Miser to Visit Czar a Meeting Off Finland
St Petersburg June 2 A meeting between Emperor William and Emperor Nicholas is arranged in the waters of the Finnish Gulf with date to be set, likely June 13. The German Emperor aboard Hohenzollern and Nicholas on Standart with Iswolsky and Voevedsky.
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St Petersburg
William
Nicholas
Finnish Gulf
Hohenzollern
Erperor Nicholas
Standart
M. Iswolsky
Voevedsky
St. Petersburg
Germany
Near East
Russia
Great Britain
Falki@res
Berlin
Stockholm
Peterhof
Frederick
Denmark
Poltava
France
England
Italy
Alexander III
Nevski Prospect
The Holbein Retained for the Nation
London reports that funds to retain Holbein's portrait of Christina, Duchess of Milan, were raised with 850,000 from the government and 90,000 from subscriptions. a West Country art lover covered 210,000 after a Duke of Norfolk loaned the piece for 28 years and an offer to buy loomed for 36.06. The National Gallery faced loss without public support.
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London
Holbein
Christina
Duchess of Milan
Christina of
Denmark
Duke of Norfolk
National Gallery
Nations Gallery
Venezuelan Colombian Treaty Draft Signed For Navigation Frontiers
Caracas June 2 The new Colombian minister Vasquez Cobe reports two weeks of talks with Venezuela yield a preliminary treaty draft on navigation frontiers and trade. It provides for cession of territory along the Orinoco Inirigua and Negro rivers. Diplomatic ties renew. Cobe to meet President Gomez and Venezuela plans a Bogota legation.
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Caracas
Vasquez Cobe
Venezuela
Orinoco
Inirigua
Negro
Cobe
Gomez
Bogota
Nimrod to Hoist Flag on Doubtful Antarctic Islands
Victoria June 2 The Nimrod exploring steamer has sailed from Sydney to plant the British flag on Emerald Nimrod or Doherty Islands yet unseen by man. Their existence is disputed though. Professor David with Shackleton reports radium in Antarctic specimens.
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Victoria
FE. C
Nimrod
Shackleton
Antarctic
Sydney
Emerald
Doherty Islands
David
Deakin Forms New Cabinet in Melbourne
Alfred Deakin has organized a new Australian cabinet after Premier Fisher’s resignation. The lineup includes Premier Alfred Deakin. Defence Minister Joseph Cook. Treasurer Sir John Forrest. Attorney General Mr Glynn. Postmaster General Sir John Quick. Trade and Customs Minister Sir R W Best. Home Affairs Minister Mr Fuller. External Affairs Minister Mr Groom. New ministry follows Fisher’s defeat in Parliament.
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Melbourne
Fisher
Alfred Deakin
Defence
Joseph Cook
J. Forrest
Mr. Glynn
Sir John Quick
Menaster
Trade and Custom
R. W. Best
HomeAffairs
Mr. Fuller
Mr. Groom
Plague outbreak in Reno reports six cases and three deaths
June 2 update shows six confirmed cases of bubonic plague in Reno with three fatalities. Officials confirm the outbreak and are tracing contacts while monitoring the risk to residents. Local health authorities urge vigilance and report any suspected cases to medical services.
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Carsees
Reno
Paris Steel Deal Evades French Tax Schemes
Paris reports that a Morgan Harjes & Co Paris New York syndicate plans to list one million United States Steel common shares on the Paris Bourse via negotiable certificates issued by a trust. The move, backed by Credit Lyonnais Comptoir National dEscompte and Société Générale, aims to bypass the French tax on the stock while creating a large Paris trading block. Wall Street notes the block, about 1,000,090 shares, was bought by Paris interests and deposited with Bankers Trust Company, fueling a rally in U S Steel as brokers speculate on a broader American listing strategy.
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Paris
United States Steel Common
Morgan, Harjes & Co
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
Trust Company
French Stock Exchange
Credit Lyonnais
Comptoir National d'Escompte
Société Generale
United States Steel Corporation
United States Steel
Bankers’ Trust Company
Illinois Central
Union
Southern Pacific
Missouri
Kansas & Texas
Rock Island
Amsterdam Exchange
Wall Street
Americans in Vancouver Jail Over Park Dispute
E R Kinman and F L Garley Americans from New York are jailed without bail after a clash with Vancouver police over Dead Man’s Island. Officials say Kinman damaged a public park trees warrant, and both men later attacked officers with clubs, leaving Constable Kaney unconscious. The island dispute centers on a Dominion lease and city ownership.
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Vancouver
B. C
E. R. Kinman
F. L. Garley
New York
Dead Man's Island
Dominion
Chief Chamberlain
Kinman
Havie
Garley
Kaney
Atchison Bond Issue Underwritten By Morgan
Directors of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe announce a new 35 million dollar 4 per cent convertible bond issue to fund extensions and cuts in Texas. Bonds mature 1951, convertible before 1918, with rights offered to stockholders. Underwritten by J P Morgan & Co, market for rights active, approval by Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners.
