Porte Replies to Powers Supposed Armenian Reforms
Constantinople envoy notes Turkish reply to Britain France and Russia on Armenia reforms is unsatisfactory. Powers may refer matter to their governments. British insist reforms include high commissioner for Armenia, general amnesty, legal reversals, and Christian or Mussulman governors in key provinces. Local tax and admin costs to be funded locally before submission to Constantinople.
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Porte
Constantinople
Great Britain
France
Russia
Armenia
Beyront
Rassia
Van
Lerzeroum
Sivas
Bithas
Khartul
Trebizonde
Victory for Lochren as Pension Case Upholds Judge Long
Washington dispatch reports the Court of Appeals upholds Judge Charles D. Long of Michigan in the pension dispute. The commissioners had cut Long’s pension from 75 to 50 dollars monthly, a decision the district court had deemed invalid. The appeals court returns that pension rights are not vested and affirms the commissioner's authority to review predecessors’ acts.
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Lochren
Judge Long
Washington
Charles D. Long
Michigan
Board of Appeals
Commissioner of Pensions
Supreme Court of the United States
V Pensions
Loehran
Jude Long
Bradley
District Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Isea
Auditor Merton Removed From Navy Department
Washington special reports auditor C. J. Merton of Maine, placed in the treasury for the navy, has been removed after months of inquiry into letters deemed improper. The presidency and Secretary Carlisle faced a damaging case triggered by communications from his native state. Meanwhile Worcester special notes Rev. Henry M. Scudder, eminent missionary and clergyman, died of apoplexy born February 6 1822 in Ceylon and educated in America. He left a wife and three children.
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Merton
Washington
C. J. Merton
Maine
Treasury
Navy Department
Department
Carlisle
Ylin
Henry M. Scudder
Worcester
Mass
Emnent
Ceylon
America
San Francisco
Brooklyn
Chicago
Rock Island Earnings Report Reveals Strong Net Income
Chicago special reports the stockholders of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad heard the annual earnings showing net earnings figures and surpluses. Directors and officers were re-elected as part of the session. The brief item notes a robust financial picture and ongoing corporate leadership.
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Tock Island
Chicago
Chicago, Rock Ishumt and Pacific Railroad
Temperance Society Draws Wail A Bin Meeting
The Q sisters temperance group plans a large Rathel delegation three miles distant to join the society. Members pledge to abstain from alcohol and not associate with or marry drinkers. Young men retaliate by planning to declare several engagements as a show of disapproval.
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Q Sisters’ Temperance Society
Pew
Rathel
Saul
Corinto Cargo Missed Chance by British Occupation
Managua dispatch notes that if the British had held Corinto longer they could have seized the De Bay steamer arriving with modern artillery rifles and supplies for about 5,000 Nicaraguan troops. Admiral Stevenson could have claimed £150,000 in indemnity and humiliated Nicaragua, but ships sailed away on May 11 under the British flag, avoiding seizure and sale.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Corinto
de Bay
Stephenson
Great Britain
Fla
Stevenson
de Buy
Germany
Olney Likely Next Secretary of State in Cleveland Era
Washington dispatch predicts Richard Olney of Massachusetts will succeed Walter Gresham as secretary of state. Edwin F. Uhl of Michigan to remain assistant secretary. Nomination for attorney general vacancy unclear while Cleveland weighs the shifts following Gresham's death.
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New York
Washington
Richard Olney
Massachusetts
United States
Walter Q. Gresham
Edrwin F. Uhl
Michigan
Olney
State Department
Carlisle
Lamont
White House
Woodley
More Mills to Open Providence ER and Missionary Destruction
A Providence report notes mills reopening inviting жар 4,000 idle operatives amid best hopes for gradual recovery. Shanghai dispatches state rioters destroyed missionary property at Ching Tao with missionaries safe. Gresham’s pension issue ends as wife takes monthly $80. Jarwich racing: Jubilee Cup sees Audrey first, Niagara second, Stephanie third. Brittania defeats Ailsa.
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Providence
Olneyville
Atlantic Mills
Shanghai
Ching Tuo
Szechnen
China
Yames
Missionary Society of the
M. EB. Church
Ching Tao
Gould
Jarwich
England
Audrey
Howard Gould
Niagara
Stephanie
Brittania
Fires Devastate Pennsylvania Oil Fields And Nearby Towns
A massive area in Pennsylvania and adjoining regions faces widespread fires. Oil rigs and millions of feet of timber burn across Bradford to Knapp’s Creek with evacuations and halted communications. Knapp’s Creek population around 1000 reports fire through the oil fields and several dwellings lost.
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Pennsylvania
Bradie
Ormsby
New York, Lake Erie and Western
Allegheny
N.Y
Butalo, Rochester
Pittsburg
Dent
Emery Ol Company
Routherford Run
Coon Run
Hradford
Haines
Olean
N. Y
Knapp
Jealous husband assaults wife in Evansville murder attempt
In Evansville Indiana Valentine Weissman attacked his wife after months of jealousy. He slashed her with a razor in a brutal assault that left the woman gravely injured and the baby unharmed. Neighbors interrupted the attack and Weissman was captured after being found naked on a fence. The wife and child were reported as dying potential outcomes.
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Ile
Weissman
London loan eases Newfoundland pressure
Colonial Secretary Bond secures a 2 609 000 loan from a London banking syndicate at 4 percent for forty years to relieve Newfoundland’s finances. Washington reports show national bank notes in circulation rising by 4 287 000 in a year, with other shifts in deposits and bonds. A Colima disaster dispatch blames heavy deck cargo, while Spain’s Madrid note to the Alliance dispute is deemed satisfactory. Rome notes socialist gains tied to Crispi opposition.
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London
St. John
N. F
Bond
New York
Savings Bank
Comptroller
Washington
the Monthly
Comptroller of Currency
United States
Colima
City of Mexico
War Department
Acapulco
Pacific Mail Company
State Department
Madrid
Spain
Gresham
Alliance
Geraldine's London Ride Brings Matters to A Moment
Geraldine hosts Sir Frederick Bellenden and Cecil Raymond at tea after a Berkeley Chapel plan. Bellenden, wiser and older, notes the shift from past closeness to cautious silence as Geraldine’s new social world unfolds on the May Row.
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Frederick Bellenden
Bellenden
Mount Street
Geraldine Cecil
Cecil
Sir Frederick Bellenden
Granny
Berkeley Chapel
Capt. Bellenden
Sir Frederick
Geraldine
Grosvenor Square
Althoug
Benendey
Hergelf
Siss Campbell
Cecil Raymond
Raymonds
London
Inchmaren
Raymond
Sir Lancelot
Lancelot
Qoth
Uncheon
Inchmaven
The Czar's White Horses From Imperial Stables
The Czar of Russia owns fifty pure white horses with blue eyes used in state processions and never sold. When past use they are shot and buried with ceremony, a practice noted with reference to Queen Victoria's horses.
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Russia
Imperial
Boston Herald
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Turkey
Hons Kong
Mormosa
Pane
Formosa
the ‘Times
Vien-Tsin
Liao Tong Peninsula
Dian
Diaz
Danbury
Conn
Atlanta
Italy
Rome
Crispi
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