Forte Offers Ten Settle for One Hundred Thousand
Secretary MacVeagh visits the port amid the Panama hat undervaluation affair and a broad overhaul plan. An importer proposes a around one hundred thousand dollar settlement. if accepted, prosecutions may be avoided. The shakeup aims to reform the Appraiser's department and related offices. MacVeagh will attend the Yale Harvard boat race before returning to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin MacVeagh
the Treasury
Loeb
Legal Department
Government
Wanmaker
Wanmoaker
Commission
Department
Persen
Treasury Department
MacVeagh
New London
Washington
Northwestern farmers drive big bull market in wheat at Minneapolis
Northwestern farmers flood Minneapolis grain pits as brokers rush to the Chamber of Commerce. Wheat trends higher with September futures around 107 to 112 1/2 cents as North Dakota growers, some worth millions, mobilize in a renewed push after drought and rust years. Telegraph orders pour in from rural sellers and speculators.
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The
Tribune
St. Paul
Northwestern
Minneapolis
Chamber of Commeres
North Dakota
Missouri girl flags Glidden tour car with red dress
Omaha dispatch describes Blanche Younger of Burlington Junction Missouri acting heroically during the Glidden tour when she attached part of her red dress to a stick to flag an American Automobile Association Reo amid a culvert hazard. The stopping car saved four passengers led by tour secretary L Ferguson and assistant J A Hemstreet of Brooklyn and driver C W McDowell with J W Cogarn of Mount Vernon New York.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Blanche Younger
Burlington Junction
American Automobile Association
Reo
L. Ferguson
J. A. Hemstreet
Brooklyn
C. W. McDowell
J. W. Cogarn
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Negro fires on crowd after trolley dispute on Madison Avenue
J Jerry a negro and his wife boarded a northbound trolley on Madison Avenue. After a dispute over mutilated transfers he struck conductor Joseph Eichele and fought off a crowd. Jerry fired a revolver injuring no one. ex Judge Alton B Parker witnessed the scene as Patrolman Nilon detained him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plate J. Jerry
Madison Avenue
Joseph Eichele
Eichele
Jerry
56Th Street
Bichele
Alton B. Parker
Nilon
East List Street
Borah’s Joke Opens Doors at 4 30 O Clock
Senator Borah faced a Treasury door keeper after 4 30 p m closing. The Idaho senator explained his “progressive” label and was admitted as a United States senator.
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Washington
Borah
Treasury Department
Idaho
Capitol
The
Treasury
West
Mr. Borah
United States
Impromptu Chariot Race On Sixth Avenue Amid Runaway Horse
A horse attached to a hansom bolted down Sixth Avenue between 42nd and 33rd streets after being frightened by exploding torpedoes. Dozens of cabbies chased it. Patrolman Benjamin Merritt diverted it with a red lamp near 34th Street, sparing a mother and two children. The horse collided with a wagon loaded with iron rails for the McAdoo tunnel project, and both were towed to West 30th Street station where they remained unclaimed.
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Sixth Avenue
Benjamin Merritt
34Th Street
McAdoo
West 30Th Street
Hotel man held for arson and insurance claim
William D. Rockefeller thirty seven year old assistant manager of the Hotel Martinique New York was arrested in Worcester Massachusetts charged with burning a Rutland farmhouse with intent to defraud. He bought land with buildings last November and claimed twenty thousand dollars on the fire loss while police pursued the mystery surrounding the blaze.
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Tribune
Worcester
Mass
Rutland
William D. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Zeppelin's Great Airship Wrecked in Heavy Gale
Deutschland the Zeppelins passenger airship lies wrecked in the Teutoburg forest after a stormy flight from Dusseldorf to Minister. Thirty three aboard none injured. Engineers repair motors as the craft drifts and finally lands with damaged frames and ripped silk.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
Count Zeppelin
Deutschland
Herr Colesmann
Herr Duerr
Zeppelin Company
Kannenberg
Dortmund
Minister
Dallas Appeals Court Upholds City Telephone Ordinance
The Texas State Court of Civil Appeals upheld Dallas against Southwestern Telephone Company in a challenge to the city initiative and referendum ordinance passed last April. The ordinance sets service charges, bans advance rentals, and offers subscribers 10 percent discount if the 10th falls after service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Dallas
Tex
State Court of Civil Appeals
City of
Southwestern Telephone Company
Is Servica
Brooklyn mattress hides forty thousand in foreign funds
A Romanian Jewish woman named Marcelle Webber is detained at Ellis Island on an accomplice charge in a Cairo bank embezzlement. About 38 000 to 40 000 is alleged to be concealed in a Brooklyn boarding house mattress, with her lover Paul Webber at large. The money was recovered and sent to a safety deposit, as authorities pursue further action.
