Fire Rages Through Port-au-Prince Amid Citywide Destruction
Dispatch from Ameriican Minister Furniss reports daybreak fire in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, renewing after an arsenal explosion. About 400 buildings burned previously, with 40 more lost as flames spread and panic rose. Authorities fear disorder and pillage, while foreign interests may seek protection from a cruiser if fires persist.
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Ington
Furniss
Ameri
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
State Department
Rothe
Mes
Legation Sage
United States
Senate
National Bank
Chamber of Deputies
Congregation of St. Louis
M. Carteron
Harti
Chasseloup-Laubat
Repression in Persia and Revolutionary Leader Captured
In Teheran sixty Cossacks positioned behind the British Legation as refugees sought escape. The British chargé d affaires protested and demanded the governor's apology. The Shah pursues leaders, Seyed-Chemal arrested near Teheran after disguise as a soldier. death sentence looming. Tabriz reports ongoing fighting and telegraph wires cut.
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Teheran
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Saes
Sey-ed-Chemal
Hamadan
Tabriz
Duel Between Douma Members Stopped by Police
In St Petersburg on July 7 the planned duel between M Markoff, a reactionary Deputy, and Ossip Pergament from Kherson, was halted by police in woods near the Uchelnaya Hippodrome. The scene resembled burlesque as one principal posed with blank cartridges while surgeons watched. Police recorded all attendees as over thirty cars gathered. The bout called for one exchange of shots, decided by a coin toss. bullets were antiseptically treated. The 2:30 a.m. start was set due to white nights. Duelling is illegal and punishable by imprisonment in a fortress. Surgeons and nurses plus hospital carriages were on standby.
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St. Petersburg
M. Markoff
Ossip
Local officer dies from cholera in the Philippines
Manila reports Lieutenant Jones of the 1st Cavalry died after cholera onset on June 24. Lieutenant Mal Goon,PH, contracted the disease while aiding Jones and is recovering. Epidemic being checked in Capiz and Pangasinan. government acts to stamp it out within a month. Second Lt Arthur R. Jones once served in 224 Kansas Volunteers and 5th Cavalry before joining the 1st Cavalry this year.
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Manila
Jones
1St Cavalry
Mal Goon
Philippine Souts
Gregg
Capiz
Pangasinan
Manilla
Arthur R. Jones
Kansas Volunteers
Sth Cavalry
3D Cavalry
Fear of grain famine in Russia reports lower harvest
Odessa in July notes the wheat crop is well below average and American agricultural machinery suppliers are canceling orders. Grain dealers warn of a looming famine amid dwindling stocks and uncertain supply chains.
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Russia
Odessa
Danish ministers reshuffled in Washington and Rome
Copenhagen reports that Constantin Brun will move from Washington to another post in autumn to replace F. E. de Bille who retires after eighteen years in London. Count Carl van Moltke will take Brun’s Washington post, and his wife Cornelia van Jaer Thayer, daughter of Nathaniel Thayer of Boston, will be noted.
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Copenhagen
Constantin Brun
United States
Washington
F. E. de Bille
M. de Bille
London
Carl van Moltke
Italy
Cornelia van Jaer Thayer
Nathaniel Thayer
Boston
M. Brun
Duke Abruzzi Sends Messages to Miss Elkins from Sea
Naples July 6. It is learned Duke Abruzzi commander of Regina Elena off Gaeta has daily cable contact with Miss Kathrine Elkins. He uses a battleship motor to relay dispatches, making trips several times per day.
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Naples
Duke Abruzzi
Regina Elena
Gaeta
Eight-Hour Day Bill Debated In British Commons
London July 6 The House of Commons passed the second reading of a labor bill setting an eight hour workday for all UK miners in future years. The session also concluded the committee stage of the old age pensions bill, now adjusted to a sliding scale tied to the recipient's income.
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London
House of Commons
United Kingdom
Charge Against Lord Charles Reported in Times Letter
The Times cites a claim that during a channel fleet maneuver Admiral Lord Which would have ordered an evolution that could have forced a collision between the cruisers Boots and Good Hope. Sir Percy was aboard the Good Hope at the time of the signal and the ensuing panic.
