China withholds ratification of foreign railroad loan
Peking reports that China will not ratify the 27.5 million dollar loan from British, German, and French bankers for the Hankow and Sze-Chuen Railroad. Henry P. Fletcher, acting American chargé d’affaires, says the move aims to secure American participation and discusses the issue with President Liang Tun-yen in recent meetings.
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Peking
Henry P. Fletcher
China
Hankow
Sze-Chuen
London
Paris
Berlin
Europe
Fletcher
Liang Tun-yen
Slavonia Wreck Confirmed with Total Loss Predicted
The Cunard steamer Slavonia, wrecked off Flores Island Azores, now rests seven fathoms deep in the hold. The captain reports no chance of saving the vessel and bags of saloon passengers are expected to be lost. Meanwhile the Batavia carried steerage passengers to Naples after Gibraltar stop, despite the extra cost.
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Flores Island
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Azores
Gibraltar
Batavia
Cunard
Naples
Citizens Union Report on NYC Legislators
The Citizens Union committee on legislation criticizes New York City representatives for paying lip service to home rule while voting against it. It cites vetoed bills by Governor Hughes and Mayor McClellan on three measures: the Brough-Francis police platoon bill, the Gledhill-Foley teachers' salary bill, and the Hoey police wagon driver salaries bill as key tests of their attitude.
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Citizens Union Committee On
New York City
Brough-Francis
Hughes
Gledhill- Foley
Hoey
McClellan
New York
China agrees not to ratify loan to Hankow and Szechuen line
Washington reports that Chinese officials informed the German, British and French bankers of their inability to ratify a 27.5 million dollar loan for the Hankow and Szechuen Railway after American representations. Fletcher, the American Chargé, kept the State Department advised as China promised to participate with American capital. The administration insists China must meet obligations to the United States. The department has no comment pending further advices from Peking.
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Washington
Fletcher
Peking
State Department
China
Hankow
Conger
United States
Senor Paul Enters a Protest in Paris Dispatch
José de J. Paul the Venezuelan envoy to Europe, ousted for backing the sending of American warships to La Guaira, protests to Gomez from Paris claiming he was condemned without a hearing and urging publication of the protest while Congress debates expropriating Castro property for an agricultural bank amid heated discussions.
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Caraces
José de J. Paul
Europe
la Guayra
Gomez
Paris
Manuel A. Matos
Sefor Paul
Congress
Venezuela
Castro
Red Cult Under Probe in Perm Region
In St Petersburg on June 15 reports claim police in Perm are probing a sect called the Red of the Crimson God accused of human sacrifices and wart. Disappearances in the district raise suspicion as a grave with a mutilated body is found. The Ural region, center of Perm, hosts pagan tribes and religious refugees shaping extreme beliefs.
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St. Petersburg
Mnepatches
Perm
Nces
Ural
Asia
Russia
Germany's taxation plan on unearned real estate increment
Berlin June 15 The Reichstag reassembled and a government communication urged taxing the unearned increment in real estate values for legal purposes rather than imperial aims. Municipalities already tax such increments, but the national government deems an equitable national level impractical.
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Berlin
Heichstag
Lion mortally wounds hunter in Africa expedition
In Naivasha British East Africa a member of T. C. Selous’s party and George McMillan’s secretary Williams was mortally wounded by a lion in the Sotik district during a Roosevelt expedition from Botik. McMillan estate manager C. W. Prynne verified Williams’s identity and noted his colonial service.
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Naivasha
T. C. Selous
George McMillan
Senator McMillan
Michigan
Williams
McMillan
Roosevelt
Botik
St. Louis
C. W. Prynne
McMillan Estate
Africa
Henry C. i
Mr. Prynne
Basuto
East Africa
Powers Hold Crete Troop Drawn Plan
London reports the powers have agreed with Turkey to keep international troops in Crete and not withdraw them now. A settlement of competing claims is hoped for within a few months.
