Emperor William Cables Greetings to Yacht Contest
Emperor William sent cable greetings to yacht owners and the starting committee for the Kaiser's Cun transatlantic race. The 2:30 PM start time was set pending weather. the German cruiser Pheil will anchor off the Lizard to guide boats in fog. Most entrants prepared at Sandy Hook with Hildegarde absent amid ongoing owner signaling and weather delays.
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Emperor William
Allison W. Armour
Yacht Owners and Committee
Pheil
Lizard
Tim
Atlantic
Sandy Hook
Hildegarde
Armour
Edward R. Coleman
New London
the Hook
The
Barr
Tompkinsville
Thistle
Hamburg
Fleur de
Herr Tietjins
Peters
Ateast
Fleur de Lys
Capt. Bohiin
Br. Stimson
Bay Ridge
Hav
Amusements and Society Notes Reported in Index
The index lists sections including Amusements Page 9 Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Page 13 Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails Page 15 New Corporations Page 12 Society Page 9 Weather Report Page 9 Yesterday's Fires Page 2.
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Marine Intelligence
Oklahoma towns rush to dig tornado caves after Snyder
Oklahoma towns move to build 4000 tornado cellars following Snyder tornado damage. Hinton posts sentry bell tower plan with warning shots. Ada and Sulphur suffer destruction with fatalities, including John Layton, George Bolen. Snyder reports 117 dead. several missing. relief influx. Olustee windstorm damages structures with no injuries.
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Lawton
Oklahoma
Snyder
James
Olustee
Boston Woman Posed as Empress Carlotta to Obtain Gold
A Boston woman who posed as Carlotta widow of Maximilian and claimed Austrian throne rights fleeced over 100 Italian residents in the North End. She left with about 40000 after promising ministers nobles and vast estates. She sat on a throne in a furnished room while crowds paid tribute and kissed her hand. Her aides included men of various nationalities one posing as Crown Prince Rudolph.
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Boston
Mass
Carlotta
Maximilian
Mexico
Francis Joseph of Austria
North End
Prince Rudolph
Francis Joseph
Carlotta of Belgium and her French exile
The article notes Marie Charlotte Amelie who married Maximilian of Mexico and Joseph of Austria. It states Maximilian sent her to France to seek aid from Napoleon III, but the mission failed. After Maximilian's execution she reportedly became hopelessly insane and is guarded at Chateau de Bouchotte near Brussels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlotta
Marie Charlotte Amelie
Leopold I
Belgium
Maximilian
Mexico
Francis. Joseph of Austria
St. Maximilian
France
Napoleon
Chateau de Bouchoute
Brussels
Trapped Elevated Rowdies Cause Bronx Train Mayhem
Sixteen youths were arrested on a southbound Third Avenue elevated train at Bronx Park Station for disorderly conduct. They tossed gloves, taunted women, and forced passengers to move as detectives herded them to the rear car. Further arrests followed at One Hundred Sixty-ninth Street and One Hundred Thirty third Street before police took control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third Avenue
Bronx Park
Interborough
One Hundred and
Sixty-ninth Street
Crotona Park
Alexander Avenue
Ward
Free ride ends as woman refuses cab fare
Four women in Nile green dresses hailed a cab from the Fifth Avenue Hotel to Forty-seventh Street Broadway, where the driver claimed $5.50 plus 50 cents for himself for nearly two hours. The passenger, claiming she lived at 577 West Seventy-seventh Street, denied paying and left the station house without settlement, noting there is no such address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace
West Seventy-seventh Street
West Forty-seventh Street
William McKnight
Third Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Forty-seventh Street
Broadway
Fes Ae Sergt
McCann
Rockefeller Sits Out Bible Class Till Fall After Europe Trip
John D. Rockefeller Jr returned to the United States for the first time since leaving for Europe five months ago and attends the class briefly but says he will not be back until autumn. He explains he must refrain from duties, yet could not resist greeting the members as they arrived. Gen. O. O. Howard spoke on a rainy morning while a veteran recalled meeting the General after the Fredericksburg battle and described a lasting influence from the sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Europe
United States
Rockefeller
Gen. O. O. Howard
Battle
Fredericksburg
Gen. Howard
Pennsylvania
R. R. Johnson
Fort at Cape Henry to guard Atlantic coast
The War Department plans immediate purchase or condemnation of Cape Henry land to build a major coastal fort. A board led by Secretary Taft will secure the site to defend Virginia capes and key Navy yards and cities including Washington and Newport News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Norfolk
Army Engineer’s Office
War Department
Cape Henry
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
National Capital
Baltimore
Norfolk Navy Yard
Richmond
Newport News
Washington
Fort Monroe
Army
Navy
City of Atlanta Anchored Off Scotland Lightship at 12:50 AM
The Savannah liner City of Atlanta anchored off the Scotland Lightship at 12 50 AM today. Pure food laws are good. The purity of vanilla has never been questioned.
