Seven Die of Heat as City Smolders in 1093 Day
Heat kills seven in Manhattan and Brooklyn with eleven prostrations as a 93 degree afternoon records the hottest day of the summer. Crowds flee to Coney Island and the Rockaways while ferries and subways pack with outflowing residents. City reports 108 arrests for excise violations amid stifling conditions and forecasts of showers failing to arrive.
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Manhattan
Sakis Kassakian
Kerrigan Avenue
West Jieboken
Bronx Park
Stephen Finnegan
East Twentyninth Street
Bellevue
Brooklyn
New York
Battery
Bronx
East River
Jersey
Harlem
New Grand Opera
Coney
Rockaways
Coney Island
Riverside Drive
Ninety-sixth Street
110Th
de Witt Clinton Park
Eleventh and
Twelfth Avenues
Fifty-second
Fiftyfo
Isracklyn
Queen
Richmond
Jersey Hills
Weather Bureau
North Atlantic Seaboard
Washington
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Boston
Portland
Baltimore
Storm Ravages Baltimore Drowning Nine in Storms
A heat system gave way to severe electrical storms in Baltimore on July 12 leaving nine drowned as yachts and launches capsized in the river and bay. Lightning toppled trees and chimneys and set a summer home alight. Property losses reach about $20,000 with many unroofed houses and rescued boaters.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Calvert
William Hyat
Susquehanna
Kirwin
Port Deposit
Havre de Grace
Storm Hits Poughkeepsie in Severe Wind and Hail
Poughkeepsie July 12 reports a major heat break as a gale north wind rain and hailstorm sweeps the city. The Myers ice house owned by A E Tower loses its roof and part of its side, blown 200 feet away and wrecked.
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Poughkeepsie
Big Myers
A. E. Tower
Lightning Fatal on Susquehanna River In Steelton Skiff
In Harrisburg on July 12 Roy Spencer 19 of Steelton was killed instantly when a bolt struck his steel skiff on the Susquehanna River. Earl Paxton about the same age was seated in the boat and was pinned to the bottom but not seriously hurt.
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Harrisburg
Penn
Roy Spencer
Steelton
Earl Paxton
Susquehanna River
Spencer
Paxton
Heat records in Philadelphia fail to claim lives
Philadelphia reported no heat deaths by 9 p.m. as the government thermometer atop the Post Office Building peaked at 96 degrees at 3 p.m. in the city’s hottest day of the year so far.
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Philadelphia
Big Pittsburg Payrolls Hit Record Daily Total
Pittsburg district workers received the largest payroll of the year with about 1 million dollars paid daily. National Tube Works at McKeesport paid 6,500 workers about 2.50 a day while miners and coke workers averaged around 3.00. Carnegie Steel’s Homestead mill runs at 9 percent capacity as labor markets tighten. Jones & Laughlin increases staff at Aliquippa plant and Pittsburg Steel adds workers for an open hearth unit nearing completion. Augusta Maine mills to resume full time by July 20 after half-time production since March.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
McKeesport
Carnegie Steel Company
Europe
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Ailiquippa
Pittsburg Steel Company
Augusta
Edwards
New England
Maine Forest Fires Raging Coast to Inland in July
Maine coast and inland woods suffer a week of fires with no rain for over a month. Kineo region losses exceed $100,000 as flames burn thousands of acres and halt rail service along the Lewiston line. Bangor braces as thirteen fires near Mount Katahdin loom. total damage estimated around $800,000.
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Portland
Maine
York River
Penobscot
Kineo
Somerset
Banger
Saunders Mountain
Dedham
Bangor
Mount Katahdin
Brunswick
New Meadows
Lewiston, Augusta &Waterville
York County
Shere
Staite
York
Wells
Kennebunk
Bride Shot by Husband Mistaking Burglar in Philadelphia
William A Thorm fired at his bride in a dim house believing a burglar lurked. The 21 year old woman was wounded critically and taken to St Joseph's Hospital. Thorm was arrested as police investigate the claim and possible release on small bail. The incident follows a spate of local burglaries and the couple's recent marriage.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
William A. Thormas
Thomas
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Pastor Cordova Soon Free From Prison
J Frank Cordova the unfrocked South River pastor is due for release August 14 at 8 A M in Trenton New Jersey and plans Newark as his home Miss Bowne the choir singer who eloped with Cordova twice is at Ocean Grove with her child awaiting his release and is expected to join him Cordova declines comment and says he expects to be happy after release he will have served three years four months and eleven days.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
J. Frank Cordova
Newark
Miss Bowne
Cordova
Ocean Grove
Shipping News Arrivals and Incoming Vessel Reports
Clothilde Cuneo arrived at Port Antonio on July 7. Kaiser Wilhelm II reported by Marconi wireless 787 miles east of Sandy Hook at 9 PM yesterday, due at her pier about 10 30 AM Tuesday.
