Auto Kills Doctor in Plainfield Streetcar Tragedy
Jonathan H. Randolph, 50, a Plainfield contractor, was struck and killed by a speeding automobile as he alighted from a trolley on West Front street at 12 30 AM. The driver Freyd Cooper of Westfield fled the scene, was arrested later, and charged with homicide after witnesses and police traced the car through Dunellen. Cooper claimed he did not stop in the moment, while a coroner’s inquiry and inquest were set for tomorrow.
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Plainfield
N. J
Jonathan H. Randolph
West Front Street
Muhlenberg Hospital
Freyd Cooper
Westfield
Dunellen
Cooper
Kiely
Randolph
Charles Hendershot
Charles Hyde
Front Street
Jefferson Avenue
Daniel C. Main
Daniel MacDonald
Maurice Higgins
Headquartre 19 Repor
McTamed
William de Camp
Westforld
Auto Overturns Kill Two. Burlington Victims
In Burlington on South Willard Street Archibald J. Taylor was killed when a rapidly speeding car struck a culvert and turned over. Albert T. Henderson and Robert J. Ross were critically injured. Separately in Staten Island a pedestrian, George Alesiax of Great Kills, was severely injured by a car driven by Frederick Pape of Lenox Place Brooklyn. Pape was jailed for felonious assault. A coroner announced a new speed ordinance plan for bicycles and motor vehicles in congested areas. Four skaters drowned after breaking through ice on Take Kosh in Joneses. Mabel Brown survived but may die from shock.
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Burlington
Archibald J. Taylor
Albert T. Henderson
Robert J. Ross
South Willard Street
Taylor
George Alesiax
Great Kills
Staten
Amboy
Frederick Pape
Lenox Place
Brooklyn
Alesiax
Pape
Stapleton
Aleviax
Harburger
Joneses Ie
Wie
Earl Cooper
Harvey Erfson
Ielet Bivins
Fannie Blivins
Mabel Brown
United States Atlantic Fleet Passes Through Singapore Harbor
The U S Atlantic battleship fleet led by Rear Admiral Sperry sailed into Singapore on December 6 with the Connecticut saluting the port and escorts meeting the ships. The Yankton communicated with the fleet, the voyage from Manila was uneventful, weather was fine, and some maneuvers were held.
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Singapore
United States Atlantic
Sperry
Yankton
Connecticut
Manila
Cruiser Fleet Off Salina Cruz Passes Southbound Bound for Central America
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of the Navy Truman H. Newberry received word from Warren W. Rich that the armored cruiser fleet was off Salina Cruz Mexico at 3 p m New York time headed south toward La Union Salvador and then Panama. The fleet exited Magdalena Bay on December 1 after target practice.
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Washington
Truman H. Newberry
Secretary of the Navy
Warren W. Rich
United States
Salina Cruz
Mexico
New York
la Union
Salvador
Panama
Magdalena Bay
Transatlantic Liners Stuck by Winter Weather Delayed
Three belated transatlantic liners reached port after a stormy sea passage. The French Line La Touraine endured NW winds from Havre with no major mishap aside from seasickness. St. Louis from Southampton and Patricia from Hamburg also faced delays, while Arabic and Kaiserin Auguste Victoria were delayed en route. Statendam and Finland expected to dock late tomorrow.
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la Touraine
Havre
Southampton
St. Louis
Hamburg
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Sandy Hook
Statendam
Finland
Water Main Blast Disrupts Brooklyn Transit
A 20 inch high pressure water main on Washington and Johnston streets in Brooklyn exploded during a test, sending a fountain of water into the air and flooding the area. The blast damaged pavement, undermined tracks, and halted Coney Island and Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines for about twenty minutes, but officials expect minimal system impact.
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Washington and
Johnston Streets
Brooklyn
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
McKay
Water Department
Daughter of J R Bullock Dies by Own Action in Bristol
Emma Russell Chesebrough Chesebrough of Bristol Port, aged thirty nine, wife of yacht designer Alfred Chesebrough, shot herself twice in the head with a .22 revolver. She had suffered melancholia and insomnia. She was the daughter of ex Lt Governor Jonathan Russell Bullock. Survived by husband two children sister Mrs Samuel Pool wife of the US Rubber Co president and her mother Mrs Emma Westcott Bullock.
