Denunciation Sermon Blasts Ring Corruption in Philadelphia
The Rev Dr Henry C McCook preaches at Tabernacle Presbyterian on Flag Day condemning civil rulers as public plunderers. He says one hundred thousand men should protest at City Hall and blames party leaders for betraying Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia
Henry C. McCook
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Thirty-seventh
Chestnut Streets
McCook
McKinley
Pennsylvania
A City Rapid Transit Plan Faces Public Scrutiny
Common Council member Edward A. Anderson questioned the rapid transit proposals citing rushed voting and possible high fares. Engineers from multiple firms draft surface and elevated options for highway supervisors and the Department of Public Works as officials await an official plan release.
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Department of Public Works
Edward A. Anderson
Common Council
Council
Union Trac
Philadelphia Transit Franchises Aim for Rapid City Travel
The passage discusses how franchise holders intend to execute their plans. If they build roads and provide rapid cheap transit, Philadelphians should be satisfied. The value of the franchises depends on Union Traction Company’s approach.
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Philadelphia
Union Traction Company
Trolley Project Proposed by J. G. Brill in Centre County
John N. Aker man of J. G. Brill & Co visited Centre County seeking points for a trolley line from Coburn to connect with the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad serving Aaronsburg Robersburg Madisonburg and other towns. The plan would use Elk Creek to power the system and supply electric light to towns along the route with a central dynamo.
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Philadelphia Times
Elk Creek
Three laborers killed by locomotive near Norristown
On June 16 at the Heckscher furnaces along Philadelphia and Reading tracks three workers Calaggio Totello Diccio Salvatore Vincenzo Miralos o were struck by Engine 777 after laying a tie. A bystander attempt by Salvatore’s 12 year old son to stab the superintendent followed.
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Philadelphia Times
Norristown
Heckscher
Philadelphia
Reading
Calaggio Totello
Diccio Salvatore
Vincenzo Miraloso
Salvatore
H. A. Altenderfer
Dr Kennedy Named Rector of American College Rome
Official notification was cabled yesterday that Rev Thomas F Kennedy D D professor of dogmatic theology at St Charles Seminary Overbrook has been appointed rector of the American College in Rome. Born March 28 1858 in Conshohocken he pursued parochial schooling and led as principal before entering priesthood in 1887.
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Thomas F. Kennedy
St. Charles
American College
Rome
Kennedy
St. Charles’ Seminary
P. J. Garvey
Seton Hall College
Shot burglar sightless after confrontation with gang
Charles Owens, suspected member of a gang torturing Mrs. Fowler, lies at Allegheny General Hospital with both eyes blinded by shotgun wounds. Earlier, Grocer John Wagener fired on three robbers trying to breach his rear door. one man cried out as two fled. Owens is not fatally hurt but is reportedly permanently blind.
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Philadelphia Times
Pittsburg
Charles Owens
Susan Fowler
Allegheny General Hospital
John S. Wagener
Ben Avon
Owens
Plan to shut out McLaurin from Democratic primary
The piece describes a strategy credited to Senator Tillman to bar McLaurin from the Democratic primary next summer by requiring a written oath. The oath would force candidates to support nominees and oppose running independently, with a spring convention adding an obligation to heed the party caucus and last national platform. Since McLaurin rejects these guides, he would exclude himself from the party.
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Philadelphia Times
Columbia
8. C
McLaurin
Tillman
Rev Raub to press appeal after pew trial denial
Rev F Elwood Raub pastor of Third Moravian Church Frankford faced judge Livingston’s refusal of a pew trial in his appeal from a $5,000 breach of promise judgment won by Miss Mary Schaeffer of Lancaster. He declined to discuss his next steps saying it would be unwise to speak.
