Doctor and Austrian Count Case Tangles State Dept probes
Washington press report says a supposed Italian nobleman connected to a New York physician led to police involvement over an American woman's marriage prospect. The man turned out to be Austrian by birth, living in New York for decades, with a wife and child, not Italian.
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Q Weshington
State Department
Frances A. Garwood
New York
John B. Quinn
Cecil
London
Paris
Hadeen
Ampassedor White
Ambasher Reid
Miss Garwood
The Summer Resort Issue Promises Vacation Guide Richly Illustrated
The Tribune announces next Sunday's Summer Resort number as a detailed guide to vacation destinations. It promises extensive information and abundant illustrations to help readers plan getaways.
Interborough Plans Longer Subway Platforms
The Public Service Commission requests 1.599 million from the Board of Estimate to lengthen Interborough station platforms for ten car expresses and eight car locals. The move, backed by Theodore P. Shonts, aims to boost subway capacity by at least 25 percent and serve the autumn rush, with funding to come from city bonds and the Interborough company through existing contracts.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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John B. McDonald
Rapid Transit Construction Company
Sugar Company Officials Plead Not Guilty to Fraud
Oliver Spitzer former dock superintendent of the American Sugar Refining Company and six former checkers pleaded not guilty in the United States Circuit Court to charges of making false entries of sugar weights with alleged intent to defraud the government. Judge Hough set June 17 for trial as HL Stimson leads the prosecution aided by new special agents. Investigators trace the case to the old management and the Custom House, with potential indictments anticipated later in autumn.
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American Sugar Refining Company
Hough
United States Circuit Court
HL. Stimson
United States
Sur“ror Clarkson
Custom House
Toington
Be Pure Says Bryan Campaign for 1912
W J Bryan outlines his 1912 campaign urging pure Democrats to select candidates not bought by money from trusts. He warns the Steel Trust could spend 1,000,000 to influence Congress and says Democratic voters must scrutinize candidates with money for campaigns. He favors clean, undefiled democracy in Congress.
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Father of Twins Brought in for Speeding in New York
William Higgins of 518 West 135th Street was arrested at 189th Street and Seventh Avenue for driving 20 miles per hour. He told Patrolman Oliver that his wife had just given birth to twins and asked to see them. Higgins was jailed at West 125th Street station and bailed out by his employer S. M. Jervis of the Hotel Ansonia. The officer urged him to speed anyway, then sent greetings to the “kiddies.”
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West 135Th Street
Higgins
189Th Street
Seventh Avenue
Oliver
West 125Th Street
Papa” Higgins
S. M. Jervis
Ansonia
Bronx Deputy Commissioner in street crash pays boy $9
John F. Scott deputy street cleaning commissioner for The Bronx knocked down Daniel Walsh twelve, after a parade. He rushed the boy to Lebanon Hospital then returned him to his mother with nine dollars. Scott and chauffeur drove away to avoid complaint, promising medical follow up.
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Bronx
Daniel Walsh
East 138Th Street
Scott
Lebanon Hospital
Harry J. Naylor
Sonnenberg
Daniel
Ron
Bloodhounds Open Ghostly Lead in North Tarrytown Murder
Tarrytown officials sent Chanler bloodhounds from Poughkeepsie to pursue a North Tarrytown murder case. The only strong testimony comes from Mrs A Tophit who, driving a milk wagon near Pocantico Lake, claimed she saw a stabbed man’s body by Duck Farm but later found it gone. Police reinterviewed her without new details.
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Pocantico Lake
Sleepy Hollow
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Jasper Travis
Sherp
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Third Ave Road Backs New Company Through Queensboro Bridge
Frederick W. Whitridge reports the Third Avenue Railroad system supports the Queensboro Bridge Company incorporated in Albany with capital of 100000 to run surface cars over the new Queensboro Bridge. If granted a franchise, transfers with Third Avenue lines will let Queens residents reach Brooklyn Bridge or The Bronx for six-cent fare.
