Balfour Postpones Cabinet Crisis Amid Chamberlain Debate
London dispatch notes Parliament reopened amid fears Balfour’s ministry may fall over Chamberlain’s protection plan. Dissensions surfaced in the cabinet with Hicks Beach, Ritchie, and likeminded figures opposing the fiscal shift while Balfour temporized. Society reports focus on Hospital Sunday events and a grand London Hospital Ball as Servia tragedy dominates papers.
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New York Times
London
Mr. Chamberlain
Balfour
Commons
Black Michael
Nic ‘Knamé
England
Ritchie
Albany 10 Razed A Historic London Address for Bachelors
The Albany off Piccadilly, a famed 18th century bachelor apartments building, is to be sold and likely replaced by a large hotel. Notable residents over the years include Byron, Macaulay, Canning, Lord Althorp, and Sir Harry Verney among others. the site’s fate and future plans remain undecided.
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London
Albany
Piccadilly
New York
Ibany
Harry
Henry F. Stephenson
Marquis of Clanricarde
John Vaughan
Jaude Lowther
Sitherland House
Willam Chamsu
Lord Holland
Lord Melbourne
Piccadilly House
Melbourne House
Ake
Uke
York and
George III
Whitehall
Eee
America
George Canning
Isot
Lord Althorp
Lord Byron
Lord Walthorp
Monk Lewis
Byron
Horace Smith
Robert Smirke
Ord Webb Seymour
Lord Valentia
Sir William Gell
Bower Lytton
Macaulay
England
Lfe
Lord Glenelg
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Bombay
Sir Charles «Pier
John Hobhouse
Lord Brougham
Henry Cottrell
Daniel Lambert
Horace Wyndham
Pall Mall Gazette
Lady Cook Granted Retrial in Libel Case
The Appeal Court granted Lady Cook formerly Miss Tennessee Claflin of New York a retrial of the libel action brought by J. H. Wallace, her former private secretary, who had won a $2,750 verdict. Counsel said Wallace claimed extortion of a $360,000 check and alleged a death cause by a blow at Sir Francis Cook's home. The Master of the Rolls called the suit blackmail and ordered the verdict set aside.
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London
Lady Cook
Tennessee Claflin
New York
Wallace
Sir Francis Cook
Master of the Rolls
Urga Dock President Resigns Over Gunboat Delays
Announcement from Tokio reports Ysukahira, president of the Urga Dock Company, resigning after failure to deliver United States gunboats for the Phillwee Government. Gov Taft has rejected the boats and three others are described as inadequate.
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Tokio
Victoria
B. C
Ysukahira
Urga Dock Company
United States
Phillwee
Taft
Typhoon Leaves Hanoi Namdinh Thaibinh Damaged
A typhoon of extraordinary violence swept over Hanoi Namdinh and Thaibinh last night causing heavy damage. Many natives perished and several Europeans were injured. Three trains were overturned between Hanoi and Namdinh and telegraphs and railroads are interrupted.
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Cochin China
Saigon
Hanoi
Namdinh
Thaibinh
Healthful Pope Leo Denies Sudden Death Rumors
An official Vatican statement denies Vienna and Berlin reports that Pope Leo XIII died suddenly. The Pope, though weaker after his hemorrhoid attack, leads his normal life, receiving visitors and noting a recent Italian dinner. Also noted are Naples animal protection efforts and a widening Franco Italian trade entente under discussion.
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Rome
Vienna
Lapponi
Vatican
Leo
Cardinal Respighi
Berlin
Father Murphy
Irish College
Mer. Kennedy
American College
Mer. Booker
Dennis J. Dougherty
Italian Cabinet Resigns in Italy's Slow Political Turn
Premier Zanardelli announced to the Chamber that his cabinet had resigned after presenting the move to King Victor Emmanuel who reserved decision. Ministers will run current affairs temporarily while the political position is sorted. Zanardelli refuses to form a new cabinet due to ill health. Paris dispatch notes allies urging reconsideration if King asks.
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OME
Zanardelli
Chamber Ofeputies
Signor Zanardelli
Victor Emmanuel
Tribuna
Paris
Temps
Rome
Bishop of Cebu Resigns from Philippine Post
The Vatican has accepted the resignation of Mgr. Martin Garcia y Alcocer as Bishop of Cebu. He currently serves as Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Manila and is the last Spanish Episcopal dignitary in the Philippines. He is expected to depart the islands soon.
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Vatican
Philippines
Rome
Mgr
Martin Garcia Y Alcocer
Archdiocese of
Manila
Cebu
Mer. Garcia Y Alcocer
Reform Drive Shapes Italian Press and State Budget Debate
In Rome reform talks sweep the press across parties as Italy plans judiciary, army and postal reforms. The war budget blocks Parliament until 1907, while Gen Ottolenghi trims pensions and expands ordinary spending. Italy boasts 1.5 million trained troops readiness, a prison reform push to employ inmates, and concerns over open-air work versus labor rights amid agricultural need.
