Secretly Murdered 410 for Tar Sultan Revealed in Spy Reports
In London Zia Bey, ex head of Turkey’s secret police and Young Turk adherent, says he ruined ministers and officials under orders from Yildiz Kiosk and fled to avoid extradition. He notes vast sums tied to the Sultans bribery and empire-wide manipulation, while detailing escapes and dangers amid exile.
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Zia Bey
Secret Police
London
Fomer
Turkey
Yildiz
Porte
Izzet Pasha
United States
Europe
Turkish ruler urged to defend liberties against abuse
The speaker vows that the sultan must safeguard the nation’s rights or face downfall if he tampers with liberties. He blames European powers for Turkey’s past weakness and appeals to Great Britain and France to support freedoms and reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Great Britain
France
Rubens Descent from the Cross Identified in Kalisz
The Descent from the Cross in St Nicholas Cathedral, Kalisz, is confirmed as Rubens’s painting. Count Mycielski, art historian at Jagielon Cracow, examined the work showing five canvas holes and prior renovations. He urges expert cleaning and preservation funded by the church. The painting, dating 1618 to 1620, was brought from Antwerp by Peter de Zeronice Zceronsky, a 1630 mint inspector in Bydgoszcz.
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Warsaw
Rubens
St. Nicholas
Kalisz
Count Mycielski
Jagielon University of Cracow
Peter de Zeronice Zceronsky
Bydgoszci
Bromberg
Prussia
Bydgoszcz
Antwerp
Kalisz Gymnasium
Governorships for Sale Reported in Persia
A Teheran dispatch says provinces report the continued sale of governorships to officials who divert district revenues. A palace group governs sales, with some posts sold twice. Russian Minister Hartwig has urged the Shah to end the practice, but the Shah is hesitant.
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ST. Petersburg
Teheran
M. Hartwig
Persia
Tabriz Sees Surge of Murders in Streets
London dispatch reports Tabriz entering a spree of assassinations with two prominent merchants killed in the last forty eight hours and tensions rising in the city streets.
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London
Tabriz
Bloodhounds Searched for Murder Suspect Near Sevenoaks
In Sevenoaks England Aug 25 there has been no arrest in the murder of Major General Tuard’s wife at a summer house in a nearby wood. Tramps have frequented the wood recently and police have a description of a man seen leaving the house. Bloodhounds will be used to track the suspect.
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Sevenoaks
England
Tuard
Venezuela Declares End to Friendly Relations With Netherlands
At The Hague Venezuelan Foreign Minister Paul delivers note detailing grievances over de Reus, Gelderland salute incidents, and Curacao attacks. He cites personal expulsion of de Reus, refusal to salute Venezuela, and consular assault as reasons to sever cordial ties until satisfaction and reparations are provided.
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The
Hague
M. de Reus
Netherlands
Venezuela
West Indies
Josée Jesus
Paul
Gelderland
Porto Cabello
la Guayra
Sefior Lopez
Curagao
Curacao
Willemstad
GeldersJand
Zace
Poe After Castro: Yale? No, Poe Linked To Filibuster Plan
Reno Nevada reports Gen Raphael Ysabel Mendez, long in exile since 1892, is organizing a filibustering expedition to topple Castro. Funds from a mining deal fuel outfitting of recruits, with Princeton football figure John Poe named as an associate. Poe, about 34, hails from a Maryland line prominent in Princeton athletics, and his two stints on varsity ended with academic dismissals.
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Reno
Raphaeel Ysabel Mendez
Nevada
Venezuela
la Victoria
Mendez
John Poe
Princeton
Maryland
Princeton College
Poe
Iincce
Mutiny Aboard German Collier Off Brest
The crew of the German collier Tomcorps from Emden to Algiers mutinied at night in the Channel, raked out the fires, and anchored off Conquer. They forced the pilot to Brest where the German Consul investigated. They claimed the ship leaked and was unseaworthy and refused to sail until repairs were made.
