Expanding Lines Planned by New York New Haven Hartford
The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad announces plans to spend on three new lines from Hartford to Middletown Bearfield and Willimantic to South Centry with contracts let immediately and work starting soon. Officials cite retrenchment after a prior financial flurry and report a yesterday service breakdown due to circuit breaker failures, not lightning, with safeguards to prevent future issues. Samuel Higgins, general manager, praises the Westinghouse electrification and notes the last payment to Westinghouse occurred four months ago, signaling continued satisfaction with the system.
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Olympics Fail to Draw in London Commentators
London editors criticize Olympic attendance as Stadium seating 70,000 capacity drew only about 15,000. Provinces see football crowds of 100,000 to 150,000, with high ticket prices and poor advertising blamed. Some suggest holidays for public schools to view the events. Public disappointment extends across papers.
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Light Betrays Burglar In East 64th Street Home
Detectives Wall and Cahill arrested a man after a candlelight sighting alerted them to a burglary at Benjamin Tatham’s No 110 East 64th Street residence. The intruder allegedly fled, but was captured after the house was surrounded by patrols and the cellar and basement accessed. The thief, identified by police as William Walsh of East 56th Street, was found with a tag bearing the name and address.
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East S6th Street
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Lexington
Hartridge
Jessie Russell
Supreme Court
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Central Park West
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Pittsburg
Germany
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Adams acquitted in murder case amid labor troubles
Nd Junction Cel July 11 Steve Adams of the Western Federation of Miners was acquitted of the murder of Arthur Collins. The defense used Adams’s alleged confession as evidence while an alibi testimony for the accused man was presented. The trial connected to the Cel- Sto labor unrest, with further charges possible and officials expressing confidence in eventual convictions.
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Western Federation of Miners
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Hand to Submit Report On Jerome Case Likely Soon
Commissioner Hand of Elizabethtown has nearly completed his report on District Attorney Jerome after hearings and briefs from Jerome and Franklin Pierce. The governor will review it after vacation, with expectations he may censure Jerome rather than remove him. Three new charges have delayed Hand’s findings, tied to Jerome dining with E R Thomas, dice with Ryan’s sons, and ties to banker Montgomery in the Vidaver matter.
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N. Y
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Jerome
Tribune
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King Committee
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Thomas F. Ryan
William R. Montgomery
Vidaver
MISS NILSSON HEROINE SAVES INN CHILDREN FIRE
Miss Carlotta Nilsson the actress at the Squirrel Inn in Greenwich Connecticut averted a serious fire and saved the lives of two children Thaddeus five and Elizabeth ten of Mrs M A Sharkey owner by drawing flaming hay away with a rake while a servant aided both children escaped with minor burn injuries.
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Carlotta Nillson
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Miss Nilsson
Wife Sees Man Drown During Clam Dig At Jersey River
Jeremiah Sheppard of Bridgeton New Jersey drowned in the Egg Harbor River near Somers Point while his wife watched unable to save him lest their five year old son drown. They were digging clams on a rising tide when he slipped into a deep hole and disappeared. Other clam diggers pulled the wife and boy to safety. the body had not been recovered.
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Pellagra in the South Solved by American Doctor
Milan July 15. American physician James Woods Babcock, superintendent at the State Hospital for the Insane in Columbia S. S., has proven pellagra and a southern disease with similar symptoms are the same. He credits Italian authorities and notes pellagra, also called Italian leprosy, Alpine scurvy and Asturian rose, may be caused by poisonous maize in food. The discovery suggests government corn inspection due to widespread Indian corn use in the South after the Civil War.
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James Woods Babcock
State Hospital For the Insane
Columbia
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Italy
Europe
United States
Babcock
Government seeks three dollar rebate claim
Truman H. Newberry acting Secretary of the Navy filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a suit against Baltimore and Ohio Railroad New England Steamship and New England Navigation to recover three dollars. The government argues a reasonable rate would be 11 dollars each for transporting two government employees from Pittsburgh to Newport Rhode Island instead of 12.50.
