Shah Removes Guards in Teheran Amid Persia Unrest
Dispatches report fighting in Tabriz and negotiations over safeguarding lives and property in Persia. Cossack units and Persian forces clash as refugees seek safety in the Russian Bank buildings while Britain notes no immediate plan to reinforce Teheran or Tabriz legations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ondon
Britsted
Teheran
Foreign Office
Persia
Great Britain
Tabriz
St. Petersburg
Obaldia Seeks Victory In Panama Municipal Returns
Panama July 2 Domingo de Obaldia the Independent candidate for the Presidency leads in municipal elections with 164 presidential electors from districts including Panama Colon Tabogo and many others. Ricardo Arias Constitutionalist ticket has 79 electors. Fusion tickets win in three districts as more results awaited. Amador reports Arias supporters won 33 of 58 districts. Obaldia son Manuel confirms with his father a “Splendid triumph.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Domingo de Obaldia
Panaman Republic
Colon
Tabogo
Arraijan
Chorrera
Chame
Penonome
Pintada
Ola
Nata
Aguagulce
Los Santos
Chitre
Las Abas
Guarare
Rocri
Macaracas
Pedasi
Donoso
Chagres
Canazas
Porto Cabello
Santa Isabel
Calabre
Lamesa
Balboa
Alange
Tole
Las Minas
Ricardo Arias
Caira
Chebo
San Carlos
Chapigana
Pinogana
Bocas del Toro
Anton
David
Boouete
Rouqueron
Cole
Amador
New York
Lestor Arias
Manuel Obaldia
Sefior Obaldia
Humbert's Suit Triggers Two Paris Duels
Senator Humbert's libel suit against the Matin led to two sword duels in Paris. Editor Jouvenel fought Cassagnan, minor wounds. A Jouvenel brother faced Baudelot, arm wound. Jury verdict found Matin guilty on seventeen counts. $10,000 damages and $600 fine. retraction and publication of the judgment ordered in 200 papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Humbert
Matin
M. Henri Rochette
M. Jouvenel
M. Cassagnan
Autorité
Baudelot
Court confirms $5 million fine against asphalt firm
In Caracas via Willemstad date line, the Court of Cassation upheld Civil Court rulings against New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company ordering a $5,000,000 penalty to the Venezuelan government for alleged aid to the Matus revolution against Castro. No further appeal appears possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caracas
Venezuela
Willemstad
Curacao
Court of Cassation Today
Civil Courts of
First Instance
New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company
Matus
Castro
Venezuelan mourning over Cleveland at Castro dispatch
Caracas reports July 1 via Willemstad that President Castro sent a cable to Mrs. Grover Cleveland lamenting the death of Mr. Cleveland. El Constitutional notes the message binds Venezuelan and American peoples in memory of a man whose public virtues are forever honored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caracas
Venezuela
Willemstad
Caracao
Castro
Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
el Constitucional
Oman
Emperors praise dirigible voyage marks new era
Berlin reports Emperor William sent a congratulatory dispatch to Count Zeppelin after a twelve hour flight of his new airship. The journey was described as the beginning of a national achievement and hailed by the monarch. Other items note church socialist sympathy talks in Edinburgh and a garden party invitation for the American ambassador in St. Petersburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Constance
William
Count Zeppelin
St. Petersburg
John W. Riddle
Montgomery Schuyler. Jr
Hundreds Die In Russian Coal Mine Disaster
Yusovo in European Russia reports a gas explosion at the Rikovsky mine killing many workers. One hundred fifty seven bodies recovered burned, death toll feared near two hundred. Seventy three rescued alive but in serious condition. ten of the rescued died after extraction. Troops called to quell disturbances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yusovo
European Russia
Rikovsky
Floods in Southern China Cause Hundreds Drownings
Reports from Hong Kong on July 2 describe massive floods across Southern China leaving hundreds dead and thousands starving in destroyed villages. Relief efforts include Chinese and foreign donations, with food shipments flowing in and a government grant of 30000 dollars plus a 5090 dollar subscription from Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hong Kong
