Combes Outlines France's Republican Unity Policy
In Paris the Chamber of Deputies heard M. Combes present a ministerial declaration after M. Bourgeois’s speech. He defended republican unity, promoted defense of the republic, promised economies and a general income tax, and pledged foreign policy continuity with Russia while safeguarding France’s moral and material patrimony. The debate on the government's programme was set for Thursday.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Bourgeois
M. Combes
House
National Tribune
Waldeck-Rousseau
Republican Party
Republican Union
France
Russia
German Cruisers Move to Venezuela Under Urgent Orders
St Thomas dated June 10 German cruiser Falke sailed for La Guayra Venezuela yesterday and Gazelle followed today under hurried orders from Berlin. Both ships depart from St Thomas in the Danish West Indies as tensions rise in the Atlantic theater.
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St. Thomas
Danish West Indies
Falke
la Guayra
Venezuela
Gazelle
Berlin
German Warships Sailed to Press Venezuelan Claim
Washington officials speculate Germany sent warships to La Guayra to force payment of a 6 million bolivar claim by the Berlin Company of Discount tied to Venezuela's great railway. A German embassy note discusses possible coercive measures, including a peace blockade that would affect neutral ships, while the US stance on non-American power actions remains tied to the Monroe Doctrine.
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Washington
Venezuela
St. Thomas
Germany
Berlin
la Guayra
State Department
England
France
United States
Congress
Boers and British Fraternize in South Africa
June reports from Aliwal North and Pretoria describe rising fraternization between Boer commandos and British troops. Surrender at Balmoral led to a singing of Rule Britannia, trains were offered coffee and tobacco by former foes, and Americans earned favorable remarks among foreigners.
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Aliwal North
Cape Colony
Fouché
Pretoria
Balmoral
Transvaal
Britannia
Reitz
British Budget Revised for 1902 Expenditure and Revenue
London reports the parliamentary paper outlines the 1902 financials with expenditure around 176.35 million pounds and revenue about 182.6 million. A consort loan of 20.02 million pounds will cover the deficit, leaving 5.096 million pounds for contingencies and debt redemption.
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London
Roosevelt says there is almost no coercion in the Philippines
In a June 6 White House letter to Rev. Charles E. St. John secretary of the American Unitarian Association President Roosevelt says the insurrection there is nearly ended and peace plus conciliation guide policy. He credits a Senate bill for faster progress toward peace prosperity and personal liberty while noting only necessary coercion to stop armed attack on U S sovereignty.
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Boston
Roosevelt
Philippines
Charles E. St. John
American Unitarian Association
White House
Washington
Senate
Philippine Islands
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Proclamation Substitutes 10 Percent Mining Tax
Pretoria announces a proclamation replacing the former five per cent tax with a 10 percent net profits tax on mining operations, enacted to replace the late Volksraad levy.
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Pretoria
Volksraad
Grain tax passes committee amid Liberal backlash
London June 10 the grain tax clause of the budget passed the committee stage in the House of Commons by 27 to 193. Liberals denounced the duty as the thin edge of abandoning free trade within the empire and as pure protectionism. Chamberlain Harcourt and others warned of preferential relations with colonies. Hicks Beach said the tax is not a prelude to protectionism.
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London
House of Commons
Henry Campbel-Bannerman
William Vernon-Harcourt
J. Austen Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain
The
Treasury
Michael Hicks-Beach
Americans Win in China Canton Hankow Railroad Deal
Shanghai reports Sheng director of Chinese railroads concluded negotiations with the American China Development Company. Sheng will memorialize the throne for a bond issue under the 1898 Washington contract. The Chinese Government will guarantee 4 million dollars of bonds for the Hankow to Canton line. Delays are attributed to China’s unsettled state.
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Shanghai
Sheng
American-China Development Company
Hankow
Canton
American- China Development Company
China
Death in Tornado's Track in Minnesota and Reservation Storm
A tornado west of Alen Minnesota swept a half mile wide path about twenty miles long, killing four people and injuring many. At Vose post office Mrs. O Berg perished, four members of the Horim family were killed near Ulen, and Ole Johnsonberg and son survived with bruises. The Norwegian Lutheran Church at Atlanta was razed and stock losses were heavy. In White Earth Indian reservation a powerful storm struck Walworth and Atlantic townships with deaths reported at fifteen.
