Willemstad Welcomes Venezuelan Exiles Amid Castro Era Turmoil
Exiles return to Caracas at Gomez order as prisons are cleared. Zulia brings eighteen former political prisoners to Willemstad Curacao with Gen Bello aboard. United States cruiser North Carolina, with Special Commissioner W S Buchanan, sails toward La Guayra. Maine follows at distance. Independence moves praise Gomez policy and efforts to repair justice for interior regions. Paul sails to Europe to negotiate Venezuela France Holland disagreements.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Caracas
Gomez
Venezuela
Zulia
Maracaibo
General Bello
Fort San Carlos
Gregorio Riera
Castro
Curaca
United States
North Carolina
la Guayra
W. S. Buchanan
Maine
Interior
José de Jesus Paul
Europe
France
Holland
Venezuelan mission moves fast toward understanding
Special commissioner William S. Buchanan is expected to land near Caracas tomorrow as the cruiser North Carolina closes in on La Guayra. If talks with the Gomez government proceed at this pace, an understanding could be reached within hours. The swift response follows overtures from Venezuela and rapid Navy movements to escort the envoy.
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Washington
William S. Buchanan
United States
Venezuela
Caracas
North Carolina
Root
Maine
Buchanan
Norfolk
Navy Department
Opium Riot in China at Tungan Near Amoy
Orders to halt opium poppy planting provoked a riot at Tungan twenty miles north of Amoy. One officer and ten civilians were killed as the populace rose in arms. Five hundred troops have been dispatched to restore order and authorities vow to enforce the anti opium edict.
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MQY
Tungan
Amoy
Synod dethrones Patriarch in Jerusalem crisis
The Greek Synod dethroned Damianos the Patriarch of Jerusalem after he refused to resign. He backed reforms opposed by the Synod who would lose church revenues under their control. Troops guard the Patriarch’s palace while awaiting instructions from Constantinople.
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Jerusalem
Damianos
Constantinople
Wright to Rome for aviation lessons to Italian pilots
Paris reports Wilbur Wright will soon travel to Rome to instruct three Italian pilots in operating his aeroplane. Rome confirms Wright and fellow aviators Farnan Delagrange Blériot and Esnault-Pelterie plan to participate in Brescia international aviation races in August 1909.
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Paris
Wilbur Wright
Rome
Messrs. Wright
Farman
Delagrange
Bleriot
Esnault- Pelterie
Brescia
Russian Budget Provisional Expenditures for 1908
The Russian finance minister submitted a provisional budget totaling 421 million dollars for January to April 1908. The budget, prepared by an interministerial committee, saves 9 million over 1908 credits and reserves funds for extraordinary Treasury disbursements. The Duma cannot finish examining the regular 1909 budget until spring, and naval and other appropriations are kept intact despite earlier opposition.
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ST. Petersburg
M. Kokovsoff
Duma
M. Kokovsff
Finland Expels Jews Amid Foreign Flows of Restriction
In Helsinki Finland 27 December authorities ordered thirty Jewish families to emigrate under a Senate license system that grants six month residence with renewal at its discretion. Statutes restrict Jewish property ownership citizenship and residency. A 1850 exception favored 200 families, while the current legislature debates prohibitions on kosher slaughter, warned by Russian Jewish influence.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Senate
Russia
Danger to Russian Jews Intensifies in Aftermath of Stolypin Circular
Dr. Herbert Friedenwald of the American Jewish Committee says recent Russian newspapers show renewed Jew hating persecution in Russia. He cites The Jewish Daily News report about Jewish families driven from inner gubernias by Stolypin's circular and a deputy's plea to Krishonofsky, who condemns the circular as illegal and vows thousands of Jewish families must leave the interior.
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Herbert Friedenwald
American Jewish Committee
News
Stolypin
Zgobernias
Russia
Duma
Krishonofsky
St. Petersburg
Inter
Two Cent Fare Law To Go In Pennsylvania
Philadelphia news relates that the two cent fare law passed last year likely will be repealed when the Legislature opens next month. Leaders say most members favor repeal as the policy has proven disastrously unworkable for major railroads and many small lines alike. The law’s unconstitutionality in charter and special laws affects the Pennsylvania system. Railroads united in urging repeal, citing service reductions and inconvenience to rural communities.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Probaly
Philadelphia & Reading
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Cattle disease suspected in children in Monroe County
In Clark son town Monroe County New York ten children from five families show symptoms suspected to be foot and mouth disease and one infant has died The town health officer reported the spread to the State Department of Health The state and federal authorities say no cattle cases have been found in New York State in the last nineteen days and that the illness is not linked to cattle disease elsewhere
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Rochester
N. Y
Clarkson
Monroe County
Porter
State Department of Health
York State
Troops Prepare to Evacuate Cuba After Occupation Ends
Havana reports begin New Year with Cuban evacuation by the army of pacification. About 900 marines depart January 1 aboard the Prairie, with others leaving December 31 and February sailings for Newport News. The move marks Cuba's independence and wide public appreciation as officers and troops head home soon.
