Death Toll Rises From City Heat Wave
The city endured a severe heat spell with twelve deaths reported yesterday and five infant fatalities before midday. Prolonged high temperatures relief only now arriving, while forecasts predict fair weather with variable winds. The dead include two day old George and four month old Wenlari among others, with addresses in Brooklyn Harlem and Roosevelt Hospital cited.
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George
New Jerat Street
Brooklyn
Wenglari
John
East Tech Street
Gilligan
Margaret
Third Avenir
Retomoff
Max
24 Street
Lawlor
Christopher
West Str St
Roosevelt Hospital
Martisch
Washington Street
Metoze
Josey
East
Ae Foe Sre Yan
Ase Sith
Eanthral
Harrison Street
Brooklin
Arthur
Harlem Hospital
Weinstein
Robert
Broome
Gouverneur Hospital
Moir Loses Appeal Over Life Society Directors
The Appellate Division voids an injunction against Henry Moir a Savings Life Assurance Society stockholder. It also restrains James B O Keife John J Coyle and others from acting as directors amid a failed 1 056 share sale backed by Edward R and Orlando F Thomas to Coyle. The case centers on control of the board and director appointments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Moir
The
Savings Life Assurance Society
James B. O'Keife
John J. Coyle
John C.grafy
Axelle
Edward R
Orlando F. Thomas
Philadelphia
Thomeares
Coyle
Thomases
William T. Gilbert
James G. O'Keife
Gilbert
Corle
Unt
Timothy L. Woodruff
John W. Vrooman
John C Brady
O) Keife
Gilbert Mr
Moir
Supreme Court
O'Keife
Joy Line Taken Over by New Haven System
Deeds of record filed at City Hall indicate the Joy Line has been taken over by the New Haven system. The notice records the transfer of control and outlines related administrative steps in Providence.
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Providence
New Haven
Joy Line Ownership Remains Nominal Says Industry Comment
Hartford and New York Company holds nominal possession of the Joy Line, but the New Haven road dominates it as if President Mellen’s name were on the deeds. No material change is expected in the Joy Line’s conduct or schedule.
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Hartford and
New York Company
New Haven
New Haven Road
Mellen
Raid on Poolroom Information Bureau Nets Five Men
Acting Captain Thomas Murphy led a West 30th street squad in a raid on an alleged poolroom information bureau on the sixth floor of a building at 39th street and Broadway. Five men were arrested, four clerks and an advertising agent charged with aiding and abetting gambling, and a building agent charged with interfering with an officer. Police say the operation covered about fifty poolrooms citywide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Murphy
West 30Th Street
39Th Street
Broadway
Murphy
Downy
Conklin
Ryan
Schimbler
Kenney and McMullen
Steinbruch
Thomas Williams
No. 29
Pearl Street
William H. Lyons
West 25Th Street
John Young
Oak Street
John Tully
East 110Th Street
James Cunningham
West 68Th Street
Sol Manheimer
Slattery
Bingham
Ramsey Wins Appeal Over $460000 Suit
The Appellate Division reversed the trial verdict for John H. Jones against Ramsey Jr, Gould, and Guy, ordering a new trial. The lower court had dismissed Gould and Guy, denied as to Ramsey, while the jury previously awarded Jones against Ramsey for $370,000 plus $90,000 for geological work. The case concerns funds paid in Ohio land purchases during the 1920s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Supreme Court
John 8
Jones
Joseph Ramsey, Jr
George J. Gould
William E. Guy
Gould
Guy
Ramsey
Ohio
Patrolman Held For Assault Change In Charge
Edward A. Manley of the Elizabeth street station was arrested Monday for felonious assault on a pushcart pedler. At arraignment in the Tombs court yesterday, the charge was reduced to simple assault on motion of counsel. Magistrate Breen remanded him in $500 ball for trial.
