Sheehan Vote Fifth Ballot Shifts Albany Senate Fight
In Albany on January 23 the fifth joint session ballot for U.S. Senate produced Loomis desertion to Morgan J. O'Brien and shifts in names from Parker and Glynn. Insurgent Roosevelts and Tammany pressure intensify as Gov. Dix and Huppuch respond to party lines and potential Republican abstentions.
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Democratic State Committee
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United States
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Huppuch
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Overran Pass In Mexican Battle Kills 100 Soldiers
In coastal Texas reporting from Presidio, the Mexican government said over one hundred Federal troops died in three days of battle with insurrectos in the mountains between Ojinaga and Cuchillo Parra do. Only about forty escaped the trap.
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Fools Celebrate Laughter in Wellesley College News Editorial
The College News editor Imogene Kelly of Brooklyn writes on fools, praising their playful honesty and saying the fool’s elasticity and gleam of eye reveal a shared, comic humanity. The piece argues fools are inherently ordinary and desirable in society.
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Imogene Kelly
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News
Yonkers Pushes Annexation Talks With New York
Yonkers seeks to join New York City amid strong citizen sentiment. Ralph E. Prime leads a Yonkers Citizens Committee pressing Mayor Gaynor to appoint a discussion panel. Mayor would consider the idea, noting previous talks and water system ties.
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From Pulpit to Prison in Tampa Florida
A man claiming to be Reverend John Gibbs of Paterson New Jersey was arrested in Tampa after preaching at a Presbyterian church. He faces three horse stealing charges and has used aliases Griffin Gibbs Ep stein. He hired horses in Jacksonville and Tampa whose disappearance ties to the case. Sealed letters to Rev Dr John Gibbs and to Mrs John Gibbs were found on him.
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Paterson
N. J
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Jacksonville
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Cannot Marry His Aunt Under State Law
City Clerk Scully explained that a widow of a young man’s uncle is his aunt, barring marriage. Deputy City Clerk George Frenz referred the issue from Queens. A Mrs Pardey sought a license for her son and discussed the aunt relation and legality with officials.
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George Frenz
Queens
Johanna Pardey
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Louisa Segs
Mons
Perdey
J P Morgan Sets New Philadelphia to New York Speed Record
J Pierpont Morgan rode a special Pennsylvania Railroad car from West Philadelphia to Manhattan Transfer and then to New York in 3 hours 48 minutes net, averaging 69 miles an hour, beating the Holt record from Washington to New York. The trip was made with a steam to electric locomotive change and included brief delays. Morgan traveled alone, then returned to attend to business in New York.
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Secret Service Chief Says Public Honest, Times Expects
The head of the U S Secret Service tells readers that the average person remains upright. The Times invites readers to see more in Sunday edition.
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New Yorkers Wed Aboard Tugboat on Scottish Waters
Alfred Browne Scott, a New York merchant, and Stella Peatling wed on a tugboat in the Firth of Forth after a voyage to avoid three weeks of Scottish domicile. A clergyman and two lawyers accompanied them four miles offshore for the sea ceremony.
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New York
Stella Peatling
William Peatling
Firth of Forth
United States
Edinburgh
Scotland
Freighter Santiago Strikes Reef Near Shippan Point
The Clyde Line freighter Santiago ran aground on Cowles Reef after misidentifying Stamford Light for Stepping Stone Light. A Mer rit Chapman crew freed the vessel at 2 pm with six feet of water aboard, then towed to New York. Pilot Frye blamed the navigational error amid calm seas and clear night conditions.
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Shippan Point
Merrit Chapman
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New York
C. O. Rothwell
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Lunatic Arrested After Bank of England Incident
A well dressed man in the Bank of England fought clerks near the paying teller and cashier windows. He resisted arrest with a loaded revolver and twenty coins found in his pockets. He claimed royal lineage, said he would withdraw a deposit, and later gave the name Robert Buchler.
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New York City
Plague Experts Sought as China and Manchuria Act
The government plans to invite foreign experts to assist in studying plague control in affected districts and to cover expenses. Harbin suburb Fudziadian to be quarantined as a first step amid rising deaths. 1,500 deaths reported last week. Dr Zabolotny says European Russia faces no immediate danger.
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Manchuria
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Gallagher to Begin Twelve-Year Term in State Prison
James J. Gallagher will be transported from Hudson County Jail in Jersey City to Trenton State Prison to serve a twelve year sentence. He was convicted January 4 by Judge Francis Jordan for shooting Street Commissioner William H. Edw. in the line of duty after an incident involving Mayor Ga oan the di the Wilhelm oboken.
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Hudson County
Jersey City
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Francis Jordan Court
Fran Swayze
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Wilhelm Oboken
Martine Leads in New Jersey Senate Race Deadlock
In Trenton a Democratic conference shows James E. Martine with 33 votes for U S Senator from New Jersey, James Smith Jr. receiving 14, with multiple other candidates gaining scattered votes. The session ends with a deadlock and votes for Martine deemed inseparable from party unity as Gov. Wilson comments.