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Clothilde Cuneo
Port Antonio
Wireless
Bremen
Marconi Wireless
Sandy Hook
Four Drown When Dolphin Explodes Off Buzzard's Bay
A motor boat trip from Marion to Martha's Vineyard ended in tragedy when the Dolphin exploded near Woods Hole. Four men drowned the engineer Savory likely killed instantly. owner Arthur Tarbell and Edward Pecker survived after clinging to wreckage and being rescued by fisherman Walter Bowman. The deceased were Roland Worthington Joseph Beal John T. Trull and George H. Savory. The blast sparked a daylong sea search by summer residents and fishermen, with Tarbell and Pecker hospitalized from exposure and exhaustion.
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New York Times
New Bedford
Mass
Marion
Martha's Vineyard
Falmouth
Dolphin
Roland Worthington
Boston
Joseph Beal
Milton
John T. Trull
Woburn
George H. Savory
Marblehead Neck
Arthur Tarbell
Marblehead
Edward Pecker
Rollins & Son
Walter E. Bowman
Mr. Tarbell
Edward Tucker
Martha’s Vineyard
Woods Hole
Tarbell
Mr. Pecker
Pecker
Seag
Bowman
Scraggy Neck
Long Ledge Buoy
Sipplean Trouse
Buzzard's Bay
Worthingtons Trull and Beal Die in Summer Notices
Boston items report the deaths of Roland Worthington a former Boston Traveler editor aged 40 who spent summers in Falmouth and held Boston real estate. Mr Trull 66 a Woburn mercantile figure tied to David Nevins Co and retired when it moved to New York. and Mr Beal linked to Osceola Consolidated Mining in Boston. Savory an engineer who served in the Spanish American War is noted as 9 years old and unmarried.
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Boston
Mass
Roland Worthington
Boston Traveler
Worthington
Falmouth
Boston Financial District
Marblehead
Grant
Mr. Trull
Woburn
Trull
David Nevins Company
Ithaca reporter Clara Tichenor shifts from chorus to journalism
Miss Clara A. Tichenor once sang in The Prince of Pilsen company in Paris and London and was a chorus girl. Now she reports for The Ithaca Daily Journal in business coverage, wearing a Parisian costume and Merry Widow hat. She covered a Ithaca versus Waterloo baseball game from the press box, noting the box score.
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New York Times
Ithaca
N. Y
Clara A. Tichenor
Prince of Pilsen
Paris
London
Ithaca Daily Journal
Train attack injures Bryan delegates near St Louis
Effingham Ill reports say a Missouri Pacific train carrying the Pennsylvania anti Bryan delegation was struck by a volley of rocks bricks and bullets as it entered St Louis. Delegates William Schultz O E Maxwell and J F Curran were cut by glass but unharmed Col J M Guffey was in a forward stateroom and later treated. his condition is not serious. The attack occurred while the train was moving at speed and news was withheld from Guffey.
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Denver
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Pelham
Pennsylvania
William Schultz
O. E. Maxwell
J. F. Curran
Washington
Penn
J. .M. Guffey
Denver Col. Guffey
Colorado Desert
Sedalia
Col. Guffey
Sea Cliff blocks steamer landings with hose and injunction
Crowds gathered at the Sea Cliff steamboat landing as the village barred Nassau and Orient from landing under a new ordinance. Village Attorney B Spellman and deputies manned the pier with hose ready to prevent landings, while Long Island Railroad disputed landing rights. An injunction from Justice Townsend Scudder briefly halted the action, but a vacating paper kept boats from landing until the dispute is resolved.
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New York Times
Sea Cliff
L. I
Nassau and Orient
B. Spellman
Twery
Long Island Railroad
Orient
New York
Glen Cove
Nassau
R. FE. Downing
Glenwood Landing
Charles Addison
Peters
Hempstedd
Townsend Scudder
Spellman
Death of Columbus baseball leader shocks Neil Park
Thomas J. Bryce president of the Columbus American Association Baseball Company died suddenly in the Neil Park grand stand during the Columbus Toledo game. Heart disease caused death. the match was postponed. Bryce, in ill health the last three years, promoted baseball here for fifteen years. He is survived by a widow and two sons.
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Columbus
Thomas J. Bryce
Columbus American Association Baseball Company
Neil Park
Toledo
Bryce
John S. Brush
John J. McGraw
New York Nationals
Pittsburg
Bomb in Tenement Sparks Italian Tenants Flight
About 300 Italian residents of 344 and 346 East Fortieth Street camped in the street after a bomb was found in the rear of the five story building. Edward Malloy saw two men trying to light a fuse and fled as the duo escaped leaving the device. Malloy turned the bomb over to police. it measured eighteen inches by six and was packed with nitroglycerine. Police guarded the building as tenants refused to return to their rooms.