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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company
Texico
Brownwood
Texas
Galveston
San Francisco
J. P. Morgan & Co
Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners
Atchison
Board of Railroad Commissioners
Summer naval plans outline Atlantic fleet drills and target practice
Washington reports the Atlantic fleet must complete ships at navy yards by June 15 for rendezvous and sea drills on June 17 or 18. The program includes night anchoring on southern drill grounds, measured mile trials, torpedo defense practice, and ship maneuvers with variable target ranges. Crews will have Sundays off for recreation, with final record target practice on August 9 at the southern drill grounds.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Newberry
Navy Yard Administration
Atlantic
Navy Yards
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
New England
Rockport
Mass
Army and Navy Orders From The Tribune Bureau
Washington June 2 major changes in army and navy assignments. Army officers slated for Honolulu Forts and posts in the Philippines and Alaska. Medical, ordnance and coast artillery officers reshuffled. numerous first lieutenants and medical reserve corps officers reassigned or detailed to posts from San Francisco to Presidio of San Francisco and Fort Leavenworth. Navy personnel see detached duty, home assignments, and postings to ships Castine Georgia Celtic Idaho and Newport stations with several officers retired or on leave.
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ARMY
John K. Cree
Harry P. Wilbur
Coast Artillery
Honolulu
San Francisco
Medical Corps
Fred W. Palmer
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Fort William H
Verge E. Sweazey
Plattsburg Barracks
Edwin ©. Long
James P. Harrison
12Th Infantry
Stuart Heintzelman
6Th Cavalry
Raymond Sheldon
1Sth
George H. M Master
Sth Infantry
Henning F. Colley
Ordnance Department
Frederick J. Dengler
Medical Reserve Corps
Army Medical Scaces
Washington
Camigen
Corydon
Fort Crook
Eken C Hill
Madison Barracks
Lee R. Dunbar
Fort Casey
Walter Singles
Army Medical School
Armin Mueller
James Magee
George Th, Jr
General Hospital
Presidio of
San Fraco
Henry €. Coburn
Fort Sloc
William G Motlow
1St Infantry
Hamilton& Wallacer
Philippines
Alexander Brodie
Albert L Mills
Lesley J. M'Nair
John M. Moose
20Th Infantry
NAVY
C. F. Goodrich
Navy Yards
W. Winder
Navy Yard
Boston
Charles Laird
G. Calikins
Naval Training Station
Newport
J. L. Gow
G W. Kline
Georgia
Castine
S. D. Hart
Naval Hospital
New York
New Staff Named for Brooklyn Home for Consumptives
Mrs. F. M. Perkins will serve as superintendent succeeding Miss Elise P. Smith who resigned. Mrs. Franklin W. Hopkins will remain president of the board of managers after the medical staff demanded her resignation as a condition to return to work. Hopkins denies claims that she caused patients to sleep with dying children, citing the dispute over information on discharged children as the trigger for the fallout.
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Brooklyn
Kingston Avenue
F. M. Perkins
Elise P. Smith
Franklin W. Hopkins
Board of Managers
New York Central Eyes Block For Grand Central Expansion
The New York Central has made overtures to buy the northwest corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue from the New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. Acquiring the full block would allow a larger Grand Central Station than originally planned, expanding space for the railroad's prestige project. June 6 marks The Tribune's Summer Resort number.
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The
New York Central
42D Street
Lexington Avenue
New York Society For the Relief of
Depew Place
42D
43D Streets
Grand Central Station
Wentworth Hall
Jackson
N. H
Crawford House
Craw Notch
Franconia
Mount West Bretton Woods
Mount Pleasant
Bretton Woods
White Mountain
New York
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State secretary orders U S to pay $2 auto fee
Albany June 2 Samuel Koenig secretary of state ruled the United States government must pay New York state a $2 registration fee for a U S Army Quartermaster Corps automobile in New York City Major E P Brewer says the fee was not accompanied by the usual payment Koenig holds the fee is not a tax but a charge for identification purposes and is incidental rather than a tax He asks the War Department auditor to issue an opinion to avoid delays.
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Albany
Samuel Koenig
United States
New York State
Quartermaster's Department
United States Army
New York City
E. P. Brewer
War Department
Washington
Brewer
Koenig
Case on Fourth Avenue Subway Debt Limit in New York
Albany June 2 The Court of Appeals will hear Jefferson M Levy v Mayor and city departments over blocking the Fourth Avenue subway in Brooklyn arguing the project would push New York City bonded indebtednes beyond constitutional limits. Lower courts ruled against Levy on Tracy report.
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Jefferson M. Levy
Departments
New York
Board of Apportionment
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Benjamin F. Tracy
Levy
D ruggists Praise Governor For Veto and Support
The Greater New York Pharmaceutical Society met last night and unanimously adopted resolutions thanking the Governor for his interest in pharmacists and praising his veto of the Brown bill. They commended The Tribune for fair coverage and endorsed the Governor’s recommendations to revise pharmaceutical laws, vowing to press for their enactment next year.
