Gas leak tragedy hits family in Grand Street home
Police say a loosened gas range jet may have been turned on accidentally. A quarter worth of illuminating gas suffocated two children and left four others ill in the Liston household on Grand Street, with the mother and eldest son critically ill at St Vincent's hospital. Neighbors had earlier smelled gas as investigators sought the source.
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John Liston
Grand Street
Edward
Mary Liston
Richard
Rene
Agnes
St. Vincent's Hospital
Bernardo
Wheeler
Relano
Emergency Hospital
Sve
St Vincent's Hospital
Gaa
List
Liston Rooms
Local tragedy and varied state notices in today's record
Two children die from gas fumes in a four family incident while others, including a Stratford boy lightly injured after being struck on West Broad Street, are hospitalized. The state credit men association plans May 17 meeting. A father declares a Litchfield girl must abandon a dancing dream. Thieves steal and wreck a car from a garage. The Lite Theatre league competes in New York for a prize with The Rut. Two firemen separate drunken brawlers on Pembroke Ave. Rev Craft criticizes Hollywood as an overgrown country town. Dedication for Summerfield Methodist church edifice. State police reexamine a Danbury murder case as a woman’s letter shifts theories. Prohibition agent denies rum-running rumors at Fairfield Beach. A Danbury principal is Critically ill from an infected wisdom tooth. Harry Thaw’s nephew appears in a Boston Post Road collision. Groundbreaking for St. Thomas at Fairfield. Crowds attend warship provisions and care for newborn twins in Danbury. Congressman Timon to address Milford Republican club. No trace yet in Milford of a missing man. Foreign, domestic, and business items follow including rail and shipping notes.
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Stratford
West Broad Street
state credit_men
Litchfield
Fairfield Avenue
Escape Lite Theatre League
New York
Pembroke
Rev Craft
Christ Episcopal Church
Hollywood
New Summerfield Methodist Church
George W. Holtz
Danbury
Doolan
Fairfield Beach
R. Perkins
Danbury State Normal
Harry Thaw
Boston Post Road
St. Thomas
Fairfield
Italy
Timon
Milford
Republican Club
Complete Contracts for Cable to Europe
New York May 6 Clarence H Mackay president of the Postal Telegraph Commercial Cable system announced completion of contracts for laying a new cable between the United States and Europe. Engineers estimate the line will handle about 609 letters per minute in both directions, double the capacity of any existing U S Europe cable.
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New York
Clarence’ H Mackay
Postal’ Telegraph-Commercial Cable System
United States
Europe
Canoe Capsize Kills Two on Charles River
Sunday promenaders along the Charles River near Newton report four canoes capsized in swollen waters above Newton Dam. One passenger drowned, another swept over Newton upper falls unable to be saved.
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Newton
Maes
Charles River
Newton Dam
Newton Upper Falls
Danbury Educator Dies Not from Infected Tooth But Illness
Danbury State Normal School principal John R. Perkins lies critically ill at home from systemic poisoning caused by an infected wisdom tooth. His daughters and son, Miss Margaret Perkins of Chicago and Lt. John S. Perkins of San Antonio, are at his bedside as doctors fight to save him. He aided a $200,000 dormitory appropriation and helped establish a two month rural teaching program.
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May
John R. Perkins
Danbury State Normal School
Margaret Perkins
Chicago
John S. Perkins
San Antonio
Tex
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Perkins
Harvard
Normal
Danburyough School
Hich
Itale
Glider crosses English Channel and back again
Georges Barbot, French aviator, crossed Calais to Lympne and returned in two trips, winning Le Matin’s 25,000 franc prize. He used an 13 horsepower motor despite adverse winds, completing the round trip in under two hours with timing of 6:19 arrival and 7:44 landing.
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London
Saint Inglevert
France
Associated Preas
Georges Barbot
Lympne
Ark
Matin
Barbot
England
Aero Club
Gris Nez
Bardot
Coroner seeks fiancé of dead Northwestern student
Chicago May 6 Preparations for a Grand Jury investigation into the death of Leighton Mount Northwestern University student whose skeleton was found last week under a Evanston pier Robert Bilrowe State’s attorney takes charge of the inquiry Miss Des Fuchs, a nurse maid friend, and Mount’s note to her will be presented to the grand jury by the Mounts Mounts’ counsel Timothy Fell says the note does not indicate suicide and physical evidence supports murder by Leighton Mount was murdered.
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Chicago
Leighton Mount
Northwestern University
Evanston
Robert Bi Urowe
Voroner Wohlif
Crime
Des Fuchs
Mount
Timothy J. Fell
J L Mount
Despondent Man Leaps to Death at Enfield Dam
Thompsonville May 6 a 44 year old boarding house manager Mark KH McQuillan leaped into the Connecticut River near the riverbank amid a flooded swift current. Rescuers could not reach him and his body was not recovered. Police say it appears a self inflicted death though his family disputes motive. He is survived by a widow and two small children.
