Spiteful SAILING of Mr Russell Shocks Caribbean
Willemstad reports American Minister W. W. Russell sailed from Puerto Cabello aboard Caracas for the United States after a visit to the gunboat Paducah. Venezuelan officials did not greet him, signaling strained US Venezuela ties amid plague, unemployment, and growing hardship in La Guayra with relief trains aiding the distressed city.
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Willemstad
W. W. Russell
Venezuela
Caracas
United States
Puerto Cabello
Paducah
Russell Goodby
Thomas P. Moffat
la Guayra
Castro
Chamber of Commerce
France Seethes Over Venezuela Expulsions
Paris reports eight Frenchmen expelled from Venezuela intensifying French anger at President Castro. The Temps regrets France did not send ships to bombard Puerto Cabello two years ago and says action is due. It suggests Roosevelt should wield the big stick as a peace broker for a swift Venezuela lesson.
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Paris
Venezuela
Castro
Temps
France
Puerto Cabello
M. Taigny
United States
Cullum
Roosevelt
Washington
Model of America Will Be Returned to New York Yacht Club
David F. Edwards a former New York shipbuilder and Toledo resident aged ninety possesses the original model of the yacht America which disappeared from the New York Yacht Club around the time the vessel was built A duplicate sits at the clubhouse He has proof it is the original and will return it immediately to the New York Yacht Club.
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Tribune
Toledo
David F. Edwards
New York
Mr. Edwards
Tragedy at Hotel Tietjen Ends Father's Strife
Rudolph Witte a Brooklyn bookkeeper shot himself after visits with his ten year old daughter were halted by his divorce. He had lived with cousin William F McMurray at 275 Crescent Street and died at Hotel Tietjen before medical aid arrived. His ex wife had custody since a 5 year old divorce, and remarriage preceded the final act.
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Rudolph Witte
Tietjen
Ridgewood Avenue
Crescent Street
Brook
Witte
Willam F. McMurray
Jiclen
Plagemeyer
Bradford Street Hospital
Four Fires in Williamsburg. suspected incendiary acts
Four fires broke out yesterday in Williamsburg amid signs of arson. Three started in rubbish piles causing only minor damage. One blaze on Grand Street endangered firefighters and led residents to douse flames with water before authorities intervened. A benzine container was found in a second location. Other blazes occurred at No 78 and No 60 Grand Street.
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Williamsburg
Erlar
Grand Street
Engine Company 1121
Nostrand Avenue
James Costello
Shooting at Husband During Theatre Performance
In the Majestic Theatre Paul on May 10 Mrs. Bert Swan fired six shots at her husband, a noted animal tamer, from a box on stage. None hit him. Patrons fled as Swan fled. curtain lowered to resume show. After arrest she claimed she only shot at scenery and refused to discuss marital troubles. She will accompany him to New York.
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Paul
Majestic Theatre
Bert Swan
Swan
Taft Ends Panaman Conferences With Tentative Canal Accord
Secretary Taft in Panama concluded talks with Amador Arias Arango Squires and Cromwell on treaties among Colombia United States and Panama. A tribunal will settle land titles and values in the canal zone with Magoon acting as umpire. Taft to return to the United States after further talks with Roosevelt and Root.
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Panama
Taft
Amador
Sefior Arias
Sefior Arango
United States
Mr. Squires
William Nelson Cromwell
Panama Canal Company
Colombia
Jurado
Roosevelt
Root
Canal
Citiens
Magoon
Cuba
President Roosevelts Pine Knot outing ends in Washington
President Theodore Roosevelt Mrs. Roosevelt and John Burroughs return to Washington from Pine Knot near Charlottesville Virginia aboard a special two car train. They are greeted by Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Capt Frank McCoy. Roosevelt wears Rough Rider hat and says he feels refreshed after the trip. The party attended a Christ Episcopal Church service at Charlottesville with handshakes to the congregation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John Burroughs
Pine Knot
Charlottesville
Ethel Roosevelt
Frank McCoy
North Garden
Double Tragedy Rocks Apple Island Card Game
In Watertown New York on May 10 a buckshot killed Jerry Apple in his cabin on Apple’s Island near Black Lake. Albert Crowder, a son-in-law, fled after the shot and was killed by a return blast. Royal Dunning, Apple’s son in law, is jailed for murder amid a night of pursuit and terrified forest flight. Dunning claims innocence while his wife and other players escaped.
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Watertown
N. Y
Jerry Apple
Apple’s Island
Black Lake
Apple
Albert Crowder
Crowder
Royal Dunning
Dunning
Dunning Stoutely
Sabbath Observance Movement Targets New York Bakers
A meeting of the Sabbath Observance Association of Dukler Magain Abraham Synagogue adopted a plan to boycott Jewish bakers from South Street to 14th Street and the Bowery who refuse to close Saturdays. Bakers joining the pact must post a $50 deposit, forfeited for violations, as the effort aims to expand to all East Side shopkeepers and merchants.
