French Ports Tied Up as Great Seamen Strike Paralyzes Trade
At daybreak a general strike by sailors and Naval Reserve members began across almost all French ports. Approximately 117,000 in the reserve, including 25,000 in the navy, walked off ships and docks, threatening severe disruption to commerce and prompting government transport crews to step in for mail service.
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Paris
Naval Reserve
France
Navy
Mercantile Marine
Reserve
National Seamen's Union
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Channel
French Transatlantic Steamship Company
la Provence
la Gascogne
New York
Bordeaux
French Line
Marseilles
Havre
Brest
Toulon
Dunkirk
Nantes
Bordeau
Rouen
Seamen's Union
Messageries Maritime Company
Transatlantique Company
Rome
Clyde Seamen Strike Threatens Transatlantic Liners
Glasgow May 31 report says the Clyde seamen strike remains acute with doubts over full crews for Atlantic liners. If ships cannot sail, companies face heavy costs to maintain passenger services.
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Glasgow
Clyde
Mrs Herman Sulzer Injured in Memorial Day Car Crash
Mrs Herman Sulzer of 1990 Seventh Avenue and Mrs Charles Campbell of 222 West 121st Street were knocked from their carriage at 131st Street and Eighth Avenue on Memorial Day. Both women, and the driver, were hurled to the street. they were taken to Mrs Campbell’s home in serious condition with cuts and internal injuries. Dr D W Perkins said both would likely recover.
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Herman Sulzer
Seventh Avenue
127Th Street
Second Avenue
Charles Campbell
West
1St Street
131St Street
Eighth Avenue
121St Street
Victoria
Broker Arrested On Exchange Floor In May Day Incident
A senior broker from the Effingham Lawrence firm was arrested on the Stock Exchange floor after hurling an apple core at a passerby. He was taken to Old Slip station under the alias John Jones and later to the Tombs court, with friends accompanying him. Magistrate Crane discharged part of the party. details followed a social scramble at the scene.
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Stock Exchange
Effingham Lawrence
New Street
James W. Lawson
Old Slip
Lawrence
John Jones
Far Rockaway
Tombs Court
Crane
Lawson
Menvenen
Big Tom” Foley
Vanderbilt Yacht Narrowly Escapes in Newport Harbor
Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt faced a perilous close call near Newport outer harbor when a government launch rammed her small yacht Caprice amidships, striking from the German cruiser Bremen. Rear Admiral John P Merrill and officers aboard witnessed the incident as Caprice was steadied and steered back to Newport.
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The
Tribune
Newport
R. I
Caprice
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Death May Follow Fall At Hauxhurst Park
Two children are hospitalized in Union Hill New Jersey with skull fractures after a group of youngsters gathering wildflowers near a deep Palisades gully were chased by a large dog allegedly set on by a man. One child fell headfirst onto rocks, suffering separate facial injuries. the other sustained a skull fracture and an eye injury.
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North Hudson Hospital
Union Hill
N. J
Hauxhurst Park
Bernardine Dierks
Union Street
William Zimmerman
Jesse James Jr Graduates Law School With Highest Grade
Jesse James, son of the bandit, graduates from the Kansas City School of Law at the Shubert Theatre with the year's top mark. He is about thirty, married with two children, and has worked as a packing house employee, cigar stand keeper, pawnbroker, and law student. He was acquitted eight years ago after a train robbery trial. The defense framed the case as political, and James was freed by an alibi.
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the Tribune
Kansas City
Kansas City School of Law
Shubert Theatre
Jesse James
James
Afraid of Sea Keeps Boy From Europe Voyage
Charles Piquet twelve son of Leon de Gilbert estate manager on West Neck Road Huntington Long Island refused to sail to Europe with his mother and sisters due to fear of shipwreck. He bicycled downhill and collided with a car. injuries included a broken arm and wrist a fractured base of skull. Mrs J B Carvalho carried him to a farmhouse then Nassau Hospital Mineola. Chauffeur held on technical charge. Father directed drivers to the route where the collision occurred.
