Greenwich Fireswept Outsiders Save Town
A 250000 dollar Greenwich fire destroyed much of the business district and ignited twelve other blazes across the town. Eight injured, several homes saved by prompt neighboring fire departments from Stamford to Mianus. Chief cause blamed on children near a bonfire. notable heroism by clerks at the post office telegraphing aid as flames spread.
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Greenwich
Conn
Stamford
Port Chester
East Port Chester
Rye
Glenville
Mianus
George Merritt
F. A. Moshier
George A. Finch
John H. Ray & Son
William E. Ritch
Southern New England Telephone Company
Clara Talbot
Alice Gronald
Greenwich Avenue
Timothy Loughlin
New York
Herbert B. Stevens
E. Jay Edwards
Philadelphia Enquirer
Carl E. Martin
E. O. Parker
Washington Marshall
Stephen Peck
Charles Merritt
G. H. Carter
Fairfield County Golf Club
Edwards
Dr. Martin
Stevens
Parker
Fred Crawford
Lewis Street
Greenwich Hospital
Clinton Barnes
Richard Mosick
R. E. Raymond
F. P. Moshier
Conaty & Ponty
F. Ponty
Thomas Hassett
Fire Delays Greenwich Inquest Over Train Wreck
The Greenwich inquest into Marguerite Armstrong's death from the White Mountain Express wreck was postponed by a town fire. Witnesses and spectators had gathered when alarms sounded, forcing firemen to duty. Wreckage removal continued through the night with 400 workers, and traffic resumed on two tracks. Mrs. Armstrong accompanied her daughter's body to Wayne, Pennsylvania, as officials noted locomotive configurations for trailing load and extra engines.
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Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Marguerite Armstrong
Wayne
Penn
White Mountain Express
Monay
New Haven Road
W. ©. Armstrong
Wayne, Penn
Fatal Ossining Fire Destroys Feed Storehouse and Elevator
A three story brick building housing grain and machinery at Crew Williams near the Hudson River Railway station in Ossining burned yesterday morning. Several trains were delayed while Walter Fisher, an employee, escaped but died after sustaining severe burns. The loss was estimated at four dollars and sixty cents.
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Crew & Williams
Hudson River
Ossining
Walter Fisher
Rounding Up Rebels in Texas at El Paso
El Paso July 17 Bonitce Solis arrested for conspiring to start a revolution against Mexico. He is the seventh man arrested there since outbreaks at Casas Grandes and Las Vacas.
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el Paso
Tex
Bonitce Solis
Mexico
Casas Grandes
Las Vacas
Japanese Training Ship Taisei Arrives in San Francisco
The Japanese navy training ship Taisei under Commander Furya arrived this afternoon from Yokohama with a large cadre of cadets aboard for a Pacific cruise.
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San Francisco
Taisei
Furya
Yokohama
Return of Uniformed Police At Brighton Beach Track
Racegoers welcomed uniformed officers at Brighton Beach track after Thursday when plainclothes men used force. Inspector O'Brien detained thirty officers to supervise arrests, ensuring detectives were properly qualified. Legal actions followed as warrants were issued for detectives Merrick and Kessel, with Magistrate Tighe setting July 3 for hearings.
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Brighton Beach
O'Brien
Justice Bischoff
Charlies H. Hyde
Brighton Beach Racing Association
Hyde
Pinkerton
Sheepshead Bay
Kings County Grand Jury
Adams Street
Tighe
James Merrick
No. &2
Classen Avenue
James L. Cunningham
Michael Kessel
Macon Street
Henry E. McKinley
Merrick
Kessel
Jacob Elprin
Boy Dies In Sand Hopper At Sunnyside Plant
Seventeen year old Albert Bloomfield of Vernon Avenue Long Island City fell into a sand hopper feeding a concreting machine at a Sunnyside railroad yard on a Thursday night. His cries were drowned by machinery noise as workers watched his legs descend the chute and his father, in charge of the plant, helped to dig out the body after realizing the victim was his son.
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Sunnyside
Long Island City
Albert Bloomfield
Vernon Avenue
Snow and Butterflies in a Hotel Aster Lobby
A British consul attaché and the Arizona man debate aviation as snow hushes the corridor. Butterflies flood the lobby, then twelve bellboys and thirty-six porters stage a chase with special props, until dustpans sweep up the night moths and calm returns to the Orangerie.
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Aster
Arizona
Legation
Nevada
Orangerie
My Lady’s
Mike
Tosti
Goodby
No. 756
Charges of Cruelty Against Strathyre Captain
Norfolk July 17 Captain Gunn and nine Strathyre officers deny cruelty toward Chinese crew members. Two sailors drowned after attempting to swim from the ship amid harsh conditions. Inspector Parker testified the captain showed indifference as others struggled, describing a pattern of brutal behavior observed aboard the Strathyre.
