Wild Stock Market Plunge Sparks Albany Inquiry
A two hour Saturday trading session in Albany saw 1,101,700 shares change hands the largest on a Saturday since 1906. Brokers condemned manipulation and called for strict investigation with emphasis on large blocks and unusual order matching. Some attributed activity to Thomas W. Lawson amid broad market unease and anticipated legislative scrutiny of the Stock Exchange.
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Hughes
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Thorugh
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Reading
Smelters
Union Pacific
United& States Steel
C. D. Barney & Co
Northern Pacific
Barnes Brothers
Thomas W. Lawson
Rock Island
New York Central
United States
Luat
Roosevelt on Battleships
President Roosevelt commented on Naval Board findings and battleship plans. He said the Delaware type ships show no unsatisfactory plans and North Dakota class ships are superior to any afloat. Officials at Newport and Newport Naval War College say work on Delaware remains ongoing with only minor plan changes discussed.
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New York Times
Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Naval Board
Newport
R. I
Delaware
Naval War College
Mail Clerk's Mixed Letters Delays Long Island Mail
A Long Island City to Babylon express mail run dumped mixed letters across Eastport Sayville and nearby stations causing a chaotic backlog. Postmasters rushed between offices to sort missent foreign matter and recover local mail delaying weekend remittances and letters to Babylon and the Hamptons.
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New York Times
Eastport
N. Y
Long Island City
Babylon
Amagansett
Speonk
Bay Shore
Sayville
Montauk
Amazonsett
Moriches
Hamptons
Long Island
Two Tunnel Workers Die in Lightning Triggered Explosion
In Valley View Schuylkill County a lightning strike caused a dynamite explosion in a 1300 foot tunnel under construction by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. Victims are Philip Ellinger 32 and George Hollenstone 23. Injured Morris Wolfgang sustained a shattered leg and possible fatal shock. Ellinger leaves a widow and three children.
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Pottsville
Penn
Valley View
Schuylkill County
Philip Ellinger
George Hollenstone
Malley View
Morris Wolfgang
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company
Ellinger
Hollenstone
Reverend’s plan to wed ten year old ends amid mental health concerns
The Rev. George Fitzhugh aged 67 planned to marry ten year old Tulu Virginia Frazier after a license issued at Ellicott City Md. The bridegroom suffered a heart attack and is under evaluation for mental troubles. The license will be returned and the girl sent back to Albemarle County Va.
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George
Fitzhugh
Tulu Virginia Frazier
Ellicott City
Miss Frazier
Albemarle County
Mr. Fitzhugh
Dismissal and Suspensions for West Point Cadets in Hazing Case
Secretary of War Wright announced President Roosevelt approved penalties for eight West Point cadets involved in hazing. The two first classmen Russell and Weaver are dismissed. six third classmen receive one year’s suspension without pay. Superintendent Col. Scott argued for harsher action to maintain discipline.
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Wright
West Point
Military Academy
Roosevelt
Russell
Weaver
William T. Rossell, Jr
William T. Rossell
Engineer Corps
Army
Harry G. Weaver
Illinois
George Washington Chase
New York
James Gillespie
Pennsylvania
Byron Quimby Jones
William Nalle
Virginia
William Wellington Prude
Alabama
Isaac
Supt
Scott
Academy
Sagamore Hill
Col. Scott
Russell and Weaver
West Point Cadets Begin Six Day Practice March
The West Point Cadet Corps will start a six day practice march Monday at 8 o clock covering about 100 miles. Lieut Col Robert Lee Howze leads 500 cadets in two army camps with Capt Oscar J Charles and Capt M F Smith as battalion commanders. The exercise includes mounted cadets and field artillery while Howze acts as chief umpire. Encampments are Forest of Dean Mines Highland Mills Burns property Round Lake and Arden.
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New York Times
West Point
West Point Cadet Corps
Robert Lee Howze
Oscar J. Charles
M. F. Smith
Charles
Smith
Howze
Forest of Dean Mines
Highland Mills
Henry Goff
Cromwell Lake
Burns
Round Lake
Arden
New York Philadelphia via Jersey Central 2 Hour Train
Schedule notice announces trains between New York and Philadelphia via New Jersey Central running every hour from 7 A M to 6 P M. Sleepers on midnight trains open at 10 o clock. Adv.
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New York-Philadelphia
NEW Jersey Central
Vanderbilt matron not to wed baron amid rumors
The Austrian Embassy in Portland denies reports that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt will marry Baron Otto von Hoenning O’Carroll this fall. Alfred Van derbilt and Reginald and Cornelius would not comment. The Newport rumor has persisted for a year with no confirmation.
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New York Times
Bar. Harbor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Otto von Hoenning O'Carroll
New York
Newport
R. I
Alfred Vanderbilt
Reginald
Tenyearold girl saves drowning boy at Rye Beach
Margaret Horton a 10 year old girl rescued Henry Freeman a 12 year old boy from drowning in the Sound at Oakland Beach. She dove fully dressed from her boat and dragged him to shallow water while witnesses assisted. Her father witnessed the rescue and the camp community praised her bravery.
