Chicago River Marathon Swim Ends in Tragedy and Close Finish
One swimmer drowned in the Chicago River during the New Illinois Athletic Club marathon swim while seventeen finished the two mile course amid cold water and cramps. S. C. Jensen won, with Anton Jaeger and G. A Johnson in second and third. over a hundred thousand spectators watched the event.
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Chicago
New Illinois Athletic Club
G. Freese
Madison Street
J. H. Handy
Rush Street
Bonard Wetz
José Basse
Mexico City
Anna Harris
J. H. Merriam
J. Stuart
Bellview
Iowa
S. C. Jensen
Anton Jaeger
G. A Johnson
Jin- Freese
Germany
12Th Street
Auct
Freese
Harold Christiansen
Handy
Harris
Basse
Stuart
Jensen
Jaeger
Lake Michigan
Mississippi
Six Die in Auto Crash West of Columbia City
Six people died when a Ford car carrying Charles Sherman King of Fort Wayne his wife and two daughters chauffeur Carl Timmins and Fayma Bradshaw was struck by the Manhattan Limited train near Columbia City Indiana. The party planned a Sunday trip to Lake Wawasee. The car stopped at a crossing and drove onto the tracks after a freight train. The car and its occupants were mangled. the locomotive was thrown off the rails. King, a Prudential agent and former Indiana legislator, was prominent in Republican public affairs.
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Warsaw
Ind
Charles Sherman King
Fort Wayne
Carl Timmins
Fayma Bradshaw
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. King
Lake Wawaser
Columbia City
Qemssing
Manhattan Limited
Katherine
Josephine
Miss Bradshaw
Robert F. Bradshaw
Prudential Life Company
Indiana
Wabash
Columbia
Indianapolis
Taggarts Auto Causes Runaway in Garden City
Miss Elizabeth Deuhe, forty, was killed and her mother Deupree, a widow, seriously injured when a buggy horses spooked by an Indianapolis touring car owned by Thomas Taggart of the Democratic National Committee. Chauffeur Harry Stodler was driving from Indianapolis toward French Lick when the accident occurred. The buggy struck an iron fence, breaking the railing. the younger woman was hurled against the fence.
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Tribune
Garden City
Ind
Elizabeth Deu- Hee
Deupree
Thomas Taggart
Indianapolis
Democratic National Committee
Art
Harry Stodler
Explosion on Training Vessel Hawk Injures Crew
A steam pipe exploded on the training vessel Hawk at anchor near the breakwater causing several crewmen to be scalded. Chief engineer Charles Tasry is said to be near death from the injuries sustained.
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Naval Wa
Charles Tasry
Mother Kills Three Children Then Dies in Buffalo
In Buffalo on July 18 Mrs. Isabella Sahlen poisoned her three children with paris green and attempted suicide. She later died in hospital while blaming her sister-in-law for domestic unhappiness. Neighbors intervened when she attacked Mrs. Brown with a bread knife before police arrived.
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Buffalo
Isabella Sahien
Paris Green
Sahleen
Sahlen
Poisoning mother and babies shocks Portsmouth community
Mrs Brown wife of Rev W A Brown rector of the Episcopal Church at Portsmouth and mother of two children is dying after feeding poison to her infants and then taking carbolic acid in a planned crisis. Her girlhood name was Romkey and the family is said to be prominent in Alexandria. No motive given.
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Tribune
Portsmouth
Brown
W. A. Brown
Episcopal Church
Romkey
Alexandria
Missing Rich Woman Mysteriously Vanishes in Atlantic City
Atlantic City July 18. Mrs Annie Hayes Byers of Pittsburg, aunt of Eben M Byers, vanishes after leaving Reading station. Baggage with jewels unclaimed. Nephew and Mrs George Morgan seek search. Morgan later says she found her. Police doubt abduction theory, suspect she may have gone elsewhere or stayed hidden.
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Atlantic City
Annie Hayes Byers
Pittsburg
Eben M. Byers
Reading
George Morgan
Pinioned in Bookcase Injures Store Owner on Rivington Street
Chone Jaffe a Jewish bookseller at 247 Rivington Street was assaulted by three Italians who forced him into a heavy bookcase and pinioned him for twelve hours after he refused to unlock the store safe. He remains in critical condition.
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Chone Jaffe
6Th Street
Rivington Street
Jaffe
Auto Leads Mob In Brooklyn Street Attack
A riot at Nostrand and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn yesterday afternoon ended with Louis Puolkam, an expressman, chased by a mob after striking Tony Desento, a fourteen year old. Desento suffered a fractured left foot while Puolkam was captured by Oscar Lund and the crowd and held at Nostrand Avenue as ambulances ferried the injured to hospitals. Puolkam was jailed at Grand Avenue police station on charges of vockless Crivans.