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900 Mile Trek Home For Poor Lo
Rapid City South Dakota July 15 Five hundred Ute Indians who revolted and terrorized the surrounding country after fleeing from their reservation in Utah will have a mile trek back from here Friday. The Indians will return under escort of a captain and ten United States cavalrymen. The agreement to return is the outcome of a conference between the chief and President Roosevelt. The chief promised the President that the Indians would henceforth be good.
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United States
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Mystery surrounds death of Mrs Hartridge at hospital
Pittsburg July 15 mystery shrouds the death of Mrs Clifford W Hartridge wife of a New York attorney and her disappearance last October with hospital officials silent over entry and cause of death while statements by Dr W S Koons and others conflict a private illness cerebro meningitis is cited and multiple death certificates were filed before one was accepted.
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Pittsburg
Clifford W. Hartridge
New York
Z. T. Miller
Hartridge
Miller
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Robert Ae
Shippers Meet in Protest Against Rail Rate Hike
A nationwide clash pits a 1000 dollar 6000 ownership group of manufacturers and shippers against railroads as rate increases of at least ten percent are planned. A Chicago meeting on July 24 will organize legal and legislative action across states to continue into winter if needed.
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United States
Tragic Sierra Climb Claims Berkeley Art Educator
Visalia reports the death of Grace Barnett, UC graduate and head of the Berkeley High School art department, who fell from a Kings River Canyon precipice during a mountain excursion. Her companion narrowly escaped the same fate after a two day mule journey to bring the body to Visalia.
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High Sierras
Grace Barnett
University of California
Berkeley
Mrs Margaret Clary Acquitted in Irish Murder Case
Claremorris July 18 Mrs Margaret Clary freed after a May 29 commitment for trial on murdering her husband Thomas Clary. No evidence showed she administered poison. Thomas died shortly after his wife departed for New York. She was arrested on the steamer Carmania and extradited back to Ireland.
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Margaret Clary
Thomas Clary
New York
Judge rules laundry trust not monopoly in St. Louis case
In St. Louis on July 14 Circuit Judge Reynolds quashed a motion to dissolve the alleged laundry trust. He held that even if the defendant controls a majority of steam laundries there, it is not a monopoly since other washing methods exist and washer women still having bends.
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St. Louis
Reynolds
Metuchen editor shot at home. murderer captured
The Rev. S B D Prickitt editor of The Metuchen Recorder was shot dead at his Metuchen home. Archibald Herron was captured by a posse and jailed charged with murder after a feud over a previous drunk driving case. Prickitt, 68, leaves two sons.
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Clive Avenue
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Archie’ Herron
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Adolph Cornish
Ellis
Newark
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Eleven Die In Mine Explosion Near Borbeck
A dynamite blast at a Borbeck area colliery in Essen caused eight deaths and eight injuries brought to the surface, with three workers still underground likely dead. The disaster occurred on the seventh level storeroom with several others in critical condition.
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Borbeck
David Wilson Hurt in Runaway Accident
David Wilson of New York was injured in a runaway crash in Great Barrington Massachusetts while trying to save his wife and child. While he stood outside the carriage the team bolted after an automobile, he was knocked down and twice run over, suffering internal injuries. bystander John F. Maloney halted the horses before they hit a plate glass window.
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Great Barrington
Mass
David Wilson
New York
Wilson
Sheffield
John F. Maloney
Four Young Prisoners Arrested for Larceny
Four boys under eleven were arrested by West 152d Street patrolmen on larceny charges. They allegedly tried to dump a snitch into a twenty foot embankment after wallet theft of over $200 and a check from Joseph Adler’s hardware store on Amsterdam Avenue. A twelve year old witness, Joseph Short, was assaulted while reporting the crime.
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Joseph Susquado
West 145Th Street
Arthur Berschinsky
West 131St Street
Hugh McConnell
West 125Th Street
Joseph Adler
Amsterdam Avenue
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Captain Kruscher
West 152d Street
High Bridge Park
Joseph Short
West L1sist Street
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Death by Own Action of Prominent Kansas City Executive
Herbert L. Cutler president of the Cutler Paint and Glass Company and brother in law of Paul Morton of the Equitable Life Assurance Society killed himself by drinking carbolic acid in his office after years of illness and business worry due to the flood of 1903. He returned from the washroom with a bottle, shared a final remark, and died within thirty minutes with E A Moore nearby.
