Happenings Worldwide Condensed In Brief
News from Sydney reports hurricane damage in Samoa. Gen Horace Porter retires from the diplomatic service and calls for home. A tunnel breakthrough at Simplon in Switzerland is announced from Brigue. A fire near King City Kansas destroys about 10000 acres of grain, started by a threshing engine. Michael Dunne, ex Milwaukee building inspector, gets 18 months for taking a bribe to issue a permit. Rear Admiral W H Whiting retires from command of the San Francisco naval training station after 42 years. Mrs Lucy B Tyng, renowned temperance worker, dies at Peoria Illinois. she served as IL W C T U vice president and national secretary.
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King City
Kansas
W. H. Whiting
United States Navy
Naval Training Station
San Francisco
Lucy B. Tyng
United States
Peoria
Ills
Kansas Court Strikes Down Oil Refinery Law in Peru Case
Kansas Supreme Court declares the 410 000 refinery appropriation unconstitutional citing a prohibition on state involvement in internal improvements. The ruling also blocks the Kansas Natural Gas Company a Delaware entity from doing business in Kansas and owning assets, with the state pursuing quo warranto to remove it. Governor Hoch reacts with disappointment.
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Topeka
Kan
Peru
State Supreme Court
Green
Standard Oil Company
Kansas
Hoch
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Delaware
Kansas Charter Board
Charter Board
State Charter Board
Last honors paid to Secretary John Hay in Cleveland
The body of former Secretary of State John Hay lay in state at Wade Memorial Chapel and was laid to rest at Lake View cemetery after a brief funeral service. President Roosevelt attended with a large procession and a special Pennsylvania train carried the president and his party to Cleveland for the ceremonies. Attending officials included Shaw Hitchcock Wilson Metcalf Bonaparte Moody Cortelyou and Elihu Root among others.
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Cleveland
John Hay
Lake View
Wade
Lakeview
Pennsylvania Road
Union Station
Shaw
Hitchcock
Wilson
Metcraff
Bonnaparte
Moody
Cortelyou
Secretary of the Navy
Morton
Secretary of the Treasury
Lyman B. Gage
Elihu Root
Charles Emory Smith
Knox
P. M. Rixey
Loeb
Various Washington incidents and updates in July news
Fire in Pasco caused $25000 damage while another blaze in Everett’s Colby block did $40000 damage. Great Northern filed passenger tariffs. June sales at Spokane penitentiary reached $186516.24, up 14 percent. The steamship Minnesota returns from Yokohama, due Seattle July 20. Tacoma school bond issue $200000 upheld for high school at Tourist hotel site. Yale credits UW law work as equal.
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Colby
Everett
Great Northern
Railroad Commission
Law Department
State University of Washington
Yale University
Washington School
Yale Law School
Roosevelt Offers Elihu Root Secretary of State
New York reports that President Roosevelt offered Elihu Root the position of secretary of state and Root accepted. Oyster Bay confirms the formal tender and acceptance with an official statement from Secretary Loeb. Root will take the oath in a couple of weeks and move to Washington in September after settling business matters.
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New York
Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Root
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Elihu Root N
Loeb
United States
Washington
International Christian Endeavor Convention Opens in Baltimore
The twenty second international Christian Endeavor convention began in Armory hall Baltimore with about 800 delegates and nearly all 16000 seats filled. President Roosevelt sends greetings and urging citizens to raise the standard of American manhood and womanhood. An international festival of phase featured Rev Carey Bonner of London as 20000 gather. No location announced yet for 1907 convention.
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Baltimore
International Christian Endeavor
Armory Hall
Shaw
United Society
Roosevelt
Armory
Carey Bonner
London
Japan Revokes Tobacco Contract in Move on Tobacco Trade
Danville South Carolina July 7 The Japanese government has revoked its contract with the American Tobacco Company Japan becomes an independent buyer Tobacco will be shipped directly and manufactured in Japan
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Japan
Danville
S. C
American Tobacco Company
Mutiny on Kniaz Potemkine Sparks Civil War Talk
Reports claim the Kniaz Potemkine is at large in the Black Sea after coal and provisions are delivered. A manifesto proclaims civil war against the Russian regime while mutineers seek support in Batoum or Pot i, with Odessa rioters cheering the rising.
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St. Petersburg
Associated Press
Admiralty
Kniaz Potemkine
Black Sea
Russia
Dardanelles
Odessa
Caucasus
Poti
Batoum
Tiflis
Hero of the Seas Returns: Jones Body Repatriated in Paris
In Paris on July 7 the body of Admiral John Paul Jones was formally delivered to the United States in a ceremony attended by France’s top officials and American dignitaries. Gen Porter, Mr Loomis, and Admiral Sigsbee oversaw the transfer with naval and military pomp, reflecting a century of honored memory.
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Paris
France
United States
John Paul Jones
America
Avenue d’ Alma
McCormick
Porter
Loomis
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sigsbee
Rouvier
Diplomatic Corps
Army
Navy
Legion of Honor
Admiral Sigsbee
Gen. Porter
Congress
Jones
Ranger
Paul Jones
Sigabee
the Invalides
Cherbourg
Potemkine Declares War on Silent Russian Vessels
A Roumanian proclamation from Kniaz Potemkine declares war on any Russian ships refusing to join mutineers. The battleship seeks neutral port respect and requests forwarding to powers. Reports from Odessa say torpedo boats patrol and pursue the mutinous ship amid renewed fleet activity.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Kniaz Potemkine
Kustenji
Roumanian
Swedish Foreign Minister Denies Aggressive Actions
Count Glyden Stolpe said in an AP interview that no aggressive measures have been taken or contemplated by the Swedish government regarding alarming rumors from Christiania. The statement was released to quell tensions and assure neutrality.
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Stockholm
Count Glydenstolpe
Associated Press
Christiania
County school superintendents back consecutive institutes plan
In Tacoma on July 8, superintendents from King, Kitsap, Pierce, Kittitas, Thurston and Uhehalis counties discussed and favored holding county institutes in consecutive order. The proposal, also urged by the state board of education, aims to let educators attend institutes across different counties.
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Tacoma
King
Kitsap
Pierce
Kittitas
Thurston
Uhehalis
State Board of Education
Epworth League Attends Seventh International Convention
President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Epworth League gathering in Denver for its seventh annual international convention. His telegram read at the opening session expressed heartfelt wishes and prayed for their Godspeed in applying the motto Look up lift up. About 10,000 delegates had arrived with more expected.
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Denver
Roosevelt
Epworth League
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News OF the
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Way of
Sydney
Samoa
Horace Porter
Brigue
Switzerland
Simplon
Michael Dunne
Milwaukee
House of Correction
Hay
Washington News
Pasco
State Penitentiary
Minnesota
Yokohama
Seattle
Charles May
Big Bend National Bank
Davenport
Spokane
William E. Southwood
Atkinson
Bryan
Mr. Root
Jersey City
Christian Endeavorers
Revolu
Evening Standard
Epworth
Methodist
Ainine
Grip
Cee Se i
G Uloovre
Bor
W. W. Wrenn
East Market Street
Harper Rye
Kentucky
Harper
St. Louis
Fred Hewitt
G. W. Ninemire, Pres
Thos. Morgan
Pres
Ninemire & Morgan CO
Montesano
Aberdeen
Patterson & Locke Co
General Insurance Agents
Nature
Herald
The
Tacoma Daily News
Pacific Coast
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