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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1905
Page
3
London dated report cites Daily Telegraph correspondent Dr. Dillon predicting imminent collapse of Russian finances and a historic commercial crisis, with famine and continuous fighting in Moscow as revolutionaries fear the effects.
Representative McCleary of Minnesota predicts passage of a maximum and minimum tariff bill. He revised and reintroduced the measure and says Ways and Means and Senate Finance leaders back broad presidential discretion for reciprocal trade. Senator Lodge has a similar proposal and Aldrich backs moving the bill in the Senate.
In Moscow a government assault massed 25,000 troops around the Kremlin as grape shot and artillery fired on a procession of workers with red flags. Barricades rose at the Triumphal arch and Dostrovsky streets but were overrun. casualties likely run into the hundreds, per police estimates.
Moscow reports heavy artillery and rifle fire throughout the day as barricades are destroyed by cannon and dragoons. Fighting spreads through Trabnois square Sadovia Karetniaia and surrounding streets with high casualties among revolutionaries and civilians. A force of gendarmes in Karetniaia street was attacked, suffering twenty dead or wounded. Dragoons were said to have fired into houses where rebels hid.
Hayward Wisconsin reports the death of the Chippewa chief and medicine man aged 109 at Reserve village. He collapsed after delivering a ceremonial talk during a feast while smoking the pipe, ending a long life born near the Head of the Lakes in 1796 and witnessing his tribe's transformation through centuries.
Representative Sulzer warned at the Baptist Church of the Epiphany that trusts and corporate power threaten American institutions. He noted the US population about 80 million with wealth highly concentrated and predicted the trend could place control in a few thousand people. He contrasted John D. Rockefeller and Croesus wealth, citing Croesus at 10 million dollars.
The east bound Denver and Rio Grande passenger train from Silverton wrecked three miles from Durango Colorado. A large number of passengers were injured twelve seriously. The accident was blamed on a defective rail. The chair car rolled down an embankment dragging other cars for over 400 feet. The engine tender nearly tipped as wheels ran on the ties amid intense cold.
A riot broke out at Eighteenth and Dearborn streets in Chicago as Italians and African Americans clashed. Over 300 participated, two Italians were shot and badly hurt, a Black man was stabbed but not fatally, and twenty were arrested as police restored order. Tensions remain high with fears of renewed violence.
Nearly 100 club rooms were raided as police arrested and charged sellers of liquor violating the Sunday saloon closing statute. Gov Folk ordered suppression of lid hitting clubs, with raids repeated in many locations and proprietors re opening after bonds.
Reports from St Petersburg say direct telegraphic link to Moscow was cut briefly but reestablished by a roundabout route. Fighting Sunday through midnight turned into a slaughter with machine guns artillery and canister, as insurgents and Cossacks clashed amid barricades and charges amid vodka fueled drunkenness.
In New York on December 26 a theft occurred at a Fifth Avenue antiques firm. A thief smashed the show window at 252 Fifth Avenue and took a jewel box containing diamonds emeralds rubies topazes and pearls valued at four ace dollars.
In San Francisco on December 26 former United States Senator Bard suffered serious injuries after being thrown from his buggy into a ditch near Oxnard. He sustained a dislocation and a fracture of his left hip.
In Wathena Kansas on December 26 John Schatz a leading merchant stabbed Edward Morris a farmer at the store threshold after Morris complained about the shoe price and was told those shoes are much too good for you to wear The attack occurred before about 50 witnesses as the crowd watched in horror
James E Martin a well known New York society figure and member of the New York Racint Club Metropolitan Club and Country Club died instantly near Flushing Long Island when his automobile struck loose dirt and overturned Stacey Clark a passenger was seriously injured Martins skull was fractured Witnesses included his wife son and daughter in law The deceased was a brother of Bradley Martin and brother in law of W Gould Brokaw and a retired banker of substantial wealth.
Justice Dowling upholds Wallace C Andrews will giving estate valued at two million dollars to the Andrews Institute for Girls in Lake county Ohio. The four cornered fight involved the executor the Andrews fautttata the Smithsonian Institution and relatives as separate parties.
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