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London
Turkey
Crete
National Memorial Amphitheatre Plan Backed by Commission
A congressional commission chaired by George B. Cortelyou endorses Carrére & Hastings plans for a marble national memorial amphitheatre at Arlington Cemetery. It calls for a $750,000 appropriation, seats about five thousand, with crypts beneath the colonnade for distinguished statesmen, an historical museum space, and an open ancient-style design to enhance dignity.
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National Cemetery
Arlington, VA
Carrére & Hastings
Congress
George B. Cortelyou
Treasury
Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington
New York
Campo Santo
Greece
Rome
Douma Session Closes With Land Reform and Tolerance Bills
St Petersburg June 15 The Douma ends a pro rogued summer session with several key acts including peasant landholding reforms dissolving communes and a religious toleration bill. A new probe of the budget completed last week accompanies reforms to judicial procedure and a campaign against white slave traffic. The Octobrist party unites under M Guchkoff while cooperation with the administration is expected to resume in autumn despite lingering rifts over Premier Stelypin.
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St. Petersburg
Douma
Stolypin
Trafic
M. Guchkoff
Stelypin
Franco American extradition treaty ratified in Paris
Notes of foreign news report Paris ratifying the Franco American extradition treaty and promulgation today. Other items note three new cholera hospitals in St Petersburg and forty one new cases in three days. Nilo Pecanha becomes Brazilian President promising peaceful governance and party harmony. Madrid reports the steamer Antonio Lopez carrying household furniture of former American minister Collier. American archbishops and alumni from the American College in Rome visited Castle Gandolfo.
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Paris
St. Petersburg
Madrid
Antonio Lopez
Fire Island
William M. Collier
Spain
Rome
American College
Rorre
Castle Gandolfo
Anti home rule bills dominate New York legislative report
The report criticizes three anti home rule measures in New York lawmaking, including a three platoon police system bill, a mandatory teachers salary bill, and a charter amendment fixing patrol wagon driver salaries. It notes unanimous Senate support and NYC delegation votes, plus vetoes by Mayor McClellan and Governor Hughes, and highlights safeguards against improper city claims and assessment cancellations.
Another Democracy Born In Quiet Democratic Club
An era of sterilized Democratic organizations arises to protect the city from unsterilized Democracy. A new group is linked to S Stanwood Menken, a lawyer at 62 William Street with a town house at 34 West 52nd Street and partner of Eugene A Philbin, ex District Attorney. The tale remains unverified.
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S. Stanwood Menken
William Street
West 524
Menken
Eugene A. Philbin
Absence of Menken Ties New Democratic Dinner
The report notes Mr. Menken missing from his home while weeks earlier ex-Justice Parker and fellow Auburn figures including Littleton Grout Osborne Shepard and Villard dined together to form a new Democratic party plan. A five member committee on plan and scope was said to be appointed, but progress appears to have stalled.
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Mr. Menken
Alton B. Parker
Morgan J. O’brien
Martin W. Littleton
Edward M. Grout
Thomas M. Osborne
Auburn
Edward M. Shepard
Oswald G. Villard
Bennet Urges Voter Duty In West Side Talk
Representative William S. Bennet denounces voters who skip local elections and stresses voting with intelligence. He urges emphasis on local offices, tax shifts from city to country, and prudent city administration to save money, noting practical issues like mispackaged city supplies and public accountability.
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William S. Bennet
West End
Bennet
Mr. Bennet
Washington
Committee reports plans for city campaign at Cooper Union
Winfred Denison said the committee will report recommendations for a committee of one hundred and resolutions outlining principles for the municipal campaign at a mass meeting in Cooper Union tonight. Gustav H. Schwab will call the meeting to order, with speakers Rabbi Stephen Wise Charles Sprague Smith and William A. Coakley among them.
