Eucharistic Congress Hailed Amid Global Debates
The Tribune reports a busy season of congresses with religious and constitutional debates. The forthcoming Westminster Eucharistic Congress will feature Cardinal Vincenzo Vannutelli, many bishops, and a papal legate, aiming to boost daily communion and practical faith among clergy and laity.
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The
Tribune Association
London
Robert W. Chapin
Windsor
Cardinal Pole
Mary
Booth
Waterloo Station
Salvation Army
South Africa
Doane
United States
St. Augustine
Canterbury
Westminster Cathedral
England
Vincenzo Vannutelli
Bomb Explodes on Barcelona Ferry Hurt Three
Following the secret execution of Jean Rull, a bomb exploded on a harbor ferryboat in Barcelona, seriously injuring three. Rull was found guilty on April 14 of involvement in bombings and anarchist outrages spanning Madrid, Paris, and other Spanish sites.
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Jean Ruil
Rull
Jean Rull
Bull
Alfonso
Madrid
Paris
Spain
Zeppelin Explains Accident and Blames Mechanics
Count Zeppelin issues a formal explanation absolving his mechanics of blame. He cites motor defects and lack of steering experience as causes for the mistaken endurance trip landing at Echterdingen rather than Mainz. A Zeppelin relative suggests atmospheric electricity triggered the disaster with sparks four inches long.
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Aug
Count Zeppelin
Lake Constance
Mainz
Echterdingen
Emperor contributes to Zeppelin fund in Berlin
Emperor William gave 2500 dollars to Count Zeppelin’s airship fund in Berlin Thiergarten. He praised the public response across the empire and spoke with Herr Rathenau of General Electric about Zeppelin’s catastrophe and a balloon anchoring device observed in Norway.
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Berlin
William
Count Zeppelin
Thiergarten
Herr Rathenau
General Electric Company
Erway
Condemnations to death in Russia up to July first
The Red newspaper prints statistics on death sentences from January 1 to July 1 in the Russian Calendar. Total 876 deaths, averaging five daily. Monthly tallies include 116 in January, 122 February, 184 March, 27 in April, and 131 in June. Crimes unknown but likely murder and robbery with violence.
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St. Petersburg
Emery
Three Chinese Stowaways Found Aboard Mongolian Ship
Three Chinese men discovered hidden in the forecastle of the Allan Line steamer Monglen from Liverpool and Glasgow to St John s N F and bound for Philadelphia. They claimed to have boarded at port but officials suspect they boarded at St John s to evade the Canadian meat tax.
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Allan Line
Liverpoo
Glasgow
St. John's
N. F
Philadelphia
Cisis
Diey
Cowes Season Ends As Royal Tour Moves On
Special by French Cable to The Tribune reports that Cowes season closes with royal plans for Marienbad voyage and meetings with German and Austrian emperors. The King’s health, Queen's Morals trip to Balmoral, and Prince of Wales shooting engagements are noted. Scotland face grouse disease warnings with burning moors to protect heather. luxury shooting and big houses face decline and hazards from new electric lighting and fires.
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Marienbad
Cronberg
Ischl
Almoral
Prince of Wales
Scotland
Yorkshire
Cardinal Gibbons Visits Pope After Illness in Rome
Cardinal James Gibbons leaves Rome after recovering to visit Pope Pius X who approves the mission to convert others to Catholic faith. He meets Rev. A P Doyle and presents the Basilica canons, with Monsignor O Connell to celebrate mass in St Maria in Trastevere.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Vatican
A. P. Doyle
Apostolic Mission House
Washington
Father Doyle
St. Maria
Trastevere
Monsignor O'Connell
Dr. O'Connell
St. Maria’s
Pope Pius
Pope Issues Jubilee Document to Clergy in Rome
The Pope issued a commemorative document on his priesthood jubilee urging clergy to live holy lives and serve as examples to others, addressing priests and church leaders in Rome.
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Rome
Constitution Praised at Franco-British Exhibition Panel
The Constitution Congress in London closed after a debate on the United States Constitution. Professor Albert Venn Dicey praised the Supreme Court and contrasted U S governance with European systems while noting a paradox of noble Americans being well governed under a less democratic method. Yves Guyot cited advantages and rigidity as safeguards against wild enterprises.
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Albert Venn Dicey
Oxford
Europe
Paris
London
Berlin
Washington
Dicey
Congress
England
Supreme Court
Yves Guyot
America
Japan May Kill Race Betting Proposals
Tokyo government probes betting at race meetings to preserve social order and may ban it under the penal code. Baron Kowra the new agriculture minister opposed betting and Viscount Sone, then in Tokio, called pal mutuel injurious and urged prohibition.
