Car Jumped Track Injuring Three in Cambridge
A Harvard square car 1822 left the temporary bridge near the Charles bank at 2 12 this morning and jumped the track. Motorman Charles S Adams and Conductor Thomas Ready remained uninjured. Three men were injured and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. Names include Joseph P Jones and a Colson. Other passenger details were unclear.
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Harvard Square
Cambridge
Adams Square
Charles Bank
Charles Street
Charles S. Adams
Winthrop Street
Thomas Ready
Adams
Joseph P. Jones
Pleasant Street
Falmouth Street
Colson
Quincy & Boston Railroad
Massachusetts General Hospital
Station 3
Boers Reel Back as De Wet Narrowed in on Pretoria
Telegraph reports from Pretoria and coastal areas indicate De Wet's roving ground shrinking amid converging columns. Heavy artillery was heard near Ficksburg on the 3d as Boer forces massed in the Lindley district and a Transvaal treasure party led by Secretary Reitz moved inland.
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London
Pretoria
South Africa
de Wet
Ficksburg
Lindley
Reitz
Burg
Transvaal
Boston Veteran Firemen Play-Out Ends With Roxbury Victory
The Boston and Roxbury Veteran Firemen’s Associations staged a Common play-out at 10 am. The Boston tub in red, white and blue sprayed water 125 ft 10 in, under Captain Wilson. Roxbury, led by Captain John Riddle with 60 men, hurled a 162 ft stream to win, prizes $150 and $100.
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Boston Veteran Firemen’s Association
Roxbury Veteran Firemen’s Association
Boston Tub
Wilson
Roxbury Tub
John Riddle
Washington Street
L Onists Picnic Draws Record Hebrew Outing
The Zionists picnic at Caledonian Grove in West Roxbury drew an estimated 4000 attendees. The event featured diverse games, a four-board concert, a crowded dancing pavilion, and bicycle races as a highlight of the sports.
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Caledonian Grove
West Roxbury
Eastman Shoemaker Dies by Own Hand in Beverly
George D. Eastman a 42 year old Beverly shoemaker killed himself at noon using a 22 caliber rifle placed to his ear. No other persons were involved and the motive remained undisclosed.
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Beverly
George D. Eastman
Dorchester Avenue Shooting Suspect Tied to Rescue Bid
A man arrested for discharging firearms on Dorchester Avenue Tuesday night was attacked by two men who tried to aid him. Thompson called for help and they were taken to the police station. The would be rescuers were named August Nemit and Amil Merchener, both with unknown addresses.
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Enzie
Dorchester Avenue
Thompson
Taden
August Nemit
Eld
Amil Merchener
Friends bid farewell to Mr. Thomas Fallon in South Boston
A farewell supper for Thomas Fallon prior to his ten month stay in Ireland raised funds from South Boston shopmates. A purse of $100 was presented by A J Cony and a further $150 was donated by the Sligo Club through Mr. Hard McKeon for his departure.
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Thomas Fallon
Boston
Ireland
Old Colony
A. J. Cony
Sligo
Hard
McKeon
Cambridge Iron Foundry Head Dies in Nantasket Car Ride
Charles S. Mawrey of Cambridge aged 50 collapsed and died in a Nantasket street car at 5:40 pm while returning from Green Hill. Heart failure as the cause. Mawrey, who ran an iron foundry, resided at 1415 Cambridge Street Cambridge.
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Charles S. Mawrey
Cambridge
Nantasket
Green Hill
Mawrey
Cambridge Street
Macfarland Beats Michael In Twenty Mile Motor Race
Lloyd A. Macfarland of San Jose defeated Jimmy Michael in a twenty mile motor paced race at Woodside Park. Macfarland led early, trailed, then surged on the final lap to win by three yards in 32m 50s. Crooks and Sherer set a new world record in a separate five mile race with 7m 9s 1 5s.
