Quiet Crisis in Port au Prince as Nord Alexis Looses Grip
Revolt erupts in Port au Prince after Nord Alexis flees aboard the Duguay Trouin. Rioters loot stores while General Poidevin’s force restores order. Twelve killed, many wounded as a public safety committee mobilizes. Simon’s faction gains support. Alexis weakens but remains aboard a ship, praising Minister Carteron. General Simon set to become president if chambers convene. Legitime’s role uncertain amid troop defections and ongoing mobilizations.
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Ell
United States
Eagle
Nord Alexis
M- Carteron
Ori
Sahny
Guillaume
Celestin Cyriaque
Antoine Simon
Alexis
Leconte
Jamaica
St. Thomas
Martinique
Crossrnads
Milionsird
H. W. Furniss
Lord Alexis
M. Cauvin
General Canz
Public Safety Committee
Furniss
Gates A Showman Promotes New Circus Tour
J W Gates promotes a new circus with a $1 500 000 investment planned for next summer. The venture will feature Rostock animals and Rhoda Royals equestrian show plus additional acts bought or leased by Gates and partners. He links his NY Hippodrome ties to the project and vows to win big.
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Tribune
Galveston
John W. Gates
Rhoda Royal
Gates
New York Hippodrome
Theft of Bonds and Deposits from Old Colony Trust
The Old Colony Trust Company disclosed the loss of negotiable bonds and certificates of deposit totaling 391 000 from its vaults. The papers were deposited last August and vanished by September 15, with detectives at a loss on how the theft occurred as police appeal to banks nationwide for information.
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the Tribune
Boston
Old Colony Trust Company
United States
Consolidated Steamship Company
Church Treasures Here
In Chicago a customs broker warehouse holds church robes tapestries and ecclesiastical antiques believed to be from French monasteries. Valued at 2500 initially but appraised up to 15000 with potential resale to collectors at 100000. destined for a New York dealer. S. Robinson named as consignor, likely in Europe. David Zork appraises value between 25000 and 100000 with broader historic worth.
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Chicago
France
S. Robinson
Wakem & McLaughlin
Robinson
Europe
David Zork
New York
Mrs Bentz a death by own action in St Louis
Mrs Adelaide I Bentz, who spent years researching a boll weevil destroyer, took her own life in St Louis after learning an incurable cancer would end her work. She had been injured by a falling board during Taft farm experiments and left her son Louis M Bentz a letter detailing her formula and urging continuation of her work.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Adelaide I. Bentz
J. BR. Jobin
Bentz
Taft
Tex
Contested Will Report Tangles Yerkes Estate Plans
Chicago dispatch notes widow Mary Adelaide Yerkes has renounced the will and claims one third of Charlee T. Yerkes estate. Questions loom over bequests to New York and city art galleries as debts are settled. Deeds show transfers of Manhattan real estate involving Mrs Yerkes and Carlos E. Cook before death.
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Tribune
Chicago
Charlee T. Yerkes
Cook County
Mary Adelaide Yerkes
New York
Yerkes
New York City
Manhattan
Charles T. Yerkes
63Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Carlos E. Cook
Cook
Tariff Hearings Expand as Committee Seeks Witnesses
Washington December 3 The Ways and Means Committee authorized Chairman Payne to seek witness testimony for supplementary tariff hearings through December 19 The push targets critics of the Dingley law including James W Van Cleave Andrew Carnegie and editors The hearings will run intermittently and may continue into the extra session as the panel probes the wool schedule and seeks to refine a new equitable tariff law Mrs Bonnemort Utah wool grower testified on tariff hardships under Wilson and urged retaining duties while the committee clings to a broader inquiry into the wool top provision
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Committee On Ways and Means
Payne
House
Congress
James W. van Cleave
National Manufacturers’ Association
Andrew Carnegie
Boutell
A. J. Solis
Commission
Boston
Solis
Mr. Boutell
E Bonnemort
Utah
Bonnemort
Herbert Miles
Tariff Committee
National Association of Manufacturers
North Replies to testify on 1894 97 tariff services
Washington dispatch reports S N D North, Census Director, offering to testify under oath before the Ways and Means Committee about his services to the Senate Finance Committee in 1894 and 1897. He defends actions tied to Wool Manufacturers Association ties and denies illicit use of information.
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Washington
Committee On Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
S. N
Senate
National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Aldrich
North
Whitman
Wool Manufacturers’ Association
Finance Committee
National Wool Manufacturers’ Association
New Finance Probe By Chamber Of Commerce Members
The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution at its monthly meeting calling its finance committee to examine the city’s finances including income and expenditures and indebtedness. James G. Cannon offered the measure and was joined by Jacob H. Schiff who suggested expanding the committee to aid the inquiry. The legislative committee continued its session as the investigation was authorized.