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Trenton
N. J
James E. Martine
United States
New Jersey
James Smith, Jr
Martine
Smith
Mme Curie Defeated in Academy Candidacy in Paris
In Paris on January 23 Mme. Curie failed to win election to the Academy of Sciences, receiving 28 votes to 80 for Edouard Branly. The effort, tied to her and her late husband’s radium work, faced opposition based on tradition despite strong support within the scientific community.
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Academy of Sciences
Edouard Branly
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M. Gernez
Institute of France
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Mayors Back Commission Plan Across New Jersey
Telegraphed prompt asks mayors and editors if they will back a state bill allowing cities to adopt a commission form of government. Elizabeth Atlantic City Paterson Passaic New Brunswick favor the plan. Passaic reports a draft bill to be presented at the meeting tomorrow during the Know Your Gov campaign.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Elizabeth
Atlantic City
Paterson
Passaic
New Brunswick
Rom Passaic
Train Schedule Fragments Mention Trenton Route
Sparse OCR reads: W Train to Trenton. tachen New Stanswick Prine Panes hens ee Wied. Leaves Wania Station. sa or.
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Rehearing Granted in Ruef Bribery Case
The California Supreme Court granted a rehearing of the judgment sentencing Abraham Ruef to fourteen years in San Quentin for bribery of the Ruef Schmitz Board of Supervisors. The decision requires the First District Court of Appeals to hear a new trial appeal.
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First District Court of Appeals
Magazine swindler Applegate is sentenced
Salem Earl Applegate of New York was sentenced to eight months hard labor by Recorder Cantline in Newburg for swindling by selling magazine subscriptions. James J. Mitchell, President of the City Council, testified as a victim. Applegate named accomplices in New York, Boston, and Chicago. Jr. Tessaro of the Periodical Publishing Association of America expected further arrests.
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Newburg
N. Y
Salem Earl Applegate
New York
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Jr. Tessaro
Periodical Publishing Association of America
Divorce Granted to Mrs Gilpin in Philadelphia Society Circles
Mrs Frederica Berwind Gilpin was granted a divorce from Charles Gilpin 3d in Philadelphia on January 23. Both spouses are prominent socially in Philadelphia and Newport. Mrs Gilpin, daughter of coal operator E J Berwind of New York, is currently in Europe.
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Prosecutes Labor Men in Sherman Act Case
Sixty seven delegates of labor unions from the New Orleans Dock and Cotton Council go on trial in federal court charged with violating the Sherman act. The government alleges a union council conspiracy interfered with inter state and foreign commerce by preventing ship coaling during a three year old waterfront strike.
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New Orleans
Death by poison puzzles Cleveland police
In East Fifty-fifth Street two unemployed men, George Kahle and Adam Hummel, were found dead after a bottle of whiskey mixed with poison lay beside their bed. Authorities doubt whether suicide or mutual homicide occurred. Hummel was a widower who lost a daughter in the Collinwood School fire. Kahle had been a vaudeville singer.
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East Fifty-fifth Street
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Adam Hummel
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United States to abandon Magdalena Bay coal station
The United States plans to abandon its coaling station at Magdalena Bay Mexico after years of use. Two hulks once serving 25 reservoirs and piles of coal have been removed. No further use is anticipated and Mexico benefits from the permit termination.
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United States
Magdalena Bay
Mexico
Drive Negroes From Town in Oklahoma Exodus
A southbound train into Oklahoma City carried frightened Negroes from Hominy, Osage Nation, after night riders ordered them to leave. Explosions near Negro houses intensified the warning, and land speculators had previously sold land to Negroes for cotton farming, prompting a mass departure overnight.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Hominy
Hoy
Married heir seeks husband to handle vast estate duties
Marguerite Helen Wilson Henderson, wife of George Henderson Western manager of Century Publishing, says she married to ease inheritance duties from her father C. E. Wilson a coal fortune owner. She inherits four million dollars and properties in Riverside Drive New York a steam yacht and an auto. She plans a dinner at the Salle Hotel with Interurban Traction Company directors and their wives and later an automobile tour.
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Chicago
Ill
Marguerite Helen Wilson
George Henderson
Century Publishing Company
Riverside Drive
New York
C. E. Wilson
Scranton
Penn
Author Phillips Shot Six Times in Threats Case
The article reports that author Phillips was shot six times after receiving threats by phone and letter from a mysterious source. Investigators identify motive centered on author Fitzhugh C. Goldsborough, a noted violinist, whose poetry failed to meet expectations.
Noted Author Shot by Maryland Violinist at Gramercy Park
David Graham Phillips, the novelist, was shot six times by Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough at Gramercy Park near the Princeton Club. Goldsborough then fatally shot himself with a .32 revolver. Phillips, wounded in chest and limbs, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where his condition improved. The motive remains unclear with investigators examining Goldsborough’s links to Phillips and threats reported by the writer.
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