Postponement Doubts Fade as London Prepares Coronation
London items report renewed bustle as coronation preparations proceed at Whitehall and Westminster. Decor schemes, stands, and processional displays advance despite earlier postponement fears. Parliament unsettled over Education bill. Balfour faces closure clashes while cabinet changes loom. Royal family members travel from the Continent. Mulock subsidy efforts yield hopeful results. Oliver Iselin visits Cowes amid ongoing imperial conferences.
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House of Commons
Balfour
Kings Return to Capital After Coronation Preparations
The Associated Press reports King Edward will land at Portsmouth and travel to London by 5.30 pm with a public route planned for crowds. Coronation day and the anniversary will be observed as Collar Day. Volunteers at Salisbury end camps August 8. Westminster Abbey rehearsal drew large crowds with substitutes for absent royals. Victoria Station dazzled by decorations. a royal special train will carry the king back to the capital.
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Tribune Association
New York Tribune
London
Piccadilly
Pall Mall
Whitehall
Pole- Carew
Buckingham Palace
Royal House of
England
Doulters
Duke of
Associated Press
Edward
Portsmouth
Salisbury
Westminster Abbey
Brocklehurst
Suffield
Victoria
Montauk Point rail tunnel clash over eight hour law amendments
A joint Rapid Transit Commission and Board of Aldermen session with Pennsylvania Railroad representatives debated inserting an eight hour wage clause into the tunnel franchise. No agreement, but Cantor pressed for permits tied to eight hour compliance. Stevenson proposed arbitration for construction delays. Mayor Low sent seven amendments. all agreed for drafting. Reconstruction plans to proceed with September votes.
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Board of Aldermen
Commission
Cantor
Stevenson
Graut
Rapid Transit Commission
James
John P. Green
Samuel Rea
George V. Massey
Joseph T. Richards
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. Green
Alderman Walkley
Montauk Point
New York
Corbin
Newport News
Green
New Jersey
Long Island
Newark
Bay Ridge
Long Island Railroad
Alexander Conront
Fornes
Low
Board of Health
William F King backs tunnel project to aid New York port
William F King former Merchants' Association president endorses Friday board resolutions for a Pennsylvania tunnel. He says the project would abolish the current adverse rate against New York and would raise the taxable value of nearby property.
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William F. King
Merchants’ Association
Board of Directors
Pennsylvania
New York
Two Generals Shot in Panama Revolution
General Antonio Suarez Lacroix General Juan Vidal and Colonel Julian Lecama were executed at Barrigona Camp between Honda and Ambalena on the Magdalena River after a court martial verdict. Other revolutionists received imprisonment up to twenty five years. Lacroix, from a wealthy Colombian family, fought in Cuba with General Maximo Gomez and warned of sacrifice for the revolutionary cause. A government telegram cited amnesty as shaking Liberal confidence. In Palima, Perdomo led a force against rebels who resisted until captured.
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Antonio Suarez Lacroix
Juan Vidal
Julian Lecama
Barrigona
Honda
Ambalena
Magdalena River
Colombia
Maximo Gomez
Bogota
United States
Lacroix
Salazar
Aristides Fernandez
Liberal Party
Palima
Perdomo
Colonial Conference Discusses War Supplies and Cattle Restriction
London August 5 colonial premiers with Mr Chamberlain discussed army and navy supply contracts imperial postal rate reductions and the exclusion of Canadian live cattle from Great Britain. No definite conclusion on the cattle issue was reached, to be taken up with Robert W Hanbury. The Twenty Hour Special via Pennsylvania Railroad to Chicago advertises rapid travel from New York.
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London
Mulock
Mr. Chamberlain
Great Britain
Robert W. Hanbury
Board of Agriculture
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
New York Daily
Advt
More Collieries Opened In Anthracite Region
Two new collieries started today as the anthracite region sees rising activity. The Delaware and Hudson opened the Dickson near Scranton, enough to ship over one hundred tons though the breaker shut at noon. Several mines resume or prepare, with operators pressing to recruit men while strikers hold daily meetings and seek to prevent work.
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TAF Tribune
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Delaware and Hudson Company
Dickson
Scranton
Rose
Edgerton
Temple Iron and Coal Company
Thorne
Murray Brothers’ Corner
W. B. Gunton & Co
Bernice
United Mine Workers
Murray and Gunton
Gunton
Warnke
Duryea
Hutchins
Oxford
Woodward
Delaware
Lackawanna and
Western
Morrow
Strikers Grow Turbulent as Troops Deployed in Shenandoah
Reports from Shenandoah Penn Aug 5 describe rising resistance to troops among striking workers with unprovoked attacks and fear of bloodshed. Burgess councilmen and police chief asked General Gobin to place troops in charge, a step toward martial law that Gobin avoided while promising rapid suppression of violence. Soldiers were posted to prevent clashes and maintain order. The piece also notes the New York Central timetable and a local ad for Jayne's Expectorant.