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Charles Piquet
Leon de Gilbert
West Neck Road
Huntington
Long Island
Europe
Piquet
J. 8. Carvalho
Lawrence
Bellevue Quake Begins In Hospital Probe
Bellevue faces scrutiny as investigations into physician practices prompt re signing of Dr. Benjamin T. Tilton. Reports allege hospital staff used Bellevue to boost private work, with patients charged for private operations. Dr Salvatore Magnoni admits accepting payment from a patient at the hospital, though says he did nothing improper. The hospital prohibits any staff member from accepting fees for hospital work.
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Bellevue
Benjamin T. Tilton
Tilton
Frederick Guyer
Salvatore Magnoni
Magistrate Whitman Robbed After Room Search
A well dressed thief robbed a boarding house at 16 East 45th Street run by Miss Fannie Moynan. Magistrate Whitman and his father Rev. John S. Whitman were among the victims, losing jewelry valued over $1,000 along with several other residents including Miss Bowman and Miss Considine. The crime followed a room inquiry by a young man who reported a room was available and later returned to plunder valuables.
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Fannie Moynan
East 45Th Street
Whitman
John S. Whitman
American founder dies by own action in Lima Peru
Lima Peru May 31 Henry Guyer an American died by self inflicted gunshot in Lima He was among founders of Casa Palca Smelting Works The item also notes Great Bear Spring Water with an advertisement claiming its purity.
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Lima
Peru
Henry Guyer
Casa Palca
City pays six real estate experts vast fees in 1904 1906
Controller Metz told Corporation Counsel Ellison the city paid six real estate appraisal experts a total of 18700850 over 1904 to 1906. Smyth and Berrian earned more in three years than top city officials. Metz vowed to probe earnings, hours, and whether bills remain unpaid.
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Metz
Ellison
Corporation Counsel
Samuel Smyth
C. A. Berrian
Smyth
Berrian
Hess Herbert* Plass
Thomas E. Smith
John M. Thompson
Morris Jacoby
Law Department
Manhattan
Finance Law Department
Riverside Drive
158Th Street
Expelled for hazing at Earlham College
Six Earlham College students were expelled today amid hazing incidents. Charges of assault and battery were filed, and they face trial tomorrow in city court. The Quaker institution in Richmond, Indiana, is shaken as the college community reels from the turmoil.
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the Tribune
Richmond
Ind
Earlham College
Earlham
Ten year old confesses to setting fire at vacant Bronx house
George Harbert, ten, told police he started the fire at 1414 West Farms Road in The Bronx saying he liked to see engines steaming. The house, empty for years, had burned 27 times previously. the boy will face Children's Court arraignment.
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George Harbert
West Farms Road
Bronx
Children’s Court
Subway Fourth Avenue Route Approved by Brooklyn Transit Board
Rapid Transit commissioners approved the Fourth avenue to Fort Hamilton and Coney Island line crossing the Manhattan Bridge. Brooklyn supporters cheered President Orr and new member Hurley as the board moved to authorize the route and seek Board of Estimate approval. Construction costs are projected at about 23 million dollars with a 30 million debt margin.
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Rapid Transit
Fourth Avenue
Fort Hamilton
Coney Island
New Manhattan Bridge
William S. Hurley
Metz
Stalin
Smith
Patrick F. McGowan
South
Brooklyn
Orr
Manhattan
Brooklyn Heights
Tri-Borough
Commission
Public Utilities Commission
McGowan
Board of Estimate
Hurley
Brooklyn Subways
Mr. McGowan
President Orr
Mr. Orr
George S. Rice
Rapid Transit Board
Brooklyn Borough Hall
East River
the Battery
Borough Hall
Flatbush Avenue
Long Island Railroad
Rice
Parents Held for Boy's Death in Moorestown Inquest
In Moorestown New Jersey an inquest found Granville Norton Watson seven died May 26 from meningitis after pneumonia. Parents Edwin M Watson and wife were found criminally liable for death due to lack of medical treatment and were held on bail. Coroner's jury censured two women who prayed for the boy’s recovery while Christian Scientists testified medicine could not heal sickness.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Moorestown
Granville Norton Watson
Edwin M. Watson
Starn
Philadelphia
Ida Stroud
Camden
Root Returns Yale Lecture Fee for Dodge Lecture
Elihu Root came back to Yale to receive a $1,200 check for delivering the William Earl Dodge lectures. He credited President Hadley, Secretary Stokes, and Judge Townsend for hospitality that more than repaid him. The payment came from the Dodge foundation as the annual lecture income.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Elihu Root
Yale
William Earl Dodge
Hadley
Stokes
William K. Townsend
Dodge Foundation
Oldest Mason Dies in Virginia at 107
Robert Ambler Bruce aged 107, claimed to be the world’s oldest Mason, died at Richmond’s city almshouse. Born in Virginia, he traveled widely and fought in several wars. He asserted he met Napoleon Bonaparte in 1817 and that Napoleon gave him a cross of honor at St. Helena.
