Feud at Long Island jail over unposted warning letters
District Attorney fears escape plans by Captain Peter C. Hains and his brother to evade punishment for the Annis killing. Letters from T Jenkins Hains warned Annis of a forfeit life and urged him to carry a weapon. The case centers on jail security, motives, and the imminent inquest to be held in Flushing with witnesses and counsel named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Annis
P. C. Hains
Queens County
T. Jenkins Hains
Annis
Long Island City
O&bset
Mavis
Darrin
Jelf
Old Town
Flushing
Peter C. Hains
Ambler
Charles Roberts
Louis Harway
Jones
C. A. Burch-Field
Harvey G. Rockwell
Arthur Andrews
W. C. Percy
Percy
Hains
Martin W. Littleton
Europe
Thomas F. McIntyre
Frederick T. Norton
Boston
Berkshires
Houghton
St. Michael's Cemetery
Sandy Hook
Captain Hains
Fort Hancock
Philippines
Provident Meeting in Louisville to Discuss Continuation
Louisville notes a meeting of Provident Savings Life Assurance Society officers and directors next week. Floyd Day, the Kentucky lumlerman, said Inter-Southern Life Insurance Company attempted to take over Provident but was blocked by charter technicalities. The plan reportedly calls for Provident's existence to continue as the old company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Louisville
Provident Savings
Life Assurance Society
Floyd Day
Kentucky Lumlerman
Arthur Langham
Inter-Southern Life Insurance Company
Provident
New York
Chafin Hits Parties Nominated by Prohibition Party
Eugene W. Chafin of Chicago received official nomination for the Presidency by the Prohibition party in Chicago. Professor Charles Scanlon delivered the notification and presented the party platform. Speakers including Clinton N. Howard Felix T. McWhirter and Dan R. Sheehan followed with remarks praising the movement and criticizing major parties for opposing prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition Party
Charles Scanion
Pittsburg
Samuel Dickie
Albion College
Albion, Mich
Scanlon
Scanion
Chafin
Columbus
National Committee
Pas
Clinton N. Howard
Rochester
Felix T. McWhirter
Dan R. Sheehan
Illinois
Hitchcock Returns After Utica Conference
Frank H. Hitchcock, chairman of the Republican National Committee, arrived at the Manhattan Hotel after attending a meeting in Utica with Secretary Root and Congressman Sherman on campaign issues. Albany leader William Barnes Jr. left Utica with Hitchcock, likely voicing opposition to Governor Hughes, while Hitchcock sought both sides of the argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. Hitchcock
Republican National Committee
Utica
Sherman
Manhattan
National Headquarters
Hitchcock
Root
William Barnes, Jr
Albany
Hughes
Barnes
Fight in Kings Settled Between Sharkey Backers
State Chairman Woodruff brokered a settlement ending a Kings County intra party clash in the 6th Assembly District. Alderman William A. Wentz and Sharkey faction leaders agreed to a conference after weeks of mobilization. Jesse Fuller and Charles Weber led their respective sides as talks were arranged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodruff
Kings County
6Th Assembly
Robert A. Sharkey
Brooklyn
William A. Wentz
Henry Weismann
Sharkey
Mr. Woodruff
Jesse Fuller
Alderman Wentz
Charles Weber
Senator Foraker Visits Waldorf on Vacation
Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio was at the Waldorf on his way from Northeast Harbor Maine to home. He declined discussing Ohio politics after a vacation away and said no responsibility rests on him for campaign talks with Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph B. Foraker
Ohio
Waldorf
Northeast Harbor
Washington
Middle Bass Club
Middle Bass Island
Put-in-Bay
Lake Erie
Norman E Mack to Open Democratic HQ Today
