Bryan 1908 Nomination Hopes Face Withdrawal Pressure
In Washington and Atlanta during January 24, Democrats weigh pressuring William J. Bryan to withdraw or moderate his 1908 presidential bid. Senators and leaders discuss Bryan selecting nominees and outlining the platform while Sheehan and Smith arrive to influence anti Bryan sentiment. Bryan expresses willingness if drafted, not volunteering. He and Harmon tour Washington and meet Gov. Smith after delay in Atlanta.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
House
William J. Bryan
Denver
Newlands
Bryan
Taft
Gov. Johnson
Warwick
William F. Sheehan
New York
Parker
Smith
New Jersey
William. Jennings Bryan
Messrs
Mr. Sheehan
Mrs.Sheehan
Mr. Bryan
Senator Newlands
Nevada
Atlanta
Young Men's Democratic League
Democratic Party
Harmon
Capitol
Democrats Gather for Conference with Bryan Quip Cited
The report notes national politics dominated the gathering as Mr. Bryan quipped that three Democrats together imply discussion on national good. After the conference the Governor escorted visitors on a lengthy automobile tour.
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Bryan
Not an Anti Bryan Move Conference Letter Clarifies Purpose
S M Craiger replies to Thomas M Osborne about a postponed Democratic conference at the Waldorf. He states the gathering was not anti Bryan or anyone else but aimed to open discussion on the party platform for the upcoming campaign.
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Thomas M. Osborne
S. M. Craiger
Waldorf
United States Ranks Second in 1907 Ship Output
The 1907 Shipping World summary shows the United States producing 488 059 tons of ships, 195 986 tons more than Germany, placing U S yards second to Great Britain which led with 1 673 121 tons including the Lusitania and Mauretania. France and Japan trail with 100 622 and 122 095 tons respectively.
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United States
England
Shipping World of
London
Germany
Great Britain
Lusitania
Mauret Nia
France
Japan
Cadwell shoots wife then wounds sister in New Haven
Difford M Cadwell attempted to kill his wife by firing twice in the head after she refused to stay with him. One bullet was recovered and her outlook is poor. He then shot her sister Virginia Peck in the side. Cadwell fled but was captured near the railroad station. He had run a lunch wagon and became unemployed after his wife inherited money.
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New York Times
New Haven
Difford M. Cadwell
Cadwell
Virginia Peck
Night Engineer Held On Malicious Mischief Charge
Ole Peterson, night engineer at the Hygeia Ice Company plant in Englewood, is jailed on a charge of malicious mischief after abandoning the running machinery and leaving the plant unmanned. A visitor alerted authorities an hour later.
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Ole Peterson
Hygeia Ice Company
Englewood
Stackensack
Peterson
Mount Royal Passengers Overdue in New Brunswick Report
In January 1924 about 800 immigrants who left Antwerp aboard the Canadian Pacific Mount Royal were picked up after a month afloat and taken to Queenstown Ireland. The Montrose, carrying Mount Royal passengers, left Queenstown on January 11 bound for St John and was expected in port by Tuesday last.
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Sir
Joan
N. B
Antwerp
St. John
Mount Royal
Atlantic Ocean
Queenstown
Ireland
Montrose
Carnegie to Address Jewish Society at Annual Meeting
At the Hebrew Gemilath Chassodim Association annual meeting on Sunday January 26 Andrew Carnegie will deliver an address. He shows strong interest in the society known as the bank of the poor. Jacob H Schiff is listed as an active patron of the institution.
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Carnegie
Hebrew Gemilath Chassodim Association
Andrew Carnegie
Bank of the Poor
Jacob H. Schiff
Gotch Defeats Soloman In Two Falls For Victory
In Utica New York Frank Gotch the American wrestling champion defeated Albert Soloman of Buffalo in two straight falls the first in two minutes and the second in thirteen minutes Gotch expressed confidence he would defeat Hackenschmidt the Russian giant for the world title.
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Utica
N. Y
Frank Gotch
Albert Soloman
Buffalo
Gotch
Hackense’ Nidt
Traction Holdings Faces Complex Securities Tangle
Federal receivership shines light on Interborough Metropolitan and New York City Railway network. Officials reveal a tangled web of bonds notes and stock across the Metropolitan Street Railway Metropolitan Securities Company and Third Avenue lines with large deficits and looming foreclosures.
