China Keeps Promise to Involve American Bankers in 27.5 Million Loan
The United States may join British, German, and French financiers in the $27.5 million Chinese loan for railroad construction. Secretary Knox pressed Peking to include American participation, demand American-made materials and engineers, and seek timely British confirmation. Germany and France signaled no obstacles, and the State Department hopes Britain agrees to U S involvement to complete the loan.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
United States
Cnt
Great Britain
Germany
France
State Department
Peking
Conger
China
Knox
Bryce
London
Reid
Thas
Mitchell-Innes
Mr. Knox
Dam Breaks Kill Three at Missouri River Reservoir
A Missouri River flood breached the dam at the Moth reservoir near the city waterworks six miles north of town. Three men died and five others escaped by feet. Victims were John Lewis, a reservoir watchman, and James Lilliges and his son John, swept away as a twenty foot wall of water surged through. Lewis had lost two sons to drowning at the same site last year.
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The
Tribune
Jozeph
City
Here
John Lewis
James Lilliges
John
Lewis
Sembrich Farewell on Berlin Stage in Rosine Role
Mme Marcella Sembrich gave a farewell Berlin performance as Rosine in The Barber of Seville. A large crowd called her out about thirty times as roses showered from the wings. She sang Strauss Spring Song and other numbers with enthusiastic encores, ending with a Polish song.
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Berlin
Mme Marcella Sembrich
Rosine
Sembrich
Mme Sembrich
Johann Strauss
Thay
Montreal business man funds tubercular treatment project
Montreal June 21 D Lorne McGibbon a MOE business leader plans to donate 15.90 toward erecting and equipping a tuberculosis treatment facility to be built at El Agathe in the Laurentian Mountains. He previously suffered the disease and spent time in the Adirondacks seeking cure. The gift supports those less fortunate.
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Montreal
D. Lorne McGibbon
MOE
el Agathe
Laurentian Moun
McGibbon
Adirondacks
Rail Line Steamers Ad Offers Early Attendee Admission
Advert appears to announce a transport offer for Day Line Steamers with tentative terms and acceptance noted. The fragment hints at an event or service between locations, referencing departures and rail connection, but lacks full details or clear dates to specify.
Swordfish Defeats Whale In Ocean Duel Near Nantucket
Boston reports aboard the steamer Esparta recount a dramatic sea fight south of Nantucket South Shoals Lightship. A whale battled a swordfish-like monster, thrashing the water red with blood until the whale vanished beneath the waves, believed mortally wounded.
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Boston
Esparta
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Nantucket South Shoals
Women Reject Peace At International Council Meeting
The International Council of Women in Toronto rejected most of the peace and armaments report, with Germany and several nations opposing calls for arms limits and neutral zones. A traffic in women committee urged banning employment of girls under fourteen in theatres. Lady Aberdeen spoke for suffrage, declaring she could no longer stay silent after global womens voices urged change.
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Toronto
International Council of Women
Peace and Arbitration Committee
Frau Stritt
Germany
Italy
Sweden
Great Britain
Lady Aberdeen
Earl of Aberdeen
Ireland
Heat Claims A Victim On Record Hot Day
A retired glass dealer Abraham Solomons dies after prostration in heat at 4 PM. Five heat prostrations noted by police include John Cooper Annette Glasgow John Holland Catharine Patterson and an unidentified man. City parks and Coney Island see crowds as humidity drops and cooler forecast follows with possible evening showers.
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John
East
Is1st Street
Lebanon Hospital
Glasgow
Annette
Morningside Avenue
100Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Holland
East Sth
Broad and
Water Streets
St Gregory's Hospital
Patterson
Catharine
East 15Th Street
S J. Vincent's Hospital
Tompkins Square Park
Bellevue Hospital
Coney Island
Heat prostrates Newark engineer on Jersey City rail yard
Hugh Coughlan aged sixty five a Newark locomotive engineer collapsed from heat on his engine in the Pennsylvania Railroad Waldo avenue yards Jersey City yesterday. He was the first heat related case reported to a Jersey City hospital this season.
