Battleship fleet sails for Punta Arenas amid Brazilian salute
The American battleship fleet will sail tomorrow afternoon toward Punta Arenas with a Argentine convoy meeting off Bahia Blanca to salute Admiral Evans. A torpedo flotilla will be met at Flores and escorted to Buenos Ayres for four days. Surgeon Crandall was found guilty of conduct prejudicial to good order and of falsehood and will be demoted. Rio Janeiro hosted a grand reception aboard the Minnesota with Brazilian society and officials in attendance. Forty launches ferried guests. Admiral Sperry and Brazilian officials attended. The torpedo flotilla under Lieut. Cone departed at nine tonight for Buenos Aires.
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Dolphins Damage Vessel Reported by Conway
The British steamer Conway from New Orleans encountered a school of dolphins about a week ago and sustained a damaged propeller with several plates deeply indented, during an Atlantic voyage. The ship arrived at Hamburg on January 21 reporting the incident.
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German bill aims wireless equality under international rulings
In Berlin on January 21 a Reichstag bill from the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs would regulate wireless telegraphy. The measure requires ships and land stations to interconnect regardless of their system, enforcing intercommunication in line with international commissions.
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Premier Diamond Mining to Curtail Output
London January 21 Premier Diamond Mining Company plans a further reduction of 30 000 karats per month to speed absorption of current diamond stocks. The diamond syndicate decides no price reduction from the present level as the depression passes.
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London
Bulldog Saves Hotel Patrons In Pittsburgh Bomb Plot
Teddy the bulldog attacked a Black Hand dynamiter at the Knickerbocker Hotel and alerted police to a bomb placed under the boilers near the grillroom. The blast would have endangered 150 patrons and nearby premises, including the Allegheny Central Police Station area.
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Cabinet Opposing Czar Navy Programme Sparks Duma Debate
In St Petersburg the Duma resumes amid fierce cross‑party opposition to a costly naval programme. Leaders from Right Party Octobrists and Radicals condemn the plan while Purishkevich rejects naval funding while Admiralty reform remains. Reported Cabinet opposition hints at political maneuvering.
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Duma
Vladimir Purishkevich
Riots in Berlin Over Prussian Suffrage Interpellation
About 2,000 unemployed demonstrators moved toward the Reichstag near the Reichstag Building as police blocked bridges over the Spree. Clashes followed at the Opera House site with bricks rained down, sabres drawn, and a boy firing a pistol that lightly struck a policeman.
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Curzon May Lose Seat In Irish Peer Election
Dublin reports indicate Aaron Curzon of Kedleston was declared elected as an Irish peer but his name is not on the official roll. Baron Ashtown holds the next highest votes and Curzon cites a technical omission as the reason for non admission to the peer roll.
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Dublin Gazette
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Britain launches national census of productive power
The British Board of Trade begins a nationwide stock take to measure the country’s productive power. Excludes agriculture, already covered by the Board of Agriculture. Based on employer returns detailing output for last year to quantify national standing.
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Compromise Reaches Panama Company and Colombia Claim
Paris reports the French Government accepts a settlement of 2.8 million dollars with the Panama Company and Colombia contributing 800 thousand dollars. The agreement specifies 1.6 million to the government, with Colombia paying 800 thousand. In Peking a Japan rail extension is debated amid Chinese opposition to Russian municipal control at Harbin. Paris notes 50 000 Frenchwomen sign a petition for female suffrage.
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New York Zoological Society Elects Morton President
At its fourteenth annual meeting the Board of Managers adopted resolutions regretting the death of former member Charles T. Barney. Pp. Morton was elected President for the coming year.
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Beet Zoological Society
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Japan to restrict emigration to United States and Mexico
Viscount Hayashi, Japan's foreign minister, outlines plans to restrict emigration, requiring two sureties for students and moving to prohibit emigration to Mexico. The stance targets laborers and warns against aiding illegal entry, with U S officials noting the measures could settle the immigration issue if enacted.
Japan's pledge to Canada reported in Ottawa
Postmaster General Lemieux told the House in Ottawa that his Tokio mission secured an effective check on Japanese emigration to Canada from Hawaii. He cited Baron Hayashi's written assurance that the Imperial Government will restrict emigration and prohibit contract laborers and artisans, with stringent regulations for local authorities. Canada faces abrogation or acceptance of the arrangement, risking a treaty break.
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New York Passes Anti Smoking Ordinance for Women
The New York Board of Aldermen approved the Sullivan anti smoke ordinance 73 to 0. It bans women from smoking in hotels, restaurants, or public entertainment venues in the city and imposes fines or short jail terms for violations. Alderman Brown questioned legality and abstained on the vote.
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Fire leads to arrest at Hospital Flats on West Twenty sixth
Nicolas Tomas was arrested at West Twentieth Street Station after a fire broke out in his fourth floor rooms at 512 West Twenty sixth Street. He said three men bound him and set the blaze while a gas inspector sleeper aided. police could not verify his story. Damage about 200 dollars. Detectives McLaughlin McAuley and Assistant Fire Marshal Seery investigated.
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Fire Hose Funding Cut After Parker Building Blaze
Aldermen reduce proposed fire hose appropriation from 250000 to 50000 following the Parker Building fire. Fifty lengths burst during the blaze, about 7 percent of stock. National Board report notes aging hose and shortages, prompting Merchants' Association demand for mayoral investigation.
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National Board of Fire Tinderwriters
Fifty-ninth Street
Merchants’ Association
Woman Catches Burglar in Williamsburg Apartment
Mrs Hannah Jaeger janitress at 270 272 South Ninth Street Williamsburg trapped a burglar in a vacant fifth floor room after he struck her with a wrench. She knocked him down with an iron sash weight and held him until police arrived as brass faucets had recently been stolen from vacant rooms.
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South Ninth Street
Williamsburg
Kennistons Sue for Divorces and Counter-suits
Charles E. Kenniston, a real estate broker and company president, along with his wife Emma H. Kenniston, have filed for divorce. Married in 1896, they have four children and have lived apart since 1905 at Chantilly apartments, Seventh Avenue and 103rd Street.
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Charles E. Kenniston
Bomb Wrecks Milk Wagon on East 149th Street
A bomb exploded on East 149th Street shattering milk wagon fittings and smashing windows in about a dozen houses. Driver William Hamilton was pitched from the wagon but managed to walk away and return the horse and wreckage to the stable as police investigated. The blast damaged most nearby windows.
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Hamilton
Montgomery suit against Jersey City church trustees
The Rev Theophilus E Montgomery sues the Presbytery of Jersey City trustees for 1000 dollars claimed as salary. The case will be tried before Judge William H Speer in the Circuit Court at Manning Avenue church in Jersey City.
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Presbytery
Jersey City
Pees
John Knox Presbyterian Church
Manning Avenue
Atlantic Mutual Insurance Statement of Affairs 1907
The Trustees present the December 1 1907 statement of Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company New York showing Marine Premiums 4 131 146 59 for 1907 with additions and deductions including losses paid 473 170 16 and net earned premiums 1 342 971 10. Dividends of six and forty percent are declared on outstanding certificates and net earned premiums respectively with payments and redemptions scheduled for February and May next.
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