Democrats Plan War On Party Leaders In New York
Democrats from most counties met in Utica to organize the Home Rule Democracy of New York and denounce State Chairman William J. Conners and Tammany Leader Charles F. Murphy as bosses. Senator Patrick H. McCarren led the gathering, approving a resolution to limit party bosses’ control and to push anti boss legislation at an extraordinary session. The group prepared a plan for a Sixty-One committee and discussed bolting conventions, with about 100 participants and several counties represented.
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New York Times
Utica
N. Y
Carnegie Dial
William J. Conners
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
New York
Messrs
Conners and Murphy
Democratic Association
McCarren of
Kings
M. A Haven of
Syracuse
Frank HH. Mett
Jamestown
U Tea
Mott
Bryan
Tne
Beardsley
John P. Kelly
Saratoga
Frederick B. Bradley
Schenegtady
Rice
C. Morrow
A. H. Haviland
Suffolk
E. B. Dusenberg
Ulster
William
DPD
Brinnier
C. Gordon Reel
Warren
John H.cunningham
Washington
D. C
Gray
Cortland
Haven
Onondaga
Blandy
Mr. Haven
Albany
Senator McCarren
Duffey
Frank H. Mott
State Committee
Conners
Committee On
Genral Committee
Its Narrowness and Present Chaos A Monologue by F Townsend Martin
Frederick Townsend Martin speaks to reporters on New York society at a hotel. He says the city’s social world has grown large and resembles London, naming about 1,100 people involved and criticizing clubby sets, leadership gaps, and the loss of Mrs. Astor’s influence, urging fewer spectacles and more genuine behavior.
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Frederick Townsend Martin
New York
Meadowbrook
William Astor
Mrs. Astor
Newport
Anxiety on Jersey Shore cottage renters rise in delay
Deepening anxiety grips cottage renters along the Jersey shore as the Jersey Central delays Sandy Hook boats until May 17 and full summer service until June 28. The late start, tied to weak commutation ticket sales, signals a second consecutive year of vacant cottages and reduced income for shore residents reliant on summer rentals.
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New Fork Dumes
Long Branch
Jersey Shore
Central Railroat of
New Jersey
Commissio
Mary
Bay
Monmouth
Sandy Hook
Asbury Park
Queen of the Harbor
New York
Jersey Central
Munsell, Insulating Co. President, Jumps to Death
Eugene Munsell 56, president of the Mica Insulating Company, leaped from a seventh floor window of the Hotel Van Dyke at 2 45 yesterday morning. Ill health and business cares were cited as factors. witness James Bowie saw the jump and alerted police. The body was taken to the West Sixty eighth Street Station and examined by Dr. Derby and Coroner Accritelli before removal to an undertaker.
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Eugene Munsell
Mica Insulating Company
van Dyke
Tornado Toll in Eight States Exceeds Three Hundred
New Orleans reports a vast twister outbreak across Texas Oklahoma Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee Alabama and Georgia killing hundreds and injuring more than a thousand. Mississippi bears the heaviest losses with Purvis Amite and Natchez area towns hardest hit as black residents suffer among the dead. A nurse train and a militia move to restore order as rescue teams work through wreckage and collapsing structures.
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New Orleans
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Lousiana
Engineer Touches Death of Nephew In Train Collision Verdict
In a Supreme Court trial before Justice Fitlgerad, Mrs. Mabel C Lares sued New York Central for the death of her husband Charles Lares a fireman killed Thanksgiving night 1908 by the Empire State express. Driver Arthur Allen uncle of the deceased testified he knew nothing of the accident until after bringing his train to Grand Central and returning to the Highbridge power house where news of the fatality reached him. The jury awarded Mrs Lares 4400 damages.
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Supreme Court
Fitngerad
Mabel .C. Lares
New York Central
Charles Lares
Empire
State Express
Arthur Allen
Allen
Empire State Express
Grand Central
Highbridge
Allen & Sabine
Broadway
Lares
John Lawless
Dewey's Old Port Wine For Invalids Ad
H. T. Dewey & Sons Co advertises old port wine at 158 Fulton Street New York claiming to strengthen the weak and convalescents for medical use.
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DEWEY
H.T Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Girl dies saving sister in front of home
Six year old Marguerite Marooney of 69 Carmine Street died when a heavy electric cab ran over her while she saved her sister Katharine, age 2, who escaped with bruises. The driver Joseph Mulvey of 1904 Second Avenue was charged with homicide. bail set at $3,000 pending an inquest.
