Taft asks Crane to study West and canceling fall trips
Beverly Mass July 29 Senator Winthrop Murray Crane Massachusetts, a key Republican adviser to President Taft, was summoned to Beverly for a long conference. Taft plans Crane to tour the West to gauge political conditions up to Seattle, stressing an outsider's view. The move signals a major administration effort while Taft cancels most fall engagements to remain at Beverly and Washington, with a Panama trip planned in November to inspect the canal project. The White House denies ties to Ballinger-Pinchot issues.
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Mass
Winthrop Murray Crane
Massachusetts
Senate
House of Representatives
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Burgess Point
Crane
Seattle
Congress
Commonwealths
Manchester
Senator Crane
Ballinger-Pinchot
Ballinger
Washington
Panama
Rockland
United States
W. M. Crane
West
Madman Murders Two in Quincy Frenzy and Flight
Louis Restelli a granite contractor killed two people and wounded three others in a sudden frenzy in South Quincy. He escaped as police and militiamen hunted him. his mother Rose Restelli and Henry E. Hardwick are dead, Gaspare Restelli and Benjamin Bishop wounded, Theodore Hardwick crippled. Police suggest money troubles and note Restelli pawned a diamond ring and bought two revolvers before the attacks.
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Quincy
Mass
Louis Restelli
Rose Restelli
Henry E. Hardwick
Restelli
Gaspare Restelli
Benjamin Bishop
Theodore Hardwick
Trafford Street
Penn Street
Bishop
Gaspare
Louis
Hardwick Company
Common Street
C. Theodore Hardwick
Adams Street
Mr. Hardwick
Company K
Sth Regiment
Hingham
Boston
Wollaston
Hardwick
Ready investors flood Qualey scheme amid Newark plant sale
John Qualey and Harvey Wiley Corbett were arrested as investors flocked to a Magnesia Asbestos Company proposition tied to Newark and Neponset plants facing sheriff sale on August 2. Court actions sparked by Mrs Bull and others show a web of loans and ambitions with Corbett, an architect, linked to a $4 million Springfield project and a $1 million Baltimore institute.
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John Qualey
William T. Bull
Newark
Qualey
Corbett
New York
Hamlin
Ellen Dunlap Hopkins
School of Applied Design For Women
Preston Satterwhite
Great Neck
Long Island
W. Gould Brokaw
Clarence G. Follis
W. E. D. Stokes
A. S. Anable
Courtland V. Anable
George H. Holt
Paris
Bull
Jefferson Market Court
Charles L. Craig
John F. McIntyre
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Rhode Island
Swam Too Far From Shore in Staten Island Tragedy
Michael Naughton and Thomas Murphy, clerks, drowned in New York Bay near Princess Bay Staten Island after cramping while returning from a king tide swim. Four companions witnessed the scene as efforts to recover the bodies continued into the night and would resume the next day.
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Michael Naughton
Thomas Murphy
New York Bay
Princess Bay
Staten Island
Naughton
Murphy
Pittsburg Financier Foils Colorado Stage Hold-Up
In Ouray Colorado a stage robbery failed when Samuel McCurdy of Pittsburg a visiting financier opened fire with an automatic revolver. Two masked robbers fled after a stand at dusk injuring no one. McCurdy said he carried the gun by chance for the trip.
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the Tribune
Ouray
Col
Samuel McCurdy
Pittsburg
Boy Crushed by Surface Car in Greenpoint Street Tragedy
Hundreds of Greenpoint factory workers rushed onto the street after work as a Calvary Cemetery line car struck a small boy named Georgie Post of 169 Greenpoint Avenue. He died three hours later at Williamsburg Hospital. Motorman Mike Garvin applied the brake but the car rode over his legs and wedged the child beneath it. Fifty factory workers lifted the car and freed him, but was too late.
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Greenpoint
Williamsburg
Georgie Post
Greenpoint Avenue
Calvary Cemetery Line
Mike” Garvin
Girard Sash and Blind Factory
Unmanned Speeding Craft Lands On Far Rockaway Beach
A twenty five foot blue gray motor boat with no name ran ashore at Roache's Beach after speeding from the misty ocean. Newspapers dated yesterday lay in the bottom, indicating recent abandonment. Lifesavers and onlookers fear the occupants were drowned.
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Far Rockaway
Pay for Oscar's Dinner in Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports reveal prominent citizens funded a February 1909 dinner for Oscar Hammerstein at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel to back grand opera. An obscure 1909 ordinance item shows the city billed $1,484.09 for the dinner, with 240 guests at ten dollars each, though many had already paid ten dollars to Mayor Reyburn, who has declined comment.
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Tribune
Philadelphia
Oscar Hammerstein
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel
Reyburn
Massachusetts Minister Leaves Pulpit for Store Manager Job
Boston reports Rev. David F. Atherton resigns from North Congregational Church North Abington to become a floor manager in a Boston department store. He cites clergy pay as about 600 dollars yearly, compares favorably with business life, and oversees hundreds of young women while managing staff. Atherton, Bowdoin College graduate, Bangor Theological School alum, ordained nine years ago.
