Bryan Arrives for Peace Mission as Bryan Seeks Unity
William Jennings Bryan spent yesterday in town meeting politicians and discussing the Nebraska and New York Democratic factions. He denied benefiting from money directed at delegates and insisted his income comes from lectures and writings, not corporate ties, while defending his stance on public questions. Col. Henry Watterson supported a Bryan nomination, calling New York influence ineffective to dictate the party’s path.
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Washington
Sacrilege at Vatican During Papal Mass Stuns Rome
Special cable from Rome reports three non Catholics obtained permission to attend a Papal Mass and received communion from the Pope then discarded the consecrated wafers. Actress Mary Anderson and the Pope's sister nearby witnessed the disturbance as high officials removed the offenders. The incident highlights Vatican extraterritoriality and legal protections.
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Pius X
Papacy
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Holy See
Italy
Berlin Gloriously Hoaxed Over Vanderbilt Visit Rumor
Berlin papers claimed William K. Vanderbilt and his family visited Hotel Bristol for Easter, drawing crowds and buyers to meet the supposed party. In truth Vanderbilt was not there. his wife and daughter and Sands were, sparking hotel prosperity on the rumor.
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Berlin
William K. Vanderbilt
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Ont Ik
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Saxony
Rembrandts
van Dyck
London Prisoner Held Over $10,000 Diamond Theft
A prisoner named Cae Heritier, linked to a $10,000 diamond and jewelry theft from Mrs. David P. Morgatt of 70 Park Avenue, New York, was remanded in Marylebone Police Court. Scotland Yard reported he matches cabled descriptions of a Morgan robber. a related arrest of Claude J. Meriier was also noted.
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New York
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Claude J. Meriier
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David P. Morgatt
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Park Avenue
Longshoremen Riot at West Street Docks Ends With Injuries
A large clash between 100 Trish dock workers at White Star Pier 48 and an equal number of Italians at Quebec Steamship Pier 47 sparked near the Seaman's Mission on West Street. Wielding cotton hooks and soda bottles, the fighters wrecked Alfred Adler's café as police moved in. Joseph Bulger suffered a severe scalp wound and other injuries. Tony Lance sustained a critical skull fracture risk. Police arrested Joseph Swilgotz and Michael Tribotz for assault.
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North River
Quebec Steamship Company
Seaman’s Mission
West Street
Alfred Adler
Joseph Bulger
Greenwich Street
Tony Lance
Corlears Street
Joseph Swilgotz
Michael Tribotz
Brooklyn
Bulger
Shipping Arrivals List Idaho Hull Navahoe Port of Wilmington
Arrived ships include Ss Idaho at Hull on April 5 and Ss Navahoe at Wilmington, North Carolina on April 16.
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Hull
Wilmington
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Three Hurt In Crash At Coney Crossing
A four car Ulmer Park division train hit a surface car at Eighteenth Avenue and Eighty-sixth Street catching fire and injuring thirteen people. The crossing near Bath Beach is noted as highly dangerous with flagman duties questioned after a prior May collision.
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Brooklyn Rapids Transit Company
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Norwegian Hospital
Kings County Hospital
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Patrick O'Donnell
Fortieth Street
John Ke
Fire Halts Broadway Cars After Five Story Fire
A $1 000 blaze in a basement barber shop at 233 Broadway halted Broadway streetcars for nearly two hours. Firemen were overcome but revived by doctors and returned to duty. Louis Freda and his family escaped to the roof. janitor Samuel Swenson aided others amid dense smoke. Fire cause is unknown.
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Giovannita Melucci
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Frank O'Hara
Joseph Leary
Charles Johnson
Troops Evict Families From Plum Island
Trent and twenty armed soldiers from Fort Hamilton landed at Sheepshead Bay on Plum Island to evict three families from a government leased site. Captain Archibald Steinhaus and family fled by sea. two other families, William Chambers and Melrose Club steward, remain. The War Department backs the eviction amid disputed claims of defiance by tenants.
