Fifth death in Pennsylvania Capitol fraud scandal in New York City
John H. Sanderson died in his Sherry’s apartment amid a broader graft case tied to the Pennsylvania Capitol project. He faced a conspiracy charge alleging vast state fraud, with profits reported between four and five million dollars. The case links to ex-auditor general Snyder and other ex officials.
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New York City
John H. Sanderson
Sherry
Fender
Pennsylvania
Sandersoxyl
Harrisburg
Husband Slain in Bed. Conflicting Stories From Family
In Paul Minnesota Louis Arbogast a butcher worth about 200000 was murdered in his home. His head was cracked the bed saturated with fire in the cellar an axe bloodied and wrapped in clothing found. Widow and daughter Ida give differing accounts of events and the fire. The daughter says she smelled smoke checked on her parents and dragged her mother out as neighbors extinguished the blaze. Her father later died at hospital.
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Paul
Minn
Louis Arbogast
Ida Arbogast
Kansas Politician A P Riddle Killed In Auto Crash
Salina Kansas A P Hiddle former Lieutenant Governor of Kansas was killed in a car accident while returning from a pleasure trip from Minneapolis. He was 1846 born in Harlemsburg Pennsylvania and served during Governor John A Martin's administration.
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Salina
Kan
A. P. Hiddle
Kansas
Riddle
Minneapolis
A. P. Riddle
John A. Martin
Harlemsburg
First anti treating saloon to open in Des Moines
Des Moines will host the nation’s first anti treating saloon as A B Kirkhart gains a permit to open and expand the plan across his fifteen local saloons. The venture bans treating and aims to halt free offerings, following Bishop Potter’s approach with a stricter version.
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Des Moines
United States
Iowa
Kirkhart
Bishop Potter
Frisco Judge Sets Rapid Divorce Record
Superior Judge George H. Cabaniss sped through seven divorces in twenty eight minutes as he questioned seven plaintiffs and seven witnesses alone. All cases, with the wife as plaintiff, were uncontested and moved quickly with lawyers sidelined.
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San Francisco
Cal
George H. Cabaniss
Negro to be prosecutor named by Pittsburg mayor
Pittsburg mayor William A. Magee appointed William Randolph, a Negro, as Assistant District Attorney after a flood of messages urging him to avoid the choice. A delegation of Negroes pressed for offices, warning that without gains they would form an independent party.
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Pittsburg
William A. Magee
William Randolph
Tragic Capsize Drowns Five in Hackensack River Crossing
Four girls and one man drowned when a row boat capsized during a crossing in Hackensack New Jersey. Names include Catherine Hoffman 26 Mary Sachs 17 Lizzie Sinaneck 18 Mary Horanzi 15 and Peter Holtowinski with three others rescued exhausted. The party worked at American Paper Company Bogots. A wind gust caused the disaster amid a push for a river bridge costing 200000 with court challenges ongoing.
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Hackensack
N. J
Catherine Hoffman
Mary Sachs
Lizzie Sinaneck
Mary Horanzi
Peter Hol.towinski
Thomas Burke
Frank Lacy
Peter
American Paper Company
Bogots
Board of Freeholders
Mirror clears robbery confession in New Bowery case
In New York City Gaetano Alissio, a clerk at a drug store branch post office and Italian bank, confessed to Inspector McCafferty that he committed the robbery with four accomplices. He claimed $249 in cash $72 in money orders and $51 in stamps were taken while the proprietor was away. The inspector then showed him a mirror and he admitted the leader was present.
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New York City
Gaetano Alissio
McCafferty
Alissio
No. 21
New Bowery
Aussio
Maid Cites Love For Vagrancy In Milwaukee Court
A Milwaukee woman pleads love as cause for vagrancy after sleeping in the yard of a boarding house where her lover stays. Judge Nolan fines her five dollars for vagrancy despite her claim of heartfelt attachment and skipped wedding plans.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Nolan
Gary Sees Prosperity Read In Gary Speech
Judge E H Gary chairman of United States Steel by Gary Commercial Club luncheon said the country is recovering from panic and prosperity is in sight. He added Gary and US Steel’s future will drive local and national business growth and that prosperity is on the high road ahead.
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Gary Commercial Club
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Caracas Public Cable Link to Venezuela Opens
Public cable line from Caracas to the world opens with tolls cut to one dollar per word for messages to and from New York. The measure lowers communication costs and expands international connectivity.
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Venezuela
Caracas
New York
Women Win Big Concession After Mayor Veto on Pay Bill
The Mayor of New York City vetoed the Teachers Equal Pay bill but agreed to appoint a commission to study and advise on raising women teachers’ salaries in the 2010 budget. The move secures a prospect of increased pay following a formal inquiry.
