Morning News Fragment Echoes Global Tension and Rescue Alarms
Scattered items report Villa advance and mediation talks with Carranza, rebel movements, a midair rescue ending in a hero’s death, a senate run plea, and brief notes on local police readiness. Also mention church peace council, murder mystery, and varied miscellaneous briefs across sports, markets, weather, and court updates.
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OCAL
Rubin
Poffee
Nias
Hero
Girl
Root
Senate
World Church Peace Council
Little City Wolk
McCormick
Lions Kill Brooklyn Theater Manager in Box Car Zoo Tragedy
Chicago dispatch reports six trained lions killed and partly devoured Emerson D. Dietrich, Brooklyn theater manager, as he entered a box car with caged animals. A lion escaped, terrorizing neighbors while firemen recovered the body sprinkled with formaldehyde. Dietrich, 24, engaged to actress Mme. Adgie Castillo, was son of architect E D Dietrich of Bensonhurst.
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Chicago
Emerson D. Dietrich
Brooklyn
Dietrich
Hon
George McCord
Hons
McCord
Teddy
Rilby
Mons
Mme
Adgie Castillo
E. D. Dietrich, Jr
Bay Parkway
Bensonhurst
Erasmus Hall High School
Flatbush
Hans
Young Dietrich
One Sneeze Costs 25000 Dollars Radium Vanishes
Denver dispatch reports Joseph M. Flannery of Standard Chemical Co says a chemist sneezed over a radium solution worth $25 000, causing a temporary loss of a portion of the element. The incident, tied to Pittsburgh based company, leaves the value missing until recovered.
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the Tribune
Denver
Col
Standard Chemical Company
Pittsburgh
Joseph M. Flannery
Monsignor Rehan Ends Mass For Fire Drill
In Boston at St Peter's Church Porchester Monsignor Rehan halted mass and directed 1200 worshippers to exits as if evacuating a fire. After a two and half minute stampede the congregation reached the street and then returned to complete the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Monsignor Rehan
St. Peter's Church
Porchester
Rohan
American Bride for Duke's Heir
An engagement is announced between the Earl of Euston the eldest son of the Duke of Grafton and Edythe Havemeyer eldest daughter of the late Henry Havemeyer of New York. The Earl is sixty four and a widower with two daughters and a son Viscount Ipswich born in 1884 and married last year. The Duke of Grafton celebrates his ninety third birthday today. Miss Edythe Havemeyer is about thirty one and a granddaughter of William Havemeyer a founder of the Havemeyer fortune. Most of her life has been spent in England.
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Tribune
London
Earl of Euston
Duke of Grafton
Edythe Havemey
Henry Remeyer
New York
Alfred William Malt and
PittRoy
Duke of Iron
Earl of
Wuston
Ipswich
Duke of Gratton
Henry FitzRoy
Charles II
Barbara Villiers
Duchess of Cleveland
FiteRoy
Duke ‘of Grafton
Edythé Havemeyer
William Frederick Havemeyer
Havemeyer
England
Engineer killed in cab accident near Metuchen New Jersey
C M Masters of Jersey City veteran engineer for Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was fatally struck by a Washington Express locomotive while leaning from his cab. He had dinner with his family at Jersey City before starting the fatal run from the Jersey City end. Alderman Hulut F Sanford replaced him and delivered the freight to the nearest signal tower at Metuchen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loyceregreen
Jersey City
Hulut F. Sanford
Masters
Metuchen
Iceberg Echo Warns Isle of Mull in Fog Off Newfoundland
Captain Weeks of the British steam ship Isle of Mull reported a near collision with unseen ice off the Newfoundland Banks on June 16 during fog. He heard repeated whistle blasts that seemed like echoes from icebergs, prompting reduced speed and cautious navigation.
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Weeks
Isle of Mull
Lisbon
Newfoundland
Thrift Congress Urged for Panama-Pacific Expo Event
The American Society for Thrift requests a Senate Appropriations hearing to explain seeking an appropriation of $000 for holding an international thrift congress in San Francisco during the Panama-Pacific Exposition. W. Straus of Chicago, president, will present the case.
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Ington
American Society For Thrift
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Francisco
W. Straus
Chicago
Twelve Drown As Launch Capsizes on Oswego Canal
Twelve people, mostly women and children, drowned when a 25 foot passenger launch between Mud Lock and Liverpool capsized after striking a stump on the Oswego Canal near Mud Lock Onondaga Lake. Fifteen aboard. several swam to shore. Mrs Lewis Dainer survived in serious condition.
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Syracuse
Oswego Canal
Mud Lock
Onondaga Lake
Liverpool
George H. Adams
John Mogg
Miss Welsh
Lewis Dainer
Lewis Danter
Woman Captures Burglars in East 119th Street Flat
Mrs Rose Berjowitz returning to her fifth floor apartment at 166 East 119th Street spotted two men emerging from the neighboring flat. She pursued one and held him at the street door until help arrived. The other burglar fled. Police officers helped subdue the captured man who required a doctor after rescue by Patrolmen McKenna and McCormick. Her flat had been robbed.
