Heat Wave Claims Thirteen Lives Across City and Boroughs
A severe heat wave killed thirteen people yesterday as forecasters warned little relief for days. In Manhattan and Brooklyn fatalities rose while ambulances rushed the afflicted. public baths and streets were crowded as residents sought air and shade. Emergency crews reported numerous prostrations and heat-related distress across streets, tenements, and parks, with deaths spanning Manhattan Brooklyn Queens and New Jersey border communities.
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James BH Scarr
Brooklyn
Long Island
Rivingtonetree
Kear’s Hook Park
Rivington
Manhattan
Duchess de Talleyrand Denies Boni De Castellane Allegations
In Paris on July 25 the Duchesse de Talleyrand met with the archbishop to answer claims by Count Boni de Castellane seeking an annulment of marriage. She calls the witnesses named by the count, his brother Jean and Don Giovanni del Drago, false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchess de Talleyrand
Tribune
Paris
Duchesse de Taleyrand
Boni de Castellane
Jean
Don Giovanni del Drago
Chicago bars pictures of Jeffries Johnson fight
Chicago police issued an order prohibiting moving pictures of the Jeffries Johnson fight and any depiction of acts illegal in Illinois. In Columbus the Republican State Convention faces a three man race for governor with Brown Harding Thompson, backed by Cox and Garfield as potential dark horses. Garfield promotes a progressive platform with limits on corporate influence and stronger public oversight, while Longworth’s absence from the ballot is offset by a hoped first ballot chairman’s boost. The contest centers on Brown versus Harding and Garfield with Cox backing Brown and others wary of a Taft administration backlash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Illinois
Tribune
Columbus
Ohio
Oren B Brown
Dayton
Warren G. Harding
Marion
Carmi Thompson
State Department
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
James R. Garfield
Interior
Judge Brown
George B. Cox
Cox
Brown
Garfield
Burton
la Follette
Taft
Committee On
Public Utilities Commission
General Corporation Commission
Harding
Thompson
Woman Burglar Arrested in String of Thefts
Police lock up Mrs Anna Wilson at Central Office after detectives linked her to a July 20 apartment robbery and recovery of part of the loot. Investigations tied her to two earlier entries at East 19th Street and Fourth Avenue, with belongings bearing initials of Leonard Burne and Miss King. Morphine addiction reported by Bellevue Hospital doctors.
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Central Office
Hickson, Lockman and McConeghy
Elizabeth King
East 23d Street
Wilson
Thomas J. Leonard
East 19Th Street
Jimmy
William C. Burne
New Amsterdam
Fourth Avenue
21St Street
Fast
19Th Street
Miss King
McConeghy
Elizabeth Street
Bellevue Hospital
Irving Place
Taft Caught in the Fog Off Maine Coast aboard Mayflower
The Mayflower with President Taft and party aboard battled dense fog off the Maine coast late last night. Commander Logan kept the bridge active as anchors were dropped near a shoal until dawn. The fog lifted at sunrise and the vessel headed for the bay, then resumed underway as conditions improved.
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Rockland
Taft
Maine
Commander Logan
Logan
Chewing Gum Strike At Cleveland Factory
Twenty eight female workers at the American Chicle Company plant in Cleveland walk off the job demanding raise to 125 dollars a week. The heat in the workroom and music from a nearby pavilion sparked the strike as the superintendent refused immediate wage increase and prepared to replace striking workers.
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Cleveland
American Chicle Company
May Calway
Stubborn Fire Destroys Brooklyn Bridge Planking
A blaze on the south roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge disrupted traffic for hours after igniting about 150 feet beyond the Manhattan tower. Brooklyn Rapid Transit inspector John Lyons led track workers in smothering the fire before Fire Department crews arrived, with a fresh outbreak found nearby. A cigarette or cigar is suspected as the ignition source.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Trafic
Manhattan Tower
John Lyons
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Lyons
Tornado Wrecks Seven Aeroplanes at St Louis Aero Club
A tornado at Washington Park Illinois destroyed seven aeroplanes valued at 25 000 dollars at the Aero Club of St Louis field. The Farman biplane of C W Curzon and machines belonging to J W Sparling Charles Kuhne Claude Harris H A Robinson and C F Zehler were wrecked. Only the motors may be salvageable. The storm also caused damage in Hast St Louis while St Louis itself escaped major impact.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Aero Club of St. Louis
Washington Park
Illinois
Farman
C. W. Curzon
Howard W. Gill
Hillery Beachey
Curzon
J. W. Sparling
Charles Kuhne
Claude Harris
H. A. Robinson
C. F Zehler
U S Minister Confined by Illness in Lima
Lima report says United States Minister Leslie Combs is bedbound with influenza as of July 25. The item notes a wine promotion for Dewey's Brut-Cuvee Champagne from Dewey & Sons Co. at 153 Fulton Street, New York.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Leslie Combs
Dewey’s
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Scotland Yard Poised to Catch Crippen Aboard Montrose
Crippen and his former stenographer Ethel Leneve are believed aboard the Canadian Pacific steamer Montrose, en route to Montreal, with Inspector Dew tracking toward Rimouski. They traveled under aliases, were separated into cabins, and face arrest once proven. Antwerp reports similar sightings and passenger details.