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Raub
F. Elwood Raub
Third Moravian Church
Kensington Avenue
Venango Street
Frankford
Livingston
Mary Schaeffer
Lancaster
Alibi for Haggenbotham Defenses Claim Immediate Grand Jury Presentment
Defense for John Haggenbotham says alibi witnesses, including a laundry wagon driver, place him in his office at 1580 Chestnut Street from 1.55 to 2.20 PM on the day his mother was killed at 8216 Chestnut Street. They contend the accuser Mary Wright is the real culprit and challenge key servant testimony about a window jump and eye witnesses.
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John Haggenbotham
Rothermel
Dugan
Chestnut Street
Haggenbotham
Mary Wright
Broad Street
Chestnut
Somers Point
Sixteenth Street
Filbert Street
John ‘Haggenbotham
William Haggenbotham
Ten Hurt In Beadle County Cyclone
A cyclone swept Beadle county's southeast corner on Saturday afternoon injuring ten people and leveling homes and a school. The McCormack farm two story house collapsed with Mr and Mrs McCormack and their seven year old son among the seriously hurt. The Gardiner residence was wrecked injuring Mrs Gardiner. Palmer farm house unroofed with one injury and the Gillespie residence also devastating with two injured.
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Huron
Beadle County
McCormack
Largest Trolley System in the World Grows in Midwest
Henry A. Everett and BE W. Moore returned from New York with Toledo Street Railway property. The syndicate now controls most street and suburban tracks from Warren, Ohio to Port Huron, Michigan, except Mark Hanna lines in Cleveland and Pomeroy property. The traction lines create a vast system serving a large area with extensive mileage.
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Cleveland
Henry A. Everett
BE. W. Moore
New York
Toledo Street Railway
Warren
Ohio
Port Huron
Mich
Mark Hanna
Pomeroy
Ngo Sterents
Hese Traction Lines
Talleage Ie
Skull Fracture Slams Local Pedestrian
Jeorge Clark age 45 of 430 Bainbridge street slipped on a curb at Eighth and Tasker streets yesterday and struck his head. Doctors report a base skull fracture and a serious condition.
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Jeorge Clark
Bainbridge Street
Er - Eighth
Tasker
Shields Killed By A Car In Delaware County
Delaware County authorities conclude Frank Shields death near the Chester and Darby trolley lines was an accident. Coroner Fry will hold an inquest and expects a verdict of accidental death unless a witness alters the view. Detective Berry backs the trolley strike theory citing intoxication and a night at the White Horse Hotel. Friends note his gloom after a prior trial and acquittal on robbery charges.
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Philadelphia Times
Chester
Delaware County
Frank Shields
Chester and Darby
White Horse Hotel
Fry
Berry
White Horse
Shields
Norwood
Death of One Kills Another in Williamsport House
In Williamsport Pennsylvania on June 16 Mrs. Daniel Martin aged 33 dies after collapsing while lighting a lamp and her mother Mrs. Kate Calvert aged 61 dies within half an hour from heart disease. Both deaths occurred in the same South Williamsport home with the elder woman caring for the younger during illness.
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Philadelphia Times
Williamsport
Daniel Martin
Kate Calvert
MISS DE CONS BODY FOUND IN RIVER AFTER DROWNING
The body of Lydia De Con a young stenographer from Haddonfield New Jersey was found floating near Race street wharf and identified by a ring clothing and an engraved watch. Rivermen say the body likely became fastened in dock wood during high ice filled river conditions before drifting free two days earlier. The find sparked tension between shore and Ashbridge crew police over who found and claimed the body.
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Lydia de Con
Haddonfield
N.J
Chestnut Street
Race Street Wharf
Joseph Marks
North Fourth Street
Marks
Ashbridge
Race Street
Arch Street
Thomas J. de Coy
Locust Street
Camden
Meehan
Race Streets
Land and Water
Dowie Wears Wings On Gown Inheres As Elijah’s Reincarnation
Chicago June 16 John Alexander Dowie declares himself the reincarnation of Elijah and shows two pairs of wings sewn to his robe. Four hundred Zion followers witness as wings flap during his address on paranoiacs. Dowie warns of a plot to kidnap him and have him declared insane.
