Change in Royal Oath and Westminster Cathedral Dedication
Parliament debates a bill to alter the sovereigns oath to profess Protestant faith while not offending Roman Catholic subjects. Meanwhile London celebrates the Metropolitan Cathedral dedication with a fourteen hour service, costly interiors, and notable attendance including the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and many Roman Catholic nobles.
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Westminster
A. J. Balfour
John Redmond
Catheral
Cardinal Wiseman
Manning
Carl Vaughan
Bourne
Bentley
Hyssop
Westminster Abbey
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk
French Punitive Route Moors at Cha ouia
French forces rout Sheik Maelainin’s partisans in Chaouia Morocco. Heavy losses on both sides with thirteen French killed and seventy-one wounded, most among native troops.
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Chaouia
Casablanca
Morocco
Sheik Maelainin
Manchuria Trade Terms Signed by Russia and Japan
A Russo Japanese convention on Manchuria railroad coordination will be signed in St. Petersburg by Foreign Minister Iswolsky and Ambassador Motono. The pact covers maintaining status quo, a traffic agreement between Eastern Chinese Railway and South Manchurian Railroad, and through rates to develop the region with Vladivostok gaining grain export shares to Japan.
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Manchuria
M. Iswolsky
Motone
Great Britain
France
Russia
Japan
Knox
M. Iswolsky and Dr. Motono
Eastern Chinese Railway Corporation
South Manchurian Railroad Corporation
Vladivostok
Dainy
Polar trophy suit opens in German court against Peary
Berlin June 28 A German court hears Rudolph Francke's suit against Commander Robert E Peary over Arctic trophies allegedly left by Dr F A Cook. Francke seeks 10000 in prizes. Peary contest the jurisdiction and deny all charges as the case awaits further legal rulings.
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Berlin
F. A. Cook
Utah
Cook
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Peary
Rudolph Francke
Francke
America
David Jayne Hill
United States
Herr Jablonski
Victor Schneider
Herr Thiel
Arctic
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Jablonski
Death by own action of Greenwich man Lyndon Stevens
The coroner's jury in London ruled Lyndon H. Stevens died by his own action of poisoning while temporarily insane. The Greenwich Conn. resident died June 21 at the Grand Hotel after letters to his wife and daughter suggested financial distress. An autopsy did not confirm poisoning and the inquiry was adjourned for stomach contents examination. Stevens had been abroad months and reportedly broke down from overwork.
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London
Lyndon H. Stevens
Greenwich
Conn
Grand Hotel
Stevens
Taft Heads to Beverly for Summer Home Visit
President Taft left Washington at 5 35 p m for Beverly Massachusetts aboard the Federal Express train accompanied by Secretary Norton Assistant Secretary Forster Captain Archibald Butt and a party of White House aides and reporters The trip follows a busy day including a Cabinet meeting and talks with Western Senators on irrigation bond plans likely to be overseen by General Marshall
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
United States
Potomac
Atlantic
Taft
Beverly
Mass
Norton
Forster
Archibald W. Butt
Barker
White House
Secret Service
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Federal Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hitchcock
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Union Station
Congress
Carter
Jones
Smoot
Inspection Corps of Army Engineers
General Marshall
Secretary of the Interior
Treasury
Taft Receives Update on Italian Laborer Injury
President Taft, in Washington, received a telegram from Beverly saying Dr Mixter, Boston physician for Michaelo de Grigordio the Italian laborer hit by Robert A Taft's car, believes the man will recover. De Grigordio, married with a child in Italy, said he crossed the street and misread the approaching auto. Taft will miss the Yale Harvard race trip. the patient rests and shows improving recovery chances.
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Taft
Beverly
Mixter
Boston
Robert A. Taft
Michaelo de Grigordio
Italy
Robert Taft
Execution of Wardani in Cairo for Egyptian premier murder
Ibrahim Wardani an Egyptian Nationalist and student was hanged in Cairo for the February 2 assassination of Boutros Pacha Ghali premier and foreign minister. He claimed motive was to avenge government acts. Theodore Roosevelt denounced the crime and protesters gathered near his hotel.
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Egypt
Ibrahim Wardani
Boutros Pacha Ghali
Wardani
Nationalist
Hhe
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Boutros Pacha
Theodore Roosevelt
University of Cairo
Westward Wins Eckernforde Race Claim Prince Henry Cup
The American schooner Westward owned by Alexander S Cochran and commanded by Captain Charles Barr won the schooner race to Eckernforde, beating the Germania Hamburg and the Meteor. The Emperor rode Meteor which finished last. Westward also claimed the Weyde kamp Cup. Class A2 winner was Comet. other class winners included Sophie Elizabeth Magda VIII Tesca Ariadne Woge IV.