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Nostrand
Atlantic Avenues
Brooklyn
Louis Puolkom
Stone Avenue
Tony Desento
Malbone Street
Brooklyn Avenue
Puolkam
Bedford Avenue
Oscar Lund
Atlantic Avenue
Nostrand Avenue
St. John's Hospital
Grandaverce
Crivans
Rise in Freight Rates Knapp on Situation
The Interstate Commerce Commission may act on higher freight tariffs agreed by the Southeastern Freight Association and the Southeastern Mississippi Valley Association after filing with the commission. Knapp said changes require thirty days notice, must be coordinated on competitive routes, and that hearings protect shippers. The commission can investigate on its own motion or after shipper complaints.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southeastern Freight Association
Southeastern Mississippi Valley Association
Louisville
Knapp
Commission
Department of Justice
Trunk Line Association
San Francisco
Portland
East Portland
Ore
Pacific Coast
Pacific Coast Jobbers and Manufacturers’ Association of
Southern Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
President Roosevelt Hosts Busy Sagamore Hill Day
At Sagamore Hill on July 18 President Roosevelt hosted Attorney General Bonaparte Mexican Ambassador Creel Judge Buchanan and Assistant Secretary Robert Bacon among others. They discussed the Paper Trust neutrality laws and guard against a Central American protectorate while plans for a successor to Purdy were floated.
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The
Tribune
Oyster Bay
State Department
Sagamore Hill
Bonaparte
Creel
Mexico
W. S. Buchanan
South American Peace Court
Robert Bacon
Ethel
Long Island City
Reporter
United States
Chihuahua
Washington
Bacon
Honduras
Roosevelt
Milton B. Purdy
Purdy
District Court of
Minnesota
Wade Ellis
Ohio
Loeb
Nebraska
Loeb Reiterated What He Said Several Days Ago, That Mr. Roosevelt
Ambassador Creel
Buchanan
New York
Sefior Creel
Mr. Buchanan
Mexico City
Guatemala
Cabrera
Central America
Freight rate clash tests railroads and shippers
Chicago July 18 reports directors of major railroads failed to reach agreement on a general freight rate increase. Harriman backed by Erie Delaware & Hudson and Baltimore & Ohio pressed for higher rates while Kaer and McCrea opposed. Chicago manufacturers prepare for a possible move despite the bus iness opposition and await a clear decision from New York conferences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Chicago
East
Middle West
New York
E. H. Harriman
George F. Baer
Reading
James McCrea
Pennsylvania
F. A. Delano
Wabash
W. H. Truesdale
Lackawanna
Oscar G. Murray
Baltimore & Ohio
F. D. Underwood
Erie
L. F. Loree
Delaware & Hudson
Harriman
Kaer
McCrea
Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
Brothers witness brother's self inflicted death in Almont
George and Samuel Smith of Bellefontaine Ohio watched their brother John Smith die by his own hand in Almont North Dakota after a wreck had left him with only days to live. He greeted them at the station then shot himself.
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Tribune
Bellefontaine
Ohio
George
Samuel Smith
John
Almont
N. C
North Dakota
Music Teacher Hangs Herself in Putnam Avenue Apartment
Laura Macclinchey a 36 year old piano teacher ended her life yesterday afternoon by hanging herself from the door in her mother's apartment at No Putnam avenue. Mrs Macclinchey discovered the body when she went upstairs to call her. She had been dead several hours.
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Laura Macclinchey
Putnam Avenue
Steamer El Norte Sinks Jersey City Fishing Sloop Catherine
The fifty five foot sloop Catherine was cut nearly in two off Fort Wadsworth by the outward bound steamer El Norte. Skipper Terence O'Brien and brothers Edward and Raymond O'Brien of Jersey City were aboard. They leapt into a trailing dory and were rescued by the Patrol and landed at the Battery after the coast steamer assisted.
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Catherine
Fort Wadsworth
el Norte
Southern Pacific Company
Terence O'Brien
Sussex Street
Jersey City
Edward and
Raymond O'Brien
Future of The Times in Question as Northcliffe Tops Ownership
A London telegraphic report from July 13 notes ongoing speculation on The Times future after Arthur Pearson failed to gain control. It states Lord Northcliffe is the largest owner but will not manage the paper, with Moberly Bell and editor George Buckle’s health prompting possible changes, including Moneypenny’s rise.
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Tribune
The
Tribune Association
London
the Times
Arthur Pearson
Lord Rothschild
Lord Cromer
Lord Leconfield
Lord Northcliffe
Moberly Bell
George Buckle
Moneypenny
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Osman Pacha Assassinated at Monastir
General Osman Pacha commander of Turkish forces at Monastir was killed in the barracks by an officer tied to the Young Turkey government. He had yesterday announced amnesty for officers involved in Macedonia’s mutinous disorders, following the earlier murder of General Shemsi Pacha in the same city.