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London
the Times
Channel
Lord
Denistons
Percy
Unverified Signal Story In Fraught Beresford Row
The tale cites doubts about a signal and reluctance to obey it, with corroboration limited to mentions in other London papers. It is tied to Lord Charles Beresford and his feud with Sir Percy Scott, and remains unverified amid broader campaign disputes.
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Ment
London
Charles Beresford
Percy Scott
Rebellion in Honduras sparks regional support
From Managua on July 6 reports say ex President Bonilla’s partisans have begun a movement against the government in Honduras. The rebellion is said to be supported by Guatemalans and Salvadorans, signaling regional involvement.
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Bonilla
Managua
Honduras
Peace in Paraguay Restored as Naveiro Takes Control
A Asuncion dispatch says peace is restored in Paraguay. Former vice president Dr Emiliano Naveiro, named president by the victorious revolutionary party, has assumed control while foreign powers intercede for ex ministers who took refuge in legations.
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Montevideo
Asuncion
Paraguay
Emiliano Naveiro
Revolutionary Party
Bombardment damages legations at Asuncion
Dispatches from Formosa near the Paraguayan border report that the American and Italian legations in Asuncion suffered heavy damage from bombardment. An intermediary from the American legation was killed by a grenade. The American and Italian ministers have filed compensation claims with the new government.
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Buenos Ayres
Formosa
Asuncion
Georgian Bay Canal Feasibility Report Released
Ottawa July 6 engineers publish the first comprehensive survey of the Georgian Bay Canal plan from Georgian Bay to Montreal. They estimate a decade and roughly 100 million dollars to build a four hundred mile route with seventy hours transit but doubt any time savings over improved St Lawrence canals and high lake navigation. A commission may study deepening the Saint Lawrence and Welland systems to twenty two feet.
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Ottawa
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Georgian Bay Canal
French River
Georgian Bay
Ottawa River
Montreal
St. Lawrence Canals
Lake Erie
Ontario
St. Lawrence
Welland Canal
Panama Secretary of Foreign Relations resigns amid new retirements
Sefior Arias submitted his resignation as Secretary of Foreign Relations in Panama on July 6, with other officials likely to resign soon. A telegraph report claiming he was told to retire from the presidential race was denied by the State Department, which said it is not nominating or denominating presidential candidates in any country.
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Panama
Sefior Arias
State Department
Washington
Bonaventure Cherett
United States
Vatican
France
Spain
Austria
Rome
Propaganda
Te Propaganda
Cardinal Gotti
Lambeth Conference Opens With 247 Prelates In London
The fifth decennial Lambeth Conference opened at Lambeth Palace with 247 bishops attending, surpassing the 76 at the first gathering. Meetings run until August 6 and will be discussed by the full body before committee review. resolutions will be sent to churches as an encyclical letter. All sessions are private.
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London
Lambeth Palace
Weather Report Shares Showers East Tracks West Cooling Trends
A Washington weather bulletin notes a trough from Texas to the upper lakes with a strong Southeastern high, bringing widespread showers east of the Rockies and cooler conditions in the Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys. Forecast calls for showers Tuesday into Wednesday in the Ohio Valley, lower lakes, Middle Atlantic, New England, and southern Atlantic Gulf coasts, with fair conditions in the West. Winds vary along coasts and Great Lakes, with gradual cooling into midweek and warming in the Northwest and extreme West.
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Texas
Upper Lakes
Rocky Mountains
Lower Lake Region
Middle Atlantic
New England
Mississippi Valley
Portland
Miscouri
Mississippi
Upper Lake
Hocky Mountain
Kansas
Nebraska
Ohio Valley
Lower Lake
Middle Atlantic States
South Atlantic
Gulf States
West Gulf States
Plains States
Middle Atlantic Coast
South Atlantic Coast
East Gulf Coast
West Gulf Coast
Lower Lakes
Lake Huron
Grand Banks
District of Columbia
Maryland
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
New Papal System Reforms Propaganda Jurisdiction
Rome July 6 A major Pontifical document reforms Roman congregations, removing Canada Great Britain Holland Newfoundland Gibraltar Luxemburg and the United States from Propaganda jurisdiction. It creates new discipline and sacrament structures, shifts civil and criminal litigations to the Rota and Segnatura, expands the Consistory’s role, and plans a new canon law code to be issued later. The changes hinge on direct appeals to Vatican offices with a guaranteed free legal aid body and no fees for the poor.
