Tragedy at Boyertown Opera House Fire Leaves Dozens Dead
A fire at the Boyertown Opera House caused a stampede as audience members fought for exits. Chairs were used as weapons and many were crushed on the stairs, with at least a score killed and many missing or injured. Fire departments worked to control the blaze while morgues were set up and relief committees organized to aid families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam M. Weber
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Tie
Boyertown
Pottstown
State Constabulary
Wissingnoming
Washington Street
H. E. Monroe
Entertainment Bureau
Opera House
Stella E. Mayers
Burgess Kohler
Boreven
Reyburn
Philadelphia
Permanent Relief Committee
Burgess Johler
J. J. Becker
Frank Cullen
Becker
Warren Wein
Carrie
Florence
Charles‘b. Spatz
District Captain Fined for Magazine Theft
William J. Knipe of 506 West 173rd Street, a Democratic district captain, was fined 10 dollars in Special Sessions for stealing two magazines valued at 25 cents from a Subway news stand. He was acquitted at the Tombs Court but rearrested, tried again, and found guilty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Knipe
West 173d Street
Harris
Tombs Court
Thaw trial hears from doctors and teachers on insanity
Witnesses describe Horace Thaw as irritable and erratic with a wild gaze. Dr. John Deemar testified to hereditary insanity in the Copley and Ross lines while other doctors recount Thaw’s nervous, fixation-prone behavior at Wooster University. The court adjourned as defense and crowd attention mounted around the Thaw case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thaw
John T. Deemar
Kittanning
Penn
Henry W. Copley
John. Ross
Copley
Ross
Margaret Copley Ross
Littleton
Deemar
Miss Copley
Jerome
L. S. Foster
Norfolk
Virginia State Insane Asylum
Butler
Foster
Charles F. Koehler
Winona
Mr. Koehler
Mr. Jerome
Bridgeport Man Captures Suspect in Stony Brook Assault
John Homan of Bridgeport, a brother of Miss Helen Homan, captured suspect Canfield Blydenburg in Bridgeport Monday night after she was beaten near Stony Brook last Friday. Blydenburg escaped Sunday night but was seized aboard the Park City steamer, guarded to prevent mob action as Miss Homan identified him. Blydenburg faces hearing before Justice Lewis W. Davis on Long Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Homan
Bridgeport
Homan
Lewis Homan
John
Blydenburg
Park City
Port Jefferson
Motorman's Widow Scores $16,000 Verdict Against Interborough
Mrs Sophie B Cornell wins $16 000 damages against the Interborough Company before Supreme Court Justice Guy for the death of her husband William Cornell a motorman killed in a May 9 1904 collision on the Interborough line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophie B. Cornell
Interborough Company
Supreme Court
Guy
William Cornell
Interborough
Race to Paris car owner forecasts winter cross country
Megargel outlines Alaskan and Siberian race plans while Montague Roberts defends winter US crossing for the Thomas car. Estimates place total cost around 10,400 dollars with fuel and operator expenses a large share. Arrival timing for foreign cars, including the Brixia-Zust, shifts to early February.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montague Roberts
Thomas
New York
Paris
San Francisco
Alaska
United States
Roberts
Ordnance Department
Megargel
Arizona
Valdez
Bering Strait
Brixia-Zust
Havre
Zust
Senator Platt Ordered to Release Papers in Divorce Suit
Supreme Court Justice Newburger ordered United States Senator Thomas C. Platt and his counsel to allow Mae C. Wood to inspect all papers related to her absolute divorce suit. Wood alleges she was coerced into surrendering letters in 1903 at Howe & Hummel and paid cash totaling 10 000 by Frank I. Platt in exchange for a release. Affidavits from Abraham H. Hummel and Frank H. Platt support conflicting claims of payment and collusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Newburger
