Quincy Ex-Mayor Neared Bond Coverup Ties
Boston reporter details Josiah Quincys links to Frank O Squire and Oliver M Dennett in the Trust Company of America bond robbery inquiry. It covers prior friendships, Dennetts claim of Squire as the man to handle the case, Quincys reactions, and timelines from eight years ago to 1904 with notes on Squire Dennett and Beacon Trust ties.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Josiah Quincy
Trust Company of America
Frank O. Squire
Oliver M. Dennett
Douglas
Trust Company
Quincy
Mr. Quincy
Dennett
Robertson Honey
Mr. Quinty
Lst
Old Broadway Bank
Globe National Bank
Squire
Prank O. Squire
John P. Squire
Packing House
Globe Bank
Frank
Beacon Trust Company
Squire Concern
Dennett, Blanchard & Crane
New York Stock Exchange
New Corporation
John P. Squire & Co
Swift & Co
Beef Trust
New York
Runaway Newark trolley car injures and kills rider
A thirty foot Newark trolley with sixty passengers ran away on West Kinney Street yesterday. The car gained speed as frightened riders scrambled for the platform. Meyer Wolfson, 30, of Hirons Street Newark, suffered a fractured skull and is in St Barnabas Hospital in critical condition. Several others were cut or bruised.
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Newark
Washington
High Street
West Kinney St
Rions
Washington Street
Iiriam Rooney
Meyer Wolfson
Hiron Street
St. Barnabas's Hospital
Darlington Clears Path for Milk Inspectors in New York
Dr Darlington's milk inspectors faced resistance from Orange County farmers led by the Dairymen's League. An inspector, K L Dewolf, had a tense encounter at Goshen's Goshen farm, prompting a call to the Borden Milk Company. After talks, farmer Loring agreed to allow inspection, signaling a potential settlement of opposition to New York inspectors.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
Thlington
Board of Health
New York City
Dairymen’s League
Darlington
Orange County
K. L. Dewolf
Goshen
Dewolf
Borden Milk Company
Ring
New York
Borden
Schoonmaker
Loring
Alcyone Launch Stalls Amid Grease Delays
The big steel auxiliary schooner Alcyone, designed for Henry W Putnam, failed to launch at 10:20 a m due to grease causing the hull to stick. After hours of effort, launch postponed to Monday with Capt Alexander Olsen in command and planning deep sea cruising for extended voyages. The vessel, largest of its type, will sail under the New York Yacht Club flag.
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New York
Boston
Henry W
Putnam
Tams
Lemoyne Crane
Alcyone
Alexander Olsen
Ariadne
Mr. Putnam
New York Yacht Club
Ridder Proposes English Edition of Is Zeitung at Delmonico’s
Herman Ridder, editor of the Is Zeitung, spoke at a Prinipals' Club luncheon in Delmonico's on Fifth Avenue outlining a plan to publish an English language paper every evening and on Sundays modeled after the Staats-Zeitung. He criticized yellow journalism and said the newspaper aims were merely a future plan with no set start date.
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Prinipals
Delmonico’s
Fifth Avenue
Herman Ridder
Is- Zeitung
Staats-Zelt B
Pagme
Miss Flower's Car Kills Boy in Midtown Crash
Mary A Flower of 611 Fifth Avenue and chauffeur Paul Keller faced homicide charges after a fast hit run at Forty-third Street and Eleventh Avenue. Six-year-old Michael Mooney of 563 Eleventh Avenue died at Roosevelt Hospital. Coroner Shrady released Keller to Miss Flower on custody.
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Paul Keller
West Forty-sixth Street
West Forty-seventh Street
Mooney
Eleventh Avenue
Michael
Mee
Miss Flower
Keller
Patrolman
Dr. Johnson
Shrady
Blackwell's Island Bridge Cost Soars Beyond Estimate
City figures project the Blackwell's Island Bridge will require 18 to 20 million dollars, up from 12.5 million, with land costs now possibly reaching 6 to 8 million. Speculators have bought much land the city must acquire, and plans for a double decked bridge with trolley and elevated tracks remain unchanged.
