Officials Seek Tax Plan to Break Tobacco Trust
In June reports, Attorney General McReynolds plans a Senate finance move to tax tobacco production with rates rising with output. He argues the dissolution decree legalized the trust’s remains, harming independents who face ruin without government action.
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Duffy Faces Trial Delay Amid Graft Allegations
District Attorney Whitman announced readiness for the trial of Police Sergeant Peter J. Duffy in the Supreme Court Criminal Branch. Bail set for a postponement as defense counsel Raham Levy requested a delay, with proceeding likely Friday if adjourned structures allow.
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Dennis Sweeney
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Water monopoly suit over elevator access in Woolworth Building
Supreme Court Justice Giegerich gave Broadway Park Place Company until Monday to reply to claims it monopolizes water to tenants of the Woolworth Building via the Virginia Bear Water Company. Plaintiffs Friesdedt Underpinning and Pine Hill Crystal Spring say water was carried by staff up 37 flights, with other tenants affected and a 40 percent revenue share cited by counsel McCann.
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Broadway Park Place Company
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Virginia Bear Water Company
Friesdedt Underpinning Company
Pine Hill Crystal Spring Company
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Miss Wilson and the Lobbying Debate over Public Playgrounds
Special to The Times Philadelphia June 3 Miss Margaret Wilson daughter of the President pledges to use influence to have Naval Home property on Gray's Ferry Avenue turned over to the city for a public playground Campion notes lobbying offense but supports the aim while questioning ethics He warns against partial lobbying favoring great industries that protect employment and families versus playground transfers
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Rebels Seize Matamoros As Huerta Sets Election Date
In Tamaulipas Matamoros falls to rebel Gen Lucio Bianco after all day fighting. Federal Col Eschasereta and 100 volunteers make a final stand atop Hidilsa Plaza cathedral and theatre. Fire rages but subsides. Major Ramos wounded and hospitalized in Brownsville. Rumors of Miguel Barragan’s death circulate. Huerta fixes October 26 election date.
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Hearing on Standard Oil suit opens in Corsicana Texas
An argument over whether Standard Oil associates attended opened the June 3 hearing in Corsicana to testify in the state suit seeking heavy fines against Standard Oil and its New York and New Jersey partners, plus penalties against Corsicana firms and stockholders. Names like John D. Rockefeller and John D. Archbold appear in the proceedings.
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Magnolia Petroleum Company
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John D._ Archbold
Editor Convicted in Paterson Strike Editorial Case
Alexander Scott, editor of The Passaic Weekly Issue, a socialist publication, is found guilty of writing and publishing an editorial praising hostility to government amid the Paterson silk mill strike. Sentencing urged by defense. possible penalties include up to fifteen years in prison or a fine up to $2,000.
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Great Men Hail Kaiser as Peacemaker
Prominent figures announce their exclusive contributions for next Sunday in The New York Times to honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of the German Emperor's coronation. Names include the King of Italy, Theodore Roosevelt, Taft, Carnegie, Butler, Parker, and Hugo Munsterberg.
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Duke of Argyll
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Andrew Carnegie
Lord Blyth
Nicholas Murray Butler
Gilbert Parker
Herr Arthur von Winner
Alfred H. Fried
Hugo Munsterberg
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Hamersley Estate Goes to Male Heir in Court Ruling
Albany June 3 The Court of Appeals upheld the validity of the Hamersley will trust totaling about 7 million dollars denying that the provision restricting succession to male descendants violated the law against perpetuities. The decision affirms prior rulings and transfers control to Louis Gordon Hamersley as sole heir through the male line.
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Lily Warren Beresford
Duchess of Marlborough
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Duke of Marlborough
Lord William Beresford
New York County
J. Hooker
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J. Hooker Hamersley
Louis Gordon Hamersley
Snes
Athe Prghould
James L. Bishop
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company
Woman Rescued From Jamaica Bay Quicksand Jug Crucial
Gilbert Baylis spotted an elderly woman trapped neck deep in Jamaica Bay bog near Three-Mile Creek. She clung to a brown jug as rescuers pulled her from the slime after hours of struggle. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition. officials fear pneumonia pending her condition.
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Hotel evicts Mrs Grace in Downingtown incident
Special to The New York Times Mrs Daisie Ulrich Opie Grace was evicted from a Downingtown hotel after the proprietor learned she was not the wife of Charles H Oldham who was also staying there Grace denied complicity in a confusing affair and claimed Oldham was a goon the situation involved possible access to something unclear and unfolded after the June 3 eviction.
