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Cranbury Press

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Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Jul 23, 1909

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Seven Killed as Five Story Building Collapses in Philadelphia

A five story brick structure at Eleventh and Market Streets collapsed during reconstruction for United Gas Improvement Company. Seven workers died and a missing man was reported with many injured. Rescue efforts used cars to transport the dead and wounded as subway service near the site halted.

Philadelphia Eleventh and Market Streets United Gas Improvement Company Alfred Davis Peter Fritz Paul Hanning Sigmund Lansberg Charles Larson Alvin James Haggerty Sax & Abbott Market Street Eleventh Street

Murder on vacation ends in double tragedy in Ohio

R Rosenberg, a cigarmaker from Cleveland, was murdered on Johnson Island near Port Huron. Hours later Frank W Elbvera, charged with the murder, died by suicide when arrest loomed. Sam Frisble was held as an accomplice after confessing details to Prosecutor Stewart.

Port Huron Mich R. Rosenberg East Thirty-eighth Street Cleveland Ohio St. Cleir Flats Jove Bodore Frank W. Elbvera Sam Frisble Rosenberg Stewart Bedore

Tragic Drowning Near Vancouver Inlet Instructress and Three Pupils Die

Teacher Gertrude Ankers and three of her girl pupils drowned at Burrard Inlet twelve miles from Vancouver B C. One girl stepped off a ledge into deep water. The others attempted rescue but were swept away by the tide.

Burrard Inlet Vancouver B. C Gertrude Ankers

Anthrax Epidemic Strikes Town and Surrounding Farms

An outbreak in Middletown New York kills one man four horses and forty cows. Theodore Wright of Gardnerville died after skinning cow hides and wrapping one around his neck. In Orange County 13 farms quarantined and 25 to 30 cattle deaths reported with vaccination efforts underway.

Middletown N. Y Theodore Wright Gard=nerville Wright Albany J. F. Devine Orange County Raymond A. Pearson St. Lawrence Franklin

Minister Foils Burglary At Trinity Church

Roanoke Virginia Rev W H H Joyce pastor of Trinity Methodist Church confronted a burglar in his study. Joyce warded off a hatchet blow and wrestled the weapon away, then chased the intruder who fled into the street dropping a pocket book with the name Dan Rice age twenty two on the card.

Roanoke W. H. H. Joyce Trinity Methodist Church Joyce Mr. Joyce Dan Rice

Italian man hanged in Louisiana for Black Waist Society crime

Leonardo Gebbia, an Italian, became the first person executed in Louisiana for a crime linked to the so called Black we a society. The execution took place at Hahnville.

Leonardo Gebbia Louisiana Wea Society Hahnville

Butter Corner Raises Prices In Pittsburg Foods

Pittsburg reports price manipulation by oleomargarine makers linked to Western Beef Packers driving butter to thirty to thirty eight cents a pound in August and forty two to forty eight cents in winter months. Aliens speculate Chicago stores hold 200000 tubs to blend as butter or sway taxes. Pure butter advocates call for tighter state dairy and food oversight to curb the surge.

Pittsburg Western Chicago Elgin State Dairy and Food Department

North Dakota Man Claims Heirship in Melrose Estate Case

Daniel B. Russell of Dickinson North Dakota asserts he is the son of Daniel Russell the Melrose recluse. He seeks an accounting and distribution of the estate valued around 700000. Russell faces opposition from William Russell of Melrose who contends he is the sole living son.

North Dakota Cambridge Mass Daniel Russell Melrose Daniel B. Russell Dickinson N. D William Russell

Notables abroad and at home mark spring events

Noted figures include Taft trip to a Beverly summer home, threats affecting Czark in Rome, and Governor Gilchrist addressing Tammany on South division. Ambassadors Reid and the Reid reception at Dorchester House, London, with an American Society dinner for the Fourth. Cambridge honours K B O Wilson. Takajira receives honorary LLD at Tinole.

Taft Beverly Mass Rome Czark Gilchrist Florida Tammany Society South Reid Dorchester House American Society London Louis Blumenberg New York City

English Jesuit Tyrrell Dies After Papal Punishment

London report states Rev. George Tyrrell, longtime Jesuit who split from the order over modernist views, has died. Tyrrell was condemned by the Holy Office for his religious writings and deprived of the right to administer the sacraments by the Pope in 1907.

