Croker as a Nationalist Leader in Irish Politics
A Dublin-based correspondent reports a rumor that Richard Croker may pursue Irish Nationalist politics and seek a seat in Parliament. The letter argues Croker would be a powerful link between American Irish supporters and Ireland, with wealth and influence to back the home rule cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Croker
Edward VII
John Redmond
Tammany
Croker
Ireland
Exmerald Isle
Atlantic
Iit
America
Republic
House of Commons
Redmond
Indians for Seton Fight Danbury Branch Railroad
The Woodcraft Indians led by Black Wolf burn tracks and fill survey holes on May at Seton’s Wyndygoul estate Greenwich to oppose the Danbury branch of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad. The protest gathers nearly 200 youths from New Jersey New York and Connecticut.
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New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
Woodcraft
Black Wolf
Mr. Seton
Mounine
Danbury
Ernest Thompson Seton
A. A. Anderson
Eton
Anderson
Paris
Seton
Thaw May Reach Accounting From High-Peeled Counsel
Harry K. Thaw seeks an accounting from his lawyers amid the murder case at the Tombs. He has dismissed most advisers save Daniel O Reilly and A Russell Peabody while Delphin M Delmas received fifty thousand and another hundred thousand was paid to a different counsel. Mrs Wiliam Thaw prepares to move to New YorkPark Avenue with Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. Thaw’s wife awaits the return of her mother-in-law while daily visits occur with Peabody and O Reilly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Daniel O'Reilly
A. Russell Peabody
Than
Delphin M. Delmas
Thaw
Wiliam Thaw
Pittsburg
Park Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Lorraine
Park Avenue House
Peabody and O'Reilly
Thaw aide denies tale of drugging dismissal suit
Roger O Mara in charge of Thaw detectives sailed for Europe aboard the Celtic. A circulated report alleged he authorized a story about a Mrs Bland Campbell of Pittsburg suing a West Fifty first Street retired army officer for damages after an alleged drugged attack in a Waldorf corridor. Thaw counsel denied any authorization and said the tale was O Maras personal statement. The officer is abroad.
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Roger O'Mara
Thaw
Europe
Celtic
Bland
Campbell
Pittsburg
West Fifty-first Street
Dan O'Reilly
O'Mara
Campbell denies NY report of suit against retired Army officer
Pittsburg May 81 Kennedy Campbell of 481 Shady Avenue emphatically denied a New York report that his wife Blandy Campbell had filed suit for 25000 against a retired army officer alleging she was drugged. Mrs Campbell says she has never heard of the officer in question.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
New York
Blandy Campbell
Kennedy C. Campbell
Shady Avenue
Girl Broadway Conductor Revealed in New York
Miss Grace Wallace, claiming Philadelphia roots, says she spent two months in New York posing as a man and worked as a Broadway car conductor. She recalls tricks of disguise and tells of accepting cigars while keeping from smoking. General Manager Oren Root notes it may have happened but is not certain.
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New York Times
Orpole
Grace Wallace
Philadelphia
W York
Granby Street
New York
Oren Root
New York City Railway Company
Battle for control at American Pneumatic Service stockholders meeting
In Wilmington on May 31 the annual meeting of American Pneumatic Service Company pit ex-Congressman Nathan Frank against Wilmington attorney William S. Hilles for chairman. Proxies from Boston investors were to be verified, with Howard Gould and Oakes Ames funding the opposition. The dispute centers on governance and financing amid a low stock price.
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New York Times
Wilmington
Del
American Pneumatic Service Company of
Boston
Nathan Frank
St. Louis
William 8. Hilles
New York
Chicago
8St. Louis
Howard Gould
J. J. Kennedy
Oakes Ames
Pneumatic Service Company
Stockho
Pitis Fauternly
Moorestown Parents Jailed After Coroner Finds Criminal Negligence
Edwin W. Watson and Mary Watson Christian Scientists of Moorestown New Jersey were jailed after a coroner's jury found them criminally negligent for letting their seven year old son Granville Norton Watson die without proper medical care. The inquest blamed two healers Ida Straub and A Clara Starn for aiding the treatment and prosecutors consider manslaughter charges.
