Early to Come Free Leper in Washington Controversy
Dr. L Duncan Bulkley pushes for habeas corpus to free John R Early a Washington leprosy case. He cites skin tests by Dr Welch and medical authorities disputing the diagnosis while planning new efforts aided by Captain Seaver and Mrs Early to bring Early to New York. Washington officials deny until confirmation for leprosy is obtained and a surgeon’s verdict reverses.
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L. Duncan Bulkley
Madison Avenue
John R. Early
Washington
Early
Bulkley
William H. Welch
Johns Hopkins University
Bulkiey
Welch
Baltimore
Europe
Dr. Bulkley
Woodward
Fowler
Earls Case
William H. Park
New York Department of Health
Berwyn Blacksmith Survives 3500 Foot Balloon Copter Crash
Ulysses Sorensen of Berwyn Nebraska crashed after his homemade plane mounted on a balloon fell from 3500 feet. He survived with only bruises and immediate plans to build a new flying machine despite the jammed rudder. Friends believed him dead, but he recovered consciousness and vowed another attempt after a short rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Berwyn
Neb
Ulysses Sorensen
Sorensen
Odd Gift for Cannon from New York Licorice Stick
A. W. Ten Eyck of New York sent Speaker Cannon a small stick of licorice in a plain envelope. The package sat in the New York Post Office for ten days due to under postage before Postmaster Morgan forwarded it. L. Whyte Busbey opened it for Cannon and noted it could not be a bomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Cannon
A. W. Ten Eyck
New York
New York Postoffice
Morgan
L. Whyte Busber
Mr. Cannon
Model Milk Company Aims to Improve Rural Dairy Supply
New York milk committee plans a model milk company to buy a country creamery and work with farmers to improve milk quality. Capital stock set at 25000 dollars with 190 dollar shares. 5900 dollars already pledged. Subscribed by Mortimer L. Schiff and others. support from charities and associations to assist farmers unable to pay market price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Milk Committee
Stephen Francisco
Falr- 44 Dairy Company
Loton Horton
Sheffield Farms-Slawson-Decker Company
Ingie
Mortimer L. Schiff
Charles T. Root
Samuel Sloan, Jr
Samuel W. Lambert
The
College of Physicians and Surgeons
W. Mary
Stephen C. Williams
Seth Low
New York Association For Improving
Poriety
United Hebrew Charities
Zeastiropi
Mayor McClellan Seeks Court-Approved Costs
Controller Metz sent a warrant for 5000 dollars to Mayor McClellan, allowed by Justice Patterson of the Appellate Division to cover disbursements and counsel fees in a suit instigated by Attorney General Jackson at William Randolph Hearst’s urging. Of the 530,000 total, Eugene Lamb Richards will receive about 540,000, with the remainder to associates and staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metz
McClellan
Justice Patterson
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Jackson
William Randolph Hearst
Eugene Lamb Richards
MacClellan
High Turkish Officials in Jail
Constantinople reports four marshals including ex ministers of Marine and Public Instruction, two generals, former Councillor of State, former vali and sixty other high officials sentenced by court martial to imprisonment in provincial fortresses for involvement in the recent revolutionary movement. An imperial decree approves the sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Marine and Public Instruction
Valli
Austrian British Friction 15 Mensdorff Resigns Ambassadorship
Due to strained relations between Austria Hungary and Great Britain, Count Mensdorff resigns as ambassador at London. He will be succeeded by Hungarian ambassador Pallavicini in Vienna with new postings amid tense foreign diplomacy between the two powers.
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Austria-Hungary
Great Britain
Mensdorff
Vienna
Lon
Pallavicini
Turkey
Mrs Cleveland testifies in trial over forged Cleveland signature
Mrs Frances Folsom Cleveland widow of ex president Grover Cleveland testifies in the Brandenburg trial alleging the signature on a political article sold to The New York Times was not her husband's. She identified checks and letters as signed by Cleveland and said she had conversations with Times staff about the article. Brandenburg, free on bail after a San Francisco capture, challenges the charges as prosecutors plan to prove the article was dictated by Brandenburg and signed with a forged Cleveland signature. The case continues tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Broughton Brandenburg
New York Times
Grover Cleveland
Times
Joseph D. Bryant
Brandenburg
San Francisco
Cleveland
Charles M. Lincoln
the Times
Criminal Courts
F. S. Hastings
Tamworth
New Hampshire
the Herald
Princeton
Hastings
Nott
Lincoln
Ift
Oswald N. Jacoby
Reick
Jacoby
Mr. Cleveland
Justice Fitzgerald
President to urge tax on net earnings of corporations
The President plans to send a special message to Congress urging adoption of an excise tax on corporate net earnings. The move aims to justify the measure to Senators and Representatives, with predictions of broad support including many Democrats and Republicans. Leaders in the Senate admit defeat by the income tax movement, while the President seeks to sway House and Senate actions toward constitutional amendment through a joint resolution.
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iFrom
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
Capitol
Taft
Senate
Bailey
Cummins
Roosevelt
Aldrich
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
House
Finance Committee
Brown
Nebraska
Caillaux Denies Paris Listing for United States Steel
Paris reports M. Caillaux, Finance Minister, refused to list United States Steel on the Paris Bourse. Objections include legal issues with listing stock not issued by the providers and a plan for bank issued certificates. Treasury objections were noted and a protest was lodged with Clemenceau, Caillaux, and Pichon by Comite des Forges de France over unequal foreign treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Caillaux
United States Steel Corporation
Bankers’ Trust
Bankers’ Corporation
Treasury
Clemenceau
M. Pichon
Gillain
Comite Des Forges de France
France
Thieves Return $15,900 to Duluth Woman in Letter
Mrs George Shea of Duluth Minnesota told police on May 30 that 20000 hidden under her bed had been stolen. A letter signed Two Thieves arrived in Seattle on June 15 saying they used 5000 to furnish a home and returned 15900 the rest of the money to the owner.
