Columbia May Get S P C A Chair For Humane Studies
An anonymous donor offers 100000 to Columbia University for a chair in humane studies in memory of Henry Bergh founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Trustees weigh acceptance as 1907 donations to the society set a record and finances remain strong.
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Columbia University
American Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Henry Bergh
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Augustus Schermerhorn
Columbia
Collery
Wagstaff
New York
Women's Auxiliary
Art Commission
Society
Albany
Department of
Coal Merchants’ Association
Brooklyn Teacher Arrested for Abducting Son in Connecticut
Special to The New York Times Stamford Conn Jan C William Festus O Meara a Brooklyn Public School 27 teacher was arrested at Sound Beach three miles west of Stamford while abducting his 2 year old son William He drove the child from Stamford after taking him from his grandparents yard and was caught boarding a train for New York Police say the couple married secretly in 1904 and their estrangement left the wife in Stamford with their two boys
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New York Times
Stamford
Conn
Jan. C
William Festus O'Meara
Twelfth Street
Broooklyn
Nelson and
Hicks Streets
Brooklyn
Sound Beach
William
Iie
New York
O'Meara
Manhattan College
Lillian McGauhan
Samuel J. McGauhan
Henry Street
New Haven Normal School
Long Island
St. John’s Church
O’meara
Ridgefield Park Bad List Mention Steals Spotlight
During a Hackensack trial of Benjam in D Stern a dry goods expert convicted of assault the Ridgefield Park police chief described a local “bad list” of men seen in streets after dark The exchange highlights the town’s vigilante standard and the defendant’s reputation before the jury verdict of guilt.
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Ridgefield Park
N. J
Hackensack
Alfred H.schaefer
Hoey
Koester
Schaefer
P. W. Stagg
Stern
Minnie Stern
Doctor Marries Widow of Bride’s Mother in City Hall Move
Dr Horace N Marvin of Dover Delaware, father of Horace Marvin who vanished. He wed Flora M Swift, widow and mother of his bride, at City Hall with Rev Houghton and witnesses Myles Standish Howard Marvin. The couple planned to reside in Delaware and travel by train to Dover after the ceremony.
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Horace N. Marvin
Dover
Del
Horace Marvin
Marvin
Flora M. Swift
Swift
Scully
Houghton
Litttle Church
Delaware
Brookline
Mass
Ohio
Franzburg
Thornton
Church of the Transfiguration
West Twenty-ninth Street
Myles Standish
Howard Marvin
Earl Grey Orders Burial for H. Grey Duberry
The Stephen Merritt Burial Company received a telegram from Earl Grey Governor General of Canada directing the burial of H. Grey Duberry who killed himself at The Hermitage on Monday. Funeral set for 12:30 PM today at Mount Kensington Cemetery. Duberly was a distant relative of Earl Grey and left a letter requesting notification. Two women visited the company yesterday seeking the body. both appeared deeply affected. No word has come from the young man’s English relatives.
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Stephen Merritt Burial Company
Earl Grey
Canada
H. Grey Duberry
Hermitage
Mount Kensi¢o
Duberly
Jiarl Grey
Stephen Merritt Company
Hoth
England
Italian butler held in $18,000 Ansonia robbery
Frank F. Rida an Italian butler and his wife Enrica and Carlo his brother living at 554 West Forty-ninth Street were arrested by Detectives Wilber Geyer and Trabucci for the Ansonia Connecticut jewelry heist from the home of C. F. Brooker. Brooker a director of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad employed Rida up to six months ago. Carlo stayed in the household after his brother left.
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Frank F. Rida
Enrica
Carlo
West Forty-ninth Street
Wilber, Geyer
Trabucci
C. F. Brooker
Ansonia
Conn
Brooker
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Rida
Aida
Women Scare Col James Hamilton Lewis
Chicago January 9 Indignant women have tracked Col James Hamilton Lewis after his Northwestern University law lecture where he was accused of calling women witnesses perjurers He says he did not make such a claim and defines women into classes noting a last class of suing women for money for revenge or cupidity while praising good women
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Chicago
James Hamilton Lewis
Northwestern University Law
Col. Lewis
Farm colony scheme ends in bankruptcy in Newark
Allan Macnaughtan, husband of East Side writer Myra Selly, faces bankruptcy in Newark after a failed plan to establish an English lit erary colony in New Jersey. He recalls seeds that failed, ducks that disappeared, and chickens that died as reasons for the collapse and says he will try farming again. The bank rupture hearing resumes January 24 with Mrs. Macnaughtan testifying.
