Shipwrecked Cyclades Crew Held for Inquiry in Wall Street
Detectives rounded up a ship's crew and passengers from the Greek steamer Cyclades after it sank near the Bahamas. They were taken from a Brooklyn pier to a Wall Street law office to determine if the loss was deliberate scuttling. The vessel was en route from Pensacola to Trieste when it foundered.
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Brooklyn
Wall Street
Pensacola
New Orleans
Bahamas
Nassau
Vigilandia
Ward ‘Line
Law Office
The
Cyclades
Vigilancia
Revenue Cutter
Peterson Detective Agency
Marine Investigators
Whitehall Street
Wallace, Butler & Brown
Peterson Bureau
West Indies
Mandacus
Wal Street
Walk Street
John Collas
Peter Arta
Tenrico Arta
Ganda Arta
Trieste
Land Cay
Muandacus
Arta
Cherry Street
Hoboken
Robbery on Pier Aboard Regina d Italia
Dr J J Buel and wife of Cleveland Ohio sailed for Europe on the Regina d Italia from Jersey City. A hand bag was opened and jewelry worth 2000 dollars stolen while baggage was moved to the ship. Two porters were arrested but jewels not found. the third porter, an Italian from Manhattan, escaped. Detectives hired to locate him.
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J. J. Buel
Cleveland
Ohio
Europe
Jersey City
Manhattan
Steamship Company
Wrath Descends on Depew Amid Phone Seizure
Washington chronicle reports Senator Chauncey M Depew facing a storm of calls after a morning remark that more people die from over eating than over drinking. He endures interruptions from Prohibition and religious groups while at home, finally removing the telephone.
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New York Times
Washington
Chauncey M. Depew
Senate
Hjullo
Depew
Jonadab
Mr. Depew
Daughters of the Rechabites
Young Women's Christian Association
King’s Daughters
Prohibition Party
Man Recovers Nickel After Bronx Park Adventure
Otto Christenson of Brooklyn sought a 5 cent refund after a soda at a Bronx Park fountain gave plain soda instead of ice cream. He toured reptile, lion, monkey, and bird exhibits seeking authority figures before Park official BE. R. Mitchell arranged the nickel return as Christenson prepared to board a Brooklyn train.
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Otto Christenson
Sixtieth Street
Brooklyn
Bronx Park
Christenson
Snider
Lion House
Monkey House
Bird House
Park
Dittmar
BE. R. Mitchell
Mitchell
Fights Over Coin Toss in Gramercy Park End in Arrests
In Gramercy Park two men quarrelled over who should apply at the Hewitt residence and rolled on the pavement after a disputed coin toss. William Kenney and John Sutton were jailed for six months in Night Court. police had been patrolling due to panhandling in the area.
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Abram S. Hewitt
Gramercy Park
Aeg
Thornton
Adams
William Kenney
East Twenty-third Street
John Sutton
East Twenty-sixth Street
Barlow
Lamb
National Arts Club
McDermott
East Twenty-second Street
George Ohler
St. Regis
Kenney
Los Angeles
Sutton
Fifth Avenue
Child Shot in Hell's Kitchen Street Incident
Five year old Catherine Hope was struck in the neck by a stray bullet while walking with her mother near 555 West Thirty-ninth Street in Hell's Kitchen. The shooter, described as intoxicated, escaped. the girl was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to recover.
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Catherine Hope
West Thirty-eighth Street
Thirty-eighth Street
Eleventh Avenue
Thirty-ninth Street
West Thirty-ninth Street
Hell's Kitchen
Tenth Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Priest Struck at Salisbury Altar In Missouri Church Attack
Rev Joseph Lubeley was stabbed twice after Mass at St Joseph's Church Salisbury by parishioner Joseph Schuette a friend of the priest. Two bystanders were wounded in the ensuing struggle. The priest rode to St Louis for care with Bishop Borneaum and nuns aiding en route. Schuette's motive unclear with possible insanity cited.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
St. Joseph's Church
Salisbury
Joseph F. Lubeley
Joseph Schuette
Thomas Bornaeum
Lincoln
Neb
Order of St. Joseph
Carondelet
Lubeley
Schuette
St. Joseph's
Father Lubeley
John Legendre
Missouri House of Representatives
St. Joseph’s Church
Legendre
Tle
Italy
Austria
Legendro
Twelve-toed girl missing in New York home
Marie Foscolo, claimed to have twelve fingers and twelve toes, vanished from 262 Bleecker Street yesterday afternoon after her father said she was dressed for a walk. Police issued a general alarm as the father suspects her mother, who left six months ago for a theater chorus, may be involved. the brothers Edward and Louis, also living with the husband, are missing.
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Marie Foscolo
Bleecker Street
Foscolo
Edward
Louis
Hudson River Day Line Opens For Vacation Outing Season
The vacation and outing season begins with the Hudson River Day Line opening for fares and excursions. Advertisement highlights music and the start of summer leisure along the river with ships ready for tours and events.
