Baron's Robbery On Fifth Avenue In New York City
Baron de Mathies of Rome staying at the Hotel Savoy was robbed of a snakeskin wallet containing 130 dollars on Fifth Avenue near Twenty seconds last night. He and his secretary were approached by a well dressed man with a Panama hat who asked the time and stole the wallet from the baron’s inner coat pocket. Police were notified and Baron de Mathies, who arrived on the St Paul last Saturday, will stay in the city until Friday before continuing a world pleasure trip including a future stop in Mexico.
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Paul de Mathies
Rome
Italy
Savoy
Fifth-ave
Twenty-second St
Sixth-ave
Twenty-first-st
Tetzner
West Thirtiether Station
Shiels
Chamberlan
Vatican
Wilmersing
Wilmersing & Field
East Thirtygixth
St. Paul
Mexico
Reception at Chinese Court Audience for Rear Admiral Rodgers
The Emperor and Empress Dowager in Peking hosted Rear Admiral Frederick Rodgers and staff in audience. They asked Rodgers to convey their esteem to President Roosevelt, expressing high regard for the United States.
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Peking
Frederick Rodgers
United States Legation
Rodgers
Roosevelt
Oxford Honors Mr Choate Doctor of Civil Law
Oxford University conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law on Joseph H. Choate the United States Ambassador to Great Britain at commencement Exercises London June 24. Mrs and Miss Choate John B Carter Second Secretary of the Embassy Mrs Carter and Mrs Montgomery Sears accompanied the ambassador to Oxford.
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London
Oxford University
Joseph H. Choate
United States
Great Britain
Choate
John B. Carter
Carter
Montgomery Sears
Oxford
German Torpedo Boat No. 42 Sunk Near Elbe Mouth
Kiel, Germany June 24. Torpedo boat No. 42 of the German navy was run down and sunk by a British steamer at the mouth of the Elbe. The commander and three crew members are missing.
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Kiel
Germany
Elbe
Lord Milner Sworn In as Orange River Governor
Lord Milner arrived in Bloemfontein and took the oath as Governor of the Orange River Colony. The new constitution was proclaimed in the presence of military and civil officers with General De Wet among the prominent Boers in attendance.
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Bloemfontein
Orange River Colony
Lord Milner
Transvaal
South Africa
de Wet
Lynch remanded on treason charges at Bow Street
London June 24 at Bow Street Police Court Colonel Arthur Lynch member of Parliament elect for Galway and former Boer army figure was remanded again on high treason charges until July 1 after brief evidence. In Edinburgh a porter at Surgeons Hall Daniel McClinton shot and killed Dr Ivison Macadam and James Forbes in a fit of insanity before being overpowered after firing five shots.
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London
Bow Street
Arthur Lynch
Galway
Onti
Edinburgh
Daniel McClinton
Surgeons’ Hall
Ivison Macadam
James Forbes
McClinton
Notes of the Stage Highlights from 1904 theater season
The stage column reports Mascagni to compose incidental music for Caine's The Eternal City in Florence, Viola Allen to produce in America next season, and Beerbohm Tree in England. It notes extra matinees, show closings at Wallack's, cast re-engagements with Elsie De Wolfe, and preparations for Manhattan Beach engagements, with various signings and singer bookings for upcoming seasons.
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Cavalleria Rusticana
Ms Caine
Mies Viola Allen
Beerbohm Tree
England
Florence
Mascagni
Tyler
Liebler & Co
Roosevelt bolt in Nebraska rocks party unity
Washington reports Ross L. Hammond, Fremont postmaster and editor of The Fremont Tribune, repudiating the Nebraska State Convention endorsement of Roosevelt Cuban policy. Analysts see the move as part of a GOP strategy to pressure the president and possibly influence the 1908 nomination, with Hammond a key Nebraska figure whose actions may affect the Seventh District race and House control.
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Tribune
Washington
Nebraska
Ross L. Hammond
Fremont
Fremont Tribune
Millard
Dietrich
Senate
Congress
Roosevelt
Hammond
R. B. Snyder
Payne
Mr. Hammond
Judge Robinson
House
Spaulding to resign as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Washington June 4 O L Spaulding Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of customs affairs will probably resign within two months The change in assistant secretaries has been contemplated health is given as the cause The White House denies any link to the silk fraud probe and no definite successor is named Secretary Shaw says he does not know of the resignation Fixture candidates may be considered from among those previously named
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the Tribune
Washington
O. L. Spaulding
the Treasury
Spaulding
Shaw and
Gace
New-York Custom House
White House
Shaw
Rathbone seeks congressional inquiry into Cuban post charges
Major Estes G. Rathbone former Cuban Posts director general arrived in Washington from New York to press for a thorough investigation of his Havana court conviction over postal affairs. He insists his trial was unfair and aims to spur a congressional inquiry this session, after spending hours with Senator Hanna who helped secure his bond release.
