Calamity at Paterson Tornado devastates city and kills four
A Paterson New Jersey tornado struck this afternoon injuring scores and leaving sixty families homeless. Three persons died including a ten year old and two adults. Dozens were cut or bruised as homes, a silk mill, and St Joseph's Hospital suffered damage. The storm travelled from southwest to northeast, with a four hundred foot wide path across the city, causing widespread fear at Maplewood and nearby districts.
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Paterson
N. J
Great Notch
Garret Mountain
Maplewood
Walter S. Lambert
Yonkers fugitive captured after house battle with police
Charles H. Trelawney, posing as a former English army captain, was arrested after police and Pinkertons battered into his Yonkers home. Indicted in Philadelphia for defrauding a bank of 1200 dollars, he faced a Mercantile National Bank forgery warrant in New York. He resisted, was overpowered, and taken to Yonkers police before being sent to New York. He had claimed Boer War service and lived on Tidee Drive, with chattel mortgage records and church ties cited.
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Yonkers
Pinkerton
Charles H. Trelawney
Trelawney
F. C. Howell
Camden National Bank
Philadelphia
Cooper and O'Mara
Tide
James V. Lott
Mercantile National Bank
Breen
Tombs
Wooldridge
Wines
Pinkerton Agency
Hana Feht
New York
South Africa
Lawerre
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Simon Shoninger
Duke Estate Tornado and Hail Rampage Near Somerville NJ
A July storm near Somerville uprooted trees and damaged property south of the Raritan River. Hailstones up to hazelnut size fell for fifteen minutes then a tornado struck James B. Duke estate, ripping roofs from a conservatory and destroying light poles. Sightseers sheltered as roads blocked by uprooted trees formed barriers. In Roycefield a railroad station chimney was blown off and a hay press unroofed.
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St. Joseph's Hospital
Sisters of Charity
St. Agnes’s
Mary and
Straight Srs
Mary Nevins
Somerville
N. J
Raritan River
James B. Duke
Roycefield
Jersey Central
Hagerman
Quick Change In Philadelphia Storm Hits City
Quick altercation of weather as a peculiar storm sweeps Philadelphia on July 22. Hail as large as acorns pelts West Philadelphia and Germantown while winds shift from south to northwest at 26 miles per hour. Temperature plunges from 86 to 7 degrees in minutes before easing.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Germantown
Heavy rainstorm disrupts Cooperstown area power and transit
A major rainstorm inundated Cooperstown region causing lightning strikes on trolley wires and damage to a power sub station at West Oneonta. Tracks washed out between West Oneonta and Laurens, leaving service cut south of Laurens. In Middletown a severe thunderstorm and hail damaged crops including corn.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Oneonta
Richfield Springs
West Oneonta
Laurens
Middletown
Lightning Strikes Jersey City Central Ave Police Station
A severe storm last night caused a lightning strike at the Central Avenue police station in Jersey City. The bolt knocked out all electric lights and started a fire that was extinguished before serious damage occurred.
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Jersey City
Central-ave
Clark deposition cites $250,000 bribe in Minnie Healy case
In Butte, Senator Clark of Montana is cited in Shores disbarment proceedings. A San Francisco deposition, read today, states Charles W. Clark alone offered Harney $250,000 to confess bribery in the Minnie Healy case. The document was taken in March in San Francisco.
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Butte
Mont
Charles W. Clark
Clark
Montana
San Francisco
Harney
Minnie Healy
Ca Se
United Stat
Nebraska wheat crop to exceed all previous harvests
Estimates from across Nebraska indicate the wheat crop will surpass any prior year. Acreage is up about 15 percent from last year and expected yield at least eighty million bushels, a vast increase over the ten million bushels in 1590, underscoring Nebraska’s rise as a wheat producing state. Omaha.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Norcross Brothers receivers named in Boston case
William D. Lucy and Frank B. Smith were appointed receivers for Norcross Brothers Company by Judge Brown in U S Circuit Court. Bonds set at 100000. Company faced 9000000 in active contracts and 500000 in other obligations, with labor troubles and tight money blamed. Creditors include City National Bank, Quinsigamond National Bank, First National Bank of Worcester, and others. Continuous operation expected with no interruption.
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Tribune
Boston
William D. Lucy
First National Bank of Worcester
Frank B. Smith
Worcester
Norcross Brothers Company
Brown
United States Circuit Court
Manchester & Hudson
Providence
Wells & Newton Co
New York
Norcross Brothers
Wells & Newton Company
George S. Taft
T. H. Gage
City National Bank
Quinsigamond National Bank
First National Bank
Worcester Safe Deposit and Trust Company
People’s Savings Bank
Worcester County Institution For Savings
Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank
Action at Company's Request Stirs Credit Talks
Providence July 22 report from Manchester & Hudson building materials dealers says the move was an accommodation for Norcross Brothers Company to forestall hostile creditors. A Norcross representative called the announcement a surprise and offered few details. Norcross owes Manchester & Hudson a smaller amount than usual and is active on major Providence projects including Rockefeller building Brown University library O'Gorman Company Brown & Sharpe shed and the State House underway.