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Margaret Horton
New York Times
White Plains
Rye
Oakland
Henry Freeman
E. P. Horton
Miss Horton
Oakland Beach
King Street
Horton
Freeman
Local Philanthropist Adopts Second Cousin
John N. Converse of Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia has adopted his second cousin Miss Alice W. Page in a Common Pleas Court ruling. The adult adoption makes Miss Page Alice W. Converse after both parents had died. Page, born in Chicago, has lived in Philadelphia for two years and will join Converse’s family.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
John N. Converse
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Alice W. Page
Audenried
Common Pleas Court
Converse
Alice W. Converse
Rainier and Flanigan Arrested in Connecticut Civil Action
Yale student Jack Rainier and Horace F. Flanigan were arrested in Stamford on a writ in a $500 damage suit by tailor Barnet Isenberg for an alleged beating. Rainier's father posted bond. Sept. 7 next court date. Rainier previously fined $5 for assault.
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Jack Rainier
Yale
Horace F. Flanigan
New York
Barnet Isenberg
Hendrye
Rainier
Jack
Runaway Horse Hits Boy In Brooklyn Street Crash
John Flaherty, 7, wheeling 11 month old Emma Judson on Smith Street, Brooklyn, when a runaway horse hitched to an ice wagon dashed up Ninth Street and struck him. He sustained injuries that may prove fatal. The infant escaped unharmed.
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John Flaherty
Ninth Street
Brooklyn
Emma Judson
Smith Street
Taft if Elected to Call Congress for Tariff Revision
Taft signals support for a tariff revision after the next inauguration and plans a special session of the Sixty first Congress to enact tariff changes. He discusses Bryan and notes prior speeches, arguing protection should guide any revision while correcting inequalities.
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Washington
Republican Party
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Nebraska
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Bath
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Ohio
United States
Roosevelt
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Maryland
Baltimore
Vorys
Tony Pastor in Serious Relapse at Elmhurst Home
Tony Pastor veteran vaudeville manager aged over 70 suffered a serious relapse at his Elmhurst L. I. home yesterday after a period of improvement. Dr. G D Farwell said the condition was grave but possible to endure the night amid a nervous breakdown diagnosis.
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L. L
G. D. Farwell
Pastor
Large Meteor Falls Near Ellsworth Kansas
A large meteor dropped three miles north of Ellsworth last night and lit the countryside for miles, bursting on impact and shaking the town for twenty minutes though no damage occurred.
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Ellsworth
Kan
One Dead in Auto Fall at Delaware Quarry
A speeding auto plunged over an embankment into an abandoned Delaware quarry near Buffalo. Chauffeur James Wayland died instantly, John Wakefield was fatally injured, and James Morrison seriously hurt. The car was reduced to splinters as the trio ran the Parkway at high speed.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Delaware
James Wayland
John Wakefield
James Morrison
Emperor William Struck by Postcard Joke
Kaiser jokes about value of his image after a girl on a Wilhelmsshohe country road offers postcards of the meeting with King Edward. The child quotes 10 pfennigs for alone and 15 pfennigs with Edward, and the Emperor laughs about being worth less when paired with another.
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Edward
Marquette Club to Launch Taft Sherman Campaign Cruise
The Marquette Club plans a lake port tour aboard the Theodore Roosevelt departing Sept. 10 with 500 guests. Stops include major Lake Michigan ports to boost Taft and Sherman with speakers Vice President Fairbanks Gov Deneen Senator La Follette Beveridge Alden-Smith and Congressmen Watson Boutelle. A sixty piece band will accompany the trip.
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Chicago
Marquette Club
Theodore Roosevelt
Lake Michigan
Taft
Sherman
Fairbanks
Gov
Deneen
Illinois
la Follette
Beveridge
William Alden-Smith
Michigan
Watson
Indiana
Boutelle
Woman Ablaze Robbery Suspect Arrested In Fire Incident
John J. O Connor of 114 Varick Street was arrested on a grand larceny charge after a gold watch disappeared from a burning woman. Complainant William Cavanaugh says the watch was taken as Mrs Mary Doyle’s clothes caught fire during a July 4 incident at 538 Broome Street and she later died in Bellevue.
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John J. O'Connor
Varick Street
William Cavanaugh
O’connor
Cavanaugh
Mary Doyle
Broome Street
Bellevue
O'Connor
Ban on Kentucky tobacco shocks Louisville market
The American Tobacco Company reportedly withdraws its twenty two Kentucky country buying agents. Louisville, long the world’s largest leaf tobacco market, faces a potential shift as the firm may relocate headquarters to Cincinnati and quit Kentucky. Officials decline to comment amid ongoing local unrest over night rider troubles and anti company sentiment.
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Louisville
American Tobacco Company
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Forest Fires Sweep Little Belt Reserve in Montana
Forest fires again erupt in the Little Belt Reserve of Central Montana burning over 1300 acres. A large force of forest reserve men struggles to control the blaze as assistance is sent from Great Falls and nearby communities.
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Helena
Mont
Little Belt
Montana
Forest Reserve
Great Falls
Dewey's Wines Shipped Express Across Regions
Dewey & Sons Co announces nationwide express and freight shipping from 138 Fulton Street New York offering wine delivery services.
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Dewey’s
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Coney Island Club to Run Autumn Meeting Amid Betting Debate
The Coney Island Jockey Club seeks to stage the Sheepshead Bay Autumn meeting with open gates if professional betting can be halted. otherwise gates may close and only stakes run. The plan covers eleven racing days with purses up to 300 to 1,000 and major events like the Futurity valued around 40,000. Executives say they will honor contracts and comply with the law, but refuse to be liable for violations.
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Sheepshead Bay
Robert Elder
Kings County
Coney Island Jockey Club
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Francis R. Hitchcock
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New York
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Philip J. Dwyer
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