Wreck’s Guilt Is On Dead Engineer
Coroner’s report assigns responsibility for a June 6 1911 wreck in Fairfield Connecticut to engineer Elliott F Beach of Harlem to Hol yoke line H Y 2 and notes that four trains on the New Haven road shared signals and blocks. Testimony describes signal failures and tower operations with warnings about distant signals and fusee usage as cars and cabooses are impacted.
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Clifford B. Wil
Elliott FP. Beach
En Haven
Connecticut
Fairfield
Ia Elliott F. Beach
Elliott F. Beach
Robert 3. Gates
N. Harris
Beach
Frederick G. Noon
William Laurie
Charles J. Fox
Daniel P. Hannon
Herman J. Cordes
John R. Brace
Oliver Huff
Michael R Walsh
Brace
Huff
Walsh
Charles B. Clark
David T. Medill
Harlem
Holyoke
Laurie
Springfield
New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company
Burr Road
Fairfield Tower
Fairfield Tor
Greens Farms
Staniford
Brown
Red
Noon
Caboose
Burr Road Tower
Ioon
Stamford
Charles N. Flagg
Flagg
Clark
Eastboune
Ins
Fairield
Michael R. Walsh
Harry Staniford
Main Street
Bridgeport
Fairfield Station
Percy W
Telegraphic News In Tabloid Form
Chicago divorce case follows a wife’s punch that injured the husband for weeks. Lillian Hammer sues William Gilbert for 100000 breach of promise. A liveryman wins a probate case by borrowing a coat. In Lake Michigan Chester Jordan and Carl Wisocki drown while playing a game with a tub. Weymouth case ends with arrests then retraction. Patrick Eustace falls from a skyscraper and resumes work. London govt stamp plan faces opposition. New Hobby club forms in New York with collectors and artists. Farmer Want Ads.
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Kenosha
Wis
Pi- Tate
Chester Jordan
Carl Wisocki
Lake Michigan
Funeral Held For John King 17 After Baseball Accident
E H Dillon Co and St Charles parishioners attend the funeral for John King son of John and the late Mary King. The 17 year old freshman at the High School and recent St Charles graduate died Sunday night after being struck by a baseball. The service at St Charles church included a high mass of requiem and solos by Elizabeth Kelly. Bearers included Thunderbolt team members and the Williams A C of New Haven presented tributes. The Williams club pitcher Joseph Loehser, who threw the fatal ball, viewed the remains with coroner inquiries ongoing.
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St. Charles’ Parochial School
John
Mary King
St. Charles’ School
Orchard Street
St. Charles’ Church
William H. Lynch
Elizabeth Kelly
New York
John Kane
John Corcorean
Thunderbolt
Young King
Harold Fox
George English
Eugene Bohan
Harold Smith
St. Michael's Cemetery
Thunderbolt Baseball Club
Williams A. C. of
New Haven
Williams A. C
Joseph Loehser
Bridgeport
Wilson
Young Loehser
Negro Loses Battle With Infuriated Canine In Assault Fight
Charles Shields, a Black man living at 397 Charles Street, was badly injured in a nighttime encounter with his elder dog. After a savage back and forth, Shields killed the attacking animal with a shotgun. He received multiple lac erations and cauterization from Dr. Andrew McQueeney at Emergency Hospital and sought care to prevent hydrophobia.
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Charles Shields
Charles Street
Andrew McQueeney
Shields
Whirlpool Victim Grasp Highlighted in Odd Text
Fragmentary sports notes recount unclear results with St Louis and Brooklyn games listed alongside Philadelphia and Boston scores. The tone is garbled and misaligned, making specific outcomes or dates uncertain.
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St. Louis
St. That
Brooklyn
New York
Pamea Pittshore Pireburg
Cincin
Philadelphia
Boston
Aim
P.C. Newark
Chic
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Niagara Falls Navigator Trapped in Whirlpool Barrel
Bobby Leach, a Lower Niagara River navigator, attempted a barrel trip through the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls. The barrel flipped after entry, the air hole was submerged, and efforts to rescue Leach have been futile. The report also lists yesterday’s minor league results from Jersey City, Newark, Providence, and Baltimore.
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United Press
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bobby Leach
Niagara River
Leach
Rochester
Baltimore
Toronto
Buffalo
Montreal
Jersey City
Newark
Providence
Ice King Morse Loses Habeas Corpus Bid Again
Atlanta June 28 Charles W Morse the former Ice King lost another round in his bid for freedom when Federal Judge Newman denied his writ of habeas corpus. Morse’s attorneys gave notice of an appeal.
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United Press
Atlanta
Charles W. Morse
Newman
Former Carnegie Trust Co President Convicted by Jury
Joseph B. Reichman, former president of Carnegie Trust Co, was found guilty this afternoon of making a false report to the State Banking Department in a case tied to the looting of the Carnegie Trust Co. The Reichmann trial in New York included testimony on how a $130,000 loan from Northern Bank to Carnegie Trust became a participation agreement.
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Carnegie Trust CO
New York
Joseph B. Reichman
The
State Banking Department
Reichmann
Northern Bank
Carnegie Trust Company
New England Scores and Trade Totals for 1910
New England results show Lowell and Brockton games with varied outcomes and a separate note on Bom bay India’s sea borne trade for the year ending March 31, 1910. Bay export totals reached $176 million while imports fell to about $132 million, the largest yearly export gain on record.
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Bombay
India
Anecdotes From An Old English Ballad Volume
A windowed column recounts quirky tales from Harold Simpson’s Century of English Ballads about Stephen Incledon the tenor and his sleeping aria in a country inn. It recalls West Point legends of bootblack cadets rising to majors, a kind trainer taming a Bengal tiger with patience, and Walter Scott’s 1820 royal glass moment with George IV.
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Harold Simpson
Stephen Incledon
Incledon
West Point
New York
Washington Herald
Calcutta
Walter
George
Walter Scott
England
Scott
George IV
Dining in Rome to dressing for dinner a noted shift
The piece surveys ancient Roman dinnering customs and traces a modern echo in dressing for meals. A second excerpt cites a Cassier's Magazine idea about subconscious pull of downstairs displays. Humorous quips and exchanges from various papers fill out the collage.
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Pryendieay
Grove
Cassier
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