Sultan Stabbed as Palace Plot Shifts Turkish Cabinet
Reports from Geneva describe an attempted stabbing of the Sultan of Turkey by a palace official. The blow was deflected by mail armor. The would-be assailant was arrested and said to be bribed, with gold and flight plans found. Concurrent dispatches note resignations and new cabinet talks in Constantinople, with Fehmi Pacha named as a former advisor involved in corruption and a large reshuffle anticipated by the Young Turk leadership.
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Rechid Pacha
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Finnish Diet Opened in Helsinki Amid Cautions on Separatism
Helsingfors August 5 The new Finnish Diet was opened at the palace by Governor General Boeckman. The throne speech urged allegiance to the empire and warned against separatist tendencies, noting past criticisms of imperial measures and stressing the need for direct Finnish relations with the Grand Duke rather than Russian ministers. The Diet president Svinhufvud affirmed Finland must maintain its legal order and warned that independent administration and direct monarch oversight are essential to progress.
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Professor Sumner on Free Trade in London Speech
Yale professor William G. Sumner addresses Free Trade Congress in London criticizing American protectionism. He argues protection has consumed itself and hints at upcoming reforms or revolutions in global trade. He predicts a major shift that could lower production and realign worldwide trade norms. The note mentions a separate Red Cross gift to forest fire victims in Canada.
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William G. Summer
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Witrid Laurier
Canada
Position of Battleship Fleet Near Auckland
Wireless dispatch from Suva reports the United States Atlantic fleet at 8 p m in latitude 22 2 degrees south longitude 178 51 West six miles from Auckland. The sea ran rough and the ships carried out their usual evolutions tonight.
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Striking Canadian Pacific Shopmen Freeze Rails Across Canada
More than eight thousand shop workers in the Canadian Pacific system quit in a coordinated action led by Bell Hardy of the Federation of Mechanics. Montreal and Winnipeg report large, costly work stoppages as crews walk out at whistle call and machinery halts. Government and company officials predict limited intervention while labor disputes head toward arbitration.
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Lord Roberts Urges Canadian School Military Drill
Lord Roberts told Ottawa residents at Government House that Canada should adopt a nationwide school drill system, with military and physical training from ages ten to eighteen, and continued after schooling. He urged fair play in athletics and emphasized national preparedness. He leaves for Quebec tomorrow night and sails to England Friday.
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Quebec
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Dominican Socialist Preacher Father Btourneau Dead
Paris reports the death of Father Btourneau, renowned Dominican preacher linked with Christian socialism, at age unknown. The obituary notes his influence in religious and social reform circles.
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Russian Consul Stabbed in Tien-Tein Airport Attack
The Russian Consul at Tien-Tein, M. Poppe, was stabbed today at Brenghai Avenue 6. He is not expected to recover. The assailant fled the scene.
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Reyes Exposes Plotters in Colombia Crisis
News from Panama reports a failed July conspiracy against President Reyes in Bogota. Prominent Colombians including ex-supreme court members and cabinet officials, plus generals and sons, were banished to Caqueta and Mocoa penal colonies.
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Daniel J. Reyes
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Rebuilding Under Way After Elk River Valley Fire
Spokane reports the Elk River Valley fire shifting northward toward Michel and surrounding towns. Fire destroyed part of Michel where 25 to 30 miners homes stood, but no serious injuries occurred. Fernie begins rebuilding with the Canadian Pacific Railway crew starting a new station as the danger subsides and fatalities are estimated at fifty to sixty in the district.
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Michel
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Old Town
Fernie
Canadian Pacific Railway
Slight Losses From British Columbia Forest Fires
Samuel R. Wood of Wood Kennedy estimates New York insurers will pay less than $40,000 due to the Crow's Nest district fires in the Elk River valley British Columbia. He notes most coverage was by English companies and that wilderness shacks rarely insured. The incident he says is less costly to U.S. firms than a typical New York warehouse fire.
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Elk River Valley
British Columbia
Samuel R. Wood
Wood & Kennedy
Liberty Street
Wood
New York
Raisuli Appears at Tangier for Demand of Reparation
Tangier August 5 Raisuli the bandit rode at the head of fifty horsemen to the British Legation and declared he would renounce British protection and resume his old life unless reparation is granted for the village pillaging by imperial troops yesterday.
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Raisuli
Harry MacLean
Italian secret service forms to curb Black Hand outrages
A new group named the National Secret Service Information Bureau organized at Gerardo Luisi’s office in Nassau Street to combat Black Hand crimes. A 50 member committee was created. funds reach 1700 dollars. The group will act independently with its own detectives and may expand with more chapters.
