Sulzer Direct Nomination Bill Faces Defeat in Albany
Democratic leaders map a plan to adjourn May 2 and defeat the Sulzer Direct Nomination bill while opposing several of the governor's measures. They chart a course to kill the bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee and block radical workmen’s compensation changes, with nominations and Public Service Commission issues under pressure.
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New York Times
Albany
Sulzer
Senate
Judiciary Committee
New York Stock Exchange
John Mitchell
John B. Riley
Joseph F. Scott
Public Service Commission
Second District
George M Palmer
William E. Leffingwell
Watkins
Charles F. Murphy
Eugene M. Strauss
Rochester
State Hospital Commission
Milton Gibbs
Gibbs
Senate Finance Committee
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Democratic Organization
Monroe County
Monroe
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George E. Noeth
Democratic Committee
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Hochester
May Wirth Slips In Circus Fall At Brooklyn Show
May Wirth, famed as the champion bareback rider, was seriously injured at the Barnum & Bailey Circus in Brooklyn when her foot caught a rope stirrup and she was tossed multiple times by her horse Juno. She was unconscious and bruised but no bones were broken, and doctors say she cannot perform for two to three weeks.
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Barnum & Bailey’s Circus
Juno
Wyckoff
Myrtle Avenues
Brooklyn
Miss Wirth
Grabill
Australia
Trust company not liable for forged checks in trust accounts
Albany April 22 a Court of Appeals decision holds a trust company not liable for money lost due to principals or agents neglecting to detect forged checks. J Hewitt Morgan and Rudolph Kissel trustees of David P Morgan estate sued United States Mortgage and Trust Company for 34675. Forgeries by James P Hennessey using a rubber stamp were not caught. trustees inadequately scrutinized paid checks.
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New York Times
Albany
Court of Appeals
Hiscock
J. Hewitt Morgan
Rudolph H. Kissel
United States Mortgage and Trust Company
Trust Company
William S. Andrews
Edgar S. K. Merrill
David P. Morgan
James P. Hennessey
Kissel
Hennessey
Morgan
Sims Inquiry Opens Over Assault on Representative Sims
Washington April 22 congressional probe into the assault on Representative Sims by banker C C Glover began before the committee appointed by Speaker Clark. Sims testified in detail while Capt McAllister and Sherman Allen described the incident and Glover s hostile remarks. Glover sent a letter to the committee apologizing for the momentary act and asserting no intent to disrespect the House while reserving Supreme Court rights.
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Washington
Representative Sims
C. C. Glover
Clark
Sims
Charles McAllister
Revenue Cutter Service
Glover
Sherman Allen
Supreme Court
England's Consent Said Needed for Abrogating Treaties
Washington dispatch reports that Senator Chamberlain's resolution to abrogate the Hay-Pauncefote and Clayton-Bulwer treaties faces a ruling by State Department officials that the United States cannot terminate these civil contracts without Great Britain's consent. Officials flag potential national servitude and note termination would require mutual agreement or new terms.
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Washington
Chamberlain
State Department
United States
Great Britain
Fletcher the Palmist Dies by Own Action in Boston
John W. Fletcher known as Fletcher the Palmist committed suicide by poisoning in his Boylston Street office. Authorities had filed grave charges against him after he arrived in Boston from New York years ago, drawing police attention this afternoon.
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Boston
Fletcher the Palmist
John W. Fletcher
New York
Boylston Street
Indictment likely as graft trail reaches Police HQ
District Attorney Whitman closes in on police graft as Jacob Reuss, once a police lawyer ally, delivers affidavits detailing bribes and the Fox case. Reuss says ex Inspector Sweeney and others funded the Sipp payoff, with witnesses including Walsh, Newell, and Sipp’s circle ready for grand jury testimony.
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Reuss
Bar Association
Whitman
Rouss
Sweeney
Fox
Walsh
Capt
Patrolman Fox
George A. Lipp
New Jersey
Edward J. Newell
Newell
Sipp
Newark
Howard Sipp
George A. Sipp
Rumors Rise Over Upcoming Occasion Amid Undergraduate Disapproval
Readers are urged to check next Sunday's Times for full details as undergraduates voice disapproval ahead of the anticipated event next month.
Mice Loose On Subway Car Spark Panic Among Riders
A Van Cortlandt Park express leaving Brooklyn Bridge at 6 15 PM crowded with office workers and three boys who released a box of mice. Passengers, especially women, panicked, vacating seats and clinging to straps as the rodents scampered and were later killed. A bystander administered rough justice to the boys.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Worth Street
Fourteenth Street
Women Heal Start War on Cancer Prevention
A meeting called by Dr. Clement Cleveland formed a National Anti- Cancer Association to educate the public on early cancer symptoms. Doctors including Dr. Henry E. oe and Dr. Robert Abbe joined with influential women like Mrs. Frederick W. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Russell Sage to promote articles, leaflets, and lectures aimed mainly at women. The group plans cooperation with the Physicians' Congress in Washington next month and cites tuberculosis work as a model for public education.
