Doctor McDowell’s death by own action shocks New York
Dr Alexander B McDowell son of Gen Irvin McDowell killed himself at 119 West 129th Street yesterday afternoon. He bade his five year old son goodbye before slashing his throat with a razor while clutching a picture of his late wife. The coroner found a will naming his son Chickie as heir and executors including Dr Hazen and Frank Keech. Neighbors note melancholy and possible heavy drinking. motive remains unclear.
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Alexander B. McDowell
Irvin McDowell
Bull Run
West 129Th Street
Elizabeth Purcell
Chickie
Helen Ham
Hazen
Plaza
Pete
West 125Th Street
Dooley
Galveston
Texas
Virginia
Alexander BK. McDowell, Jr
Chickie’ McDowell
A. M. Crosby
Folson Avenue
Atlantic City
M. A. del Rio
Ninth Street
Sixty-fifth Street
West Point
Gen. McDowell
Washington
Marine Corps
Dr. McDowell
Columbian College
George Washington University
Lie
Wohlfarth
West 120Th Street
Europe
American Medical Society
West Side
West Forty-second Street
Sayx
W. Ross Thomson
West 130Th Street
McDowell
Carnegie offers large gift if land bought for technical Schools
Andrew Carnegie proposes to donate 3,600,000 more to Pittsburgh's Carnegie Technical Schools if the city purchases 42 acres adjoining the current site. Ground estimated at 1,250,000. The 1906 gift total reaches 2,000,000 with conditions not to fund buildings. 1,500 students attended last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Penn
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Technical Schools
Carnegie
E. M. Bigelow
Carnegie Institute
John W. Beatty
Department of Fine Arts
Nall
Dynamite Blasts Tenement Behind Flower Hospital
Explosion at 406 East 63rd Street blew out the third floor wall and shattered windows sending Italian families into the street. Police nab Soleno Salvatorre and accomplices after the blast. Victims Antonio Jaiallo and family narrowly escaped when the ceiling collapsed on their room.
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East Sixty-third Street
Flower Hospital
Antonio Jaiallo
Cooney
East Sixty-seventh Street
Ile
Solleno Salvatore
First Avenue
Laccla Pietro
Mast Sixty-third Street
Provancia
Capt Harbottle Captured After Long Worldwide Chase
Buenos Ayres Caracas Havana to Toronto pursuit ends as Capt Colin C Harbottle and alias Kinney are arrested by Pinkerton detectives. Dominion authorities with London's Colonial Office plan to return him for trial on theft charges totaling 12 000 to 18 000 dollars. Detective Rogers to bring Harbottle back to Toronto after Havana arrest.
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New York Times
Toronto
Ontario
New Orleans
Buenos Ayres
Caracas
Venezuela
Havana
Cuba
Colin C. Harbottle
Toronto Club
Pinkerton
Dominion
Colonial Office
London
England
Rogers
Marbottle
George Fuller
Harbottle
Kinney
Marianao Beach
Wife Sues for 50000 Over Alienation of Affections
Claude F. Day head of Day Manufacturing sues his father in law Charles H. Sura of Malone NY for 30000 in damages for alienation of his wife's affections. A separate verdict awarded 19490 to Turner in a suit over three promissory notes against Day Morchauser Justice.
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New York Times
White Plains
Claude F. Day
Day Manufacturing Company
Jersey City
Charles H. Sur
Malone
N Y
Turner
Morschauser
Supreme Court
Day
Day Company
Matone
Young Man Found Dead in Hotel Bartholdi Room
Washington man Berry H Pratt reportedly committed suicide in a Hotel Bartholdi room by slashing his throat with a penknife. His body was discovered by hotel staff last night. Pratt carried $200 and wore a Masonic pin. letters were found but not released. He had TB or chronic illness and planned to sail to Europe aboard the Teutonic.
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Berry H. Pratt
Washington, D.ee
Hotel
Bartholdi
Ratt
Europe
Mner Teutonic
Pratt
Shipping News Meuritania Seen East of Sandy Hook
Marconi wireless reports SS Meuritania inbound from Liverpool 784 miles east of Sandy Hook at 8 41 P M yesterday. She is due at her pier about 6 A M tomorrow.
