a telegram about Bialystok but lacked official confirmation. The Admiralty plans a summer cruise to Russian, Swedish and German ports and no change to those plans was indicated.
London leaders among Jews discussed pressuring Russia over Bialystok. Lord Rothschild met at the Foreign Office with Sir Edward, saying the issue is delicate and undecided. Sir Samuel Montagu hoped for government intervention, noting opposition to financial pressure on Russia may affect French bondholders.
The remark argues against Great Britain conducting a naval display as a gesture of goodwill, suggesting such a move would be inappropriate or misinterpreted.
Cologne June 18 The Gazette prints a Berlin dispatch denying that Emperor William will meet the Emperor of Russia this year after the Norway trip. The report refrains from confirming any planned summit between the two monarchs.
The United Hebrew Congregation of America at 183 East Broadway plans a mass meeting at 48 54 Norfolk Street tomorrow night to protest the slaughter of Jews in Russia. The event will bring together community members and leaders to voice opposition and advocate aid.
From St Petersburg on June 18 the Bourse ranged lower with imperial 4s at 72 and 5s at 87 as market sentiment remained weak.
Emperor William arrived at Norderney from Heligoland aboard the Sleipner and met Chancellor von Billow who is vacationing there. Berlin reports rumor of ministry changes with Admiral von Tirpitz possibly resigning and von Ahlefeld named successor, while von Tschirsky’s retirement is debated by papers.
A cloudburst over Selean Smichow and Konopischt in the Sazava valley wrecked sixty houses and swept away dams bridges and roads. Fields were laid waste trees uprooted and many cattle perished. Seven persons are missing.
Paris reports the Supreme Court opened public hearings on the Dreyfus case with many spectators including relatives of the former artillery captain. Maitre Mornard argued investigations showed Rennes court martial errors and forged letters. He urged vindication of Dreyfus rather than damages.
Six crew members of the schooner Hiddie Feore and two women reached Havana after the vessel sailed from Sabine Pass on May 25 for Porto Padre Cuba with lumber. The ship lost sails and rudder, drifted ashore at Punta India, one woman and Stephen Kelly were swept overboard and lost, the rest swam ashore.
The British battleship Ramillies was assisted back to Sheerness after colliding with the battleship Resolution in the Channel. Resolution appeared undamaged. Ramillies requires docking and is the only major ship crippled in this week’s naval maneuvers. Several torpedo craft collided or ran aground, and some machinery defects were noted but are few compared with prior exercises.
A six hundred strong French delegation will tour the Hibernia coal mine on June 26 to honor the fifteen lifesavers sent from Herne on March 12 after the Courrières disaster that claimed about 1,200 lives. Survivors of Courrières, son of Carnot, Paris officials, fire brigade representatives and university members will accompany them.
Rio Janeiro report June 18 says Matto Grosso’s situation worsens with rumors insurgents marching on Cuyada the state capital.
London June 18: Petition sails to unseat Thomas Charles Aga-Robartes eldest son of Viscount Clif den and Liberal MP for Bodmin Division Cornwall due to illegal practices. Main complaint involved entertaining voters at a garden party.
Havana reports the arrest of Singleton C. Handon in Pinar del Rio on an extradition warrant. He is accused of defalcation by Spaulding Manufacturing Company of Conway Arkansas.
Dresden reports Prince John George brother of King Frederick August is betrothed at Cannes to Princess Marie Immaculata of Bourbon Sicily daughter of the Count of Caserta head of the Bourbon Sicily house.
In Paris on June 18 M Clémenceau minister of the interior rebuked socialist accusations of heavy handed police work replying in the chamber of deputies. He defended the government for enforcing the law and protecting willing workers from striker violence.
London curia: Mark Anthony Young and Henry Jonas of the American Mining Milling and Smelting Syndicate are remanded on charges of conspiracy to defraud. Inspector Pentim says thousands of pounds are involved. shares sold as $1 face value for 125 dollars and mines alleged to be bogus. Jonas bailed. Young held without bail.
The National Civic Federation group visited Liverpool to review city housing for the poor and to inspect refuse destroyers for building material. Afterward the mission proceeded to Manchester to continue its inquiry.
Rome authorities report an eight month option on the Keats house at Piazza di Spagna, to create a memorial library for Keats and Shelley. Funds up to 106000 francs plus transfer tax 5000 francs are expected, with endowment plans and guardianship of graves. Notables including Theodore Roosevelt and King Edward VI express support.