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Washington
Estes G. Rathbone
Posts
Cuba
New York
Havana
Congress
Hanna
Canadian man arrested at White House over mental condition
Washington June 24 James King thirty two a Canadian who has lived twenty years at Tonawanda New York was arrested at the White House today and held for examination into his mental condition He said he wished to convince the President that there are four quarters of the globe and asked for a pair of dividers to locate the United States.
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Washington
James King
Tonawanda
N. Y
White House
Globe
United States
Goldfogle Proposes Partial Veto Amendment to Budget Bills
Representative Goldfogle a Tammany member seeks a constitutional change allowing the President to veto specific items within an appropriation bill while approving others. The proposed Article XVI amendment would require itemized objections, pending reconsideration by Congress and potential two thirds votes in each house to enact the disputed items. The plan keeps existing veto rules for whole bills.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Washington
Goldfogle
Congress
House
Democratic State Convention in Grand Island Nebraska
National and Populist Nebraska conventions opened with over a thousand delegates. Bryan spoke urging support for Jeffersonian principles and unity with Democrats. Governor nominees Smyth and Vifquain were debated as ballots shifted, with Smyth initially leading the first ballot amid other candidates and cross-party talks.
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Grand Island
Neb
P. Ja Hall
H. D. Travis
Plattsmouth
Travis
Olie James
W. J. Bryan
Bryan
Tilden Club
Mr. Bryan
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Nebraska
Edgar Howard
Columbus
Constantine J. Smyth
Victor Vifquain
Jin Bryan
W. H. Thompson
Smyth
Vifquain
Thompson
J. O. Defrance
State Central Committee
M. F. Harrington
O'Neill
Harrington
John Power
Power
Matthew F. Harrington
Allen
Sutherland
C. J. Smyth
Barry
Berge
Coffin
Poynter
Henninger
Stark
Sprecher
Gilbert
Visquain
Sullivan
Damerell
Preferred Death to Operation in Ho boken Woman Shoots Self
Mrs William Miller of 106 Third street Hoboken shot herself in the right breast and died instantly rather than undergo an operation. She lay fully dressed and held the pistol close enough to ignite her waist but the blood quelled the fire. Husband said a physician warned an operation was necessary and she chose death instead. Patrolmen Hilderman and McKenna found the pistol in her right hand. Coroner Parslow took charge of the body.
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William Miller
No. 106
Third St
Hoboken
Hilderman
McKenna
Parslow
Tragic Brooklyn Girl 12 Ends Life at Home
Annie Lightner, twelve, once crippled for three years, committed suicide at 108 Gerry Street Brooklyn by inhaling gas. Friends tried to comfort her as pain and isolation grew. she locked the dining room, then turned on the gas after disconnecting the stove tube. A doctor arrived too late.
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Annie Lightner
Gerry St
Brooklyn
Annie
Professor Fessenden to resign from Weather Bureau
Professor Reginald A Fessenden inventor of the wireless telegraphy system confirms he will resign from the Weather Bureau in September and expects his system to be used commercially soon. He cites plans to erect stations thirty miles from San Francisco to disseminate weather reports and says he will move to Washington tonight.
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Norfolk
Reginald A. Fanden
Roanoke Island
Fessenden
Weather Bureau
San Francisco
Washington
Gold Watch for Congressman Scudder from Life Saving Service
Patchogue New York June 124 The first convention of the Fourth District Life Saving Service held at Rees Hotel with about 130 attendees. Congress member Townsend Scudder received a gold watch from officers and surfmen in recognition of his labors in their behalf.
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Tribune
Patchogue
N. Y
Fourth District
United States Life Saving Service
Rees Hotel
Arthur Dominy
Horace L. Piper
Life Saving Service
Townsend Scudder
Congress
W. H. Jaycox
D. F. de Otte
George Furman
Mr. Scudder
Waterworks Company Formed in Trenton New Jersey
The National Water works and Guarantee Company was incorporated in Trenton New Jersey this afternoon with 1 000 000 authorized capital to build operate waterworks gasworks and electric light plants. Corporators include Charles H Wells James J Williams James A Linen Frank M Lynch Thomas E Jones Charles P Matthews John T Porter J J Jermyn Cyrus D Jones George G Brooks Edward S Jones RK G Brooks all of Scranton Penn and James D Stocker Frank R Stocker of Jermyn Penn.
