H. C. Pulliam shoots self in New York club room
Harry C. Pulliam president of the National League of Baseball Clubs attempted suicide in his New York Athletic Club room. A revolver shot to the temple left eye destroyed the right eye and possibly caused brain injury. he remained conscious briefly after the shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Pulliam
Harry C. Pulliam
National League of Baseball Clubs
New York Athletic Club
New York City
Purliam
New York
Wrights Set World Aircraft Record At Fort Myer
Orville Wright flies one hour twelve minutes and forty seconds with Lieutenant Lahm aboard at Fort Myer to claim the world aeroplane record for two men by time and distance. The trip surpasses last year’s Le Mans record by Wilbur Wright with Professor Painleve as passenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Frank Lahm
Army Sizmal Corps
Wilbur
Hilm
le Gmans
France
Painleve
Wilsgin
Revolution in Catalonia Sparks Open Rebellion
Reports from Catalonia Spain describe widespread unrest as protests against the Morocco war turn violent. Churches, schools, bridges, railways and a convent have been damaged or destroyed amid mob attacks in Barcelona Tarragona and Gerona. Airship company formed in Ohio Bostel Airship Company of Cleveland with $25000 capital authorized to build and operate airships and transport passengers and freight. Mrs Renwick of Newark New Jersey gave birth to five infants, four living and strong, one malformed and dead within minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Catalonia
Morocco
Prcelona
Tarragona
Gerona
Airship Company
Ohio
Bostel Airship Company
Cleveland
Capital Stock
Thomas Renwick
Newark
N. J
Riots in Guadalajara Lead to Hundreds of Arrests and Casualties
Political riots in Guadalajara, Mexico, have led to over two hundred arrests and dozens injured. The violence affected Americans and locals, with reports confirming two deaths and multiple serious injuries amid the unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Guadalajara
Child shoots boy. 7 year old accident ends life
Fred Sydle of Kewan na Indiana aimed a loaded shotgun at 4 year old Thomas Frain and pulled the trigger. A full load of shot killed the boy. Also notes the death of Stanislaus Machorski aged 102, deacon of Lis gewo, Thorn Prussia, described as the oldest Catholic ecclesiastic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Sydle
Kewanna
Ind
Thomas Frain
Stanislaus Machorski
Lisgewo
Thorn
Prussia
Drowns in Oil Tank Near Rush Run
Everett Bell aged 18 of Brillant Ohio vanished for several days before his body was recovered from an oil tank filled with water on Rush Run. Clothes were found beside the tank indicating he entered the tank to swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Bell
Brillant
Ohio
Rush Run
Civics and labor reform urged by Chautauqua speaker
Prof. Charles Zueblin warned Americans chase trivial wants while civic reform and labor movements grow. He urged forming independent views on women’s economic independence and the rising labor unions as factories push workers together despite slow political action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Taft
Mr. Taft
Chautauqua
N. Y
Charles Zueblin
Zueblin
Supreme Court
Mr. Zueblin
Storm Death Toll Rises Along Gulf Coast
Storm along the southern Texas coast leaves twenty one dead and fourteen missing with ten injured and property damage at $750000. Among the missing are members of the Abernathy family from High Island who were traveling to Sabine Pass and were to camp on the beach. their wagon animals drowned and no trace of the three men, their wives, or seven children has been found. Velasco town is largely demolished with one fatality reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Texas
Abernathy
High Island
Sabine Pass
Velasco
US Destroyers Head to Alaska From Puget Sound Voyage
Six torpedo boat destroyers based in Puget Sound met in Seattle on Monday and then set course for Alaska. The ships Whipple Truxton Hull Paul Jones Perry and Hopkins will train crews in northern waters and conduct maneuvers during the cruise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Alaska
Puget Sound
Seattle
Whipple
Truxton
Hull
Paul Jones
Perry
Hopkins
Girls use sunbonnets to bail boat in sea danger
Miss Marion Weeks and Miss Harriet Lohman of Yonkers kept their sinking boat afloat by using sunbonnets as bailers during a strong wind near South Norwalk Connecticut. They were rescued by Captain Andrew Mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Weeks
Harriet Lohman
Yonkers
South Norwalk
Conn
Andrew Mills
Shoe and Leather Fair Falls in Cambridge Receiver Appointed
The first world shoe and leather fair in Cambridge Massachusetts is in receivership. Alleged indebtedness totals 140000 dollars according to court records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
New Bedford Cordage Plant Fire Causes Heavy Loss
A fire damaged the New Bedford Cordage Company plant in New Bedford today. Loss estimated between 200000 and 300000 dollars with substantial portions of the facility destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
New Bedford Cordage Company
Cudahy Engaged to Heiress Lenora Brewer
Edward I. Cudahy son of a millionaire Omaha packer announced engagement to Lenora Brewer daughter of Colonel and Mrs Brewer of San Francisco. Cudahy once was kidnapped by Pat Crowe of Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cudahy
