Doane Reports Lambeth Conference Findings
Bishop W C Doane of Albany transmits his cable on Lambeth Conference results. He notes two hundred fifty bishops attended, reports on home reunion intercommunion marriage and divorce, and a proposed consultative body under the Archbishop of Canterbury. The American church maintains autonomy within interdependence.
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W. C. Doane
Episcopal Diocese of
Albany
Lambeth Conference
Congress
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Tribune Association
London
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Canterbury
America
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Ww. CC. Doane
The Bishops Ruling Encyclical From Lambeth Palace
London dispatch reports an encyclical issued after the Lambeth conference of 243 bishops. It notes resolutions on creed importance, education, unity of races within the church, divorce conditions, social Christianity, and labor justice while praising peace efforts and East Orthodox relations.
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London
Lambeth Palace
Icular
Canterbury
Gunboat Scorpion to Sail for Honduras
Boston August 7 The gunboat Scorpion with supposed secret orders from Washington will sail to Borfolx Virginia tomorrow for target practice It is believed she will only coal at Norfolk and then push toward Honduras to assist with the troubles there Work force at the navy yard has been doubled to speed repairs
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Boston
Scorpion
Washington
Borfolx
Navy Yard
Onty
Norfolk
Honduras
Thaw files for bankruptcy in U.S. court
Harry K. Thaw, aided by attorney Charles Morschauser, petitions voluntary bankruptcy in Pittsburgh. Receiver Roger O'Mara posts bond of 200000 as Thaw lists assets 128002 and liabilities 453140 with many disputed claims. Thaw cites heavy trial costs and argues bankruptcy protects just creditors while ex-governor Stone is retained to help his case.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
Charles Morschauser
Poughkeepsie
N. J
United States
Roger O'Mara
Thaw
Mary C. Thaw
James G. Graham
New York
Graeme Hammond
Charles G. Wagner
Smith E. Jelliffe
Britton Evans
Martin W. Littleton
Hartridge & Peabody
John B. Gleason
Allan McLane Hamilton
Dr. Dana
John P. Wilson
O'Mara
William A. Stone
Pennsylvania
N. Y
Thaw hearing postponed again in Wilson suit
In Fishkill Aug 7 the hearing on Dr John P Wilson’s suit for expert services against Harry K Thaw was postponed for a second straight day. Thaw arrived from Poughkeepsie jail with two deputies, his lawyer Horschauser's absence forced delays, and the case was adjourned to next Monday at 9 am. Thaw paid travel and jailor expenses and returned to jail after a day spent in a law office.
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Fishkill Lending
Harry K. Thaw
John P. Wilson
Thaw
Poughkeepsie
Russel E. Schlosser
Charles Horschauser
Schlosser
Whaler Andrew Hicks Returns After 24 Years Away
The whaling bark Andrew Hicks arrives in New Bedford under Captain Church after sailing from New Bedford in 1884 and continuing in the Northern Pacific whale fisheries. The crew, praised for seamanship in a gale, includes Mrs Church returning with a harpoon tied to a monster whale for sixty years and longtime second mate Joseph Thurston, away since 1875.
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the Tribune
New Bedford
Mass
Andrew Hicks
Church
Hicks
Alice
Cold Spring
N. Y
Joseph Thurston
Minnesota Bryanized at Lincoln conference
The Tribune reports William J. Bryan and Fred B. Lynch conferred at Lincoln. Governor Johnson will seek renomination and Bryan will speak at the Minnesota state fair. The state central committee will run Minnesota’s national campaign. Johnson’s name appears at the August 19 state convention.
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Tno
the Tribune
Minneapolis
William J. Bryan
Fred B. Lynch
Lincoln
Johnson
Bryan
Minnesota
State Central Committee
Silver Service Presented to New Hampshire Battleship
A silver service was presented to the battleship New Hampshire today by the commonwealth. The presentation party included Governor and Mrs. Floyd General and Mrs. Charles J Hamblett General and Mrs. Alfred Evans General and Mrs. Frank Hardy Congressmen Sulloway and Currier and others.