London George Tyrrell Society of Jesus Father Tyrrell Holy Office

World of Sport Roundup Highlights Regatta and Boxing Notes

Cornell now holds all intercollegiate regatta course records on the Hudson. Uncertain who will coach Princeton track next season. R. N. Trane captains Wisconsin’s No. 3 boat. Langford struggles to find opponents. Jeffries clashes in talk of never fighting again. Hegella wins Emperor’s Cup sonderclass bouts Kiel. Angela IV takes second. Fieldh track team pursues sprinters amid many injuries.

Cornell Hudson Princeton R. N. Trane Wisconsin Langford Jeffries Johnson Ketchel W. A. Brady London Jeff Brady Kiel Angela IV Wat Johnny Muck Kes

Priest Helps End Four Day Strike at Standard Steel

In Butler Pennsylvania the Standard Steel Car Company plant returns 3400 workers after a four day strike ended through mediation by Father F Beczewski and attorney Levi M Wise. An accord reduces weekly delinquent rent deductions and promises wage considerations while troops are to be withdrawn and jailed workers released.

Father Beczewski

Black Hand Secrets Told by Chicago Youth

Tony Baffa, eighteen, from Mary three years ago, confesses to the Giusseppe Fallipelli murder and describes the Black Hand extortion gang. He claims membership in The Society of Justice and names accomplices Pasqualla and others, saying they waited outside a store with a baby before Fallipelli was killed on April 12. Police have made several arrests.

Chicago Tony Bafta Mary Hilline Giusseppe Fallipelli D Grace Society of Italian Societies The Black Hand Baffa Society of Justice Fallipelli Longabardi Paltipelli Pasqualla Pallipelli

Fight Over a Cow Ends in Bloodshed in Union Mississippi

In Union Mississippi a dispute over a single cow led to a street gun battle. FE J McDonald cattleman and his brother Peter were killed. Cornelius Chisolm and Joseph Miller were mortally injured. Murphy McDonald was seriously wounded. The McDonalds and Miller Chisolm factions had long quarrelled over ownership.

Union Miss FE. J. McDonald Peter McDonald Cornelius Chisolm Joseph Miller Chisolm Murphy McDonald

Mrs Addison Hayes Dead in Colorado Springs

Mrs J Addison Hayes daughter of Jefferson Davis died at her Colorado Springs home after a six month illness. She was fifty four and wife of J Addison Hayes president of the First National Bank of Colorado Springs. She had traveled South after her sister Winnie Davis died and was made a Daughter of the Confederacy in Richmond. Her mother, widow of President Davis, died in New York about two years ago. Injunction proceedings dissolving the Pressed Steel Car strike at McKee's Rocks Pa were dissolved.

Colorado Springs Col J Addison Hayes Jefferson Davis The Confederacy Hayes J. Addison Hayes Fite( National)Bank of Winnie Davis Richmond President Davis New York

Urgent Deficiency Bill Passes House At Washington

The House approved the urgent deficiency bill after four days of stormy debate. The total is 454,509 dollars, 20,408 dollars above the original, including 25,900 dollars for the President's traveling expenses.

Taft House Washington BD. C

Taft's Far East Policy Read as Assertive by Pe kin

A note from Pe kin suggests President Taft intends to project American influence in the Far East by sending a new diplomat to Cinta man. The interpretation implies a stronger U S presence in Asian affairs and diplomacy.

Far East Taft Cinta Man Pekin America

Boy Huling Shoots Friend in Fatal Snow Woodchuck Error

In Hartford Connecticut a seventeen year old, George Huling, fired at what he believed was a woodchuck and killed his companion Ralph Whitaker, sixteen, instantly. Whitaker had been visiting the Huling family in Hampton. Huling was placed under nominal arrest.

Ling Hartford Conn George Huling Ralph Whitaker Whitaker Cincinnati Ohio Huling Hampton Juling

Earthquake Ravages Greek Villages Killing Dozens

A severe quake in Greece demolished dozens of homes across Vavard village and surrounding areas in Elis province. Thirty to forty people reportedly perished with many injured as tremors toppled houses in Patras Pyrgos Lalas and Tripoli causing widespread damage to Amalutva.

