Lusitania Nears New York Record Pace From Sea
Marconi wireless station Sabie Island reports Lusitania contacted at 11:20 P.M. EST with all on board well and turbiner racing toward New York. Ship’s speed near twenty knots, delaying once more to beat Deutschland’s transatlantic record. arrival at Sandy Hook Bar expected just before 7 A.M. Friday if records are broken.
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Marconi
Sabie Island
Sept
Cunard
New York
Cape Saan
Sandy Hook Bar
Lusitania Maiden Voyage Slow Start Not Pushed to Max
Cunard's Lusitania will arrive off Sandy Hook around 5:15 AM on Friday and proceed to quarantine via Ambrose Channel for health officer examination about 6:30 AM. Reports say the ship will follow schedule, with speed moderated to tune engines. observers note the liner may beat Lucania’s record if weather allows.
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Cunard
Lusitania
Sandy Hook
Bie
Home Office
Ambrose Channel
Cunard Line
Vernon H. Brown
Watt
Cape Race
Mr. Brown
Ernest Cunard
Mr. Cunard
Poldhu
Cornwall
England
Atlantic
Daunt Rock
Lucannia
Liverpool
Lucania
William L. Marshall
North River
Stapleton
Battery
Freeng B. Palzell
Association For the Protection of Commerce
EuNéine
20M
Sirius
Ocean Society of New York
120Th Street
West 224 Street
Pier 1
New Great Steamer Planned by Harland & Wolff
Belfast reports Harland and Wolff confirms plans for a White Star Line steamer larger than the Lusitania. Keel laying expected in months, with reciprocating engines and turbines. Some sources cite a 40,000 ton register size for the vessel.
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White Star
Lusitania
Belfast
Harland & Wolff
Newfoundland Fisheries Dispute Prompts Hague Arbitration Proposal
The Newfoundlander Premier Sir Robert Bond claims credit for urging The Hague mediation, but U S Secretary of State officials say Secretary Root first proposed arbitration via Ambassador Reid months ago. Washington notes Bond’s criticisms of the Anglo British settlement while remaining committed to peace and treaty rights.
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London
Newfoundland
United States
The
Hague
Robert Bond
Root
Ambassador Reid
Foreign Office
Bond
Sir Robert
Coal price rise aids mine workers at tidewater
Umpire Neill of the anthracite strike award commission reports August average coal price at tidewater $4.67 per ton, yielding a 3 percent gain over the August basis and a 1 percent rise from last month.
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Mahanoy
Penn
Neill
The
Anthracite Strike Award Commission
Tidewater
Brackett to challenge gas and electricity rate bodies
Ex Senator Edgar T. Brackett of Saratoga will argue at the Third Department in Saratoga that the Legislature may delegate power to regulate gas and electric rates. He seeks an order staying the State Commission of Gas and Electricity which ordered rate reductions, contending the act creating the commission is unconstitutional. George B. Decker will defend the act's constitutionality.
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Albany
Edgar T. Brackett
Saratoga
Appellate Division
Third Department
Brackett
State Commission of Gas and Electricity
Public Service Commissions
George B. Decker
Thieves in Tree Held Up by New Rochelle Woman
Mrs H Neiher of New York who bought the George W Underhill estate at New Rochelle fired a gun in her apple orchard to stop four men stealing apples. She ordered them down and kept them in her parlor until police arrived. They claimed names Henry Metz Frank Brohanka Samuel Larson and G A Thompson. They were sent for trial before Judge Van Anken.
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H. Neiher
New York
George W. Underhill
New Rochelle
McGowan
Henry Metz
First Avenue
Frank Brohanka
East 7Ith Street
Samuel Larson
G. A. Thompson
van Anken
Bride swept to death from yacht in Delaware River tragedy
Mrs Marguerite Croft wife of John Croft and reportedly of New York City drowned after a storm capsized the sloop M R E E in the Delaware River. The yacht halted by gusts hurled the boom striking her overboard as husband and host rushed to recover her. all rescue attempts failed.
