Hitchcock in Jail Pending His Trial
Actor Raymond Hitchcock remains in Tombs custody after Justice Goff adjourned his trial to Monday. The case arises from charges by Helen von Hagen, a girl under 16, with jury selection already underway. Hitchcock protested the confinement as an outrage while lawyers debated bail prospects and trial timing.
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Supreme Court
Raymond Hitchcock
Helen von Hagen
Briedenbach
Harry Grey
Max Steuer
Alexander Michaelson
Carl Fischer-Hansen
Hitchcock
Grey
Sieuer
John B. Stanchfield
Lindsay
Children’s Society
Steuer
West
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Garvan
Jerome
Fromptly
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Michaelson
Fischer-Hansen
Helen von Hargen
Elsie Veecks
Forty-first Street
Suupreme Court
Frank Gray
Gray
Maria
West Thirtieth Street
Paris Seeks Motive Behind Dreyfus Canonization Shooting
Paris reports question whether the June 5 shooting of Major Alfred Dreyfus during the Zola Pantheon ceremony was a lone act or tied to a growing nationalist plot. Authorities searched Gregory’s rooms for incriminating papers after his mental state was questioned and his sister cited melancholia. Dreyfus's arm wound remained unfound. doctors say his condition is satisfactory.
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Paris
Major
Alfred Dreyfus
Emile Zola
Pantheon
Louis Grégori
Grégori
Dreyffus
Farewell Arrangements for Ambassador Tower in Berlin
Berlin June 5 The retiring American Ambassador Charlemagne Tower will receive a farewell call from the Imperial Chancellor Prince von Bülow tomorrow. Foreign Secretary von Schoen hosts an official dinner for the Towers Sunday at the Foreign Office. Emperor William will grant a farewell audience Monday at Potsdam. Crown Prince Frederick William and the Crown Princess will bid farewell Tuesday.
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Berlin
Prince von Biilow
Charlemagne Tower
von Schoen
Milwaukee Girls Rescue Stranger at River
Six Lonner School students in Milwaukee rescue a young unidentified man who was seen wet and struggling after an overturned canoe. The girls, new to the river, silently towed him to safety saying only the man’s “Thank you.” Their swift aid came as the home economics senior crew trained for Saturday preliminaries.
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New York Times
Milwaukee
Lonner School
Home Economics Department
Mabel Crossman
Edith Crocker
Nora Buell
Jessie O'Keefe
Gertrude Barry
Margaret Lang
Helen Wray
Bank Seeks 1.5 Million Loan To Reopen
Negotiations continued yesterday between Mechanics and Traders Bank stockholders and Equitable Trust Company to obtain a 1.5 million dollar loan enabling the bank to resume business. The loan, likely to be granted, would lead to a reopening within weeks under a deferred payment plan with depositors. Receivers report 2.3 million dollars in cash on hand and over 1 million retired in Clearing House certificates, with deposits at closure estimated between 10 and 11 million dollars.
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Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
Equitable Trust Company
Paul E. Grout
Joseph B. Ford
Miners Stranded in Madison Square Garden Drill Contest
A rock drilling exhibition at Madison Square Garden to aid stranded miners raised funds last night after the International Mining Exposition failed. Three contests lasted about ninety minutes with prizes in name only, silver cups donated by W. H. De Laney of Pittsburgh, while the venue donated the hall.
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Madison Square Garden
W. H. de Laney
Pittsburg
Bookkeeper Missing with $500 From Grosso Silk Firm
JHE Squire, bookkeeper for the Grosso Silk Petticoat Company at 200 West 34th Street, disappeared after leaving to make a deposit and payroll cash. About $500 is missing. He is 32, dark, smooth shaven, with a limp. His address moved from 146 West 26th Street three weeks ago. Machlin Audit Co is reviewing the books. police seek Squire.
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Grosso Silk Petticoat Company
Wes
Thirty-fourth Street
H. Liebovitz
Silk House
Squire
West Twenty-sixth Street
Grosso Company
Machlin Audit Company
Nassau Street
Death in six inch water pools prompts foul play probe
George C. Green of 377 Taylor Street Van Ness was found dead face down in a six inch rainwater pool in a ditch caused by a raised street grade in Morris Park Avenue Bronx. Coroner Schwannecke and Dr Riegelman ruled drowning after autopsy. Brother-in law William W Howell suspects foul play and vows full inquiry. A motorman testified he let Green off a car near the site due to drinking.
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George C. Green
Taylor Street
van Ness
Morris Park Avenue
Bronx
William W. Howell
Green
Schwannecke
Riegelman
Sisters appeal defrauding case on Blackwell's Island
Appellate Division heard yesterday and denied Catherine and Charlotte Poillon's writs of habeas corpus and prohibition. The sisters, serving three months on Blackwell's Island for defrauding the Hotel Bristol, face imminent release unless an action for wrongful imprisonment is pursued.
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Catherine
Charlotte Poillon
Blackwell’s Island
Bristol
Miller wins Portland Reed statue commission
Burr C. Miller the Paris studio sculptor of Gen Herkimer, exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1907, is awarded the contract to construct the bronze statue of the late Speaker Reed to be erected in Portland Missouri. He is the son of ex Senator Warner Miller and studied in New York and Paris.
