Repeal of Philadelphia Streetcar Ordi nances Sparks Row
Amid shouts of thieves and crooks the street railways committee referred four bills repealing ordinances granting 11 miles of street franchises to four Philadelphia Rapid Transit companies. Mayor Weaver faces opposition from citizens and his reform push as select councilman Ryan argues legality. The hearing drew lawyers, residents, and a tense crowd outside City Hall.
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Philadelphia
Freetcar
Frank H. Caven
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Republican Organization
Weaver
Fewyers
Councils
Select
Thomas J. Ryan
Select Council
City Hall Panel Seeks Opinion On Bills After Committee Vote
Police were summoned from the central station on the city hall sixth floor to the committee room on the fourth floor to restore order. After a heated session the committee voted 15 to 11 to refer the bills to the city solicitor for an opinion by noon Thursday.
First gunfire in defense of Washington at Fort Hunt
At Fort Hunt Virginia on June 14 the -inch batteries fired at 9 11 p m targeting a cruiser type enemy squadron near Marshall's Point three miles below the fort The fort illuminated the ship with a 60 inch searchlight and after six minutes of general firing Washington defenses ceased once the ship was constructively put out of action The week saw the battleships Texas Hartford and the gunboat Hornet sunk off Fort Monroe during heavy exchanges beginning at Yrmu and continuing for about thirty minutes
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Fort Hunt
Washington
Admiral Dickins
Marshall's Point
Fort Washington
Texas
Hartford
Hornet
Fort Monroe
Chesapeake
Yrmu
Baseball Scores From Northwestern League Nightaction
National League results include Pittsburg 6 Doston 0 and New York 1 at Cleveland 6. Cincinnati 5 over St Louis 1. Brooklyn beats St Louis at St Louis. American League games show Chicago 7 over Cincinnati 2 and Cleveland 11 at Philadelphia. Detroit 6 0. New York St Louis Rain. American Association matches Indianapolis 6 St Paul 8 and Louisville 2 Milwaukee 5. Columbus 6 Kansas City 10. Toledo 4 Minneapolis.
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Pittsburg
Doston
Ciears
New York
Cincinnati
St. Listis
Brooklyn
Chineton
Chicago
Atton
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Detroit
New York-St. Louis
Amirican Association
Indianapolis
St. Paul
Louisville
Milwaukee
Columbus
Kansas City
Toledo
Minneapolis
Fatal wreck on Southern near Golden Gate Florida
June 14 a special train on the Southern railway fatally wrecked near Golden Gate Florida. One man J D Johnson fireman died and five were injured: engineer William Gratz Henry Lancaster Alert Hayes Leander Thomas and W C Pesler. The engine left the track shortly after passing Golden Gate and overturned burying the fireman beneath wreckage as the cars toppled but sleepers stayed on the trestle.
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St. Louis
Southern Railway
Golden Gate
J. D. Johnson
Wiliam Gratz
Henry Lancaster
Indian Territory
Alert Hayes
Arkansas
Leander Thomas
W. C. Pesler
Cotton Belt Railroad
Killed by Divorced Husband in Mississippi
Aberdeen Mississippi June 14 Harvie Balding shot and killed his divorced wife and Harvie Hill near Carson. Balding, divorced last January from the woman, had remarried. He went to his former wife’s home found Hill there and killed both. He escaped and has not been captured.
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Aberdeen
Miss
Harvie Balding
Harvie Hill
Carson
Miss. Balding
Balding
Hill
Nan Patterson to Return to Stage After Backlash
Nan Patterson says she will attempt a comeback on the stage after being driven from it by hostile women critics in Pennsylvania. She asserts that acting is her profession and plans to resume performing.
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New York
Nan Patterson
Pennsylvania
Nan
Three Romanians injured in Highland mill tank explosion
June 14 report from the Highland mill of the Republic Iron and Steel company details an accident in a scrap pile where three Romanian laborers were cutting apart a carbonated water tank with steam shears. One man is reported to be dying from his injuries.
Trial Nearing an End in Crawford Conspiracy Case
The defense has rested in the Crawford conspiracy trial involving August W. Machen and George E. Lorenz over a contract to supply letter carriers satchels to the post office department. The government has one rebuttal witness remaining.