China
Standard Oil Company
Thousand Coreans Die In Pro-Japan Sect Conflict
From Victoria July 2 the Empress of China brings news that about a thousand pro Japanese Coreans, Li Chin Hoi supporters, were murdered by Corean insurgents. The Corean cabinet under Japan seized private imperial estates for national assets. A Tokyo Kokumina article criticizes Japan’s wartime stance and warns against losing world opinion. Also reported is a Batavia boat disaster with over 600 deaths as ships capsized or were eaten by sharks. hundreds of corpses found later, many mutilated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
B. C
China
Corean
Li- Chin-Hoi
Japan
Kokumina
Tokio
Batavia
Russ Ends Stormy Liberal Newspaper Life
The Russ, once Russia’s leading Liberal daily in St. Petersburg, suspends publication due to financial difficulties. Founded by Alexis A. Souverin, it drifted radical, faced numerous seizures, imprisonments, and a blackmail accusation. Boris Souvorin reported Portsmouth talks for the paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Russ
Russia
Alexis A. Souverin
Novoce Vremya
Alexis Souverin
Boris Souvorin
Alexis Souvorin
Portsmouth
Roosevelt
Regicide Plot Details Stir Lisbon House Of Lords
Dr Jose Maria de Alpoim charged that leaders of the Progressive and Regenerator parties planned the February royal killings in Lisbon. He alleged Republicans attended, that a purge of the royal family was proposed, and that Manuel Silva Buissa and Alfredo Costa were paid to kill King Carlos and Premier Franco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
José Maria de Alpoim
Carlos
Luiz
House of Lords
Progressive and Regenerator
Alpoim
Maria Pia
Manuvel Silva Buissa
Alfredo Costa
Franco
Buissa
Costa
Prince Lulz
Daylight bill gains House support to start work earlier
London July 2 The daylight bill aims to shift the work day one hour earlier starting next April to boost daylight use and provide more evening activities. The Stock Exchange warns of disrupted US business. Greenwich time remains for scientific and navigational purposes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Kingdom
Select Committee
House of Commons
The
Stock Exchange
America
Committee of the House
Greenwich
Douma Approves State Revenue Budget With Little Change
St Petersburg July 2 reports the Douma approved the revenue budget totaling 1.11.00 with minimal ministerial changes. The opposition did not criticize the main features of the current taxation system, marking a notable lack of debate on core fiscal policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Douma
Quiet On The Border Reports From El Paso And Del Rio
On July 2 El Paso reports no border disturbance as Juarez guards stay vigilant and Mayor Mateus keeps ready with a rifle. Mexican authorities claim 18 Viesca raiders captured. US dispatch notes ambassador Creel to visit Washington next week while neutrality law enforcement shows prompt action. In Del Rio, seven alleged Mexican revolutionists are held, with two hundred troops in the area and a shopkeeper wounded and later died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
Juarez
Mateus
Casa Grande
Viesca
Washington
Enrique Creel
Mexico
United States
State Department
del Rio
Myer
San Antonio
W. E. Weatherbee
Tovo
Mexico Presses U S to Punish Del Rio Officials
Mexico will seek severe punishment for Del Rio Texas authorities and possibly others for allowing Las Vacas raiders to return to the Texas side with their wounded. Mexico may also demand action against Del Rio police for permitting meetings to plan raids murder and robbery in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Mexico
United States
del Rio
Tex
Las Vacas
Texas
Washington
Mariscal
Palomas
Powder Ignites Boys in Port Richmond Disaster
Three boys from Port Richmond Walter White Eugene Heym and Harry Gill carried twenty five pounds of gunpowder from Consolidated Fireworks near Graniteville Staten Island when a spark from a cigarette ignited bags. The blaze burned clothing and sent them to St Vincent's Hospital. White is not expected to survive while Heym and Gill have fair recovery chances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter White
Eugene Heym
Harry Gill
Port Richmond
Staten Island
Consolidated Fireworks Factory