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Philadelphia Times
Chicago
Ill
Beilijah
John Alexander Dowie
Zion
Zion Church
Dowie
Boys Charged With Theft Remanded To Society Care
Under Juvenile Court law three boys under 14 were committed to the Children's Aid Society at 821 South Twelfth street by Magistrate South on suspicion of larceny. With no housing, police returned them to the Second district station house for care until the next hearing. Suspects named as Peter Polero 18 Frank Marker 18 and Michael Egga oe 812 Washington avenue.
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Children’s Aid Society
South Twelfth Street
South
Second District Station House
Peter Polero
Pea
Berton Street
Frank Marker
Abbott
Michael Egg
Washington Avenue
Great Fights Over Rail Lines Draw Pittsburg Into War
Pittsburg reports a major railroad contest as George Gould blocks Wabash access to the city. The struggle centers on controlling 1,000,000 tons of annual freight from the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Carnegie region and beyond. Pennsy, Vanderbilt rivals resist a Mount Washington tunnel plan while city officials battle over a Wabash ordinance.
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Philadelphia Times
Pittsburg
George Gould
Pennsylvania
Cassatt
Keystone State
Legion
Philadelphia
Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
J. Pierpoint Morgan
Wabash
Carnegie Steel Company
Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Mills
Morgan
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Mount Washington
Ferry
Liberty
George J. Gould
Ramsay
Corporations Committee
John Paul
Thirty-second Ward
Paul
Tobacco spitter held on dress-damaging charge
Charles Jones of 1821 South Sixty-seventh street faced Magistrate Stratton at the Woodland avenue station on a charge of destroying women’s dresses by tobacco juice. Held in 800 dollars bail, Jones admitted the act as accidental. Special Policeman Ford has 32 named victims and will bring them to the next hearing to confront him.
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Charles Jones
South Sixty-seventh Street
Stratton
Woodland Avenue
David and
Robert Cochrane
Ford
Man tells court wife threatened murder in divorce case
In Scranton Judge Edwards heard Duryea Bartell of Carbondale testify that his wife threatened to kill him and he feared poison due to a $4,000 life insurance in her name. He said he left because the anxiety became unbearable and a decision was pending.
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Philadelphia Times
Scranton
Duryea Bartell
Carbondale
Edwards
Bartell
Dog Guards Injured Master After Trolley Tragedy
In Womelsdorf near the trolley tracks Monroe Kintzer was found with his left leg severed at the ankle. His setter dog Sam guarded him, reacting furiously when a motorman and conductor approached, forcing rescuers to drive the animal away before aid could be given.
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Philadelphia Times
Reading
Monroe Kintzer
Womelsdorf
Sam
Kintzer
Boers Surprise British Kill Eightteen in Camp Attack
Lord Kitchener reports from Pretoria that 250 Victorian Mounted Rifles were surprised at Steenkoolspruit near Middelburg on June 12. Two officers and sixteen men were killed, four officers and thirty-eight men wounded, twenty-eight mildly, with fifty escaping to Beaston’s camp. two officers and fifty men remained captive. Two pompoms captured.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Welmansrust
Middelburg
Beaston
Steenkoolspruit
Brothers Burned By Giant Firecracker Explosion
Maurice Cohen aged 6 and David Cohen aged 10 of 235 Monroe Street were badly burned about the face and head yesterday when a giant firecracker exploded as the younger boy moved toward it. The elder lit it and David, in trying to rescue him, sustained injuries. They were taken to Pennsylvania Hospital for treatment.
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Maurice
David Cohen
Monroe Street
David
Pennsylvania Hospital
Missionaries Murdered in Honduras Reported
Word reached Boyertown that two Christian workers, Eulalias Grob and R. H. Hall, were murdered in Honduras. Grob, long a missionary there, is a son of Rev. Leonard Groh of Omaha and a native of Boyertown, while Hall joined Grob last fall.
