Died Under Science Sparks Court Case in New York
Mrs. Robert McBride a wealthy Christian Scientist dies of pneumonia after refusals to summon a physician. Her sister Mrs. Alice Chasma protests Christian Science care and is jailed on a disorderly conduct charge after a heated scene with brother in law Robert McBride and healer Miss Margaret Duncan. Coroner orders autopsy.
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Eddy Cult
Robert McBride
West Eightieth Street
Margaret Duncan
First
Church of Christ Scientist
Central Park West
Ninety-sixth Street
McBride
New York
Mrs. Chasma
Parts of Barren Island Plant Sink After Fire and Flood
A New York Sanitary Company plant at Barren Island near Jamaica Bay collapsed as the pier and storehouse sank with the ebb tide. Workers, mainly Poles and Negroes, fled as timbers cracked and water covered the building. Rescue crews investigated while parts of the island’s aging structures have a long history of disappearance since a breakwater was built twenty years ago.
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Jamaica Bay
York Sanitary Company
Pla
Cipbh
Houghton
Canarsie Olice
William
Het
Sanitary Command
Schmitz Offers Confession in Immunity Debate
San Francisco mayor candidate Schmitz offers a full confession on municipal graft in exchange for immunity. District Attorney Francis J. Heney and Rudolph Spreckels oppose granting immunity to the indicted mayor. Spreckels says he is not in favor of immunity, while Heney leaves open the possibility but declines to publish a position.
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San Francisco
Immu
Eugene
Rudolph Spreckels
Francis J. Heney
Schmitz
Re P
San Francisce
Spreckels
Heney
Bleachers Collapse Kills Boy in Jersey City Game
A section of bleachers collapsed at St. John's Baseball Grounds during a St. John's Club versus Lackawanna League game. Russell Neilson, 6, of 270 Van Winkle Street, died from a fractured skull and neck injury. his elder brother survived. Alexander Poppeweski, 11, of 1012 Newark Avenue, suffered a fractured leg. Four other boys were injured. no fatalities among them. Officials investigate the fall as workers assess the arena’s construction near St. Pauls and Tonella Avenues.
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St. John's
St. Paul’s
Tonnela Avenues
Jersey City
St. John's Club
Atham Club
Lackawanna
Wag Russell
Kill Neilson
van Winkle Street
Exander Poppeweski
Newark Avenue
Imporf
Natio Avenue
Lippge
Shipping Reported Near Rotterdam by Wireless
A Noor steamship reportedly sent a wireless report from east of Rotterdam about sailing time. The vessel was said to be 80 miles distant and due at its pier around 8 o clock yesterday or today, with further updates expected.
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Noordam, Incormin
Rotterdam
Tu¢Ket
Bell predicts aerial battleships and worldwide flight
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell says airships will soon enable transatlantic dining and Europe breakfasts. He foresees airships for war, including practical aerial battleships for America, with rapid development in commercial aviation to follow, as he travels to Oxford to receive a Doctor of Science.
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Graham Bell
America
Europe
Atlantic
Dr. Bell
Wright Brothers
Cape Breton Island
Bell
Oxford
Roosevelt to Run Dorsey
Ex Senator Stephen W. Dorsey arrives in London from New York and states that the next presidential race will feature Theodore Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan. He says Roosevelt is the likely Republican candidate and Bryan is the strongest Democrat, capable of raising a larger campaign fund.
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Taz New York Taxs Co
London
Stephen W. Dorsey
Arkansas
California
New York
Roosevelt J
Bryan
Roosevelt
Dorsey
Jand
United States
Mr. Bryan
Hughes
Sure of another Cardinal in Vatican move
Rome reports Bishop O Gorman traveled from Rome to America convinced the Vatican will create another American cardinal at the next consistory. He remains unsure who will receive the Red Hat and believes only one man fits the honor.
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Tom
New York
Trxs Co
Rome
O'Gorman
America
Vatican
Stromboli Violent Eruption Shocks Southern Italy
Royal Observatory on Mount Aetna reports Stromboli eruption ejecting ash and cinders that damage vineyards in Ricily and Calabria. Messina notes a strong explosion, window shudder, and fear of a repeat disaster as Italian news are limited by interrupted cables.
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Mount
Aetna
Stromboli
Ricily
Calabria
Messina
Lipari Islands
Taft Holds Machine in Ohio Republican Fight
Special to The New York Times reports Taft adherents claim they have captured the Ohio Republican State Central Committee from the Foraker Dick alliance. The shift follows defections from two districts and a majority now aligned with Taft. Walter Brown, former committee chair, will speak Tuesday possibly clarifying the rift and primary stance.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Taft
Republican State Central Committee
Foraker-Dick
Foraker
Walter Brown
Changed Famous Statues at Carnegie Institute Angers Locals
In Pittsburg April 28 artists criticize the Carnegie Institute Statuary Hall for lacking exact replicas of original works. European agents gathered two years of replicas, later altered by a dozen local sculptors who worked two weeks to satisfy the board of trustees, ending with approved changes.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Carnegie Institute
Statuary Hall
Europe
France
Italy
John W Beatty
Fine Arts
Institute
Pension City Horses to the ASPCA in Albany Bill
Mayor McClellan sent a bill to Albany that passed the Legislature empowering Fire Police and Street Cleaning Commissioners to place unfit horses with the ASPCA instead of selling them. Governor Hughes, a member of the ASPCA, is expected to sign as a law. Plans call for an old age program with a Long Island farm to pasture retired municipal horses.
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McClellan
Albany
American Society For the Prevention of
Fire Wagon Kills Brooklyn Boy Crossing Street
Battalion Chief Patrick F. Lucas of Brooklyn drove to a nearby blaze after his fire wagon struck Ernest Thompson a 15 year old at Fourth Avenue and Forty Ninth Street The boy died from a fractured skull at Norwan Hospital Doctors said he likely died instantly Kelley the driver assisted taking the boy to the hospital before the Chief continued to the fire.