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Find Student Gibson Dead
The body of Benjamin Gibson, a Teachers College of Columbia University student, was found in the East River after disappearing on May 24. Coroner Curtin found no signs of violence. police lack leads in the mystery. Gibson was 42, married, with about ten dollars and small jewelry missing.
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Suffragette violent incidents shuffle through London events
A Bow Street magistrate Sir Henry Curtis Bennett recalled a suffragette attempt to push him from a cliff. Meanwhile Rough’s boathouse at Oxford burned destroying an eight oar boat for Eton, with two women seen fleeing. At the Royal Academy, suffragists caused a disturbance as banners and flags waved during an address.
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Havana Ministers seek early settlement on Cuba damages dispute
Havana reports say England France and Germany pressed the United States Secretary of State to clarify Cuba's stance on arbitration for damages from insurgents during Spanish uprising. The House tabled the arbitration bill amid President Menocal opposition to Dill terms allocating responsibility to him.
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Eugenic wedding ties Montclair couple in modern rite
Miss Ethel Daniels Phillips daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Gorham Phillips of 171 Cooper Avenue and Aubrey Luther Whittemore son of Mr and Mrs Luther A Whittemore of Rogers Park Chicago were married in the Christian Union Congregational Church Montclair New Jersey. The ceremony followed a new rule requiring the groom to supply a medical certificate. The bridal party included maid of honor Miss Margaret Cook Atwell Miss Anna Paisley Shane Miss Genev Cunningham flower girl Miss Helen Blatchford and best man Dr Lawrence Whittemore.
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N. J
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Charles Gorham Phillips
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Aubrey Luther Whittemore
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Four Midshipmen Fail Reexamination At Annapolis
Four midshipmen in the graduating class at Annapolis face reexamination after defects were reported. The cadets named include Charles I. Austin from Pennsylvania and Charles L. Foutz from Ohio, with Arvid New York and Pant deV listed among those affected.
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Woodford Auto Kills Man in Fairfield Curve
Bridgeport June 3 charged with homicide Mrs 8S Woodford widow of the former United States Ambassador to Spain was arrested and held on 2500 bond after an automobile accident near Fairfield killed laborer William Stanhouser. The car dragged him fifty feet and a chauffeur was also arrested. A hearing is set for June 9.
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Vaccine Claim Sparks Cancer Treatment Debate in Cologne
Dr Otto Schmidt at the General Medical Society in Cologne asserted cancer is an infectious disease caused by a parasite and said he prepared a curative protective vaccine. He urged formation of a commission to test his investigations and experiments.
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Berlin
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Jewel Box Theft At London Station Valued At 25000
A London jewelers firm left a heavy jewelry box worth 25000 at King's Cross Railway station. A messenger boy, an innocent agent, carried the deposit receipt to criminals who then used a cab to claim the box in the early hours. The box has not been traced.
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Carpenter Falls Into Hot Tar on Bronx Scaffold
Archibald Simpson a carpenter of 777 Bien Avenue Bronx fell from a scaffold fifteen feet above a barrel of hot tar his body sank into the tar up to his shoulders causing his head to be covered by tar. Workmen pulled him out and poured two gallons of lubricating oil over him an ambulance summoned from St Josephs Hospital Far Rockaway doctors fought to remove tar two hours before relief was possible the prognosis was doubtful due to severe burns.
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Weston Jaded but Game in Long Walk to Chicago
Edward Payson Weston, famed long distance walker, reached Mountain House in Suffern at 2 PM after covering 40 miles from New York. He rested due to heat and planned a 28 mile start to Goshen tomorrow morning, aiming to complete the 1,236 mile journey to Chicago this summer in 36 days along the Pacific Coast route.
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Chicago
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Theatres in Chicago Add Seating as New Venues Rise
Chicago reports show over half of new amusement spaces seat 300 or fewer patrons, with an average capacity near 400. Total capacity around 300000 previously, with 200000 more seats planned as new theatres open. The June 3 piece notes upcoming expansion in downtown venues.
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Stop Tariff Votes Urged The Senate Probe Weapon
A high administration official says stenographic notes from the Senate lobby investigation could be used to suppress votes on tariff items. Senators Fall Warrenn Lippitt Catron Stephenson Jackson and others face potential pressure from personal holdings in mills lumber lead wool and farms. Subpoenas for over fifty witnesses were issued to compel testimony as the inquiry proceeds.
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Lobbying probe stalls as officials resist headway
In Washington on June 3 the Senate investigation into the "numerous and insidious lobby" yielded little progress. A senator directing the inquiry and a subcommittee member complained of slow results and suggested misgivings about exposing industries while denying any offensive lobbying activity.
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