Cleveland Refused Trust Presidency Offer for Name’s Influence
A collection of anecdotes portrays Grover Cleveland resisting a New York trust company’s bid to install him as president. He said he would not sell the influence of his name, even for a $50,000 offer, and preferred to remain independent. The stories include his letters, park encounters with beggars, political appointments, and fishing patience. Cleveland’s humor and principled stance emerge through varied vignettes.
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Grover Cleveland
New York
Cleveland Ater
White House
Trust Company
Cleveland
Mr. Cleveland
Francis Lynde Stetson
Mr. Stetson
Charles Jefferson
All Washington Mourns Death of Grover Cleveland
The capital observed universal mourning after Grover Cleveland’s death. The President ordered half staff flags at the White House and federal buildings. District officials adopted sympathy resolutions and ordered half mast on district buildings.
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New York Times
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Oyster Bay
Atlee
White House
Cource
Cabinet officials laud deceased ex President in Washington
In Washington, Secretary Cortelyou Secretary Straus and Secretary Adee joined other cabinet officers in high praise of the late ex President, reflecting broad bipartisan respect for his leadership and legacy.
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Cortelyou
Straus
Adee
Cleveland
Washington
Dr Bryant Home Exhausted After Cleveland Death
Dr Joseph D Bryant and his wife returned from Princeton to 32 West Forty eighth Street between 7 and 8 PM. He declined further comment beyond a morning statement noting Mr Cleveland suffered from years of gastro intestinal ailments and long standing heart and kidney disease. The immediate cause of death was heart failure with pulmonary thrombosis and oedema.
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Joseph D. Bryant
Princeton
West Forty Eighth Street
Bryant
Mr. Cleveland
Dr. Bryant
Cleveland
Indictments In Cotton Case Lead Three Suspects to Prison
Moses Haas Frederick A Peckham and Theodore H Price linked in district and federal indictments over a cotton leak scheme. Haas posted 5000 bail. Peckham paroled. Price expected to surrender soon as officials monitor actions and pending motions to quash New York indictments.
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Moses Haas
Frederick A. Peckham
Theodore H. Price
United States
Henkel
District of Columbia
Price
Federal Building
United States District Attorney's Office
Haas
Peckham
Shields
New York
Martin Engel
Lacombe UN
Price and Haas
Acquittal in burglary case due to date error
John Bambrich alias Obery of 513 West Forty-eighth Street was acquitted after an indictment error pinned the burglary to May 23. The witness testified the break in at 525 West Forty-eighth Street occurred May 14, prompting Judge Mulqueen to order acquittal.
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John Bambrich
Obery
West Forty-eighth Street
Mulqueen
Bambrich
525 West Forty-eighth Street
Howe
R. M. Cohen
Foresters Enjoined From Raising Insurance Rates
Rochester, June 24. Justice Benton granted a temporary injunction restraining the Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters from increasing its insurance rates pending Henry J. Simmelink's action. The rate hike was discussed at a Canada convention this year and cannot be enacted while the injunction stands.
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Rochester
N. Y
G. A. Benton
Supreme Court of the Independent Order of Foresters
Henry J. Simmelink
Canada
Immigration League Looks to Democrats With Three Platform Planks
The National Liberal Immigration League told Denver representatives to push three platform planks to the Democratic National Convention. They seek preservation of current immigration laws, free transportation to sparse regions for working-class newcomers, and deportation of aliens convicted of felonies. The group also plans a fight against a bill to raise the head tax on immigrants from $2 to $20, arguing it would bar many desirable migrants.
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National Liberal Immigration League
Denver
Committee
League
Congress
McCarren Fights for His Delegates at Denver
Senator McCarren of Brooklyn contends Kings County delegates elected legally were unseated by the Murphy Conners faction in the State Convention and asks the Democratic National Committee to place his delegates on the Denver roll.
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McCarren
Brooklyn
Denver
Democratic National Committee
Kings County
Murphy-Conners
United Service assigns officers to inspect and train
June notices from Washington record Capt J C Gilmore Jr of Coast Artillery relieved as assistant to chief of artillery. Lt. K T Smith to enter Army Signal School. Capt F H Lawton to make up to four visits to St Joseph to inspect subsistence. Lt Col D C Kingman appointed engineer for Sixth Lighthouse District. Capt L R Holbrook travels to Fort D A Russell for bakery instruction. Capt D C Seagrave to observe Watervliet Arsenal methods. Major Hof to visit Du Pont powder works for Ordnance Department inspections.
