Williams denies Atlantic City shooting link in long defense
Baltimore clubman William Williams faced detectives over the Roberts case, claiming he arrived in New York Tuesday and stayed at his Maryland home Wednesday night. He insisted he was far from Atlantic City during the shooting and resisted questions about his movements while investigators pursue conflicting testimonies. Mrs. Julia Belle Williams, society figure, stands by her husband as inquiries continue.
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Baltimore
Charles 5. Roberts, Jr
Alantic City
Atlantic Chay
Atlanntic City
Art Pines
Combiym
Williams Boon
Atllantic City
Luis
Wilson
Williams
Elnbmen
New Hines
Avhiech
Stig Aiat
Tank
Harry Thunmers Ia
Thomas A. Berney
Baltimore Police
Harry Wilson
Lanti¢ City
Bay 4 Fiers
Fidelity Building
William H. Dawson
Tvdce Dic
William
al T
Willams
New York
Europe
Haltimore
aMryland
Mitchell
Jam
eAid Ir
Sim
Hes
Lou Green
Stero Stern
Mike
Wilplace
Darrel
Burke
Towsig
Willison Fiuebrinte
James Hewson Muaniitee
Latiel
Aims
Longween
Julia Belle. Williams
Two Men Hurt in Gas Explosion at Williamsburg Saloon
A gas explosion at Michael Connor’s saloon on Nostrand Avenue Williamsburg seriously injured meter inspector John Strumpfer and proprietor Connor. The blast shattered windows, damaged stock and fixtures, and started a cellar fire quickly put out by firefighters. Connor estimated stock and building damage at 2000 dollars.
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Michael Connor
St Nostrand Avenue
Williamsburg
Nostrand
Park Avenues
John Strumpfer
Chauncey Street
Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Cumberland Street
Connor
Strumpfer
Boston Doctor Leaves Medicine for Convent life
Dr Laura A Hughes of Boston has applied to join the Sisters of the Holy Cross at their South Bend mother house. The move ends her career as a surgeon who served high society Back Bay patients and the poor North End, following training in Tufts and abroad before becoming the first Catholic woman physician in Boston.
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Specia
New York Times
Boston
Aus
Laura, A. Hughes
Jinghes
Sisters of the Holy Cross
South Bend
Ind
Hughes
K. Hughes
Back Bay
North End
Mary Stafford Blake
Vienna
Homeopathic Medical College
Tufts
Berlin
Tome
Slughes
Bull mollycoddle charges red auto on hill near Kennil
Aug 29 news from Kennil New Jersey reports farmer Henry Stoddard leading his bull Mollycoddle up Miner Hill when George Purdy and Marcus Hackett of New York in a red automobile approached. The bull charged sending the car into a ditch. occupants were bruised but unharmed. Purdy and companions sought a doctor in Hopatcong.
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Kennil
N. J
Henry Stoddard
Mr. Stoddard
George F. Purdy
Marcus Hackett
New York
Miner Hill
Mollycaddie
Tie
Bull
Mollycoddle
Mr. Purdy
Hopatcong
Union Pacific to seek mortgage refinancing at annual meeting
Stockholders will vote October 13 on authorizing execution to Equitable Trust Company of a first lien and refunding mortgage dated June 1 1908. The change aims to improve bond pricing for 50 million dollars of bonds issued last May and extend lien to railroad lines, with 200 million authorized first lien and refunding bonds, 100 million for refunding the old mortgage and 50 million for future issues.
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Union Pacific Railroad Company
Equitable Trust Company
Millar
Silk cargo arrives in San Francisco on Asia
The Asia docked in San Francisco with 2,660 bales of raw silk from the Orient valued at 2 million dollars. The silk will be sent to New York by a special train waiting at the dock.
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San Francisco
New York
Father tries to throw daughter from Chicago Auditorium tower
J H Shilling of La Grange seized his 21 year old daughter on the Chicago Auditorium tower observatory roof and attempted to hurl her to the ground. A ten minute struggle drew in elevator operator John Richardson and bystanders before detectives subdued him and the girl was rescued. Shilling was arrested and to be examined by city physicians.