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Henry E. Oe
American Gynecological Society
Robert Abbe
Joseph Db. Bryant
Charles L. Gibson
St. Luke's Hospital
Joseph Brettauer
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
Robert G. Mead
E. K K. Hewitt
Women’s Municipal League
James Speyer
Robert C. Black
George C. Clark
H. Winthrop Gray
W. Everit Macy
Robert W. de Forest
Russell Sage
F. F. Thompson
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Physicians’ Congress
Washington
le Roy Broun
V. Everit Macy
George
Clark
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Fredérick L. Man
Prudential Instance Company
Broun
Livingston Farrand
National Association For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Montenegrins Enter Scutari Amid Balkan Tensions
Reports from Cetinje and London show Montenegrin forces entering Scutari while Greece and Bulgaria mobilize and threaten Salonika. Greece vows to defend the city, Bulgarians mass 90,000 troops. allies seek armistice as rumors of further territorial shifts surface.
Powder Explosion Kills Three at Atlas Plant Near Lake Hopatcong
An April 22 blast at the Atlas Powder Company packing house near Larding New Jersey killed three men Thomas Sossong William Messler and Philip Quinscki all in their early twenties. The blast shattered the building sent debris over a half mile and broke lakefront windows four miles away. Authorities speculate a cartridge primer may have ignited the charge while packing shotgun shells.
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Lake Hopatcong
N. J
Atlas Powder Company
Larding
Thomas Sossong
Ledgewood
William Messler
Philip Quinscki
Stanhope
du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
William Eddy
Roeder Says He Offered Evidence in Schroeder Case
Gus C. Roeder a New York newspaper man testified at the Schroeder inquiry that he offered important affidavits to District Attorney E C Smith but the indictment was dismissed without calling for the testimony. Roeder said he met Smith in Hornell in November and was told the wreck trial would proceed then returned to New York two days later to learn the case had been dismissed.
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Whitman
Rouss
Reuss
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Louis Grant
Grant
Hartigan and Robinson
New York Times
Corning
Gus C. Roeder
New York
Schroeder
E. C. Smith
Smith
Mr. Roeder
Hornell
Bomb Explodes in Sixth Street Tenement Panic In NYC
A bomb wrecked the entrance and stairs of a tenement at 326 Sixth Street at 10:45 pm harming no one. The blast targeted grocer Frank Mergatesti over alleged blackmailing threats. Twenty families faced panic, but only four remained unsettled after police and staff calmed residents.
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Sixth Street
Frank Mergatesti
East Side
Iitahana
Fifth Street
Xth Street
Co. O'Brien
Greeks and Servians Reach War Suspension Pact
In Constantinople an agreement among Greece Turkey and Serbia mirrors Bulgaria's ceasefire. Hostilities paused for ten days while repatriation of Turkish prisoners begins. First batch of 5,000 sails to Mersina. Greek transports protected from Turkish ships. Seventeen vessels aid Turkey to move 3,000 Muslims from Salonika to Scalanova in Asia Minor.
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Turkey
Bulgaria
Mersina
Asia Minor
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Scalanova
Asia Mimor
Austro-Hungarian Attache Barred At Montenegro Frontier
A Trieste dispatch says the Austro-Hungarian Attache at Cettinje could not proceed to Cattaro as the frontier was closed by Montenegrins. He was stoned and insulted there. The Austrian Minister lodged a protest with the Montenegrin Government.
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Trieste
Neue Freie Presse
Cettinje
Cattaro
Crowded Off Elevated Car Push Sends Rider to Pit
John Gabla bookbinder of 242 Irving Avenue Brooklyn was crowded from the Ridgewood elevated car at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge and fell into the pit touching the third rail. His hands burned and back injured, he walked to Volunteer Hospital for treatment and then went home. Gabla says the crowd pressed him against the guard gate causing him to be thrown into the pit when the gate opened.
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Brooklyn
Ridgewood
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Brooklyn Bridge
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Bridge Station
Mutcher
Gabla
Icebergs Advance on North Atlantic Patrol Route
Report from the revenue cutter Seneca on North Atlantic ice patrol notes spring warming and iceberg movement. Eastern limit at 45.34 N 41.22 W and southern limit at 44.20 N 48.20.13 W are reported with large bergs observed thirty miles north and west of Capes, amid heavy fog and moderate southeasterly winds.
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Seneca
North Atlantic
F H Capes
Hatfield Urges Acceptance of Coal Strike Settlement Plan
Governor Henry D. Hatfield told a West Virginia miners convention to accept his settlement plan for the Kashawha County coal strike. He promised to use state power to enforce the agreement, addressing violence and martial law episodes linked to the nine hour day and anti discrimination measures amid ongoing labor disputes.