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Cairo
Egypt
Brooklyn
Marcelle Webber
Paul Webber
Foreign Department
Webbers
Graf Waldersee
Paul
Ellis Island
Department of Commerce and Labor
Webber
Williams
Washington
Terrell Tries Death by Own Action
Edwin H. Terrell former United States Minister to Belgium lies dying at his San Antonio home after firing a bullet into his forehead Saturday night Melancholia is cited as the cause He is a Harvard graduate and among the Southwest’s wealthiest men and Republican leaders He served as minister to Belgium from 1899 to 1903 and was in close correspondence with King Leopold being decorated as a grand officer of the Order of Leopold
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United States
Wise
the Tribune
San Antonio
Tex
Edwin H. Terrell
Belgium
Terrell
Harvard
Southwest
Leopold
Order of Leopold
Italian Priest Freed After Five Days in New Haven
Father Salvatore Lacorti of the order of St. Francis in Italy was jailed five days as a supposed fake priest. He was soliciting funds in New Haven and other places, wore his robes, and spoke through an interpreter. Officials later learned he had authentic papers and nolled the case.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Father Salvatore Lacorti
Order of St. Francis
Italy
Father Lacerti
Rocco Seradi
Sudden Death Jams City Street Scene
Baruch Lishin collapsed at his fruit and vegetable shop on East 49th Street. An ambulance surgeon diagnosed heat prostration. Mrs Lishin and the two sons, aged nineteen and twenty one, suffered hysteria, prompting police to call for East Dirt Street station reserves to clear the crowd.
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Baruch Lishin
East 49Th Street
East Dirt Street
Lishin
Flower Hospital
John Fraser
Mrs. Alice Pearce Arrested After Bellevue Hospital Detention
Mrs. Alice Crowninshield Rogers Pierce, formerly of Boston and Meadow Brook Hunt Club, is hospitalized at Bellevue after an intoxication and disorderly conduct incident at the Casino. She gave the name Alice Pearce and claimed to be 18, with husband William Payne arranging bail that was not accepted. Mrs Carter Payne denied recent contact with her.
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Alice Crowninshield Rogers Pierce
Thomas W. Pierce
Boston
Meadow Brook Hunt Club
Bellevue Hospital
Arsenal Police Sta
Mrs. Pierce
Rogers
Pelham Manor
William L. Payne
Majestic Hotel
72D Street
Central Park West
Leslie Carter
Payne
Bellevue
Carter Payne
The
Majestic
Pearce
Bomb explosion in Barcelona kills passerby injures four police
Police found a street bomb in Barcelona on June 28. While transporting the device to the city laboratory, it exploded in a patrol wagon, killing a passerby and seriously injuring four policemen. The Hudson River Day Line special notice follows.
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Barcelona
Rageweed Inn Ad Proclaims Greenwich Holiday Resort
Rageweed Inn in Greenwich Connecticut 28 miles from New York off Post Road advertises a holiday outing with facilities including a garage golf and tennis as a Ban Ideal resort option.
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Greenwich
Conn
N. Y
Post Road
Two Midshipmen and Widow Missing in Annapolis Rescue Attempt
At Annapolis on June 28, first class Midshipmen Sherman M. Nason and Grisby E. Thomas and Mrs Marie Bowyer, widow of Captain Bowyer, are missing after a skiff voyage to bathe near Horn Point. A large search using steam launches and marines failed to locate them.
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Tribune
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Sherman M. Nason
Newport
R. L
Grisby E. Thomas
Union Bridge
Marie Bowyer
John M. Bowyer
Academy
Mirtzbaugh
Seales
Bagley
Nason
Camp Perry
Ohio
Academy Range
Midshipmen
Navy
Wakefield
Mass
Bowyer
Navy Department
Eleven year old captain hurt sliding for home in rock filled field
An eleven year old boy, John Sicha, captain of his nine, broke his left arm in two places while attempting to steal home in the ninth inning. An ambulance surgeon and a policeman tried to get him to quit as he slid on a rock strewn field near Wales avenue between 152d and 155th streets.
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John Sicha
John
152D
155Th Street
Wales Avenue
Manila Drydock Dewey Refloated After Submersion
The drydock Dewey was refloated this morning in Manila, appearing undamaged by its long submersion. After a failed attempt yesterday, pumps continued to operate, making large gains in flooded chambers and raising the dock until it floated free. A board inspects the sinking cause.
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Manila
Dewey
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Secretary of Treasury
Tion
Federal Buiding
Custom House
Wents
Siso
Spencer
Missouri
Negro
Parker
Senator Borah
Treasury Doorkeeper
Tribune Bureau
Massachusetts
Zeppelin
Colesmann
Osnabruck
Senne
Elberfeld
Solingen
Kaltenvenne
Diisseldorf
Wellendorf
Iburg
Texas Telephone Regulation
Lake OF
Zurich
Mattress
Texas
East Side
Tom Pierce
Park Casino Management
Poughkeepsie
Academy At
Ruth Bowyer
Bushrod Howard
B. Howard
Joseph Bowyer
Marie Dean
Pittsburg
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