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Rome
Great Britain
Holland
Canada
United States
Congregation of the Holy Office
Holy Office
Congregation of the Consistory
Tribunal of the Penitentiary
Rota
Segnatura
Supreme Court
Court of Cassation
Cardinal Gasparri
Propaganda
Newfoundland
Gibraltar
Luxemburg
Vatican
Mrs Wiggs Manager Arrested In Embezzlement Suit
Charles H. Greene business manager and treasurer for Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch was jailed on order of Justice Bischoff in a suit by Liebler & Co to recover 1535.35 claiming he embezzled proceeds from the British Columbia trip for the week ending May 21. An affidavit notes Greene wrote from 189 Claremont Ave May 31 claiming loss of 1300 and asking time to adjust.
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Charles H. Greene
Mrs. Wiggs
The
Cabbage Patch
Liebler & Co
Ludlow Street
Lieblers
Greene
George M. Welty
Claremont Avenue
New York City
Henry B Harris Announces Plans for 1908 09 Season
Henry B Harris returns from Europe and reveals a busy 1908 09 season. Openings include The Travelling Salesman at Liberty Theatre on August 10 with James Forbes script. Henrietta Crosman with Maurice Campbell directs revivals and The Country Girl at Academy of Music starting August 13. The Hudson Theatre hosts The Call of the North August 24, Robert Edeson. Rose Stahl starts September 7 in The Chorus Lady at Grand Opera House. Road companies present The Lion and the Mouse. Pagar Selwyn begins in Toronto September 21 in Pierre of the Plains. Charles Klein’s The Mischief Makers to be produced in November.
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Henry B. Harris
Europe
Liberty Theatre
James Forbes
Henrietta Crosman
Mr. Harris
Maurice Campbell
Academy of Music
Hudson Theatre
Robert Edeson
George Broadhurst
Stewart Edward White
Grand Opera House
Rose Stahl
Charles Klein
Lion and the Mouse
Pagar Selwyn
Toronto
Pierre of
Ten Deaths From Heat Across City Streets
A heat wave caused ten fatalities and numerous heat related incidents. Victims include Thomas Wait at 307 East 153rd Street Lebanon Hospital and L Vaughan at 256 West 37th Street Roosevelt Hospital. Others, such as George Warner and John Warner, perished after overheating at subway stations and Central Park West. Cobler Frank Marianaro died from a fall after leaping from a window. Carpenters Charles Hollister and workers at the PennsylvanIa tunnel were among the dead. City officials report fourteen sunstroke deaths in the past week, with many seeking shelter in Battery Park and Mulberry Bend Park as benches and baths fill.
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Centre Streets
St. Gregory's
Hos
Wait
Thomas
East 153d Street
Lebanon Hospital
Vaughan
West 37Th Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Warner
George
Willard Avenue
Hoboken
323D Street
Fourth Avenue
New York Hospital
John
105Th Street
Central Park West
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Williams
Joseph
West Farms Road
174Th Street
Fordham Hospital
Woodley
West Street
Pier 18
North River
Hudson Street Hospital
Frank Marianaro
Amsterdam Avenue
Charles Hollister
Pennsylvania Tunnel
32D Street
Seventh Avenue
Sheppard Avenue
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Knickerbocker
Broadway
42D Street
Hannah Stapleton
West 40Th Street
Wheeler
Board of Health
Battery Park
Mulberry Bend Park
Two Die as Boston Sizzles in Heat Wave
In Boston on July 6, the city endured its hottest day of the year with record heat. A tenement district toll lists two dead and twenty persons prostrated from heat while temperatures reached 91.3 at the Federal Building and 93 on street thermometers.
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Boston
Federal Building
Regents Not Regent Political Speech Opens NYU Summer School
Chancellor MacCracken opened NYU summer school for teachers with remarks on the Regents of New York and the need for regnant governance in education. Dr Draper emphasized democratic ideals, education equity, and the United States must rely on work over luck in schooling. NYU reports five hundred fifty pupils in a six week course, drawing teachers from across the United States.
