Ten Dead From Heat Relief Expected Today
Ten deaths were reported across New York and Brooklyn from heat prostration as a hot and humid day persisted. Victims ranged in age from three months to eighty years, with many found at home or at work and several later dying in hospitals. Amid the heat shoppers and sightseers moved slowly while ferries and parks drew relief seekers and soda founts reported brisk business. Showers and easterly winds were forecast to bring relief today.
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Andrew Enkersciseier
First Avenue
East River
Lower Broadway
Wall Street
Battery Park
Battery Wall
St. George
Staten Island
West Street
Five Deaths From Heat In Philadelphia
Five people died and many suffered heat related illnesses in Philadelphia as a severe heat wave hit the city. The Tribune dispatch notes extremely high temperatures and widespread distress among residents.
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Philadelphia
Numbers Unlucky After All Ferret Captured in Coin Theft
George Coppinger known as The Ferret, longtime burglar, was arrested by West 20th Street detectives while attempting to unload coins and antiques from the New York Coin and Stamp Company burglary at 1 Broadway. He confessed identity and theft. Officers say booty found in Mills Hotel room totals about five hundred. In his pocket were letters of recommendation from private employers. a fortune paper predicted lucky days and numbers Five Three Eight. Store location misread as 2 Broadway.
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George Coppinger
Ferret
New West 20Th Street
New York Coin and Stamp Company
No. Rt Broadway
Mills Hotel No. 1
Alice Payson
East 7Ist Street
Minow
Tug Victoria Encounters Hazard On Riverfront
George A Cartwright, superintendent of Cor Pel Towing, reported to harbor police that the tug Victoria, under Captain George Walker, while near the North German Lioya decks in Hoboken, had three men aboard a canalboat. One occupant jumped overboard in fright and drowned despite a life preserver being thrown. the other two were rescued from their fright.
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George A Cartwright
Cor- Pel Towing Company
Siet Street
North
Pier A
North River
Victoria
George Walker
Hoboken
Walker
Supermnos Cartwright
Poisoned ale case points to outside suspect in Philadelphia
A bottle claimed poisoned was sent to Dr. William H. Wilson at 819 North 7th Street. Buckman, a Philadelphia Local Express employee, identified a stranger as delivering the package. Mrs. Wilson, questioned by the District Attorney and detectives, said she knows nothing about the sender. Authorities pursue a man about 40, well dressed, linked to the delivery. Wilson, real name Friehoff, had a mixed past and estates valued around $2,400.
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the Tribune
William H. Willamed
North 7Th St
Philadel Reet
Fred Buckman
Atlantic City
Osee
Ee Nee Buckman
Pega Maseumarte
Wilson House
Wilson
Paul
Friehoff
William H. Wilson
Lilacs
Fairmount Park
Dr. Wilson
Cornwells
Express
Wilson Home
Sailors' Friend Pierson, Famed Seaman Helper, Dies
John S. Pierson, known as the Carnegie of the Sea, died at his summer home in Orange aged eighty Seven after over six decades aiding sailors. A former lawyer who gave up practice to serve the Seamen's Friends' Society, he donated thousands of books to shipboard libraries and distributed Bibles and hymns to mariners.
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West Street
John S. Pierson
Orange
West Dirt Street
Carnegie of the Sea
Mr. Pierson
Water Front
Pondman
Princeton
Seaman's Friends’ Society
Pierson
New York Bible Society
CANNOT SELL New York Ontario & Western Stock
Notes that the New York New Haven and Dartford line cannot sell its New York Ontario and Western stock due to an existing option. English interests reportedly offer for control while options held by multiple parties complicate a sale. fall expiry date unknown but options currently linger.
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New York, New Haven & Dartford Railroad
New York, Ontario & Western
Ontario & Western
New Haven Company
New York Central
Delaware & Hudson
New Haven
Ontario
Verbal Betting Law Contested Over Receipt of Winnings
A court opinion argues Section 351 should be read as a whole to determine if receiving money or property from a bet constitutes a crime. Justices note the statute targets bookmaking and poolselling, not ordinary individual bets, and warn that criminal liability would oddly extend to many typical wager scenarios.
No Comment Byoughes In Legal Betting Case
Saranac Inn New York July 2 Governor Hughes received early word from Albany of Supreme Court Justice Bischoff ruling that individual betting is not illegal and the release of Melville Collins. The Governor, aboard an Adirondack guide boat with Mrs Hughes, declined to comment on the decision. He plans a lengthy Adirondack excursion tomorrow, breakfast at Saranac Inn, then travels down rivers and lakes with State officials and the tax commissioner as his guest at a camp on Oscotah Lake. The party will return to the inn by tomorrow evening.
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Saranac Inn
N. J
Supreme Court
Bischoff
Melville Collins
Hughes
Inn
Albany
Adirondacks
Saranac Lakes
Oscotah Lake
Benjamin S’. Hall
Adirondack
Anti-Racetrack Campaign Spends Amid Hart-Agnew Effort
Walter Laidlaw, chairman, released a detailed account of campaign costs from January 13 to June 20, 188, totaling 269,493 dollars. Publicity 10,370. circulars 2,620. meetings and hearings 61,171. office expenses 6,647. no payments to Niagara County Republican committee. Laidlaw lauded Canon Chase and Foelker's efforts and said the committee would remain active to defend or amend the laws. Albany reports show Empire City Racing Association spent 5,653, with total racing group expenditures over 56,000 so far.
