Coney Island in a Dreary Rain Washes Out Season Day
A cold northeast storm keeps crowds away as most amusement parks close early and few rides operate. Vendors complain of no profits, landlords face rent pressures, and arrests occur as two youths flee with stolen money after being spotted amid the rain soaked scene. Soldiers at State Camp endure all day rain with mitigated activities and a covered mess hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Coney Island
Luna Park
Dreamland
Carl Kesselbach
Carl
Washington
United States
Frankfurter
McCafferty
Surf Avenue
Coney
Seymour
Menhaden Beach
Hackman
Bahrman
Joseph Jacobs
East 187Th Street
The
Bronx
Ward Kelly
Lincoln One
Kelly
Jacobs
Eagle Avenue
14Th Street
Storm at Atlantic City Ravages Coastal Resort
A fifty mile gale sweeps Atlantic City with torrential rain and downed trees. Piers are swept clear, water rises in the inlet, and yachts at anchor are swamped. Trolley tracks in meadows flood. travel suspended. Egg Harbor bridge reportedly badly damaged. William Jones washed from a deck and rescued after nearly drowning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Mpaths
Egg Harbor
William Jones
Dismal Day in State Camp Halts 14th Blues
Rain and mud disrupted the daily program at the state camp. The 14th Regiment men faced delays as weather hampered drills and events. Special to The New York Times from Peekskill on June 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Peekskill
Washington
Federal Weather Bureau
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arkansas
Autoists Wreck A Cab In Greenwich Speeding Spree
In Greenwich on June 2 John Johnson and Samuel Graham residents of Bellehaven Summer Colony used the main highway as a speedway. A collision with a cab left the horse injured and the cab driver teeth knocked out. Both youths were arrested for reckless speeding and bond posted to face trial next Saturday. The incident followed a plan to race on the Boston Post Road with Graham leading at the turn. The cab horse was shot to end its suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
John Johnson
E. W. Russell
New York
Samuel Graham
W. T. Graham
Bellehaven Summer Colony
Johnson
Graham
Danbury
Boston Post
Field Point Road
William Turner
Tga
New Cere
Oham
Falling Tree Breaks Wires in Williamsburg Block
A 70 foot tree toppled at Roebling and South Fourth Streets in Williamsburg yesterday. It knocked down trolley and telephone wires, causing a live circuit on car tracks and alarms that drew residents outdoors. Two policemen were slightly shocked as they helped evacuate bystanders from the danger. The decayed tree fell after a strong yesterday wind storm, with the church congregation at Maureen of the Angels reacting to the commotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roebling
South Fourth Streets
Williamsburg
Dangee Egne
Maueen
Woman Identified After Suicide Attempts in City
Regina Goldner, 30, of 220 East 100th Street, who twice attempted suicide by drinking poison in early April and on Saturday night, recovered at Bellevue Hospital and gave her name and address. She had been treated at Bellevue after the first attempt near the Third Avenue Post Office and later discharged from Tombs Court. Nurses recognized her as the same woman who had endured repeated health troubles and said she acted from continued poor health.
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2D Street
Central Park
Seev Enth Street
Bellevue
Tombs Court
Tombs
Miss Goldner
Police Trial Next in the Gould Case
Lieutenant W Frank Peabody faces two charges as the Gould case widens. He allegedly sent a Baltimore telegram hinting at Dawson marriage to Katherine Clemmons and lied about it. He sought legal help the day before a confession, claiming a misunderstanding about leave.
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W. Frank Peabody
Detective Bureau
Gould
Bingham
Peabody
Howard Gould
Katherine Clemmons
Baltimore
George Dawson
Lancey Nicoll
Nicoll
Paar
Central Office
Ul Adams
Adams
Murphy
Tenderloin
Peaney
Joe Gans
Gans
Oe Bureau
Uty
Hanson
Clarence J. Shearn
Wife and Farmhands Vanish in Sudden Domestic Mystery
In New Jersey a superintendent named Jopann Kaditch reports his wife Mrs Kaditch has vanished along with farmhand Mike Kellish. Kaditch discovers $2000 missing from his savings and the trio allegedly headed toward Pittsburg after a staged departure. He shaved his beard to avoid recognition before fleeing.
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New York Times
GG Harbor
N. J
Kaditch
Jopann Kaditch
Mike Kellish
Hammonton
Pittsburg
Pretended Rabbi Held in Court Over Engagement Frauds
In Jefferson Market Court, Miss Rosie Gostynska testified against Abraham Kahn the pretended rabbi who allegedly defrauded her and several other young women. She claimed he promised marriage and offered a piano as a substitute for an engagement ring while taking about $50 and other sums on various pretexts. Kahn denied borrowing $50 and faced $1,090 bail. police say multiple women were defrauded but others were too shy to testify.
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Abraham Kahn
Jefferson Market Court
Rosie Gostynska
Kahn
Miss Gostynska
Jersey City
B. F. Buegeleisen
Russia
Gostyuska
A. Oie
Heath Hen Preservation Proposal Seeks 2500 State Aid
Boston reports the Massachusetts Fisheries and Game Commission requests a 2500 appropriation to save the heath hen on Martha's Vineyard. About 100 birds remain, with 2000 from citizens to fund fire stops and artificial incubators. Advocates include Dr. George W. Field, Dr. T. S. Palmer, and William Dutcher of the Audubon Society.