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New York City Railway
William M. Ivins
Public Service Commission
Commission
Six Ponte
Accen
Interborough-Metropolitan
Metropolitan Street’ Railway
Metropolitan Securities Company
Interborough- Metropolitan
Interborough-Metropolitan Company
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Interborough
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Metropolitan Street Railway
Third Avenue Street Railway
Grand Street
Central Crosstown
Second Avenue
Twenty-ninth Streets
Crosstown Road
Fulton Street Road
Sa -Metropolitan
Subway
Manhattan Elevated
Rapid Transit Subway
New York & Queens County Railway
Interurban
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Securities
Third Avenue Railway
Third Avenues
Third Avenue
Morton Trust Company
Broadway and
Seventh Avenue
Houston
West Street
Pavonia Ferry
Chambers Street
Broadway
South Perry Railway
Metropolitaan Crosstown Railroad
Lexington Avenue and
Coluntans and
Ninth Avenue Railway
Port Tee Ferry
Metropolitan Crosstown
Lexington Avenue
Columbus
Ninth Avenue
South Ferry Railroad
Broadway Surface Railroad
Mutual Life
Wood assumes command duties in East Department
War Department issued orders after Major General Leonard Wood relinquished the Philippine Division command. Wood takes over the Department of the East with headquarters at Governors Island following a six month leave, much of it in Europe. General Grant will relieve General Carter in Chicago, and Carter moves to Omaha.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
War Department
Gen. Wood
Department of the East
Governors Island
Europe
Philippines
Grant
Gen. Carter
Chicago
Omaha
Steamboat Dean Richmond Attached in Debt Seizure
Fred P. Bagg via Deputies Baird and Monger attached the steamboat Dean Richmond of the People's Line at Erie Basin to collect 100000 dollars claimed on a promissory note with interest. A watchman was placed in charge. C. W. Morse named as a joint indorser.
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Santa Fe
Fred Harvey
Grand Canyon
Arizona
California
Fast Mail
Dean Richmond
Hudson Navigation Company
Fred P. Bagg
Baird and
Monger
People’s Line
Erie Basin
C. W. Morses
City Briefs and Local Notices
The Lierdiner Friedrich der Grosse will sail Monday with passengers housed in hotels until then. No ice on the Hudson slows Central Hudson steamers between New York and upstate ports. Sackett & Wilhelms and Typographical Union No 6 agree to union rules for the composing room. Fire Department assistant foremen promoted to foremen include Fallesen Cashman Toman and others. Frank Cosgrove of 848 West Forty-ninth Street spoke of going to England to see his wife and children. his sister Lizzie found his body hanging in his flat, suggesting suicide on the day he said farewell.
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Hudson
Central Hudson Company
New York
Newburg
Poughkeepsie
Hans J. Fallesen
J. J. Cashman
Patrick Toman
J. Collins
Charles Klett
J. P. Hock
J. F. Con Way
E. F. Birmingham
J. Davin
J. Hughes
E. S&s. Sweeney
M. J. McCann
M. J. Mauser
Albert Reid
Frank Cosgrove
West Forty-ninth Street
Egg Costumed Ball Sparked Panic at Hesper Club
At the sixth grand masque and elvic ball in Terrace Garden the Hesper Club crowd saw a woman guest from Second Avenue enter in a vast egg costume covering her body from neck to ankle. The slippery waxed floor caused a mishap as attendants cleared the omelette and Pat Sullivan led the grand march with Mrs Pat.
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Elvic
Hesper
Terrace Garden
Tim Sullivan
Second Avenue
Hesper Club
Big
Tim
Sheriff Foley
Pat” Sullivan
Pat
Senator McCarren
Chuck Conners
Little Buck
Bowery
East Side
Ines
Lenox Avenue
Chuck
Chuck” Or “ Little Buck
Larry Mulligan Association
Pat Sullivan
Bowdoin Alumni Dinner At Hotel Manhattan
About forty Bowdoin College alumni gathered for the annual dinner at the Hotel Manhattan. Dr Warren C Putton was elected President for next year with F H Gillingham as Secretary and Edward B Merrill as Treasurer. Gen Thomas H Hubbard spoke on Bowdoin’s pension fund prospects through Carnegie.