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Allan Macnaughtan
New Jersey
Newark
N. J
Macnaughtan
Myra Mary Selly
Mr. Macnaughtan
Mr. Pierce
Schmitz Conviction Reversed by Court of Appeals
San Francisco dispatch reports the District Court of Appeals overturning the Superior Court verdict in the Schmitz French Restaurant extortion case. Ruef also cleared. both men face possible release on bail pending further actions and new indictments.
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New York Times
San Francisco
District Court of Appeals
Superior Court
Schmitz
Dunne
Heneyn
Ruet
Abe Ruef
Aba Ruef
Ruef
Supreme Court
Whic
Langdon
Ritz
Francis J. Heney
United States
Charles J. Bonaparte
Oregon
Washington
Roosevelt
Heney
Patrick Calhoun
United Railroads
Portland
Hall
Zeppelin Plans Airship to Carry 100 Passengers
Count Zeppelin intends to construct a new airship in Berlin capable of carrying 100 passengers. His prior craft measured 187 yards long and 13 yards in diameter and carried 11 passengers and 3,300 pounds of ballast. The new design will be 26 yards longer and 3 yards wider to achieve the needed capacity.
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New York Times
Berlin
Count Zeppelin
Controversy Over San Francisco Coadjutor Choice In Rome
Cardinal Martinelli to present the San Francisco coadjutor nomination before the Propaganda Fide next week. He supports Rev. Edward Janna of Rochester amid charges of modernism. Critics say Archbishop Riordan controlled the list and sought papal ratification for Hanna, pending Propaganda endorsement.
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Rome
Cardinal Martinelli
The
Sacred College
Congregation of the Propaganda
Whch
San Francisco
Martinelli
Edward J. Ianna
Rochester
Hanna
Riordan
Propaganda
Dr. Hanna
Fear for Jack London Lost at Sea on Pacific Cruise
Friends fear for author Jack London as his small boat the Snark, en route from San Francisco to the Marquesas on a seven year World cruise, may be adrift after gales. London left Hilo October 7 with wife, crew, and gear including a 75 hp engine and 1000 gallons of fuel.
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San Francisco
Cal
Jack London
Marquesas Islands
London
Hilo
Hawaii
Marquesas
la Hi
Tahiti
Eames
Golden Gate
Honolulu
China
Pacific
Yokohama
Smith College President urges easier entrance exams
President L Clark Seelye argues in the annual Smith College report that simplifying admission tests would shorten pupilage and reduce costs. He warns high study demands delay graduation and harm family life, noting access to higher education favors wealthier classes and could affect both sexes’ marriage timing and physical development.
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New York Times
Northampton
Mass
L. Clark Seelye
Smith College
Smith
Selye
Heroic Rescuer Killed After Saving Woman at Station
Frank J. McErien of Richmond Hill died protecting Mrs. Mary Sheels of 177 Norman Street Ridgewood from an approaching Long Island Railroad train at Richmond Hill station yesterday after 5 pm. Mrs Sheels, rushing to catch a city train, stepped around closed gates, stumbled on the tracks, and McErien pulled her clear but was struck and fatal.
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Mary Sheels
Norman Street
Ridgewood
Frank J. McErien
Richmond Till
L.L
Long Island Railroad
Richmond Hill
Mr. McBrien
Bear Hunt Details Stir Northern Berkshire Interest
A black bear owned by P. J. Tyre is being trained and fed for a bear hunt to be staged in North Adams at a later date. Tyre claims the bear could defend itself and possibly one or more hunters. He warns mothers to keep children indoors and farmers to watch livestock, drawing wary response from rural residents.