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MacCracken
New York University
University
Andrew S. Draper
New York State
Empire State
Massachusetts
Texas
New York
Board of Regents
Smail
New York City
Upstate
United States
Plans for Maxine Elliott Theatre by Marshall and Fox
Chicago architects Marshall and Fox filed plans for the Maxine Elliott Theatre at 107 to 113 West 39th Street. The three story and basement marble facade, 80 by 90 feet, with two galleries seats 68 and features a domed ceiling, mirrors along auditorium walls, a boudoir for women, and a £200,000 cost estimate under Shubert direction.
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Marshall & Fox
Chicago
Maxine Elliott
Murphy
West 39Th Street
Playhouse
Maxine Elliott Theatre
Miss Elliott
The
Shuberts
Troop Reinforcements Arrive for Pine Camp Maneuvers
The 24 Connecticut Regiment under Colonel James Geddes and the 3d Pennsylvania under Colonel W. G. Price join the Pine Camp drills. The Boston Cadets with 270 men and the 4th Infantry, Maryland, with 70 men, arrive as the week’s schedule promises light activity and baseball games. Colonel Baron de Bode, Russian Legation attaché, visits General Grant.
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Watertown
N. Y
Connecticut Regiment
James Geddes
Pennsylvania
W. G. Price
Pine Camp
Boston Corps of Cadets
Colbert
4Th Infantry
Maryland
Charles F. Macklin
Baron de Bode
Washington
Grant
The President's Plans for a Big Game Hunt
President Roosevelt furthers detailed plans for a forthcoming big game hunting expedition, with spring scheduling to finalize steamship and rail connections. Visitors including Armar Saunderson and John Archbold affect no policy, while security details and yacht movements create a busy Sagamore Hill scene as Peary's Roosevelt voyage approaches.
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Tribune
Oyster Bay
Sagamore Hill
Equatorial Africa
Armar D. Saunderson
New York
Roosevelt
Saunderson
Africa
New York Zoological Society
Archbold
Whitestone Landing
Peary
Obituary of Captain John Wilkes in Charlotte
Captain John Wilkes aged eighty one died in Charlotte today. He was a son of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes explorer after whom Wilkes Land is named and a classmate at Annapolis of Admirals Jouett Franklin Upshur and Luce. He served as a lieutenant in the Navy during the Mexican War and later pursued business in Charlotte. A prominent Episcopalian in the community.
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Charlotte
N. C
John Wilkes
Charles Wilkes
Wilkes Land
Antarctic
Annapolis
Jouett
Franklin, Upshur
Luce
Wilkes
Sidney S. Warner dies at 79 longtime Ohio banker
Sidney S. Warner of Wellington Ohio president of the First National Bank of Wellington died aged seventy nine. He helped organize the Cleveland National Bank with P M Spencer and led it until 1900. Warner was Ohio state treasurer for three terms and served in the legislature two terms. He once ran for governor in 1874 and sought Congress in Ohio's Fourth District.
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Wellington
Ohio
Sidney S. Warner
First National Bank of Wellington
P. M. Spencer
Warner
Cleveland National Bank
Fifty seven children sent to country by Tribune Fresh Air Fund
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund dispersed fifty seven city children into rural homes yesterday, with twelve girls going to Campbell Hall and forty five to areas near Norwich and Owego. Churches coordinated hosting families while efforts to supply night clothing and bathing garments were boosted by Mrs. William Gee and Miss Nellie Pagnam. An accident at the Shokan home left a thirteen year old girl with a broken arm, receiving hospital care and continued fund support.
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Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Campbell Hall
Adams Memorial Church
East 30Th Street
Norwich
Owego
Olivet Church
2D Street
King’s Daughters
East 128Th Street
Weehawken
Presbyterian Hospital
Nellie Pagnam
Meriden
Conn
William Gee
Main Avenue
Acknowledgments and Bridge Club Notice 1908
A list of acknowledgments including Mrs. George T Bliss Clarence H Kelsey W O Whitcomb and others. Mentions a West Side bridge club via Mrs Adelaide K Dick treasurer and John A Brookman. Includes financial totals for July 6 1908 and an ad for Horsford's Acid Phosphate tonic.