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the Tribune
Providence
R. I
Manchester & Hudson
Norcross Brothers Company
Norcross Brothers
Rockefeller
John Carter Brown
Brown University
Providence Journal
Mason
O’gorman Company
Brown & Sharpe
State House
Norcross says firm can pay dollar for dollar in time
Worcester Mass July 22 O W Norcross told The Telegram that despite strikes labor troubles and tight money markets the company will fulfill its obligations. He cited about 9 million dollars in contracts with 6 million unfinished and assets at least three to one to cover debts. Work will proceed as normal.
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Massachusetts Corporation
Worcester
United States
Norcross
Freelan Morris
Boston
Norcross Brothers Company
Mass
Otis W. Norcross
Albert J. Park
William J. Denholm
Norcross Company
New England Structural Company
State Life Assurance Company of
Congress St
Journal
Pennsylvania Mutual
Milk St
Charlestown Navy Yard
Metropolitan
Milton
Tribune
New-York Public Library
Teamsters
Mess
O. W. Norcross
Hight
Sarto May Be Pope His Policies Favored
Rome July 22 One compensation for loss of temporal power is immunity from foreign intervention in Papal elections The Pope may remain Prisoner of the Vatican but the Sacred College enjoys freedom to elect a candidate for the tiara Theoretically veto rights exist with three possibly four Catholic governments but no practical enforcement method
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Rome
Vatican
Sacred College
France
Spain
Portugal
Austria- Hungary
Cardinal Rampolla
Vienna
Austria
Rampolla
Guysbruck
Oreglia
Cardinal Oreglia
Leo XIII
Cardinal Gotti
Germany
England
United States
Cardinal Sarto
Venice
Pius IX
Cardinal Micara
Lambruschini
Serafino Vannutelli
Triple Alliance
America
Quirinal
Vatican Conclave Predicted Amid Cardial Power Struggles
The article analyzes papal election dynamics amid Austrian veto fears and Vatican politics. It notes Rampolla's influence, Oreglia and Rampolla as key papal makers, and hints at Sarto's possible candidacy if health and policy alignments permit. It also mentions Vannutelli as politically backed and the Triple Alliance’s indirect sway.
Conclave to Be at Rome Holds Preference
Rome July 22 At a morning session of the Congregation in the Hall of the Consistory Cardinal Oreglia asked if the conclave would be held in Rome Report states only Cardinals Martinelli and Steinhuber objected on grounds of possible influence of the Ital air and politics, while others favored Rome as the site.
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Rome
Oreglia
Martinelli
Steinhuber
Ital
Book binders threaten strike at Government Printing Office
Washington July 22 union No 4 of the International Brotherhood of Bookbinders threatens to quit as soon as A W Miller the bindery foreman returns to duty after Roosevelt restored his position. The union accuses Miller of abusive conduct and seeks his removal under Civil Service rules while Palmer the Public Printer says Miller will be assigned upon return and affidavits against him will be considered.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
International Brotherhood of Bookbinders
Government Printing Office
A. W. Miller
Roosevelt
Miller
Palmer
Cortelyou
Tribune
St. Paul
Mr. Palmer
United States
Tragedy on the Bowery as Child Is Run Down By Car
A northbound Third Avenue street car struck and killed five year old Mary Miner at Third Street and the Bowery at 7 30 last evening. A mob surrounded the scene as onlookers cried out for the motorman. The distraught father, Hyman Miner, seized a revolver and raged through his restaurant before being restrained. Police and doctors attended the victim while a large crowd gathered, some calling for vengeance against the motorman Art Auditt and the conductor fled the scene as anger surged.
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Mary Miner
Third-st
Bowery
Charles Keim
East Seventy-seventh-st
Hyman Miner
No. 354
Miner
Joe
Shea
Children's Court
Ninth St
Lynch
Arthur Auditt
No. 2
Eighth-ave
Auditt
Keim
Bellevue
Mrs. Miner
Dismissal of Charles Hedges for falsifying pay records
Washington July 22 Charles Hedges longtime associate of H H Rand and August W Machen was removed from his post as Superintendent of Free Delivery for falsifying his travel diary and per diem claims. The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow issued a statement detailing several instances of alleged government fraud and noting ongoing investigations into further charges including lobbying related to an 1863 ice claim.
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Washington
Charles Hedges
H. H. Rand
August W. Machen
Hedges
Bristow
M. A. W. Louis
John M. Masten
W. D. R. Hazzard
Tribune
Mexico
Congress
J. W. Parrish
Postmaster General
Joplin
Mansfield
Ohio
John Sherman
San Antonio
Tex
A. W. Machen
Free
New York
Philadelphia
Bridgeport
Conn
Camden N. J
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Robinson
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Smith
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W. A. Clark
Norcross CO
New-York
Thomas O'Reilly
Building Trades Employers’ Association
Mount Morris Park West
Employers Association
Board of Governors
New- York Public Library
J. Leland Wells
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New York Public Library
Columbia University
Horace Mann School
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Sarto
New-York Tribune
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