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Bowdoin College
Manhattan
H. H. Pierce
Henry C. Chapman
Thomas H. Hubbard
George H. Putnam
Edward B. Merrill
John G. Wright
Parker P. Simmons
William H. McElroy
David R.porter
Warren C. Putton
F. H. Gillingham
Theta Lambda Phi Dinner Honors NY Law School Fraternity
The Theta Lambda Phi Fraternity of New York Law School held its anniversary dinner at the Prince George Hotel. Speakers included Vincent Gilroy Emery C. Weller Philip V. Van Arsdale J Ward Follette J 9 Cooper Harold Fuess and Percy Moeller. Officers elected were Thomas F. Lanard High Priest Richard Geist Low Priest and A R Edgerton Warden.
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Theta Lambda Phi Fraternity
New York
Prince George Hotel
Vincent Gilroy
Emery C. Weller
Philip V. van Arsdale
J. Ward Follette
J. 9. Cooper
Harold Fuess
Percy Moeller
Thomas F. Lanard
Richard Geist
A. R. Edgerton
Reinstatement of Jersey City Detectives and Local News Flash
In New Jersey Daniel Lee and David Noble were restored to patrolmen by the new Democratic Police Board after earlier demotions by the Fagan administration. Detective Sergeant Joseph Hanson, who built the case against them, was reduced to an acting patrolman. Bayonne and Jersey City residents saw a marriage, saloon arrests, and a church fire. A Jersey City Monument fund drive gained school support from 6000 Bayonne area students. A fatal shooting case in Englewood placed Frederick Fisher in Hackensack Jail while the Central Labor Union failed to stop street cleaning cuts from 195 to 87 workers.
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Daniel Lee
David Noble
Fagan
Jersey City
New Democratic Police Board
Wittpenn
Lee
Noble
Sergt
Joseph Hanson
Frederick Fisher
Englewood
Albert Michaelson
Hackensack
Fisher
Enslewood
Hakensack
Zabriskie
Central Labor Union
Hudson County
Street and Water Board
Dream Among the Hungry at Bowery Bar Brawl
At the Oriental Bar on Eldridge Street in New York a crowd of about thirty unemployed men attacked Omnis Gallia Jones in a rear room. Jones, tied to his frequent references to old friends, claimed no clear cause and described the melee as a simple joke gone wrong while police, having nothing to do, left the scene.
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Eldridge Street
Hester Street
Bowery
Omnis Gallia Jones
Jule Caesar
Sis
Omnia Gallia
Fifth Wife Separated from Kellar
Supreme Court Justice Isaac N. Mills granted a decree of separation to Mrs. Caroline Keller, the fifth wife of Louis Keller the East Chester hotel proprietor who found his wife through a fan advertisement. Keller is 79 years old.
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Kellar
White Plains
N. Y
Supreme Court
Isaac N. Mills
Caroline Keller
Louis Keller
East Chester
Keller
Masters Lose Licenses After False Reports on Ice Boat
Capt Samuel Hughes Capt Alexander Updyke and Capt John H Fisher of the Department of Wharves Docks and Ferries were found guilty of making false reports on City Ice Boat No L by United States Inspectors of Steam Vessels. Licenses revoked include masters pilots and an engineer's license. The action follows a Department of Commerce and Labor referral after the iceboat was condemned despite a prior seaworthiness finding.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Samuel Hughes
Alexander Updyke
John H. Fisher
Department of
United States
Hughes
Fisher
Updyke
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Grady
Department of Wharves, Docks, and Ferries
Sargent
Judgment Against City by Brooklyn Supreme Court
Justice Maddox confirmed Referee Fitzgeralds report in Title Guarantee and Trust Company v City of New York. The court awarded $4,105 due since July 1 for work in searching titles to property for the city.
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Maddox
Supremes Court
Brooklyn
John J. Fitzgerald
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Crain Sentences 53 In One Day
Judge Crain in Part I General Sessions sentenced 53 criminals yesterday, beating the previous record of 52 set last Friday. The heaviest sentence was ten years in State Prison for robbery in the first degree given to Joseph Milter.
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Crain
Joseph Milter
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