Thunder Storm Ravages City With Floods and Lightning
A powerful storm last evening brought hail and heavy rain, flooding streets and cellars, knocking out lights for 45 minutes at Coney Island where 12,000 picnickers were plunged into darkness. Lightning struck property from Covington to Reading, causing scattered damage valued at hundreds of dollars, while arcing to a jeweler’s building and a hospital area sparked fires and panics among patients and residents.
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Hartwell
Rural Avenue
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Oakley
Max Fleischmann
Norman G. Kenan
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Hartman Kunzelman
Conroy
J. J. Cook
Canal Bank
City Hospital
God's Bible School
Mt.Auburn
Albert Sauer
Monmouth Street
Newport
John Nagel
Nagel
Smith
Covington
Boise
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Eagan
Trades and Labor Assembly
Madison Avenue
French wine movement relief seen amid royalist arrests
Paris reports show improved calm after wine growers protests led to municipal resignations and troop mutiny. Officials state royalist club arrests confirm politics influenced the unrest as Clemen ceau pushes wine frauds bill while Fallieres cancels visits and Laurier tribute is delayed.
Seventeenth Regiment Ends Mutiny at French Rail Station
In AGDE France on June 22 officers of the Seventeenth Regiment confronted tent mutineers at the railroad station. They mustered the troops and escorted them to quarters amid many onlookers. no public demonstration occurred.
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Agde
Department of
Herault
France
Navy commends Commander Fullam for Honduras coast duties
A June dispatch from Washington reports Acting Secretary Newberry forwarding Secretary Root’s letter praising Commander William F. Fullam of the gunboat Marietta for his conduct on the Honduras coast. The commendation notes his leadership during the attack on the American negro General Davis and during the forced loan case involving German subject William Pohl and Coleone Isaula.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Secretary of State and Navy
W. F. Fullan
United States Navy
Marietta
Central American
Fullam
Newberry
Root
Department
Honduras
Davis
William Pohl
Coleone Isaula
Taft Returns From West Feels Fine Despite Hoarseness
Secretary of War Taft arrived in Washington from a Western trip in good health aside from slight hoarseness. He described the journey as pleasant but tiring, with nine of fourteen nights on trains. He plans Yale commencement attendance and later trips, while preparing annual war department estimates and a possible Tulsa visit for a Republican event. He noted ptomaine poisoning as the illness and eyed Cuban church property in Havana for 2,000,000 dollars with June 30 option. He also inspected Forts Snelling and Meade and avoided political comment.
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War Department
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New Haven
Conn
Yale University
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St. Lawrence River
Tulsa
Okla
Congress
Oklahoma
Havana
Old Custom House
West
Forts Snelling
Meade
Evansville Railways Form To Consolidate Local Lines
Evansville Railways Company incorporated with $1,000,000 capital to merge the Evansville Rockport Eastern and Evansville Mt Vernon railways. Traction lines unite and extend to Cannelton with plans to reach Louisville. incorporators are Evansville capitalists.
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Commercial Tribune
Evansville
Ind
Evansville Railways Company
More Clerks Added to Cincinnati Post Office
Washington June 22 First Assistant Postmaster General announced twenty five additional clerks for the Cincinnati Post Office for the new fiscal year starting July 1 Twenty may be employed then with five more available from October 1 A favorer will also be authorized All new employees receive six hundred dollars annually The action follows Postmaster Monforts representations to the Postoffice Department and more clerks carriers and carrier promotions are expected to be announced soon.
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Special Dispatch
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Washington
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Cincinnati
Patient Swallows Poison at City Hospital
About 2 a.m. Nellie Crawford, patient in Ward E, City Hospital, attempted suicide by swallowing bichloride of mercury. The nurse notified staff and the intern used the stomach pump. She is expected to recover.
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City Hospital
Attack on Gift of Tongues camp shocks Alliance crowd
In Alliance Ohio on June 22 a mob of about thirty professional and business men and students attacked the Gift of Tongues camp run by Rev. Levi Lupton with squirtguns loaded with diluted sulfuric acid. Worshipers were sprayed as Lupton and others prayed at the mourners bench leaving Lupton badly burned. No arrests have been made and opposition to the camp had previously existed.
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Commercial Tribune
Alliance
Gift of Tongues
Levi Lupton
Lupton
New York Central Guilty in Oil Shipment Case
The jury in the Federal Court found the New York Central Railroad guilty for failing to file rates on an oil shipment from Norwood New York to Burlington Vermont. The verdict came in this afternoon after the trial against the railroad.
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Commercial Tribune
Rochester
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Norwood
Burlington, Vt
Lightning ignites oil tank threatens 25 more in Butler
In Butler Pennsylvania a storm sparked a blaze at the Valvoline Oil Company tank, 2 000 barrels burning with 25 tanks nearby at risk containing 100 000 barrels. Fire spreads toward Connoquenessing Creek as pumps remove oil to safer tanks. Thousands watch as crews try to curb the spill.
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Commercial Tribune
Butler
Valvoline Oil Company
East Butler
Valvoline
Wilburine
Bonnybrook
Connoquenessing Creek
Thirteen Die in Balloon Accident Near Debreczin
Vienna reports a balloon accident near Debreczin Hungary killing thirteen. Three aeronauts two French officers and one Austrian died as the balloon exploded when peasants approached it with a light.
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Vienna
Debreczin
Hungary
Railroad Wreck Kills Conductor and Wounds Ten Near Pittsburg
A south bound Pittsburg and Lake Erie passenger train struck an open switch at South Twenty first street in Pittsburg. Conductor Joseph Wright is dead and nine passengers are seriously injured with three expected to die. Dozens more are injured as the locomotive and cars derailed and another car struck a loaded gondola.
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Commercial Tribune
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
McKeesport
Youghiogheny
South Twenty-first Street
William M’guire
Farmer
Port Perry
John Lazoff
Aliquippa
J. C. Griffin
Tonawanda
James Richards
Homestead
Thomas J. Johnston
Ralph Debarry
Nesbit Kelly
John Shaner
Mary Harding
Officers at the Keys. Telegraph strike in San Francisco remains quiet
In San Francisco on June 22 the telegraph operators strike shows a quiet scene with about two hundred men out. Officials including chief operators and wire chiefs supervise the service in offices of both companies, aided by a few loyal men and women.
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San Francisco
Commercial Tribune
Arbitration Five Debts Hit Hague Peace Congress
At The Hague on June 22 a leading plenipotentiary said the peace conference moves toward a reciprocal understanding to avoid irritating questions and adopt a general formula for each problem. The American debt proposal between private citizens and governments likely will be adopted with minor amendments.
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Horace Porter
Germany
Baron D’estournelles de Constant
Senor Barrel
Mexico
Rio Janeiro
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