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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1908
Page
40
Officers, thrown from a rapidly moving wagon, are badly injured and taken to emergency and homeopathic hospital. Motorman attempts to check speed but too late. Commissioner West to inquire Tate cause of accident.
A chaotic scene unfolded after a private car collided with an electric vehicle near a street intersection. Several occupants suffered head and facial wounds, lacerations, and contusions while the wagon was left damaged with passengers injured and police responding promptly. The ordeal included broken limbs and dislocated shoulders, with witnesses noting a high level of commotion as medical aid arrived.
A wagon collided with a patrol wagon at mid block injuring Mulhall Esser and Bennett who were seated near the front. Mulhall revived soon, Esser and Bennett were unconscious before hospital transport. Motorman and conductor deny fault and were not arrested.
Commissioner Macfarland states police will persist in the crackdown on bookmakers. District Attorney Baker appeals against Justice Stafford's perambulating decision in Walters case, with potential Supreme Court action awaiting.
Irene Smith ends a quarrel with her husband on West Ho rk street by leaping from a fifth floor window. She caught a clothesline and landed on a rose paved court after a fall that left bystanders shocked. Francis Woodsuth reported the incident as bitter and serious but she made a complete recovery.
Special to ha Washington Ver New York War 13 reports four New York firms stored 17000 birds in 319 boxes at Merchant Refrigerating Company Jersey City, threatened with 20 per bird fine. State to collect 140000. Birds include 150 known pli r 2 golden plover and 8 ruffed sious, held out of season.
Humors and blood conditions are said to improve with Mond Sarsaparina. A reader from Seymour touts Hands Sarsaparina as spring blood purifier. The piece mixes product pitch with a local weather report and scattered unrelated data.
Chicago and other cities report a growing Liberty League movement backed by interest groups to oppose the Anti-Saloon League. The nationwide federation claims roughly 2006 Illinois members with Chicago as a main headquarters and branches in New York, Louisville, St Louis, Seattle, and San Francisco to organize a June or July state convention selecting candidates for state offices before the August primary. In Boston, Tom Coffin, 22, a Jehigh University student, drowned in the Delaware River while reportedly shooting gang tripods near Asbury Park.
Henry Wright, a pupil expelled from the local blind school, torched the two-room schoolhouse last night. The blaze broke out as bucket brigades formed and 79 pupils evacuated under teacher supervision. Wright later told officers I wish I had burned it down.
In a Middle District case United States Attorney filed against Central Railroad of New Jersey Pennsylvania Railroad Williamsport and Susquehanna Railroad Philadelphia and Reading Railway New York Central and other lines for violations of safety requirements. Twenty three railroad sites are cited in the action.
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