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Walter Laidlaw
Hart-Agnew
Niagara County Republican Committee
Laidlaw
William Sheafe Chase
Foelker
Albany
Frank J. MacKatin
Empire City Racing Association
Foelker Addresses Republicans at Brooklyn Club
Senator Otto G. Foelker spoke to the Republican Congress Club at 386 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn. He discussed his illness and did not mention the Agnew Hart law. Members cheered as some stayed outside. resolutions backed Taft and Sherman.
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Otto G. Foelker
Republican Congress Club
Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn
Agnew Hart Law
Taft
Sherman
Denver Wins Bid for Next National Education Association Meet
Educators at Cleveland hear that Denver was recommended by the National Education Association board for the next annual convention, beating Atlantic City Chicago and Seattle. The decision awaits board action in December. Delegations split time between departmental meetings, excursions and sightseeing.
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Denver
National Education Association
Atlantic City
Chicago
Seattle
National Organization of Women
Jane Addams
Rural and Agricultural Department
Committee On
Industrial Education
Lorenzo Dow Harvey
Menominee
Wis
Elmer Ellsworth Brown
United States Commissioner of Education
Washington
D. B. Johnson
Winthrop Normal and Industrial College
Rock Hill
S. C
Ellen H. Richards
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Boston
Council On Household Science
August S. Lindemann
Milwaukee
Department of School Administration
W. O. Thompson
Ohio State University
E. A. Jones
State School Commission of
Columbus
Ohio
Malcolm Kenneth Gordon
St. Paul's School
Concord
N. H
Department of Secondary Education
B. M. Davis
Miami University
Oxford
Department of Science
Library Department
L. E. Wolfe
San Antonio
Tex
Wolfe
Wilbur T. Mills
William B. Ittner
St. Louis
John Latenser
Omaha
Bondholders act shores up Cincinnati line amid defaults
A protective committee formed for holders of bonds from Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and its controlled lines after July 1 coupon and interest defaults. Banking figures from Bankers Trust and Metropolitan Life join Read, Wiggin, Lamont to oversee deposits as the note and refunding bond holders weigh foreclosure chances.
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Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railway Company
Indiana, Decatur & Western
William A. Read
William A. Read & Co
Frederick H. Ecker
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Thomas W. Lamont
Bankers’ Trust Company
Albert I H. Wiggin
Chase National Bank
George K. Johnson
Philadelphia
C. E. Cotting
Boston
Protective Committee
Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Wall Street
Black Hand Bomb Wrecks Homes In McKeesport
Four people were seriously injured and two houses damaged when dynamite exploded at George Deavatoria's home in McKeesport. The Italian resident had received a Black Hand letter demanding 2000 dollars by July 1 to avoid further harm. Elmer Bailey, neighbor, narrowly survived the blast.
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Pittsburg
George Deavatoria
McKeesport
Elmer Bailey
Bailey
Deavatoria
Black Hand
Fort Wayne
Fast Trains Collide Near Knobnoster Missouri
A Missouri Pacific fast California special from St Louis collided with another fast St Louis bound train from Kansas City two miles east of Knobnoster at 5 30 this morning. Six crew and passengers died all on the Kansas City bound train and at least fifty were injured. Officials will investigate why orders to meet at different points were not followed. Both engines derailed and wrecked cars blocked the rails.
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California
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Missouri Pacific
Karas City
Here
Kansas City
Sure
Michael J
Ineman
Western Union Telegraph Company
Poplar Bluff
Calspeens
Begsage
Jefferson City
Frisbie
W. J
Roberts Rand Shoe Company
Harding
W. H
Hood
John
Hurley
Inglish
Olean
Miller County
Story
Fred
Lineman
Franklin
Campbell
A. Strang
Sedalia
Knobwoster
Lamonta
Fatal crash after car hits truck on Fourth Avenue
Thomas Flanagan of 521 East 16th street died from base skull fracture after a Fourth avenue surface car struck the truck they rode in at 19th street. Patrick Hussey of 535 East 15th street and William Larkin of 119 and 521 East 16th street were badly hurt. Motorman Christopher Quinn of 129 West 29th street was arrested.
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Thomas Flanagan
East 16Th Street
Patrick Hussey
East 15Th Street
William Larkin
Michael Larkin
Fourth Avenue
19Th Street
Moore
Bellevue Hospital
Flanagan
Christopher Quinn
No. 129
West 29Th Street
Public Service Commission Rejects Four-Track Plan
The Public Service Commission ruled impractical to add four tracks on Flatbush avenue replacing the Ashland Place loop. Costs, real estate, and underwater tube work render the proposal nonviable despite support from the United Boroughs Transit Association.
Shonts Denies Air Line Syndicate Plans
Theodore P. Shonts stated there is no basis to reports from Indiana that he and J. TD. Oliver, president of the Oliver Plough Works, formed a syndicate to complete the Chicago New York Electric Air Line from Laporte Indiana to Chicago.
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Theodore P. Shonts
Indiana
J. TD. Oliver
The
Oliver Plough Works
Laporte
Ind
Chicago
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