Beeckmans Hurt in French Motor Crash on Tour
R Livingston Beeckman of New York and his wife were in a serious road accident near Chartres while touring France. Beeckman suffered a broken arm and a serious head wound with possible internal injuries. Mrs Beeckman escaped unhurt and returned to the Ritz Hotel. The injured man was moved to the American Hospital at Neuilly after initial treatment at Chartres.
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NEW York Times
Paris
R. Livingston Beeckman
New York
Beauce
Ritz
France
Chartres
Neuilly
Dominion liberty to withdraw from imperial treaties debated
At the Imperial Conference Sir Wilfrid Laurier signaled a plan to allow any Dominion to withdraw from imperial treaty operations without weakening the treaty for the rest of the Empire. A uniform navigation rule and British seamen employment on British ships were adopted. Laurier opposed using labor exchanges to fill colonial vacancies due to potential friction with Canadian workers.
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London
Wilfrid Laurier
Canada
Sydney Buxton
Board of Trade
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
John Dillon badly hurt in Irish car accident
Dublin reports Nationalist MP for East Mayo John Dillon sustaining severe head and back injuries after a car crash near Dundalk. He was treated at a Dundalk hospital after being thrown through a glass screen when the vehicle plunged into a culvert.
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Dublin
John Dillon
East Mayo
Dundalk
Attempts to float the Virginia yacht fail near Esperanza
The steamer Premier failed to pull the yacht Virginia from the Colorado Reefs and returned to Savana for cables and supplies. A final attempt is planned, but indications are unfavorable as the vessel remains hard held. K. C. Benedict and party stay aboard and appear unconcerned for safety in fine weather, four miles from Esperanza.
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Havana
Virginia
Colorado
Savana
K. C. Benedict
Esperanza
Siam Crown Prince Safe After Ryazan Wreck Near Nagasaki
The Russian steamer Ryazan ran aground on a reef near Nagasaki while bound for Vladivostok. All passengers were saved including the Crown Prince of Siam. The Japanese warship Iwate was sent to aid the Ryazan.
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Tokio
Ryazan
Vladivostok
Nagasaki
Siam
Iwate
Plot to kill the Sultan found near railway
Large stores of dynamite and bomb making gear were found in a secluded defile in the Koe pruelue district near the railway over which the Sultan of Turkey will pass on his Macedonia tour.
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Salonika
Koepruelue
Turkey
Macedonia
Loomis Proposes Shrinking Canal Advisory Board
Senator Loomis introduces a bill to cut the Canal Engineers Advisory Board from five to three, giving the Governor power to appoint the two dropped engineers. The Assembly favors abolishing the board and allowing the State Engineer to appoint his own advisory panel, drawing opposition from canal interests.
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New‘ York Times
Albany
Loomis
Canal Engineers
Assembly
Eafialf
Canal Committee
Possible Peter the Painter Stowaway Held in Manila
Philippine authorities hold a stowaway on the British steamer Protesilaus, possibly Peter the Painter, the Russian agent linked to the Houndsditch murder and Sidney Street siege. British police earlier questioned the existence of the figure and await investigation results.
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Manila
Singapore
Peter the Painter
Houndsditch
Sidney Street
Liverpool
Seattle
Peter
London
Europe
Pater
Justice Grantham
Central Criminal Court
Jacob Peters
Yourka Dubof
John Rosen
Nina Vassilleva
Jrounsditch
William Grantham
Peter the
New York Times
Paitter
Peter Straume
Pittsburg Receives Nine Nonpolitical City Trustees
Nine business and professional leaders including three millionaires were named by Gov. Tener to govern Pittsburg under the new Charter. The commission, chosen to quiet bitterness over legislative changes, holds all legislative power of the former council and will be elected again at large next year. compensation is 6500 dollars annually.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
John K. Tener
Penrose
Tener
State Republican
Gov. Tener
John M. Gohering
D. P. Black
E. B. Babcock
Babcock Lumber Interests
W. Clyde Wilkins
A. J. Kelly
Commonwealth Trust Company
Enoch Rauh
J. P. Kerr
Thomas Morrison
S.S. Woodburn
North’ Side
Old Allegheny City
William A. Magee
Fearful Missing of Airman Bague Spurs Sea Search
In Vidart the fourth Rome arrival, Lieut. Bague reported missing after leaving Nice for Corsica. Naval vessels scour the sea for the French aviator who held the oversea flight record, while Arbalete sails to Corsica to continue the hunt.
