WEDDING FEAST ENDS IN shocking hand blast
In Middletown New York Charles O Connell of Thram Hospital is gravely injured after firing a fireworks cracker at a wedding sendoff for Miss Anna Glynn and Percy Romer. The blast tore off his right hand and lacerated his face and neck, endangering his sight as he was rushed to Providence Hospital for treatment.
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Washington Post
Middletown
S. Y
Charles O Connell
Thram Hospital
Anna Glynn
Percy Romer
O'Connell
Ifillomebie
Providence Hospital
Washington
Maan
Farmhand believes he is a grizzly at Yonkers show
Special to The Washington Post Cornwall New York June 28 John H Smith a farmhand who attended a wild West show in Yonkers has suddenly become insane according to friends He imagines himself a grizzly bear and has been trying to find a tent to exhibit himself and charge admission fees
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Washington Post
Cornwall
N. Y
John H. Smith
Yonkers
Chicago's Richest Women Names Revealed In Tax Lists
The city lists the three wealthiest Chicago women by personal property value. Nettie F McCormick leads at 595000, Emmons Blaine at 190000, and Virginia McCormick at 1500. Jane Addams and Ella Pus V Young are noted as lacking taxable personal property.
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Chicago
Nettie F McCormick
Emmons Blaine
Virginia McCormick
Vents Khen
Jane Addams
Ella
Near Death in Tunnel Crampton Narrowly Escapes Train
Robert J. Crampton of Cleveland narrowly escaped death when a trap door opened on a Pennsylvania train as it passed through a Baltimore to Washington tunnel. He fell to the ground but was saved by track workers and joined his Cleveland party in Washington. He later rode to Philadelphia with the Builders' Exchange entourage.
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Robert J. Crampton
Cleveland
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Mr. Crampton
Washington
Crampton
Tam
Cara
Union Station
Builders
Manufacturers’ Exchange
Congress Hall Hotel
Philadelphia
White House
Taft
Burton
Mooney
Mt. Vernon
Benjamin T Pillow
Builders and Manufacturers’ Exchange
Rity
Mount Vernon
Oscar Alexander
D Jo Andrews
Mrz
J Andrews
John Becker
Filtenstein
Rillenstein
Plorence Rillenstein
Hutchins Separated Wife Tests Maintenance in Court
Rose Keeling Hutchins, wife of millionaire Stilson Hutchins, testifies in a District Supreme Court maintenance case. She argues for increased monthly support and details payments and household expenses from March 1910 onward, including bills for clothing, home improvements, a poodle treatment, and wine, while noting her husband’s partial separation and past financial arrangements.
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Stilson Hutchins
Washington
Rose Keeling Hutchins
District Supreme Court
Dent
Hutchins
Gould
Brandenberg
Wiliam J. Dante
Gittings
Brandemberg
Barks
Woman Thrashed Footpad in Central Park Fight
Miss Virginia Sparks and Mr Drake thwarted three highwaymen in Central Park. Sparks, 176 pounds, grabbed one attacker as he menaced Drake with a blackjack. she sat on him until police arrived. The captured man, Louis Lucarto, faced Yorkville court. Sparks lamented wishing she had cuffed the others.
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Washington Post
New York
Miss Virginia
Sparks
A G Drake
Central Park
Miss Sparks
Mr Drake
Misa Sparks
Misa Sparks and Mr Drake Had Pinched Them A Couple of Times. Mies Sparks
Tr. Drake
Yorkville Court
Louis Lucarto
Lucarto
Robinson
Mr. Gambier
Gambier
West Sixty-eighth
Fire on Skyscraper Top in New Municipal Building
Special to The Washington Post reports a fire 450 feet above ground on the highest completed floor of New York’s new municipal building at Park Row and Center Street. Firemen climbed 12 stories hauling hoses. distant alarms came from Jersey City, the East River front, and Brooklyn. The blaze, caused by a red hot rivet, was eventually quenched with small losses.
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New York
Washington Post
Municipal
Park Row
Center Street
Jersey City
Hast River Front
Brooklyn
Troops To Guard Ballots In Norfolk County
Straight-out Democrats in Norfolk County appeal to Governor Mann asking troops to protect ballot boxes in Port Norfolk after a Democratic primary. Fusion candidates Cromwell and Wilson appear renominated or likely to be, with accusations of illegal registration and voting by nonresidents. Ballot protection and a likely contested result are noted.