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Rose Berjowitz
East 119Th St
David Strisoner
Airboat Wreck On Boardwalk Thrills Atlantic City Crowd
More than twenty thousand spectators watched a hydro aeroplane carrying Edward C. Jaquith and C. W. Hiatt crash twenty feet above the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The machine wrecked, both men escaped to fishing boats, motor failure blamed for the plunge. Jaquith had completed five trips that day before the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Ataantic City
Edward C. Jaquith
C. W. Hiatt
Kansas City
Jaquith
Melvin Vaniman
Akron
Nineteen Firemen Overcome in Victor Store Cellar Fire
Nineteen firemen including three battalion chiefs and two captains were overcome by gas fumes and smoke during a stubborn cellar blaze at a Victor talking machine store 83 Chambers st spreading to 6% Reade st. Conrad Schwall Engine Co 2 was hospitalized in serious condition. Firemen dragged hose through smoke as gas leaks and a sidewalk elevator shaft draft worsened the danger until reinforcements arrived and gas company workers shut off the valve. Raymond Kelly, son of Acting Chief John Kelly, witnessed his father being carried out as the chief remarked that his boy is a chip of the old block.
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Victor
Chambers St
Reade St
Conrad Schwall
Hudson Street
John Kelly
3D Battalion
Michael O'Donohue
Charles Griffith
William
Humphries
George Russ
John J. White
Fire Department
Dugedale
Hudson Street Hospital
Schwall
Raymond
Kelly
Villa Turning Tide of Battle at Zacatecas
Natera's defeat leaves Zacatecas under heavy Federal pressure as Villa's rebel advance stalls. Reports say Natera loses thousands, Barro's forces bolster defenses, and Carranza authorities claim northern Vera Cruz and Puebla under Constitutional control amid preparations for a new assault on Zacatecas.
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Villa
Zacatecas
Saltillo
Mexico
Laredo
Tex
Carranza
la Noche
el Mundo
Heraldo de Cuba
la Prensa
Cuba
General Obregon
Guadalajara
Vera Cruz
Puebla
Barron
Natera
Zacatecay
Dying After Fight Rubin to Quit? Banker's Farm Shooting Near White Plains
A cross country chaise chase ends in a shotgun duel at A F Kountze estate near White Plains. Eugene Zimmerman fires on sleeping men, wounding Schwin der while Walbrouck and Ammon flee. Zimmerman pursued to a reservoir shore. two deputies and a patrolman arrest him. Simultaneously, a police department shakeup rumors place J Robert Rubin to relinquish his detective bureau leadership within days, with Arthur Woods poised to replace or reshape the unit.
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Eugene Zimmerman
A. F. Kountze
Manhattan
White Plains
White Plains Presbyterian Hospital
Zimmerman
Sherif William J. Doyle
Porse
Gottlieb Ammon
Henry Walbrouck
Max Schwinder
Schwinder
Doyle
Thomas Wade
New York City
J. Robert Rubin
Arthur Woods
Tribune
Detective Bureau
Guy H. Scull
Rubin
Uniformed Force
Whitman
Police Department
Mitchel
McKay
Dougherty
Woods
Scull
Commissioner Woods
Mr. M1
Grieving mother attempts gas suicide after son's fall
Mrs Jennie Tehehn, grieving by a Bellevue Hospital injury report involving her three year old son who fell from a stoop, tried to end her life with gas in her home at 14 1 Weat 6d stop.
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Bellevue Hospital
Jennie Tehehn
Villa denies proclaiming Angeles provisional president
Torreon June 21. General Villa issued a denial today of a report that he proclaimed General Angeles his choice for the presidency. He said the report of a proclamation naming Angeles was a mistake.
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Villa
Torreon
General Villa
General Angeles
Angeles
Fairy Godmother Adopts Waif Annie Wright in Rich Home
Annie Wright, found crying on a Went 45th Street stoop in 1908, has been adopted by Harrison and Grace Moore. The Moores, linked to Townsend & Moore Engineering Works, now reside at 27 East Street with Annie in a large apartment, enjoying clothes, toys, and rides in a car. The adoption was approved by Surrogate Cohalan after a lengthy process beginning in York Infant Asylum and East Orange care.
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Annie Wright
West 4Th St
Annie
Harrison B. Moore
Grace P. Moore
Ann
Cabalan
Mr. Moore
Townsend & Moore Engineering Works
Theodore A. Crane
Esse Basin
Collis J Huntington
Moores
East @dst
Annie Annie
45Th St
York Infant Asylum
East Orange
V. A. Murray
Cohalan
Lite
Weir Family
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