Fleet Returns Greetings at San Francisco Naval Review
Crowds from Chinatown and Japanese quarters filled streets and pagodas as the Pacific fleet anchored off Mission Street. Mayors and reception committees greeted Admiral Evans and others aboard the Connecticut, then Admiral Evans visited the St Francis Hotel. A Navy Department order delays the fleet’s departure to May 15 from May 9 for a southern cruise.
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Chinatown
Hartley
Mission Street Wharf
Taylor
Fivans
Sellers
Connecticut
Admiral Evans
St. Francis’ Hotel
Washington
Pacific Fleet
Dayton
Navy Department
San Francisco
Manuel Takes Oath as King of Portugal in Lisbon
In Lisbon on May 6 King Manuel was proclaimed ruler after taking the oath to protect Catholicism and uphold Portugal's laws. The ceremony drew peers, diplomats, and nobility as crowds cheered from parade routes and balconies. He read a message pledging prosperity and popular love before returning to the Necessidades Palace.
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Lisbon
Manuel
Portugal
Diplomatic Corps
International Telegraph Conference
Gonçalves
Necessidades Palace
Alarm on Turkish Frontier and Movements of Sultans
Russia shores up forces on the Turkish frontier with artillery, ammunition, and stores moved toward Tiflis as Caucasus corps approach Kare in June for maneuvers. In Morocco, Sultan Abd-el-Aziz plans to move to Morroco City on May 9, while Sef regains Tangier and Mulei Marg heads toward Fez.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Caucasus
Betoum
Sanjensk
Tifkie
Kare
Kteff
Tiflis
Persia
Rebat
Foreign Board
Sultan Abd-el-Aziz
Mororco City
Sef
Cuban sugar crop saved in rains across Havana
The Havana weather report states rains are now general and the sugar crop is assured, marking a timely end to drought concerns and securing the harvest prospects for cane growers.
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Havana
Mey
Japanese finances show market slump amid government measures
Tokio reports a prolonged low mood in finance as government actions unsettle capitalists. Bond values fall below 8, stock transactions shrink sharply, and officials discuss restoring confidence. Financiers warn of rewritten war bonds at 5.36 percent, with most to be recalculated.
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Tokic
Japan
Jane
Tokio Clearing House
Parliament urges abolition of opium dens in colonies
In London on May 6 the House of Commons unanimously adopted a resolution calling for rapid abolition of licensed opium dens in Crown colonies, notably Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements, and Ceylon. Debate stressed cooperation with China and reducing both imports and cultivation of opium.
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London
House of Commons
Hong Kong
Straits Settlements
Ceylon
J. E. B. Seeley
China
Edward Grey
Great Britain
United States
Harmon Nominated for Governor by Ohio Democrats
In Columbus on May 6 the Ohio Democratic convention nominated Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, former U S Attorney General, for governor amid factional tension, while endorsing William J. Bryan and instructing Ohio delegates to back him for president.
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Columbus
Ohio
Democrats of
Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
United States
Cleveland
William J. Bryan
Ohio Democrats nominate Harmon for governor at Cleveland
State party delegates selected a full ticket headed by Judson Harmon for Governor with Harmon praised as a trusted leader. The platform denounces Republican officials and backs initiative and referendum and franchise taxation. Johnson fights Harmon for control of the convention amid a tense roll call and near riot over minority faction support.
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Denver
Tom L. Johnson
Cleveland
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Harvey C. Garber
Greenville
Johnson
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
John Molloy
Pormerene
United States
James KE. Campbell
M. KE. Ingalls
Rell
Campbell
Atlee Pomerone
Moore
Pomerene
Holmes County
Hea
Columbus
Canada excludes Hindus from emigration to Canada
Ottawa reports a joint British Canadian plan to bar Hindu emigration from India. Deputy Minister MacKenzie King says Britain supports a white Canada while avoiding blanket restrictions. Indian labor law and new entry rules—including a $25 barrier and possible increase—block Hindu laborers and those traveling via Hong Kong.
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Ottawa
India
MacKenzie King
Canada
Dominion
Hong Kong
Boycott Against Japan Appears To Die Out In China
Shanghai May 6 The Chinese boycott of Japanese goods linked to the Tatsu case humiliation appears set to fade. Cantonese merchants led telegram campaigns but vicerois in Tien-Tsin Nanking blocked participation, weakening the movement. The effort may continue briefly in Canton before subsiding.
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Shanghai
China
Tien-Tsin
Nanking
Hankow
Canton
Society of National Disgrace
Prisoners Kill Guards in Escape Attempt at Alexandrovsk
A group of political prisoners led by Illinsky attacked guards in the Alexandrovsk prison yard, killing three and wounding six. Two escapees were killed in pursuit, four wounded, and three recaptured, including Illinsky who was serving eleven years.