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Hudson River
Six Hurt In West Farms Road Trolley Wreck
A westbound Tremont Avenue trolley on the West Farms Road jumped the track near Leland Avenue and struck a light pole, leaving six passengers with injuries from glass and contusions. Conductor Edward Henry and Motorman James Frazee were aboard. the front platform was demolished and the car slid into a ditch. Dr. Lordi treated injuries at Fordham Hospital. Notable injuries included Adelaide Nadal contusions, Frank Nadal contusions, Jessie Nadal age 5 with a shoulder injury, Bernard Goblen chest contusions, Mrs Feezel cuts, and Sarah McKernan contusions. The line was blocked for about an hour.
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Westchester
Tremont
Tremont Avenue
West Farms
Leland Avenue
Protectory
Edward Henry
James Frazee
Lordi
Fordham Hospital
Nadel
Adelaide
Frank J
Jessie
Goblen
Bernard
East 156Th Street
Feebel
Cortlandt Avenue
McKernan
Sarah
Greenwood Street
Two Killed in Philadelphia Trolley Crash Near Chestnut Hill
In Philadelphia on March 24 two persons were killed and about forty injured when a Sunday crowd on a steep Germantown Avenue rise caused a runaway trolley. The front car struck a city bound carriage, causing a chain collision with a third car as crowds endured panicked scenes and shattered windows.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill
Germantown Avenue
Ottawa Streetcar Crash Injures Thirteen Near City
Thirteen people were injured in a streetcar collision two miles from Ottawa Ontario on May 24. Two of the injured may die as twelve were taken to hospitals. A large car unloading passengers was struck from behind by a smaller car that could not stop. The impact crushed seats and injured several aboard the smaller car.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Man Pushed From Amsterdam Car Leaves Conductor Sought
George Lee of 444 West 124th Street was pushed from a southbound Amsterdam Avenue car and is in critical condition at Washington Heights Hospital with a possible skull fracture. The car fled and police seek the conductor’s name. About thirty minutes earlier an unknown 75 year old woman fell from a southbound Amsterdam Avenue car near 145th Street and died en route to hospital.
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George Lee
West 124Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Washington Heights
Lee
145
H Street
Off Track at Drawbridge on Albany West Shore Line
The Albany local from Weehawken to West Shore crossing Hackensack River drawbridge near Little Ferry N J wrecked fifteen minutes after leaving Weehawken. Engine and one car jumped track but no injuries. Passengers walked to Little Ferry and resumed journey on a replacement train at midnight.
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Albany Local
West Shore Railroad
Weehawken
Hackensack River
Little Ferry
N. J
Beatification of Mother Magdalene Barat At St Peter’s
In Rome on May 24 1920 2500 French pilgrims led by Mer Amiette attended the beatification at St Peter’s. Archbishop Amiette celebrated Pontifical Mass before a large crowd including 200 German Americans led by Archbishop Messmer Milwaukee and about 100 pilgrims from the Brooklyn Diocese led by Bishop Charles E McDonnell.
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Rome
St.Peter’s
Magdalene Barat
Order of the Sacred Heart
Mer. Amiette
Paris
Amiette
Messmer
Milwaukee
Brooklyn
Charles E. McDonnell
Miners Return to Work in West Virginia Coal Fields
In the Elkhorn and Pocahontas coal fields more than 2,000 miners, idle due to weak business, will resume work tomorrow. About one thousand workers will return to Thacker and Matewan after five months of idleness.
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Huntington
West Va
Oklahoma Flood Rains Halt Statewide Rail Gas and Power
Oklahoma endures days of cloudbursts with twenty inches of rain in ten hours. Rail service suspended statewide after Eufaula bridge collapse. Gas supply cut off to Muskogee and southeast towns, with repairs a week away. Jenks, Guthrie submerged under rising rivers as several bodies are seen. trains halted and hotels struggle.
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Muskogee
Okla
Oklahoma
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Eufaula
Indian Territory
Clarksville
Arkansas
Midland Valley Railroad
Jenks
Arkansas River Rises Thirteen Feet Halting Transport
In Tulsa Oklahoma a persistent three day rainstorm pushed the Arkansas River up thirteen feet to its highest level in fourteen years. The wagon bridge is submerged halting all travel while wires are crippled and crops and livestock suffer with no reported human fatalities. A separate May storm in Texas unleashed tornadoes and seven inch rainfall inundating Austin and vast agricultural areas.
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Tulsa
Okla
Arkansas
Arkansas River
Austin
Texas
Panhandle
Gulf
Fort Worth Hit by Flood Delays Rail Traffic
Fort Worth and surrounding areas suffer rail paralysis as five railroads are partly or wholly stopped by high water and washouts. A Fort Worth & Denver line derailment near Wichita Falls dumps cars into a ditch, a saloon keeper drowns in Marine Creek, and a youth drowns after being swept from Packingtown’s main street.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Denver
Wichita Falls
North Fort Worth
Marine
Packingtown
Lightning strikes claim life of St. Louis merchant
W. H. Howard, a wealthy commission merchant and member of the Gien Echo Golf Club, was killed by lightning during a rainstorm in St. Louis. He sought shelter under a tree as the downpour began but was struck.