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New York
Dukler Magain Abraham
Attorney Street
South Street
14Th Street
Bowery
East River
Montgomery tied to bank defalcations and Tonopah loss
William Montgomery, cashier at Allegheny National Bank, faces defalcations totalling 469000. He was a major investor in Tonopah Extension after Charles Schwab's stake, buying at six dollars a share that rose to thirteen seventy five before dropping to one. He allegedly loaned funds to politicians on unpaid notes, to be collected by bank officials.
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Hs Telegraph
The
Tribune
Pittsburg
William Montgomery
Allegheny National Bank
Tonopah
Montgomery
Charles M. Schwab
Auto speeders nabbed in Vanderbilt party case
New York police and suburban squads halted a spree of speeders yesterday. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt’s chauffeur, en route to Mount Kisco for a luncheon, was arrested in Hartsdale for 28 mph. Judge Glover later parole d him to await Thursday hearing. Other arrests followed in New Rochelle New York City Jamaica Hunters Point and Queens with motorists fined or bonded.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ardsley
North Street
Tompkins Monument
Corps of
Herbert Ludwigsdorff
West Sith Street
Manhattan
Broadview Park
Ludwigsdorff
Schlessinger
Thomas McGuerl
Pelham Manor
Scott
Rye
Buchanan
New Rochell
New York City
Paul Lacroix
Central Park West
Central Bridge
Gibson
Walter ©. Allen
Larroix
Edward A. Tas
West S6th Street
Devanny
Broadway
170Th
173D Street
Alexander Epting
East Sth Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
73Th Street
Isidor Wormser, Jr
Sidney Wormser
Jamaica
Gaston Plantini
Nathan B. Stearn
William R. Steinway
Steinway
Long Island
Altezer
Hunters Point
Queens
Frederick W. White
West Street
Jackson Avenue
Long Island City
Augustus Woodward
West 21St Street
Louis Lockwood
West
135Th Street
von Steenberg
Adolph Gottron
East Sith Street
Raymond F. Tiffany
State Street
Paterson
N. J
Louis S. Bostwick
Hth Street
Brooklyn
German Sailor Misses Farm Inheritance After Letter Mixup
Walter Hintz, a 24 year old German sailor aboard the Sawhill, claims his uncle Christian Albers of Holstein Iowa left him a farm valued at about 75 dollars. He says he was shanghaied to Hong Kong and that a misdirected letter chain to his aunt caused him to lose notice of the bequest. The aunt is to hold the farm for her lifetime.
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Walter Hintz
Standard Oil
Sawhill
Hong Kong
Hintz
Gustav
Germany
Christian Albers
Holstein
Ida County
Iowa
Texas
Attempted Wreck on Panhandle Line Traced to Crew
A switching engine thwarted an attempted wreck on the St Louis to Pittsburgh eastbound Panhandle line near Washington and McDonald. Obstruction of rail was placed and the engine derailed the device. Detectives pursue a crew likely to face arrests.
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Washington
Penn
St. Louis
Pittsburg
Panhandle
Pennsylvania
Here
McDonald
War on Merry Widow hats draws milliner arrests
By Telegraph to The Tribune Boston May 10 Massachusetts Andubon Society leads a crusade against hats adorned with plumage of birds. At least twenty milliners have been arrested as the campaign gains support from Mrs Jack Gardner President Caroline Hazard of Wellesley College and Mrs Arthur Cabot.
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the Tribune
Boston
Massachusetts Andubon Society
Jack Gardner
Caroline Hazard
Wellesley College
Arthur Cabot
Rock crashes through smoking car on B and O near Fairmont
A rock rolled from a hillside near Hammond seven miles east of Fairmont on the Baltimore and Ohio express early today. It smashed the roof of the smoking car, injuring three passengers aboard the Chicago and New York bound train.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Chicago and New York Express
Baltimore & Ohio
Hammond
Fairmor
Pennsylvania Railroad Tour to New York May 23
A May 23 round trip from New York is offered with special consul tickets AB. Details are limited in the fragment, but the plan involves a guided tour arrangement on the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Consul
Governor Hughes May Seek a Second Term After Session
Albany May 10 The extraordinary Legislature session called by Governor Hughes opens tomorrow night to revisit racing bills the direct nominations measure and Pub lic Service Commissions amendments. Victory on gambling could seal Congressional fate and spur support to carry out his anti boss agenda, with party leaders noting the governor’s reluctance for another term yet pressure rising if his policies fail.
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Tribune
Albany
Hughes
Public Service Commissions
Wallace
Niagara- Orleans
West Point graduate Bamford shoots self in Washington hotel
Charles Exton Bamford, 26, of Trenton New Jersey and West Point graduate who resigned as a second lieutenant in 1916, killed himself in his Regent Hotel room in Washington on May 1. A letter to Adjutant General Ainsworth found on him suggested a desire for reappointment. He had been in Washington since Thursday, had melancholia signs, and carried $35, $23 cash and a return ticket. His father, Colonel Bamford, left for Washington to bring the body to Trenton for funeral arrangements.