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Tokio
Baron Kowra
Agriculture and Commerce
Viscount Sone
House Breeding Office
Corea
London Experts Ready For Currency Debate
A French Cable report from London says the monetary commission will meet Aug 12 with Senators Aldrich Hale Bailey and Representatives Vreeland Burton Padgett arriving by German steamer. The American Ambassador will host a dinner at Dorchester House, as influential financiers including Lord Rothschild and Bank of England officials prepare to advise on currency reform and gold reserves.
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The
Tribune Association
London
Monetary Commission
Aldrich
Hale and Bailey
Vreeland
Burton
Padgett
Dorchester House
Balfour
Lord Rothschild
Bank of England
George Murray
Commission
Robert Peel
American Commission
Tariffs and Trusts Pace Free Trade Debate Abroad
A 1908 report from London notes Americans at the Free Trade Congress pushing tariff reform and trust regulation amid Liberal policy clashes. It mentions critics like Hobson and renewed English railway consolidations, with a closing event at Heyshott Cobden’s birthplace hosted by Mrs Fisher Unwin.
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Tribune
Tribune Association
London
Free Trade
Franklin Pierce
Professor Sumner
L. P. Ehrich
Louis F. Post
Herbert Miles
Free Trade Congress
T. A. Hobson
England
Congress
Pierce
Heyshott
Cobden
Fisher Unwin
FE. da
Gen Booths Long Trip
General William Booth commander of the Salvation Army sails from England for a three months tour of South Africa. At nearly eighty he plans a strenuous itinerary reaching remote outposts by days of bullock wagon travel and hopes to advance colonization of Rhodesia by Salvationists.
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London
William Booth
Salvation Army
England
Cajye Town
South Africa
Pioneer Times
Rhodesia
Prussia to Send Teachers to United States
The Prussian Ministry of Education will send a school principal and six teachers to the United States under the exchange plan with the Carnegie Institute. Instructors go to New York Boston Chicago New Haven Worcester and Exeter. Twelve American teachers will go to Germany but posts are not yet set.
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Berlin
Aug
Prussian Ministry of Education
Carnegie Institute
United States
New York
Boston
Chicago
New Haven
Worcester
Exeter
Germany
Aid for Dutch Colonists in Curacao Public Works Plan
Willemstad reports the colonial government will spend 8000 on public works to provide labor for those unemployed due to the Curacao Venezuela trade suspension. Mara caibo residents accept the July 2 Venezuelan boycott with indifference. A Venezuelan vessel bound for Puerto Cabello anchored off Curacao after currents hindered its coast run. authorities supplied provisions and water before it continued.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Venezuela
Maracaibo
Coro
Puerto Cabello
Cholera Cases Rise in Volga Region Centers
The Asiatic cholera continues in the Volga region with Saratov and Tsaritsyn as chief centers. Official reports dated today show twenty-nine new cases and twenty deaths in Saratov province, plus two cases in Samara province and two in Kazan.
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St. Petersburg
Volga
Astrakhan
Saratov
Tsaritsyn
Samara
Kazan
Brooklyn Arions Sail for Home
Arion Choral Society of Brooklyn members traveling in Germany sailed for home this morning aboard the steamer Bremen.
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Brooklyn Arions
Bremen
Arion Choral Society of
Brooklyn
Germany
Tolstoy Ill After River Bath Causes Vein Enlargement
In St. Petersburg Count Leo Tolstoy grew ill after bathing in a river following a country walk. The condition involved enlarged veins in his foot and pain, though he is now somewhat improved and confined to bed with his foot iced as ordered by his physician.
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Tolstoy
St. Petersburg
Leo Tolstoy
Americans in Paris and Aix les Bains visitors list
The Tribune records a large list of Americans in Paris and Aix les Bains including Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife, Henry Adams, W. K. Vanderbilt Jr., James Denny, Lawrence Godkin, Nelson C. Taylor, and Isadora Duncan who sails to New York. Other noted names are Theodore Myers, Colonel John Sanderson, Albert Gallatin, and Mrs. Julia Blaisdell.
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Tribune
The
Tribune Association
Paris
Henry Cabot Lodge
England
Holland
Henry White
Chevreuse Valley
Lodge
Henry Adams
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Frederick Vanderbilt
James Denny
Lawrence Godkin
J. C. van Cleaf
Nelson C. Taylor
Herbert Gleason
G. E. Warren
George C. Clark
Theodore Myers
John Sanderson
Bob. V. Hoppin
Albert Gallatin
Francis Blake
Julia Blaisdell
L. Townsend
Gerald Redmond
Switzerland
P. Prentice
H. Porter, Jr
Touraine
Professor Fenollosa
Munich
Aix-les-Bains
James J. van Alen
James Willard
Elizabeth Hopkins
John C. Gray
Lawrence Green
B. B. Kirkland
Henry Kershaw
David Oppenheim
Griswold Gray
Burden
William Gooch
Isadora
Reform plan for Macedonia backed by Russia and Britain
The Foreign Office sent copies of the Macedonian reform scheme, approved by Great Britain, to diplomatic representatives. Russia urges cautious action to avoid Turkish distrust, pledging to monitor Turkey’s efforts and only deem reform complete if real improvement follows. London adopts a similar stance on forming a mobile force in Macedonia.
