Stevenson silent on bridge changes and strain sheet
A report by Burr and the firm Roller & Hodge questions safety of Bleckwell Island Bridge and proposes abandoning all four elevated tracks unless weight is reduced. Commissioner Stevenson defers discussion on costs timelines and stresses, promising action after engineers review.
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Bleckwell’s Island
Queensboro
Stevenson
Messrs
Roller
Professor Burr
Messrs. Roller & Hodge
Alfred P. Boller
Bridge Department
Ingersoll
Boller & Hodge
Hodge
Manhattan
Second Avenue
Tribune
Mr. Boller
the Tribune
Steamer Taish Sinks Off Etore Island with 150 Lost
News from Tokio reports the Taish a 674 ton steamer sunk in a storm near Etore Island off Hokkaido. One hundred fifty people drowned and only twenty nine saved from the crowded vessel. Fishermen and passengers were aboard.
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Tokio
Etore Island
Etaro Island
Hokkaido
Nevada in Doubt as Returns Linger after Tuesday Vote
Reno dispatch reports Democratic central committee predicting Bryan plurality between 14 and 200 votes amid shrinking totals. Taft may have carried Nevada as late returns cast doubt on initial Democratic claim of 1,600 ballots.
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Reno
Democratic Central
Bryan
Taft
Abruzzi to Speak on Engagement Gossip
The Duke of the Abruzzi told his aide that facts soon would end the gossip about his alleged engagement to Miss Katherine Elkins. His valet was ordered to arrange a trip.
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Rome
Abruzzi
Katherine Elkins
Dissension in Austria Threatens Cabinet Resignation
Vienna reports that the Austrian Cabinet is near resignation due to dissension between German and Czech ministers over racial conflicts in Prague and Bohemian towns.
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Vienna
Prague
Bohemian
Swiftest battleship Invin–cible breaks speed record trial
London reports the British battleship Invincible, latest navy addition, ran a trial at seven tenths power achieving 25 knots. With full power she is expected to reach 50 knots, a potential world record.
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London
Mrs Taft Outlines Quiet Winter Plans After Victory
Mrs William H Taft says she and her husband accept the honor of Tafts election with pride They will spend weeks at Hot Springs and then the winter in the South preparing for White House life Rest is needed after a long campaign and no definite duties can be fixed until after March 4 They will follow Washington routines and acknowledge Mrs Roosevelt as predecessor
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Tribune
Cincinnati
William H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Washington
Taft
President Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Arrest of Mrs Eastman Echoes Chicago Lineage in North Carolina
Mrs Sophie Eastman daughter of the late Carter Harrison and sister of the Chicago mayor is arrested at Buck Shoals North Carolina on a warrant alleging violation of a state housing law. The case is postponed to November 19. A separate suit seeks damages against Colonel McBee over Buck Shoals ownership. Early today a hotel barn at Skyland burned, killing Mrs Eastman’s two saddle horses in an incendiary fire.
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Sophie Eastman
Carter Harrison
Chicago
Buck Shoals
Skyland
Brown Denies $240 Million Railroad Contract Claim
New York Central vice president W C Brown denied reports that railroads released $240 million in contracts since Election Day. He said the figures and the claim of a Clarinda Iowa speech were absolutely unfounded and untrue.
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W. ¢. Brown
New York Central
Brown
Clarinda
Iowa
New York Central System
Mr. Brown
Bet icy swim ends in pneumonia for hotel clerk
New Castle Del Nov 6 The payment of a freak election bet may cost John Truitt a hotel clerk his life. Truitt wagered a swim in the Delaware River against 19 that a certain nominee for the Legislature would win. He lost and took the plunge in scanty attire. A chill followed then pneumonia.
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The
Tribune
New Castle
Del
John Truitt
Ife
Truitt
Delaware
Pneumonic
Taxicab Strike Ends After Peace Pact Amid Violent Aftermath
The taxicab strike concluded with a four hour negotiation at Fifth Avenue offices yielding an open shop agreement. The settlement includes wage and benefit terms, old-employer preference, cost of gas and uniforms, and no discharge for strikers. Violent incidents followed, including an assault on driver George M. Price at Rutherford Place and 15th Street.
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New Orleans
George M. Price
Rutherford Place
15Th Street
Price
42D Street
Broadway
Metropolitan Opera House
18Th Stret
Avenue A
Patroian Hoffman
East 22d Street
Thomae Gormley
No. 731
Tenth Avenue
Morris Vass
New York
No. Dag Fifth Avenue
State Board of Arbitration
UNC Student Football Player John Cooper Dies After Injury
John Cooper a UNC student and varsity football player died in Clinton after a September practice injury that damaged his spinal cord and caused paralysis. Cooper was injured while tackling a dummy during preliminary term practice.
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Charlotte
N. C
John Cooper
University of North Carolina
Clinton
Cooper
Arkansas Football End Dies After Injury in Oklahoma Game
Ernest Dickson twenty one year old right end of the University of Arkansas football team died in Austin Texas after pneumonia developed following injuries sustained in the game against Oklahoma University last Friday. He accompanied the team to Austin to play Texas University.