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Washington
William G. Crawford
August W. Machen
George E. Lorenz
Post Office Department
Son accidentally shoots mother during dinner in Florida town
Irving Blood, 22, shot and killed his mother Mrs Wesley Blood in Amsterdam’s Florida town after a rifle discharged by accident while the family had finished dinner. Police found no evidence of intentional harm.
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Amsterdam
N. Y
Irving Blood
Wesley Blood
Florida
Glass Trust Sells Indiana Factories As Blowers Farewell
The American Window Glass company offers ten Indiana plants for sale including sites at Greenfield Pendleton Elwood Frankton Anderson Redkey Dunkirk Fairmount with two at Anderson and two at Dunkirk. One pot plant was sold to Sneath Glass for 5000 dollars and is being rebuilt as a flint factory.
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Hartford City
Ind
American Window Glass Company, Or Trust
Indiana
Greenfield
Pendleton
Elwa
Frankton
Anderson
Redkey
Dunkirk
Fairmount
Sneath Glass Company
Lung
His Own Executioner
Frank Barker under Nebraska death sentence for murdering his brother and sister in law plans to perform his own execution. The Nebraska Supreme Court set the hanging for Friday. Barker told Warden Beemer he will pull the trap wire using his own hands to trigger the drop.
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Lincoln
Neb
Frank Barker
Daniel
Nebraska Penitentiary
Nebraska Supreme Court
Nebraska
Penilary
Beemer
Barker
Indiana G A R department commander race heats up
Madison Indiana on June 14 reports a crowded field for department commander with four candidates J M Barlow Plainfield M D Tarkett Greensburg Jerome Musser Anderson and J C Bozarth Valparaiso. Election set for Thursday as Madison postal posts vie for senior vice commander while Marion and Lafayette contend for the next encampment with Lafayette leading and Fort Wayne also seeking it.
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Madison
Ind
Indiana
J. M. Barlow
Plainfield
M. D. Tarkett
Greensburg
Jerome Musser
Anderson
J. C. Bozarth
Valparaiso
Marion
Lafayette
Fort Wayne
Woman leaps from window to flee burglar in nightmare
Miss Matilda Joachim of Minneapolis leaped from a third story window during a dream of burglars, suffering a broken arm and leg and internal injuries. She is at St. Marys hospital, largely unconscious but expected to recover.
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Minneapolis
Matilda Joachim
St. Mary's Hospital
Tragic Poisoning Endant In Clinton Township
Rosa Wick a 15 year old orphan dies in Laporte Indiana from rat poison taken a week earlier after a quarrel with the nine year old daughter of her guardian John Wothke. Illness blamed on heat and indigestion. truth revealed as she recovered.
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Laporte
Ind
Rosa Wick
John Wothke
Clinton Twnship
Miner killed in ghastly Dunn mine accident
Iron Mountain Michigan June 14 Edward Larson a Dunn mine employee was decapitated in a shaft accident. After completing a small job he tried to jump into a passing cage but was unaware of its approach. His head rolled into the shaft while his trunk lay on the edge.
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Iron Mountain
Mich
Edward Larson
Dunn Mine
Suit for damages against plaster makers over neck burn
New York June 14 a suit for 500 damages has been filed by Mrs Emma Klein widow against the manufacturers of a popular porous plaster claiming her neck and bosom were badly burned by one plaster making her unable to attend social functions in gowns cut low as demanded by convention
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New York
Emma Klein
Missionaries Return From Asia After Five Years
Miss Emma Martin a physician and Miss Lizzie Martin a teacher from Otterbein Indiana have come home after five years as missionaries in Japan and China. They traveled during the Boxer troubles and reached Pekin just before a massacre. En route they saw the Russian fleet on its way to be annihilated.
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Otterbein
Ind
Emma Martin
Lizzie Martin
M. E. Church
Japan
China
Pekin
Evansville Man Arrested in Poseyville for Uncle Assault
Frank Hiesson, wanted in Gentryville for assaulting his uncle with fists, was arrested at Poseyville four weeks after the attack. The victim remains in critical condition.
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Evansville
Ind
Jtee
Frank Hiesson
Gentryville
Poseyville
Asault
Fisherman Finds Pearl Worth 1000 in Mussel Shell
William Meadows a Montezuma fisherman found a pearl inside a mussel shell at Clinton Indiana on June 14 reported to be worth about 1000 dollars.
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Clinton
Ind
William Meadows
Montezuma
New Grounds for Divorce in Lincoln Case
Lincoln Neb June 14 A farmer near Lincoln John Nord was granted a divorce after his wife claimed he refused to bathe or groom himself. The court accepted his lack of personal hygiene as grounds for dissolution of the marriage.
