Tenants Crushed as Brownstone Collapses in NYC Pit
A four story brownstone at 133 West 26th Street slid over a 20 foot excavation and collapsed onto the street. Four residents were pulled from the debris and taken to Bellevue Hospital. Investigators cited neglect and a fragile edge wall supporting the building while officials argued over who ordered shoring and when.
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West Twenty-sixth Street
Sixth
Seventh Avenues
Maggie Berry
George Peterson
Edward Bullock
Lola Landmere
Bellevue Hospital
Louis Mannheimer
Mannheimer & Brothers
West Thirty-fourth Street
Joseph Gallick
East Sixtieth Street
Louis Brava
Brava
Thomas Williamson
Jules Casanave
Gibbons
Twentieth Street
Bellevue
Building Department
P. J. Bowen
Dan Slattery
Bingham
Storm Strikes Brooklyn as Cavern Opens on Street
A storm plaguing Brooklyn caused a ten foot cave in near St Nicholas Avenue and Ralph Street cutting into a sewer excavation. Fire crews, Building and Sewer Department workers, and precinct reserves aided as authorities kept order. Lightning damaged the Flatbush Trust Company pole, a church belfry, and a New York and New Jersey Telephone pole. a bolt struck a bell tower and caused roof damage at St John’s German Lutheran Church. Damage to property was estimated at two hundred dollars.
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Brooklyn
St. Nicholas Avenue
Ralph Street
Hamburg Avenue
Flatbush Trust Company
Flatbush and
Linden Avenues
Eastern Parkway
St. John’s Lutheran Church
New Jersey Avenue
St. John’s German Lutheran Church
Jersey and
Liberty Avenues
George Blaesi
New York and New Jersey Telephone Company
Lincoln Place
East New York
Ralph Avenue
Rockaway Avenue
Brownsville
Church Avenue
Insurgents Fight Over Tax and Customs Court in Congress
Washington dispatch notes insurgents plan to resist key tax provisions and a new Customs Court in the tariff bill. They attack high salary posts and valuation changes while fearing added political battles as the corporation tax debate looms and a possible final adjournment date nears.
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New York Times
Washington
Aldrich
Customs Court
Senate
Marion de Vries
New York
Finance Committee
Auto Crash Hurts Hadden and Sparks Local Lightning Damage
Hamilton Hadden of New York, polo player with Meadow Brook club, breaks an arm after skidding on a wet Fulton Avenue road near Hempstead. Appleton injured lightly as car wreck blocks trolley tracks. Lightning strikes two houses and a barn in Hempstead causing fire and later injuries.
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New York Times
Hempstead
L. I
Hamilton Hadden
New York
E E. S. Hadden
Uniondale Farm
Meadow Brook
Hadden
Appleton
Mr. Hadden
Morgan
Raymond Belmont
August Belmont
Free Booters
Henry W. Warrer
Dr. Warren
Long Island
George Briggs
Wrights bar city flights in early aviation policy
Washington reports the Wright brothers will not sell exhibition aircraft to a professional aviator. Purchasers must sign an agreement not to fly over cities, with a price set at 7500 dollars. The brothers favor aviation but seek to keep flight out of crowded urban zones amid heat and testing at the army post. If weather cooperates, a test flight may occur tomorrow afternoon.
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New York Times
Washington
Wrights
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers
Army Post
Taylor
Tomorow
Many Auto Arrests In City Speeding Cases
Angier B. Duke of the Hotel Plaza son of Benjamin N Duke faced Magistrate Butts in Morrisania Court on speeding a runabout along the Boston Post Road at thirty miles an hour. Bail set at 1000 dollars for trial in Special Sessions. Edward Poland, prisoner, accused of driving a Fifth Avenue stage along the same thoroughfare at twenty miles an hour, bail set at 100 dollars. Michael Nolan, chauffeur of a taxicab, linked to a collision that injured Alavanti Gavita seven, held on 1000 dollars bail for examination. A third incident saw William H Easterton in a crash that hurled flagman Edward Searles but he declined to blame the driver. Police did not arrest Easterton.
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Angier B. Duke
Hotel Plaza
Benjamin N., Duke
American Tobacco Company
Butts
Morrisania
Boston Post Road
Duke
Yorkville
Finn
Edward Poland
Fifth Avenue
Forty-sixth
Michael Nolan
West Forty-second Street
Alavanti Gavita
Eighth Avenue
Fortieth Street
Yorkville Court
Harlem Hospital
William H. Easterton
St. Nicholas Avenue
Edward Searles
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Fifty-third Street
Searles
Easterton
Auto collision injures three on Nostrand Avenue car
Three men were injured in a collision when a Nostrand Avenue streetcar struck a Williamsburgh bound auto at Wilson Street and Lee Avenue. The car overturned. one passenger may be mortally hurt. The streetcar was operated by Motorman F J Macuspi and Conductor George Turner. Passengers included William Seiler of 173 East Eightieth Street Manhattan and Harry Wilson a bookkeeper of 117 unknown.
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East Twenty-eighth Street
Seiler
Nostrand Avenue
Wilson Street
Eastern District
Miller
Wilson
Lee Avenue
Williamsburg
Coney Island
F. J. Macuspi
George Turner
William Seiler
East Eightieth Street
Manhattan
Harry Wilson
Tugboat hero saves four Jersey City men in harbor accident
A flat-bottom boat capsized in the Kill von Kull between Bergen Point and Port Richmond. Albert Orr and three others from Jersey City were afloat. Eugene Grassili steered toward them while Capt. John J. Flamney of Elizabeth rescued Orr with a life preserver. All were brought to Bergen Point. Orr survived and is expected to recover.