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Edward A. Manley
Elizabeth Street
Tombs
Breen
Railways Call In Cars To Meet Heavy Grain Crop
Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways order all cars on foreign lines to be called in as soon as possible to ensure adequate equipment for handling the expected large grain harvest this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways
Forest fires threaten Pine Woods near Patchogue Long Island
Forest fires rage north of Patchogue Mastic West Moriches and Westhampton destroying three houses and outbuildings. Polish farmers north of Patchogue lose contents, while a summer home near Westhampton is saved by backfires. No rain for over a month fuels tinder like woods and underbrush. Authorities fear renewed fire tomorrow as hundreds swarm the area awaiting rain.
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Eastport
Long Island
Patchogue
Mastic
West Moriches
Westhampton
Waldo
Convict Refuses Socialist Labor Presidential Nomination
The Socialist Labor party faces a setback as Martin R. Preston, serving 25 years for murder in Goldfield Nevada, declines the party’s presidential nomination. If he refuses again, the national executive committee plans to nominate Peter McDermott of Providence, though he has never been imprisoned.
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Socialist Labor Party
Martin R. Preston
Goldfield
Nev
United States
Daniel de Leon
Preston
Socialist Party
National
National Executive Committee
Peter McDermott
Providence
McDermott
Francis Wilson in Court Over Art Fraud Warrant
In Jefferson Market Magistrate Wahle's court Francis Wilson the comedian faced a move to issue a warrant for criminal libel based on a reported June 11 newspaper statement. Samuel Collins testified that two paintings bought for 5300 were alleged as bogus, claiming he paid that sum to Francis Wilson. The case, connected to art dealers H. B. Hayes and Brandes, was adjourned to July 14.
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Samuel Collins
Jefferson Market Court
Wahle
Francis Wilson
William D. Leonard
Collins
Mr. Collins
Janey Bennett
Francis Wason
W Wilson
Harvard makes shift in athletics leadership
Boston July 8 It is learned that James G Lothrop longtime Harvard athletics instructor and faculty head of athletics has been discharged by the Harvard Athletic Committee. He is to be succeeded by Pooch Donovan signaling a likely overhaul of Crimson athletic methods next year and uncertain implications for Harvard sports.
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the Tribune
Boston
James G. Lothrop
Harvard
Harvard Athletic Committee
Crimson
Cambridge
Lothrop
Pooch” Donovan
Train Kills 2 Hurts 4 At Reading Crossing
Two killed and four seriously injured in a Reading Railroad grade crossing crash at Hammonton New Jersey as a Berry picker group from Philadelphia was struck by an Atlantic City express. The 15 year old driver Philip Bruno survived only minutes after the disaster. The gate tender Howard Sooy had left duty fifteen minutes earlier leaving the crossing unprotected.
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Tribune
Hammonton
N. J
Reading
Philadelphia
Philip Bruno
Atlantic City
Cooper Hospital
Camden
Howard Sooy
Fulton Power Company Sues State Over Barage Canal
The Fulton Heat Light and Power Company seeks 3 200 000 damages in the Court of Claims over alleged state appropriation of private property in the Oswego River bed and waters for a barge canal. Deputy Attorney General George F Decker notes that the case challenges state navigation rights and could affect future river and canal improvements impacting water power users.
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Albany
Court of Claims
George F. Decker
Fulton Heat, Light and Power Company
Fulton
N. C
Oswego River
Decker
Oswego
Bank Shakeup in Twelfth Ward As Directors Resign
John M. Shipway and President Simpson resign from the 13th Ward Bank amid dissatisfaction with Van Norden management. The Van Norden Trust Company advances 900000 to reopen in November and gains control. New 12th Ward Bank directors include Morris Carnegie Henry Bronson and Theodore Van Norden. no president chosen yet.
