Expanding New Lines to Be Built by New Haven Line
New Haven announces three new trolley lines to Hartford to Middletown Boonfield and Willimantic to South Coventry the first expansion since retrenchment following the financial flurry. Also reports on yesterday’s service breakdown near New York Stamford due to circuit breaker faults and planned protections. Samuel Higgins general manager praises the system built by Westinghouse Electric Company and notes the last payment to Westinghouse was made four months ago.
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New Haver
New York, Newten & Hartford Railroad Company
Hartford
Middletown
Boonfield
Willimantic
Coventry
New York, New Haven & Hartmore
New Haven
New York
Stamford
Samuel Higgins
Westinghouse Electric Company
New York Central
Westinghouse Company
Olympics Fail to Draw in London Stadium
London commentators note low Olympic attendance with only about 15,000 of 70,000 capacity present at the great Stadium. Proposals blame high ticket prices and poor publicity while suggesting holidays for public schools to view world athletes. widespread disappointment follows.
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London
Howeer
Burglary Foiled As East 64th Street Home ransacked
Detectives Wall and Cahill of the East 7th Street station arrested William Walsh, 26, of 481 East 16th Street after a nighttime burglary at Benjamin Tatham’s home, 110 East 64th Street. The residence showed heavy ransacking and a basement entry was forced. Walsh surrendered when confronted by officers, with clues including a tag reading William Plumb and address 2085 Lexington.
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East 64Th Street
Wall and Cahill
Tathen
Renue
Raynor
Tatham
Tathem Sea
Beekman Street
Seabright
Henry Stewart
East Th Street
Hs Home
Wall
Cahill
Rayner
Spend
Cabill
Adams Acquitted of Murder in Colorado Case
Tei Junction July 15. Steve Adams, a Western Federation of Miners member, is acquitted of the murder of Arthur Collins who was shot in his office while playing cards on November 15. The court considers Adams innocent amid doubts about confession evidence and alibi witnesses. Authorities doubt a conviction is possible and indicate Adams may go free.
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Steve’ Adams
Western Federation of Miners
Arthur Collins
Adams
Shackelford
Ating
Gmugeler Union & Tulluride
Jerome Report Nears Completion In Jerome Case
Commissioner Hand of Elizabethtown New York, appointed to hear charges against District Attorney Jerome, has nearly completed his report after reviewing testimony. The governor will receive it promptly, but action may wait until after the vacation period. Hand reportedly will likely censure Jerome rather than remove him, with three new charges tied to social and financial associations.
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Elizabethtown
N. Y
Hughes
Jerome
Tribune
Franklin Pierce
King Committee
E. R. Thomas
Thomas F. Ryan
William R. Montgomery
Vidaver
Miss Nilsson Heroine in Greenwich Barn Fire Rescue
Miss Carlotta Nilsson the actress saved two children from a hay loft fire at the Squirrel Inn in Greenwich Connecticut. She directed the children to safety and used a rake to draw flames away while a servant helped before the danger passed. She suffered minor burns.
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Greenwich
Conn
Carlotta Nillson
Squirrel Inn
Miss Nilsson
Wife Sees Man Drown While Clam Digging
Jeremiah Sheppard of Bridgeton N J drowned in Egg Harbor River near Somers Point while his wife stood by with their five year old, unable to reach him as the water rose. The couple were clamming on a sandbar when he vanished and his body remained unrecovered.
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Jeremiah Sheppard
Bridgeton
N. J
Egg Harbor
Somers Point
Sheppard
Pellagra in the South Solved by American Doctor
Milan July 15 An American physician James Woods Babcock chief of the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia South Carolina has proven pellagra a disease common in Italy and southern Europe is the same as a Southern state illness with similar symptoms. He attributes the illness to poisonous maize and notes pellagra unknown in the U S until post Civil War corn imports. Government corn inspection could result from the finding.
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James Woods Babcock
State Hospital For the
Columbia
Italy
Europe
United States
Babcock
Government seeks three dollar rebate in rail ship case
Truman H. Newberry as acting Secretary of the Navy files with the Interstate Commerce Commission against Baltimore and Ohio, New England Steamship, and New England Navigation for recovering 3 dollars. Government says 11 dollars per man was reasonable for transporting two employees from Pittsburgh to Newport Rhode Island. carriers charged 12.50 each.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Interstate Commerce Commission
Truman H. Newberry
Ute Indians to Return Home Under Cavalry Escort
Five hundred Ute Indians who fled Utah will trek 900 miles back from Rapid City starting Friday under the escort of a captain and ten U.S. cavalrymen. The return follows a conference with Chief Roosevelt, who pledged the tribe will be well behaved henceforth.