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Board of Estimate
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Bronx
Woodruff backs fusion for Republican mayor ticket
Woodruff of the Republican State Committee signals support for fusion with independents in selecting a Brooklyn Manhattan mayor candidate. He argues the head of the ticket should be a Republican, preferably a Manhattan businessman, with independents or Democrats possible for other offices if the top nominee is Republican. He cites party standing and calls for unity among anti-Tammany forces.
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Republican State Committee
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12Th Assembly District
Brooklyn
Tech
Manhattan
Parsons
New York County Committee
Fusion
Republican Club
Republican Party
McKinley
Morton
Controller Metz faces setback over potential IRT storage yard
Joseph Flanagan tells Controller Metz that agreeing to store IRT cars in Kingsbridge could ruin his mayoral bid. The select committee weighs closing streets near 38th to 242nd streets and Spuyten Duyvil Road to Broadway while Frank Hedley of IRT cites urgent need for storage, blocked by local property owners.
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Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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Flanagan
Spuyten Duyvil Road
Broadway
Republican Clubs Consolidate In 23rd District
Justice Gildersleeve approved the consolidation of the Liberal Republican Club and the Republican Club of the 23d Assembly District. Each club filed separate petitions for merger. Collin H. Woodward, executive member of the Republican County Committee from the 24d Assembly District, serves as president of the Republican Club of that district. The merged group will operate as The Republican Club of the 23d Assembly District.
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Republican Club
Collin H. Woodward
Republican County Committee
23D
Roosevelt Special Arrives at Kijabe Africa Expedition
Roosevelt and party reach Kijabe in British East Africa at six ten PM after leaving Nairobi. They are greeted by porters and American missionaries of the Africa Inland Mission. The group plans to camp near the railway tonight and visit the Sotik district tomorrow. The journey features Rift Valley views and encounters with wildlife as they begin their African jungle expedition.
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Four Russian stowaways held on Russian ship in Brooklyn
Four young men from the University of Moscow are imprisoned aboard the Russian steamer Russia at its South Brooklyn pier. If unable to secure Ellis Island hearings via attorney Simon Pollock, they may be returned to Libau aboard the ship. The detainees are Ivan Maslennikoff Constantine Graeff Fedor Kasintroff and Ivan Vorinkin.
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Russia
Brooklyn
Simon O. Pollock
Ellis Island
Ivan Maslennikoff
Constantine Graeff
Fedor Kasintroff
Ivan Vorinkin
Libau
United States
Washington
Wiliams
Czar's Trip to England Planned for August Visit
St Petersburg June 3 Emperor Nicholas will visit King Edward at Cowes on August 2. The Russian imperial squadron will sail first to Cherbourg arriving July 6 and staying until the next day. It will then cross to Cowes and return to Russia in time for the guard manoeuvres starting August 12. The visit echoes Edward's call on Nicholas at Reval last month. The Emperor's trip to Italy appears abandoned.
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Russia
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Reval
Italy
McGill awards degrees to US officials at Macdonald College
McGill University conferred Doctor of Laws on Secretary Wilson of the US Department of Agriculture and Gifford Pinchot at a special convocation at Macdonald College Ste Anne de Beaupré. The event also marked the dedication of a $3 million campus funded by Sir William C. Macdonald with a $2 million endowment, in the presence of Canadian and British officials.
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Quebec
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
United States
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forester
James Earl Russell
Teachers College
New York
Macdonald College
Ste Anne de Beaupré
William C. Macdonald
Canada
Earl Grey
Sydney Fisher
Hazard
Prince Edward Island
James Ross
Pinchot
Robertson
More American huts for Messina relief
Rome reports Lieutenant Commander R K R Belknap has turned over four hundred more huts for Messina earthquake survivors. Premier Giolitti thanks the United States for generosity and says the Italian government offers warm gratitude. Belknap to conclude work June 12 as Ambassador Griscom winds up affairs and sails for New York.
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R. KR. Belknap
Messina
Giolitt
Griscom
Belknap
Victor Emmanuel
New York
Mr. Griscum
J. G. A. Leishman
Grey welcomes US aid for Congo reform cooperation
London dispatch reports Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey responding to Sir Francis Channing by saying Britain welcomes an agreement with the United States and will keep it informed of His Majesty's government views on Congo abuses.
