Moore and Hicks clash over dictation in City Treasurer race
J Hampton Moore writes to Thomas L Hicks asking the Leaders League to hear a citizen committee to support his bid for City Treasurer. Hicks replies ruling out league dictation and defends party processes, prompting widespread amusement among politicians and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Hampton Moore
Thomas L. Hicks
Republican Ward Leaders’ League
Moore
League
J. Hicks
Mr. Moore
Chief Hicks
City Hall
Philadelphia
Republican Party
Republican League of
Eto
Cavall
Republican League
Austrian immigrant attempts suicide amid fear of return to asylum
Ernest Geissler 40, of 2951 Orkney street, cut his throat with a razor yesterday. He was wounded but survived and was taken to Episcopal Hospital. Recently released from Norristown Insane Asylum after two years confinement, he feared police would return him there, prompting the act. He has a wife and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Geissler
Orkney Street
Geissler
Episcopal Hospital
Norristown Insane Asylum
Norristown
Géissler
Powder blast devastates Hazardville village in 1900s accident
At Hazardville near Windsor Locks Connecticut a powder plant blast leveled the cracker house killing three workers Richard May D S Stratton and M W Pierce and fatally injuring a horse. Other buildings suffered damage and the village trembled. about 5 000 dollars in damage. Pierce and May left wives and two children each while Stratton was unmarried. The mill had stood idle and had functioned as a corning mill for thirty years.
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Windsor Locks
Conn
Hazard Powder Company
Hazardville
Richard May
D. S. Stratton
M. W. Pierce
Pierce
May
Stratton
Murderer Schultz Aims At Self Destruction In Jail
Herman Paul Schultz, recently convicted in Pike County for the Shohola murder of his wife, attempted to take his own life at Milford jail. A night watch had been placed after his vow that he would not be hanged. Constable Terwilliger found him unconscious with a cloth wrapped around his neck. Dr. Emerson revived him after a six day fast.
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Milford
Herman Paul Schultz
Pike County
Shohola
Schultz
Almer Terwilliger
Dr. Emerson
Spalding Not Guilty in Embezzlement Trial
Ex-President Charles W. Spalding of the Globe Savings Bank was found not guilty after the jury deliberated following the court instructions. The case was tried on embezzlement charges and submitted to the jury this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CubcaGco
Charles W. Spalding
Globe Savings Bank
Spalding
State Republican Convention Nominations Set for August 26
Harrisburg June 18 The State Chairman fixed Thursday August 26 for the meeting of the State Republican Convention to nominate candidates for State Treasurer and Auditor General. The State committee will meet the days before to arrange preliminaries of the campaign.
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Republican League
Philadelphia
Lafayette
Harrisburg
Elkin
Missing Woman Found Murdered in Capitol Street House
Charles Rodgers reported his wife missing from 816 Capitol Street. Police found Mrs Rodgers dead in the cellar, face down with signs of a violent death. Rodgers was arrested. her nephew Frank Adams fled with valuables. Adams had prior crimes and was last seen in a gray coat.
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Charles Rodgers
Capitol Street
Ninth District
Frank Adams
Old Hose
Rodgers
Jordan
Clayton and
Smith
Mrs. Rodgers
Gallagher
Bond
Tate
Riter
Malin
Old Rodgers
Adams
House of Refuge
Eastern Penitentiary
Assam Devastated by Earthquake Ruin Reported
Calcutta June 18 almost the entire Assam province has been laid waste by the quake. Courts treasuries jails and hospitals collapsed. Food shortages loom as crops are ruined and roads are demolished. Aftershocks continue amid heavy rains worsening damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta
Assam
Bengal
Presentation of The Times Prize Library at Claghorn School
The Times announces that the prize library gift will be presented to Claghorn School and will be reported in The Times tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claghorn
The
Times
Ellide Sets Speed Record In Trial Run On Hudson
Nyack June 18 The steam yacht Ellide built for B Burgess Warren of New York by Samuel Ayers of Nyack completed a measured mile in one minute and thirty seconds at forty miles an hour the fastest time on record.
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Nyack
N. Y
Ellide
B. Burgess Warren
New York
Samuel Ayers
Suit Against the Laurada Dismissed
The suit of Blackburn & Co. of New York against the steamer Laurada, filed on a claim for supplies, moved to $381.65, was dismissed in the United States Court in Wilmington Delaware.
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Wilmington
Del
Blackburn & Co
New York
Laurada
Mosctien
United States
Schriver Acquitted in Contumacy Case After Jury Verdict
Judge Bradley orders a not guilty verdict for John S. Schriver of the Mail and Express who declined to name his informant to a Senate Investigating committee. Edwards also freed. Dittenhoefer hails it as a victory for press privilege protecting sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradley
Edwards
Washington
John S. Schriver
The
Mail and Express
Senate
Committee On Finance
Justice Bradley
Schriver
Dittenhoefer
New York
Died During Graduation at Friends Central High
L J Piers of 2019 Mount Vernon street collapsed at the Friends Central High School commencement on Fifteenth and Race Streets and died in his seat before medical help could arrive. The 65-year-old man, connected with the Allison Manufacturing Company, attended to see his niece Carrie Piers graduate.
