Cabinet rules out extra session on Philippines policy
Washington reports the Cabinet approved a statement that no summer extra session will be called, preserving existing Philippine policy. Secretary Root cited Attorney General Knox on Supreme Court decisions and outlined conditions for civil rule transfer, with timing left to presidential discretion and military supervision until a suitable moment.
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Tribune
Washington
Congress
Philippine Islands
Secretary Long
Supreme Court
Philippines
Root
Knox
Korx
de Lima
Downes
War Department
Taft Commission
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Cabinet Concludes Philippine government will proceed
The Washington Cabinet meets to affirm full civil government in the Philippine Islands next month under Taft Commission terms. Officials say the new tariff plans will follow the original program, despite Supreme Court decisions, with Knox and Root endorsing the plan and intent to continue administration by presidential authority.
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Associated Press
Washington
Philippine Islands
Taft Commission
Supreme Court
Neral Knox
Root
Knox
Yonkers Sunday Golf Case Sparks Blue Law Outcry
Benjamin Adams a Yonkers Board of Education member and Saeghill Golf Club player faces Penal Code Section 265 charges for playing golf on Sunday. Trial set for Friday. The Tribune notes that blue laws may target other prominent locals seen on Sundays. Proposals suggest banning hot food, whistle blasts, soda fountains, garden hoses, and even church music on Sundays. Proponents even discuss rescheduling church collections to weekday evenings.
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Benjamin Adams
Yonkers
Philippine Civil Government and Tariff Debates Loom
Cabinet argues for a military backed civil government in the Philippines while preserving Dingley duties on imports from the islands. The Supreme Court’s lack of a ruling on Philippines duties is cited as key, with plans to inform Taft by cable and to refund duties if the system is overturned.
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Mander
United States
Spooner
Dingley
Philippines
de Lima
Philippine Commission
Washington
Taft
The
Cable
Supreme Court
Porto Rico
Cuban Convention Action on Platt Amendment
Washington reports indicate the Cuban convention approved a revised Platt amendment after extended changes. Secretaries Root and General Wood had earlier signaled approval of the initial draft, while Cuban delegates pushed for amendments. Officials say Cuban and U.S. observers believed the Platt amendment would be adopted and widely accepted.
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Washington
Committee On
United States
Wood
Root
Cuba
Civilizing Samoan Natives Report From Tutuila and Manua
Washington reports from Commander Benjamin F. Tilley on Tutuila and Manua in the U S Samoa jurisdiction. Populations total about 6 000 with 100 whites. A tax for native government payments is paid in copra at about one dollar per inhabitant. Copra harvests are good and prices fair. The Abarenda crew is in good health.
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Washington
Navy Department
Benjamin F. Tilley
Naval Station
Tutuila
Samoa
United States
Department
Tilley
Commander Tilley
Abarenda
Rumors of a New Company to Consolidate Tobacco Stocks
Wall Street rumors swirl about a Universal Tobacco Company potentially taking over American and Continental Tobacco. Some say the new firm would issue its own 4 cent bonds in exchange for common stocks, with possible cash elements. Denials come from authorities, but chatter persists about consolidation and future share actions.
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American
Continental Tobacco Companies
Universal Tobacco Company
Wall Street
Universal Company
Union Tobacco Company
Continental
American Comany
Sa Canoe
Bishop F W Parker Missionary Dies in India
Bishop F W Parker of the Methodist Episcopal Church died in Naini Tal India after a stomach ailment. Born 1833 in St Johnsbury Vermont he spent 42 years in India as a missionary. He was educated at Concord Biblical Institute and ordained in 1864 becoming resident elder of the Northwest India Missionary Conference and a bishop last year in Chicago. He was stationed at Lucknow at his death.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
F. W. Parker
Naint Tal
India
Bishop Parker
St. Johnsbury
Concord Biblical Institute
New England Cenfer
Missionary
Northwest India
General Conference
Chicago
Lucknow
Naini Tal
Reverend William J. White Dies in Tokyo at 76
The Rev William J White longtime secretary of the English American Bible and Tract Society In Japan died in Tokyo on May 2 after a life of missionary work. Born 1848 in Portsmouth England he early joined Lane Crawford in Japan and founded the Noble School in Tokyo He served as missionary and preacher across Japan translating the New Testament into Japanese Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the Sen Ji Mon text He also toured the world in 18 and later led the society until his passing Funeral held at St Andrews Shita Tokyo burial at Aoyama Cemetery He was a Free Mason and Otento Sama Lodge member He married Eva J Munson of Yonkers NY who survives with two children.