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Philadelphia
Lloyd A. Macfarland
San Jose
Cal
Jimmy Michael
Woodside Park
MacFarland
Michael
Crooks and Sherer
Starbuck
Charles Turville
Judge
Bobby Thompson
Miller
Fireworks on Common Draw Record Crowd in Fourth Display
More than 30 000 people gathered on the Common last evening for the annual fireworks show. Rockets and Roman candles lit the sky while crowds applauded a piece featuring Cuban and American flags with a Welcome to the Cubans inscription. The finale showed pillows and colonges in rainbow colors with shooting stars before the crowd dispersed home.
Americans Gather for Paris Chamber Dinner at Hotel Continental
A large American turnout filled a Paris banquet hall for the annual American Chamber of Commerce dinner at the Hotel Continental. Ambassador Porter delivered a patriotic address to enthusiastic applause, followed by remarks from Commissioner Peck M. Miller General Andre Archbishop Ireland Charlemagne Tower and Michael H. De Young.
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Paris
American Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Continental
Ambassador Porter
Porter
Peck
M. i Miller
Andre
Archbishop Ireland
Charlemagne Tower
Michael H. de Young
Enthusiasm at Cambridge as Cuban teachers arrive in Boston
About 1256 Cuban teachers travel to Cambridge by five US Army transports. 207 aboard the McPherson and 226 aboard the McClellan arrive in waves from Cardenas Sagua la Grande Caibarien and Nuevitas. Teachers to study English geology botany history geography and physiology for six weeks with Harvard involvement and university officials coordinating the expedition.
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Cuba
Boston
McPherson
Sedgwick
Burnside
McClellan
Cambridge
Ernest Lee Conant
Harvard
New York
Alexis E. Frye
Navy Yard
Noble H. Creager
Cardenas
Sagua la Grande
Caibarien
Nuevitas
W. BE. Nyé
Major Creager
Frye-McHarg
Cuban Welcome Parade at Harvard Ends With Laurels for Washington
Eleven hundred Cuban teachers and students marched from Memorial Hall to the Washington elm in Cambridge honoring Independence Day. The procession included Cuban flags Harvard pennants and an American flag with Superintendent Frye as assistant standard bearer. A laurel wreath was laid on the memorial tablet to Washington with a Spanish poem praising liberty.
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Eliot
Frye
Senor Tomago
Harvard
Memorial Hall
Cuba
Washington
Harvard College
St. Paul's Church
Father Fidelis
Roxbury Boxers Burn Li Hung Chang Effigy in Independence Day Riot
A Roxbury Fourth of July display featured an effigy of Li Hung Chang hung from a Washington Thorndike street structure. The crowd cheered as the figure burned after being paraded with a sign Captured by the Roxbury Boxers, then kicked from a streetcar and finally set aflame.
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Hung Chang
Roxbury
Washington
Thorndike
Gladstone
Li d
Washington Street
Li Hung Chang
Four Shot on Main Street in Dover Killing One
A shooting on Main Street Dover at about 11 pm leaves John McNally dead, Thomas Dobbins and Joseph Gagonex critically wounded, Arthur Russell of Somersworth shot in the leg. Three unknown assailants fled. police hunt across the region with surrounding towns notified.
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Dover
N. H
Main Street
John McNally
Thomas Dobbins
Joseph Gagonex
Arthur Russell
Somersworth
West Roxbury Shooting Fatality Reported
Edward W. Jordan aged 35 is detained at Station 13 West Roxbury pending investigation into the death of 6 year old Herman Heckinger of Rowe Street West Roxbury. The boy was shot in the breast by a rifle Jordan held and died instantly. Jordan surrendered claiming accidental discharge while cleaning the rifle.
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Edward W. Jordan
Station 13
West Roxbury
Herman Heckinger
Rowe Street
Jordan
Cambridge Fine Games Hit by Enthusiastic Crowds
Cambridge annual athletic games were held at Holmes Field with strong spectator turnout. E Wilkinson of Cambridgeport Gymnasium A A won the 100 yard dash handicap, running 92 yards in 9.35 seconds, aided by an 8 yard handicap and a fast track.
