Storm Ravages Virginia Coast Wrecks Homes and Crops
A sweeping cyclone from the southwest struck the Virginia peninsula causing widespread ruin. At Newport News and Norfolk many buildings lost roofs, telegraph and power lines were knocked out, and several deaths reported. Vessels broke from piers, crops ruined, and a railroad operator was struck by lightning. Damage estimates reach into the hundreds of thousands, with darkness and disruption across Newport News, Hampton, and Suffolk areas.
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Baltimore
Newport News
Virginia Penisula
James River
Hampton Roads
Old Dominion
New Jaimestown
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hampton
Phoebus
Norfolk
Gasey 3 Broom Factory
Highland Avenue
Norfolk and Southern
Princess Anne
Suffolk
Col J
Marc- Clears
Gray Gardner
Herve
Virginia Mile
Montgomery Lumber Company
Cobbs Knitting Mills
Bank of Suffolk
Washington Square
Panic halts as Star Spangled Banner steadies crowd at Peddie Institute
Lightning strikes the Hightstown Baptist Church during the Peddie Institute commencement crowd of over a thousand. The orchestra played the national anthem to calm panicked attendees, but a second fire caused a chaotic exit as the steeple burned and the church was wrecked, with many injured lightly and dozens fainting. Fire units from Trenton arrived too late to save the building, with losses estimated at 90,000.
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Peddie Institute
Washington
Trenton
Baptist
Hightstown
R W Sweetland
Senate Votes for Bristow Amendment on U S Senate Election
The Senate, by 64 to 8, adopts a resolution submitting a constitutional amendment for popular election of U S Senators, with federal oversight on times and manners. The Vice President breaks a 44-44 tie after a long debate. House concurrence remains doubtful. The amendment text outlines election by people, vacanc ies filled by writs of election, and temporary appointments.
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House
Senate
United States
Bristow
Yeas—Bourne
Bradley
Brandegee
Brighés
Brown
Burnham
Burton
Clapp
Clark
Wyoming
Crane
Crawford
Cullom
Cummins
Curtis
Taxon
du Pont
Gallinger
Gamble
Guggenheim
Heyburn
Jones
Kenyon
Lippitt
Lodge
Lormmer
McCumber
McLean
Nelson
Nixon
Oliver
Page
Penrose
Perkins
Richardson
Root
Smith
Michigan
Smoot
Stephenson
Sutherland
Townsend
Warren
Wetmore
Clarke
Arkansas
Senate of the
Bacon
Borah
la Failette
Poindexter
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Mr. Works
Reed
Bourne
Bristow Brown
Cummins Dixon
Granna Borah
la Follette
Works
Lorimer
Clarke Democrat
Arkansad
Kimer
Chicago
Professor's Wife Dies in Suspected Suicide
Chicago June 12 coroner's jury finds Mrs Mattie Minard wife of Charles W Minard principal of a Chicago public school died by self-administered carbolic acid during fear over her husband's unexplained absence. Neighbors found her body at the home as the professor returned from Wisconsin business. The couple had been apart for the first time in 25 years.
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Chicago
Mattie . Minard
Charles W. Minard
Mia Minard
Storm kills three as Allentown reels from cloudburst
Special to The Washington Post Allentown Pa June 12 three men die and hundreds of thousands in damage from a ferocious cloudburst. Trees topple power and trolley wires fall. A hail storm smashes windows and iron siding. Carrie Allender’s boarding house is struck. Hannibal Dotterer and Irvin Gackenbach die from electrocution. John Wagner died while trying to rescue them after being shocked himself.
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Washington Post
Allentown
Eit
Tenth
Union Streets
Carrie Allender
Hannibal Dotterer
Irvin Gackenbach
Allender
John Wagner
Dotterers
Wigggner
Bolt Kills Two at Game in Johnstown Area
In Johnstown Pennsylvania two miners John J. Hamilton and August Launtz were instantly killed by a bolt of lightning struck while watching a ball game at Lily. Several others were stunned as the incident occurred late in the day and authorities investigated casualties and sequence of events.