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Norfolk County
Mann
Norfolk
Port Norfolk
A. C. Cromwell
W. F. Wilson
County Supervisors
Grain to bread in thirty minutes record set in Kansas
A Beloit Kansas report claims a world time record in harvesting threshing milling and baking. From W Gable farm wheat was harvested at 3 14, threshing by 3 15, flour produced by 3 29, delivered to Walker Bros Bakery at 2 30, biscuits baked and taken from oven at 3 44. The total time from start to bake was exactly thirty minutes.
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Kansas
Washington Post
Beloit
Kans
Gable
Here
Walker Bros. Bakery
148 POUND TURTLE CAUGHT NEAR ORANGE LAKE
Two sons of Charles Murphy spotted a green turtle near the surface on Orange Lake and towed it ashore after a lengthy struggle. The creature weighed 143 pounds and is thought to be the grandfather of the local turtle colony, reported in Newburgh New York on June 28.
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Orange Lake
Washington Post
Newburgh
N. Y
Charles Murphy
Blazen Warship Turret Fire At Ohio Navy Yard
Fire in the after turret of the battleship Ohio at the Brooklyn navy yard required flooding the powder magazine as a precaution. Hot rivet dropped on insulation possibly caused the blaze which smoldered along electric wire insulation and cotton waste for about thirty minutes. Officials kept details limited and access aboard the ship was restricted. Elsewhere a Terra Alta West Virginia mill fire caused 375000 in losses with 20000 insurance, leaving fifty workers unemployed. Also listed is a rail fare notice for SARTA to Portland and back from Baltimore Galesburg area with travel dates June 28 to July 4 and return by Sept 6.
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New York
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Tone
Ohio
Wreck Fatalities Hit Express to Chestnut Hill
In Philadelphia on June 28 an express train bound for Chestnut Hill crashed into a freight locomotive tender at the Reading tunnel entrance. The engineer Benjamin H. Dolan, 43, sustained multiple leg fractures and severe scalding, and passenger Ernest W. Evans, 27, of Abbysbury Place Chestnut Hill, was badly crushed and severely burned while riding in the second coach.
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Philadelphia
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia and
Reading Railway
Twentyflrat
Hamilton Streets
Bejamin H. Dolan
Ernest W Evans
Asbury Place
Hen lays fourteen chicks from thirteen eggs in Tarrytown
Henry R. Thompson found at his hennery a hen with fourteen chicks though the setting counted thirteen eggs. He cannot tell which two of the chickens are twins. He reports the odd scene from Tarrytown, dated June 2%*.
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Washington
Tarrytown
Henry R. Thompson
Thompson
Woman Seeks Separation From Banker Amid Courtroom Accusations
In New York on June 28, Mrs Edith Russell Gambier sought separation from Edward V Gambier cashier of the Merchants Exchange National Bank after testimony by detective witnesses and deposition readings. The annulment suit hinges on alleged fraud and unhappy marriage, with witnesses detailing alleged closeness during travel and court proceedings.
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Washington Post
New York
Edith Russell Gambier
Edward V. Gambier
Merchants Exchange National’ Bank
Seth B. Robinson
Gambier
Avis Morrison
Springfield
Mass
Mr. Gambier
Sickler
Tours Via Baltimore and Ghic am Ralhrad
Daily to Jersey seashore Adirondack Mountains and all New York New England Canadian provinces Nova Scotia and Quebec and Allegheny Mountain resorts also to Western points if planning a rain or water trip for pleasure or business consult agents at W417 Gst or 19 Fa are They will help you
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Jersey Seashore
Adirondack Mountains
New York
New England
Canadian
Nova Scota
Quebec
Allegheny Mountain
Misappropriation Probe Calls Dismissals in State Dept Case
A House subcommittee recommends removing William H. Michael and Thomas Morrison over misappropriated funds linked to a portrait of former Secretary Day. The $1,600 discrepancy and a voucher for $2,450 were scrutinized, with doubts raised about emergency fund use. The report moves to full committee and possible presidential action.