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Savannah
Atlanta
Scotland
Wreckers Ditch a Santa Fe Train Near Emporia
A Santa Fe passenger train No. 17 was ditched a mile east of Emporia Kansas. Six passengers were injured two may die. Conductor E A Taylor led the train. Rails on a curve were removed by wreckers amid earlier attempts in four months. Passengers were asleep. panic followed as the mail car and others left the track and piled across the right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Emporia
Kan
Santa Fé
E. A. Taylor
Drowned Man in East River Near Williamsburg Recreation Pier
An unknown 21-year-old man drowned off the Williamsburg recreation pier at North Second Street in the East River with hundreds watching. Longshoreman Michael O'Rourke jumped in to rescue but failed to reach the victim before sinking. Police searched the river but did not recover the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recreation Pier
North Second Street
Williamsburg
Ohio
Twenty-third Street
East River
Michael O'Rourke
North Fourth Street
Kent Avenue
O’rourke
Bedford Avenue
Gas trapping brothers in Jamaica home hospital peril
Dr Isaac Hardenbrook and his brother Philip were overcome by gas at 300 Fulton Street Jamaica yesterday morning in a near fatal accident. A third brother David saw the crowd and alerted help. Dr Rorke from St Marys Hospital treated the pair. Isaac is out of danger while Philip remains seriously ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Hardenbrook
Philip Hardenbrook
Jamaica
Fulton Street
Hardenbrook
David
Hardenbrook Avenue
Rorke
St. Mary’s Hospital
Dr. Hardenbrook
Patrick Shaughnessy
Yacht Capsizes Off Lincoln Park. Two Drowned
In Lake Michigan off Lincoln Park a yacht capsized after the main sheets tangled with the tiller. Matilda Buettgen and Charles Henderson, ages 21 and 17, drowned. Edward Bodmer and Daniel Moheiser were rescued. Bodmer, a swimmer, saved Moheiser and tried to save Buettgen before she was swept away. Henderson could not swim and died underwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Matilda Buettgen
Charles Henderson
Lake Michigan
Lincoln Park
Edward Bodmer
Daniel Moheiser
Bodmer
Miss Buettgen
Mohiser
Henderson
Train strikes fallen telephone cable near Little Falls
The Continental Limited eastbound on the New York Central struck a mass of telephone cable from a freight train. The locomotive was thrown from the track but no cars derailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Falls
N.Y
Continental Limited
New York Central
Wood Slays 300 Moros Seven Americans Die in Island Battle
Manila May 15 Fierce two week fighting on Jolo between Gen Leonard Woods troops and outlaw Moro chief Pala and 600 followers ends with 300 Moros killed and seven Americans killed with sixteen wounded. Pala and remaining followers surrounded in a swamp.
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Manila
Jolo
Leonard Wood
Pala
Seventeenth
Twenty-second
Twenty-third
Coroner's Son Taken to Bellevue for Mental Evaluation
Edward Jackson, son of Coroner Moses T. Jackson, was removed from 125 East Eighty-fourth Street to Bellevue Hospital and placed in the psychopathic ward for examination. The coroner said his son had seemed queer for three weeks, and that illness in the family prompted confinement until a sanitarium could be found. He noted the son had pursued music abroad and composed heavily this year, believing it may have harmed his mind. When asked if his own troubles affected his son, the coroner replied that he had had enough trouble already.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Jackson
Moses T. Jackson
East Eighty-fourth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Missing Boston University Student Frances Transcott
Miss Frances I Transcott of Shelburne Falls a Boston University sophomore has been missing since New Year's Day. Authorities and friends reveal the disappearance after months of search that even extended to Cuba. She withdrew money the day she vanished and packed her belongings in a suitcase, leading friends to believe she intended to support herself by teaching somewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Frances I. Transcott
Shelburne Falls
Boston University
Cuba
Transcott
Outlaw Escapes After Melinite Siege at Asseau
In Asseau a heavily armed outlaw held a village house under siege. A melinite charge blew half the building, the outlaw vanished while gendarmes rescued a wounded crowd-anger figure and he was taken to a hospital in serious condition. The man, a former game keeper, is charged with shooting his late employer and wounded four gendarmes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Asseau
Harvard Stoppage of Notes Hits Campus Dealers
Harvard officials have ordered a notes dealer to end business after current contracts, aiming to curb loafing and enforce a stricter course. The move follows data showing about one tenth of students and half of freshmen are on probation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Harvard
Baron Rosen Supports Peace Move for US Ambassadorship
Tokyo reports Baron Rosen former Russian minister to Japan has been named ambassador to the United States and openly joins the Peace Party. He supported Roosevelt's peace efforts and knew Japan was prepared for war but could not restrain his government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Daily Telegraph
Tokio
Baron Rosen
Japan
Count Cassini
United States
Peace Party
Roosevelt
Reading special train breaks Camden to Atlantic City record
