Builder's Wife Shoots Herself In Million Hill Avenue Home
Anna Chatios 25 wife of East End Lumber Co head William F Chatios attempted suicide by three gunshots at their 460 Mill Hill avenue residence. She was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital in critical condition with bullets in breast and abdomen, surgeon doubts removal. Nurse and neighbors aided, ambulance called. She had shown signs of melancholia after the birth of a son four weeks earlier.
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Anna Chatios
William F.chatios
East End Lumber Co
Mill Hill Avenue
Bridgeport Hospital
Charles
Alice
William F, Jr
Katherine Purpose
Isaac Trumbull
Chicago Trolley Strike Ends After Peace Moves
Chicago ends a two day trolley strike as Mayor William Hale Thompson is named to the arbitration board. A 15 hour conference produced a commitment to arbitrate all issues and resume service as quickly as possible. Sessions to begin next week with officials and labor leaders present.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
W. D. Mahon
Street Car Men's Union
Thompson
Traction Lines
Labor
Traction
Tommpson
Leonard Busbee
Chicago Lines
Tee
Board of Arbitration
Traction Systueen
Endorsement Dispute Involving Russell Beach And Smarto
Former deputy Daniel J. Russell of Stratford, Beach, and John D. Smarto face a common pleas court action over a $200 note. Beach alleges Smarto endorsed jointly with Russell, then refused to pay his share after Russell borrowed $30 and used Smarto’s signature. Judge Scott reserved decision.
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Daniel J. Russell
Stratford
Frank H. Beach
Main Street
John D. Smarto
Scott
Common Pleas Court
Beach
Smarto
Russell
Smart
Faljon & Greenstein
Witnesses Clear Jitney Driver in Barnum Avenue Fatality
Coroner J J Phelan held a hearing into Gustav Scholz death by jitney on Barnum Avenue. Evidence suggests the bicycle suddenly darted from behind two vehicles as Scholz rode toward Seaview, leaving the driver unable to stop in time.
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J. J. Phelan
Gustav Scholz
Phelan
Scholes
Barnum Avenue
Scholz
Seaview
Lighting Firm Plans Submarine Conduit Under Pequonnock River
United Illuminating Co seeks a public hearing July 6 for a plan to lay a submarine conduit 23 feet beneath the Pequonnock river to relieve eastern lighting shortages. Two concrete cable houses will be built near the bridge houses on Congress Street. War Department permission already obtained.
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Pequonnock River
Common Council
United Tlluminating Co
War Department
Congress Street
Board of Aldermen
Bryan foresees US as key peace maker in end of war
Washington June 16 Former Secretary Bryan in the first section of his statement on The Causeless War prophesies the greatest peace making opportunity in history will come to the United States and a conference can revise rules of international law. He notes neutral nations suffer, urges patience, and argues the United States must lead by example as the war ends.
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U. 8
Washington
Bryan
United States
Foreign power can't purchase Lake Co plant
Reports that the Lake Torpedo Boat company plant in the area had been sold to British interests circulated in New York financial circles but were quickly denied by Capt. Simon Lake. He said the company would not sell to any foreign country and that such a proposition had no foundation in fact. Foreign interests had offered contracts for submarines, but the company refused to avoid neutrality issues and to focus on U S orders.
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Lake Torpedo Boat Company
New York
Simon Lake
Capt. Lake
Lake Company
United States
London
Lusitania
Alfred A. Booth
Cunard Steamship Company
Sir Edward Carson
Mr. Booth
Mr.Carson
Cunard Company
Admiralty
Turner
Liverpool
Booth
Peer Sons of Economy
Donald MacMasters
Deri Spent
Ate Booth
Gill Nicholls Fires 72 Best In Open Golf Championship
Short Hills New JerseyJune 16 Gill Nicholls posted a 72 the best score so far in the open golf championship. The Florida Country Club pro Eugene McCarthy carded 75 with a 34 first nine and 41 second nine including two on the Suh green. Emmett French of York Pennsylvania also posted 76. The board of education will meet this evening for the last time this school year.
