Disease Kills J P Morgan and Funeral Plans Edited
J Pierpont Morgan died from an undisclosed disease and was embalmed in Rome. A simple funeral will be held at the hotel with limited attendance before the body is shipped to the United States aboard the Koenig Albert or via Naples.
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Marconi
New York Times
Rome
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Italy
Naples
Cala
United States
Thomas J. O'Brien
Morgan
O’brien
William J. Bryan
America
Herbert L. Satterlee
New York
Nathan
British praise of Morgan echoes in London honors
Sir Edward Holden of London City and Midland Bank tells The New York Times that London bankers connected to Morgan are proud of him, calling him one of the world's greatest men. The death of Morgan dominates today's papers with praise and debate on American capitalism.
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Sir Edward Holden
Marconi
New York Times
London
Edward Holden
London City and Midland Bank
Morgan
Pall Mall Gazette
America
Funeral Plans Delayed For J Pierpont Morgan
Hundreds gathered at the Morgan home on Madison Avenue to leave cards for the bereaved family as resolutions honoring his many activities and benefactions circulated through organizations he served. Funeral plans remained tentative and subject to later decision.
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Madgi- 80N Avenue
Meyerling Tragedy Secrets Promised in Memoirs
London reports that Countess Marie Larisch plans to publish My Past on May 1 revealing the Meyerling death of Archduke Rudolf. She asserts she will end years of rumors, detailing her aunt Empress Elizabeth and her own role, amid eye witness contention and slander cited by critics.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Meyerling
Rudolph
Austria
Marie Larisch
Elizabeth of
Ludwig of
Bavaria
Rudolph of
Lariseh
Empress Elizabeth
Eveleigh Nash
Firemen Mortally Hurt In Brooklyn Factory Blaze
Acting Battalion Chief Edward Connolly and driver Matthew Robinson were fatally injured when a runabout collided with their fire truck at Lorimer Street after responding to a blaze at Meyer & Danowitz sash and blind factory. The pair died from skull fractures after being taken to St Catherine’s Hospital. Connolly, 35, resided at 131 Bedford Avenue. Robinson, 47, lived at 907 Lorimer Street. Robinson’s brother Thomas is a police officer. The factory fire caused about 100 dollars in damage.
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Ridge Avenue
Brooklyn
Edward Connolly
Lorimer Street
Meehetan Avenues
Matthew Robinson
St. Catherine's Hospital
Robinson
Connolly
Bedford Avenue
Thomas
Meyer & Danowitz
Bryan's Eight Hour Day Elevator Policy Sparks Secretary Bryan
Washington April 1 Elevator operators in the State Department will no longer be required to stay on duty after the Secretary of State leaves the building. Secretary Bryan argues eight hours is enough and walking stairs after hours is no hardship. He recalled a recent incident when he left at 6 30 p m and the elevator operator stayed on duty until then.
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Washington
State Department
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Tomain
Poison Trail Ties Eaton Case to Animal Deaths Near Queen Anne's Corner
State police probe the Eaton poisoning case linking it to the deaths of dogs and foxes from arsenic or strychnine in tallow pellets found in fields near Queen Anne's Corner. Mrs Eaton fears for daughter Dorothy after accusations against Rear Admiral Eaton.
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New York Times
Boston
Admiral Eaton
Queen Anne’s Corner
Eaton
White Way curfew tightens cabaret closures under new order
Police led by Inspector Dwyer raid Broadway saloons and restaurants after Mayor Gaynor seeds a 1 AM curfew. Garden Churchill's and other all-night venues faced closures with patrons resisting, arrests made, and a stormy dispute over the scope of the order.