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Liverpool
Marconi Wireless
Sandy Hook
Agreement on Substitute for Aldrich Bill Passes Likely
Washington reports that the Vreeland substitute for the Aldrich bill is set for passage in both chambers. Hearings before the House Banking Committee exposed continued opposition, with Speaker Cannon indicating the measure will pass unless adjournment talks in May stall it.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
House
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Cannon
Johnston
Aldrich
Bill Vreeland
National Bank Association
United Banks
Treasury Department
Edward D. Page
New York “Merchants’ Association
House Banking and Currency Committee
James B. Forgan
First National Bank of Chicago
Currency Commission
American Bankers’ Association
Commission
New Willard
Mr. Prince
Organ
Mr. Forgan
Finley Acker
Trades League of Philadelphia
Acker
Congress
Tragedy at Asheville School as Father Shoots Daughter
A NY doctor, Dr. C O Swinney, who had traveled to Asheville from Marion, shot his 16 year old daughter Nellie Swinney at the Normal and Collegiate Institute and then killed himself. Nellie sustained fatal head wounds, while a grazing shot struck her forehead.
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New York
Times
Asheville
N. C
C. O. Swinney
Marion
Nellie
Normal and Collegiate Institute
Miss Swinney
TO NIAGARA FALLS OVER EASTER R R TRIP
Advertisement for Best Shore Railroad round trip to Niagara Falls over Easter. Depart New York April 18 and return April 20. Fare ten dollars and twenty five cents.
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Niagara Falls
Best Shore R. R
New Yorkee
X Ray Expert Weds Dr Annie Higbie in Jamaica Honeymoon
Dr. Albert C. Geyser of Cornell Medical College and the Polyclinic, inventor of the Cornell tube, married Dr. Annie S. Higbie of New York. The ceremony at Higbie's home was performed by Rev. George H. Miller, with a brief ceremony and a later honeymoon to Jamaica.
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Albert C. Geyser
Cornell Medical College
Polyclinic
Cornell
Annie S. Higbie
West Seventy-sixth Street
Higbie
Richard Higbie
George H. Miller
Melrose
Geyser
Jamaica
New York
Deserted Eden by Man-Haters Shocks Woman’s Commonwealth
A Philadelphia hotel clerk elopes with Susie Carter, now Mrs. Franklin Hoover, to join the Sanctified Sisterhood in Washington. The group founded in 1808 in Texas by Martha McWhirter promotes a rule that men are vile and should be kept at a distance. The sect, numbering about twenty, runs a house and Maryland farm funded by its female members.
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New York Times
Washington
Philadelphia
Susie Carter
Cupid
Franklin Hoover
Quaker City
Woman's Commonwealth
Texas
Martha McWhirter
Sisterhood
Maryland
Miss Hawley Secretly Weds French Aeronaut and Leaves City
Miss Jennie M Hawley reportedly married Charles Levee the French flyer a few days ago and departed for Paris with him aboard the ocean voyage. Attorneys for Hawley brothers obtained an attachment for 74005 against her property and bank balance in Fifth Avenue Bank. Deputy Sheriff served the attachment on the bank and the matter filed in County Clerk records shows interests in parcels at East Seventy sixth Street and addresses on West Eleventh and West Tenth Streets.
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XQ Willam
Alan R. Hawley
Broad Street
East Seventysixth Street
Fifth Avenue Bank
Jennie M. Hawley
Charles Levee
Levee
Paris
Osborne & Lamb
Broadway
Hawley Brothers
Max Porges
Yale Junior Weds Actress in New York City
E Read Vail a Yale junior and heir to a Whitney Avenue business family married actress Sarah Arvilla Collom in New York City last Saturday. Vail has left college and plans to reside in New York with his bride as congratulations pour in from relatives.