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Bristol
Ft. L
Emma Russell Chesebrough
Alfred
Chesebrough
Scotland
Jonathan Russell Bullock
Samuel Poolt
United States Rubber Company
Emma Westcott-Bullock
Boston
Croker Stirs Boston Minister in Sermon Critique
The Rev Dr A A Berle of Shawmut Congregational Church denounces Richard Croker and judges at his banquet. He claims Croker allied with much of America’s wrongdoing and notes the public reception he received after exile, questioning why the people cheered him at a public playhouse.
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the Tribune
Roston
Richard Croker
A. A. Berle
Shawmut
France Bars Castro An Apology Before Landing
Paris Dec 6 Cabinet secrecy. If Castro lands in Bordeaux he may not set foot on French soil until he offers a formal apology for flaunting France. Should he arrive ill, redress for expulsion of the French Chargé dAffaires in 1906 will be demanded. Landing allowed only after apology and instructions to Caracas to execute the arbitral award. Venezuelan consuls travel via Paris to Santander to meet Castro.
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Paris
Castro
Venezuela
Bordeaux
France
Santander
Spain
M. Taigny
Caracas
Domingo Castillo
Hamburg
D. Escalante
Liverpool
Dutch retaliation portends seizure at sea
Rotterdam reports the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant says the naval demonstration off Venezuela aims to seize Venezuelan gunboats and scout vessels, block troop transport, and curb contraband trade with Curacao.
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Rotterdam
Nieuwe Rotterdamsch Courant
Venezuela
Curacao
Philadelphia Man Dies After Beating and Robbery
A man likely George W. Long of Philadelphia was found dying in a tenement hallway at 240 East 21st Street. He bled from a head wound and died after Ambulance Surgeon Lackey arrived. Police suspect he was beaten and robbed, pockets turned inside out, with $979 found on him and a Philadelphia maker tag on his hat.
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George W. Long
Philadelphia
East 21St Street
Lackey
Bellevue Hospital
Burfeind
Margaret Simmons
Herzfelder & Bros
G. W. Young
Thaw Sanity Campaign Alarm in Pittsburg
Pittsburg dec 6 the Pittsburg telegram reports that Mrs William Thaw and Mrs Copley Thaw mother and sister of Harry K Thaw have started a drive to prove his sanity and win his release from the asylum The unfinished tale A Beginner in the High Alps written in prison is republished to support the effort and friends say they will not rest until he is freed.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Harry K. Thaw
William Thaw
Copley Thaw
White
Thaw
High
Alps
Ver Wiebe Becomes Pro After Gift From Friends
Harvard fullback Ernest Ver Wiebe received President Roosevelt’s praise for the Yale game and now faces a Harvard Athletic Association review after neighbors in Somerville gave him a watch and chain plus a $50 purse he accepted. He plans to return the money and seek AAU relief from the professional stigma.
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Tribune
Cambridge
Mass
Ernest Ver Wiebe
Harvard
Roosevelt
Yale
Harvard Athletic Association
Somerville
Ver Wiebe
Amateur Athletic Union
Harlem Burglar Nabbed After Car Chase Bust
Detectives Brenner and Curtayne of the Harlem Detective Bureau arrest Solomon Stein of 114th Street after a daylong vigil and a Second Avenue car pursuit. Stein, held on burglary charges, faces evidence including stolen jewelry, pawn tickets, and tools. Additional thefts linked to Stein surfaced as Miles reported missing items recovered at the bureau.
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Brenner
Curtayne
Harlem Detective Bureau
Second Avenue
114Th Street
Solomon Stein
No. 208
East 114Th Street
Harlem
Stein
Bronx
Barnett
Harlem Bureau
Jimmy Marks
Third Avenue
Cortayne
Second, Avenue
Isaac Miles
East 102d Street
Mulberry Street
GIVES LIFE FOR FRIEND
Alberta Beere twelve died at her East Pittsburg home while saving schoolmate Elsie Byers from an oncoming Pennsylvania Railroad train. Elsie was knocked forty feet, severely injured and possibly dying. Alberta’s father Alfred Beere celebrated his thirty seventh birthday as the two girls rode to the station with Elsie stepping from behind a freight train before the fast passenger, Alberta rushing to pull her away and losing her life.