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Brest
Tomcorps
Emden
Algiers
Two Americans Robbed in Paris On Steamship Contact
An American named William Straube of New York said he was robbed of 2500 dollars and a gold watch and chain by two American crooks he met on the steamer. Paris police also report a second American, a woman, robbed of 1000 dollars under similar circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
William
Straube
New York
Colombia adopts treaties and conventions with multiple nations
In Bogota on August 25 the National Assembly announced Colombia has ratified a treaty of friendship and commerce with Japan, a treaty with Switzerland, a commercial and industrial pact with Great Britain, and a fiscal convention with the Holy See. It also approved a sanitary convention with the United States, a customs tariff, and a proposal to convene the Assembly annually. In Istanbul the armored cruiser Zedjidieh prepares to sail to Smyrna to greet the Greek squadron. In Managua the American Minister W. L. Merry was received in private audience by President Zelaya in cordial exchanges.
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Bogota
National Assembly
Colombia
Japan
Switzerland
Great Britain
Holy See
United States
Republic
Constantinople
Zedjidieh
Cramps
Philadelphia
Turkey
Smyrna
Managua
Nicaragua
W. L. Merry
Costa Rica
Zelaya
Wrightundertakes flight amid gales in Le Mans dinner honor
Wilbur Wright undertakes a flight at Le Mans amid gale conditions. In the evening a dinner was given in his honor by Baron d Estournelles de Constant, Henry Far mar Lazare Weiller, and other aeroplanists were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LE Mans
Wilbur Wright
Marablene Selew
Baron d’Estournelles de Constant
Henry Farmar Lazare Weiller
Hafid Vows to Seek European Gold as Morocco Reels
Paris dispatches report Mulai Hafid proclaimed Sultan after Abdul Aziz defeat. He must tax and raise an army to rule Morocco and seek European money to fund operations. France and Spain may recognize Hafid under the Algeciras framework, while Abd-el-Aziz shifts to Settat and regroups toward the coast.
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Paris
France
Morocco
Abd-el- Aziz
Mulai- Hafid
Mulai Hafid
Tangier
Hafid
Europe
Pre
Spain
d’Amade
Abd-el-Aziz
Settat
Hafid Declared Sultan Amid Moroccan Crisis
Tangier reports Murat Hafid proclaimed Sultan at Rabat and Casablanca after defeating his brother, the Sultan of record. Diplomatic Corps abroad seek guidance on recognizing Mulai Hafid from their home governments.
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Tangier
Murat Hafid
Sultan
Morocco
Rabat
Casablanca
Mulai Hafid
Sternburg Funeral Friday in Leipsic estate
Announcement lists the funeral and burial of Baron Speck von Sternburg German Ambassador to the United States. Services will be held at Lutzchena near Leipsic next Friday with the coffin moved there tomorrow. Baroness von Sternburg has received condolences from Roosevelt, German Embassy officials, J. Pierpont Morgan, and German American societies.
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Heidelberg
Baron Speck von Sternburg
United States
Lutzchena
Leipsic
Baroness von Sternburg
Europe
Roosevelt
Washington
J. Pierpont Morgan
Tampa
Fla
Baron Alexander von Sternburg
Away with it says Prince Berlin reform notes
Aug. 23. Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, on vacation from the Ministry of the Interior, sent back a bundle of reports with Outside says Away with all this superfluous scribble. He supports reform of dull processes and notes district sheriffs are overworked and bogged by unnecessary writing. Officials say his inside remarks are sharper than the outside message.
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Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
Friedrich Wilhelm
Kaiser Wilhelm Not Injured. Rumor Denied at Cassel
Aug 25 Kaiser Wilhelm is not injured despite circulating rumor after a military band did not play due to the death of Baron Speck von Sternburg. The Kaiser said he felt the diplomat’s loss deeply and rode in the forest at Wilhelmshire this morning.
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Cassel
Kaiser Wilhelm
Wilhelmshire
Baron Speck von Sternburg
Former Portuguese dictator pledges to avoid public life
In an interview at Biarritz on August 25, Senhor Franco, former ruler of Portugal, said he would not participate in public life again and is currently gathering material for his memoirs.
