Thaw Mother Testifies on Paris Night in Court Room
The widow of William Thaw testifies about her son Harry K. Thaw in the Stanford White murder trial. She describes his distress and the Paris life of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, while the court weighs excluding the public as the testimony continues Monday.
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William Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Stanford White
Evelyn Nesbit
Mr. Littleton
Jerome
Littleton
Paris
Ilvelyn Thaw
Aoe
Justice Dowling
Oreny
Juslee Dowling
Delmes
Josiah Thaw
Harry
Pompton
N. J
Sleeping Beauty on Tomb in Chicago Will Details
Mrs Alwin Schaeffer 46 died two weeks ago and filed for probate. Her will leaves about $30 000 to Magdeburg relatives for German orphan festivals. It also sets a German epitaph, a weeping willow, a tombstone not exceeding $500, and a poodle named Lottie to a wealthy family with $2 weekly maintenance.
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Chicago
Alwin Schaeffer
Henry Schaeffer
Magdeburg
Germany
Grosscup Courts Appeal in Chicago Traction Case
Lawyers rushed to prepare in Chicago to counter the Supreme Court appeal filed in Washington over the North and West Side Traction system reorganization. Impeachment hints against Judge Grosscup were dismissed by most attorneys. An $80,000,000 bond was planned if the Court allows the Aldrich clients appeal.
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Chicago
Supreme Court
Washington
Grosscup
Aldrich
Ther
Tug Sioux Runs Aground Off Gull Rock Light
Special to The New York Times Newport R I January 17 The naval tug Sioux of the Charlestown Navy Yard under Boatswain Thomas W Healey ran on rocks southwest of Gull Rock Light House Narragansett Bay. The crew of fourteen escaped as the hull flooded and the tug keeled to port while Aliade and Chicka assisted in the rescue efforts.
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Charlestown Navy Yard
Thomas W. Healey
Gull Rock Light House
Narragansett Bay
Boatsway Healey
Auction of effects at 236 Adams Street Brooklyn
Yesterday afternoon an auction sale of furnishings from a room house at 236 Adams Street Brooklyn was conducted by Theodore and Elias Whitmore who are in jail in New Jersey in connection with the death of Whitmore's wife found murdered on the marshes at Harrison.
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Theodore &. Whitmore
New Jersey
Harrison
Whitmore
Elias Whitmore
Iron Worker Alec Smit Falls Seven Floors to Death
Alec Smit, an iron worker from Brooklyn, slipped on a loosened beam at an unfinished building on 11 West Seventeenth Street. He fell seven stories to the roof, died en route to New York Hospital after his body shattered a skylight and caused major roof damage.
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Alec © Smit
Ith Street
Brooklyn
Adroiniies Rouse
New York Hospital
No. 13
Wreckage Spotted Off Barnegat by Atlas Liner
Captain of the Atlas liner Alleghaney reported two spars of a sunken wreck sticking above the water off Barnegat. A mile farther he sighted another spar amid wreckage.
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Barnegat
Atlas
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Fatal Fall At Kings County Iron Works
Michael Boyle of 169 Norman Avenue fell from a scaffold at Kings County Iron Works in Greenpoint and was killed instantly. Police search for a suspected arsonist who set three fires in a Washington and Fulton Streets business, all starting in a closet. A horse pulling a truck on the Williamsburg Bridge ran away, was killed, and the driver, Menlink Westaff of 267 South Fourth Street, was only bruised. Reverend Henry Medd has been unanimously elected to lead the North Methodist Episcopal Church in Hartford, succeeding Daniel W. Howell.
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Brooklyn
Westaff
Henry Medd
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North Methodist Episcopal Church
Hartford
Ionn
Daniel W. Howell
Death by Own Action At St Regis Hotel
Mrs Caroline Bartlett Sears wife of Herbert Montgomery Sears of Boston died by jumping from a 13th floor window at the St Regis Hotel Fifth Avenue and Fifty Fifth Street. The body landed on the roof of 695 Fifth Avenue and was identified after discovery by a butler. Sears suffered long nervous trouble and had been under Dr Joseph Collins care. A note to her husband was found and Coroner Shrady ruled it a death by own action. Sears was 88 and a prominent Boston banker’s wife with two daughters in boarding school. Her husband is valued at about four million dollars and several clubs and yachts are listed among their interests.
