Consulting Engineers for Canal Summoned
President Roosevelt calls a September 1 meeting of the Isthmian Canal Commission Board of Consulting Engineers in Washington to study proposed Panama Canal plans. Gen. George W. Davis named chairman with potential Isthmus visit, minority reports urged if views diverge.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Board of Consulting Engineers
Isthmian Canal Commission
Gen
George. W. Davis
George W.davis
Allfred Noble
William Barclay Parsons
William J. Burr
Henry L. Abbot
Francis P. Stearns
Joseph. Ripley
Isham Randolph
Herman Schussler
Henry Inter
Eugene Tincauser
M. Guerard
M. Quelennée
Netherlands
George W. Davis
Board of
Conesulting Engineers
Theodore
Plague Suspected on Steamship Chili Near Panama
A laborer aboard the British steamship Chili died near Panama City amid suspected bubonic plague. Col. William Gorgas warns the body shows no certain plague signs yet fear of transmission prompts disinfection and quarantine of the ship’s crew and the Panama Canal area. Three Chilean deaths on board prior to Panama entry are noted as possible plague cases.
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Panama
la Boca
Guayaquil
William ©. Gorgas
Citch
Ancon
Col” Gorgus
Chili
Boe
Board of Health of
Ruayaduil
Ecuador
Iquique
Chile
Yellow Fever Cases Rise in Colon Hospital
Since June 17 there have been five new yellow fever cases in the Colon Hospital and one death. Our cases are now under treatment. The Seguranca sailed for New York yesterday evening crowded with passengers including a large number of canal employees on leave, who are not expected to return.
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Colon
Jane
New York
Campaign to Save Paul Revere House in Boston
Prominent Boston citizens form the Paul Revere Memorial Association to raise about 50000 to purchase and preserve the Paul Revere house in North Square. The tenement building will be restored as nearly to its original condition as possible. Built before 1681, it is Boston’s oldest surviving house and honors Revere’s legacy.
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Boston
Lave
Paul Revere
North Square
Makes Run in Twenty Hours
The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad advertises the Twentieth Century Limited schedule as twenty hours to complete the trip, noting it previously ran eighteen hours and is restored to the older total. The pictorial supplement clarifies the change ahead of the official timetable update.
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New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad
the Times
Limited
Baseball Ban In Brooklyn Closes Giants Exhibition
Commissioner McAdoo ordered police to stop all profes sional baseball in Brooklyn with arrests for players in uniform. The Giants Brooklyns game was canceled by Brooklyn Club president Jebbetts after legal advice. Justice Kelly denied continuing an injunction shielding Sunday games, saying Sunday baseball for profit breaks the law. Clubs affected include Skelly Baseball Club Coughlin Lyceum Brighton Athletic Club and Felix and Barry Clubs.
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McAdoo
Cross
Awa
Brooklyn
Giants
Brooklyns
Jebbetts
Simon
New York
Kelly
Supreme Court
Ile
Skelly Baseball Club
Coughlin
Lyceuum
Brighton Athletic Club
Felix
Barry Clubs
Pony plays ragtime after smashing piano shop window
A bay horse fleeing a car crashed through S600 plate glass at the Tardman Piano Company on Fifth Avenue near Lord & Taylor. The animal ended up in the sales room, stamping keys on a baby grand valued at $1,000 as clerks and customers fled. The horse then stood on its haunches, while workers and police restrained it.
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Tardman Piano Company
Wifth Avenue
Piano Company
Thirtieth Street
Lord & Taylor
Nineteenth Street
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Thomas Whalen
Hardman Company
Pushcart curb market rules set in banking district
Beginning tomorrow pushcart peddlers are banned from street trading in the banking district from 7 AM to 7 PM on weekdays except at a new Broad Street curb market. Police Commissioner McAdoo announced the traffic order, with vehicle routes adjusted through Exchange Place and a roped curb market area to be established between Beaver Street and Exchange Place. Messenger boys must wear identifying buttons to show curb broker employment.
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Broad Street
McAdoo
Exchange— Place
Beaver Street
Exchange Place
Policeman Injured in Ocean Parkway Crash
Percy Heath of 205 East Thirty-first Street Manhattan was arraigned in Flatbush on a charge of running his auto into Mounted Policeman Peter Bassemir on Ocean Parkway. Bassemir, hospitalized with concussion a broken rib and other injuries, said the police car swerved after the engine lost gasoline. Magistrate Steers adjourned the case until July 14 and held Heath in $1500 bond.
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Percy Heath
East Thirty-first Street
Manhattan
Peter Bassemir
Ocean Parkway
Flatbush
Bussemir
Seney
Steers
Heath
Cunarder Etruria Delayed By Late Mails From Australia
The Etruria missed its 10 o'clock departure as European mails from Australia via San Francisco arrived two days late. Some 316 bags weighing over 48,000 pounds were loaded, then rushed by special express to Chicago, with a detour through Omaha. Delays continued to Grand Central as post office crews completed transfers.
