Marx's Whereabouts Kept Secret in Virginia Tragedy
Reports from Virginia and New York detail Herbert Marx of New York admitting a kiss but denying wrongdoing. Sheriff Heflin, whose son was killed by Marx, declines blame and notes suspicion over Rosa Taylor's jealousy. The Marx family says Herbert is resting in Virginia with nervous prostration, while brother William says he should return home soon, though possibly not for a month. Relatives Ernest Marx and A I Blackmar travel to assist, with no definite update on their paths.
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Richmond
Westmoreland County
Herbert Marx
New York
Warsaw
Marx
Rosa Taylor
Heflin
Lars
Sixth Avenue
Brooklyn
WML
Virginia
William
Herbert
Mr. Marx
Ife
Wincuitef
Ernest Marx
A. i. Blackmar
Plackmar
Fredericksburg
Mother and child die in Pittsburg burning house
In Carnegie Pennsylvan ia a mother Mrs Sarah Klee and her young daughter perished in a fire that destroyed a family home used partly as a grocery. Father John Klee saved two children by tossing them to the ground from a window then attempted to rescue his wife and remaining daughter. Firefighters carried him out as flames consumed the upper floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pennu
Sarah Klee
Carnegie
Penn
Ikiee
Hleo O
Klee
Robnd
Mary
Public applaud for Czolgossz at Chicago event
A Chicago audience last night cheered the assassin of President McKinley amid a heated debate on Socialism vs Anarchy. Abraham Isaak, Reds leader and Tree Society editor, refused to condemn the act, prompting wild reaction and a near riot before the chairman restored order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
McKinley
Buffalo
Abraham Isaak
Tree Society
Czostoszay
Isaak
Czoigesz
Muller Freed Over Remark About Roosevelt
A. H. Muller, arrested last Saturday for uttering that Roosevelt should be shot, was released today. Judge Machin ruled the remark foolish but not necessarily a crime in the Philadelphia case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pihladelphia
A. H. Muller
Roosevelt
Muller
Machin
Six young women earn diplomas at Training School Nurses
Six young colored women received diplomas last night from the Training School Nurses connected with the Colored Home and Hospital at One Hundred and forty fifth Street and Southern Boulevard. The graduates include Ida M Lightfoot Martha Parr Mittie W White Ida B Eason Jerie Hemsley and Mary E Conway. Exercises were held at the Academy of Medicine West Forty third Street with addresses by Dr T Gr ihard Thomas and Dr John A Karwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forty-fifth Street
Southern Boulevard
Ida M. Lightfoot
Columbia
S. C
Martha
N.o
Mary E. Conway
Philadelphia
Enn
Academy of Medicine
West Forty-third Street
T.grihard Thomas
John A. Kartwell
Rail road speed feud over Pacific Coast runs
Two transcontinental systems clash over fastest New York to San Francisco service. Union Pacific touts a 96 hour plan via New York Central and connections, while Southern Pacific counters with a 96 hour 15 minute Los Angeles route. The twist is the parent rail ties: Union Pacific owns Southern Pacific and Southern Pacific owns Central Pacific.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
New York Central
Lake Shore
Chicago and
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Central Pacific
San Francisco
Bonds Placed in England for Gulf and Manitoba Railroad
Joseph B. Moore of Detroit returned from England with 21 million dollars of 5 percent thirty year gold bonds. The Gulf and Manitoba Railroad from Duluth to Kansas City will be built, including a 200 mile Des Moines to Kansas City branch. Campbell, former Iowa lieutenant governor, leads the enterprise, with the Iowa Loan and Trust Company as trustee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Joseph B. Moore
England
Gulf and Manitoba
Duluth
Kansas City
Des Moines
Moore
Iowa Loan and Trust Company
BT. Campbell
Iowa
Decree of sale against Columbus Shawnee and Hocking Railway
In Columbus Ohio today the United States Court issued a decree of sale in the case against the Columbus Shawnee and Hocking Railway Company filed November 25. Judgment for 2,575,825 dollars plus costs was entered and in default the mortgages will be foreclosed with sale of the property within sixty days. Bids below 2,550,000 dollars will be received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
United States
Columbus
Shawnee and Hocking Railway Company
Seaboard Air Line Announces Major Rolling Stock Purchase
President John Skelton Williams says the Seaboard Air Line will add large quantities of rolling stock including passenger and freight cars and locomotives. The company also closes this week on contracts for 10 000 tons of steel rails.
