Steamer Strikes in Fog on Transatlantic Lane
A fogbound collision near transatlantic lanes saw the Hamburg American liner Cleveland strike the fishing schooner Reliance as both navigated crowded routes. Four fishermen survived after being swept into the sea, and Captain Dempwolff safely guided the liner to the stranded men. Observers urge international rules to keep trawlers from busy sea lanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Hamburg
Dempwolff
Reliance
Verboerd
Rene
Vari
Themelves
St. Pierre Miquelon
Sandy Hook
Nan‘Weket
Regulus
Hesperus
Atlantic City and Return Train Schedule Fragment
fragment notes a Wednesday train to Atlantic City with a 6 55 departure time and an unidentified person Ania Retroid. indicates serial train details and age not specified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
Ania
General strike set by National Railroad Men's Union
Paris July 17 A general strike has been decided on by the central committee of the National Railroad Men's Union. After a meeting the strike committee was told to rush preparations and signal a general walkout as soon as possible. Companies refused further negotiations. Union members had already voted in principle to strike pending talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
National Railroad Men’s Union
E. L. Sheppard
Order of Railway Conductors
G. H. Sines
Brotherhood of Railroad
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Union Station
Greensburg
Youngwood
Pitcairn
Altoona
Cannon Himself Again in Kansas Campaign Push
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, despite heat exhaustion yesterday, said he feels vigorous and will begin a Kansas campaign tour. He plans brief Emporia speech if needed, then Bur lingame Herington and Marion engagements, aiding ill Congressman Miller while managing his own schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winfield
Kan
Joseph G. Cannon
House of Representatives
4Th Kansas Congress
Emporia
Miller
Cannon
Burlingame
Herington
Marion
Kansas
Pittman in a Large Cell in Managua
American engineer William P. Pittman, captured near Bluefields, is held in a roomy cell after initial confinement in a six square foot dirty cell. Consul Olivares protested to the Madriz government, leading to improved quarters and a shared cell with a Jamaican prisoner. Madriz reportedly to name a cabinet soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Managua
Nicaragua
William P. Pittman
Bluefields
Pittman
Olivares
Madriz
Eight Die and Thirty Hurt in Collision at Melbourne Station
The Brighton Express, en route to Melbourne, collided with a standing train at Richmond station. Eight people were killed and thirty injured as carriages and guards’ ward were wrecked in the wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton
Richmond
England
Melbourne
Polish Regiments Clash Averts Riot At Grunewald Anniversary
Chicago July 17 Two Polish turner regiments from the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Falcons Alliance clashed at a Grunewald anniversary parade. Illinois National Guard Company I intervened to separate rivals and prevent a riot before thirty thousand onlookers. Heads were reportedly smashed in the melee as militia kept the crowd apart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Polish National Alliance
Polish Falcons Alliance
Grunewald
Illinois National Guard
National Alliance
Nationals
Falcons
Oxen to Harriman's Rescue on Short Cut
Telegraph report from Newport dated July 17 describes Joseph Harriman's car stuck in soft Middletown sand after attempting a shortcut home from Reginald Vanderbilt's Sandy Point Farm. Farmers provided oxen to haul the automobile free, allowing Harriman to return home in time for dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Newport
Joseph Harriman
Middletown
Harriman
Reginnald
Vanderbilt
Sandy Point Farm
Christian Unity Foundation Seeks One Church from Many
The Christian Unity Foundation, formed by 24 Protestant Episcopal members, aims to unite denominations into one organic body. Led by Bishop Frederick Courtney and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lowndes, the group plans private conferences and research to find agreement points, starting with closer Protestant groups and expanding toward Greek, Roman Catholic, and Unitarians, with long-term endowments expected to sustain patient growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Unity Foundation
Protestant Episcopal Church
Frederick Courtney
St. James's Church
William Croswell Doane
Albany
Boyd Vincent
Ohio
C. P. Anderson
Chicago
E. S. Lines
Newark
David H. Greer
New York
Robert Fulton Cutting
Caspar F. Goodrich
Charlies William Larned
George Wharton Pepper
Philadelphia
John H
New York Corporation
East 37Th Street
Nces
Lowndes
Foundation
Episcopal Church
Armed Airships Planned by Lower Rhine Company
Graefrath July 17 The Lower Rhine Company with 500000 capital for constructing air cruisers fitted for dropping explosives has been formed under Count von Moltke. Dirigible balloons about 390 feet long with 14300 cubic metres capacity and over five tons carrying power will be built. Vessels frame uses wooden stays rubber and silk. Armored central gondola will include a perpendicular shaft for projectiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Graefrath
Rhenish
Prussia
Lower Rhine Company
Count von Moltke
Sas
Father Dies At Son's Funeral After Dirigible Explosion
In Solingen, Rhenish Prussia, on July 17, the father of Oscar Erbsleih, killed July 13 when the Erbsleih dirigible balloon benzine tank exploded, died of apoplexy at his son's funeral. The stroke was triggered by shock from the aeronaut's death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solingen
Rhenish
Prussia
Oscar Erbslieh
Erbsleeh
SAYS CHURCH HOLDS BRIDE