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Hugh Coughlan
Newark
Pennsylvania Railroad
Waldo Avenue
Jersey City
Hottest Day in Philadelphia Reported at 92 Degrees
Philadelphia scenes record a 92 degree afternoon as thermometers top 9 on the street amid intense heat. Prostrations are reported and relief tonight is slight as the temperature remains near 92 degrees.
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Philadelphia
Boston Heat Claims Two Lives as City Swelters
On June 21 in Boston the hottest day of the year brought two deaths and three serious prostration cases at hospitals. Dozens more sought care at drug stores and doctors' offices as official readings reached 88 degrees and street conditions felt hotter with little breeze.
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Boston
Death by Own Action At Sixth Avenue Elevated Station
A man believed to be Thomas King about thirty five, crippled, jumped from the Sixth Avenue elevated station at 6th Street just after 6 PM yesterday and died instantly. An onlooker noted he had previously left flowers at Sixth Avenue and 2nd Street and later at 110th Street and Manhattan Avenue. An elevator employee described the man walking with a crutch for about half an hour before vaulting the south rail. He landed on the stone pavement and suffered multiple broken bones. Dr. Fitzgerald said the injuries were fatal. The body was taken to West 125th Street police station.
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Sixth Avenue
6Th Street
2Th Street
110Th Street
Manhattan Avenue
Elevated
Fitzgerald
J. Hood Wright Hospital
West 125Th Street
Leon
Sin
Amsterdam
Pacific Coast
Vancouver
B. C
Chung Sin
Eighth Avenue
West Shore Ferry
West 42d Street
West 47Th Street
Jersey
Wise to sail for Paris to press Panama libel case
United States Attorney Henry A. Wise will sail June 30 to Paris to oversee witness examinations in the Panama Canal purchase libel case involving The World and the Press Publishing Company. Others including John D. Lind say and DeLancey Nicoll will travel, with seats on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and Lusitania. Depositions will be taken, papers reviewed, and evidence used in Washington and Indianapolis trials. The five week leave of absence covers travel and proceedings in Paris and return in early August.
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Henry A. Wise
United States
Europe
Paris
John D. Lindsay
The
Press Publishing Company
the World
Lindsay
DeLancey Nicoll
Lusitania
Wise
United States Circuit Court
Nicoll
Washington
van Hamm
Joseph Pulitzer
Robert H. Lyman
Indianapolis
Delavan Smith
Charles R. Williams
Indianapolis News
Williams
Mr. Smith
Roosevelt
Taft
Root
J. P. Morgan
Charles P. Taft
Douglas Robinson
William Nelson Cromwell
Record Corn Crop and Wheat Outlook from Kansas Expert
Kansas crop bulletin reports wheat condition at 72.3 percent suggesting a near 6.05 million bushel yield. Corn condition stands at 5 percent, highest since 1902. Harvesting has begun in parts of the state with weather favorable for rapid progress.
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the Tribune
Topeka
Kan
Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
Pittsburg Chinamen Ordered to Wear Chinese Costume
In Pittsburg on June 21 mobs attacked Chinese students at Carnegie Technical Schools after three earlier assaults. Detectives pursued Yip Yuen who tried to flee from Det. Shevlin. he took refuge in Berger Building and was rescued. Local Hip Sing Tong and On Leong Tong leaders ordered all Chinamen to wear Chinese dress for safety.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Hip Sing Tong
Detective Bureau
Elsie Sigel
Carnegie Technical Schools
Yip Yuen
Shevlin
Berger Building
Borrelly Daniel Comet Discovery Shared
Paris observers announce a new comet found by M. Borrelly in Marseilles and Mr. Daniel in Princeton. Observations coincided and the object will be named the Borrelly Daniel.
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Paris
Mr. Lindsay
Paris Observatory
Academy of Sciences
M. Borrelly
Marseilles
Mr. Daniel
Princeton
Borrelly-Daniel
Nothing official about Reyes departure from Colombia
Bogota reports no official statement on President Reyes leaving for Europe. Newspapers condemn the action while Acting President Jorge Holguin enjoys popular support, as the country seeks peace and republican reform amid a flavorful, rival grocers selling Salada Tea.
