World News Highlights From The New England Storm To Tariff Debate
The New England coast endured a heavy storm causing damage to shipping. Mrs Blake sues Mrs Mackay for 1 900 000 in New York. Customs officers seize grouse and woodcock under the plumage ban. A bid to pull the State Woman Suffrage association into politics sparked a rousing convention fight at Binghamton. Underwood asserts a five percent discount clause was added to the new tariff to aid American merchant mariners.
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Blake
Mackay
New York
State
Woman Suffrage Association
Binghamton
N. Y
Underwood
Cable reports $25 million Cuba railroad contract sealed
London dispatch says a $25,000,000 railroad construction contract in Cuba has been closed. President Wilson, recently indisposed, golfed for the first time in nearly a week to ease tensions.
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Cuba
Wilson
New York
Washington Heights
Prince Arthur of
Connaught
Alexandra Victoria
Duchess of Fife
Chapel Royal
St. James
Goodyear
English Channel
France and Japan Press Discount on New Tariff
A cable dispatch notes France and Japan demand shipping discounts under the new tariff regime. Meanwhile in New York Mrs. Peixotto sues the board of education after being dismissed for bearing a child, seeking reinstatement. The Queen Elizabeth is launched at Portsmouth and will cruise with oil fuel to carry a large armament. A Puerto Plata consul warns Americans to depart as the situation grows critical. In Manila a Filipino mob attacked three Americans as control shifts to natives.
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France
Japan
Peixotto
New York
Diplomatic wedding links Tokyo and Washington
Mr. Tadanono Imai, chancellor of the Japanese embassy at Washington, marries Miss Elizabeth Shields. Separate notes report a girl killed by a signal rocket explosion aboard the Volturno near Kearny New Jersey and police in a marsh hut making four arrests in recent robberies. New governor Glynn proclaims no single man will lead the Democratic party state wide. Huerta resignation rumors pace Mexican crisis as Washington awaits word. The Vladimir Reith tanker wharfed for repairs after collision with a whale and returned to St Johns New Brunswick.
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Tadanono Imai
Washington
Elizabeth Shields
Volturno
Kearney
N. J
Democratic Party
Martin H. Glynn
Huerta
McAdoo Denies Pend ing Currency Bill Helps Bond Owners
The outspoken financier rejects claims that the pending currency measure harms owners of government two percent bonds. A London cable notes the Ma jestic rescuing crew from a sinking schooner. Diaz returns to Mexico amid political tension and fears of unrest. Toronto arrest linked to a New York swindle case with the Gondorp gang.
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W. G. McAdoo
Japan
Panama Canal
London
Majestic
Mexico
Felix Diaz
New York
Toronto
Gondorp Band
Healthful Canal Zone Sturdily Proclaimed by Colonel Gorgas
Colonel William L. Gorgas, sanitary engineer of the canal zone, declares the district healthful. Mrs. Pankhurst is welcomed at the Battery by suffragettes as she plans to enter the country by order of President Wilson. Medical experts at the Plymouth trial say the admiral ingested enough arsenic to kill sixteen men. New York meat and provisions dealers report tariff driven price cuts. President Wilson reinstates Sam W. Smiley as a railway mail clerk, noting he was injured in a wreck and has been unable to work since 1895.
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William L. Gorgas
Canal Zone
Railway Mail Service
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