Kenned King family killed in train collision near Columbia City
Charles Sherman King a Fort Wayne financial agent for Prudential Life Insurance and his wife Josephine aged 12 Catherine 14 Fayne Bradshaw 14 and chauffeur Carl Timmon s all of Fort Wayne were killed when their auto stalled on a Pennsylvania Railroad crossing and was struck by the Manhattan Limited at sixty miles an hour near Columbia City Indiana The King party was en route to a cottage at Lake Wawasee The crash occurred as the eastbound train came around a curve and the car could not escape The victims died within minutes and Miss Bradshaw had been a guest of the King girls The group included political and business figures from northern Indiana.
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Columbia City
Ind
Charles Sherman King
Fort Wayne
Here
Manhattan Limited
King
Charles Sherman
Josephine
Catherine
Bradshaw
Fayne
Timmons
Carl
Mr. King
King Cottage
Lake Wawasee
Almeost
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Indiana
Wabash County
Miss Bradshaw
King Girls
R. 3. Bradshaw
Wreckers Spike a Switch Near Pelham Manor
An attempted train wreck occurred shortly before midnight on the New Haven line near Pelham Manor. A switch was opened and a large spike driven into the tie beside the rail. A slow suburban train halted with a jolt, injuring passengers slightly. Detectives are investigating.
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Pelham Manor
New York, New Haven & Hartford Road
Training Ship Hawk Steam Pipe Explosion
Several sailors on the naval training steamer Hawk were badly scalded when a steam pipe burst at anchor near Cleveland breakwater. Assistant engineer Charles Taylor is reported near death from his injuries.
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Cleveland
Hawk
Charles Taylor
Interpreter Aids Marriages at City Hall Bureau
The city assigns John Anniochiarico as interpreter at the Marriage License Bureau to assist foreign couples. He speaks French Spanish German Swedish and Italian dialects. Yesterday twenty couples waited outside the bureau with some online since after 8 o'clock.
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John
Anniochiarico
Driver chased after boy after reckless driving incident in Brooklyn
A boy was struck by a wagon at Nostrand and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn and suffered a fractured left foot. The driver, Louis Puolkom, fled along Atlantic Avenue prompting a crowd to pursue him across Bedford and Grand Avenues. He was captured and charged with reckless driving.
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Nostrand
Atlantic Avenues
Brooklyn
Louis Puolkom
Stone Street
Atlantic Avenue
Tony Desento
Long Island Railroad
Puolkom
Bedford Avenue
Oscar Lund
Atlantic
Bedford Avenues
Ted Brick
Imedish Hospital
Grand Avenue Po
Man Ended His Life Near Central Park After Illness
Joseph Michaelowski of 228 West Twenty fourth Street shot himself in a clump of bushes at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street. A note blamed heart disease bronchitis and paralysis of the right hand. He directed his body be sent to undertaker James Senger and approved cremation plans.
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Joseph Michaelowski
West
Twentyfourth Street
Central Park
Sixth Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Haggerty
Tie
Arsenal
Lang
Presbyterian Hospital
Michaelowski
J. Senger
West Lhirtieth Street
McGahan
United States Council
Royal Arcanum
James Senger
West Thirtieth Street
Senger
Girl Discovers Burglar at Brooklyn Fur Shop
Fourteen year old Bertha Cohen startled a masked burglar in the rear room of her father’s furrier shop at 342 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn soon after midnight. She warned him to flee and he escaped after taking jewelry and furs worth about 500 dollars. Police were summoned but did not find the suspect.
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Bertha Cohen
Flushing Avenue
Brooklyn
Bertha
Sea Cliff Struggle Over Steamboat Landing Sparks Clash
Local North Shore village braces for a clash as the Long Island Railroad and village trustees battle over landing rights for steamers. The Edmund Butler wreck amid a tug and police stand off draws crowds while deputies prepare for a 3 AM landing attempt.
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New York Times
Sea Cliff
L. IL
Board of
Long Island Railroad
North Shore
Edmund Butler
St. John's River
Florida
Russell Brothers
New York
Orient
Justice Scudder
Henry A. Hollman
East Thirty-first Street
Tolee Thut
H. L. Des Anges
Montauk Steamboat Company
Bookseller Trapped in Bookcase by Robbers in Synagogue Morning
Jaffe, a bookseller at 746 Sixth Street, was beaten and locked in a bookcase by three robbers as he returned from the synagogue. Found unconscious with little air, he was rescued by his daughter and a policeman and later revived by Dr. Jacob Rosenbluth. Police hunt the assailants.
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Chone Jaffe
Sixth Street
Jaffe
East Side
Lena Roth
Jacob Rosenbluth
Jaffes
Fils
Rosenbluth
Fertilizer Trust Case Dropped in Nashville
United States Attorney A. M. Tillman announced a DOJ letter stating the Government has exhausted its resources and will not appeal to the Supreme Court or reindict. The Fertilizer Trust case is therefore finally settled.
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Fertilizer Trust
Nashville
Tenn
United States
A. M. Tillman
Department of Justice
Supreme Court
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Indiana Crossing
Fam
Ily
Brick
Phen
Fr. Constable
Sea Island
Broadway
Sherif
L. I. Rail
Ent
Capta
Glenwood
Long Island
Young’s
Sagamore and Orient
Newtown Creek
Retiroad
Coleeaas
Patchogue
Edmund Bu
Tttom
Railroad
Cn Ae
John T. Pirie
Atees
Edmund Sputter
Railroad Corporation
George Young
Mr. Young
Railroa
Sea
Board of Trustees
Delmas, Towne & Spellman
Griff
Pirie
Liss
Hermitage
Times Square
Csserhy Watts
Oppenheim
Cllns RG
34Th Street—West
Banker Smith
Vincent
Frank Kallendron
West Nineteenth Street
R. A. C. Smith
West Seventy-second
Ue Children's Society
Reidy
Smith House
Saks & Company
34Th Street
Madras
Batiste
Eton
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