Assassin Strikes Again in Russia Shocking killing shocks St Petersburg
St Petersburg dispatch reports Lieutenant General Sakharoff assassinated by a woman from the Flying Columns at Saratoff. The act alarms authorities and fuels fears of a looming military dictatorship as pays and telegram workers show signs of strike collapse.
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London
St. Petersburg
Daily Telegraph
Reydtkuhnen
East Prussian
Sakharoff
Revolutionary Movement
Saratoff
Count de Witte
Rudiger
Madame Sakharoff
St. Petersburg unrest framed by embassy guard report
A St. Petersburg dispatch notes anger over U S embassy guard plans as marines assigned to embassy duties are described as trustworthy support Rather Washington reports indicate quiet conditions but rising citizen arming and disrupted communications with mail and telegraph halted while Berlin St Petersburg rail link stays open A League of Leagues dispatch dated December 5 is also mentioned
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London
St. Petersburg
United States
Washington
State Department
Berlin
League of Leagues
Overland Limited Collides With Freight Train. Nine Killed
Reports say the Union Pacific Overland Limited crashed into a freight train at Wilkies station injuring many. Nine people are confirmed dead including two mail clerks and four cooks. twenty passengers injured. Separate items note Indiana Adjutant General John R. Ward resigning amid a shortage probe of 8976.75. Father Gapon preaches to workers amid fears of revolution. Methodist conference upholds suspension of Rev. F D Blakemore for dishonesty and immorality.
Fourteen slag cars derail near Pratt City killing two men
In Birmingham on December 7 a line of slag cars derailed from a Frisco railroad trestle two miles north of Pratt City. Walter Howard and Arthur Howard died in the crash while riding the cars. Conductor R. E. Howard broke both arms and faces potential recovery issues. Flagman Thomas Steele was seriously injured.
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Birmingham
Ala
Frisco
Pratt City
Walter Howard
Arthur Howard
R. E. Howard
Thomas Steele
Hearst Family Ties and Nickname Buster
Editor Hearst contests George McClellan's mayoral election in New York. He has a young son named George after Senator George Hearst of California. Before marriage in 1908 Mrs. Hearst was Millicent Wilson of New York.
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Hearst
George KB. McClellan
New York
George
Buster
George Hearst
California
Millicent Willson
Esch Townsend Rail Bill Revised and Reintroduced in House
The Esch Townsend railroad rate bill returns in the house with widened ICC powers and longer terms, requiring detailed schedules and rapid decisions within ninety days. The measure allows rehearings, enumerates appeal routes, and mandates full railroad disclosure of accounts and contracts. Senate debates cover canal funding and various other measures.
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Washington, Dee
House
Townsend
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Shaw Urges Elastic Currency and Cautious Finances
Secretary Shaw presents the 1905 treasury report urging Congress to economize and maintain a reserve. He cites a deficit of 23 million dollars on 607 million income, notes a 80 million surplus, and calls for an elastic currency and national incorporation of trust companies after volatile financing conditions.
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Washington
Congress
Shaw
Treasury Department
Treasury
Senate confirms Elihu Root and Robert Bacon for State posts
In executive session the senate confirmed Elihu Root as secretary of state and Robert Bacon as assistant secretary of state. Reports from Victoria, B C say William J. Bryan is currently visiting Korea.
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Washington
Senate
Elihu Root
Robert Bacon
Victoria, B. C
William J. Bryan
Korea
Depew resigns from Equitable Life directorship
Chauncey M. Depew resigns as a director of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The move comes amid the Heller investigation. A brief vote by President Paul Morton accepted the resignation with no stated reason. Reports say John A. McCall of New York Life will divest from that company before the April trustees meeting.
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New York
United States
Chauncey M. Depew
Equitatle Life Assurance Society
Hellerance
Paul Morton
Bnquitable Soelty
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Company
Security Mutual Life Toeurance Company
Binghamton
Grange Leader Seeks Tax Relief on Denatured Alcohol
George R. Horton, master of the state Grange, plans to urge Congress to remove internal revenue taxes on denatured alcohol at the Grand Rapids meeting. He argues denatur ing makes it unfit for medicine or drink and positions it as a fuel and lighting rival, with distillation costs as low as 10 to 1 cents per gallon and potential local farm-based production.
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Lansing
Mich
Dee
George
Horton
State Grange
Grand Rapids
National Grange
Congress
Internal Revenue
Donnan pleads guilty in mail theft case at Fort Monroe
Edwin R. Donnan, son of the exAmerican consul at Belfast, Ireland, pleaded guilty in a United States court to stealing from the mails while serving as a post office clerk at Fort Monroe Virginia. He threw himself on the mercy of the court.
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Norfolk
Edwin R. Donnan
Donnan
Belfast
Ireland
United States
Fort Monroe
Prices Edge Higher as Hogs Lead Chicago Market Activity
Chicago markets show mixed receipts with hogs firming to modest gains while cattle and sheep remain mostly steady. Estimated receipts for today reach 30000 hogs and 18000 cattle with notable leftover and tomorrow's outlook pegged around 26000 hogs and 18000 cattle.
Public meeting urged to protest Constitution ship fate
Acting Mayor Daniel Whelton calls a Boston meeting at Faneuil Hall to oppose Secretary Bonaparte's suggestion to transfer parts of the Constitution to a new vessel and to use the remainder as a naval target. The plan draws urban protest and letters from leaders including Holmes and Eliot.
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Boston
Daniel Whelton
Secretary of the Navy
Charlestown Navy Yard
Bonaparte Sugg
North Atlantic
Whelton
Faneuil Hall
Faneuil
Navy
United States
William L. Douglas
Curtis Guild, Jr
Oliver Wendell Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Thomas W. Higginson
William Lawrence
Massachusetts
Congress
Wylton
Big pile of coal lost under bridge in Ohio River
Ten thousand tons of coal and ten barges, valued under $50,000, sank after the tow Coal City from Pittsburgh was driven by current under the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad bridge in Cincinnati. The accident caused no reported deaths as the barges capsized near the south pier wrecking the cargo.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Chesapeake and Ohio
Coal City
Pittsburg
Chesapeake and Ohio Bridge
Traveled man found dead from coal stove gas
In Kewanee Illinois on December 7 Israel Annerson a 58 year old traveling man from Buda Illinois was found dead in bed. The coroner ruled the cause as death due to ore gas escaping from a coal stove.
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Ill
Dee
Israel
Ann@erson
Buda
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