London welcomes American millionaires and War Office reform debated
London hosts a high profile American delegation at Lord Brassey’s Park Lane residence amid cordial welcomes by King and officials. The Paris of War Office reform under Mr Brodrick’s committee proposes decentralization and red tape reduction, while calls for broader officer training reforms persist. Separate notes cover Canadian minister Sydney Fisher highlighting Dominion farming advances, Yerkes's Metropolitan District Railway investment, and plans for a potential American memorial initiative.
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London Chamber of Commerce
Mansion House
Salter’s Hall
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Brodrick
Committee of Inquiry
War Office
War Office should decentralize to speed military work
London June 6 A Dawkins chaired committee urges simplification and decentralization of War Office operations. It calls for ending minute regulations, expanding powers of district commanders, and establishing a permanent War Office under the Secretary of State while preserving chief and heads of department responsibilities. Regal splendor ad terminus mention.
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Clinton E. Dawkins
J. 8. Morgan & Co
War Office
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Secretary of State
Leyland liner Assyrian runs aground off Cape Race
The Leyland Line steamer Assyrian, from Antwerp to Montreal with 2000 tons of cargo, went ashore at midnight off Cape Race. Eleven feet of water in forehold, likely total wreck. Captain Dingle navigated by log. dense fog prevented warning. Crew panicked but landed safely. ship an aging 1898 1841-ton vessel, 300 feet long, 42 feet beam, 23.2 feet deep.
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War Office horse purchases face Commons vote and claims
London reports a heated Commons debate over remount spending for South Africa with a vote of 159 to 60 approving £15,779,000 for transports and remounts. Sir Blundell Maple alleges corrupt overcharges and calls for a committee. War Office officials deny impropriety and assert quality of abroad purchases.
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South Africa
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Hungary
Austria
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England
Canada
Australia
United States
Lord Kitchener
Boers Routed Near War Baths In British Victory
Pretoria reports Colonel Wilson and 240 scouts ambushed 400 Boers from Beyer at Beyer's commando position thirty four miles west of War Baths. Boer resistance collapsed. 37 killed, 100 taken prisoner, wagons and supplies seized including 000 cattle. British losses were 3 killed and 15 wounded. Beyer's force failed to recapture the loot.
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Hague Arbitration Court Held Secret War Session
The Hamburger Correspon dent prints a dispatch from The Hague stating the Arbitration Court held a secret session yesterday on the war in South Africa.
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South Africa
Milner to Receive Freedom of the City After Debate
The Common Council at the Guildhall approved conferring city freedom on Lord Milner of Cape Town, but only after sharp criticism. Opponent Mr. Morton blamed Milner for British troubles in South Africa and for Dutch British tensions.
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J. P. Morgan Alarms Switzerland Over Watch Trust
Geneva reports rising Swiss alarm over a possible J Pierpont Morgan led watch combine to curb Swiss imports. The plan purportedly includes Philadelphia Watch Case of Riverside New Jersey and Standard Watch of Lafayette New Jersey, with other firms as part of the consortium. Swiss manufacturers vow to oppose the contemplated trust.
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German tariff idea abandoned after tariff conference
Berlin reports from June 6 state Prussia and major German States have dropped the double tariff plan. Dr. von Miquel originated it to aid agriculture. U.S. Ambassador White regards the decision as increasing the chance of a German United States commercial treaty.
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London hull examination finds no injury from Shamrock I incident
Report from London states that a survey of the Shamrock I hull shows no damage resulting from the recent accident. The finding suggests the vessel’s integrity remained intact despite the incident.
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New Train to Buffalo From Grand Central
New York Central will start a new daylight train to Buffalo on Monday June 17 leaving Grand Central at 9 29 A M and arriving Buffalo at 9 20 P M The service offers a daylight ride through the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys to Buffalo.
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Yerkes Plan Approved for London Underground Electric Transit
London officials approve Charles T. Yerkes plan to electrify the Underground with an American led syndicate backing 1.25 million pounds in stock and 1 million pounds in security. The project includes a new generating station at Chelsea, rebuilding stations, and replacing rolling stock to speed and expand service.
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Massacre on St Matthias Island by Cannibals
Special correspondence from New Guinea reports the massacre and cannibalism of the first German South Sea expedition at St Matthias. Only Dr Heinroth and twelve others survived after a surprise attack by islanders while the party prepared rifles.