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Albert Orr
Grove Street
Charles Jones
Railroad Avenue
Patrick Flaherty
Fairview Avenue
Charles Reilly
Seventh Street
Jersey City
Kill von Kull
Bergen Point
Port Richmond
Shanley
la Tourette House
Orr
Eugene Grassili
John J. Flamney
Elizabeth
Flamney
Jones
Flaherty
Reilly
B. S. Heintzelman
Bayonne Hospital
Capt
Drowning of J F McClure Off Ventnor Shore
James F McClure a 27 year old salesman for J B Stetson & Co drowned while swimming off Ventnor New Jersey. Lifeguards and volunteers searched the surf after he called for help but recovered no body. He was staying with his mother at Ventnor during vacation.
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Atlantic City
N. J
James F. McClure
A. K. McClure
Ventnor
Margate Avenue
Haley
J. B. Stetson & Co
Philadelphia
Engineer William Nugent Drowns at Estling Lake
William V Nugent 36 a civil engineer for the Lackawanna Railroad drowned at Estling Lake Morristown N J after a boat capsized in a sudden shower James Clarke of Hoboken also a civil engineer survived after lengthy efforts Nugent left a widow and three children Nugent had fifteen years of railroad service County Detective Brennan aided in the search and recovery
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
William V. Nugent
Lackawanna Railroad
Estling Lake
Nugent
James Clarke
Hoboken
Clarke
Brennan
Dover
Steel Workers May Strike In Nationwide Labor Clash
The Republic Iron and Steel Company posted notices that after midnight June 53 its mills would be open shops and would not deal with the Amalgamated Association. Officials say this signals a join with Steel Corporation plants to remove organized labor. Union leaders planned walkouts in Youngstown Ohio Moline Illinois and East Chicago next Tuesday night at midnight.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Republic Iron and Steel Company
Amalgamated Association
Republic Company
Steel Corporation
Amalgamated
Republic
American Steel and Wire Company
Youngstown
Ohio
Moline
Ill
Chicago
Divine Healer Schlatter Arrested For Fraud
In Des Moines Iowa on June 27 Charles McLean known as Divine Healer Schlatter faced charges of obtaining money under false pretenses. J Anderson of Clinton Iowa alleges he paid a large sum for a cure that never arrived. Schlatter fled town without repaying. Police found $755 and three diamonds on him.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Schlatter
Charles McLean
J. Anderson
Clinton
Flo
Beatrice Christened at La Granja in Royal Ceremony
The christening of Princess Beatrice infant daughter of the King and Queen took place at La Granja Spain with Archduke Ferdinand Archduchess Maria Teresa represented by Infanta Isabella as godparent. Government ministers diplomatic representatives and many grandees attended the ceremony.
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LA Granja
Spain
Beatrice
Archduke Ferdinand
Archduchess
Maria Teresa
Infanta Isabella
225000 Revelers At Coney Island
Crowds at Coney Island reached 225000 despite showers and storms. A bathers life ended after a struggle off Balmer's Pavilion, identified as David Matter of 83 State Street Brooklyn. Overflows from Manhattan Beach and fights with arrests also noted. Ella Morse and Eugene Rubino arrested for disorderly conduct at Feltmans.
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Coney Island
Balmer’s
Tom Riley
David Matter
State Street
Brooklyn
Feltman's
Ella Morse
Broadwyn
Seventieth Street
Eugene Rubino
Forgo
Manhattan
Miss Morse
Jesse Sherwood
Coney Island Court
Sea Gate
Brighton
Fourth Avenue
Dr. Hunter
Magistra Geismar
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-fifth
Harvey Avenues
Ulmer Park
Bath Beach
Devanney
Babbett
Gelso
Ater
Manhattan Beach
Waldorf Management
Pianomaker Frederick Schumann Dies in Bronx River Suicide
Frederick Schumann a 63 year old pianomaker out of work ended his life by drinking two ounces of carbolic acid and jumping into the Bronx River from the Westchester Avenue Bridge. Volunteers retrieved the body but life could not be saved. The note on his shirt requested burial in Potter's Field. His son identified the body at Fordham Morgue and said the man had been despondent after six weeks of unemployment.
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Washington
Nagel
Department of Commerce and Labor
Forestry Service
Forester
Pinchot
Denver
Portland
Albuquerque
N. M
Billings
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
Congress
Government Printing Office
Pension Bureau
Interior Department
Hitchcock
Frederick Schumann
Bronx
Westchester Avenue
Herschman
Lebanon Hospital
Peter Vallkanner
East 137Th Street
Schumann
Vallkanner
Otto Walther
Henry Winter
Walther
Fordham
Potter's Field
West Farms
Frederick Schumann, Jr
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West 26Th Street
Street
Taft’s
Will
Republian
Taft
Spreckels
Paderewski
Rosenthal
Guish
THE
Aeolian Company
Aeolian Hall
Sovtorx
Meadow Brook Hunt
Wrights Bar City Flights
Police
Reget
Uly
el Avisador
the Advertiser
United Cigar Stores
J. F. McClure
Col
Ventnor, N. J
Lakawanna Railway
Complainant
Christen
East 23Rd Street
Fourth Ava
34Th St
Bet
125Th Street
Lenox Ave
Columbus Ave
Nassau Street
John Street
Fulton St
Cor
38Th Street
Pianomaker
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