Reliance Measured in Erie Amid Sail Spread Race Talk
The Reliance, latest Herreshoff designed yacht, was officially measured in the Erie area last Sunday. Figures show a larger vessel with a longer mast and wider sail area than the Constitution and Columbia, affecting time allowances in cups. The vessel’s length 148 feet, sail area 16 975 square feet, topmast 11515 feet, and other rigging details cited.
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Erie
Olumbia
Tneidentaus
Reliance
New York
Thata
Frida
Je Seonds
Enormc IS -Sal Area
Elise
Iead Ag
Carrie
Columbia
Ehice Bethiems
Woman Attacks Judge in Circuit Court Hearing
A demented woman allegedly attacked a judge in a circuit court session in Wark Nebraska on June 22 as the judge presided over a case. The incident occurred as court proceedings were underway.
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Seertal
New York Times
Wrederic
Insurance Notes Page Adds Losses by Fire
Out of town notices on a busy page include insurance notes detailing losses by fire. The column lists incidents with brief summaries and page references for further details.
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Bnigtets
Pacenxe
Society
United Service
Woman assaults judge in Erie Railroad damage case
In a courtroom scene, a woman named Mary Mulligan rushed a judge with an umbrella during a hearing in the Joseph Higgins versus Erie Railroad Company damages case. She was seized by a court constable, ejected, fled to the hall, and restrained from reentering. Mulligan claimed Broad Street residence.
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Joseph Higgins
Erie Railroad Company
Mary Mulligan
Broad Street
Harvard Prof Skeptical of London Radium Theory
Special to The New York Times from Boston June 22 Harvard chemist Prof T W Richards questions the London claim that a new radium theory would replace matter with energy He calls the assertion an unproved hypothesis and notes the facts on radium do not prove matter and electricity are one He warns dreamers Crookes and Lodge exaggerate conclusions and cites radium being three degrees warmer than substitutes.
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New York Times
Boston
T. W. Richards
Chemical Department
Harvard
London
Haseen
Crookes
Lodge
Judge D H McMillan Is Removed From Office
President Roosevelt signed an order removing Judge Daniel H McMillan of the New Mexico Supreme Court on charges of general immorality. Judge Clement C Smith of Hastings Mich is appointed to succeed him after a lengthy investigation and strong pleas for retention failed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Daniel H.mcmillan
Supreme ‘Ourt
New Mexico
Clément C. Smith
Hastings
Mich
McMillan
Knox, Vister
McMilkin
Browring
John G. Milburn
Buffalo
N.Y
New York
Correly University
Shitecin Ts
Fle
New -York Senate
Buffalo State Asylum
TSSS
Senate
Judge McMillan
Presbyterian Church
Masonic
Order of the Temple
Judge Smith
Michigan
Department of Justice
Yale Senior Arrested in Damages Suit Over Cab Fare
Theron R. Strong a Yale senior was arrested on a bill for damages filed by William B. McCarthy superintendent of the Sun City Brass Company. The assault case stemmed from a dispute over fare after transporting the McCarthys from the railroad to their home on May 31. Strong was fined for the assault earlier and bonds posted to permit him to join commencement festivities.
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New Haven
Conn
Theron R. Strong
Yale
William B. McCarthy
Sun City Brass Company
Strong
Theron Gy Strong
New York
Mayor Strong
McCarthy
Railroad Staton
Rain records in Adirondacks ease drought and flood risks
Saratoga N Y June 22 a rain gauge record shows eight and twelve one hundredths inches of rain in the Adirondacks over a period surpassing fifteen days. The downpour relieves prior drought but increases water in foothills causing some life disturbance without great danger anticipated.
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New York Times
Saratoga
N. Y
Lower
Adirondacks
Poland Water Mineral Remedy Ad in New York
An advertisement touts Poland Water as prescribed for kidney and stomach diseases and typhoid fever. It claims a positive cure for acute Bright's disease and offers a Poland Water book free from the Poland Water Depot at 3 Park Place, New York, with contact by telephone 6,050-Cortlandt.
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Poland
Park Place
New York
Cortlandt
Wilmington Lynching Burned Negro After Murder of Helene Bishop
A mob of about 2,000 forcibly seized George White from the Workhouse in Wilmington Delaware. He was tied to a stake at Price's Corner and burned as bullets riddled his body after a confession. The case involved the murder of seventeen year old Helene Bishop, a Wilmington High School student, with the crime described as one of Delaware’s most revolting.
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Wilmington
Del
George White
Helene” Bishop
Price’s Corner
White
Ferris Industrial School
E. A. Bishop
Mr. Bishop
McKean
Erie County
Penn
Delaware
Wilmington High School
Price & Corners
Schol
Miss Bishop
Edward Woodward
Mob confronts potential lynching after Laurel shooting
Laurel Mississippi June 22 Marshal Smith and Officers Holifield and Bounds pursued three suspects after a Friday assault in Ellisville. Smith exchanged fire with defendant M F Reid, who shot Smith and was killed by Holifield. a second suspect was arrested while a third escaped. The mob gathered at the jail, threatening to hang the slain suspect, who was believed wanted for murder in Birmingham.