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Utah
United States
Roosevelt
Mystery of Mrs Hartridge Death Remains Unsolved
Pittsburg July 15 complete mystery surrounds the death last Monday at the Homeopathic Hospital of Mrs. Clifford W. Hartridge wife of a New York attorney. Authorities offer no clear cause or explanation for her disappearance last October. Dr Koons asserts she arrived July 3 with her mother and died of cerebro meningitis. Records show conflicting death certificates and secrecy surrounds her identity and hotel stays. The husband declined to discuss details and the funeral occurred in Canton. He professed lack of knowledge about his wife's actions.
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Clifford W. Hartridge
New York
Z. T. Miller
Hartridge
Miller
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Robert Senger
Board of Health
Jessie Russell
Supreme Court
Leslie W. Russell
Central Park West
Riordan
West 12Hd Street
West 79Th Street
Germany
Canton
Shippers Meet in Protest Over Rail Rates
A national protest forms as shippers and manufacturers challenge railroads over a planned 10 percent rate increase. A Chicago meeting on July 24 launches the fight, with potential court action and state legislative battles if unresolved by winter.
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Chicago
United States
Tragic Mountain Deaths Reach Visalia
Miss Grace Barnett UC Berkeley graduate and Berkeley High School art head died after plunging from a Kings River Canyon precipice while climbing in the high Sierras. A companion barely survived the fall as rescuers brought her body to Visalia after a two day mule trek.
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Cal
High Sierras
Grace Barnett
University of California
Berkeley
Mrs Margaret Clary Acquitted In Absence Of Evidence
Claremorris July 1 Mrs Margaret Clary was acquitted today after being committed on May 29 for trial on a murder charge. No evidence showed she administered poison to her husband Thomas Clary who died shortly after she left for New York. She was arrested on the steamer Carmania and sent back to Ireland on extradition papers.
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Margaret Clary
Thomas Clary
New York
Washerwomen Preclude Monopoly in St. Louis Laundry Case
Circuit Judge Reynolds quashed the motion to dissolve the alleged St. Louis laundry trust ruling that even if the defendant runs a majority of steam laundries it is not a monopoly as other washing methods exist. Washeswomen sell having bends.
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St. Louis
Reynolds
S. Louis
Metuchen Editor Shot at Home in New Jersey
Rev B D Prickitt editor of The Metuchen Recorder was killed at his Metuchen home. Archibald Herron was captured by a posse and jailed charged with murder after a quarrel over a prior drunken arrest.
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New Brunswick
N. J
B. D. Prickitt
Metuchen
Metcuchen
Archibald Herron
Herron
Prickitt
Marshal Fouratt
Clive Avenue
Charles Prickitt
Mr. Prickitt
Archie’ Herron
Ellis
Newark
The
Methodist Church
Succasunna
High Bridge
Millstone
Mount Hermon
Charles
William
Eleven Die In Mine Disaster Near Borbeck
A dynamite explosion in a seventh level store room at a colliery near Borbeck, Essen, reportedly killed eight workers and injured eight others who were brought to the surface. three more remain underground and are feared dead.
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Rhenish
Prussia
Borbeck
Accident Involving David Wilson Sees Injuries Fatal Likely
Great Barrington Mass July 15 David Wilson of New York sustained injuries in a runaway accident while trying to save his wife and child He drove a spirited team to Sheffield and was knocked down twice run over and wounded internally A bystander John F Maloney steadied the horses as they near a plate glass window The incident occurred after the horses frightened by an automobile bolted past the carriage and Mr Wilson faced probable death in hospital today
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Great Barrington
Mass
David Wilson
New York
Wilson
Sheffield
John F. Maloney
Boy Prisoners Caught After Larceny Attempt
Four boys under eleven were arrested by West 152d Street patrolmen for larceny after attempting to throw a witness into a twenty foot embankment. The youths gave names and addresses and later tried to spend money from an unlocked wallet stolen at Joseph Adler's Hardware, Amsterdam Avenue. Twelve year old Joseph Short later alerted a passerby and was beaten during the chase.
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Max Schneider
West 138Th Street
Joseph Susquado
West 145Th Street
Arthur Berschinsky
West 131St Street
Hugh McConnell
West 125Th Street
Joseph Adler
Amsterdam Avenue
Adler
Captain Kruscher
High Bridge Park
Joseph Short
West 1S1st Street
Short
Relative of Paul Morton Dies by Own Action in Kansas City
Herbert J. Cutler, president of the Cutler Paint and Glass Co and brother-in-law of Paul Morton of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, shot himself with carbolic acid in his office after years of ill health and business worry from the 1903 flood. He drank, spoke of it as done, and died within thirty minutes after collapsing at his desk in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Herbert J. Cutler
The
Cutler Paint and Glass Company
Paul Morten
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cutler
E. A. Moore
Dewey's Pure Grape Juice Adverts Nourish Blood
Advertisement for Dewey's Pure Grape Juice from H. Espanier & Song Co of 158 Fulton Street New York claiming it purifies the blood and is very nourishing. Printed like a late 19th or early 20th century trade notice.
