Two Boys Slain In Bronx Snow Attack On Edgecombe
A bearded man described as Greek or Italian fired on six year olds Arthur Shibley and Robbie Lomas on Lovers Lane at Edgecombe Avenue and 165th Street above Highbridge Park. Robbie died on the slope. Arthur was wounded as the assailant fled toward 165th Street. The gunman, described as bearded with a black slouch hat and light overcoat, remains at large.
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Coogan
Edgecombe Avenue
165Th Street
Polo Grounds
McCallum
Morrisania
Crusin
West 152d Street
John Frederick
Gerard Avenue
Bronx
Harlem River
Park Avenue
152D
Frederick
Lebanon Hospital
Robert Lomas
Arthur Shibley
West 164Th Street
Highbridge Park
Mr. Shibley
Mr. Lomas
Robbie
Arthur
Iighbridge Park
Speedway
200Th Street
Washington Heights
160Th Street
Harlem
Park Department
Police Department
Jumel Mansion
Robbie Lomas
Lovers’ Lane
Man beaten in Riverside Drive robbery in Harlem apartment
C De Forest Smith wholesale shoe manager, living at 660 Riverside Drive, was assaulted on the Broadway subways and at a steep Riverside Drive entrance. He awoke minutes later with head injuries and missing a small amount of money while his watch and chain remained. Two unknown men fled after the attack.
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C. de Forest Smith
Elbe
Riverside Drive
W. R. C. Larson
Smith
145Th Street
Broadway
144Th Street
Stoop
Mr.Smith
Clay
Changes in the Road Leaders Named in Rock Island Case
Robert Walker became president and D G Reid's representative R A Jackson retires as part of the Rock Island case changes. The report notes brokers are suspended in the same context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
G. Reid
R. A. Jackson
Liberal Stock Exchange Suspends Chapin & Co Leaders
The Governing Committee twice hours considered the Rock Island stock rise and suspended S B Chapin and partner BE Countiss for sixty and thirty days respectively. The action follows a Dec 27 order to buy 40 000 shares for a customer, which caused the opening spike. Chapin & Co deny wrongdoing and vow to continue operations with other brokers. Robert Walker named Rock Island Company president replacing Richard A Jackson. Also notes D G Reid’s Rock Island trading and broader market implications.
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Rock Island
S. B. Chapin & Co
S. B. Chapin
BE. D. Countiss
Chapin & Co
Hughes Wall Street
Eet
Exchange
Stock Exchange
Rock Island Company
Robert Walker
Richard A. Jackson
Rock Island Railroad
Walker
Mr. Jackson
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Chicago
Amherst
Columbia
Jackson
Daniel G. Reid
William H. Moore
The
Rock Island Common
New York Stock Exchange
Trinity Building
Broadway
7. G. Gates & Co
John W
Oliver P. Cooke
Armour
New York
D. G. Reid
Reid
Morse Home for Rent on Fifth Avenue Furnished
The Morse home at 728 Fifth Avenue between Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Streets is for rent furnished. The four story stone house holds valuable Oriental rugs and paintings reportedly worth over 100000 dollars. The furniture matches mahogany decor on the second floor as the building sits amid growing nearby commercial development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Morse
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-sixth
Fifty-seventh Streets
Atlanta
Boy killed as car cuts up on snowhouse incident
Motorman John J. Murphy slowed a Park Avenue car near Jefferson Street Williamsburg to avoid a snowhouse where a group of boys placed a Christmas tree. A 6 year old Otto Kramer slipped and was ground to pieces by the wheels before the car stopped. Murphy was arrested.
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John J. Murphy
Park Avenue
Jefferson Street
Williamsburg
Murphy
Otto Kramer
Central Avenue
Woods
Bushwick Hospital
Conferences on Harriman suits in Taft administration
Washington January 12 conferences pursue a memorandum for President Taft by Attorney General Wickersham and Frank Kellogg on dropping the Union Pacific South Pacific merger dissolution suits. Government special counsel C A Severance joined talks to review the case and plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Taft
Wickersham
Frank B. Kellogg
Union Pacific and
South Pacific Railroad
C. A. Severance
Kellogg
White House
Congress
Nagel
Root
Times Preview Deadlines Prompt Preorders With Dealers
In advance of next Sunday's edition, readers are urged to place orders with news dealers today to ensure access to the many notable features planned for the issue. The notice emphasizes early purchase by subscribers and sellers to secure copies.