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John M. Shipway
13Th Ward Bank
Simpson
Thomas Crawford
van Norden
van Norden Trust Company
Mr. Shipway
van Nordens
Mr. Simpson
12Th Ward Bank
Morris Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Henry T. Bronson
Theodore S. van Norden
Carnegie Foundation
Carnegie
Amos R. Eno
Warner M. van Norden
Crawford
Shipway
Banker’s Son Killed By Train In Boston
Prostrating shock hit Mrs. Henry B Chapin wife of a Boston banker at South Terminal Station as the mangled body of her sixteen year old son was brought in from a suburban train to join her for a trip to New York The lad slipped off the car wrong side and was struck by a locomotive dying instantly His father was formerly traffic manager of the Boston & Albany Railroad Station attendants aided the widow before she went home to Jamaica Plain
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Boston
Henry B. Chapin
South Terminal
New York
Chapin
Boston & Albany Railroad
Watertown Editor Jere Coughlin Dies While Traveling
Watertown N Y July Jere Coughlin editor of The Watertown Herald aged fifty five died suddenly near Sackett s Harbor while on an automobile trip. He became faint and his party turned back to Sackett s Harbor where he died shortly after.
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Watertown
Jere’’ Coughlin
New York
Sackett's Harbor
Coughlin
Sackett’s Harbor
Prominent Arrivals at Hotels and Colorado Adventure
Prominent arrivals at the Waldorf Astoria include H. D. Bulkiey of Baltimore and governors, professors, and business figures from Boston Cincinnati Providence and Galveston. Five thousand miles of trout streams and mountain air promise Colorado scenery. The Rock Island Line’s Rocky Mountain Limited departs Chicago in one night.
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Waldorf-Astoria
H. D. Bulkiey
Baltimore
Belmont B. F. Keith
Boston
C. F. Tillinghast
Rhode Island
Holland
W. C. Proctor
Cincinnati
Grand
G I. Bryan
A. N. Wolcott
Howard Knight
Providence
Albemarle
tGeorge F. Dana
W. P. Harrison
York
J. J. Blood
Galveston
America
Colorado
Rock Island Line
Chicago
K. E. Palmer
Broadway
New York
Teachers Pay Raised Despite Equal Pay Battle
The Board of Education approved salary increases for women teachers, mainly in elementary schools, though kindergarten pay remained unchanged. Increases total about seven million dollars, with men generally kept at higher levels. Notable changes include higher first year and subsequent scales for women, a raise for the director of cooking and sewing, and adjustments to other administrative positions. The vote featured two dissenters.
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Board of Education
Luther H. Gulick
McDonald
Somers
Brooklyn
Jonas and
Kelly
Orchard Street
Manhattan
Ernest R. von Nardroff
de Witt Clinton
John T. Buchanan
Committee On High Schools and Training Schools
von Nardroff
Erasmus Hall
Stuyvesant
Arthur Wolfson
John L. N. Hunt
Henry W. Jameson
Joseph H. Wade
John H. Haaren
George W. Schoedle
Richard H. Adams
Miss Richman
Edwin Hawley Reports Improved Central West Crop Outlook
Edwin Hawley returning from inspection tours of the Minneapolis and St. Louis, Town Central, and Chicago and Alton railroads found crop conditions better than expected. He noted some corn damage on low ground but expects it to be an insignificant loss at harvest. Hawley observed improved conditions across the Central West and Northwest, and said Western business men anticipate better times soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fawin Hawley
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Town Central
Chicago & Alton
Northwest
Mr. Hawley
Autopsy on Detroit musician yields septicemia cause
Mrs. Frank Apel-Emery of Detroit died in town. Autopsy found septicemia as the cause, with no clear evidence of a criminal operation by physician or self. Daughter of Franz A Apel, head of a local conservatory, she had planned vaudeville start around July 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Apel-Emery
Detroit
Franz A. Apel
Lillian Apel
Europe
Temple Emery, Jr
Bay City
Woman Who Killed Man Acquitted in NY Case
Mrs Catherine Monduso was acquitted by a jury before Coroner Shrady for shooting Donato La Rosa a one armed man who died of his injuries after forcing entry to her apartment on North West 2th Street in June. La Rosa boarded with the Monduso family and entered Monduso's room the morning of June 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Monduso
Donato la Rosa
North West 2Th Street
Blaney Wife Granted Absolute Divorce in Supreme Court
Elizabeth M. Blaney is granted an absolute divorce from Charles E. Blaney by Supreme Court Justice Erlanger after referee Gilbert Ray Hawes report. Custody awarded to the mother of two children, Charles E. Blaney Jr. and Harry Clay Blaney, with reasonable visitation for the father. Papers sealed. only the decree visible.
