Water Supply Tunnel Plans Face Huge Costs for City
A long tunnel through solid rock under Manhattan to Brooklyn aims to deliver Catskill water to Ridgewood and Queens. Estimated distribution costs range from 20 to 40 million, in addition to 161 million for storage, with tests already spent and major contracts totaling 43 million.
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Catskill
Hill View
Mount Vernon
Board of Estimate
Board of Supply
McClellan
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Board of Water Supply
Manhattan Island
Brooklyn
Ridgewood
Queens
Richmond
Catskills
Bord of Water Supply
BaGate
Manhattan Isles
East River
Williamsburg
Menhettan
Ridgews Reservoir
Huntington Hurts In Telegraph Pole Collision
Huntington sustains injuries after a car crash near San Bernardino when a rear axle breaks sending the vehicle into a telegraph pole at about thirty miles per hour. Occupants were rushed to San Bernardino general hospital with sight injuries.
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H E. Huntington
Los Atzeles Pacific Railway Company
Ban Perrardine
Huntington
Ho Garvey
Garsey Company
Los Angeles
SF Travel
San Bernardino
Calhoun Disagreement Ends Bribery Trial For Rails President
In San Francisco on June 20 the jury could not reach a verdict in the bribery case against Patrick Calhoun, president of United Railroads. Ten jurors favored acquittal while two backed conviction after five ballots. Judge Lawlor discharged the hopelessly split panel and urged legislative reform to fix court procedures. The prosecutor Heney said he would retry. Calhoun expressed disappointment and vowed to pursue formal charges against Heney and others who funded the prosecution.
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San Francisco
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Patrick Henry
Lawlor
Lawler
Francis J. Heney
Rudolph Spreckels
James D. Phelan
Ilys Officer Dying After Bermuda Race Incident
Charles A. Schultz quartermaster on the motor boat Ilys suffered a hip wound from an accidental gun discharge while flagging the June 13 Bermuda voyage. He developed lockjaw and was moved from the Brooklyn Yacht Club to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. Fellow crewman George J. Reynolds faced no arrest as the Crescent Athletic Club cup boat, owned by J. G. N. Whitaker, represented the Yachtsmen's Club of Philadelphia.
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Charles A. Schultz
Ilys
Bermuda
Kings County Hospital
George J. Reynolds
Reynolds
Schultz
Brooklyn
Nouse
Bensonhurst
Wesenburg
Coney Island
J. G. N. Whitaker
Crescent Athletic Club
Yachtsmen’s Club
Philadelphia
Rounding Up Italians Linked to Petrosino Case
Pittsburg reports three postoffice inspectors arrest Pettino Galbo a wealthy Meadville Italian fruit dealer linked to the Black Hand. Investigators say thousands of dollars moved from Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio to Palermo to aid prisoners charged in Petrosino murder. Nineteen Italians detained. all to be sent to Columbus for trial on mailing threats.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Pettino Galbo
Meadville
Penn
Postoffice
Ohio
Black Hand Society
Petrosino
New York
E. F. Hutches
Postoffice Department
Pennsylvania
Blnck Hand Society
Palermo
Sicily
Petrosinon
Galbo
Tendent Dimaio
Post Office
Columbus
Banks Will All Fight In Federal Suit
In Nebraska, fifty two banks will appear by attorneys before Judge Muncer to seek an injunction against enforcing the state guaranty of deposit act. They claim the law is confiscatory and improperly enacted, with limitless assessments and contrary to the federal Constitution. The petition asks for invalidation and suspension of enforcement pending legal proceedings.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Nebraska
Muncer
Riot disrupts Grand Steeplechase at Auteuil track
Riot and unrest at the Auteuil course halted the Grand Steeplechase of Paris. Militant Stable Boys’ Union members armed with revolvers attacked horse vans, harming several people and triggering widespread arrests. Police and troops restored order as the race card resumed, with Saint Caradec winning the main event and heavy losses reported to betting machines.
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Auteuil
King” Pataud
Stable Boys’ Union
Maisons Lafitte
Fallieres
E. Welt Pichard
Saint Caradec
G. G. Assheton-Smith
Jerry M
M. Champion
Mademoiselle Boniface
W. K. Vanderbilt
Herkimer
Isey
General Federation of Labor
Steble Employes’ Union
White House talks weigh excluding bond funds from tax plan
A White House conference among President Taft Republican Finance Committee members and Senator Root considered excluding bond interest from net corporate earnings for the proposed 2 percent tax. The aim is to avoid double taxation while ensuring revenue of at least 40 million dollars, with final decisions deferred for further talks including the Attorney General and Secretary Knox.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
White House
Finance Committee
Root
Cummins and
Bailey
Knox
Wickersham
Lkely
Taft
Senate
Sultan to Visit Courts this Autumn and December
The Sultan of Turkey Mehemed V plans a European court tour in the autumn and will arrive in England in December, as reported by The Standard. He will visit prominent royal courts and meet key officials during the trip.
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Mehemed V
England
London
Turkey
Standard
Doctor Steer Dies by Suicide Over Imagined Ailment
St Louis June 20. Dr Justin Steer of Washington University Faculty killed himself with prussic acid believing he suffered unendurable artery disease. He left a note diagnosing the ailment. Family physician and several specialists found no such illness.
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St. Louis
Justin Steer
Washington University
Miner Drank His Own Blood in Desert Delirium
Israel Swartz of Boston, three months in California seeking mining interests in Inyo County, was found near San Bernardino drinking his own blood from his wrist after four days without water. Rescued by prospectors he was in delirium and later collapsed, now in critical condition at San Bernardino hospital. He is noted as heavily involved in Inyo County mining properties and well known among Western mining men.