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Alen
Minn
Vose
O. Berg
Ulen
Andrew Horim
Atlanta
Ole Johnsonberg
White Earth
White Earth Indian Reservation
Walworth
Atlantic
Massacre of Caravan Report From Desert Near Kuwait
Vienna dispatch reports from Constantinople that Arab tribesmen killed a caravan of five hundred wealthy merchants in the desert about one hundred miles from Kuwait in Asiatic Turkey. Only twenty survivors are said to remain.
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London
Vienna
Daily Express
Constantinople
Koweit
Asiatic
Turkey
Secret congress plots Stone ransom funds fate
A Sofia secret congress of delegates from Kostendil and Dubnitza met in late March to decide how to distribute the ransom money for Miss Ellen M. Stone and Mme Tsilka. Leader Karapeoff was among the delegates, and bands were to be sent 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 steeled by Rome hunt ends in rampage
A Rome dispatch reports Paul Heseltine Stanley, a young American, became suddenly demented after returning from a hunting trip. He rode his horse into the Altieri Palace courtyard surrounded by dogs and refused to stop, finally being overpowered.
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London
Rome
Paul Heseltine Stanley
Company denies resignations as title reshuffle swaps roles
President Greatsinger of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company denies Colonel Timothy Williams's resignation rumor. A realignment abolishes the general manager post held by J. C. Brackenridge, moving traffic duties to General Superintendent Wheatley and shifting offices to new locations. Brackenridge becomes chief engineer of construction with other duties assigned. The purchasing office moves to Fifty-second Street shops and the legal department gains the vacated headquarters room.
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Greatsinger
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Timothy 8. Williams
Colonel Williams
Long Island
J. C. Brackenridge
Brackenridge
Wheatley
Franklin Trust Company
Fifty-second St
Legal Department
Hill's Friend Arraigned in Fraud Indictments
Ex Assemblyman F P Demarest of Clarkstown Rockland County was arraigned on five indictments for attempted fraud over $3,000 in services claimed as counsel to town officers. Indictments handed up May 16. Demarest surrendered May 19 and posted bonds. He faces plea by Friday as Rockland Taxpayers Association led the probe. Demarest has long chaired the county Democratic committee and previously faced a 1891 forgery charge linked to tax evasion.
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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 to stand trial in New Rochelle city 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. The trial is expected to begin today as prosecutors Mills and J Addison Young push the case. The judge rejected the claim the city charter must be in evidence and will hear further argument on a potential dismissal of one indictment for duplication.
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Supreme Court
Smith
White Plains
Dillon
Selz
New Rochelle
Mills
J. Addison Young
Newspaper artist Gustavus Dirks commits suicide in studio
Gustavus Dirks a 21 year old newspaper artist and magazine illustrator best known for the Bugville sketches shot himself in his No 282 West Fourteenth street studio last evening dying within minutes. His brother Rudolph Dirks an artist of 49 West Twelfth street was informed and started for their parents in Philip Wisconsin. Despondency from illness and malarial troubles cited by his physician as likely factors.
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Gustavus Dirks
Bugville
West Fourteenth-st
Rudolph Dirks
West Twelfth-st
Philip
Wis
Dirks
Strikers Win Over Militia At Peekskill Camp
In Peekskill New York six deep tensions surfaced as ferrymen and the national guard clashed following a strike. Ferrymen agreed to raise short ferry fares to ten cents while long ferry services remain under camp control. General Roe expected back Thursday and a possible Roosevelt visit noted.