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C. E. Blaney
Gilbert Ray Hawes
Supreme Court
Erlanger
Elizabeth M. Blaney
Charles E. Blaney
Charles EB. Blaney
Harry Clay Blaney
Wood forgery case, Kouril dismissal, Watt sentenced in city brief
In General Sessions Judge Foster overruled Mae C Wood’s demurrer on an indictment accusing her of forging Senator Platt’s name to a claim claiming she was his wife. Trial set for the first Monday in August. Police Commissioner Bingham fired Patrolman Joseph M Kouril for neglect of duty. Eugene B Watt got two years at Elmira Reformatory for defrauding song poets in a 1909 prize contest. Panccalino Alonge Cartario held in $2590 bail each by Magistrate Breen after a pistol exchange with Central Office detectives at Ist Street and Park Avenue, Tombs court.
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Foster
General Sessions Court
Mae C. Wood
Senator Platt
Eugene B. Watt
Elmira Reformatory
Hough
Circuit Court
Watt
J. A. Bartlett Music Company
Temple Court Publishing Company
Broadway Harmony Studios
Joseph Pancaldino
Pedro Alonge
Antomio Cartario
Breen
Tombs Court
1Ist Street
Park Avenue
Central Office
Challenges AERONAUT Israel Ludlow Seeks 1500 for Race
Israel Ludlow arrives in Washington offering to fund a flying machine test with 1500 dollars. He seeks a sponsor to outfit his craft to rival Farman and Delagrange and to demonstrate superiority through exhibitions. He cites interest from New York backers and mentions naval figures tracking aviation progress.
Car Crew Attack Sparks Brooklyn Riot at Ralph and St John's
A small riot erupted at Ralph avenue and St John's Place when a motorman and conductor assaulted Jacob Sherman a real estate dealer from 1650 Eastern Parkway after he refused to surrender a second fare. Sherman contended he had paid on boarding in Manhattan.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Ralph Avenue
St John's Play
Jacob Sherman
Eastern Parkway
Manhattan
Sherman
Woman Dies in Fire at East Street Tenement
A gas stove explosion in a No 219 East Sth Street tenement sparked a blaze that killed Mrs Mary Smith aged 57 and seriously burned two other women. Smoke and flames drove thirty children and parents into exits as firefighters rescued many from the building. Mrs Smith’s body was found in the hall after flames were controlled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Smith
George Thorney
East Mth Street
Jane Conenors
Hook and Ladder Company 1
James Perry
Sadie McNamara
Firemes Coyle and
O'Brien
Hook and Ladder Company 12
Elizabeth McNamara
Presbyterian Hospital
Mother Risks Life To Save Deaf-Child At Train Tracks
In Kearny New Jersey a mother Mrs Suma Pangborn on Schuyler avenue attempted to rescue her deaf child James from an Erie freight train at noon. The child lost both legs and suffered a fractured skull. the mother also fractured her skull. They were taken to St Michael's Hospital. The boy had been playing on the tracks and saw the train backing toward him before the mother could reach him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearoy
N. J
James
Erie
Suma Pangborn
Schuyler Avenae
St. Michael's Hospital
Newson
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Earl
A. B
Bonn
Kinkel
Rastadt
Spielhagen
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Schurz
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch
St. Louis, Mo
Ee. C. Brandt
Magr
Anheuser-Busch Agency
New York City
Bronx
Melrose
238Th Street
A. Busch. Moner
Busch Bottling CO
J. G. Lothrop
Train
Hurts
Reading Express
Surrey Crossing
Jersey Town
Twelfth Ward Bank
Edwin Hawley
Central West
Autopsy
City News
Joseph M. Kouril
Police Department
San Francisco
Alta
Hale & Norcross
Jean
St Louis
Goud
Keck
el Vian & Terre
Israel Ludlow
Bayrope
Tarsel Lug
Washington
Antee
Wright A. M Herring
Fernmian
Delagrange
Farman
France
Delafran
Ludlow
W, Ton
M Chester
Robert Henderson
William P. Scott
East 80Th Street
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