Reform fears spark Moscow unrest and adjourned zemstvo
Reports from Moscow describe rising fear of violence after the government note and the return of Grand Duke Sergius. A Troubotzskoi anniversary banquet was halted by police, and Moscow zemstvo adjourned sine die in protest. Witte seen as central figure guiding ministerial actions amid tensions and potential renewed terrorism risks.
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Zemetvo
Sergius
St Petersburg
Zomstvos
Moscow
Russia
Moscow Zemstvo
Grand Duke
Pekoff Zemstvo
Cherngorf
Witte
Meanime
M Witte
Commitite of Ministers
Committee of Ministers
Manue
Ruastu
Sviatopolk-Mirsky
Vy Mkmen
Trovbotesko
Minirs School
Technological Institute
Bors
Mémbée
St Petersburg Municipaliis Fresinca
Zemstvo
Zemetye
Zemstyrreetings
Troubot
Uproar in Budapest Chamber as Premier Fails to Secure Indemnity
Deputies in an uproar forced Premier Tisza to abandon his bid for an indemnity for government expenditures without Parliament approval. He adjourned the chamber to January 3 for the Emperor's speech, while opponents shouted that the king breaks his oath. Count Andrassy warns of a bloody electoral battle to come.
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Budapest
Chamber of Deputies
Tisan
Tisza
Count Andrassy
Earl's Cousin Sent to Jail Over Train Assault
London report says A. E. Craven, cousin of the Earl of Craven and son-in-law of Mr and Mrs Bradley-Martin, was sentenced to twenty one days in jail for brutal assault on a fellow passenger after a bumped knee incident. The magistrate called the act unjustifiable and blackguardly.
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A. E. Craven
London
Earl of Craven
Craven
Debrett
Princess Radziwill Sues Rhodes Executors For Vindication
London reports Princess Catherine Radziwill seeks legal vindication against the executors of Ceal Rhodes’s estate over accusations concerning her conduct with Rhodes. The Daily Chronicles notes a 2002 British court sentence for forgery tied to purported notes endorsed by Rhodes and suggests Rhodes’s death drew public scrutiny amid the case.
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Princess Radziwill
London
The
Daily Chronicls
Princess Radsiwill
Ceal Rhodes
Rhodes
Catherine Radsiwill
Eupreme Court
Capa Celery
Deal for copper mines under deposition in Butte
Augustus Heinze testified in a deposition before notary George F Dougal in a suit by the Butte and Boston Mining Company of Amalgamated Copper seeking 1.6 million dollars for ore allegedly illegally mined from the Michael Davitt mine. He acknowledged ongoing negotiations with Amalgamated Copper for sale of his Butte properties and pleaded memory gaps on several questions. He noted he was the first president of Montana Ore Purchasing Company and remained officially connected this year, but could not recall when he ceased as United Copper Company head.
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Butte, Mont
F. Augustus Heinze
George F Dougal
Butte and Boston Mining Company
Amalgamated Copper Group
Heinze
Michael Davitt
Amalgamated Copper Company
Butte
Amalgamated
Montana Ore Purchasing Company
United Copper Company
Voting Trust for Lehigh Five Year Trustees Named
Philadelphia December 28 trustees designated by George H Earle Jr. convened to discuss a voting trust plan for Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. The five trustees will control policy for five years, with authority to sell stock not below 135 a share, and detailed terms to be announced soon. The move represents a radical shift from mere stockholding to a voting trust.
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Philadelphia
George H Earle, Jr
Lehigh Coal and Navigaton Company
George H Earle
K. J. S Clark
George H. Frazier
Erskine Hewitt
R. Dale Benson
Bankruptcy Petition Thrown Out In St Louis Case
United States District Judge Adams dismissed a bankruptcy petition against Merchants' Brokerage and Commission Company of St Louis after plaintiffs could not identify the books presented as the firm's property. Plaintiffs are Stephen Lee Louis Schrader and H B Bray seeking $50,000. Hearing in the insurance case to annul a $200,000 policy on late James L Blair continues with a further hearing planned in Philadelphia.