United States
Thomas C. Platt
Mae C. Wood
Wood
Aleges
Howe & Hummel
Senator Platt
Fifth Avenue
Hummel
Miss Wood
Deffimcey Nicoll
Frank H. Platt
Nicoll
Platt
Seaboard's Third Receiver Appointed in Rail Case
Edward Carlton Duncan of Raleigh named by Judge Jeter Pritchard as third receiver for Seaboard Air Line Railway. He bonds $50,000 and has ties as former collector of internal revenue and as director of Atlantic & North Carolina Railway. No opposition noted as selection favored by the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Richmond
Edward Carlton Duncan
Raleigh
N. C
Jeter
Pritchard
United States Circuit Court
R. Lancaster Williams
Davies Warfield
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Duncan
Internal Revenue
North Carolina
McKinley
American Surety Company of
New York
Atlantic & North Carolina Railway
Norfolk & Southern, Oe
Seaboard
Libel Suit Over Times Owner Belmont Denunciation
Adolph Ochs sues The New York American Star Company and Hearst and Brisbane for 100000 damages. The case began in Supreme Court Trial Term with jury selection and arguments over whether Times editorials provoked the April 1904 article, and if amended pleadings on damages are allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph 8. Ochs
Tuim New York Times
Star Company
New York American
Willam R. Hearst
Arthur Brisbane
Supreme Court
Giegerich
Ochs
Belmont
Edward M. Shepard
Alfred A. Cook
Wallach & Cook
Clarence J. Shearn
Mirabeau L. Towns
Charles F. Richards
Towns
Cook
The
Tribune
Horace Greeley
Tmes
Raymond and Jones
Times
the Sun
the Herald
the American
Journal
Cos - John Harms
Duane Street
Park Row
Bronx
District Democratic Organization
Daniel E. Finn
the Times
the Tribune
the World
the Press
the Journal
Jacob Michael
Hearst
Shepard
American
August Belmont
Psem
Senator Whyte Elected U S Senator in Maryland
Annapolis January 14. Senator William Pinckney Whyte was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Gorman by both houses in separate sessions. Ratification by a joint meeting is planned for tomorrow. The Republican minority backed Gen Felix Agnus and Judge John C Motter for the short and long terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annapolis
Mid
William Pinckney Whyte
United States
Gorman
Felix Agnus
Baltimore American
John C. Motter
Frederick
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Cullen
Alec Cullen
E Boyertown Casket Company
Weber
Mary
J. J. Evans
Malvern
Reading
Eres Ste
Bowman
Martin
Annie
Lulu
Oswin
Brendlinger
Clara
Eeers
F. R
Christian
Kate
Clemmer
Irwin
Clouser
Henry
Collins
Crouse
Derr
Mamie
Diamond
Rosa
Engle
Emma
Eschbach
Fegeley
Francis
Fritz
Ida
Cabel
Daniel
Gabel
Adam
Dichall
Herben Gottschall
Herben
Goreff
Mabel
Graver
Lottie
John Graver
Rebecca
Hoffman
William
Hoffman Houck
H. M. Houck
Knauer
Knipe
Lizzie
Kolb
Miss
Kulp
Stella
Krauz
Mae
James
Miss Stella
Johnson, Ephraim
Johnson
Ephraim
Ephraim Johnson
Herpert
Leaver
Esbach’s Crossing
Frank Brunner
Lefever
Margaret
Leidy
Horace
Toward
Hiram
Raymond
Laura
Daniel Leidy
Leinbach
Leichtol
Newton
Maurer
Charles W
Mayer
Charles
Eagle Drug Store
Leon
Mayers
Della
Miller
Clarence
Moore
George K
Moyer
Harry
George
Alice
Edna
Elizabeth
Flla
Irene
Muss
Charles J. B
Nuss
Aaron
Reiter
Rhoades
Jerry
Swamp Hotel
Richard Rhoades
Romig
Schmayer
Katherine
Grover
Taggart
William Taggart
Turner
F. B. Weber
Martha
A. M. Weber
Wien
Carrie W. Wien
Ylager
Rhoads
Edith. Lichtel
Schollenberger
Bauman
Elwood
Brown
Frank
Day
Aeolian Co
Aeolian Ball
Agi
NEW York Telephone
BAR Asylum Records
Evelyn Nesbit
Man
Megarge
Sam
Mae Wood
Peas
Apts
Times-American
Whyte
Vogel Brothers
Roosevelt
Sont
Cook & Bernheimer CO
H. Topakyan
Persia
264Th Avenue
Corner 29Th Street
George H. Welgert
TAX Management Corporation
Wall Street
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