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New York City
Bank President Indicted Over Misuse of Bank Funds
F. Augustus Heinze of New York City was indicted on sixteen counts charging misapplication of the Mercantile National Bank's funds during his tenure as president.
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F. Augustus Heinze
New York City
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Dartmouth spring games set hammer mark at 142 foot 8
F J Jonnson set a new hammer throw record at Dartmouth during the spring games with 142 feet 8 inches. The piece notes varied sports news including racing outlooks and college athletics moves, with details on various coaches and athletes and Dartmouth class donations to a gymnasium fund.
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Dartmouth
Paul Magoffin
Michigan
North Dakota Agricultural College
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University of Chicago
Fred Taral
Penn’s
Wrights hailed as kings of the air upon return
Wilbur and Orville Wright with sister Katharine receive royal welcome in New York and prepare to demonstrate heavier than air flight in the United States and Europe. They claim aeroplanes will serve short rapid trips and not replace autos or ships.
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Balloon Detachment Relocates to Fort Omaha for Tests
Congress failure to fund a gag plant and balloon house at Fort Myer forces James Allen chief officer of the signal corps to move aeronautical trials. The motor balloon ships to Fort Omaha where a hydrogen gas plant and balloon house are ready.
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Unions Pass Bribery Bill and Labor Proposals Across Regions
Unanimous Chicago Federation of Labor backs a bribery bill from a special committee. International Bakers Union asks locals to vote on establishing an international printing office in Chicago. Washington Bureau of Engraving and Printing women workers form a 200-member union local. Boston metal trades group moves to review metal shop laws and sanitary foundry rules. California Legislature approves a ban on wearing union insignia by nonmembers. Winnipeg street car workers seek nine hour day without pay cut. Melbourne workers’ assistants strike for a living wage.
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Glidden Plans Boston to New York Airship Line This Spring
Charles J. Glidden of Boston announces a Boston to New York aerial navigation venture for spring with an airship larger than first planned. He aims to operate in summer and is securing land options for stations. The plan includes a mail service by air and a factory to build all vehicles.
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Notable Names and Assignments in Late 1910s News
Richard Creter sailed for Europe to return after the next election is due. Learned Hand sworn in as United States District Judge in New York City. The Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland offered to Rev. William Waller Bastard of Roxbury Massachusetts. Cornelius N. Fellowes longtime head of the Horse Show and prominent member of the Coney Island Jockey Club died after reconciling with his son. Dr Rowland G Freeman specialist in diseases of children asserts pure milk solution lies in dairy hygiene not pasteurization. Rev Dr J L Caughey spoke on Why People Don’t Go to Church following a canvass in Harlem and New York with 57 shows reaching 56 600 people. Lewis Nixon backed Secretary Meyer's plan to cut unnecessary superstructure on battleships and predicted future warships will be mistless smoky and sparkless.
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United States
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Captain Hains Sentenced to Eight to Sixteen Years for Manslaughter
Captain Peter C. Hains Jr. was sentenced by Justice Garrettson in Flushing to not less than eight nor more than sixteen years in state prison for the Bayside Yacht Club manslaughter of William E. Annis in August 1908. The defense motions for a new trial were denied. an appeal was allowed within 24 hours. General Hains and Major Powers Hains showed emotion in court.
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William B. Annis
Bayside Yacht Club
Peter C.lining, Jr
Garretson
Supreme Court
Kird Iabor
John F. McIntyre
Garrettson
McIntyre
Hains
Young
Everest
Inaw
Major John Powers Hains
Captain Hains
Hungarian girl kills suitor after unwanted advances in Trenton
Pearl Paskyl an 18 year old Hungarian girl killed John Lukacs, 30, after he followed her to a tenement and attacked her at night. He had come from Roechleg to a dance and pursued her after two dances. She escaped to a friend's home and fled, later found in an apparently demented state.
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N. J
Pearl Paskyl
John LukKacy
Lukecs
Roechleg
Paskyl
Lukaca
Lukics
George Meredith Dies Aged 73 In England
London reports novelist George Meredith has died. Born February 12, 1828 in Hampshire to Welsh Irish parents, he was educated in Germany, pursued journalism and literature, wrote The Ordeal of Richard Feverel in 1859, and his last work A Reading of Life and Other Poems appeared in 1901.