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Trenton
N. J
National Waterworks and Guarantee Company
Charles H. Wells
James J. Williams
James A. Linen
Frank M. Lynch
Thomas E. Jones
Charles P. Matthews
John T. Porter
J. J. Jermyn
Cyrus D. Jones
George G. Brooks
Edward S. Jones
Austria-Hungary Plans New Trade Treaties
Vienna June 24. The Neue Freie Presse reports the Hungarian Premier Coloman de Szell has been officially informed that Austria-Hungary will terminate existing commercial treaties. The paper asks Hungary to say if a common tariff for both halves or a separate tariff will be chosen.
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Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
Coloman de Szell
Austria
Austria-Hungary
Hungary
Doctor the Parrot Runs Aft In Harlem Courtroom
A parrot named Doctor, once in a Cuban hospital, escapes from George Brown in New York and flees to the home of Sarah Bland. After a chaotic arrest, Brown and officers seize the bird and both Blands face court while the bird mockingly comments on the scene and quips in Spanish.
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George Brown
East One Hundred-And-Twenty-Third St
Cuba
Sarah Bland
Brown
Doctor
Sarah
George
Old Town
Allen
Graham
Colore
Hrenneis
Sarah G
Brenneis
Billy
Sarah B
Sarahs
Parrot
Harlem
No Degree for Vanderbilt at Yale Commencement
New Haven June 24 Reginald C Vanderbilt of New York will not receive his diploma at Yale commencement tomorrow The official list may show he failed the senior law course and likely will complete summer work to graduate next fall Vanderbilt attended today and will stay for commencement Alumni gathering dominated the day at Alumni Hall with class representatives and a sole candidate chosen for the University Corporation seat The Yale Medical School exercises addressed by Dr. Roswell Park focused on medical courage and the idea of therapism in the sick room.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
New York
Yale
Vanderbilt
Yale Corporation
John Bennetto
Walter B. Clarkson
Jacksonville
Fla
Johns Hopkins University
Alfred Akerman
University of Georgia
Roy Marston
Bowdoin College
Forest School
Alumni
Henry Holt
University Corporation
Thomas G. Hennet
Henry B. Sargent
Yale Medical School
Roswell Park
Buffalo
New York State Pathological Laboratory
McKinley
Park
Boerhaave
Morgagni
Haller
Hunter
Bichat
Aldermen Allow Sunday Baseball at Prospect Park Parade Grounds
Brooklyn officials pass a resolution permitting amateur baseball on Sundays at Prospect Park parade grounds despite opposition from property owners and church groups. Alderman Malone cites keeping youths off streets and away from bad company as justification while noting no prior Sunday play on the grounds in thirty years.
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Board of Aldermen
Prospect Park
Brooklyn
Malone
Patrick H. Malone
Viith
Twenty-sixth St
Tribune
Stockholders Likely to Approve National Shoe and Leather Bank Sale
Consents from stockholders to sale terms come in strongly and adoption seems certain though formal announcement will be delayed about a week. Purchasers remain unidentified.
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National Shoe and Leather Bank
Local Weather Sketch for New England and Mid-Atlantic
For New England showers today and Thursday with fresh west winds. Eastern Pennsylvania Delaware District of Columbia Maryland and New Jersey fair and warmer today and Thursday, likely showers with light variable winds mostly southwest. Eastern New York fair in south and showers in north today and Thursday with rising temperatures and fresh southwest winds. Western Pennsylvania and Western New York showers today and Thursday with rising temperatures and southwest to south winds. Tribune local observations note barometer pressure changes and temperatures tracked at Perry's Pharmacy.
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New England
Pennsylvania
Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
New Jersey
New York
Passing Trout Talk At Park Avenue Hotel
Cr Hills of Elmira contrasts two trout in a feature at the Park Avenue Hotel. He calls the real trout the fish that dives and aims upstream, while the modern economy favors a fat pond fish fed to summer boarders. Bluefish joy is praised for fresh catch and the Jersey coast contrast.
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Cr. H. Hills
Elmira
Park Avenue
Death of Dean Sage of Menands at River Canada
Albany reports the death of Dean Sage sixty one at his game preserve on West Restigouche River in Canada. He was the eldest son of Henry W. Sage, founder of H W Sage & Co in Albany. A book lover with a fine library, he recently donated a hall to Menands. Surviving relatives include daughters Mrs James Fenimore Cooper and Mrs Goodwin, Miss Sarah Sage, and sons Henry W Sage and Dean Sage Jr.
