LOCOMOTIVE RUNS AWAY; Wild Trip of a Staten Island Rapid-Transit Train from Clifton to South Beach. CRASH AND WRECK AT THE END The Engineer Was Thrown Through a Trestle and His Pursuit Was Fruitless -- Mysterious Break of Machinery That Puzzles Railroad Men.
Date: 24 September 1897
Staten Island Rapid Transit; Locomotive Runs Away
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NEWS FOR THE WHEELMEN; National Cycle Board of Trade Decides on a Two Months' Guarantee for Next Year. OPPOSED TO CYCLE SHOWS The Board Will Grant No Sanctions -- The 33-Mile Race Between Michael and Lesna at Manhattan Beach To-morrow.
Date: 24 September 1897
National Cycle Manufacturers' Board of Trade; Meeting; Shows Abandoned
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JACOB WORTH DEFEATED; Platt and Woodruff Sweep the Kings County Republican Convention. ATTERBURY FOR SHERIFF Willis for Register and All the Rest of the Platt Slate Nominated -- What Worth and Woodruff Say About the Contest.
Date: 24 September 1897
County Convention; Ticket Worth Faction Defeated; Candidates Sketched
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NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.; Case of W.W. Kurtz Against the Reading and J. Pierpont Morgan and Others.
Date: 24 September 1897
Bonds Held by J. P. Morgan & Co. During Reorganization; Kurtz Suit to Recover Argued
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WHERE LAW WAS VIOLATED.; Water Pipes Laid on Up-Town Streets Six Years Ago Within Two Inches of the Pavement.
Date: 24 September 1897
Water Pipes Laid too Near Pavement; Tammany's Old Job
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