Water Board misconduct charges to city officials
Commissioners of Accounts plan to charge incompetence and misconduct against J Edward Simmons Charles Chadwick and Charles A Shaw of the Board of Water Supply over the Ashokan Dam contract. They allege the board rejected the lowest bid by the John Peirce Company despite an engineer advisory that bid was too low, citing inexperience and delay fears without solid justification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioners of Accounts
John Purroy Mitchel
Philip B. Gaynor
Board of Water Supply
J. Edward Simmons
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A. Shaw
Ashokan Dam
McArthur Brothers
Winston Company
John Peirce Company
Chamber of Commerce
Fourth National Bank
Ashokan Reservoir
NS Greene
Simmons
Chadwick
Mrs Magee May Wed Count de Cini in Italy
Reports from Pittsburg indicate Eleanor Magee widow of Christopher L. Magee plans to marry Count de Cini a nephew of Pope Leo XIII. Magee’s estate valued at about 5 million dollars funds the Margaret Steele Magee Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Eleanor Magee
Christopher L. Magee
Count de Cini
Leo XIII
Magee
Rome
Italy
Louise Magee
Baron von Ridenau
Bessie Howe
Howe, Brown & Co
Miss Howe
New York Harbor
Europe
Senator Magee
Florida Lawyer Appointed U.S. Senator to Fill Mallory Seat
Jacksonville sees William J. Bryan named by Gov Broward to serve as United States Senator replacing the late Stephen Russell Mallory. Bryan, 31, Duval County Solicitor, and member of the firm Bryan & Bryan, was born October 10, 1876 in Orange County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Broward
William J. Bryan
United States
Stephen Russell Mallory
Malory
Bryan
Duval
Orange County
John M. Bryan
State Railroad Commission
Emory College
Washington and Lee University
Bryan & Bryan
Nathan P. Bryan
State Educational Board of Control
Democratic Committee
Duncan A. Fletcher
Mallory
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Young Florida Senator Bryan Among Senate's Youthful Power
Washington reports William James Bryan as Florida's new senator the youngest among current members. The piece notes several young peers including Dixon of Montana Guggenheim of Colorado and Kitteredge of South Dakota while detailing Bryan’s ties to Napoleon Broward and his preliminary bid for the seat alongside potential successor Duncan W. Fletcher in Jacksonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
William James Bryan
Florida
Senate
Dixon
Montana
Guggenheim
Colorado
Borah
Idaho
Brandegee
Connecticut
Beveridge
Indiana
Kittereige
South Dakota
Bailey
Boies Penrose
Pennsylvania
Bryan
Napoleon B. Broward
Mallory
Duncan W. Fletcher
Democratic State Committee
Jacksonville
Mr. Mallory
Tragedy On Ninth Avenue Elevated Platform
A couple at Houston Street Ninth Avenue station witnessed a man fall onto the tracks as a southbound train approached. The victim died after the second car passed. no identification found. Police suspect the man fell or was jostled from the last car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Avenue
Houston Street
Trinity Cambridge benefits $2 million from Lady Pearce
Trinity College Cambridge gains about $2 million from the death of Lady Pearce. Her husband Sir William George Pearce, chairman of a London shipbuilding and engines company, died November 2, enlarging the late fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity
Cambridge
London
Trinity College, Cambridge
Pearce
William George Pearce
A Fairld Shipbuilding and
En Ingines Ny
Christmas Day Tragedy Ends Husbands Plea in Hyde Park
