Yerkes Will Is Read Provisions For Widow Son And Art
New York Jan 3 Clarence A Knight reads the late Charles T Yerkes will. Provisions include 750000 for a New York art gallery project after wife’s death and a hospital in New York. Wife Mary Adelaide Yerkes receives 200000 plus the Fifth Avenue home and all art works.
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New York
Clarence A. Knight
Charles T. Yerkes
Greenwood Cemetery
Mary Adelaide Yerkes
Sixty-Eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Yerkes Will Establishes Great New York Hospital Plan
A long will details substantial bequests. Charles B. Yerkes Jr. receives $200,000 and rights to dispose of $800,000 of the estate, Bessie Rondinella $200,000 with disposal rights of $300,000, and $100,000 trust for Ethel Link Yerkes. The University of Chicago gets $100,000 for the Yerkes Observatory care. The remainder funds a hospital in the Bronx, the Yerkes Hospital, to be built with up to $500,000 for ground and buildings and to offer free care to those unable to pay. Executors include Mrs. Yerkes, Louis S. Owsley, and Illinois Trust and Savings. The will also sets aside income from shares to support relatives during lifetimes. Open to the public regardless of creed.
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Charles Bh, Yerkes
Bessie L. Rondinella
Ethel Link Yerkes
Clarence Yerkes
Louis 8. Owsley
Chicago
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
Lake Geneva
Wis
State of
New York
Yerkes Hospital
Yerkes
Bronx
Sixty
Eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Wise
Illnois Trust and Savings Bank
Ilinois
Strike of the printers grips New York in eight hour push
New York printers strike for eight hour day and closed shop with about twelve hundred workers from forty four firms taking action. Local Typothetae reports eighty eight associated firms with varying responses. several cities report mixed outcomes on hours and union recognition.
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New York
New York City
Typographical Union
Chicago
Nypothetae
Roosevelt Denies Sympathy With Any British Party
Washington dispatches note President Roosevelt did not express sympathy with any British political party or candidate. A London cable claimed otherwise about D N Mason, but White House officials say no such recollection exists and the president gave no party support. The item follows a roundup of other government notes and legal matters from Jan 3 1905.
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Roosevelt
Washington
London
Great Britain
D. N. Mason
Mason
Oufljciass
White House
Board Audit Traces 80M Shortage to Bank Fraud
Everett Audit reports seven year school fund shortfall of 41 408 before adjustments and suggests total eighteen year shortage near 1 000 000. Fraud tied to fictitious scripts cashed through Peoria National Bank led by Dougherty president. Board seeks bank liability while stockholders face risk. investigation continues.
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Peoria
Everett Audit Company
NCG
Dougherty
Schoo Board
Everett
Lyerett
Peoria National Bank
David McCulloch
Orville Berry
Carthage
Revolt in Siberia and Baltic Provinces Shocks Russia
An evening dispatch reports revolts in Irkutsk area stopping railroad traffic after stations burned by insurgents. Cheliabinsk reserves freed agitators, attacked stations, troops missing. Baltic provinces remain critical with executions and derail attempts. arrests of extremists continue in St Petersburg. Warsaw reports factory strikes and anarchist activity. bridges destroyed and rail traffic disrupted.
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St. Petersburg
Irkutsk
Siberia
Mar East
Cheliabinsk
Orenburg
Vrans-Si- Derian
Baltic
Reval
Mitau
Riga
Orloff
Libau
Hasenroth
Poland
Warsaw
Kacza Street
Goniee
National Democratic Party
Vienna
Moscow Revolt Claims and Casualties Questioned
Governor General Doubassomy to the AP says a repetition of the Moscow revolt is impossible as liberals and even radicals drift to government lines. Ringleaders largely captured or killed. arms seized. Casualty figures near 2,500 with hospitals reporting many dead and wounded, including children. Counterrevolution rumors grow in outlying districts as authorities tighten protections.
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Moscow
Doubassomy
Associated Press
Prezuaal
Wadsworth Dominates Caucus for New York Speaker
In Albany on Jan 3 James W. Wadsworth Jr. won 75 of 104 votes in the Republican assembly caucus for speaker, with Merritt 14 and Willwright 15. The full assembly strength was 107 present, none of the three main candidates voting. The result ends a bitter speakership fight with Wadsworth backed by Gov. Higgins and possibly President Roosevelt, Merritt backed by Odell Jr., and Wainwright opposing executive influence in the legislature.
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Albany
N. Y
James W. Wadsworth
Livingston County
Janica W. Wadsworth
Thirty-fourth
John Hay
Republican Assembly
Wadsworth
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
Merritt
Willwright
New Assembly
Gov
Higgins
Roosevelt
Odell, Jr
Wainwright
Odell
Eox
Olell
Kentucky
Blackburn
Prankfort
Thomas E. Paynter
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Wis
United States
J.C
Paynter
Haldeman
Representative Smith
McCreery
Coal Output in Illinois Coal Mines for 1905 Reported
Illinois state labor bureau shows 990 mines across 56 counties produced 87 183 374 tons in 1905. Output includes 9 248 558 tons mine run coal and 2 036 152 tons nut coal. Average price 1.41 per ton. Also noted are mine openings 108 and closures 110, and employment figures.