Graniteville
Richmond Avenue
St. Vincent's Hospital
Livingston
Wives' notes reveal two suicides in separate city homes
In separate city locales two workmen returned to find notes from their wives admitting plans to end their lives. Mrs. George W. Dennis, 50, lived at 4 Tompkins Avenue Staten Island, while Frederick Sparta and wife, living at 242 East 45th Street, had been married five years. Sparta appeared at Police Headquarters as Dennis departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Dennis
Tompkins Avenue
Staten Island
Frederick Sparta
East 45Th Street
Sparte
Dennis
Drowning in East River Near 73rd Street
Louis Brunvick a 22 year old clerk of 324 East 72nd Street drowned while swimming in the East River off 73rd Street. Three men Anton Samuel 1363 Avenue A Charles Dubacek 1365 Avenue A and Christopher Cloonan 541 East 72nd Street witnessed his distress and dived to help but the body was not found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
73D Street
Louis Brunvick
East 72d Street
Brunciik
Anton Samuel
Avenue A
Charles Dubacek
Christopher Cloonan
Marshall Chosen to Succeed Mackenzie as Army Chief
President Roosevelt appoints Colonel William L. Marshall, engineer corps chief, to replace Brigadier General Alexander Mackenzie who retired in May. Marshall, 62, served from Civil War private to West Point graduate and has guided fortifications and harbor work in New York, Michigan, and the Mississippi levee projects. A Brooklyn drydock expansion board and various Army Navy orders follow in this notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
MacKenzie
Roosevelt
William L. Marshall
Engineer Corps
Alexander Mackenzie
Taft
Wright
Marshall
Oyster Bay
West Point
Military Academy
West
Marshall Pass
Rocky Mountains
Lake Michigan
Hennepin Canal
New York Harbor
Fleet in Readiness for Pacific Voyage
Sixteen battleships form the Atlantic fleet in San Francisco Bay readying for July 7 departure for the Pacific. Virginia Rhode Island and Kearsarge arrive to join, Wisconsin and Missouri move to Man‑of‑War Row, Calgoa and Relief sail to Honolulu, and Annapolis graduates join the crew. Pacific squadron cruisers Tennessee Washington and California sail south with torpedo destroyers Perry Preble Farragut in tow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Portsmouth
N. H
Wolverine
Port Huron
Navy Yard
New York
Missouri
Kearsarge
Virginia
Rhode Island
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Newport
Idaho
Guantanamo
Mare Island
Calgoa
Honolulu
Yankee
Boston
Hampton Roads
Provincetown
Tennessee
Washington
California
Perry
San Diego
Coos Bay
Oregon
Eureka
Cal
Pacific
Wisconsin
Mare Island Navy Yard
Annapolis
Preble
Farragut
Army chaplains named by Secretary Wright list
Washington July 2 Secretary Wright has appointed army chaplains including Walter K Lloyd of Arkansas Episcopalian Clinton H Snyder of Ohio United Brethren Frederick L Kunnecke of Maryland Edward R Chase of Maine Lawrence L Denning of Ohio Michael G Doran of New York Roman Catholics and Stephen R Wood of California Congregational.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARMY
Harry L. James
John R. Proctor
Coast Artillery
Terry
Fort McKinley
James D. Tilford
2D Cavalry
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
Terence E. Murphy
New Jersey
William H. Armstrong
Porto Rico
Army School of the Line
Fort Leavenworth
Walter K. Lloyd
2D Field Artillery
Fort D. A. Russell
Clinton H. Snyder
7Th Infantry
Fort Wayne
Frederick L. Kunnecke
Coal Artillery Corps
Fort Caswell
Edward R. Chas
Sth Cavalry
Fort Huachuca
Laurence L. Denning
Fort Greble
Lawrence E. Hohl
19Th Infantry
Fort Mackenzie
Frederick T. Arnold
4Th Cavalry
Fort Robinson
Ellwood W. Vans
Maard A. Wells
10Th Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Camp Perry
John S. Williams
George Ruhlen, Jr
Fort Monroe
Harold E. Cloke
John Alden Dege
12Th
Cavalry
Alfred A. Pruden
2D Infantry
NAVY
Porter
Perkins
Dyer
Robinson
Denig
Peters
Eaton
Morrell
Bartlett
Hall
Doyle
Gow
Harrison
Werlich
A. Buchanan
F. A. Todd
New Hampshire
Naval Hospital
New York
R. F. Zogbatm
H. Woodward
Proving Ground
T. L. Johnson
Naval Academy
Navy Trifle
H. Williams
G. B. Landenberger
S. Doherty
LF. Dortch
J. W. Wilcox, Jr
R. A. White
Severn
R. B. Farquharson
Kearsarge
Washington
William F. Smith
William H. Parker
