Worden Wins 250 Mile Race From Scotland Light to Hampton Roads
Norfolk dispatch reports the destroyer Worden wins a 250 mile endurance race from Scotland Light to Hampton Roads, besting five other Evans flotilla ships. The Hopkins suffers a near-miss incident, crews push engines at full steam, with Truxtun, Stewart and Hull also contending in a tightly fought test of speed and service.
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New York Times
Norfolk
Worden
Scotland
Hampton Roads
Admiral Evans
Navy Yard
Hopkins
Neates
Whipple
E. A. Anderson
Truxtun
Stewart
Eit
Anderson
Davy Jones
Airship Goudet Ends in Wreck After Collision With Alabama
In Norfolk Virginia on June 7 the aeronaut Goudet’s airship wrecked after smashing a pine tree and skimming Hampton Roads. It struck the battleship Alabama amidships as spectators watched in surprise, with Goudet rescued and unable to race. Naval cutters aided, one snagging a drag rope before release. The pilot suffered facial and wrist injuries and was saved from drowning.
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New York Times
Norfolk, Va
Hampton Carpe
Alabama
Goudet
Hampton Roads
Death Tangles Land Titles
In New Haven Probate Court today the estate of Fred C. Fiske, land purchasing agent for the New Haven Road, was examined. Fiske died after a four day illness and much railroad property, valued near a million dollars, stood in his name. Mrs. Sallie Fiske was appointed administratrix and said she expected no contest and that most property would be turned over to the railroad. She put the estate value at about 60 000 and noted possible inheritance tax questions on untransferred holdings.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Fred C. Fiske
New Haven Road
Railroad
Fiske
Railroad Corporation
Army Jilt A Death By Own Action
Mark Richardson, a First Lieutenant in the Twenty-sixth Infantry, died after taking morphine and prussic acid at Fort Sam Houston. He had resigned his commission, left a note about an inevitable act, and his death followed failed wedding plans with Major Kelly’s daughter. He was born in Tennessee in 1889 and leaves two orphaned children.
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New York Times
San Antonio
Texas
Mark Richardson
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Roosevelt
Fort Bam Houston
Richardson
Kelly
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
Miss Kelly
Major Kelly
Washington
Fort Sam Houston
Col. Brown
Missouri
Sixty-ninth United States Infantry
Tennessee
Texas Woman to Celebrate 131st Birthday Next Monday
Special in The New York Times reports Mrs. L. Xil crease of Pine Mills Texas will mark her 131st birthday, making her plausibly the oldest woman in the United States.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
Shipping News Highlights Arrivals and Schedules
Latest shipping items list arrivals of steamships Burma and Calabria and routes including Hamburg Naples Baltimore Calary and Mulgee Brunswick with dates in late May and June. Read as a compact shipping docket with port names and voyage notes.
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Hamburg
Naples
Burma
Baltimore
Calabria
Oocmulgee
Brunswick
Grapes Aid Prominent Nara Advocate
A fragmented local notice highlights advocacy work by a known Nara figure. The readable text mentions grape shipments and a public demonstration organized by a regional advocacy group seeking policy change. Community members attend, citing economic and cultural ties.
Train Hits Auto in New Jersey. One Dead Three Hurt
A Pennsylvania express struck a touring automobile at Westfield turnpike crossing, Dudley, Mount Holly, killing Elizabeth M. Henderson and injuring three others including Mrs. Frank Blacksom and C. D. Henderson. Flagman George W. Thompson warned the motorists but the collision occurred. The car overturned. train crew aided victims and the accident site is noted as a dangerous crossing with no safety gates.
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New York Times
Mount Holly
N. J
Pennsylvania Express
Westfield Turnpike
Dudley
Elizabeth M. Henderson
Sedgely Avenue
Philadelphia
Henderson
Cooper Hospital
Camden
Thompson
Westfield Crossing
John West
Vincentown
Trenton
Blacksom
Ruef Alleged Extortion Trial Begins Witness Testimony
Jean Loupy, eight year proprietor of the Pup restaurant, testifies at the start of Abe Ruef’s extortion trial. He recalls asking Ruef to defend Delmonico's license and outlines payments of 7000 dollars a year and 5000 dollars a year from five restaurant owners for protection, with money delivered by Priet.
