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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1905
Page
3
The New York Court of Appeals upholds finality of election board returns in the Wood and protested ballot dispute. Five of the seven justices rule against reopening the canvass, with Justices Laughlin and Parker cited and Hearst supporters voicing concern over mandamus or recontesting ballots.
Multiple funeral notices and interment arrangements listed for December 13 and 14. Persons named include Len UMansvan, Mar Mo Arches, Susan Hroo Sb Withes, Nee Trey Meaney, Fatale Batter, Dab oT ft ard ter ve ch la on Feetroe fer, and Maria Toeht. Services set at various churches and cemeteries with details on residences and dates.
Fragmentary health office notice lists multiple individuals with ages up to 12 months and several adults, including 61 and 40 years, with unclear addresses and institutions. The garbled OCR suggests hospital and local care references but specifics are unreadable.
Special to The time New York December 1 Hearst attorneys announce plans to press a legislature to authorize reruns of ballots from the arching Trey case if the Court of Appeals ruling goes against them They expect a bill to be introduced early in the session It would be unprecedented but Hearst supporters claim constitutional support and immunity from injunctions The corporate counsel says an injunction to block the mayor from taking office would be impossible.
Wartime dispatches report a provisional government in Livonia and Riga’s fortress seized by rebels. Russian officials as prisoners. landowners flee as peasants flood estates and seize timber and grain. Clashes erupt across Baltic provinces with terror and displacement widespread.
Times correspondent reports wild talk in St Petersburg that Gen Count Alexis Ignatieff was arrested by imperial order for plans to set up a dictatorship. Inquiry at Ignatieff home yielded no confirmation or denial. Meanwhile in Sosnovice Russian Poland on December 13 Oscar Schoen, German mill owner, was shot by an unknown assailant after clashing with a terrorist committee.
Reports from Boston Philadelphia and Vienna recount brutal anti Jewish violence in Russia with 1000s killed and towns looted by mobs aided by authorities. Refugees describe ongoing devastation with inadequate aid while a suspect in Sakharoff's assassination is said to have fled across the border.
General Horace Porter served as toastmaster at a joint banquet by the Navy League of the United States the Naval Militia Association and the Naval and Military Order of the Spanish American War at the Willard. Admiral Dewey Admiral Schley and other dignitaries attended as Secretary Bonaparte urged legislators to support a liberal navy and public sentiment for sailors, while officers of the Naval Militia were elected, and a White House reception followed with a copy of a league resolution on restoring the Constitution.
Gen Thomas Allen Civil War veteran and pioneer Oshkosh editor dies at eighty in Oshkosh Wisconsin born Allegany County New York arrived in Oshkosh in 1870 Also Rev Dr Martin Serg Sonson nephew of the late Paul Kruger Boer War veteran and ex Oxford languages professor dies in Santa Barbara California today of asthma
The second international Hague conference on Red Cross topics appears unlikely to occur next year. Switzer lands invitations to a Berne convention to amend the Red Cross pact prompt debate on excluding Red Cross matters or delaying the Hague gathering. The Swiss government shows no desire to abandon its plan and talks hint at pre arranging the programme, risking indefinite postponement.
Chicago December 17 the examination of veniremen for the first jury in the beef trust cases continued today in the United States District Court before Judge Humphrey Whenceourt adjourned no jurors had been accepted
The President sent nominations to the Senate for various posts including treasurer for the Island of Vorta Area, collector of customs for Mississippi district Pearl, United States attorney for Alabama Middle district, postmasters in Mississippi and California, and registers of land office in Independence California. Names include Willoughby, Collins, Beate, Parsons, Neilson, Edwards, Mulvihill, Martin, Dixon.
New York December 13 ships arriving include Majestic from Liverpool and Queenstown bound for the Netherlands. Rotterdam, Boulogne, and Furnessia depart to Glasgow and Liverpool. December 12 Minneapolis arrives from New York and Southampton. Malver Wilhelm from Bremen heads to New York.
A Treasury Department panel audited F L Evans, disbursing officer for the Agriculture Department, finding the government owes him 210 dollars after ten years of service. Evans paid out over 41 million dollars with remarkable accuracy, yet ill health ends his career and prevents cashing the due warrant, which may be framed instead.
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