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Seaboard Air Line
Richmond
John Skelton Williams
The
Train wreckers blamed after Oregon rail collision
East bound Oregon Railway and Navigation Line train derailed twelve miles east of The Dalles. Engine overturned, mail car off track, composite sleeper and diner off rails but upright. Col RC Clowry and party in private car on track. Maurice Cavanaugh severely scalded. Frank Crase seriously hurt. Suspected saboteurs planted nuts on outside rails. reward of 1000 dollars offered for arrests and conviction.
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Portland
Oregon
Oregon Railway and Navigation
Ocam
Dalles
Col. RC. Clowry
Western Union Telegraph
Maurice Cavanaugh
Frank Crase
Max Hochstim Sentenced In Election Interference Case
Max Hochstim, a lieutenant of Tammany leader Martin Engel, was sentenced by Judge Cowing to one to three years in Sing Sing for interfering with a deputy arresting a man during an illegal voting incident on Nov 7. Hochstim will stay at the Tombs until Wednesday to arrange affairs before prison. Deputy accuser William Chapman arrested James Bassett. Hochstim, with others, attempted to seize the prisoner. Judge Cowing condemned illegal voting and warned of consequences, noting Hochstim received a fair trial. James Burns then pleaded guilty to false registration in the same district and drew a one year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Hochstim
Martin Engel
Tammany
Eighth Assembly
McCullagh
Cowing
Court of General’ Sessions
Sing Sing
Jiachsum
William M. Chapman
James Bassett
Hochsum
John Smith
Abraham Silverman
Jeorge Greenberg
Jacob Lawlor
Hochstim
Abraham Levy
Hochsuim
James Burns
Broome Street
Ife
Port Arthur Dock Company to be Sold in Texas Court
In Beaumont, a U S Court order directs sale of the Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company property to satisfy debts of 1 800 318. The decree preserves rights of intervenors including Kansas City Southern Railroad and Guardian Trust Company. Upset price set at 500 000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthur Dock Company
Dallas
Texas
United States
Beaumont
Providence Life and Trust Company
Port Arthur Channel and Dock Company
Kansas City Southern Railroad
Guardian Trust Company
Fire Ravages Hughes Tobacco Plant in Danville
A blaze at Hughes & Co in Danville destroyed the leaf tobacco plant and a storage warehouse. Both buildings housed large hogshead consignments for American Tobacco Co and others with a total loss estimated over 130 dollars plus unaccounted for price advances. Insurance covers the loss except for the tobacco price increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
John E. Hughes & Co
S Own
Hughes& Co
American Tobacco Company
Vibbrel Brothers
Panner
New Pugilistic Champion Arrested in Yorkville
Champion featherweight boxer Young Corbett was arraigned in Yorkville Police Court for violating the Lewis law by giving a sparring exhibition at a local theatre. The theatre manager was also arrested. Both cases were adjourned until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corbett
Yorkville
Lewis Law
Robert Henson to be Hanged in Mercer County
Robert Henson, a Black man convicted in Mercer County Court of murdering Elizabeth Van Lieu and her child whose charred bodies were found buried in their Trenton Junction home a year ago, was sentenced today to be hanged on December 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Henson
Trenton
N. J
Mercer County
Tlizabeth van Lieu
Trenton Junction
Woman in Brookline Stolen Silverware Case Arrested in New York
A 19 year old woman, stopped at the Gilsey House, is charged with stealing 1500 in silverware and jewelry from a Brookline, Massachusetts employer. Det. Becker and Det. Barnett arrested her at Sixth Avenue pawnshop after she confessed.