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George T. Bliss
Clarence H. Kelsey
W. O. Whitcomb
New Anonymous
Demarest
N. J
Adelaide K. Dick
John A. Brookman
Death notices from The Tribune republished in Tri-Weekly Tribune
Notices announce deaths of Annie Howland Ford at Spring Lake New Jersey on July 4 and Alice Maud French at Point Pleasant New Jersey on July 6 1905 with funeral details at St Peters Morristown and private arrangements. Also listed are Mary Golden death on July 4 1998 with a requiem mass July 7 at 10 30 am at St Johns Chapel Brooklyn.
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Tribune
Tri-Weekly
Ford
Spring Lake
N. J
Annie Howland Ford
St. Peter's
Morristown
Obituary notices from Brooklyn July 1908 death details
A Brooklyn page lists multiple obituaries and funeral notices for July 1908. Items include Ha Set residence Greene Avenue Brooklyn for a requiem July 7. John Heckscher retire and funeral at Trinity Chapel July 7. Emma Crawford Jennings at Summit New Jersey July 1. Thomas P Kelly funeral July 7 Brooklyn. William Leeds Paris France June 20 with July 3 service. James Lyons Flatbush July 9 requiem. Francis A May Classon Avenue funeral July 7. Theodore Perry Nichols East 35th Street July 7. Dora Pinckney Highland Falls funeral July 6 and Skaneateles July 7. Isabella Poynter South Elliott Place July 8. James Palmer Ramser Seventh Street July 6. Margaret Brown Stone State Street July 7. Harriet A Tower July 4 death with service July 7 at Greenwich. Interments in Greenwood Cemetery and Woodlawn noted. Boston and Paris papers urged to copy.
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Hall
John Ha
Greene Ave
Brooklyn
St. John’ Mont
Greene
Calvary Cemetery
Heckscher
West S8th
John Gerard
Virginia Heckseher
Charles A
Georgianna Costerscher
Trinity 25Th St
Broadway
Society OF the War Veterans of the Seventh Regiment
N. G
John Heckscher
12Th U. S. Infantry
Trinity Chapel
25Th St
Henry W. Harpell
Richard H. Greene
Jennings
Emma Crawford
Wiliam B. Jennings
George Crawford
Springfield Ave
Summit
N. J
Leeds
Paris
France
William Bateman Leeds
Sthave
Lyons
James Lyons
Annie Lyons
Bedford Ave
Flatbush
Holy Cross Church
May
St. John's Place
Francis A. May
Julia
Michael E
St Ti
Classonave
Sterning Place
Ramsey
James Palmer Ramser
Genevieve Ward
Stone
Margaret Brown
Thomas Stone
State St
Undertasers and Ambulance Services Advertised in City Directory
Readily accessible by Harlem trains from Grand Central Station and trolleys by Webster and Jerome Avenues and by carriage. Lots priced from 150 dollars. Call 4865 Gramercy for Book of Views or representative. Office at 20 East 23d Street New York City. Undertakers Frank F Campreet 2419 West 224th Street Chapelm private and public ambulances. Tel 1324 Chelsea.
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New York City
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West
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Tribune
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Carit
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Manchester
Queen's Hotel
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Midland
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Wellington
Tunbridge Wells
Morecambe Bay
Derbys Hollier
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LYAR
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Rome
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Tian
Daniell Ead
Help Wanted Applications For Various Positions
Special Notices announce the Uptown Office of THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE has installed a file of applications from selected aspirants for positions of various kinds. Visit No 1364 Broadway between 36th and 37th Streets from 9 am to 6 pm to save time and expense.
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Tribune Subscription Rates and Mail Delivery Details
The Tribune lists domestic and international subscription rates for Daily and Sunday editions, tri weekly and weekly Farmer, with various monthly and yearly options. It notes extra postage for New York City readers and lists numerous hotel reading rooms and international distribution points, naming many hotels and destinations across the United States and abroad.
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Erican Press Company
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Bureau Des Strangers
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