Bangor Maine Train Wreck Kills Fifteen Injures Dozens
A Bangor and Aroostook excursion train collided head on with the midnight Van Buren Bangor train near Grindstone Maine killing fifteen people and injuring many more. Names from Presque Isle Washburn and Bangor are listed among the dead and missing. A special relief train with doctors and nurses was dispatched as storms and weather hindered rescue.
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Aroostook Failroad
van Buren
Eugene Pipps
Presque Isle
Frank Feeley
Harry Clark
Clark Roonmer
Washburn
W. Garcelon
Grindstone
Millinocket
Kiddera Point
Penobscot Bay
Searsport
Maine
St Art
St Jean
Boston
Penobscot
W Garcelon
Wanger
WU Orr
Hugh Pikes
J R Billington
Orr
Matl
Smoker
Girl Aviator Rescues Two From River Capsize
Miss Anna Belmont, an aviator from Philadelphia, swam to the Delaware River at Cramer Hill New Jersey after a boat capsized. She pulled two men Harry Hartman of Louisville and James Barry from the water and guided them to shore.
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Washington Post
Wilmington del
Miss Anna Belmont
Delaware River
Eagemore Unls
Harry Hartman
Louisville
James Barry
Warren Chuk
Cramer Hill
N. J
Five Sailors Saved From Wreck Off Provincetown
In heavy surf at Provincetown Massachusetts July 2 a crew of five from the two masted schooner Catawamteak of Rockfard were rescued in a breeches buoy after eighteen minutes. The Race Point life saving station volunteers of nine carried out the operation as winds raged. An advertised fifteen day excursion via Southern Railway is noted with contact details for more information.
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Provincetown
Mass
Rockfard
Race Point
Gen Sickles Contends Over Inheritance and Trust
Gen Daniel Sickles declared he has not been served in the suit filed by his daughter Mrs Tada Sickles Crackenthorpe seeking injunction and accounting. He says he will exercise testamentary power over a $9000 trust left by his father and accuses Crackenthorpe of poor treatment, signaling possible charitable disposition of most of his estate. The case was adjourned on Justice Barkhoff's calendar.
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Washington Post
New York
Daniel Gsickles
Tada Sickles Grackenthorpe
Crackenthorpe
Sickles
Sick
Turkish envoy Naoum Pasha dies in Paris heat
Special cable from Paris reports Turkish Ambassador Naoum Pasha collapsing at a card table at the Parish Club and dying from heart disease attributed to the intense heat. The incident occurred tonight. he was in the act of taking up a card when he fell backward.
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Naoum Pasha
France
Paris
Naoum
Shipwreck Claims Dozen Lives As Survivors Drift Ashore
Halifax reports that the steamer John Irwin struck a rock off Beaver Harbor during a gale and sank. Willie McLeod, a Halifax resident, washed ashore on a hatch at Liscomb hours after surviving the wreck, with a companion dying earlier and his body swept to sea. The vessel carried coal from Port Merion to Halifax when the storm struck the Cape Breton coast, delaying news until confirmed today.
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Halifax
John Irwin
Beaver Harbor
Willie McLeod
Liscomb
Here
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Port Merion
Cape Breton
McLeod
Mary Joseph
Capt Eater
Marc Joseph
Nova Scotia
Mare Joseph
Seaver Harbor
Tally Way
Paisley
Scotland
Port Hood and Richmond Coal Company
Atlantic Cotherles Company
New Navy Commandant to Leave Academy This Fall
Annapolis reports Commander R. E. Coontz, commandant of midshipmen, will be relieved about September 1 after less than a year in post. He will be succeeded by Commander J. E. H. Logan as the academy reels from the Beers snub incident and related upheaval.
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Annapolis
Beers
Washington Post
Annapolis Md
Naval Academy
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Coontz
J. E. H Logan
Catherine Beera
Yale
Academy
Bowser
Midshipmen
Department of Discipline
Push District bills extra days for work in extra session
Representative Ben Johnson of Kentucky presses for more days in the District session to push through vital measures. He aims to weed out contentious bills and keep a quorum, focusing on public baths two new high schools and municipal projects while delaying opposition items and noting many measures are poorly drafted.
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Esterday
Robert Henry
Washington
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House
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Alexandria County
Anderson
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
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Congress
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Committee approves pacific action on DC pharmacy bill
The committee signaled assent to a proposition costing Congress nothing and urged passage of noncontroversial bills. Mr Johnson criticized several measures as mere minor issues with little value for the District and urged that Congress adjourn only after the people of Washington see the committee’s best interests.
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District of Columbia
Johnson
Washington
Woman killed by ram in Michigan farmyard
Muskegon officers ruled Mrs Antoinette Zell of Conkhm died after being butted by a ram. The ram was found in the fields with blood on its horns and on the sheep’s back, and authorities believe she ran from the house and collapsed in a shed where she died.
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Mich
Antoinette Zell
Conkhm
Zell
Trials Set In Glen Echo Fracas Courtroom Clash Looms At Rockville
At Rockville Maryland a sensational trial opens at 10 am over the Glen Echo conflict. City officials and witnesses from across the county will attend as Daniel Collins and Thomas A Weaver face assault and battery charges. Mayor Witkowski faces multiple indictments including assault with intent to kill. State’s Attorney Waters leads the case with Morris Kilgour assisting. Park closure for Sunday looms amid countywide interest and guard preparations.
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Maryland
Glen Echo
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Thoma A. Weaver
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Justice Reading
Reading
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Weaver
Witkowski
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Feun
Glenteho
Convict Seeks Return to Pen After Parole Breakup
Dennis Clairefield, 55, returned home to Bezar county after being pardoned from a State penitentiary where he served fifteen years of a ten to fifteen year sentence. He learned his wife had remarried and moved elsewhere, and he asked to serve out his term instead, saying desertion left him a friendless wanderer. He had sold farm property prior. He was convicted of manslaughter fifteen years ago for killing a neighbor in a land dispute.
