Ocean race near Sandy Hook braces for Kaiser's Cup start
Yachts prepare for the Deutsche Kaiser Cup trials with thirty eight hours to go before the signal from the committee boat off Sandy Hook Lightship. Five entries will also sail Dover to Heligoland for the German Emperor’s prize. others plan to race Dover to Kiel and conclude at Hamburg.
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Sandy Hook
Dover
Heligoland
Atlantic
Wilson Marshall
Atec
George Lauder
Endymion
Henry Redmond
Ailsa
Edward Coleman
Hilgegerde
Hemburg
Kiel
Redmond
Imperial Yacht Club
Wonder Yacht Racing Association I
Royal Yacht Squadron
Cowes
Sandy Hook Bay
Horseshoe
John Booker
John Hammond
George Lauder, Jr
Bay Ridge
James Loesch
Bendy Hook
Storm Sinks Auto Boats in Mediterranean Race
Toulon reports the autoboat race from Algiers to Toulon ended in disaster as the second stage boats were sunk or disabled by a fierce storm miles from finish. Crews were rescued by warships with no loss of life, though several injuries and torn clothing were noted. The Quand-Méme remains missing with a search ongoing.
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Giers
Toulon
Port Mahon
Mercedes C. P
Hallebarde
la Hire
Camille
Card
Heracles
Sarbacane
Malgré-Tour
Carabine
Pertrusane
Duke Decazes
Desaix
Kléber
Arbaléte
Corsica
Mme. du Gast
Hercules
German Ambassador to Miss New York Start of Emperor's Cup Race
Washington May 14 Important engagements prevent Baron Speck von Sternburg from witnessing the start of the transatlantic yacht race for the Emperor's Cup in New York Tuesday. He will be represented by Baron von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, with Second Secretary Robert R. Scheller-Steinwartz and Major Otto von Etzel sailing. Scheller has two months leave to England, Switzerland and Germany.
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Washington
Baron Speck von Sternburg
New York
Baron von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
Robert R. Scheller-Steinwartz
Otto von Etzel
Mr. Scheller
England
Switzerland
Germany
Engagement Rings Catalog Free From Mermod Jac Kard & King
Engagement rings priced from a penny to two thousand five hundred dollars. Catalog offered free by Mermod Jac Kard and King, located at 0 Fifth Avenue.
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Mermod, Jackard & King
Fifth Avenue
Bitter debate over National Academy plan to join Columbia
Members of the National Academy of Design protest the adoption of President Butler’s plan to transfer the academy schools to Columbia University. Key figures argue the agreement was railroaded through, risking the academy’s identity for a rent free site and a $500,000 fund. The dispute centers on process, future tenure, and whether the merger serves art education or the university.
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National Academy of Design
Butler
Academy
Columbia University
J. G. Brown
The
Tribune
Columbia
J. Alden Weir
John F. Weir
Yale
Weir
Beckween
109Th St
Amsterdam
Digging 5000 Tornado Cellars In Oklahoma Towns
May 14 Lawton Oklahoma reports widespread action after Snyder tornado. Residents in the New Country dig five thousand storm cellars while city and town boards urge cave construction and pass ordinances. A Hinton notice proposes a nighttime sentry in a bell tower with shotgun and ringing the bell if danger appears.
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Lawton
Okla
Snyder
Oklahoma
Hinton
Kia
Veiled murderess Henrietta Robinson dies at Matteawan
Newburg N Y May 14 Mrs Henrietta Robinson known as the veiled murderess died at Matteawan State Hospital She was convicted of the 1853 Troy murders of Timothy Lanagan and Catharine Lubee She refused to remove her veil at trial and her sentence of death was commuted She had spent years at Auburn and Matteawan and was 89 years old
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Tribune
Newburg
N. Y
Henrietta Robinson
Matteawan State Hospital
Timothy Lanagan
Catharine Lubee
Troy
Harris
Martin I. Townsend
Auburn State Hospital
Matteawan
Robinson
Ana
Philadelphia
TRAIN WRECKERS WIN
An AT&SF passenger train near Emporia Kansas overturned in a wrecking attempt. Six passengers injured with two believed to die. Wreckers removed spikes and fishplates on one curve causing the derailment. Mail car dragged along embankment, five cars derailed, telegraph wires grounded. Relieved by a train an hour later. Suspects seen near the Howard Branch section house.
