Taft Silver Wedding Day Observed With Pageantry
Diplomatic corps and officials attended the White House event in full dress as Taft and Mrs Taft marked a silver wedding anniversary. Messages from monarchs and leaders poured in while gifts of silver and antique items arrived from several departments and private citizens.
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Honduras
Urasuay
Taft
Mabel Boardman
Frederick A. Keep
House
Champ Clark
White House
Gaynor
Prendergast
Nelson Henry
J. van Vechten
New York
W. W. Gordon
Georgia
Hance
Emperor Mutsuhito
Japan
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Kng Alfonso
Spain
Mrs. Taft
Secretary of the Interior
Mrs. Fisher
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Mrs. Nagel
Navy Department
Harriet Waters Forrusah
Lancaster
Mass
Mr. Taft
Col
J. Machowotsky
New York City
Leach testifies about spies in MacVeagh probe
Former Customs Collector Charles F Leach describes to a Cleveland deposition how special agents tapped wires and shadowed him during the inquiry into Franklin MacVeagh. He says telephone operators were bribed for information, and watchers followed him at home and to and from work.
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New York Times
Cleveland
Ohio
Charles Fleach
Notary Newkirk
Day
Franklin MacVeagh
the Treasury
Leach
Mr. Leach
Customs Office
Secret Service
Cuyahoga
Washington
Union Station
Wall
Euclid Avenue
Old Man's Romance Ends With Shooting
An elderly German man Emil Berger about 70 shoots Hattie Haindl 50 at her East 94th Street apartment then kills himself. Berger had asked her to marry and after she refused four weeks earlier he threatened her and drank heavily. Haindl survived and described the events. Berger left letters indicating prior planning and a note for his sister.
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Helen Taft
Charles Anderson
Mrs. Taft
Miss Herron
Delia Torrey
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Wickersham
James S$. Sherman
Champ Clark
Mme. Jusserand
Baroness Uchida
Grange
Mme. Bryn
Slinister
Norway
Mme. de Riano
Countess de Buisseret
Willis J. Moore
White House
British Isles
Scandinavia
Cincinnati Commercial Club
Chevy Chase Club
Cincinnati
William Howard Taft
Washington
Hay Pen
Administration of Justice
Washk‘ington
Robert
Mer. Falconio
Pope Pius
Bryce
England
William
Germany
Fallieres
France
Emil Berger
Hattie Haindl
East Ninety-fourth Street
City Hospital
Blackwell’s Island
Berger
East Ninety-fifth Street
Carnegie Trust Company
Lehane
Pauline Ney
East Eighty-eighth Street
John Larkin
Ninety-fourth Street
Second Avenue
Larkin
Tragic Accident Halts Second Avenue Elevated Train Service
Near rush hour a fatal accident at Eighty-sixth Street halted the Second Avenue line for forty minutes. Thomas J. Sheridan, a Ninety-second Street ticket agent, fell in front of a northbound train, was dragged 100 feet, and died. Police and crowd control followed, Sheridan's address listed, and his marital status noted.
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Second Avenue
Eighty-sixth Street
Thomas J. Sheridan
Ninety-second Street
P. S. Dugan
Sheridan
Boston Road
Fightysixth Street
Bronx
Mustang Fights Policemen on Broadway Rampage
A small mustang escaped from a light delivery wagon near 1179 Broadway and fought off four mounted policemen including Daly and Bones for about an hour. Daly was bitten on the right hand as officers finally hobbled and restrained the animal for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ambulance amid a large crowd.
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Broadway
Twenty-eighth Street
Daly
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Hicks
Bowes
Bones Found in Maine Wreck During Hull Search
The Maine wreck near Havana yields human foot and forearm bones amid hull debris as divers clear cofferdams. Officials note many crewmen remain missing. exploration focuses on the stern and bow areas, with water pumped down to about fourteen feet and plans to continue interior digs.