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Metz
Bureau of Municipal Investigation and Statistics
Blackwell's Island
Board of Public Improvements
STOP BINGHAMTON CARS on strike fears in Binghamton
Binghamton N Y April 27 General Manager Clark ordered all street railway cars stored in the barn at 6 pm to avert trouble from strike sympathizers. Earlier during the day service was reduced to a token level. An incident saw a car stoned on Boner Chenango Street before dark.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Clark
Street Railway Company
Chenango Street
Boon Insa
Wall Street Dyspeptic Fish Sees Missouri Pacific Plans
Wall Street financier and Missouri Pacific adviser Frank A. Fish visits St. Louis noting fiscal strain on rail projects. He says system modernization will slow but continue with about 100 million dollars planned by George Gould era, targeting ten years of investment at ten million annually. Gould, officials depart for Kansas City and Denver.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Wall Street
Prayvesant Fish
Fish
Missouri Pacific Railway
George J. Gould
Missouri Pacific
Texarkana
Iron Mountain System
Gould
Kansas City
Denver
Seven Miners Entombed Near Johnstown
Seven foreign miners were trapped in Berwind-White Coal Mine 38 at Foastwell near Johnstown Pennsylvania after a flood from an abandoned working. Rescuers heard rapping from a water pipe but it has ceased and hope waned as pumping out may take days. The disaster followed a blast that broke through a wall separating mine sections and the incident only came to light after families gathered at the shaft.
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Johnstown
Penn
Berwind-White Coal Company
Foastwell
Gentleman Burglar Tate Arrested in Chicago
Edward Tate known as the gentleman burglar was arrested at a friend’s residence in Chicago after escaping from St. Francis Hospital Peoria. A detective tracked him after a ruse, while Tate sought to meet Theodore Smith whom he allegedly robbed three years earlier. Tate weakened and fell against a wall as officers closed in.
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Chicago
Edward Tate
St. Francis Hospital
Peoria
Tate
Theodore Smith
Smith
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Firemen Strike Quiet Travel Continues
The Brook lyn Rapid Transit system ran normally last night despite a power house firemen strike that began Monday. General Manager John F Calderwood and officials dismissed the disruption, saying replacements were found. Strikers, based at Third Avenue and Fourth Street, urged firemen not to seek work and warned of a wider walkout that could halt Coney Island travel and other traffic if demands for higher pay are not met.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Power House
John F. Calderwood
Third Avenue
Fourth Street
Coney Island
Plans to Repair and Complete the Statue of Liberty
Quartermaster General Humphrey approves repair plans for the Statue of Liberty on Bedlow's Island New York Harbor. A June contract will be let with $62,800 available. Work aims to restore the statue to Bartholdi designs including lighting the torch with eight arc lights. An electric elevator and winch stairway will be installed inside.
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Washington
Humphrey
Bedlow’'s Island
New York Harbor
Bartholdi
Invention of a New Acoustic Device Described in Paper
A fragmentary advertisement describes an experimental acoustic device labeled as a Peano enabling seat. It claims to hear, transmit, and power a small electric battery via a transistor-like system. The text is garbled but suggests trials in leading urban centers and requests readers to write for full details.
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New York
Maelee
Ahurbhes
Jon W
Cesse
Rich widow weds a pancy skater in Pittsburg
Mrs Ida Wainwright, 40, widow of millionaire brewer Edwin Wainwright, marries Willard Hay Bratton, 80, Duquesne Garden skating instructor, in New York. The couple honeymoon at Jamestown Exposition. Bratton plans to manage a park next season before returning to skating duties.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Ida Wainwright
Edwin Z. Wainwright
Willard Hay Bratton
Duquesne Garden
New York
Charles Edward Locke
Hanson Place
Brooklyn
Jesse. L. Dippold
Wainwright
Ida Moore
W. H. Bratton
Flatbush
New York City
Hay
Philadelphia
Bratton
Locke
Doppala
Pell Divorce Suit Filed By Mrs Pell Against Alexander Pell
Mary Hutton Ecclesine Pell sues for divorce from Alexander Martha Pell a member of a prominent local family and brother of Archie and Duncan Pell Justice O Gorman appointed Charles F Elias as referee no further case details disclosed Both parties age thirty four married nine years have one son Mrs Pell recently returned from London to pursue the suit Pell residence on his estate atatch field Springs and wealth noted
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Mary Hutton Ecclesine Pell
Alexander Martha Pell
Pell
Archie
Duncan Pell
O'Gorman
Charles F. Elias
Court House
W. J. A. McKim
Broadway
Insurance Firms Withdraw From Texas Over New Law
Gov. Campbell faced a mass withdrawal threat as 25 large life insurers announce plans to quit Texas. They cite the new law requiring 75 percent on deposit of premiums, predicting tax losses near $500,000 annually and billions in current investments including railroad loans. Their move hinges on the state’s restrictive provisions.
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New York Times
Galveston
Texas
Campbell
Eastern Life Insurance
Mock duel ends in tragedy as two Brooklyn youths perish
Edward Belcher 22 of 456 Humboldt Street and Charles Murphy 285 Devoe Street were at a party when a paper cut duel went wrong. Murphy died of a heart wound before an ambulance from St Catherine's Hospital arrived. Belcher was held at the station on a murder charge after Captain Evans found him at the scene.
