Apathy in London Over Venezuelan Naval Action
London observers show apathy toward the Venezuela naval demonstration as governments in Paris and Washington seek discipline for Castro. The piece notes English debates on Hay and a German commander, plus unrest in Caracas and other European events including Canadian rugby and Parliament’s Education bill setback.
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the Tribune Association
London
Venezuela
Washington
Castro
Hay
Caracas
Colombia’s War Really Over as Ships Return to Bay
Crowds gather at Panama Bay to welcome the gunboats Padilla and Gaitan returning under Colombian flag. Government forces have begun demobilizing with about six thousand sent home since the peace treaty, and city sanitation is improving.
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Panama
Padilla
Gaitan
Portrait of Luther Found in Wittenberg Church
An unknown portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach has been uncovered in Wittenberg town church. Experts call it the finest Luther portrait in existence.
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Berlin
Martin Luther
Lucas Cranach
Wittenberg
Italian minister Polasco dies in Milan fall
Rome reports Signor Polasco the Italian Minister of Sofia killed himself in Milan yesterday by leaping from a hotel window after a period of nervous debility. The incident ends his career amid unknown circumstances.
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Signor Polasco
Sofia
Milan
Severe Cold Devastates Western and Northeastern Germany
Berlin reports a harsh cold spell across Germany tied to hard times. Many residents have died from freezing in the western industrial provinces and in the northeastern areas as conditions worsen.
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Berlin
Germany
Italy Likely To Skip St. Louis Exposition
Rome reports indicate Italy will not participate officially in the St. Louis Exposition. Commissioner Cridler discussed with Signor Baccelli the cabinet’s likely refusal to fund the trip, citing reduced revenue from a tax relief plan.
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Rome
Italy
Cridler
Signor Baccelli
Commerce
Industry
Morocco Crisis Deepens as Imperial Forces Encircled
A Tangier dispatch reports the imperial army commander informing the Sultan that loyal troops are fully encircled by rebels with no avenue to advance or retreat. Loyal tribes are reportedly joining the pretender’s side, worsening the siege.
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Madrid
Tangier
Morocco
Kaiser Denial Shuts Down London Rumor in Berlin
Official denial issued in Berlin today dismisses The National Review report that the German leader during his Norway tour and aboard an American yacht spoke disparagingly of the British king government and people. The claim is said to be an audacious invention.
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Berlin
National Review
London
Eer
Norway
Mayaguez Capture Confirmed and Naval Exchange
Admiral Higginson arrived with four battleships and cruisers to Mayaguez and announced his presence by flag of truce. Sumner replied that Mayaguez had been captured and mined, and thanked Higginson for his congratulations. The fleet then proceeded to Culebra Island as Sumner issued the success report with details of a long, precise voyage and mined harbor action.
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Porto Rico
Higginson
Sumner
Culebra
Turner
Atlanta
Olympia
U S Battle Fleet Arrives in San Juan Harbor
United States cruisers Detroit Montgomery and Cincinnati plus three torpedo boats enter San Juan to coal. Rear Admiral Higginson leads four battleships and four torpedo boats en route to Culebra where Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral Coghlan are stationed.
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Porto Rico
United States
Detroit
Montgomery
Cincinnati
Higginson
Culebra
Dewey
Coghlan
Clarence Andrews Dead In New York Hotel Franklin Room
Clarence Andrews formerly of New York was found dead in his bed at the Hotel Franklin Paris. He was a member of the Union League Club Calumet Lambs Players Baltusrol Golf Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht American Fine Arts Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He married Myra T. Fithian a granddaughter of Richard Connolly Tweed’s Controller. they divorced in 1901. Mrs Andrews later married Chester A Arthur.
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Clarence Andrews
New York
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Andrews
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Dick” Connolly
Tweed
Chester A. Arthur
Bank Note Forgers Held In London Case
London authorities committed Jacob Stern and eight others for trial on Bank of England note forgeries. Originating in Whitechapel and South Sea, the gang produced counterfeit £5 £10 and later £50 notes, using a skilled engraver and paper manipulation. Stern, Bernstein, and a third man went to New York to pass notes but were detected. arrests halted a larger $1500 value deal with Adolph Zickel.
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London
Jacob Stern
New York
Bank of England
Stern
Whitechapel
Southsea
John Schmidt
Schmidt
William Bernstein
Barmash
England
Adolph Zickel
Promoter brothers arrested in Belgium for fraud
Brussels reports the arrest of Aimé and Auguste Hutt and their brother in law Gooman, Belgian bankers who had floated companies worth millions in France and Germany, on charges of fraud and obtaining money under false pretences.
