Pool Rooms Raided With Axe and Hatchet
Justice Jerome Col Monroe and detective staff raided two poolrooms run by alleged Smith and Donavan families. At 291-293 Bowery Germania Assembly Rooms and 108 West Thirty seventh Street poolroom, amid pandemonium, arrests failed to identify suspects. Escape routes leveraged multiple exits and a brick-walled tunnel to a rear room. evidence destroyed by a kerosene-soaked stove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Travers Jerome
Col
Robert Grier Monroe
Committee of Fifteen
McCullagh
Fifth Street
Frank Farrell
Bowery
Frank Burbridge
Thirty-seventh Street
Farrell
Moynihan
West Twentieth Street
Jerome
Munroe
Robert L. Wooley
Thirty-eighth Street
Sony
Thirty Eighth Street
West Thirtieth Street
William Clark
Horace Kenworthy
West Fifty-fifth Street
Germania Hall
Second Avenue
Woman Sues for 25000 Damages Over Betrothal Break
Miss Elizabeth Aird of Jersey City sues Martin Daly for 25000 and seeks attachment of his property. The case notes a nearly decade long proximity, a March 2 engagement, a May 8 wedding planned, and Daly's claim to end the match citing rumors. Daly has 30 days to answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Aird
Fifth Street
Jersey City
Martin Daly
Jersey Avenue
Alexander Simpson
Miss Aird
Sly
Daly
Peer Aph
Circuit Court
Builders' League of New York Elects Officers
The seventh annual meeting of the Builders' League of New York was held at 74 West One Hundred Twenty-sixth Street. Officers elected include John B. Lee as President, Jackson Lawson as First Vice President, J A Rossman as Secretary, J S Sayward as Secretary and Treasurer. Provisions authorize the use of funds to pay the building mortgage and carry trustees' money to support league operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Builders’ League of New York
League
West One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street
John B. Lee
Jackson Lawson
J. A. Rossman
Sayward
Secre Landon
St* Paul
Minn
American Medical Association Today
John A. Wyeth
New York
Alonzo Garcelon
Lewiston
Maine
Alexander Stone
St. Paul
J. F. Jones
Omaha
J. A. Dobrell
Little Rock
George H. Siggmann
Henry H. N Nois
George W. Webster
Illinois
Saratoga
N. Y
Rockefeller Gifts Scholarships to Teachers College
Dean James Earl Russell announced that John D. Rockefeller endowed three annual $500 scholarships at Teachers College for able colored Southern teachers. The first goes to a Tuskegee graduate recommended by Booker T. Washington, the second to a Spelman Seminary graduate via the principal’s nomination, the third to a Hampton Institute graduate via Dr. Fressell. Six additional State Scholarships for white teachers were also established with nominations by committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Earl Russell
Teachers College
John .D. Rockefeller
Tuskeegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Spelman Seminary
Atlanta
Carnegie Fellowships Awarded To Matthews Transfer Granted
John Alexander Matthews of Columbia is awarded the Carnegie Research Fellowship from the Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. He will pursue investigations under Prof. Henry Marion Howe after transferring the fellowship to this country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Alexander Matthews
Columbia
Barnard
Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain
Andrew Carnegie
Matthews
Henry Marion Howe
Four New York City Deputy Factory Inspectors Targeted for Arrests
Albany reports State Labor Commissioner McMackin expects at least four Deputy Factory Inspectors in New York City to be arrested on charges of collusion and malfeasance. Bribe-taking and improper home manufacturing licenses alleged. investigation followed statewide factory inspections. Prosecution will be handled by Deputy Attorney General Job E. Hedges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
McMackin
New York City
Davies
Job E. Hedges
Rev Dr Kerfoot Critically Ill in Atlanta Home