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Burr C. Miller
Paris
Gen. Herkimer
Speaker Reed
Portland
Mr. Miller
Warner Miller
New York
Night clerk killed near Gravesend race track
A man believed to be Edward Seymour, night clerk of the Hotel Monticello, was dragged under a Culver Line elevated train while trying to board outside the Gravesend race track yesterday afternoon. He died and his body was taken to the Coney Island Morgue.
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Edward Seymour
Hotel Monticello
West Sixty-fourth Street
Grocers Thank Roosevelt for Food LawApproval
The National Wholesale Grocers' Association passed a resolution thanking President Roosevelt for his help in securing National pure food legislation. It also urged Governors to aid in obtaining uniform State pure food laws.
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Roosevelt
Atlantic City
N. J
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
New Yorker in Paris Fires in Quarrel Wounding Man
A New York coffee merchant named William Stackbeck became involved in a quarrel with a man and a woman in Paris. Believing himself in danger he drew his revolver and shot injuring the man in the shoulder. He was held in bail for trial.
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Paris
New York
William Stackbeck
Shah Fleeing Teheran Sparks Persian Crisis
Reports from Teheran say the Shah left the city for his hill residence with a large retinue after news of a planned attack. The streets were tense as bazaars closed and observers fear the regime’s end and possible foreign intervention. A Russian official notes the Shah is deteriorating rapidly.
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Teheran
Gays
Shah
Bageshakh
Persia
Mohammed Ali-Mirza
King Edward and party sail for Reval Russia
King Edward Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria departed London for Reval to visit Emperor Nicholas. A large suite followed including Sir Charles Hardinge Sir Arthur Nicholson Admiral Fisher and Sir John French. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert will sail soon with escorts meeting at Kiel for the voyage to Reval.
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King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Princess Victoria
Reval
Russia
Charles Hardinge
Foreign Office
Arthur Nicholson
St. Petersburg
Admiral Fisher
John French
Port Victoria
Victoria and Albert
Minotaur
Achilles
Kiel
Emperor Nicholas
Standart
German Officers Die In Auto Crash Near Brunswick
A high power automobile from Kiel crashed as it entered a village. Lieut Commander Assmann and First Lieut Johannes Fritzsche were killed. First Lieut Elmanhorst and chauffeur Eicke were severely injured. Fritzsche, a noted sportsman and automobilist, planned to race for the Prince Henry Cup on June 9 and had an aeroplane with 70 horsepower set for trials June 28 before the Emperor William.
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Assmann
Johannes Fritzsche
Elmanhorst
Eicke
Kiel
Lieut
Fritzsche
William
Duma Demands Trial Over Rurik Construction Faults
The Duma in St. Petersburg on June 5 debated interpellations about alleged flaws in the cruiser Rurik. After Vice Minister Marie Bostrem spoke, they passed a unanimous dissatisfcation vote and called for punishing those who shared naval secrets with the English firm that built the ship. Admiral Bostrem shifted blame to the prior ministry and faced loud opposition as he spoke. The body signaled likely rejection of battleship funding.
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Duma
Rurik
Marie Bostrem
Bostrem
Nobleman in Disgrace Over Perjury Inquiry
Berlin June 5 The Tigliche Rundschau publishes a report that an inquiry into Prince Philip zu Eulenberg on perjury charges has compromised a high court official. The Emperor dismissed the nobleman from all offices and asked him to leave his official residence.
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Berlin
Tigliche Rundschau
Philip Zu Eulenberg
Japanese Kill Koreans in Nationwide Korean Suppression
Seoul reports a broad campaign to quell the uprising in Korea with Japanese troops deployed across disaffected provinces. In nine days through June 4, sixty nine engagements occurred with Korean insurgents all killed or captured. Japanese casualties are believed to be substantial.
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Seoul
Korea
Flags presented to St. Ignatius School by Lafayette Circle
Two flags were presented to St. Ignatius School at 56 East Eighty fourth Street yesterday morning by Lafayette Circle No. 3, a women’s G. A. R. auxiliary. One flag was for the boys and the other for the girls.
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United States
St. Ignatius School
East Eighty- Fourth Street
Lafayette Circle No. 3
Scotland Steel Prices Cut By Five Shillings A Ton
Glasgow reports Scotland steelmakers cut prices by 5 shillings a ton following American trend. Paris endures record heat with 91 degrees in shade reached twice. Aurora Illinois man Elle Magaides sent to asylum amid demented state. Tokyo to announce appointments including Baron Chinda and Viscount Hayashi to new ambassadorial posts. Paris also reports Mme Steinheil questioned again over double murder case.
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America
Scotland
Paris
Elle Magaides
Aurora
Tll
Education plan to send Chinese students to American schools
The Chinese government plans a ten year program sending 200 students annually to the United States to study. It would fund most of the canceled Boxer indemnity payments to American institutions. The Empress Dowager reportedly backs American education after Confucian groundwork in China.