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London
George Meredith
Hampshire
England
Germany
Richard Feverer
George Eliot
Adam Bade
Steel wages in Pittsburgh restored for six months
In Pittsburgh district 35,000 iron and steel workers were told on June 1 the pre cut ten percent wage scale would return and they must work full time for six months. The move follows a surge in orders for iron and steel products, with tariff news from Washington viewed cautiously by independents.
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Iron and Steel Works
Pittsburg
Washington, D. C
Brandenburg Locked Up for Forged Grover Cleveland Letter
Broughton Brandenburg, the writer, accused of grand larceny in connection with forging a Grover Cleveland letter, is in custody in New York City.
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Brandenburg
Broughton Brandenburg
Grover Cleveland
New York City
Sale of Railway Ordered By New York Circuit Court
The United States Circuit Court in New York City ordered the Third Avenue Railroad Company auctioned on September 2 unless stockholders within twenty days raise 40,000,000 dollars to satisfy claims.
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United States
New York City
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Tracy & Co. Stock Brokers Fail in New York Crash
Tracy and Co., New York City stock brokers, fail with debts of 1,250,000. Over speculation in taxicab stock given as the cause.
News of Women and Society in Brief
A mixed set of society items notes Princess de Buoglito obtaining a divorce in Paris and Miss Marion Wade a defendant in a domestic dispute in Boston. Other entries mention Mrs Mary Crowell’s local hog breeding, women workers in New York baker strikes, Nora Iselin’s social concerns in New York, Mary Proctor’s lectures in England, Muriel White’s marriage to Count Hermann Scherr Thoss in Paris, and a land sale linked to Mme Lillian Blauvelt at the Hotel Saint-Negis.
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Paris
Boston
Marion Wade
Burke-Roche Batony
Mary Crowell
Byron
East Side
New York City
Former Sheriff A Robber In Kentucky Train Raid
Lexington authorities arrest former Greenup County Sheriff White Smallwood and merchant John Archy after a running battle in Russell Kentucky during a train robbery attempt. Detectives found smoking revolvers. Nantz wounded by a stray bullet as the thieves escaped. In Spokane six masked bandits derail a west bound Great Northern mail train and seize 20000 dollars amid dynamite charges and a red lantern signal.
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John Archy
Russell County
Lexington
Sherif
Greenup County
Russell
N.J. Nantz
Nantz
Ken Uucky
Smallwood
Archy
Vere
Rusgoll
Greenup
Spokane
Wash
Great Northern Railroad
German heiress Theresa Pry seeks millions in Germany
Theresa Pry, once a St Paul maid, reunites with her German parents after being torn from them years ago when she boarded a transatlantic liner to New York. The heiress plans to reclaim title and millions of marks, aided by the German Consul.
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Minn
New York City
America
Theresa Pry
St. Paul
Germany
Miss Pry
Canoe Upset Leads to Drownings at Genesee River
In Genesee Valley Park Rochester two people, Louis Minges aged 28 and his sister Carrie Minges 30, drowned when their canoe capsized. Two men in a gasoline launch attempted rescue but failed. Louis Minges worked at the local Post Office. The river was deep fast and windy but he kept a life preserver on his person.
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N. Y
Genesee River
Genesee Valley Park
Louis Minges
Carrie Minges
Gail
Queen Opposes Suffrage at Nurses Congress
Princess Louisa opened the Women Nurses Congress in Liverpool and delivered a message from Queen Alexandra. The Queen reportedly has sympathy with the nurses and believes their work is something women can do, noting women cannot do all that men do and expressing a royal stance supportive of the nursing profession.
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Nurses' Congress
London
Queen Alexandra
Princess Louisa
Women Nurses’ Congress
Liverpool
Millionaire to devote fortune to religious service at Baptist convention
Joseph N. Rden stone a Toronto manufacturer announced at the Southern Baptist Convention in Louisville Kentucky that he would spend only enough of his vast fortune for future living expenses and devote the rest to the service of God. About five thousand delegates attended the session in the First Regiment armory for a sermon by Rev. Dr. E. O. Dargan of Macon Georgia.
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Loulaville
Joseph N
Rdenstone
Toronto
Ont
Southern Baptist Convention
E. 0. Dargan
Macon
Turkish Relief Fund Cabled Five Thousand Dollars
The Christian Herald in Washington DC forwarded 5000 dollars to aid relief work in Turkey. The donation was cabled to the American Ambassador in Constantinople for onward distribution.
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Christian Herald
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
Turkey
Constatinople
Albany Reverend Dies at Home in Sudden Heart Trouble
The Rev. Dr. Charles W. Helster pastor of the First Lutheran Church in Albany New York died suddenly at his home from heart trouble. He had delivered the morning sermon and planned to address a Masons gathering in the church that night.