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Lincoln
Neb
John Nord
Here
Nord
Mrs Elizabeth Simpson Dies at 203 in Evansville
Evansville Indiana June 14 Mrs Elizabeth Simpson who celebrated her 203rd birthday last March is dead at her home in Evansville.
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Evansville
Ind
Elizabeth Simpsohn
Lead instead of bullion tied to St Louis theft case
The supposed $25,000 worth of silver bullion stolen from a car in East St. Louis and tied to convictions is now reported by East St. Louis police to be only $290 worth of lead. The lead, en route from El Paso to the U S customs house in Chicago, had misled investigators.
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St. Louis
East St. Louis
el Paso
Tex
United States Customs House
Chicago
Peace talks pace as world departments await news
London anxiously awaits the next step in peace negotiations with no new notices from Washington, St Petersburg, or Tokyo. Japanese officials fear Russia may reject Japan’s demands while debates continue over plenipotentiaries and meeting venue. The plan to merge disputed territory is favored.
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London
Washington
St. Petersburg
Tokio
Russia
Japan
Merct
Incendiary Orator Punished in Nice
Leon Martel secretary of the local labor exchange was sentenced to three months imprisonment for making a speech in Paris May 31 praising the Lambs throws at King Alfonso. The remarks were deemed an act of courage by authorities.
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Nice
Leon Martel
Alfonso
Paris
Uninvited Guests at New Rochelle Prize Fight
On June 14, about six New York police officers broke up a prize fight on the outskirts of New Rochelle. They arrested thirty six prisoners including a principal, among 150 spectators in the barn. More than thirty shots were fired as chaos followed the arrival of officers and a scramble to exit ensued. The prize purse stood at $250.
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New York
New Rochelle
Jewels Reported Stolen From New York Apartment
Mrs. John Vance Cheney reports a casket of gems worth several thousand dollars missing from her apartment after hiding it there earlier. Police found no clues after exhaustive searches and questioning of house staff. the former Chicago librarian declined to state the value of the stolen jewels.
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New York
John Vance Cheney
Newberry Library
Chicago
Cheney
Britain and U S Decline Conference on Moroccan Question
London reports Great Britain will not join the 1880 Madrid conference unless France approves. The United States shares this stance and agrees such a conference is not the best route to pursue urgent reforms in Morocco.
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London
Great Britain
Morocco
France
United States
Gambler's Vengeance Strikes Greek Premier in Athens
Theodore P. Nel yannis premier of Greece was stabbed at the chamber of deputies entrance by gambler Gher karis. He died within three hours. The assassin said the act was revenge for Delyannis measures closing gambling houses.
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Athens
Theodore P. Nelyannis
Greece
Gherkaris
Chamber of Deputies
Delyannis
BriggS Granted One-Week Stay in Peterson Murder Case
Jocko Briggs who faced execution for the Hal Peterson murder on September 12 received a one week stay from Judge Barnes. The court said lawyers had not properly handled the case and sought to give the prisoner all permissible consideration under the circumstances.
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Chicago
Jocko” Briggs
Hal Peterson
Barnes
Thiggs
Railroads To File List Of Passes In Wisconsin
Madison June 14 The assembly has passed a bill requiring railroad companies to file with the state railroad commissioners a list of passes and related devices.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Cure for Rabies Found in Radium Rays in Italy
June 14 report from Turin details Professor Pizzoni of Bologna University curing an advanced rabies case by radium exposure. The claim attributes success to radium rays and cites Bologna University as the source.
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Turin
Italy
Pizzoni
Bologna University
Preliminary Peace Talks See Limited Progress in Far East
Washington notes cautious optimism on early talks between Russia and Japan. Officials say no hitch yet but days may pass before pleni potentiaries and meeting venue are fixed. The White House remains the communications channel as both sides seek a common basis.
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Washington
Far East
White House
Takahira
St. Petersburg
Tokio
Russia
Japan
Nicholas
Paris
The
Hague
Murderer Margel Charged After Miss Heller Death
Glen Carbon Illinois June 14 August Margel a thirty five year old Russian miner is charged with shooting Miss Josie Heller and wounding her father Frank Heller who refused to let Margel court his daughter No trace of Margel has been found at this time
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Glen Carbon
Margel
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