Equitable trusteeship move stirs leadership shakeup
The Equitable renewal plan, urged by James H. Hyde, seeks to divest Hyde’s stock within three months on board terms. Schiff pressed for Hyde and Alexander to retire per Frick findings, while pressure grows over committee nominations and possible resignations as the equity battle widens.
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James H. Hyde
Jacob H. Schiff
Hyde
Schiff
Frick
Alexander
Mr. Hyde
Civic Society
Grover Cleveland
Ingalls on Hyde reports stand by findings after tense meeting
M E Ingalls of the Equitable investigating committee returned to Cincinnati unruffled by a stormy Directors session and Hyde's attack. He says he signed the report and stands by it, while noting the Directors did not adopt Frick's recommendations to focus the matter. The hot meeting left Hyde angry yet dismissively amused by the chairmanship's tone.
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Melville E. Ingalls
Brayton Ives
Frick
D. C. Mills
Mills
August Belmont
Lincoln
A. J. Cassatt
Kenry C. Frick
Pittsburg
Broadway
Mr. Frick
Edward H. Harriman
Jacob H. Schiff
Harriman
Equitable
Bliss
New York Times
Cincinnati
M. E. Ingalls
Equitable Investigating Committee
Mr. Hyde
Big Four
Hyde
Hyde to quit a Pittsburg policy post
Pittsburg June 3. As a result of quarrels within the Equitable Life Assurance Society Henry C Frick and some directors will see Mr Hyde resign from his post in Pittsburg reflecting the broader rift among the Society’s leadership.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Henry C. Frick
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Hyde
Directors Split Sparks Shakeup in Trust Firm Roster
A dispute between Frick and Hyde over directorships prompts Hyde to retire from the Union Trust Company. A telegram from New York confirms Frick will not sit on a board with Hyde, signaling potential further changes across two major corporations.
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Union Trust’ Company
Mr. Frick
Mr. Hyde
Ances
Equitable Corporation
Hyde
Union Trust Company
Frick
Trust Company
New York
Union Trust
Iowa Life Manager Resigns as Agency Quits
Elmer G. Dwiggins, manager of Equitable Life Assurance Society in Iowa, resigns and about seventy five staff depart with him. He accepts a vice presidency at a local insurance company and will likely lead its operations carrying most agents.
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New York Times
Des Moines
Iowa
Elmer G. Dwiggins
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Dwiggins
Six Cents Verdict in Yonkers Alderman Suit
In White Plains New York June 3 a County Court jury awarded six cents to Alderman John I. Southwick in his defamation suit against Williams Shrive Yonkers City Treasurer for circulating a bribery report. Warren General Manager of the Asphalt Trust denied the claim and said he did not know Southwick. Southwick, cousin to Congressman George N. Southwick, said the victory vindicated him though damages were immaterial. The jury deliberated one hour.
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New York Times
White Plains
N. Y
John I. Southwick
Yonkers
William Shrive
Southwick
Shrive
Charles O. Warren
Asphalt Trust
Warren
Alderman Southwick
George N. Southwick
Albany
Brennan & Curran
Curran
Hoch to Hang June Twenty Eighth in Chicago Murder Trial
In Chicago on June 3 Judge Kersten sentenced Johann Hoch to be hanged June 28 for the murder of his wife. Hoch forgave prosecutors police jurors and witnesses and proclaimed his innocence while acknowledging the crime may have occurred. The formal sentence followed.
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Chicago
Johann Hoch
Kersten
Hoch
Narrow escape for supervisor and lineman in Lincoln Park storm
Edward Van Iderstine of the Public Service Corporation and George Muller nearly died while wiring in Lincoln Park Paterson New Jersey when a storm struck. Van Iderstine was knocked senseless and burned by lightning but survived after being aided by Muller who held him by his coat until a ladder arrived. Muller suffered severe shock.
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St. Joseph's Hospital
van Iderstine
Muller
New Jersey Assemblyman Colby outlines limited franchise platform
Everett Colby of West Orange announces a run for State Senator on a limited franchise platform. He calls for a constitutional amendment and a law limiting franchises granted to public utility companies with annual assessments, local taxation of such franchises, taxation of all steam railroad properties at local rates, and electors to express a preference for U S Senate candidates at the general election.
Vassar Seniors Stage Original Operetta and Auction
In Poughkeepsie on June 3 the Vassar seniors held a class auction and later performed an original operetta Miss Marcella Wave in The Turn of the Tide. The show featured a roof scene with students and musical mice and witches. The day closed with the juniors winning the basketball championship.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
Vassar
Marcella Wave
Explosive Blast Kills Five Convicts in Florida Camp
At Ojus county road camp near Biscayne an explosion of 1500 pounds of dynamite killed five Black convicts. The men were serving short sentences for road work. Carelessness with dynamite, a routine road building material, caused the fatal blast.
