Becker Admits Murder of 15-Year-Old Amelia Staffeldt
Henry Becker confessed to killing Amelia Charlotte Staffeldt at the old Seitz farm in Elmhurst L I. He led detectives to the scene and described the attack with a German silver handled knife. Police seek the bloody shirt and corroborating evidence as Becker awaits arraignment for murder.
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Henry Becker
Amelia Charlotte Staffeldt
Broadway
Baxter Avenue
Elmhurst
L.I
Seitz Farm
Becker
Flushing Court
Connorton
Nott
Queens County
Seitz
Engel
Corona
Eleep
Galvin
188Th Street Crosstown
Manhattan
Williams
Flushing
Hummel Begins Term at Blackwell's Island Prison
Abraham Hummel, convicted of subornation of perjury, starts a year long sentence at Blackwell's Island. He will perform routine labor weighing food, hauling to the kitchen, and will be confined to Cell 23 at night. Reports say he plans to write a book about his prison experiences.
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Abraham Hummel
Blackwell’s Island
Manhattan
Hummel
Erie hires 500 machinists to replace strikers
Erie Railroad announces 500 machinists employed to replace 700 who walked out Saturday over the piece work system and wage increases. The new workers will be spread from Jersey City to Chicago. some strikers protest, some return to work, and union leaders dispute filling spots with Amalgamated Association members.
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Erie Railroad
Jersey City
Chicago
J. C. Stuart
O'Connell
Amalgamated Association of Engineers
Amalgamated Arsociation
Pittsburg Youth Found Dead With Bullet Wound
Harry D. Sellers aged twenty is found dead in his room at 1422 Wightman Street Squirrel Hill with a bullet in his temple. Deputy Coroner Black suspects suicide while parents claim accident. Family ties link him to Henry Sellers and Gen. Pressley Guthrie. city figures include Mayor George W. Guthrie.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Harry D. Sellers
Sellers
Wightman Street
Squirrel Hill
Black
Harry
Young Sellers
Henry Sellers
Missing pastor writes from Chicago after disappearance
Thomas A. Winter, treasurer of Millbury Unitarian Church, will send to 204 East Sixtieth Street, Chicago, the salary due to Rev. Charles H. Dalrymple who vanished on May 15. Dalrymple worried over his wife's illness but spoke little more. The minister's brother-in-law bought his library and Millbury real estate. The disappearance puzzled Millbury, though Dalrymple's wife, ill in Worcester, did not express surprise.
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New York Times
Worcester
Mass
Thomas A. Winter
Millbury Unitarian Church
East Sixtieth Street
Chicago
Charles H.dalrymple
Winter
Dalrymple
Dalrymple Denies Desertion Of Wife And Children
The Rev Charles R Dalrymple of Millbury Unitarian Church said he left for Chicago after a mutual separation with his wife. He denied deserting his family and cited nervous strain and a plan to return to Millbury to resume his duties.
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New York Times
Chicago
Charles R. Dalrymple
Unitarian Church of
Millbury
Mass
Mrs. Ida McKinley Dies at Canton Cottage
Mrs Ida McKinley widow of President William McKinley died at 1 05 PM in Canton Ohio at the famed McKinley cottage. Her last words reflected resignation as death approached. Attending were Cortelyou Barber Duncan Day and others. Funeral plans set for 2 PM Wednesday at the McKinley home with President Roosevelt and others expected in Canton.
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Canton
Ohio
Ida. McKinley
William McKinley
McKinley Cottage
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Buxton
McKinley
Cortelyou
Roosevelt
Loeb
Fairbanks
McKinleys
Westlawn
National Mausoleum
Monument Hill
Eremy
Barber
Delhi
Cleveland
Brook Hill Seminary
Media
Penn
Stark County Bank
Major McKinley
Methodist Sunday School
Presbyterian Sunday School
Katie
Ida
Washington
National Capital
Congress
Root
Den
Croker Couple Said Reconciled After Rift
A friend arriving from London reports Mrs. Richard Croker has reconciled with her husband Richard Croker. She reportedly disembarked at Queenstown to join him aboard a ship. Formerly he lived at the Democratic Club in New York while she resided at 5 East Seventy-fourth Street. Attempts to unite them had failed for years.