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Cuba
Army of Pacification
Marines
Camp Columbia
Prairie
Newport News
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Sumner
Matanzas
Guanajay
Gaines
Fort Snelling
McClellan
Third Field Artillery
Washington Barracks
Fifteenth Cavalry
Clenfuegts
Placeras
Santa Clara
Myer
Sheridan
Eleventh Cavalry
Columbia
Pinar del Rio
Mountain Artillery
Fifth Infantry
Cardenas
Sagua
Caibarien
Plattsburg
Eleventh Infantry
Santiago
Seventeenth Infantry
Col. Pitcher
Magoon
Gomez
Permanent Army
Pino Guerra
Manzanillo
Fights With Doctor Ends In Straitjacketed Woman
Dr Mary Crawford, Williamsburg Hospital house physician, escaped serious injury after defending herself during a violent attack by Louise Zambler a 19 year old intruder living at 54 Throon Avenue Williamsburg. Zambler tied down and restrained with ropes then placed in a straitjacket after dragging at Dr Crawford and smashing panes during the assault. The incident left Crawford exhausted and injured though she survived the ordeal and Zambler was taken to Kings County Hospital with her husband and a cousin by her side.
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Mary Crawford
Williamsburg Hospital
Throon Avenue
Williamsburg
Louise Zambler
America
Zamblers
Zambler
Dr. Crawford
Dr. Walton
Mrs. Zambler
Baby Dies in Destitute Mother's Arms
Jennie Francis, 22, of 67 Graham Avenue Brooklyn, entered Stagg Street Police Station Williamsburg with her two weeks old infant dead in her arms asking for a doctor. Ignorant of the death she collapsed then said she was very poor and had wandered for two hours seeking aid. With no money to bury the child, the body was sent to the Morgue.
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Jennie Francis
Graham Avenue
Brooklyn
Stagg Street
Williamsburg
Child Falls Into Coal Chute On Mulberry Street
Four year old Carmelia Romano of 189 Mulberry Street ran along Mulberry Street yesterday afternoon and fell into an open coal chute near Houston Street. The cover had been stolen by boys. She dropped about thirty feet and was found embedded to her waist in coal but suffered no injury.
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Mulberry Street
Carmelia Romano
Houston Street
City Employes to Organize Delegates to Speak
Delegates representing civil service city employees from various departments will organize and join with representatives of public office employee societies to advocate for their concerns and formalize a civic action in Alberti.
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Civil Service
C.‘V
Alberti
Maston Not Rich They Say In Chicago Dispatch
Rochester reports detail Faulkner Court Maston and his prolonged string of escapades. Family and associates dismiss claims of wealth, noting Maston’s past troubles, marriages, and unlikely fortune. The piece chronicles his history, recent appearances, and the concern of his father.
Maston Found at Garrick Theatre Door in Chicago
Faulkner Court Maston, also C. M. Faulkner, was located at the Garrick Theatre stage door after a day missing from his attorney and the public. He denies being an impostor and defends his past as a probationary figure, while Quin O’Brien, his lawyer, suggests Maston may be the president of the Victor Color and Varnish Company of New York.
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Charles A. Carpenter
Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company
Broadway
Chicago
Wheeler
Faulkner Court Maston
Carpenter
Mr. Maston
Maston
James H. Ford
C. M. Faulkner
Garrick Theatre
Quin O'Brien
Victor Color and Varnish Company of
New York
Woman Mullen Saved Woman Dies From Burns
Mrs. Alice Looker, rescued from a fifth floor fire at 122 West 27th Street by Fireman Daniel Mullen of Truck Company 35, died at Harlem Hospital after severe burns. Looker, 40, a widow, survived long enough to thank her rescuer who carried her from the burning flathouse despite flames and further injuries. She leaves two sons, Harrison and Charles.
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Alice Looker
West 27Th Street
Daniel Mullen
Truck Company 35
Harlem
Looker
Mullen
Ms. Looker
Mrs. Looker
Harrison
Charles
Fire Burns Cody in Coffin At Williamsburg Home
A candle caused a house fire at 420 Grand Street Williamsburg destroying part of an undertaker's coffin housing five year old May O'Connor who died the day before Christmas after tubercular meningitis. Neighbors battled flames until firemen arrived as the coffin was moved to a barber shop for services.
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Edward O’connor
Grand Street
Williamsburg
May
Hastern District Hospital
Bank fee case up today in Kings ton court action
Supreme Court Justice Betts will decide on discharge of Co-Receiver Charles M. Higgins of the Brooklyn Bank of New York and on his bid to cancel bond. Higgins also seeks order for payment of alleged illegal excess of receivers and counsel fees to the bank, citing receivers Hasbrouck and Swanstrom.
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Supreme Court
Betts
Kingston
N. Y
Charles M. Higgins
Brooklyn Bank of New York
Higgins
Bruyn Hasbrouck
New Paltz
Swanstroms
Griscom resigns as ambassador to end March
Washington reports confirm Ambassador Lloyd C. Griscom has submitted his resignation to President Roosevelt and will retire March 4. The move signals a diplomatic shake up as the Taft administration plans changes in several key posts and evaluates replacements from both public service and private life.
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Washington
Rome
Lloyd C. Griscom
Roosevelt
Griscom
Mr. Taft
Mark Twain Backs Red Cross Christmas Stamps
In a letter to the Red Cross Christmas Stamp Committee Mark Twain endorses the stamps and notes personal use. He urges printing a nationwide prompt to boost the Red Cross and predicts a warm, generous American response. The committee extends stamp sales through January 1 due to strong demand.
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Mark Twain
RED Cross
Red Cross Christmas Stamp Committee
America
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