London Budget Rumors Stir Parliament And Transit Plans
London April 18 ministers and MPs gather for the Budget with Sir Michael Hicks Beach revising estimates as speculation swirls on taxation. Reports link Chamberlain Harcourt and Balfour to leadership, while trade and war news feed chatter about Ferries, steel trusts, and urban transit deals for the Metropolitan District Railway amid American investment talk.
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London
Arthur Balfour
Downing Street
Michael Hicks- Beach
Mr. Chamberlain
Brodrick
Ofiers
Ashantee
Lord Lansdgowne
Welsh
Lancashire
Liverpool
Michael Hicks-Beach
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
William Vernon Harcourt
Forbes
Metropolitan District Railways
R. W. Perks
Io- FF
Missionary Details Indemnity Question Over Chinese Crisis
In Peking on April 17 a Presbyterian missionary named Killie reported that converts were killed near San-Ho and that Li Hung Chang ordered execution later reversed by letter. French and American officials fear punitive action and potential capture of Tai-Yuan-Fu. Indemnity claims total about £70,000,000 as ministers weigh responses.
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Peking
Killie
Mr. Kelly
San-Ho
General Chaffee
Li Hung Chang
Liu Kuan Ting
Tai-Yuan-Fu
Shan-Se Province
Reeves
United States
Sugar Market Rises as Budget Statement Nears
London April 17 The sugar market heats up as Sir Michael Hicks Beach Budget looms. Clyde Crushed Sugar Exchange opens with prices up sixpence a hundredweight from yesterday. Demand is strong, refiners secure extra threepence. Everything offered is sold before close as refineries run day and night all week.
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London
Michael Hicks-Beach
Clyde
Bulgarian invasion repulsed at Ak-Tash by Turkish forces
A Bulgarian band crossed into Ak-Tash in Northern Turkestan and was repulsed by Turkish troops. One Bulgarian soldier was killed. the others escaped. The report is from a Vienna dispatch to The Daily Mail dated April 18 in London.
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London
Daily Mail
Vienna
Ak- Tash
Turkestan
Production of nitrate of soda in March reaches world record
Santiago de Chili reports nitrate of soda consumption hitting a global record in March with six million quintals exported. Germany takes about a fifth, the United States 13.3 percent, Great Britain 11.2 percent, Belgium 10.9 percent, and the remaining share to other markets.
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Santiago de Chili
Germany
Conce
United States
Great Britain
Belgium
Professor Kohlstock dies in Tianjin cholera mission
Berlin reports the death of Professor Dr. Kohlstock, a sanitary and cholera investigator, who succumbed last Monday in Tianjin. The veteran scholar served in public health duties and died while on infection control duty.
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Berlin
Kohlstock
Tien-Tsin
Von Waldersee Palace Burns In Peking Fire
Peking April 17 The palace of the Empress inhabited by Count von Waldersee and his staff was burned to the ground today Major General Schwartzkopf the chief of staff has disappeared All military papers were destroyed and nothing else survived
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Peking
Empress
Count von Waldersee
Schwartzkopf
Wood plans Cuban push to urge Platt Amendment in Washington
Havana reports say Governor-General Wood seeks General Gomez to travel to Washington with Estrada Palma to press the Pratt amendment before the commission. Gomez remains noncommittal amid Cuban agitators. Wood to be in Washington Sunday. the commission leaves Havana Saturday with delegates hoping Gomez's visit sways acceptance.
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the Tribune
Havana
Wood
Maximo Gomez
Washington
Gomez
General Wood
Estrada Palma
Commission
McKinley
United States
Gomez Plans U S Visit to Meet Estrada Palma
Havana April 17 General Maximo Gomez prepares to travel to the United States with his son Urbano to greet Estrada Palma and await action on the Platt amendment. He wishes to thank Americans for aid in the war and likely stay until the Cuban Special Commission returns. Sefior Palma is Gomez’s presidential choice. Sefior Berriel resigns from the Commission.
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Maximo Gomez
United States
Estrada Palma
Urbano
Cuba
Special Commission On Relations
Spain
Sefior Palma
Gomez
Sefior Berriel
Street signs vanish as lamps rise in New York City
Street signs disappear with the replacement of gas lamps by tall electric poles across Manhattan leading to widespread navigation problems. Commuters and strangers alike struggle to identify streets, with conductors often calling out street numbers to aid alighting. Officials cite lack of ordinances and funding, suggesting high pole signs but no approved appropriation.
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Manhattan
Kearny
Department of Public Buildings, Lighting and Supplies
Municipal Assembly
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Asphalt Case In Court Sets Stage For Settlement
Francis B. Loomis United States Minister to Venezuela, just back from Caracas, stayed at the Hotel Victoria and spoke on the asphalt dispute. He noted preliminary steps toward a legal settlement in Venezuelan courts and said Castro will likely be elected president with a six year term. Loomis expects a five month absence, rest, and plans to travel to Washington then Europe. He denied criticizing Castro and said Venezuelans are generally friendly to the United States while denying specifics of Andrade’s revolutionary plans.