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Alexandrovsk
Illinsky
Count Ignatieff
Tver
Iilinsky
Afghan deaths in Khyber Pass clash contested by Lahore report
A British dispatch from the Khyber Pass near Landi Khotal notes sixty Afghans killed in a Saturday fight with a large Afghan force. A Lahore message claiming three hundred Afghan dead is published but disputed.
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London
Khyber Pass
Landi-Khotal
Lahore
Democratic State Convention in Boston Set for Harmony
In Boston on May 6 the Democratic State Convention at Faneuil Hall is expected to be harmonious with little opposition to a Bryan instruction resolution. Delegation heads by George Fred Williams with John B. Moran Daniel F. Doherty and John W. Coughlin named as delegates at large. Frederic J. Stimson to preside and Frank C. Richardson to present the platform.
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Boston
Faneuil Hall
Denver
William J. Bryan
George Fred Williams
Dedham
John B. Moran
Daniel F. Doherty
Springfield
John W. Coughlin
Fall River
Frederic J. Stimson
Frank C. Richardson
Essex
Bryss
Connecticut GOP Chooses Taft Delegates at State Convention
The Connecticut Republican State Convention adopted a platform and named fourteen delegates to the Chicago convention. Ten are instructed to support Secretary Taft, four are uninstructed. Senators Bulkeley and Brandegee withdrew as at large candidates. The slate includes Charles F. Brocker, Michael Kenealy, Charles Hopkins Clark, and others.
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Hartford
Conn
Chicago
Taft
Bulkeley and
Brandegee
Alabama Taft Support At State Republican Convention
At Birmingham on May 6 the Thompson wing of Alabama Republicans endorsed Taft. A resolution praising his candidacy and the Roosevelt administration passed, delegates instructed to vote for Taft in Chicago, with J. Thompson W. R. Fairley F. H. Lathrop N. H. Alexander among delegates. Alternates named. Electors chosen I Pollak and James W. Lee. Resolutions urged enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, especially race equality on railroads.
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Connecticut
Roosevelt
United States
Congress
United States of America
William H. Teft
Ohio
Chicago
Birmingham
Ala
Thompson
Taft
J. ©. Thompson
W. R. Fairley
Pratt City
F. H. Lathrop
N. H. Alexander
Montgomery
Interstate Commerce Commission
Queens Democratic machine faces challenge in Flushing meeting
In Queens a meeting at the old Town Hall in Flushing involved Charles F. Murphy J Sergeant ram and Patrick Mara to press Murphy to drop Joseph Cassidy and recognize Sheriff Herbert S Harvey as leader. Lawrence Gresser pushes to consolidate a strong Democratic machine amid Cassidy opposition and cabinet reshuffles.
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Charles F. Murphy
Ram
Tammany Hall
Old Town Hall
Flushing
Patrick J. Mara
Queens
Mara
Herbert S. Harvey
Murphy
Joseph Cassidy
Sheriff Harvey
Democratic County Committee
Lawrence Gresser
Bermel
Gresser
Long Island City
James ©. Cronin
Frederick Bowley
Herman Koch
Cassidy
Old Long Island City
Shinnecock
Taft favored by New Jersey delegates at large meeting
Trenton May 6 There is relief at the State House as delegates at large settle with harmony intact. Most expect Taft to receive the convention endorsement though unpledged. Governor Fort is committed to Taft, Senator Briggs leans Taft, and eight of ten congressional districts have chosen delegates with Taft leanings. Hudson County districts nine and ten name Dear Garven Blair and Gonzales. Delegations stand thirteen for Taft and eleven undecided.
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Tribune
Trenton
State House
Taft
New Jersey
Governor Fort
Briggs
Knox
Congress
Hudson County
John Rotherham
Republican Committee
Joseph A. Dear, Jr
Pierre P. Garven
A. Blair
George Gonzales
Hilquit Sparks Fury at Cooper Union Rally Amid Roosevelt Attack
The Cooper Union meeting devolved into a heated clash as Morris Hilquitt of the Socialists attacked President Roosevelt. Mrs. Frederick Nathan and others voiced protests, while Professor Edwin Seligman challenged the insults, and Hilquitt retorted that he remained a loyal citizen despite the uproar.
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Cooper Union
Morris Hilquitt
United States
New York
Frederick Nathan
Hilquitt
Edwin R. A. Seligman
Columbia University
White
Seligman
Professor Seligman
Theodora Roosevelt
Mr. Hilquitt
Mrs. Nathan
Republican District Conventions Nominates Congress Delegates
May 6 reports from Louisville Jefferson City Elizabethtown and Shelbyville Kentucky and Missouri. Fairbanks faction in Kentucky 5th district nominates N Cureton for Congress with Glover and Conkling as delegates. Taft faction nominates R C Kinkead and Belknap Cowan as delegates. Missouri 8th district selects Walter Harris Julius Coenrath for Taft. Haswell Jackson and Haswell is John P. Haswell? Taft. Shelbyville Taft delegates Walter Bennett and J L Davidson named.
