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...down through three Pullmans and finally out to a private car on the end of the train. Armed with a ventilator stick and an emergency fire axe, the Negro felled five passengers and three of the crew as the train rushed through the night. At Thendara, 50 mi. north of Utica, N. Y., State troopers had to board the train, quell Porter Smith by threatening to use tear gas bombs. The train was delayed more than an hour...
...General Butler, then a major, led a Marine detachment to Fort Riviere, an old French stronghold on a high hill 20 mi. south of Cape Haitien. It was held by rebellious "Cacos" (native banditti). Major Butler was the third man to enter the fortress through a breach in the fort's thick wall...
...only a n8-mi. bridge line, north & south across the Potomac. What promised to point up the R. F. & P. assessment into a test case of greater legal importance than the St. Louis & O'Fallon case, was the ownership of R. F. & P. Instead of a small independent carrier the I. C. C. was really tackling the six biggest and most powerful railroads in the East?Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and Southern? joint proprietors of the R. F. & P. and sole beneficiaries of its excess profits. Counting...
Three days later, while dining with a companion at the Aratoga Inn near Cairo, Gangster Diamond was shot in the back. Seriously wounded, he was rushed to an Albany hospital, 50 mi. away...
...King & Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Svasti and other members of the Court, have arrived at "Ophir Hall" in Purchase, N. Y., 25 mi. north of great New York City...