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New York Times
Moorestown
N. J
Edwin W. Watson
Mary
Granville Norton Watson
Ida Straub
Philadelphia
A. Clara Starn
Camden
Atkins
Watson
Janney
Christian Science Church
Granville
Murder in Ryan soap furnace shocks Cincinnati crowd
An unidentified man’s burned body was found inside the Ryan soap factory furnace. Police suspect murder after a post mortem showed a fractured skull. Engineer John McDermott was questioned. motive appears tied to a rummaged coat and missing papers.
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Cincinnati
Ryan
John McDermott
Cos
McDermott
Far-Away Quake Recorded in Albany Seis-Mograph
An earthquake of slight intensity was recorded at the State Museum this morning with shocks from 8 02 to 8 12 am. The tremor lasted nearly an hour and likely originated about 3500 miles away in the Pacific Ocean, probably to the west. The report states little or no damage is expected.
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Albany
State Museum
Pacifico Ocean
Fall From Palisades Ends In Tragic Fall
Two children Bernadine Dierks aged 18 and William Zimmerman aged 5 from Union Hill New Jersey were likely mortally injured after tumbling into a deep Palisades gully near Weehawken while fleeing a man who set his dog on them.
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Bernadine Dierks
William Zimmerman
Union Hill
N. J
Palisades
Weehawken
Western Union Telegraphers May Get Eight Hour Day
Rumor says Western Union President Clowry planned a voluntary eight hour day to avert strikes. No official confirmation, but Commercial Telegraphers' Union leaders cite possible announcement. Directors meet June 12. union plans extra session June 10 in New York to decide on grievances.
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Clowry
Western Union Telegraph Company
J. Small
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Crowry
Reguar
Small
General Executive Board
New York
Western Union Faces Arkansas Charter Revocation
The Western Union Telegraph Company may lose its Arkansas charter if it does not withdraw its suit against the state over a $25,000 fee under the Wingo law. Secretary Ludwig says revocation will be proclaimed tomorrow, with three days to settle the fee. Attorney General Kirby argues foreign firms require a special permit to do business in Arkansas and are subject to new rules. Western Union officials call the dispute a local matter affecting only Arkansas business.
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New York Times
Little Rock
Ark
Western Union Telegraph Company
Arkansas
Ludwig
Kirby
Western Union
Mary Guinan Receives Medal for Heroic Train Crossing Rescue
President Roosevelt awarded Miss Mary Guinan of Middletown a Medal of Honor for saving 74 year old John Runyon who was trapped between two Erie Railroad trains. Runyon, feeble and aiming to cross, became disoriented as a second train approached. Guinan grabbed him, kept him between the swaying rails, then guided him to safety on the sidewalk.
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Washington
Mary Guinah
Middletown
Roosevelt
John Co. Runyon
Erie
Runyon
Ano
Miss Guinan
Aged Pastor Lamson Reported Suffering Pariesis in City
Police picked up a 75 year old man believed to be Rev William O Lamson former Nyack Episcopal pastor wandering with youths at Thirteenth Avenue and Twenty sixth Street. He was taken to Twentieth Street Station then to New York Hospital where Dr Brown diagnosed paresis. He claimed pastorship at Trinity Church Harlem in 1887 and spoke of a runaway daughter and meeting Bishop Potter.
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William O. Lamson
Nyack
Kane
Thirteenth Avenue
Twenty-sixth Street
Twentieth Street
New York Hospital
Brown
Lamson
O. 8. Roche
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Potter
Trinity Church
Harlem
Firemen Douse Students Bonfire on South Field
Columbia sophomores gathered on South Field to burn their textbooks after a day of rummaging for flammable debris. Hal Taylor spoke as the bonfire roared, then the crowd clashed with firemen who retook the hose and cooled the blaze.