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New York Times
Chicago
Auditorium
J. H. Shilling
North Catherine Avenue
la Grange
K ¥&Inkekee Insane Asylum
Shilling
Weather Bureau
John Richardson
Observatory
Richardson
Cannon
Rosenthal
Min
W Ce
Harrison Street
Gilbert White
Babe on convent steps witnesses brother marathon win
Alice Hayes a 15 year old Dominican Convent student found a newborn girl on the convent steps after a parade yesterday morning. She turned the infant over to Bellevue Hospital with a $2 bill and an unsigned note asking the child be christened Margaret Sweeney and cared for, with a promise of future support. The baby was placed in Bellevue’s infant ward.
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Alice Hayes
John J. Hayes
Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary
East Sixty-third Street
Trim
Miss Hayes
Ifty First Street
Bellevue Hospital
Miss .Hayes
Margaret Sweeney
Fire brigades form to battle Michigan forest blazes near East Tawas
Forest fires burning for five days between East Tawas and Au Sable threaten the village of Wilber eight miles from East Tawas. Residents and farmers organize a fire fighting brigade and deputy wardens aid in containment. Fires near Arenac have destroyed about a thousand acres of berries.
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Saginaw
Mich
East Tawas
Au Sable
Wilver
Wilber
Arenac
Rockefeller Jr Moves into Father's New Home in Tarrytown
John D. Rockefeller Jr occupies his father’s five story stone house on the hill in Tarrytown New York with the third and fourth floors furnished and basement occupied. The first two floors await decoration while the organ is not yet installed. The mansion costs nearly 1 million dollars and will be ready for the Rockefellers on their return from Cleveland.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Cleveland
Rocke ‘Feller
Hearst Hunts Candidate In Indiana Labor Rift
Hearst party in Indiana struggles to form a ticket amid labor union resistance. Three labor leaders Edgar Perkins Henry Friedman and Everett MacGinnis declined offers to run as Independ ence Party nominees and fund campaign expenses. Managers now seek lawyer Ross as a potential candidate.
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New York Times
Indianapolis
Hearst Party
Indiana
Organized Labor
Independence Party
Edgar’ A.perkins
State Federation of Labor
Henry Friedman
Agents’ Union
Everett MacGinnis
Central Labor Union
Perkins
Hearst
Bryan
Ross
Ruis Divorce Move Favored by Referee in New York
Referee George A. Wyre reported in White Plains that Antonio A. Ruis seeks an interlocutory decree of divorce from Mrs. Mary Agnes O'Brien Ruis. Alfred G. Vanderbilt was mentioned. Justice Arthur S. Tompkins will sign the decree after reviewing testimony. If no new evidence arises in three months, a final decree may follow. The attorneys plan to seek sealing of the papers.
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New York Times
White Plains
George A. Wyre
Nyack
Antonio A. Ruis
Mary Agnes O’brien -Ruis
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Supreme Court
Arthur S. Tompkins
Ruis
Justice Tompkins
George Young Bauchle
Manhattan
Russ
Hynes, Waytisch & Schaap
Tompkins
Luis
Sets trap for autoists on Main Street
Deputy Sheriff Isaac Bedell set a speed trap on Main Street in Riverhead. Nelson Moore paid a $25 fine after being cited for speeding. Albert Clausen, chauffeur for James Beggs Company, refused to pay but later complied after calling his employer. The Robinson children were in the car en route to a summer home in West Hampton Beach.
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New York Times
Riverhead
L. L
Isaac Bedell
Lane
Main Street
Nelson Moore
Hilcreth
Albert Clausen
Robinson
James Beggs Company
New York City
Clausen
Hildreth
Mr. Robinson
West Hampton Beach
Fatal struggle on top of Iroquois furnace in Chicago
Nicholas Vidoviom died in a hand to hand fight with Ivan Mealitch on a blast furnace platform at Iroquois Iron Company. Mealitch knocked Vidoviom to the pit with an iron bar and surrendered to a private policeman claiming Vidoviom had long planned to push him into the furnace.
