Zeeland in fog hits unknown ship in Dover collision
In dense fog east of Dover the Zeeland struck an unknown vessel amidships causing a large hole in her bow. The Sappho, in collision with the same vessel, was beached at Dover after taking on 200 crew and enduring power outages. No lives were lost.
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London
Red Star
Zeeland
Dover
Sappho
Dungeness
Antwerp
New York
Southampton
Naval
Portsmouth
Gladiator
American Line
St. Paul
Isle of Wight
Cedric Stops at Holyhead in Transatlantic Experiment
The White Star liner Cedric arrived at Holyhead from New York on June 12 with passengers and mails landing by noon. Special trains to London brought travelers to Euston by 5:48 PM, signaling Holyhead as a potential permanent landfall for American mails. White Star plans to repeat the experiment with the Steamer Baltic.
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London
New York
Holyhead
Euston
Liverpool
White Star
Queenstown
White Star Company
Eee
Mersey Docks
Mail Star
Baltic
Army Wireless Phone Tests Begin This Summer
The United States Army plans extensive wireless telephony experiments this summer led by the Signal Corps. Tests will run under tough conditions to prove wireless voice can augment the wireless telegraph, with initial five mile hops from a Mills Building mast to Fort Myer and beyond. The effort aims to connect dirigible balloons with the earth.
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New York Times
Washington
United States Army
Signal Corps
War Department
Navy Department
Navy
Mills
War Departments
Fort Myer
Inspector Russell Knocked Down In Coney Island Fight
Police Inspector John H. Russell, head of Brooklyn Borough, was knocked down after a dispute with Morris Goldberg and Lewis Cherim outside a Surf Avenue photo gallery. Sergt. Reynolds separated the group and took all four to the Coney Island Station. Goldberg and Cherim face arraignment before Magistrate Voorhees.
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Coney Island
Surf Avenue
John H. Russell
Brooklyn
Morris Goldberg
Lewis Cherim
Culver Station
Russell
Goldberg
Inspector Russo
Sergt
Hugh Reynolds
O’brien
Cherim
Barker
Reynolds
Bingham
Voorhees
New Yorkers Divorced in Reno Two Separations Granted
Two divorces were granted in Reno to New York divorce colony members. Annie R. Rogers freed from Lord E. Rogers after claims of extreme cruelty in Suffern. Adelia Prescott divorced from Rev. Allen C. Prescott after long desertion from a Western New York town. Mrs. Edward Hatch, linked to Parker Hatch & Sheehan, arrived in Reno as a recent separation case.
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New York Times
Reno
Nev
New York
Annie R. Rogers
Lord E. Rogers
Rogers
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanter
Adelia Prescott
Allen C. Prescott
Buffalo
N. Y
Prescott
New Haven
Conn
Robert C. Howard
Edward Hatch
Edward H. Hatch
Parker, Hatch & Sheehan
Hatch
Mary von Wagenen
San Francisco
Virgil T. Pogue
Riots and Striking Jockeys Disrupt Paris Grand Steeple
Paris June 20. A strike by the Stable Boys' Union delayed the Grand Steeplechase at Auteuil and led to a riot as paddock barriers were breached and fires set. Army officers and American horses were involved, with several injuries before the race resumed and Saint Caradec won the Grand Steeplechase.
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Tomn
New York Times
Paris
Stable Boys’ Union
M. Pataud
Electricians’ Union
Auteuil
Garde Républicain
Maisons. Lafitte
W. K. Vanderbilt
Herkimer
Maisons Lacfitte
Falliéres
EH. Veil Pichard
Saint Caradec
G. G. Assheton-Smith
Jerry M
Mademoiselle Boniface
Chief Plenty Horse Killed by Train in Boston
Chief Plenty Horse a Sioux from Pine Ridge Agency aged about 80 and married was killed by a train at South Station in Boston last night. He was connected with a Wild West show now touring Boston.