The Rev Dr F H Kerfoot, corresponding secretary of the Baptist Home Mission Board, is critically ill at his Atlanta home. Doctors report he recently returned from New Orleans exhausted with fever, gastritis, and nausea, then developed articular rheumatism and kidney impairment, now showing uremic symptoms from Bright's disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
F. H. Kerfoot
Baptist Home Mission Board
Bright
Will of Mrs Bell Filed for Probate in Surrogate Office
Adelaide M Bell widow of Isaac Bell died in Paris on May 21. Her will leaves 84000 to Farmers Loan and Trust for seven grandchildren with their shares paid at age 21. The bulk of the estate goes to her two sons Louis V Bell and Edward Bell. A husband’s fund yielding 30000 annually is divided among sons and grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide M. Bell
Isaac Bell
Testatrix
Louis V. Bell
Edward Bell
Carnegie Hands Ask Higher Pay
A Braddock Pennsylvania committee of machinists at Duquesne steel works met master mechanic Thomas Bryan to seek wage increases. The group will wait until 6 p.m. tomorrow for a decision. Day shift men seek eleven hours pay for ten hours, night shift men fourteen hours pay for thirteen hours, with no strike anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carnegie
Braddock
Penn
Duquesne Steel Works
Carnegie Steel Company
Thomas Bryan
Taken Ill on Her Wedding Trip in Mount Vernon
Mrs Beatrice Dawson nee Reavey who wed William T Dawson of New York City at the Church of the Ascension two days ago fell seriously ill with typhoid fever after starting their wedding trip. The couple returned to Mount Vernon where she remains bedridden and under medical care in a critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Beatrice Dawson
New York City
Dawson
Fulton Navigation Company Formed
Albany June 6 The Fulton Navigation Company was incorporated to operate boats on the Fulton chain of lakes in Herkimer and Hamilton Counties. Principal office at Racquette Lake in Hamilton County with capital stock of 35000. Directors include J Pierpont Morgan W Seward Webb Charles H Tweed William C Whitney C M Depew Samuel R Callaway Robert Bacon Harry Payne Bedecar William P Hamilton Westrant Edward M Burns Charles E Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton Navigation Company
Albany
Fulton Chain of Lakes
Herkimer
Hamilton
Racquette Lake
Hamilton County
J. Pierpont Morgan
W. Seward Webb
Charles H. Tweed
William C. Whitney
C M. Depew
Samuel R. Callaway
Robert Bacon
Harry Payne Bedecar
Illiam P
IAM Convention Session Meets New York Central Shop Action
At the IAM session in Toronto on June 6 the union discussed workers at the New York Central Depots shops. The delegates ordered the men to return to work pending arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ontario
The
International Association of Machinists
New York Central
Rough Rider John E. B. Ryan Dies After Fall
John E. B. Ryan of the Rough Riders, wounded at San Juan, committed death by own action after a fall from his horse near Magdalena New Mexico on June 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rough Rider
Magdalena
N. M
John EB. Ryan
First
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Rough Riders
Battle of
San Juan
Georgia Bankers Tour New York After Virginia Session
More than 125 Georgia bankers with wives and families arrived in New York in two groups from Old Point Comfort Virginia after the Georgia Bankers Association held its tenth annual convention at Old Point Comfort. Delegates toured sights in New York and other destinations as the group extended the trip after adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Old Dominion
Guyandotte
Princess Anne
Old Point Comfort
Georgia Bankers’ Association
Bankers’ Association
South
Gilsey
Buffalo
Boston
New England
Canada
St. Lawrence River
P. Hillyer
American Natioal Bank of
Macon
Gilsey House
Personal comfort in hot weather underwear advert
Aertex airy underwear promises coolness for commonsense men with timeliness and everyday low prices. Window display shows complete lines in the New York store and Brooklyn locations including Broadway and Bedford Avenue outlets.
