Massive NYC water system expansion eyed to feed skyline
The Catskill water plan faces a costly distribution challenge from Mount Vernon southward. A new tunnel through solid rock under Manhattan to Ridgewood and Brooklyn would bypass existing mains and push water to Queens and Richmond. Contracts total 43 million, with Kensico and Hill View reservoirs advancing as core assets and tests ongoing on Manhattan rock.
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Board of Estimate
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Board of Water Supply
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Queens
Richmond
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Pan Gate
Manhattan Islet
East River
Williamsburg
Mentellan
Ridgewool Reservoir
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White Plains
Huntington Hurt In Automobile Crash Near Telegraph Pole
Es as o Lurched Into Telegraph Pole and He Was Thrown Twenty Feet. Huntington presi Los Angeles Pacific Railway Company, S Sigiy injured in automobile accident this afternoon when rear axle broke causing the car to crash into a hedge. Occupants were taken to San Bernardino in a Mobile where one was found to have slight injuries.
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H. E. Huntington
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Los Angeles Pacific Railway Company
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bin Pernardine Tate
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Garsey
Los Angeles
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Fie
San Bernardino
Mobile
Calhoun Disagreement Ends Bribery Trial in San Francisco
Jury unable to reach verdict in nine jurors for acquittal and three for conviction on Patrick Calhoun bribery charge. After five ballots the judge discharged the hopelessly divided panel. Prosecutor Heney vows new trial while Calhoun accuses officials of bias and hints formal charges against Heney and financiers Spreckels and Phelan.
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Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Patrick Henry
Lawlor
Lawler
Francis J. Heney
Rudolph Spreckels
James D. Phelan
Dying ILYS officer hurt in Bermuda race incident
Charles A. Schultz quartermaster of the motor boat Ilys in the Bermuda race is dying from lockjaw after a pistol misfire aboard June 12 at Bermuda. George J. Reynolds, steward, and others fired at bottles. an accidental discharge struck Schultz in the hip. Schultz promised not to accuse Reynolds. no arrest. The bus owner is J. G. N. Whitaker. the Ilys carried the Yachtsmen's Club of Philadelphia for the Crescent Athletic Club cup.
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Bermuda
Kings County Hospital
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Schultz
Brooklin
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Wesenburg
Coney Island
J. G. N. Whitaker
Crescent Athletic Club
Yachtsmen's Club
Philadelphia
Rounding Up Italians By Telegraph to The Tribune
Pettino Galbo a wealthy Italian fruit dealer of Meadville Penn is arrested by three postoffice inspectors from the Ohio district. He is said to be a member of the Black Hand and may know something about the murder of Detective Petrosino of New York. Nineteen Italians were arrested, to be taken to Columbus for trial on charges of sending threatening letters through the mails.
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Pittsburg
Pettino Galbo
Meadville
Penn
Postoffice
Ohio
Black Hand Society
Petrosino
New York
E. F. Hutches
Postoffice Department
Pennsylvania
Blnck Hand Society
Palermo
Sicily
Galbo
Dimaio
Post Office
Columbus
Banks will all fight in Nebraska injunction plea
In the Federal Court fifty two banking houses of Nebraska will appear by their attorneys before Judge Munger to seek an injunction against enforcing the state guaranty of deposit act. They charge the law is confiscatory and deficient, claims it diverts one depositor property to liquidate another, and that the act lacks regular passage and open-ended assessments. The petition asks invalidation and a stay of enforcement pending proof.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Munger
Riot disrupts Grand Steeplechase at Auteuil in Paris
A riot at the Auteuil track halted the Grand Steeplechase of Paris. Militant Stable Boys' Union members armed with revolvers attacked horses and vans, injuring several and prompting arrests. Police, troops, and fire crews restored order as the event resumed, with Saint Caradec winning the main race and heavy betting losses reported.
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Auteuil
King” Pataud
Stable Boys’ Union
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Fuallieres
E. Welt Pichard
Saint Caradec
G. G. Assheton-Smith
Jerry M
M. Champion
Mademoiselle Boniface
W. K. Vanderbilt
Herkimer
Issy
Exclude Bond Funds From Corporate Tax Debate
Washington June 20 The White House conference among President Taft Republican Finance Committee members and Senator Root nears agreement that bond interest cannot be counted as net earnings for the proposed 2 percent corporate tax. Tax would apply to earnings over 5,000 with exemptions for small firms. Attys Gen and Knox to confer. Taft backs a practical, defendable amendment to win Senate support.
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Washington
White House
Finance Committee
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Bailey
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Wickersham
Taft
Secretary of State
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Conference Committee
House
Shots Rout Oxford Waiting Station Keeper and Suspect Die
Albert E. Miller a constable and station news stand keeper in Oxford Heights was shot to death during a suspected robbery at 3 am. Frank Harding of South Milford was found dead in the waiting room with a bullet through his heart. A third man remained at large as a 140 man posse searched a ten mile area. Miller’s blood stained club indicates he fought the intruder before dying on his home stoop.