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Johnstown
Jorn Hamilton
August Launtz
Lily
Embezzlement Trial Colors Big Four Case in Cincinnati
Edgar Cooke of Chicago stands trial for alleged Big Four Railroad embezzlement of 24000 with State witnesses claiming he handed 22000 to a woman in New York. Warriner’s role as scapegoat and possible rail line bribery to favored shippers emerge as witnesses recount deposits and safe deposit boxes.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Edgar Cooke
Chicago
Big Four Ralway Company
Denis F. Cash
Cooke
Big Four Railroad
Cash
New York
Charles W. Baker
Sate
Baker
Treasury
Warriner
Charles [L Warriner
Columbus
Jeannette Stewart Ford
Hunt
Charles Hamburg
First National Bank of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Bank
J. T. Simmons
Bankers' Safe Deposit Company of
Jennies. Timmonds
Jennie S. Timmonds
Ford
Albert Scheibels
F. & 7. C Jenkins
Scheibels
New York Central
Friedhorn
Costly English portraits bought by Frick in New York
Pittsburg June 12 Henry C Frick bought two early English portraits regarded as among the finest of their period. The Gainsborough full length of Anne Duncombe later Countess of Radnor and a Romney life size portrait of Lady Milnes. They were hung at 640 Fifth Avenue. The Gainsborough reportedly fetched near 400000 last March.
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Washington Post
Pittsburg
Henry Co. Frick
United States
Fifth Avenue
New York
Anne Duncombe
Countess of
Messrs Dusee
Gainsborough
Frick
Wldener
Remy Brandts
Panic in July wheat sinks after May contract unloads
A sellers panic hit July wheat as May contract owners reportedly unloaded cash wheat for July delivery. Prices tumbled from near 8 cents up to 8 5 8 cents and then to 8 7 8, with declines of about 3 cents from the day’s top and 2 1/2 cents from Saturday’s close. Market nerves remained unsettled as traders feared hedging for the new crop and deferred months.
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Chicago
Bull Clique
Serena
Five Slayers Held After Coal Miner Murder
Five Italian coal miners were arrested at Shinneston and jailed in Clarksburg to face charges in the suspected murder of John Smallwood, an American miner, last Thursday at Haywood. Police believe he was killed for money and his body placed on a railroad track to mask the crime, initially mistaken for a railroad accident.
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Washington Po
Clarksburg
W. Va
Shinneston
John Smallwood
Haywood
Smallwood
Poison given stepdaughter in Delaware case
Delaware, Ohio June 12 Mrs J D Henkle wife of a traveling salesman is under arrest on a charge of administering poison to her stepdaughter Merle Henkle age 20 now in hospital recovering from arsenic poisoning. It is alleged jealousy since Mrs Henkle, formerly Jessie R Way of Caldwell Ohio, wed Mr Henkle last fall.
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Delaware
Ohio
J. D Henkle
Mies Merle Henkle
Envoy Grants Respite in Niagara Falls Murder Case
Albany June 12. Governor Dix grants a respite until June 26 for Joseph Nacco of Niagara Falls who faced execution at Auburn prison for the Antoinette Dadi murder dating January 16, 1908. The delay follows a claim of new and important evidence.
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Albany
N. Y
Marquis Cusant Confalonieri
Washington
Gov
Duke of Westminster Hurt in Polo Collision
In Roehampton today the Duke of Westminster was seriously injured after a collision with Lord Wodehouse during a polo match. His shoulder was dislocated and ligaments torn, but surgeons say the injuries are not serious and he is progressing satisfactorily after the shoulder dislocation was reduced. Lord Wodehouse escaped injury.
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London
Duke of Westminster
Roehampton
Lord Wodehouse
Lord Warehouse
Rifles On Way To Central America Port
One thousand rifles with bayonets and ammunition believed for use in Central American uprisings arrived in Mobile from New York aboard the Comal. They are staged for loading onto the Harald at Mobile destined for Ceiba or another port. U S agents watch filibusters tied to New Orleans revolutions, while Justice and State Departments monitor the situation daily.