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Farnsworth
Fort Hamilton
Sheepsherd Bay
Plum Island
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Overton
Whitestone
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William Chambers
Manhattan
Melrose Social Club
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New York Harbor
Shreepshead Bay
Barren Island
Tt Wis
Washington
Easter Offering Totals Rise for Episcopal Churches
Episcopal churches in the city report strong Easter collections totaling about $168,009 at Grace Church with a $40,000 memorial fund for a home for old men. Other churches posted varied but solid totals from $1,800 to over $116,000, reflecting broad recovery from recent financial unrest.
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Tenth Street
Dorothea Wolfe Troffman
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Fleisch Man's
St. Bartholomew's Church
Madison Avenue
Torty- Fourth Street
Aittle
St. Thomas's Church
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-third Street
St. George's Church
Stuyvesant Square
St. James’s Church
Medison Avenue
Seventyfirst Street
Church of the Holy Communion
Sixth Avenue
Twentieth Street
Holy Trinity Church
Harlem
First Church
St. Andrew's Church
Church of the Incarnation
Thirtyfifth Street
Mme Gould Plans Italian Auto Trip Before Paris Return
Naples reports Mme Anna Gould will arrive April 23 from New York and take an automobile tour through Italy northward. French court orders require her to return her children to Paris by May 15. Prince Helle de Sagan leaves for Italy for a monthlong pleasure trip, denying marriage to Mme Gould.
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Friedrich der Grosse
Teyche
Snow and cold weather hit upstate districts and New Haven
Albany reports snow and unusually cold weather in several upstate districts with forenoon snowfall in Rochester Utica Schenectady and Middletown. New Haven also recorded snow and a 38 degree low.
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Oklahoma Supreme Court backs initiative provisions
Guthrie Oklahoma April 20 The State Supreme Court today held that the initiatives and referendum provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution were not in violation of the United States Constitution.
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State Supreme Court
Oklahoma
United States
May Rush Cruiser 10 Venezuela Port
The United States considers sending the cruiser Des Moines to Caracas to secure Minister Russell amid two weeks of silence and suspected censorship. Officials meet at the White House as Navy prep accelerates, aiming to bring Russell and his family home with a report on the Venezuelan situation.
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Castro Seeks Wireless Stations in Venezuela
E C Newton of De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company flew to Caracas to arrange five wireless stations in Venezuela. President Castro aims to establish wireless service amid strained ties with the French cable company, signaling an expansion move.
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Porto Rico
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de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
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Venezuela
Hungarian baker charged after Cortlandt Street shooting
Richard Dormbuch 45 a chef on Cortlandt Street shot on an elevated stairway as he walked home to Ninth Avenue. Stephen Chrapper years old of Greenwich Street was arrested after confessing the crime claiming Dormbush attacked his wife earlier. Chrapper faces assault charges that may become homicide if Dormbush dies.
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Greenwich Street
Hale
Church Street
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Chrapper
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Greenwich Streets
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Dermibush
Derribush
Gould Road Sued Again for Railroad Mortgage
Farmers Loan and Trust Company filed a suit in the U S Circuit Court in Dallas to foreclose the second mortgage on the International and Great Northern Railroad Company bonds totaling 16 507 000 and to collect interest. The request sought extending the receivership from a prior Mercantile Trust Company case. Judge McCormick granted the extension without extra oath or bond.
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Dallas
Texas
International & Great Northern Railroad Company
United States Circuit Court
Farmers’ Loan
Ana‘trust Company of
New Eee
Thomas F. An
Mercantile Trust Company of New York
International & Great Northern Railroad
McCormick Thereunen
CIA
Princeton Baseball Visitors Meet President in Washington
Two members of the Princeton baseball team were received by the President in Washington. They were introduced by Representative Wood and said the President criticized Harvard for minimizing athletic sports and regretted the situation.
