Birch Brings Suit Over Farm Street Rally Collapse
John M. Birch of Easton avenue sues the Republican Party claiming officers A G Church Joseph H Reid and Walter W Holmes as well as Andrew J Kenneally owner of the building shared responsibility for a rally on Farm Street that caused a dangerous collapse. Birch suffered severe burns and the loss of part of his right foot and seeks damages of 5000 with total claims reaching 40000.
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Republican Party
Farm Street
John M. Birch
Easton Avenue
Scovill Manufacturing Company
Attorney Lynch
A. G. Church
Joseph H. Reid
Walter W. Holmes
Andrew J. Kenneally
Birch
Deaths and Funerals Notice Summary
Death notices list Mrs John N. Lewis mother of Rev Mr Lewis of St Johns parish, died in Annandale N Y. Henry EB Scott age 75 died in Watertown with private funeral tomorrow. Mrs Emma Goslin funeral at 834 North Main Street tomorrow at 2 pm with Rev F D Buckley and Riverside cemetery interment. Mrs Anna Loughan Kelly died in New York arrives this evening in charge of Undertaker Bergin. Funeral Monday at Sacred Heart church, burial at St Josephs cemetery.
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John N. Lewis
Riverside Cemetery
Anna Lough-an Kelly
New York
Bergin
Francis Kane
Walnut Street
Sacred Heart Church
St Joseph's
Special Hartford Train For Bridge Celebration
A special Hartford train departs Thursday at 8 53 for travelers attending the big bridge celebration. Additional specials leave Hartford for Waterbury on Tweesy? and Thursday at 10 30 p m. An extra inspector will depart Hartford for this city at 10 05 p m. The round trip will be noted in the full timetable.
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Hartford
Waterbury
Spector
Scouts and Outlaws Clash in Mindanao Fight
A belated Mindanao report says scouts battled the outlaw Moros in Manila area action. One scout killed and two wounded. Nine natives killed and several wounded in the clash.
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Manila
Island
Mindanao
City News and Local Government Debates
M D Russell returns from Louisville national convention of comptrollers and accountants. Holy Name society committee meets at St Francis Xavier Church. A mass for John Joseph Howey scheduled at Immaculate Conception. Foreclosure judgment in district court for 458.36 against Carmine Flore. Aldermen discuss water question and Emerald street widening with potential heavy assessments. Runaway horse incident injures Hugh Sutherland. boy halts wagon. Street committee and public works debate options, project delayed to avoid broad unrest. Wheel committee resolves to turn the discussion ongoing.
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M. D. Russell
National Convention of Comptrollers and Accountants
Louisville
St Francis Xavier Church
Holy Name Society Committee
Church of the Immaculate Conception
John Joseph Howey
Joseph Adamek
Carmine Flore
Board of Aldermen
Hugh Sutherland
Thomas Grey
Cherry Street
Wood Street
Sutherland
Fajl
Board of Public Works
Emerald Street
You Might Not Believe This Distracting Street Duel
The Junction City Union reports a quarrel between neighbors over a dog and a “little pup” incident ended with threats to fetch the sheriff. The piece shifts to praise for West Main area workers, then parades a string of practical uses for salt and a humorous Dr Wiley anecdote about chicken pies containing a feather to prove food quality. It also notes a crackdown on animal cruelty, a London elephant cruelty case, and details about Ireland’s Fastnet lighthouse including its cost, structure, and specifications.
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Junction City Union
Neighbor No 2
Warren Bros Co
West Main
North Willow
Wiley
Ireland
Atlantic
Cornwall
Democratic Headquarters Open for Campaign Activities
The Democratic headquarters at Center and Leavenworth streets opened last night and will likely be crowded each evening. Attendees included Mayor Thoms and several officials. ward meetings are planned next week with the senatorial conventions set for the fifteenth and sixteenth districts at the vacant store corner.
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Center
Leavenworth
Francis P. Guilfoile
Thoms
Francis T. Reeves
R. A. Lowe
James H. Freney
Marin Scully
James J. Casain
B. Witkowoul
John L. Saxe
Center Streets
John Hurley
Hayes
Goodrich
Dentists Death Highlights Manila Cholera Outbreak
Manila reports four new cholera cases including American dentist G. D. Mitchell whose wife died weeks earlier. The July Philippines Bureau of Health bulletin attributes spread to Pangasinan files and pilgrimages. Catholic priests and schools aided by sharing cholera circulars, and local cholera cases are falling as jetty work proceeds.