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Honduras
Philadelphia Times
Reading
Boyertown
County
Eulalias Grob
R. H. Hall
Mr. Groh
Leonard Groh
Omaha
Populists Press Plan for Governor Candidacy
In Omaha on June 16, Populists announce they will nominate a gubernatorial candidate this fall. They argue the Constitution does not authorize the Lieutenant Governor to complete an unfinished term.
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Philadelphia Times
Omaha
Neb
Douglas County
Oil Strike and Rich Coal Vein Found in Alabama
In New Decatur Alabama on June 16 oil was struck in Lawrence county about twenty five miles away and the well flowed 500 barrels per day. Prospectors also found a vein of coal over eleven feet thick in the same county.
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New Decatur
Ala
Lawrence County
Weather forecast for Monday and Tuesday regions
Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware warmer Monday with likely showers. Tuesday fair and warmer with fresh east to southeast winds. Eastern New York interior fair warmer with showers near the coast Monday and showers Tuesday with fresh east to southeast winds. Western Pennsylvania local rains Monday and Tuesday fair with fresh southeasterly winds shifting to westerly. Western New York showers Monday with warmer eastern portion Tuesday fair with fresh easterly winds shifting to westerly.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
New York
Weather Bulletin from Philadelphia June 16 1901
United States Weather Bureau reports sunshine and rainfall figures for Philadelphia. Measured temperatures and rainfall deficits are noted with rain amounts and dates referenced, indicating trends since early June.
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United States Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Arrivals of Ocean Liners and Reaoetrys Fat B Patan
The notice lists ocean liner arrivals and related shipping updates. It names ships and ports, noting schedules and arrival dates for vessels impacting trade and passenger movement. The item reflects a busy maritime season with emphasis on docking times and carrier names.
Kennedy Jury Fails to Reach Verdict in Murder Trial
In New York on June 16, jurors divided eight for acquittal and four for conviction after 22 hours of deliberation over Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy’s murder case. Judge Newburger discharged the panel, Kennedy returned to the Tombs, and his father cried out for justice as the trial ended without a verdict.
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Philadelphia TimEs
New York
Emeline C. Reynolds
Dolly"’ Reynolds
Samuel J. Kennedy
Kennedy
Robert M. Moore
Philbin
Marion
Newburger
Theodore Weed
Liberty
French praise for McKinley hailed in Paris cablegram
The Temps in Paris congratulates President McKinley on Cuban negotiations and his decision not to seek a third term. It notes admiration for his tact and suggests wary judgment of promises in regard to future policy.
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Philadelphia Times
Paris
The
Temps
McKinley
Terity
Canteen blamed for soldiers excess in report
Edwin F. Walker reports from Chicago on the canteen issue. He argues the canteen makes drinkers of soldiers and that liquor interests back current cries of excess among troops.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Edwin F. Walker
Camden Lad Stabbed at Play by Classmate
Fourteen year old Isaac Kugler of 71 Pearl Street Camden was stabbed above the heart by John Hurley with a penknife during a game. The blade struck a rib and glances upward, Kugler now in Cooper Hospital in serious condition.
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Isaac Kugler
Pearl Street
Camden
John Hurley
Kugler
Cooper Hospital
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Anderson
Centre County
DR. Kennedy
M’laurin
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Omolass
Elijah
Gould
Pierpont Morgan
Steel Trust
Joseph Ramsay, Jr
Recorder, Brown
Recorder
Vanderbilt
Goulds
Chamber of Commerce
Brown
Cornells
Knights of St. John
Cincinnati
Canada
California
Colorado
New Mexico
St. John
Con
Victorian Mounted Rifles
Cohen
Alabama
Local Weather Report
Tomberntene
Mapa
Stport
Atlantic
Jacksonville Tlanta
Palestine
S.W
Prisoner
M’kinley
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