Release All Political Prisoners Urged by Witte
Nicholas is ready to do anything to calm furious subjects as St. Petersburg workers stay skeptical of the czar’s intentions. The country remains in uproar amid political tension and unrest.
31 Oct 1905
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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1905
Page
1
Nicholas is ready to do anything to calm furious subjects as St. Petersburg workers stay skeptical of the czar’s intentions. The country remains in uproar amid political tension and unrest.
In St Peters burg on October 31 M Witte pledges an immediate release of all political prisoners who can be freed without endangering public peace.
In St. Petersburg on October 31 reports detail several skirmishes between Zionist activists and troops. Professor Tarie was wounded amid the fighting as Zionists press to release political prisoners.
Eddy charge d affaires in St. Peters burg reports establishment of a constitutional government and presents the cabinet names. Obolensky as minister of the interior Ro as finance Koni as justice Krohovsky as education Shaffhauser as communications.
Reports from St. Petersburg outline continued unrest with editors urged to help restore order and regain public confidence. Strikes, looting, and street patrols by soldiers are described as authorities weigh political amnesty.
Water will be shut off Wednesday from 8 30 a m to 5 p m in the district between and sixth street from Main to for the purpose of in a tap for the Munich building.
Whispered this week that a committee of lawyers appointed to handle charges of improper conduct presented a report to Orange Jacobs president of the bar association. George Jacobs admitted receiving the report but declined to discuss its tenor. The report was to be turned over to Judge Frater and likely read in open court on Saturday.
A telegram to the U S cable office warns of a terrific storm across the Gulf of Alaska from Unimak pass to Cross sound. Numerous passenger, fishing, and coasting vessels including Santa Clara Santa Ana Dora Portland Bertha are in or headed for the area. Steamship Cottage City reached Juneau yesterday. Ohio and Tampico await Nome passengers.
A runaway flat car after brakes were nudged by pranksters collided with a Ballard passenger car near Bitter Lake at 8 PM Monday. Panic followed but no fatalities were reported as passengers were stunned and the train crashed through the platform. In Bellingham, October 31, authorities pursue J G Hanby and W H Stewart of the Kola Manufacturing Company amid fraud charges and missing funds totaling about 2000 dollars.
Coroner investigates the death of Mozes Keezer 70 of Green Lake found jammed headfirst in a closet at the Arlington hotel. The body lies at Bonmey-Watron morgue as a post mortem is planned to determine cause. A $7.60 unpaid bill to Dr. Sharples and a lone dollar are found on the deceased.
New York Commissioner McAdoo warned Garrick theater managers that presenting Mrs Warren's Profession tonight would lead to arrest of the participants.
Fire victims lie beneath charred debris of a small home a half mile north of Chuckanut stone quarry in Bellingham. John King and an unidentified man were badly burned with only part of one body remaining. King had been released from the city jail yesterday for drunkenness. investigators suspect intoxication of both men.
Work on the central market house and public auditorium near Fourth and Union will resume in two weeks or sooner once City Engineer Thomson informs the contractor of the city grade. Colonel May funds the project and warns of continued delays unless the city decides whether Fourth Avenue will gain seven feet or Fifth Avenue sixty feet. widening Fourth Avenue also impacts plans for the steel superstructure, with May ready to press for a firm decision.
Walter Scott a Death Valley miner from Los Angeles was severely injured in a Monday night auto crash while traveling from Los Angeles to Pasadena. The car carried three men, the driver speeding to beat a 46 minute schedule. Scott sustained injuries described as a possible broken vertebra with the body crushed from the waist down. doctors say paralysis is possible and a plaster cast covers part of his body.
Mageard, hunted and worn, was captured by Patrolmen Dolphin, Fistenseon and Anderson after a stabbing in an alley behind the Montana stables Sunday night. Imose, the victim, is slowly improving though weak from blood loss. A formal charge will be filed with Prosecuting Attorney Mackintosh Tuesday.
The report claims a traveling man named Murphy saved Edith Haley of Tacoma from an automobile on Seventeenth Avenue. Haley’s daughter fainted while her father cared for her and Murphy was struck by the machine and injured. Haley now seeks the hero to thank him.
Judge Hart denied Senator Eminens a new trial and sentenced the ex senator to five years in San Quentin for bribery. The 46 year old, frail and emotional, pleaded for leniency as Mrs Emmons watched. Grove Johnson posted bail of 10000 dollars pending appeal.
A. F. H. Yates testified in Wade court-martial that he warned Commander Young to start steam but avoid forcing boilers before Wade’s sailing time. Wade said he would be ready to sail by 1 p.m. The defense will argue the explosion stemmed from overpressure due to early steaming.
The report lists Oct 31 1905 clearings totaling $1,485,025.85 versus Oct 31 1904 at $969,556.46. The year over year increase amounts to $515,468.91.
Mystery deepens over the Friday night suicide of Frank B. Hubbell at the Hotel Washington. Banks report his accounts were satisfactory yet he sought cash by selling property at Pike and Terry. Widow and attorney refuse to reveal if a will exists, promising disclosures after the funeral.
Nathan Eckstein of Schwabacher & Co Seattle settled nearly 50000 with Citizens Bank of Buffalo to cover the Whit ney Eckstein Seed notes held against his brothers Charles and Adolph. The debt’s nonpayment is linked to the suicide of bank cashier Henry J. Block, whose worries over the notes drove him to self harm. Block’s funeral was held. Eckstein’s payment follows examinations of his affairs. Mrs. Eckstein declined comment.
Washington attorney W. F. Hays sues timber cruiser G. B. Peavy in superior court for 55000 claiming a 1898 contract split profits from 60000 acres of timber. Hays alleges Peavy learned buyers on his list and cut him out by selling tracts to them for 50 cents per acre, leaving Hays out in the cold.
A natural gas explosion at the Pinsgrove hotel in Pinsgrove, West Virginia, destroyed most of the town. The fire consumed the bank, the Methodist church, a seven story office building and ten dwellings before dynamite halted the blaze. Reported casualties are severe and losses reach about 200000 dollars.
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