German liner Kaiser Wilhelm II collides in dense fog near Southampton
In a thick fog ten miles southeast of St Catherine's Point the North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm II struck by the Liverpool tramp Incemore, tearing a hole amidships above the waterline. Both vessels returned to Southampton with no injuries. About 1,000 passengers aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm II were to be reassigned or continued by alternate conveyance. The Incemore sustained bow damage but remained afloat. Fire and lifeboat details indicate limited distress. divers to inspect the Kaiser Wilhelm II at dawn.
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Tribune
London
Kaiser Whihelm
Southampton
New York
Incemore
Bremerhaven
Cherbourg
Howanmore Steamship Company
North German
Lloyd Company
Odal
Incemere
St Catherine's Point
Dahl
Louis
The Mexican situation Villa Dictator of Rebel Mexico
Villa expected to aid mediation as mediators present an ultimatum to end the rebel action in Mexico. Local news notes Whitman may act on polo scandal with a $24,000 widow verdict and a grand jury to probe a New Hampshire deal. Theodore Roosevelt campaign plans mentioned along with various international items and local notes.
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Villa
Mexico
Finn
Muerta
Whitman
N. H. Deal
Murphy
Yale
Sear
Bix
Sunshine Society
Kingsbury
Widow Concedes Victory to Death After Yale Harvard Game
Mrs Harriet Burch widow of Mark H M Burch in New Haven after paralysis following the Yale Harvard baseball game declared all hope of revival past and arranged burial. Dr W T L Shears of the Board of Health investigated the case while objections to transferring the body to New Haven were resolved. Burial set for Wood lawn Cemetery this morning. Justice Gingerich granted a divorce to Mrs Grace Llewellyn Schoonmaker from Frank J Schoonmaker with two women detectives and the deceased's brother as witnesses.
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Harriet Burch
Mark HM. Burch
New Haven
Harvard
W. T L. Shears
Board of Health
Euclid
Broadway and Sith At
Justice Gingerich
Mra
Grace Llewellyn Schoonmaker
Frank J. Schoonmaker
Mra. Schoonmaker
Ends Her Life On Lines On Golf Links Mystery Suicide
Miss Josephine Schwars of 128 South Felton Avenue, aunt of Jeanie Thorpe the Siwanoy Country Club crack shot, drank carbolic acid at Sunningdale Country Club golf links. Found unconscious after visiting her sister Mrs Walter Thorpe, she died in hospital hours later. Wealthy and healthy with no known love affairs. The cause remains a mystery.
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Mount Vernon
Josephine Schwars
South Felton
Jeanie Thorpe
Siwanoy Country Club
Sunningdale Country Club
Schware
Morton F Plant Weds Suddenly at Branford House
Commodore Morton F Plant of Groton, valued around 50 million dollars, marries Mrs Mary Caldwell Manwaring at Branford House with only close relatives present. Bride reportedly receives eight million as a gift. ceremony misattributed initially to Rev Kerridge who denied performing it. The couple plan a possible yacht honeymoon as Plant turns sixty two and the bride is thirty one.
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Tribune
New London
Morton F. Plant
Groton
Mary Caldwell Manwaring
Selden B. Manwaring
Plant
Philip M. Kerridge
St James's Protestant Episcopal Church
Manwaring
Branford House
Mr. Plant
Tamany Loses Window At Tamany Hall
An alarm at Tam many Hall is followed by a fourth floor window collapse onto East 14th Street. Passersby narrowly escape harm while a caretaker and four policemen investigate the strange incident, finding no clear cause or burglar.
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Tammany Hall
Eelock
East 14Th St
Forgery Charges Hit Polo Scandal In Fall Campaign
Lawyer Jay Noble Emley demands a full inquiry into alleged ticket forgery for international polo matches. W. H. Hall and yacht club member dispute a signature, while the International Polo Committee orders a thorough probe led by lawyer Frederick N. Watriss amid a ticket mix up and misdelivered passes.