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T. W. Parker
Harburger
Gunn
Strathyre
Mulhall
Harbor Police
Parker
C. T. O’brien
Department of Labor
Norfolk
New York
Will of Bayonne Resident Cornelius Brady Proved
Cornelius Brady died June 30 of heart failure in his office. The will drawn that day names his wife Mary F. Brady as sole beneficiary and was admitted to probate yesterday. Brady was a prominent Bayonne resident.
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Cornelius Brady
Bayonne
Justice Erlanger Names New Attorney in Cohen v NYC Railway
Supreme Court Justice Erlanger granted Merrill E. Gates Jr representing the Legal Aid Society as attorney for Harris Cohen replacing Braddin Hamilton in a $35,000 suit against the New York City Railway Company over the death of Moses Cohen. Hamilton received $150 for services and $12,740 disbursements. Cohens had not authorized the $1,125 settlement but accepted their share. The judge found Hamilton not guilty of misconduct and commended his conduct.
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Justice Erlanger
Supreme Court
Merrill E. Gates, Jr
Legal Aid Society
Harris Cohen
Braddin Hamilton
Cohen
New York City Railway Company
Moses Cohen
Hamilton
Cohens
Erlanger
Prisoner Accused as Black Hand In Robbery
Frank Ferrara twenty one of 1812 Second avenue arraigned in Tombs court on assault robbery and concealed weapons charges. Italian detectives claim he belongs to a Black Hand band. bail set at two thousand dollars. Carlo Sibilio of 1963 First avenue sues Ferrara for two robberies at his coffee house, one for fifty seven dollars and another demand for one hundred.
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Frank Ferrara
Second Avenue
Corrigan
Tombs
Ferrara
Carlo Sibilio
First Avenue
Boomerang Airship to Fly Palisades to Harlem Sunday
Charles Oliver Jones, formerly of the Hammondsport Aeronautic Club, will navigate the Boomerang dirigible from the Palisades amusement park to Harlem crossing the Hudson River twice and returning. This marks its fifth flight and first civil appearance, with the 105 foot airship propelled by a 3 horsepower engine, capable of fifty miles per hour and reaching twelve thousand feet.
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Tribune
Hackensack
Charles Oliver Jones
Hammondsport
N. Y
Aeronautic Club
Palisades
Harlem
Hudson River
Palisade
Congress records show total appropriations exceed one billion
Official figures from the Senate and House clerks reveal that the last Congress appropriations reached 1 008 397 543 56 dollars. Major allocations cover the army navy pensions post office sundry civil expenses and public buildings with continuing contracts and new offices. Net increases include 10682 new employments and a rise in salaries to 129 998. Overall, total appropriations rose by 87 599 399 compared with the previous session.
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Washington
Thomas P. Cleaves
James C. Courts
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Navy
Post Office Department
United States
Marine Corps
Postal Service
District of Columbia, Indians and Military Academy
Fortune Seeker Robbins Faces Estate Heist Rumors
Archibald J. Robbins a 67 year old Bowery lodging house figure vanished after receiving 1000 dollars as a May share of estate property. Relatives via E H Ludlow Co seek his consent to one third of the sale, with searches for him failing since June 28. He had claimed to be robbed while trying to entertain acquaintances.
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Archibald J. Robbins
E. H. Ludlow & Co
Broadway
Robbins
Bowery
Ludlow
Esite
Ghosts turned out to be burglars in West S6th Street raid
Two young Black men, Henry Williams and William Bridges, former house workers, were chased through a dumbwaiter shaft and apartments at No 200 West 6th Street. They were arrested at the West 68th Street station after threatening to shoot. Police recovered several silver knives in Bridges's pocket.
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West S6th Street
West 6Th Street
William Crothers
Crothers
Sheridan
Hamilton
West 68Th Street
B. A. Griffin
Henry Williams
West 46Th Street
William Bridges
West 53d Street
Bridges
Rain Relieves Adirondacks Fires and Drought
Rain fell across the Adirondacks easing a drought that dried forests and fields, with long burning wildfires hampered by heat. Farmers and lumbermen suffered heavy crop and timber losses as crews battled the blazes. State officials reported rain reducing further damage and no additional fire risk expected for now.
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Malone
N. Y
Adirondacks
Shriners Parade Drenched by Rain in St Paul
A heavy afternoon downpour disrupted St Paul Shriners week parade which started at the State Capitol at 2 30 pm and was about halfway through when spectators and paraders sought cover. The lineup featured federal soldiers from Fort Snelling and the Minnesota National Guard with civic groups and Shriner patrols and business floats.
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St. Paul
Shriners
State Capitol
Fort Snelling
Minnesota National Guard
Shriner Patrols
Violent Deaths Rise In Recent Health Report
The Health Department totals show a sharp uptick in violent deaths for the week ended April 18 and July 11, with 83 and 156 cases respectively. Sunstroke, accidents, homicide and self harm appear, while high temperatures correlate with higher counts. measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and typhoid cases decline or shift.