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Wits
Marguerite Croft
Delaware River
Philadelphia
John Croft
New York City
Mr. Croft
Mr. Bennett
Judge Gary to head Allis-Chalmers in new role
Milwaukee September 11 Judge E H Gary a key figure in United States Steel is to become the active managing head of Allis-Chalmers with W V Kelly as his right hand The changes include resignations by Charles Allis and E D Adams and will be announced at the September 25 annual meeting Allis-Chalmers is a major New Jersey incorporated heavy machinery producer with substantial capital and a past market downturn had raised speculation of financial trouble but officials denied any ongoing embarrassment The board and officers are listed with Gary as chairman and Whiteside as president among others
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the Tribune
Milwaukee
E. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Allis-Chalmers Company
W. V. Kelly
American Steel Foundry Company
Allis-Chalmers
New Jersey
United States
Fits
E. D. Adams
Charles Allis
Walter H. Whiteside
L F. Bower
Henry Woodland
William W. Allis
Suit Over Alienation of Wife's Affections Seeks $250,000
John F. Weber, a former Westchester hotel proprietor, files in the New York Supreme Court for $250,000 against his son-in-law Owen De Witt. The case alleges De Witt enticed Emma Weber away before June 1905, causing the loss of the plaintiff's wife and comfort. Emma Weber, reportedly worth about $300,000, and the Weiners reside at 42 Oxford Street, Rochester, N.Y. The Webers married in 1884 in the city.
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John F. Weber
Westchester County
Supreme Court
Henry J. Goldsmith
Park Row
Owen de Witt
Weber
Emma
de Witt
China Rebels Routed in Engagement at Lin-Chow and Pakhol
Report from Yung-Chow in Hoo Nan says imperial troops clashed with insurgents and routed them. Over one hundred rebels killed and twenty captured. Chinese authorities provide protection to missionaries at Lin-Chow and Pakhol.
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Yung
NEW BIG CUT IN RATES IN TRANSATLANTIC FARE WAR
International Mercantile Marine and Cunard cut eastbound first cabin rates. The IMC vast fleet reductions affect Adriatic and other liners while Cunard trims Caronia Carmania Lucania Campania Umbria Etruria. German Lloyd and Hamburg American weigh in as market eyes adjust to rate competition and passenger demand.
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Europe
International Mercantile Marine Company
Cunard Line
Lloyd Line
Gustav H. Schwab
New York
Kronprinzess
Cecille
Schwab
International Mercantile Marine
White Star Line
American Line
Fiest
Cedric
Celtic
International Mercantile
Red Star Line
Atlantic Transport Line
Minnetonka
Minneapolis
Minnehaha
Caronia
Carmania
Campania
Lucania
Umbria
Etruria
Ivins Suggests Special Counsel for Transit Probe
A friend of the Attorney General says William M. Ivins special counsel for the Public Service Commission will soon send extracts of testimony from the Interborough Metropolitan transit investigation to Governor Hughes. The materials allegedly show criminal causes against merger officials and urge designation of special counsel to prosecute. If granted, the action would shift cases from District Attorney Jerome to the Attorney General, though the Governor could appoint others. Ivins denied the report, saying no such plan was ever contemplated.
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William M. Ivins
Public Service Commission
Interborough-Metropolitan
Hughes
William Travers Jerome
Jackson
Jerome
Ivins
Bad Eggs For Earle In Middletown Scandal Row
Ferdinand Piny Earle escapes a planned tar and feather attack after eggs and fruit are hurled at him in Middletown New York. He boards a late train to New York with soiled clothes and hides at the Manhasset Hotel.
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Middletown
N. Y
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
France
New York
Earle
Manhasset Hotel
108Th Street
Broadway
ENGINE AND SIX CARS OVERTURNED NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE
An eastbound freight train No 42 derailed near Lloyd New York turning on its side. Engineer William B Prince of Maybrook was crushed to death. Fireman Wickelow survived with bruises after leaping to escape. A wrecking crew was dispatched and traffic will be delayed for hours.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Lloyd
Central New England Railroad
William B. Prince
Maybrook
Prince
Wickelow
Division 348
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
New London
Conn
Accused of Bigamy at Seventeen in Brooklyn Court
In Essex Market court Harry Grossman a 17 year old waiter of 22 Seigel St Brooklyn was arraigned on bigamy charges brought by his first wife Bettie Grossman 30 of 305 7th St a cook. She says he married her in New York City June 2 and on July 10 wed Rose Mattasch then at Avenue C. A notary confirmed the July 10 marriage. Magistrate Berlow set bail at 1500 for trial.
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Essex Market
Harry Grossman
Seigel Street
Brooklyn
Bettie Grossman
7Th Street
Grossman
New York City
Rose Mattasch
Avenue C
Blossoming Apple Tree Marks First Formation This Year
Manchester Connecticut report notes Walter Luettgren’s orchard where an apple tree is in blossom for the first time this year and small fruit is forming on the branches as observers watch seasonal signs.
