Two Shot In Fight On Picnic Barge Near Yonkers
A violent dispute aboard barges carrying 1800 Patrick Walsh Association members during a picnic led to two men shot and others hurt. One Italian shooter fled amid chaos as a man jumped overboard and was rescued by a ferryboat crew. Police reported no arrests at Astoria docks.
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Patrick Walsh Association
Lower East Side
Crystal Stream
Meyers
Columbia
Point View
Yonkers
East Ninety-first Street
Peter Sweney
Frank Marr
East Hightyninth Street
Jeremiah Higgins
Eighty-first Street
First Avenue
Christopher Spencer
East Eighty-second Street
Spencer
Astoria
Harlem
Lohmer’s Dock
Jamaica Avenue
Marr
Higgins
St.John’s Hospital
East Ninetyfirst Street
Seret
Casey
East Fighty-eighth Street
Ferryboat West Brooklyn Collides With Tug Near Governor's Island
The ferry West Brooklyn operating between Whitehall Street Manhattan and Thirty-ninth Street Brooklyn was rammed on its port side by a tug off Governor's Island early today. Passengers filled the vessel, with windows shattered in the women's cabin, yet crew said the ferry continued service through the night and did not appear seriously damaged. Police reported no collision report.
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Brooklyn
Whitehall Street
Manhattan
Thirty-ninth Street
Governor's Island
East River
Niagara Falls Power Tunnel Passes Inspection in Great Triumph
The Niagara Falls Power Company tunnel, 21 feet high and 18 feet 10 inches wide, was found in perfect condition after inspection. It carries 4 600 cubic feet of water per second and will output 90 000 cubic feet per second with the new wheel pit. Officials and hydraulic engineer Clemens Herschel completed the mile long, 200 feet deep tour beneath the city.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Niagara Falls Power Company
The
Power Company
Clemens Herschel
High Water At Wichita Kans Flood Threatens Packing District
The Wichita Kansas river rose four and a quarter feet since noon today with another two ft expected overnight. Rain threatens further overflow of the Little Arkansas River and possible bank breaks. Fourteen city bridges are anchored and a collapsed bridge could endanger others. May rainfall reached a record ten and a half inches.
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Wichita
Kan
Little Arkansas
Packing House
Suicide identified in ferryboat death at Cortlandt Slip
The man who drowned himself from the Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboat Cincinnati in its slip at Cortlandt Street at 12 50 Saturday morning was identified as George Hechinger twenty seven of Newark New Jersey by his sister who said she knows of no reason for the act
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Cincinnati
Cortlandt Street
George Hechinger
Newark
N. J
Woman Misses Court as Husband Is Cleared
Mrs. John E. Smith of 136 Macon Street Brooklyn failed to appear in Jefferson Market Court yesterday morning. Her husband, arrested Saturday night on a charge of intoxication after he tried to send a note by a messenger boy to an address in Union Square, was discharged.
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John E. Smith
Macon Street
Brooklyn
Union Square
Jefferson Market Court
Rights of American Citizens in Russia Meeting Highlights
A large Educational Alliance hall crowd heard Israelite Alliance of America speakers urge protest of Russian treatment of American citizens. Father Ducey, John De Witt Warner, and others condemned oppression, defending rights and dignity while backing nationwide fall gatherings.
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Israelite Alliance of America
Russia
Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Father Ducey
John de Witt Warner
Israelite Alliance
Nissim Behar
Thomas J. Ducey
David Lubin
Israel
England
Heaven
Earth
Republic
Kingdom of Heaven
M. Goldman
Prince Street
Newark
Cincinnati
Joseph J. Corn
Siberia
David Blaustein
Roumania
H. Pereira Mendes
America
Goldfogle Voices Uniform Rights for Americans Abroad
Congressman Henry M. Goldfogle urged equal protection for all American citizens abroad. He stated the issue is Americanism, not a Jewish question, and pressed for uniform treatment regardless of creed or race, receiving an ovation.