A Reading Railroad special train carrying European railway officials set a new record by traveling 54 miles from Camden to Atlantic City in 43 minutes. The party included Theodore Laurie of Chemin de Fer d Orleans, A C Ellis of the Metropolitan, McDougall Drummond of London and Southwestern, and A C Orworth of the London Board of Trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Reading Railroad
Camden
Theodore Laurie
Chemin de Fer
d’Orleans
France
A. C. Ellis
Metropolitan of London
McDougall Drummond
London and Southwestern
A. C. Orworth
London Board of Trade
Reading
Lawson Ready to Bid on Philadelphia Gas Works
Special to The New York Times Philadelphia May 11 4 It was stated Lawson would bid before the Finance Committee with a proposition for the gas works He has a certified check ready and would back his offer with a 10 million dollar deposit in Philadelphia banks His representatives have legal aid from Col Silas W Petitt Read Petitt Col Petitt was a key figure in the 1897 gas lease and a local financier said Lawson had offered to join a local syndicate last week
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Thomas W. Lawson
Lawson
Silas W. Petitt
Read & Petitt
Col. Petitt
Crocker Pays Heavy Duty On Louis XIV Tapestry
George Crocker of San Francisco landed from the Cedric at yesterday’s entry. He declared a small dutiable item a tapestry, later revealed as a Louis XIV piece, measuring twelve by twenty eight feet. Crocker said it cost $8,000 and the duty paid amounted to about $3,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Crocker
San Francisco
Cedric
Liverpool
Mr. Crocker
Chevalier de Knyff Hart In Auto Race Crash
Chevalier de Knyff during a trial for the International Automobile Cup at Claremont-Ferrand collided at seventy five miles an hour, overturning his car. He suffered multiple broken ribs and head injuries. His companion also sustained injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claremont-Ferrand
Paris
Chevalier de Knyff
Bowen in Washington amid Loomis charges
Herbert W. Bowen former American minister to Venezuela and Mrs. Bowen arrived in Washington from New York and left a card at the White House. He expects a White House reception and will present a statement regarding charges against Acting Secretary of State Loomis. Bowen will discuss nothing beyond his mission’s obedience to prior instructions and awaiting the president's hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Herbert W. Bowen
Venezuela
Bowen
New York
White House
Loomis
Jealous night watchman kills rival and woman then kills self
In Memphis on May 14 Tom McCall a night watchman shot and killed Hall Williamson and Eva Ferguson a chorus girl in Calhoun Street. Williamson died at a hospital. McCall later then shot himself while en route to surrender to police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Memphis
Hall Williamson
Eva Ferguson
Tom McCall
Williamson
McCall
Miss Ferguson
Calhoun Street
Dashed Over Ice Flows To Safety In Bering Sea
Captain Otto Polte and his party of two native mail carriers rode a shifting ice floe in the Bering Sea for twelve days from Unaliket to Egg Island after the floe moved northward. Doyle reached St Michael and sent relief, three attempts failed, the group survived on dried seal and tomcod.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Tacoma
Washington
Otto Polte
Unaliket
Bering Sea
St. Michael
Egg Island
Doyle
Boyle
Porte
Children's Bonfire Fatal in Stamford
Mildred E Hoyt six year old daughter of W W Hoyt of 56 West Washington Avenue died from burns at Stamford Hospital tonight. She and other children procured matches and built a bonfire yesterday. The bonfire was extinguished but Mildred sat on ground where a live ember set her clothing on fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Mildred E. Hoyt
W. W. Hoyt
West Washington Avenue
Stamford Hospital
Mildred
Auto boats disaster in race from Algiers to Toulon claims crews
Toulon reports a brutal storm during the Algiers to Toulon autoboat race. Six of seven boats sunk or disabled. Quand Meme and Duc Decazes feared lost, Arbalete and other destroyers aiding survivors. Des sides describe waves to 25 feet and harrowing rescues, including Mme du Gast aboard Camille.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Mahon
Minorca
Toulon
Quandd Méme
Duo Decazes
Arbaléte
Warehina
Halle
la Hire
F. L Ag. T
Camille
Desaix
Kléber
Malgré-Tout
Mme. du Gast
Heracles
Autoboat Race From Algiers to Toulon Starts May 7
The race began Sunday at 6 A M with the F I A T first to reach Port Mahon after fifteen hours. The Quand Mine carried additional ships Arbalete Elleda and Duc Decazes. steamers soon withdrew. Duke moved from Elleda to Quand-Méme as Kléber carried carrier pigeons tracking progress.
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Algiers
Toulon
Port Mahon
Quand- Mine
Arbalete
Elleda
Duc Decazes
Duke
Duke Marries Miss Singer in Austerely Financed Wedding
The couple funded the wedding with purchases of furniture and horses and covered the trip costs. The article notes Miss Singer and the groom Jean Elie Octave Louis Sévére Amaniemy have ties to American readers through the marriage, detailing the social implications and financial arrangements surrounding the ceremony.
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Jean Elie Octave Louis Sévére Amaniemy
Duc
Dec&ses
Miss
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Chickasaw Nation
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Harper Hotel
George Bolen
Wood
Pulasekar
Borneo
la Had
Pata
Bellevue
Philadelphia Gas Works
Crocker
Chevalier DE Knyff Hart
Polte
Mildred Hoyt
Ducdecazes
A de
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