Zubof’s Friends Back Burial Plans At Cypress Hills
New York July 31 It is understood some of the late Count Zubof Lipmanns friends will pay the burial expenses at Cypress Hills Cemetery. They deny he was a swindler and say his imprisonment caused his suicide. He had a play in progress and a novel Dolly’s Doings. Publisher G W Dillingham, manager Cook, and a note of his were involved. He earned from society scandal novels, with ten thousand copies of Mr Philip St Clares sold, stirring Boston society.
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New York
Cook
Zubof
Mr. Philip St. Clare
Boston
Judge Dismisses Davis Hathaway Conspiracy Claim
Judge Dewey considered the Davis Hathaway conspiracy case for four weeks and found no evidence that the defendants conspired to obtain money by false pretenses. The focus was on whether three merchants conspired to swap notes bearing Captain Hathaway's indorsements while operating the Davis stock company.
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Dewey
Davis-Hathaway
Captain Hathaway
Davis Stock Company
Five Years for Gaden Forgery Plea
Gaden Jr. pleaded guilty to forgery in the second degree in New York on July 31 after being brought back from Boston by Detective McNaught. Recorder Goff sentenced him to five years in State prison for forging the name of W. L. Rice to a Colonial Bank check for 45 dollars.
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New York
George T. Gaden, Jr
Boston
Robert McNaught, Jr
W. L. Rice
Colonial Bank
Goff
Gaden
Against the Queen Retains Victory in Toronto Rail Case
London July 31 the privy council ruled in favor of the Toronto railway against the Queen. The decision grants the railway compensation and sets a firm outcome in the long running dispute.
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London
Privy Council
Toronto Railway
Old Orchard Excursion From Boston to Beach Aug 4
The Boston and Maine line announces another Old Orchard excursion on Tuesday next August 4 at an 1.50 round trip fare. A special train departs Boston Union Station at 8 a.m. with several hours for beach time. Tickets are sold only at the City Ticket Office 322 Washington Street corner Milk Street and are limited, so purchase early.
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Boston & Maine
Boston Union Station
Washington Street
Milk Street
Nineteen Executed in Hungary Gang Murder Case
In Agram on July 31, a Stenjevec district gang linked to brigandage and murder was rounded up after a long purge. Nineteen defendants were found guilty of murder and given death sentences, including two women. Other prisoners received prison terms for lesser crimes.
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Agram
Hungary
Stenjevec
First Glass Prisoners in Transvaal Raid Case
In Parliament Sir Matthew Ridley said Dr. Jameson and the other Transvaal raid convicts will be treated as first class misdemeanants during their terms. The court must order such status, no order yet issued, and the royal prerogative may or may not raise them to better treatment. They will receive outside food for mess, avoid standard garb and hard labor, and may have small amounts of beer and wine.
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London
House of Commons
Matthew White Ridley
Home Secretary
Dr. Jameson
Transvaal
Jameson
Wormwood Scrubbs
Socialists push free education to university level
At the international Socialist trades congress in London July 31 a resolution favored free education from kindergarten to university and keeping children in school until age 16. Delegate Arthur Keep of Washington criticized English delegates as acting like fools while Matthew Maguire of New Jersey presided as vice-chairman.
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London
International Socialist Trades Congress
Arthur Keep
Washington
Matthew Maguire
New Jersey Socialist Union
United States
Congress
Boston Folk Dinner at Malvern in Bar Harbor
Charles T How of Boston hosted a dinner at the Malvern in Bar Harbor for Mrs. John L Gardner of Boston who visited for the day. Guests included J Montgomery Sears George B Dorr John A Kasson Miss Gurnee Miss Draper Dr and Mrs Chapman Mrs McCormick Mr Bartholemew and Miss Elliott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Charles T. How
Boston
the Malvern
John L. Gardner
J. Montgomery Sears
George B. Dorr
John A. Kasson
American Ship Grounds Off Ba tavia Then Floated
Advices from Batavia report the American ship D. Carleton of Rockport Maine ran aground on Panjan Reef after departing New York for Shanghai on April 28 but was later floated. The vessel is leaking badly.
