Four cattlemen lynched by Ada mob in Oklahoma
Four prominent cattlemen Jesse West Joseph Allen B B Burrell and J B Miller were dragged from Ada jail by about 100 citizens and hanged in a barn after a siege begun at night. County Attorney Robert Wimbish urged law and order as a coroner ruled death by strangulation. Local authorities doubted prosecutions would follow due to lack of identifiable participants.
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Ada
Okla
Jesse West
Joseph Allen
Canadian
Texas
B. B. Burrell
Duncan
J. B. Miller
Fort Worth
West
Allen
United States
A. L. Bobbitt
Bobbitt
Miller
Pat Garrett
man _ hunter
Garrett
Las Cruces
Robert Wimbish
Wimbish
McCarthy
Oscar Peeler
Jim Miller
B. Burrell
Joe Allen
Imal
Oklahoma
Burrell
Dunca
Weatherford
Woman Kills Father in Brooklyn Street Shooting
Agnes Wallace 35, of East 117th Street Manhattan, admits she shot and killed John W. Wallace 65 on a sidewalk at 1382 Stuyvesant Ave Brooklyn after saying he drove her from home and caused her brother’s death. She claimed coercion, was taken to Gates Avenue Station, and held on homicide suspicion.
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van Buren Street
Stuyvesant Avenue
Brooklyn
Fred B. Bender
Greene Avenue
Harry Schleth
Albert French
Kosciusko Street
Bender
Gates Avenue
Agnes Wallace
East 117Th Street
Manhattan
John W. Wallace
Lafayette Street
Miss Wallace
Emma Miller
Expelled Miss Lavelle Faces Court Injunction
Miss Margaret C. Lavelle of the San Remo on Central Park West seeks to block the Daughters of Isabella from expelling her as State Regent and National Director. Judge Davis heard the case as Lavelle requested a continuance of the temporary injunction.
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Margaret C. Lavelle
San Remo
Seventy-fourth Street
Central Park West
Mgr. Lavelle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Daughters of Isabella
Supreme Court
Davis
Henry W. Herbert
Miss Lavelle
Maria Stella Council
New Use For City Lodging Woman Seeks Shelter After Ball
A 20 year old woman calling herself Molly Walsh arrived at the Municipal Lodging House in East 125th Street at 3 am in a white silk ball dress seeking shelter. She had been at a Harlem ball and missed the last train home. The matron provided a bath and a regulation night dress and she left at 5 am after two hours sleep to catch a train home.
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Molly Walsh
Oak Street
New Rochelle
Municipal Lodging House
East 125Th Street
Margaret Griffin
Harlem
New York
Death Haunts White Plains Bass Painter in Street Run In
Frank J. Mareis a 70 year old bass painter of White Plains is struck by a bicycle and a trolley car while trying to dodge traffic on Railroad Avenue. He is knocked down and dies an hour later at White Plains Hospital. Louis Jenson Jr. falls but avoids serious injury.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
Frank J. Mareis
Railroad Avenue
Louis Jenson, Jr
Mareis
Jenson
Hotel Maid Finds Five Thousand Nine Hundred Fifty Dollars
Mrs. Josephine Schmidt, proprietor of the Lion Brewery, nearly lost stacks of bills valued at 5950 in the Hotel Knickerbocker last night. Susie Mc Gowan, a hotel maid, found the bulging envelope on the tenth floor and handed it to Manager Stack, saving Schmidt from a missing fortune. The money included five one thousand dollar bills, one five hundred, four hundred dollar bills, and a thirty dollar note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Schmidt
Bernheim & Schmidt, Brewers
Lion Brewery
Knickerbocker
Susie McGowan
Schmidt
Manager Stack
Smugglers Raise Bribe to 260000 in Seizure Case
Collector Loeb rejects the offer to drop the investigation as the smuggling ring seeks immunity and return of goods worth about 52000. The case, now with the Grand Jury, involves 175 gowns and other high value apparel to be sold next week at the Custom House Civil Service room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loeb
Federal Grand Jury
United States District Attorney
Dorr
William E. Bainbridge
Treasury
Paris
Treasury Department
Custom House
Marshal Henkel
Civil Service Room
Fire at Park Place destroys Cox & Lafferty store
A three alarm blaze swept the southwest corner of Park Place and Church Street causing about 150000 in damage. Firemen battled flames in the sub cellar of 36 Park Place and spread to 80 Park Place storerooms, with Cox & Lafferty and Roseville Pottery Company among the damaged occupants. Janitor Michael J. Whalen escaped with family. Fireman Thomas McGowan suffered a cut hand.