Athens Greece Vavard Elis Patras Pyrgos Lalas Tripoli Tfavarl

German bigamist Johnson jailed for seven years at San Quentin

San Francisco reports 64 year old Christian Johnson, a German horse buyer dubbed a bigamy expert, has been moved from San Jose to San Quentin to serve seven years. He claims to have married dozens, mainly Western women, and to have profited from their funds, with several marriages tied to money. He named aliases and described a pattern of duping women across the country.

Bigamist Johnson San Quentin Prison San Francisco Cal Christian Johnson Johnson San Jose San Quentin New York New Jersey New England Julia A. Fredericks Freeport B. 1 Portland Ore

Pigeons Break 12-Year Flight Record to North Bay

Pigeons owned in Baltimore set a new mark for homing birds by covering 510 miles from Baltimore to North Bay Ontario in nine hours and seventeen minutes. The first arrival completed the distance at an average speed of 1600.06 yards per minute, beating the prior record of 1049 yards per minute.

Baltimore Southern Federation of Homing Pigeon North Bay Ont Air Line

Notes of the Mamona and Baseball Moves

The text lists several MLB and minor league items. Red Murray excelling in pinch, O Hara with Giants praised as a graceful fielder, Simmie Canavan scouting for Detroit in the Southern League. Hughes noted for big curves when on, Dode Criss as pinch hitter with St. Louis Browns, Coffey from Fordham connected to Boston. Albany Glut releases Bolge and Timmy Wilson. Bowerman plans to trade to the Giants for two young players. Macon club signs Shaw from Savannah.

Mamona Red Murray Senators New York City O'Hara Giants dSimmie Canavan Detroit Hughes Dode Criss St. Louis Browns Boston John Coffes Fordham Albany Glut New York League Andruw Bolge Tiimy Wilson Bowerman Hostons Gants

Inventor Lavelle Company Plans English Night Airship Venture

The Daily News reports Dr. Boyd, inventor of the Night Flying Machine, forming a private English airship company with £250,000 capital to hold patents. He anticipates daylight trials in about a month as flights continue at night.

Lavelle Company London The Daily News Dr. Boyd Boyd

Miss Crawford invents new feast term muncheon

Miss Crawford coins the word muncheon to describe one of Horace Mletcher’s feasts. Miss I Claggett elected assistant secretary of the Natchez chamber. Ag women refuse exclusive car policy in Hudson tunnel. company ends it. Cora W Rose dies in poverty in New York City. An undertaker tends the Potters’ child in the absence of a German husband. Maude Adams plans a Ireland vacation as she gears up for a busy season. Lady Grey and Newton linked to government roles amid a scarlet fever incident at Government House Ottawa. Mrs WC Grant and Miss CAL Baker tour New York return from a 30 000 mile world trip. Mrs Stephen Bilcing from West Virginia and Miss Katherina Ecies arrive in Ant ey on the Lapland from New York.

Miss Crawford Horace Mletcher Miss I. Claggett Chamber of Commerce of Natchez Mitch Hudson Tuns Mia Cora W. Rose New York City Maude Adams Ireland Lady Grey Newton Government House Ottawa WC Grant Tiss Cal Baker Sf Tors Stephen Bilcing West Virgiia Katherina Ecies Antey Lapland New York

Taft Explains Tariff Attitude on Raw Materials

President Taft outlined a downward tariff revision stance while resisting full free listing of coal iron ore hides and oil. He urged case by case judgments based on evidence to balance Republican promises with national interests and demanded protection only where needed.

Washington, D. C White House House Taft Young Michigan Mondell Wyoming Gaines Sturgiss Hubbard Woodyard West Virginia Langley and Edwards Kentucky Kennedy Kelfer Johnson Joyce Ohio Tener Bates Barchfeldt Pennsylvania Cowles Grant North Carolina Austin Tennessee Hayes California Hamilton Slemp Virginia Reaure Mandell Canada Republian Republican Party Congress

Bishop Shanley Found Dead in Fargo Residence

Bishop John Shanley of the North Dakota Roman Catholic diocese was found dead in his room at the Episcopal residence from apoplexy. Born in Albion New York in 1852 he studied at the College of the Propaganda in Rome and earned a DD in 1874.