Norman E Mack signaled yesterday he may arrive today as the Democratic National Committee prepares to open its headquarters at Hoffman House. John A Mason, state committee secretary, is to oversee the state HQ opening in the same moment, with nineteen rooms secured by the national committee. William J Conners, state chairman, may arrive today, while Sulzer’s gubernatorial boom surfaces among supporters who recall his Buffalo convention second place behind Hearst two years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman E. Mack
Hoffman House
Democratic National Committee
John A. Mason
State Committee
National Committee
William J. Conners
Conners
Congressman Sulzer
Mr. Sulzer
Hearst
Buffalo
Congress to open GOP national congressional HQ in Chicago
Congressman Tawney of Minnesota announced that the Republican National Congressional headquarters would open on September 1 at the Auditorium Hotel in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Tawney
Minnesota
Republican National Congressional
Auditorium Hotel
Woman Takes Laudanum In Grief Then Requests Music
Mrs Lillie Lau of York Pennsylvania drank an ounce of laudanum then asked a family member to play a graphophone. The odor led to her removal to a hospital where recovery is possible. Grief over a friend's recent death is believed to have triggered the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
York
Penn
Lillie Lau
Burns and Squires Ready for Australia Bout in Sydney
Sydney August 18 great interest surrounds the coming clash between American boxer Tommy Burns and Australian fighter Billy Squires. Burns arrived from London for the bout, with a record gate of 375000 expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
N.S. W
Betwe “Temamny
Army owns Baldwin dirigible in expanded training at Fort Myer
The United States Army now owns the Baldwin military dirigible balloon after eight training trips by signal corps officers Lahm Foulois and Selfridge. Captain Baldwin completed a contract provision by training three officers. Fort Myer will see daily ascensions, and Orville Wright expects to arrive with his aeroplane, with delivery to Fort Myer by the 28th.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Army
Signal Corps
Lahm
Foulois
Selfridge
James Alien
Baldwin
General Allen
Captain Baldwin
Lieutenant Foulois
Lieutenant Selfridge
Fort Myer
Orville Wright
Wright Brothers
Wright plans 50 kilometre flight near Le Mans
Wilbur Wright, the American aeroplane inventor, has leased Au vours field seven miles from Le Mans to resume his long distance flight. He repaired the aircraft and sent it to the site. He will use five captive balloons arranged in a pentagon at seventy five feet as guides for the fifty kilometre course, with the flight expected to start Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Mans
Wilbur Wright
Auvours
Wright
Army Balloon's Long Trip From Tegel Returns at Dawn
Berlin reports the military steerable balloon that departed Tegel at 10 last night came back to the balloon enclosure at dawn after about five hours aloft. It reached Neustadt and averaged twenty miles an hour. More details are kept secret as army aeronauts seek wartime like conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Tegel
Neustadt
New York Aeronaut Killed at Buffalo Amusement Park
Arthur Lane an aeronaut died after a trapeze accident at a Buffalo amusement park. He clung to a bar thirty feet up when a strong breeze pushed the balloon into a theatre building causing him to fall to the ground. Lane was from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Arthur Lane
Lane
New York
Riverside man seeks death in crowded city street
Armond Wenk of Riverside New Jersey attempted suicide with a pistol loaded with blank cartridges outside the Flatiron Building at Fifth Avenue Broadway and 23d Street yesterday. Police and passersby restrained him. no wound was found. He is in Bellevue Hospital psychopathic ward, with a letter stating intent.