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London
Francis Channing
United States
Congo
Edward Grey
American missionaries trial postponed in Congo to July 30
A Brussels dispatch reports from Leopoldville that the libel trial of two American missionaries, the Rev. William Morrison and the Rev. W. H. Sheppard, originally set for May 23, has been moved to July 30.
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Leopoldville
Congo
William Morrison
W. H. Sheppard
Prince Eristoff Murdered Near Tiflis
On June 3 in Tiflis Prince Eristoff a leading member of the Union of Unions was found murdered on his Klonieff estate by unknown assailants The tragedy adds to unrest in the region as authorities investigate the killing and seek motive and suspects.
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Prince Eristoff
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Klonieff
Liberian Commission Plans Return from Monrovia
The American Commission now closing its Liberian inquiry prepares to depart. Scouts Chester and Birmingham will rendezvous at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands before sailing home, with an expected arrival in home waters around July 4.
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American Commission
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Birmingham
Las Palmas
Canary Island
Japanese Residents Must Register Under New Regulations
Victoria B C June 3 Japanese government orders all Japanese residents in the United States and Canada to register at the nearest Japanese Consulate within seven days of arrival and report when leaving the district. Violators forfeit consular protection. Regulations take effect October 1. News arrives aboard the Monteagle from Yokohama. Mr Zumoto, former editor of the Japanese Times, to open an information bureau in New York for Japanese commerce and industry.
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United States
Canada
Monteagle
Yokohama
Zumoto
Japanese Times
New York
Hawaii sugar planters switch to Portuguese laborers
Vancouver BC June 3 H L Baldwin head of Alexander Baldwin & Co the largest Hawaii sugar planters says due to difficulties with Japanese workers Japanese laborers will be dropped and Portuguese laborers imported to take their places Jacob H Schiff head of Kahn Loeb Co is a passenger on the Lusitania due to arrive this morning Otto H Kahn plans to sail for Europe around June 15 for a summer vacation Also note The Tribune’s Summer Resort number set for June 6 next Sunday.
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H. L. Baldwin
Alexander Baldwin & Co
Hawaii
Jacob H. Schiff
of Kahn, Loeb & Co
Lusitania
Otto H. Kahn
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Missing broker seen in Paris
A private letter, dated June 3, reports that Edward Higgins, once a prominent grain man, met John Dickinson in Paris. Dickinson, linked to the failed John Dickinson & Co, is said to be living in a hotel and in ill health. A debt suspension notice was posted on the Chicago Board of Trade today amid his firm’s collapse and Dickinson’s disappearance.
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Edward Higgins
John Dickinson
New York
Paris
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Dickinson
Board of Trade
John Dickinson & Co
Mr. Dickinson
Earthquakes Ripple Through Ribatejo Area in Portugal
Daily earth shocks and subterranean rumblings continue in the Ribatejo district of Portugal near Lisbon. No casualties reported yet but numerous walls have collapsed, signaling ongoing aftershocks and structural damage.
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Lisbon
Ribatejo
China to reopen direct talks with Japan on rail and border disputes
London reports that China has withdrawn its request for Hague arbitration on the Hsinmintan Fukumen railroad issue and the Corean boundary dispute with Japan. Beijing now seeks direct negotiations with Tokyo to resolve both matters.
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China
Hsinmintan-Fukumen
Corean
Japan
Hague Tribunal
Tokio
Massacre survivors seek aid from St Paul’s Institute leader
Dr Thomas D Christie of St Pauls Institute in Tarsus Asia Minor urges urgent relief for Adana massacre survivors. He reports 10000 Christians killed in the province, hundreds of homes burned, and thousands displaced. Funds may be sent to him care of the American Board at 14 Beacon Street Boston.
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St. Pauls Institute
Tarsus
Asia Minor
Unger
Adana
American Board
Beacon Street
Boston
Christie
Rogers
Maurer
Mr Iner
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