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United States
Gerardo Luisi
Nassau Street
Bingham
National Secret Service Information Bureau
Balloon in Two Flights Over Fort Myer Parade Ground
The Baldwin dirigible completed an eight minute flight despite rain and squally winds at Fort Myer. Spectators included General Allen and notable aeronauts as the craft rose to sixty to two hundred feet and landed with no ropes, while Baldwin lamented Zeppelins' fate and praised the late inventor.
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Jaimee
Fort Myer
Allen
Signal Corps
William Wirt Kimball
New Jersey
Navy
Roy Knabenshue
Samuel A. King
Philadelphia
America
John Donovan
St. Joseph
General Allen
War Department
United States
Augustus Post
New York
Baldwin
Count Zeppelin
Wright Brothers Ascend Today
Lemans France August 5 Wilbur Wright the American aeronaut of Dayton Ohio plans to begin aeroplane flights here tomorrow.
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France
Wilbur Wright
Dayton
Ohio
Mystery surrounds Bender family disappearance claim
D J Huntsman of Montrose Colorado asserts the Benders were drowned by a Kansas secret society he helped form after the Civil War. He says lodges operated near the Verdigris River and Missouri line and that doctrine of secrecy hid the murders. he alleges the Benders were followed to Thayer, weighed down, and sunk in a lake.
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Contest to New Yorkers over Rubens will dispute
Paris August 5 nephews of Charles Rubens who died in 196 bequeathed 2 000 000 to New York friends Henry R Ickelheimer and Julia Heidelbach contest the will claiming Rubens was Frenchman Samuel Woog who naturalized in America and returned to France in 1868. The case before French courts questions whether French law applies. Counsel Coudert Brothers represents Henry Ickelheimer. He is with Heidelbach Ickelheimer & Co of 37 William Street and resides at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street.
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Charles Rubens
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Henry R. Ickelheimer
Julia Heidelbach
Rubens
Samuel Woog
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Ickelheimer
Julia Hel- Gelbach
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Woman Tries Suicide After Farewell With Husband
Mrs. F J Falding reportedly ingested poison and opened gas after bidding her mining engineer husband goodby as he left for a Westward trip. She was found unconscious in Brooklyn apartment and removed to Seney Hospital. Her condition was described as hopeful by press late last night as husband traveled back from Philadelphia.
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Hazing law under review and Navy ship fittings standardization
Washington discusses possible Congress action to modify the hazing ban at West Point and Annapolis. Navy plans uniform minor fittings with U. S. N. insignia and bids from New York firms, plus Mare Island channel improvements and new shelter tents. Army and Navy orders, leave actions, and ship movements are listed.
Washington for Norfolk the Prairie from North River New York City
A transit reference lists Washington for Norfolk the Prairie traveling from North River in New York City to Tompkinshire.
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Norfolk
the Prairie
North River
New York City
Tompkinshire
Canal Excavation Grows Fast in July Output
A cable from Colonel Goethals reports July excavation at the Isthmus of Panama reached 3,163,640 cubic yards, higher than June though June was near a record. July daily average was 121,494 cubic yards with 1,874,173 cubic yards moved by steam shovels. Also, a Chicago report notes army officers completing a 90 mile test ride in good condition at Fort Sheridan after a brief vacation.
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Isthmus
Panama
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Fort Sheridan
Bacon Starts for Porto Rico Investigation
Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon of the State Department left Washington to examine land holdings about to be transferred to the United States government. He will travel by rail to Tampa then Havana and Santiago and sail on the yacht Mayflower for Porto Rico.
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Porto Rico
Washington
Robert Bacon
State Department
San Juan
United States
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Havana
Santiago
Carnegie Gift Aimed at Costa Rica Court of Justice
Washington reports arrangements are underway to transfer Andrew Carnegie’s 190000 gift toward building the Central American Court of Justice at Cartago Costa Rica. The fund has been available since the peace conference in Washington last winter and is being accelerated by Honduras unrest.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Central American Court of Justice
Cartago
Costa Rica
Honduras
Loot Recovered From Bandits in Railroad Movie Hold Up
Pittsburg August 5 Following recovery of To worth of gold plate belonging to John M Ney & Co gold refiners of Hartford Conn it is said today that several thousand dollars worth of diamonds belonging to a local firm stolen April 30 when bandits held up the New York St Louis express near this city have also been recovered An official statement by the railroad and express companies the morning after the robbery claimed only 500 in money and plunder was taken but reports set the total at 50000 to 1000 }
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Hartford
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