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Armond Wenk
Riverside
N. J
Flatiron
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
23D Street
Kurtzer, Grey and
Reid
Bellevue Hospital
Wenk
Bellevue
Inventor Finnell Ends His Life in New York Apartment
Harry L. Finnell, Oakland California native and inventor of a chemical rubber process, died by his own action yesterday in his second floor Manhattan apartment at 18 West 102nd Street. Partner Ernest Chernikow, once a U S representative at San Salvador, left for Europe hours earlier. Finnell, ill for five years, was cared for by Miss Elizabeth Williams and treated by Dr J W Amey who noted incipient paresis but recent improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry L. Finnell
Oakland
Cal
West 102d Street
Ernest Chernikow
United States
San Salvador
Chernikow
Europe
Finnell
Elizabeth Williams
J. W. Amey
West 44Th Aireet
Amey
Cornell Club Seeks New Home After Lease Failure
The Cornell University Club at 58 West 45th Street seeks a new home after an unsuccessful lease attempt for Cyrus W. Field house at 123 and 125 East 21st Street and 1 Lexington Avenue. The landmark on Gramercy Park, near Lexington Avenue and 21st Street, hosted the first Atlantic cable agreement. Henry W. Poor owns the property, redecorated recently by Stanford White at a cost of 450000 dollars. Experts estimate current value around 750000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell University Club
Weat 45Th Street
Cyrus W. Field
Henry W. Poor
Gramercy Park
21St Street
Lexington Avenue
Atlantic Cable
Stanford White
Princeton Club
Mr. Poor
East 21St Street
Baltimore Lion Kills Russian Bear at Coney Island Show
In the Bostock animal enclosure at Coney Island, Baltimore the lion killed a Russian bear after a dramatic fight that began when an open den door allowed the animals to confront each other. Attendants attempted to intervene as the two fought with fierce bites and claws until the bear collapsed and died. Baltimore was later made to perform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Bostock
Coney Island
Rinaldo
Harvesters Rampage Sparks Rail Looting in Canada
About fifteen thousand harvesters from Eastern Canada arrive in Winnipeg over three days, turning trains into expeditions of loot. They pillage stores, terrorize occupants with revolvers and knives, insult women, and shoot at daylight gangs. One woman fires a gun, wounding several. a cow is dragged to death from a rear car. A man is hanged at a wayside station, narrowly surviving after being let down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Lowell Trial Trip Shows Steamer Satisfactory to Officials
The Lowell, the city Department of Public Charities steamer named for Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell, completed a six hour trial trip with over a hundred guests. Commissioner Robert W. Hebberd led the test for Verdon Company builders, and the vessel will be turned over for final acceptance around September 1 before entering commission. The Lowell will transport charity beneficiaries, city employees, visitors and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
City Department of Public Charities
Josephine Shaw Lowell
Robert W. Hebberd
Commissioner of Public Charities
Frederick A. Verdon
Charity Organization Society
State Board of Charities
Tragedy on Pennsylvania Express near Bristol
In Philadelphia Aug 18 two Italians were killed and five others seriously hurt when a locomotive’s cylinder head blew on a Pennsylvania Railroad express near Bristol. Spectators by the roadbed were knocked down as the train, running at about fifty miles an hour, passed. Francisco Bolando died instantly and Antonio Rogo later succumbed to injuries. others suffered scalds and bruises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bristol
Francisco Bolando
Antonio Rogo
Williamsburg Man Culver Dies After Prolonged Revival Effort
Oscar Culver, revived at the Eastern District Hospital in Williamsburg after allegedly being dead for three minutes, remained alive until yesterday morning. Dr. Michael Jaffer reported using a strychnine solution and artificial respiration, followed by stimulants, to restart the heart and breathing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Culver
Eastern District
Williamsburg
Culver
Michael Jaffer
Jaffer
Coal Operators Refuse Check-Off Increase in Pittsburg
Coal operators in the Pittsburg district refuse to raise check-off collections for workers from 50 to 5 cents monthly. They notified union officials and warned they will stop collections at the first trouble sign. Miners' leaders are meeting tomorrow, with a strike possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Greenwich man attaches auto for killing dog