Edward I. Cudahy
Omaha Packer
Lenora Brewer
Brewer
San Francisco
Pat Crowe
Chicago
Alfonso Lays Keel of Spain's New Navy Battleship
King Alfonso at Ferrol Spain presided over the keel laying for Spain's first battleship of a new navy. He was warmly greeted by the crowd as the ceremony opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfonso
King Alfonso
Ferrol
Spain
General Biscuit Company Forms In Hartford Rival To Cracker Trust
A new $6 million General Biscuit Company organized in Hartford Connecticut plans to compete with the National Biscuit Company. The firm will issue equal common and preferred stock with John B. Summerfield as president Arthur N. Taylor as vice president and Henry M. Haviland as secretary treasurer. Summerfield serves as a bank trustee and director in multiple firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Biscuit Company
Cracker Trust
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
General Biscuit Company
John B. Summerfield
John B. Summerfield & Co
Wall Street
Arthur N. Taylor
Brooklyn
Henry M. Haviland
Summerfield
City National Bank
Miners’ Smelting Company
W. H. Beard Dredging Company
Brakeman Returns Gems and Gains a Lifelong Payout
A Long Island Railroad brakeman named William Robelin found a black leather handbag with jewels worth about 30000 dollars left on a train. He turned the jewels to railroad officials who identified the rightful owner as Mrs H Schwab wife of a New York jeweler. Mrs Schwab and relatives gave Robelin 100 dollars in cash two suits of clothes and offered a two week vacation then a lifelong $100 a month position at Maiden Lane Schwab office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Robelin
Long Island Railroad
H. Schwab
New York
Robelin
Maiden Lane
Schwab
Indian student hushes trial as he faces death
Madariar Dhinagri, an Indian student, was sentenced to death after a trial lasting under an hour for killing Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie and Dr Lalacha in London. He proclaimed the sentence illegal and vowed revenge for India. A. F. Hossley of the Indian Sociologist received four months in prison for incendiary publishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madarial Dhinagri
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Lalaca
London
England
India
S. Dhinagri
A. F. Hossley
The
Indian Sociologist
Bidding Starts for International Balloon Race Cup in Zurich
James Gordon Bennett offers 2500 dollars to the winner of the championship cup at the international balloon races to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, next October. The prize underscores growing international competition in ballooning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gordon Bennett
Zurich
Switzerland
H. C. Schneiter
St. Louis
Boston
Minnesota State Fair Grounds
Columbus
Toledo
American Association
Swayne
Western Golf Association
Midlothian Country Club
Chicago
Los Angeles
Wabash Train Wreck Near Orrick Leaves Six Dead
Six dead and over fifty injured when Wabash No. 4 derailed and slid into the Missouri River near Orrick Missouri thirty miles east of Kansas City. The crash followed river current undermining the track, sending the engine baggage mail cars a dead Pullman and a chair car into the water. Many passengers in the chair car suffered serious injuries while some were only mildly hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Orrick
Kansas City
Fatal Shooting in Little Rock Courtroom Ends Suit
Nathaniel Parker Willis, Indianapolis liquor dealer and divorcee, was shot in the Chancery Court room in Little Rock during a suit over his child. W. Y. Ellis of Pine Bluff fired, killing Willis almost immediately as his mother rushed to him. Willis had divorced years earlier and sought custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atresin Slaya
Imeda States
Jeff Davis
W. Y. Ellis
Pine Bluff
Ark
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Indianapolis
Chancery Court Room
Little Rock
Willis
Ellis
Elizabeth Dandridge dies at 56 in Winchester
Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge, daughter of President Zachary Taylor and former White House mistress, dies in Winchester Virginia at age 56. She was sister to the first wife of Jefferson Davis and to the wife of Army Surgeon General Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Dandridge
Elizabeth Taylor Dandridge
Zachary Taylor
United States
White House
Winchester
Dandridge
Jefferson Davis
Wood
Army
General Taylor
Betty Taylor
Quintuplets Born in Jersey One Dies Soon After
Mrs Thomas Renwick of Newark New Jersey gave birth to five children three boys and two girls all healthy at birth aside from one stillborn due to poor nutrition all others survived only to die within an hour leaving a brief family tragedy in early reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quintupleta
Jersey
Thomas Renwick
Newark
N. J
Ptomaine Poison Kills Two In Missouri Household
Mrs Rebecca Moore aged 69 of Bunceton Missouri and her son George Bk Moore aged 30 a merchant died of ptomaine poisoning from food they had eaten authorities reported the fatalities highlighted a domestic tragedy in a rural Missouri family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca Moore
Bunceton
George BK. Moore