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London
Batavia
D. Carleton
Rockport
New York
Shanghai
Panjan Reef
Treasury defictJuly deficit shown at 12.8 million
Treasury records indicate a July deficit of about 12.8 million dollars. Receipts total 29.4 million while expenditures reach 7.2 million, with official figures to be released in tomorrow's statement.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury
Waterbury Watch Co shuts plant until September
Waterbury Connecticut July 31 The Waterbury Watch Company employing several hundred workers closed all departments today until September due to dull business conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury, Conn
Waterbury Watch Company
Lynn Brass Band Concert at My Clothier Tonight
The Lynn Brass Band performed the third weekly concert at Massachusetts Clothing Company My Clothier near Hanover and Portland streets. The popular venue’s idea drew universal approval and next Friday the Boston Cadet Band directed by J Thomas Baldwin will perform.
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Massachusetts Clothing Company
My Clothier
Hanover
Portland Streets
Lynn Brass Band
Boston Cadet Band
J. Thomas Baldwin
Boston Newport excursion set for August 4
The next popular Boston to Newport excursion departs Tuesday August 4 with round trip tickets at one dollar. Tickets are available in advance at No 3 Old State House and Park Square station and are strictly limited.
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Boston
Newport
Old State House
Park Square Station
Debris search continues after deadly railroad wreck
Atlantic City reports a night long search for victims after a collision near the Reading line. Nine bodies identified and many more unclaimed lie at the Excur sion House with gruesome remains and injured numbered forty three. The coroner's jury, led by Charles Evans, meets to indict formal inquiries.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Farr
S. P. Murphy
Millville
James Peters
J. D. Johnson
Charles D. Burroughs
Charles Saay
H. F. Belle
W. C. Trooper
P. C. Goldsmith
Hattie Loper
Charles Mural
Harvey Hughes
John Greiner
Bridgeton
Charles Backler
Salem
Charles R. McGear
Trenchard
Franklin Dubois
Clearfield
Penn
J. Earnest
Jennie Sheppard
Mary Wentzell
Alloway
Lydia Carr
Pearl Marta
Bridget
A. H. Fox
A. Peters
Charles Evans
Atlantic City National Bank
John B. Champion
Cc. E. Adams
Thomas B. Dickerson
Lewis Evans
Levi Albertson
Right of way blamed in Pennsylvania rail wreck
Philadelphia July 31 official report says forty two passengers were killed and 54 injured all victims were in Pennsylvania Railroad cars. The interlocking signal favored Reading train and could not be altered until wreckage is cleared. Witness Julius Price Jr details rescue scenes and family losses.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Reading
Julius B. Price, Jr
Reading Road
Pleasantville
Atlantic City
Harry
Victims of Atlantic City Railroad Disaster Return to Bridgeton
Bridgeton residents mourn as nearly all the catastrophe victims are locals. Bodies remain in Atlantic City with unsure return dates. Survivors recount a terrifying crash, including Charles W. Leeds who helped his wife and rescued a girl amid flames and injuries.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Atlantic City
Charles W. Leeds
Leeds
The Yankee Clothing Sale Sees Deep Discounts
The Yankee Clothing Company at 91 Summer St announces a massive spring sale with prices slashed on boys suits shoes coats and underwear. Mail orders accepted with cash. stock includes dress suits calf shoes and aprons as well as hats and suspenders. sales run through weekend with extended hours. A wreck recovery note mentions eleven bodies removed.
Freight Smashup Delays Hartford Line Freight Cars Derail
An extensive freight wreck on the New England road at Pratt's station near New Britain last night derailed eleven cars loaded with hay grain and coal after a brake beam failure. One hundred men labored through the night and cleared one track by morning.
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Hartford
Conn
New England
Pratt’s Station
New Britain
Shea's Fierce Struggle With Arrest in City
Tom Shea, a noted career criminal, resisted arrest Thursday night as Sergeant Hurlburt of Station 4 hauled him to the Tombs. He fought fiercely at every step, was stripped of clothing at the Tombs, and required several officers to regain control.
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Tom” Shea
Hurlburt
Station 4
Shea
John L. Sullivan
Dover Street
Going Abroad on Steam Cephalonia From East Boston
The Cunard steamer Cephalonia captained by Pierce sails from East Boston at 2 30 p m bound for Queenstown and Liverpool with 48 saloon 80 second class and 200 steerage passengers On board is an official list of saloonists including Albert EB Tenney William Culbert Joseph B Colony Horatio W Colony C A Hewins Bertha Hewins Gertrude Pope J C Pegram Jr R F O Neil Slater John H O Donnell C F Stone E E Chapman Hamilton Willis Pauline Willis Hamilton Willis John Fogg Twombly Horatio McKay infant and maid C W Ward J J Hayes K F Holland Mary Treanor C P Whitcomb John F Lennon W Rolfe Susan E Crocker Annie R Crocker W E French Violet M French Walter M Smith William White Grosvenor Seaver Leonard Wheeler and Leonard A Wheeler.