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Chief Plenty Horse
Boston
Mass
South Station
Pine Ridge Agency
Strike Looms Over Grand Prix Schedule at Maisons Laffitte
Delegates from the General Federation of Labor attend a meeting where the Stable Employes Union votes to strike next Sunday during the Grand Prix de Paris. An organizer claims 80,000 workers will join, turning the race into an obstacle event and pressuring trainers to meet demands. Incidents at the racecourse earlier may have caused betting machine losses reported around 300000 dollars.
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Maisons Lafitte
France
General Federation of Labor
Auteuil
Explosion hits Italian church in Newark amid factional strife
An early morning blast shattered windows of St. Rocco church and school in Newark, injuring none severely. Police detained Salvatore Musemesci, a relative of the pastor, amid factional tensions and unclear motives, with one suspect arrested but no conclusive evidence yet found.
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St. Rocco
Bedford Street
Newark
James Zuccarelli
Father Zuccarelli
Salvatore Musemesci
Musemesci
Big Aeroplane Wrecked at Morris Park Race Course
Wilbur R. Kimball’s eight propeller aeroplane was badly damaged after striking the bank at Morris Park race course. The craft crumpled on impact, gasoline ignited, and flames were smothered with sand and dirt. Both frames cracked, propellers broken, wheels smashed, engine undamaged.
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Wilbur R. Kimball
Morris Park
Kimball
Mr. Kimball
Would-be rescuers capsize in Jamaica Bay incident
Four men including two brokers clerks and two Anabas Yacht Club members were swept a half mile from Broad Channel Jamaica Bay after a capsizing naphtha launch. Dr W H Slater and Edward Schrader heard cries from the pier and helped retrieve the men. All were rescued by hotel guests and later rested at the Delevan Hotel pier before going home.
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Broad Channel
Jamaica Bay
Anabas Yacht Club
Harry Wilson
John Raedy
Franklin Avenue
Brooklyn
Grassy Point
Alice
Wilson
Raedy
W. H. Slater
Flower Hospital
Edward H. Schrader
Long Island Railroad
Delevan Hotel
Drowned man from Ashland in Lake Hopatcong tragedy
Raymond Lindermouth of Ashland Pennsylvania drowned at Lake Hopatcong after a rowboat swamped by a passing launch. Lindermouth, Samuel Clark, and Louis Mullen were rescued times. Lindermouth disappeared before life preserver reached him and his body remains missing.
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Lake Hopatcong
N. J
Raymond Lindermouth
Ashland
Penn
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Mount Carmel
Lindermouth
Samuel Clark
Louis Mullen
Fifteen year old Philip Lamb drowns in Bronx river dive
Philip Lamb 15, visiting relative Kenneth Johnston and brother Matthew from East 138th Street, Bronx, drowns after a dive from an unstable timber pile at Locust Avenue. Search crews and other boys looked for the body through the evening but nightfall halted the effort.
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Philip Lamb
Kenneth Johnston
East 138Th Street
Matthew
Locust Avenue
Bronx
Philip
Senate Finance Confers with Taft on Tax Plan
Republican members of the Finance Committee met at the White House for three hours to discuss the corporation tax and potential tariff rate changes. Taft, Root, and Wickersham were involved or expected, with debates over exemptions and revenue projections ranging from 15 to 50 million dollars. The session highlighted constitutional concerns and the likelihood of a lengthy adjournment into August.
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New York Times
Washington
Finance Committee
White House
Wickersham
New York
Root
Treasury
Taft
Senate
Congress
Aldrich
Panic on crowded Long Island Rail Road train
More than 1 000 travelers on a Rockaway to Brooklyn train panic as a drawhead between cars failed on a five mile Jamaica Bay trestle. Lights out, doors rushed, families separated, train recoupled and reached Flatbush fifty minutes late.
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Rockaway
Brooklyn
Jamaica Bay
Flatbush Terminal
Long Bridge
Hammel’s
Ramblersville
Goose Creek
British order for radium to fund cancer institute
Lord Iveagh and Sir Felix Cassell placed a $150,000 order for seven and a half grams of radium with a British company. The purchase finances a cancer cure research institute founded by the two men.
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New York Times
London
Lord Iveagh
Sir Felix Cassell
Sir Felix
Sultan to Tour Europe in Autumn Tour
Mehmed V the Sultan of Turkey will begin a tour of European courts in autumn and will arrive in England in December according to The Standard.