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Chamber of Commerce
James G. Cannon
Jacob H. Schiff
President Roosevelt narrowly escapes incarriage incident
Washington December 3. President Roosevelt faced a narrow escape while riding yesterday when Lieutenant J B Lyons of the local Fire Department drove a hose cart and swerved to stop the team from colliding with the President’s carriage. The fire wagon sustained minor damage as the hoses were used to brake the team. Firemen were responding to a fire alarm at Representative Frank Lowden’s home in Illinois.
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Washington
Roosevelt
J .B. Lyons
Frank ©. Lowden
Illinois
Taft pledges strong support for Far East policy
Hot Springs Va Dec 3 President elect Taft declared the American-Japanese declaration of policy in the Far East would have full weight in his administration. He endorsed the understanding and favored maintaining friendly relations with the Orient, stating this had always been his position.
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Hot Springs
Taft
Far East
Wants China In Too
Shanghai dispatch notes the Singanpao welcomes the Japanese-American treaty as pacific assurance but laments China's weakness needing protection. It hopes the new Emperor's reign will place China as a leading member of the China-Japan-American alliance and credits President-elect Taft with shaping the understanding.
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Shanghai
Singanpao
Pacific
China
Alli
Ridder gifts not cash in Bryan campaign funds
Post election details show Herman Ridder and sons did not give cash but the value of Staats Zeitung copies for German voters. Moses Wetmore's contribution noted as time and about 15 cents net, with disputes over his expense amount.
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Tribune
Chicago
Democratic National Committee
W. J. Bryan
Herman Ridder
New York
Moses Wetmore
St. Louis
Democratic Party
Bryan
Mr. Wetmore
Wetmore
Glessner details alleged trust dealings in oyster suit
G B Glessner testifies in Missouri oyster suit hearing that $80 million in alleged trust property was turned over to the International Harvester Company by four firms for $60 million. He notes $3 million stock to J P Morgan & Co and $60 million cash plus equal stock for a new firm with a $120 million capital.
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Jefferson City
G. B. Glessner
Chicago
Littleton
N. H
International Harvester Company
New Jersey
Missouri
The
International
Milwaukee Harvester Company
Wisconsin
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
W. H. Jones
Foster
Cal
Gary
United States Steel Corporation
George W. Perkins
Plano
Ill
Jones
Lane
Consolidated Companies
Poison Letter Believed To Kill Man In San Francisco
In San Francisco a poisoned letter mailed yesterday is linked to the death of Henry Boas a salesman for an electric company. A letter supposedly from a physician but ignorant of medicine urged Boas to take two powders for indigestion, which were poisonous. a woman is suspected of penning it.
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San Francisco
Henry Boas
Boas
Big Standard Loan Yelled in Mystery at Oil Trust Trial
In a federal suit to dissolve Standard Oil, John D. Archbold testified about a $22,900,000 loan to P. S. Trainer by Southern Pipe Line, a Standard subsidiary, which Archbold could not recall and called an adjustment between refineries and the pipe line. Other loans to Barnsdall and McDonald were noted as part of the case.
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Cassidy
Metz
Jerome Avenue
Bronx
Staten Island
Catskill
Kingston
Frederick A. Cleveland
Bureau of Municipal Research
Bennett
Cleveland
Senator Cassidy
Department of Water Supply
East 74Th Street
Commissioner of Public Works
Queens County
Manhattan
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
P. S. Trajmer
Southern Pipe Line Company
Standard
Great Corporation
Trainer
Pipe Line
Mr. Trainer
Southern Company
Thomas N. Parnsdall
James McDonald
Europe
Russia
Archbold
Kellogg
Lima
Standards Company
Whiting
Ind
Standard Oi Company
Indiana
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Jersey Company
Govvernment
Unionville
N. Y
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Seaboard
Centre Bridge
N. J
Fawn Grove
Archbeld
of City
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Archebold
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Simon May
M. Carteren
Simon
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New York of Art Gallery
MR. North
NEW Finance
Peril
Japan
Mr. Taft
Ance
Staats
Morgan & CO
Commission For Organizing International Harvester Company
Mr. Archbold
Barnsdall
Moritz Rosenthal
Pittsburg
Frank B. Kellogg
California
Dutch East Indies
Rothschilds
Deutsche Bank
Poland
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