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Banquet Controversy Over Horsemeat Dinner In Berlin
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals declines an invitation to a horsemeat banquet by Fleischer Zeitung while the Butchers League plans a separate dinner for four hundred. The newspaper presses a menu featuring horse posillon asparagus brisket of horse and horse filet A la Nelson with fine wines.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Fleischer Zeitung
Butchers
Butchers’ League
Nelson
Strikers Refuse Arbitration in Marseille Port
Paris dispatch reports Admiral Rouvier says Marseille strikers rejected the government's arbitration offer. Officials fear the move will prolong the conflict as unrest spreads to other ports and Havre sees its first disorder between gendarmes and strikers.
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Rouvier
Marseilles
Havre
Kilbride Found Guilty at Leinster Assizes
Dennis Kilbride a former member of Parliament in County Westmeath was found guilty at the Leinster Assizes of inciting in a speech the murder of Major General Meares. He was sentenced to eight months imprisonment after jury recommended mercy. Dublin Dec 10.
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Meares
County Westmeath
Dublin
Parliament
German Brewers Protest Duty Increase on Barley
Berlin hosts a nationwide gathering of brewers protesting higher brewing barley duties. Reichstag member Herr Roesick says 13,000 breweries ally against the rise, noting they already pay 30 million dollars yearly in state and municipal taxes.
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Berlin
Germany
Herr Roesick
Reichstag
International Exposition of Automobiles Opens in Paris
Paris opens the fifth International Exposition of Automobiles with President Loubet in attendance. American makers are barely represented as European firms showcase powerful racing and mountain capable machines, including automobile canoes and luxury launches. A representative notes American types focus on city use while Congolese terrain favors climbers. The Agriculture Minister plans study of automotive use in farming.
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Paris
Grand Palace
Loubet
Morocco
Need of Skilled Labor in Tropics Highlighted in San Francisco
In San Francisco the mayor's office hosted Brewster Cameron of Manila who urged Philippine labor legislation covering labor, currency, tariff, land laws and railroads. He argued for skilled labor to liven the tropics, noting a choice between Japanese and Chinese workers and stating an unwritten exclusion of Chinese from Philippine agriculture.
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Brewster Cameron
Manila
United States Congress
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Supply Arrives at Colombo En Route to Manila and Guam
The U S naval transport Supply under Commander W E Sewell has arrived at Colombo Ceylon December 10 en route from New York to Manila and Guam.
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Ceylon
United States Naval Transport Supply
W. E. Sewell
Andes New York
Manila
Guam
Fortune to Visit Island Possessions on Roosevelt Mission
San Francisco December 10 T Thomas Fortune a prominent African American leader sails for the island possessions of the government commissioned by President Roosevelt for six months. His exact duties are confidential but he is expected to study race and labor problems during the mission.
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San Francisco
T. Thomas Fortune
Roosevelt
Boer Officers Reaches Dock After Rough Atlantic Crossing
The Atlantic Transport steamer Manitou docked at 5 p m after a stormy voyage from London with four ex Boer army officers including Commandant Fouche and General Kritzinger among the passengers. They will speak on their experiences at the Union Square Hotel. A rumored wedding aboard Miss A Rogers was denied by the bride as a practical joke.
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London
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Commandant Fouche
Joubert
Kritzinger
Dre. KR
Glass
Union Square
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Co. A. Rogers
Miss Rogers
American bankers tout possible Royal Bank of Canada stock deal
Halifax dispatch reports that American financiers with strong ties propose to buy 5,000 Royal Bank of Canada shares at 250 dollars each. Directors favor the plan, aiming to increase capital and reserves, with an anticipated stock distribution to shareholders. James G. Cannon and William H. Porter denied knowledge of the transaction.
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Halifax
N. S
Royal Bank of Canada
James G. Cannon
Fourth National Bank
William H. Porter
Chemical National Bank
Canada
Cannon
Royal Bank
Drew Student Dies by Electric Shock at Drew Theological Seminary
The Rev. George Leonard Lose of Bradenville Pennsylvania died after an electric shock in Hoyt Bowne dormitory. Investigators found worn insulation on a wire above a lamp and the victim with feet on a radiator. He was 26, second year at the seminary, and authorities planned a formal inquest.