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Mercer Street
Brookline
Mass
Gilsey
Twenty-ninth Street
Broadway
Central Office
Becker and Barnett
Marion Ki
Mary Walker
Daisy Merritt
May Huntington
Edith L. Chase
Marion Wanamaker
Albert D. Merrill
Rawson Board
Providence
R. I
Parker
Detective Bureau
Paige
San Francisco
Sixth Avenue
Sixth -Avenue
Titus
Becker
Barnett
Mary Driscoll
Woman Charged With Burglary in New Rochelle Case
A seventeen year old woman claiming Virginia origin and Creole background was arrested in Mount Vernon on suspicion of burglary after a New Rochelle residence on Horton Avenue was entered and items including a sealskin collarette and silk dress were stolen. Police report earlier sightings of a dark skinned woman matching her description near other homes and a prior theft of over one thousand dollars in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Mary Elisabeth Thompson
Virginia
New Rochelle
Samuel Heppinger
Horton Avenue
Rubbed Off Vaccine Virus Strikes Plymouth Pupils
Health officials in Plymouth, Wilkes-Barre district, report parents rubbed off smallpox vaccine after application to obtain school certificates. Seventeen children died in Plymouth due to the outbreak, and authorities believe improper rubbing worsened the epidemic. Alvin Marvin, who repaired the pest house chimney, contracted the disease three days after completing the work.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Plymouth
Alvin. Marvin
Cleveland Dolls Treated for Christmas Makeover
Mrs. Grover Cleveland gathered dolls used by her daughters Ruth Esther and Marion and sent them to a Trenton doll hospital for repairs. Some need kid leather grafting or new sawdust with one doll as large as a four year old child and another needing a voice restoration. The dolls will be returned to the Cleveland home late next week.
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Trenton
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Ruth
Esther
Marion Cleveland
Cleveland
Lynching Threat Prompts Alabama Troop Deployment
Sheriff in Covington County wires Governor Jenks with reports of a mob from Opp planning to attack the Andalusia jail and lynch twenty five African Americans connected to the killing of a Town Marshal and a merchant. Governor orders Greenville soldiers to travel by train to Andalusia.
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Montgomery
Ala
Dee
Bru Ian
Covington County
Jenks
Opp
Andalusia
Greenville
Gamble
Canadian Minister's Daughter Drowned in Ottawa River
Miss Bessie Blair daughter of A G Blair Minister of Railways and Canals and H A Harper assistant editor of The Labor Gazette drowned after ice gave way during a private skating party on the Ottawa River. Mr Creelman a bank clerk was rescued unconscious after attempting to help Harper and Miss Blair. Miss Blair's parents are in Clifton Springs New York.
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Ottawa
Creelman
Harper
Miss Blair
Clifton Springs, N. Y
Italians Strike On New York Tunnel Work
A brief, noisy walkout disrupted Section No. 6 of a rapid transit tunnel from Eighty-sixth to One Hundred Sixth Street. Police and reserves intervened as 400 to 2,000 Italian laborers quit briefly, then most returned to work within an hour.
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Eighty-sixth Street
One Hundred and Sixth Street
One Hundredth Street
Eighty-seventh Street
Mub
Bradley
Departure of Richard Croker for West Baden
Richard Croker and horse owner David Gideon head to West Baden Indiana for rest and recreation. Tammany leaders Sullivan and others may join. discussions over Tammany management during Croker’s absence ensue. The Democratic Club debates a constitutional amendment granting the current board power to fill vacancies and run the club until 1904 with dues confirmed at $20 annually.
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Richard Croker
David Gideon
West Baden
Ind
Serxitor Sullivan
Indiana Health Resort
NEW York Times
Thomas F. Smith
A Search for a Mother in Newark
Mrs Ellen Aion Haislys of 2033 Ninth Street New Jersey writes Mayor in quest of information about her mother Mrs Mary Hammond who lived in Newark until 1896 and whose pension records show she applied as a widow. The mayor will oversee a vigorous search for Mrs Hammond.
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Newark
N.J
Ellen Aion Haislys
Ninth Street
Washington
Mary Jammond
Pension Office
Haislys
Fight to the death in Plainfield Italian row ends in stabbings
In Plainfield and North Plainfield a brawl on Watchung Avenue left Leonard Valoral fatally stabbed to the stomach and groin while Gaeton Dantz and two others were arrested. Tony Dado attempted to shoot Savator Valeral. shots harmed Dantz’s wife. The YMC A building area drew a crowd as knives pistols and stones were used. The Dantzes reportedly held a grudge over Valoral’s apparent prosperity.