Desperate New York Man Arrested for $200 Ransom Threat
Charles S. Davis, 40, of New York City, was arrested in Post Office Square on a warrant charging him with threatening to extort $200 from his cousin Edward D. Emerson of Wellesley Hills. Police followed two letters threatening violence and seized a revolver. Davis, penniless, was held for trial in the Superior Criminal Court after waiving examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boston
Charles S. Davis
West Twenty-third Street
New York City
Post Office Square
Harris, Gaddis
Cronin
Edward D. Emerson
Gurney Street
Wellesley Hills
Davis
Emerson
New York
Iemerson
Gaddis
Adams House
Police Headon
Ost Office Square
Devonshire and
Milk Streets
Georgia Banks Prosper as Small Industry Growth Surges
Veteran banker F. P. Hardwick notes Georgia bank deposits up 25 percent and banks up 15 percent in a year and a half. He cites industrial shift from cotton to wheat fruit and factories, with peaches in North Georgia and naval stores and lumber in the south fueling prosperity. Other bankers confirm smooth business and relaxed worries about returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
F. P. Hardwick
North Georgia
South Georgia
Pecoperty
Kings County Democrats Name Five to Negotiate City Convention
The Kings County Democratic Executive Committee appointed a five member committee to confer with Tammany Hall and other Democratic groups across boroughs on representation in the city convention and on the convention’s time and place. The appointees are Senator Patrick H. McCarren James Moffett Conrad Hester and Police Commissioner Bernard J York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kings County
Democratic Executive Committee
Tammany Hall
Patrick H. McCarren
James Moffett
Conrad Hester
P Police
Bernard J. York
Samuel Edsall elected Bishop Coadjutor of Minnesota
The Right Rev Samuel Edsall of Fargo was elected Bishop Coadjutor by the Minnesota Episcopalian Diocesan Council. Votes for Dr Rainsford and others noted. Edsall consecrated Missionary Bishop of North Dakota in 1899 at St Peters Chicago. Born March 4 1860 in Dixon IL, son of J K Edsall former attorney general of Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel C. Edsall
Minnesota
Winowa
Minn
Samuel Edsall
Fargo
North Dakota
Minnesota Episcopalian Diocesan Council
Rainsford
New York
Nichols
Rollitt
Red Wing
Archdeacon Haupt
Samuel Cook Edsall
St. Peter’s Church
Chicago
Dixon
Whitehouse
Home For Incurables
St. James's Church
Hungarians Back Anti-Tammany Campaign in City
In Union Square at the Hotel Hal meeting, Emil Nulraey presiding, a large Hungarian group pledged support to anti Tammany factions citing over 45,000 votes in the city. Resolutions were unanimously adopted committing active participation against Tammany Hall in city affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tathmany Hall
Union Square
Emil Nulraey
New Jersey Sunday School Parade
Jersey City held its annual Sunday schools parade with 50 schools and 8000 children. Divisions followed by location. main unit led by Horace H. Farrier was reviewed at Van Vorst Park by Mayor Hoos and city officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Jersey City
Horace H. Farrier
van Vorst Par
Hoos
Illinois Rector Named Bishop Coadjutor on Deathbed Notice
The Rev. Dr. Frederick W. Taylor of Springfield has been elected Bishop Coadjutor to Bishop Alexander Burgess who lies critically ill in St. Albans Vermont. Taylor accepted verbally and the consecration is set for Quincy on August 24 with Bishop Clark of Rhode Island naming a committee of bishops to perform the rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Springfield
Ill
Frederick W. Taylor
St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral
Alexander Burgess
St. Albans
Taylor
Quincy
Clark
Rhode Island
New Jersey Grand Army Elects John Lawrence Commander
In Asbury Park on June 6 John Lawrence of New Brunswick won the New Jersey Grand Army Department Commander post over Oscar F Gifford with a 191 to 162 vote. Gifford moved to delay the announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asbury Park
N. J
John Lawrence
New Brunswick
New Jersey Grand Army
Ci Republic
Oscar F Gifford Éwark
Gifford
Lawrence