Fargo N D John Shanley North Dakota Shanley Albion N.Y St Pau College of the Propaganda Rome

Woman 72 Found Dead in Ulster County Home

Miss Emma Brooks, seventy two, was murdered in her secluded Hirkland area home in Ulster County. Her throat was cut from ear to ear and three hundred dollars she kept in her wrapper pocket was stolen. Authorities suspect a rampaging felon who had been driven off her trust firm earlier that afternoon.

Poughkeepsie, NO Y Emma Brooks Hirkland Ulster County Berry Pleler Earler

Town Renames Itself Rockefeller to Area

The Village Board voted to change the town name from Rockefeller to Area. The decision coincided with the corner stone laying of the first building at Sheldon University and cites Rockefeller as the namesake. The new name is tied to the town motto Ability Reliability Energy and Action.

Rockefeller Felter, Wi Villag Sheldon University John 2. Rockefeller

Hudson and Manhattan tunnels open linking New York and New Jersey

Large crowds gathered as the first Hudson and Manhattan Railroad passenger train ran under the Hudson River from New York to Jersey City. W. G. McAdoo led the opening events with tickets exchanged at Cortlandt Street and Exchange Place. Taft praised the achievement, noting reduced ferry times and a boost to commerce and real estate as the system expands across Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark.

New York City Jersey City Church Streets W. G. McAdoo Tunnel Company Cortlandt Street Exchange Place Pennsylvania Railroad Harvey Fisk Pennsylvania Railroad Company Church, Cortlandt Dey and Fulton Streets Erie and Lackawanna Hudson Terminal Church and Cortlandt Streets McAdoo George Jersey Manhattan Dee Pennsylvania New York Hudson Hoboken Jersey Shore Newark Taft Hudson River New Jersey

Matthew Gill Jr. Found Dead in Radnor Driveway

Matthew Gill Jr. a wealthy retired ironmaster of Philadelphia was found dead in the Radnor Pennsylvania driveway with a bullet wound to the head a revolver nearby and police report he killed himself.

Matthew Gill, Jr Matthew Gil, Jr Philadelphia Radnor Mr. Gill

Americans to Build Gun Works at Melbourne

The Commonwealth Government of Australia accepts an American firm's tender to construct a small arms factory in Melbourne. The project marks a major defense industry investment and expands Australian manufacturing capacity. The American company wins the contract and will oversee the build and initial operation.

Melbourne Australia

Deaths From Separate Accidents Reported In North America

Head of Coffin Trust, W M Chappel, president of the National Casket Company, was instantly killed in an automobile accident two miles west of Canastoga New York on the State turnpike. In a separate event, Weston Pry and Thomas Harrison were killed and eight others injured when lightning struck during a storm as they watched a ball game between Deadwood and Lead teams in Lead.

Coffin Trust Wim Chappel Oneida National Casket Company Canastoga NS. Y Deadwood Weston Pry Thomas Harrison Othas

Kiss Allegations and No Damages In New Jersey Suit

Mrs. Joseph Rosenberg failed to win $500 in a suit against Franke Applebaum the Paterson druggist accused of kissing her in a prescription room. Applebaum denied the kiss and testimony by Belle Blosky supported him. The case aired in District Court with Rosenberg weeping as she recounted the incident.

Bult Joseph Rosenberg Paterson Franke Applebaum Applebaum

Roberts Introduces BE Drafting AW Young Men Late Army

London. The National Service bill introduces compulsory service to the Territorial Army for all males eighteen to thirty. In the Lords, Lord Roberts spoke in support, warning of weak defenses and empire threats while denouncing current policy.

Roberts London House of Lords Piebd Marshal Lord Roberts Joberts

Four Paterson youths in joy ride crash kill one on way to hospital

Four young men from Paterson in a double seated surrey collide with a pedler's wagon. William Gery dies an hour after reaching General Hospital Paterson. Other victims Ray Ball Frank Murray and Cornelius Breen are seriously injured. Pedler Nicholas Quick driver of the wagon is uninjured. Both vehicles wrecked.