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Salonica
Turkey
Osman Pacha
Monastir
Young
Macedonia
Shemsi Pacha
Daylight Park Hold Up Sparks Parkside Alarm
Three men Kenneth McKenzie Andrew Lawlor and Fred Schnitzel were jailed after a bold daylight assault and failed robbery of cigar maker Charles W De Bebirk at Mount Morris Park No 122 East 108th street. Revolvers were drawn and witnesses heard screams prompting patrols. This was the second daylight park robbery in a week.
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East 126Th Street
Charles W. de Bebirk
No. 122
East 108Th Street
Mount Morris Park
Kenneth McKenzie
Eighth Avenue
Andrew Lawlor
East 132d Street
Fred Schnitzel
Burnside Avenue
Debbre
Ferry Fare Increased by Union Ferry Company
Julian D. Fairchild president of Union Ferry Company announces a fare rise from 2 to 3 cents for most hours, citing heavy losses. To minimize impact on workers, 2 cents remains in effect from 5 to 7:39 a.m. and 5 to 7:39 p.m., with notices posted.
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Julian D. Fairchild
Union Ferry Company
Catharine Street
Fulton, Wall, South
Hamilton
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Union Fe Company
New Yok
City Swelters In Heat Amid 90 Degree Day
New York endured another hot day with temperatures near 90 degrees and high humidity. Six Manhattan residents collapsed from heat, while a light shower cooled the city briefly at 1:30 a.m. The early morning reading stayed above comfortable levels.
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New York
Manhattan
Apartment House Fire On St Nicholas Ave
Fire at 2:40 this morning engulfed a six story apartment building at St Nicholas Avenue and 183rd Street. Thirty families occupy the structure and the blaze started on the first floor in H C Langden's apartments. One alarm followed by a second. tenants fled in nightclothes. Ambulances responded. no injuries reported within a half hour. Firemen had not controlled the fire by 3:15.
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St. Nicholas Avenue
Break from Texas convict farms sparks mass escape
Six armed convicts escaped from state farms in Texas. At Dowall farm Robert Ware and Will Howard killed guard Joseph Elliott with a hoe before fleeing. They wounded George Johnson as they fled and other escapes followed from Clement's plantation as posses sweep the area. An unverified rumor places six more fugitives from Dew's plantation. Authorities suspect a coordinated breakout across farms.
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Houston
Tex
Robert Ware
Will” Howard
Dowall
Fort Bent County
Joseph Elliott
George Johnson
Clement
Dew
Richmond
Lask Faces Personal Payment of Expense Vouchers
Montgomery Alabama July 18 John A Lask new railroad commissioner found he must pay his travel expenses out of pocket to join inspectors in North Alabama. He reportedly said expenses would exceed his salary, leaving him unpaid for the trip.
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Montgomery
Ala
John A. Lask
North Alabama
Taft Declines Corporate Contributions For Campaign
Hot Springs Va July 18 Judge William H Taft Republican candidate for the Presidency said the Republican National Committee will accept no contributions from corporations He affirmed adherence to both New York publicity laws and federal prohibitions on corporate campaign contributions for presidential electors and party offices The interview touched labor prohibition and questions about labor leaders influence and trust remedies.
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Hot Springs
Republican National Committee
William H. Taft
Taft
New York State
National Republican Committee
Congress
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Gompers
Organized Labor
Mr. Bryan
Frank B. Kellogg
Department of Justice
Lynchburg
Judge Taft
Warren Opposes Bryan Goes For Taft In Letter
Winslow Warren Democrat and anti imperialist leader declares in a strong letter that he will vote for Taft and will not follow the anti imperialist executive committee. He argues Taft better preserves national interests than Bryan noting Bryans role in the Spanish treaty and Philippine policy.
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The
Tribune
Boston
Winslow Warren
Taft
Bryan
Philippine Islands
William J. Bryan
President Lewis Warns Gompers Over Campaign Tactics
Denver July 18 Thomas J Lewis national president of the United Mine Workers of America warns Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor to keep politics out of the labor ranks. Lewis says if Gompers circulates pro Bryan material to coal diggers he will hear from him in unmistakable terms.
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The
Tribune
Denver
Thomas J. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Bryan
Lewis
Gompers
No Taker for $100000 Taft Bet in Chicago
Chicago money backs Lloyds of London against Bryan victory as brokers report high interest in the wager. A Chicago agent sought to place 100000 with Lloyds but was referred to New York brokers. Most bets are processed through New York, with Lloyds acting as insurance against Bryan's election.
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the Tribune
Chicago
Taft
Lloyds
London
Bryan
Moore, Case, Lyman & Herrick
Lasalle Street
Fim
E. A. Bremner
New York
Bremner
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Daylight Park
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