Combes Delivers Ministerial Declaration In France
Paris June 10 The Chamber of Deputies heard M Bourgeois outline the presidency new policy as M Combes presented the ministerial declaration in silence from Moderates and Right while Radicals applauded. He pledged unity of republicans and warned against army politicization. He noted fiscal strain, promised economies and a general income tax, and reaffirmed France Russia relations and defense of national patrimony.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Bourgeois
M. Combes
National Tribune
Waldeck-Rousseau
Republican Party
Republican Union
France
Russia
German Cruisers Sail to Venezuela from St Thomas
St Thomas harbor reports the German cruiser Falke departed for La Guayra Venezuela yesterday and the Gazelle followed today, both under hurried orders from Berlin.
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ST. Thomas
Danish West Indies
Falke
la Guayra
Venezuela
Gazelle
Berlin
Possible German naval move to enforce Venezuela claim
Washington reports no official word on why German warships hurriedly left to La Guayra, tied to a 6 million bolivar claim of Berlin Company of Discount over Venezuela’s railway project. Berlin warned that coercion, including a peace blockade, could be employed without a formal war declaration, while the US stance on the Monroe Doctrine remains unchanged.
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Washington
Venezuela
St. Thomas
Germany
Berlin
la Guayra
State Department
England
France
Boers and British Fraternize Amid Surrender Pleasantries
June reports from Aliwal North and Pretoria describe Boer commando surrenders followed by singing of Rule Britannia and British troops offering coffee and tobacco to their former foes. Former official Reitz arrives with an ambulance and field prints, while Boers praise Americans and deride Germans as merely horse suppliers.
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Aliwal North
Cape Colony
Fouché
Pretoria
Balmoral
Transvaal
Britannia
Reitz
The British Budget Revised for 1902 03 Expenditure
London June 10 a parliamentary paper on the revised financial statement for 1902 03 shows expenditure of 176,359,000 pounds and revenue of 102,400,000 pounds. The deficit will be met by a consors loan of 29,620,000 pounds, leaving 25,996,000 pounds for contingencies and debt redemption.
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London
Consors
Roosevelt Says No Policy of Coercion in Philippines
President Theodore Roosevelt tells Rev. Charles E. St. John of the American Unitarian Association that there is almost no coercion policy in the Philippines. He notes insurrection is largely quelled and peace with conciliation prevails, while praising the Senate bill to aid peace, prosperity, and liberty.
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Boston
Roosevelt
Philippines
Charlies E. St. John
American Unitarian Association
White House
Washington
Charles E. St. John
Senate
Philippine Islands
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Proclamation Replaces Mining Profits Tax in Pretoria
Pretoria reports a proclamation substituting a 10 percent net profits tax on mining operations for the former 5 percent levy imposed by the late Volksraad. The change targets mineral profits and shifts fiscal burden to mining sector.
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Pretoria
Volksraad
Grain Tax Passes Commons Committee Amid Free Trade Denunciations
London June 10 The grain tax clause of the budget clears the committee stage in the House of Commons by 279 to 193. Liberal leaders denounce it as the thin end of restricting free trade within the empire and pushing protectionism, while Chancellor Hicks Beach rejects links to colonial preferential duties.
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London
House of Commons
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
William Vernon-Harcourt
J. Austen Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
The
Treasury
Michael Hicks-Beach
Americans Win in China Canton Hankow Railroad Bonds Agreed
Shanghai June 10 The Chinese railroads director Sheng and an American China Development Company representative concluded negotiations for starting work on the Canton Hankow railway. Sheng will memorialize the throne to issue bonds under the 1898 Washington contract. The Chinese Government will guarantee 40 million dollars of bonds for the Hankow to Canton line. Delay blamed on unsettled China.
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Shanghai
Sheng
American-China Development Company
Hankow
Canton
American- China Development Company
China
Death in Tornado's Track Hits Minnesota Towns
A tornado west of Alen Minnesota formed yesterday, tearing through farms and killing four people while injuring many. At Vose post office Mrs. O Berg perished as her home was demolished. Near Ulen three Horim family members died, another badly injured. A separate storm on White Earth Indian reservation caused deaths and extensive damage, with fifteen reported killed in Walworth and Atlantic townships.
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Alen
Minn
Vose
O. Berg
Ulen
Andrew Horim
Atlanta
Ole Johnsonberg
White Earth
White Earth Indian Reservation
Walworth
Atlantic
Massacre reported of caravan by Arab tribesmen
London reports a Constantinople dispatch stating Arab tribesmen massacred a caravan of five hundred wealthy merchants in the desert about one hundred miles from Koweit in Asiatic Turkey. Only twenty escapees are said to have survived.
