Man Shot by Policeman in Williamsburg Standoff
Patrick Varley known as Patsy Gallagher was killed by Policeman Ivan B. Cornelius of Greenpoint Avenue Station after a confrontation while Varley tried to flee arrest at 85 Greenpoint Avenue. Varley’s wife denied signing a statement presented at the station. sergeant Bowes said she did sign. Cornelius, 34, was held without bail before the coroner.
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Patrick Varley
Patsy Gallagher
Ivan B. Cornelius
Greenpoint Avenue
Williamsburg
Varley
Sixty-first Precinct
Varleys
Cornelius
Manhattan Avenue
Astern District Hospital
Murphy
Patrick Nt. Bowes
TIMES
Margaret Varley
Manhattan
Greenpoint Avenues
Yon-Times
Sergt. Bowes
Quigley
Cassidy
Les
Mrs. Varley
Jdan
Lemon
Casino Girl closes season and sails to London
The Casino Girl ends its local season with Mabelle Gilman remembered florally. The company sails Wednesday on the Teutonic for its London season. June 25 revival of The Rounders features Thomas Q. Seabrooke Phyllis Rankin and Madge Lessing. William Gillette ends his detective story run at the Garrick and plans a houseboat vacation in Erie Basin.
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Casino
Mabelle Gilman
Teutonic
London
Gillette
Erie Basin
Mrs. Amelia Muirhead Faces Assault Charge in Centre Street Court
Mrs. Amelia Muirhead of 232 Ninth Avenue was arrested after noon on a warrant sworn by Frederick Link charging assault. Link plans to prosecute amid threats she made. She resisted arrest and was jailed until 10 pm before bail was posted by John Wunderlich. Arraignment set for Jefferson Market Court.
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Amelia Muirhead
Ninth Avenue
Frederick Link
Broadway
Mayo
Centre Street
Link
Tenement House Fires Kill and Injure in Two Buildings
Ida Alpert, eighteen, identified as burning victim at 26 Rutgers Street, while Patrolman Tucker earns praise for risking his life and saving Lillian Jacobson amid the blaze. Seven Cotter family members perished at 34 Jackson Street. investigation ongoing with no sign of arson detected.
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Jennie Solomon
Madison Street
Ida Alpert
Charles Autenreith
Bausch
Charles Hardberg
Shenandoah
Penn
Jor
Gussie
Harrison
Tucker
Ida Yeller
Clara Hart
Lillian Jacobson
Samuel Goldstein
Joseph Yeller
Dora Harrison
Meyer Kahn
Bellevue Hospital
George Tucker
Jackson Street
Mamie
Margaret
Albert
Frank
Antonio
Emma
Marius
Cotter
James J. Keenan
Hudson Street
Calgary
Jackson
Rutgers Streets
Duane
Census Summary Shows U S Population Rise and City Leaders
Chicago June 16 The Tribune prints a census summary based on 3,000 responders across the United States. The report compares 1900 and 1890 figures including total population 78,964,742 and 62,622,250 and shows changes in manufactured product value and farm land values. The Tribune lists the twenty four largest cities.
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the Tribune
United States
Gaia
Tribune
Alaska
Cave
The
London Race Train Collision at Slough Kills Three
A collision between an express train and a Windsor racegoers train at Slough Station today killed three and injured sixty one, many with broken limbs. Sixteen seriously injured were hospitalized, including actress Mrs. Bernard Beere who suffered cuts and bruises. The race train was standing when the crash occurred and several coaches telescoped.
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London
Windsor
Slough
Bernard Beere
C. W. Olivier
Runaway Match Revealed In New London Society Circles
Miss Addie Palmer daughter of Elisha L. Palmer secretly wed Alfred S. Chappell nearly two years ago in Providence. Chappell, son of local real estate dealer W. S. Chappell, served with Yale Battery and works now at Fr H A H Chappell Coal Co. The couple plans a Monday honeymoon and will later resume social duties.