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Broadway
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Dwyer
White Way District
West Forty-seventh Street
Churchill's
Garden
Churchill
West Forty-third Street
Shanley’s
Margaret Fuller
Danbury
Miller's
Rector’s
Tokyo
Inspector Dwyer
Jack's
Forty-second Street
Jack
Ustanoby's
Jack’s
Hquor Dealers
Gaynor
Aary
Oves
Sdmai Rea
Radium Elixir of Life Promised by Berlin Doctor
London April 1 Dr Saubermann of Berlin claimed before the Rentgen Society that radium can restore hardened arteries in middle age and prolong life. He described an apparatus using a radium-enriched water in a glass bottle yielding doses over time.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Saubermann
Berlin
Réntgen Society
Death by own action in a Russian flyer tragedy
London reports Lieut Perlovski of the Russian army killed himself by shutting off an aeroplane motor over Warsaw on Sunday. In a letter he said he faced intrigues and wished to stop the motor in mid air. Similar stories include Belgian John Verrept who died near Vershilies after a quarrel with his fiancée, though the plane was found intact.
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London
Perlovsk
Warsaw
Perlovski
John Verrept
Vershilies
Verrept
Police Guard Church Election Factions Amid Tense Pittsburgh Meeting
Fourteen patrolmen stood watch at the Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh after an afternoon and evening of factional conflict over annual church elections. Two factions, led by Rev. John R. Wilson and Alexander McDowell Jr., clashed in separate meetings, with reports of fistfights and expulsions from the pulpit. Wilson seeks $3,500 back salary. court battles loom as the dispute heads to higher courts.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
Penn
Vincent
Barry
Grant Street Reformed Presbyterian Church
John R. Wilson
Supreme Court
Wilson
Alexander McDowell, Jr
Wilson Élique
School Head Indicted in Pittsburgh Case
Sylvanus L. Heeter, superintendent of Pittsburgh public schools, was indicted on two counts after Ethel Fisher, 18, a former nurse in the Heeter home, testified to grand jurors. Witness Anna Gerst, formerly a Heeter servant, appeared as a witness. rumors of an eyewitness persisted.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
Sylvanus L. Heeter
Ethel Fisher
Heeter
Grand Jury
West Penn Hospital
Court House
Harry Lean
Anna Gerst
No Bank Guarantee Stance Outlined in New Bill
In Washington on April 1, Senators Gwen of Oklahoma and Glass of Virginia say bank deposit guarantees will not be included in the forthcoming financial bill. Glass notes the House Banking and Currency Committee is not named yet and that the guarantee issue is to be debated on its merits. Both lawmakers express agreement on addressing defects in banking and currency reform.
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Enecal
New York Times
Washington
Robert I. Gwen
Oklahoma
Banking and Currency Committee
Senate
Carter Glass
Virginia
House
Glass
R. Glass
Murdered in Mexico A H Lawrence Shot by Frenchman
Mexico City April 1 Albert H Lawrence manager of an American owned sugar plantation near El Portero Vera Cruz was shot and killed today authorities allege by Charles Balilet a Frenchman employed from the sugar plantation in New I He
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A. H. Lawrence
Exico City
Albert H. Lawrence
el Potrero
Vera Cruz
Charles Balilet
New i
McCombs Accepts Paris Ambassadorship After Reconsideration
William F. McCombs, Democratic National Committee chairman, agrees to accept the Paris post after previously declining. The move follows discussions about private means and the need for official residences and salaries for American ambassadors abroad, with President Wilson signaling possible diplomatic salary reforms. The London posting for Walter H. Page at 17 500 annual salary is noted, but its impact on McCombs is unclear.
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New York Times
Washington
William F. McCombs
New York
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
France
McCombs
Paris
United States
America
Renee Vongen
Yeme
Congress
Walter H. Page
Garden City
N. Y
Court of St. James's
London
Page
London Standard Favors Salary Increase For Embassy
The London Standard reports Walter H. Page’s upcoming ambassadorship to London may feature a modest embassy. It notes the costly, onerous duties of hosting transatlantic visitors and argues the U.S. government should provide a salary increase to the ambassador’s staff and establishment.
