Wires That Girdle the Earth and a Week of Global Events
Congress plans extra session actions on reciprocity and tariff cuts for wool cotton and foodstuffs. Taft wears smoked glasses to manage workload. Attorney General Wickersham accepts Special Agent Scarborough’s resignation over stock speculation. War Department orders mobilization of six to seven thousand recruits near the Mexican border. Taft tells the Japanese ambassador relations are unusually friendly and troops sent to Texas relate to no war rumors.
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Ways and Means
Congress
Taft
Wickersham
George S. Scarborough
Frederick Simmonds & Co
War Department
Texas
Archbishop of Canterbury declines New York Cathedral invitation
The Archbishop of Canterbury cannot accept the New York diocese invitation to attend the consecration of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Emperor William and Empress Augusta Victoria and their entourage visited Schoenbrunn as guests of the Austrian Emperor.
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Canterbury
New York
St. John the Divine
William
Auguste Victoria
Schoenbrunn
Fanny J. Crosby
Bridgeport
Conn
Richard Burdon Haldane
Grace Lee Hess
United States
Academy
Paris
London
David Lford George
Kaiser
Schliemann
Taft
Multiple Robberies and Disasters Across States Hit in One Report
Six masked bandits robbed an Iron Mountain train in Kansas of 20000 dollars in cash and valuables after blowing the express safe. A mail pouch at Tarpon Springs Florida was robbed of 10000 dollars. Fire destroyed the axe factory of the Mann estate in Yagertown Pennsylvania displacing 100 workers. Robbers looted First National Bank at Blue Mound Texas taking 2500. Dr. Raymond W. Brown NY hospital physician died of cerebro spinal meningitis. Six Milwaukee firemen died as factory roof collapsed. Bills to ban intoxicants on interurban cars pass Massachusetts legislature. Marianna Sutterly missing Burlington NLL teacher reports she is alive. William Payne killed by a bull at Newton New Jersey. Five men looted Hudson State Bank Kansas of 4600. Two explosions damaged Omaha courthouse causing ceilings and walls to crumble. Robert E Ives Colgate student died of scarlet fever. Stanley Robinson St Louis owner died in Cleveland of blood poisoning. President Taft expresses sympathy to Booker T Washington over wounds from alleged attack. Bills for 3260000 state highway improvements reported in Albany.
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Kansas
Tarpon Springs
Fla
James H. Mann
Yagerstown
First National Bank
Blue Mound
Til
Raymond W. Brown
Hudson Street Hospital
New York
Milwaukee
Massachusetts
Marianna Sutterly
Burlington Nll
Teld
William Payne
Newton
N. J
Hudson State Bank
Hudson
Kan
Omaha
Robert E. Ives
Colgate University
Hamilton
N. Y
Stanley Robinson
St. Louis
Cleveland
Taft
Booker T. Washington
Far East tensions and storms at sea spark global tensions
Dispatches from London report possible Russian war plans against China. Maritime losses include three lives after the Bruce guille ashore at Port Nova Point. Competitions feature Combourg winning at Maisons Lafitte and Maple Leaf Ill. breaking a Solent hour record. Diaz Cabinet resignations follow a collective move by Enrique Creel.
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London
Far East
Russia
China
Bruce
North Sydney
N. S
Port Nova Point
N. F
Frank Jay Gould
Combourg
Reiff
Maisons Lafitte
France
E. McKay Edgar
Solent
Diaz
Enrique C. Creel
Edward Grey
England
United States
Trieste
Kaiser Wilhelm
Breguet
Douai
Italy
Quirinal
Prussia
Alsace-Lorraine
Abbatomaggio
Camorrist
Viterbo
Cornelia Mesersole
New York
Naples
St. Petersburg
M. Stolypin
Astraria Hotel Ends in a City Within a City
A lavish apartment hotel, the Astraria in Manhattan, dominates with shops, a bank, a garden court, and a roof garden. Tenant Robert Underwood resides in a richly furnished fourteenth floor suite as an anonymous caller presses for an appointment with him.
Art Collector Under Pressure Faces Exposure
In a quiet, opulent apartment above Broadway, Robert Underwood battles debt from stolen art and looming criminal claims. Bennington, a dealer’s manager, arrives with a delicate, possibly incriminating mission as Underwood confronts ruin and a possible final choice.
Court Strikes Down Workmen Comp Law
A New York Court of Appeals ruling declares compulsory workers compensation for dangerous occupations unconstitutional. Other items note California upholding Postal Telegraph condemnation rights, Roosevelt's UC charter day address, University of Missouri fire losses, and various political matters across states.
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New York
Court of Appeals
California
Postal Telegraph Co
Southern Pacific
Col. Roosevelt
University of California
Mechanics Arts
University of Missouri
Columbus
Amelia T. Worthington
Bishop Worthington
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Andrew Toth
Western Penitentiary
Cristobal
Panama
Long Beach
Cal
Corrigan
Gaynor
Corfu Laws Hold Tenants In Perpetual Lease System
Corfu’s land rules grant tenants a perpetual lease with rent in kind, making them co owners. Landlords are mostly absentees and tenants cannot be expelled except for non payment, poor cultivation, or lease transfer without permission. Attempts to change the system have failed, keeping a Homeric era arrangement.
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Corfu
Gan
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Assembly ‘ Ways and Means
Albany
Hermosillo
Mexico
Bertrand
Germany
Kiel
Free Church Council
Albert Hall
Lisbon
Portugal
Antwerp
Belgium
Howard Jeffries
Robert Underwood
Yale
Howard
Ert Underwood
Annie
Alicia
Astralia
Oward
Underwood
Ms. Jeffries
M'M
Mrs. Jeffries
Harnest
Mr. Jeffries
Judge Brewster
Provanirs Klein of
Sarhur Hornblow
Astraria
Manhattan Island
Astruria
Mr. Underwood
Mr. Bennington
Metropolitan Live
Rembrandts
Cuyps
Ruysdaels
Reynoldses
Ferris
Broadway
Alfela
The
New York Herald
Ouse
Man Bennington
Bennington
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