Nineteen Die in Middletown Train Wreck This July Fourth
Nineteen people were killed and several others injured in a head on collision between a passenger section of the Twentieth Century Limited and a freight train near Middletown Ohio. The crash trapped riders in the first two cars as engines telescoped, with rescuers racing from the station and hospitals summoned for aid.
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Twentieth Century Limited
Middletown
Ohio
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Darron
Middletown Train Wreck Prompted Inquest And Injuries
Coroner J. A. Burnett from Hamilton opened an inquiry into the wreck after several injured were placed on nearby cars and sent to hospitals in other cities since Middletown lacked facilities. Fireman Vernon Wallace stated the freight train ran ahead of schedule with seven minutes to reach the siding. He reported the flyer rounded the curve before clearance and both crews reacted immediately. Engineer Ward of the passenger train claimed they were strictly on schedule.
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Genoa
Here
Dar
Cincinnati, Hamlton & Dayton
George "2Lé
Post Town
Middletown
Ward
John Weaver
Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton
Dayton
Hamilton Bohestaine
J. A. Burnett
Hamilton
Vernon Wallace
Measles Spoil Fourth Of July At Williamsburg Home
Almost two hundred inmates of the South Third Street Industrial Home in Williamsburg are ill with measles, prompting quarantine and cancelling yesterday’s celebration for the children. The home, housing four hundred boys and girls, reports eighty five convalescing and soon to be moved to the seaside sanatorium. The outbreak is linked to a recent arrival, with officials keeping details secret until yesterday.
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South Third Street
Williamsburg
Kidnapped His Own Son Pulled From Verdi at Brooklyn Pier
Joseph W. Swan, 47, was arrested on a warrant at Pier 8 in Brooklyn while walking with his six year old son Robert G. Swan. Detective Farrell arrested him after Swan admitted the boy was his son and explained he had gone to Brazil seeking justice in Massachusetts. The boy was sent to the Children’s Society in Schermerhorn Street.
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Joseph W. Swan
Verdi
Pier 8
Furman Street
Brooklyn
Robert G. Swan
Farrell
Brooklyn Bureau
Adams Street
Thomas H. Lynch
Boston
Swan
Rio Grande
Brazil
Massachusetts
Children’s Societ
Schermerhorn Street
Stole Steel Man's Auto At Pittsburg Ball Game
Colonel H P Rope of Carnegie Steel watched a ball game when three men seized his car parked by Forbes Field and sped off on a joy ride. They fled across the river to the North Side, chased by motorcycle officers, crashed into smokestacks, and were dragged from the wreck. Two men, John Miller and A G Lucas, are gravely injured. Charles Hays is seriously hurt but expected to recover. the car was wrecked.
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Pittsburg
H. P. Rope
Carnegie Steel Company
Forbes Field
John Miller
A. G. Lucas
Charles Hays
Body Found In East River Identified As Davenport
A body drifted across Yankton’s anchor chains in the East River near 30th street and was recovered by the ship’s crew. Police identify the deceased as Charles H. Davenport of Springfield Mass who vanished from the Murray Hill Hotel on February 14. An envelope with the name and a passkey to room 213, plus personal items, were found on the corpse. no signs of foul play.
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United States
East River
30Th Street
Charles H. Davenport
Springfield
Mass
Murray Hill
Fire sets kitchen blaze. misses nine year old girl
Mrs Rose Sleig dropped a lit oil lamp in her kitchen at 306 Fast Sth street last night and fled in panic forgetting her sleeping nine year old daughter Ma. The lamp sparked a fire that trapped two children in the adjoining apartment until two men and Patrolman Ragan rescued them. Firemen quickly extinguished the fire, with losses totaling $19.
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Rose
Fast Sth
jJamp
Ragan
Detroit and Return Fare Ad for Lehigh Valley R R
Advertisement notes a round trip price of $22.15 with contact details for Lehigh Valley Railroad and multiple city locations including Hudson Terminal Manhattan 1464 555 Broadway Newark 211 Market Street. Promotional brief focusing on travel option.
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Detroit
Lehigh Valley R. R
Hudson
Manhattan
Market St
Newark
Hughes Suggested for Chief Justice
Beverly Mass July 4 Governor Charles F Hughes of New York is seen as the likely next Chief Justice to replace Fuller. Taft delays appointment until Congress meets in December, with Moody's retirement possible as well. Taft seeks careful deliberation and will heed bar associations and lawyers nationwide before deciding.