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Washington Post
Galveston
Dennis Clairefield
Bezar County
State Penitentiary
Ihmtsvilte
Clairefield
Lightning cures deafness in a shocked widow
Mrs. James Becker of Canaan Wayne county, aged 65, was struck by lightning and knocked down but not badly injured. Hours after the shock she discovered she could hear ordinary conversation for the first time since childhood, marking a remarkable recovery of hearing in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
James Becker
Canaan
Wayne County
Bracelet Transfer Sparks Downtown Jewelry Call
Miss Hermione Van Slyke of Beaver Colorado visited a Minneapolis jeweler to move a gold bracelet from her wrist to her ankle a recent afternoon. While attempting a return to the wrist the jeweler was summoned and the bracelet remains on the ankle as her party heads to Chicago then New York.
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Minn
Hermione van Slyke
Beaver
Colo
New York
Aviators death by own action indicated
The Washington Post reports that a waist cast from Alexander L. Pfitzner, a lieutenant and aviator, was found in Marblehand harbor, supporting the theory that Mr. Ritter, missing since last August, committed suicide. His rowboat with an automatic gun and two empty shells was also recovered. Those backing the theory say Pfitzner, discouraged by failed missions in the Black Demon, shot himself and fell overboard.
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Washington Post
Boston
Alexander L. Pfitzner
Dupigian Leutenant
Marpleband Harbor
Rittener
Pfitzner
Baseball kills boy at naval hospital grounds
A naval hospital yard game ends in tragedy when John Paul Freeman, 17, is struck by a line drive while pitching to Seaman Mayotte. Deputy Coroner Dr White rules accidental death. funeral planned Monday at St Stephen’s Church with Mount Olivet burial. Freeman, son of War Department employee George Freeman, hoped to be a sailor and enjoyed naval stories. the incident occurred behind the Navy Medical School Hospital in Washington.
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Navy Medical School Hospital
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John Paul Freeman
H. Seventy-Second
White
Young Freeman
Ben
Joseph Mayotte
Mayotte
Freeman
George Freeman
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Beattie murder case kept in jail as insanity plea eyed
Richmond July 28 detectives report Beulah Binford and Paul Beattie remain jailed as the Beattie murder case heads to Chesterfield grand jury. Authorities seek higher bond to keep the affinity of Henry Beattie detained while defense plans a venue change. Evidence includes Paul Beattie confession and a witness account of a woman screamed before the fatal shot on the Midlothian turnpike.
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Beulah Binford
Commonwealth
Beattie Mur‘dep
Poe
Chesterfield County
Henry Clay Beattie
Harry M. Smith
Hl Carter
Henry Beattie
Beattie
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Paul Beattie
McMahon
Houchen
Henrico County
Sheriff Kent
George Washington
Midlothian Turnpike
Midlothian
Fifteen Killed in Train Wreck
A grim tally reports fifteen killed in a rail disaster with details on the wreck’s location and likely causes. Authorities inspect the scene as rescue teams search for survivors and confirm casualty counts.
Blind Man Accumulates 100000 After Loss Of Sight
In Norfolk, a 60 year old man, Greve E. Yale from Winsted Connecticut, who joined the Forty-niners and lost his eyesight in a mine explosion, died with an estate valued at 100000. He had become nearly blind and built a substantial fortune before death.
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Conn
Greve E. Yale
Norfolk
No New Peers Sought in Crisis End Game for Veto Bill
London July 78 A solution to the veto bill crisis without creating peers appears likely. Asquith met King George as the King and Queen Mary prepare for Cowes. The no surrender movement falters as leaders avoid naming adherents. Lord Linsdayns claims support from over 100 peers to preserve the bill. If needed Lord Staldwyn could bring in sufficient unionist peers to outvote Halsbury critics, though Liberal peers may outnumber them. Cabinet reshuffle looming after veto passage with Morley, Crewe seeking relief from ill health. Isaacs to become law lord. Churchill eyed for Irish secretary. Seeley eyed as war secretary head. routes for Ireland and India hinted.
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Queen Mary Tomorow
Cowes
Nio
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Ader
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Ford
Earl of Crewe
India
Haldane
Augustine Birdell
Ireland
Rufus Daniel Isaacs
Home
Churchill
John BE. B Seeley
Prayer Money Returned by Retired Minister in Wisconsin
The Rev. A. L Tul, a retired Methodist minister in Madson Wisconsin, returned a $3 check he was paid for delivering a prayer in the Senate. He wrote that the $672 paid for prayer this session was lost money as the legislature backed temperance measures he called rotten business. He said he needed the money due to six weeks of debt.
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Senate
Slag Pile a Gold Mine in Denver Slag Pile Venture
Special to The Washington Fast from Denver reports two firemen W E Roberts and H A Anderson mining a slag pile near Argo after dismantling the smelter. They took a 90 percent royalty and earned about 1000 dollars each in days, selling a one month interest to Gaffey and Keef who estimate the pile at three million dollars.
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Denver
Colo
W.E. Roberts
H A. Anderson
Argo
Gaffey l& Keef
Keef
Tariff talks push wool and cotton schedules forward
The Democratic leaders and Republican insurgents maneuver over tariff revisions. Wool changes pass House swiftly and face Senate scrutiny, while cotton, steel, and sugar are debated for possible conference action. President Taft urged to stand firm and veto harmful measures, with a Senate cotton revision eyed gingerly by southern Democrats. The House aims to push bills by mid August as debate centers on rates and protections for textile mills.
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