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Kiel
Westward
Alexander
Cochrane
Charles Barr
Eckernfirde
Hamburg
Emperor
Ambassador Hill
Roosevelt at Harvard a quiet Boston Cambridge visit
Theodore Roosevelt class of eighty arrived in Boston and Cambridge to attend Harvard commencement day exercises. He met Harvard alumni, spoke briefly to the Law School Alumni Association, visited clubs, and dined with classmates at the Algonquin Club. He denied plans for a political conference and called Harvard ready for service. He also attended a divinity school tablet dedication for John White Chadwick with sonnets by A Emerson Palmer.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Cambridge
Harvard
Algonquin Club
Back Bay
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Mr. Roosevelt
Harvard Law School Alumni Association
Harvard Union
Francis C. Lowell
United States Circuit Court
Arthur D. Hill
Suffolk County
Union
Roosevelt
College Yard
E. H. Wells
Robert Homans
Porcellian Club
Lowell
A. P. Gardner
David Goodrich
William H. Lewis
United States
Lewis
Harvard Divinity School
John White Chadwick
Second Unitarian Church
Clinton and
Congress Streets
Brooklyn
Chadwick
Divinity School
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A. Emerson Palmer
Board of Education
Mr. Chadwick
Brooklyn Society
William W. Fenn
Harvard Law School Commencement Features Attorney General Wickersham
Attorney General Wickersham delivered the commencement oration at Harvard Law School in Sanders Theatre. He urged that future lawyers must master living law through adjudged cases and real transactions, not mere textbooks, to tackle rising governmental and economic challenges. He discussed public utilities, Sherman antitrust law, and the need for judicial clarity on stockholding and monopolies, noting pending Supreme Court cases and the school association officers elected.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Law School
Wickersham
Sanders
Supreme Court
Motors From Oyster Bay on Roosevelt Cambridge Trip
Theodore Roosevelt arrived from Oyster Bay by auto and boarded the 10 oclock Boston train to Cambridge. He planned to preside at Harvard with only a brief address, declining a lengthy political speech.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Cambridge
Beverly
Ananias Club
Harvard
Mr. Roosevelt
Boston
Grand Central Station
Governor Hughes Heads to Harvard Commencement
Albany notes Governor Hughes departed at midnight for Cambridge to attend the Harvard commencement. He accepted an invitation from Frederick Jessup Stimson, a prominent Harvard Law School figure, to stay as his guest during the Cambridge visit.
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Albany
Hughes
Cambridge
Harvard
Frederick Jessup Stimson
Harvard Law School
Justice Denton Sought as Witness in Gresser Graft Case
Justice Alfred E. Denton of the Queens Municipal Court, former Commissioner of Public Works under Borough President Gresser, was found at Riverhead Long Island while on vacation. Denton, who had fled a graft inquiry, learned he is wanted again as a witness before the Queens County Grand Jury investigating charges against President Gresser.
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Municipal Court
Queens
Gresser
Queens County Grane
Riverhead
Long Island
Daily
Denton
Grand Jury
Cholera Death at Ruhleben Station
Berlin reports another cholera death among Ruhleben immigrants. The deceased is the sister of the Russian immigrant who died there two days earlier.
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Berlin
Ruhleben Station
Hutchins Heads U. of M.
Harry Burns Hutchins was elected president of the University of Michigan succeeding James B. Angell. Born April 8 1847 in Lindon New Hampshire he earlier organized Cornell Law School and served as its dean before returning to Michigan as dean of law and acting president.
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Mich
Harry Burns Hutchins
University of Michigan Tonight
James B. Angell
Hutchins
Lindon
N. H
Michigan
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell Law School
Michigan University
University of Michigan
New York Bar Association
Rumor on Heinze Fee and Dutch Loan Interest
Rumors circulated that F. Augustus Heinze paid John B. Stanchfield up to 800000 for legal services in his acquittal trial and that Heinze sought a 1000000 loan in Holland. The Tribune noted Heinze aimed to attract Dutch capital for his copper properties. It later emerged Stanchfield’s fee was likely under 25000.
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F. Augustus Heinze
John B. Stanchfield
Heinze
Holland
Europe
The
Tribune
Mr. Stanchfield
Veteran civil service man resigns as head of NY retirement group
A. H. Schultz, president and founder of Branch No 2 of the Civil Service Employes' Retirement Association in New York, will resign today due to age. A meeting will elect a successor this week after members passed resolutions thanking Schultz, now seventy, for his long service.
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New York
Civil Service Employes’ Retirement Association
A. H. Schultz
Schultz
Changes in Cuban Army Reorganizes Rural Guard and Budget
The Senate passed a bill creating distinct Rural Guard status from the regular army with peacetime patrols and wartime service under army generals to reduce rivalry. It also establishes a military academy. The budget faces delay due to Senate House clashes risking a June 30 constitutional deadline and a possible crisis like last year.
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Havana
Senate
Patrolman Defends Off Post Bird Rescue Tale
Patrolman Maxwell Barr testifies to Deputy Police Commissioner Walsh about seeing a bird in distress on Flatbush avenue. He says he left his beat to rescue it and was accused by Sergeant Mathews of being off post at 7 30 in the morning on May 15. The deputy questions the sergeant's actions and sympathizes with the patrolman.
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Walsh
Brooklyn
Maxwell Barr
Snyder Avenue
Mathews
Flatbush Avenue
Clston
German Foreign Affairs shakeup and cabinet changes
Berlin reports Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs is Baron von Kiderlen Waechter, succeeding von Schoen who becomes German Ambassador to France. Prince von Radolin to retire from Paris post. Dr August Lentze nominated as Prussian Minister of State and Finance successor. Changes may extend to imperial and Prussian ministries. gifts and decorations noted.
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Baron von Kiderlen- Waechter
Wilhelm Edler von Schoen
France
Prince von Radolin
Paris
August Lentze
Magdeburg
Baron von Rheinbaden
Lentze
House of Lords
Baron
Herr von Schoen
William
Frankfurter Zeitung
von Bethmann-Hollweg
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