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State Department
Wiliam H. Michael
Calcutta
Thomas Morrison
House Committee
Justice Day
Albert Rosenthal
Day
Voucher
Weither
Morrison
Michael
Hamlin
Missouri
Dent
Alabama
Davis
Minnesota
House
Lightning strike at Kingston Coal mine prompts safety phone system
Wilkes Barre Pa June 38 struck by lightning while working 1500 feet underground at 1 am James Conroy of Courtdale tunnel Kingston Coal Company is in a condition not expected to improve A telephone system was installed today in the colliery to call workers to the surface when storms approach.
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Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
James Conroy
Courtdale
Kingston Coal Company
Masked trio robs Oregon Express train near West Fork
Three masked men halted the northbound Oregon Express on the Southern Pacific at West Fork Cow Creek Canyon. They forced separation of the express and mail cars from coaches, then threatened the engineer to run the engine up the track. Explosions were heard as the detached cars were taken. Several thousand dollars in gold dust is believed aboard. Sheriff Quine and a posse pursued the robbers, with three detached cars reported from Cow Creek siding by evening.
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Eugene
Oreg
Oregon Express
Southern Pacific
West Fork
Cow Creek Canyon
Sherif Quine
Roseburg
Cow Creek
Weat Fork
Robb
Schmidt
Knife Incident Leaves Woman Safe in Rail Tunnel
Mrs Hutchins states her husband left her while a detective reports a kiss between Mrs Gambier. A Pilgrim Society dinner discusses arbitration terms. The report notes Michael found guilty with calls to oppose African wild beasts.
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Kentucky
Virginia
Frisco
Senator Martin
National Chaplain Harwood to Wed 75-Year-Old Bride
Albuquerque June 28 The Rev Thomas H Harwood 81 national chaplain of the G A R announced his betrothal to Mrs Mary Clark of Albuquerque The prospective bride is 75 years old
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Harwood
G. Alr
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Thomas H. Harwood
Mary Clark
Terms of Peace Pact Would Advise Arbitrators
The Anglo American arbitration treaty nears completion with only minor points unsettled between the State Department and the British foreign office. Negotiations will continue between Secretary Knox and Ambassador Bryce, aiming for Senate ratification this session, or by December. The pact expands arbitral topics and creates a two tier process with The Hague or alternative tribunals and a year delay for diplomatic settlement if needed.
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State Department
British
Foreign Office
White House
Bryce
Great Britain
Taft
British Foreign Office
State Knox
Senate
Congress
Knox
Ambassador Bryce
Hague Tribunal
Commission of Inquiry
Hague
Hague Tribunal For Arbitration Uider
International Commission
Pact of Mutuality in Anglo American Ties Stirs London Dinner
London honors John Hays Hammond with four speeches by Sir Arthur Balfour and others praising shared aims of the United States and Great Britain. A treaty on arbitration is reported near completion as leaders urge universal peace guided by democracy and producing classes.
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United States
Great Britain
Hammond
London
Pilgrims’ Society
John Hays Hammond
Arthur J. Balfour
Mr. Hammond
Augustin Birrell
Ireland
Chauncey Bf. Depew
Charles E. Vreeland
Navy Department
Delaware
Army
State Knox
Bryce
Mr. Balfour
West
Balfour
Americans
England
George
Birrell
Depew
Cuba
Democrat c
Ita
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Hay
Mary Buse
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Misa Deere
D. I. Mulcahy
North Capitol Street
Mulcahy
Mise Dore
Mira
Nettie F. McCormick
Mrs. Blaine
Wrrtinabura
Lalon Station
Sab
Gebie
AS. Hutchins
Audi
Tor Dent
Hutching
Dante
Mrs. Hutchins
Walter Stilson Hutching
Lee
Mia Hutchins
Mrs Hutchins
Woney
Rawlings
Highlands
Connecticut
California
Terra Alta
W. Va
Cumberland
W Va
Oakland
Portland
Gale B. A
Chauffeur
Mrs.Gambier
Harvey A. Sickler
West Sixty-eighth Streat
Ghicam Ralhrad
Subcommittee
Him
Bolt
Messenger Robb
Niagara
Packers Forwardera Security Storage Co
Wth St Nw
Pilgrim Society
White Sulphur Prince
West Virginia
NC &O
White Sulphur Springs
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