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Nich
Lieut. Bague
Cecil Grace
North Sea
Calais
Dover
Nice
Corsica
Arbalete
Bague
Auto ride death leads to manslaughter charge in New Jersey
William F. Nelson, a Newark chauffeur, is held on $2,500 bond for manslaughter after a deadly collision near Millburn. The victim, Mrs Anna Elwell, aged 56, died at Memorial Hospital days after injuries from a crash involving a car she rode in with her sister Mrs Joseph Strange and relatives. Nelson allegedly sped across the Elwell vehicle’s path using a car owned by Albert Headley without permission, with a female companion present. Mrs Elwell is survived by son George E Elwell of the Flatbush Trust Company and sisters.
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New York Times
Millburn
N J
William F. Nelson
Newark
Range Memorial Hospital
Anna Elwell
Neilson
Joseph H. Strange
Milligan Place
South Orange
White Oak Ridge
Parsonage Roads
Nelson
Albert O. Headley
Lincoln Park
Elwell
Halsted Street
Fast Orange
Sarah Elbertson
Charles Elwell
George E. Elwell
The
Flatbush Trust Company
Honest Plaza Bellboy Rewarded
Mrs. R S Raymond staying at the Plaza lost a diamond necklace with a gold chased lorgnette attached at dinner on Sunday. Found by bell boy McNiff who gave it to the cashier. She rewarded him with $10 and added $25 later.
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Plaza
R. S. Raymond
The
McNiff
Wilson to Urge Commission Government in Bayonne
Bayonne will be the first New Jersey city to use the new law allowing special elections on adopting the commission form of government. Gov. Wilson is asked to speak there before the June 13 election after a Government by Commission Association committee met him at Trenton. He is slated to speak tomorrow night at Bayonne High School.
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Bayonne
New Jersey
Commission
Government By Commission Association
Gov. Wilson
Trenton
Bayonne High School
Meat dealer fined after underweight turkey sale
Ruben Goldberg a meat dealer at 307 West 117th Street was fined 100 by Justices in Special Sessions for selling to Inspector Drenan a turkey weighing half a pound less than claimed. The turkey was reweighed and Goldberg’s scales seized, showing a half pound surplus for the owner. He paid the fine.
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Ruben Goldberg
West 117Th Street
Drenan
Bureau of Weights and Measures
Goldberg
Lorimer Committee Named to Probe Election Fraud
Washington June 5. Senate Privileges and Elections Committee approves reporting a resolution to empower an eight member sub committee to investigate Lorimer election fraud. The panel will be four Democrats and four Republicans evenly split between Lorimer supporters and adversaries. Members include Dillingham Gamble Johnston Fletcher Kenyon Lea Kern Jones and others. Informally the group discusses hiring counsel with names like Spooner Untermyer and Dickson floated.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections Today
Senate
Senator Lorimer
Lorimer
Dillingham
Vermont
Gamble
South Dakota
Jones
Kenyon
Town
Johnston
Alabama
Fletcher
Florida
Kern
Indiana
Sen
Tennessee
Messrs
Lea
Springfield
la Follette
John C. Spooner
Samuel Untermyer
Eee
Jacob M. Dickison
Delaney Name Tied to McNamara Bombings
Los Angeles reports identify John Delaney the structural ironworker as having been named in the McNamara case. District Attorney Fredericks confirms Delaney is mentioned but declines to reveal if he appeared in Ortie McManigle’s confession. Job Harriman dismisses the Delaney reference as insignificant.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
John Delaney
Muskogee
Okla
John J. McNamara
Middle West
McNamaras
Fredericks
Delaney
Ortie McManigle
McManigle
Job Harriman
McNamara Brothers
San Francisco
Aqueduct Contracts Let for Bronx to Union Square Tunnel
The Board of Water Supply awarded two contracts for new sections of the Catskill Aqueduct. Pittsburg Contracting Company bids $5,590,225 to build a circular tunnel from Aqueduct and Burnside Avenues in the Bronx, under Harlem River to Central Park and north to Ninety-ninth Street. Grant Smith Company & Locker secures $4,512,605 to extend the tunnel from Ninety-ninth Street under Central Park to Broadway and Fourteenth Street Union Square.
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Board of Water ™ Supply
Catskill Aqueduct
Aqueduct
Burnside Avenues
University Heights
Bronx
Harlem River
167Th Street
Highbridge
Central Park
Eighth Avenue
Ninety-ninth Street
Pittsburg Contracting Company
Grant Smith Company & Locker
Sixth Avenue
Broadway
Thirty-fourth Street
Fourteenth Street
Union Square
Goulds Abandon Canoe Trip in Philadelphia
Edwin Gould and his sons Edwin Jr and Frank with friends Arthur Tressell William Fanning and Bryce Gray cut their inland voyage short in Philadelphia due to rain. They will return to New York by rail and hope to resume a longer trip later.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Edwin Gould
New York
Mr. Gould
Edwin, Jr
Frank M. Gould
Arthur J. Tressell
William Fanning
Bryce Gray
Bellevue-Stratford
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Bedford Av
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