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Jay Noble Emley
Williamst
Whitman
Emley
International Polo Committee
Emiley
William Henry Hall
Riverside Drive
New York Yacht Club
Frederick N. Watrisa
Cabinet Member Held Up Near Bladensburg
Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson, in Hyattsville Maryland, was halted by Deputy Commissioner Thomas J. Wildiman for violating the motor vehicle law. The car was clocked at twenty five miles per hour but Wilson identified himself and stated official business in Washington. the chauffeur was allowed to proceed.
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Hyattsville
Snorty
Maryland Agricultural Cell
William B. Wilson
Bladensburg
Thomas J. Wildiman
Washington
Wildiman
Trap 2 in Bribe Plot Accused of Offering to Fix Jury
N A Houghton of 3 Bergen Street Brooklyn reported a bribe attempt to fix a juror in a court case. Detectives Armstrong and McGlinchy arranged undercover stakeouts at Nassau and Ann Streets, leading to the arrest of George Jamieson and Milton Solomon after marked money changed hands. Jamieson is described as serving on a jury.
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N. A. Houghton
Bergensts
Brooklyn
Hought
Attor
Armstrong and McGlinchy
Houghton
Nassau and
Annsts
George Jamieson
Hank St
Milton Solomon
Bleecker St
Jamieson
Zimmerman Sued for $100000 in Queens Romance Case
The longtime Cincinnati magnate Eugene Zimmerman faces a breach of promise suit for $100000. An affidavit from Miss Icey Wareham describes December 20 in New York City when Zimmerman professed love and promised marriage, but further details and record searches raise questions about the suit’s filing and visibility.
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Eugene Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Duchess of Manchester
Icey Wareham
Queens County
Supreme
County Courts of
Queens
Miss Wareham
Zimmerman
William H. Blymyer
Joseph Hamerman
Deeds
Fey Wareham
New York City
Wireless navigation experiment aboard Royal George
London June 17. The Canadian Northern steamer Royal George sails from Avonmouth fitted with an apparatus to determine position in thick weather within fifty miles of a fixed wireless station or a wireless ship without compass or sextant. It is claimed the system can plot a course to a distress signal source if detected.
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London
Royal George
Avonmouth
Treasury warns taxpayers to pay income tax by June 30
The Secretary of the Treasury urged all individuals, corporations, firms, and associations liable under the income tax to remit payments to local internal revenue collectors by June 30 or face penalties. The notice was issued from Washington on June 17.
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Qerom
the Tribune
Mureny
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Eugenic Marriage Law Upheld by Wisconsin Supreme Court
Wisconsin Supreme Court sustains the eugenic marriage law as constitutional, reversing Milwaukee County Circuit Court which had ruled it invalid. Decision announced in Madison on June 17. The ruling reinforces state restrictions on marriage based on eugenic grounds.
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Madison
Wis
State Supreme Court
Milwaukee County Circuit Court
Mediation ultimatum looms over Mexico crisis at Niagara Falls
At Niagara Falls mediators threaten to end talks if the United States does not shift its stance by Friday. Rabasa outlines the Mexican delegation’s memorandum rejecting a provisional neutral president and insisting on a Constitutionalist leadership. Debate centers on Villa Carranza split and the plan to establish a peaceful, constitutional provisional government.
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Niagara Falls
United States
ABC
Carranza
Senor Rabasa
Washington
Caza
Mexico
Villa
George Griswold Hill
Ontario
Niagara
Justice Lamar
Lehmann
Buffalo
Arma
Bryan
furth _ Rabasa
Sefior Rabasa
Himbert
Villa Dictator of Rebel Mexico Seizes Govt, Arrests
Juarez June 17 The Mexican crisis deepens as Pancho Villa seizes all government offices and funds in Northern Mexico and holds Carranza as a political prisoner. Villa names Angeles as provisional president while arresting dozens tied to Carranza. Reports say Carranza may be imprisoned. details remain contested as U.S. observers fear possible intervention.
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Tribune
Juarea
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Juarez
Chihuahua City
Torreon
Durango City
Saltillo
Carranza
Villa
United States
Angeles Villa
Felipe Angeles
Coahuila
Chihuahua
el Paso
Juarex
H. Perez Abreu
Carranza Department of Information
H. de la Torre
A. Torres
Department of Information
Serapio Aguirre
E. Ramon
Ville’ Secret Service
A. J. Pani
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