Henry King In New York Foundling Asylum Shooting Tragedy
Henry F King 30 fired on two Sisters of Charity at the New York foundling asylum then shot himself in the chest. Injured Sisters Angela and Cecefia survived. King, described as demented, sought the birth records. he had previously sought access to the asylum books dating from 1871. He was committed for examination.
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New York
Henry F. King
King
Sylum
Foundling Asylum
Baltimore
Supreme Court
New ‘York Foundling Asylum
Thomas R. Gardiner
Bryantown
Justice O'Gorman
Jane C. McCrysal
Henry J. King
United States
Mitchell
Portsmouth
N. Y
Charles King
New York Foundling Asylum
Sisters of Charity
David Bennett Hill
Oyster Bay
John C. Sheehan
Population surge eyed for 100 million by census
In Duluth Minnesota on July 17 William R Merriam director of the census bureau forecasts the 1910 census will push the U S population to about 100 000 000 including new possessions Hawaii Porto Rico and the Philippines He notes the nation will have world power status and discusses plans to cut census costs from 12 million with unspecified efficiency ideas.
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Duluth
Minn
United States
William R. Merriam
Census Bureau
Hawaii
Porto Rico
Philippines
Bishop explains removal of Henneberry professor at Catholic university
Bishop Thomas Conaty told the Ancient Order of Hibernians convention in Denven that the deposition of Dr Richard Henneberry as Gaelic professor effectively ends push for reinstatement. He noted Archbishop Ireland and other church leaders backed the institution, while Trinity and the college plan funding shifts continue. The AOH reported 107,577 members nationwide, a gain of 7,222. total disbursements and treasury balances were provided for both the order and the ladies auxiliary.
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Henneberry
Denven
Cola
Thomas
Conaty
Catholic Universalty
Washington
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Richard Henneberry
Ireland
United States
Gache
Dunn
Europe
Bishon County
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Trinity College
James P. Brees
Ancient
Order of Hibernians
Treasury
Ladies” Auxiliary
Virginia Carolina Chemical approves $7 million bond issue
New York July 17 stockholders of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company approved the issue of 7,000,000 collateral trust bonds to fund existing indebtedness and restore working cash capital after acquiring new properties at substantial cost.
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Virginia-Carolina Company
New York
Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company
Buckshot Ends Life of Outlaw Randall McLendon
Randall McLendon a negro desperado who taunted authorities for two days was shot by Deputies C A Smith and Frank Reese at Bull Creek east of Columbus after raising a pistol. He had been charged with assault with intent to murder his wife and was chased by police toward the city limits, then 10 miles into the suburbs before being killed. David formerly lived in Macon.
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Columbus
Randall McLendon
Randall David
Negro Desperado
Bull Creek
C. A. Smith
Frank Reese
Smith
McLendon
David
Macon
Maine Proves A Success Ship Returns After Builder Trial
Philadelphia reports the new battleship Maine built by the Cramps passed a sea trial with high speeds. The vessel averaged 18.29 knots on a measured 21 mile course with bursts near 19.95 knots. Machinery worked smoothly, performance satisfactory to builders, and the ship headed for the bay after overnight tests.
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Philadelphia
Maine
Cramps
Tracy Escapes Again From Black Diamond Pursuit
Black Diamond Washington July 17 Tracy has escaped the sheriff of King county and a large posse, leaving three miles from town after a late-night hideout. He fled by row boat to the east end of Sawyer lake about 2 a.m. with two confederates, as the posse reached the scene hours later. Sheriff Cudbhee and the men returned this evening. The chase is abandoned.
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Black Diamond
Wash
Woman Burned to Death in Walnut Hills Fire
In Cincinnati on July 17 at the Castello mansion Mrs. E M Castello died from inhaling flames after a rubbish fire on the lawn veered toward her. Her husband suffered serious burns while attempting to rescue her and their son was slightly burned. Castello, a wealthy contractor, faced the tragedy alongside his family.
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Cincinnati
Castello
Walnut Hills
E M. Castello
Why the Revolution Failed in Central America
Panama July 17 Manuel Candron leader of the Nicaragua revolt says the expedition haste doomed the uprising. The report denies Colombian government aid to the revolutionaries. Panama’s gun boat Pimzo n patrols the Atlantic to block reinforcements for insurgent Werra in Chiriqui Grande.
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Panama
Colombia
Manuel Candron
Nicaragua
Bluefelds
Officie
Q-cles
Pimzon
Atlantic
Zelaya
Werra, II
Chiriqui Grande
General Charles H. Smith Dies in Washington at 75
General Charles H. Smith, United States Army retired, died in Washington tonight at age 75 after a stroke two years earlier. In Petersburg, Va., returns from the Democratic primary in the fourth district are meager and both candidates claim the nomination, with indications favoring Lassiter.