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Bogota
Reyes
Colombia
Europe
Jorge Holguin
Two Chinese suspects tied to Elsie Sigel murder jailed
Chung Sin the West Galway suspect and Sun Leung keeper of the Eighth Avenue restaurant were captured as police press the dragnet for Leon. Amsterdam and Schenectady holdings join New York detentions with ongoing identity verification and cross city manhunts.
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Elsie Sigel
Chung Sin
Leon
West Galway
Amsterdam
N. Y
Forbes
Central Office
Sun Leung
Eighth Avenue
Harburger
Carey
Homicide Bureau
Sin
New York
Schenectady
William Leon
Philadelphia
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Victoria
B.C
China
Harvey Kennedy
Lin
House of Detention
No. 782
Chinese Free Masons
Americans Accused of Consular Agent and Bankers Fraud
Paris June 21 American Consular Agent at Lille Christopher J King and two American bankers in Paris were charged in the Correctional Court with selling 300000 dollars of Mexican mine shares through misrepresentation and fraud. King challenged the proceedings as irregular but the court rejected the argument and he said he would appeal.
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Paris
Christopher J. King
Lille
King
English meat ban off final seal of recommendation
A cable from the British government to Armour & Co. orders one million pounds of corned beef for October delivery. It marks England’s second large order since prior beef scandals. Arthur Meeker calls it a final seal of recommendation amid past suspicions and recent favorable plant inspections.
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Tribune
Chicago
Armour & Co
England
Arthur Meeker
A Woman's Long Ride Through New York Countryside
Rochester reports Mrs Herbert Wadsworth of Avon completed a 159 mile horseback ride in sixteen hours aiming to beat ex President Roosevelt’s 120 mile day. She used eight horses and rode Conesus Lake twice and to Batavia once. Dr Grayson accompanied her throughout.
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Rochester
Roosevelt
Herbert Wadsworth
Avon
Washington
Roosevelts
Grayson
Wadsworth
Conesus Lake
Batavia
Geneseo
Mauretania Sets World Record for Transatlantic Crossing
The Cunard Line steamship Mauretania arrived in Liverpool at 10:15 PM, establishing a world record for passengers from New York to London. Disembarking Monday night after departing Wednesday, the voyage took five days eight hours, beating its own prior eastward record by fifty minutes. The ship’s New York to Queenstown run and average speeds are noted, with daily legs listed.
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Liverpool
Cunard Line
New York
London
Queenstown
British to Buy Airship for War Office Gift
London June 21 The War Office may accept a public fund for purchasing an airship with strong support from R B Haldane and other public figures. A plan to launch a Paris to London airship voyage in summer is under way. The vessel has two propellers two 220 horsepower motors carries twenty five passengers and can run 35 to 40 mph.
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London
R. B. Haldane
War Office
Parliamentary Aerial Defence Committee
Paris
Beaman Wife Elopement Rumor Stuns Newbern Church
The Rev Dr R C Beaman of Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church announced at service that his wife has disappeared presumed to have eloped. He had attended Trinity College commencement in Durham on June 5 and says notes suggest she left with a male companion headed for Rocky Mount.
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Telearanh
Tribune
Newbern
N. C
R C. Beaman
Centenary Methodist Episcopal Church
Mrs Carstairs Gets Her Gowns After Customs Battle
Mrs James Carstairs returned home from abroad to find trunks delayed. New York customs charged several Paris gowns as dutiable. She argued the dresses were not dutiable as she had worn them before. After protest she paid 50 and the trunks were released and sent on.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
James Carstairs
New York
Tax plan near ready as White House hosts talks
Washington June 21. Republican Finance Committee negotiates the Taft amendment taxing corporate net earnings. A 2 percent levy above 5000 dollars with bond interest deductions, detailed gross receipts reports, and deductions for bond costs. President and Attorney General push for quick Senate passage next week amid tariff delays.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Finance Committee
White House
Senator Root
Internal Revenue
New York
Wickersham
Senate
Senator Aldrich
Aldrich
Chamber
Root
Knox
Supreme
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