Life for son as father slays wife in brutal kitchen scene
A New York tenement tragedy ends with William Campbell fatally wounding wife Mrs. Caroline Campbell during a quarrel over work. The son and mother die after a knife attack while the father, told by police, awaits arrest. Father McGean administers extreme unction and the family sustains six children. The incident leaves William wounded and the elder daughter Loretta grappling with shock as authorities outline charges.
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Igree Police
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Tom
Metropolitan Street Raiilway Company
Edward
Caroline
Presby Mrian Hospital
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Isk
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Hoyttal
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Burglars Target W H Moody House In Saltonstall
Severeill Macs reports three burglars forced their way to the roof and entered a summer home of United States Supreme Court Justice Moody at Saltonstall Roed. Miss Mary Moody fired a revolver at one intruder but all escaped. search is ongoing.
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Severhill
Macs
Witten H Moody
United States Supreme Court
Saltonstall Roed
Justice Moody
Bryan Endorsed At Louisiana Democratic State Meet
Route La June 3 W J Bryan was endorsed for the Presidency by Louisiana Democrats tonight The state delegation to Denver will be uninstructed and delegates at large selected without instruction A prior party resolution to vote for Bryan while his name remained before the convention was rejected Louisiana expected to send pledged delegates to Denver
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Denver
Seth
Bryan
Deg Cag
Eta Js
Loulsiana
weMldhen
Steinheil Murder Case Prominent Paris Murder Coverage
Newspapers in Paris condemn various views on the Brentere hell and Mme Japy murder. Mention of a discharged servant Meyen with no arrests yet. Mother is hysterical and removed with friend Count Arion for treatment.
Doctor Grenfell Survives Dogs Fight on Labrador Ice
Dr Wilfred Grenfell endured forty hours amid hunger mad dogs on a Labrador ice floe at ten degrees below zero. Battling the pack without aid, he used skins as insulation and killed three dogs for warmth. A signal flag tied to a dog leg saved him when rescuers spotted it from Locke's Cove and Mare Bay.
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W. Bartlett
Strathcona
Captain Bartlett
Commander Peary
Arctic
Battle Harbor
Labrador
Dr. Gren
George Reid
Locke’s Cove
Mare Bay
Girl Races With Train on Long Island Road
Miss Marjorie Bourne daughter of Commodore Frederick Bourne drives a touring car at about sixty miles an hour along the Southside Turnpike near Islip. She passes the Cannon Bail Express of the Long Island Railroad twice as passengers cheer from the train and the engineer pushes the engine.
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Marjorie Bourne
Commodore Frederick Bourne
Long Island Railroad
Miss Bourne
Oakdale
Southside
Islip
Magoon to sail for Colon to act as arbitration referee
Kingston Jamaica June 3 Governor Magoon of Cuba will sail June 13 from this port to Colon aboard the Prinz Joachim. He is to serve as referee in the arbitration of Panaman claims against the United States per Secretary Taft. He has booked two extra accommodations whose identities were not learned.
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Jamaica
Magoon
Cuba
Colon
Prinz Joachim
Magcoon
Taft
United States
Girl Mysteriously Shot In Pittsburg West End
Miss Amanda Wettengel, daughter of Harry C. Wettengel, a wealthy retired coal man, was shot on her father's lawn in the West End. The bullet fractured the bone in her thigh, and doctors fear she may be crippled for life. Her father vows to pursue the assailant in what is believed to be an ambush murder attempt.
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Pittsburg
Amanda Wettengel
West End
Harry C. Wettengel
Control of British meat market raised in Commons
London June 2 in a Commons debate Charles W Bowerman accused the American Beef Trust of engineering meat price increases in Britain. He urged a commission like the American Congress to investigate and ease consumer burdens. Winston Churchill, president of the Board of Trade, said he would consider such a commission to examine operations of the great trusts behind protectionist tariffs.
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London
American Beef Trust
House of Commons
Charles W. Bowerman
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
American Congress
Trust
Churchill
Return of JFK body shocks Vanderbilt villa case
N H Car formerly of Atlanta who stayed at a Vanderbilt villa at Biltmore is reported dead for three weeks with embalmed body showing natural color returning to cheeks and face. Physicians call it remarkable and monitor developments as Mrs Carpenter, a Christian Scientist, initially refused burial then later urged burial before changing her mind again.
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Asheville
N. c
N. H. Carformerly
Atlanta
Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Penny Post Plan With Britain Takes Step Toward Universal Postage
London reports Postmaster General Buxton announces a penny post arrangement with the United States effective October 1. British press hails the move as a major reform aiding foreign opinion and expects talks with France to follow. Leaders praise Buxton Meyer Reid Bryce and Heaton as the father of imperial penny postage. The Daily Mail hopes U S reforms will also trim parcel charges, with an estimated annual loss to the British post office of $650,000 based on current traffic.
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Buxton
United States
France
Meyer
Reid
Bryce
John Henniker Heaton
The
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J. Henniker Heaton
Paris
Ambassador Reid
Lord Blyth
John Wanamaker
Washington
Great Britain
Ireland
Sydney Buxton
House of Commons
England
Roosevelt
Universal Postal Union
Universal Union
Cuba
Panama
Canada
United Kingdom
Nnse
Rockefeller Visits Cardinal Logue at Eastview Home
John D. Rockefeller paid respects to Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, at James Butler’s Eastview New York estate yesterday afternoon. Arranged by Father Lennon, Rockefeller arrived shortly after 2 pm in a black car and waited in the sun before meeting Butler and the Cardinal.