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Biarritz
Senhor Franco
Portugal
Death by gas mirrors inventor’s prior suicide
Henry Peters of 503 West Forty-first Street committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas yesterday. He had been foreman in John Burry’s shop, the inventor of ticker machines, who ended his life at his Staten Island home about six months earlier after financial losses. Peters had lost his position a year ago and had forecast a similar death after Burry’s suicide.
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Henry Peters
West Forty-first Street
John Burry
Staten Island
Peters
Mr. Burry
Burry
Skin graft saved seaman in Bayonne hospital accident
Captain John Welshin of 25 West Twenty fifth Street Bayonne NJ received a leg injury when his right leg was caught in machinery on a barge three weeks ago. Doctors grafted skin from his own side to the wound after finding no donor. The operation succeeded and he is recovering.
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John Welshin
West Twentyfifth Street
Bayonne
N J
Bayonne Hospital
Corwin
Welshin
Taft Hopeful in Hot Springs As Illinois Battle Looms
Hot Springs Virginia August 25 Two U S Senators Hopkins of Illinois and McCumber of North Dakota with James Kennedy and Wade Ells talked politics with Mr Taft. Hopkins framed Illinois primary law as showing him the Republican Senate nomination despite rivals Foss and Mason contesting. Taft urged tariff reform while Hopkins argued Bryan would gain labor votes via Gompers endorsement.
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New York Times
Hot Springs
United States
Hopkins
Illnois
McCumber
North Dakota
James Kennedy
Wade Ells
Ohio
Taft
Illinois
Senate
Foss
Mason
Republican Party
Ways and Means
House
Mr. Taft
Senator Hopkins
Cincinnati
Hiiness
Springfield
United States Senate
Hansbrough
Thomas F. Marshall
McCamber
Tuliows
Marshall
Johnson
Wade Ellis
Milton D. Purdy
Department of Justice
Minnesota
Ellis
Roosevelt
Harris
Taxi collision damages car. no injuries reported
A taxicab carrying John Hill and Louis Hausman was badly damaged after a crash with a southbound Second Avenue surface car at Second Avenue and Thirty fourth Street. The cab traveled east through Thirty fourth Street toward the East Thirty fourth Street ferry. No one was injured.
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John Hill
East Seventeenth Street
Thirty-fourth Street
Louis Hausman
Lafayette Street
Second Avenue
Thirtyfourth Street
Adlers Aided in Removing Body in Camden Trunk Case
Mrs Bunnie Rosenbloom and daughter Eva 16 admit knowledge of Samuel J Rosenbloom murder and body hidden in a trunk in the cellar. Alexander Rosenbloom and two Adler brothers allegedly moved the trunk to a wagon, then to Johnstown and Camden before disposal. Adlers arrested, Rosenbloom family denies killing.
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Baltimore
Bunnie. Rosenbloom
Samuel J. Rosenbloom
Camden
Stillire
Eva
Alexander
Joseph
Louis Adier
Ohers
New York
Rosenbloom
Newark burglars confess in Manhattan pawn case
Detectives tell George Williams alias Humpty and two other suspects that proceeds from several Newark robberies were found at Abram Rosenthal a pawn broker in Manhattan. Williams admits he Dick Vaughn and Martin Tiffany robbed Newark targets including the New Jersey Manufacturing Company 35 995 Market Street on December 24 taking silk handkerchiefs and other items. They also allegedly hit John Bahrs Brothers necktie factory 313 Market Street January 16 taking silk bolts and neckties and plunder from the Inter State Map Company.
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Ryan
Harris
George
Humpty
New York
New Jersey Manufacturing Company
Market Street
John Bahrs & Brothers
Inter-State Map Company
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Young Turks
Euad Pasha
Young Turk Party
Brussa
Kalisz Rubens
Shah
Mrs. Luard
Broadway Saks & Company
34Th Street
Stern Brothers
Madras
West Twenty-third Street
Senor de Jesus Paul
Ceived
DE Reus
Castro
Ysabel Mendez
Notes of Foreign Affairs
Sternburg
Leipste
Kaiser
Wilhelmshoehe
von Steiburg
Franco
Foreman
Bryan
Gompers
Congress
Gom Pers
Federation of Labor
Adlers
Clare
Joseph and
Louis Adler
Morires Street
Newark
Jobs
Williams
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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