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Regina Coeli
Naples
War Ministry
Ottolenghi
Kaly
Italy
Signor Giolitti
Bulgarians Flee From Home Amid Turkish Prowl
In Sofia 1590 Bulgarian refugees arrived in Burgas district fleeing terror in Adrianople vilayet. Turkish regulars and Bashi Bazouks pillage the countryside, arrest residents, and drive families from villages. Premier Daneff protests massacre at Enridge on June 2.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Burgas
Piroga
Kull
Kovatchaz
Adrianople
Daneff
Enridge
Adriannople
Cockran on Ireland Future Provokes Parliament Dinner
In London the Irish Party hosted Bourke Cockran of New York with John Redmond chairing as he praised the American ally while Cockran declined to seek Parliament. He urged Irish liberty, warned Britain on fiscal policy, and forecast Ireland’s urban progress and eventual bloom across the century.
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London
House of Commons
Bourke Cockran
New York
John Redmond
Cockran
Ireland
Chamberlain
Cochran
Redmond
United States
Cuba
Philippines
America
Mr. Redmond
Redond
France
Cochran Delared
Ockran
Fr. Redmond
Arliament
Fr. Chamberlain
Great Britain
United States Supreme Court
England
Paris Social Season Blooms as Americans Arrive in Force
Paris and Aix are lively with U S visitors as Mrs Ferdinand Blumenthal hosts a gala at Pavillon d Armenonville. Notables include the Grosvenors, Astors, Vanderbilts, Pulitzer, J Clinton Spencer, and many New York, Philadelphia and Chicago socialites.
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Paris
Aix
J. L. Thorndike
Thorndike
J. S. Bigelow
Lockwood
Boston
Samuel Davis
Davis
D. A. Bannerman
Neilson Pater
Samuel Baldwin
J. G. Cushing
Henry Dyer
Peter Wrykoff
New York
W. W. Warden
Charles Phillips
Philadelphia
J. Clinton Spencer
Chicago
Joseph Pulitzer
Hotel d’Aix
Mr. Pulitzer
John Bulkeley
Charles Winter
Hotel de Généve
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Ritz Hotel
London
United States
Elkins
Frankfort
John Jacob Astor
America
C. F. Stickney
Gen. Stewart
L. Woodford
Miss Woodford
Germany
Preston Hix
Miss Hix
Emory A. Clark
Savoie
Rue
Marguerite
W. Clifton McCausland
Pittsburg
Nellie van Schaick
Bloomington
McCausland
Switzerland
Austria
Clarence Eddy
Champs Elysées
Amanda S. Buck
Jackson
Miss
Blanche Heuston
M. Pratt
Italy
Holland
England
Scotland
Gallatin
Née Post
Marcus Biddle
George B. McClelan
Homburz
Robert P. Perkins
C. Gray Dinsmore
Avenue Morceau
France's Moorish Campaign Battle Report in Morocco
Paris papers debate the expedition against Figuig as a punitive action under 1845 treaty rights. Jonnart and Gen O Connor led a Flask of Foreign Legion forces facing about 600 Moors at Zenaga. 17 French wounded, five severely, Moors losses uncounted.
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Paris
Foreign Legion
Morocco
France
L*eclair
Algeria
M. ‘Jonnart
Figning
M. Delcassé
Temps
Figulg
L'Eclair
Jonnart
Zenaga
le Journal
Spahis
Amel
Figuig
O'Connor
le Joural
M. Jonnart
la Journal
Beni Ounif
O’connor
Figuig Pecpia
Ames
Beni Gunif
Tuncheon
United States and British Delegates Weigh Uniform Chinese Currency Plan
In London on June 13 the U S International Exchange Commissioners H H Hanna Charles A Conant and Prof Jeremiah W Jenks met with British and Mexican delegates. Chinese Legation representatives attended two meetings and broadly endorsed a uniform currency plan for China alongside British approval.
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London
United States
International Exchange Commissioners
H. H. Hanna
Charles A. Conant
Jeremiah W. Jenks
China
Fatal Fire at Glasgow Whisky Distillery
A blaze at a Glasgow whisky distillery last night killed three men, three boys, and two women. Many injured were buried under debris as thousands of casks exploded and a wall of a neighboring flour mill collapsed. About a million gallons of whisky burned amid the flames.
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Glasgow
Transport Samshui Returns Safe to Manila
The United States transport Samshui, reportedly wrecked during the June hurricane in the Philippine Islands, has arrived safely in Manila on June 13 after being sighted June 5.
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Manila
United States
Philippine Islands
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Baronne du Mesniel
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Fernand de Longueval
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Marguerite d’Everstein
Brussels
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Vicomte de Reiset
Maurice Binder
Pozzi
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Avenue d'Antin
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