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Biscayne
Fla
Ojus
Woman Passenger Missing After Bay State Arrival
A Boston bound steamer Bay State returned from Portland with a woman passenger believed to be Mrs Annie Thompson of Portland missing. Officers think she committed suicide by jumping from her stateroom window during the night.
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Boston
Annie Thompson
Portland
Bay State
Mayor Weaver Moves Against City Officials in Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports Mayor Weaver’s crackdown as Rolla Dance resigns from the Civil Service Board and cabinet appointments shift to reduce McNichol influence. Ward leaders fear loss of control as new directors fund an administration-led organization. Stock market tumbles after gas lease setback.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Citides
Weaver
Rolla Dance
Civil Service Boards
Dance
McNichol
Public Safety South
U. «Vo
Crow
Jermon
Civil Service Reform Association
Civil Service
United States
The
Civil Service Board
Philadelphaa Public
United Gas Improvement Company
City Gas Works
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Union Traction Company
Union Traction
Rapid Transit
Clark
Philadelphia Electric
Russian ships secure in Manila Bay report
Dispatches from St. Petersburg say the Izumrud was blown up by her commander after running onto a reef in Vladimir Bay. The Almaz reached Vladivostok earlier in the week. three Russian ships are reported safe in Manila Bay but need time to restore fighting power.
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Manila Bay
St. Petersburg
Vladimir Bay
Vladivostok
Russian naval surrender stated as due to exhausted ammunition
The press reports that Rear Admiral Nebogatoff’s ships surrendered after their ammunition was exhausted under Russian naval rules. While mutiny rumors persist, officials say no substantiating evidence has been received though some sailors mutinied off Madagascar and were shot by orders from Admiral Rojestvensky.
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ST. Petersburg
Nebogatoff
Admiralty
Madagascar
Rojestvensky
Roosevelt’s Step Pleases In Petersburg Peace Talks
Reports from Washington of President Roosevelt’s conversation with Count Cassini spark diplomatic interest in St Petersburg. Ambassadors and ministers note his willingness to aid peace, while Emperor Nicholas’s stance remains undecided amid debates on indemnity and a possible peace settlement. Roughly twelve thousand workers strike in St Petersburg as unrest continues.
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Sir. Petersburg
Roosevelt
Cassini
Washington
Nicholas
Meyer
Count Cassini
Lamsdorff
Russia
France
William
Grand Duke
Michael
Berlin
Lansdowne
Edward
Great Britain
Benkendorff
St. Petersburg
Tsarskoe-Selo
Peace Party
Japan
Manchuria
Linovitch
Harbin
Rojestvensky
United States
Bouligin
Committee of Ministers
The Abner McKinley Suit in Somerset
Judge Kooser orders Annie E. McKinley executrix to show cause why removal as executrix should not be granted and why she should account for estate funds and life insurance. Seaboard National Bank holds Abner McKinley papers totaling about 6,000 to 7,000 dollars. At death McKinley left life policies around 80,000 dollars payable to his widow.
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New York Times
Somerset
Penn
Francis J. Kooser
Annie E. McKinley
Abner McKinley
Seaboard National Bank of New York
McKinley
Seaboard National Bank
Clash in Liesnoi-Kolpovo Suburb Sparks Casualties
In St. Petersburg suburb Liesnoi-Kolpuo a clash between 15000 workers and Cossacks and mounted police left 12 workers seriously hurt and 40 with minor injuries. Fifteen Cossacks and policemen injured and two horses killed as crowd sang revolutionary songs near the Polytechnic Institute.
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ST. Petersburg
Liesnoi-Kolpuo
Polytechnic Institute
Zemstvo Peace Council Calls Moscow Conference on War End
In Moscow on June 6 a conference of Zemstvos will be convened to address the fleet disaster and war, with 150 Zemstvoists set to attend the Shipoff gathering. A 1600-signature resolution urging peacetime voices will be sent to the government. Volgoda reports the Zemstvo calls for immediate termination of the useless war and a national peace draft.
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Moscow
Zemstvos
Zemstvoists
Russia
Volgoda
Zemstvo
Committee of Ministers
Witte Complains of Czars Treatment and Inactive Ministry
M Witte president of the Committee of Ministers laments to a friend that the Emperor refused his resignation yet no business of importance has reached him for three weeks. He fears he is a minister in name only and remains sidelined from affairs at the capital.
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ST. Petersburg
M. Witte
Committee of Ministers
Peace Society Moves to Seek Russia Japan Peace
The Pittsburg Peace Society plans immediate steps to mediate peace between Russia and Japan. Rabbi J Leonard Levy of Eighth Street Temple will represent the society in negotiations and meets the Japanese Ambassador in Washington next Tuesday to present proposals. He then intends to travel to Japan to deliver the petition to the Mikado.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Washington
Japan
Guardsmen in camp at Peekskill opens three weeks of militia training
The New York State militia camp at Peekskill opens its three week season with about 900 men. Units include the First Signal Corps of New York under Capt. Oscar Erlandsen, the Second Signal Corps of Brooklyn under Capt. Elliot Bigelow Jr, and the Tenth Regiment led by Col. Charles A. Denike. Gen. Charles F. Roe commands with staff. Capt. G. C. Burnell of Fort Wood and Major Frederick T. Leigh will instruct and supervise the Signal Corps during the first week.