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Manila
G. D. Mitchell
Bureau of Health For the Philippines
Pangasinan
Catholic Church
Born at New Haven editor named for Congress
William Goodyear editor of the Commoner at Colfax Washington was named the Democratic candidate for Congress in the third district after the September direct primary. He was born in New Haven Connecticut in 1865 and is a direct descendant of Stephen Goodyear, deputy governor of the Haven plantation from 1643 to 1658. His father George Goodyear was linked with Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanization. Goodyear entered Williams College in 1888 and helped the football team and served as an editor of the Williams Literature Monthly.
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George L. Lilley
Connecticut
Hartford
Hartford Republican Club
Lilley
New Haven
Robertson
Reeves
Spokane
Wash
William Goodyear
Colfax
Stephen Goodyear
This Haven
George Goodyear
Charles Goodyear
Goodyear A Northwest Editorialist Eyes November Election
The passage highlights Goodyear a prominent Northwest editor and orator with Whitman College ties. After college he joined Spokane's Review, rose to city editor, then founded the Colfax based Commoner. A railroad commission and direct primary advocate, he has supported his party since 1892 and is expected to perform well in November.
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Sioner
Penrose
Whitman College
James
Harry Garfield
Spokane
Review
H. P. Brown
Frank M. Dallam
H. W. Greenberg
Colfax
Commoner
Railroad Commission
Whitman County
Smuggling Ring Alleged in Chinese Border Crossings
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a state immigration shakeup tied to a sweeping probe of corruption at the Mexican border. It alleges hundreds of Chinese were illegally admitted in the past two years via a ring involving Mexican residents, Southern California officials, and some Americans. The investigation cites payoffs of 275 to deliver a Chinese immigrant and 500 to land him unmolested.
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San Francisco
the Chronicle
Immigration Department
United States
Rei Dents
Mexico
California
Los Angeles
New York
William L. Waller
Washinton
Jenks
Cornell University
Department of Commerce and Labor
B. F. Garland
Washington
Amhia
Wheeler
Harrison Nesbit
San Diego
Department
Ami Ring
Immigrants Trained as Fishermen Then Directed to Travel
The Chronicle’s Informant names Chinese, Mexicans, and Americans alleged to have formed the ring. Immigrants were said to pass as fishermen by day and receive rudimentary English and geography instruction at night to enable travel after landing in the United States. The government reportedly dismissed several border immigration officers for incompetence instead of pursuing criminal charges.
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United States
Chronicle
Greenwich will awards 20000 to Miss Eugenia Warren
Miss Eugenia Warren, a Cos Cob public school teacher, will receive 20000 from Juliette W. Murray’s will if she remains unmarried. Murray, who died in Greenwich at age 70, left a 250000 estate. Several bequests to hospitals, a maid, coachman, and others are specified, with the remainder divided among Murray’s relatives.
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Greenwich
Conn
Eugenia Warren
Cos Cob
Juliette W. Murray
New York
Waren
Murray
Ernest Thompson Seton
Methodist Episcopal Hospital of
Brooklyn
Mary Wise
Coa Cob
William Osborne
Greenwich General Hospital
Kirk Wilder Holmes
Fiiery
Olive C. Patterson
Broadway
Cambridge
Mass
Emily Jane la Forge
Debevoise Place
Emily Josephine Stacy
Alfred Murray Stacy
Juliette Frances Stacy
Helen Josephine Stacy
Florence Emily Stacy
Catholics Gather for United States and Canada Missionary Congress
Chicago lay leaders open preparations for the Catholic missionary congress of the United States and Canada. The event starts November 15 in Chicago and runs through the following Wednesday. More than sixty archbishops, bishops and abbots from the United States, Canada and Mexico have pledged to attend.
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Chicago
United States
Baltimore
Canada
Mexico
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North End
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London
Guilfell
Homer
Congress
South Main
John McElligott
Knickerbocker
R. R. Harder & Co
Bank Street
South Leonard Street
Bank St. Exchange Place
Tel
Frank Flammia & CO
Holmes & Bull Successors
Co. L. Holmes & CO
Holmes
Grand Street
General Fire Insurance and Steamship Agency
John Ryan
North Main St
Fenner’s
South Main ST
Frank
Shoeman
South Main Street
Telephone
Joseph Pepe
United Breeders Animal Armour
Canal ST
Waterbury, Conn
David Goldberg
Abbott Avance
Oakville Company
P. O
Oakville
Teegrand
Howard Street
East’ End
L. Becker
Wwe Waterbury Bedding Mis Co
Sastm
East Main Street
Boston
Saxe & Floto
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