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New York Times
New London
Conn
Addie Palmer
Elisha L. Palmer
New England
Alfred S. Chappell
W. S. Chappell
Providence
R. I
Yale Battery
Woman Vanishes From Home Then Writes From Insane Asylum
Cleveland dispatch reports on April 6, 1895 the wife of contractor C L Bailey from 1469 East Madison Avenue disappeared. After a nationwide search a letter arrived stating she had been an inmate of an asylum in Philadelphia for five years, and she does not know how she reached the institution.
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Cleveland
Ohio
C. L. Bailey
Madison Avenue
Philadelphia
Gum Drop Factory Building Collapses in Jersey City
At 4 45 yesterday afternoon a corner of George Anspach's gum candy factory on Washington and Steuben Streets collapsed sending 150 barrels of gum drops into the street. One man, Salvino Nino of 156 Allen Street New York, was lightly injured. Firemen and Policeman John Dundon rescued workers who fled to the roof or jumped to the yard. About 50 feet of the walls gave way. the site belonged to J W Chidester.
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George Anspach
Washington and Steuben Streets
Jersey City
John Dundon
Salvino Nino
Allen Street
New York
Dundon
Anspach
J. W. Chidester
Northwestern Branches Open New Route From Belle Plaine to Fox Lake
The Northwestern Road opens two new branches tomorrow between Belle Plaine Iowa and Mason City and between Blue Earth Minnesota and Fox Lake Wisconsin. A daily 9 A M train from Belle Plaine to Mason City and a 9 15 A M train from Mason City to Fox Lake will operate with arrival times at Mason City 4 P M and Fox Lake 5 30 P M. The new line spans 195 miles with total Northwestern mileage rising to 8 462 85 miles after adding 1359 miles.
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New York Times
Chicago
Northwestern Road
Belle Plaine
Mason City
Iowa
Blue Earth
Fox Lake
Minn
Northwestern
Death by own hand at Minsker Society toast
In Odd Fellows Hall at 98 Forsyth Street Benjamin Botvenski drank carbolic acid during a toast to The Old Country at a Minsker Society celebration of Hebrews from Russia. He collapsed, was rushed to Gouverneur Hospital, and died within half an hour without giving reasons.
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Forsyth Street
Minsker Society
Russia
Benjamin Botvenski
Old Country
Botvenski
Gouverneur Hospital
Chicago breweries win tax discount ruling in circuit court
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed Judge Kohlsaat in favor of Manhattan Brewing Company and similar Chicago cases seeking a seven percent discount on stamp taxes paid under the Dingley act. The decision aligns with a Cincinnati panel and affects eight pending cases against Collector Coyne, with hundreds more nationwide.
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New York Times
Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Kohlsaat
Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Woods, Jenkins
Manhattan Brewing Company
Internal Revenue Coyne
Coyne
Pennsylvania's New Line Purchase Reported
At the stockholders meeting in Chestertown Maryland it was announced that the Pennsylvania Railroad has bought a controlling interest in the Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad and will operate it. The 45 mile line runs from Chestertown to Bombay Hook on the Delaware River and will merge into the New York Philadelphia and Norfolk Road as part of the Peninsula Division.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Delaware Bay Railroad Company
Chestertown
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Bombay Hook
Delaware River
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tom Meade Gambler Dies In Cincinnati Home
Thomas Meade aged eighty four a famous horse driver and gambler died at his home in Cincinnati Ohio Born in Boston he started gambling at fifteen and ran gambling houses after the war He once won fifty dollars up to one hundred thousand dollars in New York the largest single win known He was at times the ten pin champion of America He had married Miss Larson about seventeen years ago and they had no children
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Thomas Meade
Boston
Panama
Larson
New York
Meade
America
Bloomers Barred in Rouen Cathedral
Paris June 16 The Canon of Rouen Cathedral famed for ban on women in bloomers now allows bicyclists to rent skirts at the gate for 1 franc each How the policy shift affects American visitors and the cathedral’s reputed standards is noted by the dispatch in The New York Times special cablegram.
