Three Die In Drop Of Balloon In St Petersburg
A balloon accident in St Petersburg killed Court Chamberlain Palitzin his wife and Count Rostofftzeff after the gas bag drifted over the city. Captain Korbe survived with a broken leg. others aboard were inexperienced Aero Club members.
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ST. Petersburg
Palitzin
Count Rostofftzeff
Wannowski
Army Department
Korbe
Count Rostofftzff
Empress Alexandra
Russian Aero Club
Wireless telephone test by A Frederick Collins
A successful test of the new wireless telephone was conducted in the Post office by inventor A Frederick Collins. The 75 pound device used a dial like safe combination and could transmit messages over long distances with aerials for lengths beyond 82 miles. The Seattle Pacific Yukon Exposition grounds will be fully equipped with Collins wireless phones.
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Office of the Post
A. Frederick Collins
Collins
Tower to rise in Newark with Collins wireless station
A despatch from Newark reports a sky scraping tower soon to be erected by a large insurance company. A Collins wireless station will be installed on the top floor for the insurers. Collins sent his first wireless telephony message from Camden to Philadelphia on September 20, 1900. He recently installed wireless on the ferry boats Ridgewood and John G. McCullough on the North River.
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Newark
Collins
Mr. Collins
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia
Ridgewood
John G. McCullough
North River
Express Train Kills Child in Waltham
Three year old Emile Bachman was struck by an express train near Riverview station in Waltham and died an hour later at Waltham Hospital. His skull fracture followed injuries sustained while wandering onto the tracks while sent on an errand by his mother.
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Waltham
Emile Bachman
Waltham Hospital
Boston & Maine Railroad
Riverview Station
Albany
Davis Named to Succeed Carson at Boston Transit
Edmund Davis, principal assistant to Chief Engineer Howard A. Carson, was appointed acting chief engineer of the Boston Transit Commission. The appointment takes effect July 1 and covers the subway and tunnel work in Boston.
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Edmund §. Davis
Howard A. Carson
Boston Transit Commission
Boston
Five Guilty in Chance Cases Verdicts in Business Fraud Trial
In the Superior Court before Judge Bond a jury convicts five defendants of larceny and conspiracy in fraud schemes selling stores and other ventures. Charles S. Stuart William A. Sweatt Arthur E. Simpson Frank G. Holcomb McKinnon receive guilt. Henry A. Egges and George H. Stuart face mixed outcomes. Reindictments allege additional larceny against four defendants.
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Bond
Superior Criminal Court
Charles
Stuart
William A. Sweatt
Arthur E. Simpson
Frank G. Holcomb
Frank G. M'Kinnon
Henry A. Eyges
George H. Stuart
Charles 8. Stuart
Henry A. Egges
Ulysses Mob Forces Bishop and Priests to Leave Town
In Ulysses Nebraska on June 18 a mob of about 200 drove Right Rev. Bishop Bonacum and Fathers O’Brien and Kline from town while they attempted to take possession of a church. They left by livery toward David City after threats and insults from sympathizers of Father Murphy, who urged restraint.
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Ulysses
Neb
Bonacum
Lincoln
Father O'Brien
Seward
Father Kline
Brainard
Father Murphy
Bishop Bonacum
David City
Critics Debate Eliot Five-Foot Library Omission
Literary authorities criticize Dr Eliot for excluding the Bible and Shakespeare from his famed five foot library. Prominent voices argue for inclusion of Dante Homer and Cervantes, with others urging Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote alternatives.
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Elliot
Eliot
Hamilton
Tufts College
H. C. Carruth
The
Penal Commission
Lindsay Smith
Walton
Carruth
Wakefield
Goldsmith
Cotter
Bunyan
Dr. Eliot
Smollett
John Lubbock
Malfe
Shakspere
Hamlet
Cervante
Alice Stone Blackwell
Robinson Crusoe
John Woolman
Poet Whittier
Benjamin Franklin
William Penn
Bacon
Milton
Sir Thomas Brown
Phaedo
Epictetus
Marcus Aurelius
Emerson
Johnson
Taft Defeated Again in Golf Match
On June 18 Taft and General Edwards lost a golf match to Senator Bourne of Oregon and Captain Archibald W. Butt by one hole.
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Washington
Taft
General Edwards
Senator Bourne
Oregon
Archibald W. Butt
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New England
Gradua
Tion
Washington and Boylston Streets
Davis
Carson
Horsford
Talbot
Talbot Co
Washington Street
Hanover Street
Old South Clo. Co
Broadway
South Boston
Lady Aberdeen Fund
Lady Aberdeen Tuberculosis Fund
Globe Newspaper Co
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston Herald Co
Pevesesn
Kjilihloweh
Adams Square
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