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N. Y
General Roe
Roosevelt
West Point
National Guard
Annsville Creek
State Camp
State Pier
Peekskill Landing
Camp Landing
Ferry Tariff Notices At State Camp Briefly Lifted
Short ferry five cents and long ferry twenty five cents per trip. Overcharges go to Post Quartermaster Major General Roe. Ferrymen halted traffic after sign dispute, then delegation met Lt Col Wari and traffic resumed. Camp notes report 69th Regiment drills, wire signaling, postponed target practice, and a camp concert. Brigadier General Moore Smith praised camp, 47th Regiment praised work.
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Roe
Edward M. Ward
Murphy
Wari
Mfe
State Camp
69Th Regiment
Young Men's Christian Association
George Moore Smith
New York
Camp Roe
47Th Regiment
Guilford Hurry
South Framingham
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Lake Mohegan
47Th
Te Grills
Magistrate reproves Blaney over opened letter
In Tombs court Magistrate Crane severely rebuked C P Blaney for seizing and opening a letter from which a policy list was found. Blaney admitted opening it as raids on No 93 Warrenst were discussed. The magistrate said the act was a serious offense and discharged the man involved.
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C. P. Blaney
Anti-Policy Society
Tombs Court
Crane
George Jaeger
J. R. Collard
Fred Meeks
No. 93
Warrenst
Collard
McFarlane
Mlaney
Blaney
Goddard
Doctors in session as AMA opens annual convention
The American Medical Association began its 53rd annual meeting in Saratoga with President Dr John A Wyeth of New York presiding. Welcoming addresses were given by T F Chambers and Edgar Brackett, with sessions across twelve sections held in various venues through the afternoon and an oration in surgery by Dr Harry M Sherman.
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Tribune
Saratoga
N. Y
American Medical Association
John A. Wyeth
New York
T. F. Chambers
First Baptist Church
George F. Croustock
Ths Place
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
North American Trust denies bank expansion plan
Oakleigh Thorne states the North American Trust Company is not buying banks or bank stocks. A letter from Silas Scudder, said to discuss nationwide branch banking, was personal and confidential, not an official circular. No NJ incorporation records for American Bankers Corporation support claims of a real banking entity or its ties to the trust.
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Chicago
Silas D. Scudder
North American Trust Company
Oakleigh Thorne
Trust Company
Scudder
American Bankers’ Corporation
New Jersey
Prank H. Hall
Jersey City
David D. Edwards
Theodore Rurode
Charles D. Thompson
Secretary of State of
Bankae Department
New York firm forms to manufacture turbine engines
Albany June 10 The American Turbine Engine Company of New York City was incorporated today with a capital of $500,000 to manufacture turbine engines and related appliances. Directors are Hamilton E. Brown Maurice L Muhleman and Eugene M Hoffman all of New York. Muhleman stated experts are 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 delays plans until patents issued
The American Turbine Engine Company official stated he would not disclose their Plans until patents were perfected and could not say when manufacturing would begin. The timing hinges on the site of experts, and he emphasized they would not discuss details until patents are secured.
Hobart and Millette Vie In New Jersey Lawn Championship
Lifelong players clash as Clarence Hobart defeats George Wyeth and Stephen Millette beats Henry Warner in early rounds. Millette nets ahead with aggressive play while Hobart relies on baseline drives. Doubles finals begin tomorrow with the singles final for the new cup setting for Friday.
Staten Island Club cancels singles in invitation tourney
Heavy showers halted three women's singles matches at Livingston and the committee canceled those scores and omitted singles from competition. Tournament schedule for the season includes cup events, doubles, mixed doubles, progressive formats, and finals from June through September.
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Staten Island
Livingston
L. B. Stoddart
W. Bryan
Experts to Meet at Bay Ridge Tennis Event
The Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn hosts an invitation tournament under the United States National Lawn Tennis Association on grass courts at Bay Ridge from Monday June 23 to Saturday June 28. A round robin singles event and daily exhibition doubles are planned with players Beals C. Wright Clarence Hobart R D Little Holcombe Ward W J Clothier among invitees and doubles teams W A Larned with Ward R D Littl with George Wrenn Jr R D Littl with F B Alexander Wright with Clothier and Fischer with Hackett.