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Cardinal Logue
Ireland
James Butler
Eastview
N. Y
Father Lennon
Church of the Magdalene
Pocantico Hills
Mr. Rockefeller
Mr. Butler
Bishop Brown
Westchester
Rockefeller Visits Cardinal Logue in Ireland and New York
John D Rockefeller meets Cardinal Logue during a brief Dublin visit and later discusses golf and etiquette. The exchange includes note of posing for photos with Cardinal Logue and a farewell as Rockefeller departs for Pocantico Hills. West Point ceremonies await Logue after the meeting. Dewey’s Special Sec Champagne advertised by Dewey & Sons Co.
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Dewey’s
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Ancient Grant document found linked to St Louis politics
A June 3 telegraph report from St Louis reveals an August 1, 1859 record showing U.S. Grant applying for the county engineer post, which the county court refused. Grant had just married a St Louis woman and left the army, with recommendations from I I Reynolds and S M Frost, both West Point alumni.
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Tribune
St. Louis
McCluskey
U.S. Grant
Grant
I. I. Reynolds
Washington University
8. M. Frost
West Point
Uncle Joe Fooled Conspirators in Pittsburg Plot
Telegraph desk reports Speaker Cannon faced an alleged auto license plot when entering Pittsburg. Enthusiasts wanted a national licensing law and planned to arrest him for lacking a state tag. He departed by train to Chicago, foiling the scheme. Pittsburg June 3.
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Tribune
Speaker Cannon
House
Pittsburg
Joe
Chicago
Lion runs amok at Washburn Circus in Greenwich
In Greenwich on June 3 an African lion named Nero escaped during a Washburn Circus performance after a keeper was attacked by the animal. Hundreds of women and children, including members of prominent New York families, fled as the lion roared from under a wagon. Circus workers then restrained the tent and lassoed the lion back into its cage. most spectators returned to finish the show.
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Greenwich
Conn
Nero
Washburn Circus
New York
Frank Hastings
Clifford Harmon
Frank Gould
George Nichols
Percy Rockefeller
Immense Rail Contract Between U S Steel and Russia
Pittsburg reports United States Steel Corp. has a 1,000,000 ton deal with the Russian government to relay the Trans Siberian Railway with heavier rails. An expert is to examine the line in Siberia to determine the appropriate weight, with 15 pound rails currently favored. The contract, to be fulfilled in Pittsburg and Chicago, is expected to take two years.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Trans-Siberian
Siberia
Chicago
Zola's body moved to Panthéon amid cheers and riots
Paris reports Emile Zola laid to rest at the Panthéon with his widow present. Crowds clashed as bands of students and anti Zola forces confronted police. Major Dreyfus attended unseen as police patrolled, arrests made and guards tightened for the morning ceremony.
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Emile Zola
Montmartre
Panthéon
Major
Mme. Dreyfus
Zola
Latin Quarter
Marseillaise
la Libre Parole
France
Twenty Rescued Near Wake Island by Brazilian Ship
Rio de Janeiro reports the Brazilian training ship Benjamin Constant en route to Yokohama picked up twenty shipwrecked men on Wake Island in the Pacific. The Wake Island atoll is a U S possession. The rescued men are said to be in good health and are being cared for aboard the Benjamin Constant as the voyage continues.
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Rio de Janeiro
Benjamin Constant
Yokohama
Wake Island
United States
Pacific Ocean
Mauretania heads for record eastward run after coal notch
The Cunard liner Mauretania completed a three record westward voyage and plies to sail at 10 am with six thousand tons of coal aboard for an intended record eastward crossing to Daunt's Rock. La Provence and three other big liners depart at the same hour in a race for speed.
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Liverpool
New York
Roberts
Daunt’s Rock
Mauretania
Cunard
Lizard
la Provence
Guns and Gamblers Police Monster Raid Shocks Broadway
Nearly two hundred officers raided 139 and 141 West 41st Street arresting fifty eight men. Warrants for John Does named inmates at 139 and for owners at 141 were used. Detectives seized a double roulette wheel and gambling gear while escorts cleared 41st street. Arthur Hewitt supplied undercover evidence to Police Commissioner Bingham.
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West 41St Street
John Doe
Crane
East 35Th
West 37Th
West 47Th Street
Max Steinbruck
Murphy
West 3Th Street
John” Kelly
41St Street
Sixth Avenue
West 30Th Street
Lou” Betts
John Does
Abe Levy
Frank Meehan
Fred Behr
No. 141
J. Marutius
Joseph Brown
Morris Winslow
Arthur Hewitt
Hotel Albany
Calvert
Bingham
Widespread floods as Mississippi rises and rail lines panicked
Telegraph dispatches report the Mississippi River rising to the 2-foot stage and flooding lowlands along the Illinois side. Alton area dikes breach while trains on multiple lines are washed out or delayed. Crests and downstream floods threaten communities from Hannibal to Wichita Falls and Helena.
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Tribune
St. Louis
Mississippi
Illinois
Lilly
Alton
Mobile Island
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Red River Valley
Mile Feodorovna Hanged In Voronezh Execution
Mile Feodorovna, 25, former schoolteacher, who failed to assassinate General Bibikoff, Governor of Voronezh, was hanged here on June 3. The case followed the May 6 attempt.
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Voronezh
Mile Feodorovna
Bibikoff
Influential women oppose women suffrage movement
London June 3 influential women led by the Countess of Jersey Mrs. Humphry Ward and other writers and reformers have organized a campaign against granting suffrage to women. An advertising note mentions Pure Air Pure Water Health and Comfort at Bretton Woods with information at Broadway.
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Countess of Jersey
Humphry Ward
Bretton Woods
Broadway
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