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Plinfield
N. J
Watchung Avenue
Leonard Valoral
Muhlenberg Hospital
Gaeton Dantz
Tony Dado J
Savator Valeral
Leonard Valeral
Dantz
North Plainfield
Valeral
Dantzes
Valoral
Confessed to Five Murders Hanged in Lake City
Thomas J. Hampton, a Black man, was hanged in Lake City for a double murder at Fort White nine years earlier. He confessed to five murders including one of a conductor in Lexington County in 1887 and others in Georgia. Hampton, working in a turpentine camp, was captured after escaping.
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Lake City
Fla
Thomas J. Hampton
Fort White
Hampton
Lexington County
Georgia
Fire destroys Langfeld Brothers dry goods in Wilkesbarre
Fire swept the Langfeld Brothers dry goods store in Wilkesbarre Penn this morning destroying the building and its large stock. Adjacent clothing shops Simon Longs Sons and Weitzenkorn Brothers suffered extensive damage. Total loss estimated at about 135000 dollars. A spark from a broken electric light wire in a shoe window is blamed.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Langfeld Brothers
Simon Long's Sons
New Breslau Liner Arrives For NGL On Maiden Voyage
The Breslau of the North German Lloyd Line arrived in port yesterday on its first trip. The freight and immigrant passenger ship mirrors the Koln and Cassel design with space for fifty cabin and 1,000 steerage passengers. On its maiden voyage it carried 39 cabin and 1,000 steerage passengers.
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Lloyd
Breslau
North German
Lloyd Line
Koln
Cassel
Life Sentence for Murderer Cuoco at Sing Sing
Andrea Cuoco of 260 Mott Street was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge McMahon in the Court of General Sessions Part II. He shot and killed Bella Cirigliana on April 4 and then killed himself. Cuoco’s wife fainted and was led from the courtroom as the sentence was read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrea Cuoco
Mott Street
Sing Sing
McMahon
Court of General Sessions
Cuoco
Bella Cirigliana
Irish Nationalists Fundraising Conference at Sherry's
A New York meeting presided by John D. Crimmins decided on forming a 25 member permanent committee to raise funds for the Irish Parliamentary Party led by John Redmond. Speakers included Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst and W. Bourke Cochran. subscriptions of 1000 dollars were pledged and plans for mass meetings and future appeals were laid out.
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Ireland
Sherry’s
Forty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
Irish Parlamentary Party
John & Redmond
W. Bourke Cochran
Mr. Redmond
Charles H. Park
Montagu White
John P. Hayes
Crimmins
Parkhurst
England
Scotland
Redmond
Roosevelt
Cochran
McAdoo
T. St. John Gaffney
Lauterbach
Mulholland
Patrick A. McHugh
Patrick O'Donnell
Providence
R. I
New Haven
Hollman House
Intercollegiate Fencing Moves Toward National Body
colleges including Columbia Yale Harvard Cornell Pennsylvania and Annapolis Naval Academy plan dual meets as a path to founding an intercollegiate fencing association. Yale trains under Gouspr with a growing program at Penn Fencing Club expands. Cornell builds a strong roster with coach Brigandi guiding four weekly classes. The Michigan dual is slated for Ann Arbor as part of a broader push to elevate the sport.
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Columbia
Yale
New Haven
C. G. Gunther
Cornell
University of Pennsylvania
Corneh
Pennsylvania
Ithaca Lads
University of Michigan
Harvard
Annapolis Naval Academy
Fencers’Club
New York Athletic Club
Gouspr
Yale Fee Club
Universit Pennsylvania
Athletic Council
Symnasium
Brigandi
A. F. Siebold
J. E. Gignoux Co
W. Davis
W. C Beyer
Cornell Fencers Club
Ann Arbor
Newark Lawyer Reinstated After Extortion Conviction
The New Jersey Supreme Court reinstated Newark lawyer Frank Mc Dermit after about a year disbarment for charging a client two hundred dollars for services deemed extortion. His reinstatement was supported by many leading Newark lawyers and he has deposited 500, which will be returned to the overcharged client.
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Trenton
N. J
Supreme Court
Frank McDermit
Newark
McDermit
Cliert
Bigamist Poses as Salvation Soldier in Trenton
Two Salvation Army members in Trenton say Franklin Williams the alleged murderer and bigamist visited Fourteenth Street Barracks meetings and posed as a soldier. Police are pursuing the lead.
