23 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1905
Page
1
In St. Petersburg officials report a partial general strike with over a third of workers obeying the council. The government keeps rail traffic moving as unions vow to bring others into line. Demonstrations are dispersed by Cossacks and clashes rise between strikers and non union workers in Moscow and other provinces.
Reported railroad workers strike in St. Petersburg. station and roundhouse crews and many trainmen join the walkout. An engineer was killed as trains pressed on. authorities vow full legal action and arrests for those failing to report for duty. Police post notices warning of arrests and fines.
Special dispatch reports revolutionists on Tverskaia street firing on Cossacks and dragoons while moving prisoners. A morning volley at the barricade leaves eleven workmen dead and eighty wounded. Police prefecture bombed, several killed. prefect escapes.
News from the Baltic provinces reports the insurrection widening with Frederickstad captured by rebels and Kreutzburg besieged. Esthonia sees locals ousting Russian officials and forming new local administrations as a train bearing rural guards is attacked near Taps but reaches Reval safely. workers join a pan Russian strike.
The finest grove of white oak trees on the William Ogden farm five miles south of Paris Illinois is being sacrificed due to the relocation of the Cairo division right-of-way of the Big Four railway. The Ogden family owned the land for over seventy years and sold the tract to the railway after resistance failed. The company then sold timber rights to a local hardwood mill. Some trees reach eight feet diameters and trunks eighty to one hundred feet high.
In Grand Rapids Judge Stuart makes permanent an injunction for employers, finding strikers may talk to non union workers and urge quitting. They may send letters to newspapers to state their case and seek public support. Only the ban on violent picketing remains upheld.
A gas explosion beneath J. D. Beshear’s Mount Auburn saloon wrecked the building owned by George Kraft. Loss totals $3,000. Bartender Charles Squires severely burned and likely blinded. Oliver Chick struck by a brick and injured, James Chick hurt by debris, and John Christian hurled through a glass door.
Charles Dana Gibson, famed creator of the Gibson girl, is in Spain and will devote a year or two to oil painting rather than pen and ink. The American illustrator earns about $60,000 annually. his wife and two children will join him for the winter in Madrid.
Washington reports that lawmakers depart for a holiday recess with many focusing on personal matters and vacations. Committees may lack quorums, while work on ratemaking and insurance bills continues for Congress reconvening. Senator Teller defends criticism. Senator Foraker's heavy committee load noted. Scott urges San Blas canal route.
New York December 28. Additional testimony before the legislative committee on insurance investigation shows the Mutual Life Insurance company used profits from securities sales to conceal reductions in real estate values or losses. Isaac Vanderpoel, chief examiner of the insurance department, said he had not found the matter in his prior examination. The transfers of profits to the debit side of the profit and loss account were noted by counsel.
A committee reported irregular transfers allegedly connected to President McCirdy and View President Grounds with claims of a near one million profit not shown. Vanderpoel admitted knowingly false statements but said he did not report them, deeming it unnecessary. The committee adjourned to December 27.
New York reports Edwin J. Top ley a OWL murderer was hanged at Jersey City county jail. He allegedly signaled with his hands after the drop to prove he was alive, while Rev Ell Mury who arranged the signal refused to confirm its nature. Tapley’s body convulsed until death.
B J Gibbons aged 37 shot himself at his Norfolk home after leaving a letter claiming big artistic talents and desiring two wives. Wife No 1 and two children survive, while wife No 2, whom he married in Valdosta Georgia, is believed to be in an Atlanta hotel. An affectionate letter signed Emma and Florida origins hint at his past. He previously preached as a Methodist in Princess Anne county Maryland and later worked as a traveling salesman for a Richmond firm.
Chicago market notes show cattle and sheep steady to unchanged with official receipts 24243 and shipments 9297. Hog prices firm with light hogs 4 85 to 5 15, mixed packers 4 90 to 5 20, heavy ships 4 85 to 4 95, porkers 5 00 to 5 05. cattle unchanged, sheep and lambs unchanged.
London reports that the Tory attack on Premier Campbell Bannerman’s policy to stop importing Chinese coolies into South Africa dominates the campaign discourse. Opposition portrays it as a grave move. observers in Johannesburg fear economic hardship for mines and possible disloyalty amid imperial policy tensions.
Henry Kuiper of Galveston Vox says he was worth 30000 before the Hood loss that wiped out his fortune. A naturalized US citizen since 1885, he hid on the steamer St Andrews to return to the United States after failing in Antwerp. He was caught and deported as a stowaway on the Colorado.
Appleton Wis Dec 23 Representatives of thirty canning factories organized at a meeting here the Wisconsin Pen Packers association The object is to regulate freight rates and discounts and to make a uniform contract and grades All the canning factories and packing houses in the state were represented I Reynolds of Sturgeon Bay was elected president William Larson of Green Bay vice president Hi Landreth of Oconto secretary
In San Antonio on December 23 George H. Turner was hanged for the murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch in March 1905. As he walked to the scaffold a quartet of black prisoners sang God Be with You Till We Meet Again and he left a final note wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
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