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Tom
New York Times Co
Paris
London
Richard Croker
Queenstown
New York
Democratic Club
Japanese Drive Inland to Subjugate Formosa Coast
Tokyo reports that Japan plans to subjugate Formosa’s east coast where 100000 natives inhabit 75000 square miles of rich territory. An 8000 strong expeditionary force, mostly Chinese led by Japanese, has pressed into the region since fall, with 1328 square miles already occupied.
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London Times
NEW York Times
NEW York Times Co
Tokio
Formosa
Son born to Mrs Spencer Eddy in Berlin
Berlin May 26 A son was born today to Mrs Spencer Eddy wife of the First Secretary of the American Embassy here Mrs Eddy was formerly Miss Spreckels of San Francisco
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Berlin
Miss Spreckels
New York Times Co
Spencer Eddy
Tokyo article downplays San Francisco riots
Tokyo reports that Japanese view the San Francisco riots as not cardinal, attributing them to jealousy among American restaurant keepers spurred by Japanese competition.
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THE
New York Times Co
Tokio
San Francisco
Kronprinzessin Cecilie may set sea record on New York run
North German Lloyd Line expects its new steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilie to arrive around August 18 and possibly break speed records. At Bremerhaven an experimental station tests model ships driven through water to estimate full vessel performance using dynamometers and Froude’s method across progressively faster trials.
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Lloyd Line
Kronprinzessin
Cecilie
New York
Bremerhaven
Gustav H. Schwab
Line
Froude
New Park Swimming Pool Planned at Van Cortlandt Park
Park Commissioner Joseph I. Berry of Bronx Borough announces a free swimming pool to be built at Van Cortlandt Park just south of the Colonial Gardens area. The 200 by 100 foot pool will replace a swampy area along Tibbets Creek and use lake overflow to ensure fresh water.
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van Cortlandt Park
Joseph I. Berry
Bronx Borough
Berry
Colonial Gardens
Tibbets Creek
van Cortlandt Lake
Smart Dog Saves A Family In Farm Fire
In Oxford Pennsylvania on May 26 a collie rang a dinner bell to wake farmer William Beattie and his family as a fire started in a back room. The barking dogs drew neighbors, Beattie and his family from smoke filled quarters, enabling them to escape. The collie pulled the bell rope to alert others as flames consumed the home and two boys were found partially overcome by smoke but survived.
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New York Times
Oxford
Penn
William Beattie
Beattie
Beatties
Hummel Asked About Gould Case and police ties
Deputy Police Commissioner Hanson probed Abraham Hummel in prison about police involvement in Mrs. Gould divorce case. Reported plans show at least three more inquiries into alleged police help in obtaining divorce evidence, with findings to aim at correcting past abuses.
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Hanson
Abraham Hummel
Blackwell's Island
Howard Gould
Hummel
Gould
Mrs. Gould
Mr. Hanson
Lieut. Peabody
Peabody
Bingham
McLaughlin
Clarence Shearn
Mr. Shearn
de Lancey Nicoll
Mr. Gould
Meat Prices Likely to Rise in Chicago This Week
Chicago reports that meat prices may jump as packers delay payment on condemned cattle until after Government postmortem inspection. Commission firms warn customers to withhold cattle shipments to big markets and anticipate a reduced supply and higher prices this week.
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New York Times
Chicago
Beef Trust
Commission
Notable Erie Will Leaves Presbyterians 110000 for Church
Erie radio obituary reports Hudson Hearn died recently and left 110000 to build a Presbyterian Church in Erie with 10000 for endowment. Parishioners question use of funds amid already ample churches and a possible consolidation of two congregations. Hearn, a bachelor with strong business sense, amasses estate now valued at about 300000 with NYSE seat and railroad holdings.
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New York Times
Erie
Penn
Hearn
New York Stock Exchange
New Vesuvius Fissure Opens Killing Peasant
At Boscotre on Mount Vesuvius southern slope a fissure released poisonous gas. A peasant died and nine rescuers fainted but survived. The gas is light enough to rise five to six feet, prompting authorities to post guards to keep people out of the danger zone.