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Columbia
South Field
115Th
116Th
Broadway
Amsterdam Avenue
Hal Taylor
Wiexford Restores Stromath and Te Without Use
Wiexford completes restoration of Stromath and Te, using no external resources. Project focuses on renewing ancient infrastructure while preserving original design and function. Local officials praise efficient work and minimal disruption to nearby residents.
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Wiexford
Stromath
Mrs Vanderbilt Sloop Is Rammed In Newport Harbor
Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt sailed her Caprice when a government launch from the Naval Training Station crashed into her sloop. The collision cut a two foot. long gash amidships but the vessel remained afloat and navigated to the inner harbor. Mrs Vanderbilt blamed the steersman and crew of the launch and said the government would investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Newport
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Naval Training Station
New York
Herreshoffs
Vanderbilt
Charles Knutson
Mrs. Vanderbilt
Bremen
John P. Merell
United States
Catte
New York Auto Transfer Co. President Beckman Dies By Own Hand
Marius B. Beckman president of the New York Auto Transfer Company killed himself in the firm’s office on West Thirty-fourth Street. Coroner reports a note to his son mentioning a mortgage and growing business trouble tied to new city rules. Beckman, about 40, left a despondent trajectory saying the mortgage holder pressed hard. His body was moved to his home.
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Marius B. Beckman
New York Auto Transfer Company
New York
Broadway
Twenty-third Street
West Thirty-fourth Street
Balloonist Falls in River During Night Exhibition
John Mack the aeronaut was aloft over Hill de Park when his balloon drifted and toppled him into the Passaic River below the Belleville Bridge. Ex Fire Commissioner Alfred Gibney steered a steam launch to the scene and pulled the exhausted flyer from the water.
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Passaic
John Mack
Alfred Gibney
Mack
Hillde Park
Belleville Bridge
Gibney
Eronau
Dowie Property Sale Authorized by Federal Court
Judge Landis in Chicago grants John C. Hately receiver of Zion City authority to sell Dowie trust estate properties immediately despite objections from Mrs. Jane Dowie and A J Gladstone Dowie. Creditors, many tied to the Christian Catholic Church founded by Dowie, stand to gain from the sale. Voliva attended but did not protest.
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Chicago
Jane Dowie
A. J. Gladstone Dowie
Landis
John C. Hately
Zion City
Dowle
Voliva
Next Friends File Brief in Eddy Property Case
Concord New Hampshire May 31 a brief was filed with the Merrimack Supreme Court clerk by counsel for the plaintiffs in the suit brought by next friends for an accounting of the property of Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy The reply responds to a motion filed Tuesday by Gen Streeter in support of the motion to intervene as plaintiffs in place of the next friends
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Concord
N. H
Merrimack Sn- Court
Next Friends
Mra
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Prisf
Gen. Streeter
Mim Roy Sanatitis
Ea Plainti
Yale refuses donation for Dodge lectures trip
Yale Treasurer Lee McClung sent $1200 to Secretary Elihu Root for delivering Dodge lectures, but Root returned the check saying the trip brought him so much fun that accepting money would feel wrong. He thanked President Hadley and Secretary Stokes for hospitality. Yale officials have not decided what to do with the funds.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
Lee McClung
Yale
Elihu Root
Dodge
Root
Hadley
Big Palatine Find Reveals Ancient Temple Decorations
In Rome on the Palatine Hill archaeologists uncover what may be the original decorations of a Asia Minor temple from the sixth century BC. The pieces descended from the ancient Temple of Victory tied to Cybele the Great Mother of the Gods, said to have fallen from Heaven to Pessinus and shipped to Rome in 24 BC.