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London
Vienna
Daily Express
Constantinople
Koweit
Asiatic
Turkey
Secret Congress Planned Redistribution of Stone Ransom
A Bulgaran Sofia meeting in late March reportedly arranged disposal of Ellen M. Stone and Mme. Tsilka ransom funds. Delegates from Kostendil and Dubnitza, led by Karapeoff, planned sending brigand bands into Macedonia on a covert mission.
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Salonica
Rumania
Strouma
Kostendil
Bulgaria
Dubnitza
Sofia
Ellen M. Stone
Mme. Tsilka
Karapeoff
Tehernopeoff
American insane in Rome after hunting trip
A young American, Paul Heseltine Stanley, became suddenly demented on returning from a hunting trip in Rome. He rode his horse into the Altieri Palace courtyard surrounded by dogs and attempted to ride upstairs before being overpowered.
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London
Rome
Paul Heseltine Stanley
Strikers win over militia at State Camp Peekskill
At State Camp near Peekskill New York ferrymen struck over a tariff change then changed the sign after a prompt protest. The 69th Regiment drilled and night parade occurred while General Roe prepared for Roosevelt’s possible visit and camp operations continued smoothly.
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Roe
Edward M. Ward
Murphy
Wari
Mfe
69Th Regiment
68Th Regiment
Young Men's Christian Association
George Moore Smith
New York
Camp Roe
47Th Regiment
Guilford Hurry
South Framingham
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Lake Mohegan
Ith
47Th
BRK Rapid Transit Denies Williams Resignation Report
President Greatsinger of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company denied a rumor that Colonel Timothy S. Williams had resigned. A company statement said titles and duties were being realigned with J. C. Brackenridge becoming chief engineer of construction and traffic duties moved to General Superintendent Wheatley. Brackenridge will work from Franklin Trust building. purchasing moved to Fifty second Street shops. headquarters room allocated to the legal department.
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Greatsinger
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Timothy S. Williams
Colonel Williams
Long Island
J. C. Brackenridge
Brackenridge
Wheatley
Franklin Trust Company
Fifty-second-st
Legal Department
Newspaper Artist Gustavus Dirks Dies by Self Inflicted Gunshot
Gustavus Dirks, twenty one, a newspaper artist and magazine illustrator famed for the Bugville sketches, shot himself in his studio at 232 West Fourteenth Street. He died within minutes before a physician arrived. His brother Rudolph Dirks, also an artist, was notified and rushed to their parents' home in Philip, Wisconsin. Despondency is blamed on ill health and malaria, which doctor says contributed to his mental low mood.
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Gustavus Dirks
Bugville
West Fourteenth-st
Rudolph Dirks
West Twelfth-st
Philip
Wis
Dirks
Magistrate Reproves Blaney Over Opened Letter
In Tombs court Magistrate Crane severely reproved C P Blaney for seizing and opening a letter found during a raid on No 33 Warrenst. George Jaeger and J R Collard along with Fred Meeks were arrested. Blaney admitted opening the letter, earning the magistrate’s warning and the discharge of the man involved. The magistrate doubted the other prisoners’ testimony and suspected an outside hand in planting policy slips. Blaney vowed to appeal to a higher court.
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C. P. Blaney
Anti-Policy Society
Tombs Court
Crane
George Jaeger
J. R. Collard
Fred Meeks
No. $3
Warrenst
Collard
McFarlane
Blaney
Goddard
Doctors In Session In Saratoga At AMA Convention
Saratoga N Y June 10 The American Medical Association opened its fifty third annual meeting led by President Dr John A Wyeth of New York The morning program included welcome addresses by Speaker S Fred Nixon and Senator Edgar J Brackett The day featured twelve sections with papers and discussions and the orator in Surgery was Dr Harry M Sherman In the afternoon section dinners were held at several city hotels including the United States Grand Union American Adelphi Worden's and Ken Sherlock Hotel arrowhead Saratoga Lake
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Tribt
Saratoga
N. Y
American Medical Association
John A. Wyeth
New York
T. F. Chambers
First Baptist Church
George F. Croustock
S. Fred Nixon
New York State Assembly
Edgar 7. Brackett
Wyeth
Association
Harry M. Sherman
San Francisco
House of Delegates
United States Hotel
Grand Union Hotel
American-Adelphi
Worden's
Kensington Hotel
Arrowhead
Saratoga Lake
Hill's Friend Arraigned In Five Indictments For Fraud
Ex assemblyman F P Demarest of Clarkstown Rockland County was arraigned in Rockland County Court on five indictments for attempted fraud involving fictitious £3000 claims for services as counsel to town officers. Indictments handed up May 16. Demarest surrendered May 19 and bonded $2500 for appearance. He faces Friday plea. The case stems from actions by Rockland County Taxpayers Association after months of investigation. Demarest, former Rockland County Democratic chairman, was previously indicted in 1891 for forging a collector’s name on a tax check. a technicality freed him. David B Hill’s Senate victory hinged on a vote Demarest cast.