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Friends’ Central High School
Fifteenth
Race Streets
L. J. Piers
Mount Vernon Street
Carrie Piers
James B. Volker
Piers
Allison Manufacturing Company
DROWNED WOMAN FOUND NEAR MORRISVILLE CANAL
A decedent woman about 30 years old is found in the Mor risville Canal by Edward R. Hawkins. A silk handkerchief holds a letter the coroner cannot read and a tintype shows a man named Harry Reardon, leading to suspicion the death was by her own hand with a possible link to Guttenburg Race Track.
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Trenton
Morrisville Canal
Edward R. Hawkins
Harry Reardon
Mollie
Guttenburg
Peter de Lacy
Reardon
New York
Garrick Cafe
Forty-second Street
Louis Couplin Returns To Atlantic City
Louis Couplin, once a noted fugitive believed to be fleeing Russian justice, returns to Atlantic City and says he will sue local individuals. He has retained lawyers Munce and Freas of Philadelphia and Reed of Atlantic City to pursue misappropriation claims related to money he entrusted to them. He provides no details on his previous wanderings.
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Atlantic City
Louis Couplin
Munce and Freas
Philadelphia
Reed
Delk Hanged For Sheriff Gwinn's Murder In ZesuLon
Tom Delk, 24, was hanged in ZesuLon Georgia at 2 06 PM for the murder of Sheriff Gwinn. He died game as about four thousand spectators gathered near the gallows enclosure. the execution was private with no disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ZesuLon
Tom Delk
Gwinn
Father Kills Son Then Ends Own Life in Tragic Domestic Tragedy
In Olney a man Robert Soley murdered his two year old son Herbert by firing a pistol at the temple then shot himself. Mrs Soley, the mother, and grandmother Florence Marshall suffer shock as neighbors witness the scene. Police recover the weapon and take the bodies to the morgue while the couple had separated about a year earlier.
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Robert Soley
Olney
Thomas James Marshall
Wyoming Avenue
Fifth Street
Soley
Frankford
Miss Marshall
Marshall
Herbert
Mr. Marshall
Solley
Hollingsworth
Smith
Herbert Soley
Fourteenth District
Trenton Train Tragedy Claims Two Colored Victims
Edward Clark junior aged 25 and James Williams seven, both colored, were struck and killed on a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge in Trenton New Jersey this afternoon. A freight passing moments earlier hid the approach of a passenger train, preventing any escape. The boy’s body was mangled beyond recognition and his mother identified him by his clothing.
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Trenton
N. J
Edward Clarkson
James Williams
Pennsylvania Railroad
Wall Paper Convention to Assemble at Niagara Falls
A convention of retail wallpaper dealers is set for Niagara Falls on June 29. Industry notes include a Delavan Wis. magnate leaving $50,000 for public benevolence and various financial movements in New York and Boston. The piece also mentions inquest delays in San Francisco and labor actions at Hudson Mines.
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Niagara Falls
James Aram
Delavan
Wis
Kilbreth
National Association of Burial Case Manufacturers
San Francisco
Isaac Hoffman
Apsley Rubber Company
Hudson, Mines
F. E. Clarke
Boston
Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor
New York
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Europe
Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Confederate Veterans’ Association
Nashville
Board of Control
Joint Traffic Association
Thursay
Springfield
Ill
Verdi Seriously Ill at Home in Rome
The Messaggero reports that celebrated composer Giuseppe Verdi now 82 or 83 is seriously ill at his Rome home.
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Rome
The
Messaggero
Giuseppe Verdi
Orlandi Promoted to Chancellor at New York Consulate
Henri Orlandi, Acting Consul in New York for eleven months, is promoted to Chancellor of the General Consulate in New York and will depart July 1 to assume the new post. Baron Houssin de Saint Laurent, appointed Vice Consul, will arrive by June 3 to take over consular duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henri Orlandi
New York Post
New York
Mr. Orlandi
Louis Vossion
Honolulu
Orlandi
Vossiot
Baron Houssin de Saint Laurent
Barnato’s Body Reaches England After Inquest Verdict
Southampton June 18 The Scot brings Barney Barnato’s body. Coroner’s inquest returns death by drowning while temporarily insane. Passengers donate £100 to reward Mr Clifford who attempted rescue. Sol Joel Barnato’s nephew recalls his uncle’s sudden crisis and his decision to stay by him.
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Southampton
Barney Barnato
Barney Barnall
Cape Town
Clifford
Sol Joel
Barnato
Four Boys Killed by Tornado at State Institution
A tornado today destroyed buildings at the State Institution for the Feeble Minded in Lincoln Tract, killing four boys and seriously injuring five others. Property damage was widespread in the city and surrounding countryside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
State Institution
Doctor Bell Found Guilty of Malpractice in County Coroner Case
The Coroner of Lawrence County, Dr. R W Bell, was found guilty of criminal malpractice charges brought by Miss Daisy Kirker. The Newcastle trial, which stretched over a year, concluded today in Pa with the verdict.