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West Va
Henry D. Hatfield
West Virginia
Kashawha
Caen
Tt Miners
Ee Ny Nee OS
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Staehiaieahan
Gov
Minera
Will bequeaths cats to Port Jefferson cousin
Miss Martha Isabel Saxton of Port Jefferson dies and leaves her two cats Buttons and Muggins to cousin Isabel C. McLean to care for them during their lives. If McLean predeceases the testatrix, the will provides other disposal of the felines. The document was admitted to probate by Surrogate Nico l of Riverhead.
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Riverhead
L. L
Martha Isabel Saxton
Port Jefferson
Isabel C. McLean
Buttons
Muggins
Nico
Harvard Graduate Student Found Dead in Cambridge
Lucien D. Tennant aged 25 from Terre Haute Indiana, a first year student at Harvard Graduate School, was found dead in Cambridge with a bullet wound and a revolver beside him. Police began investigation into the suicide note and circumstances surrounding the death.
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Mass
Lucien D. Tennant
Terre Haute
Ind
Harvard Graduate School
Iver
Ware the Wes
$150000 Plate for Gerry Dinner Service Noted
The King and Queen toured six pottery factories in Stoke on Trent. At Minton's, they examined a raised gold dinner service with a rose du Barry chased pattern made for Elbridge T Gerry of New York. The service costs $150000, about $150 per plate.
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London
Stoke on-Trent
Messrs. Minton’s
Rose du Barry
Elbridge T. Gerry
New York
Judge Recall in California Elects New Police Judge
In San Francisco on April 22 the first use of California's judiciary recall law removed Police Judge Charles L. Weller after a special election by 815 votes. Wiley F. Crist, backed by women voters, was elected to succeed him. About 61 thousand votes were cast out of a usual city turnout above 100 thousand.
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California
Charles L. Weller
Wiley F. Crist
Weller
Suit over Mexican Central pool alleges missing shares
W. L. Stow files suit in the Supreme Court for an accounting against Clarence H. Mackay Henry Clay Pierce F H Prince and others. He says he joined a 1907 pool in Mexican Central Railroad stock totaling about 40 000 shares and that 17 800 shares were sold without all pool members knowledge while no accounting was made of remaining shares. The defendants had filed no answer. Stow had been a Stock Exchange member since 1882 before selling his seat in June 190S.
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Henry Clay Pierce
F. H. Prince
Mexican Central Railroad
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Pace & Stimpson
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Airship in gunfire test over Maryland at high altitude
Lieut Lemuel McLeary of the United States Army Aviation Corps remained aboard an army aeroplane at 5080 feet during target practice with 8 inch guns aimed at the armored cruiser Maryland. The test checked vibrations on the aircraft and evaluated a new range finder as the plane swooped close after each shot to relay distance measurements.
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Cal
Lemuel McLeary
United States
Army Aviation Corps
Maryland
McLeary Ane
Pathos Killed a Jester in Chicago Hotel Death
Comedian Cliff Gordon was found dead in a Chicago hotel after a failed afternoon performance following Sarah Bernhardt's play. He told staff audiences were stolid and he could not make them laugh before dying from a heavy cold remedy and a weak heart.
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Cliff Gordon
Sarah Bernhardt
Gordon
Bernhardt
Diogenes Brings In Lost Cash At City Saloon
The Greek peddler Diogenes L Worenzoff found $1 and $2 bills on the saloon floor at Twenty seventh Street and Third Avenue and turned them over to Lieut. Thompson at East Thirty Fifth Street Station. He asked if anyone claimed the money and, receiving no reply, left it for safekeeping per law.
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Twenty-seventh Street
Third Avenue
East Twenty-seventh Street
Diogenes L. Worenzoff
Lieut. Thompson
East Thirtyfifth Street
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President Narrowly Escapes Car Collision Near Capitol
President Wilson and his daughter Eleanor narrowly avoided a street car collision while motoring past Peace Monument near the Capitol. The incident unsettled the President though he continued onward. motor cycle escorts identified the motorman but the White House declined to pursue action.
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Wilson
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Latest Shipping News Update from Cherbourg
Cherbourg port report dated April 1 notes the vessel 33 Kaiser and Wilbem W. in transit. The item mentions a sanitary cup advertising by The Lily Pas and Public Service, with Brooke and relevance to shipping notices and associated trade details.
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California firm on alien land bill seeks cooperation
California lawmakers press a bill excluding aliens ineligible to citizenship from owning land while pledging cooperation with the federal government. Gov. Johnson and Senate leaders anticipate a general act targeting those unable to naturalize, despite Washington’s objections.
Washington Hopes for California Land Law Change
Washington officials view Gov Johnson and California lawmakers signals as a possible moderation of the alien land laws. The April 22 message to President Wilson is seen as an intent to align with his wishes and ease international friction, though uncertainties remain on how far any action will extend beyond those ineligible to own land.
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Hiram W. Johnson
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