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New York Times
Peekskill
Militia
First Signal Corps of
New York
Oscar Erlandsen
Second Signal Corps
Brooklyn
Elliot Bigelow, Jr
Tenth Regiment
Charles A. Denike
Charles F. Roe
G. C. Burnell
United States Army
Fort Wood
Bedlow’s Island
Frederick T. Leigh
National Guard
Signal Corps
Schooner Rebecca J Mouton Grounds At Graveyard
The three masted schooner Rebecca J Mouton bound from Savannah to Boston ran ashore at Pasque Island Massachusetts last night. The vessel grounded in the area known as the Graveyard with a cargo of lumber and is feared to be in a dangerous condition.
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Pasque Island
Mass
Rebecca J. Mouton
Savannah
Boston
Fires Across City Reported Damage At Numerous Addresses
A sequence of fires from Friday night to Saturday morning caused varying damage at multiple Manhattan locations including 92 Second Avenue 25 Doctor? Meyer, 345 West Forty-first Street G A Feld Co, 25 Hancock Street owner unknown 50, and 67 West Forty-sixth Rothschild 50. The list notes damages from slight to 300 dollars with several properties under unknown ownership and company responsibility.
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Second Avenue
Herman Meyer
West Forty-first Street
G A. Feld & Co
Hancock Street
Una Damage cc
West Forty-sixth
Michael Saree
Priests
Fourteenth St . Rothschild
East Fourth Street
Samuel Neuman
Greenwich Street
Berkers
Eighth Street
Willi Waa
Zabeth Street
Main
East One Hundred and Eighth Street
Isaac Plitz
Canal Street
Margaret McLoughlin
Clinton Street
Camer’ Ee
Forty-second Street
Madi Avenue
Manhattan Hotel
Onan
Third Avenue
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
Thirty-first Street
Ninth Avenue
Combatants Club Story Reveals Truce Amid War
A Russian officer describes the Russo Japanese Combatants Club at Tie Ling Pass where soldiers from both sides met over liquor in a brief ceasefire. A Japanese soldier later reports being robbed at the club, prompting a security return to his lines and a restored payment.
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Russkoye Slovo
Tie-Ling Pass
Manchuria
Burton Bond Posted in U S Circuit Court Arraignment
Senator J R Burton of Kansas appeared before Judge Rogers in St Louis to answer an indictment accusing him of using his influence as a United States Senator illegally with the Post Office Department over Rialto Grain and Securities. Burton had been convicted previously but granted a new trial on appeal.
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ST. Louis
J. R. Burton
Kansas
Bond
Rogers
United States Circuit Court
Monnday
United States
Burton
Post Office Department
Rialto Grain and Securities Company
Japanese Celebrate Sea of Japan Victory Torchlight Procession
In Honolulu four thousand Japanese residents gathered last night for a torchlight and lantern parade celebrating the Sea of Japan battle victory. The event drew participants and onlookers amid festive displays and communal pride.
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Honolulu
Municipal ownership tops Ohio election agenda says Mayor Johnson
Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson urges municipal ownership of street railways and public utilities as the key issue in Ohio elections. He cites Chicago as a model and notes support from Democratic clubs and even New York’s Manhattan Club. Dalrymple of Glasgow adds that expert management, not politics, should run utilities, citing Glasgow practice and impending travels to Minneapolis Chicago New York Boston and Scotland.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Tom L. Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Manhattan Club
New York
Democratic Party
James Dalrymple
Street Railway Authority
Glasgow
Scotland
Dalrymple
Minneapolis
Boston
Ward and Hunt Arrested in New Brunswick Burglary
Frank Ward and Thomas H. Hunt were arrested in New Brunswick for breaking into H Hunt's blacksmith shop at Berdine's Corner. They are suspected in the Millton post office robbery. A trolley crew alerted police, and the suspects were found with burglars' tools and dynamite.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Frank Ward
Thomas H. Hunt
H. Hunt
Berdine’s Corner
Millton
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James W. Alexander
Frick Committee
Mr. Alexander
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Mr. Southwick
Shrine of Yonkers
Lightning
New Jersey
Assemblyman Colby
West Orange
Vassar Girls
Philadelphia Civil Service
Vienna
Ishours
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad
Desb. and Co
Brooklyn al
Pullman
W. W. Atterbury
J. R. Wood
Geo. W. Boyd
Zemstvo Peace Council
Czar
Peace Society
Roe
Mouton
Far East
Hornor
Chinaman
A. Frankfield & CO
Jewelers
West 34Th ST
Fifth Ave
Herald Square
Lincoln Safe Deposit Co
East
38Th ST
Tom
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