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London Standard Aliso
Marconi
New York Times
London
Walter H. Page
Republic
United States
Democrats Win Chicago in Municipal Election Sweep
Democrats swept Chicago voting twenty two aldermen and key city officers. Hearst Harrison faction backed bonds of 2 88 million, carried by a small margin. Republicans won eleven aldermen, Progressives three, Independents one, Socialists scattered with near Progressive totals citywide. Alderman Kenna known as Hinky Dink and Bathhouse John Coughlin were re elected. Mer riam the university professor and former Progressive leader won the lone alderman seat.
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Chicago
Hearst- Harrison
Michael Kenna
Hinky Dink
Bathhouse
John Coughlin
Getti
Socialpool
Charles E. Merriam
University of Chicago
Elections in Nassau County Show Republican Gains in Hempstead
Nassau County election results from Hempstead show the Republican candidate elected with 4 219 votes over 1 813 for the Bull Moose and 2 765 for the Democratic candidate. Last year Republicans led 2 741 while Progressives polled 5 624 and Democrats 3 590. In other Nassau towns Democratic supervisors were elected. RIVERHEAD L I April 1 The Suffolk County vote across nine of ten towns favored eight of nine Democratic Supervisors. Bull Moose turnout appears light, with about half the party’s voters voting.
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Nassau County
L. IL
Hempstead
el i Riverhead
L.il
Suffolk County
Autopsy for Mrs. McGovern. embalming hinders cause
In Peabody a court ordered autopsy on Mrs. Michael McGovern after Ralph W. Reeve, counsel for her heirs, demanded it. Medical Examiner H. K. Foster noted embalming prevented a cause of death from being determined, while Dr John J Hickey said arteriosclerosis was the illness. The bride, Mee Tie, aged about forty, had recently married Michael McGovern, a real estate agent.
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Peabody
Mass
Ralph W. Reeve
Michael McGovern
Whitney
Rvard Medical School
H. K. Foster
Flagler’s Condition Worsens After Fall at Oceanic Cottage
Henry M. Flagler, railroad and hotel owner, suffered a painful fall at his home near West Palm Beach. Relatives report anxiety and his condition now described as critical. Florida East Coast Railroad officials President Parrott and VP Ingraham have been summoned and expected to arrive from St. Augustine.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Henry M. Flagler
Railroad and Southern
Flagler
Oceanic Cottage
J. R. Parrott
J. E Ingraham
Florida East Coast Railroad
St. Augustine
Sugar Man Released From Jail Near Mineola
Ernest W. Gebracht of Odeta, formerly with the Williamsburg refinery of the American Sugar Refining Co, left Mineola County Jail after serving thirty days. Taft had commuted his two year sentence in Atlanta Penitentiary and a $5,000 fine for 1910 sugar frauds. His wife drove to the jail and took him away.
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Mineola
N.Y
Ernest W. Gebracht
Odeta
Williamsburg
American Sugar Refining Company
Taft
Atlanta
Two Musical Coming Back
New Orleans dispatch says Phillip and George Musica with their father Antonio Musica are likely to return to New York tomorrow under detective escort. Attorneys seek allowance for the aged father and Arthur to stay until his health improves while the two Musica girls, held as witnesses, will remain with their father.
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New Orleans
Phillip
George
Musica
New York
Antonio Musica
Musicas
Whitman
Arthur
Sophomore Leader Kidnapped by Freshmen in Bronx Incident
Joseph A. McEntire, president of Manhattan College's sophomore class, was seized near 137th Street and Broadway by freshmen led by Joseph C. Corvellis, forced into a taxi and moved to a Bronx house where he was guarded and shaved, as other class members prepared for a scheduled dinner.
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Joseph A. McEntire
Manhattan College
137Th Street
Broadway
Joseph C. Corvellis
1084 Street
The
Bronx
Stilwell Accused of Bribe Offer Won't Resign
The report states Stilwell faces a bribe accusation and refuses to resign while an inquiry is ordered. The piece notes Russia will not initiate new treaty talks with the United States and that negotiations should come from Washington, under Bryan's stance and congressional sentiment.
