Brooklyn Union Gas Suit Alleges $7 Million Hidden
A Brookly n Union Gas Company suit accuses officers and directors led by James H Jourdan and William W Rockefeller of concealing $7 million in surplus and diverting profits. The case seeks an accounting and cites mismanagement and inflated asset balances to mislead the Public Service Commission and stockholders. Justice Crane set July 10 for examination of Jourdan, Rockefeller, Leggett, and treasurer Elverton Chapman, with full books to be produced.
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Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Thames Read
St. Mark’s Avenue
Read
Brooklyn Supreme Court
James H. Jourdan
William W Rockefeller
David G. Leggett
Justice Crane
Elverton R. Chapman
Mr. Read
Henry H. Rogers
Henry Cannon
W. Bourke -Cochran
Martin T. Manton
Nelte
William Rockefeller
Standard Oid
Manhattan
Standard Oil Corporation
James Jourdan
Gas Company
City of New York Srocke
Standard O1l
Standard Company
Broadway
Wiliam Rockefeller
Standard Oi! Corporation
Rockefeller
Free Consolidated Gas Company
Marconi Wireless Station In New Jersey Sends First Message
The Marconi wireless station at New Brunswick completed and Supt Holberg reports sending the first message to Wales. The test message arrived two weeks ago but was announced today. commercial service cannot start until fall when Belmar receiving station connects with this site. The initial transmission carried no coherent content, just words on the operator’s mind, with a real inaugural message expected soon followed by the first commercial message.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
Marconi Wireless
Holberg
Wales
Belmar
N. J
Big Lake Liner Ashore On Georgian Bay
The steamer Assiniboia of the Canadian Pacific upper lakes fleet with 100 passengers ran aground early today on Bad Neighbor Island near Cove Island in Georgian Bay. Relief ships stood by and it was hoped to refloat by tomorrow as weather favored. The Manitoba and Midland Station helped relay calls, and the Alberta was dispatched from Port McNicoll to evacuate passengers. The vessel lay with bow about five feet out of water while tugs moved in.
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Montreal
Assiniboia
Canadian Pacific Railway
Upper Lakes
Cove Island
Georgian Bay
Owen Sound
Manitoba
Head of
Lakes
Midland
Canadian Pacific
Alberta
Port McNicoll
Sault Ste. Marie
Big Carpet Plant Closes Amid Amsterdam Economic Slowdown
The Stephen Sanford & Son carpet and rug plant in Amsterdam will close tomorrow for an indefinite period, affecting nearly 4,000 workers. Management cites general business slumps as the cause, with related mills in Keyesville, Fast Nassau and Petensburg also shut and 150 workers laid off. The Chatham Shift Company announced its 175 workers would close as revival efforts begin.
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New York Times
Albany
Stephen Sanford & Son
Amsterdam
William H. Cooper
McCleary, Wallin & Crouse
Keyesville
Death by Own Action Club Reported in Paterson Jail
Paterson New Jersey July 2 reports say two inmates in the Passaic County Jail have died by self harm. Seventeen year old Arthur Masker was found hanged in his cell with a strap to the door. Rudolph Strausberg, held for bigamy, hanged himself recently.
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Paterson
N. J
Passaic County
Arthur Masker
Rudolph Strausberg
Amos H. Radcliffe
Masker
Strausberg
Ferry fare cut lets Staten Island riders board trains free
Staten Island residents may transfer between ferryboats and Broadway-Columbus Sixth Avenue Amsterdam Avenue and Eighth Avenue cars at South Ferry with no extra nickel. Lexington Avenue cars south of Bowling Green remain excluded. No re transfers allowed. City gains two cents per nickel while New York Railways gets three cents. The Board of Estimate approved the contract amid potential ferry debt rise to two hundred thousand dollars annually.
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Staten Island
New York Railways Company
South Ferry
Broadway-Columbus
Sixth Avenue
Amsterdam Avenue
Eighth Avenue
Lexington ‘Avenue
Bowling Green
Board of Estimate
Fleet receives mineral water for Fourth of July at Vera Cruz
A carload of mineral water sent to the fleet by the Navy Department is distributed for Fourth of July use through Dock Commissioner R. A. C. Smith at Vera Cruz Mexico.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
R. A. C. Smith
Ady
Wilson and Morgan Hold Friendly White House Talk
President Wilson met with J P Morgan of New York for nearly an hour and plans to host Henry Ford and a Chicago Association of Commerce delegation next week The meetings aim to ease criticism of his anti trust program and reassure business leaders about forthcoming legislation with Morgan Ford and Chicago firms present.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
J. P. Morgan
New York
Henry Ford
Chicago Association of Commerce
Morgan
New Haven
Mr. Morgan
Ford
Chicago
White House
Andrew Carnegie
James J. Hill
James Speyer
Frank A. Vanderlip
Henry P. Davison
Congress
Chicago Association
I. V. Farwell & Co
Marshall Field & Co
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co
Sprague, Warner & Co
J. Y. Ryerson & Sons
Cudahy Packing Company
Reid, Murdock & Co
A Morgan
Inquirers
Sleuths Yield to Efficiency Detective in Newspaper Era
In a shift from old-fashioned mystery to modern methods a new efficiency detective emerges. The Times notes a possible revision of Bible text after tablets unearthed at Nippur. Rotogravure previews claim the paper’s top poem selected by poets and a feature on New York’s famous baby to be published next Sunday.