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Tokio
England
Spurgeon's College
Japan
English Baptist Mission
Tochizgi Ken
Bunyan
Englsh and
American Bible and Tract Society
St. Andrew's Church
Shita
Aoyama
Otento Sama
Yokohama
Eva J. Munson
Yonkers
N. Y
Bound Brook Singer Edward Redfield Dies at 80 in New Jersey
Bound Brook New Jersey June 4 special Edward Henry Redfield one of the town s oldest residents died at age eighty born in Killingworth Connecticut he moved to New Jersey in 1830 he was a renowned singing master with a long circuits from Freehold to Rocky Hill he served as organist for First Presbyterian Cranberry and Reformed Church South Bound Brook for decades He married Lucinda Willis of Brooklyn in 1858 and leaves two children Edward Redfield of Chester Massachusetts and Mrs J Somers of Bound Brook He supported Henry Clay and the Republican Party voting for Fremont in 1856 and every nominee since and was an elder in the Reformed Church for many years
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Bound Brook
N. J
Edward Henry Redfield
Killingworth
Conn
New Jersey
Middle West
Redfield
Freehold
Rocky Hill
First Presbyterian Church
Cranberry
South Bound Brook
Laucinda Willis
Brooklyn
Edward ©. Redfield
Chester
Mass
J. ©. Somers
Henry Clay
John ©. Frémont
The
Reformed Church
Mrs Matilda Burke Brown Dies at Home in City
Widow of Martin R B Brown and head of M B Brown Printing Co dies at her Madison avenue home at 1 am from apoplexy. She fell ill while dining at Sherry's. Rev Father Ducey gave last rites at a nearby table before she was taken home. Survived by one daughter Mrs George A Sapat tas. She led the family firm since her husband’s death four years ago and was educated at St Vincent’s Convent.
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Matilda Burke Brown
Martin RB. Brown
M. B. Brown Printing Company
City Printers
Madison Ave
Sherry
Brown
St. Vincent's Convent
Ladies’ Auxiliary
St. Vincent's Ospital
Death of William Powell Mason in Vienna
Boston June 4 a cable dispatch reports the death of William Powell Mason of this city in Vienna. Pneumonia is listed as the cause. Mason, a Harvard ’34 alumnus, served as a Civil War staff officer and later held senior roles in major New England businesses including banking, the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, and several cotton manufacturing firms. He is survived by two children.
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Boston
William Powell Mason
Vienna
Mason
Harvard
New England
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Obituary notices for J Milton Stearns Jr and composer Georg Vierling
J Milton Stearns Jr a Brooklyn lawyer died at his home aged fifty nine born in Middlebury Vermont a Union College and Columbia Law School graduate admitted to the bar in 1863 retired from practice ten years ago survived by a widow and three children funeral to be held this afternoon with Mansfield Post G A R involvement Berlin composer Georg Vierling died in Wiesbaden born September 15 180 at Frankenthal Palatinate appointed organist at Frankfurt on the Oder in 17 later based in Berlin where he founded the Bach Verein his works include many forms with a noted nym-
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J. Milton Stearns, Jr
Lorimer St
Brooklyn
Middlebury
Union College
Columbia Law School
Mansfield Post
Stearns
Georg Vierling
Frankenthal
Palatinate
Frankfurt
Oder
Mainz
Berlin
Bach Verein
Composer's diverse late works span chorus and piano pieces
The text notes works including overtures to The Tempest Marta Stuart and The Rape of the Sabines for chorus and orchestra. It also mentions music for many solo songs and several compositions for the piano.
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Phony
Marta Stuart
Hermannschlacht
James B Beers Dies in Brooklyn in His Ninety-First Year
James B Beers died at his home 390 Pacific Street Brooklyn on Monday in his ninety first year. He was a publisher formerly a jeweler and gold pen dealer born in Connecticut in 1411 and had lived in Brooklyn since 1845. He was a member of Anglo-Saxon Lodge F and A M The funeral will be held tonight with burial at Newtown
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James B. Beers
Pacific St
Brooklyn
Connecticut
Beers
A. M
Newtown
Death of George E. O. Chase of Sloan & Chase Newark
George E. O. Chase of Sloan and Chase Watchmakers Newark died at his home 56 Park Street Newark yesterday. Born in New York in 1835 to New Englanders, he learned jewelry making and formed a partnership with A K Sloan. An athletic man, he led the Atalanta Club regatta in 184 Passaic River organization and belonged to Triton Boat Club Essex Club and Newark Athletic Club. Chase was unmarried.