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Washington
Charles E. Bamford
Trenton
N. J
West Point
Regent Hotel
Bamford
Ainsworth
the Regent
War Department
Charles Exton Bamford
Charles Y. Bamford
el Paso
Tex
National Guard
Adam Exton
Hamilton Avenue
Foelker Under Knife in Staatsburg for Appendicitis
State Senator Otto G. Foelker of Brooklyn underwent an appendicitis operation at his father in law Frederick Bodenstein’s Staatsburg home. Dr. L Prescott Grant and Dr. Murphy performed the surgery, the operation deemed a success and Foelker resting comfortably. Grant predicted possible recovery in ten days if no complications arise.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Otto G. Foelker
Brooklyn
Sette
Frederick Bodenstein
Staatsburg
L Prescott Grant
New York City
Murphy
Urge Second Term For Governor Hughes In Race
Brooklyn leaders press for Governor Hughes renomination if anti racetrack bill fails at the extra session. Republicans Calder, Kracke, and Prendergast argue public demand would force a second nomination to finish his work. The Brooklyn Eagle and The Tribune reflect the mood in Kings County and New York area party leaders.
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Timothy L. Woodruff
Kings County
Hughes
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Tribune
Calder
12Th Assembly
Kings
Kracke
Parsons
William A. Prendergast
Singhes
Launch Upsets Leave 5 Dead in Massachusetts Cruise
A Newburyport naphtha launch capsized four miles off Plum Island in the Merrimac River. Nine men from the city were aboard. five Italians, Bernardo Parisso Pietro Milone Ricco Schena Joseph Colombo and George Piumbis, drowned. Captain George E Bailey and three others were rescued. Parisso Milone families in Italy minded to return home soon. Cash savings were on the victims. Bodies carried out to sea.
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Newburyport
Mass
Bar
Plum Island
Merrimac River
George E. Bailey
Bernardo Parisso
Pietro Milone
Ricco Schena
Joseph Colombo
George Piumbis
Captain Bailey
William Bailey
Frank Tague
Thomas Keenan
Parisso
Milone
Italy
Night riders destroy tobacco beds in Dearborn and Switzerland counties
Tobacco growers in Dearborn and Switzerland counties were visited by night riders early this morning. Plant beds were destroyed and growers warned not to raise tobacco this year. Marauders possibly came from Kentucky. At Henry Kaiser’s farm a grave was dug in the beds with an old sword and matches placed inside, and a note threatening further destruction of outbuildings and machinery. Bloodhounds will track the riders.
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the Tribune
Indianapolis
Dearborn
Switzerland
Kentucky
Henry Kaiser
Kaiser
Insane Through Study At 47 In Asbury Park
Asbury Park May 10 Thomas Henry Cochran a 47 year old man was declared sane yesterday and will be sent to the state hospital at Trenton Mrs Cochran his wife and sister of ex Senator William H Reynolds of New York said study caused his mind to give way Cochran made a fortune in chewing gum and wrote works on social and religious topics and composed several songs
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Asbury Park
N. J
Thomas Henry Cochran
State Hospital
Trenton
Typhoid Epidemic Hits Kiev Prison With 200 Deaths
A severe typhoid outbreak devastates Kiev city jail with over two hundred deaths. Authorities report most inmates infected and withhold full details as the epidemic spreads through the prison population.
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Kieff
Burglary Suspect Caught In Remsen Home Parlor
A man was found with a plundered cache including cut glass jewelry and silverware in David Remsen's parlor at East 49th street and Church avenue. Neighbors alerted police after a ground floor window was found open. Sergeant Blake and Patrolman Kramer of Flatbush arrested Harry Upson, a clerk of No St. Quincy street, who claimed no harm but was charged with burglary.
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David Remsen
East 49Th Street
Church Avenue
Remsen
Blake
Kramer
Flatbush
Harry Upson
No. St. Quincy Street
Gov Hughes tour reshapes Niagara Falls race outcome
Niagara Falls May 16 Governor Hughes two day tour through the district shifts odds in the race between McMahon and Wallace over racetrack gambling. Voters hear a call against bosses and for Americanism and reform. Wallace claims a narrow win while McMahon predicts carrying Orleans county. results hinge on turnout and party divisions amid fierce factionalism.
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Tribune
Niagara Falls
Senate
Hughes
McMahon
Wallace
Orleans
Orleans County
Niagara
Merritt-Wadsworth
Stevens-Porter
Mahoney
Stevens
Wadsworth
United Democrats
Urge Senator to Change Vote at Nassau Mass Meeting
Prominent Nassau County figures gathered at Hempstead Methodist Church on May 1 to urge anti racetrack gambling reform. Speakers included William J. Youngs United States Attorney Assemblyman William Miller and Rev O R Miller. A resolution praising the governor's actions was adopted and reference was made to Senator Carl S Burrip voting again.
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Tribune
Hempstead
N. Y
Nassau County
Roosevelt
Cortelyou
Hempstead Methodist Church
William J. Youngs
United States
William €. Miller
O. R. Miller
International Reform Bureau
Carl S. Burrip
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