Dr. Walter R. Amesbury shot his wife Anna Amesbury during a Christmas reunion at 198 Metropolitan Avenue Hyde Park Massachusetts. She died moments later in the kitchen after a dispute over their reunion. The couple had separated last August and had two sons present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Hyde Park
Mass
Walter R. Amesbury
Anna
Jennie Reese
Amesbury
Roanoke Female College
Danville
Dedham
Milford
London Sees Record Holiday Exodus and Quiet Streets
London a Christmas holiday from Tuesday to Friday left the city unusually empty with nearly a million people traveling to provinces and the Continent. Reports show brisk trade despite money rumors, while wine cigar merchants and turkey dealers face challenges under the bribery prevention act. Some firms use the law to dodge the annual gift tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Turkeys
Dan O'Reilly Ill in Sanatorium Detailing Pneumonia
Daniel O'Reilly, personal counsel to Harry K. Thaw, is ill with pneumonia in a private sanitarium at 465 Lexington Avenue. Doctors Dr. Philip O'Hanlon and Dr. Mosart report his recovery chances are excellent after three days of treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel O'Reilly
Harry K. Thaw
Lexington Avenue
Philip O’hanlon
Mosart
O’reilly
Muldoon
Westchester County
Booth Tarkington Fights Detected in Indianapolis Riot
In Indianapolis at about 2 a.m. Pecbie Booth Tarkington clashed with two detectives near Washington Street and Capitol Avenue. After resisting police attempting to place him in a carriage, Tarkington was restrained, taken to the station, charged with resisting officers, and later released on recognizance with the case continued to Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Indianapolis
Pecbie
Tarkington
Manning
Samuels
Pastor Rejects Godless Coin Gift From Church Members
In Pittsburg on Christmas night Rev. Dr. W A Jones refused $100 in new gold coins given by Knoxvilles Presbyterian Church trustees. Five $20 pieces lacking the motto In God We Trust prompted his vow to return the money. Trustees planned to exchange coins at the bank next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
W. A. Jones
Knoxvilles Presbyterian Church
Two men held in grand larceny case in New York
William Faker and Charles Krause were arrested at the West Forty-seventh Street Station on charges of grand larceny. Police say they ordered groceries by phone to multiple addresses, charging accounts, then sent men to collect goods from the deliveries. Grocers Acker Merrall Condit report losses between 2000 and 8000 dollars in under a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Faker
Charles Krause
East Twenty-third Street
West Forty-seventh Street
Acker, Merrall & Condit
Helen M. Gould
Fifth Avenue
Harry Payne Whitney
West Seventy-fifth Street
Ogden Mills
Sixth Avenue
Artist Benoit Detained Over $12 Rector's Christmas Meal
A Brooklyn artist named Albert E Benoit was arrested after refusing to pay a $12 Rector's meal bill following two hours of dining. He allegedly spurned the waiter and included a three hour taxi fare dispute with his driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert E. Benoit
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
Rector’s
Rector
Benoit
Hackman
Emile Schallings
Perret
Frederick Fell
West Fortyseventh Street
Seward Walzer
Ete
Finn
Rector's
Lock
Lambert
Warped OCR Summary Card
A compact note presents unreadable fragments from a historical page. Readable parts hint at a brief item or notice but lack clear names, dates, or places.
