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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1905
Page
1
Reports from St Petersburg say fighting in Moscow continued to midnight with heavy artillery and Cossack violence. Insurgents hold barricades as leaders claim 30 000 troops mass near Orechovsneff to aid them. Warsaw strike ends with government conditions and prohibition orders in effect.
Acting comptroller of Domingo Customs cables from San Domingo that President Morales, unhappy with his cabinet, left the capital with a few followers to join the Yemistas against the Heracistas. He warns of an impending conflict near San Juan or Puerto Plata.
A Riga dated dispatch reports Baltic railway workers striking last night. Foreigners remain safe as soldiers police patrol streets. ships anchor in harbor for a potential governor general arrival while agitators push disarmament and parallel administrations emerge in towns like Libau and Coldingen.
Muskegon Michigan December 26 The option on the Muskegon Traction and Lighting company for 1 100 000 has been taken by the American Light and Traction company of New York City. Papers for formal transfer are being signed. The deal has been pending for a month.
In Barcelona an anarchist tried to stab Cardinal Cassanas y Pages bishop of Urgel as he left the cathedral. A canon blocked the attack and the would be assassin was arrested.
Ambassador Reid on behalf of the Nelson Memorial Society of England presented to President Roosevelt a bronze statue of Admiral Nelson cast from the guns of the Victory.
Taxes and interest totaling 690,008.21 dollars were paid to State Treasurer John J. Kempf by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul, the Northwestern, and the Wisconsin Western railroads in Milwaukee.
The International Live Stock exposition of 1905 closed with a weekly attendance of 557,743, about 90,000 higher than last year, in Chicago on December 26.
The 3 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs William Coleman of Pana is dead after swallowing candy given as a Christmas gift believed to have contained arsenic.
A 6 year old daughter of Constable Holder was injured in an incident in Jeaumont Texas. A white man, a stranger to the area, was arrested and jailed. A crowd gathered around the jail seeking mob action but the sheriff reports the suspect has been moved from the jail.
William Norton, a Black hodcarrier, visited Tony Howell's home to collect a dollar. Norton says Howell attacked him and Norton fired in self defense, the shot proving fatal. The incident occurred in Terre Haute, Indiana, on December 26.
Frank L. Scott vice president of Davie Real Estate in Colorado Springs was killed by wounds from a hold-up. The case underscores rising crime concerns and the violent incident shocks local business circles.
H. H. WD Peirce, pronounced Purse, serves as assistant secretary of state and led arrangements for the Portsmouth peace conference. A Cambridge native, he graduated from Harvard and the Royal School of Mines in London and may become minister to Norway.
A Paris dispatch to The World claims King Leopold wed Mme Vaughan twelve months ago in a private Laeken chapel with royal witnesses. Mme Vaughan, born in Leuven, is said to be a niece of a Belgian socialist deputy and has a child.
Illinois fish commission will deploy wardens along the Illinois River when ice forms to curb illegal fishing. A new ruling bans fishing under the ice unless a warden is present who must be paid by fishermen. Wardens will enforce catching only carp, buffalo and dogfish, which must be returned. President Nat Cohen warns game species are being drained and may be exterminated without drastic action.
A reflective exhortation notes the aging process marks on the face and urges kind speech and inner work. It encourages smoothing creases of worry with a positive life mission, aiming to enrich the world through purposeful action and self improvement.
Ministers from African Methodist and Baptist churches denounce Thomas Dixons play The Clansman as race hatred incitement. Rev P W Henderson of St James Presbyterian calls the work vile and urges life imprisonment for Dixon while praising interracial understanding.
Yale researchers at the Peabody Museum used a water displacement model to estimate the living weight of a Wyoming saurian discovered by O C Marsh. The full skeleton measures about seventy three feet long with hind quarters mounted to over sixteen feet high, yielding an estimated weight near 77 000 pounds.
A letter from Miller asserts he never eloped with Mrs. Fitzsimmons and denies any such plan. He addresses rumors about his supposed relationship and states he has no intention or idea of eloping, noting the unexpected arrival in Letelieu and comments on ongoing gossip.
Indiana senators and congressmen are being urged by United States Steel Corporation officers to back an appropriation for a deep sea harbor at Indiana Harbor and to support a proposed large steel plant in Lake County. The missive outlines plans for the mammoth facility and its anticipated impact.
The plan envisions a massive steel and ore facility to boost Indiana’s industry with Lake County as the central site. Ore from Lake Superior will be shipped by whaleback ships directly to Indiana Harbor, prompting calls to deepen and enlarge the harbor. Senators and representatives pledge support for funding, and construction of the plant is set to start early next spring.
Herring used Myrtle Bullard as a legal name to wed Myrtle Spencer. He sought a license in Charlotte Michigan then falsified details after learning the Spencer divorce case remained unresolved. Arrested in Ohio, the case centers on perjury and questioned marriage validity.
A Duluth man and a Chicago daughter file for an accounting of their father Eugene Ratner’s $500000 estate in Champaign. The executor Eugene Ratner contemplates a world tour.
Chicago markets show mixed receipts and higher bids across cattle hogs and sheep. Officials report week totals with hogs near five to six dollar ranges and cattle and lambs climbing into the upper price bands amid uneven demand.
A six story factory on West 58th Street and ElevEth Avenue burned causing $100000 loss. Water pressure failed as crews battled flames near crowded tenements on three sides. Spectators watched a dramatic rescue as a resident clung in a high window and a firefighter was hurt by falling glass.
Police interrupted a Philadelphia socialist gathering at a local theater after Ben Hanford denounced Roosevelt and czarist agents. The officer warned Hanford to tone down his remarks or face stoppage, prompting a dispute with Edward Moore defending free speech as police backed by a nearby squad.
Washington December 6 President Roosevelt removes Irving Baxter United States district attorney for Nebraska from office. The action follows the Richards and Comstock cattle raisers case over illegal fencing of government lands and their light punishment.
Assemblyman Berg of New Jersey has drafted a bill to abolish capital punishment and traveled to Trenton to seek Governor Stokes to grant reprieves for all condemned murderers until the legislature acts.
In St Louis Missouri on December 26 Bert Fuller aged 1 Mellow Fuller 15 and Charles Ildlfield 15 broke through a small pond ice while skating in a southern city park and drowned authorities reported.
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