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Russia
Henry M. Goldfogle
America
United Workers Resume Fight in Cincinnati and Newport
In Cincinnati and Newport more than 1200 brewery workers were locked out last February over wage and job disputes. At a conference yesterday all have returned except 375. Brewers refuse to rehire them, prompting the United Brewery Workers to launch a boycott campaign. Many displaced men have found work in Milwaukee St Louis Chicago and other cities.
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United Workers
Cincinnati
Newport
United Brewery Workers
Zorn
Gpe
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Chicago
Opportunities for American students in foreign service
The baccalaureate sermon at New York University by Rev. Horace G. Underwood highlights chances for educated American boys abroad. Underwood, a NYU graduate and long time Korea missionary, notes open fields due to American science progress and diplomacy and cites U S generosity toward China Japan and Cuba as broad openings for graduates worldwide.
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New York University
Horace G. Underwood
Underwood
Korea
Presbyterian Missionary Society
America
United States
China
Japan
Cuba
Japanese a Christian Missionary Joins Church Ministry
J O Inouye a middle aged Japanese was yesterday received into the ministry at the Church of the Strangers in New York. The simple ceremony was performed by Rev D Asa Blackburn and deacons. He plans to return to Japan to preach Christianity after studying in New York for several years.
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J. O. Inouye
Church of the Strangers
West Fifty-seventh Street
Eighth Avenue
D. Asa Blackburn
Inouye
United States
Lincoln dedicates ten bells to William McKinley
In Lincoln Nebraska a set of ten bells was dedicated tonight at St Pauls Methodist Church. The bells honor President William McKinley and were blessed after a sacred concert. McKinleys favorite hymns Lead Kindly Light and Nearer My God to Thee were performed.
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Lincoln, Neb
William McKinley
St. Paul’s Methodist
Memorial Service at Gen Phil Kearny’s Grave
Memorial services were held at the grave of Gen Phil Kearny in Trinity Churchyard conducted by New York units of the G A R and Sons of Veterans. The Rev N D Hillis opened with prayer and sermon while Camp No 3’s John D Rose gave the oration and praised Kearny’s life as he referred to the President. A wreath was placed on the grave.
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Phil Kearny
Trinity Churchyard
New York
Sons of Veterans
N. D. Hillis
John D. Rose
Camp No. 3
Gen. Kearn
Einary
Seventy first Regiment Band Opens Spring Concert at Central Park
Nearly 10 000 people gathered at Central Park for the first concert of the season by the Seventy first Regiment Band. The Mall crowd filled seats near the band stand as others wandered the grounds while some sought programmes from two youths distributing copies. Police managed the crowd and kept children off forbidden areas as families enjoyed an orderly, sunny spring afternoon.
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Central Park
Seventy-first Regiment
Marble Arch
Terrace Bridge
Tributes for Confederates Parade at Mount Hope Cemetery
The Confederate Veteran Camp of New York led 360 veterans and guests on a memorial train to Mount Hope Cemetery. They decorated graves at the plot near the monument funded by Charles Broadway Rouss and heard an oration by William S. Keiley. Senator William Lindsay was delayed.
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New York
Col
Edward Owen
Mount Hope Cemetery
Eighth Avenue
Lafayette
Hamilton
G. A. Keen
Charles Broadway Rouss
America
Sophia Hendrick
George S. Caker
Iss Eulah Lee
William S. Keiley
William Lindsay
J. Henry Palmer
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Thomas Jordan
Deputys Elsmere Injured by Speeding Chauffeur
Louis Elsmere, deputy under John McCullagh, superintendent of elections, was struck by a racing automobile on Fifth Avenue near Twenty-ninth Street. The car grazed him, throwing him to the ground and badly wrenching his right arm. the chauffeur fled. A nearby physician treated the injury.
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Louis Elsmere
John McCullagh
Fifth Avenue
Health Restorer Advertises Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge
An advertisement proclaims a "great Health Restorer" named Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge as a remedy.
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Jayne
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