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Cambridge
Holmes Field
New England
E. Wilkinson
Cambridgeport Gymnasium
A. A
Wilkinson
Depew Arrives To Speak At London American Banquet
In London on July 4 at the American colony banquet Senator Chauncey M. Depew arrived at the last moment to respond to The Day We Celebrate. Ex-Governor Walcott ex-Senator Cannon Lord George Hamilton the Earl of Jersey ex-Mayor Quincy and Mark Twain also lectured.
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London
Chauncey M. Depew
Walcott
Cannon
George Hamilton
Earl of
Jersey
Quincy
Mark Twain
Tenfold Hoboken Funerales Hold Seventy Rites for Losses
Seventy funerals will be held in Hoboken tomorrow morning for victims of the Hoboken over fire. Black hearses and a sailors' escort from North German Lloyd and Hamburg American steamers fill the scene as districts prepare graves in Macpelah Cemetery. Affidavits of survivors and witnesses will go to District Attorney Gardiner for action against tugboat captains.
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New York
Hoboken
Pver
Lloyd
Hamburg- American Line
Brooklyn Theatre
Helfers
Macpelah
Gardiner
Hudson River
Bremen and
Main
Bremen
Gustav H. Schwab
Lloyd Office
Day's Accidents Darken Fourth Celebrations at City Hospital
City Hospital treated about 100 accident victims from midnight Tuesday to dawn Wednesday after Fourth of July celebrations. Many suffered firecracker and pistol injuries though few were severe, with the ambulance list naming Thomas Connors 11 Roxbury powder burns, William Sylvester 9 Roxbury burns, Ann Garfield 6 Roxbury burns, and Norman Spear 20 Hyde Park finger loss. Emergency Hospital treated about thirty more cases with no serious outcomes.
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Thomas Connors
Dana Street
Roxbury
William Sylvester
Northfield Street
Ann Garfield
Norman W. Spear
Wauchasset Street
Hyde Park
Eimergency Hospital
City Hosts Children's Festival At Franklin and Hudson
Ward rooms held a city children’s festival with Tompson's Brass Band playing and 1500 plates of ice cream and cake distributed to grammar school pupils who held admission tickets issued by the city.
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Old Franklin School
Ward Room
Hudson Street
Kasanof
Rammar School
Tompson
Fire Alarm Log Tallies Blazes Across City Overnight
Firemen battled alarms from midnight on the 3rd to midnight on the 4th amid nonstop bell ringing. The list records addresses with fires slight to substantial, plus several firecracker and smoke incidents and a few false alarms.
Hamilton Smith Dead After Boat Trip in New Hampshire
Hamilton Smith a leading New York mine operator and senior partner of Smith & Perkins died suddenly in Durham New Hampshire from heart failure after exertion while boating. He served as consulting engineer for the Rothschilds of London and was associated with major mining ventures in South Africa Alaska and South America.
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Durham
N. H
California
London
Jennings, Eckerstein
Warner, Bight & Co
D. O. Mills
Morton Elected NAP A President At Banquet Meeting
The National Amateur Press Association held its annual meeting and banquet at the United States Hotel in the city yesterday. Original presidential candidates were John M. Acee of Georgia and Warren G. Brodie of Cleveland. Nelson G. Morton of Boston entered the race and won on the final ballot.
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National Amateur Press Association
United States Hotel
John M. Acee
Georgia
Warren G. Brodie
Cleveland
Nelson G. Morton
Boston
Morton
Explosion at Lynn Destroys Tailor Shop
Explosion of naphtha wrecks Jacob Swatz tailor shop on Market street in Lynn. Swatz suffers severe burns to head and arms while Joseph Soucy bicycle shop in the same building also burns in the fire that follows. Total loss about 2700 dollars.
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Lynn
Jacob Swatz
Market Street
Swatz
Joseph Soucy
Tota
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