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George E. O. Chase
Sloan & Chase, Watchmakers
Newark
Park St
New-York
New-England
A. K. Sloan
Chase
Atalanta Club
Passaic River
Passaic
Triton Boat Club and Athletic Club
Essex Club
Dead man found at mother-in-law grave in Brooklyn
Joseph Abramson, a Produce Exchange member and son in law of Adolph Strauss, was found dead with a bullet wound at the grave of his mother in law in Union Fields Cemetery Brooklyn. Identified by Strauss, Abramson had married Alice Strauss in March 1899 and lived at several addresses with his wife. Strauss said there was no prior danger, but he had overtraded and brooded. Nassau County reimbursed.
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Union Fields
Brooklyn
Joseph Abramson
Produce Exchange
Adolph Strauss
Adolph Strauss & Co
Importers of Nations
Broadway
Strauss
Abramson
Alice Strauss
No. & Fast Sixtieth St
Mr. Abramson
Mr. Strauss
Oo East Forty-ninth St
Taxpayer Sues Nassau Supervisors Over County Bills
George Wallace of Hempstead sues William H. Jones, Smith Cox, Edwin C. Willets, Nassau County Supervisors, and County Treasurer Eastman to force refunds of 1910s board expenses. He claims excessive meetings, improper charges for committee work, and an illegal sheriff’s bill for prisoners and vagrants, seeking restitution to the county.
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Mineola
Long Island
George Wallace
Hempstead
William H. Jones
Smith Cox
Edwin ©. Willets
Board of Supervisors
Nassau County
Henry M. W. Eastman
Mr. Wallace
Sult
Queens County
Wallace
Eastman
Denial of Linen Trust Report in Troy Collar Firms Dismiss Rumor
In Troy N Y on June 4 two leading collar makers denied emphatically that eight top firms formed a linen goods trust. They called the rumor false and a fairy tale, noting the tale persists despite two years of talk and no manufacturer admitting knowledge of such a conspiracy.
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Troy
N. Y
Architects tour Ellis Island inspect new buildings
About thirty members of the Architectural League of New York, by invitation of Commissioner Fitchie, visited Ellis Island yesterday afternoon to inspect the recently erected buildings and learn the immigration inspection system. They spent about two hours on the tour and later dined at Hartmann's café in the Washington Building. The Ellis Island trip replaced the league’s usual monthly meeting at 215 West Fifty-seventh Street, as the group often schedules special visits to places of interest.
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Architectural League of
Schooner Mary Buckley Struck in Hell Gate Collision
The schooner Mary Buckley with Captain Dunn from Weehawken to Tiverton Rhode Island arrived City Island yesterday. She reported being run into Monday night in Hell Gate by Tug Transfer No. 11 of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Her bow was stove in and fore rigging carried away.
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Mary Buckley
Dunn
Weehawken
Tiverton
R. I
City Island
Hell Gate
New York, New Haven
Rich Ecuador mining district eyed by Blow party
A. A. Blow, mining engineer, sails for Ecuador with a well equipped party to confirm vast undeveloped mining fields in the Andes. He predicts a major new district will open in two years when the railroad reaches Quito, with rich placer gold, coal veins, copper prospects, sulphur, asphalt, rubber forests, and hardwoods awaiting American investment.
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A. A. Blow
The
Waldorf
Ecuador
Rich RE
Quito
Mr. Blow
Andes
Orient
Amazon
South America
Sicily
Venezuela
Guayaquil
Pole knocks conductor from car on Fourth Ave
William Holterman conductor of No 52 East Eighty Eighth Street was knocked from a running board on Centre Street as an electric car collected fares. The pole of a backed truck struck him on the right side as the car sped by. He suffered four broken ribs with one piercing his lung and was placed in Hudson Street Hospital's ambulance care.
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William Holterman
East Eighty-eighth St
Centre St
Walker
Holterma
Nelson
Hudson Street Hospital
Holterman
Rogers elected president of Amalgamated Copper Company
H. H. Rogers, former acting president since Marcus Daly's death, was yesterday elected president of the Amalgamated Copper Company. The change elevates Rogers to the top leadership role in the mining firm.
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H. H. Rogers
Amalgamated Copper Company
Marcus Daly
Weather Report and Forecast for Regions Across the United States
The report notes yesterday scattered showers in the Middle West and Northwest with thunderstorms on the West Gulf Coast, fair weather east of the Mississippi, and rising temperatures in the central valleys and Atlantic coast while cooler in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Forecasts call for rain and a sharp drop in temperature in the grain belts midweek, with warm, fair conditions for the eastern states and variable winds along the coast. Local observations from Tribune indicate yesterday was warm and fair with highs around 78, and today is expected to stay warm and fair.