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St. Louis
Merchants’ Brokerage and Commission Company of
St. Lous
United States
Adams
Stephen Lee
Mechanicsville
N. Y
Louis Schrader
Wheeling
W. Va
H. B. Bray
Crawfordsville
Ind
Philadelphia
Dea
J. L. Schofield
New York
James L. Blair
The
Plainiff
Atenographers
Alerka, Dto
Eta
Louta
Philaelphia
Terre Haute Business Man Ends Life In Office
Tarleton Thompson a prominent Terre Haute businessman and mine properties manager for J. Smith Talley died by his own action in his office. Cause unclear. Embezzlement charges also arise elsewhere. Six men killed in a Walville sawmill boiler explosion near Chehalis, Washington.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Tarleton Thompson
J. Smith Talley
Losses at Port Arthur Reported Amid Fort Siege
Tokyo reports nine officers and sixty five men killed on special duty and twenty three officers killed with fifty six wounded in Port Arthur, with Japanese mining and paralleling progress. Gen Kondrachenko dead and Gen Stoesel injured, Smirnoff wounded. Sevastopol damage noted. Garrison hopeful relief by March 1 as siege continues with high food prices and limited supplies. Torpedo-boat rumors denied. Vladivostok squadron in good shape. Japanese mounting two 28 centimeter guns on 203-Meter Hill.
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Tokyo
Navy Department
Army Department
Port Arthur
Kondrachenko
Stoessel
Smirnoff
Sevastopol
Waid
Pigeon Bay
Chefoo
Vladivostok
Bilany
Russia
Gromoboi
Quiet in Manchuria Reports from the Front
Huan Shan December 28 fronts remain quiet with no expected decisive spring movement. Japanese communications eastward draw concern as narrow gauge railways and bridges along the Yalu River bolster supply lines toward Korea, threatened by Rennenkampff raids southeastward.
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Huan Shan
Gen. Kuroki
Shahedzi
Fengswang-cheng
Saimatsza
Liso-yang
Haicheng
Yalu
Rennenkampff
Korea
Rumor of Mediation Mentioned by Berlin Officials
Berlin reports a fresh inquiry from France on terms Emperor Nicholas might accept for mediation. Official circles think France and Great Britain aim to end the war and that discussions may have begun recently.
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Berlin
Nicholas
France
Great Britain
Torpedo Boat Attack Near Kamchatka Incident
A Russian sailor aboard the Kamchatka describes torpedo boats attacking the vessel before the Roerestvenaky squadron action. He recalls 24 torpedo shots fired around 7 to 10 o'clock at night and thinks one torpedo boat was sunk. The admiralty says work at Avastopalle yards concerns Pacific Squadron vessels, not the Black Sea fleet.
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Bt. Petersburg
Roerestvenaky
Admiralty
Abastopalle
Aerond Pacific Squadron
Black Sea
Contabund for Japan Mongolia departs SF with record cargo
The steamer Mongolia sails from San Francisco carrying 18,000 tons valued at $1,500,000 for China and Japan. Cargo includes contraband goods for Japan. Notables aboard include Prince Fushimi and Archbishop Agius with secretary Mer Petrelli. A separate dispatch notes denials of steamship sales by Hamburg America and North German Lloyd. The State Dept reports mines placed at Kielung Harbor near Formosa and shipping advisories issued.
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Mongolia
San Francisco
Japan
Prince Fushimi
Suite
Agius
Philippines
Mer. Petrelli
Berlin
Associated Press
North German
Lloyd Lines
London
Phoenicia
Libau Ag
Hamburg
Japanese finance bills pass unanimously in both houses
Tokyo reports the House of Peers unanimously approved all government taxation and financial measures, with Count Katsura thanking the peers. Presidents were sent to meet Admirals Togo and Kamimura upon their Tokyo arrival, as the lower house lauded the fleet’s success at Port Arthur and praised leadership.
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London Times
Washington Post
Tokyo
House of Peers
House of Representatives
Count Katsura
Togo
Kamimura
Port Arthur
Archaeological Institute Meeting Elects New Members
Boston December 28 The sixth general meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America opens with many researchers and marks the society’s quarter century celebration. Carnegie grants Rome research fellowships and publication funds. Denis O Connell and H F Allen named new members. Prof H F Decoy to teach archaeology. Harvard changes on the executive committee.
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Denis O'Connell
Catholic University
Boston
Archaeological Institute of America
Teading
Carnegie Institution
Archaeological School At
Rome
The
Catholi University At
Washington
H. F Allen
Washington and Jefferson College
H. F. Decoy
Clement Smith
Harvard
Minton Warren
Cheyenne Indians Destitute Amid Food Ban
Rosebud Montana reports Northern Cheyenne in destitute condition as Commissioner Jones orders food limited to the young aged and infirm. Indians want to work but government has not provided jobs leading to reports of cattle raiding near the reservation. Indian Commissioner Nissen studied the situation and heads to Washington to urge action by the Secretary of the Interior.