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The
Tribune
Los Angeles
Israel Swartz
Boston
California
Inyo County
San Bernardino
Swartz
Garden Box Falls Injuring Five at Madison Square Garden
Four men were seriously injured when a floor box gave way at a Northeastern Federation of Singing Societies concert in Madison Square Garden. Claude Cunningham and the orchestra continued playing after the fall as Inspector McCluskey kept attendees seated. Injured included Carroll Whitaker of Saugerties and Otto Rudolph Brooklyn residents. two women fainted.
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Northeastern Federation of Singing Societies
Claude Cunningham
Inspector McCluskey
Carrol Whittaker
Saugerties
Otto Rudolph
Palmetto Street
Brookly
Ward Engels
B. Schnell
Suydam Street
Brooklyn
Scholer
Oxford constable Miller shot guarding Oxford Heights
In Oxford Massachusetts Albert E Miller constable and waiting station news stand keeper was killed by robbers at 3 am. A man named Frank Harding of South Milford was later found dead with a bullet through the heart. A third assailant fled, taking guns, as a 140 man posse searched ten miles of woods. Miller’s bloodied club remained in his hand, indicating an assault.
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Oxford
Mass
Albert E. Miller
Oxford Heights
Frank Harding
South Milford
Miller
China’s American Bank to Open in Peking
The American branch of the International Banking Corporation will open on Wednesday in Peking. Incorporated in 1882 in Connecticut, it has 3 3 250 000 capital, head office in New York, and a global network. Directors include Harriman and Morton. president is Thomas H. Hubbard. It is the first American bank in the East to join British, French, German and Japanese institutions active there since 1902.
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Board of Water Supply
Kensico
Hill View
White Plains
Mount Vernon
New York City
Kersico
Brux River
The
International Banking Corporation
Connecticut
New York
Thomas H. Hubbard
George Crocker
Marcellus Hartley Dodge
FE. H. Harriman
John J. McCook
Paul Morton
William Salomon
William C. van Horne
East
Yale Man Badly Hurt In Fall From Welch Hall
Constantine J. McGuire Jr., a Yale graduate of the class of ’67 from New York City, fell from the second story window of Welch Hall while revisiting his old dormitory. He slid off a ledge and was severely injured, with facial cuts, a dislocated nose, a sprained leg, and bruises. He was taken to a private sanatorium. his parents have arrived.
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New Haven
Constantine J. McGuire, Jr
New York City
Welch Hall
Yale
McGuire
Equine Gold Mine for $100 in Teeth Discovery
A Waterbury telegraph reports a pecker's horse yielding $130 in gold from filled teeth. The horse, once sold for $1 at a New York auction, was owned by a former New York doctor. The animal died after a collision with an automobile, and the owner kept the head for mounting, making the discovery a surprise.
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The
Tribune
Waterbury
Conn
New York
Newark
Trenton
Brooklyn
Large Field of Icebergs Seen off Nova Scotia Coast
Three hundred icebergs were sighted between St John’s Newfoundland and Cape Race by the steamer Wasis arriving from St John’s. Captain Richey of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company said it is unusual to find so many and such large icebergs this time of year. One berg towers hundreds of feet above water and appears grounded where water depth is at least 100 feet.
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N. S
St. John’s
N. F
Cape Race
Wasis
Richey
Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company
St. John's
Earthquake in Teneriffe Causes City Hall and Homes Demolished
A sharp quake and ongoing rumblings struck Icod on the west coast of Tenerife yesterday. The City Hall barracks and several houses collapsed forcing residents to flee to fields. No casualties reported. Bretten Woods Hotels, White Mts., N. H. ads list 1180 Sway, Tel. 4718.
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Teneriffe
Canary Islands
Icod
Bretton Woods Hotels
White Mts
N. H
Sway
Tel
Mad
Yale Men Seek Tickets For Deciding Yale Princeton Game
Thousands of Yale alumni in New York cry for tickets to the deciding Yale Princeton baseball game at American League Park. Yale officials fear most tickets are in the hands of speculators. A movement favors playing future deciding games on university grounds.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Yale
New York
Everard Thompson
Harvard oarsman Hooper taken home with measles
Red Top Conn June 3 Hooper Harvard varsity four oarsman at No 2 is sent home in Boston after developing what is thought to be measles. The illness appears mild and no others show signs. Hooper hopes to return in a few days with Forster covering at No 2 in his absence.
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Red Top
Conn
Hooper
Harvard
Varsity
Boston
Cambridge
Forster
No. 2
Arrests in Lisbon as King Carlos assassination probe widens
Lisbon June 2 a newly appointed chief examining magistrate orders the arrest of several workmen in connection with the February 1 assassination of King Carlos and the Crown Prince. After lengthy examinations the men are placed in close confinement.
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Lisbon
Carlos
Father Identifies Elsie Sigel's Body in morgue scene
After days of doubt the Sigel family identifies the murdered girl as Elsie Sigel. Police note jealous motive between Cha Gain and William L. Leon tied to the case. Coroner presses for details as six Lee Company men linked to the crime disappear and a letter to Leon from New York is opened.
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Elsie Sigel
Washington
William L. Leon
Baltimore
National Hotel
New York City
Chinatown
Cha Gain
Port Arthur
No. 9
Mott Street
Leon
Harburger
Sun Leung
Eighth Avenue
Coney Island
Sigels
Paul Sigel
Mabel Sigel
Reginald Sigel
Franz Sigel
Theodore Sigel
Carey
Detective Bureau
Pau Sigel
Connecticut
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