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Thompsonville
Connecticut River
Mark
McQuillan
France Rejects German Offer Shuts Door on Joint Action
Paris and Belgium categorically refused Germany's thirty billion marks terms in a blunt note to the Allies. The Franco Belgian reply to the German note criticizes Ruhr resistance and says any penalty resistance breaches Versailles. It leaves the issue in deadlock and signals France and Belgium will act alone for now.
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France
London
Associated Press
Foreign Office
Ruhr
Belgium
Germany
Paris
Miss Lucy Aldrich Seized by Chinese Bandits on Train
Private dispatches from Peking report Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Robert Scripps among passengers captured by bandits on a Tientsin railroad. One foreigner killed, six escaped. attackers estimated at 1,000. Diplomatic channels seek troop action near Shantung.
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J.D. Rockefeller, Jr
Washington
Lucy Aldrich
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Robert Scripps
Tientsin
Associated Press
Tsan-Kun
Shantung
Soochow
Aldrich
John JD. Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Winthrop W . Aldi_n
Wall Street
Father of Litchfield Girl To End Dancing Foolishness
The father of Miss Elisabeth Cait, 22, of Litchfield, vows to end her dancing foolishness after a nervous breakdown and memory lapse prompted a nationwide police search. She reappeared after a man aided her in Chicago, with doctors diagnosing aphasia from extreme mental fatigue.
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Litchfield
Coit
Chicago
Elisabeth Cait
Charles H. Cait
Lichfield Bank
Treasury Offers 400 Million New Refunding Notes
The Treasury announces a new offering of 400 million dollars in four and three quarters percent Treasury notes to complete the refunding and retirement of wartime Victory notes. The issue matures March 15, 1927, and follows a plan to retire short dated debt from surplus revenues by 1928. Secretary Mellon projects a reduced gross public debt to about 22.42 billion by year end with a surplus of 125.4 million June 20, surpassing prior estimates.
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Washington
Treasury Knight
Treasury
Mellon
Melton
Nota
Tms
Furious street battle halted by two firemen
In a drunken melee on Pembroke street two women fought with a broken picket. Lieutenant Magner and Hoseman Killeen intervened from a street car, separating the combatants and stopping a potential fatal injury. Police are investigating the incident.
Milford Raid Brought Three Women Under State Police Action
State police sweep in Milford nets three women and one man during a liquor raid on Marth and Walnut Beach. Those arrested include John Mille Spaugh hotel manager, Leo Garaventa inn keeper, James Glynn cottage owner, and Myrtie Teach Hattie Stromburg alias Hattie Gink of Seaview Avenue. Bonds set at 2200 each. Hearings in Town Court scheduled tomorrow morning.
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Milford
James McMaher
Yegatta
Marth
Walnut Beaches
John Millespaugh
Sound View
Walnut Beach
Leo Garaventa
Walnuut Beach
James Glynn
Comfort Cottage
East Broads
Myrtie Teach
Mra
Hattie Stromburg
Mra Hattie Gink
Seaview Avenue
Mirtle Beach
Ghan Aphire
Letter reshapes Holtz murder case with old romance
May 6 report from Topstone Station reveals a letter from October 1889 to George W. Holtz portraying him as a roguish lover. Police say the clue shifts theories about the Beaten recluse’s death near Umpawang lake, as divers search and possible dynamite efforts resume. Mrs. Cora Holtz recalls a vanished husband and the torn letter describes a blighted romance.
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Topstone Station
George W. Holtz
Umpawang Lake
Thaw Nephew in Auto Collision on Post Road
Lawrence Copely Thaw of New York, a nephew of Harry Thaw, was involved in a three-car crash on the Post Road in Southport. One man, George McMahon of Westport, was injured with a cut above the eye. The incident halted traffic as two cars were towed and a third left town. Oakland driver Chamberlain reportedly fled and may be arrested.
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Fasrfield
Lawrence Copely Thaw
Park Avenue
New York
Harry Kennall
Arthur J. Bennett
Post Road
Southport
George McMahon
Bulkley Avenue
Westport
Ford
John A. Conner
Utica Street
Buffalo
N.Y
Wellingon Chamberlin
Stamford
Oakland
Utica
Chamberlain
Big Tur
West Road
Carpentier Knocks Out Nifles in Eighth Round
Georges Carpentier defeats Marcel Nifles in the eighth round at Paris. Carpentier looked below his best, pressured by Niles’s body work, as a crowd of about forty thousand watched through distractions from other events. The French former champion appeared cautious and defensive, needing a late surge to secure the victory despite a visible cut on Niles.
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John Kelly
Joan Danidlone
M. H. Dewanap
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