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Edward Belcher
Humboldt Street
Brooklyn
Charles Murphy
Devoe Street
Murphy
St. Catherine’s Hospital
Wat Sap
Charles ‘Weilstein
Dew Street
Evans
Herbert Street
Belcher
Giant Balloon The Eagle Soars Over Paris
A giant aerostat named The Eagle with 4150 cubic meters capacity ascended from St Cloud in Paris. Ten renowned aeronauts accompanied the ascent including M Santos-Dumont. The balloon vanished southwest on a fair breeze. The Eagle belongs to M Bahen, vice president of the Aero Club.
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Paris
M. Santos-Dumont
M. Bahan
The
Aero Club
Northwest Snowstorm Paralyzes Dakotas to Montana
A furious twenty hour snowstorm blankets the region from the Dakotas to Montana with six to ten inches of snow. Railroad traffic is delayed five to fifteen hours and farmers face replanting as seeding is stalled. In Minneapolis and St Paul streetcar service is blocked all day with cars pushed through periodically.
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New York Times
ST. Paul
Minn
Northwest
Dakotas
Montana
Minneapolis and
Pittsburg graft list handed to city attorney
President C. S. Cameron of the Pittsburg and Tube City Railroad delivered the first list of graft suspects to Attorney John Marron, special counsel for the city. Marron will file criminal charges against several councilmen once the names are disclosed.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
C. 5
Cameron
Pittsburg & Tube City Railroad
John Marron
Brady
Marron
Combine
Taft Sees U S Leaving Cuba by September 1908
Secretary of War Taft said in an interview in Cincinnati that the United States could withdraw from temporary control of Cuba by September 1908. He praised Gov Magoon for earning broad trust and foresaw a return to self government for Cubans. He also planned a trip to the Philippines on September 1 for about eighty days.
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United States
Cuba
Taft
Gov. Magoon
Philippines
Stead Sees Chicago Still Unreformed After Visit
William T. Stead returned to Chicago and offered a mixed verdict on reform. He called his surface impression superficial yet said Chicago has not greatly reformed. He criticized the New York Peace Congress as a dismal failure and parochial in scope while discussing world peace prospects.
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New York Times
Chicago
William T. Stead
Christ
Mr. Stead
Kago
Edwards's widow sues over alleged non self inflicted death
In New Haven on April 27, Mrs. Charles A. Edwards of New York filed suit against a New York casualty insurer claiming her husband did not die by his own action. Affidavits on his mental condition included Mrs. Timothy Dwight and Mrs. Samuel Harris, cousins of Edwards, who were with him the night before his body was found. The coroner previously ruled the death a self-administered laudanum overdose followed by shooting and death in bed. The suit seeks policy recovery under a death by own action clause.
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New Haven
Charles A. Edwards
New York
Casualty Insurance Company
Hiller
Edwards
Timothy Dwight
Dwight
Yale University
Samuel Harris
Yale
New York Times
Washington
Ohio
Ington
John Smith
D. Shasikland
Pocahontas
Gritchfield
Pierce D. M
Cuyahoga County
Noite
Western Reserveversity
Metzger
Dunlap Named Chief of Philadelphia Filtration Bureau
Frederick C. Dunlap of the New York City Water Department is appointed Chief of Philadelphia’s Bureau of Filtration to replace Major Cassius E. Gillette who resigns. The salary drops from 17000 to 8000 annually.
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New York
Philadelphia
Frederick C. Dunlap
New York City
Gillette
Engineer Corps
United States Army
Hill
McNichol & Co
Ohio Delegation at Jamestown Exposition in Food Crisis
Ohio lawmakers arrive at Jamestown Exposition exhausted and hungry. A clash over coffee with a French officer becomes a mock duel and sideshow as Acting Gov. Williams and Adjutant General Critchfield lead a soapless, crowded lobby scene. The group rents unwelcoming rooms, laments lack of soap, and endures a tense, comical wait for meals.
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F. O O. Squire
Newark Hill
Henry W. Putnam
Wiss Flower
Feur
Blackewell
Wall ST
Coney
A. M. Pell
Tube City Road
Stead
Dunlap
Jamestown
Holy Roman Empire
Weeth Feests
Cochon
Metager
Bedford
Critchfield
Jamesm. Williams
Cleveland
Thompson
Col. Thompson
National Guard
Flanders
Sam Flickinger
Guv
Harris
George Little
Xenia
Ieee
Sea State
Charles Sawyer
Pinbula County
Mutte Guilbert
Vance
A. P. Sandles
Board of Agriculture
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