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Albany
Charles W. Helster
First Lutheran Church
N. Y
Hester
Slocum Disaster Victim Dies in New Jersey
Peter T. Braun aged nineteen, a survivor of the Slocum disaster, died in Allendale New Jersey while visiting memories of the event.
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Peter T. Braun
Allendale
N. J
Taft Revokes Appointment in Kansas Letter
President Taft writes a sharp letter to Governor Stubbs of Kansas revoking the appointment of Robert Stone and declares he will not permit himself to be used by any section to promote its political fortunes.
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Stubbs
Kansas
Robert Stone
Vulcan Launched at Sparrow's Point Navy Yard
The naval ship Vulcan, second of three sister vessels under construction by Maryland Steel Company, was launched at Sparrow's Point Maryland amid formal ceremony and yard activity.
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Vulcan
Maryland Steel Company
Sparrow's Point
Mrs. Frank B. Vrooman Buys Pew Near Tafts in Washington
Mrs. Frank B. Vrooman daughter of General John C Black of the Civil Service Commission pays 3000 dollars for a pew beside Mrs. William H Taft at St John s Episcopal Church in Washington.
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John C. Black
The
Clyil Service Commission
Willam Il.taft
St. John's Episcopal Church
Washington
Tillman Seeks Tar Duty Amendment in Congress
In Washington D C Tillman introduced an amendment to the tariff act proposing a ten cent per pound duty to protect the textile industry in the Carolinas amid a tariff debate. The move aimed to shield the industry from foreign competition and bolster domestic production.
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Tillman
Sanitor
Tilman
Washington, D. C
Deaf Engineer Clarke Dies After Long Illness at 59
Lloyd Clarke, a longtime President’s Engineer and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers member, died at Memorial Hospital Long Branch of kidney disease after a extended illness. He began work on railroads at age nine and, despite losing hearing at nineteen, became a famed locomotive expert and brake specialist with over 2 million miles logged and one notable 1903 Sea Girt wreck survivor scar.
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Lloyd Clarke
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Memorial Hospital
Long Branch
Europe
Erie
Pacific
Sierras
Clarke
Rockies
Westinghouse
Sea Girt
Viame
Salem freeholders press State aid road plans and appointments
Salem county freeholders report multiple road improvement applications awaiting action with two new filings for main street macadam in Salem city and a spread to Pliesgrove Township. Governor Fort names Samuel Whinery Charles Hansel and Frank Stevens to re value railroad and canal property to boost state assessments by possibly millions.
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Salem County Freeholders
Salem City
Upper Penn's Neck
Pliesgrove Township
Hutchinson
Gulkyson
New Jersey
Fort
Samuel Whinery
East Orange
Charles Hansel
Cranford
Frank Stevens
Jersey City
Whinery
Hensel
Stevens
Boy Clings to Runaway to Save Brothers
Eight year old Raymond Breen of Summit springs a brave rescue after a runaway horse bolts a carriage. He clings to the reins and chases the animal, finally catching it in a field to protect his two younger brothers, George and Henry, while the carriage is damaged but the children escape unharmed.
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George Breen
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Summit
George
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Valnely
Millville Pays Tribute at Funeral of Sting C. Smith
Public schools closed in Millville and flags lowered to half mast for the funeral of Sting C. Smith, veteran educator. The Masons led the observances at his late West Millville residence. The Board of Education and Board of Health attended in full, with three wagonloads of moral tributes.
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John E. Dunning Dies At 73 In Paterson
John E. Dunning senior member of Allen and Dunning Tobacco Company and vice president of Silk City Bank died at his home 617 East Twenty-fifth street Paterson He was seventy three and had lived in Paterson fifty six years He was born Whitesboro near Utica New York and had previously lived in Rome and Sloatsburg He leaves six sons and four daughters.
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Whitesboro
Utica
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Sloatsburg
Pardon Favored for Doctor Denied Parole
Dr. Reuben Thompson, who served nine years of an eighteen year term in a New Jersey state prison in Trenton for malpractice in Red Bank, bled to death from a hemorrhage in the prison. A pardon was due in four days after he had refused parole years earlier because he could not practice his profession under the law.
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Strangled by His Collar in Phillipsburg Death
Frederick Schweikhardt, 30, was found dead in an outbuilding of Struther Brothers store at Phillipsburg. Officials report death from epileptic spasms as he fell, his head wedged to cause strangulation by his own collar.
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Tolling trolley line extension eyed in county area
The report notes a plan to extend the trolley line from Lambertville to Flemington and mentions a free public library opening in Minotola with Mrs. Ward B. Fox as librarian. Groundbreaking for a Catholic church in Woodbury at Cooper and Euclid streets is recorded along with various local resignations and appointments.