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Rome
Palatine Hill
Asia Minor
Cybele
Pessinus
Robbery At East Fifty Fifth Street Boarding House
A boarding house at 16 East Fifty fifth Street was robbed yesterday afternoon by a clever thief who had earlier rented a room from landlady Miss Fannie Moynan. The thief rummaged through chiffoniers and jewelry boxes, taking several thousand dollars in valuables. City Magistrate Charles S. Whitman and his father, Rev. John S. Whitman, were among the victims. police estimate the magistrate’s glass loss at nearly $1,000.
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East
Fannie
Moynan
Charles S. Whitman
John S. Whitman
East Fifty-first Street
Fight on Elevated Train Ends in Disorderly Arrests
Police rushed to a Third Avenue Elevated car between 177th and 125th Streets after a Westchester chowder party crowd became boisterous. Conductor William Simonson was beaten and windows were broken as officers detained Oscar Weinrich, Oscar Strude, and Louis Kutchner on disorderly conduct charges.
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East
126Th Street
Third Avenue
177Th
125Th Streets
Westchester
1434 Street
William Simonson
Oscar Weinrich
Beekman Place
Oscar Strude
Stubbins Avenue
Astoria
Louis Kutchner
East Seventy-first Street
Young Ryan to Fight Trust in Typewriter Field
Allan A. Ryan son of Thomas F. Ryan enters manufacturing challenging the Typewriter Trust. He becomes President and Treasurer of Royal Typewriter Company of New Jersey with a Bay Ridge plant and a planned Hartford factory site on New Park Avenue. purchase facilitated by Edward J. Garvan. Brady family ties noted. Factory plans show 250000 square feet floor space and a cost of 354009 dollars.
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Wall Street
Allan A. Ryan
Thomas F. Ryan
Typewriter Trust
Ryan
Royal Typewriter Company
New Jersey
Bay Ridge
Hartford
Conn
General Strike Threatened by District 15 Machinists
Preparations by District 15 of the International Association of Machinists for an eight hour day advance. A meeting early next week will set a date for action. If refused, 15,000 machinists in New York Jersey City and Hoboken will strike. District Secretary Edward Hourigan notes Erie Railroad workers in another district won't affect plans.
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International Association of Machinists
New York
Jersey City
Hoboken
Edward Hourigan
Erie Railroad
Erie
17 Year Old Girl Missing From New York Home
Mrs. Felicia Shapiro of 56 West 127th Street reported her 17-year-old daughter Margaret missing. She left Thursday morning to walk in Central Park and was seen later by her aunt and in the afternoon on Fifth Avenue. Police search ongoing.
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Margaret
Felicia Shapiro
West 127Th Street
East 126Th Street
Miss Shapiro
Central Park
Wifth Avenue
San Francisco Strike Ends After Night Settlement
San Francisco May 81 The ifron workers strike is settled tonight with twenty thousand workers returning to their posts. Conditions remain the same as before the stoppage.
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San Francisco
French Shipping Strike Revolts Across Major Ports
A broad maritime strike paralyzes Marseilles Havre Bordeaux Dunkirk and other ports in France as naval reservists protest delayed pension reform. Crews abandon ships and tugs operate briefly while the government seeks a rapid end to the disruption.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Marseilles
Havre
Bordeaux
Dunkirk
France
New York
Cherbourg
Ship Workers of
Republic
Mercantile Marine
Naval Reserve
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Chennel
Srest
Toulon
Nantes
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American Pneumatic Service Co
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E. W. Watson
Albany Seismograph
Pacific Ocean
Western Union Telegraph Co
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Alfred G
U. S
Newport Harbor
Seing New York
Aeronaut
Passaic River
Dowie
Mra. Eddy
B. C
Whitman
East Forty-fifth Street
Royal Typewriter Co
CREAR
la Provence
General Committee of Naval Reserve Men
Himalaya
Melbourne
Memphis
Crin‘e
Portugal
Dordogne
Messageries Maritimes Company
Tunisian
French Mercantile Marine
Jules Siegfried
Seamen's Congress
Minister of Marine
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