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Chicago
Nicholas Vidoviom
Iroquois Iron Company
Vidoviom
George Detrick
Ivan Mealitch
Mealitch
Vidovium
Roosevelt Seeks Sealed Talk With Takahira At Sagamore Hill
Japanese Ambassador Baron Kogoro Takahira met President Roosevelt seeking a confidential briefing. He refused to disclose the topic, noting it would be released by Washington later. He commented on a prospective Japanese welcome for the American fleet and denied discussing a U S China alliance in that meeting.
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Kogoro Takahira
United States
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Washington
Japan
China
Russia
Sagamore Jill
Willet M. Hayes
Herbert Myrick
American Agriculturist
L. H. Bailey
New York State College of Agriculture
Japan Cuts Expenditures Amid Economic Stringency
Tokyo reports a cabinet decision to cut overall spending by 100 million dollars with 30 percent from the army and 10 percent from the navy budgets. The postponement of the international exposition is explained as due to insufficient preparation and lack of funds, with a new plan for a 1917 Expo tied to the emperor's accession anniversary.
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Tokio
Katsura
Japan
Ants disrupt Kneipp cure session in Fountain Park
A colony of red ants startled a group of St. Louis society girls at Fountain Park as they spent mornings in Kneipp cure treatments on the grass. The alarmed party jumped up while Charles L. Grandjean, a nearby drug store owner, reassured them ant bites were not dangerous.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
St. Louis Society
Fountain Park
Charles L. Grandjean
Lieut Bowen Convicted at Court Martial
First Lieut William Bowen of the Coast Artillery Corps at the Presidio San Francisco was convicted of neglect of duty and making false official reports and sentenced to dismissal. The President confirmed the sentence but, on General Murray's recommendation and with the Secretary of War's concurrence, commuted it to a reduction of thirty files in rank.
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Washington
William Bowen
Coast Artillery Corps
Presidio of
San Francisco
United States
Murray
Dewey's Wines Ad Shipped Nationwide
Local advertising note from H. Dewey & Sons Co. offers express or freight shipping of wines nationwide from 438 Fulton Street, New York.
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Dewey’s. Wines
H. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Union Leaders Meet in Conemaugh for Secret Railroad Talks
Leaders of major railroad brotherhoods gather at Conemaugh near Johnstown Pennsylvania for a secret meeting planned to start Sunday morning. Attending are W. S. Stone of Cleveland Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers A B Garretson of Cedar Rapids President of the Order of Railroad Conductors J J Hanrahan of Phillipsburg Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen P H Morrissey of Cleveland Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and T M Pearson of St Louis Vice President of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers.
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Jounstown
Penn
Conemaugh
Brotherhoods
W. S. Stone
Cleveland
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A. B. Garretson
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Order of Railroad Conductors
J. J. Hanrahan
Phillipsburg
N. J
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
P. H. Morrissey
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
T. M. Pearson
St. Louis
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Governor's Nonattendance Boosts Ithaca County Fair
Tompkins County Agricultural Society officials in Ithaca say Gov. Hughes will not attend the county fair on Tuesday. They credit his absence with reduced horse racing entries at nearby Trumansburg and Cortland fairs and note messages from horse owners across the state asking if he would speak. They expect Ithaca to attract three times as many horses as Cortland or Trumansburg.
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New York Times
Ithaca
No Y
Tompkins Couty Agricultural Society
Cortland
Trumansburg
Mystery Kiss at Trumansburg Fair Involving Gov Hughes
At the Trumansburg Fair a girl who kissed Gov. Hughes was revealed to be a show girl not a village maiden. Officials say the stunt aimed to gain advertising for future fairs. State Agriculture agents had shut two gambling shows before the governor's arrival and a dancer known as the Girl in Blue was removed.
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New York Times
Ithaca
N. Y
Trumansburg
Guv. T Hughes
State Department of Agriculture
Gov. Hughes
Fair
Blue
Bank Robbery at St. Eustache Nets $12,000
Five masked men dynamited the Provincial Bank safe at St. Eustache. They bound the caretaker as they opened the safe and took cash and negotiable securities while others watched. Citizens saw the robbers. two suspects were later arrested as detectives investigate in Montreal.