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Ward B. Fox
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Euclid Streets
Beverly Board of Education
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Lyman Cramer
Lebanon
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Glassbury
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Gloucester County
Mattie H W. Mich
Glassboro
German Loan Oversubscription Reported
Applications for two new loans by the Imperial and Prussian Government total about 376 million dollars. The loans are 80 million and 120 million dollars respectively and are arranged by a bank syndicate led by Relehshani.
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Will of John H. Hange Provides Funeral Payments
The will of John H. Hange of St. Louis who was buried at Shiloh Alabama directs that every person who attended his funeral receives payment. He left 100000 dollars to his heirs. The document details provisions for beneficiaries and the distribution of remaining assets.
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Husband shoots wife then surrenders after confession
George Ven walked into the Perth Amboy police station at 6 15 am and confessed to killing his wife. He led officers to St Marys Cemetery where they found the woman dead from gunshot wounds. Ven says he and his wife had moved from Ronad town three days earlier and planned to surrender after the act. Prosecutor Boornein assigned detectives, noting a confession alone may not convict.
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Spreckels Paid Monthly Salary to Heney at Trial
At Patrick Calhoun's trial Rudolph Spreckels testified he paid Heney between 500 and 600 dollars a month for three years. The witness noted government sums to Heney were separate. Cross examination revealed Abe Ruoff proposed funding a syndicate to bid city bonds and trigger a strike on United Railroads.
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New Governor for Alaska Walter E Clark Nominated
President Taft sent Walter E Clark Washington correspondent for the Seattle Post Intelligencer to the Senate as Governor of Alaska to succeed the resigned Hoggatt. The White House said the action aimed to unify interests and further Alaska's industrial development.
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First South Atlantic Map by Naval Hydrographic Bureau
The Navy Department releases the first ever map of South Atlantic waters created by the Hydrographic Bureau. It marks years of work and details the best coastwise routes along South America and Africa and routes between the two continents.
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Educating Katharine Frick at Mount Airy Deaf School
Governor Stuart approves funds for the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Mount Airy to educate Katharine M. Frick, a nine year old girl who is blind deaf and dumb. This marks the state’s first effort at individual education for a person.
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Swift and Miss Miller Wed After Secret Elopement
Julian W. Swift of Chicago and Miss Mary Miller of Lafayette Ind eloped in an automobile to Hoboken New Jersey and were married.
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Mrs Taft Missed Southern Tours Due to Illness
Mrs Taft fell ill from social duties and heat, delaying her travel with the President to Petersburg Virginia and Charlotte North Carolina. Residents had planned extensive entertainments in her honor, now postponed by her condition and need for rest.
Kansas law bans own bottle drinking, bars all closed
Hansos bars are outlawed as a new Kansas statute makes drinking intoxicating liquor a crime even from personal supply. The law, now in effect, ends the era of municipal fines for public drinking in cities where joints once operated, most have shut down.
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New Immigration Commissioner Nomination at Ellis Island
President Taft nominates William Williams to be Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island New York replacing Watchorn. The nomination names Williams for the post as the new head of immigration operations on the island.
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Automobilist Charles E Barber Fatally Hurt by Train
Charles E Barber of Warwick New York a noted car racer and early endurance contest winner was fatally injured when his car struck by a train at a grade crossing near his home.
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Judge Denis O'Brien Dies at Watertown Home
Former judge Denis O'Brien who retired from the State Court of Appeals in 1907 died at his Watertown home at age seventy.
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Prohibition Loses in Missouri Senate Clears Adjournment
News briefs report Decoration Day sports banned for National Guard and State Naval Militia. Maldwin Drummond ill with smallpox after London season. Pierre, 8.B. mortgage filing for 100 million to United States Trust Company. Missouri Senate agrees to adjournment sine die, killing prohibition measure.
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Lawmakers Train Guns on Tariff Debate in Washington
Senators La Follette Money and others file sharp lectures to Senator Root protesting perceived dictation during Tariff bill discussions. Also noted are nominations in the Navy and Taft’s new board for government supply purchases. Tuberculosis address features Dr. Osler Bryce Cannon. Hair exports report from Vice-Consul Fuller in Hong Kong.
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Paris Dend Obituary for J Otis Minott in New York City
J Otis Minott of New York City has died in Paris. The item notes his residence at 449 Park Avenue and mentions Joseph Otis Minott as a director in the Goodyear Rubber Company. It lists other brief telegrams about dignitaries, politics, and international events.
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This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!