Franco-German Crisis Eases After Diplomatic Talks
Paris reports a relief in Franco-German tensions after a long conference between Prince von Radolin and Premier Rouvier at the Foreign Office. Officials say negotiations are back in normal channels with prospects for an amicable settlement and a possible conference on Morocco. Ambassador Cambon traveled from London to Paris to discuss the situation with Premier Rouvier.
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Paris
France
Germany
Europe
Prince von Radolin
Rouvier
Foreign Office
Germon
Morocco
England
Moroco
Paul Cambon
London
Lord Lansdowne
Sparks at Brooklyn HQ Cut Police Switchboard Power
Four operators at Brooklyn Police Headquarters switchboard were shocked when a live wire swung into a telephone line near Myrtle Avenue and North Oxford Street. Jacob Van Wagner was unconscious for ten minutes and the fire damaged the board by $1,000. Brooklyn’s entire police telephone system was down for nearly an hour. Attachés moved to public lines to handle urgent calls.
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Brooklyn
Flushing Avenue
Myrtle Avenue
North
Oxford Street
Jacob van Wagner
van Wagner
Otis
Smith
Frank Baptiste
George
Ohio
Shea Off Committee in Bus Strike Talks
Negotiations to end the teamsters strike reopened in Chicago with a Monday conference planned between strikers and J. W. Farwell Jr representing employers. Deputy sheriffs killed one man and wounded two others guarding nonunion express wagon drivers during the day.
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Chicago
Teamsters
J. W. Farwell, Jr
C. P. Shea
Teamsters’ Union
Frederick Hucksord
Charles Hillman
Frank Davis
Frank Armstrong
American Express Company
Armstrong
Davis
William White
Healy
Montgomery Ward ‘& Co
Get-Rich-Slow Plan Prompts Bank Receiver Action
Profits of $1,250 in three years from confiding persons are alleged against Continental Finance Company and Continental Financing Company. Western Trust and Savings Bank is appointed receiver under a Circuit Court bill filed by State Attorney General Stead. An injunction seeks to freeze deposits in two Chicago banks while authorities pursue the case. The plan promised deposits of $5 a month for ten years yielding $792 plus $208 profit per depositor, totaling $1,000, an outcome labeled by Stead as impossible for any honest business.
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Chicago
Continental Finance Company
Continental Financing Company
Western Trust and Savings Bank
Stead
Darius Gallagher Dies Veteran of Monitor Sailors Death
Darius Farrington Gallagher longtime Monitor crewman and local resident dies at 39 Shepard Avenue East New York Funeral services set at the Van Wart home He helped build the Monitor under Ericsson supervision and fought in the battle with the Merrimac Survivors include his widow three sons Darius William Edward and two daughters Isabelle Clark and Gertrude Also note his return message to his mother a year after the monitor went down off Hatteras
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Darius Farrington Gallagher
Monitor
Ericsson
Merrimac
Leander Buck van Wart
Shepard Avenue
East
New York
Gallagher
Darius F
William H
Edward Irving
Isabelle Clark
Gertrude Gallagher
van Wart
Seventh Ward
Manhattan
Dri
The
Hatteras
Prominent North Country Pastor Stricken at Lake Titus
The Rev. Dr. J. H. Myers of Malone centenary Methodist Episcopal Church collapsed with paralysis at his Lake Titus summer camp and is in critical condition tonight.
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Malone, N. Y
J. H. Myers
Centenary Methodist’ Episcopal Church
Malone
New York
Lake Titus
Train Crash Leaves 17 Dead 21 Injured at Western Maryland Rail Yard
Special to The New York Times reports a head on collision between a double header coal train and a passenger train on the Western Maryland Railroad at Ransom Maryland. Seven teen men die and 21 are hurt mainly railroad workers and crew. The wreck is described as the worst in Western Maryland history with engines and cars shattered and crews killed.
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Western Maryland
Ransom
Finksburg
Benner
Calvin
Thurmont
Davis
John
Frehert
Peter
Unionbridge
Fuss
Grable
Charles
Hahn
Thomas
Miller
Elmer
M. D
Hagerstown
Meyers
High Field
Rush
Stimmel
Stumbaugh
Milton
Double Pipe Creek
Sweeney
William
Shuff
Tierney
Mount Hope Station
Maryland
Baltimore
Auto Victim Richard Sayer Jr Undergoes Skull Surgery
In Middletown on June 17 an operation was performed at Thrall Hospital on Richard S. Sayer Jr. of Englewood N J who suffered a fractured skull in an accident near Goshen Wednesday. His condition is listed as serious while his brother Ray recoveries well. The double funeral for Mr and Mrs R Sayer was held at St James Church Goshen with interment in St James Cemetery.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
Thrall
Richard S. Sayer, Jr
Englewood
N. J
Goshen
R. S. Sayer
Ray
Transfer of $55 Million In Gold From Rand-McNally Vaults
In Chicago on June 17 eighty tons of gold valued at $45 million along with silver and currency totaling $10 million were moved from the Rand McNally Building to the new Federal Building. Each bag of gold was sealed and counted before departure and transported in guarded wagons after being placed in large sealed sacks.