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Havana
Maine
Marine Guard
Spardeck
Marie Corelli
Board of Survey
Bixbee
Ensineers Corps
Explosion of the Maine Claims 2 Officers and 250 Sailors Killed
The disaster left two officers and 250 men dead. Eight crew members later succumbed to injuries. One officer and 191 seamen were recovered while 68 bodies remained missing. Many bones remain in the wreck.
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Maine
Two Uptown Gangs Battle With Police
Police chased and rounded up a score of suspects after a street brawl at 118th Street and Seventh Avenue. Vecchis identified a prisoner and Frank Moran and Harry Marks were detained at West 125th Street Station. Moran faced assault and battery and highway robbery charges. Marks faced assault on an officer. Gust and Vecchis were injured.
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118Th Street
Seventh Avenue
Vecchis
West 125Th Street
Frank Moran
East 113Th Street
Harry Marks
Forty-fifth Street
Brooklyn
Marks
Gust
Moran
Gangs Targeted as City Executes Car Riot Crackdown
A 100 man squad led by Commissioner Waldo intensified action against street gangs with a focus on car rowdies. George Kelly faced 1500 bail for concealed weapons after a chase by Detectives Triebee and Howard. Forty five arrests occurred from Saturday night to Sunday morning, with several offenders sent to the Workhouse and a Brooklyn trio jailed for thirty days.
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Manhattan
Brooklyn
Queens
Waldo
George Kelly
East Ninety-sixth Street
Kelly
Triebee
Howard
Dodds
Henry Heintze
Bushwick Avenue
Otto Schumm
Montrose Street
Frank Seger
Mauser Street
Mamie Ryan
East Seventy-fourth Street
Smith
Long Island City
Astoria Ferry
Hammond envoy to coronation praises US honor in London
John Hays Hammond told The New York Times he welcomed the chance to represent the United States at the coronation. He arrived at 1 Stratton Street as Guards guarded the mansion while London prepared, rain-drenched decorations and crowds filling streets around Buckingham Palace and the City.
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United States
Hammond
Stratton Street
Piccadilly
London
West End
Financial District
Stock Exchange
Bank of England
Buckingham Palace
England
Duke and Duchess of Connaught
John Hays Hammond
Royal coronation pageant draws near with lavish social scene
London hosts a vast royal gathering in the picture gallery with nearly every royal and foreign dignitary. Attendees attended the Duchess of Sutherland ball at Stafford House while crowds flock along the Mall despite rain. Amid pomp, naval salutes and gate fortifications mark coronation preparations as diplomats and notable figures arrive.
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Prince Orst of Mission
Stafford House
Mall
Duchess of Sutherland
London
Queen Victoria
Engand
British Empire League
Cecil
Westminster Hall
House of Commons
Lord Rosebery
Douglas Bernard Hall
John Hays Hammond
St. James’s
Mrs. Reid
John. L. Griffiths
Delaware Arrives at Portsmouth for Naval Review
The American battleship Delaware reached Portsmouth amid salutes and maneuvers. It is the largest warship present as visiting lines form for the review with other ships, Carriers including British and German Von der Tann due tomorrow. Sir Edward Morris, premier of Newfoundland, has been made a baronet.
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Joseph Ward
New Zealand
Andrew Fisher
Australia
Edward Morris
Newfoundland
William Osler
Regius
Oxford
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
McGill University
Montreal
Earl of Crewe
House of Lords
Lord Curzon of
Viscount Mountgarret
Charles B. Mclaren
Alexander Acland-Hood
William T. Lewis
James L. MacKay
Archibald C. Corbett
Glasgow
Thomas Gair Ashton
Luton
Bedfordshire
Godfrey R. Benson
George Alexander
Rufus Isaacs
T. McKinnon Wood
Foreign Office
T. J. Macnamara
Admiralty
Vezey Strong
London
Frederick Huth Jackson
Adolph Frederick
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Duke of Argyll
Duke of Fife
Order of the Garter
Charles Fitzpatrick
Canada
St. Michael and St. George
Robert Alexander Falconer
Toronto University
William Nicholson
Portsmouth
Delaware
von der Tann
Sir Edward Morris
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