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Winfred Denison
Robert ©. Ogden
Cooper Union
Gustav H. Schwab
Rabbi Stephen Wise
Charles Sprague Smith
William’‘A. Coakley
Patrolman Lawler Found Sleeping on Brooklyn Fire Escape
Patrolman Edward C. Lawler of Prospect Park station was found early yesterday clad only in trousers and a shirt asleep on a fire escape at 75 Washington Avenue. Nurses nearby alerted Grand Avenue police, and Lawler said he had packed his revolver shield and uniform in a soap box left on Eastern Parkway. He is described as a total abstainer and may suffer religious dementia after overwork at Police Headquarters.
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Edward CC. Lawler
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Washington Avenue
Kings County Hospital
Terry
Grand Avenue
Lawler
Eastern Parkway
State Motto Rejected as Gov Declares State Not a Corporation
Albany June 15 Attorney General O'Malley says the state lacks authority to withhold salaries under the garnishee law arguing the state is neither a person nor a corporation. Controller Gans previously paid funds under executions but the practice is to be halted.
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Albany
O'Malley
Gans
Cardinal Andrieu Defies Court summons in Bordeaux
Cardinal Andrieu replies to the judge by letter, refusing to appear. He asserts the law is invalid for Catholics after their supreme chief condemned it as inimical to Church property, authority, and liberty.
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Bordeaux
Cardinal Andrieu
Sugar Cane Case Faces Possible Postponement in Spitzer Trial
The defense for Oliver Spitzer former Havemeyer sugar refinery official and six former weighers seeks a postponement of their trial citing public prejudice from the Pennsylvan ia Sugar Refining Company suit Meanwhile government lawyers push for a June term trial The piece also notes the Segal loan and a Parson family involvement rumors and ends with Washington visit by Henry A Wise and DOJ policy on the Sugar Trust probe
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Oliver Spitzer
Havemeyer & Elder
American Sugar Refining Company
Mr. Spitzer
H. L. Stimson
United States
Winfred Denison
Spitzer
George M. Mackellar
Henry F. Cochrane
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Adolph Segal
Pennsylvania
Segal
Pennsylvania Company
American Company
George H. Earle, Jr
Bonaparte
Earle
Parsons
Herbert Parsons
Congress
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Henry A Wise
New York
Wickersham
Wise
Sugar Trust
Department of Justice
Department
Court Rules Skimmed Milk Sale a Crime in NYC
Albany June 15 The Court of Appeals upheld lower courts in affirming a $5,000 penalty against Liberman Dairy Company for selling skimmed milk in New York City. The decision sustains a state action to recover damages and declares the statute prohibiting such sale in NYC constitutional while permitting it elsewhere.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
New York City
Liberman Dairy Company
New York
Harlem Pedestrian Fatally Struck At 116th Street and Lenox
Patrick Dunn, sixty, was knocked down at 116th street and Lenox avenue by a car owned by Dr. Julius Jardho and driven by William Mandelbaum. Dunn, taken to Harlem Hospital, feared skull fracture. chauffeur held without bail. Minutes later Charles Lunestrub, another chauffeur, crashed into 16 year old Howard Girard at 96th street and West End avenue. Girard, able to go home after aid. Lunestrub held in $400 bail in West Side court.
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Patrick Dunn
116Th Street
Lenox Avenue
Julius Jardho
West 15Th Street
William Mandelbaum
West 121St Street
Harlem Hospital
Dunn
Finn
Harlem
Charles Lunestrub
Howard Girard
Third Avenue
96Th Street
West End Avenue
Girard
West Side
Lunestrub
Yerkes Estate Receivership Case Goes to Appeals Court
Lawyers argued before the United States Circuit Court of Appeals over the Ward order continuing the receivership for Charles T. Yerkes estate. Soley pressed that Underground Electric Railways of London is a secured creditor and drastic action is unnecessary. Cravath counters that the stock lacks market value and Yerkes's Fifth Avenue home is leased, with taxes owed totaling about 3000000.
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J. Russell Soley
Mary Adelaide Yerkes
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
Judge Ward
Circuit Court
Charles T. Yerkes
Soley
Underground Electric Railways Company
London
England
Paul D. Cravath
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Elbert H. Gary
Timothy Healy Hamilton Host
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Henry Moskowitz
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