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Naples
Boscotre Case
Mount Vesuvius
Dog Grotto
Pozzuoli
San Francisco Not Sinking Says Seismologist
Prof George F Davidson leader of the Seismological Society of America reports no measurable uplift or subsidence near San Francisco Bay since 1877 based on precise pier measurements off Sausalito. A new seismograph by Father Odenbach of Cleveland is described as recording deep earth vibrations.
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San Francisco
George F. Davidson
Seismological Society of America
San Francisco Bay
Sausalito
Father Odenbach
St. Ignatius’s College
Cleveland
Race feeling in Panama sparks talk of clashes
J. R. Merther, arriving from the Isthmus, said much race feeling exists in Panama and a serious clash is not improbable. He noted several minor scuffles had already occurred and blamed officials of negro blood in the Panama Government for much of the tension.
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Mexico City
J. R. Merther
Panama
Snake in Candy Box Alarm in Wakefield
Boston May 26 Miss Mary Kelley a Wakefield schoolteacher fainted when a box of candy delivered to her home produced a black snake. She may not recover from the fright and police search for the perpetrator of the outrage continues.
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New York Times
Boston
Mary Kelley
Wakefield
Iron and steel exports reach 175 million in fiscal year
The Bureau of Statistics reports United States iron and steel exports will total about 175 million dollars for the fiscal year ending next month, up from 37 million ten years ago and 16 million two decades ago. Exports of iron and steel manufactures in the ten months ending April 1907 totaled about 150 million, marking iron and steel as the leading export manufacturing group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Col Roebling Celebrates 70th Birthday in Trenton
Col Washington A. Roebling of Brooklyn Bridge fame marked his seventieth birthday with a family reunion and dinner in Trenton. Senator Briggs and local citizens attended while Roebling remains head of the Roebling corporation engineering department and relies on a valet due to lingering health from the coffer-dam fever.
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New York Times
Trenton
Washington A. Roebling
Brooklyn
United States
Briggs
Col. Roebling
Roebling Corporation
Not Watching Morgan in Italy Denial From Rome
Rome May 26 reports that J Pierpont Morgan is being watched by police to stop purchases of art contrary to Italian law are denied. Morgan is described as a welcome guest in Italy with high consideration. King Victor Emmanuel reportedly regrets not greeting Morgan during his last Rome visit.
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Rome
J. Pierpont Morgan
Italy
Morgan
Victor Emmanuel
Mr. Morgan
Valedictorian Spark Sparks Defiance in Oakdale High
In Oakdale near Pittsburg five of fifteen graduates attend the commencement as Ray Wooten, a Negro and son of a village barber, is named valedictorian. Protests arose but Prof Johnston pressed for attendance. absentees refuse diplomas.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Oakdale
Johnston
Ray Wooten
Priest Murder Case Shocks City Armenians Linked to Plot
The body of Father Caspar, an Armenian priest, was found in a trunk on the third floor of 833 West Thirty-seventh Street. Police seek two Armenian tenants Moradian and Sarkiscan amid suspicions of a political plot involving a Servian throne pretender.
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Father Caspar
West Thirty-seventh Street
John Moradian
Paul Sakiscan
Sarkis
Thirty-seventh Street
John Karanfilian
Armenian Church
Clinton Avenue
West Hoboken
Armenian Apostolic Church
N. J
Horsap Survagin
Monastery Avenue
Karanfilian
Moosh
Asia
Jerusalem
Father Cooper
Karanjilian
New York
West Thirtyseventh Street
Afernoon
Servia
Moradian
Sakisean
Henry Sherrer
West Fortieth Street
Sarkiscan
Sakiscan
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Stuart
Mrs. Mkinley
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Mrs. McKinley
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Hermanus Baer
Mabel McKinley
Crokers
Tammany
New Park
Landt Park Swamp
Daies
Police Department
Hudson Hearn
Niagara F
New York Central
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J. P. Morgan
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