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the Tribune
Boston
David F. Atherton
North Congregational Church
North Abington
Mr. Atherton
Bowdoin College
Bangor Theological School
Longest Delaware estate division after 83 years at $80
After an 83 year delay the $80 Caldwell estate, tied up since 1827, was divided in Wilmington. Register in Chancery Jolls, appointed auditor, traced witnesses in New Haven and Philadelphia. Twenty-seven heirs contested two wills and three deeds amid three presumptions of death.
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the Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Timothy Caldwell
Register In Chancery
Jolls
New Haven
Philadelphia
Wider caught here will plead guilty to grand larceny
Erwin Wider, cashier at Russo-Chinese Bank, confessed to stealing nearly 650000 in bonds and securities. Indicted for grand larceny, bail set at 25000. Wider to plead guilty in General Sessions. He was arrested after a planned surrender with lawyer Leon B. Ginsberg and awaits arraignment.
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Fulton Street
Mouquin's
Leon B. Ginsberg
Ginsberg
Wider
Foster
Thomas Hughes
Louis Hyams
Mouquin’s
Russell
Criminal Courts
Bridge of Sighs
Baltimore & Ohio
Dick Brothers & Co
Earle T. Shaw
Carl Schultz
Madrid in uproar over recall of Spanish ambassador to Vatican
Madrid reports a profound sensation as the clerical and anti clerical factions expect a government crisis after the recall of Marquis de Ojeda, Spain's ambassador to the Vatican. If the Vatican resists, reforms would curb religious orders, regulate education, and redefine Church state relations. Religious demonstrations scheduled for Sunday are banned. Viscayan Catholics plan a protest march to San Sebastian.
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Marquis de Ojeda
Vatican
San Sebastian
Spain
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Alfonso
Canalejas
Lestor Canalejas
Rome
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Vice
Canale
Submarine Cuttlefish Grounds In Chesapeake Bay Incident
Annapolis July 29 a submarine flagship of the third flotilla the Cuttlefish commanded by Lieutenant F W Mc Nair ran aground off Chesapeake Beach a summer resort thirty miles below Annapolis The Viper and the Tarantula were sent to assist after the Naval Academy was asked to aid The cause is believed to be an engine mishap causing drifting onto the bar.
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Annapolis
F. W. McNair
Chesapeake Beach
Naval Academy
Ready 19 Invade Tibet
Unrest in Tibet grows as Chinese actions provoke Indian troop readiness on the Tibetan frontier. The British note Chinese forces and officials entering Tibet while the Dalai Lama fled to English territory earlier. Nepaul and Bhutan neighbors warn of potential interference to safeguard British interests.
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Tibet
Gyantse
Guntong
Dalai Lama
Nepaul
Bhutan
Russian mother hit by car in Yonkers while carrying child
Mrs Elizabeth Cokonski a Russian mother crossing Riverdale near Harriot street Yonkers was struck by a car driven by Anton Garstang of East 86th Street. The child escaped injury. Mrs Cokonski suffered brain concussion a compound fracture of the right ankle contusions to the right side and a sprained left wrist. She is in serious condition at St Josephs Hospital. The chauffeur was arrested and paroled to his employer Louis Levy coin manufacturer of East 45th Street.
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Elizabeth Cokonski
Riverdale
Harriot Street
Yonkers
Anton Garstang
East 86Th Street
Louis Levy
East 45Th Street
Rip Van Winkle figure Reuben Todd found drowned
Reuben Todd of Dry Brook Ulster County known as Rip Van Winkle to artists was found drowned in Dry Brook stream near Kingston. He disappeared from his home last Sunday and, at eighty five, is believed to have wandered to his death amid Catskill scenes.
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Kingston
N. Y
Reuben Todd
Dry Brook
Ulster County
Dry Brook Stream
Catskill Mountain
Todd
Rockefeller sued for 550000 in Ohio oil suit
Findlay Ohio July 29 Thomas C Kelley A J Steele and Terence McManus sue Standard Oil Company of New Jersey Standard Oil Company of Ohio and John D Rockefeller in Common Pleas Court for 550000 alleging monopoly price cutting destroyed their oil business Kelley and Steele seek 200000 each and McManus 150000 former large producers of old oil fields lead to damages claim.
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Findlay
Ohio
Thomas C. Kelley
A. J. Steele
Terence McManus
Common Pleas Court
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
John D. Rockefeller
Standard
Kelley
Steele
McManus
Spain Breaks With Vatican and Carlists Rile Spain
Madrid signals rupture as Marquis de Ojeda is recalled after talks with King Alfonso and Premier Canalejas. Carlist Don Jaime pledges to lead followers as anti clerical drive unfolds. unrest grows with miners and Catholic clashes across Spain. Bilbao bans Sunday demonstrations amid public tension.
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Don Jaime
Alfonso
Don Jaimé of Bourbon
Catalinian
el Mundo
Madrid
Holy See
The Rule of Canalejas and Spain's Vatican Clash
Premier Canalejas sought to Europeanize Spain and reform the Concordat with the Vatican while civil matters and education were debated in the Cortes. A sequence of decrees and protests followed including registration of religious orders, church insignia rights, and clashes with Republicans, ending as negotiations faced a potential break.
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Vatican
Cortes
Spain
Alfonso
Monsignor
Vico
Valencia
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