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Department of Health
China's reply to Boxer indemnity remittance noted
Washington reports the Chinese government has sent a grateful dispatch in response to the United States plan to remit a large portion of the Boxer indemnity. The remittance, about 24 million dollars total, is reduced by roughly half and Beijing pledges to send Chinese students for education in the United States as a follow up.
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Washington
State Department
Peking
China
America
Back From Philippines Wounded Governor Arrives in U S
Mr and Mrs William E Gard of South Orange New Jersey bring Allan Gard District Governor of Mindanao Philippines from San Francisco where he landed aboard the Sheridan He suffered multiple wounds from a Moro attack in a Philippine forest bullets pierced both legs He is to be treated at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City The injury occurred near Manila where he was carried to a hospital
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N. J
William E. Gard
Taylor Place
South Orange
Allan Gard
Mindanao
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Sheridan
New York
Roosevelt Hospital
Manila
Prisoner Grace Billingsley Linked to Jail Bible Aid
Mrs F Jones collapsed fainting at the county jail while giving a Bible to Grace Billingsley who faces murder charges in the case of Justice of the Peace Robert Singleton. Billingsley and Walter West are alleged to have enticed Singleton to his death last year. Frederick Singleton, son of the slain man, died while signing the murder warrant. Mrs Jones’s condition improves.
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Cincinnati
F. Jones
Grace Billingsley
Justice of the
Robert Singleton
Jones
Justice Singleton
Walter West
Chicago
Boston
Frederick Singleton
Pittsburg Official A Suicide by Assistant D A
Charles W. Hamilton, Assistant District Attorney of Allegheny County, shot himself in the head during his temporary absence of his wife while preparing to be moved to a hospital. He died within an hour. Hamilton had suffered ill health for several months.
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Pittsburg
Charles W. Hamilton
Allegheny County
Elizabeth
Penn
Inspectors oversee Ashokan Dam progress in Catskills
Two commissioners Charles A. Shaw and John A. Bensel, joined by chief engineer J. W. Smith, inspect MacArthur company and Winston & Co. on the Ashokan Dam project. A 22-man patrols force is housed in a hotel, with potential barracks for up to a hundred workers. Contractors have spent over $600,000, building a village for 1500 laborers, with houses, baths, and sewage works to prevent disease, drawing on lessons from the Croton system site.
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Catskills
Board of Water Supply
Charles A. Shaw
John A. Bensel
J. W. Smith
Shaw
Mr. Bensel
MacArthur Company
Winston & Co
Ashokan
Brown's Station
Shekan
Charles N. Chadwick
Crosse River
Croton
Katonah
Catskill
Rescued Crew Arrives After Ship Ashore in Nicaragua
Captain N H Galmert and eight sailors of the Norwegian bark Freden arrived in New Orleans recounting a harrowing voyage from Australia to Corinto. A gale drove the ship ashore on the Nicaragua coast after taking on mahogany to Europe. The crew endured surf, loss of lifeboats, and long overland travel to reach civilization.
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New Orleans
Nicaragua
N. H. Galmert
Australia
Corinto
Europe
Managua
Atlantic
Negro Admits Five Murders Shocking Confession Emerges
Frank Johnson a Black man hanged at Moundsville for the Beulah Martin murder in Gypsy West Virginia today confessed to four additional killings in Alabama Illinois Ohio and Pennsylvania. He claimed the alias Edward Walton and a Georgia birth. Separate Chicago records link a Edith Hanna shot by her husband Edwin Walton at 81 Peoria Street in August 194 with death two days later. A Lorain Ohio incident reports a gravel boat crew nearly dashed by the ore freighter Dunnein leaving one vessel sunk and survivors rescued.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Frank Johnson
Moundsville Penitentiary
Beulah Martin
Gypsy
Blossburg
Ala
Edith Hannah
South Peoria Street
Chicago
Elie
Shippensville
Penn
US South 7Th Street
Steubenville
Ohio
Johnson
Edward Walton
Georgia
Walton
Edith Hanna
Peoria Street
Lorain
Vessl
Official denial of Navajo uprising reported from Santa Fe
Fort Wingate, New Mexico, today denied claims of a Navajo uprising. A practice march is organized with five troop columns of the 2 Cavalry, five infantry companies, a machine gun battery, and a supply train for two months to survey northern and northwestern Navajo lands. Scientific observations will collect data on the rugged region.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Fort Wingate
2 Cavalry
Navajo Reservation
City News in Brief: Local impersonation and crimes
Warren B. Foster allegedly impersonated Judge Warren W. Foster and faced $100 bail after charges of stealing a revolver and three gold shirt studs from Dr Dupont’s office. George A. Marsden, tied to multiple robberies, held in Harlem court on $5 bail after confessing to numerous flathouse robberies. Frank Smith pleaded guilty to attempted home robbery on Washington Street and was sentenced to prison.
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Warren W. Foster
Court of General Sessions
Dupont
West Bd Street
Jefferson Market Court
George A. Marsden
West
Th Street
Victor Corres
Westith Street
Harlem
Ming
Frank Smith
George Schanny
Washington Street
Foster
Youse
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