Million-dollar Duluth flood swamps streets and theater
One million dollars in damages is feared after a heavy rainstorm drenched Duluth for a second time in 24 hours. Two and three fifths inches fell in an hour and a half flooding avenues and basements, with two feet of water on Superior Street sidewalks and into the Bijou Theater during a performance. Streetcar service collapsed and autos were abandoned as the St. Louis Hotel basement filled seven feet deep and plunged the building into darkness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Superior Street
Lake Avenue
Bijou
St. Louis
Italian suspects held in Columbus dynamite murder case
Columbus police say four Italian suspects are in custody over the dynamiting of Pasquella Spino’s home west of the city. Spino and his four month old wife were killed and their house wrecked. Tony Andrania is named among the suspects. his wife reportedly quarreled with Mrs Spino and Andrania had warned of mourning for the daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Pasquella Spino
Spino
Tony Andrania
From $5 000 a Year to Thief
Ralph Sherman, 27, once foreign correspondent for Knauth Nachod Kahne bankers at 13 William Street New York earning 5000 a year, is jailed at Far Rockaway after confessing to burglaries. Police found a gold watch and six stickpins on him and say he turned to crime because he was tired of a quiet bank life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ralph Sherman
Far Rockaway
Reuben Sadowsky
Knauth, Nachod & Kahne
William Street
Sherman
Fire Rips Through Long Branch Business District
Fire swept the southern business section of Long Branch New Jersey starting in a livery stable near Second Avenue. The flames spread rapidly destroying a dozen frame buildings with $100000 damage. Only the Coulter House was notably valuable though unopened this season. No serious injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Branch
N. J
Second Avenue
Coulter
Missing jewels stall ex Shah's departure from Tehran
Mohammed Ali, former shah, remains at the Russian legation in Teheran as authorities delay his exit while investigators search for the crown jewels valued in the millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shah
Mohammed Ali
Teheran
Man’s body found in Missouri River identified
The Missouri River in Kansas City yielded a body identified as J. C. Gray of Clinton, Illinois. Cause of death could not be determined from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Kansas City
J. C. Gray
Clinton, Ill
Divorce to Novelist Wife Granted in San Francisco
Mrs Ella Sterling Mighels was granted a divorce from Philip Verrill Mighels a New York novelist in San Francisco on the ground of desertion. Mighels is a nephew in law of Robert Davis editor of Munsey's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Sterling Mighels
San Francisco
Philip Verrill Mighels
New York
Mighels
Robert Davis
Munsey’s
Storm Victim T C Dailey Washed Ashore at Houston Point
The body of T C Dailey, former Chicago and current Galveston Tribune promotions manager, who died in the tarpon fishing pier disaster, washed up on the sands at Houston Point, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Dailey
Galveston Tribune
Chicago
Houston Point
Texas
Senate Adjourns Early as Tariff Conference Looms
The Senate adjourned for the weekend after a brief session, hoping the tariff conference report would be ready by Monday. Culberson announced Democratic unity on the tariff bill, and Charles R. Crane was confirmed minister to China. The House leader Macon clashed with Rucker over Congressional Record edits. The session adjourned until Tuesday amid moves to curb gifts to lawmakers. The Senate later ratified a Dominican Republic extradition treaty, while the House planned to act on leather tariff reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Culberson
Charles R. Crane
China
House
Macon
Ark
Rucker
Colo
Colorado
Randall
Texas
Congress
Conference Committee
United States
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Clark
Payne
Ways and Means
Tawney
Minneapolis
Charles Richard van Hise
University of Wisconsin
Tarbell Critiques Pittsburg Survey in American Magazine
Ida Tarbell condemns the Pittsburg Survey calling it an awful arraignment of the American system and its privileged class. She argues that Pittsburg millionaires embody greed stupidity and heartless pride and warns justice will punish those who prosper on privilege.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Ida Tarbell
Notable 19th Century Figures and Events Across the Nation
Marquis de Gallifet dies in Paris born 1831. Judge Clifford in Tacoma invalidates a new state anti cigarette law. A tiny venomous snake with fangs in tail and head found near Portland. Immigration since 1820 exceeds 26 million. Victorian era balls prompt nightly dances in England. Loudon Chariton named business manager of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Mrs. William C. Grant and Catherine A. Baker arrive in New York after world tour. Senate approves six months salary to late chaplain Hale’s widow. Stanley Franklin vanishes at Willow Camp California. Governor Burke of North Dakota elected president of the Missouri River Congress at Yankton. Next meeting in Omaha in December. Fifteen thousand workers strike in Sheet and Tin Plate company plants across several states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis de Gallifet