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Washington
J. C. Gilmore, Jr
Coast Artillery Corps
K. T. Smith
Sixth Infantry
Army Signal School
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
F. H. Lawton
Kansas City
St. Joseph
D. C. Kingman
Corps of Engneers
L. R. Holbrook
Fort Riley
Kan
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming
D. C. Seagrave
Ordnance Department
Watervliet Arsenal
N. Y
Hof
E. I. du Pont-De Mours Powder Company
Wilmington
Del
Commander Gow Assigned to Court Martial Duty
Commander J. L. Gow reports to the navy yard in Boston Massachusetts for court martial duty. He will oversee proceedings and related administrative duties.
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J. L. Gow
Navy Yard
Boston
Mags
Navy movements and ship transfers in Atlantic and Pacific fleets
Arrivals and sailings list across ports including Tecumseh Washington Mayflower Oyster Bay Mare Island San Francisco and more. Torpedo boats Gwin and Talbot detached from Norfolk to Newport Torpedo Station. Porter replaced by Stringham in third flotilla. Brooklyn decommissioned at League Island. Pacific fleet practice cruise dates shifted from June 25 to July.
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Tecumseh
Washington
Mayflower
Oyster Bay
California
Mare Island
Inois
San Francisco
Buffalo
Panama
Abarenda
Hampton Roads
New London
Marietta
Curacao
Puerto Cabello
Yorktown
Sitka
Unalaska
New Jersey
Bremerton
Rainbow
Cleveland
Concord
Denver
Woosung
Yangtse River
Gwin
Talbot
Navy Yard
Norfolk
Naval Torpedo Station
Newport
R. I
Porter
Stringham
Biddle
Brooklyn
League Island
Penn
Pacific Fleet
Preble
Preble, Perry
Farragut
San Diego
Delagrange to Fly in America in July and August
Léon Delagrange plans to visit America for exhibitions around New York in late July and early August. Albert C. Triaca says negotiations are done and races may follow, with attendants invited to witness a kilometer long straight flight and aerobatic turns. A small syndicate has raised about half the needed funds and is scouting venues in New Jersey and Long Island. Triaca has asked the Wright brothers Herring and Curtiss to join an international aeroplane contest here.
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Léon Delagrange E
America
Albert C. Triaca
Delagrange
Triaca
Milan
Atlantic
New York
New Jersey
Long Island
A Wright Brothers
A. M. Herring
G. H. Curtiss
Hammondsport
Delagrange Makes Long Flight in Milan
French aviator Léon Delagrange soared for nearly eighteen minutes in Milan yesterday, closely missing his 16 minute 30 second record when a wheel briefly touched the ground. The crowd and Milian mayor gave him a warm ovation and congratulations from prominent onlookers.
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Milan
Léon Delagrange
Delagrange
Milian
Army Balloons Readied for Washington Tests
Capt T A Baldwin announced that the first government dirigible balloon built for the Army will be tested at Fort Myer Washington around July with completion near final touches. The craft was begun in late January and will be sent to Washington next week under Brig Gen James Allen. Two additional spherical balloons ordered by the government will arrive about the same time.
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T. A. Baldwin
Washington
Fort Myer
Baldwin
Signal Corps Department
Army
James Allen
Flying Without A Motor Prize Claims Soaring Flight
Rene Quinton, a biologist, offers a 4000 prize for the first aeroplane that hovers five minutes with its motor off. He argues wind aid, not obstacle, can sustain flight by emulating soaring birds like the vulture and eagle. He cites birds’ flight theory and notes the Egyptian vulture can rise on wind with minimal wing strokes.
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Rene Quinton
Paris
Réné Quinton
Huber
Audubon
d’Esterne
Mouillard
Marcy
Eyrie
République Dirigible Flies For First Time At Soissons
The War Department airship République completed a successful initial flight in Soissons on June 24. It carried 2,890 pounds including crew, stayed aloft for 35 minutes, and cruised at about 300 feet.
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Soissons
France
République
War Department
Schwab To Help Rebuild Spanish Navy Supply
Madrid reports Charles M. Schwab is expected in the city soon to aid in organizing a steel company. The venture is said to supply ore for the rebuilding of the Spanish Navy.
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Steel Company
Madrid
Charles M. Schwab
Spanish Crown Baby Baptism to Be Held June 29
In La Granja Spain on June 24 the newborn prince of Spain will be baptized June 29. His godparents are Prince Re ee on Bavaria Luitpold and Infanta sabella.
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LA Granja
Spain
Prince Reee
Bavaria
Luitpold
Infanta Sabella
German Lines Deny Zeebrugge Port of Call Plan
Paris June 24. German steamship agents deny Brussels report that Zeebrugge will become a port of call instead of Cherbourg. Objections to Cherbourg exist but no decision has been made to change the port call yet.