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New York Times
Lenoxdal i
Mass
Tyre
North Adams
Sugge
Berkshire
Thaw Witnesses Protests Over Expert Fees
Dr. Austin Flint of 118 East Nineteenth Street met with Controller Metz about reducing his Thaw trial expert bill. The Division of Examination cut $292.50 for travel time and time charges, based on a $100 daily rate and $15 hourly rate. Dr. Carlos Macdonald’s bill was cut by $255. he lives at 70 West Forty-sixth Street.
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Austin Flint
East Nineteenth Street
Metz
Flint
Jerome
Criminal Court
Carlos Macdonald
West Forty-sixth Street
Lottery in the House assigns rooms in new Office Building
Washington Jan 9 amid confusion House members held a lottery for offices in the nearing completed House Office Building. Speaker Cannon suspended the session to restore order as lawmakers crowded the floor plans and limited assignments to non committee chair members among 334 ranks.
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Washington
House of Representatives
House
Cannon
Dr. Andrews Considers Resignation From Nebraska University
Lincoln Neb Jan 9 Chancellor E Benjamin Andrews has placed his resignation in the hands of the Regents to take effect at their pleasure It is likely to be accepted at the end of the current school year The move stems from unpopularity over his defense of Rockefeller and fundraising for the Rockefeller Endowment Fund President Andrews is on the pension list with his future secured He came to Nebraska during the era of free silver and was installed by Bryan and other silver leaders
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New York Times
Lincoln
Neb
E. Benjamin Andrews
University of Nebraska
Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Andrews
Rockefeller Endowment Fund
Nebraska University
Bryan
Nebraska Institution
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Piiecer
George. Lauder Carnegie
Thaw
Morse exits several New York banks in stock sales
W W Morse sells his stake in the Fourteenth Street Bank to president R Ross Appleton. He reportedly disposed of holdings in the New Amsterdam National Bank and is understood to have sold shares in the Mercantile National. An attempted consolidation of the National Bank of North America with the Consolidated National failed, with options returned to Morse, though he remains owner of record of much North America stock.
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Consolidated National
Morse
National Bank of North America
American Club elects new officers at Paris meeting
At the annual meeting of the American Club in Paris on January 9, Col. Theodore Dodge was elected to succeed W. Dalliba as president. Inman Barnard was chosen vice president after Dalliba completed his second term.
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NEW York Times
Paris
The
American Club
Dalliba
Col
Theodore Dodge
Inman Barnard
Enemies pursue farmer after dynamite discovery
Frederick W. Owens of Stony Hill, Bethel, found a box with thirteen sticks of dynamite and percussion caps near his workshop door amid ongoing harassment by an enemy. An arrest was made in connection with poisoning his livestock, former farm worker Albert Zeiberlein charged.
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Bethel
Conn
Frederick W. Owens
Stony Hill
Here
Owens
Albert Zeiberlein
Mark Twain Supports Knickerbocker Plan in Bank Rehab
Samuel L. Clemens known as Mark Twain deposits 51 199 dollars in Knickerbocker Trust and sends assent to the Parsons Satterlee rehabilitation plan. Justice Clark grants two week extension to gather depositors assent while a court order allows Brandy Moody Shipman to sign a formal assent.
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Satterlee-Parsons
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Clemens
Ss. L. Clemens
Justice Clark
Parsons-Satterlee
Chatfield
United States District Court
Brandy, Moody & Shipman
Broadways Southbound Trains Advertised by Railroad Line
Florida's Information Bureau lists three great trains on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad route southbound from Broadway at 30th Street.
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Florida’ Information Bureau
Broadway, Cor. 30Th St
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Austrian Gov to Run Radium Cure Center in Joachimsthal
Vienna reports the Austrian government will operate a large radium cure facility at Joachimsthal Bohemia the sole known radium source. Requests from Carlsbad England and others to rent the site were declined as the state plans direct supervision and a major project.
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New York Times
Vienna
Joachimsthal
Bohemia
Carlsbad
England
Morgan Optimistic at Steel Corporation Dinner
J. P. Morgan attended the Steel Corporation dinner for presidents of its subsidiaries, the Finance Committee and legal department. He spoke after years of silence and was described as conservatively optimistic. Other speakers included President W. E. Corey and Frank Stetson.
