Killed In Auto Crash Among Police and Others
Telegraphic items report the death of Thomas J. Melinroe, a New York policeman, and injuries to four others when an automobile overturned near Coney Island after a passenger stepped from a trolley. Other notes describe a post office robbery near Leland, Mississippi, two drownings in Indiana, a Grand Rapids Flyer wreck in Michigan, Dupont Powder Company planning a Hartford City western HQ, a cattle disease killing a human in Louisiana, and the deposition of Rev. Wm. F. Hunt in Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Melinroe
New York
Coney Island
McEnroe
John Brohan
Olney
Leland
Tonneau
Michigan Central
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Jackson
Mich
Great
Hartford City
Dupont Powder Company
Ind
Middle West
Barbon
J. Breaux
Lake Charles
Breaux
Theophile Bergen
Sunday Turmoil and Violence Across Cities
Sunday reports a Pittsburg street car strike disrupts traffic and church services while a deadly explosion injures seven in Chicago. Other items include a fatality in Philadelphia politics, Tariff debates, a murder case in Maryland, and a plan for a student exchange among major nations.
Inventor's Wife Receives Divorce in Kansas City
Mrs Marguerite Dean was granted a divorce from Robert L Dean inventor of the Dean Telegraph. The couple, in a common law marriage, lived together five years with two children. She was awarded 750000 shares of Dean Telegraph stock as alimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marguerite Dean
Kansas City
Robert L. Dean
Deans
Dean
Nellie A. Cederland
Chicago
Dean Telegraph
Pittsburg Street Car Strike Ends After $200000 Loss
The Pittsburg street railway strike ended at 10:30 p.m. Monday after officials from the Pittsburg Railways Company and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes signed an agreement. It provides discharged men a proper hearing and promises to shorten swing runs, with union pickets called to duty at 5 a.m. and aims to prevent future disruptions to 400 miles of tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Magee
Pittsburg Railways Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Allegheny County
I T
Minotormen
Jury Convicts A. P. Heinze Brother of Copper King
Arthur P Heinze found guilty in New York of impeding justice by urging a United Copper Company clerk to dodge a grand jury subpoena. He faces a $500 fine or three months’ jail with suspended sentence until October pending production of removed books. He testified before the grand jury about the books demise and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IF. A. Heinze
United Copper Company
Gilbert Woodill
Lyman J. Gage
Secretary of the Treasury
Maryland
Beveridge
A. P. Heinze
Copper King
Katherine Clemmons Gould
Howard Gould
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Taft
Aldrich
Emmet E. Roberts
Edith Woodill
Robert E. Eastman
New York
Arthur P. Heinze
F. Augustus Heinze
United States Grand Jury
Mercantile National Bank of New York
Grand Jury
No. 74
Broadway
Ten Millions In A Dray Through San Francisco Streets
A dray loaded with ten million dollars in gold coins was moved Monday along Market street in San Francisco from the California Safe Deposit and Trust Building to vaults in the old city hall. Fourteen top truck horses pulled the load under guard of twenty five mounted police. City treasurer John E B McDougall rode beside the driver. The east wing of the old city hall, housing the vaults, is the only intact part left after the quake and fire of 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince
Market Street
San Francisco
City Treasury
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Old City Hall
John EB. McDougall
Cavalry Skirmish In Philippines Kills Five Moro Bandits
Capts. Bry att Rhodes and Anderson with Sixth Cavalry and the mosquito fleet under Capt. Signor engage on Pata Island. Five bandits are killed, several wounded, and others captured by friendly Moros. Jikiri remains at large after thirty days of strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jikiri
Bryatt
Rhodes
Anderson
Sixth Cavalry
Signor
Pata Island
Philippines
Jikuiri
Six Tornadoes Ravage Norton County Kansas
Six tornadoes formed in Norton county Kansas on Thursday afternoon amid sultry heat and rain. A infant was blown from its mother's arms and not recovered while homes and farm buildings were destroyed and timber torn. Phone lines were blown down and workers injured as the storms swept across the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norton County
Kansas
Hall
Frank Gentry
Supposed Murderer Dies in Shootout Noted in Maryland Case
News recounts the death of Emmet E. Roberts in a Back Creek chase after the slaying of Edith May Woodill in St Michaels Maryland. A letter in Roberts’s pocket mentions a plan for his body and property and a drinking party precedes the fatal events. Reports describe Woodill’s volatile career with ties to Lyman J. Gage and her later marriage to Gilbert Woodill and rumored romance with Roberts. The case links include Gage’s financial support and a broader mystery surrounding Eastman and Miss Woodill’s last movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith May Thompson Woodiil
Lyman J. Gage
St Michaels
Emmet E. Roberts
Robert E. Lastman
Back Creek
Roberts
Vinnie Braxcome
Care Klaw & Erlanger
New York
Maryland
Woodill
Minneapolis
Thompson
Washington
Paris
Baltimore
Harry Adams
Mount Vernon
N. Y
California
Dr. Caswell
Gilbert Woodill
Los Angeles
Gage
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the Tribune
Denver
Indiana
Dicer & Lacey
Bfe
M. Lae N. MM
Care
Cecil Galbreath
Estel Galbreath
Mississinewa
Marian
Wolf
Wm. F. Hunt
Presbyterian Church
Elizabethtown
Indianapolis
Second Presbyterian Church
Cincinnati Post
United States
Cuba
Europe
East St. Louis
Merchant
Durham
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Senate
Robert I. Hastman
Edith May Woodill
Prince von Buelow
John A. Logan
Col. Tucker
Busse
Mercy Hospital
Iowa
Canada
Great Britain
Joseph B. Klein
United States Atlantic
Hampton Roads
Ballinger
City of Racine
Waukegan
Baron Takahira
Eastman
North Dakota
Sault Ste. Marie
Rapid City
Underwood
Kled
Posse
Protege
Mrs. Woodiits
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