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Park Place
Church Street
Cox & Lafferty
Cut Glass
Chinia
Crockery
Croker
Roseville Pottery Company
Michael J. Whalen
Fire in Downtown Bank Building Quietly Extinguished
Night watchman James McEllery of the American Exchange National Bank at 128 I Broadway found a fire in a small room on the sixteenth floor just before midnight. He sounded the alarm at Broadway and Cedar Street. firefighters used building hoses and standpipes to control the blaze. Damage is placed at 1500 dollars. Police cannot determine the cause. the room contained old furniture and rubbish.
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Bank
James McEllery
American Sxchange National Bank
I Broadway
Broadway
Cedar Street
Great Bear Spring Water Ad Excerpt
An old advertisement copy touts Great Bear Spring Water claiming purity and fame with a quote attributed to Ady. The brief line emphasizes the brand’s purity as its hallmark.
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Great Bear
Ady
Special Real Estate Number Promises Notable Contributions
The New York Times upcoming Sunday issue will feature important contributions from President Brown of the New York Central and President Peters of the Long Island Railroad along with other notable writers. The edition, accompanying entertaining sections, is billed as a must read and available by order.
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New York Times
Brown
New York Central
Peters
Long Island Railroad
McCarren tips go wrong as insider claims surface
Wall Street snickers over Senator Patrick H. McCarren after disclosures of stock bets tied to Ennis & Stoppani bankruptcy. He bought 2500 Amalgamated Copper and 2000 Brooklyn Rapid Transit shares near peaks, suffering large losses. creditors hope for recovery as receivers and debt negotiations continue.
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Patrick H. McCarren
Kings County Democracy
Ennis & Stoppani
Lindsay Russell
Broadway
United States District Court
Albany
McCarren
Wee
Brooklyn
Amalgamated Copper
Wnutor McCarren
Standard Oil
Oil Trust
Amalgamated
Wall Street
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
San Francisco
United States Rubber First
Russell
New York
Ennis & Stepnani
E. J. Stoppani
Sohmer elected Tammany treasurer at annual meeting
Joseph P. Day resigns as treasurer of the Tammany Society and William Sohmer, longtime Tammany figure and former State Senator, is chosen to replace him. Sohmer runs an insurance business at 59 Cooper Square. Day’s ties to the Greater New York Taxpayers' Conference and Congress are noted, but his supporters say the resignation stems from business duties. The Sachems and other officers are re-elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany Society
Joseph P. Day
William Sohmer
Prince de Guelph Sues St Regis Over Hotel Bill
John Rex de Guelph known as Prince sues the St Regis Hotel Company for 500000 claiming unlawful detention and humiliation after a March 26 incident at the Fifty-fifth Street Fifth Avenue hotel. Hotel officials dismiss the suit as a joke while detailing the exchange over a 100 dollar bill.
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John Rex de Guelph
England
St. Regis Hotel Company
Fifty-fifth Street
Fifth Avenue
Prineee
Supreme Court
Asar
James Carroll
House
Gustave R. Schmidt
John S. Cooper
Liberty Street
Hotel St. Regis Company
Prince
John de Guelph
J. R. G. Norman
Charles A. Allison
St. Regis
Schmidt
Carroll
Chief Justice Beats Down a Thug on Pasadena Car
In Los Angeles on April 19, Chief Justice Beatty of California’s Supreme Court restrained a rude passenger aboard a speeding Pasadena car. He warned the man not to talk to the motorman, then knocked him down after a provocation. The conductor was directed to arrest or remove the offender.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Cal
Beatty
Pasadena
California
Supreme Court
Clergyman Arrested On Druggist Stolen Goods Charge
The Rev George Waverly Briggs a Methodist minister was arrested by central office detectives at Fifteenth Street and Third Avenue for possessing druggists supplies and small surgical instruments reportedly stolen from Henry Bohmfalk at Third Avenue and Forty second Street. He said he did not know how he obtained them and gave 1028 Simpson Street Bronx as his address. An elderly woman said to be his mother in law claimed he is an upright preacher.