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Cephalonia
Pierce
Cunard Line
Boston
Queenstown
Liverpool
Albert EB. Tenney
William Culbert
Joseph B. Colony
Horatio W. Colony
C. A. Hewins
Bertha Hewins
Gertrude Pope
J. J. Hayes
K. F. Holland
Mary Treanor
C. P. Whitcomb
John F. Lennon
W. J. Rolfe
Susan E. Crocker
Annie R. Crocker
W. E. French
Violet M. French
Walter M. Smith
William White
Grosvenor
C. M. Seaver
Leonard Wheeler
Leonard A. Wheeler
Winthrop Assessors Post Record Property Values
The Winthrop assessors report land value at 2 888 925 with a 222 150 gain, real estate 3 198 700 resident and 2 316 800 non resident totals, polls 1 151 up 99, population 3 889 up 456, dwellings 1 263 up 181, town appropriations 80 392 66, state tax 3 445 and sewer assessment 2 842 34, total tax 87 984 16 the largest in town history, with a tax rate of 15.30 per 1000.
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Winthrop
Land Bill Progresses in Lords Second Reading
London July 31 The Irish land bill passed its second reading in the House of Lords today advancing the measure amid debate on land reform and tenant rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Lords
Through Wonderland Tour Of Yellowstone By Rail
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers a sixteen day, personally conducted tour to Yellowstone Park leaving from New York and Philadelphia on August 2%. The special train includes dining and sleeping cars with reserved hotel rooms as needed, and rates are $210 from Boston and $200 from New York. Detailed itinerary available from Tourist Agent, 206 Washington Street, Boston.
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Yellowstone Park
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Washington Street
Five Year Old Abducted From Adopted Home In Boston Case
Worcester reports officer Johnson, famed for locating missing children, travels to Boston to recover six year old Tillie Humphrey, adopted daughter of Mr and Mrs Smith, taken last Wednesday by her mother under the pretense of a photograph. Police alerted. family suspects a long delay.
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Worcester
Johnson
Boston
Tillie Humphrey
Mr. Smith
Wedded on Deathbed in Far Rockaway
E F R Varrick of New York married his fiancée Miss Susan Fowler at his bedside after a lawn accident left him with a fractured skull. A decayed limb fell during a routine seaside drive injuring him. doctors expected recovery though fear of blood poisoning remained. If he survives, facial disfigurement from facial wounds is anticipated.
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Far Rockaway
L. L
E. F. R. Varrick
New York
Susan 8
Mr. Varrick
Miss Fowler
Jacobs Sire breach of promise case settled for fifty thousand
New York July 31 The famous Jacobs Sire case ended after five years and three trials with payment of the 50000 verdict plus interest for mental suffering. Miss Jacobs a 30 year old English born singer educated by Sir Julian Salaman met Mr Sire in 1887 at events aiding Montefiore Home. The lengthy suit featured letters and a dramatic sequence including a blonde intruder and a reference to Apollo and Cupid ending her professional career Poetry and memoirs followed the engagement.
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New York
Jacobs-Sire
England
Julian Salaman
Australia
Miss Jacobs
Apollo
Cupid
Vanderbilt Wedding Planned for Tomorrow in New York
New York reports the long postponed wedding of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. to Grace Wilson is set for tomorrow at the bride’s father 611 Fifth Avenue. Alfred Vanderbilt likely attends. the couple has been seen together in Bay Shore and around town, with visits to Tiffany’s and Grand Central Station.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Grace Wilson
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Vanderbilt
Cornelius
Miss Wilson
Newport
Vanderbilt
Alfred Vanderbilt
Bay Shore
Park
Tiffany's
Grand Central Station
Chauncey M. Depew
Yankee Clothing Co sale cuts prices on mens suits and more
Urgent sale for today only at 91 Summer Street. Fine English cassimere pants priced at 77c, Best Cheviot suits at 3.45, English serge and clay suits at 5.45, thin coats at 38c, and boys wash suits at 2c. Open Saturday and Monday nights.
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The
Yankee Clothing Co
Wedding plans in question at Wilson home
In the afternoon report, Dr. Depew refused to discuss the upcoming wedding or Vanderbilt’s visit. At the Wilson residence no details were released, and the officiant remains uncertain though Dr. John Hall of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church is a likely choice, as the Wilsons attend his church.
