Girl Shot 18 Year Old in East Side Tenement
Morris Nathanson a grocer's clerk shot and killed Jennie Minkoff, eighteen, at her home No 25 East 14th Street after waiting in a private hall. He confessed at the Fifth Street station saying he loved her, though she never encouraged him. He claimed liquor influenced the act and the murder followed a rejected courtship involving Minkoff's father over a family grocery business. Police dispersed a large crowd around the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris Nathanson
Tev
Jennie Minkoff
East 14 Street
5Th Street
Nathanson
Minkoff
Jennie
Max Reckon
No.7
East 3d Street
Sth Street
Hart Enters Georgia Governor Race Endorsing Peace
Atlanta June 2 Hart Attorney General John Hart announced his candidacy for Georgia governor saying ex Governor Hoke Smith and Governor Joseph Brown are enemies of peace in Georgia. He aims to end the feud and restore calm, believing his entry will weaken Brown's renomination bid after Brown had defeated Smith two years earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Atlanta
Hoke Smith
Joseph M. Trown
Georgia
John
Hart
Smith-Brown
Brown
Smith
Ten Women Win Five Prizes at Wesleyan University
Middletown Conn June 27 President Shanklin announced the Walkley prize for excellence in psychology was awarded to Elizabeth Zeilitz of this city among ten women students who won prizes and honors. Constantine Marius Panunzio of Malfesta Italy took one prize and led his class as prize winner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Middletown
Conn
Wesleyan University
Shanklin
Walkley
Elizabeth Zeilitz
Constantines Marius Panunzio
Malfesta
Italy
Patrolman stops severed vein with nightstick tourniquet
Erick Boesch a West 125th Street butcher severed a wrist vein while sharpening a knife. Patrolman Behr applied a tourniquet using his nightstick, halting blood loss until an ambulance arrived from J Hood Wright Hospital. Dr Goldberger credited Behr with likely saving Boesch’s life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erick Boesch
West 125Th Street
Behr
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Goldberger
Abandon Naval Career For Marriage Elopement At Annapolis
Alfred C. Bruce of Chilgress Texas elopes from Annapolis after taking naval entrance exams. He marries Leona Meade in a Baltimore suburb license and ceremony, citing government matrimony rules delaying middies. Bruce and bride claim ages of twenty three and twenty four respectively. Elopement echoes earlier case of James M. Saunders and Henrietta Noma Franklin.
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Annapolis
Chilgress
Tex
Naval Academy
Alfred C. Bruce
Leona Meade
Baltimore
Bruce
James M. Saunders
Fitzgerald, Ga
Henrietta Noma Franklin
Antigone draws Eastern students despite Berkeley boxing clash
Reno readers note that Eastern college students coming to see Margaret Anglin in Antigone at the University of California are distracted by the boxing match between Harvard Yale and Princeton alumni in Berkeley on July 4. Rail officials reportedly consider banning fight talk on trains carrying students between Ogden and Battle Mountain as the stadium showdown looms.
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Reno
Nev
Margaret Anglin
University of California
George Riddle
Harvard
Antigone
Miss Anglin
Southern Pacific Railroad
Thebes
Yale
Princeton
Berkeley
Dusky Johnson
Jeffries
Ogden
Battle Mountain
White Wings Don’t Beq Beg. Street cleaners ban fund-raisers
Commissioner Edwards ends solicitations for aid to Street Cleaning Department staff after Lynch and Felix were dismissed following a trial for soliciting funds. He identified a suspected RWB of possible prior benevolent ball fundraisers, stating no one in the department shall collect money and that detectives will pursue offenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
Joseph M. Lynch
Joseph Felix
Bryan Quinn
West 30Th Street
Lynch
Felix
Quinn
Shot at Train Sparks Five to Ten Year Sentence
Jasper Price received a prison term of not less than five nor more than ten years in Sing Sing after pleading guilty to firing a bullet at a New York Central passenger train. Judge Morschauser condemned the act as a grave offense and rejected intoxication as an excuse, stressing protection for rail passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Sing Sing
Jasper Price
Morschauser
Supreme Court
Price
New York Central
Finnish bill passed by Council of the Empire on final reading
St Petersburg report says the Council of the Empire approved the Finnish bill after its final reading. The measure, already adopted by the Douma, grants the Douma legislative authority over the Finnish Diet, provoking strong opposition in Finland. Also mentions Hudson River Day Line service noting one hour delay. Ad advertises Music and Perfect Service on steamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Council of the Empire
Douma
Finland
Hudson River
Kidnappers Take Boy Away In Automobile
Eight year old Michael L. McLaughlin Jr. was abducted from his Albany area play by several men and a woman in broad daylight. A nurse present could not prevent the seizure and a touring car drove off with the child. Police detained a man named John R. Hatherly, but he was later released after no match to a state employee was found. The boy’s father, real estate dealer Michael L. McLaughlin, and his former wife Cecelia McLaughlin, who divorced in 1907, are at odds over custody with conflicting claims of kidnapping and past separations. The Holt family contends the boy should be with them, while Mrs. McLaughlin and Dr. Holt describe previous efforts to regain custody as false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael L. McLaughlin, Jr
Michael L. McLaughlin
Remsen Street
Brooklyn
Albany
McLaughlin
Kenwood Hill
John R. Hatherly
Hatherly
State Department of Agriculture
New Jersey
Pennington
N. J
New York
West Broadway
Chambers Street
Cecelia McLaughlin
Henry P. Holt
Church Avenue
Dr. Holt
Pennington Seminary
McLaughlins
Linden Avenue
Flatbush
Holt
St. George
McLaughlin Apartments
Horace Porter
Resignation of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke from Metropolitan Museum
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke resigned yesterday after five years as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The board, led by J. Pierpont Morgan, accepted with thanks for his health and service. Edward Robinson to serve as acting director. Clarke to remain as honorary European correspondent with continued salary until June 1, 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caspar Purdon Clarke
Metropolitan Museum of Art
J. Pierpont Morgan
Board of Trustees
London
Sir Purdon
America
United States
Europe
Far East
Victoria Albert Museum
South Kensington Museum
Caspar Purdon. Clarke
Charlton’s Surrender Asked by Italy in Extradition Case
The Charlton case moved into the diplomatic calendar as Italy demanded extradition after the Hoboken arrest. Secretary Knox pressed for a bilateral change to allow returning Italian criminals, warning of a potential new treaty or reinterpretation of the 1868 pact. Charlton’s lawyers plan to seek adjournment, aiming to free him and justify placing him in a sanatorium to mollify public opinion.