Unanimous Election Declared After Newark Ballot
In Newark, the post of Newark was declared elected unanimously while Seoing led off balloting with seven votes for Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seoing Post
Newark
Lawrence
Woman Shot On Street In Mount Vernon Lovers Quarrel Suspected
Lizzie Stiff thirty eight is shot twice on South Fourth Avenue and is hospitalized with injuries said to be from a lovers quarrel though she claims it was an accident. Henry Barcus, a baker from New York living in Mount Vernon, is sought as a suspect while coroner records and police present conflicting accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Lizzie Stiff
South Fourth Avenue
Miss Stiff
Illiam Herbert
Henry Barcus
New York
Gente
Herbert Saunders
Mr. Herbert
Fourth Avenue
Banning
Barcus
Saraat
Shot by his sweetheart in Fairhaven tragedy
Curtis Roberts superintendent of Fairhaven School was killed in an accidental shooting during target practice. Miss Mary Alferton fired the first shot. a bullet ricocheted off a stump and struck Roberts in the side, dying a few hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairhaven
Ohio
Curtis Roberts
School of
Mary Alferton
Roberts
New York City Christian Endeavor Union Holds Annual Meeting
The annual meeting at Scotch Presbyterian Church Central Park West and Ninety-sixth Street drew 400 delegates from about 100 societies. Rev Dr J Wilbur Chapman presided as president, new officers were elected and reports praised record growth with 110 societies and 5000 members. The treasury showed a strong balance, noted as the best in the union’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Christian Endeavor Union
Scotch Presbyterian Church
Central Park West
Ninety-sixth Street
J. Wilbur Chapman
John H. Elliott
Henry Lewis
F. W. Whitford
Alfred A. L. Bennett
Lewis
Bennett
Treasury
Tilden Club Dinner In Sherman Hotel Highlights Democratic Views
About seventy five members and guests of the Tilden Club gathered at the Sherman Hotel on Seventy-first Street and Broadway with Robert E. Gowling presiding. Speakers included William Hepburn Russell on the future of permanency, William A. Barber on the Democratic Party in the South, John D. Kernan of Utica and Prof. Burdick of Columbia University. Russell argued that recent Supreme Court and insular decisions oppose the Constitution the Democracy has long defended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilden Club
Sherman Hotel
Seventy-first Street
Broadway
Robert E. Gowling
William Hepburn Russell
Permentecy
William A. Barber
South Carolina
South
John D. Kernan
Utica
Burdick
Columbia
Controller Knight Dined At Savoy In Transfer Tax Banquet
State Controller Erastus Knight hosted a dinner at the Savoy for Transfer Tax Office subordinates. The event had no toasts, a circular table setting, and an engrossed annual report souvenir. Attendees included Controlbright and deputies P Gilman and W E Merriman among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knight
Savoy
Erastus
Controlbright
P. Gilman
W.E. Merriman
Pinder
Frederick
Gibbs
George C. Lewis
G. R. Manchester
Charles B. Page
Robert Mazet
James Yearance
W. C. Wil
Charles K. Lexow
William Halpin
Senator Beveridge Goes to Kieff
Senator Beveridge meets with Russian officials including M. de Witte Count Lamsdorff and Prince Khilkoff to study sugar iron and cotton industries. He plans a stay in European Russia for about a month and will visit Kieff then study agricultural conditions and local self government on estates before Siberia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beveridge
Kileff
ST. Petersburg
M. de Witte
Count Lamsdorff
M. Pobedonostzeff
Holy Synod
Prince Khilkoff
Eremetieff
Zemstvo
European
Russia
Brewers Association names officers at Buffalo conclave
The United States Brewers Association adjourned in Buffalo after electing officers led by President N. W. Kendall of New Haven. First Vice President Joseph Theurer and Second Vice President John D. Brown, both of Chicago, were chosen. Treas Herman F. Scharmann of Brooklyn and trustees Edward Ruhl Boston John P. Ober Pittsburg Percy Andrew Cincinnati and Robert Crain Baltimore were also elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlin