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London
Hawley H. Crippen
Ethel Clara Leneve
Montrose
Montreal
Scotland Yard
Crippen
Hilldrop Crescent
France
Antwerp
Inspector Dew
Laurentic
Liverpool
Rimouski
Dr. Crippen
Ethel Leneve
Belgium
Robinson
London Express
Half a Million Cashier's Last Bank Heist Revealed
A bank cashier Erwin Wider confessed to stealing about $600,000 in securities from the Russo-Chinese Bank agency. Investigators lifted the veil on prior warnings from a brokerage house and a pattern echoing historic bank robberies as Wider’s motive shifts toward Wall Street speculation.
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Erwin Wider
Leon B. Ginsberg
Wider
E. de Markowski
Ginsberg
de Markowski
Russell
Warran
Doctor accused of trying to give away baby in basket
A crowd on West 125th Street alerted Patrolman Leatherman to a man who attempted to remove a baby in a basket. The suspect, claimed as Dr Lester Cox of 220 West 34th Street, denied paternity. He was hospitalized after an illness in his cell while neighbors questioned his guardianship.
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Hubert Miles
West 27Th Street
John Maliniss
Brooklyn
Leatherman
West 125Th Street
115Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Lester Cox
220
West 34Th Street
Bellevue
Brennan
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Cox
Dickinson Claim in Doubt Keeps Suit Likely
Edwin W. De Leon of Casualty Company of America said the firm has not accepted Mrs. Dickinson’s proofs of Charles C. Dickinson’s accidental death. The estate likely will sue if the claim is not paid after the three month grace period. Coroners’ inquest had urged the jury to find gas fumes caused the pneumonia that killed the Carnegie Trust Company president in St. Luke’s Hospital.
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Edwin W. de Leon
Casualty Company of America
Charles C. Dickinson
Carnegie Trust Company
Dickinson
William H. Wadhams
St. Luke’s Hospital
Casualty Company
Mount Kensico
Otto H. Schultze
Scranton
Feinburg
Winterbottom
Insurance Company
Child dies after eating ice cream cone in Paterson
A three year old girl, Katie Kaviack of 112 President Street Passaic, died within an hour after eating an ice cream cone bought from a peddler in Paterson. Doctors say the poison was in the cone and police have not found the vendor yet.
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Fanning
Richard
129Th Street
Miles
Hubert Imegro
bin West 71Th Street
Brooklt.s
EaLlexander
19Th Stree
Breickman Fella
Christopher Avenue
Galikson
Andrew
18Th Street
Hart
Mary
Rochester Avenue
Rutland
Levine
Ida
Bergen Street
Linton
Mildred
Woodbine Street
Aden Helen
Dean Street
Lasullo
Harrison Place
Sugrillo
Philomena
Ten Eweck Street
Coney Island
Queens
Maliniss
John
Newton Street
Green
Brokivn Round Centre
Fort
Maspeth
New Jersey
Elinocs Peter
Avenue E
Eigiteen
Count Boni
Chicago Bars Pictures
Onio
Dark Horse
Indorses
Longworth
Anna Wilson
Mayflower
Cool Dancing Pavilion
Charles
F. Dick
Theodore Burton
Miss Leneve
Belle Elmore
John Robinson
Campbell
Belle Isle
Father Point
Poughkeepsie
Wall Street
Goldberg
The
Stock Exchange
Exchange
First National Bank
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr
Trust Company of America
William O Douglass
W. O. Douglass
William O. Douglass
First National
Man
Accident Company
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