Hurlbut in Critical Condition After Street Car Crash
George C. Hurlbut librarian of the American Geographical Society and editor of Geographical Bulletin and his daughter Miss Thone Hurlbut were injured when a taxicab carrying them was struck by a westbound street car on the Eighty sixth Street Transverse Road in Central Park. They were taken to Presbyterian Hospital in unconsciousness. Mr. Hurlbut, 70, suffered a compound skull fracture and faces slim hope of recovery. Miss Hurlbut has less serious injuries. The chauffeur Agg and trolley motorman James Gannon were arrested for felonious assault but released on bail.
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George C. Hurlbut
American Geographical Society
Society
Geographical Bulletin
Thone Hurlbut
Eighty-sixth Street Transverse Road
Central Park
Presbyterian Hospital
Hurlbut
Mr. Hurlbut
West End Avenue
Elliot
Miss Hurlaut
James Gannon
Third Avenue
Arsenal Station
Agg
Gannon
Paris
Auto Plows Into Streetcar On Williamsburg Bridge
A high powered auto driven by Napoleon Beaulieu struck a westbound Twenty third Street streetcar near Clinton Street after leaving the Williamsburg Bridge. Five men in the auto and three passengers escaped serious injury. Beaulieu, claiming to chauffeur for James Doig of 996 Park Ave Brooklyn, was arraigned for reckless driving and fined five dollars.
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Manhattan
Williamsburg Bridge
Napoleon Beaulieu
Macon Street
Brooklyn
Clinton Street
Altough
Beaulieu
James Doig
Park FM
Delano
Auto
James Hasty
Halsey Street
James E. Brande
Herman Turk
Moore Street
Bridge
John, O’brie
Street Railway Company
Essex Market
Droege
Roosevelt Lion Hunt Plans With Selous Near Mombasa
F C Selous describes how he will join Theodore Roosevelt in East Africa without sharing hunts. Roosevelt's party will travel with native bearers across East Africa for three months, while Selous and McMillan split to hunt separately. Lions, giraffes, antelopes and buffaloes are expected, with elephants in Uganda.
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New York Times
London
F. C. Selous
Mr. Roosevelt
Mombassa
East Africa
Uganda
Worplesdon
William McMillan
McMillan
Roosevelt
Wife Arrested After Man Found Dead With Stab Wounds
Samuel McCredie a house decorator was found with multiple stab wounds in his West Forty-eighth Street tenement. Police detained Jennie McCredie and son Harry McCredie as suspicious persons while Acting Captain Kelly questioned the family’s account of suicide.
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Kelly
West Forty-seventh Street
Samuel McCredie
McCredie
West Forty-eighth Street
Jennie McCredie
Harry McCredie
West Fortyseventh Street
Willie
Carnegie's Christmas Message From Home
Andrew Carnegie spends Christmas at his Fifth Avenue home with family and visitors. The message greets the nation praising Taft as future president, praises indemnity from China, goodwill with Japan and Venezuela, and notes improved business and prospects for the country.
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Mr. Carnegie
Mr. Taft
China
Republic
Japan
Venezuela
Fatal Auto Race Kills Chauffeur in Oakland
In Oakland on Foothill Boulevard a high speed race left William L. Mowrey dead when his car skidded struck a curb and overturned. A. Jorgensen, Miss Mary Jorgensen, and Mary Jensen were severely injured as the other car driven by John Morgan fled the scene.
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Oakland
Cal
William L. Mowrey
Jorgensen
Mary Jorgensen
Mary Jensen
Mowrey
John Morgan
Mowery
Miners Riot Kills Marshall As Hotel Burns Near Somerset
Deputy U S Marshal Mosingale was killed and five posse members plus six miners seriously wounded in a riot at the R L Stearns Company mining camp near Somerset. The Stearns hotel sheltering federal officers burned as miners barricaded themselves to resist an injunction to halt interference with mine workers. Gov. Wilson ordered militia ahead of possible federal troops. authorities pledged to enforce law and order. Stearn's mines are owned largely by a Detroit syndicate.
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New York Times
Frankfort
United States
Mosingale
R. L. Stearn
Somerset
Stearns
Cochran
Maysville
Oye
Wilson
Waddell
Tobacco
Hopkinsville
Whitley County
Stearn
Detroit
MAY INDICT PACKERS IN FEDS GRAND JURY
Chicago December twenty fifth report says United States District Attorney Sims expands the probe into big packing firms. Special agents from the Interstate Commerce Commission and Secret Service will aid in examining possible tacit price fixing and market division schemes. The grand jury convenes Monday as hearings target Nelson Morris and other railroads for subpoenas and testimony next week.