London reports publish Sir Edward Grey’s correspondence with the Brussels envoy over the Congo Commission of Inquiry. The Congo administration refuses to publish the full evidence citing foreign interference and anti Congo propaganda fears. The Brussels envoy rebuts the charge while reaffirming the demand for disclosure.
Percy P. Pierce of Buffalo, the sole American in the Herkomer automobile contest, collided today near Handheim with a wagon carrying two people. One passenger, Carter Walter, was killed. the other injured. Pierce and fellow American Mr. Castrey are lodged at a local hotel awaiting bail settlement by the court. The automobile suffered heavy damage.
Freeport Pennsylvania June 18 An unsuccessful attempt with armed guards to reopen the Creighton Coal Works mine near Tarentum failed. Nearly eight hundred miners from Cornell Creighton McKean and McFetridge parties went on strike last week after the firms refused unionization. Workers refused to start as guards arrived.
Albert Constant of 27 Wyckoff Avenue Brooklyn fell into an old well in a Madison Street house cellar. A ten foot layer of quicksand trapped him until Sergeant Bernard Clark laborer and Patrolman Murphy lowered Murphy by the legs to seize and pull Constant free. He was taken to St John’s Hospital.
London June 19 After a long session the House of Commons adopted a Campbell Bannerman resolution to expedite the Education bill with a government majority of 141 It authorizes closure by compartments to pass certain clauses daily and sets seventeen days for the remaining stages.
Dispatches from the Congo Independent State say a general revolt has broken out among natives in the Kwango district. Several factories were pillaged and burned, and reinforcements have been dispatched.
Vienna reports Count Goluchowski withstood a Kossuth faction bid to unseat him over alleged anti-Hungarian advice to Emperor Francis Joseph. A long debate ended with a large majority rejecting a censure by Count Eugen Zichy and adopting foreign estimates. Premier Dr Wekerle backed Goluchowski.
King Edward approved J. B. Whitehead, ex secretary of the Berlin embassy, as British Minister at Belgrade. Britain had no diplomatic intercourse with Servia since June 30, 1958 when the Belgrade minister was recalled after the murder of King Alexander and Queen Draga. Recent removals of the leading regicides are noted.
King Haakon and Queen Maud journeyed from Molde to Christiania with warm crowds and festive greetings. Delegates from America arrived to honor the coronation, wreaths were laid at Wergeland’s monument, and a Hamline professor spoke on behalf of Nordic Americans.
Bert Tupper is charged with killing Lockwood Pearsall at his East Rockaway hotel and is jailed in Mineola without bail awaiting the coroner's inquest. Witness Sidney Abrams is held on $2,500 bail. The inquest is set for tomorrow.
Crown Prince Frederick William, in Berlin, set aside his engagements after taking ill with a cold. He recalled invitations for a dinner from the previous day and will rest for several days.
At the navy yard major changes to the Maine battleship is electrical equipment for its turrets are being installed below the spar deck to avoid accidents like the Kearsarge incident off Guantanamo. Electric switches rheostats and gun controls are moved and other connections near magazines are being removed to a safe location.
In Chicago on June 18 J B Leverin of Racine Wisconsin and his three daughters were riding a runaway car that plunged twenty feet off a rustic bridge north of Glencoe. The vehicle turned turtle and landed in a ravine but the momentum helped shield them. They escaped with only slight bruises and cuts.
Assistant District Attorney Appleton said in Harlem police court that the complaint and affidavit in the case of Benjamin G. Oppenheimer, a Brooklyn lawyer charged with champerty, disappeared. Oppenheimer was released on his own recognizance and bail to be posted by Wednesday. An investigation into the missing documents and responsibility for their loss was ordered.
E C Humbert age senior broker and father of J J C Humbert of Madison died at his son's home Orange New Jersey from injuries suffered June 2 in a collision between his carriage and an automobile driven by Frederick Clark of Tarrytown New York Clark is held on bonds to appear at the next court term.
The National Association of Stationers and Manufacturers hosts its second annual session at the Hotel Astor with about four hundred delegates in attendance. The executive committee met Ballington Booth yesterday afternoon to lead the opening prayer for the morning session as local groups arrange entertainment for visiting delegates.
The body of actor Benjamin Howard was found on a park bench in Riverside Park near Sth street early yesterday. A bottle of poison lay nearby, police believe he killed himself. Coroner Shrady took the bottle into custody.
Giuseppe Mungo of 25 East 106th street was arrested Sunday before his planned marriage to Clavino Dirizito and held on $100 bail on a concealed weapons charge. Also in court news Henry Clews to speak on monetary situation this evening before the Virginia Bankers Association at Elkin.
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