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London
Mehmed V
Turkey
England
Daniel's Comet Seen Again by Several Observers
A tele gram from Prof Harriet W Bigelow of Smith College Northampton reports Daniel's comet observed June 18 in right ascension 1h 48m 21.7s and declination plus 33° 13′ 2″. Other telegrams show the comet visible with a small telescope observed by Prof W W Campbell at Lick Observatory and Prof W J Hussey at Ann Arbor Michigan.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
Harriet W. Bigelow
Smith College
Northampton
Daniel
W. W. Campbell
Lick Observatory
W. J. Hussey
Ann Arbor, Mich
Peary Strives for Pole Reach From Ellesmere Voyage
Friends in Washington say Commander Robert Peary should have reached the North Pole by now if his plan succeeded. He left Etah on August 17, 1908 aboard the Roosevelt and aimed to winter near Ellesmere Land before a February start with twenty five sleds and twenty five teams. His prior expedition reached latitude 87 degrees 6 minutes, the farthest north record to date.
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Washington
Robert Edwin Peary
Peary
North Pole
Etah
Greenland
Roosevelt
Ellesmere Land
Rewarded for Old Kindness in New Jersey
Joseph R. Cheesman of Burlington receives a $5,000 bequest from Harry Green, an aged New York veteran, who thanked Cheesman years ago for kindness shown when Green, deaf, worked as an ex pert shoe cutter. A New York lawyer’s letter revealed Green’s executors’ wish to reward that friendship.
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New York Times
Burlington
N. J
Joseph R. Cheesman
New York
Cheesman
Harry Green
Green
Camden
Wealthy Greenwich Matron Involved In Whitney Ave Raid
New Haven reports a raid on Whit ney Avenue suspects Jack Rainier son of an auto maker and Yale students I jams and two women Mrs Ellen Montells and Miss Mary Christey were arrested and bonded. Mrs Montells has just obtained a divorce from James Montells. The incident has provoked police and faculty inquiries with a potential lawsuit by relatives against the police.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Whitney Avenue
Jack Rainer
Frank Burch
Terre Haute
Ind
Ellen Converse Mentells
Mary Christey
Montells
James Montells
Greenwich
Washington
Richmond
Rainier
I. Jams
Yale
Dr Justin Steer a St Louis physician dies by self Inflicted
Dr Justin Steer a Washington University professor and lung specialist died by prussic acid poisoning at St Louis after a note said he suffered intense chest pains since 1895. Colleague Dr H A Geitz found him. doctors doubted a aneurysm. Funeral private. survives wife and a brother.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Justin Steer
Washington University
Dr. Steer
New York
St. Louis Medical Society
Missouri State Medical Association
American Medical Association
American Association For It: Advancement of Science
Suspects traced in Sigel murder case to Vancouver
Chicago police pursue two Chinese men linked to the Elsie Sigel case after alerts from New York and Conley of 6400 Yale Avenue. The men, believed to be Leung Lim and Chung Sing, traveled from Grand Central to Vancouver via Washington with baggage two trunks and differing class tickets.
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Conley
Lieut
John Sullivan
Detective Bureau
Washington
Leon
Leung Lim
Grand Central
Baltimore & Ohio Road
Wisconsin Central
St. Paul
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Vancouver
Chung Sing
Washington trio linked to Elsie Sigel case in June
Washington report states William Leon Ling Chung Sing and a white woman identified as Josie from New York Chinatown were in the capital last Wednesday and Thursday. They left suddenly on Thursday and may head to Baltimore. Authorities reportedly gain clues toward their arrest as photos of the two Chinese men circulate in New York.
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New York Times
Washington
William Leon
Leon Ling
Chung Sing
Josie
New York
Chinatown
Elsie Sigel
Abe
Baltimore
Wanten
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Thomas Wilson & Sons, Ltd
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Black Sea
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ARMY
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Hopatcong
Sultan
Europe
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Sigel
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Chicago
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Parmelee Transfer Company
J. Conley
Yale Avenue
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Lieut. Walsh
Englewood
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Stark and Johnson
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