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New York Times
Laurel
Miss
Marshal Smith
M. EF. Reid
Smith
Holifield and Bounds
William Lewis
Ellisville
Reid
Holifield
Arcadia Incorporation Aims as Premier Southern California Racing Hub
Special to The New York Times reports Los Angeles June arc Arcadia to become a self governing city on Baldwin ranch Santa Anita. The plan, opposed by the State Anti Saloon League and religious groups, seeks a town centered on racing and sport with Baldwin likely to serve as mayor. Games and gamblers drawn to the new resort fuel controversy.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
Lucky Baldwin
State
Baldwin
Santa Anita
California
Arcadia
Oil Painting Stolen From Meissonier Apartments
Zercher Hart of 120 West One Hundred Thirty-fourth Street and Trumphrey Douglas of 228 West Sixty-fourth Street, both colored, were jailed after a $500 oil painting vanished from a storeroom in the Meissonier apartments at 204 West Fifty fifth Street where they worked. Police seek a third man who fled with the landscape worth $2. The suspects are linked to George H. Bogart, the landscape artist, whose works were shown recently at the Union League Club.
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Zercher Hart
Tundred
Thirty-fourth Street
Trumphrey Douglas
West Sixty-fourth Street
West Forty-seventh Street
Meissonier Apartments
Cable
George H. Bogart
Union League Club
Peats Mansion Destroyed In Greenwich Fire
In Greenwich Connecticut Alta Crest mansion of Alfred Peats a wallpaper maker burned to ashes after a kerosene lamp exploded as 8 year old Genevieve and her mother were lit by a lamp. Fire protection failed there were no hydrants nearby and fire crews arrived late. The property once bought for 100000 with furniture losses estimated at 150000 and Andrew Carnegie formerly living there.
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Greenwich
Conn
Alta Crest
Alfred Peats
Electric Hill
Genevieve
Peats
Altar Crest
Andrew Carnegie
Mrs Siegel Thrown From Carriage in Mamaroneck
Mrs Henry Siegel wife of a New York dry goods merchant was thrown from a runabout at Mamaroneck station while en route to New York to place jewels in a safe deposit. She suffered severe injuries, her jewels disappeared, and a $500 reward was offered for their return.
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Henry Siegel
New York
Carrige
Mamaroneck
Orienta Point
Siegel
White Plains
Quicker Ridge
Joseph Reardon
Peter Spader
Miss Vaughan
Runaway Train Destroys Homes in Spokane
A coal laden train with no engine sped four miles through Spokane injuring eight and killing four. A box car struck by the runaway train killed workers W H Thomas and an unknown tramp. The Slee and Meyer families lost their homes. Elmer Slee, nine, was killed. Debris piled nearly fifty feet high.
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Spokane
Washington
Spokane Fs .S.and Northern
Great Northern
W. H Thomas
John Slee
Crystal Steam Laundry
Slee
James Slee
Elmer
Clarence
Murder suspect believed at New Rochelle police HQ
Report says a strongly beaten Italian named Francisco Casse was brought to New Rochelle Police Headquarters and is in critical condition. A priest was summoned for last rites as bloodhounds from Boston were brought in to track the killer hiding north of the city.
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New Rochelle
Ahearn
Tuckahoe
Theon
Francisco Casse
Knights of Columbus
Boston
Lehigh Fast Trains to Rochester Buffalo and Falls
Lehigh offers fast trains to Rochester Buffalo Niagara Falls and the Black Diamond Express among other routes as advertised by Ady.
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Lehigh
Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Ady
State Official Admits Trust Payments Under Grand Jury
Ex-Lieut. Gov. John A. Lee testifies he received 1000 from the Sugar Trust and 750 from the Tobacco Trust for literary services and a campaign donation respectively. He says letters to Havemeyer reference aiding his gubernatorial bid. Speed, ex-Coal Oil Inspector, confesses paying 800 to a State Senator to block a bill reducing inspector fees. Grand Jury expects more disclosures and will hear further details tomorrow.
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New York Times
Louis
John A. Lee
Grand Jury
Circuit
Folk
Lee
Jefferson City
Sugar Trust
Tobacco Trust
Havemeyer
Missouri
Daniel J. Kelly
Baking Powder Trust
Circuit Court
Kelly
Richard KB. Speed
Speed
Langston Family Three Generations Graduate From Oberlin
Oberlin Ohio June 22 Carroll Napier Langston colored will graduate from Oberlin College with a Langston family lineage noted. His brother John Mercer Langston also graduated from Oberlin in June, 11. Prof Arthur D Langston father of these two men, graduated in 1877. John M Langston a former U.S. Congress member, graduated in 1849.