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N. J
George Leonard Lose
Bradenville
Penn
Hoyt Bowne
Drew Theological Seminary
Lose
Board of Health
Mr. Lose
Sugar Convention Sent to Reichsrat for Ratification
The Brussels Sugar Convention was submitted today in Vienna to the Reichsrath lower house for ratification.
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Reichsrath
Vienna
Brussels
King Distributes Nobel Prizes in Stockholm
The Swedish king and royal family presided as Nobel prizes were awarded. Lorentz and Zeeman shared physics. Emil Fischer of Berlin won chemistry. De Martens received peace. Mommsen claimed literature. Major Ross of Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine took medical. German and Dutch ministers accepted on behalf of Mommsen and Zeeman. Others present collected their prizes.
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Sweden
Lorentz
Zeeman
Emil Fischer
Berlin
de Martens
Mommsen
Ross
Princ Pal
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Daring Ladder Rescue By Police At West Sixty-fifth Fire
Fire at No 18 West Sixty-fifth street drew thirty engines and a large crowd as women leaped from third floor windows. Police and Dr Young formed a ring to catch them, saving Mrs Mary Parker and Miss Lillian Cleveland who suffered injuries. Two of the injured were taken to Roosevelt Hospital. The incident followed a separate blaze at No 43 East Fifty-eighth street. Mrs Parker’s daughter kept her from falling jewels while others rescued residents. Damages were estimated at 60 000 dollars.
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East Fifty-eighth St
Sixty-fifth Store
Roosevelt Hospital
Mary Parker
No. 18
Lillian Cleveland
E. Wilson
Fifty-eighth-st
Sixty-fifth-st
E. W. Lehne
Frank Brady
Dr. Young
Brady
Miss Cleveland
Roosevelt
Presbyterian
Elizabeth Flood
Captain Kear
West Sixty-eighth-st
Robbins
Murphy
O'Toole
Hoffman
Hook and Ladder Company 21
West Forty-seventh-st
West One-hundredth
West One
Twenty-Fifth-St
Fire causes panic in eight story Antoinette building
Fire in the basement of the Antoinette at 43 East Fifty-eighth Street drives residents onto the stairs and into the street. Thick nauseous smoke spreads through the eight story house, prompting firefighters to calm frightened tenants including Mrs. Edward L. Litauer who fled toward the elevator in panic after losing belongings in a prior West Forty-seventh-st fire.
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Antoinette
East Fifty-eighth St
Edward L. Litauer
West Forty-seventh-st
Rescue at roof edge as woman foils jump attempt
A distraught woman on a roof poised to jump is saved by an arriving firefighter from Truck 16 after she smashed a window and cut her wrist. Nearby, Mrs. Hall frantic for her baby. fire crews control a basement blaze as Chief Croker rushes to a second major fire uptown.
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J. M. Hall
Antoinette
Sixty-fifth-st
Manhattan Police Raid Nabs Four In Sheepshead Poolroom
A raid yesterday afternoon on an alleged poolroom at East Eighteenth Street and Voorhees Lane in Sheepshead Bay led to four arrests. John Murphy, John Turner, Charles Foster, and James Costigan, all of Sheepshead Bay, were taken into custody. Detective Walter Theil traced the operation from Manhattan, with outside detectives Crehan and Keelan assisting. marked $1 bills were found on Turner during the search. The prisoners face arraignment in the Coney Island police court this morning.
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Voorhees Lane
Sheepshead Bay
John Murphy
Bowery
Bond St
Manhattan
John Turner
Charles Foster
James Costigan
Walter Theil
Central Office
Crehan
Keelan
Brooklyn
Large Cunningham estate sale at Market and Second streets
One of San Francisco’s largest realty auctions in years sold the Cunningham estate at the southeast corner of Market and Second Its. for $630,000. A. A. Moore Jr. bought the property, which measures 140 feet on Market and 155 feet on Second, with annual rents of $32,000.
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San Francisco
Cunningham
Market
A. A. Moore, Jr
Florence Mne Hinckley
Market St
Naval hospital treats ninety apprentices for infectious illnesses
In Newport Rhode Island on December 10 a naval hospital at the training station reports ninety apprentices under treatment for pneumonia measles and the mumps. Convalescents are being sent to the Boston Naval Hospital to free space for new patients. The bar racks flooring suspected of causing pneumonia has been covered with pine.
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R. IL
Naval Hospital
Boston Naval Hospital
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