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Marguerite Marooney
Carmine Street
Katharine
Joseph Mulvey
Second Avenue
Marguerite
Fitzgerald
Charles Street
Mulvey
Goraner -Harburger
United States Exchange Bank to Quit in Harlem
Directors of the United States Exchange Bank at 23-25 West 125th Street plan to close and dissolve after applying to the State Banking Department for permission. Organized three years ago with 100 dollar capital and about 40 000 dollars in deposits, the bank faced losses from runs on local trusts and banks. President John J. Gibbons and director Henry Dehning Jr. cited tight money markets cutting profits as reasons to wind up.
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Iust
United States Exchange Bank
West 125Th Street
State Banking Department
Harlem
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Hamilton Bank
Henry Dehning, Jr
John J. Gibbons
Sailor Doernback's Struggle To Return Home From Wreck
Doernback, a fireman aboard the derelict Helios off Eggs Harbor City, faced a hard voyage back to America after the crew, largely Norwegian, were rescued and landed in Liverpool by the Maijentic. The Norwegian Consul refused aid, the American Consul denied help due to foreign-flag ship status, and the sailor, too weak to travel, finally reached Philadelphia in steerage with American sympathy securing passage.
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Doernback
Eggs Harbor City
America
Liverpool
Maijentic
Philadelphia
Norway
Pawned Teeth for Food in Grim Colorado Ordeal
Patrick Flynn, a Glenwood Springs laborer, pawned his false teeth to buy food but cannot buy new ones now that he has the money. The teeth remain with Dr. T. J. Horna, who offers to return them, yet Flynn insists the bargain stands and declines reclaiming the teeth.
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New York Times
Glenwood Springs
Col
Patrick Flynn
T. J. Horna
Grenwood Springs
Flynn
Heat Records Set as Pittsburg Reaches 85 Degrees
Pittsburg logged 85 degrees yesterday, four degrees from last summer’s peak, breaking April heat records in thirty years of local Weather Bureau data. Four victims were hospitalized, two in serious condition, with mill workers and other laborers suffering from the extreme heat.
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Pittsburg
Ties That Bind Two Great Cities Ady
On the hour in two hours the New Jersey Central schedule appears on Page 13. The item notes ties that bind two great cities and mentions Ady.
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Philadelphia
New Jersey Central
Great Ciiles
Ady
Entombed in Gaye Boy Dies in Cave Collapse
A dozen young boys dug a cave on a vacant West End Avenue lot near Ninety-seventh Street. Norman Holmes, 9, led the group. the cave walls collapsed burying him and injuring Eugene Jenkins. Police and volunteers rushed to rescue, but Holmes died. Other boys escaped.
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West End Avenue
Riverside Drive
Ninety-seventh ‘Street
John T. Holmes
Holmes and Jenkins
Joseph Jenkins
Eugene
Selden Mctcabe
John Chapman
McCabe
West Wid Avenue
Jenkins and Chapman
Svork
Brennan and
Etchler
West 100Th Street
Jenkins Boy
Jenkins
Holmes Boy
Ami
Brennan
J. Hood Wright Hospital
S00th Street
Simon Quinn
Frederick Leith
Hook and Fadder Company 22
Rubin
Quinn
Leith
Holmes
Dr. Rubin
Mr. Holmes
Broker Shoots Himself in Brooklyn Real Estate Office
Everett E. Rowland a Brookyn real estate broker at 21st Ward was shot in the left side by a friend John Stedman after inviting him to see “something he’d like” at 141 Tompkins Avenue. Rowland died at St Johns Hospital with his parents by his side. The motive appeared linked to a dull market. the family reported no prior trouble.
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Everett E. Rowland
iSe Tompkins Avenue
Brooklyn
Twenty-first Ward
Sidney Rowland
John Etedman
Tompkins Avenue
Finlay
Vernon Avenue
Finley
Rowland
St. John’s Hospital
Vernon ‘Avenue
Boy Dies After Three-Base Hit In Grammar School Game
Hopkinton Mass April 25 Henry E Vance aged 15 collapsed and died after reaching third base on a three base hit in a game between Uxbridge and Hopedale Grammar School teams. Doctors cited dilation of the heart as the cause of death.
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Hopedale
Mass
Henry E. Vance
Uxbridge
Hopedale Grammar School
MME Gould In Seclusion In Naples
Prince Helle de Sagan and Madame Anna Sould remain at a Naples hotel after arriving by steamer. They refuse to divulge plans to their friends or the public, though speculation grows about their engagement and pending announcements.
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Naples
Prince Helle _ de Sagan
Anna Sould
Surprise at Taft's Trip Signals Boundary Focus
The article reports surprise at President Taft's selection of Tart to handle Panama border disputes with Colombia and the United States Canal Commission. It notes Canal conditions will be considered, and Secretary Tart's main duty is seen as boundary questions, with Root not taking official interest.