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Peking
America
United States
China
New Turn in Equal Pay Fight for Teachers
Grace C Strachan leader among women teachers reports male Principals blocked Interborough Association circulars on bulletin boards while some offered kind treatment. Interborough Executive Committee votes to press for equal pay before Board of Education salary revision meeting next Friday with Strachan chosen as spokesman.
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Grace C. Strachan
Interborough Association
Board of Education
Miss Strachan
Ruling on Eight Hour Law in City Work Decision
The Appellate Division orders Controller Metz to pay Charles Wille 1000 for work on a municipal building. It held the eight hour rule applies to work performed on site, not to materials supplied by others, and Wille did not forfeit the contract.
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Appellate Division
Metz
Charles Wille
Wille
Appellate Divisi
Piano Factory Tragedy Aide Drowns Self in Bay Ridge Worker
Alfred W Minot, 27, employed at Henry S Lindeman piano makers on 140th Street and Fifth Avenue, shot himself in a basement room after testing a piano. Music from adjacent rooms masked the act for about an hour. He had fired twice before a bullet exploded. He lived at 557 Ovington Street Bay Ridge.
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Alfred W.minot
Minot
Henry & S. G. Lindeman
140Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Ovington Street
Bay Ridge
Cancer Curist On Trial In Paterson Court
Dr S A Kilmer owner of a cancer curing establishment in Binghamton N Y stands trial before Judge Black in Supreme Court in a $25000 suit by Mrs Josephine Cramer of 456 Main St for payment for salves promised to cure cancer. Cramer says thirteen weeks of Kilmer treatment failed and she later needed amputation.
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New York Times
Paterson
N. J
S. A. Kilmer
Binghamton
N. Y
Black
Supreme Court
Josephine Cramer
Main Street
International Waterways Commission Urges Limits on Great Lakes Diversions
A report to Canadian Parliament finds unanimous agreement between American and Canadian sections of the International Waterways Commission. It calls for strict limits on water diversion from the Great Lakes by the Chicago Canal and on water diverted for power at Niagara.
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Ont
International Waterways Commission
Great Lakes
Chicago Canal
Ni“agara
No Board of Estimate meetings from June 26 to Sept 1
The notice states no Board of Estimate meetings will occur from June 26 through September 1. It also reports an annual outing for the People’s Choral Union and People’s Singing Classes at Cranberry Lake New Jersey tomorrow week.
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People’s Choral Union
People's Singing
Cranberry Lake
N. J
Bankrupts Reuben Sragow and Hyman Miller Adjudicated
In the Southern District of New York Reuben Sragow and Hyman Miller operating as Sragow & Miller were adjudicated bankrupts on May 20, 1908. The first meeting of creditors is set for June 18, 1908 at 2 PM at 67 Wall Street before Referee William Allen to prove claims and appoint a trustee.
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Southern District of
New York
Reuben Sragow
Hyman Miller
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Sragow
Miller
William Allen
Roosevelt plans for his game hunt abroad and Senate bid
President Roosevelt prepares for a yearlong hunting expedition to British East Africa with son Kermit, studying big game as a naturalist. While rumors link him to succeeding Depew in the U S Senate, friends expect him to take a break from politics, though plans to run for the seat may resurface during Taft’s administration.
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Roosevelt
British East Africa
New York’ Times
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Grot Fh
Mass
White House
Thomas C. Platt
United States Senate
Taft
Havin
Harvard
Andrew Carnegie
Mr. Roosevelt
Depaw
Lost Crimean Medal Sought By Brooklyn Doctor
Dr. Charles Lloyd of 418 Clinton Street Brooklyn seeks help through the Times Lost and Found for a silver Crimean war medal awarded by the British Parliament. He wore the medal at Memorial Day parade near West End Avenue and believes it fell there. The medal bears Queen Victoria and Sebastopol on the face and Crimea on the reverse, honoring Lloyd’s Civil War and Crimean service.
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Clinton Street
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THE
Times
Lloyd
West End
Crimean Veteran, Dr. Lloyd
G.A. R
United States Navy
Sebastopol
Crimea
der. Lloyd
Ex convict’s $100000 idea from North Hancock
Special to The New York Times reports Calvin P. Graves of North Hancock Maine developed a sewing invention during his prison term. The device attaches to any machine and uses a single thread from the spool to create a lock stitch. It eliminates the bobbin and allows mixed color threads by simple lever moves.
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New York Times
Oston
Calvin P. Graves
North Hancock
Fifth Avenue Coach Must Remove Exterior Signs
The Appellate Division ruled that the Fifth Avenue Coach Company may not display exterior signs or advertisements on its electric coaches. The decision upholds the city ordinance violation finding and holds that such signs are not a necessary incident of the business.
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Supreme Court
Fifth Avenue Coach Company
Fifth Avenue
Appellate Division Reinstates Vickary Verdict
The Appellate Division reversed Justice Davis who set aside a $100,000 verdict for Robert Vickary of Boston against Interborough Rapid Transit Company after a subway collision. It held the verdict stands, noting the weight of evidence supported the jury. Vickary suffered a stroke days after the accident, which he linked to the incident.
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Justic Davis
Interborough Rapid Transit Comany
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