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Kansas City
Herbert L. Cutler
Cutler Paint and Glass Company
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cutler
Dewey's Pure Grape Juice Advertisement
An advertisement for Dewey and Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York promotes Dewey's Pure Grape Juice claiming it purifies the blood and is nourishing.
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Dewey & Sons Co
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New York
Financiers Bolt Bryan Over Taft Backing in Baltimore
Baltimore bankers and financiers rally to Taft and Sherman in a July 15 report. Michael Jenkins of Safe Deposit and Trust and Alexander Brown of Brown & Sons announce they will vote for Taft, citing better prospects for working people and concerns over Bryan's anti injunction stance. Baltimore stock exchange leaders largely back Taft as a rebuke to Bryan’s bossy strategies.
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Sherman
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Maryland
Alexander Brown
Banking House of Brown & Sons
Cleveland
Brown
Republic
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Shooting at Father in New Rochelle Thriller
Rosa Cominsky eighteen chased her father a mile through two main streets in New Rochelle last night firing at him several times before he reached the police station. A bullet struck his hat and hair while bystanders restrained the girl. Cominsky, a Horton avenue lumber dealer, has had a troubled home life with two marriages. He was later warned by police that night after the incident.
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Cominsky
Horton Avenue
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Rosa
Plaza guest arrested for worthess check at hotel
James R. Collins broker, living at Latham Hotel 4 East 28th street, was arrested by Detective Tobin after passing a $125 worthless check at the Plaza Hotel to settle a $250 debt. The check drawn on T. W. Stemmler Jr. Co. and endorsed by F. Sterry, later returned unpaid. Collins formerly affluent, kept a hotel tab after extending him time to pay.
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Bolt Kills Man and Brings Fatal Storm Night
Asbury Park New Jersey July 15 Mrs Elizabeth Dickinson a negro was driven insane by a thunderstorm. In her home a deputy locked her in jail for examination. Earlier an electrical storm in New Brunswick killed one man paralyzed another and burned two horses on George Wolff s farm. Farm hands Martin Dey and Thomas Lawyer were nearby when the hay wagon was struck.
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Borden Avenue
Park
New Brunswick
George Wolff
Martin Dey
Thomas Lawyer
Lawyer
Dey
Bubonic Plague Reported on Terceira Island
Lisbon reports the bubonic plague has appeared on Terceira in the Azores. Thirteen cases are recorded with four deaths, signaling a serious outbreak on the island.
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Azores
Two Die In Blazing Oil Tank Fire At Orcutt
Fire at Orcutt near Santa Maria destroys Union Oil tanks valued at $200,000 and endangers the town of six hundred. Two men fighting the blaze on a wooden bridge fell into the oil as flames shifted, melted instantly. Black smoke stretches for miles.
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Union Oil Company
Vorys at Hot Springs Tells Taft About Ohio
Arthur I Vorys Ohio manager for the Republican National Committee arrived at Hot Springs Virginia and spoke with Taft about Ohio. He expects a large Republican majority next November and says Democrats carry Ohio this year will settle internal Republican troubles. Vorys plans further talks and notes Bourne may visit later. Taft drafts acceptance speech and Mrs Taft attends tea at Pendleton home.
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Arthur I Vorys
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Taft
Vorys
Jonathan Bourne
Bourne
Roosevelt
Chicago
Campaign Plans for Westward Republican Strategy
Washington July 15. Republican chairman Frank Hitchcock arrives from Utica to mount a vigorous West campaign. He outlines a two day conference in Colorado Springs with state leaders west of the Missouri, aims to coordinate strategy and issue instructions, and plans a Chicago meeting for eastern leaders later in July. Hitchcock will also survey Chicago HQ before returning east to join the national committee. R Swisher says West Virginia will back Taft with a large majority, despite a split in local conventions, and asserts harmony within the party.
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California
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Borah
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Oregon
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Arnold Scher
Reed Declares Senate Run At Cincinnati Dollar Dinner
Dr. C. A. L. Reed formally launched his campaign to succeed Senator Foraker at a dollar dinner in Cincinnati on July 15. The event marked the start of his bid for the Senate seat.
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