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Chicago
Sub-Treasury
Rand-McNally
Federal
Pain's Fireworks for theAth
Advertisement note lists fireworks items such as sticks and rockets offered at 12 Park Place, New York with brief product mention and sales pitch.
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Pain
Park Place
New York
Storm Brings Destruction Across Minnesota and Wisconsin
High water and lightning caused extensive damage across southern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. Bridges and tracks were ruined on several rail lines, mills burned, farms lost stock, and multiple fatalities occurred as storms swept the region.
Riot and arrest spark free fight in New Orleans court
In New Orleans on June 17 a melee erupted in the First Recorder's Courtroom after D C O Malley was arrested on a conspiracy to murder charge. O Malley and his lawyer clashed with officers, four of the lawyer's sons joined, weapons were drawn, and order was restored with steps to bar weapons from courtrooms.
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New York Times
New Orleans
Recorder’s
D. C. O'Malley
Whitaker
O'Malley
Behrman
O’malley
Recorder's Court
Dunn
Canada Cannot Expel Aliens Judge Rules
Special to The New York Times from Toronto June 1 Judge Anglin voids the Alien Labor act saying it cannot be enforced without extraterritorial jurisdiction. Everett, Carin and James Gilhula US citizens arrested for allegedly violating the act are ordered released. The ruling notes Canadian police cannot operate on US soil.
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New York Times
Toronto
Ontario
Canada
Anglin
Everett
Carin
James
Gilhula
United States
Justice Anglin
Night Watchman Murdered Near Elmira
Edward Fenner a night watchman from Troy Pennsylvania was killed in an alley near a locked borough lock-up. The slain guard had earlier nabbed a prowler and the man freed with his keys is suspected to be part of a robbery gang that then fled.
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Elmira
N. Y
Edward Fenner
Troy
Penn
Fenner
Mrs Langtry Joins Vaudeville With Record Salary
Mrs Langtry signs a ten week vaudeville contract for 2500 dollars weekly the highest salary yet for a vaudeville star. Oscar Hammerstein F F Proctor and Percy G Williams arranged the deal by cable. She will perform at Proctor houses Victoria Colonial Alhambra Orpheum in Brooklyn and likely Boston beginning in the early fall. She had been considering a South Africa tour when the offer came.
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Colonial
Alhambra
Orpheum
Brooklyn
Boston
The Second Empire Fast Train Leaves Grand Central
The Second Empire, a new fast train on the New York Central, departs Grand Central at 1 57 P M and reaches Albany at 4 52, Utica at 6 47, Syracuse at 8 00, Rochester at 9 33, and Buffalo at 11 10 P M with no excess fare.
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New York Central
Grand Central Station
Albany
Utica
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Yale Victory Celebration Goes to Tragic Trolley Crash
A night after Yale beat Princeton in baseball, a party of five college students in a carriage near Little Hungary was hit by a Third Avenue trolley at Third Avenue and Twentieth Street. Six men including conductor Wesley Stinson were injured. all victims reported at Bellevue Hospital with various injuries. The carriage driver Samuel Bernstein, 224 East Third Street, and motorman Andrew Glynn were involved as police investigated the mishap.
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Twentieth Street
Hungary
Bellevue Hospital
John Robinson
Alfred Johnson
Tobias Frieze
J. Jones
John Rankin
Imperial Hotel
Wesley Stinson
Grand Street
Second Avenue
Samuel Bernstein
East Third Street
Bernstein
Nassau
Stinson
Andrew Glynn
West Forty-ninth Street
Bellevue
Glynn
Arsenic Toxin Suspected in Cabbage Poisoning Death
In Poughkeepsie New York arsenic from cabbage spray is blamed for the death of Mary Hayden ten. The Hayden family and a neighbor’s child fell ill after eating boiled cabbage. One died while others recovered and Dr John H Cotter confirmed arsenic as the cause after initial doubts about ptomaine.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Mary Hayden
Pierce Hayden
3 Gate Street
Hayden
John H. Cotter
Dr. Cotter
Pastor De Larme Married in Philadelphia Church
News from Paterson reports the marriage of Rev. A. A. De Larme to Miss Ethel Kirkham of the Paterson YWCA in Allegheny Avenue Baptist Church Philadelphia. The ceremony occurred last Wednesday amid prior engagement chatter involving Miss Mary Mathes and family.
