Lions Kill Man as Circus Lions Attack in Box Car
Emerson D. Dietrich, Brooklyn manager of a vaudeville lion troupe, was killed by six lions in a cage car. One lion escaped and terrorized a Chicago neighborhood before being driven back. Dietrich’s fiancée Mme Adgie Castillo owned the lions, and Dietrich Jr. is named heir to architect E. D. Dietrich.
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Chicago
Emerson D. Dietrich
Brooklyn
Dietrich
George McCord
McCord
Teddy
Trilby
Mme
Adgie Castillo
Rifles and Ammunition Reported Landed on Connemara Coast
Reports from Dublin say large quantities of rifles said to be of the latest American type and substantial ammo have landed on the Connemara coast in the last twenty four hours. Royal Irish Constabulary searches for arms hiding places and torpedo boats to stop further gun running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Connemara
Ireland
Royal Irish Constabulary
Representative Roberts Proposes Bureau of Psychology in Commerce
On June 18 Representative E. E. Roberts Republican Nevada introduced a resolution to authorize Secretary Redfield to form a Bureau of Psychology within the Commerce Department. The bureau would conduct research into business depressions past present and future as part of the President's psychological depression concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
E. E. Roberts
Nevada
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
Bureau of Psychology
Paterson Board of Trade Bury Symbolic Hammer to Kick Off Boost Campaign
In Paterson New Jersey on June 18 a crowd of several thousand watched the Board of Trade bury a thirty foot hammer as a symbol of the knocking Paterson has faced. The ceremony launched a campaign to boost the city’s prospects.
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Paterson
N. J
Board of Trade
King George Draws Warmer Reception at Ascot
The Royal Ascot meeting proved brilliant with fine weather on Cup Day and a dazzling paddock scene for American visitors. King George attended all days and the Queen joined on two. the King received a noticeably warmer reception than last year.
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Ascot
London
Royal Ascot
George
Twelve Drown in Oswego Canal Disaster Near Syracuse
Twelve people perished when a motor launch carrying excursionists struck a submerged log and capsized on the Oswego Canal north of Syracuse. The dead include Mrs. George H. Adams and three children. several others were saved, including the boat owners Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Dainer. The mishap occurred at night and life vests could not be distributed in time.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Oswego Canal
George H. Adams
John Mogg
Harry Welsh
Banner
Howard Crane
Charles Schula
Mabel Tibbitts
Maria Adams
Charles Welsh
Lewis Dainer
Navy Deficiency Request Boosts to 2.54 Million
Secretary McAdoo asks Congress for a deficiency appropriation totaling 2,543,043 to cover navy costs from coal and provisions to new uniforms and ship bills. The largest item 700,000 targets fuel for bunkers, with 27,000 for khaki uniforms and 64,000 to cover steamship expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
Department of Justice
Treasury
Department of Commerce
District of Columbia
Seaman Brigades
Pacific
Atlantic
Morro Castle
Noted Sewing Pioneer Dies at 73 in Cleveland
Thomas H. White, seventy three, pioneer in sewing machine manufacture, died at his home on Baclid avenue Cleveland. Other items report the flying boat America launch at Hammondport New York, a Denver court case over costs to free Albert Patrick, and Nantucket vote banning automobiles 376 to 234 after long agitation.
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Cleveland
Thomas H. White
Baclid Avenue
Hammondsport
N. Y
Rodman Wanamaker
America
John Cyril Porte
George E. A. Hallett
Denver
John T. Millikens
St. Louis
Colorado
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
United States
Patrick
Washington
Wilson
McReynolds
New Haven
Massachusetts
Boston and Maine
Nantucket
Mass
Typhoid Outbreak Closes Forest Park Springs
Typhoid cases at City Hospital trigger closure of Wells springs in Forest Park and two others in Forest Park plus three in Tower Grove after Dr. U A Jordan finds typhoid germs in five sources. Thousands drank from these springs during the Pageant and Masque event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
City Hospital
Forest Park
Tower Grove
U. A. Jordan
Huerta Refusal to Yield in Mexican Election Stand
Niagara Falls June 19 The American delegates reply to Huerta envoys and insist the United States will not yield from its demand that a Constitutionalists be provisional President of Mexico. The plan calls for an election supervised by both parties with a Constitutionalists majority, making a truly neutral candidate unlikely.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Huerta
United States
Mexico
Justice Lamar
Wilson
Lehmann
Carranza
Hr. Lehmann
Nine Die in Sky Battle Over Vienna Collision
In Vienna on June 22 a Parseval type Austrian military airship Koertling collided with a Farman biplane. Eight crew plus two pilots perished when the gas envelope ruptured and both crafts exploded and plummeted 1,300 feet to the ground.
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Vienna
Roosevelt Out Of Campaign Threats Force Caution
London reports Col. Theodore Roosevelt cannot campaign in the U.S. next fall due to larynx trouble from recent hardships in Brazil. He met with Sir St. Clair Thomson, laryngology expert at King’s College Hospital, for evaluation and care.