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San Francisco
Jean Loupy
Pup
Schmitz
Abe Ruef
Loupy
Ruef
Delmonico
Deserted Bride Waits for Groom Who Vanished at Altar
Miss Mary E. Griffin, 38, traveled from Perth Amboy New Jersey to St. Louis with plans to marry telegraph operator James F. Scarff 30. He disappeared an hour before the 8 pm ceremony, taking a $200 pearl pin and $25, leaving Griffin to return home alone. The couple arrived in St. Louis from Waco Texas and Perth Amboy respectively. Griffin is Franklin Griffin’s daughter, a Lehigh Valley Railroad coal docks superintendent.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Mary E. Griffin
Perth Amboy
N. J
James F. Scarff
Waco
Texas
Miss Griffin
Franklin Griffin
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Scarff
Banker's Bail Free Scrubwoman After Soap Theft
Anna Powlsky a scrubwoman at United States Express Building Rector Street and Trinity Place faced $300 bail after Magistrate Moss in the Tombs Court held her for trial on stealing a cake of soap worth a few cents. Charles E. Jeffrey testified the theft was part of larger supply losses. Later banker Morris Engel posted bail, claiming he read of the case in papers.
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Anna Powlsky
United States Express Company
Rector Street
Trinity Place
Moss
Tombs Court
Charles E. Jeffrey
Jeffreys
Tombs Prison
Morris Engel
Albany Street
Mrs. Powlsky
Two Cleveland Girls Die After Poison Plot
Margaret Curtis ten and Felon Curtis eleven mixed arsenic into their food to relieve grandparents of care. They died later at St John’s Hospital after five prior suicide attempts. Grandmother Mrs. Helen Curtis cites inherited crisis mania as motive.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Margaret Curtis
Felon Curtis
St. John’s Hospital
Helen Curtis
Marysville
Kaw
Margaret
Helen
Navy reports strong target shooting progress in 1907 records
Secretary Metcalf announces the 1907 target practice standings. Atlantic fleet wins with 509.846 per cent, Pacific second at 69.241. Fourth flotilla torpedo boats lead 72.017 per cent. Illinois wins battleship trophy 75.782. Boston cruiser 79.097. Princeton gunboat 73.395. Preble torpedo 78.822.
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Washington
Metcalf
Atlantic Fleet
Pacific Fleet
Swinburne
Ilinois
Boston
Princeton
Preble
Canarsie Crab Marked 1814 Sparks Local Legend
A big Canarsie crab caught off Jamaica Bay bore a faint shell inscription dated 1814. The thirteen inch crustacean stirred talk of centenarian crabs and local lore as residents recall tales of a crab marked long ago and tossed back by a famed warrior after the War of 1812.
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Emil Schiellein
Canarsie
Jamaica Bay
Bay
Eph" Skidmore
Pop” Ferguson
Hear
Ike Remsen
England
Ferguson
Wisconsin Public Utility Bill Passed by Assembly
Wisconsin assembly approved a comprehensive public utility bill uniting most utilities under the State Railroad Commission. The measure grants the commission power to set service standards rates and decide on new company entries, with telegraph and telephone excluded. Corporations claim regulation will be efficient and apolitical.
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New York Times
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Assembly
Senate
Commission
Roosevelt On Harriman Trust Prosecution Divides Cabinet
Two long Cabinet meetings over trust prosecutions reveal a sharp split over pursuing railroads and Harriman. It is now likely Harriman will face questions in New York with no immediate action, while Harvester and coal-carrying roads proceeds were settled earlier. The President’s stance appears easing toward restraint, with fall as the earliest potential action. Kellogg and Knapp favored Harriman case. Garfield and Bonaparte also key in the debate. The matter rests as Oyster Bay departure looms.
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New York Times
Washington
Edward H. Harriman
New York
Harvester Trust
Harriman
Bonaparte
Garfield
Root
Cortelyou
Taft
Knapp and
Lane
Frank B. Kellogg
Kellogg
Commission
Loeb
Oyster Bay
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Buonaparté
Mrs Hau Drowns Self Near Pfäffikon in Switzerland
Berlin dispatch reports Mrs. Karl Hau died by drowning in a lake near Pfäffikon Canton Zurich. She was wife of Karl Hau, a professor of Roman law at George Washington University, who faces murder charges in Germany. Hau has been in custody since London 1906, with prior extradition and sanity examinations.
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Berlin
Karlsruhe
Lokal Anzeiger
Karl Hau
Pfaeffikon
Zurich
Switzerland
London
Germany
Hamburg
Karlsrue
Freiburg
Baden Baden
Hau
Washington
Lena Moliter
Hall
Land Value Treatise Ad Promotes Sample Sheets
An advertisement promotes a scientific treatise on land values by an expert with no real estate company tie. Send 2 cents for sample sheets to Expert, 10 Arbuckle Building, Brooklyn, New York. Includes note about Suntan treated to the Denton dining and central station terms.
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B. C
Arbuckle
B'klyn
N. Y
Pitt Suntan
Denton. A
Central
Explosion at Nathan Manufacturing injures wall at 408 East 106th
Police report an explosion occurred early this morning at the Nathan Manufacturing Company building in East 106th Street. Explosives were placed in two wall holes, blowing out a small brick area and causing about $25 damage. A fuse fragment was found. the firm makes injectors.