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Stilwell
Pope Receives Americans in Rome Audience
Rome report says the Pope resumed audiences today and appears healthful. Among Americans presented by Mgr Kennedy at the Vatican audience were Judge Bordwell of Los Angeles and Miss Betis of Connecticut, Mrs. Catherine Bone pets souis, Rev. John Caldant of Notre Dame University, and James A. Burns.
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Rome
Pope Pius
Mgr. Kennedy
American College
Judge Bordwell
Los Anpine
Miss Betis
Connecticut
Mia
Atherine Bon E Pets Souis
John Caldant
Notre Dame “University
India
James A. Burns
Mrs Lydig Undergoes Severe Operation at Mayo Clinic Visit
Mrs. Philip Lydig of New York City arrived in Rochester to consult the Mayo doctors and underwent a very severe operation at St Marys Hospital. Officials said she would be restored to health in due time and that her condition after the procedure was entirely satisfactory. A hospital staff member noted her youth and vitality favor steady progress toward recovery.
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New York, Times
Rochester
Minn
Philip Lydig
New York City
Hawthorne Weeps During Georgia Glee Club Prison Show
Julian Hawthorne, serving a mail misuse sentence, cried during a Glee Club performance for inmates at the U S Prison in Atlanta. He sat prominently and laughed at first, then sobbed as sentimental songs followed. Reports say he has applied for parole likely to be granted. Good Words prison journal issued today under his editorship.
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New York Times
Atlanta
Julian Hawthorne
United States
Glee Club
University of Georgia
Hawthorne
Good Words
Scream Night Alarm After Robbery Attempt
Mrs Josephine E Moore and guest Miss Peggy Roderick were stalked by two men near 127th Street and Riverside Drive. The assailants demanded valuables, causing both women to shriek. passersby fled as the would be thiefs fled toward Riverside Park.
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Moving Pictures
Josephine. E. Moore
Peggy Roderick
Pink Lady Company
127Th Street
Mrs. Moore
Alabama Apartments
Riverside Drive
English girl tenor to sing in New York for Belmont
Miss Ruby Helder, English girl tenor, will arrive in New York aboard the Oceanic on Wednesday. She travels to sing for Mrs. August Belmont and then returns to London. This marks her first private appearance in America by a young English singer.
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Marcon
New York Times
London
Ruby Helder
New York
August Belmont
America
Vis
That Demand Kendall Says Was Made for Reporting a Stock Exchange Bill
Kendall asserts the demand aimed to secure coverage of a stock exchange measure. The report centers on the pursuit of information and the legislative context surrounding the bill.
Senate Codes Chairman Faces Bribe Charge in New York
Albany reports a Bronx senator, Stephen Stilwell, is under scrutiny for allegedly soliciting bribes to advance a stock certificates bill. Governor Sulzer and Attorney General Carmody press for investigation as Kendall links Stilwell to a $250 drafting fee and $500 per committee member demand.
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New York Times
Albany
Stephen J. Stilwell
Bronx
Codes Committee
Senate
George H. Kendall
New York Bank Note Company
Kendall
Bdl Jl
New York Stock Exchange
Sulze
Stilwell
Senate Judiciary Committee
Well
Jotham P. Allds
Wapitel
Sulzer
Senator Stilwell
Gov. Sulzer
Executive Chamber
Gov. Sulser
Carmody
State Service
Gov
Sulzér
York
Lewis
Thas
Umiess
Dolug
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Switzerland
Admiral
Waldo
Oloise
Garder the Sace
Mexico
M’combs
Hot Sf Springs
Gore
Une Chen Dassen
Nassau
Hempstead Town
Bride
Sugar Man
E. W. Gebracht
Philip
Russia
Bakhmetieff
Pope
Pontiff
the Times
Mrs. Lydig
Mrs
G. H. Kendall
Stock Exchange
Wagner
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