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Nippur
Barnes Names Root for State Leader
William Barnes, chairman of the Republican State Committee, said he would not steer candidates but noted strong support for Elihu Root should he seek the Senate or Delegate-at-Large role. Barnes indicated Root could become a key party figure, while Barnes himself plans to step down as state chairman after the September primaries.
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William Barnes
Republican State Committee
Republican Party
United States
Elihu Root
Barnes
Senator Root
Joseph H. Choate
Root
United States Senate
Mr. Barnes
Republican National Committee
James W. Wadsworth
Ablic
Wadsworth
Dynamite plot targets Westinghouse chief home
An intruder tried to dynamite E M Herr's Edgewood residence during a strike at Westinghouse plants. A bystander, R M Miller, was wounded when the assailant shot at him before fleeing. Authorities recovered four dynamite sticks. A referendum on returning to work is set for tomorrow in Turtle Creek with 10 000 strikers voting.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
E. M. Herr
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Mr. Herr
Westinghouse
Herr
Hutchinson Avenue
Edgewood
R. O O. Miller
Wilkinsburg
Miller
Tabernacle
Turtle Creek
Gov. Tener
Mr. Tener
National Baseball League
East Pittsburgh
Suicide ends career of Missouri Pacific official in Broadway office
Guy Phillips assistant secretary of the Missouri Pacific died by suicide in the record room of the City Investing Building at 165 Broadway. He had suffered a nervous ailment and his family urged rest, though he continued to come to town daily. The tragedy shocked colleagues including H G Phillips and F J Shepard, who recalled a long career dating to the Jay Gould era. Mrs Phillips and his daughter learned of the death.
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Guy Philips
Missouri Pacific Railroad
City Investing
Broadway
Edward Murphy
Mr. Phillips
Murphy
Monegan
Greenwich Street
Dr. Valentine
Hudson Street Hospital
Guy Phillips
Darien
Conn
A. H. Caleff
Seabright
N. J
Harry Moffett
Yonkers
Caleff
Missouri Pacific
Phillips
Henry Moffet
Wiesbaden
Germany
O. B. Huntaman
The
Huntsman
Jay Gould
F. J. Shepard
Tarrytown
Shepard
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company
Iron Mountain’ Car Trust
Opera House Realty Company
Japanese laborers set to settle in Alger County Michigan
About 400 Japanese laborers from California are bound for Alger County Michigan to take up vegetable farming. The plan sparks anti alien land law agitation and talks of an anti alien land law bill at the next state Legislature. Michigan leaders condemn colonization and favor citizens only.
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Lansing
Mich
California
Alger County
J. L. Snyder
Michigan Agricultural College Today
Michigan
O. L. Hildebrant
Michigan Federation of Typographical Unions
State Board of Agriculture
ROW OVER PANAMA CLAIMS
The American Panaman joint land commission faces serious trouble as legal officers fear failure of the effort to settle land claims. Disputes between American and Panaman members complicate agreement prospects and may lead to referring the matter to the United States State Department.
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Panama
Joint Land Commission
Canal
State Department
Washington
Kidnapper Buono Pleads Guilty in High-Profile Case
Antonio Buono of 1,136 First Avenue pleaded guilty to leading a kidnap ring that held 5-year-old Giuseppe Gumma for a $2000 ransom. He received a Sing Sing sentence of 12.5 to 25 years after colleague Matteo Pallazzolo testified against him. Other defendants, Pietro Brusco and Niva Brusco, were already sentenced, and Benéditto Randazzo faced trial.
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Antonio Buono
First Avenue
Giuseppe Gumma
Wadhams
Buono
Matteo Pallazzolo
Pallazzolo
Farm Couple in New Jersey Stabbing Manhunt Underway
Mrs Angelina Leo was stabbed a dozen times by Cosmo Leo in a blackberry patch near Millville New Jersey. A posse of armed farmers scoured the woods as doctors rushed her to Physicians Hospital where she lay dying. Leo 60 fled after the attack following a quarrel over a quitclaim deed.
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New York Times
Millville
N. J
Angelina Leo
Cosmo Leo
Leo
Ohn S
Lightning Kills Soldiers in French Camps
Electrical storms across France cause casualties. In Bourges a tent camp was struck, killing two soldiers and injuring four. A farm house near Bourges burned after a lightning strike and a farmer was badly burned. Dr. Belleu, blinded by a flash near Rouen, lost control of his car and died in a roadside ditch. A hurricane with rain and hail damaged Champagne.