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United States
Venezuela
the Tribune
Hotel Victoria
Loomis
Washington
Europe
Castro
Andrade
Curacoa
Barcelona
Tropics
San Juan
General Andrade
Mr. Loomis
Steamer Ramona Blows Up on Fraser River
A report from Vancouver says the steamer Ramona blew up on the Fraser River this afternoon. Ten people were killed and the vessel wrecked. In London, the Jockey Club suspended American jockey W Buchanan for erratic riding at Newmarket Tuesday.
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Minneapolis
Times
Vancouver
Fraser River
London
The
Jockey Club
W. Buchanan
Newmarket
French Training Ship Duguay Trouin Visits New York
The French training ship Duguay Trouin and cadets will stay until April 25 before sailing to the Azores. The vessel anchored at North River Thirty-fourth Street with a national salute. Captain Houette met the French Consul-General and university events for cadets are planned.
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Azores
North River
Thirty-fourth St
Castle Williams
Houette
Edmund Bruwnert
Columbia University
University
Lenox Lyceum
French Chamber of Commerce
Sherry’s
Shot for stealing a ride on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Gustave Oehlke, seventeen, of Jersey City, was shot in the back and left lung after he and Martin Tyre, nineteen, rode a freight train without money. Railroad watchman Philip Duffy fired and is held without bail. Oehlke, taken to City Hospital, may die. both youths searched for work in Newark yesterday.
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van Horn St
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philip Duffy
Oakland Ave
Oehlke
City Hospital
Martin Tyre
Hudson St
Newark
Waldo Ave
Duffy
Venezuelan courts deemed unfit by major powers
In Port of Spain on April 17 the diplomatic corps reported that Germany the United States Great Britain and Spain refuse to recognize Venezuelan courts as fit tribunals to settle foreign claims. decrees creating a first instance commission limited filing time and dubbed revolutionary debt drew sharp criticism. London directors of North Coolgardie Company announce further representations to the British Foreign Office over Venezuelan judges actions toward its properties.
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Trinidad
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Great Britain
Spain
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Caracas
Commission
North Coolgardie Company, Limited
London
British Foreign Office
United States denies joint action with powers on Venezuela
The State Department today denied any coordinated action with Great Britain Germany and Spain concerning Venezuelan courts. It recalled Loomis instructions to protest dispossession of American companies and preserve the right to investigate the legality of such ejectment. No official confirmation exists of other powers taking similar diplomatic steps.
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State Department
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Britain
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Spain
Loomis
Mr. Loomis
New Manual Training School Planned in Brooklyn Area
Mayor Van Wyck approves a 3.5 million bond for schoolhouses in Manhattan The Bronx Brooklyn and Queens to create a model Brooklyn manual training school at Fourth and Fifth streets and Seventh Avenue with 2600 seats and modern equipment Two million dollars will fund new buildings and additions including Nos 22 185 176 51 West 44th Street and East Houston Street additions and new high schools in Long Island City and St George Staten Island
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Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
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Fifth Sts
Seventh Ave
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Sheriff Sts
Sixty-sixth-st
First-ave
Amethyst Ave
The
Forty Fourth-St
Eleventh-ave
Germany's Foreign Trade 1899 and 1900 Tariff Union
Official Reichsanzeiger figures show imports totaling 6 42 00 000 marks in the German Tariff Union, versus 5 784 000 000 marks in 1899, while exports reach 4 753 000 000 marks, up from 4 368 000 000. A tariff war with Hayti has begun as the Bundesrath confirms higher duties on coffee cocoa and dyewoods. Also an advertisement touts the New York Central as linking New York centers to Central West gateways of commerce.
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Berlin
Reichsanzeiger
German Tariff Union
Bundesrath
Raids by Fifteen lead to twenty poolroom arrests
A pace setting Committee of Fifteen raid seven poolrooms in a single afternoon arresting twenty men including the figure known as The Allen. Police and city officials clash over tips delays and alleged misstates while Justice Jerome sets bail at 1000 for most prisoners as investigations continue.
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Jerome
Allen
C. O. Brewster
Committee of Fifteen
Eighth-ave
Wardman Hughes
West Twentieth-st
Mr. Brewster
Charles A. Parks
Fourteenthst
Golden Swan
Tims
Brewster
Hughes
Parks
Moynihan
Fifteen
Justice Jerome
Diamond in a Rage Threatens Reporter
Captain Diamond, agitated after a raid at 216 East Fourteenth Street, refused to answer questions from a reporter who sought a statement about declaring the location not a poolroom. He said he had nothing to say and ended the call after the exchange.
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East Fourteenth-st
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Murphy
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Hughes
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Fourteenth-st. C
O. Brewster
Fifteen
Mr. Brewster
Twentieth-st
Sergeant Tims
East Fourteenth St
Tee
Gray
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