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Manchester
Conn
Walter Luettgren
Standart on Rocks Near Horsoe with Imperial Family Aboard
The Russian imperial yacht Standart carrying Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra along with their family ran aground on submerged rocks off Horsoe near Hangö Finland at about 4 30 pm. The vessel remains on the rocks but the imperial party is safe aboard. A lifeboat from Reval has reached the scene, and seven torpedo boats are standing by to assist if required.
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Finland
Standart
Emperor Nicholas
Empress Alexandra
Horsoe
Reval
Gulf of Finland
Finnish
Duke Strike Breaker at Somerville Estate
James B. Duke, head of the American Tobacco Company, used seventeen strikebreakers to quell a planned labor action at his Somerville New Jersey estate. He is funding a $75,000 mansion addition and imported more bricklayers to accelerate work. Eighteen union men escorted non union laborers off site and guarded the mansion. Prisoners were held to await grand jury action under $600 bonds each.
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Tribune
Somerville
N. J
James B. Duke
American Tobacco Company
Duke Mansion
Duke
Justice Sutphen
Detroit merchant commit suicide to avoid arrest
Edgar A. Davis a Detroit wholesale fish merchant killed himself in his sister's home rather than face charges of larceny by conversion. He had been involved in a Detroit chemical deal with Gibson Williams and ex Mayor Fleming. Davis left a wife and child after the plan collapsed and the body was sent to Detroit. Williams had obtained a warrant in Detroit on August 21 for the alleged involvement and the deal centered on a $15,000 purchase with payments totaling $7,500 from Williams and Davis.
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Tribune
Hartford
Conn
Detroit
Gibson Williams
Buffalo
New York Stock Exchange
Edgar A. Davis
C. F. Taylor
Girard Avenue
Williams
Davis
Detroit Chemical Company
Johnson
Fleming
Windsor
New York
Georgia to challenge 14th Amendment in railroad rate case
Georgia will contest the 14th amendment's validity in pending railroad rate litigation in state and federal courts. Central of Georgia Railroad and Atlanta and West Point lines set hearings September 16 before federal Judge Newman and Fulton County Superior Court respectively. Railroads seek federal protection under the 14th amendment, arguing the railroad commission order is confiscatory and denies equal rights under the law.
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Atlanta
of Georgia
United States
Central of Georgia Railroad
Newman
Atlanta & West Point
Fulton County Superior Court
Georgia Railroad Commission
McKinley Sarcophagi Ready for Canton Shipment
Buffalo reports the granite sarcophagi built for the McKinley mausoleum are completed after three months of work. Each weighs about four tons from a nine ton Windsor Vermont block and will ship to Canton with bronze lettering nameplates. The sarcophagi rest on a black Berlin marble cube base, will be hermetically sealed, and cost $10,000.
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The
Tribune
Buffalo
Canton
Ohio
McKinley
Windsor Vermont
Berlin
Bridegroom Kills Himself After Quarrel in Bronx Home
Herman Rosenhaim a 27 year old bridegroom shot himself in his No 447 Wendover Avenue Bronx last night after a quarrel with his wife of four months. His wife and father were nearby when the shot was fired. Doctors said he died instantly.
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Herman Rosenhaim
Wendover Avenue
Bronx
Rosenhaim
Dewey's Lauterne Or Serve Cold With Oysters
Dewey and Sons Co at 138 Fulton Street New York advertises serving Lauterne cold with oysters and fish. The truncated copy suggests a marketing note for a New York trade audience highlighting cold serving options.
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Dewey’s
H. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
No Fusion For Hearst In Bartlett Nomination Fight
William R Hearst head of the Independence League rejects a Democratic Republican fusion for Edward T Bartlett and Willard Bartlett on the Court of Appeals bench He objects that a fusion would credit McCarren and Woodruff and escalate machine control He plans independent action with aims to influence the Democratic State Committee and National Convention while opposing Bryant Chanler and other top nominees.
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William R. Hearst
Independence League
Edward T. Bartlett
Willard Bartlett
Court of Appeals
William J. Conners
Democratic State Committee
Mr. Conners
Charles F. Murphy
Hearst
Bartletts
McCarren
Timothy L. Woodruff
Mr. Hearst
State Committee
Democratic Party
William J. Bryam
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Charlies F. Murphy
George Hisgen
Massachusetts
Langdon
San Francisco
California
Moran
Chicago
The
Hague
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