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Oberlin
Ohio
Oberliin College
Carroll Napier Langston
St. Louis
John Mercer Langston
Arthur D. Langston
Dumas School
John M. Langston
U Congress
A. D. Langston
Will
Oberlin College
Langston
America
Palmillo Mine in Parral Draws Global Attention
The Palmillo mine near Parral Mexico, discovered four years ago by peon Pedro Alvarado, is hailed as possibly the richest in the world. Alvarado owns the mine and stores bullion worth about 60 million dollars in a steel cage at the works. A new vein yields about 100 dollars per ton in gold and 500 dollars in silver. Alvarado offered to pay Mexico’s public debt as a donation, but Minister Limantour rejected the offer.
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New York Times
Parral
Mexico
Palmillo
Pedro Alvarado
American Smelting and Refining Company
Guggenheim Exploration Company
Alvarado
Palmilomba
Wife Whips Veteran Under Court Order in Public
Henderson Cass of Lexington, 76, was whipped on his bare back by his wife under Judge Riley’s order after Cass faced a warrant for squandering pension money and drunkenness. The buggy whip punishment continued until he vowed to surrender his funds each quarter, with a crowd cheering as they left together.
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New York
Lexington
Henderson Cass
Riley
Cass
Tie
Government's Big Auction Sells Lord Owen Co Stock
Auctioneer Samuel Winternitz turned over nearly 125000 for the drug stock of Lord Owen Co at a five story building on 238 Randolph Street Chicago. Federal bankruptcy law records were broken as Judge Kohlsaat refused a bulk bid of 80000. Creditors may receive about half their claims from the proceeds of this sale and trustee Williams assets.
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New York Times
Chicago
Lord, Owen& Co
Samuel Winternitz
Randolph Street
Kohlsaat
Williams
White proposes national public service training system
Dr. Andrew D. White outlines a plan to endow professorships at 20 to 25 American universities for training in public affairs. He envisions chairs in comparative legislation administration and international law, plus history and ethics, to raise graduates’ preparedness for public service and influence lawmakers.
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New Haven
Conn
Andrew D. White
Germany
White
American University
University of Paris
United States
Greenwich man arrested in alleged kidnapping of three year old
John Mason, a visitor to Greenwich for about three weeks, was arrested on charges of kidnapping the three year old daughter of Alexander Young from her grandmother Mrs. F Marion McAllister at the Elms boarding house last Saturday. Prosecuting Attorney James F Walsh and Sheriff William E Ritch believe he helped arrange the carriage and participated in taking the child. Mason, thirty, said he was an artist and claimed kinship to Brooklyn prosecutor William J Youngs. He moved with his mother and sister into a cottage, appeared poor, and has a history of a three year custody fight after a divorce.
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Greenwich
John Mason
Alexander Young
F. Marion McAllister
the Elms
James F. Walsh
William E. Ritch
Mason
Gael
William J. Youngs
Brooklyn
Young
Rector Prayed for Pope Sparks Ferguson Church Resignation
The Rev. James Milbanks rector of St Stephen’s Ferguson Missouri was forced to resign after publicly praying for Pope Leo’s recovery amid long standing theological clashes. He was described as high church while many congregants held low views. The sermon on church establishment and blunt remarks about Queen Elizabeth fueled the dispute. Milbanks also faces family concerns as he is educating a daughter for the stage.
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New York Times
ST. T.ouis. Mo
James Milbanks
St.Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Ferguson
Leo
Henry VIII
Elizabeth
Milbanks
Ferguson Folk
Doctor Mysteriously Ill After Madison Square Plant
Dr. William J. Greanelle, 32, Assistant Surgeon of the Twenty second Regiment N G N Y, of University Place, is critically ill at his father's home from suspected ptomaine poisoning. He fell ill after a military tournament at Madison Square Garden and a church festival cake. His left leg grew paralyzed and speech halted, with lengthy coma periods. He is married with children but not living with his wife. Burnett's Vanilla Extract is advertised.
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William J. Greanelle
University Place
Twenty-second Regiment
Walling D. Greanelle
West Ninetlett Street
Madison Square Garden
Greanelle
Wormser Metropolis suit dismissed amid fraud claims
Justice Scott of the New York Supreme Court dismissed Isidor Wormser Jr.’s suit to block the Interurban-Metropolitan lease finding no fraud or misconduct by the Metropolitan Directors. Attorneys Guthrie and Stickney sparred as the judge warned the case may go to appeal.
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Justice Scott
Supreme Court
Isidor Wormser, Jr
Metropolitan
W.D. Guthrie
Albert L. Stickney
Stickney
Guthrie
Wormser
Ryan
Vreeland
Whitney
Root
Metropolitan Securities Company
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Securities Company
Eles
Thomas F. Ryan
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Metropolitan Action
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Stickner
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Loeb
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Metropalitum Company
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