Witness secrecy marks Vanderbilt divorce hearing
In a high profile absolute divorce case Mrs. Eben French Vanderbilt sues Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt a court referee began taking testimony amid tight security. The hearing featured witnesses including Howard Kempster the valet and a former French maid with undisclosed statements. Lawyers maintain strict silence as papers vanished then reappeared triggering public intrigue.
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David McClures
William Street
Eben French Vanderbilt
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
McClure
Shain
Justice @Gorman
Vidaver Demurs to Indictment in Hamilton Bank Case
Nathan Vidaver through counsel Frank Moss demurred to the indictment for ex tortion of William Montgomery, former Hamilton Bank president, in Judge Foster's General Sessions court. Assistant DA Krosel criticized the move as a waste of time while Judge Foster said a successor would set a day for argument.
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Frank Moss
Nathan Vidaver
William Montgomery
Hamilton Bank
Foster
O'Sullivan
Grand Jury Minutes Sought in Hansen Case
John FF McIntyre and Carl Macherllansen moved to inspect Grand Jury minutes in the extortion case against Carl Macherllansen and others before Judge Foster. Assistant D A Smythe did not oppose. motion granted as detectives seek Antony Macaluso, the Italian boy linked to the 615000 evidence, last known in Washington.
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John FF. McIntyre
Carl Macherllansen
Joseph “Z.O' Brien
Philadelphia
Foster
Smythe
Antony Macaluso
Hansen
Washington
Hat-Trimming Contest Aids New York Poor Children
The Sunday Kindergarten Association hosted a hat-trimming contest at 15 East Ninetysecond Street in New York. Twenty-five women and several men entered as boxes of hats and flowers decorated the room. The event runs through April 11 with hats for each child and her sister awarded. top prize is a portrait by Frederic Van Viet Baker and a miniature by Mrs Jenifer Long Rice.
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New York
Sunday Kindergarten Association
Isaac Lawrence
East Ninetieth Street
Madison Avenue
Frederic van Viet Baker
Jennie de Long Rice
Mra
Berry
Charles Doremus
Bradley Jones
Walter Selwyn Crosley
Old Sinclair House To Go On Broadway Corner
The Sinclair House at Broadway and Highth Street, a longtime meeting spot for downtown businessmen and travelers, will be torn down for an office building. Mrs. A. & Ashman widow of the former proprietor announced she will leave management and enter private life. Established in 1859, the hotel’s site is owned by the Sailors' Snug Harbor Corporation.
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Lower Broadway
Sinclair House
Broadway
Highth Street
A. & Ashman
The
Sailors’ Snug Harbor Corporation
Harlem Newspaper Stand Keeper Dead Worth $12 000 to $18 000
Frank H. Bronson who ran a newspaper stand at 186th Street and Eighth Avenue died of pneumonia. Neighbors and friends who helped him after his wife’s death learned he left between $12,000 and $18,000. He lived in a furnished room at 278 West 136th Street. Before dying he showed bank books and savings deposits to friends.
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Harlem
Frank H. Bronson
186Th Street
Eighth Avenue
Bronson
West 136Th Street
Tuskegee Politician Receiver Returns $900 for Tuskegee Institute
Charles W. Anderson, a politician once named by President Roosevelt as Internal Revenue Collector, announced that $900 raised last October from merchants whose checks he accepted during the panic will be turned over to the Tuskegee Institute.
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Charles W. Anderson
Roosevelt
Internal Revenue
Tuskegee Institute
Death by Own Action Shocks St Louis Medium
The body of 52 year old Elizabeth Highfill, a fortune telling medium, was found in an artificial lake in Lafayette Park. Police say she drowned in the night and had told friends that a spirit message warned she would die in poverty unless she took her own life.
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St, Louis
Elizabeth Highfill
Lafayette Park
United Service Report on Army Officers Apr 3
First Lieut. W. TM. vin Cost Artillery relieved from assignment and placed on retired list. First Lieut. W.C. Short B Sixteenth Infantry detailed by Examining Board at Fort Cr verified. First Lieut. G. Smith Sixteenth Infantry assigned status. Col. O. M. Lissalt Ordnance to Cleveland Ohio for one year. Lieut. W.C. Stone Third Infantry to Washington for duty. First Lieut. W. S serve Tenth Infantry detailed as Professor at South Carolina Military Academy Charles C replacing Capt. W.H. Etmons Sixth Infantry who joins his regiment.
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Washington
W. TM. Vin
Cost Artillery
Frem
W.C. Short
Fort Crvice
G. Smith
O. M. Lissalt
Ordnance
Cleveland
Ohio
Lisut
W. C. Stone
Third Infantry
W. & Jerve
Tenth Infantry
Uth Carolina Military Academy
Charles. C
W. H. Etmons
Sixth Infantry
Maritime Train of Vessels Passes Through Major Ports
Arrivals include Galventon at Olongapo and Caesar at New York. Ships Nero Brad ford and 7 Sailer-Rocket travel from Norfolk to Metropolitan Head and Albany from Santa Barbara to San Francisco. Boston hosts Powhatan Pontiac and Paducah at Guantana mo.
