Studio quarrel over alleged revolver clash between actresses
Alderman Reginald S Doull his wife photographer Luther White and the studio manager testified about a Saturday incident at Broadway and Forty sixth Street in which two young women the blonde and the brunette argued then scuffled with no revolver fired and no shots. Mrs White and the manager deny any weapon or firearm use.
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Reginald S. Doull
Luther 8
S. White
Broadway
Forty-sixth Street
City Hall
Mr. White
Mrs. Doul
Husban
Alderman Doull
Board of Aldermen
Alderman Brown
Mr. Doull
Two Drowned in Potomac Near Cabin John Bridge
A botanist from the National Museum, Joseph H. Painter aged 30, and R. S. Wallis, 16, a boy electrician, are believed drowned after their frail canoe overturned in the Potomac about three miles west of Cabin John Bridge. Police fear the swift rocky channel hid their bodies as search efforts continue. Both men resided in northwest Washington.
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New York Times
Washington
Joseph H. Painter
National Museum
R. S. Wallis
Potomac River
Painter
Cabin John Bridge
Georgetown
Stubblefield Falls
Wallis
Mrs Chesebrough Dies by Her Own Hand in Bristol
Emma Russell Chesebrough aged 39 wife of yacht designer Alfred S Chesebrough died by suicide in Bristol on December 6 after years of melancholy and insomnia. She shot herself twice in the head while husband and two children, a sister Mrs Samuel P Colt and her mother Mrs Emma Westcott Bullock, survive along with her father former Lieutenant Governor Jonathan Russell Bullock.
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Bristol
R. I
Emma Russell Chesebrough
Alfred S
Chesebrough
Scotland
Jonathan Russell Bullock
Samuel P. Colt
United States Rubber Company
Emma Westcott-Bullock
Boston
Palisades No Bar to Hudson Tunnels Saving Millions
D. D. McBean, builder of major subway tunnels, rejects a report claiming tunnels above Forty-second Street cannot be built without Palisades tunneling. He cites his October estimate showing feasible, cheaper roadway tunnels with shafts, elevator access, and lower overall costs than proposed bridges. A public hearing will decide between tunnels and bridges.
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D. D. McBean
Harlem River
la Salle Street
Chicago
Net
Inter-State Bridge Commission
Thirty-fourth Street
North River
Palisades
New Jersey Shore
the Palisades
Commission
McBean
Forty-second Street
New Jersey
Cincinnati
Glasgow
Fifty-seventh Street
110Th Street
179Th Street
McPeen
Pennsylvania Railroad
Inter-State Commission
Mayor Sanderson Fights Back With Unmuzzled Press
Springfield mayor William E. Sanderson, publisher and editor of The Unmuzzled Press, attacks opponents as his paper leads a fierce campaign against Democratic challenger James B. Carroll. Sanderson seeks a near record plurality re election, with betting on next Tuesday's vote volatile.
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New York Times
Springfield
Mass
William E. Sanderson
Sanderson
James B. Carroll
Shot in Bronx Hold Up Involves Boston Printer
Charles Gallagher a Boston printer with a temporary Manhattan address went to the Bronx early yesterday to visit friends. He says a man at Webster Avenue and Depot Place demanded a match then struck him and fired a bullet into his left leg before fleeing with Gallagher’s watch and $18. He was taken to Fordham Hospital where doctors described the wound as painful but not serious.
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Charles Gallagher
Boston
East Thirty-fourth Street
Manhattan
Bronx
205Th Street
Webster Avenue
Depot Place
Gallagher
Bronx Park
Fordham Hospital
Fur coat horrified horse forces sale in Greenwich
In Greenwich on December, S Warren Mead a wealthy farmer said he would sell his new fur overcoat after his 14 year old horse reacted violently. The horse attacked the wagon breaking shafts and harness and rolled on its back when the coat appeared. The incident followed Mead purchasing the coat in New York.
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New York Times
Greenwich
Dec
S. Warren Mead
I. N
Man Believed To Be George W Long Dying After Robbery
Police say a man about 35 and of Philadelphia identity lay dying in the main hall of 240 East Twenty first Street after an apparent assault. He wore fine clothes, had a head wound and temple contusion, and was found by tenant Margaret Simmons. Ambulance surgeon Lackey pronounced him dead on arrival.
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George W. Long
Philadelphia
East Twenty-first Street
Lackey
Bellevue Hospital
Burfeind
East Twenty-second Street
Margaret Simmons
McCarthy
Educators at Ithaca for American Universities Meet
Ithaca hosts the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities on January 7 and 8 1909 with distinguished educators from across the country. Delegates include Schurman Willcox Alderman James Eliot Kinley Northrup Wheeler and other leaders from Cornell Virginia Yale Harvard Minnesota California Wisconsin Pennsylvania Columbia and more.
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New York Times
Ithaca
Schurman
Association of American Universities
University of California
Walter F. Willcox
Cornell University
David Finley
University of Illinois
W. F. Willcox
Department of Political Economy and Statistics
David Kinley
Jacob Gould Schurman
Walter Francis Willcox
University of Virginia
Edwin Alderman
James Morris Page
Yale University
Edmund J. James
Harvard University
Charles William Eliot
Joseph Warren
University of Minnesota
Cyrus Northrup
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Irving Stringham
George M. Stratton
University of Wisconsin
Charles R. Vanchise
University of Pennsylvania
Herman V. Ames
Columbia University
Munro Smith Eaton
William Henry Carpenter Willard
Quebec Election Protest Shakes Laurier Rank
Montreal reports the 1900 Quebec protests over 35 of 65 seats led to court battles. Libs hold 24 seats to 11 Conservatives, with an effort to disqualify Laurier lieutenants L. P. Brodeur Rudolph Lemieux and Sydney Fisher. If upheld, they could be barred from office for seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Quebec
Laurier
Liboa
Wilfrid
Wilfrid Laurier’s Principal Leutenants In the Province Ofuebec, L. P. Brodeur
Rudolphe Lemieux
Sydney Fisher
Missing D. M. Clemson Sailed On Lake Superior Sinks
In Duluth Minnesota December 6 owners report the steel freighter D M Clemson sunk in a gale. Twenty five crew presumed drowned as tugs search the lake. Clemson, 5000 tons coal laden, was a week overdue at this port. Captain S R Chamberlain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
D. M. Clemson
S. R. Chamberlain
Clemson
Lake Superior
Bryan Speech Sparks Tragic Death at Texas State College
A Proctor named James B. Clark collapsed during William Jennings Bryan's address on the Texas State University grounds in Austin. He died within minutes from heart disease, but the program continued to avoid panic among the crowd.
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Austin
Texas
William J. Bryan
Texas State University
James B. Clark
Clark
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