Diplomat in Vienna Recalled Over Anonymous Wife Scandal
A Vienna dispatch reports a scandalous case where anonymous letters attacked a diplomat's wife, prompting outrage in diplomatic circles. The perpetrator, a well known ambassador, was identified by handwriting and recalled from Vienna, ending the attempt to force the husband to quit his post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
London
Vienna
Burned at the Altar in Sixth Street Home
Michael Byrnes found his wife dead from burns at their top floor apartment 338 Sixth Street after a fire started while she knelt at a candle lit altar with a Christ Child statue in the dining room. Firemen extinguished the blaze and an ambulance declared her dead at Bellevue Hospital. Police report a neat flat and unknown cause pending husband’s return from work at a brewery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Byrnes
Sixth Street
Byrnes
Bellevue Hospital
Cat Saved From Fifth Avenue Apartment Fire
A Christmas tree toppled during candles on a tree caused a blaze at 295 Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Louis Wallbrecht fled with her cat Nellie as flames wrecked her fourth floor rooms before firemen saved the building, about $2,000 in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Wallbrecht
Fifth Avenue
Wallbrecht
Nellie
Keefe
West Thirtieth Street
Civil War Veteran Killed by Third Avenue Trolley
James Rhind 68, a civil war veteran of 717 Madison Avenue, was run over and killed by a southbound Third Avenue trolley at Sixty fourth Street in the early hours yesterday. He bought a necktie for his son, then crossed the tracks and was fatally struck. Motorman Patrick Gallagher was arraigned in Coroner Herburger's court, held in 5000 bail for the inquest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rhind
Madison Avenue
Sixty-fourth Street
Chancellorsville
James
East Sixty-fourth Street
Rhind
Third Avenue
Sixtyfourth Street
Fotard
Patrick Gallagher
Herburger
Theeresta Gallagher
Marines Riot at Norfolk in Christmas Night Disturbances
Marines from the navy yard and training stations clashed with African Americans during Christmas revelry in Norfolk Virginia. Rapid street rioting required police reserves after squads of marines roamed the area causing frequent collisions and rough fighting. Authorities cite recent tensions between recruits and Black servants as a contributing factor to the disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Via
Navy Yard
Mutinous Sailors in Irons Aboard Lonsdale
Details reach Mexico City of a mutiny on the steamship Lonsdale as officers and passenger A. W. Donely subdued the crew at Salina Cruz. The ship arrived with crew in irons while officers and armed passengers secured the bridge and handed the mutineers over to authorities aboard the Lee liner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Lonsdale
Salina Cruz
A. W. Donely
Lee
Lynching Sparks Mass Departure of Negroes in Henrietta
In Muskogee Oklahoma on December 25 a mob forced black residents to abandon Henrietta within forty eight hours after the lynching of James Garden following the murder of Albert Bates. A second jail assault sought Bill Smith but Sheriff Robertson moved the suspect to Okmulgee. Jim Johnson who supplied Garden a rifle was also taken to Okmulgee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Oklahoma
Henrietta
James Garden
Albert Bates
Bill Smith
Garden
Robertson
Okmulgee
Jim Johnson
President Boet Heads to Pinehurst with Roosevelt Party
President Boet departs Washington with Mrs. Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr for a holiday outing at Pineae Ve. They plan horseback riding in Virginia hills and will stay through Tuesday, returning for the White House New Year’s reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Boet
Lea R Pine
Southern Railroad
Christmas Oil Fire Blackens Petersburg Streets
In Butler Pennsylvania on Christmas Day an oil well in Petersburg caught fire and oil flowed into the streets from curb to curb. Fire crews battled flames as burning oil threatened nearby buildings and derricks, and with steam and wet blankets the blaze was finally smothered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Butler
Penn
Petersburg
Fire under gas meter at Kaplan's delicatessen
John Kaplan discovers a blaze in the cellar of his 206 East Ninety-eighth Street delicatessen traced to oil soaked rags under a gas meter near benzine. He extinguishes it before fire engines. The nine previous fires in the same house, a tenement with a dry goods store below, prompt detectives to investigate after his Maltese cat goes missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kaplan
Ninety-eighth Street
Jacob Dung
Kaplan
East Side Rent Strike Aims to Starve Out Landlords
Tenants led by Pauline Newman of 1717 Madison Avenue vow to form district groups push for rent cuts of one to two dollars monthly. If rejected they will withhold payment or vacate, seek time to answer in court and litigate each case separately as organizers promise prolonged occupancy without rent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Newman
Madison Avenue
West Itig
Navy Bureau dispute airs over hospital ships and reforms
Surgeon General Rixey admits clash with Admiral Brownson over hospital ship command and bureau interference. He argues hospital ships should be medical officer led and urges immediate relief of the Relief for fleet needs. Critics call for radical Navy Department reorganization as the row widens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington, D. C
Rixey
Navy
Brownson
Bureau of Navigation
Navy Department
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Surgeon General
Admiral Brownson
Washington
Naval
United States Army
Army and Navy
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Army
Medical Department
Relief
Agdalena Bay
Sigshbee
Europe
John Paul Jones
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