Wilsons Speech Wins Veterans Battle Dead Honored
Gettysburg July 4 veterans camp marked by two rare salutes to the president and the nation. President Wilson spoke for about an hour in the big tent as flags half-masted and old soldiers paid tribute. Veterans from Massachusetts and Virginia serenaded General Liggett and staff, bands and fife and drum revived pride, while Dixie and rebel songs sparked playful battles between old Confederates and Yankees before farewell handshakes and trains carried them away.
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Morning News Briefs from Local Scene
Local items report an amnesic incident at a hospital with a worker killed and a heat related death of a woman. Swimmers drown in a six-event tally. Trainmen issue demands. A driver rescues a bride. Mitchel Boom revival noted. Waiters refuse to strike. Society of Cincinnati marks a Fourth. Crime among bachelors rises. Fresh air riddle solved. Tammany linked Silver case. Fourth a big success. City fire on Fourth end. Wilson speaks at meeting. Two killed in auto race. Passengers fire on train robbers. Winnipeg riot flares over American events. Sunday baseball legalities and Perry celebration. Charles Ro Helke dies.
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Saye Perry
Charles Ro Helke
Auto Kills Boy As Firecracker Fight Ends in Death
South Norwalk CT July 4 Six year old Dennis Romano was struck and killed by a car while fighting a firecracker in the street. Driver August Wahl quiet of Bridgeport and his three children were with him. Wahlquist was arrested and later released on $5000 bail.
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Scranton Flyer Kills Five At Picnic Wagon Crossing
Five killed and three injured when the Scranton Flyer struck a wagon carrying a Philadelphia picnic party near Quakertown Penn. The dead include Mrs. Jennie Costello Edwin Kane Katherine Costello James Gillick and James Hannigan. Three Costello children were among the injured as the party returned from Hellertown from a Fourth of July celebration.
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Edwin Kane
Katherine Costello
James Gillick
James Hannigan
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Hellertown
Riot on Newport Beach Ends with Mob Action
A fleeing suspect stabbed a sailor and killed a fourteen year old boy as about ten thousand people watched on Newport Beach. Police held the mob at bay for nearly an hour, finally sheltering the fleeing man in a small office where the building was torn apart. The prisoner was marched to the station as cries of Lynch him filled the air.
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Lightning Rips Roof at Avenue Baptist Church
Lightning struck the spire of the Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland this afternoon tearing a hole in the slate roof. It demolished John D. Rockefeller's pew and wrecked several others. Crews will rush repairs so Rockefeller can attend church next Sunday in his usual pew.
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Greeks Rout Bulgarians at Kilkish in Greek advance
Salonica July 4 The Battle of Kilkish ends with a decisive Greek victory. Bulgarians evacuate Kilkish in disorder abandoning sixty field guns and siege pieces. The Greeks press the advance toward Demirhissar, with the next battle anticipated in the Strymon defiles.
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Auto Plunges Into Crowd At Hartford Fireworks
A car plunged into a Riverside Park crowd during a July 4 fireworks display near the Connecticut River, injuring a score of people. The vehicle's movement caused pandemonium as bystanders scattered, a boy left at the wheel having tampered with the clutch before the car slid into the river.
McLoughlin Loses In Straight Sets At Wimbledon
California star McLoughlin fell to Fred Wilding in three sets 8-6 6-3 10-8 in a dramatic Wimbledon match. Wilding, a four time champion, outplayed the American with superior service and accuracy.
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M Loughlin the Favorite at Wimbledon in Cold Weather
A large crowd gathered at Wimbledon despite cold cloudy conditions as the championships begin. M Loughlin is considered the favorite, with excitement high as play continues into the second page.
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Woman of Mystery Dies in Heat With Riches on Waist
Aged recluse known as Baroness Anna de Taube died after collapsing on Amsterdam Avenue. Police found 12,500 francs, 300 francs gold, 34 dollars, and valuables in her pockets and home. Her son Nathusche de Taube and husband Baron Gustave de Taube were among those sought for details.
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England
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Gold Miners Terrorize City of Johannesburg
Rioting by striking gold miners in Johannesburg caused four civilian deaths and about fifty injuries. Cavalry charges and police clashes lit up the night as fires burned the Johannesburg Park station and The Johannesburg Star offices. A government ban on a miners gathering failed, leading to renewed street confrontations and disruptions to transit and power.
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Lodi ng Tire Fatality Ends Indy Hero Knight in Ohio Race
Harry C. Knight of Indianapolis known as the hero of the Indianapolis Speedway is killed when his front drive car blows a right rear tire and wrecks on the 110th lap of a 200 mile Columbus race. Mechanician Milton McCallis of Houston dies in hospital. fellow racer Ralph De Palma narrowly avoids the wreck. Knight, 23, had just re entered after engine trouble and had been running at about seventy miles per hour.
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Jonesboro
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Insane man murders Mohansic hospital attendant
Charles J. Wyle, 20, an attendant at Mohansic State Hospital for the Insane near Yorktown Heights, Westchester, was found dead in a cottage. Inmate Michael Nolan, six feet tall, confessed to not liking Wyle and claimed he killed him, though Dr Harris and Sheriff Doyle questioned his guilt. Authorities questioned all 65 patients as investigators probed the brutal death and tried to determine the true attacker amid claims of insanity and misdirected alibis.
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