Five Trainmen Killed In West Vestal Freight Collision
A Lackawanna freight train was rear collided near Vestal New York when a wildcat freight struck it. Five men died including John P. Kelly and S. R. Polhamus while seven were injured. The blast wrecked tracks and damaged nearby homes but spared residents.
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Binghamton
Lackawanna
Vestal
Here
Doubtie
Wildcat
John P. Kelly
S. R. Polhamus
Elmer Polhamus
John Coulter
Wildcat Tab
Fred Witherbr
Wildcat Freight
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Union
Susquehanna
Three Young Girls Drown After Skiff Capsize
A party of six on the Delaware river off North Essington included three girls Rosie Koons 17 Mary Koons 19 and Mamie Trainer 22 who drowned when their skiff capsized during a squall. Three men and other guests of the Federal Boat club survived as rescuers moved to aid them. The drownings occurred a few miles below Philadelphia.
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Delaware
Philadelphia
Delaware River
North Essington
Rosie Koons
Mary Koons
Mamie Trainer
Federal Boat Club
Drummer Finds Bonds Hidden in Old Letters
Hartford June 10 Arthur Warner a New Haven plumber discovered eight thousand four hundred dollars in railroad bonds inside a trunk he packed for travel. In Wichita Oklahoma a violent tornado on June 16 killed three and injured seven with property losses over one hundred thousand dollars. London June 10 The Daily Express Moscow correspondent reports the Russian government is arresting and exiling prominent revolutionaries including Count Brobynsky descendant of Catherine the Great.
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Hartford
Arthur Warner
New Haven
Warner
Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma
Kay County
Billings
Eddy
Tonkawa
Marcial
Jaude McGathey
Louis McGathey
Robert McGiffin
London
Moscow
Daily Express
Count Brobynsky
Catherine the Great
Self
Ont
Chicago
Robert Fulford
Jenne McCord
McCord
Egerton
Here
Fulford
Gertie AlcCord
Our Trade With Italy Chance For American Makers in Leading Cities
Washington June 10 Consul Smith Leghorn says Italy is expanding its manufacturing base especially in the north creating a larger market for American machinery and tools. Consul Cramer Florence notes imports include bicycles leather tools locks cotton oil tobacco and more while Consul Heingartner Sicily reports American revolvers sewing machines lard and oils selling well. The Catania branch sold 714 sewing machines last year. Consul Johnson Venice says Paris expo boosted American printing presses. demand for off cloth stoves and replies from merchants lag. Consul Jarvis Milan says American agricultural machinery dominates and tractions engines could sell. cash registers typewriters and canned goods spreading. demand for deep pattern stoves leather belts trunks and shoes. Office and house furniture and American cutlery and machine tools for iron and wood industries would find a market.
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Washington
Smith
Leghorn
Italy
Corsul Cramer
Florence
United States
Heingartner
Catania
Sicily
Johnson
Venice
Consul Jarvis
Milan
Fleeing Robbers Drown After River Chase
An American traveler Constantin Scandal was robbed on a French railway between Modane and St. Michael by three fellow passengers. He chased them, they jumped into the River Arc and all four drowned. The report mixes several other items including the Christian Endeavor convention plans in Cincinnati and local incidents in Philadelphia Nueva Ecija and other notes.
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Chembery
France
Constantin Scandal
Modane
St. Michael
Saint-Jean de Maurienne
Boer Refugees Visit New York Fund Drive
The Rev H D Breckhuizen of Pretoria and his brother Dr H J Von Brockhuizen arrive in New York to raise money for Boer refugee camps housing women and children. They describe dire camp conditions and claim the Boer army, now 15 000 to 17 053 strong, is arming with Lee Metford rifles and has buried ammunition for future use. A separate note reports $13,000 more of gold coin stolen from Mineral Point bank is recovered, with $5,800 remaining in currency. Two US Army prisoners on Governor's Island escape by raft and are later picked up in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
H. D. Breckhuizen
Pretoria
South Africa
Kruger
H. J. von Brockhuizen
Orange Free State
von Brockhuizen
Maxwell
von Brockhuizens
D. Ronald P. McKenzie
Vor Brockiuisen
Cape Colony
Wis
First National Bank
Jellef
United States Army
Governor's Island
Harry McGuire
John Winship
Drowned in Ten Feet of Water at Susquehanna
A Plymouth man John R Brizzy drowned in the Susquehanna River near Wilkes Barre after a boating accident Saturday night. The others aboard swam to shore. Brizzy could not swim and died in ten feet of water.
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Wilkesbarre
John R. Brizzy
Plymouth
Susquehanna River
Brizzy
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Burt
Northampton
Mass
Mabel L. Burt
Bridgeton
N. J
Smith College
Mary Brewster
Hanson
State Insane Asylum
Christian Endeavor
Cincinnati
The
Christian Endeavorers
Music Hall
Chestnut Street
Sarah A. Haggenbotham
University Hospital
Mary Wright
Haggenbotham
Nueva Ecija
Manila
Philippine Commission
Luzon
San Isidro
Jacob F Kreps
Twenty-second Infantry
Richard C. Day
Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry
de Witt c. Lisles
South
Russia
Charles H. Hoyt
Dubuque, In
Roosevelt
Colorado Springs
Colp
Transvaal
Lieut. Wrays
Sur
Logon
Atimonan
Tayabas
Mississippi
Dubuque
Julius Guderain
Nicholas Kalle
Baltimore
Joseph H. Ching
St. Mary's County
Guyther
Graves
Bowles
Abell
Lebmeyer & Berg
OLD Reliable
East Market Sr
York, PA
N. B
M.S. Hitcshew
Diehl
Eee Fi Fane Grorevivith
Corner Center Square
New Oxford, PA
Steiff, Steinway, Kimball, Whitney, Hinze, and
Others
Geo. E. Spangler
Farren & Water, Kimball, Carpenter, Wilcox & White
York St
Gettysburg
Otel
Merville E. Zinn
Center Square
Ives
A. S. Feiser
NEW Oxford
Mills
J. R. Hartman
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