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Bigamist
Trenton
N. J
Salvation Army
New York
Franklin Williams
John Kraus
Salvationists
Fourteenth Street Barracks
Army
Gossip on Appointments From Col Partridge to Monroe
The article reports ongoing speculation on New York political appointments. Col Partridge delays deputies while Monroe dodges Deputy Commissioner talk. Rumors name Benjamin E. Hall as General Sessions judge, Crimmins as Park Commissioner, and William Hepburn Russell for a Commissioners of Accounts post.
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Col. Partridge
Robert Grier Monroe
Monroe
Low
Col. Furtridge
George L. Rives
Justice Jerome
Mr. Moniroe
Benjamin E. Hall
Jerome
John PD. Crimmins
George Traven Putnam
Crimmins
William Hepburn Russell
Greater New York Democracy
Tammany
Appointment of John C Clark as Assistant Corporation Counsel
George L Rives announced John C Clark as Assistant Corporation Counsel to advise Mayor Low. Clark served as Low campaign secretary and formerly managed clerk in Rives office. He is a New York Bar Association member and a director of the YMCA with other official ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George L. Rives
Low
John C. Clark
Col. W. W. Ladd, Jr
Clark
Mr. Rives
New York Bar Association
Young Men's Hristian Association
Fear of Elmira Shapes Sentences for Robbery Comrade
Thomas McCormack, twenty two, jailed for stealing 75 cents, protested Elmira confinement. He preferred Sing Sing to Elmira, recalling a brother's ill treatment and death after Elmira. Recorder Golf sentenced him to one year eight months to three years in Sing Sing as Elmira and other culprits faced different results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas McCormack
Elmira
Sing Sing
Brockway
AfcCormack
State Prison
Elmira Reformatory
Wealthy Italian's Wives Spark Bigamy Arrest Tale
Special to The New York Times from Trenton New Jersey reports Frank Maffino, a wealthy Italian, was arrested for bigamy after trying to host two wives and three months after marrying a second wife, Martinelli. A recent arrival from Italy and his first wife urged him to keep both households under one roof, provoking family tensions and a looming hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N Dee
Frank Maffino
Maffino
Martinelli
Italy
Insurance Interests and Rates Across the Fire Underwriters
R Galatar is named New England special agent of the National Union Fire Insurance Company. Newark Fire Underwriters fix brokerage rates on special hazards and ordinary mercantile risks with approval from the Fire Underwriters Eastern Union. Insured building at 194 Hester Street valued at 350000 with multiple companies listed for coverage. Drug storage regulations and storage rates in New York warehouses discussed by a special committee of the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. The committee members include Stallman, Plant, Bruen, Peters, Tilden, and Hendricks of the New York State Insurance Department. A German imperial insurance law note questions whether imperial supervision will disadvantage foreign insurers. American companies await German government action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Galatar
New Buigland
National Union Fire Insurance Company
Newark
Fire Underwriters’ Association of the
Middle Department
Eastern Union
Hester Street
North British and Mercantile
Fire Association
London Assurance
Hanover
Continental
National of Hartford
Scottish Union
National
American of
Royal
United States
Drug Trade Section
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
John H. Stallman
Albert Plant
Abert Bruen
John M. Peters
Philip S Tilden
jJiendricks
New York State Insurance Department
Tay
Imperial Inw
Germany
Riot at Chester Mill Between Italians and Americans
At Chester Mill Lockport New York a riot broke out between Italian migrants and American workers after a fight between Joe Gambrvine and John McGowen. Stones and weapons were used injuring several. police under Chief Molinetx intervened at gunpoint and made many arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lockport
N.Y
Chester Mill
Joe Gambrvine
John McGowen
Molinetx
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Mrs. Klee
Mr. Klee
Czolgosz
President Free
News OF the Railroads
Ohio Railroad
Gilsey House
Alabama
Plainfield
Florida
Rish
John D. Crimmins
Dr. Parkhurst
MR. Low
J. C. Clark
INGS
Cooper Square West
Cooper ‘Union
Friton Sixkice
DeKate Ave
Dr. Lyon
New Publications
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell
the Century Co
Tiffany
Avenue
Bet
4Th Ave
Mark Hambourg
Vwe
London
Adek Company
Fifth Ave
N. E. Cor
Paris
Berlin
J. H. Caster
Llano
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