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Foreign Office
Russia
Great Britain
Turkey
Macedonia
London
Prince Petrocohino on Turkish constitution and Macedonia
Prince Petrocohino of Greece staying at the Waldorf with English party says the Turkish constitution will endure under the Young Turks and that any division of Macedonia is unlikely. He notes Ottoman stability growing and recalls a past failed audience with the Sultan, now living in Paris with no official link to Greece.
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Prince Petrocokino
Greece
Waldorf-Astoria
Macedonia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Rumania
Petrocohino
Paris
Police in C P Strike Reported as Tense in Winnipeg
Winnipeg dispatch notes the Canadian Pacific strike unchanged with many special police hired. The firm plans to pay striking workers over 1.5 million dollars on August 15. McVety and the strike committee report growing support with workers from other departments joining the picket lines.
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Canadian Pacific
McVety
G. J. Bury
Brownlee
Calgary
Clemenceau's firm grip curbs Paris labor unrest in 1908
Special dispatch notes Premier Clemenceau publicly excludes the Union of Trade Unions of the Department of the Seine from state support citing 90 percent of its funds spent on anti military propaganda. He warns reforms in the Labor Federation voting system and deploys the 5th Regiment of Engineers to maintain order as street conditions worsen in Paris.
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The
Tribune Association
Paris
Clemenceau
Union of Trade Unions
Department of the Seine
Association of Miners of
France
General Labor Federation
Labor
Labor Federation
5Th Regiment of Engineers
Versailles
E& Ke
New Paris Books Review of 1908 Titles
Fasquelle prints La Vie Paris en 1907 by Jules Clarette, a panoramic Parisian chronicle with pen and ink portraits. Colin releases Le Sultan d Islam et les puissances de Constantinople by Victor Berard and Les paradoxes sur la Turquie by Afioun Effendi. Bibliotheque Independante offers Les Vipéres by Jean de la Hire, and Ollendorff publishes Le Metier de Mademoiselle Pip by Maurice Vaudaye.
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The
Tribune Association
Paris
Fasquelle
la Vie
Jules Clarette
Théâtre Francais
Academy
Pepys
Colin
Constantinople
la Mecque Et Bagdad
Victor Berard
Near East
Afioun Effendi
Chicago
Trouville
Maurice Vaucaire
Seoul official doubts swift end to Corean revolt
Kim Yunsik, head of Seoul's Privy Council, arrived in Tokyo with Prince Ito. He says the revolt's main causes were army disbandment and the Emperor's abdication. He notes disbanded soldiers still hold arms, forming a dangerous malcontent core. The ex Emperor lives retired, ill with indigestion and a foot swelling, under Dr Koike care.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Kim Yunsik
Privy Council
Seoul
Japan
Prince Ito
Prince Imperial
Corea
Koike
Another Shock in Constantine Algeria Reports Damages
An aftershock in Constantine Algeria renewed panic as more structures damaged from the prior quake collapsed. A European resident’s house ceiling fell injuring several children. A few minor shocks were felt this morning with no casualties reported.
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Constantine
Algeria
British General Pole-Carew Arrives in Winnipeg with Wife
General Sir Redvers Henry Pole-Carew, a Boer War commander, arrived in Winnipeg today with his wife formerly Lady Beatrice Butler. Local officials welcomed the visiting party.
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Winnipeg
Pole-Carew
Beatrice Butler
Armenian Patriarch Ormanian Returns Under Police Guard
Constantinople August 8 Bishop Ormanian the former Armenian patriarch arrested yesterday on maladministration charges was returned to his residence today under the protection of the Committee on Union. A detachment of police guarded him on the way home and the committee's moderation in such cases draws general commendation.
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Constantinople
Ormanian
Committee On Union
Wall Street Buoyancy Pushes Bulls Ahead in Market Rally
The Financial World notes renewed optimism on Wall Street with a broad bull bias. It highlights strong interest from major banking houses, solid performance in United States Steel and Smelting, and robust bond opportunities in Missouri Kansas and Texas four percent bonds.
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Amalgamated Copper
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Galveston
Missouri, Kansas and
Texas
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United States
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Missouri
Kansas
London
Amsterdam
Harriman
Guggenheim
Messrs. Guggenheim
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
Lawson-Guggenheim
Nevada
Goldfield Consolidated
United Copper
Standard Oil
Amalgamated Copper Company
F. A. Heinze
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