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St. Louis
W. H. Howard
Baby Drowns In Ditch At New Rochelle Home
In New Rochelle New York on May 24 a thirteen month old baby drowned in a tile drain trench beside the house. The parents Martin O Rurico and his wife were away in Brooklyn leaving the child with a relative. The trench contained five feet of water and the gate may have been left open or the child unfastened to crawl in.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Martino Rurico
Lockwood Avenue
Brooklyn
Rurko
Airship Victims Improve After Oakland Accident
Seven men seriously injured in yesterday s airship crash at Berkeley Roosevelt Hospital are all improving. None will die. L V Rogers assistant engineer is recovering from suspected fatal injuries. Captain Penfold and an Australian aeronaut have broken legs and internal injuries but are much improved. J A Morrell inventor says he will begin work on another airship after leaving the hospital.
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Oakland
Cal
Roosevelt Hospital
Berkeley
L. V. Rodgers
Penfold
Saffe
J. A. Morrell
Prohibition set to win North Carolina by 50,000 says Gov Glenn
Gov Glenn predicts a 50,000 vote majority for Prohibition in North Carolina on Tuesday. He claims all counties west of Hive Ridge will vote against the saloon and says the state will join the dry column. Ministers across the state delivered prohibition sermons as big mass meetings loom on the eve of the election.
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Prohibition
Asheville
Glenn
Old North
Young Draper A Spinner In Burlington Mill
Britistow Draper son of the Massachusetts lieutenant governor works sixty hours weekly in a Burlington mill for 1 25 a day. He lives at 67 Buell Avenue with his wife Queenie Sanford and their two month old baby. He says he is happier now and will seek promotion through hard work as he continues to spin.
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New York Times
Burlington
Vti
Denver man killed in Chicago auto smash at May 24
Orson C Bartholomew, 68, of Denver, died in a collision between an electric car and a car in Chicago. His brother L Bartholomew of Chicago and Miss Manaret Hawkins of Chicago were seriously injured. The auto was thrown from the track and overturned. Bartholomew was instantly killed and the others crushed beneath the machine in critical condition.
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Chicago
Orson C. Bartholomew
Denver
L. Bartholomew
Manaret Hawkins
Burns Kill Mrs Brookfield in North Street Home
Mrs. James H. Brookfield daughter of George de Quintard died at her North Street home in White Plains after sustaining fatal burns from her kimono sleeve catching fire on a candle flame. Despite tearing away the burning cloth the flames spread to her other clothing and she died this morning.
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White Plains
N. Y
James H.brookfield
George de Quintard
North Street
Mysterious Jewel Robbery at Worcester Union Station
Miss Ethel Hassrouch daughter of Judge Hassrouch of Kingston New York was robbed at Worcester Union Station this afternoon. A traveling bag held 325 dollars in cash and a priceless jewel packet. She changed trains and waited about half an hour with the bag beside her. no description of a suspect is available to the detectives.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
Ethel
Hassrouch
Kingston
N. Y
Union Station
Drowned boat capsizing near Hackensack River
Olfe Olsen of 56 Old Bergen Road Jersey City drowned when a rowboat capsized near the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge on the Hackensack River at 6 last night. Fellow rowers Christopher von Derhoff and Thomas Sorgenes, both strong swimmers, escaped as Olsen could not swim and the current proved swift. The body was not recovered.
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Olfe Olsen
Bergen Road
Jersey City
Hackensack
Olsen
Christopher von Derhoff
Hudson Boulevard
Thomas Sorgenes
Linden Avenue
Snake Hill
von Derhoff
Sorgenegg
Many Wary Names Circulate To Succeed Platt
Reports from New York say Senator Platt will not seek another term. Names in the running include ex-Lieut. Gov. Woodruff, Representative Fassett, E. H. Butler, ex-Gov. Black, Herbert Parsons, ex-Representative Littauer, with Secretary Root and Cortelyou mentioned guardedly. Roosevelt succession rumors are treated skeptically.
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New York Times
Washington
New York
Platt
Woodruff
Fassett
E. H. Butler
Black
Herbert Parsons
Littauer
Root
Beer Denied City Workers
Milwaukee authorities publish new labor rules barring city workers from visiting saloons during work hours and drinking beer on the job except at noon. The manual sets an eight hour day and requires able bodied men, leading to dismissal of some pensioners. Workers must travel to and from work on their own time and refrain from intoxicants while on duty.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Board of Public Works
Autoists Push On in Siberian Wilds
Special cable from Nikolsk Siberia May 24 reports American Thomas car reaching a Russian military outpost after 48 hours of mud and flood. The crew battled ruined bridges, ford crossings, and repeated ditched recoveries while pursuing the German Protos toward Paris.
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Siberian Wilds
New York Times
Nikolsk
Siberia
Thomas
Vladivostok
Protos
Lieut. Koeppen
Paris
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Burns
Mrs. Brookfield
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