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Pittsburg
Alberta Beere
East Pittsburg
Elsie Byers
Pennsylvania Railroad
Byers
Alfred Beere
Alberta
Elsie
Three Drowned Near Boston In Ice Break Folly
In North Boston two 11 year old Ethel Anderson and 10 year old Martha Anderson drowned after they broke through thin ice on a pond near their home. Two brothers with them were saved in Methuen. George Stack Jr., 13, died attempting to save his brother Arthur from Mystic Pond where Arthur was rescued by John May after hearing the cries.
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Boston
Ethel
Charles Anderson
Martha
John A. Anderson
North Easton
Methuen
Tseorse Stack, Jr
Arthur
Mystic Pond
John May
Opera Gowns in Bond Stowage Recovered on Ship
Leopold Tanco a Bogota diplomat’s brother and his wife arrived on the La Touraine with twenty one trunks to be shipped to Colombia in bond. They stayed in New York to attend operas and later discovered the gowns hidden in the final trunk after customs checked the other hand baggage.
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Leopold Tanco
Bogota
Brazil
la Touraine
Colombia
Bond
Mr. Tanco
New York
Touraine
Freighter D. M. Clemson Sunk in Gale on Lake Superior
Duluth reporters say the 5,000 ton coal laden steel freighter D. M. Clemson sank in a fierce gale on lower Lake Superior. Twenty five crew members are aboard and tugs search the lake. Captain S. R. Chamberlain presides, Clemson overdue a week at this port.
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Duluth
Minn
D. M. Clemson
S. R. Chamberlain
Clemson
Lake Superior
Doctors to test electric chair autopsy theory in murder case
Dr. Frank Scammell and Dr. Thomas Mackenzie plan to revive Essex County killer John Mantasanna after his December execution to prove whether electrocution only stuns victims and if death is instantaneous. They will compare resuscitation results with prior autopsies by Dr. Spitzke and aim to determine the true effect of the electric chair.
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the Tribune
Trenton
N. J
Frank G. Scammel
Thomas H. Mackenzie
John Mantasanna
Essex County
FB. A.S. Spitzke
Philadelphia
Scammell
Mackenzie
Desperate Sea Battle Fails to Sink Schooner Eldridge
Captain Kelley and four crew on the schooner M. E. Eldridge from New York endured a three day storm, sails blown away, hull leaking, and tons of water flooding the hold filled with clay. They rationed provisions but collapsed from hunger and cold before the revenue cutter Gresham towed them into port and hospitals treated the crew.
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Tribune
Boston
Kelley
M. E. Eldridge
New York
Gresham
Eldridge
Oklahoma State Banks Unite for Deposit Guarantee Plan
Guthrie December 6 Governor Haskell Lieutenant Governor Bellamy State Treasurer Menefee and Agricultural Board Chairman Connors form Oklahoma banking board to attend a Muskogee convention organizing a deposit guarantee alliance for state banks. Bonaparte ruling excludes national banks from the scheme. State deposits up over 300 percent while national deposits fall. Liner La Touraine reports passing a burning US Navy barge 228 a collier near Havre. fire spreading, crew absent.
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Tribune
Guthrie
Okla
Haskell
Bellamy
Menefee
Connors
The
Agricultural Board
Oklahoma
Banking Board
Muskogee
Bonaparte
la Touraine
Havre
United States Navy
Touraine
President Refutes Panama Charges in Foulke Letter Conflict
An exchange between President Roosevelt and William Dudley Foulke is released from Hot Springs with Foulke accusing The Indianapolis News and Taft allies of misleading the public on Panama Canal purchases. Roosevelt replies that documents are public, payments were to the French government, and no American taxpayer funds were misappropriated.
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Hot Springs
Roosevelt
William Dudley Foulke
Indianapolis News
Taft
Panama
United States
Indiana
White House
Washington
Mr. Foulke
Delavan Smith
Congress
Democrat
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Guernsey
Mary
Henry A. Barnhart
Oliver Cicero Wiley
Alabama
J. Fisk
Burlington, Vt
Lautes
J. R. Bullock
Samuel P. Colt
Croker
Stranger
Chum
North Boston
Bay
Diplomat
Plan Deposit Guarantee Association
Douglas Robinson and
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