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F. P. Demarest
Clarkstown
Rockland County
Rockland
Dickey
Rockland County Taxpayers’ Association
Demarest
Democratic County Committee
Assembly
Upper
Nyack
Union Steamboat Company
Buffalo
Erie County
David B. Hill
United States Senate
Albany
Mr. Hill
Dillon Must Stand Trial In City Corruption Case
Supreme Court Justice Smith in White Plains denied the motion to dismiss indictments against ex Mayor Dillon and ex City Clerk Selz of New Rochelle. Trial is expected to begin today with Senator Mills and District Attorney J Addison Young pushing the prosecution. The judge rejected the charter evidence challenge and will hear further argument on duplicative indictments against Selz.
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Supreme Court
Smith
White Plains
Dillon
Selz
New Rochelle
Mills
J. Addison Young
North American Trust Company denies bank expansion plan
Oakleigh Thorne, president, stated the North American Trust Company is not buying banks or bank stocks. A letter described as a circular from Silas D. Scudder was personal and marked confidential, not an official North American document. The American Bankers Corporation is unincorporated in New Jersey and had no banking power.
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Chicago
Silas D. Scudder
North American Trust Company
Oakleigh Thorne
Trust Company
Scudder
American Bankers’ Corporation
New Jersey
New Jerm General Corporation
American Bankers Corporation
Frank H. Hall
Jersey City
David D. Edwards
Theodore Kurode
Charles D. Thompson
Secretary of State of
Tts
American Turbine Engine Co Formed In Albany
The American Turbine Engine Company was incorporated in Albany with a $500000 capital to manufacture turbine engines and related appliances. Directors are Hamilton E. Brown Maurice L Muhleman and Eugene M Hoffman of New York. Muhleman said experts were at work on several pending patents.
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Albany
American Turbine Engine Company
New York City
Hamilton E. Brown
Maurice L. Muhleman
Eugene M. Hoffman
New York
Turbine Engine Company Leader Cites Patent Progress
A company leader discusses plans to introduce new turbine engine improvements once patents are perfected. He would not specify manufacturing timelines, noting that details depend on the strength and agreement of the experts involved. He emphasized they prefer not to reveal plans until patents are secured.
New Jersey State lawn tennis opening at Hoboken
Turf conditions brightened play as veterans vie in St George’s Cricket Club courts. Twenty one singles entries featured Clarence Hobart Frederick B Anderson Holcombe Ward and John Forbes with Millette and Warner advancing in the main draws and doubles set to start tomorrow. Millette overwhelmed Warner in a net driven style while Hobart used baseline power to dominate Wyeth. The day also saw Woods and Hague progressing, with plans for the championship finals and a challenge match with Stevens to crown the new cup holder.
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New Jersey
St. George’s Cricket Club
Hoboken
Clarence Hobart
Frederick B. Anderson
Holcombe Ward
Harvard
John Forbes
W. P. Knapp
Stephen Co. Millette
Hobart
George L. Wyeth
New York
Wyeth
Millette-Warner
Millette
Warner
Richard Stevens
Henry W. Warner
Kings County Tennis Club
G. A. Clark
Orange Lawn Tennis Club
HR. Colwell Kings Club
T. H Talbot
Clarence E
Stephen (. Millette
West Side Tennis Club
Frank RB. Hague
Frederick Watson
Henry W. Mollenhauer
J. Parmiy Paret
Summit
Samuel A. Westfall
Calhoun Cragin
Staten Island Ladies Club cancels singles in invitation tennis
Due to heavy showers three women's singles matches began yesterday at the Staten Island Ladies Club in Livingston but were not finished and the committee canceled the scores and omitted the singles from the competition. The schedule for the season includes June 20 handicap singles, June 27 doubles, July 4 mixed doubles, July 18 progressive singles, September 5 doubles, September 12 progressive doubles, September 19 open tournament, September 25 handicap and consolation events.
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Staten Island
Livingston
L. B. Stoddart
W. Bryan
Crescent Club to Hold Invitation Tennis Tourney at Bay Ridge
The Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn will host a United States National Lawn Tennis Association event on grass courts in Bay Ridge from Monday June 23 to Saturday June 28. A round robin singles event plus daily exhibition doubles are planned with players Beals C Wright Clarence Hobart R D Little Holcombe Ward W J Clothier and doubles teams Larned Ward Littl Alexander Wright Clothier Fischer Hackett and others.
