King Inquiry Finds Inaccuracies in Armstrong Minutes
Jerome says insurance indictments may fail and questions accuracy of minutes from the Armstrong inquiry. The hearing covers forgery charges tied to Perkins Fairchild Hegeman Grane and the 40 000 payment to an New York Life agents group tied to the Mexican Central Railroad loan. The King committee probes whether the loan benefited Nylic and if profits improperly returned to Perkins.
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Richard L. Hand
Jerome
George W. Perkins
Charles
Hegeman
Brant Pierce
Perkins
Fairchild
Grss
Nvile
New York Life
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Boston
Armstrong
Wyves Iis
Robert Wi
Mr. Perkins
J. P. Morgan &Co
Mexican Central Railroad
York Life
Randolph
New York Time
Airpr
Nye
Nylic
Jernnetholding
King Committee
Ballot Box Guards Testify In 1905 Recount Case
Forty more policemen who guarded ballot boxes in the 1905 Bronx mayoralty election testified in the Hearst McClellan recount. Senator William J. Grattan, chair of Privileges and Elections, said seals remained intact and boxes were guarded throughout the 1906 session. Clarence J. Shearn outlined steps to identify ballots and submit them in evidence before Justice Lambert.
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Hearst-McClellan
Bronx
Kings Police
Police Department
William J. Grattan
Legislative Committee On
Grattan
Gratian
Clarence J. Shearn
Timms
Mr. Shearn
Justice Lambert
Bea
Hearst
McClellan
Mistrial in Brewer Divorce Case
In a divorce suit brought by Edith A Noble Brewer against William S Brewer, Justice Platzek and a jury saw a mistrial declared after he withdrew a juror. The case is to be retried on May 20 following Brewer's pretrial statement. Brewer admitted responsibility for the statement and contempt of court could be considered.
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Edith A. Noble Brewer
William. S. Brewer
Supremes
Justice Platzek
Brewer
Harry Eckhard
Murray
Hulbert
Weil suit nears end in Municipal Court case
The Weil case against operators of the New York City Railway approaches closure as attorney Eugene Kremer finishes examining H. V. Vreeland. Questions arise over whether Metropolitan Securities Company executives approved Vreeland’s expenditures for political purposes and a disputed report about the New York City Railway. Thomas F. Ryan may be recalled after testimony showing he attended a directors’ meeting where the report was approved, conflicting with his denial of knowledge.
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Weil
New York City Railway
Eugene Kremer
H. V. Vreeland
Mr. Vreeland
Metropolitan Securities Company
Vreeland
Kremer
Thomas F. Ryan
Ryan
Lancey Nicoll
Ex Mayor Seth Low Testifies in Fire Alarm Company Inquiry
Ex mayor Seth Low testified before the Commissioners of Accounts on permits granted to the Manhattan Fire Alarm Company during his administration. He supported the fire commissioner’s view that continuing ties between the city and the company was undesirable. He noted he urged the city to buy the plant and informed the fire chief to pause action until the Legislature acted. The Legislature later fixed a valuation, but no purchase occurred.
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Seth Low
Commissioners of Accounts
Fire, Department
Manhattan Fire Alarm Company
They
Thomas Sturgis
Low
Lackawanna Reports Ice Floe Passage Far East of Cape Race
The British steamer Lackawanna, sailing from Shields, reported passing a large ice floe about 200 miles east-southeast of Cape Race on Wednesday. Captain Grey noted about thirty bergs moving southward, some reaching two feet above water, and that a school of mackerel stretched four miles across as the ship passed the Scotland flightship yesterday morning.
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Shields
Cape Race
Grey
Scotland
Dr. Silverman declines Cosmopolitan Club talk invitation
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman of Temple Emanu-El said he did not accept an invitation from Andre Tridon to speak before the Cosmopolitan Club. He sent a polite note declining and has no intention of attending the club’s next social gathering or any meeting.
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Joseph Silverman
Temple Emanu-El
Andre Tridon
Cosmopolitan Club
S ‘Ang
Silverman
Williams pushes free wood pulp fight in House
The New York Times reports in Washington on April 29 that John Sharp Williams urged House Republicans to sign a petition to free wood pulp and print paper. He demonstrated the petition’s momentum and noted 102 names plus four absent Democrats, aiming for 166 votes, with 29 insurgent Republicans needed to shift the balance.