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New Haven
Conn
E. Read Vail
Yale
Sarah Arvilla Collom
New York City
Vail
Miss Alma Stranahan Rescued From House Fire
East Orange New Jersey resident Alma Stranahan who avoided flames by crawling along a narrow ledge and dropping to a porch roof was later brought to safety by neighbors after her father, Frank N. Stranahan, failed to awaken the family and his candle ignited curtains. The interior of two floors was destroyed and Mrs. Stranahan was removed to the ground from the porch roof.
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Alma Stranahan
Frank N. Stranahan
East Orange
N. J
Hawthorne Place
Evans's Condition Improves at Paso Robles
Paso Robles California April 15 Rear Admiral Evans shows gradual improvement as he remains weak yet eats more heartily and slowly regains strength.
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Paso Robles
Hot Springs
Cal
Evans
Saratoga Springs Doctored Waters Sparks Gas Dispute
Albany April 15 Senate Judiciary Committee to report a bill banning carbonic gas pumping near Saratoga springs. Robert C. Morris of Natural Carbonic Gas Co. presented affidavits alleging underground piping tanks and nighttime delivery of carbonic gas to springs, accusing springs owners of adulteration and pumping to boost output.
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New York Times
Albany
Saratoga
Robert C. Morris
Senate Judiciary Committee
Morris
Tle
Carbonic Gas Company
Saratoga Springs
Natural Carbonic Acid Gas Company
Reading
New York
Philadelphia
CIA
Rockwood
C. C. Lester
Edgar T. Brackett
Round Trip For 9 To Niagara Falls In April
Lehigh Valley Railway offers a nine dollar round trip to Niagara Falls with departures April 18 and return April 20. Tickets are sold at 1460 Broadway New York and 325 Fulton Street Brooklyn.
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Niagara Falls
Lehigh Valley R.R
N. Y
Fulton
Brooklyn
Scott Saves Miss Farrar From Curtain Disaster
At Baltimore’s Lyric Theatre last night Miss Geraldine Farrar, star of the Metropolitan Opera, was saved from a falling drop curtain by Signor Scotti who pulled her back as the curtain descended during La Traviata. The crash knocked off her tiara but she was unhurt and gathered the scattered stones.
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New York
Baltimore
Geraldine Farrar
Signor Scott
Lyric Theatre
Metropolitan Opera Company
Miss Farrar
Miss’ Farrar
Signor Scotti
Howard Albro Convicted of Manslaughter in Death Case
Howard Albro and chauffeur John Scanlon were found guilty of second degree manslaughter in the Gordon death case. Judge Grant fined Albro $1000 and Scanlon $500. Gordon died after being struck by an automobile while in his wagon. Albro claimed no causal link. Witnesses testified Albro and Scanlon rode in the car involved.
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New York Times
Delhi
N. Y
Howard Albro
John Scanlon
Tarry’ Gordon
Grant
Albro
Seamon
Gordon
Scanlon
Lynx Seen in Adirondacks Report Amid Deer Threat
Albany April 16 James S Whipple State Forest Fish and Game Commissioner received a letter from Adirondacks detailing men in Frank A Cutting's lumber camp trapping a Canadian lynx Known as highly destructive to deer populations Adirondack region previously thought free of this species.
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Ipellar
New Yors Times
Albany
James S. Whipple
State Forest, Fish, and Game
Adirondacks
Frank A. Cutting
Harper Escapes Jail Term in Pure Food Drug Case
President Roosevelt sought a jail sentence for Robert M. Harper Washington Chamber of Commerce president and first convict under the pure foods and drugs act. Judge Kimball fined Harper $1 on one count and $200 on another for selling a mislabeled pharmaceutical compound.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robert M. Harper
Washington Chamber of Commerce
Harper
Kimball
Mrs. Sage Donates 2500 to Women’s Work Group
Mrs Russell Sage gave 2500 to the New York Exchange for Women's Work at its annual meeting in the Exchange Building 234 Madison Avenue yesterday afternoon. The gift brings her total to 10000 this year to the Exchange.
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Russell Sage
New York Exchange For Women
Exchange
Madison Avenue
Teachers Decline Europe Study Trips Despite Free Passage
The National Civic Federation secured near free transport to Europe from the International Mercantile Marine Company. The Board of Education offers six weeks leave with full pay to twenty teachers chosen from applicants for the study trip, but only about seventy-five of 15,000 have applied.