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Montreal
St. Eustache
Woman Struck by New Haven Electric Motor at drawbridge
Mrs. F J Bishop of New York was struck by a New Haven Railroad electric motor on the Cas Cob drawbridge in Etamford, Conn. She suffered injuries to her arms and two ribs and was taken to Stamford Hospital with her husband and son returning from a boat trip to Riverside. The family was crossing the footpath when the motor cars rushed west and hit her near the midway point, narrowly avoiding a fall into the river.
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The
New York Times
Etamford
Conn
F. J. Bishop
New York
New Haven
Stamford ‘Hospital
Riverside
Eos Cous
Miss Annie Peck Returns To Mount Huascaran Ascent Try
Miss Annie S. Peck of Providence Rhode Island resumes her attempt to reach the summit of Huascaran in Peru after a setback when illness forced a previous ascent to end at 25 000 feet. Huascaran is considered the Western Hemisphere's highest peak and rises above a volcanic group in southern Peru.
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Lima
Aus
Annie S. Peck
Providence
R. I
Huascaran
Peru
Music professor fatally injured by electric car
Covina California reports Prof F A Fitzgerald a Chicago music teacher and famed orchestra leader was fatally injured when struck crossing car tracks by an electric car. He was hurled 125 feet and died twelve hours later at a hospital. His wife was visiting relatives in Lamont Ohio.
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Covina
Cal
F. A. Fitzgerald
Chicago
United States
Fitzgerald
Lamont
Ohio
Battleship Montana Sets Unofficial Standardization Pace
The Montana completed an unofficial standardization trial at Rockland Me. sixteen runs over a measured mile yielded a best pace just over 91 knots. An engine room mishap slowed the time as Capt Reynolds noted. The ship sails tomorrow for Newport News Va.
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Rockland
Montana
Reynolds
Newport News
Maskette Wins Great Futurity at Sheepshead Bay
Sir Martin finishes second as Madden's colt Maskette captures the prestigious Futurity at Sheepshead Bay. Spectators describe a close finish with Maskette defeating rivals in a feature praised for speed and stamina.
Futurity Race at Sheepshead Bay Won by Maskette
Maskette, a Brown filly by Dissuise out of Biturica, trained by James Rowe, wins the twenty first Futurity at Sheepshead Bay over six furlongs for two year olds. Prize money totals $833,101 with $27,100 to the runner up and $4,000 to third. Helmet, Sir Martin, Perseus follow in the order of finish with notable odds and weights listed.
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Tur
Bettas
Coin
James R. Keete
Maskette
Jamies R. Keene
Sheepshead Bay
Broweht
Maskette Captures Unprecedented Futurity at Sheepshead Bay
James R. Keene’s filly Maskette won the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay amid a betting ban, with Helmet third and Sir Martin second. The crowd, estimated at 12,000, witnessed racing without wagering as Maskette led from the first quarter and tied the Futurity time record, marking Keene’s fourth Futurity win.
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Roberts
Husband
Willie” Williams
Thomas de Ford
Tally
Julia Bell de Ford
N the Widter
Williamses
St. Paul
Monument Streets
East Madison Street
Wilms
Sher- Joel
Swinn
Messrs
Thomas, Brank
John
Robert de Pord
Alexander Koyn
J. Swan Frick
Carel Hisson
Ralph. Parr
Oo. Howard Fiarvey
William Ml. Manley
Elkridge
Livison
Convent
Laura Hughes
RED Auto
Union Pacific
Lofty Tower
Chicago Auditorium
Maniac
Babe
Hayes
Michigan
Ear Disinfecting Co
West 45Th
J. D. Rockefeller, JR
Father
Tarrytown House
Hearst Hunts
Takahira
Anese
America
Oyster Bay, Saa
Baron
Army
Navy
Balk Kneipp
Lieut. Bowen
President
Ithaca Fair
Hughes Kiss
New Haven Bridge
Cos Cob
Miss Peck
Mount
Sir Martin
Madden
Colin
James R
Keene
James Rowe
Notter
J.lee
Helmet
W. Powers
Perseus
Butler
Mediant
McCarthy
Fayette
Schilling
Hillside
Ee. Dugan
McDaniel
Miller
Dissuise- Biturica
Coney Island
Sheepstead Bay
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