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Albert E. Miller
Oxford Heights
Frank Harding
South Milford
Miller
China’s American Bank Opens in Peking
The American branch of the International Banking Corporation will open on Wednesday in Peking. Incorporated in 1829 in Connecticut, it has a capital of 3,250,000 dollars. Headquartered in New York, its directors include Thomas H. Hubbard George Crocker Marcellus Hartley Dodge F E Harriman John J McCook Paul Morton William Salomon and Sir William C Van Horne. It becomes the first American bank in the East to join local European and Japanese banks active since 1902.
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The
International Banking Corporation
Connecticut
New York
Thomas H. Hubbard
George Crocker
Marcellus Hartley Podge
FE. H. Harriman
John J. McCook
Paul Morton
William Salomon
William C. van Horne
East
Equine gold mine for $100 in Waterbury tale
Waterbury Connecticut June 20 a veterinarian says the filled teeth of a horse show enough gold to net the owner about 150 dollars The horse once fetched 1 at an auction near Bull s Head New York six years ago It belonged to a prominent New York doctor later on staff at a medical college The horse was killed Saturday night in a collision with an automobile carrying passengers from Newark Trenton and Brooklyn The owner kept the head for mounting and the gold discovery came as a surprise
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Waterbury, Conn
New York
Newark
Trenton
Brooklyn
THREE HUNDRED ICEBERGS SEEN NEAR COAST
North Sydney Nova Scotia June 2 300 icebergs sighted between St John s Newfoundland and Cape Race by the steamer Wasis Captain Richey of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company arriving from St John s He said it is unusual to find icebergs so numerous and large at this time off the coast One berg towered hundreds of feet out of water and was apparently grounded where water is not less than 0 feet deep.
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N. S
St. John’s
N. F
Cape Race
Wasis
Richey
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
Earthquake in Icod Canary Islands Yesterday
A sharp quake and ongoing rumblings hit Icod on the west coast of Teneriffe. The City Hall barracks and several houses toppled. Residents fled to fields with no casualties reported. Brexton Woods Hotels ad follows.
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Sultan to Visit Courts This Autumn
London dispatch says Mehemed V Sultan of Turkey will visit the European courts in the autumn and is to arrive in England in December according to The Standard.
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England
London
Turkey
Standard
Doctor Steer Dies by Poignancy of Imagined Pain
St. Louis on June 20 reports Dr. Justin Steer of Washington University medical faculty killed himself with prussic acid believing he suffered an incurable artery disease. A note identified his ailment though his physicians found no such illness after multiple examinations.
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St. Louis
Justin Steer
Washington University
Miner drinks own blood in desert delirium near San Bernardino
Israel Swartz of Boston, in California three months to manage Inyo County mines, was found in the desert twenty miles north of San Bernardino drinking his own blood from his wrist to quench thirst after four days without water. Rescued by prospectors he deliriously raved and passed out, now in critical condition at San Bernardino hospital. Swartz is heavily involved in Inyo mining properties and known among Western miners.
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Tribune
Los Angeles
Israel Swartz
Boston
California
Inyo County
San Bernardino
Swartz
Garden Box Falls Injuring Four at Madison Square Garden
Four men were injured when a floor in a box at Madison Square Garden collapsed during a Northeastern Federation concert led by Claude Cunningham. Injured include Carroll Whitaker of Saugerties spine injury, Otto Rudolph, Engels, and B Schnell. Two women fainted. crowd controlled by Inspector McCluskey as Cunningham and the orchestra continued playing.
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Northeastern Federation of Singing Societies
Claude Cunningham
Inspector McCluskey
Carrol Whittaker
Saugerties
N. Y
Otto Rudolph
Palmetto Street
Brookly Ward Engels
B. Schnell
Suydam Street
Brooklyn
Yale Man B Daily Hurt In Welch Hall Fall
Constantine J. Mc Guire Jr a Yale graduate from New York City fell from the Welch Hall second story window in New Haven early today while attempting to revisit his old dorm. He suffered severe facial cuts a dislocated nose a sprained and cut leg and bruises and was removed to a private sanitarium. His parents have arrived.
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Constantine J. McGuire, Jr
New York City
Welch Hall
Yale
McGuire
Yale Men Seek Tickets For Yale Princeton Game
Thousands of Yale alumni in New York cry for tickets to the deciding Yale Princeton baseball game at American League Park. Officials say only seventeen hundred tickets were sent, with many held by speculators. A Yale movement seeks future decisive games on university grounds.
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Tribune
New Haven
Yale
New York
Everard Thompson
Harvard Oarsman III Stricken With Suspected Measles
Hooper, a No. 2 rower in Harvard's varsity four, is sent home to Boston with a suspected measles outbreak in New London. The illness appears light. other crew members show no signs and remain in separate quarters. Hooper hopes to return within a few days as Forster covers at No. 2.
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Arrests in Portugal over King Carlos assassination
Lisbon reports that the new chief examining magistrate has ordered the arrest of several workers in connection with the February 1 1908 assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince. After a single examination the men were placed in close confinement.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Father Identifies Elsie Sigel's Body Amid Murder Probe
After three days of deliberation the Sigel family admitted the morgue body was Elsie Sigel. Police traced William Leon to Washington on June 9 with a woman and noted a letter from New York dated June 11. Coroner and detectives pressed for details as the Sigels waited for a formal death certificate and burial arrangements.
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Elsie Sigel
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Mabel Sigel
Reginald Sigel
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