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Scost
Ma'ams
Europe
National Civic Federation
International Mercantile Marine Company
Board of Education
Proposal to convert Paris Art Institute into Federal corporation
A bill in the Senate proposed by Mr. Frye would convert the American National Institute in Paris from a New York corporation into a Federal entity. Upon passage, the Paris property would transfer to the federal concern and continue aiding American art students in Paris as a national effort. Proposed incorporators include Senator Depew Thomas Hastings J Clarence Goodrich Charles P Gardiner Candace Wheeler and Levi P Morton.
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New York Times
Washington
American National Institute In
Paris
New York
Senate
Frye
Senator Depew
Thomas Hastings
J. Clarence Goodrich
Charles P. Gardiner
Candace Wheeler
Levi P. Morton
Julia Marlowe Ends Tour Sidelined by Illness
Formal notice from the Shuberts announces the close of Julia Marlowe's tour for the season. She remains ill at the Hotel Plaza and will not receive visitors. Substitution plans for the Lyric Theatre date are not yet decided.
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Julia Marlowe
Shuberts
Miss Marlowe
Hotel Plaza
Lyric Theatre
Welch Arrested On Criminal Libel Charge In Philadelphia
John J Welch the president of the Securities Corporation Limited at 40 Wall Street New York was arrested in Philadelphia on a criminal libel charge lodged by investor broker W S Roberts of 206 Delaware Avenue Roberts says Welch circulated defamatory statements on April 3 causing him financial loss Welch posted a $1000 bail for an appearance at noon next Wednesday
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New York Times
Philadelphia
John J Welch
The
Securities Corporation, Limited
Wall Street
New York
W.S. Roberts
Delaware Avenue
Welch
Roberts
Convention Turmoil Over McCarren Delegates At Carnegie Hall
At Carnegie Hall the Democratic State Convention erupted in chaos as Murphy and Conners ousted Kings County McCarren delegates by a 2 vote margin and moved to name new State Committees. Police faced riotous upstate delegates while threats and protests filled the hall.
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Mecarren
Kinge
Charles F. Murphy
Williiam J. Conners
Buffalo
Carnegie Hall
Murphy and
Conners
McCarren
Kings County
Albany
Queens
Richemond
Ald
Kings
Conners-Murphy
Eee Tammany
Conners and Murphy
Matcontents
McCarrenites
Up State
Murphy
Kennelly
Ani Sril
Edward E. Coatesworth
Buffaloe
Chalman
Willian DD. Brinnier
Ulster
Makibz
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Alex B. M' Dowell
Howe
Will
Technical School
Capt. Harbottle
C. F. Day
B. H. Pratt
Washington, D. C
Aldrich Bill
Daughter
Dr. Swinney
Young Women’s School
Dr. Geyser
Mrs. Hoover
Sanctified Sisterhood
Miss Hawley
Yale Junior
Miss Collom
Judiciary Committee
Carbonic Gas Co
Scott
LYNX
Woman's Work Exchange
American National Institute
Dishbands
John J. Welch
OUST
Wcarren
Grabby Murphy
Party Bolt
Parker and Murphy
Denver
Alton B. Parker
Charles F. Wurphy
Lewis Mavon
Charles E.jokb
George H. Thacher
Francis Key Pendleton
James FP. Schwarzenbach
Horgwell
William FP. Rafferty
Syracuse
Nathan Straus
William H. Fitzpatrick
Base
Italy
Edwin Batley
G. B. Valkenberg
W. Fr Dole
K. van Kennan
Conrad Hasenflug
Chas
M. Lulgar
James P. Sinnott
Harry 5
Finucan
James J. Frawley
Jacob Gotling
J. Metauire
Georgs W. Datten
Louis F Haffen
Wm. J. Conners
B. J. Springstead
Louis FP. Fuhrman
M. J. Walsite
Henry P. Burgard
A. A.mclean
T. ¥. Tetras
R. W. Cuanlr
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