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Paris
Brussels
Zeebrugge
Bruges
Cherbourg
Paris Millionaire Disinherits Adopted Daughter in Will
Benjamin Hart, a Virginian born American millionaire who lived in Paris for twenty five years, left his estate to Mme de Bie and disinherited his adopted daughter Isabel Lucchesi. Isabel, married to diplomat Jan Guillemin, alleges undue influence and seeks to challenge the will through her lawyer Donald Harper.
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Paris
Benjamin Hart
Hart
New York
America
Wart
Isabel Lucchesi
Isabel
Rue Galilee
Jan Guillemin
Countess of
Montebello
Mme. de Bie
Donald Harper
Murdered Forester and Teacher Killed in Negros Island
A Manila telegram reports H. D. Everett, government forester from New York, and T. R. Wakely, a Chicago graduate teacher, killed by Hill tribesmen on Negros Island. They had been missing six weeks. Everett had joined the Philippine Forestry Service in 1905. Wakely was 27 and had come to teach in the Philippines the previous year. The Negros region has yielded little trouble for authorities.
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Manila
Island of
Negroes
H. D. Everett
T. R. Wakely
Negros
Washington
New York
Philippine Forestry Service
Forestry Bureau
T.R. Wakely
University of Chicago
Chicago
Philippines
Pan Anglican Congress ends with large offerings to church
St Pauls Cathedral in London overflowed as the Pan Anglican Congress concluded with a service attended by over 200 archbishops and bishops. They carried crimson blue purple and white robes and presented each diocese’s thanksgiving offering totaling $1,666,040.
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London
St. Paul's
Sagan to Reside in London Then Wed Mme Gould
Prince Helie de Sagan plans a fifteen day stay in London before marrying Mme Anna Gould under an ordinary license. The couple arrived from Paris last week and could not obtain a special license to bypass the waiting period.
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London
Mme. Gould
Helie de Sagan
Mme
Anna Gould
Countess de Castellane
Paris
Betting Cases At Brooklyn Court To Be Heard Today
The Jockey Club seeks a habeas corpus for Joseph Loewy charged under the Hart-Agnew anti betting law. Justice Bischoff will hear Loewy and Melville Collins cases together as spectators fear loss of telegram handicap data. Track crowds rise to about 6000 amid discreet private bets while Coney Island Jockey Club plans to cut telegraph service if rent disputes with Western Union persist.
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Jockey Club and Racing Associations
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Joseph Loewy
Melville Collins
Hobley
Kings County
Loewy
Sheepshead Bay
Joseph Baker
Highth District Court
Brooklyn
Voorhees
Collins
Jockey Club
Bischoff
Coney Island
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Union
Coney Island Jockey Club
Melba Celebrates Covent Garden Jubilee Charity Matinee
Mme Melba marked twenty years since her Covent Garden debut with a benefit matinée for hospitals. She sang excerpts from Madama Butterfly and La Traviata before a royal audience including the King and Queen, with Covent Garden crowded by society notables.
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London
Mme. Melba
Covent Garden
Government Opens 28 Million Acres for Settlement in West
Ottawa reports a government program to open 28,000,000 acres in Saskatchewan and Alberta for homesteading. Odd numbered sections now available to settlers to raise funds for a Hudson Bay rail line and a new European route. The move targets western expansion and transport development.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Canada
Hudson Bay
Europe
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Japan Forces Tax Rebate In Manchuria Trade System
Evidence from official sources in Mukden shows a system where Japanese commerce in Manchuria enjoys general inland tax exemption. The concessions were obtained through intimidation and a show of force, with China concealing the situation to protect revenue on goods in transit belonging to noncoercing nations.
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Mukden
Manchuria
China
Senate bars Constitutional Democrats from local posts
In St Petersburg on June 24 the Senate barred Constitutional Democratic Party members from Zemstvos Municipal Councils and nobility institutions and ordered their dismissal from these bodies as they oppose the government and cannot be prosecuted under criminal law.
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ST. Petersburg
Senate
Constitutional Democratic Party
Zemstvos
First Cotton Bale Sells High At Auction In New York
The first bale from the new cotton crop sold at the Cotton Exchange for 35 cents a pound meeting strict middling quality. The bale had arrived from Houston on June 20 where it brought 54 cents a pound. Shipped to New York, it was sent onto the Mauretania for Liverpool to be auctioned again, a rapid transit record likely to reach Liverpool within ten days.
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Cotton Exchange
Houston
Texas
Liverpool
New York
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