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Washington
Charles H. Smith
United States Army
Petersburg
Fourth
Lassiter
In Search of Pleasure They Encounter Death
A 19 foot whale boat with sixteen Oceanic house staff capsized in a July squall near Star Island. Fourteen drowned, three rescued. Names listed include Henry Farrington and W A Alward among others. Bodies of several remain unrecovered. Skipper Fred Miles led the trip with Harvard law students among the victims. Saved crew were later treated by doctors but died of exposure.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Oceanic House
Star Island
Isle of Shoals
Fred Miles
Henry Farrington
Cambridge
Mass
W. A. Alward
Frederickton
N. B
Bertha Graham
Danvers
Minnie McDonald
Cambris
Ért
Eva Adams
May Adams
Catherine Bowes
Saxonville
Elizabeth Bowes
Catherine
Bessie Chase
Malden
Anna Sheehan
West Medford
Eva Marshall
Haverhill
May Marshall
Eva
Isabell Krousker
Laura Gilmore
Exeter
Alice Haggerty
Farrington
Alward
Isabell Kapuska
Harvard University
Forsyth Hall
Boston
John Morris
Aphrodite
James Harvey
Harvey
Richmond Island
Maine
GUNS FOR BILL STARTLE TEDDY AT Oyster Bay
Former Senator David B Hill arrived at Oyster Bay to stay with William F Sheehan as a line of gun salutes greeted him. Roosevelt hosted Hawley and other Republicans at luncheon as plans were discussed for Indian Territory citizenship courts and Texas appointments. Boers visiting Sagamore Hill called on the president after remarks about the war. An explosion at the Daly West mine in Park City Utah prompted state mine inspectors to investigate as four bodies were recovered. Sam Harris began training camp preparations for Terry McGovern at Montauk Hotel with eight assistants arriving soon.
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Oyster Bay
David B. Hill
William F. Rheehan
New York
Hill
Iil
Sheehan
N. C
Foote
California
Weaver
Roosevelt
Indian Territory
Washington
Casper W. Whitney
Out Ing
R. H. Hawley
Texas
Regis H. Post
Bayport
S. 1
Navy
Moody
Sagamore Hill
Senator Hawley
Long Island City
William D. Bynum
Indiana
United States
Hawley
Wban
Cuba
Bermuda
William
Gerard Beekman
Sagamore Hil
Daly-West
Park City
Utah
Thomas
Preeent
Daly- West
John Burgh
McGovern
New London
Conn
Sam Harris
Terry McGovern
Montauk Hotel
Pequot
Lyons 15. We? T Off Map By Fire
Savannah reports Lyons on the Seaboard Air Line suffered a disastrous fire about 10 o clock. The blaze destroyed the town's most important buildings and left Lyons nearly wiped out. Details were not secured immediately.
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Lyons
Savannah
Seappard Air Line
Union Pacific Plans Financing of Pacific Stock Purchases
Union Pacific Railroad announces a plan to finance the balance of its purchases of Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific shares. The Oregon Short Line has issued 4 percent gold bonds for 25 years. Bond issues total 31 million dollars with 4 percent interest. Preferred and common stockholders of Union Pacific may subscribe at 99 with 50 percent of par value in cash dividends. The plan completes stock purchases without raising bond obligations or capital.
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Union Pacific
Trai Action
New York
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Northern Pacific
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific Company
Oregon Short Line Company
Northern Securities
Oregon
United [Inion Pacific
Buller Trouble Edged Into Commons Clash On War Office
In London July 17 Sir Edward Grey challenged the War Office over General Buller. The attack cited gun abandonment at Colenso and surrender proposals for Ladysmith. The censure vote failed 236 to 98 as Lords debated army education reforms. Meantime in Washington Bowen reports Topeka arriving at Puerto Cabello and Marietta en route to Barcelona amid pending actions by Castro against insurgents.
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London
Buller
Sir Edward Grey
Mbneral
House of Commons
War Office
Sir Edward
General Buller
Brodrick
Colenso
Ladysmith
Lord Monkswell
Washington
United States
Bowen
State Department
Puerto Cabello
la Guira
Marietta
Barcelona
Castro
Bandits Fire on Train. Escape After Icy Roadblock Near Fort Worth
Two masked men attempted a southbound Rock Island train robbery between Saginaw and Newark. They piled telegraph poles on the track. Engineer Knight and Fireman Master fired, driving them back. Robbers fled into the brush as posses scour the timber. train arrived several hours late.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Rock Island
Saginaw
Newark
Knight
Fio
Republicans of Wisconsin Complete Labor Nod LaFollette Electrifies Convention
Madison July 17 Republicans of Wisconsin completed their convention work by nominating Governor Robert M. LaFollette for reelection and naming James Davidson lieutenant governor Weller Brouser secretary of state John Kempf state treasurer L M Sturdevant attorney general Charles Cary superintendent of public instruction John W Thomas railroad commissioner and Zeno Horst insurance commissioner Kempf won treasurer with stalwart aid and LaFollette delivered a fiery acceptance warning party members to uphold the platform and oppose any candidate not agreeing to its terms
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LaFollette
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Robert M. LaFollette
James ©. Davidson
Soldiers Grove
Weller L. Brouser
Mondovi
Staite
John J. Kemp
Miwaukee
L. M. Sturdevant
Nelllnville
Charles P. Cary
Delevan
John W. Thomas
Chippewa
Zeno Horst
Milwaukee
John M. Whitehead
Kempf
Joseph G. End
Sheboygan
Thomas
Joseph Swanholt
Shawano
LaFolletta
Manila to move 40000 natives from slums to camps
The municipal health board in Manila orders 40,000 natives removed from slums to suburban camps to curb cholera. Camps to be sanitarily run, with the city renting ground, building facilities, and feeding the indigent. Reports from St. Petersburg note cholera spreading in Manchuria with high mortality.