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Chicago
United States
Sims
Grand Jury
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Secret Service
Department of Justice
Federal Grand Jury
Rping
Nelson, Morris Co
Ship Afire Four Days Off Saba Dutch West Indies
The steamer Munin arrived from St. Kitts reporting a four day fire in her fore hold while at sea. Crew battled the blaze for days before heading to St. Kitts for aid to extinguish the flames. Both cargo and vessel were badly damaged.
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Munin
St. Kitts
Venezuelan
Larzen
Saba
Dutch West Indies
Doctor killed in ambush outside Sturgiss store
Dr T Richardson was shot to death in front of his store in Sturgiss Michigan in an ambush. Police pursued the suspect, a man named W Mbbs was arrested and later released on bond as searches continue. Hospital Sunday is urged with a church offering to aid the sick poor.
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Sturgiss
Mich
Dr. T
Richardson
Polgzes
W. M.bbs
Place your order with your newsdealer today
In order not to miss the many notable features of Sunday's Times, advertised elsewhere, readers are urged to place their orders with local newsdealers today.
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Times
Paris President Falieres Attacked by Royalist Madman
Paris on December 25 witnessed President Falieres and aides attacked as a poorly clothed man leapt at him from behind near the Rue de l Etoile. Col Lasson and Secretary Ramondou fought off the assailant, who was jailed as Jean Mattis a 24 year old Savoie native.
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Paris
Armand Falligres
M. Ramondou
Col. Lasson
Elysée Palace
Rue de l’Etoile
M. Falliaéres
Ramondou
Falliéres
Jean Mattis
Department of Savoie
Mercier
Duke of Orleans
la Patrie Francaise
Mattis
Mattias
la Libre Parole
Action
Steinheil
Faure
Dreyfus
Edward
England
Mezinin
M. Fallières
Loupillon
Quarrel on Ice Ends With Rescue at Wood's Lake
Miss Louise Radle and Charles Irwin skated apart after an argument on Wood's Lake New Jersey. Radle sank through thin ice but Irwin swam to shore and pulled her to safety using a fence rail. Both were hauled to land and Miss Radle recovered from chill and shock.
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New York Times
Wood's Lake
N. J
Louise Radle
Charlies Irwin
Miss Radle
Irwin
Secret Christmas Coat Leads to Subway Knife Attack
Fredric E. Belscher, a music publisher secretary, bought a sealskin coat for his wife as a Christmas gift. On a subway ride she is stabbed by a concealed knife in the coat lining. police officer Lynch applies a tourniquet, an ambulance takes her to Roosevelt Hospital, and the knife is found by Maurice Shapiro.
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Fredric E. Belscher
West Forty-first Street
Hendrick Hudson
Broadway
110Th Street
West Thirty-fourth Street
Mr. Belscher
Knickerbocker Theatre
Maurice Shapiro
Mrs. Belscher
Mr. Shapiro
Belscher
West Sixty-eighth Street
Lynch
Worthington
Roosevelt Hospital
Orange cucumber grown in Worcester experiment yields new fruit
Worcester Mass December 25 An orange cucumber or cucumber orange was created by Howard S Hill of Gardiner. An orange tree bloomed in the cucumber hothouse and pollen from orange blossoms was applied to cucumber flowers. The fruit starts round like a cucumber but ripens bright orange with orange skin, blending flavors of both fruits. Hill is propagating vines and believes the new produce may become popular.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
Howard S. Hill
Gardiner
Hill
Ready Rescuer on Hand in Elizabeth
John Shannon, noted for multiple rescues, saved John Hattrick after a fall from a moving train at Spring Street Station. The Bayonne man suffered a fractured skull and was unconscious while visiting his mother in Elizabeth. Shannon previously alerted Hart's Hotel guests to gas danger and helped Samuel Schuster's family escape a fire.
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New York Times
Elizabeth
N. J
Central Railroad
Spring Street
John Shannon
John Hattrick
West Eighth Street
Bayonne
Shannon
Hart's
Samuel Schuster
Experimental marriages urged at Russian Women Congress
In St Petersburg on December 25 the Congress of Russian Women debated experimental marriages proposed by Ara bashina. She argued perpetual marriages breed immorality and injustice, drawing support from several delegates while opponents, including Mme Shestakova, faced sharp criticism for restraining women’s emancipation as order struggled to be kept.
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New York Times
ST. Petersburg
Congress of
Beatrice Mills to Wed Earl of Granard on Jan 14
Miss Beatrice Mills will marry the Earl of Granard in a private ceremony at the bride’s father's city home in Ogden. The wedding is set for Thursday January 14 and the couple will keep the event intimate.