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Paris
Bourges
Department of Cher
Chappelle
Rouen
Belleu
Champagne
Congress grants leave of absence to Thompson for campaign
Washington July 2 Members of the House granted Representative Joseph B. Thompson of Oklahoma leave of absence to prosecute his campaign for the Democratic nomination. It was the first time a Congressman used such a literal explanation for leave with "important business" and illness cited as standard excuses.
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Washington
House
Joseph B. Thompson
Oklahoma
Congress
Woman as Prison Head: Helena Fox Appointed to Lead Aylesbury
Special dispatch from London reports Home Office appointment of Miss Helena Fox M D as Woman Superintendent and Deputy Medical Officer of all female institutions at Aylesbury. The post covers the female convict prison Borstal for females State Inebriate Reformatory for Women and Preventive Detention Prison for Women. Dr Fox earned her M D from Durham after studying at the London School of Medicine for Women.
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New York Times
London
Home Office
Home Secretary
Helena Fox
Aylesbury
French Senate Passes Tax On Foreign Investments
The French Senate voted to add a 5 percent tax on incomes from foreign stocks bonds and securities in the 1914 budget. It refused to include the tax previously, aiding passage after the Chamber’s dissolution. Deputies back proportional representation in Electoral Reform and urge universal suffrage groups to speed review.
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Paris
Senate
France
Chamber of Deputies
French investors hit
French investors lost 356000000 francs 111200000 dollars in six months per economist Edmond Thery based on major French investments. Rentes holders lost 4000000000 francs by depreciation, the analyst calls it a national calamity due to spendthrift budgets and shifting ministries.
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Paris
Edmond Thery
Tax Measure Targets Cigar Coupon Trade In Massachusetts
Boston July 2 The lower branch of the Legislature advanced a bill to tax companies issuing stamps or coupons for premiums at 100000 a year aiming to curb trading stamp firms and deter United Cigar Stores from price cutting. Original proposal set the tax at 6000 but was raised to the higher figure after debate by retail cigar dealers who sponsor the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
United Cigar Stores
Lost Alimony By Wedding Ruling in Brooklyn
In a Brooklyn Supreme Court decision Justice Aspinall held a divorced wife cannot claim alimony for self support if she remarries. Margaret Linton sued Archie Hall for 3459 dollars. the couple wed in 1892, separated in 1903, and Mrs. Connor had been awarded 12 dollars weekly alimony in 1908 after formal divorce.
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Brooklyn
Supreme Court
Aspinall
Margaret Linton
Horace Linton
Archie Hall
Centreport
L. I
Hall
Archibald Hall Connor
the Supreme Court
Ethel
Connor
Falls from office window ends in death of Henry King
Henry King manager of the office of P Garvan & Co rag brokers on the eighth floor of the Smith Gray building at Broadway and Warren Street fell or jumped from his window around 7 p m. His body landed in Warren Street near 115 Amsterdam Avenue. He could not be identified by the building superintendent or the watchman and was recognized by letters in his pockets. A note to his wife at 20 West 7th Street was found stamped for mailing. His firm was said to be abroad in Europe and he had been under nervous strain seeking a vacation rather than a physician.
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Henry King
P. Garvan &Co
Smith, Gray & Co
Broadway
Warren Street
Edward E. Milon
Amsterdam Avenue
John Atherton
Fritz Wurslam
King
West 7Th Street
Shipping News Brief: Adriatic On Atlantic Run
Fy Margoni Wireless reports SS Adriatic sailing from Liverpool to New York. The vessel was 345 miles west of Sandy Hook at 1 P.M. and due to arrive in the afternoon. Free catalogs of all boarding options advertised.
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Fy Margoni Wireless
Liverpool
New York
Sandy Hook
White Star Line
Woman in White in Office and Murder at Carman Home
In Freeport a physician’s home is sealed as police search for the revolver used in the Tuesday night killing of Mrs. Louise Bailey. District Attorney Smith cites two men who saw a man in a straw hat flee the Carman lawn toward Merrick Road. Dr. Carman, amid new disclosures, says a patient’s arrival and a woman on the ground floor complicate the case, while autopsy and inquest are pending.
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Freeport
L. L
Edwin Carman
Louise Bailey
Lewis J. Smith
Charles Smith
Percy Adams
Black
Accord Smith
Carman
Merrick Road
Carman Himeself
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Says Gas Company
Thomas Read
Sues
Lic Service Commission
WM. Rockefeller
ofJourdan
James Hjourdan
Comis
Sam
Eald Jourdan
Marconi Flash
New
Big Lake
Sanford
Suicide Club
Jaiil
Staten Islanders
Mr. Moran
Aotel
Alane
Meynolds
Garrison
J. Morgan
Capitol
Statuary Hall
Rotunda
Cummins
Trade Commission
Clegrfy
TIMES
U. S
Namiter
Farmer
Woods
Andrew Staat
Frem
MR. Thompson Frank
Massachusetts
Bryant
Mrs. Bailey
Ted
New Witness
Mrs. Carman
Dr. Carman
Bailey
Archie Dost
George Golder
Willam Huncie
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