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Tribune
Portsmouth
N. H
New Hampshire
The
Commonwealth
Floyd
Charles J. Hamblett
Alfred Evans
Frank Hardy
Sulloway and Currier
Watson's Daughter Hurt In Train Fall At Afton
Mrs. Oscar Lee daughter of Georgia politician Thomas E. Watson fell with her baby as she alighted from a Chesapeake & Ohio train at Afton Virginia on August 7. Both were bruised but not seriously hurt. A physician on the train assisted and Mrs. Lee was en route to her father’s summer home.
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Afton
Oscar Lee
Thomas E. Watson
Georgia
Chesapeake & Ohio
Lightning kills entire family at Edmonds
A Sparta Colorado? No, Sparta Allegheny County dispatch reports a farmer Frank Murphy his wife and young son struck by lightning while stacking rye. They attempted to reach shelter but died in the field, neighbors discovering the bodies.
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Charlotte
N. C
Sparta
Allegheny County
Edmonds
Frank Murphy
Smelters Change in Control Spurs Market Activity
The American Smelting and Refining Company moves toward Standard Oil control as around 200,000 shares, over a third of its stock, shift from Wall Street brokers to Standard Oil interests. Smelters surged then retraced in a volatile session. Reports note Rockefeller ties in buying and discuss a stalled Provident Savings Life deal with Inter-Southern Life of Louisville. Inter-Southern options expire soon. warnings of loss and high incentives to Webb accompany the bid.
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American Smelting and Refining Company
Guggenheims
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil
Wall Street
Commission House
Harriman
National Lead
St. Paul
Boston
Kansas
Nebraska
Rockefeller
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Inter-Southern Life Insurance Company of
Louisville
Springfield
Ohio
Inter-Southern
John G. Webb
Tribune
John Tevis
Webb
Provident
Caswell & Webb
Columbus, Delaware & Marion
Guy M. Warnecr
Uise
No. 15
Tere
Thousands Locked Out in Stettin Shipyard Lockout
In Stettin on August 7, 8000 riveters at Vulcan Shipyard rejected employer terms on overtime and extra hours. Employers refused wage increases, citing weekly wages averaging 980 to 1240 marks. Ironmasters then planned to discharge 60 percent of five thousand workers, with the Shipbuilders Federation set to lock out forty five thousand more on August 12.
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Federation
Waiter Millionaire Inherits Bombay Relative Fortune
Godfried Probst a Brooklyn waiter and his sister Anna of Reichenberg Bavaria are named joint heirs to an estate valued at about 16 million dollars from a Bombay based uncle who died intestate twelve years ago. The uncle amassed the wealth at sea and never married, with 15 million in property and 75 thousand in Bank of England funds. Anna proved kinship after an advertisement appeared in papers worldwide and plans to sail to England to settle affairs.
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Godfried Probst
William Draude
Smith Street
Brooklyn
Anna
Reichenberg
Bavaria
Bombay
India
Anna Probst
Bank of England
Probst
England
Big haul of bad coin men in Connecticut raid
Branchville Connecticut August 7 Six United States Secret Service men arrested nine Italians today charged with counterfeiting. Officers stormed an old farmhouse at pistol point and seized thousands of dollars in spurious coin dies moulds and a stamp. The coin in quarter and half dollar sizes contained nearly as much silver as government mint products and circulated in western Connecticut and Westchester County.
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Branchville
Conn
United States Secret Service
Connecticut
Westchester County
Student Painter Gustave Bakke Dies After Fall
Gustave Bakke, a theological student working as a painter, fell from a girder in the Reading terminal shed in Philadelphia and died at Hahnemann Hospital. The accident, witnessed by hundreds of commuters, narrowly missed others below. His newlywed wife suffered a nervous shock and remained in critical condition.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Gustave Bakke
Reading
Hahnemann Hospital
Pakke
Rittenhouse Opposes Provident Sale by Inter-Southern
Denver, Aug. 7. Insurance Commissioner E. E. Rittenhouse strongly opposes the planned takeover of Provident Savings Life Assurance Society by Inter-Southern Life Insurance. He warns that naive speculators could threaten 35,000 policyholders, urging written guarantees or bylaws to ensure policyholders’ direct representation on the board and finance committee.