Fred H. Knapp, an undertaker, attached the auto of Mrs. F. C. Shitemore over $500 claimed as damages for killing his Engfish setter. He says the dog had rights on the highway and the car was on the wrong side. Connecticut law grants animals highway rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich
Conn
Fred H. Knapp
F. C. Shitemore
A. T. Demarest
New York
Connecticut
White miners refuse to work with armed negroes at Illinois mines
In Springfield, Illinois, white miners at Woodside and Tuxhorn mines refuse further work with black coworkers amid deadly clashes and fear of underground danger. An examining board questions both groups about armed preparations as Governor Deneen augments security and orders state troops to return to Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Woodside
Tuxhorn
Clark
United Mine Workers
Deneen
Chamber of Commerce
E. A. Hall
E. L. Chapin
Helk
J. W. Scott
Aitgeld
Scott
North &Th Street
Wells
Mabel Hallam
George Richardson
1St Infantry
Chicago
Egg Harbor Mayor Reinstates After Absence
William Mall former Mayor and Postmaster returns to Egg Harbor after weeks away amid sensational accusations. He states he had 19 dollars not 15 and explains funds were tied to Mall & Dey Carriage Co. He denies other rumors, says he is legally Mayor but will not claim office, plans to rest and settle affairs before leaving town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egg Harbor
William Mall
Mall
Tuckerton
Switzerland
Mall & Dey Carriage Company
Drowning in Big Pickerel Spill in Adirondack Lake
Dr. Joseph Eichberg of Cincinnati drowned at Big Tupper Lake while a fishing party capsized their boat. The party included his brother-in-law Mr Kuhn and guide John Champney. The guide twice dived for the doctor and saved himself, but the drowning occurred as the boat toppled during the catch of a large pickerel. The host, H. M. Levy of Cincinnati, owns a camp on the lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tupper Lake
N. Y
Joseph Eichberg
Cincinnati
Big Tupper Lake
Eichberg
Mr. Kuhn
John Champney
Hichberg
London fire tragedy claims three firefighters deaths
In London Ont on August 18 a blaze collapsed floors trapping four firemen. Fire Chief Lawrence Clirk and firefighters McQuain and J Cockburn died, a fourth was seriously hurt as the burning building gave way, reflecting a devastating loss to the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lawrence Clirk
McQuain
J. Cockburn
Jellico Mining Camp Violence Drives Negroes From Homes
In Jellico Tennessee bands of white miners and mountaineers force the removal of black residents from Campbell's mining camp near Anthras. By dawn fifty black men women and children have fled their homes and notices demand departure from ten camps within thirty miles within three days. Authorities including Governor Patterson and Adjutant General Brown coordinate with Colonel Spencer as troops standby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
Campbell
Anthras
Jellico
Huddlestone
Patterson
Brown
Cary F. Spencer
Tennessee Regiment
Attack on Woman Doctor Ends With Suspect Arrest
Dr. Mary Crawford of Williamsburg Hospital was attacked by 34 year old Herman Pomerantz while she treated an ambulance patient. She fought back with two policemen and the assailant, who had threatened his wife and three children, was restrained and taken to Kings County Hospital. Pomerantz lived at 187 Harrison Avenue, Williamsburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Crawford
Williamsburg Hospital
Kings County Hospital
Herman Pomerantz
Harrison Avenue
Williamsburg
Eye Test for R R Men at New York Conference
A New York Central Railroad conference adopts a mandatory physical eye examination for all train operation workers. The move aims to enforce the employers mobility law while executives discuss liability issues and future wage talks, with a committee to review the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Smith
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
Central
C Brown
New York Central Lines
Brown
Sydney Decorated for Fleet Visit in New South Wales
Sydney plans elaborate entertainments for the arrival of the American battleship fleet. City landmarks display naval motifs and the Pitt Street American Avenue pavilion signals official receptions and ceremonies. The fleet position reports a 120 mile distance, with rough seas affecting speed as a heavy breeze and westery conditions prevail. hospital ship Relief cannot keep up with the main formations.
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Sydney
N. S
Feet
New South Wales
Commonwealth State
Cive
Custom House
Macquarie Street
George Street
Martin Place
Pitt Street
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Dirigible
Jersey Man
Cornell Club
Lion
Bear
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