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Miss Wilson
Depew
Vanderbilt
Wilson
John Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Wilsons
To Become An Heiress
Old Captain John Cross, a retired seaman of Orange County, seeks a 15 year old adopted girl to educate and endow with a fortune upon attaining adulthood. Elsie, living in tenement poverty with her mother, is torn between a promised wealthy future and staying with her mother. The captain and his wife promise stability, while the mother hopes the arrangement may fail or prove right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John Cross
Orange County
Histe
Elsie
DROWNING SCARE NEAR WEST CHOP RESCUE
Miss Barnes, while swimming off West Chop Vineyard Haven, fell beyond her depth and could not call for help. Miss Godkin of Boston cried out, trainer B J Woods leaped in fully dressed and saved her, bringing her to shore where she recovered.
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Vineyard Haven
West Chop
Miss Barnes
Miss Godkin
Boston
B. J. Woods
Boston women arrested in Toronto theft case
Two stylishly dressed women, believed Boston residents listed as Mrs Dore and Mrs Clayton, were arrested in Toronto on July 31 for allegedly being accomplices of a Boston gang arrested the day before.
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Toronto
Can
Boston
Dore
Clayton
Woman Burned To Death In Foxboro Fire
In Foxboro on July 31 Mrs Percis Smith age 80 widow of Talbot Smith of Cherryfield Maine was fatally burned after dropping an oil stove which exploded and set her clothing on fire. Neighbors put out the flames before the fire department arrived leaving a daughter and a severely burned son in law and a daughter Mrs Wiley in deep distress.
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Foxboro
Percis Smith
Talbot Smith
Cherryfield
Eighbors
Wiley
Fruit cars derailed on New England road
Yesterday morning two cars of a fruit train derailed in an unknown manner on the New England road. The derailed cars ran along sleepers, crashed together, and rolled down a twenty five foot embankment into a branch of the South Bay. Melons loaded in the cars and their contents were destroyed.
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New England
South Bay
Ayres and Ayers head for Bridgeton on vacation
Mr Samuel P Ayres wharf agent of the Doane towboats and his father Engineer B D Ayers of tug Leader depart for Bridgeton New Jersey to spend a full month with relatives and friends Nathaniel P Doane Jr will run the office in their absence Chief Officer Israel of the fruit steamer Ethelred sails for Jamaica with Captain Hopkins reassigned to the Brookline tug Sylvester L Ward resumes harbor service after repairs at McKies wharf nearby sailors and local scenes figure in a hectic maritime day with wrecks, fires, and maintenance at Long wharf and Central wharf.
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Samuel P. Ayres
Doane
Lewis Wharf
B. D. Ayers
Bridgeton
N. J
Nathaniel P. Doane, Jr
Israel
Ethelred
Jamaica
Hopkins
Brookline
Anderson
Long Wharf
Boston
Cape Ann
Gloucester
Central Wharf
Liverpool
London
Glasgow
Hull
Cunard
Warren
Leyland
Furness
Johnston
Allan
Wilson
Phyllis
Sylvester L. Ward
H. K. Doane
McKie
Tug Vim
Calypso
Harry Converse
Marblehead
Atlantic Works
Ocean
Wrestler
H. M. Hoyt
Joshua Lovett
Guardian
Marley arraigned in Taunton shooting case fails to bind
At Taunton on July 381 Richard Marley was arraigned on the charge of shooting F. N. Strange. Evidence presented linked him to the murder poorly as eight witnesses testified with only one offering potential damaging material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taunton
Richard Marley
F. N. Strange
Sunday Ocean Trip to Plymouth by Plymouth Line Steamers
Escape the city heat this Sunday with a voyage on Plymouth line steamers from Atlantic avenue. Cruises depart 9:30 daily and 10 a.m. Sundays. aboard a first class dinner is served on the Boston to Plymouth leg. Passengers view seaside sights and enjoy music by Dunbar’s band during the electric ocean frontage.
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Plymouth
Winthrop Line
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Dunbar
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Ginter Produce CO
Comer Elm
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Queen
Continental
Fauntleroy
GOW
Isc
Ceas Sparkes
Ecs
Cesasssssi
DOW
Yanekee Clothing Company
Summer St
Big Tom
Will
R. T. Army Bandit
Fim
Chevo
EOE Cocci
Fauntlero
R. T. Almy & Co
Orner
Washington St
Negoir
R. I
R. T. Wilson
M. Orme
Robert Geelet
Newark
Elsie Cross
York
J. P. Morgan & Co
Massachusetts
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