Patrick J Costello former priest files habeas corpus alleging his bride Jessie Becker is held at the Convent of the Visitation Mobile. He claims they eloped to Kansas City last year and married. he was excommunicated and seeks court orders against Bishop Edward P Allen and convent officials to produce his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Mobile
New Theatre Man Missing Paymaster Walter Bullwinkle
The New Theatre reports paymaster Walter J. Bullwinkle has been missing since Friday after drawing payroll funds. Police are asked to locate him, with $170 unaccounted and part of 94202 missing from the bank. Officials checked offices, safe, hotel, and a motorboat site without success. The search continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Theatre
Detective Bureau
Walter J. Bullwinkle
Bullwinkle
van Ness Harwood
Edward E. Lyons
Bullwinkie
Lyons
Washington Inn
111Th Street
Lenox Avenue
Sheepshead Bay
Sidney Bullwinkle
No. 1660
70Th Street
Brooklyn
Hotel Astor
Cotton by fast trains boosts profits for shippers
Scarcity of spot cotton and the July squeeze push Mid-South markets to ship heavy loads by special trains. Savannah New Orleans Mobile and Galveston follow with rapid New York delivery using Illinios Central and New York Central routes. With middling at about 15 cents a pound in New Orleans Memphis and Houston, shippers should net roughly four dollars per bale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
New York
South
Savannah
Mobile
Galveston
Memphis
Houston
Illinois Central
New York Central
Southern Pacific
Comus
Antilles
Southern
To Crush W. J. Bryan By Telegraph to The Tribune
Omaha reports that Nebraska Democrats plan to crush William Jennings Bryan in the state convention. No Bryan delegates or committee seats. anti Bryan majorities expected. Debate centers on county option as Bryan fights whiskey interests and party control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Omaha
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska Democracy
Bryan
Nebraska
Prehistoric reptile skeleton found in Michigan mine
Workmen at mine No 2 of the Robert Gage Mining Company in St Charles Michigan uncovered what is believed to be the skeleton of a prehistoric reptile. The bones were embedded 225 feet below the surface and look like a ten foot long polurian creature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Charles, Mich
Robert Gage Mining Company
Boy Charged in Newark Lynching Arrest in Zanesville
In Zanesville Ohio on July 17 William Wurster Jr nineteen a poolroom employee was arrested on a Newark warrant charging him with murder in the first degree for helping lash the rope around Carl Etherington the dry detective lynched at Newark ten days earlier He said he was in the mob and had been drinking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zanesville
Ohio
Carl Etherington
Newark
William Wurster, Jr
Main Street
Gratitude After Years in Texas Oil Fortune Will To Wife
McDonald Penn July 17 News from Corpus Christi Texas says the will of John Ennis who died there leaves his entire $1,000,000 estate to his wife for life with remainder to Boyce Rankin and Nancy Ferguson Rankin. Ennis once a poor teamster in the local oil fields rose to wealth after striking oil and built a resort and hotel in Corpus Christi. Rankin, once a feed store clerk who helped Ennis financially, has managed Rankin’s business in Pittsburg during Ennis’s absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
McDonald
Penn
Texas
John Ennis
Corpus Christi
Boyce Rankin
Nancy Ferguson Rankin
Ennis
Rankin
Beaumont
Pittsburg
Motor boats collide off Canarsie Landing
Two motor boats the Sadie and the Beatrice collided in Jamaica Bay near Canarsie Landing causing passengers to fall overboard. Dorothy and Elizabeth Pinz were rescued after clinging to the sinking Beatrice while William Gross and friends ferried them to safety. Harbor police arrived as the craft touched the water line and the Pinz family member stayed aboard the Sadie with recovery efforts continuing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica Bay
Sadie
Beatrice
Canarsie Landing
Dorothy
Elizabeth Pinz
William F. Pinz
Rodney Street
Williamsburg
William Gross
Harbor Squad C
Canarsie
Treasure Island Hero Boy Unearths Robbery Box in Sand
Louis Osborne eight year old son of Lloyd Osborne novelist and stepson of Robert Louis Stevenson digs on a San Francisco sand hill and unearths a metal box containing 2600 shares of stock deeds to property and other papers from Augustus Imbrie. Police believe robbers buried the box after looting the Imbrie residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Louis Osborne
Lloyd Osborne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Louis
Augustus Imbrie
Imbrie
Roosevelt Denied Mediation In Pennsylvania Rail Strike
Oyster Bay reports Roosevelt might mediate the wage dispute but aides deny any agreement to act. Philadelphia observers hope today’s conference with General Manager Myers could avert a strike as unions press for a ten hour day and maintained demands amid tense talks.
DUKES GIFT TO BRIDE NEARLY COMPLETES DURHAM BUILDING
Brodie L Duke, noted tobacco magnate, reportedly gave his bride a valuable business building now nearing completion in Durham North Carolina s business center Plans for the project brought the couple to their home town Camden New Jersey had been their residence since their marriage about six weeks ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durham
N. C
Brodie L. Duke
Camden
N. J
Also Mentioned on This Page
Relience
Westerner
Demprole
Tokio
Great Britain
Railway Men’s Union
Cannon Himself
Speaker Cannon
Episcopal
Courtney
Lawson Purdy
Bishop Greer
Rockwood
William J. Schieffelin
William Fellowes Morgan
Bishop Doane
Son
MAN Missing
W. J. Bryan
Treasure Island
R. L. Stevenson
P.R. R
Oyster Bay
Theodore Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Roosevelt
Frank Harper
Myers
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
A. B. Garretson
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of
Lee
Peck
Pennsylvania Lines
B. L. Duke
Bride
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!