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London
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Brazil
Sir St. Clair Thomson
King’s College Hospital
Important Supreme Court Rulings Include Rail Rates and Land Grants
The court upheld the long and short haul clause as constitutional, affirmed land grant titles to oil lands in California, classified oil pipelines as common carriers under ICC regulation, and affirmed the dissolution of the Eastern Lumber Trust. It also recognized Cuban sugar with a 20 percent treaty differential, invalidated Kentucky tobacco pool legalization, and sustained poverty vows by nuns and monks giving property rights to their orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Lumber Trust
Kentucky
Physicians of U S Navy city in Spartanburg study pedagra
PELLAGRAIN SOUTH reports physicians from the Rockefeller Institute New York and New York State Public Health Service join U S Navy Medical Corps doctors in Spartanburg to study pedagra. Dr Flexner says he is amazed at the disease's extent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Spartanburg
S. C
Simon Flexner
Peyton Rouse
Rockefeller Institute
New York
Doctor Williams
Albany
New York State
Medical Corps
United States Navy
Public Health Service
Flexner
Supreme Court rules on rail, pipelines, and trusts
The term ends with key rulings impacting railroads and business nationwide. The court upholds Interstate Commerce Commission rate power over intermountain lines and the long and short haul clause. Pipelines become common carriers, tightening regulation. A Sherman Act ruling targets a retail lumber trust and confirms railroad land titles in California. Poverty vows by religious orders deemed not void in property cases.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Supreme Court
Commission
Steel Mill On Full Time In Allegheny Brackenridge
Pittsburgh June 23 One of the strongest indications of a resumption of business in the steel industry was when Allegheny Steel Co Brackenridge officers announced department No 1 would go on full schedule The department has operated part time since last November This marks the first full week of full operation. Another sign was the resumption of the lower mills of American Sheet and Tin Plate Co New Kensington Officials expect the upper mills to be operating full time within two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Allegheny Steel Co
Brackenridge
American Sheet & Tin Plate Co
New Kensington
Denver Mint Holds Vast Gold Reserves Despite Shipment
A June report shows $25,000,000 in gold sent to New York for European shipment did not dent Denver’s vaults. Denver still held $575,000,000 in gold bar and coin after the transfer, far above San Francisco’s $264,000,000, confirming Denver as the nation's largest gold reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
New York
Europe
United States
San Francisco
Police Chief William J Burns Dropped From Honorary Membership
Grand Rapids June 20 William J Burns was dropped from the International Association of Chiefs of Police honorary membership. No official reason given though delegates informally decided to omit his name amid criticism of statements on police methods tied to the Leo Frank murder case in Atlanta.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
William J. Burns
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Burns
Leo Frank
Atlanta
Mine Disaster Kills 205 at Hill Crest in Alberta
An explosion of gas at Hill Crest Colliery in Alberta entombed 225 workers. 205 died, 20 survived. Rescue teams from Fernie, MacLeod, Lethbridge and Crow's Nest Pass aided, led by W R Wilson. The disaster devastated nearby communities and echoed the region's prior tragedies at Bellevue and Frank mines.
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Hill Crest
Alberta
Hill Crest Colliery Company
Fernie
MacLeod and Lethbrigg
Fernie Station
Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company
Coal Creek
W. R. Wilson
Crow's Nest Pass
Frank
Crow’s Nest Pass
Bellevue
Apples Aplenty in Light Washington Crop Report
Reports to the Department of Agriculture indicate a heavy Maryland North Carolina yield and the finest Colorado crop in history. Michigan Virginia Georgia and South Carolina expect good or above average crops. Insect damage reduces New England orchards and Indiana Illinois Missouri report injuries from late freezes.
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Washington
Maryland
North Carolina
Colorado
Michigan
Virginia
Georgia
South Carolina
Department of Agriculture
New England
Maine
New York
Indiana
Iwlinois
Missouri
Pennsylvania
Oregon
California
West Virginia
Delaware
North Atlantic
New Jersey
Middle West
Kansas
Two Aviators Die in European Air Tragedies
London reports two military aviators killed and two injured in separate crashes. Russian aviators Sopokine and Janwokie died at Gatchina when their aircraft fell. In Stockholm Lieutenant de Porst and passenger M Hygerth were seriously hurt when their machine crashed.
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London
Gatchina
Stockholm
Sopokine
Janwokie
de Porst
M. Hygerth
Crook kills Boston sleuth in cafe shooting
Lawrence Robinson, 32, a circus follower and suspected jewelry store robber from Grand Rapids, shoots Police Inspector Thom as J. Norton in a Boston cafe. Norton dies within thirty minutes. accomplice Joseph Duddy, 20, of Pittsburgh, arrested. Robinson wounded but alive.
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Boston
Lawrence Robinson
Grand Rapids
Mich
Thomas J. Norton
Robinson
Joseph Duddy
Pittsburgh
Norton
Missouri Democrat House Debates Dyer Gill Contested Seat
Washington June 19 The House devoted its session to the Dyer Gill contested election case in Missouri's seventh district. Democrat Michael J. Gill challenges Republican L J Dyer’s right to the seat. The Elections Committee recommended ousting Dyer.