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Short Hills
N. J
Gill Nicholls
Eugene McCarthy
Florida Country Club
Emmett French
York
Board of Education
Fifteen Killed as Zeppelins Make Night Attack on England
London reports a Zeppelin raid along the eastern coast causing fifteen deaths and fifteen injuries with heavy property damage. Panic spread as fires burned and residents fled, marking the third aerial raid in two weeks. Karlsruhe blast killed nineteen and wounded forty four as French planes attacked. fires and panic followed the bombings.
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England
London
Jortheast
English Downs
Karlsruhe
Baden
German spy suspected at UMC Co in Bridgeport
Government investigators probe claims that Dr Alfred Meyer a German War Department official masqueraded as Dr Anton Meyer Gerhard in Bridgeport seeking to buy munition and gather military data. Red Cross endorsement prompted guarded acceptance but safety papers masked true identity, with investigations to consider ties to Ambassador von Bernstorff and the German war effort.
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Bridgeport
State Department
Washington
Alfred Meyer
Department of Army Supplies
Imperial Ministry of War
Anton Meyer-Gerhard
Red Cross
Germany
Ger
Dr. Meyer-Gerhard
Meyer
United States
German War Office
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
von Bernstorff
Dr. Meyer
Mr. Bryan
Meyer-Gerhard
Battle Royal in State This Fall on License Vote
Connecticut moves toward a statewide fight over liquor licenses with prohibitionists and liquor interests mobilizing. Campaigns begin in October and November as towns vote on local option licenses. organizers plan statewide referendums and large state convention in Bridgeport in September to map strategy.
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Battle Royal
Connecticut
Fairfield County
Bridgeport
Bombard London urged by German press after Karlsruhe raid
Berlin reports on the Karlsruhe air raid provoke German editorials. Paul Becker of Tages Zeitung calls it a nefarious ransom act and urges retaliation against London. Count von Reventlow notes German-American understanding debates, while Kreuz Zeitung criticizes Lokal Anzeiger over weapons sales comments.
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London
Karlsruhe
Berlin
Paris
Paul Becker
Tages Zeitung
Germany
Herr Becker
Ernst von Reventlow
Eugen Zimmerman
Lokal Anzeiger
England
Kreuz Zeitung
Italians Press Attacks on Austrian Fortifications Near Gorizia
Udine reports June 16 that Italian troops continue assaults on Austrian positions around Gorizia. Austrians defend from Podgora to Mount Fortine with steel armored trenches and underground passages, supported by artillery. Italian officers say Austrian actions are defensive while hinting at a possible Austrian move to lure Italian forces away from Triese.
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Udine
Italy
Italin
Gorizia
Podgora
Mount Fortine
Tsenxe
Triese
Cersia
Austria
Raid by Zeppelins Stirs England Across Coasts
London reports a deadly air raid by Zeppelins on the northeast coast leaving 15 dead and many wounded. The attacks mark a third raid in just over two weeks with fatalities rising. Eastern front updates note Russian retreat near Czernowiliz and Jaroslau under German pressure. Western front shows artillery activity and a failed French assault north of Arras. Karlsruhe raid provokes German bitterness and calls for retaliation.
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London
England
Petrograd
Galician
Czernowiliz
Dneister
Theruth
Jaroslau
San
Dardanelles
Paris
Berlin
Arras
Germany
Karlsruhe
British Forces Capture Line of German Trenches
London reports that on June 15 British forces advanced to seize another line of German trenches west of La Bassee. The French embassy released the statement confirming the capture.
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London
la Bassee
French Torpedo Boat Sinks After Collision at Cherbourg
The French torpedo boat No 21 sank following a collision with the steamer Arleya off Cherbourg. Six sailors drowned. others were rescued by torpedo boat No 337. The vessel launched in 1907 weighed 37 tons and could reach 15 knots. No British steamer Arleya appears in shipping records.
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Cherbourg
Arleya
Japan protest over Chinese boycott movement
Tokio reports a Japanese news agency says Japan has sent a formal protest to China regarding an anti-Japanese movement in the republic. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with light northwest winds.
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Tokio
Japan
Chine
The
Republic
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Sue Smarto
W. J. Bryan
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