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Springfield
Ilinois
State Labor Bureau
Noted Gas Case Decided by U S Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court ruled in Peoria Gas and Light Co v city of Peoria Illinois reversing the circuit court. It addressed whether a municipal gas rate ordinance violated the Fourteenth Amendment by depriving property without due process. The decision focused on whether the company conspired to fix rates and found no substantiated evidence of a market combine.
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Washington, Jan
Supreme Court of the United States
Peoria Gas and Hleetrie Company
Peoria
Thepany
United States
Eircuit Court
Til Hols
Supreme Court
Traffic Agreement Voided By New York Justice
In New York, a Supreme Court judge rules that an intercity traffic agreement among three railways violating bondholders’ interests is unauthorized and invalid. The ruling affects Chicago and Eastern Illinois, St Louis and San Francisco, and St Louis Memphis and Southeastern Railway bondholders led by Gustav B. Kissel and Susan Rammer. A separate LaCrosse strike over eight hour day rights disrupts printers at one plant as open shops operate elsewhere. Chicago drainage case opens in U S Supreme Court challenging diverting sewerage into the Mississippi via the Chicago Drainage Canal.
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New York Supreme Court
New York
Prunx
State Supreme Court
Chicago and Eastern Winers Trailroad Company
St. Louia
San Francisco
Gustav BE. Kissel
Susan Rammer
Justice Troax
LaCrosse
Wis
Oine
Jadrosue
Typographical Union
Pour Offices
Close vote marks Hogan case in Idaho shooting tale
Caldwell Idaho January 8 Captain Swann said conclusive evidence links the Saratoga hotel room No 1 to the bomb used in the assassination of Governor Stennemberg. Plaster of parts sediment and right shoe nails fit the murder escape tracks. Two suspects Campbell and Warren arrested. Also U S Supreme Court upholds Kentucky Goebel murder life sentence for Sime B Howard. Rebels in Riga attack dragoons and are captured after fighting. eleven imprisoned and fourteen wounded.
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Connell
F. Campbell
Harold Warren
Howard
Washington
Eupreme Court
United States
Kentucky Court of Appeila
Sime GB
Goebel
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Riga
Liventa
Krssia
Rebola
Chicago Market Quotation Summary for Wheat and Livestock
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show wheat open and close near prior levels with mixed monthly figures. Livestock and poultry receipts estimated at 20,000 hogs and 5,000 cattle with varying bids for good to prime stock, plus hay prices for Timothy and prairie grades at multiple no. 1 to no. 3 levels.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of ‘Trade
Mwigh Low
Close
Asia
Tive
Sula TZ
Stammata New
STH Tam
Ever Dattata Lave Suck
N. Y
Downing & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Ast Battato
N.Y
Catthe
Celpts Dears
Lana Fuits
Merket
Bet
Warren Girl Ends Her Life In Warren Home
Ida Huett aged 21 died after drinking carbolic acid in her Warren room after returning from Apple River. She retired seemingly in good spirits. family found her unresponsive, door broken in, and examination showed facial burns from the poison.
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Warren Girl
Ida Huett
Warren
Apple River
Wisconsin stockmen injured in Chicago collision
Fourteen stock men from Belmont Mineral Springs and Monroe Wisconsin were injured in a stock train collision in Chicago today. Several are believed fatally injured.
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Monroe
Belmont
Chicago
Mineral Springs
Wisconsin
Chauncey Depew urged to resign over Equitable ties
Albany Jan 3 Senator Brackett of Saratoga moves a resolution in the Legislature demanding Chauncey M Depew’s resignation from the United States Senate because of his link to the Equitable Life Assurance Society New York John A McCall resigns as president of New York Life Insurance Co resignation accepted today
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Albany
N. Y
Brackett of
Saratoga
Chauncey M. Depew
United States Senate
Equitable Life Assurance Society
New York
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Co
Northwestern Fruitgrowers Association Meet Opens in La Grande
Fruit growers from Oregon and nearby states gather for the annual convention in La Grande Oregon. The session spans three days with experts in fruit growing delivering addresses. Citizens prepared entertainment and several official functions to honor visiting members.
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la Grande
Ore
Northwestern
Northwestern Fruitgrowers’ Association
Ask Large Sum for Canal Project in New York
Albany January 3. The second annual report of Henry A. VanAlstyne state engineer and surveyor requests a 40 million dollar appropriation from the legislature for the 1000 ton barge canal work this year. The report notes less than 1 million of 10 million allocated for the first year has been spent while about 9 million in contracts has been assumed. The project will take years and large funds, but authorities believe the canal will become a major state improvement.
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Albany
N. Y
Henry A. VanAlstyne
Legislaure
Trial Court to Hear Samuel Forgery Case in Greensboro
Greensboro Jan 3 The special term of Judge Boy I's court opened to pursue the case of ex Revenue Officer George W Samuel on forgery conspiracy and making false reports in office The term had previously been disrupted by the illness of District Attorney Helton The trial is expected to last several days with anticipated testimony of high interest
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Greensboro
N.C
Boy I
George W. Samuel
Helton
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United States Supreme Court
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