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Defence
Charlton
Italy
Knox
Paolo di Montagliari
Washington
Hoboken
Marquis
Manchester
N. H
Gustavo di Rosa
Blair
Hudson County Court of Oyer and Terminer
United States
America
Emil E. Fuchs
Scott
Shooting in Cuban House in Havana Spurs Factional Clash
In Havana on June 27 Congress adjourned to allow an assassination attempt on Antonio San Miguel editor of La Lucha and congressman from Pinar del Rio. Manuel Lores, an Oriente deputy, fired but missed San Miguel. a graze wounded Antonio Gonzalez Lanuza as bystanders alerted. The attack followed heated push for a rail exchange plan, raising fears of a bloody feud. Lores was not arrested due to congressional immunity.
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Havana
Antonio San Miguel
Pinar del Rio
la Lucha
Congress
Manuel Lores
Oriente
San Miguel
Lores
Antonio Gonzalez Lanuza
Villanueva
United Railways
Prado
Sefior Lores
Premier foreshadows anti trust laws over NZ monopoly threat
Wellington June 27 Sir Joseph G Ward the Premier said in a speech that clear evidence shows a powerful American company is exercising a restrictive prejudicial influence in New Zealand creating the worst kind of monopoly that must be stopped. He did not name the company.
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Wellington
New Zealand
Joseph G. Ward
Major Paterson blaze destroys Vandyk furniture block
A midnight fire in Paterson New Jersey swept a block on Main Street from 288 to 304 destroying Vandyk Furniture and nearby properties including Lockwood Furniture Daly’s theatre and Donahue’s cafe. Eight firemen suffered smoke and injury, rescue operations saved tenements, and the blaze came within sight of the Paterson Opera House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandyk Furniture Company
Main Street
Paterson
N. J
No. 288
Cross Street
Paterson Opera House
Lockwood Furniture Company
Daly’s Moving Picture Theatre
Donahue’s
Sound Boats in a Crash on Hell Gate Chase
Several hundred passengers on the Boston steamship Yale and the Sound steamer Middletown collided sidewise while racing through Hell Gate toward Connecticut. Middletown hugged Astoria shore and Yale rode midstream. near Hallets Point they struck rocks, tore wood, and panic spread aboard diners before the vessels separated and resumed their voyage up Long Island Sound.
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Boston
Yale
Middletown
Connecticut
Hell Gate
Long Island Sound
Astoria
Hallet’s Point
Commissioner weighs meat to curb sale fraud in hearing
At a hearing in New York City Commissioner Clement Driscoll pressed butchers to sell by actual weight. Examples showed overweights in ham bacon and Virginia cuts. Industry rep W H Noyes cited mismeasured stakes and spreaders, while Alderman Schloss warned against prosecuting retailers for factors beyond their control. The session resumed pending further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clement Driscoll
Virginia
W. H. Noyes
Swift & Co
Bureau
Schloss
Driscoll
Roosevelt Talks With La Follette at Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay June 27 Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, an insurgent leader, spent two hours with ex president Roosevelt discussing politics. He later joined by Elmer Burkett and Madison as guests for talks at Sagamore Hill. Roosevelt welcomed reporters and teased speculation over shifts toward radicals, while noting his plans for speaking tours and daily work at his editorial office.
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Oyster Bay
la Follette
Wisconsin
Roosevelt
Elmer J. Burkett
Nebraska
Sagamore Hill
Boston
Madison
Kansas
Ballinger-Pinchot
Colonel Roosevelt
Hrim
Senator la Follette
New York
Mr. Roe
Milwaukee Press Club
Knights of Columbus of
Peoria
Atlanta
Uncle Remus
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East Side
Rose
Samuel Sharkey
Rose Minkoff
the &Th Street
Judge
Morris Minkoff
Young Nathanson
Wesleyan Surprise University
Frisco
Justice Morschauser
Father
Lad
Purdon Clarke
Museum of Art
Edward Robinson
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke
Metropolitan Museum
Gaultier
Teheran
Persia
Greece
Turkey
Syria
Spain
Germany
Rome
Porter Charlton
Lake Como
Commissioner Williams
Immigration
Butchers
Dewey's
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
N.Y
G. E. Roe
Republican Party
Gamore Hill
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