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Tribune
Shenandoah, Penn
Gobin
Drowned On Bridge Near Hackensack In Buggy Tragedy
Francis Knapp proprietor of the Cottage Hotel Hackensack and his four year old son drowned when their buggy backed off a temporary bridge on the Hackensack River at Little Ferry. No guards on the bridge and a crowded scene as rescuers searched the river. Coroner to hold an inquest. Knapp’s wife had died two months earlier and a daughter, fourteen, survives.
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N. J
Hackensack River
Little Ferry
Francis Knapp
Cottage Hotel
Bergen Turnpike Traction Company
American Bridge Company
Sandford & Harris
Jersey City
Knapp
Wallace Thompson
Thompson
Curry
Ambassador White Resigns and Possible Berlin Reassignment
Berlin Aug. 5 Ambassadors White resignation mailed to the United States may reach President Roosevelt. The resignation takes effect November 7, his seventieth birthday. White remains in Hamburg taking waters likely until month’s end amid chatter of a White-led reshuffle. Rumors name Tower, Storer, and Henry White as potential Berlin Spain Russia and London posts respectively.
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White
United States
Roosevelt
Hamburg
Ambassador Tower
St. Petersburg
Storer
Spain
Russia
Henry White
London
Tower
Talk of Mr White's Successor in Berlin Embassy
Washington reports no official resignation from Ambassador White though retirement on his seventieth birthday is anticipated. Names linked to Berlin include Dr David Jayne Hill Assistant Secretary of State and Bellamy Storer Minister to Spain. White has served as ambassador to Germany since April 1 1897.
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State Department
Ambassador White
Berlin
David Jayne Hill
Bellamy Storer
Spain
White
Germany
White to devote time to literary work after resignation
Ambassador Andrew D. White plans retirement from his Berlin post to pursue writing. He has completed a memoir of his diplomatic experiences and will likely return to Ithaca to live. His daughter Clara Newberry sails to Germany to join him, with a meeting in Hamburg anticipated. The note appears with a brief ad for travel to Colorado via the Colorado Special and rail routes.
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Sador Andrew D. White
Frederick D. White
Syracuse
Dr. White
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Cornell University
White
Clara Newberry
New York
Germany
Hamburg
Ithaca
N. Y
Ambas
British Canadian steel combine to challenge U S industry
Montreal reports a planned giant British Canadian steel trust forming to rival United States Steel Corp. Dominion Steel Company and Nova Scotia Steel Company join with a major English firm. Key talks in London and Cape Breton set terms, with valuation gaps delaying final settlement.
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Montreal
Canada
London
United States Steel Corporation
Dominion Steel Company
Nova Scotia Steel Company
New Steel Trust
English Steel and Iron Corporation
Midlands
Lancashire
South
Wales
G. A. Cox
Dominion Steel and Coal Company
Cox
England
Ross
Cape Breton
Mr. Forget
R. B. Angus
Sydney
Mr. Ross
Marquis di Rudini Arrives Suffering from Appendicitis
Son of Italy’s ex-Prime Minister, Marquis di Rudini, arrived yesterday aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with appendicitis. Dr. William T. Bull and Dr. Roswell Park treated him, after which he was taken to Bull’s private hospital. He may not need surgery. He aims to attend the St. Louis Exposition and to visit the exposition grounds, plus private business with U S Steel Corp.
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Marquis di Rudini
Italy
William T. Bull
Roswell Park
President McKinley
Bull
Marquis
Rebellion in Siam: Siamese force moves on Shan town
Bangkok August 5 A two thousand strong Siamese troop column has moved north to chastise the Shans who recently attacked and seized the town of Hrae. Six hundred Shans hold the town and vow to resist. Twenty five Siamese officials have been killed while other inhabitants remain unharmed.
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Bangkok
Siam
Hrae
Rumor of Death of Siam King Discredited by Legation
London reports a rumor of Siamese king’s assassination. The Siam legation says it has heard nothing and does not believe the report to be true. The note also mentions a Pennsylvania Special train making New York to Chicago in twenty hours with quick service.
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Couy
London
Pennsylvania Railroad
New-York
New- York
Long Island
New York
Siam
Pennsylvania
Chicago
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