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Arthur Vanderbrees
Mathes
de Larme
Man Saves Child From Fall Breaks Hip at Elev That's News
James B. Gordon aged fifty of 806 East 135th Street was taken to Lincoln Hospital last night with a hip fracture after he caught a girl who stumbled on the stairs of the Third Avenue Elevated at 133rd Street. The child escaped injury and left with her mother without asking about him.
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James B. Gordon
East One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street
Lincoln Hospital
One Hundred and Thirty-third Street
Third Avenue
Wen
Gordon
Bourbon Prince Hosts Banquet for His Twenty-First Child
Lucca Italy June 17 Prince Robert of Bourbon and ex-sovereign Duke of Parma held a grand banquet to mark the birth of his twenty-first child a son with Pope Pius X and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg named as godparents indicating high royal and papal recognition.
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Lucca
Italy
Prince Robert of Bourbon
Duke of
Parma
Pope Pius X
Luxembourg
Pope May Leave Vatican for Castel Gandolfo
Rome reports grow that the Pope may spend weeks at Castel Gandolfo with Cardinal Merry del Val this summer. He would travel from the Vatican by carriage to the villa, which is part of Pontiff property, with police planning for security. Vatican denies the plan.
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Merry del Val
Vatican
Boy Falls From Bridge Into Harlem River, Drowns
Eight year old George Scott toppled from the Central Bridge into the Harlem River yesterday afternoon while watching a boat with his brother Charles. A rowboat rescue attempt failed as the tide ran swift and he disappeared. Police and family details noted his bereaved father Walter Scott and a recent death of his mother.
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George Scott
Central Bridge
Harlem
Charles
T. R. Cole
A. D. Croft
Charley
George
Francis
Walter Scott
West One Hundred and Forty-third Street
Herreshoff Arrested for Speeding in Manhattan Ave
Francis Herreshoff of 56 West Ninety-seventh Street, nephew of yacht designer Nat Herreshoff, was arrested on a speeding charge on Manhattan Avenue near One Hundred and Tenth Street. He and two companions failed to make bail, scrapped up part of the amount, and a Harlem friend posted the rest.
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Francis Herreshoff
West Ninety-seventh Street
Nat Herreshoff
Manhattan Avenue
Hundred and Tenth Street
Mr. Herreshoff
Harlem
Hargis Brothers and French Freed After Feud Murder Case
Jackson Kentucky June 17 The Hargis brothers and B F French were freed by Magistrate Allen after an intense examination over the murder of J B Marcum. An order for general disarmament in the courtroom was issued as Mrs Marcum testified amid continued excitement. County Attorney Blanton abruptly left the room after a sensational assault on the court and defendants.
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New York Times
Jackson
Hargis Brothers
B. F. French
J. B. Marcum
Allen
Vanished at School Door Near Pennington
Parents search for eighteen year old Reba Brewer who disappeared after leaving school Friday morning with friends. She was seen at noon with two bundles of clothing as farmers assist in the missing person inquiry. police in Trenton alerted.
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New York Times
Pennington
N. J
William Brewer
Reba
Trenton
Acquitted leader to head new American National Bank
I N Perry, once president of the National Bank of North America, will head a new Chicago bank named American National with 500000 dollars capital and 125000 dollars surplus. Stock reportedly subscribed at 1250 dollars per share. large packing interests involved. Perry had been acquitted of arson at Hegewich, Ill., aiding a rearrangement of his bank holdings.
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New York Times
Minneapolis
Chicago
I. N. Perry
National Bank of North America
American National
Perry
Hegewich
Ill
Rider Killed in Rage at Shrewsbury Races
Harry T. Pearce of Manor Maryland was thrown from his horse Navajo during matinée races at Shrewsbury. As the horses turned the second bend Navajo stumbled and Pearce was pitched headfirst, dying instantly.
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New York Times
York
Penn
Harry T. Pearce
Manor
Shrewsbury
Pearce
Schoolteacher Mary Schuster Found Dead in Surf
The body of 31 year old Mary Schuster, a Wilmington Delaware school teacher, was found in the Atlantic City surf after being reported missing from a hotel since Monday. Identified by her father C W Schuster the investigation points to suicide by jumping from a pier while she was recovering from nervous prostration.
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Atlantic City
Mary Schuster
C. W. Schuster
Miss Schuster
Wilmington
Del
Hague scene eyed in Russo Japanese peace talks stalemate
News from Tokio awaits Russia on reconsidering the meeting site for the Russo Japanese peace conference. Russia favors The Hague for neutrality and court size, while Washington remains possible amid exchanges between Lamsdorff and Meyer. Amb Meyer disavows quoted Paris interview as diplomatic circles fear delays in Manchuria.
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Washington
the Hague
Russia
Hague
Lamsdorff
Meyer
Arbitration Court
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United States
Holland
Japan
France
Foreign Office
Bourse Gazette
Great Britain
Germany
Austria
Novoe Vremya
Sviet
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