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East Fortieth Street
East Thirty-fifth Street
Edward Malloy
East Thirtyninth Street
Malloy
Lieut. McAdams
Bureau of Combustibles
Lieut
McAdams
Bryan Gage Seeks Midwest to Win Minnesota and Wisconsin
Lincoln Neb July 12 Bryan faces hard fought bid in Minnesota and Wisconsin with hopes of carrying both states. Delegations from Ohio and Cleveland visit Fairview while Thomas Watson quotes spark debate over Confederate veteran post. Atwood of Kangas emerges as leading NC chairmanship candidate as Bryan plans New York notification and East rally.
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P. L. Hall
Nebraska
James H. Atwood
Kangas
Daniel Campau
Michigan
James E. Lamb
West Virginia
Lamb
Atwood
Ollie James
Kentucky
Denver
Lincoln
Bryan
North Carolina
Thomas Watson
Mr. Bryan
Crisp
House of Representatives
John PD. Calhoun
Tampa
Fla
Congress
Ridder Pledges Support for Bryan
In Lincoln Nebraska July 12 Mr Bryan expressed pleasure at a telegram from Herman Ridder New York editor pledging sincere Staats Zeitung support. Ridder reportedly urged Bryan to withdraw before Denver citing likely loss but did not press the point in Fairview. Bryan appeared buoyant with an approving nod to Ridder’s free wood gulp plank.
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Lincoln, Neb
Bryan
Staats-Zeitung
Herman Ridder
New York
Kansas Town
Night Riders Bring Tiptonville to Lockdown with Dynamite Plans
Nashville reports tiptonville in Lake County enacts drastic measures as 500 pounds of dynamite are planted in county mines to deter night riders. A Law and Order League committee will set off the mines at the signal. The jail holding suspects was ringed and a dummy hanging on a telegraph pole was shown to inmates. Five hundred men have been arrested in the fourth judicial district on night riding charges, with Obion County sources aiding further arrests and suspicions of prominent locals’ involvement.
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New York Times
Nashville
Tiptonville
Lake County
Law and Order League
Fourth Judicial District
Obion County
Georgia bill targets wiles of women in marriage crimes
In Atlanta on July 12 the Georgia Assembly debates a bill by Glenn of Whitfield to void marriages obtained by a wife using scents paints powder cosmetics waters artificial teeth false hair corsets padding or other deceitful practices. The author says enforcement is needed after a favorable report.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Georgia Assembly
Glenn of
Whitfield
Glenn Vf Whitfield
Yonkers Man Accused of Setting Fire to Baby Daughter
Mundie Behanoc of 7 Seymour Street Yonkers was arrested on a charge of setting fire to his two month old daughter who is expected to die. Police and doctors say he confessed firing the baby's clothing to dispose of her as she was sickly. He later declared innocence.
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Mundie Behanoc
Seymour Street
Yonkers
Douney
Dr.Fishman
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Pehunoc
Behunoc
Doungy
Orange blossoms bloom green in Connecticut gardens
In Litchfield County Wilbur Tonks and Henry Murphy grow orange blossoms that turn green due to neighbors’ efforts. Columbia students reportedly altered the coloring of blooms by soil wettings, transforming the flowers once bright orange to green and then to an odd cen shade.
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New York Times
Boyne
Mayer girl swims 26 miles to claim world record
Miss Lottie Mayer swam twenty six miles from Alton to St Louis in 5 hours 18 minutes yesterday. She started at 2 20 PM from Fluent dock aboard the Columbia in black trunks and did not rest. She followed the Illinois shore to gain current and stayed overhand the entire trip, with only occasional side strokes.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Miss Mayer
Illinois
Missouri
Bishop Potter Continues to Improve in New York
Cooperstown July 12 Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York shows continued improvement with lower pulse and steady near normal temperature. A brief bulletin notes a restful day, respiration 28, pulse 90, temperature 100, as a severe afternoon storm affected weather in the area.
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New York Times
Cooperstown
N. Y
Henry C. Potter
New York
Dr. Janvyrin
Potter
J. BE. Jamain
M. D
Shippers Fight Freight Increase In Business Clash
The Manufacturers' Association of New York plans to appeal to the Inter State Commerce Commission to block a proposed 10 percent rise in freight rates. Senior VP W C Brown of the New York Central argues the increase is needed, while the association argues it harms consumers and favors railroads. The dispute centers on fairness, timing before elections, and potential discrimination across lines like Long Island and Jersey Central. Walter Campbell Taylor of The Dry Goods Economist questions Brown's logic.
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Inter-State Commerce Commission
Manufacturers’ Association of New York
W. C. Brown
New York Central
Manufacturers’ Association
Mr. Brown
James T. Hoile
Brown
Holle
Farmingdale
L. I
Washington, D. C
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Republiccan
Democratic
Harriman
Long Island
New Jersey Central
Jersey Central
New York
Walter Campbell Tayior
Dry Goods Economist
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