Woman pursued for decade shoots in Brooklyn kitchen
A Cleveland cabinetmaker, Joseph R. Schmilowitz, shot and killed Mrs. Cora Stebel in her Brooklyn apartment after ten years of unwelcome attention. The killer, who had fled from Philadelphia to Boston then Brooklyn, was arrested after a detective stopped him. he admitted the act saying he would trade a life for a life.
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New York
Joseph R. Schmilowitz
Cleveland
Cora Stebel
Miley Avenue
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Boston
Schmilowitz
Orange Avenue
Stebel
Biis
Harriman to Face Questions Over Chicago and Alton Rail Sale
New York Nov 9 Efforts to compel FE Harriman to answer Inter State Commerce Commission questions about the Chicago and Alton railroad will resume next Wednesday C A Severance counsel for the commission arrived to argue before Judge Hough in the United States circuit court He seeks to require Harriman to disclose ownership of Alton stock sold to the Union Pacific Reitmier has left the city for Lafayette.
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New York
H. Harriman
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Chicago and Alton Railroad
C.A. Severance
Commission
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Warriman
Alton
Union Pacific
the Inquisitors
Urban wreck at Howland Station blamed on brake failure
Indianapolis Nov 9 coroner reports in the David B Elder inter urban wreck on the Muncie division of the Indiana Union Traction lines left a broken brake as the cause and showed the motorman could not stop the car with air or hand brakes. Willard Eller and Charles Knott both Muncie residents testified as motorman and conductor.
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Indianapolis
David B. Elder
Howland Station
Muncie
Indiana Union Traction Company
Willard Eller
Charles Knott
Pension Granted to Major Dreyfus for 31 Years Service
Paris November 93 Major Dreyfus is listed among pension recipients in the Journal Official. He will receive $470 annually for nearly thirty one years of service.
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Paris
Journal Official
Bankers to Bankers Cortelyou's Finan- Ability
New York November 9 President Roosevelt named George B Cortelyou secretary of the treasury to succeed Leslie Shaw. Financiers of all stripes praised his organization and leadership. the Clearing House and Merchants associations credited him with stabilizing the economy. He is described as busy and unyielding, yet approachable to those who know how to reach him.
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New York
Roosevelt
George B. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Leslie M. Shaw
Cortelyou
The
United States
Mr. Morgan
Mr. Hepburn
Mr. Stillman
Washington
Clearing House Association
Mer Chants’ Association of
Mr. Cortelyou
On Way to Altar, Literary Woman Sorls Heir to Fortune
A literary woman journeys to New York to marry Mrs Howe as her divorce from the nephew of Princeton’s family is finalized, heir to a fortune in question.
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New York
Virginia Heiress and Fiance Search for Missing Bride
Justin Perceval of Lynchburg Virginia and Virginia Howe, famed beauty and writer, vanished lovers who planned to wed in New York after divorces. Howe failed to keep her October 31 appointment, last seen at a Broadway store, prompting a prolonged search aided by Southern society. Howe, known as Fluffy as a Charlottesville editor, and Perceval once drifted apart then renewed affection after decades apart.
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New York
Justin Perceval
Perceval
Lynchburg
Virginia
Peyton Knight Howe
Mr. Perceval
Marie Louise Wells Perceval
Georgia
Jacksonville
Fila
J. Wilson Howe
George Howe
Chapel Hill
N. C
Ciety
Fluffy
South
Dr. Prim
Marie Louise Wells
Columbus
Howe
Miss Wells
Henry Wells
Southern Railway
Massachusetts
Henry Walter Wilmot
West Fifty-ninth Street
Martha Washington
East Twentyninth Street
Indicted for Murder in Bloomington Trial Date Set
Bloomington Indiana, November 9. Otis Allen was indicted today for murder amid uncertain details. The report notes Mond Sparks and a trial is pending, with a tentative date in December.
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Bloomington
Ind
Otis Allen
Sparks
Spurn Prisoner Bribe Fails Duty at Louisville
Indiana farmer John A. Dodd offered Lieutenant Thomas O'Brien and Captain T. J. Fitzgibbons a thousand dollars to procure his release and time to end his life. Dodd, charged in Darlington with attempting a criminal operation on an adopted daughter, fled to Louisville and was captured and delivered to the sheriff.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Thomas O’brien
T. J. Fitzgibbons
Louisville
John A. Dodd
Indiana
Darlington
Dodd
Man Believed to be Arthur Newton Killed in Los Angeles Crash
A man thought to be Arthur Newton formerly of Lampasar Texas was killed when his car crashed on the Teat Angles and Pacific in Los Angeles. Police said he appeared to be Newton, but identity was not confirmed at the scene. Investigators continued to piece together the circumstances of the fatal accident.
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Los Angeles
Arthur Newton
Lam‘pasar
Texas
Pacific
Taft Departs Manila Amid Warm Filipino Reception
War Secretary Taft sails from Manila aboard the Rainbow to Vladivostok after a grand Luneta parade. He thanks Filipinos for the reception and expresses confidence in the islands future. Chinese commissioners visiting Taft plan to report findings to Pekin after a week in Manila.
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Philippine
Legislative Assembly
Jalanda
Philippines
Phillippines
Taft
Orient
Pekin
Manila
Rail man in favor of government regulation
Prescott Ariz Nov 9 Robert Mather general counsel of the Rock Island system here last night declared to an Associated Press representative that he emphatically endorsed President Roosevelt policies for federal regulation of railroads. He said a uniform system would benefit roads and people and that even honest roads fear spasms of recent state legislation. He argued public indignation at railroading scandals fuels broad hostility to all roads.
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Prescott
Ariz
Robert Mather
Rock Island System
Associated Press
Roosevelt
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Commerce Commission
Niles Reitmier
Lafayette
Dreyfus
George B.cortelyou
Sustin Perceval
Frances
Mr. Perceval Mystefied
Mrs. Howe
United Copper
MR Justin Perceval
Virginia Knight-Ho
Vladivostok
Luneta
Smith
Judge Taft
Mather
Rock Island
Presi
Douglas McDougall
Tudor Prince
Gracie McDougall
Yokohama
Herbert McDougal
Far East
Douglas
Grace
Grannie
Lascar
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