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Seattle
George Shea
Duluth
Minn
Clash on the Banks Near Gloucester Shows Trawler Tension
News from Quero Bank reports a clash between Gloucester Mass fishing schooner Senator Gardiner and a French steam trawler. The American captain reportedly fired a rifle, splitting the steam trawler’s rail. no injuries. Handle follows a long-running feud between trawlers and hand-line fishermen with gear losses cited by French, American, and Newfoundland captains. A French hand-line schooner captain who lost gear boarded the offending vessel and was ejected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Sydney
Gloucester
Mass
Senator Gardiner
Quero Bank
Kuhne Must Go To Jail For Contempt Of Court
Acting Captain August Kuhne head of Brooklyn detective bureau was ordered by the Court of Appeals in Albany to serve thirty days in jail and pay a $250 fine for contempt of court. The case grew from the arrest of Frank Jenkins, a Brooklyn banker, on a forgery charge and subsequent writs and detentions at the courthouse. Kuhne said he would serve the sentence and could not pay the fine, noting his years of service and family obligations.
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August Kuhne
Detective Bureau
Brooklyn
Court of Appeals
Albany
Frank Jenkins
Jenkins
Fawcett
Justice Burr
Supreme Court
Kahne
Kuhne
Mulberry Street
57Th Street
Borough Park
Army typhoid vaccination trial at Fort Omaha
Seven private soldiers and one officer of the United States Army were inoculated with typhoid serum at Fort Omaha to eradicate typhoid from the service. Each injection contained about 860 million germs. Major Harry Gilchrist, Fort Omaha chief surgeon, administered the dose as a vaccination-like procedure promising broader use if successful.
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the Tribune
Omaha
United States Army
Fort Omaha
Harry Gilchrist
Denver in Darkness After Gas and Electric Plant Explosion
Denver reports three dead and many injured as a boiler explosion at the Denver Gas and Electric Company plant at 5:30 p.m. cuts power citywide. Buildings without gas or candles lack light while main streets remain dark and newsprint machines lag.
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Tribune
Denver
Denver Gas and Electric Company
Auto Kills Contractor Brintnall Near Owego
Charles J. Brintnall a 36 year old contractor from Binghamton was killed when his car overturned two miles east of Owego. Also in the car were G. Max Ricks George A. Quick and chauffeur Harry Pearsall. The crash occurred as Brintnall tried to avoid a bad road. Ricks and Quick escaped uninjured. Pearsall was thrown clear and not seriously hurt. Brintnall died after muttering Lift the car off. He recently led a construction firm that finished a Lake Shore railroad contract near Sharon Pennsylvania including tunnels and bridges.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Charles J. Brintnall
Owego
Brintnall
G. Max Ricks
George A. Quick
Harry Pearsall
Susquehanna River
Ricks
Quick
Pearsall
Mr. Brintnall
Lake Shore Road
Sharon
Penn
Fifth Ave Houses Sold Near Miss Gould Home
Two old four story dwellings Nos FS1 and 5 3 Fifth avenue at the northeast corner of 47th street and Fifth avenue were sold yesterday by Frederick Winant for Mrs. Virginia R. Dingee of San Francisco to a Francis B. Robert client. The 89.1 foot frontage and deep plot were part of a $1,600,000 deal previously involving the City Investing Company led by president Robert E. Dowling. Thomas F. Ryan later acquired No 5858 Fifth avenue for his own occupancy.
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Fifth Avenue
Helen M. Gould
47Th Street
Frederick Winant
Virginia R. Dingee
San Francisco
Francis B. Robert
City Investing Company
Robert E. Dowling
Cambridge Abolishes Senior Wrangler Honor
Cambridge University has abolished the Senior Wrangler title with the last award going to P. J. Daniel of Valparaiso Chill Nevile of London took second and Louis J. Wordell of Philadelphia placed third. The contest drew international interest from South American students.
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Cambridge
Cambridge University
P. J. Daniel
Valparaiso
Chill
Mynott Neville
London
Louis J. Wordell
Phineas Wordell
Philadelphia
Two Men Drown In Shallow Weequahic Lake
Charles Peterson and William Rever of Newark were drowned in six feet of water when their rowboat capsized in Weequahic Park Lake near Dawson Street. A laborer on shore shouting for help witnessed the tragedy as the overturned boat sank with the men inside, their identities only confirmed later from recovered pockets.
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Charles Peterson
William Rever
Dawson Street
Newark
Weequahic Park Lake
Train Runs Down Deaf Mute Woman in Hurley
Mrs Florence A Durant a deaf mute was killed instantly while walking along the New York Ontario and Western tracks in Hurley Kingston N Y The deceased was the daughter of William H Mason a molasses importer of Brooklyn A sales ad for eyeglasses at Spencers 31 Maiden Lane also appears in the text
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Kingston
N. Y
New York, Ontario & Western Railway
Hurley
Florence A. Durant
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White Mts
Steel
Gloucester Fisher
Auto
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Chilian
Philadelphian
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