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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 to Run a Woman's Exhibition at Madison Square Garden
Mrs Edwin Knowles president of the Professional Women's League announces a two week exhibition at Madison Square Garden starting October 6 managed by women and exclusive to women. Delegations from around the world will showcase native talents including a Chinese booth with rice growing. A women run daily paper, lectures, art display, and all staff from doorkeepers to carriage attendants will be women. The 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
Auburn Sheriff Nomination Settled in Cummings Victory
In Auburn Maine on June 10 Rev C S Cummings won the county sheriff nomination after two of four candidates withdrew The contest centered on enforcing the prohibitory liquor law with Cummings representing the enforcement faction and securing the nomination for Androscoggin County.
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Auburn
Androscoggin County
C.S. Cummings
Mr. Cummings
Yale Freshmen and Varsity Row To Start Day
Yale crews faced light winds and damp conditions at Gales Ferry with the freshmen and varsity each racing parts of the day. Daly the freshman may win the seat at New. Harvard oarsmen arrived at Red Top, tested boats, and prepared for Henley qualifiers, while Canadian oarsmen prepared to sail for England for Henley.
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Laws
Ackley
Johnson
Harn
Lincoln
Cameron
Navy
Daly
New Daly
4 . Wheeler
New Haven
Harvard
Red Top
Gales Ferry
Conn
Crimson
Varsity
Higginson
Mr. Storrow
John Harvard
New London
Frownell
Francis
Smith
Guy Bancroft
Shuebruk
Ayer
Foster
Bullard
Swift
James
Jackson
F R. Jouett
Cambridge
James R. Young
Phelps
Alice Mapes Wins 2 13 Pace at Parkway Driving Club
The Parkway Driving Club of Brooklyn opened with fine weather and fast track. Nine horses contested the 2 40 trot with Jessie Trav ers, a nine year old mare in her first race, favorite at 15 to 1 and winning for a 2 21 4 time. In the 2 13 pace Alice Mapes won in straight cuts after selling 10 to 15 for the field. Marion Stone, favorite in the 2 22 pace, was beaten in heat one by Kittie Thistle, then won heat two. heat three was slow at 2 24 and won by Aldiana before postponement.
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Parkway Driving Club
Brooklyn
Jessie Travers
Alice Mapes
Marion Stone
Kittie Thistle
Aldiana
Yale boxers sail for London coronation tournament
New Haven June 11 Yale boxing team under Frederick A Wenck plans to sail from New York on the St Paul for London to enter the coronation tournament. Wenck travels with two Yale imports and three boxers presented as Harvard. Yale faculty and athletic officers oppose the plan though no rule blocks it. Wenck has received 709 pounds for trip expenses.
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New Haven
Conn
Frederick A. Wenck
London
Edward
New York
St. Paul
Wenck
Yale
Harvard
London Athletic Clube
Marvard
Carroll Wins Pool Championship at Strollers
Bradish J. Carroll of the Union Club defeats E. S. Gray to win the Colby trophy in the final pool tournament at the Strollers last night, prevailing 160 to a missing final score.
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Bradish J. Carroll
Union Club
E. S. Gray
the Strollers
Mr. Carroll
Nominations for Congress Across Several States
Nominations announced in multiple cities on June 10 with Republican and Democratic candidates. W P Hepburn re nominated in Iowa. M R Patterson renominated in Memphis Tennessee. E C Burleigh reelected in Waterville Maine. Webster E Brown renominated in Rhinelander Wisconsin. Jae W Norris nominated in Hastings Nebraska.
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Creston
Iowa
W. P. Hepburn
Waterville
E. C. Burleigh
Rhinelander
Wis
Webster E Brown
Congress
Hastings
Neb
Ae W. Norris
McCook
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Warner
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St. George’s Cricket Club
Frederick B. Anderson
Joan Forbes
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George L. Wyeth
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Richard Stevens
Henry W. Warner
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G. A. Clark
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KR. Colwell
Kings County Lawn Tennis Club
T. Howard Talbot
George JL. Wreth
New York Tennis Club
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Frank RB. Hague
Frederick Watson
Henry W. Mollenhauer
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