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Austin
Tex
Ernest Dickson
University of Arkansas
Oklahoma University
Texas University
Divorce Granted After Wife Joins Baseball Club
St Paul November 6 County Court grants divorce to William Beastry as Theresa Beastry leaves him to join a female baseball club. She took up the sport with enthusiasm and refused to return.
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St. Paul
William Beastry
Theresa
Draw Open Auto Falls Car Into Creek in Pelham Parkway
Seventeen year old Harry Goodsell drove into an open drawbridge over East Chester Creek in Pelham Parkway Bronx. He fell thirty five feet into eight feet deep water and was rescued by bridge tenders. He suffered two broken ribs and shock. his condition was uncertain.
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Harry Goodsell
Mary A. Goodsell
T2d
East Chester Creek
Pelham Parkway
Bronx
Goodsell
Byer
Daniel Kelly
Elijah Muller
Young Goodsell
Geck
Bartow Station
Eichel
Fordham Hospital
Woman Killed by Auto on Nostrand and Park Aves
Mrs Tessie Kasansky of SS Sandford street Brooklyn was killed instantly by an auto owned by Charles Feltman and driven by Proper Porsch at Nostrand and Park avenues Brooklyn yesterday. Three hundred Dunlap Hat Company workers witnessed the crash. Porsch faced criminal negligence charges at Gates avenue station and was freed on 2000 dollars bail. A 310 dollar sum was found in the victim's stocking. Witnesses say Kasansky stepped from behind a Nostrand avenue streetcar into the path of the car.
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Tessie Kasansky
Sandford Street
Brooklyn
Charles Feltman
Coney Island
Proper Porsch
West 40Th Street
Manhattan
Nostrand
Park Avenues
Dunlap Hat Company
Porsch
Gates Avenue
Rebuff to Kaiser Causes Conservative Protest in Berlin
The German Conservative party rebukes Emperor William for a recent interview given to a British journalist. The declaration requests greater restraint to protect Germany from political harm, signed by Baron von Marteuffel and ten leaders. Maximilien Harden urges abdication in a later political speech to supporters.
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Berlin
William
London Telegraph
Baron von Marteuffel
Maximilien Harden
Die Zukunft
Eight Die In Fire At Swan Lake Manitoba
The home of farmer E. W. Carey near Swan Lake Manitoba burned down killing Mrs. Carey five children and a Miss Gillespie who was visiting. Carey was badly burned and likely to die. The blaze started when Carey lit the kitchen stove with coal oil while others slept.
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Swan Lake
Man
E. W. Carey
Three Bremerman Family Members Die From Gas
Three members of Clarence L. Bremeriman s family are reported asphyxiated in their Washington home by unknown gas fumes. Mrs Helen Cutts Bremerman aged thirty four her infant son Cutts Bremerman eighteen months and Mrs Helen Catherine Bremerman fifty eight years old. The fatality occurred as Bremeriman returned home and found no reply from his wife and mother-in-law. Investigators were puzzled by the strong gas odor and source.
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Washington
Clarence L. Bremeriman
Library of Congress
1St Street
Helen Cutts Bremerman
Cutts Bremerman
Helen Catherine Bremerman
Bremerman
Mayor's Auto Crash Kills Driver and Election Captain
A limousine carrying Mayor McClellan's license was crushed between two Broadway streetcars on Stith Street last night. Chauffeur Edgar Leatherman and passenger Frank H. Reilly were injured, with Reilly unconscious briefly. Benjamin Stone, Republican election captain in the 7th Assembly District, died at Bellevue Hospital in an unexplained manner after being beaten or falling at First Avenue. Coroner to investigate.
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Broadway
Stith Street
Edgar Leatherman
Waverley Place
Frank H. Reilly
West 40Th Street
New York Hospital
George Matthews
Leatherman
New Jersey
New York
Benjami Stone
Mth
Bellevue Hospital
Stone
Bellevue
First Avenue
Baby Born to Valdez Family in Majestic
A son weighing twenty three pounds was born to Mr and Mrs Alfred Valdez of Majestic last night They will name him William Howard Taft Valdez following the birth recorded by telegraph from Trinidad Col
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the Tribune
Trinidad
Col
Alfred Valdez
Majestic
William Howard Taft Valdes
Crimson Suffragettes Amusing at Radcliffe
Boston scene reports the Radcliffe Suffragette_, an eight page spoof backed by the Radcliffe Suffrage Club. The first issue lampoons The Crimson and proposes a woman to lead Harvard after Eliot. A disguised figure voices support for greater university governance role for women.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Boston
Radcliffe
Crimson
Harvard
Eliot
Prison for Morse and free parole for Curtis in bank case
Charles W. Morse, ex vice president of the National Bank of North America, is sentenced to fifteen years in Atlanta federal prison for misapplied funds and false entries. Alfred H. Curtis, former bank president, receives a five year term with sentence suspended. bail debates and a stay of execution ensue as Morse appeals.
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Judge Hough
United States District Court
Atlanta
National Bank of North America
Hough
Alfred H. Curtis
Morse
Curtis
United States
Stimson
Henkel
Wallac Macfarlane
Lacombe
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Macfarlane
Marshal Henkel
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