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H. Espanier & Song Co
Fulton St
New York
Financiers Bolt Bryan in Baltimore Taft Support Grows
Baltimore financiers and bankers led by Michael Jenkins of Safe Deposit and Trust Company, and Alexander Brown of Brown & Sons, declare for Taft. They oppose Bryan, predicting Maryland defeat for Bryan and praising Taft as honest and protective of workers. Baltimore Stock Exchange leaders align with Taft to rebuke Bryan’s bossism.
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Taft
Sherman
Michael Jenkins
The
Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Bryan
Jenkins
Maryland
Alexander Brown
Banking House of Brown & Sons
Cleveland
Brown
Baltimore Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Rosa Cominsky Fires on Father in New Rochelle Chase
Rosa Cominsky, eighteen, chased lumber dealer father through New Rochelle streets late at night firing several shots. A bullet struck his hat near the police station as bystanders restrained her. The man, living on Horton avenue, had long suffered domestic discord and had jailed Rosa previously for alleged misconduct.
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New Rochelle
Cominsky
Horton Avenue
Harmony
Rosa
Plaza Guest Held For Passing Worthless Check
James R. Collins a broker living at the Latham Hotel No 4 East 28th street was arrested at Hotel Plaza by Detective Tobin after passing a $125 worthless check. Collins and his wife rented a suite in May spent freely and left a $250 bill. The check drawn on T W Stemmier Jr & Co and endorsed by F Sterry was returned unpaid after passing through Plaza and National Park banks.
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Latham
East 28Th Street
Tobin
East Dirt Street
Christian E. Railing
Collins
Railing
T. W. Stemmier, Jr. & Co
Broad Street
F. Sterry
Plaza
National Park
Thunderstorm Kills Man Slays Horses In New Jersey
In Asbury Park Elizabeth Dickinson, described as a negro, supposedly went insane after a storm. A separate New Brunswick storm killed a man, paralyzed another, and killed two farm horses on George Welff’s property when a hay wagon was struck. Farm hands Martin Dey and Thomas Lawyer were nearby.
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N. J
Elizabeth Dickinson
Borden Avenue
Park
New Brunswick
George Welff
Martin Dey
Thomas Lawyer
Lawyer
Dey
Plague Appears on Terceira Island Azores
Lisbon reports bubonic plague on Terceira in the Azores with thirteen cases and four deaths. The outbreak on the Atlantic island prompts health officials to monitor further spread and implement containment measures.
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Lisbon
Terceira
Azores
Two Die In Blazing Oil Tank Fire at Orcutt
A midnight blaze at Orcutt draining Union Oil Company property in Santa Barbara County, valued at 200000 dollars, threatens the town of six hundred. Two men fighting flames from a wooden bridge were engulfed by shifting fire and perished. Black smoke spreads for miles as the disaster continues.
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Cal
Orcutt
Santa Maria
Union Oil Company
Vorys at Hot Springs Talks Ohio Prospects With Taft
Arthur I. Vorys Ohio manager for the Republican National Committee arrived at Hot Springs Virginia and talked with Taft about conditions in Ohio. He projected a large Republican majority next November and said Democrats threaten Ohio in presidential campaigns. Vorys will stay several days for further talks.
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Arthur I. Vorys
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Taft
Vorys
Vorys Willl
Jonathan Bourne
Bourne
Roosevelt
Chicago
Fight in Middle West
Washington July 15 The Republican national chairman Frank Hitchcock prepares a West campaign and a conference of Western leaders at Colorado Springs to shape the presidential effort. He aims to gather state leaders and issue early instructions, with a Chicago meeting planned for later in July.
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Washington
Frank H. Hitchcock
Utica
Colorado
Missouri River
Colorado Springs
Hitchcock
Taft
Sherman
George A. Knight
California
Charles Cavender
Burchell
Borah
Idaho
C. M. Cade
Oklahoma
Ralph Williams
Oregon
Chicago
Missouri
Alleghanies
National Committee
Alaska
L. P. Shackelford
West
R. Swisher
West Virginia
Swisher
Roosevelt
Reed Launches Senate Campaign After Foraker Dinner
Cincinnati July 1 The Tribune reports Dr. C A L Reed formally launched his bid for the Senate seat to succeed Senator Foraker at a dollar dinner gathering, signaling the start of his campaign amid regional political activity.
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Cincinnati
C. A. L Reed
Senate
Senator Foraker
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