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Princeton
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Texas Oil Company Cuts Crude Oil Prices in Texas
In Houston on April 20 the Texas Oil Company lowered crude oil prices by 2 to 4 cents per barrel from March 30 quotations. The move impacts market costs for refiners and processors in the Texas region.
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Houston
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Texas Oil Company Today
Dean Bronson Howard Stricken Ill at New York Home
The dean of American playwrights Bronson Howard is seriously ill at his Evelyn Court residence on West 114th Street New York. Friends say he has suffered a rheumatic ailment for weeks and was previously thought in danger during treatment in Egypt. He is believed to be on the road to recovery given his advanced age risk.
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Japan recalls Hayashi as minister to China
Tokio April 21 Baron Hayashi Japanese Minister to China ordered home from Peking and to be sent to Rome. Baron Kuta Counselor in London to fill Peking vacancy Guten Chinda to Berlin and Disnonl to become Vice Minister Foreign Affairs.
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Baron Hayashi
China
Pekine
Rome
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London
Peking
Guten Chinda
Berlin
Disnon l
Criticism Hurts Taft Says War Secretary Will Resume Duties
Friends of Secretary of War Taft say he feels deeply about criticism aimed at his frequent absences from Washington. They report he plans to complete his existing engagements and decline further invitations, claiming his department is well organized and his colleagues have faced no hardship.
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Suing Grace M Cooke for Absolute Divorce in Chattanooga
William Cooke, husband of Grace MacGowan Cooke, filed for absolute divorce on grounds of desertion. Grace has been absent from Chattanooga since March 13, 1908, leaving behind two daughters, Helen and Catharine. Cooke notes no other charges, while asserting his wife chose literary life. Mrs. Cooke, daughter of the late Col W. L. Singer Gowan, was injured in a previous fire at Kelicom Hall.
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Trains Collision Kills 41 in Braybrook Junction Australia
A collision between a Benago train and a Ballantrain near Braybrook Junction eight miles from Melbourne left forty one dead and about sixty injured. The wreckage caught fire and most of the cars were consumed as rescuers and doctors worked for hours amid intense distress.
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Ballanryt
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Lawmaker Accuses Officials of Stock Ties in District Debate
Representative Sims of Tennessee charged in the House that a Senate District committee member owns 1,008 Capital Traction shares and President's private secretary Willismed Jr. holds 4,700 more. He named Senator Francis G. Newlands as the owner, saying the issue concerns local interests when discussing public service corporations.
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Congress
Columia
Sims
Tennessee
House Today
Senate Committee On
Columabia
Capital Traction Company
Willismoed, Jr
Francis G. Newlands
Nevada
IRA McCORMICK HURT IN WAGONETTE CRASH
Ira McCormick vice president of the New York Central railroad was thrown from a wison ette near Harlem Railroad Station in White Plains. He suffered a deep cut above the left eye and a broken rib. accompanying guests Ernest Barrett and G S Wright also injured with a broken collar bone and sprained wrist. The wagonette collided with a stone block ending the accident, which occurred after a ten day house party at the McCormick home on North Broadway.
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Harlem
Ira McCormick
New York Central Railroad Company
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Barrett
McCormicks
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Path of Roses For Actress Ethel Barrymore
Miss Ethel Barrymore walked a rose petal carpet to her table at a Chicago beauty banquet in her honor at the Auditorium. The event celebrated beauty in women and featured a luncheon dedicated to art and music.
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West
York
Tomes
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Ryan absolved defends promoters amid throttled system
Ryan argues that the effort to promote traction by insiders is a myth and that profits were not looted. He contends the system was throttled by the legislature and courts, and he is absolved of wrongdoing.
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Wiitney
Wall
Ble
Ciand
Metropolis Street Railway inquiry wraps up grand jury session
Justice names the investigation into Metropolitan Street Railway affairs concluded as a grand jury session ends. The testimony reviews past history of the Metropolitan Transit entities, stock watering claims, and insider profits, with the foreman and district attorney present.
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Metropolitan Sécuritains Company
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