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Herbert Montgomery Sears
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Joseph Collins
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Back Bay
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Phylis
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Knickerbocker Club
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Boston Athletic Association
Hope
Joker
Cricket
Pioneer railroad builder John W. Blanchard dies at 76
John W. Blanchard founder of the Omaha and St. Louis Railroad died in Council Bluffs Iowa today from heart disease he was 76. He helped organize the Republican Party at the 1855 Pittsburg Convention and was active in Pennsylvania politics for years.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
John W. Blanchard
Omaha & St. Louis
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Tenants Riot As City Marshal Attempts Eviction
Tenants on the south side of 100th Street riot when City Marshal Hochstader tries to dispossess Morris Greenberg at 336 East 100th Street. The property owner Meyer S Perlstein held warrants but only one was served. Police and reserves arrest four women and several men. Magistrate Walsh sets $50 bail for the women for good behavior, men released.
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Second
First Avenues
Hochstader
Morris Greenberg
Lving
East 100Th Street
Meyer S. Perlstein
West 120Th Street
Bank leadership reshuffles at Northern and New Netherland
Northern Bank re-elected retiring directors with one exception and replaced the vice president Emil Levd by Joseph L. Reiling. New Netherland Bank named J Adams Brown as president succeeding E R Gould who resigned for outside work, with other officers re-elected and Brown’s vice presidency not filled.
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Northern Bank
W. M. Dann
Emil Levd
Joseph L. Reiling
New Netherland Bank
J. Adams Brown
Dogs Denied Free Entry Under Dingley Tariff Ruling
The Board of United States General Appraisers ruled that dogs and harness used for winter travel in Alaska are not free personal effects under Paragraph 697. Cook & Shaw had argued for duty-free entry for two American miners returning to Goldfoot, Alaska, after winter abroad. The decision, by General Appraiser Hay, states that dogs and harness do not fall under wearing apparel or toilet articles and must pay duties as articles not specifically named in the paragraph.
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United States General Appraisers
Cook & Shaw
Juneau
Alaska
United States
Goldfoot
Europe
Walker Cleared of Embezzlement Charge in San Francisco
In San Francisco on January 17 Judge Dunne dismissed the embezzlement case against David F. Walker president of California Safe Deposit and Trust Co. The district attorney cited lack of evidence of criminal acts but noted culpability for failing to investigate the bank’s loss of Colton estate securities worth around five hundred thousand dollars.
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Assisant
William Hoff Cook
Dunne
David F. Walker
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Colton Estate
Foon.cin
Walker
Prison Reform Proposals From Albany Prison Visit
At the State Prison Association meeting in Albany, commissioners Salomon and Newell urged reforms after touring Clinton State Prison Dannemorra. They called to replace dark cells with solitary and light cells and earned good conduct logs while punishments would be decided by a warden doctor and principal keeper committee. They also urged allowing inmates to pay for dental services and tooth powder.
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State Prison Association
Albany
Salomon and Newell
Clinton State
Dannemorra
New York State
Strike Declared At Public School No 27 On Nonunion Conditions
The Consolidated Board of Business Agents ordered a strike yesterday at Public School No 27 on East Vorty first Street over non-union electrical work conditions. A second strike was ordered against a building at 110 East Sixtieth Street for employing non union men, with threats of further action on numerous other buildings.
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Consolidated Board of Business Agents
East Sixtieth Street
Public Fire Hose Hearing Set for City Hall
Public hearings on the fire hose question start next Wednesday at 2 30 PM in the Mayor's reception room City Hall. Commissioners of Accounts Mitchel and Gaynor will preside with Fire Commissioner Lantry expected as the first witness.
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Mitchel
Gaynor
Lantry
Fire destroys Hastings enamel works in enameled department
National Conduit the Cable Company officers report an inventory of materials and supplies destroyed in yesterday's fire in the enameling department. The loss is estimated at 14000 dollars and is fully covered by insurance.
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National Conduit
Cable Company
Hastings
Locomotive Seizure Over Tax Dispute in Rochester
New York Central officials confirm William Smith city tax collector seized a locomotive yesterday in a tax protest. The railroad challenges a 750,000 claim for a bridge project and agreed to the seizure to test in court whether the city can levy the alleged excessive tax.
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New York Times
Rochester
Gis
New York Central
Wiliam Smith
Whites Run Japanese Out in Idaho Frontier Clash
At Mountain Home Idaho a landowner hired Japanese workers to plant fruit trees but white workers warned off the plan. A Greek contractor then brought in about one hundred Greeks who faced a masked mob. The mob warned them to leave with a day to comply and the Greek camp sought Sheriff's protection as fears of violence grew.
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Boise
Idaho
Mountain Home
Ind
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