Conflicting Claims Over Steamer Grostuck In Caribbean
In Port-au-Prince officials deny ex-president Cipriano Castro was aboard the steamer Consul Grostuck which arrived flying the German flag. Berlin rejects German responsibility for the ship formerly the Italian cruiser Umbria, now owned by Haiti, and says Castro is not aboard.
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Port-Au-Prince
Cipriano Castro
Venezuela
Consul Grostuck
Grostuck
Simon
Castro
Berlin
Caracas
United States
German flag bid fails for Consul Grostuck cruiser
Hamburg reports say the dismantled Italian cruiser Umbria later renamed Consul Grostuck failed to secure German flag permission. Local ship owners refused to sell vessels for insurrectionary uses amid fears of international law breaches. Washington notes Germany repudiates rights to fly the German flag, leaving the vessel potentially a pirate until possible Haitian transfer.
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Hamburg
Grostuck
Castro
Venezuela
Washington
Consul Grostuck
Navy Department
Berlin
Schiff Offers to Fund Frankfort University in Germany
Telegrams from Frankfurt report Jacob H. Schiff may subscribe several million marks to establish a university there. Schiff, in Munich, calls the talk exaggerated but not discussed in detail. A conference with the Burgomaster is expected as conditions include equal treatment of professors regardless of religion. Mortimer Schiff says he knows nothing of his father's plan.
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NEW York Times
Berlin
Frankfort-on-Main
Jacob H. Schiff
Frankfort
Mr. Schiff
Mortimer L. Schiff
Portuguese Mutiny Report From Vigo To Madrid
Telegrams from Vigo claim a monarchist uprising began at Chaves Portugal with mutinous garrison killing its commander. Monarchists allegedly raided Republican newspaper offices in Plaza Braga. Reports from Chaves of two regiments mutiny not confirmed. rumors deemed unfounded.
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Madrid
Vigo
Chaves
Portugal
Plaza Braga
Ingo
Capt
Courciere
Braga
Lisbon
Viana Do Castello
Valenca Do Minho
Machado
Amélie
Oporto
Manouei
Counterfeit Street Car Tickets Ring Busted in Three Cities
Three men including J E Farris and his brother were arrested in Chicago as agents for counterfeiting street car tickets. Authorities seized plates for Cleveland Columbus and Indianapolis tickets and revealed a broader scheme once operating from Akron. About 90,000 bogus Cleveland tickets were recovered and the operation involved a printer Joseph C Hart.
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New York Times
Chicago
William L. Farps
Stony Island Avenue
John E. Farris
Illinois Central Railroad
Joseph C. Hart
Farris Brothers
Cleveland
Columbus
Indianapolis
John S. Voigt
Akron
Ohio
Draatzburg
Federal Service
Whh
William Farris
Cleveland Street Railroad
Ferris
Rivate
Wer
Eveland
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Bound Brook
Watchung Ridge
Watchung Ridge Co
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N. J
Park Row
Dept.b
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15Th
Dway
Astor House
Nassau — Ann St
West
6Th Aves
Fulton St
Cor
Bond St
Brooklyn
Honest
The
Globe“Wernicke Co
Broadway
Franklin
Switzerland
Bush Terminal Co
Broad Street
A Lackawanna Limited
Buffalo
Points West
Deny Castro
Port Au Prince
J. H. Schiff
J. E. Farris
Brother
W. L. Farris, and
J. C. Hart
B. Akman & CO
Norfolk
Fifth Avenue
24Th and
35Th Streets
Dr. Lyon
Smith Gray & Co
Tor
Esowweney Awa
Brooklyn Steves
Fulton St. At
Flatbush
Bedford Av
Warren St
City Hall
St. Av
Bet
Greenhut-Siegel Cooper
OS. B.greenhut
Eeraig
Vau
Aide
Selma Samuels
Adams
Greenhut Building
London
Vogel Brothers
Ave
Newark
Waverly
Lehigh Valley
Niagara Falls
Black Diamond Express
Switzerland of America
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Ginat Q & Co
Minnet
Boults
Lord & Taylor
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