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Crescent Athletic Club
Brooklyn
United States National Lawn Tennis Association
Bay Ridge
Beals C. Wright
Clarence Hobart
R. D. Little
Holcombe Ward
W. J. Clothier
Women Run An Exhibition At Madison Square Garden
Mrs Edwin Knowles president of the Professional Women's League booked Madison Square Garden for two weeks starting October 6 for a women led exhibition. Delegations from around the world will showcase native talents including Chinese women growing rice. A women managed daily paper will be produced. Two halls host lectures and a gallery of women produced art. Three thousand women will staff all roles including doorkeepers ushers and carriage attendants. Pittsburg Woman's Band will perform evenings and a women's orchestra afternoons.
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Edwin Knowles
Professional Women's League
Madison Square Garden
Pittsburg
Governor Odell Relative Home Returns From Absence
Captain Titus at Police Headquarters relayed word from Tarrytown’s Chief of Police that Jacob D. Odell, a Governor Odell relative, has returned home. No explanation for his absence could be obtained at his residence last evening.
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Titus
Tarrytown
Jacob D. Odell
Governor Odell
Mr. Odell
Bridge Workers Strike for Union Recognition
About six hundred men at the Brooklyn branch of the Empire Bridge Building Company walked out after eight were discharged for demanding union recognition. The strike aims to spread to four other plants in the state, including Elmira. It threatens delays on the Corn Exchange Bank project in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit power house at Fifty-eighth Street.
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Brooklyn
Empire Bridge Building Company
Clay St
East River
Greenpoint
Elmira
Corn Exchange Bank
Manhattan
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Piffy-eighth-st
C S Cummings Named Sheriff Candidate in Androscoggin
Auburn Maine June 10 The sheriff nomination for Androscoggin County was settled with the Rev C S Cummings chosen after two of four candidates withdrew. The issue split was enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law with Cummings backing the enforcement faction.
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Auburn
Androscoggin County
C.S. Cummings
Mr. Cummings
Harvard oarsmen reach Gales Ferry for training row
Yale crews faced wind and moisture delaying full distance practice at Gales Ferry on June 10. Harvard arrived with coach Higginson and staff, preparing for Henley and Yale trials, with lineup and boat details noted for the forthcoming workouts.
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Harvard
YALE
the Tribune
Gales Ferry
Conn
Cove
Hooker
Laws
Levecing
Ackley
Johnson
Red Top
Lincoln
Cameron
Navy
Daly
Wheeler
New Haven
Crimson
Varsity
Higginson
Mr. Storrow
John Harvard
New London
Brownell
Francis
Smith
Ruddick
Boston
Downs
Manning
McGrew
Guy Bancroft
Shuebruk
Ayer
Foster
Bullard
Swift
James
Jackson
F R. Jouett
Cambridge
James R. Young
Mr. Phelps
Alice Mapes Wins 2 13 Pace At Parkway Driving Meet
The Parkway Driving Club of Brooklyn opened its spring meeting in fine weather with a fast track. In the 2:13 pace Alice Mapes, at 10 to 15, won in straight cuts, while Marion Stone, favorite in the 2:22, was defeated in the first heat by Kittie Thistle. The third heat finished slowly at 2:44.42 before the race was postponed.
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Parkway Driving Club
Brooklyn
Jessie Travers
Alice Mapes
Marion Stone
Kittie Thistle
Aldiana
Yale boxers sail for London amid campus protests
Frederick A. Wenck leads a Yale boxing team to compete in London during King Edward VII's coronation, sailing from New York aboard the St Paul. Yale faculty and athletic officials opposed the trip, though Wenck asserts his right to enter. London Athletic Club will label the entrants Yale and Harvard. Wenck has recently received 709 dollars for travel expenses.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Conn
Frederick A. Wenck
London
Edward
New York
St. Paul
Wenck
Yale
Harvard
London Athletic Club
J Wenck
Carroll Wins Pool Championship at Strollers Tourney
Bradish J. Carroll of the Union Club defeated FE S. Gray in the final for the Colby trophy. Carroll won the match 150 to blank in the individual pool tournament played last night.
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Bradish J. Carroll
Union Club
FE. S. Gray
Strollers
Mr. Carroll
Nominations For Congress Across States June 10
Nominations reported from Creston Iowa Memphis Tennessee Waterville Maine Rhinelander Wisconsin Hastings Nebraska show re nominations across multiple districts. W P Hepburn M R Patterson E C Burleigh Webster E Brown Judge Norris receive support from Republican or Democratic conventions with reelection aims.
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Creston
Iowa
W. P. Hepburn
Vilth
Waterville
E. C. Burleigh
Rhinelander
Wis
Webster E. Brown
Congress
Hastings
Neb
Norris
McCook
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National Guard
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Camp of Instruction
Peekskill, N. Y
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Hill
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North American Company
Onice
Bridge Company
Maine
VICHY
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Broadway
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Ont
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Lon” Scholes
Henley
Parkway Drivng Club
Carroll
Memphis
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