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Secret Service
Mobile
Als
Central America
New York
Comal
Mallory Line
Harald
Ceiba
Honduras
Soldiers of Fortune
New Orleans
United States
Washington
Department of Justice
State Department
Taft Grants Unconditional Pardon to Inmate Barnes
Lorenzo D. Barnes, an inmate at the Government Hospital for the Insane serving life for murder in Oklahoma, was pardoned by President Taft after he warned officials of a planned escape plot. Barnes will move from the criminal ward to noncriminal status for further treatment before final release, while insanity charges remain until he proves full competence. Meshing support from officials and physicians, the pardon underscores the inmate’s role in foiling the escape plan and his path to potential freedom in the coming months.
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Lorenzo D. Barnes
Government Hospital For
Oklahoma
Taft
Barnes
Department of Justice
Government Hospital
Barriés
Wickersham
Failife
St Elizabeth's
Howard Hall
William A White
Wion
Clarence Kidwell
Indian Territory
Frank Simpson
Lawson Okla
United States District Court For
Western District of Oklahoma
Guthrie
Crown in Coast Star directs today’s issue
Index lists fifteen pages with main items including Senate direct vote plan, a railroad slur against the President, river safety efforts, St Johns School year end, a White House arrest, defense of Col Garrard, Lutheran split talks, Stokes’ attackers bail, London horse show, Sugar Trust tariff claims, hospital week, wireless tower plans, Alexandria news, editorial, society, sports, financials, and trade board directors.
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Coast Star
Senate
Big Four Railroad
St. Johns
White House
Col Garrard
Stokes
Sugar Trust
al Dentes
News of Alexandria
Peace On Trade Board
Morgan Buys Lord Gowers Portraits and Antoinette Papers
London June 2 Pierpont Morgan has acquired Lord Ronald Gowers collection of portraits, documents, and personal articles relating to Marie Antoinette. The purchase includes a complete set of medals and miniatures.
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Lord Gowers
Marie Antoinette
London
Pierpont Morgan
Lord Ronald Gowers
Italian pitman dies after fatal street car switch shock
Tony Scoffette a 21 year old Italian pitman for over a year at the pit in T street between Third and Fourth streets was killed when his arm touched a live rail while changing a street car current from underground to overhead. He received two shocks, fell into rain filled pit, and died at Casualty Hospital shortly after. He lived at 238 Quincy place northeast.
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Tony Scoffette
T Street
Third
Fourth
Eitus
Scoffette
Galvin
J. W. Dil
Shoffette
Quincy Place
MUST NOT FLY OVER KING Coronation police tighten airspace and guard events
London coronation rules restrict aircraft over London and Windsor on procession days with six months in prison or a 1000 dollar fine for violations. Navy to observe by rotating grog as splicing the main brace. A London theatre will feature a coronation tribute performance. Hamilton pastor Mil ton Baker, 22, dies by self harm claiming his mother’s illness drove him to take prussic acid. his mother lives in Elyria Ohio.
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London
Churchill
Windsor
Admiralty
Navy
Sherman
His Majesty's Theater
Drury Lane
Moneey
Hamilton
Ontario
Res Milton Baker
First Spiritualist Society
Elyria
Ohio
License Examinations Proposed for Motorboat Owners on Potomac
The Navy and Bureau of Navigation push two reforms to curb river accidents. All motorboat owners would pass navigation and basic mechanics exams and receive licenses, mirroring automobile licensing, while government tugs would face tighter speed and handling oversight. Naval officers and yacht club members back the plan, citing recent collisions and the danger of unskilled drivers. Commodore E Ingiing supports lawmaking to rid the Potomac of ignorant operators, noting congested upper river and risk to all on board.
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Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
Potomac River
Bureau
Charles G. Marsh
Naval
Dolphin
Fay
Alexander Yellowess
Potomac
Capt. Marsh
Marsh
E Ingiing
Corinthian Yacht Club
Pasang
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