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Denver
E. E. Rittenhouse
Insurance
Colorado
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society
Inter-Southern Life Insurance Company
Provident
Kelsey Sees Provident Reform In New York
Albany Aug 7 Superintendent Otto Kelsey of the State Insurance Department released a memorandum on Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New Yorks examination report. He says the company was not in a condition requiring a receiver and that no receivership was possible while efforts focus on securing new capital to resume writing business. Counsel for large stockholders expect negotiation or legal action per Appellate Division decision to speed reforms and place the society under reorganized management that can regain public confidence with department assistance to restore usefulness.
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Albany
Otto Kelsey
State Insurance Department
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York
Kelsey
Insurance Department
Drivers Strike During Funeral In Albany
An unusual scene occurred during a funeral in Albany when carriage drivers jumped from their seats and demanded a substitution of the hearse driver as a non union man. The undertaker arranged a new hearse and a union driver, transferring the body to avoid further problems.
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Albany
Hitchcock holds talk with Roosevelt on Hughes renomination fog
Oyster Bay August seven National Chairman Hitchcock spent time at Sagamore Hill and met with President Roosevelt. He refused to confirm whether the discussion aimed to decide if Governor Hughes would be renominated, saying only that general politics and New York conditions were reviewed. He heads to Hot Springs to see Judge Taft, then Chicago to open Western HQ, and will attend James Sherman’s nomination in Utica on August eighteen before returning to New York.
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Oyster Bay
Hitchcock
Sagamore Hill
New York
Hughes
New York State
Roosevelt
Madison Square
Hot Springs
Taft
Chicago
Utica
James S. Sherman
Silence on Cadets Hazing Decision at White House
Secretary of War Wright and Colonel Hugh L. Scott met with the President at Oyster Bay to discuss clemency for eight West Point cadets suspended for hazing. Wright favored leniency without breaking discipline, Scott urged a firmer stance, with a final War Department announcement anticipated Monday.
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Oyster Bay
Wright
Hugh L. Scott
West Point Military Academy
Scott
War Department
Fleet Near Port Gales Weather Favorable Arrival Soon
A wireless dispatch from the U S Atlantic fleet reports the gale has ended and fine weather prevails. The fleet will reach Auckland about 8 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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Auckland
N. Z
Eight Die As Steamer Premier Hits Lake Winnipeg Reef
Winnipeg reported the steamer Premier of the Dominion Fish Company struck a reef on Lake Winnipeg and caught fire. Eight persons died two burned in bunks six drowned. thirty escaped. The wreck damaged Warren's Landing piers and buildings. Notable casualties included Elmer Jones and O Overton, sons of company executives.
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Tribune
Winnipeg
Premier
Dominion Fish Company
Lake
Fish Company
Warren's Landing
Elmer Jones
C. Jones
O. Overton
Graft Convictions Hit Mile End Parish Officials in England
London crowding into a graft trial ended with the conviction of ten Mile End parish officials after a month long case. Proceedings drew sixty lawyers and raised the trial cost to about 50 thousand dollars amid unusual public interest in graft prosecutions.
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Ten Mile End
London
Mile End Parish
England
Gifts to Zeppelin rise with prince as fund president
Berlin August 7 Crown Prince Frederick William has accepted the presidency of the imperial committee raising a fund for Count Zeppelin the airship inventor. Subscriptions vary but about 400000 dollars appears raised with the Krupp family contributing 20000 dollars.
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Berlin
Frederick William
Imperial Committee
Count Zeppelin
Krupp
Auto Leaps Into Poorhouse on Connecticut Turnpike
A. B. Proal Jr. of New York City drove a $5,000 Packard touring car on the Connecticut Turnpike when the steering gear failed. The car jumped a brook, cleared a stone wall, and landed on the front porch of Norwalk town poorhouse. Proal and three women in the tonneau were bruised but unhurt, as they were en route to Saybrook to visit relatives.