Post Office Building in New York Gets Major Contract
Secretary MacVeagh awarded George A. Fuller Company a 349500 dollar contract to erect part of the New York Post Office building superstructure for the railway mail section. It aims for completion by July 10 corresponding with the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
MacVeagh
George A. Fuller Company
New York City
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Terminal
Thirty-first
Thirty-third Streets
Eighth
Ninth Avenues
Reformers Form New League in Albany
A coalition of reform groups including the Prohibition Party and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union formed the allied moral and civic association in Albany. Ella Boole was elected president and C. E. Pitts and Rev. O. R. Miller named to the legislation committee to push reform laws. The alliance plans local option on a county basis with a two year revisit if wet, or permanent dry if chosen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Allied Moral and Civic Association
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Prohibition Party
Ella Boole
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Capitol
Boole
C. E. Pitts
O. R. Miller
International Reform Bureau
Washington
New York Anti-Saloon League
Order of Good Templars
Royal Temperance League
Secret Law and Order League
Paulhan Sets Altitude Record Near Four Thousand Feet
Louis Paulhan, flying a Farman biplane at Aviation Camp Los Angeles, reaches over 4,000 feet in a height record for heavier-than-air flight and descends safely after about 50 minutes in the air. He briefly held the speed record earlier, and crowds cheered as he landed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Louis Paulhan
Farman
Paulhan
Latham
Glenn H. Curtiss
Paris
Cortlandt Field Hee
Aero Club of America
Curtiss
Earth
New York
Huntington Park
Aviation Camp
Mme
Beachey
Knabenshue
Maisson
Eee
Peoria
Dick Ferris
C. Crowall
Aeronaut
Kanee
Mary
Clifford B. Harmon
aNt C. Goodwin
Bud Wood Thorpe
Mme. Paulhan
Baron Robert de Penendorff
Mme. de Penendorff
George Harrison
Rising Mountainht
Cortlandt Field Bishop
Miscard
Bishop
Hubert Latham
Mourmelon
France
H. S. Harkness
Orville Wright
Postal Telegraph Cable Seeks Name Change to Transcontinental
An application filed yesterday in the Supreme Court before Justice Hendrick seeks to rename the Postal Telegraph Cable Company to the Transcontinental Telegraph Company. George Adams, vice president, advertised the motion. no opposition was raised and a default grant is anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postal Telegraph-Cable
Justice Hendrick
Supreme Court
Postal Telegraph- Cable Company
Transcontinental Telegraph Company
George Adams
Tours to Florida by special Pullman trains
Fortnightly trips to Jacksonville by special Pullman trains on February 8 and 22. Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trips from New York for $50. Consult ticket agents or C. and D. P. A. at 263 Fifth Ave New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Jacksonville
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Fifth
Poor Girl Receives $2000 Reward for Pearl Necklace Find
A poor working girl who found Mrs Irene Iaman s pearl necklace worth 30000 was paid a 2000 reward by Tiffany Co for its return The owner Mrs Isman formerly Felix Isman s wife had lost the string near Delmonico s en route to her West Fifty Seventh Street home The finder s identity was kept secret to protect her from publicity
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Isman
Iaman
Felix Isman
Kaiser's Court Dancers Put Under Strict Supervision
Berlin January 12 The Kaiser has appointed Lieut Count Vedigo von Wedel and Baron Gisbert von Knyphausen as leading dancers at Court balls. Both officers of the Gardes du Corps open dances and supervise others. They can remove crowded pairs and expel faulty dancers from the imperial presence. The Kaiser demands flawless dancing and frowns upon guardsmen who fail to meet the standard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Berlin
Vedigo von Wedel
Baron Gisbert von Knyphausen
Gardes du Corps
New York Senator Proposes Resolution Against Income Tax
Senator Newcomb of New York introduces a concurrent resolution opposing the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing a federal income tax. The measure is referred to the Judiciary Committee for study without comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Jan
Newcomb
New York
Judiciary Committee
Steamer Czarina Sinks After Coos Bay Bar Collision
The steamer Czarina en route from San Francisco to Coos Bay struck the Coos Bay bar on the north spit and disappeared amid heavy sea. All 30 aboard are feared lost, including Captain Dugan, a crew of twenty-nine, and passenger Harold Mills, son of the company’s general manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coos Bay Bar
Marshfield
Oregon
San Francisco
Coos Bay
Dugan
Harold Mills
Mills
FARM LECTURES AT COLUMBIA
Columbia University offers a thirteen lecture course on Economic Agriculture. The first lecture is next Tuesday with subsequent talks each Tuesday. Experts and practical farmers will teach, with George T. Powell delivering the opening address. Interested persons should apply to the university secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia University
George T. Powell
Agricultural Experts’ Association
Sought Spooks by Wireless Sear Bracelet on Ship
Capt F A G Schultze shipping manager for New York Central sought wireless aid from a spiritualist to recover a $1500 diamond bracelet lost by his wife on the steamer City of Atlanta. The message targeted Mrs Mary Ann Pepper Vanderbilt of Brooklyn but was not delivered as she was away. The bracelet was worn by Mrs Schultze, missing after leaving the library. notices were posted on board and Inspector McCafferty's spook brigade will search for it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. G. Schultze
New York Central Railroad
Atlanta
Mary Ann Pepper Vanderbilt
Brooklyn
Knox Seeks Permanent Arbitral Court at The Hague
Washington reports no reply yet to Secretary Knox's circular note urging a permanently constituted arbitral court in The Hague. The State Department hopes many reasons justify the court or adapting the prize court into a peace tribunal with ongoing authority to arbitrate. A permanent court would keep judges seasoned and reduce costs of international litigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Knox
The
Hague
Roosevelt
State Department
Mr. Knox
Prinzess Irene Arrives Bremen After Rudder Loss
The North German Lloyd Line steam ship Prinzess Irene left New York on December 30 bound for Bremen and arrived in Bremen yesterday morning after losing her rudder at sea. The vessel was steered by her propellers and came in about forty minutes late.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd Line
New York
Bremen
Taft’s Federal Incorporation Bill Proposed
Administration plan would authorize national corporations to buy state firms and operate in inter state commerce. Minimum capital set at 100000 with no upper limit and stock bought with cash or appraised property. Commissioner of Corporations would issue charters after review and reports to government. Bill to be introduced soon in Congress, potential party tensions noted.
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Congress
Judiciary Committee
Senate
House
Commissioner of Corporations
House of Representatives
United States of America
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Balfour
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Brentwood
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Wolverhampton
Providence
A. J. Balfour
York
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Salisbury
Great Britain
Germany
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Fifth Avenue House
Car
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NEW League
Tiffany & Co
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Kaiser
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Gress
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