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the Times
Newcastle
R. W. Bell
Daisy Kirker
Lawrence County
Bomb Found at Paris Street Corner
The Soleil reports a fresh bomb discovered at 1.30 this morning at the corner of Boulevard St. Denis and Rue St. Denis in Paris. Other quarters say the find is merely a harmless hoax.
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Paris
the Soleil
Boulevard St. Denis
Rue St. Denis
Community Events and Tours Around Philadelphia Area
Polo at Bala Country Club. Muckle trophy race by Philadelphia Yacht Club. Municipal Band concert at Peon Treaty Square. First Regiment Band concert at Lemon Hill Music Pavilion, Fairmount Park. Whitakers sail to Europe aboard Spaarndam. Church and Sabbath School excursions to local parks. Pennsylvania Conservatory of Music commencement at New Century Drawing Room. Sons of St George and British groups celebrate Queen Victoria Jubilee at Washington Park. Bronze tablet unveiled at Bethlehem Seminary building by Sons of the Revolution.
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Bala
Philadelphia Yacht Club
Peon Treaty Square
First Regiment
Lemon Hill
Fairmount Park
Bishop
Whitaker
New York
Spaarndam
Europe
Thirteenth Street
M. E
Funk
Forest Park
Tabernacle Church
Eleventh Street
Jefferson
Willow Grove
North Presbyterian Church
Chamounix
Park Trolley
Pennsylvania Conservatory of Music
New Century Drawing Room
South Twelfth Street
Sons of St. George
Daughters of St. George
Independent Daughters of St. George
Washington Park Grove
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution
Seminary and
College For Women
Bethlehem
Ex Queen Liliuokalani accused of seeking Japanese protection for Hawaii
A Treasury Department agent reports he believes Ex Queen Liliuokalani residing in the United States plans to place Hawaii under Japan protection. He cites her formal protest against annexation and says her actions aim to secure a throne here. She would wield vengeance on enemies and seeks support to overthrow the government.
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Washington
Treasury Department
State Department
Liliuokalani
Hawaii
Japan
Dominis
Cleveland
Blount
Mr. Willis
Balcony Collapse Injures Parade Crowd in Wisconsin
A street parade by a circus in Black River Falls Wisconsin collapsed a balcony above a sidewalk sending about twenty people and several children onto the pavement. Genie Erickson and Carrie Hanson were among the seriously hurt with Hanson possibly fatally injured. Several Indians sustained dangerous injuries from falling timbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black River Fallus
Wis
Genie Erickson
Carrie Hanson
Jackson guilty of perjury in Pearl Bryan case
George H. Jackson, who testified he drove the carriage in the Pearl Bryan murder case, was found guilty of perjury in Springfield Ohio. Sentence has not been pronounced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ohio
George H. Jackson
Pearl Bryan
Scott Jackson
Alonzo Walling
Kentucky Highlands
Charter Not Granted for Lottery in Lower California
Official gazette from City of Mexico June 18 denies US report that government granted a charter for gambling houses at fijuana or a lottery in Lower California. The petition was recently made by some Americans but the government did not consider it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Mexico
United States
Fijuana
California
Lower
Four More Bodies Found in Thames Victims List Grows
London reports four additional bodies recovered from the Thames, bringing the total to twenty-one in three weeks. The crisis sequence continues as authorities confirm matches and ongoing searches along the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
London
Malt tonic surpasses stout as a health drink
A Malt tonic bottle is claimed to benefit the system more than a gross of English stout or ale, with none of the intoxicating properties. Statement attributed to CHAS. W. NOLEN, manufacturer's agent, 178 Third Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. W. Nolen
3D St
Mfr
Mottet’s True Virgin Olive Oil Advertisement
Mottet's true virgin olive oil promoted as the perfection of flavor and purity. The ad markets it as the standard of all excellency and a necessity for every household, sold by leading grocers and druggists.
Excelsior Fireworks Ad Promotes Miller's Store
An advertisement touts Excelsior Fireworks and invites readers to Miller's at 265 and 257 South Third Street for the best American assortment and lowest prices.
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Excelsior
America
Miller's
Third St
Perry & Co. Offer Serge Suits and Wool Trousers
A Franklin street advertisement from Perry & Co. at 1520 Chestnut Street promotes serge suits in ten to twenty dollar ranges with fast colors and trims. Coats priced to four dollars for double breasted and three fifty for single. All wool and worsted trousers available from two to three dollars and up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Serge Coats
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Hicks
David Martin
State Republican Convention
Mary Rodgers
Friends’ School
Delk
Richard Soley
Giuseppe Verdi III
England
Illinois
DR. Bell
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Tlh
Jackson
Nicholson
Perry & Co
Chestnut Street
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