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Norwalk
Conn
A. B. Proal, Jr
New York City
Connecticut Turnpike
Mr. Proal
Tonneau
Saybrook
Train Hits Cow Killing Four In Livingston
Four people were killed and four injured when a locomotive on the Livingston Lumber Company tramroad struck a cow and plunged into a deep ravine in Livingston Texas today. Two of the injured are believed fatally hurt. The accident occurred in the afternoon setting of the timber area, naming the Livingston Lumber Company and the small Texas town as key entities.
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Livingston, Tex
Livingston Lumber Company
Railroad Fined Seven Thousand For Rebating Practice
The Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company pleaded guilty in U S District Court to rebating and was fined $7,000 by Judge Bethea. The proof showed a bonus paid to Garden City Sugar and Land Company of Garden City Kansas functioned as a rebate.
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Chicago
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Bethea
United States District Court
Garden City Sugar and Land Company
Garden City
Kan
President Roosevelt Accepts Full Responsibility for Brownsville Order
Oyster Bay August 7 President Roosevelt announced that he alone bore full responsibility for issuing the original order discharging the battalion of African American soldiers over alleged participation in the Brownsville Texas riot and for denying a suspension. He endorsed General Corbin's statement clearly stating no blame rested with Judge Taft. The president confirmed that Corbin's account reflected the long-standing position.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Brownsville
Tex
Washington
Henry C. Corbin
Taft
Rudolph Forster
Corbin
Taft Cleared Of Brownsville Action By Corbin Statement
Lt Gen Henry C Corbin says Taft was not responsible for discharging the 25th Infantry battalion. Taft followed direct presidential orders, suspending then awaiting a cable from the President who directed execution upon his return. Corbin notes Taft acted as a loyal subordinate despite personal views.
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Washington
Taft
25Th Infantry
Henry C. Corbin
Ohio
Brownsville
Corbin
Tide Pins Man to Pier Near West Side
Harry White of 943 Columbus avenue was rescued after being pinned under a West 108th street pier for about thirty five minutes. He was unconscious with his right leg wedged between two boards after cramps while swimming half a mile from shore. Frank and Robert McDonald and Hagen White pulled him onto the pier. Dr. Weingarten of J Hood Wright Hospital said he suffered leg abrasions submersion and cramps but should recover.
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Harry White
Columbus Avenue
Hudson River
West 108Th Street
White
Frank
Robert McDonald
Hagen White
Weingarten
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Rockefeller Gift Offers Memorial, But Conditions Block Acceptance
The Tribune reports John D. Rockefeller offered 1000 dollars to a memorial fund for Uncle Remus with conditions. Atlanta must raise 49000 more to trigger the gift. Memorial Association President Jaynes will tell Rockefeller the conditions are unacceptable. Gift acceptable only if attached conditions are removed, regardless of total raised.
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the Tribune
Atlanta
John D. Rockefeller
Remus
Jaynes
Memorial Association
Rockefeller
Raise Cleveland Fares Move Toward 5 Cent Cash Fare
Cleveland officials expect a 5 cent cash fare and 8 cent tickets soon as the Municipal Traction Company relies on new fare policy to close a growing operating deficit. The change follows a recent shift to a 3 cent base and a free transfer trial that reduced collected revenue. Prepay cars may push most fares to be collected directly.
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Cleveland
Municipal Traction Company
Johnson
Municipal
Woman Run Down At Newport By Automobile
Newport Illinois August 7 Philip Mills of New York guest of Seymour Johnson on yacht Sapho struck a woman with his car at night likely causing serious injuries On Spring and Green streets a collision occurred with Mrs Harry Amey on a bicycle The woman was thrown unconscious Mills offered aid and will attend the police station if charged
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Tribune
Newport
R. IL
Philip Mills
New York
Seymour Johnson
Sapho
Mills
Spring
Green
Harry Amey
Democrats Name Dead Man In New Press Committee
Worcester August 7 1907 N M Moriarity of Worcester listed as member of the new Democratic press committee was drowned while bathing He had published The Worcester Post
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Worcester
Mass
N. M. Moriarity
New Democratic Press Committee
Worcester Post
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