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Washington
House
Dyer-Gill
Seventh
Missouri
Michael J. Gill
L. J. Dyer
Committee On Elections No. 8
Representative Goldfogie
New York
Dyer
Buenos Aires City Census Sees Populace Rise
Figures from Buenos Aires census show inhabitants at 1 560 163, up from 821 291 in 1900.
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Buenos Aires
ST. Petersburg
Borislawsky
London
Daily Mail
John D. Rockefeller
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
America
Earl of Euston
Duke of Grafton
Edythe Havemeyer
Henry Havemeyer
New York
Paris
The
Sorbonne
Girl Scout Wins $50 Prize for Heroism in Gas Rescue
Miss Doris Lipman of Savannah Ga received the National Red Cross first prize of $50 for saving a man overcome by gas while digging a well. She used the Sylvester method of artificial respiration and acted with courage and presence of mind.
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Washington
National Red Cross
Doris Lippman
Savannah
Ph D Hitter Elopes as Pirates Sign Star Recruit
Arthur Durgin earned a Brown University Ph D within a week and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He eloped with Newton debutante Annie Bernice Ferry, daughter of Mr and Mrs William R Ferry of Newton, tying marriage to the career move.
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Boston
Arthur. Durgin
Brown University
Pittsburgh Pirates
Newton
Annie Bernice Ferry
William R. Ferry
Wall Paper Firm Jane Way & Co to Quit Industry
William R. Janeway, president of Jane Way & Co the oldest wallpaper firm in the United States, announced plans to retire from the industry when current contracts expire. He cites foolish legislation and business uncertainty as reasons for the move, causing hazards and expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janeway & Co
New Brunswick
N. J
William R. Janeway
United States
Willard the Wizard Dies in Jail Jump
Robert Maloney a vaudeville actor known as Willard the Wizard leaped from the fourth tier to a cement floor in Cincinnati county jail. He was under indictment for first degree murder for the December hotel knife murders of his wife and child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard
Cincinnati
Robert Maloney
Cuero
Tex
Willard the Wizard
Maloney
Massachusetts farmer killed in timber quarrel
Charles Samuel Harris, 40, was shot dead by his brother James Harris in North Reading Massachusetts during a long quarrel over timber land. James surrendered to police claiming self defense after his brother attacked him with an axe.
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Massachusetts
North
Reading
Mass
Charles Samuel Harris
James
Dixon urges sane Fourth to curb Fourth of July dangers
Harrisburg report notes Pennsylvania led states last year with nine deaths and 482 accidents on the Fourth amid calls to ban dangerous fireworks. Dr Samuel G Dixon backs state antitoxin measures and municipal action, while A Nevin Pomeroy argues for a state printing plant to reduce costs and end ballot printing scandal.
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Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Samuel G. Dixon
Public Health
State Department of Health
Union
Commonwealth
United States
Public Service Commission Approves Northern Central Rail Merger Plan
The Public Service Commission approved the proposed use of lines and property of the Northern Central Railway by the Pennsylvania Railroad and backed a capital increase from 19 342 550 to 27 079 600. A valuation certificate will await the commission’s accountant review. Approval was also granted for Bethlehem City Water Company to sell property to Allentown and for Lehigh and New England to buy Crane Railroad stock from Empire Steel and Iron.
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The
Public Service Commission
Northern Central Railway Company
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Northern Central
Bethlehem City Water Company
Allentown
Lehigh & New England Railroad Company
Crane Railroad Company
Empire, Steel and Iron Company
Pinchot Tour Sparks Postal Blunder and Charter Battle
Pinchot found no notice for his Cumberland Valley tour after sending 200 postal cards to voters. Postmaster Long faced criticism as cards jammed in boxes and voters rejected them. Separate matter shows Pennsylvania Utilities asks Public Service Commission to block Lehigh Navigation Electric from Northampton Monroe and Pike counties without commission consent.
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Pinchot
Gifford Pinchot
Cumberland Valley
New Cumberland
Herman Long
Washington
Long
Publiic Service Commission
Pennsylvania Utilities Company
Lehigh Navigation Electric Company
Northampton
Monroe
Pike Counties
Lehigh
Public Service Company
Bell Telephone Objections Near End of Rate Hearings
The Bell Telephone Company nearly finished its objections to the proposed state rate schedule by the Public Service Commission. Adjournment was taken until September to hear opponents. Frank H. Bethell, Bell Companies president, testified on growth of the telephone business and the exchange concept.
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Bell Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Bell
Frank H. Bethell
Bell Companies
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E. D. Dietrich, Jr
Bay Parkway
Bensonhurst
Erasmus Hall High School
Flatbush
Young Dietric
U. S. Psychology Bureau
King
Blanquet
Eneral Blanquet
NAVY
Louis Springs
Answers Huerta
Roosevelt
Pellagrain South
Shippers
Intermountain
Commerce Commission
Standard Oil Company
Southern Pacific
Denver Mint
Oost Burns
Eneral Gonzales
Tampico
Gen
Pablo Gonzales
Thomas Cocker
Crook
Boston Sleuth
Goldfogle
Congress
Eloper
Arthur Durgin
DR. Dixon
A. Nevin Pomeroy
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