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Albany
Dean Sage
Menand’s
West Restigouche River
Canada
Sage
Henry W. Sage
William
H. W. Sage & Co
Menana
James Fenimore Cooper
Goodwin
New-York
Sarah Sage
Dean Sage, Jr
James Booth Dies. Canadian Missionary's Grandson
James Booth, grandson of the Wesleyan Methodist Church's first Canadian missionary, died Sunday at his son James Bancroft Booth's home in Brooklyn. Born in Belleville, Ontario, seventy nine years ago, he worked long in real estate and insurance there. He leaves a daughter and two sons, including J. B. Booth of Bristol, Meyers & Co., manufacturing chemists in New York.
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James Booth
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Canada
James Bancroft Booth
Classonave
Brooklyn
Belleville
Ontario
J. B. Booth
Bristol, Meyers & Co
Noted Newark Carriage Firm Leader John Kent Dies
John Summers Kent, aged sixty five, died at his Newark home from heart disease after two recent attacks. Born in New Brunswick, he spent 30 years in Newark and led Kent & Ten Eyck of 55 Broadway, New York, as senior partner. A Freemason chaplain and St Pauls Methodist member, he taught Sunday school for 20 years and collapsed during class last Sunday.
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Newark
Mr. Kent
New Brunswick
Kent & Ten Eyck
No. 1
Broadway
New York
Kent
Kane Lodge
Free Masons
Walso
Board of
Stewards
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
Broad and Marshall Sts
Protective committee named over Burlington lease dispute
Minority stockholders of the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway appoint a three member protective committee to contest the lease of their property to the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. Through counsel they served notice that the lease is inequitable and an injunction to restrain Rock Island from operating the Cedar Rapids line under the lease may be sought if needed.
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Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway Company
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company
Rock Island
Cedar Rapids
Une
Wheat yield forecast 24,800.00 metric hundredweight in Budapest
The Ministry of Agriculture in Budapest on June 24 estimates a wheat yield of 24,800.00 metric hundredweight, 16,000,000 less than the prior estimate. Rye, barley and oats yields are expected to remain close to the previous estimate with no material variation.
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Budapest
Ministry of Agriculture
Weather Report From Washington June 24
The barometric conditions have changed little in the last day. A high pressure area drifts east over the Middle Atlantic while a low covers the Dakotas to Northern Texas. Showers and storms are likely in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the Great Lakes region this week with variable winds along coasts and fair sailing conditions to the Grand Banks.
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Washington
Middle Atlantic States
Dakotas
Texas
North Carolina
Lower
Lake Region
Canadian
Maritime Provinces
Ohio Valley
Atlantic
Mississippi
Ohio Valleys
Missouri Valley
Middle Atlantic
Mississippi River
Northwest
New England
South Atlantic
Gulf
Great Lakes
European
Grand Banks
Death notices and funeral details from June contemporaries
Notices list multiple deaths and funeral plans across New York and nearby states. Entries include Mary Depew at West Street residence with services June 25 and interment June 26. Theodore W. Hoyt in Stamford with funeral to be announced. Sarah M Jordan with Croton-on-Hudson service. George Lambden of New Rochelle with service June 3. William Bement Lent of Norfolk with June 26 homestead service. Dea Sage of Restigouche River Canada. Maria Farmer Williams of Englewood with June 23 death and Utica interment. and others referencing train times and locations for departures and funerals.
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Depew
Mary
Robert A Depew
West St
Peekskill
Grand Central
Emitovers
Jordan
Sarah M
Richard R
Croton-on-Hudson
Avillam
York
Lambden
New Rochelle
George Lambden
Liberty
Norfolk
Conn
William Bement
Homestead
Poughkeepsie
Restigouche River
Canada
Dea Sage
Albany
N. Y
Williams
Dwight Place
Engiewood
N. J
Maria Farmer
Brown Howe Williams
Utica
New York
Herkimer
Transatlantic Mails Schedules and Closings Details
Postal notice lists weekly transatlantic sailings with Europe Ireland and Denmark routes via Oceanic and Oscar II, then Fe Bismarck and La Savoie, plus multiple Italy France Belgium Scotland Netherlands routes. Also covers Pacific mails to Philippine Islands China Japan Australia Hawaii and other regions with closing times and special directions for registered and printed matter.
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Queenstown
Europe
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S. S. St. Paul
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S. S
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Lorenzo Marques
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Lorenzo Marquez
S. la Sanvoie
Havre
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S. S. Allee
S. Aller
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S. Citta Ai Torino
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Belgium
S. Kroonland
Germany
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San_Francisco
Chanteau Dispatch
U. S
China
Japan
Seattle
S. Kaga Mara
Australia
West Australia
Shanghai
Canada
Hawaii
San Francisco
S. S. China
Tacoma
Imelusive
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Esseo
New Zealand
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Pit Islands
Vancouver
Victoria
B. C
S. Moana Traes
Flarwa
Cornelius V. Postalfice
New York
N. Y
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