Paterson William Gery General Hospital Ray Ball Godwin Street Frank Murray Auburn Street Twelfth Avenue Cornelius Breen Pedler Nicholas Quick

Saw the First Steamboat Veterans Longevity Notice

Vineland obituary for James Samuels aged ninety eight years and twenty six days. London native who witnessed the first steamboat and first notable railroad track and helped build earliest railway carriage. Immigrant to America as a youth, rarely ill, died in peaceful sleep after decades shoe manufacturing.

Janes Samuels Vineland London England America

Auto tumbles on steep hill near Green Pond. Mrs Harding killed

An auto at sixty miles per hour tumbled down a hill near Green Pond about twenty miles from Paterson. Mrs. William F. Harding was crushed to death. her children Frederick, Mabel, Alfred, and Esther suffered injuries, with varying severity. Other items note Le Clerc bail release, a Burlington shooting by a boy, and local agricultural and social notes.

Green Pond Paterson William F. Harding

Ten Drown When Little Sloop Capsizes Off Staten Island

A nine ton sloop named Roxana carrying Brooklyn Swedish Americans overturned in a sudden squall off Norton's Point, Staten Island. Ten people drowned, including two young girls and three women. Survivors, many from Brooklyn, were treated at Smith Infirmary. alcoholic excess cited as a factor. The vessel was owned by Sigmund Sameason and captained by Jacob Sameason of Atlantic Highlands.

St. George Staten Island Brooklyn Norton's Point Ores Selinah Samenson East Fifty-sixth Street Manhattan Ella Olsen Clarkson Street Platbush Olga Johanny Johnson McDonough Street Thora Hendrickson First Place Carrie Knudsen Second Place Nils Christiansen East Twenty-first Street Manhhattan Jacob Samenson Atlantic Highlands Anna Jacobson Kingsland Avenue Abram Sameason Union Samenson South Beach Roxana Sigmund Sameason Jacob Sameason Jacob Mra. Knudsen

Three Strikers Shot in Butler Lycoming Clash

In Lyndora Butler County Pennsylvania a detachment of State Constabulary arrived to guard Standard Steel Car Company property. A clash with mounted troopers left one striker fatally wounded and several others injured as 13 alleged leaders were arrested amid a mass walkout by 600 Standard Wheel Company workers joining 2500 strikers.

Standard Steel Car Company Butler

New Shah on Persian Throne Amid National Assembly

In Teheran Persia the Shah Mohamed Ali was dethroned and Crown Prince Sultan Ahmed Mirza twelve years old was proclaimed Shah by the National Assembly in Parliament Square. The deposed ruler sought refuge at the Russian summer legation Zerzende protected by Cossacks and Sepoys. Azad el Mulk was named Regent as a minority regent government forms. Also reported: Mrs Ejla Marvel of Wareham Mass fatally injured in Atlantic City auto crash. Leo J Carnell arrested as chauffeur. Count Von Arco-Valley Brazilian German minister died suddenly in Rio Janeiro.

Teheran Persia Mohamed Ali Shah Sultan Ahmed Mirza Wan Prior National Assembly Mujte Hilda Parliament Square Zerzende Azad el Mulk Kajar Ejla Marvel Wareham Mass Atlantic City N. J Leo J. Carnell Isaac Baker Count von’ Arco-Valley Rio Janeiro Brazil Count von Arco-Valley

Drownings in Peoria Fishermen Brother and Sister Die

Singer Jeannetta Dolan and her brother James Dolan of Chillicothe Ohio were fishing at Peoria when they attempted to change seats in a boat. the vessel capsized and both drowned.

Singer Het Brother Jeannetta Dolan Richard Carle James Dolan Chillicothe Ohio Peoria

Alabama Man Killed For Trying to Obtain Pardon For Convicte

Montgomery scene reports a state senator Oscar O Bayles shot and killed in Monroeville by Davids K Smith amid efforts to obtain pardons for Isaac and Jesse Shirley serving terms for killing Jin Smith, brother of the shooter. Constantinople notes Prince Suleyman Effendi, brother of the Sultan, died of heart failure born 1860. Bishop Williams in New York preached against Rockefeller Jrs Bible class teaching at St Bartholomew's Church.

John D Bishop Williams Michigan St. Bartholomew's Church New York City John D. Rockefeller, Jr Montgomery Oscar O. Bayles Davids K. Smith Monroeville Bayles Isaac Jesse Shirley Jin Smith David Constantinople Suleyman Effeldi Turkey

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