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East 104Th Street
Nathan Manufacturing Company
East 106Th Street
Texas Central buys its own sleeping cars for line Waco Rotan
The Texas Central Railroad Company notified the State Railroad Commission it has purchased its own sleeping cars for delivery July 1 and applied to set rates of 1.50 for lower berths and 1 for upper berths on the Waco to Rotan 268 mile route. The commission expects approval at the hearing to lower sleeping car rates, while other Texas railroads and the Pullman Company had previously blocked enforcement of existing rates in Federal courts.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
Texas Central Railroad Company
State Railroad Commission
Waco
Rotan
Railroad Commission
Pullman Company
Commission
Texas Central
Russian Jews for Texas voyage launches Zionist colonization
Berlin dispatch reports the German Lloyd steamer Cassel sailed from Bremen to Galveston with the first detachment of Russian Jews to be settled in the Southwestern United States under Zangwill's Jewish Territorial Organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tos
New York Timel Co
Berlin
Cassel
Bremen
Galveston
Zangwill
United States
Miss Wells Run Over by Delivery Wagon Horse
Miss Mary Emma Wells a 45 year old resident of the Hotel Buckingham Fifth Avenue was struck by a horse drawn delivery wagon at Madison Avenue and Fifty ninth Street. The wagon driven by George Bachman of 512 West Forty eighth Street passed over her. ambulance surgeon reported shock and serious bruises. condition described as serious last night. Driver not arrested.
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Mary Emma Wells
Buckingham
Fifth Avenue
Madison Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Miss Wells
George Bachman
West Forty-eight Street
Newport
Berkshires
Bridgewater Wrecked Off Port Beckerton
The Coastal Line steamer Bridgewater struck rocks at Nixey's Mate off Port Beckerton about 100 miles east of Halifax and became a total loss. Passengers remained calm as they rowed to shore. Captain Abner Reid reported no danger. Built of steel, 205 tons, valued at $25,000 and insured for two thirds, the vessel was under a three months charter from Canso Steamship Company.
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Halifak
N. S
Costal Line
Bridgewater
Abner Reid
Halifax
Guysborough
Nixey
Costal Steam Packet Company
Canso Steamship Company
Edna Hopper Threatened by Typhoid Illness
Actress Edna Wallace Hopper lies critically ill at 28 West 33rd Street under nurse care with Dr. Albert Ely in charge. Officials fear typhoid fever as strain from a tiring season and stress over her stepfather Alexander Dunsmuir takes a toll. illness began two weeks ago in Atlantic City.
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Edna Wallace Hopper
West Thirty-third Street
Albert Ely
Alexander Dunsmuir
Miss Hopper
Atlantic City
Hopper
Lew Fields
Klaw & Erlanger
Vaudevillle
Flooded cellar at Sterns firm after employee’s revenge
Police search for August Elligert of Dahngram Place Fort Hamilton charged with flooding wine cellars of Charles Stern and Sons at 16 Vesey Street. He returned between midnight Tuesday and 2:30 Wednesday, broke items, opened casks, damaged a diploma and left a German note. Loss estimated at $5,000.
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August Elligert
Dahngram Place
Fort Hamilton
Charles Stern & Sons
Vesey Street
Elligert
St. Louis
McAulaff
Church Street
Pacers Edge Somate in Narrow 28 to 30 Shootout
In a tense contest, the Pacers squeeze past Somate 28 to 30 as both sides trade late baskets. Officials call a tight game with several lead changes and critical plays in the final minutes.
Orchard Testimony Unshaken In Idaho Murder Trial
In Bois d Idaho on June 7 Harry Orchard faced cross examination that reinforced his confession of murder for pay. He held firm on the Vindicator mine bombing and train wrecking, while defense links him to mine owners and detectives to discredit the Federation. He admitted jealousy over a rival chosen for an easier job and discussed payments and double crosses with railroad detective C D Scott.
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New York Times
Boisd
Idaho
Harry Orchard
Richardson
Alee
Orchard
Mr. Richardson
Hawk
Hawley
C. D. Scott
Scott
K. C. Sterling
Cripple Creek
Federation
Vindicator
Shernan Parker
W. F. Davis
Mccormick
Beck
Parker
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the Hopkins
Hull
THE
North River
Truxton
Sgt Ce Errr
Aeronaut
Lieut. Richardson
C. D. Henderson
Mr. Ruef
Delmonico’s
Marchand’s
Bay State
Priet
Eph
Vem Co
Coal and the Harvester Trusts
Mrs. Hau
Nathan Company
106Th Street
59Th Street
Edna Hopper
Charles Stern & Co
Haywood
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