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Deaf mute youth drowns after Jersey shore swim
Frederick Minno eighteen a pupil at the New York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb drowned while bathing in the Hudson near the Jersey shore He was an athlete and cor poral in the cadet corps He and fourteen classmates used an institute barge for a row and several swam despite rules Two companions rushed to help but had to release him as he sank The body was not recovered
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George Ray
William Heffernan
Secretary Root and Cuban Platt amendment misstatements
Washington June 6 authoritative word that Secretary Root did not deviate from the claim that the President and he have no power to alter an act of Congress. Havana reports misstate his views on amendments by the Cuban convention and on conversations with Root. General Wood seeks the letter explaining detailed objections to the convention action. A fast train advertisement notes Grand Central departures to St Louis.
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Bribes for Inspectors Spark State Investigation
Albany reports say State Labor Commissioner John McMackin has discussed with Attorney General Davies a probe into deputy factory inspectors suspected of taking money for sweatshop licenses. Job E. Hedges will lead the inquiry, with possible warrants, as McMackin and subordinates Th oodoro Branniff and John Williams travel to New York for talks.
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Mee Mackin
Albany Strike May Be Renewed
Albany and Troy divisions of the United Traction Company face renewed strike fears after disputed layoffs and suspensions. Officials cite added post strike costs as justification for reducing staff. A joint committee will meet company officers in Albany Saturday to seek settlement.
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Police Raid on Germania Assembly Rooms Ends in Looted Evidence
Justice Jerome and the Committee of Fifteen led raids on the Germania Assembly Rooms at Bowery and a West Thirty-seventh Street poolroom run by Frank Farrell. They found barricaded doors, black curtained windows with speaking tubes, a burning kerosene fueled interior, and more than a hundred patrons fleeing through windows and a rope to the yard. Several arrests were made while the main targets evaded capture.
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Norton
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Depew Strikers Ordered Back To Work By Machinists
At the International Association of Machinists session in Toronto the Depew New York Central Railroad shop workers were ordered to return to work while arbitration of their grievances proceeds. The action followed an unnotified strike with plans tied to West Albany, which did not materialize. If the company does not meet demands a broader system strike may be ordered.
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Train Kills Columbia Student in Williamsbridge
Frank O Dwyer twenty five year old Columbia University student of 628 West One hundred twenty eighth street was killed late last night at Williamsbridge by an inbound express of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad. He was a De La Salle Institute graduate and had attended athletic events at Berkeley Oval. It was dark when he reached the Williamsbridge station and entered the fast train tracks. He was knocked high into the air as the express struck.
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New Haven
Rockefeller Endows Three Scholarships at Teachers College
John D. Rockefeller endowed three annual scholarships of five dollars each at Teachers College. They are to be awarded to Southern Negro teachers, with selections from Tuskegee, Speelman Seminary in Atlanta, and Hampton Institute in Virginia, advised by Booker T. Washington, the school principal, and Dr. Jessel.
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Central Railroad hires landscape gardener Charles W Leavitt Jr
The New York Central Railroad will beautify stations and track with parkways and scenic effects. Charles W Leavitt Jr of this city is chosen as landscape gardener to lay out grounds at stations and ornament runways embankments and hillsides with trees shrubs and greenery.
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Murphy Denies Corruption Fund Claim By Police
Police Commissioner Murphy rejected a reported quote claiming he said the three platoon system would need 2700 more officers and cost over 34 million annually. He asserted no present fund exists and warned he would investigate any such fund if it existed.
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Jerome Holds Raid Prisoners
Robert Morrison aged 25 of 148 West 129th Street and John Lyons aged 41 of 423 Third Avenue were arrested in Justice Jerome’s raid on an alleged gambling house at 26th Street and Third Avenue. They were arraigned yesterday, held on $1,500 bail each for examination at 3 PM Monday. The raid was run by a well known Tammany politician, court was told.
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Coroner's Jury Clears Patrolman in Gershen Shooting
Coroner Hart presides as Patrolman Stephen King of East 126th Street is exonerated in the death of Henry Gershen a 22 year old resident of 1867 Park Avenue. Gershen and others disturbed the corner. Gershen snatched the officer's club and struck him, King then fired. The jury found the shooting justifiable.
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