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Richmond
Robert Ambler Bruce
Bruce
Virginia
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon
St. Helena
President Roosevelt Tours Michigan Amid Cheerful Greetings
Reports from Hillsdale and surrounding towns detail President Roosevelt's southbound trip from Lansing. He paused at Springport to greet Robert McClellan, met a kneeling stowaway child Herbert Lynch at Albion, and received a warm reception at Hillsdale. The journey included brief speeches, handshakes, and a stop in Garret before continuing toward Auburndale Junction.
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Tribune
Hillsdale
Mich
Lansing
Hearty College Wells
Springport
Robert McClellan
West
Mr. Roosevelt
McClellan
Albion
Congressman Gardner
Secret Service
Herbert Lynch
Lynch
Sloan
Magnet
Loeb
Herbert
Representative Gardner
Mr. Gardner
Condit
Roosevelt
Harvard
Aubun Junction
Lake Shore
Baltimore & Ohio
Washington
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
University of California
Pittsburg
Ripley on Roosevelt speech mocks railroader image
In Chicago May 31 President E P Ripley of the Santa Fe system commented on Roosevelt’s Indianapolis address. He likened it to breakfast bacon a mix of fat and lean signaling investors safety and users protection. He praised the admission that railroad men are not all thieves.
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Chicago
E. P. Ripley
Santa Fé
Roosevelt
Indianapolis
Death at Desk Ends M B Beckman Roster
M B Beckman head of New York Auto Transfer Company was found dead in his Childs Building office at 7 30 pm. Coroner Dooley ruled prussic acid poisoning as the cause amid business troubles and a mortgaged property. Survived by wife, an invalid mother in law, a daughter, and son Arthur M Beckman.
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M. B. Beckman
New York Auto Transfer Company
Childs Building
West 34Th Street
Arthur M. Beckman
the Concern
Beckman
Floyd Pitts
West 9 Street
Dooley
Taft Arrives in Columbus for War Office Visit
Secretary of War William H Taft reached Columbus at midnight from St Louis to meet Governor Harris and state officials and tour the U S army post. He will visit his mother from Cincinnati and return to Washington tonight. Charles P Taft arrived from Cincinnati for talks with his brother on politics.
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Columbus
Ohio
William H. Taft
St. Louis
Harris
United States Army
Cincinnati
Washington
Charles P. Taft
Boston Man Dead in the Desert Mystery
Prospector James Benton in San Bernardino reports finding a set of bleached bones of a man and horse along an obscure desert path. Sun and weather erased identification, though a faded coat held near illegible letters begun with Dear Harry and Dear Brother likely from Boston.
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the Tribune
San Bernardino
Cal
James Benton
Boston
Harry
Brother
President Roosevelt visits Lansing Michigan in grand welcome
President Roosevelt arrives in Lansing amid a joyous Western welcome. He speaks from the Capitol balcony and then at Michigan Agricultural College to about twenty five thousand. He praises education, manual labor, and farmers, and plants a maple tree before departing for Washington.
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Roosevelt
Lansing
Washington
Lake Shore
The
Agricultural College
Stx
College
Michigan
Mecca
Snyder
National Guard
Burrows
Smith
Wilson
J. B. Angell
University of Michigan
Loeb
Loud
Smith and Gardner
G Diekma
Charles A. Townsend
Gifford Pinchot
United States Forestry
America
Mr. Roosevelt
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