France
Paris
Clifford
Tacoma
Wash
Portland
Ore
Loudon Chariton
New York
St. Louis
Symphony Orchestra
William C. Grant
Chicago
Catherine A. Baker
United States Senate
Edward Everett Hale
Stanley Franklin
Long Island
Willow Camp
Caliifornia
Burke
North Dakota
Missouri River Congress
Yankton
S. D
Omaha
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Sharon
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Elwood City
Ind
Hold Up on Erie Train Targets Immigrant Passengers
Reports from Middletown New York say a Western Express train leaving Jersey City at 12 10 a m was held at gunpoint just after Bergen tunnel. One or two men threatened passengers in the first day coach stripping money and valuables before fleeing. Panic followed as frightened men women and children, new arrivals in a strange country, were robbed and officials learned of the incident near Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Middletown
N. Y
Bergen Tunnel
New Jersey
Jersey City
Bank clerk vanishes with cash at Tipton bank
The First National Bank of Tipton Indiana closes as assistant cashier Noah R Marker disappears after moving 50 000 to 60 000 dollars from the vaults. He set a 9 am time lock and left a note claiming he took funds to cover expenses. Marker, 35, long employed at the bank and a former Republican mayoral candidate, has a wife and two children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of
Tipton
Ind
Indiana
Noah R. Marker
Marker
William Marker
Noah Marker
Eastern Traction Resumes Hourly Rate After Reduction
About 3 000 motormen and conductors on Interstate Railways traction lines in eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware were informed the wage rate would return to 1814 cents per hour from the reduced 134 cents after August 1. Company officials stated the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Traction Company
Interstate Railways Company
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Massachusetts Husband Shoots Wife Believing Burglar
In Jamaica Plain Boston a shoe designer, Harry Pierce, shot and killed his wife during a home disturbance he believed involved a burglar. He is in custody as police investigate with officials indicating the shooting may have been accidental. Friends describe a loving marriage of about three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Harry Pierce
Jamaica Plain
Boston
Pierce
Tariff Battle Seen As Independent Oil Fight Persists
Senate debate on petroleum on the free list keeps alive the push for protection as the tariff bill moves through committee. La Follette analyzes the Aldrich bill showing imports misaligned by 146 million dollars up and 93 million down compared with the House plan. Suffragists in New York stage a summer campaign with street music and pennies, meeting hostility on Wall Street. The President and cabinet discuss census patronage in the South with nonpartisan appointments. Rumors persist about a potential Supreme Court vacancy offered to Gov. Hughes, who may not accept soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
la Follette
Treasury
New York
Wall Street
South
Gov
Hughes
Lake Champlain
Supreme Bench
Taft
Trade optimism boosts midsummer markets and factory output
Dun's Weekly Review of Trade reports high solvent payments through banks, strong crop prospects, and heavier factory production. Demand rises for general merchandise and industrial goods as weather brings buyers. Steel car building, employs gains, and raw materials like ore copper timber and wool show growth. hides fall. Bank clearings $259,703,400 up 18.9 percent from 1908. Chicago district failures 37 with $5,000+ liabilities at 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Improvement in crops boosts breadstuffs and trade flow
Improvement in crops brings better advices on the ultimate outcome of leading cereals, with cheaper sprices at retail due to clearance sales and a wider fair-trade with jobbers. Industry signals show rising output and prices for manufactured goods, greater demand for crop-moving money, and growing tension between employers and workers. US business activity for the week ending July 22 shows 239 failures, up from 206 a week earlier, with comparisons to prior years. Canadian failures reach 24, down from 86 last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Bradstreet’s
Grain and Livestock Prices Across U.S. Cities
The report lists current prices for cattle hogs sheep and various grains by city including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Cincinnati New York Buffalo and Toledo. Prices cover wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs potatoes and pork with ranges showing shift across markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
New York
Toledo
Ensign Aiken’s Body Sent Home From Naples
The body of Ensign Aiken who died aboard the cruiser North Carolina at Naples was shipped to the United States on the steamer Perugia for burial or funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aiken
North Carolina
Naples
America
Perugia
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Eigen
Nen
N. F. Wilson
Storm
Cleveland Press
New Concern
Wyllie
Qod
National League
Philadel’a
Philadel
Work of Congress
Gotham
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