Old Point Comfort
F. P. Hardwick
Dalton
C. L. Hardwick & Co
Georgia
Ellis H. Roberts
United States
William C. Cornwell
City National Bank of Buffalo
John M. Miller, Jr
Farmers and Merchants’ Bank of
Charlotte
N. C
Noth Carolina Bankers’ Association
Virginia
John L. Williams & Co
Richmond
Newports and Hampton Clearing House Association
Percy L. May
National Exchange Bank of Augusta
S. B. Brown
Exchange Bank of Albany
L. P. Hillyer
American National Bank of Macon
George H. Plant
First National Bank of
Macon
New York
John H.reynolds
Rome
W. F. McCauley
Chatham National Bank of
Savannah
J. K. Attley
Fourth National Bank of Atlanta
J. T. Orme
Lowery National Bank of Atlanta
T. B. Neal
The
Neal Loan and Banking Company of Atlanta
D. W. James
Blakely Bank of Blakely
M. B. Lane
Citizens’ Bank of Savannah
D. B. Harrell
Bank of Bainbridge
Capt
John A. Davis
First National Bank of Albany
Association
Horace E. Crane
Southern National Bank of
J. S. Calhoun
Quartersville National Bank
Buffalo
United States Brewers’ Association
Fire at Milwaukee lumber yard causes heavy loss
Fire ripped through a North Milwaukee lumber yard tonight causing substantial damage. Officials estimated losses run into thousands as flames destroyed wood products and facilities, with emergency crews battling the blaze for hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee, Wis
North Milwaukee
Wisconsin Ure Nature
Electric Vehicle Firm Takes Over Metropolitan Express
New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company gains control of Metropolitan Express to run parcel and baggage express via trolley lines. Freight cars will operate on lower avenues, with freight stations planned along Manhattan and northward, starting next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric Vehicle Transportation Company
Metropolitan Express Company
New York Electric Vehicle Transportation Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Bronx
Westchester
Union Railway Company
Broadway
Union Railway
Harlem
New Rochelle
Pelham
White Plains
Mount Vernon
Yonkers
The
Transportation Company
Century Express
Henry Sanderson
Metropolitan Railway Company
Manhattan Island
the Transportation Company
Fifth Avenue Stage Line
Italian barber shoots would be fiancée in Brooklyn killing herself
Pellano Navara acclaims the Italian man Michael Larissa after a rejected marriage plea on Eighteenth Street. Larissa shoots the Navara woman in the head then shoots himself, both surviving. Vincent Navara arrives at the police station seeking to view Larissa at Seney Hospital where a revolver is found in Navara's pocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pellano Navara
Michael Larissa
Italy
Eighteenth Street
Brooklyn
Larissa
Navara
She
Naples
Vincent Navara
Prospect Avenue
Second Avenue
Seney Hospital
Fifth Avenue
Magistrate Teale defends mothers-in-law in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn Magistrate Charles E. Teale oversees a quarrel between a wife and her husband who is accused of threats against his spouse and her mother-in-law. The judge quips about discord and endlessly worn-out excuses as the case unfolds with family tensions exposed in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teale
Brooklyn
Charles E. Teale
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Jay & Co
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Fulton St. & Flatbush
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Charles Avis
DR. Rainsford
Voters For Reform
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Dey St
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City Hall
Newport
Kokomo
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West End
Christian Endeavor Union
William H. Russell
Brewers’ Association Officers
Mothers-In-Law
W. L. Douglas
Uisaiwa
Fulton
Howard
Broadway, Cor. Ltd
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125Th Street
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Rechten
Manhattan
NEW York Telephone CO
Dey Street
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Driver
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Grove
Henry Moore
Montgomery
John Knox Presbyterian Church
Moore
Gregory Street
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