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Root
Hucon
Pan
Calambia
Panama
Usilimian Canal Commission
Canal
State Department
Colombia
South America
Priath AE Sart
Standard Oil plotted against Uncle Sam Oil case
Albert Wilson defense attorney for J F Tucker Jr argues in open court that Standard Oil manipulated the Uncle Sam Oil Company to defraud and block market entry. Wilson claims Tucker retained voting control to prevent Standard Oil from gaining star positions in the open market, with Uncle Sam now under a receiver.
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Topeka
Kan
Albert Wilson
J. F. Tucker, Jr
Uncle San OH Company
Standard Oil
Uncle Sam
Wilson
Tucker
Uncle Sam Company
Short Senate speech backs bill to honor Patrick Edward
Washington April 6 Senator Teller delivered the shortest successful speech in favor of a bill to create a monument to Patrick Edward, with Senator Sutherland introducing the measure. Kean pressed for details about Center, Teller answered and the bill passed.
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Washington
Whit
Senate
Sontitor Teller
Sutherland
O'Connor
New Pacific Railroad Aims Across Washington State
Special to The New York Times reports a new Pacific Railroad plan backed by financiers of the Southern Pacific system. The Pacific and Southeastern line would span Washington from Puget Sound to Tacoma with a survey underway and construction contracts expected this year. Incorporators include Thomas B. Hubbard and George Crocker of New York, Charles Lathrop, and A J Shepard, connected to Stanford estate investments and the Self Improvement Company of California.
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New York
Oma
Washington
James Ashton
Thomas B. Hubbard
Geor Crocker
Hariés Lathrop
Shree
Stanford
A. J. Shepard
Moving Target Record Falls at Fort Morgan
Special to The New Hiork Tomes reports Fort Morgan coastal target practice by the Seventy-fifth Company of Artillery. Nine shots fired in twelve minutes, six shots in two minutes forty five seconds, a new record for seacoast gunners. The third shot hit the moving target at a distance of about 6000 yards, fired by Sgt Osborne.
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Hiork Tomes
Imobile
Ala
Fort Morgan
Seatdast
Sergt
Osborne
Trust Co. Plans Resumption With Major Cash Backing
Williamsburg Trust Company aims to resume business by June 1 after court adjournment. A Mantethan financial institution backs the plan with 31.5 million dollars in cash to pay depositors on demand and discharge shareholders at full value.
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Williamsburg
Williamsburg Trust Company
Mantethan Financial Institution
Fulf
Young Beaudin Travels by Train to Chicago
Arsene Beaudin, who left Portland last Monday to travel to Chicago, passed through Winsted at 2 40 this afternoon. He claimed to be five miles ahead of Edward Paysten Waters and expects to reach Chicago three weeks from today.
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New York
Conn
Arseneé Beaudin
Porthind
Vel
Thaw Case Writ Amended For May Return Date
James Graham of Newburg, attorney for Harry K Thaw, appeared before Justice Merschauser in the Supreme Court at Poughkeepsie and secured an amendment to the writ of habeas corpus making the returnable date May 4 instead of May to fit witness availability.
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Poughkeepsie
James €. Graham
Newburg
Harry K. Thaw
Merschauser
Supreme Court
St Paul Battles Blizzard Collision With Gladiator Off Isle of Wight
The St Paul sustained a buckled bow after ramming the Gladiator in a heavy snow blizzard off the Isle of Wight. The Gladiator sank. about twenty to thirty crewmen were reported drowned, later revised, while most of the Gladiator crew were rescued by the St Paul. Captain Lumsden and American sailors acted with discipline as 450 on board were saved and landed at the Isle of Wight. The St Paul returned to Southampton with no injuries to its own crew.
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American Line
St. Juul
Steward Widgery
Contrs Ws
Diebras
Littl Walhiem
Graves
Golden JU
St. Paul
Southampton
London
Mbra
Southmpton Waters
St. Pank
Solent
Isle of Wilt
Passos
Tare
Gladmorntanehar
St. Pauls
St. Parais
Ernigerts
Yar
Isle of Wight
Walter Tuisden
Yarmouth
Lumsden
Passow
Teutonic
American’ Company
Puttinig Hoek
Gladiator
Ft. Paul
England
Hanus
Portland
Hurstcastie
Hadiaror
Othets
St-Paul
Naval
Trastistone
Satons
Aml
Kantsmanthe
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A. N. Ogden
Bungaloe Tea
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125Th Street
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