Marine Barracks
Navy Yard
Portsmouth
A. M. Watson
Pennsylvania
Georgia
C. P. Meyer
Tennessee
E. S. Willing
West Virginia
Ilinois
L. M. Harding
Naval Station
New Orleans
Atlanta
William H. Pritchett
Logan Tucker
Guantanamo
Percy F. Archer
Navy Department
Fort
Wright
Arkansas
Ohio
United Brethren
Maryland
Edward R. Chase
Maine
Lawrence L. Denning
Michael G. Doran
Stephen R. Wood
California
North Carolina cruiser to receive silver service in Beaufort
Norfolk note reports the cruiser North Carolina will receive a handsome silver service from the state tomorrow at Beaufort North Carolina. The ship is en route from Guantanamo Bay to Beaufort and will proceed to Norfolk after the ceremony with Lieutenant Governor Winston presenting in Governor Glenns absence who is in Denver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
North Carolina
Beaufort
N. C
Guantanamo Bay
Glenn
Denver
Winston
Photographer Frederick Wells Dies After Fall From Mansion House Window
In Kingston New York on July 2 a photographer from New York City Frederick Wells fell three stories from a Mansion House window while asleep in his room. He died shortly after the crash, his skull crushed on the stone pavement below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
N. Y
Frederick ©. Wells
New York City
Two Hellas extortion suspects seized in Central Park sting
Detectives Howry and Mott staged a night operation at the Central Park entrance at 59th Street and Sixth Avenue. They captured Dimitrivio Kalaftio and George Rallis after a money drop planned to lure an extortionist. The target, Peter A. Menakaki, a confectioner with stores on Sixth Avenue, had been sent a letter demanding 600 dollars with threats. The operative who seized the would be robber dropped on the suspect as he picked up the money under a tree, and the second man was arrested nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Park
59Th Street
Sixth Avenue
Hellas
Peter A. Menakaki
Menakaki
Matt
Howry
Dimitrivio Kalafatio
George Rallis
No. 249 West 36Th Street
May Have Shot American as Spy
Passengers from the steamer City of Sydney report the Guatemalan government arrested H. Barrington in San Jose de Guatemala for spying. They say Barrington, an American citizen, carried papers proving a Salvatorian conspiracy against President Cabrera and expect his death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Sydney
H. Barrington
San Jose de Guatemala
Barrington
Central America
New York
Salvator
Cabrera
Blue Army Breaks Siege at Watertown in New York War
After a day and night of battle between Blue and Brown forces around Pine Camp New York the Blue army under Major Carl Reichmann defeated the Browns and relieved Watertown. The engagement involved multiple units from infantry to artillery with camps breaking for home and July 4 sports planned at the encampment. Lieutenant A. Grant and Mrs. Grant expected. cannon fires and a grand Fourth of July program noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Camp
N. Y
Blue
Brown
Watertown
Carl Reichmann
24Th Infantry
12Th United States Infantry
1St
New Jersey National Guard
New Jersey
United States Field Artillery
7Th Field Hospital
Ogdensburg
Hubbard
Brown Army
Edmund Tetley
5Th United States Infantry
1St Infantry
United States Cavalry
3D Field Artillery
6Th Field Hospital
Black River
Vermont
New Jersey Cavalry
New Hampshire
Maryland
National Guard
A. & Grant
Grant
Root
D. Grant
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Shah
Obaldia
Arias
Rochette
New York and
Bermudez Asphalt Company
Edinburgeh
Amory Hiradford
Montclair
N. J
Kherson
Oxford University Endowment Fund
Lord Curzon
W. W. Astor
Mr. Astor
Great Eastern Railway Company
Deta
Hook of Holland
Copennin
Iresden
Tomsk
Siberia
Manchuria
Mungo- Nen
Sunday Tribune
Coreans
Dr. Alpoim
Army and Navy News
Big Brooklyn Drydock
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Homer R. Stamford
Philadelphia Navy Yard
L. M. Cox
Brooklyn Yard
R. E. Bakenhus
Bureau of Ks
Boe
Stringham
Barney
Third Torpedo Flotilla
Blakely
Colorado
Chicago
Arive
Union Pacific & North Western Line
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
R. M. Johnson
Broadway
the Evening Post
Eeening Post
Detective
Howry and Mott
Guatemala
San Jose
Jems & Qoncer
Blue Army
Eas
Socom
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