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Louisville
Fairbanks
N. €. Cureton
Congress
Walter B. Glover
Joseph FE. Conkling
C. W. Nelson
J. M. Burnett
Taft
R. C. Kinkead
Morris RB. Belknap
Andrew Cowan
Herman Monroe
John W. Barr
Jefferson City
Missouri
Walter &. Harris
Boone County
Julius H. Coenrath
Cole County
Elizabethtown
John P. Haswell
Thomas Jackson
Shelbyvillee
Walter J. Bennett
J. L. Davidson
Johnson Sweeps Minnesota in Democratic Primaries
In St Paul on May 6 returns show Governor John A Johnson supporters winning the Democratic primaries across Minnesota. Delegates to county conventions will select delegates to the state convention. Johnson forces overwhelmingly defeated Bryan supporters in the statewide vote.
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St. Paul
John A. Johnson
Bryan
Rescue Aboard Shark-Dodging Vessel Near St Helena
On March 11 near St Helena the bark Lawhill met a shark filled sea. Seaman Jacob Miller fell overboard and was rescued after companions in a windward boat hunted the area for about fifteen minutes. A life buoy kept him afloat and the crew shouted prayers into darkness. Miller survived with no clear explanation.
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Lawhill
Far East
St. Helena
Jacob Miller
Miller
Maine professor Gowell dies by own action in Orono
Professor Gilbert M Gowell of the University of Maine, famed for poultry research under US Department of Agriculture, shot himself amid melancholia after resigning a twenty five year post. He had suffered since his wife’s death two years earlier and was sixty three years old, born in Bowdoinham.
Governor Hughes Signs Bills in Albany May 6
The governor signed the Page-Francis bill creating a commission to probe inferior criminal courts in New York Buffalo and Rochester with two Senators three Assemblymen and two gubernatorial appointees. He also signed a nine member commission bill to study aliens economic prospects and propose protective legislation. Additional bills approved total over six million dollars in appropriations, with highway repairs funded at 1 116 009 and highway maintenance at 200 008.
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Tribune
Albany
Hughes
New York
Buffalo
Rochester
New York City
Raines
Wadsworth
Arymstrong
Hooker
Albany Appellate Division Allows State Departments to Hire Special Counsel
The Appellate Division rules the Legislature may authorize state departments to employ special counsel. The decision in the Santa Clara Lumber Company case sends merits hearings back to Special Term. The ruling challenges Attorney General Jackson’s bid to substitute his department as counsel for the State Forest Fish and Game Commission.
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Albany
Appellate Division
Jackson
Santa Clara Lumber Company
State Forest, Fish and Game
State of New York
de Witt C. Middleton
Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner
Ferris J. Meigs
Lumber Company
Interborough Exempt From Special Franchise Tax
Albany May 6 The Interborough Rapid Transit Company of New York wins a ruling from the Appellate Division Third Department preserving its exemption from taxation on special franchises The tax board had assessed the 1905 value at 9 000 000 but the company argued the exemption under the Rapid Transit act governing New York City subways
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Albany
Interborough Rapid Transit Company of
New York
Appellate Division
Third Department
State Board of Tax Commissioners
New York City
Interborough
Governor Announces Hearings On Pending Bills In Albany
Governor Hughes set hearings on May 24 25 and Saturday on several bills. Topics include Wemple Filley railroad payroll twice a month state hospital on Long Island Staten Island water grants insurance corporate life insurance costs and transit subsidies extending subway operator terms under the New York Rapid Transit act and a land title Torens system plus three platoon policing in cities.
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Albany
Hughes
Long Island
Staten Island
Insurance Corpoittes
Assembly Railroad Committee
New York
Cony Island
Assemblyman
Robinson
New York Rapid Transit Act
New York City
Exhibition of Persian Rugs at 24 Fifth Avenue
An exhibition of Persian rugs is on display at the temporary annex of the Anderson Securition Company at 24 Fifth Avenue. The Persien Trading Company of New York curates a collection that includes a Tabriz palace carpet with embroidered weave and another silk rug. The display opens this afternoon and runs through tomorrow and Saturday afternoon.
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Anderson Suretion Company
Fifth Avenue
Persien Trading Company of
New York
Diamond Match Co Reports Record Profits and Acquisitions
A Chicago dispatch says Diamond Match Company profits for the year ended December 3, 1907 reached 5.280 percent, the highest in the firm's history. The meeting approved purchasing Bryant & May joint holdings in California timber properties, and directors were re-elected with officers reappointed.
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The
Diamond Match Company
C. Barber
Bryant & May
Diamond
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