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New York Times
Washington
John Sharp
Williams
Mr. Willams
Lst
J. G. Cannon
Committee On Ways and Means
Stevens
DeArmond
Champ Clark
de Armond
Mitchell for Apia Consul in Samoa and Charlottetown
The President sent to the Senate consular nominations naming Mason Mitchell of New York to Apia Samoa and Franklin Hale of Vermont to Charlottetown Prince Edward Island. Mitchell, longtime actor, Rough Rider veteran wounded at Santiago, backed Roosevelt in campaigns and previously served as consul at Zanzibar and Chungking.
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Washington
Senate
Mason Mitchell
New York
Apia
Samoa
Franklin Hale
Vermont
Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
McCullough
Booth
Barrett
Mme, Modjeska
The
Rough Riders
Santiago
Roosevelt
Zanzibar
Chungking
China
Bill would pay ex slaves one million dollars
Washington April 29 former slaves or their heirs may receive up to 1 000 000 if a banking and currency committee report bill becomes law. The measure credits money lost in the Freedmen Bank, once set up in the city to aid negroes after the Civil War, which failed after a short life.
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Washington
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Congress
Senate
Freedmen's Bank
Vink
Insurgent Republicans Align With Democrats in White House Drive
Washington reports reveal organized Republican revolt against Senate leadership with Democratic aid to push the White House programme. Younger Republicans seek partial Congressional concessions while Democrats seek to leverage support for certain late session measures. A coalition impression grows as leaders praise the four battleship plan and rally to the President.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
White House
Congress
TIMES
Davis Rebuked as Senate Forces Revision of Resolution
In Washington on April 29 Senator Jeff Davis faced sharp Senate hazing before his resolution on Indian land allotments in Oklahoma was amended and adopted. Davis claimed ex Secretary Hitchcock blocked enrollments for 10,000 Indians while the debate spilled into coarse insults and pointed barbs between Davis Yoraker Clapp and other members.
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New York Times
Washington
Jeff Davis
Senate
J’oraker
Secretary of the Interior
Oklahoma
Hitchcock
Davis
Ohio
Yoraker
Clapp
King Victor Restores Lubin as U S Agriculture Rep
An order reinstates David Lubin of California as the American member on the permanent Committee of Agriculture. Secretary Root cabled Ambassador Griscom in Rome to confirm Lubin’s return after weeks of absence amid department friction. The Italian government had sought his reinstatement following Rome’s new institute building funded by the king.
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Washington
David Lubin
California
Permanent Committee of Agriculture
Griscom
Rome
Root
Lubin
Department of Ariculture
Des Planches
Currency Bill Approved in Washington
A New York representative introduced a new Currency Bill today. It will be reviewed by the Banking and Currency Committee tomorrow after Republican discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Prilogic
New York
Sailors Wreck Restaurant Over Meal Charge Dispute
In Santa Barbara on April 29, sailors from the Atlantic Battleship fleet clashed with a restaurant owner after being overcharged for a meal. Stones flew and windows were smashed as shore patrol intervened. The unrest followed widespread grievances over inflated prices and the sailors’ dissatisfaction with shore leave during the fleet’s stay.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Stampton Roads
John Senich
Los Angeles
Dance of Blowers Dazzles Plaza del Mar Night Scene
The Civic League program features the Dance of Blowers with over forty Santa Barbara girls in flower costumes at the canvas covered Plaza del Mar by the ocean front. Rear Admiral Thomas orders Lieut. Cone to stop at San Pedro Harbor then proceed to Santa Cruz by May 4. de Little ship fleet to depart at 6 am tomorrow. In Washington none of the Atlantic fleet battleships will stop at Fiji Islands, but an auxiliary with wireless will head to Suva to maintain contact with the navy via cable for six to eight days en route from Honolulu to Auckland.
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Civic League
Plaza del Mar
Oceany Front
Santa Barbara
Thomas
Lieut
Cone
San Diego
San Pedro Harbor
Santa Cruz
Washington
Atlantic
Fiji Islands
Suva
Navy Department
Fiji
Navy
Ex-Police Officer Lope Sentenced for Home Robbery
Lope, formerly a New York police officer, was sentenced by Judge Foster in General Sessions to five years in State Prison for robbing the home of William Klein at 07 East Ninety-sixth Street on the night of April. He was dismissed from the force in 197 after multiple complaints against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lope
Foster
William Klein
East Ninety-sixth Street
Prof Noon Goes to Manila Commissioned to Teach There
The Rev William D Noon, former philosophy professor at Othello University in Washington, arrived home yesterday aboard the Lurania. He will be commissioned by the Pope to teach at the Latinite University in Manila, with a mission to Americanize the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William _D. Noon
Othello University
Latinite University
Manila
Tia Rope
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