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Patrick F. Lucas
Brooklyn
Ernest Thompson
Forty-ninth Street
Stanley Vinnity
Twenty-eighth Street
Thomas Kelly
Young Thomson
Fourth Avenue
Chief Lucas
Kelley
Thomas F. Lynch
Forty-second Street
Norwan Hospital
Biseman
Governor Buctell Goes to California for Rest
Denver April 28 Gov Buctell ordered by his physician to travel to California to take a long rest after strenuous legislative session. He departed accompanied by a small party as medical advice cited his extreme fatigue and prostration from the demanding duties in Colorado.
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New York Times
Denver
Col
Buctell
California
Faa
Colorado
Inquiry Into Insurance Forgery Frauds Surfaces
The International Policy Holders Association claims forged ballots in the Mutual and New York Life elections. District Attorney Smyth has received affidavits and twenty five original ballots. investigators say forged names and dead voters appear among the submissions.
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Jerome
John Doe
New York
Mutual Life
Mutual
International Policy Holders Association
Policy Holders’ Association
New York Life
Smyth
Association
George R. Scrugham
International Policy Holders’ Association
Scrugholim
Texas
A. 8
Grant
The
Scrugham
Board Fors
Crr
Selfth Street
Immigrants Cast Off Knives at Ellis Island Inspection
Report of hundreds of new arrivals at Ellis Island responding to an inspector's call to surrender knives and guns. A crowd tossed or discarded weapons, leaving a weaponless stream of steerage passengers and a noted shift in safety concerns on the dock.
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Ellis Island
Hillis Island
585-Pound Bridegroom Weds Lucia Allen in Georgia
In Waycross Georgia on April 28 Lucia Allen aged 19 weighing 105 pounds married W T Brinson aged 40 who weighs 685 pounds. Brinson a wealthy turpentine operator and member of the Order of the Biks is said to be the heaviest member of the order.
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New York Times
Waycross
Lucia Allen
W. T. Brinson
Brinson
Order of the Biks
Order
J H Smith's body arrives in San Francisco
The body of James Henry Smith of New York, who died in Kioto, Japan, aboard the Siberia, arrives with widow and the Duke and Duchess of Manchester. They plan burial in New York as Mrs Smith travels on. the Duke comments on a Scotland will leaving most estate to Mrs Smith and doubts of any later will.
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James
Henry Smith
New York
Kioto
Japan
Siberia
Duke
Duchess
Manchester
Mrs. Smith
Mr. Smith
Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Scotland
Plot to Kill Duma Member Sparks Easter Alarm at Odessa
Sixteen bombs found in a villa rented by Gov Kaulbars for summer. Local Constitutional Democrats learn Black Hundreds plotted to kill Ossip Y Pergament, Duma member for Kherson Province, on Easter visit to Odessa.
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Odessa
Gov. Kaulbars
The
Constitutional Democrats
Ossip Y. Pergament
Duma
Kherson
President Roosevelt Returns From Jamestown Expo Visit
President Roosevelt and party arrived in Washington aboard the Mayflower shortly after 1 PM. He stood on the starboard side waving to cheering crowds as officials welcomed them, and the presidential entourage then moved to the White House.
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Washington
James River
Roosevelt
White House
Edison Home Again After Florida Vacation
Thomas A. Edison has returned home after a Florida trip and will begin a new line of work focused on the purely scientific aspects of electricity. He pursued tarpon fishing during his vacation, with Mrs. Edison catching a large tarpon now being mounted by a taxidermist. Edison reports improved health.
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Thomas A. Edison
Florida
Mr. Edison
Women Teachers Urge Mayor on Salary Equality Bill
New York City women teachers begin action to press Mayor to sign the White bill granting equal salaries with men. Petitions signed by three taxpayers will be telegraphed tonight, at a cost of 75 cents. About 14,000 teachers involved, idea from Normal College in Brooklyn.
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New York City
Normal College
Brooklyn
Cortlandt Street Water Main Break Cripples Traffic
Ten inch water main in Cortlandt Street between Broadway and Church Street broke yesterday afternoon. Water leaked into the City Investment Building excavation, prompting authorities to shut water at Church and Broadway. The street remained closed with 300 feet torn up and timbers laid over the site.
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Cortlandt Street
Broadway
Church Street
City Investment
Governor Little's Health Probed by Legislative Committee
Senator John G. B. Simms will introduce a resolution to form a 2 senator 3 representative committee to inspect Governor John L. Little in a Corpus Christi sanitarium. The aim is to clarify his illness and report back before adjournment, amid calls to dispel mystery surrounding his condition.
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New York Times
Little Rock
Ark
John G. B. Simms
Chicot County
John L. Little
Corpus Christi
Texas
State Senate
Gov. Little
Our Need in Ports Says James Bryce in Ambassadorship
British Ambassador James Bryce reflects in Washington on Swinburne and Browning, recalling Oxford mutual improvement circles, the rise of Browning to fame, and pondering who will carry England’s poetic voice forward. He praises Swinburne's early influence and notes the era's shifting taste.
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James Bryce
New York Times
Washington
Swinburne
Oxford
Balliol College
Mutual Improvement Societies
Eton
Victor Hugo
Louis Napoleon
France
Thomas H. Green
John Nichol
R. S. Wright
T. E. Holland
Henry y.Nettleship
Walter Pater
Albert Dicey
England
America
Harvard
George Birkbeck
Johnson
United States
Browning
Herttie
Bishop Blougram
Tennyson
Aeschylus
William Wyn
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