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Europe
Etruria
Australia
San Francisco
Omaha
Chicago
New York
Grand Central Station
Post Office
Saloon Shooting Fatal Accident In Elizabeth New Jersey
Michael Gormik twenty one died when a loaded revolver discharged as he handled it in a saloon on Schiller Street. Mrs John House owner of the saloon was locked up and her husband detained as a witness. The incident occurred at midnight and Gormik died instantly.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Michael Gormik
John House
Schiller Street
Gormik
Metcalf Ordered to placate Chinese amid boycott fears
Roosevelt calls in Secretary Metcalf to ease Chinese exclusion tensions as chamber of commerce pleads for kinder interpretation of laws. Portland worries of a China boycott threaten US relations and commerce, with Aug. 1 boycott date noted by Chinese guilds. Victoria Chinese mobilize funds to support boycott against American goods and unloads of US cargo.
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Portland Chamber of Commerce
China
Congress
Hongkong
Victoria
B. C
United States
Policeman Edward Riker Missing After Alleged Regent Hotel Stabbing
Policeman Edward Riker who is under indictment for stabbing Mary Flannagan at the Regent Hotel on Twenty-eighth Street and Sixth Avenue is missing. A general alarm was sent from Police Headquarters. Riker, suspended, was to report daily at the West 125th Street station but did not report Friday morning and could not be found yesterday.
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Edward Riker
Mary Flannagan
Regent Hotel
Twenty-eighth Street
Sixth Avenue
Riker
West
Eightyearold Boy Dies in Train Signal Torpedo Accident
In Lockport New York on June 24 eight year old Raymond Jadioe of Sunnyside exploded a railroad signal torpedo. A fragment struck his neck and he bled to death.
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Lockport
N. Y
Raymond Jadioe
Sunnyside
Siegel Cooper Clerks Vacation at Seaside Cottages
Sixty Siegel Cooper store clerks from Eighteenth Street and Sixth Avenue left for Long Branch to start the seventh annual Summer vacation season at the Employes' Association cottages. The owned cottages support all workers from the $4 cashiers to the $10,000 salaried buyer, with weekly rotations, a physician, and daily entertainments including vaudeville, dances, tours, launches, trolley rides, lantern-lit car rides, and a theatre party at Pleasure Bay.
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Siegel Cooper
Eighteenth Street
Sixth Avenue
Long Branch
Siegel Cooper Company Employes’ Association
Employes’ Association
Cash Bay
B. J. Greenhut
W. F. Forestal
Father Cantwell
Royal Arcanum Rumpus Shouts Over Assessments
In New York the Royal Arcanum council at the Masonic Temple on Twenty third Street and Sixth Avenue drew over a thousand members to discuss higher assessments for elders. A Brooklyn gathering of 300 delegates from 72 councils urged a Boston protest to the Supreme Council, as ballots failed amid crowd noise.
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New York
Boston
Supreme Council
August Ketchelt
Royal Arcanum
Brooklyn
Johnston Building
Nevins Street
Dr. Rainsford Improving While Abroad in Italy
Rumor of Dr. William S. Rainsford’s incapacitation was denied by his secretary John Reichert and ministers. Reichert says letters from Venice indicate he will return in October and is improving. Associate minister W E McCord confirms the improving outlook after his Europe trip following a nervous breakdown.
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William S. Rainsford
St. George’s Church
Italy
John Reichert
Mr. Reichert
Yale Divinity honors announced with several scholarships
An announcement from Yale Divinity School lists honors for the class of 1906 and 1907. Fogg scholarships go to Marion L. Burton Donald J. Cowling Lucius Porter Allis and other named recipients include Charles L. Hill Oscar E. Maurer Wilfrid A. Rowell Hugh E. Brown Ernest H. Haig Karl O. Thompson. The C Wyllys Betts prize at Yale College is awarded to Frederick K. Noyes of Norwich Conn.
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New Haven
Hillsborough
Wis
Hugh E. Brown
Fayton
Washington
Ernest H. Haig
Devil's Lake
N. C
Karl O. Thompson
Springfield
Mass
C. Wyllys Betts
Yale College
Frederick K. Noyes
Norwich
Conn
Rumored Radium Clock Arrives From Liverpool on Cunarder
A mysterious ticking timepiece believed to be radium powered reached the Cunarder Campania from Liverpool. Passengers claim activity aboard the ship. customs officers saw nothing. The clock is bound for an electrical firm in Rochester and runs for nearly two millennia before winding. The package is to be opened at the Appraisers' Stores on Christopher Street tomorrow.
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Liverpool
Rochester
Christopher Street
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Gibson
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