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Boston
Martha’s Vineyard
George W. Field
Massachusetts Fisheries and Game Commission
Massachusetts
Atlantic Coast
Cape Ann
Virginia
Dr. Field
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Martha's Vineyard
Assi Stin
Mississippi Valley
T. 8. Palmer
Department of Agriculture
Washington
William Dutcher
Aan Audubon Society
Death of Captain Tallent in Canoe Accident
Captain Robert L. Tallent aged 51 a veteran member of the Maryland State Pilots Association died suddenly after his canoe overturned in cold water. He was thrown into the water and died of heart disease incurred by the plunge, according to a Baltimore physician.
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Baltimore
Robert L. Tallent
Maryland State Pilots’ Association
Tallent
Camp Trip Ends in Tragic Shooting Between Cousins
Four city youths planned a months long camping trip on the Hudson shore near Egg Harbor. Mortimer C. Seaman shot his cousin Martin L. Winter during a squirrel hunt. Winter died at Fordham Hospital. Seaman held at Kingsbridge Police Station in $500 bail as coroner investigated.
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Martin L. Winter
Jacob H. Winter
West 185Th Street
Mortimer C. Seaman
West 112Th Street
Palisades
Egg Harbor
Jersey Shore
Seaman
Kingsbridge
Winter
Robert
Murray Tyler
West 115Th Street
Hudson
Tyler
Carrie F
149Th Street
Riverdale
Robert Murray
Young Winter
Mr. Newcomb
Knickerbocker Yacht Club
Johnson
Kingsberies
Fordham
McDonald
Signals Operator Averts Michigan Train Wreck
Edward Egan, signals operator at Kalamazoo, Michigan, forced a derailer to stop a freight train barreling toward a Grand Rapids & Indiana passenger train. The freight derailed four cars, but the engine stayed upright and no one was hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kalamazoo
Mich
Edward Egan
Michigan Central
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad
Grand Rapids & Indiana
Egan
Trolley Co Blamed for Boy Death at Bound Brook
A Coroner's jury found the Public Service Corporation responsible for the death of seven year old Rudolph Deluce of Bound Brook New Jersey. The boy touched a live wire from a pole at Main and Church Streets and was killed. The company had been notified to remove the broken wire.
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Bound Brook
N. J
Public Service Corporation
Rudolph Deluce
Main
Church Streets
Anti-Tuberculosis League delegates form war prevention group
Atlantic City on June 2 reports that delegates at the American Anti-Tuberculosis League convention have called a June 5 meeting of the International Medical Association for the Prevention of War to organize an American section. The call is signed by Dr. William B. Z. Snow of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
American Anti-Tuberculosis League
International Medical Association For the Prevention
Union appoints committee to press mayor on recount bill
The Central Federated Union named Hand Kennedy and Merritt to attend the mayor's hearing on the Recount bill tomorrow and urge him to sign. A Brooklyn woman died after falling ill on a ferry ride, Dr Stewart citing heart disease. Two men arrested near the Hotel Astor for masquerading as a baby in a carriage and a woman in a long crime spree.
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The
Central Federated Union
Hand
Kennedy
Merritt
Sarah Duncan
Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn
West Point
Desbrosees Street
Stewart
New York
Weehawken
Arthur W. Hay
West
Rupert L. Burdick
Stree
Hotel Astor
Sochaceee
Harris
Father Seca
Real home rule rally at Carnegie Hall honors Davitt
About 2000 Irish supporters gathered at Carnegie Hall to endorse Dublin Convention action against the Irish Council Bill and commemorate Michael Davitt. Speakers urged unity for home rule, praised Davitt, and pledged continued Irish League support.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Adjt
Nelson H. Henry
Albany
Lieut. Peabody
Gould’s An
Court
Steck
Grand
TioRe Steck Demi
Aeolian Company
Boy
Martin Winter
Broadway
Leonard Street
42Nd St
Sth Ave
Guardian Trust Company
Cor
Maiden Lane
Carnegie Hall
Dublin
England
of Irish Freedom
Ireland
Friends of Irish Freedom
Srnegie Hall
Irish Council
Michael Davitt
United Irish League
Michael J. Ryan
Ife
Pressagen
Heaven
Michael Yatt
Constantinople
America
Mr. Ryan
Ortugal
Holland
France
Spain
India
Michael E. Corbley Sident
Sons of Ireland
Fifty-first Street
Corbley
Corbiey
Eeeo
Irish Council Bil
Irish League
William McAdoo
Ire
McAdoo
John G. Coyle
Mar Oats
Elen O’ Donnell
Leon Ebley
Bernard O'Donnell
York, Pa
Emory Lan Pone
Robith
Aziar
STAR
Hutchinson, Pierce & Co
Lakers
Victoria
Sndebaker
Studebaker
7Th Ave
48Th St
feyIse
West 42d
West Forty-first
New York & Suburban
New York Real Estate Improvement & Investment Co
Nassau St
Cit
Uneeda Biscuit
Cotton States
Federal Bureau
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