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Emporia
Kan
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé
Howard Branch
Iron pin found in Mesozic fossil bed questions man’s origins
Pinedale Wyoming May 14 a remarkable discovery at the fossil beds near a dinosaur site. Mrs Mary Small found an iron pin ten inches long and an inch thick embedded in stone from a Mesozic formation. The pin’s crude manufacture and silver bell like sound when struck are reported to challenge existing theories of early human presence.
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the Tribune
Pinedale
Wyo
Mary Small
Drag crash on 111th Street injures woman and companion
Burke a contractor from East 53d Street and Miss Annette Mahrenhunty of East 108th Street were badly hurt when a drag crashed into a cab at 111th Street and Tthave late last night. Miss Mahrenhunty was dragged under a cab horse and seriously injured. Burke suffered a probable skull fracture and brain concussion.
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T. J. Forman Burke
East 53D-St
Annette Mahrenhunty
East 108D-St
111Th-St
Florence Cottrell
West 127Th-St
Daniel Coleman
West 56Th-St
West 125Th Street
Burke
J. Hood Wright Hospital
J. B. Beers
Tthave
110Th St
115Th-St
Tub
Fisherman Drowns After Rescue Attempt in East River
Michael O Rourke a longshoreman of 205 North 4th St Williamsburg dived into the East River amid a crowded recreation pier to save an unknown man who fell from the North 2d Street pier. He reached the man twice but could not prevent the drowning as onlookers shouted and urged him on.
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Michael O'Rourke
No. 205
North 4Th Sit
Williamsburg
East River
North 2Dst
O'Rourke
Kentave
Wood Drives Moro Leader Pala From Jolo Swamp
Manila reports two weeks of fierce fighting on Jolo between Moro chief Pala and forces under Major General Leonard Wood. Pala’s forces suffer roughly 300 killed. Wood’s side seven killed and nineteen wounded as Wood surrounds Pala in a swamp. Pala, a noted slave trader, fled from Borneo after a massacre and later led the uprising.
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Manila
Island of
Jolo
Pala
Wood
General Wood
Borneo
Memphis Tragedy: John McCall Dies After Saloon Shootings
In Memphis on May 14 John McCall killed saloon keeper Hal Williamson and Miss Kiva Ferguson then fatally shot himself in a room at 10 Calhoun street. Eva Ferguson witnessed the incident as jealousy is cited as the motive. Witnesses remain silent as police investigate.
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the Tribune
Memphis
Tenn
John McCall
Hal Williamson
Kiva Ferguson
Ferguson
New York
Williamson
McCall
Eva Ferguson
Central Station
Calhoun St
Bowen in Washington Takes Meeting With President Expected
Herbert W. Bowen arrived in Washington with Mrs. Bowen from New York and went to the White House to present his card to the President. He planned to discuss the Loomis charges and awaited a hearing, while declining to comment further on the matter.
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Washington
Herbert W. Bowen
Mrs. Bowen
New York
Bowen
White House
Loomis
Mitchell Responds to Bread and Cigar Charges from Civic Federation
John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers rebuts charges from the Central Federated Union and socialist delegates that he ate non-union bread and smoked non-union cigars at a Civic Federation dinner. He defends the federation's labor support and notes bread labels may be inconsistent.
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John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Central Federated Union
Civic Federation
Mitchell
Hanna
Charles A. Moore
Oscar S. Straus
Morris Brown
Park Avenue
Duty on Trifle Declares Tax On Artful Tapestry
Banker George Crocker arrived on the Cedric and drew customs duty on a tapestry valued at 8000 dollars. Inspectors assessed about 3000 dollars, Crocker paid it, while Mrs. Collis Huntington, at the pier, was praised for openly declaring 32000 dollars in goods.
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George Crocker
Europe
Cedric
Mr. Crocker
New York
After Other Trusts Chicago Drug and Steel Probes
Federal authorities plan investigations into the drug and steel industries following the packing industry probe. Secret service agents gather evidence while Attorney General Moody outlines the prosecutorial course. Officials for major firms say they have nothing to conceal.
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Chicago
Chicago Chronicle
Secret Service
Moody
Mysterious suit seeks share in Bigelow estate
Boston news reports a suit by Bertha Bozart a violinist against Edwin M Bigelow's executors over a 2000 estate. Bigelow left 1000 to grand nephew Leslie Hastings Harvard student adopted two years ago. Bozart's claim and possible prior will are disputed while other heirs seek explanation.
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May H
Bertha Bozarét
Edwin M. Bigelow
Mr. Bigelow
Harvard
Senator Hoar
Charles Eliot Norton
Leslie Hastings
Miss Bozardt
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