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Charles F. Hughes
New York
Fuller
Congress
Moody
Taft
United States
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Mr. Taft
The
United
Riots erupt nationwide after Jeffries Johnson fight
The nation sees whites and blacks clash in many cities as news of the Reno outcome spreads. Police in New York report heavy rioting with dozens injured and at least seven reported killed, as officers implement pre planned patrols to quell the outbreaks and bar liquor sales to whites in black and tan establishments.
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Jeffries
Reno
Johnson
Arkansas
Roanoke
New York
Pittsburg
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Atlanta
St. Louis
Little Rock
Houston
New York City
Jeffries-Johnson
Nevada
Lahey
Tenth Avenue
49Th Street
26Th Street
Ninth Avenue
134Th Street
Seventh Avenue
52D Street
125Th Street
44Th
46Th Streets
138Th Street
6Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
53D
Wighth Avenue
West End Avenue
59Th Streets
Safe and sane Fourth saves city hundreds of thousands
Fire Chief Croker credits the safe and sane Independence Day method with reducing injuries from over three hundred to under two hundred and cutting fire losses. A fatal rocket bomb at 145th Street and Riverside Drive killed Sophia Geise, while hospitals reported far fewer injuries than last year. Continued on second page.
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Croker
Independence Day Committee
145Th Street
Riverside Drive
Bellevue Hospital
Presbyterian Hospital
Jeffries Falls to Johnson in Fifteenth Round Heavyweight Bout
Reno July 4 James J Jeffries loses the heavyweight title bid after a brutal fifteenth round as Jack Johnson delivers decisive blows. Jeffries struggles, staggers and sinks to his knees multiple times before the referee halts action. Johnson is declared winner amid cheers as Jeffries is unable to rise before ten.
London Crowds Rally For Jeffries Johnson Fight
London papers devote extensive space to the Reno bout drawing huge crowds in Fleet Street. Police struggled to keep order as bulletins appeared and fans waited for the result into midnight. Special editions sold briskly amid festival like interest.
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London
Reno
Fleet Street
Woman Dead Display Ends During Riverside Fireworks
Miss Sophie Giese of 594 West 161st Street was struck on the head by an aerial bomb while watching the Riverside Drive fireworks and died instantly. She sat on a camp chair in the New York Motor Boat Club yard at 147th Street and the North River. Her fiancé Frank Breault was beside her and also stunned as the crowd dispersed and the display briefly ceased.
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Independence Day Committee
Sophia Geise
West
169Th Street
145Th Street
Riverside Drive
New York Motor Boat Club
147Th Street
North River
Sophie Giese
West 161St Street
Upper Riverside Drive
Frank Breault
Miss Giese
Americans Hurt Abroad in France Auto Roll Over
Five Americans driving to Vienna in Chalons-sur-Saone France swerved to avoid a bull and overturned in a ditch. Two women passengers were seriously injured. The travelers have not been identified.
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Chalons-sur-Saone
France
Vienna
Pays for His Own Death by Own Action
Anthony I. Terganious of Brockton killed himself in his room at 21 Dover Street Boston by asphyxiation after spending his last dollar to pay his landlady for gas. The body was found by Margaret Barnett shortly after noon. A note to The Wide, Wide World explained there was no work, no future, no money, and no friends. Refreshing summer drink advertisement for Dewey's Pure Grape Juice followed.
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Boston
Anthony I. Terganious
Brockton
Dover Street
Margaret Barnett
Jeffries Falls Before Johnson in Fifteenth Round
John Arthur Johnson stopped James J. Jeffries in the fifteenth round of a forty five round bout in Reno. Jeffries collapsed bleeding and dazed as Johnson delivered a swift finish before sixteen thousand spectators. Johnson showed mastery while Jeffries faded after years away from the ring.
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Reno
John Arthur Johnson
James J. Jeffries
Jeffries
Johnson
Tex” Rickard
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Chic J. Smith Kirk
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Precasantville
Oho
Hay B Snyder
A. & Garrigus
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Richard van Horn
Deston
Charles H. Moulton
Youngstown
Jidsse D. Bodey
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King Ten Lun
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John J. White
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WT White
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Latonia
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Flying Limited
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Negro
W. Corbett
Tommy Burns
Jeffries Crouch
Corbett
Jim Corbett
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