Williamsburg Fire Ends in Tragedy and Destruction
In a third floor Williamsburg tenement fire, Mrs. Constante Fronato threw her two children from the window to the street below. A 10 year old boy fractured skull after landing on fence pickets. A 3 year old girl fractured her left leg and suffered internal injuries. The mother and children were taken to St Catherine''s Hospital likely to die. Three other tenants were seriously burned as the tenement burned to ash.
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New York
Constantine Fronato
Williamsburg
Northampton's Friend and Benefactor Dies in Brooklyn
The death of Mrs. E. H. R. Lyman at 34 Remsen street Brooklyn follows her husband’s death three months earlier. He endowed Northampton's Academy of Music and funded Smith College and George A. Cable's home culture clubs. Her estate of about 1.5 million dollars will be divided between her son Frank and daughter Mrs. White of Brooklyn.
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Northampton
E. H. R. Lyman
Remsen Street
Brooklyn
Frank
White
Tunnel Plan to Link Scotland and Ireland
London April 24. MP Hugh Oakely Arnold-Forster pushes a railway tunnel under the northern channel to connect Scotland and Ireland. The proposal would let transatlantic passengers board steamers at Moville and cut the voyage to America by about 950 miles.
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London
Hugh Oakely Arnold-Forster
Belfast
Scotland
Ireland
America
Moville
North Irish
Mrs McKee Bound Over In Hotel Case In Springfield
Mrs Mattie B McKee wife of Samuel McKee manager of the Boston Museum waived examination in Police Court this morning on the charge of being with Cable in a hotel as man and wife and was bound over to the May term of the Superior Court in 400 bail. She could not find bondsmen and was returned to jail. William B Cable the advertising agent arrested at the Hayes Hotel with her last week failed to appear and his bail defaulted.
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Springfield
Mattie B. McKee
Samuel McKee
Boston Museum
Cable
Superior Court
William B. Cable
Hayes
Charles G Stuart Arrested for False Pretenses
Inspector McCausland arrested Charles G. Stuart 42 of 84 St Charles street on a charge of obtaining property by false pretences from Dana R. Berry on April 17.
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Charles G. Stuart
Good Government League to Host Informal Talk by Speaker Bates
The Good Government League at 204 Adams Street Dorchester will host an informal meeting Saturday evening with Speaker Bates to address the group. KE B Callender will preside.
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Good Government League
Adams Street
Dorchester
Bates
KE. B. Callender
Mazet committee exudes Croker. sails for Europe
The Mazet investigating committee excused Richard Croker from further attendance and he sails for Europe with a promise to return August 29 to testify. The session focused on police benevolent societies and the single headed police bill's influence, but little corroboration emerged.
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Mazet
Richard Croker
Europe
Albany
New York
John Proctor Clarke
Croker
Mazer
England
Mazet An
Police Committee Sessions Continue Amid Testimony on Endowment Funds
The hearings focus on police corruption funds and the Endowment Association as Captains and Inspectors testify. Witnesses deny involvement in political schemes while discussions of salaries and a single headed police bill surface. The committee adjourns to May 9 with scrutiny over ongoing legislative approval.
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EEE
Eason
Brooklyn
New York City
Albany
Clarke
Captain Mason
Adam Cross
Mason
Kane
Mr. Mazet
Inspector Kane
Platt Refuses to Testify Before Mazet Committee
New York reporters say Senator Thomas C Platt will not appear as a voluntary witness before the Mazet investigating committee. Croker and Tammany leaders favor the stand as is, hoping to avoid embarrassing questions and preserve public influence.
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New York
Thomas Co. Platt
Abraham Gruber
Frank&. Black
Mr. Croker
Mazer
Senator Platt
Mr. Platt
Tammany
Croker
Platt
Married a Day: Rahway Man Seeks Annulment in Hoboken
Alwin Parey a 22 year old Rahway New Jersey veteran and Theodore Lang just mustered from the Third New Jersey went to Hoboken to celebrate. Parey married Meta Tittem a Hoboken barmaid at five Sunday morning and now plans to annul the union, saying he regrets the move.
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New York
Alwin Parey
Rahway
N. J
Meta Tittem
Hoboken
Parey
Theodore Lang
New Jersey
Poughkeepsie Bridge Route May Change Hands
Rumor circulates that the Poughkeepsie bridge route of the Central New England Railway may pass to the Boston and Albany road. Directors heavy stockholders and Boston and Albany capitalists will ride a special train tomorrow to inspect the line. The Tariffville Connecticut to Springfield Massachusetts branch under construction will also be inspected.
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Hartford, Conn
Poughkeepsie Bridge
Central New England Railway
Boston & Albany Road
Boston & Albany
Tariffville
Conn
Springfield
Mass
Cook on Santa Fe train inherits 50000 from Providence aunt
Mrs. A Castle a boarding train cook on the Santa Fe bridge gang falls heir to a $50,000 legacy left by her aged aunt who died recently in Providence Rhode Island.
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Rhode Island
Mrs. Castle
Bryan on trusts and how to regulate them
The Journal prints Colonel Bryan and Mayor Jones on trusts. Bryan argues trusts are unjust unless they prove production economy fair consumer prices and net social benefits. He warns monopoly raises prices, lowers wages, harms labor demand and product quality, and urges national anti trust sentiment and possible legal reforms.
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New York
Colonel Bryan
Jones
Tolédo
Bryan
Legislative
Courts of Justice
Congress
Mayor Jones on trusts and public ownership of utilities
Mayor Jones argues that regulation cannot curb trusts and praises consolidated capital for cutting labor. He urges society to absorb trusts and distribute labor savings, comparing public ownership to post office profits, and calls private ownership of utilities a high crime against democracy.
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Jones
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