Enormous Salaries for Kings Stir European Politics
A New York dispatch reports European monarch salaries totaling vast sums paid by states and peoples. Pope Leo XIII receives about 24 million dollars yearly while the Sultan of Turkey nets around 30 million for personal use plus tens of millions more from crown princes and dignitaries. Germany and Russia also pay princely sums, with the Kaiser and czar drawing multi‑million annual incomes. The piece notes sharp contrasts in per‑capita taxation among nations and highlights the global burden of royal payrolls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
New York
Wahington
Europe
Joseph Kipeetner
Russia
Turkey
Leo Xiiii
Prussia
Italy
Spain
Bavaria
Saxony
Belgium
Baden
Wurtemburg
Portugal
Sweden
Drake
Hesse
Denmar
Netherlands
Saxe-Wemar
Servia
Roumania
Greece
Anhalt
Duke of
Schwarzburgs
Saxe-Meiningen
Germany
Holy Father
Reverenda Camera
Cardinal Oreglia
Vatican
Ely
Austria
Monaco
France
Colombia
Nicaragua
Peru
San Domingo
Leo
Rome
Ottoman Empire
Abdul Hamid
Venelly
Washington
Ikatser
Lippe
Hismarck
Kaiser
Empire
Schaumburg
Staten Island
Schaumburgers
Reichstag
Adolf
Brunswick
Principality
Reuss Greiz
Reuss
William
Edward
Great Britain
Isabella
Milan
Alexander
Republics
White House
Roosevelt
Wilhelmina
Loubet
Henry W. Fischer
Monarchs and Money in Europe A Chronicle of Civil Lists
Henry W. Fischer surveys royal salaries across Europe highlighting J P Morgan’s yachting interest and detailing how princes in Schaumburg Brunswick Reuss Greiz and others draw from tax coffers. He notes underpaid kings in Norway and Greece and lavish pensions in Spain Portugal and Italy, with comparisons to Britain France and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Puck
J. P. Morgan
New York
Columbia
Atlantic
Meteor
Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Nicholas
Germany
Greece
Europe
Italy
Georgios
George
Great Britain
France
Russia
Denmark
Belgium
Leopold
Austria
Victor Emanuel
Oscar
Norway
Gustaf
Sweden
Christiania
Spain
Portugal
United Presbyterians Seek Covenant Revision at Allegheny Assembly
United Presbyterians plan to meet in Allegheny May 20 for a fortnight to discuss a proposed membership covenant. The draft asks questions on the Trinity Scripture and church standards, omitting secret societies. Critics say it is vague and hard for youths to understand, with potential changes before the assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly
Allegheny
New York
United Presbyterians
Des Moines
Grier
Theological Seminary At
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Silent Man Delarey and a river mail boat stand against rebels
The account highlights General Delarey known as the Silent Man who protected a British officer and refused to surrender prisoners. It then shifts to Captain Dexter aboard the Charley Bowen defending the U S mail and flag against a hostile Paducah mob on the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, detailing daring actions to land mail and keep Old Glory flying despite threats.
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Delarey
Lord Methuen
Delaney
Louisville
Fanny Bulliit
General Grant
Cumberland
Tennessee
Dexter
Charley Bowen
Muskingum River
United States Mall
Ohio
Kentucky
Evansville
Cairo
Henry T. Dexter
Union
Richard the Third
Bosworth Field
Lord of
Norfolk
Uniontown
Caseyville
Carsville
Bowen
Stewart's Island
Paducah
Baker
United States
Tennessee River
Boys In Blue
Eoummsah Sherman
Cumber
Set Doran
Fortison
Die Moelle Hell Existence and Church Authority Debate
A fragment from Professor Joseph Bantz argues for the reality of hell withImprimatur from Mayence bishops. It cites Chrysostom Justinus and others, locating hell within Earth's interior and detailing punishments, purgatory, and the fates of unbaptized children, devils, and souls after judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Bantz
Mayence
Hell
St. Chrysostimus
St. Justinus
Athenagoras
Judith
Christ
St. Claudine
Florentinum
Moon
Mars
Sun
Earth
Suarez
Stu. Thomas
Heaven
Hilarius
St. Gregory
Plans for church programs expand across nation
The pastorate and its work multiply with funds for six student pastors under Western Congregational leadership and post graduate study in the metropolis. Funds are also set for lectures on industrial topics. The Episcopal Church invites Bishop of London and Bishop of Ripon to lead a major series of missionary meetings in New York during the first week of Advent, with prominent U.S. speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
West
Metropolis
Protestant Episcopal House of Bishops and
Board of Missions
London
Ripon
America
New York City
How the Colonels Failed to Capture an Ohio River Steamboat
In the summer of 1861 a Confederate crew on a steam boat bound for New Orleans and Louisville confronts a hostile Paducah mob. With cannon and weapons ready, the crew braces as shouts demand surrender while the ship holds position near the falls of the Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Ohio
New Orleans
Louisville
Falls of the
Portland
Richard
Evansville
Paducah
Dexter
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Sunday Journal
Indianapolis
the Royal Pay Rolls
Holiness
Peter
Paul
Peters
Alexanders
Annas
Catherines
Petersburg
John Pierpont Morgan
John H. Vincent
Chautauqua
Zurich
John McNeil
Glasgow
George Jackson
Edinburgh
Bryn Mawr College
John D. Rockefeller
Johns Hopkins
Friends’ Yearly Meeting
Swarthmore College
Haverford
General Delarey
Joseph Baniz
Bants
St. Thomas
Innocent III
Pius VI
Calvin
Sodom
Gomorrah
Aaron
Goertes
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