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C. F. Nissen
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Fifteen Scots Denied Admission to United States
Fifteen members of the Community of Kingdom arrived in New York from Scotland last Saturday en route to Shiloh Maine to join a Holy Ghost and Us colony. They carried only 46 dollars and had no stated support plans, so immigration officials deported them as undesirable immigrants.
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New York
Maine
Community of Kingdom
Scotland
Holy Ghost
Shiloh
Mille Island
China to Decorate Francis Br. David Francia at World’s Fair
A cablegram from Imperial Viceroy Wong Kalkah to the World’s Fair Company reports China’s Emperor will decorate David Francia, head of the fair, with orders likely tied to the “Double Dragon.” In Cleveland, Italian Guitiano Piselotta was sentenced to life for the December 3, 1903 killing of Policeman Welk after a disturbance.
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Br. Loula
Wong Kalkah
Imperial
China
David BR. Francia
Wong Reid
Cleveland
Ohio
Guitiano Piselotta
Lfe
Policeman Welk
Welk
Restorative Nervine touted for tired mothers
The ad claims women with childcare and household duties drain vitality causing headaches insomnia and nervous weakness. It promotes Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as a nerve tonic and includes a testimonial from Catharine Lagleh of Leland Iowa praising improved health after use, with a money back guarantee if not beneficial.
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Househola Punties
Dr. Miles
Miles
Nervine
Catharine Lagleh
Leland
Iowa
Russia's freer press under censorship masks truth
John Callan O VAughlin surveys how Russian editors bend lines, use denials and innuendo to reveal military and administrative realities. He notes the shift after Prince Svietpolk Mirsky’s reforms, occasional censorship evasion by blank spaces and caviare printing, and the press’s persistent independence amid penalties and warnings.
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John Callan Ovaughlin
Empire
Prince Svietopolk-Mirsky
St. Petersburg
Europes
KILLED FELLOW-WORKER Guilmette Convicted of Murder
Crookston Minnesota December 28 Joseph Guilmette of Woonsocket Rhode Island was found guilty of murder in the first degree for the October 17 killing of Mathias Mongeon whose home is believed to be in Ontario Canada The crime followed a harvest quarrel over summer earnings The victim was shot and his head crushed then dragged to underbrush the body found later The verdict carries life imprisonment or hanging.
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Guilmette
Crookston
Minn
Joseph Guilmette
Woonsocket
RBL
Mathias Mongeon
Ontario
Canada
Gome
Charlestown Teamster Arrested for Wife Murder
John Ricker of Charlestown is under arrest in Boston on murder charges after police found his wife dead from two gunshot wounds in a Sullivan Street lodging house. Two women reported that Ricker confessed saying he had killed her and then fled, later being captured within an hour.
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Charlestown
Mass
Boston
John Ricker
Sullivan Street
Ricker
Railroad Official Dies After Blizzard Strike in Chicago
John G. Hartigan of Little Rock Arkansas, superintendent of the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad, died at St Luke's Hospital after being struck by a train near Dauphin Park Station in a Chicago blizzard. The incident occurred as he shielded his face from the storm and failed to note the approaching train.
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Chicago
John G. Hartigan
Little Rock
Ark
St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad
St. Luke’s Hospital
Dauphin Park
Ilinois Central Railroad
Hartigan
Westinghouse Wind Brake Fails to Impress Vanderbilt
Theodore Westinghouse, inspired by a train collision, develops an air driven brake from the engine. He presents it to Commodore Vanderbilt who questions the wind powered claim and ends the interview, marking a setback in his early career.
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Theodore Negin
George Westinghouse
Mount Cents
New York Central Railroad
Commodore Vanderbilt
Commodore
Madison's Great Report and the Madison Papers
The piece discusses the Madison reported convention speeches by Pinckney Hamilton Morris and Randolph. It reflects on how speeches reveal inner thoughts and the value of a unfiltered record of debates. The author notes these speeches were not for publication and ponders their influence on Congress and public welfare.
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United States
Frederic Ireland
McClure
Congress
Madison
Pinckney
Hamilton
Morris
Randolph
Dolly Madison Manuscript Worth Record Price
The report notes the unique access to historical material and the author s rare intellects and fame, highlighting the national affection for Dolly Madison and asserting that the manuscript deserves an extraordinary compensation unlikely to be surpassed.
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Dolly Madison
Narcotics Lesson Turns Uneasy in Sunday Sermon
A Chicago Record Herald item recounts a South Side Sunday-school talk by a new speaker who attempted a moral lesson. He opened with weather remarks, then described narcotics as opiates to a puzzled, mostly young audience before retreating in apparent embarrassment.
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Chicago Record-Herald
South Side
Oime
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