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Galventon
Olongapo
Powhatan
Pontiac
Boston
Paducah
Guantanamo
Caesar
New York
Nero
Bradford
Sailer
Rocket
lWorfolk
Mdtan Head
Albany
Santa Barbara
San Frantisco
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Sues Regan for Fifty Thousand
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw filed a Supreme Court suit against hotel lessee James B. Regan for 50,000 alleging libel and ejectment from the Knickerbocker hotel after accompanying Harry Thaw’s wife, Mrs Thaw, to rooms and lounges. The case centers on Regan allegedly prompting Thaw’s departure and future proceedings may involve Col. Dick and the Prince George hotel. Mrs Thaw plans to leave New York for Germany after annulment proceedings, with attorney Daniel O'Reilly stating Thomas will be a chief witness. She currently has no fixed address and is financially supported by Thaw.
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James B. Regan
Knickerbocker
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Daniel O'Reilly
Supreme Court
Mr. Regan
B. R. Thomas
Col. Dick
Mr. O'Reilly
Captain Albert Laws Dies From Staircase Fall
Captain Albert Laws of the Twenty fourth United States Cavalry was killed in New York on April 3 after falling down stairs in his Mort Ontario quarters. His skull fractured and brain lacerated. Laws hailed from Eastern Shore Pennsylvania and had just returned from the Philippines last week.
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Laws
N. Y
Albert Laws
Twenty
United States Cavalry
Mort. Ontario
Eastern Shore
Penn
Philippines
Spanish War Monument Plans Revived for Central Park Site
After years of inactivity a drive to erect a monument for Maine and Spanish American War victims has resurfaced. Fund organizers seek Park Commission permission and have submitted designs to the Municipal Art Commission. Proposals include arch and shaft at Columbus Circle or a new Central Park entrance at Sixty second Street and Central Park West, with an estimated cost near 104000 dollars and architects H Van Beuren Magonagle. Promoters plan to invite President Roosevelt to lay the cornerstone.
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Municipal Art Commission
Smith
Times Square
Central Park
Columbus Circle
Park
Sixty-second Street
Central Park West
H. van Beuren Magonagle
Bankrupt Chicago Real Estate Figure Samuel E Gross
Samuel Eberly Gross of Chicago has filed bankruptcy in Detroit after losing millions to unwise speculation. Liabilities about 500000 with assets near 100000 mainly in Chicago real estate. Gross, once prominent in real estate booms, wrote The Merchant Prince of Cornville and won a copyright suit against Edmond Rostand in U S court, Judge Kohlsaat ruling for Gross.
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Chicago
Samuel Eberly Gross
Battle Creek
Mich
Gross
Detroit
W. F. Jacobs
Cornville
Epen
Edmond Rostand
Strike Averted As New Haven Railmen Offered Piecework
New Haven Connecticut April 3 The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad will not enforce its March 10 order on piecework in shops. Workers may take piecework if they want but it will not be pushed on those who did not have it. Discharged men likely to accept piecework upon return and be rehired gradually. A strike of several thousand workers was averted.
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New Haven, Conn
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
New Haven
Massachusetts Supreme Court Bans Sympathetic Strikes Over Open Shop
The Massachusetts Supreme Court rules sympathetic strikes to enforce an open shop are unlawful. The decision stems from a Lynn case where nine building contractors sought an injunction against the Lynn Building Trade Council and affiliated unions over sympathy actions. A permanent injunction was issued in the Superior Court.
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Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Lynn
Lynn Building Trade Council
Superior
Operators and Miners Plan Joint Convention
Indianapolis April 8. President Thomas J. Lewis of the United Mine Workers announced a joint convention between miners and operators from Western Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana and Illinois. The meeting aims to rehabilitate the Inter-State wage agreement in the central competitive field.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Thomas J. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Metropolitan cash used for McKinley campaign funds
Special Grand Jury investigation into the Metropolitan Street Railway links Thomas F. Ryan, Whitney, Elkins, Widener, and Dolan to a $100,000 contribution each in January 1900. The funds, via Huhn & Co., were returned with 5 percent interest in 1902 as part of the Wall and Cortlandt Street Ferries franchise purchase. مزید funds and concealed entries are expected to emerge in the near future.
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Justice Dowling
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Thomas F. Ryan
William C. Whitney
William L. Elkins
P. A .B. Widener
Thomas Dolan
Wail and Cortlandt Street Ferries Railway Company
Ryan
Whitney
McKinley
George A. Huhn & Co
Philadelphia
Metropolitan Company
Huhn & Co
Republian
Metropolitan Company of the
Brady
Moore &Schrey
Whitey
Grand Jury
Maintenancs
Anthony N. Brady
Public Service Commission
Wall and Cortlandt Street Ferries
Metropolitan Books
Brill Stores Embrace Progressive Merchandising Push
Brill styles and fabrics highlight progressive values guiding Brill’s merchandising strategy. The campaign touts advanced methods to offer top clothes values and improve shopper experiences across Brill stores.
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the United Service
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Evelyn Thaw
Regan
Knickerbocker Lessee
Thomas
Germany
Samuel E. Gross
Rostand
Inter State
Nce Sams I
California
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Santa Barbaruz
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San Diego
Los Angeles
Hotel Potter
Fairmont
Californ Apris
SaMirancisco
South
Diego
Santa Fe
Fred Harvey
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Dillard
A. T
S. F. Ry
New York City
M'Kinley
T. F. Ryan
Ryan, Whitney, Elkins, Dolan, and
Widener
Brill
Ronal Galle
Madison Souare
Blakeslee
T. J. Blakeslee
Fortieth ST
A. W. Elson & Co
Thomas E. Kirby
American Art Association
East 23d Street
Madison Square South
Henley
America
Saxony
Oxford Ceats
Cassimere Rious
Cravenette
Union Square
n.Shambers St
Cortlandt
n.Greenwich
125Th Street
Cor
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