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Rouen
NEW York Times
Paris
Fire at East Nineteenth Street Apartments Fatalities Reported
Midnight blaze in four story tenement at 312 East Nineteenth Street causes two hospitalizations. Mary Gannon removed unconscious to Bellevue Hospital in dying condition. John Pulver, bystander, also unconscious and later dies, after helping rescue residents.
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Robert Stewart
East Nineteenth Street
Mary Gannon
Stewarts
Bellevue Hospital
John Pulver
Two Men Jump Into River After Assault on First Avenue
Joseph Flynn of 311 East Twenty-sixth Street was assaulted on First Avenue near Twenty-sixth Street by Dennis Casey and two unknown men. Casey was captured by Detective McMullen. the other two fled down East Twenty-sixth Street and disappeared into the river. Flynn is in Bellevue Hospital after a severe beating.
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Joseph Flynn
East Twenty-sixth Street
First Avenue
Twenty-sixth Street
Dennis Casey
East Twenty-third Street
Flynn
McMullen
East
Pot Ia
East Iver
Bellevue Hospital
Fall from trolley car injures two in Brooklyn
Cornelius Rauthare of 9914 East Eighth Street was thrown from trolley 888 near Fresh Pond Road while returning from a Post & McCoy picnic at Montevideo Park. Mrs. Rauthare jumped from the speeding car, fracturing her skull. Both were taken to St. Catharine's Hospital in critical condition.
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Cornelius Rauthare
East Eighth Street
Brooklyn
Fresh Pond Road
Post & McCoy
Montevides Park
St. Catharine’s Hospital
Fireman's Serious Injures After Slip From Moving Train
Fireman Patrick Bohlan of Engine Company 49 in Fordham was sent to Will iam's Bridge yesterday. He attempted to alight before the train stopped, slipped, and was scraped by car steps and lacerated. He clung to the platform as the train passed and was taken to Fordham Hospital in serious condition.
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Patrick Bohlan
Fordham
William’s Bridge
New York Central
Bohlan
Fordham Hospital
Why Skippers Like Derelicts
An old sea captain in port cites salvage derelicts as the only path to wealth for skippers. He describes the risky hunt for wrecks, the split of salvage money, and how modern captains endure low wages and long hours while hoping for a single lucky find.
Heggs and misheard orders in Chicago News
Ida recalls a London waiter who called an egg a hegg. May asks if he dropped the h. Ida notes her silk gown reveals the change as the waiter complies. The riff questions language and manners in a humorous city column.
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London
Chicago News
What the Immigrants Bring and Carry
A critical view of immigrants and their baggage habits aboard ships and upon arrival. The piece notes small personal items like tin cups and pap erback novels, pets such as kittens and parrots, and even white rats, as well as the tendency to travel lightly or with nothing at all. It contrasts imagined future wealth with present material concerns and mocks the idea that America will yield all possessions.
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Barge Office
Land of Liberty
America
Cuban Customs Receipts Rise in First Four Months 1900
War Department report shows Cuba’s total customs receipts for January through April 1900 at 5,414,963 dollars, up 969,811 from the same period in 1899. Havana port receipts totaled 4,026,772 dollars, vs 3,205,314 dollars a year earlier.
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Washington
War Department
Cuba
Havana
Canarsie Barnyard Brandy Scandal Sparks Temperance Flap
A Canarsie Brooklyn temperance group hears of a man misreading a recipe and using half a gallon of brandy to make jelly. His barnyard revels with ducks, hens, and roosters prompt gossip as the tale spreads among locals and the temperance society.
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Canarsie
Brooklyn
Temperance Society
Brown
Mr. Brown
The
New Plymouth Rocks
Origin of Yankee Doodle explored by Maryland Hist Society
Dr William Hand Brown presented two letters from Albert Matthews discussing The Origin of Yankee Doodle. The letters review fifteen proposed explanations, noting no firm solution and questioning whether the term Yankee arose in New England rather than the South.
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Baltimore American
Maryland Historical Society
Willam Hand Brown
Albert Matthews
Boston
South
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