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George Waverly Briggs
Central Office
Fifteenth Street
Third Avenue
Henry Bohmfalk
Forty-second Street
Simpson Street
Bronx
Naylor
Dr. Briggs
Methodist Church
Actress Virginia Sothern Denied Nevada Divorce
In Reno Judge W H A Pike rules nonresident spouses cannot obtain a Nevada divorce without bona fide residence. Virginia Harned Sothern failed to establish jurisdiction as she never moved to Nevada. FE H Sothern was in court and testified by deposition while Mrs. Sothern did not appear.
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W.H. A. Pike
Virginia Harned Sothern
FE. H. Sothern
Nevada
Mr. Sothern
Reno
Mystery Surrounds Mr Tetrazzini on Kronprinzessin Cecilie
The passenger list for the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie shows the names Mr and Mrs Tetrazzini though the famous opera singer is Mrs Tetrazzini and Signor Basili says he is her manager and there is no marriage.
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Kronprinzessin
Cecilie
Europe
Tetrazzini
Oper
Mr. Tetrazzini
Knickerbocker
Signor
Basili
Signor Basili
Mme
NEW CANADIAN BOUNDARY TO BE SURVEYED AND REMARKED
The United States and Canada will re survey and remark six sections of the boundary line this summer. O H Tittmann and Dr. W F King plan to stake the Alaska Canada boundary from the southern point to the Arctic Ocean. The work, spanning several months, involves both boundary commissions except the St Lawrence River and Great Lakes segment.
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New York Times
Washington
United States
Canada
O. H. Tittmann
Coast and Geodetic Survey
W. F. King
Dominion of Canada
Dr. King
Mr. Tittmann
Boundary Commissions
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
International Waterway Commission
Tittmann
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Move to annex Cuba resolution introduced in House
Representative Helm of Kentucky introduced a resolution for Cuba annexation in the House. He asked unanimous consent for its reading, but Mr. Payne refused to proceed. The speaker called for adjournment and the House, after five and a half minutes, ended the session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Cuba
Representative Helm
Kentucky
Sle
Payne
Speaker
Aeronauts land in tree after long New England balloon flight
Pilot William Vansleet of Pittsfield Massachusetts and Oscar R Hutchinson of Lenox Massachusetts rode the balloon In the Heart of the Berkshires from 10:25 A M to 3:15 P M traveling northeast then southeast. They landed in tree tops north of Biddeford Maine after a five hour ten minute flight covering 16 miles straight line and about fifty miles by the path taken.
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Biddeford
William Vansleet
Pittsfield
Mass
Oscar R. Hutchinson
Lenox
New England
Berkshires
White Mountain
Vansleet
Old Orchard Beach
Russian Woman Arrested in Philadelphia for Moscow Killing
Felicia Bekier 43, a Russian national, is arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of killing a Russian Army sergeant in St Petersburg six months earlier. Detectives report she described the crime in a tale told through an interpreter and linked her husband to a political faction.
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Philadelphia
Felicia Bekier
St. Petersburg
City Hall
Russia
Bekier
Canada
Theodore Buzziki
Gallagher
Young Turks Decree Death to the Sultan at Constantinople
A New York Times special reports April 19 that Macedonian troops surround the city after seizing trains and taking control of European rail links. The Young Turks vow no compromise and plan to hang the Sultan. troops say Christians are armed and Armenians hold bombs. Foreign fleets guard Bosphorus and Dardanelles as Macedonian demands seek reinstatement of the Young Turk Ministry and restoration of the old status.
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Young Turk
Turkish forces near Constantinople prepare for large entry
The Constitutional Army is now at Makrikeni seven miles from Constantinople. It will not enter the city until the force is large enough to overawe opposition protect Peru and Europeans disarm reactionaries and guard against outbreaks. Chef tek Pasha leads a military dictatorship. Salonica Union and Progress offers him an address of honor declaring him hero and savior. telegraphic links to interior and foreign countries are cut.
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Peru
Cheftek Pasha
Third Army
Salonica
Committee of Union and Progress
Cheftek
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Sena
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Law
Clergyman
Mrs. Sothern
Reno, Nev
Pike
Virginia
Sothern
Prima Donna
Vansleet and
Hutchinson
Czar
Abdul Hamid
Young Turks
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Macedonia
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Sultan
St. Sophia Square
Black Sea
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Makrikeni
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