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J. P. Morgan
Steel ‘Corporation
Finance Committee
Mr. Morgan
Wall Street
W. E. Corey
H. C. Frick
George W. Perkins
Frank Stetson
Morgan Seeks Cortelyou Visit Denied By Closest Aides
Washington reports that J Pierpont Morgan visited Washington to meet Secretary Cortelyou on an unknown mission. Morgan’s party denies any authorization for such a meeting and calls the tale moonshine.
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Washington
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
Mgr. Morgan
Mr. Morgan
Cortelyou
Engineer Le Moine Accused of False Pretenses Fraud
Paris January 9 An engineer named Le Moine was arrested on the charge of securing 520.00 from Sir Julius Wernher a De Beers director by pretended methods for making artificial diamonds. Police say the process was mere sleight of hand.
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Paris
Lemoine
Julius Wernher
de Beers Company
Str Jillus
Southern Pacific Wreck Kills Five Near San Jose
Sunset Limited Express No. 10 on the Southern Pacific was wrecked south of San Jose at Rucker. The train ran an hour late and five people were reported killed with twelve injured. Details are scarce as the nearest telegraph station is five miles away.
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San Jose
Cal
Southern Pacific
Rucker
Here
Vanderbilt to Travel From Idle Hour Estate
Sayville dispatch reports W K Vanderbilt plans a two year Europe trip leaving Idle Hour Oakdale L I and reducing expenses. Many longtime employees will be dismissed as the power plant is shut down stock sold and the mansion guarded by a caretaker.
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New York Times
Sayville
W. K. Vanderbilt
Oakdale
L. L
Europe
Pastor James A. Kaye Stands Trial for Counterfeiting
In Springfield Illinois United States District Court the Rev. James A. Kaye pastor of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Lincoln Illinois faced trial on counterfeiting charges. He admits making coins but says the work was to determine if he could craft medals for Sunday School children.
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Springfield
United States District
James A. Kaye
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Lincoln
Ill
Kaye
Spies Observe Submarines Off Narragansett Bay
Newport R I Jan 9 For a week two strangers likely foreign or military attachés watched the submarines Viper Tarantula and Cuttlefish of the second flotilla operating along Narragansett Bay. They obtained clear views with cameras from James town and Coddington Cove using a small power boat. No government personnel or crew know these visitors. They are not Japanese.
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New York Times
Newport
R. L
Washington
Narragansett Bay
Jamestown
Coddington Cove
Leading stage actor in Divorcons ailing in Detroit
Frank Worthing, star opposite Grace George this season, is critically ill with pneumonia in Detroit. Dr. H M Rich said he may not survive the night.
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Detroit
Frank Worthing
Grace George
H. M. Rich
Gillette Seeks New Trial On Errors Of Law
A new trial for Chester Gillette was requested from the Court of Appeals on grounds of errors of law in the trial that led to his death sentence for the murder of Grace or Billy Brown. Ex Senator A M Mills, Gillette’s counsel since arrest, filed the appeal in Albany.
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Albany
N. Y
Chester Gillette
Grace
Billy” Brown
Court of Appeals
A. M. Mills
Little Falls
Gillette
Steamer Arrivals and Seaboard Florida Service Update
Arrived at Havre the steamer Hudson and at Amsterdam the steamer Mannheim. Seaboard Florida Limited Service promoted as best, with routes to Pinehurst Camden and Florida via 1,183 Broadway. Adv.
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Hudson
Havre
Mannheim
Amsterdam
Seaboard Florida
Pinehurst
Camden
Florida
Fourth panel exhausted in Thaw jury selection
The fourth panel of jurors neared exhaustion as Justice Dowling prepared to order a Saturday session if needed for a verdict in the Thaw trial. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw influenced challenges, with Mrs Thaw preparing to testify and subpoenaing actress Edna Goodrich for potential testimony.
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Talesman
Harry Ks Thew
Stanford White
Supreme Court
Dowling
al Fifth Panth
Jerome
Mr. Littleton
Littleton
Justice Dowling
Talesmen
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Sir Julius Wernher
Charles E. Gremmetts
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Arthur S. Naething
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George W. Cary
George Co. Ruppreccht
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