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Manila
Municipal Health Board
St. Petersburg
Manchuria
Inku
Kharbin
Hopper to sue over mother's share of Dunsmuir estate
Edna Wallace Hopper arrives in Victoria with her attorney to challenge a settlement made by James Dunsmuir with her mother Mrs Dunsmuir. She alleges her mother was not of sound mind when the agreement was made and seeks to set it aside and obtain Alex Dunsmuir's portion for herself.
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Edna Wallace Hopper
Victoria
B. C
James Dunsmuir
British Coolumbia
Dunsmuir
Alex Dunsmuir
James
Well Known Glenn Williams Beats A E Wolton at Winston Salem
Raleigh July 17 Special There was a sensational horsewhipping at Winston Salem where N Glenn Williams gave a terrible death to United States District Attorney A E Wolton of the western North Carolina district Williams, a Yadkin county man and grandson of Nick Williams, stopped on his way home from the state democratic convention and attacked Wolton in a store after a wrangle over a trial statement Wolton had made last year Williams is a sheriff candidate in his county Botton was a former Republican state chairman
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Raleigh
N. C
Winston-Salem
N. Glenn Wiliams
United States
A. E Wolton
North Carolina
Wolton
Williams
Winston- Salem
Yadkin County
Holton
Nick Wi- Nams
Botton
A. E. Holton
Glenn Williams
Birmingham
Grovetown
Tex
Texas and Pacific
Saline River
Mincold
Pex
Joseph Anderson
Owensboro
Wytheville
Precedence in the Navy Decided by Secretary Moody
Secretary Moody ruled on naval precedence for bureau chiefs with advanced ranks. Admiral Dewey sided with Taylor, who has the earlier commission date, giving Taylor priority and placing Bradford to his left. The decision followed an appeal from Rear Admiral Bradford.
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Moody
Washington
Ibureau
Ant
Admiral Dewey
Department
Dewey
Bradford
Bureau of Equipment
Taylor
Bureau of Navigation
Bureau
Alabama Editors Entertained by Colonel Mann in New York
The Alabama Press Association was hosted by Colonel W B Mann of New York in Gotham on July 11. The event featured The Chinese Honeymoon at the Casino, a reception and collation, followed by dancing. Several prominent Alabama newspaper figures attended to meet Mann, formerly proprietor of The Mobile Daily Register.
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Alabama
Gotham
New York
Alabama Press Association
W. B. Mann
Alabamang
Colonel Mann
Mobile Daily Register
Alabama Press
Coronation Review Date Depends on King Health
London July 17 The review date, once said to be August 11, depends on His Majesty's health and the coronation ceremony's impact on his condition. It is decided no special missions will be invited to the coronation. Foreign nations will be represented at Westminster Abbey by ambassadors and ministers during the ceremony.
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London
Westminster Abbey
General strike unlikely as United Mine Workers debate
Indianapolis July 17 The United Mine Workers face a split over a general strike with President Mitchell urging no strike and support for continuing bituminous work. A caucus was approved to gauge anthracite opinion, executive session debated, then opened meetings, and Mitchell delivered his opening address to the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
John P Reese
Iowa
Reese
Fires, fights, and storms dot 19th century dispatches in Georgia and beyond
Scattered showers and unseasonably cool air forecast with a string of local and national incidents. The Fifth Infantry leaves Atlanta for Wrightsville Beach for a ten day camp. A $2,000,000 post office flow is reported amid fiscal year. A vast prison wall project begins with a $500,500 cost. Lyons is nearly wiped out by fire in Tattnall County. Cotton ginners plan in Macon on August 7. Violent crimes and accidents echo nationwide with shootings, killings, a lynching, a bridge collapse, and a tragic sea squall. A coal miners strike looms, and international tensions surface in Russia and Italy with various intrigues.
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Fifth Infantry
Georgia
Wrightsville Beach
Atlanta Post Office
Atlanta Federal Prison
Lyons
Tattnall County
Cotton Ginners of
Macon
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Hibernians
WESS
Buckshot
Desperado
Tracy
E. M
Bill Startle
Teddy
Sage of
Wolfert
Republicans OF
Federal District Attorney
Mann
Gaitchell
James E. Dickey
Emory College
Charney Johnson
Emanual
Wouney
Randall Davis
Russia
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Tig Hun
P Tegor
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