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Washington
Middle Western
North Pacific Coast
West Gulf Coast
Mississippi River
Atlantic Coast
Rocky Mountain
Calgary
British Northwest Territory
Middle West
Middle Atlantic
New England
South Atlantic
European
Grand Banks
New-York
District of Columbia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
New York
Tribune Office
Died Notices and Funeral Details From Early 1900s Paper
Died notices list several individuals with dates in June and associated locations. Names include Matilda B Brown, Mrs Martin B Brown, William Learey, Theodore Lott child of Gertrude Lott and Richard F chain, Joanna Butler Tuttle, Lydia Voorhees, Emma Watson, and George Sanford White. Funeral times and venues include St Patrick's Cathedral Pitth ave Liebst, Webb Memorial Chapel Madison, and Church of the Redeemer Morristown. Entries indicate auxiliary attendance for hospital president and private interment notes.
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B. Slevin
M'Chain
Theodore Lott
Gertrude Lott
Richard F_ ‘chain
Flatbush-ave
Brooklyn Tuttle
Madison
N. J
Joanna Butler Tuttle
William P. Tuttle
Webb Memorial Chapel
New York
Voorhees
Elizabeth
Lydia
John E. Voorhees
West Jersey St. Watson
Fordham
N. ¥., Emma, Wife of John W. Watson
William Pase
Lowellville
Ohio
Transatlantic Mails Schedule and Passenger Ship Routes
Shipping notices list weekly mail departures to Europe and the Americas from various vessels including Be Louis Archimedes Germaniq Champagne and Etruria Potsdam Anchoria and Admiral Sampson. Times cover Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday sailings with destinations such as Europe Brazil Cuba Jamaica Mexico Porto Rico Curacao Venezuela and Newfoundland and require directed handling for certain routes.
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Europe
Louis
Southampton
Azores
S. S
Bismarck
Plymouth
Hamburg
France
Switzerland
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Turkey
Greece
British India
Lorenco Marques
Egypt
Lorenzo Quez
S. la Champagne
Havre
Etruria
Queenstown
Netherlands
S. Potsdam
Per & & Potsdam
Scotland
Anchoria
South
Central America
West Indies
Brazil
Argentine Republic
Uruguay
Paraguay
Hevelius
Per & m Lius
Inagua
Hatt
Relernon
Cuba
Yucatan
Campeche
Tabasco
Chiapas
Esperanza
Havens
Progreso
Porto Rico
Ss. Pones
San Juan
Curacao
Venezuela
Hildur
Savanilla
Carthagena
St. Thomas
St. Croix
Leeward and
Islands
Demerara
Pretoria
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Rhodoes
Grenada
Trinidad
Fortune Island
Jamaica
Carthegena
Greytown
S. & Alleghany
Costa Rica
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Yonkers Links
Island
Continental Companies
E. W. Parker
William J. White
Edward H. Redfield
Wiesbaden
the Produce Exchange
Ellis Island
Pole
Conductor
Daly
the Weather Report
Perry
Burnett
Jayne
George Usher Hammond
Jennie D. Blakely
New Orleans
Titsworth—Dawson
First Reformed Church
Livingston L. Taylor
Elizabeth Linen Dawson
Ichabod W. Dawson
Charles Grant Titsworth
Bacon
Denver
Col
Alfred Terry
Leonard Bacon
Learey
William Learey
Monroest
White
Tokrs
William 3
Eva Munson White
Wylie
Garden
Itv
George Sandford White
Church of the Redeemer
Morristown
Dr. Deane
Lexave
Greater
Canada
Mexico
Ste Lee Inday
Tribune Almanac
New York City
Internationel Weger Ga
Graphic Arts
Phillippines
Universal Postal Union
Post Office
Nassau St. Verons
Frederick N. Sommer
Broad-st
London
the Tribune
Fleet-st
Scribe
Imprimeries
Lemercier
American Express Company
Strasse
Germany
Newfoundland
Miquelon
Port Tampa
Fla
Miami
Mexico City
Belize
Puerto Cortez
Garten
Guatemala
Transpacific
China
Pahili Landa
San Francisco
Bea
Vancouver
S. S. Empress of Japan
Vassenes
Reils
Australia
West Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Hawaiii
S. S. Umbria
S. Ventura
Seattle
Tacoma
Francisco
Fiji Islands
Miowera
Victoria
Matis
Marquesas Islands
Sam Francisco
Tran
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