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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1906
Page
6
A Washington Post dispatch from London reports a surge of peasant revolutionary sentiment in Russia. Avante troops martially execute three for church icon mutilation, while a Jew is killed by a fleeing suspect in Odessa after a police clash. Wolves with new passports drive mobility, and Marie Spiridenova’s exile tale stirs crowds as famine and unrest spread from Nini Novgorod to Astrakhan.
Fragment notes penalties for vodka use, reformists unite with Ruslan neighbors against the government. The press faces crackdown since the Dowma dissolved, yet cries for freedom persist, reflecting five years of change and restraint in the region.
Report from Kamchatka details July discovery of eleven dead Japanese sailors and a burned vessel Kagetsu Marie at the Kafohan mouth. Bloodied garments, bayonets found. Russians say ship was seized by Lt Sotnikoff’s party after a Japanese crew member killed the lieutenant.
Report from Riga dated September 22 says a bomb was hurled at Gov Gen Stolyo hub as he walked. A shop window shattered but no injuries. Police searched the house of the bomber, who was not found. In Petersburg twelve more arrests linked to the Stolypin residence bombing are reported. the group head is described as a Jewess.
The League for Political Education has issued a fund appeal to aid Russia’s freedom movement. Funds support distressed relatives, protection against COS sacks, secret presses, and organization, sent through safe channels to a central address.
A group representing sects including Douma and Jews along with unions of professionals and workers pledges support. Subscriptions are to be sent to Robert Erskine in New York. Signers include Belle Adler, Herbert Parsons, George Foster Peabody, Everett P. Wheeler, and Justice Martin J. Keagh.
Odense reports tense peace as Black Hundred frustrate Jews, mobs clash with police, a student is injured and thirteen hurt by revolver or knife. Moscow sentences four for a mirror store robbery, fifth sentenced to life labor. Warsaw funeral of Gen Nicolaieff proceeds under tight security after assassination.
In Petersburg a move to change electoral law toward proportional representation is urged by the permanent bureau of the Congress of Nobles to allow Conservative minority voice. The Obledntent newspaper, freely circulated to soldiers and police, calls soldiers to break discipline and avenge comrade deaths if terrorists attack officers. Liberals warn this incites a Warsaw style crisis and fear a Biedlce like disorder.
In Rome a six month program will move Pope Leo XII's remains from St Peter's to a tomb in the Church of St John Lateran. Cardinal Satolli directs a project costing about 40,990 dollars, with repairs to the church of 60,000 dollars over two years. The transfer aims for private handling to avoid clerical or anti clerical unrest seen in 1891. The Vatican seeks no Italian police aid for the transfer.
A Vanity Fair writer critiques country-house antics of the smart set led by Father Vaughan. He cites two incidents at a dinner: guests play leapfrog in a hall with a host of notable society figures and a guest is splashed with whisky while being weighed, followed by a woman pouring water on a guest’s neck.
Sept 22 dispatch reports rising disorders in Teheran connected to the constitutional movement. No bloodshed yet, but tensions rise as factions show defiance and demoralization spreads through Persian society. Britain and Russia urged to restrain abuses within legations to ease the situation. Also a local notice announces Anna Harman Tanner’s return to Tanner's Business College with shorthand and typing instruction at 8138 Bus Street North West.
British officials report progress in negotiations with the United States over Canadian fisheries and sealing. Sir Mortimer Ryltish, ambassador at Washington, leads talks on settling outstanding Canada and Newfoundland questions, with Canada showing favorable reception to the proposal for a complete pelagic sealing halt.
Paris September 22 Vatican plans to read the controversial letter to Catholic clergy in France at pulpit events tomorrow. Bishops signed the letter urging church state separation, while Cardinal Lecot rejects the separation, pledging loyalty to laws except the divorce of church and state. Officials say priests may relocate to church properties as government property is vacated.
Washington Post dispatch reports Paris will resemble an English or American city in some ways tomorrow as the most powerful man in France, reputedly directing a strong 1,000 man force, enforces a new law requiring many business houses to close for a weekly day of rest for workers.
London dispatch reports before King Alfonso's wedding that Queen Victoria seeks to relax rigid court rules. She resents barriers to inviting old friends and asks King Edward for counsel to “respect the people’s stupidities.” The queen dislikes mandatory evening dress at dinners, favoring simple attire.
Constantinople Sept 22 The Armenian question may be entering a new phase Leaders abandon revolutionary propaganda and appeals to powers Instead they plan to unite Armenians with other dissatisfied groups in the empire including Muslims and Christians to press for reforms through domestic pressure A multi million strong association could force the Sultan to take notice
An official dispatch reports Dutch forces on Bailan Island east of Java engaging recalcitrant chiefs. Pasar, capital of Badong, with princes their families were seized. Forty men were killed as part of a failed northward assault. European casualties and others are noted.
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