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Greater New York Pharmaceutical Society
Gehris
The
Tribune
Pharmaceutical Board
Society
Delay Encyclopedia Case Extended to June 14
By consent of both parties, Vice-Chancellor Stevens at Newark continued until June 14 the order to show cause in the Walter M. Jackson suit against Horace E. Hopper and associates in publishing and distributing the Encyclopedia Britannica. A related suit in the Southern District of New York raised jurisdiction questions by three attendants, with residency disputes. GIFT TO NORTHWESTERN. Chicago banker N. W. Harris pledged $155,000 for Northwestern University if it secures the remaining $1,000,000 within the year.
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Stevens
Newark
Trenton
Walter M. Jackson
Newton
Mass
Horace E. Hopper
United States Circuit Court
Southern District
New York
New Jersey
Northwestern
Chicago
N. W. Harris
Northwestern University
Harlem Democratic Club in turmoil over leadership row
Dissension rocks the Harlem Democratic Club at 106 West 126th Street as Isaac A. Hopper, former president, loses control. Thomas Leahy, backed by Hopper foes, becomes president with Milton Goldsmith elected 4 to 2 amid barred voters and police present. Hopper reportedly sought reentry without success.
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Harlem Democratic Club
West 126Th Street
Harlem
Isaac A. Hopper
Hopper
William J. Wright
Wright
Thomas Leahy
Leahy
Milton M. Goldsmith
Murder or suicide eyed in Chicago hotel death of Dr Binkley
Chicago June 2. Dr John T Binkley of Evansville Ind aged 82 was found shot to death in a room at the Wellington Hotel. His son Dr John T Binkley Jr and other relatives believe a robber killed him, while police and hotel officials lean toward death by his own hand.
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Chicago
John T. Binkley
Evansville
Ind
Wellington Hotel
John T. Binkley, Jr
Italian contractor wounded in Mineola chase
Cloyd Davis, a prominent Mineola contractor, was stabbed twice by former employee Alec Vito who fled toward New York after a quarrel with other workers. Sheriff Foster and Detective Seaman pursued along railroad tracks, diverting near New Hyde Park. Vito warded off capture with knives but was subdued after a clash with Seaman.
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Mineola
Long Island
Cloyd Davis
Alec Vito
Vito
Mr. Davis
Sheriff Foster
Seaman
New York
New Hyde Park
Foster
Chamber of Commerce Advances Transit and Harbor Plans
The Chamber of Commerce releases its fifty first annual report highlighting a rapid transit committee’s work and a new panel to study Manhattan surface street railways. It opposes debt limit exclusion for self supporting subway and dock bonds and backs terminal facility improvements. A harbor committee urges open waterfront piers and a canal barge terminal commission for the next Legislature.
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Chamber of Commerce
Manhattan
Committee On
Liberty Pole From Constitution Spars Raised at Battery
The steel mast topmast and spars of the racing yacht Constitution, a 1901 America's Cup contender, were moved from City Island to Battery Park and will form a 175 foot liberty pole near the seawall east of the Aquarium. Park Commissioner Henry Smith bought the spars for $600, their original cost was $3,000. The pole will bear a large American flag, with the other spars used as cross trees and supports, on a wrought steel base at the historic site once marked by a Revolutionary era pole.
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Racing
Constitution
City Island
Battery Park
Henry Smith
Seawall
Aquarium
New York
Outing of 27th A. D. Republicans at Phenix Hotel Park
The 27th Assembly District Republican Club plans its annual family outing at Phenix Hotel and Park, New Dorp, Staten Island, on Saturday afternoon and evening June 19. A baseball game and later contests will award prizes. Bronson Winthrop serves as club president and Alderman B. W. B. Brown is district leader.
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Assembly District
Republican Club
Phenix
New Dorp
Staten Island
Bronson Winthrop
B. W. B. Brown
Summer Resort Guide Promises Vacation Ideas
If you are undecided about where to spend your vacation this summer, consult the Summer Resort number of The Tribune next Sunday for ideas and listings.
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the Tribune
Nassau Electric Railroad Wins Ruling Over Atlantic Avenue Strip
Justice Carr of the Brooklyn Supreme Court rules in Nassau Electric Railroad v Long Island Railroad that the plaintiff holds a leased right to a thirty foot Atlantic avenue strip but that post 1997 track removal none retains rights. injunction to restrain the Long Island Railroad from city franchise use is denied.
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Justice Carr
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Nassau Electric Railroad Company
Long Island Railroad Company
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Public Service Commission
Atlantic Avenue
Flatbush Avenue
Nassau Company
Long Island Railroad
Nassau
Fourth Train Robbery Suspects Arraigned In Omaha
Dated June 2 Omaha report says W Woods Frederick Torgensen and Gordon charged with involvement in the May 22 Union Pacific hold up. Train crew members partly identify the prisoners. Police found a room where Gordon and a man believed to be James Shelton, arrested in Denver, were said to have lived together.
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Denver
James Shelton
Overland Limited
Omaha
Shelton
Beaver
Lillian Stevenson
Armstrong
D. W. Woods
Frederick Torgensen
Gordon
Union Pacific
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Search For Antarctic Islands
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U. S
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Court of Appeals
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New Hampshire
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Waumbek Jefferson
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