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Earl of Granard
Mills City
Beatrice Mills
Ogden. Mills
East Sixty-ninth Street
Playground for Harriman at Arden Estate
E. H. Harriman, owner of 20 000 acres in Orange County, begins a large playground at Arden estate to entertain guests and staff. The two and a half acre complex will be blasted from rock with a cement floor and four foot concrete wall and include tennis squash croquet bowling ranges and gym apparatus. Summer dirt covers the ground while winter floods create ice carnivals for house parties at the Harriman mansion.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
E. H. Harriman
Arden
Orange County
Harriman
Reading Clubman Dies After Hockey Game
John Co. Proctor of Reading and Wine Coca Company Boston died at Mishawum Pond after a hockey game with a Reading Golf Club party. He collapsed and died within minutes from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 39.
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Woburn
Mass
John Co. Proctor
Reading
Wine Coca Company
Boston
Proctor
Mishawum Pond
Reading Golf Club
Coast Guard Sledding Tragedy Claims Young Clerk
Fitzwilliam Lonsdale Scannell 23, a clerk for Wrenn Bros. & Co. at 24 Broad Street, died after a coasting accident in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. He and his brother visited aunt Mrs. Birney Fellowes at Cornwall. his sled hit an obstruction, struck the curb, and fractured his skull. He died an hour later at the hospital.
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Fitzwilliam Lonsdale Scannell
Wrenn Bros. & Co
Broad Street
Cornwall-on-the-Hudson
Cannell
E. L. Partridge
Fifth Avenue
Birney Fellowes
Cornwall
Bank Robbery Reported at Monrovia Bank
The First National Bank of Monrovia California was robbed of about $29 000 last Monday night. Detectives are on the case but no suspects have been found. The loss was discovered when the bank opened Tuesday. President John Bartle said the bank is insured for 25 000, limiting stockholder loss.
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Los Angeles
Cal
First National Bank of
Monrovia
John Bartle
Work of Train Wreckers At Pleas ant Lake Derailment
Hillsdale Michigan reports a train derailment near Pleasant Lake Indiana caused by a turned switch rather than a broken flange. About thirty people were injured in the Lake Shore passenger train incident. Suspicions point to the gate robbery gang active in the region.
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Hillsdale
Mich
Pleasant Lake
Ind
Lake Shore
Man shoots at birds and wounds wife in Astoria
William Hohlub of 81 Seventh Avenue Astoria fired from his back bedroom window to bag birds for a Christmas pot pie. His wife Mary was struck in the left arm as she left the yard during the shooting. Dr Hangarten treated the wound and police detained Hohlub on reckless shooting charges.
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William Hohlub
Seventh Avenue
Astoria
Mary
Hohlub
Hospital Sunday Call Encourages Aid to Sick Poor
Tomorrow marked Hospital Sunday urging congregations to help the sick and poor through church offerings. The notice emphasizes compassionate giving and community support during the church service.
Unclear Rail Schedule Note from Augusta Area
A fragment from Augusta Florida mentions Cuba South with times 9 25 A M and 9 25 P M and references unexcelled service via Penn and Atlantic Coast Line, located at L vere Bureau Broadway corner 30th street.
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Augusta
Florida
Cuba
Penn
Atlantic Coast Line
L Vere Bureau
B’way
Cor
Socialist editor disrupts Savoy Theatre with view on The Battle
Gaylord Wilshire, editor of Wilshire's Magazine, interrupted Cleveland Moffett's play The Battle at the Savoy Theatre with remarks on socialism. He argued that economic conditions shape beliefs while audience jeered and urged a curtain speech. Wilshire later spoke with author Cleveland Moffett and reiterated socialist principles after the performance.
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Gaylord Wilshire
Wilshire
Savoy Theatre
Wilton, Lackaye
Cleveland Moffett
Joseph Wanhope
Morria Hillquit
W. J. Ghent
Mr. Leckaye
John J. Haggleton
Mr. Wilshire
Mr. Lackaye
Jersey
Harvard to Receive One Million Dollar Bequest
Boston press reports that Harvard University will receive 1,000,000 from the McKay bequest within the next year. The first payout, likely between October and December 1909, will fund the Lawrence Scientific School as it becomes a graduate research institution. The bequest requires complete income of 1,000,000 before any disbursement and the Montana McKay placer mine is cited as a profitable source.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
McKay
Harvard University
Harvard
McKay Placer
Montana
Lawrence Scientific Boo
Ostwald
Cambridge
Thewrence Scientific School
Lawrence Scientific School
Fire Cremates Smyth County Man in Broadford Home
In Broadford Smyth County J A Golla horne died in a house fire last night. The blaze destroyed his large country home and authorities believe an explosion of a kerosene lamp woke no one else. The victim was cremated in the incident.
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Roanoke
Broadford
Smyth County
J. A. Gollahorne
Goillahorne
Horne
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