Judge Gary Testifies on Banks and Steel Monopoly Ties
Judge Gary returns before the Stanley Committee in Washington to discuss government regulation of banks to prevent restraint of trade and to explain the Pittsburgh coal and iron deals. He cites alleged pressure by Morgan interests and a 25 year contract tying output to the United States Steel Corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Elbert Jr
Gary
Stanley Committee
Morgan Banks
New York
Tennessee Coal and Iron
United States Steel Corporation
Morgan
Stanley
United States
Pittsburg Coas and Iron Company
Monongahela Coal and Gas Company
Gardner
Lindabury
Mr. Stanley
Hall
Richard C. Hall
Pittsburg Stock Exchange
George S. Whitney
Steel Corporation
Whitney
Pittsae Coal Company
Ohio
Steel Company
Senator Oliver
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Company
Monongahela Company
Monongahela
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Littleton
Tennessee (Gas and Iron Company
Roosevelt
Moore
Sehley
Schley
Train wrecking scare hits Hudson line at Fishkill Landing
Police in Fishkill Landing hold a man believed to be tampering with New York Central Railroad tracks. Several recent attempts included a keg under rails near Poughkeepsie and a fish-plate found ahead of a locomotive near Camelot. Hearing scheduled this morning.
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New York Times
Fishkill Landing
N. Y
Hudson
New York Central Railroad
Camelot
The
Central
Rhinecliff
Kingston
Poughkeepsie
Senate gasp at Roosevelt protest over district appropriation
Albany June 7 Senate members reacted with surprise and amusement as Senator Franklin D Roosevelt questioned why a 9000 reappropriation for the Superintendent of Public Works was inserted without district consultation. The bill was laid aside at Roosevelt's request.
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New York Times
Albany
Senate
A. E. Smith
Superintendent of Public Works
Franklin D Roosevelt
Wagner
Roosevelt
Hinman
Brackett
Gov Foss Sued for 7000 by Boston Brokers Over Cotton Commissions
Special to The New York Times Gov Foss faces a 7000 dollar suit from Frank A Cummings and Ralph H Hubbard of Cummings Hubbard accusing breach of contract over commissions from handling a large cotton account. They attach his National Shawmut Bank and New England Trust Company records and note 46735 in commissions already paid.
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New York Times
Boston
Mass
Gov. Foss
Frank A. Cummings
Woburn
Ralph H. Hubbard
New York
Cummings & Hubbard
National Shawmut Bank
New England Trust Company
Foss
New York Men Linked to Santo Domingo Plot
Five prominent New York men are said to be involved in a plan to overthrow Santo Domingo's government. Ex-President Carlos Morales and aides Mauricio Jiminez and Zenon Torribio are jailed in Porto Rico for neutrality violations. Authorities hold secret names as evidence shows Morales arranged war vessels, troops, and supplies for a Santo Domingo campaign. A letter from the Santo Domingo president to Washington confirms the expedition details and U.S. intercession.
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Washington
New York
Santo Domingo
Carlos Morales
Mauricio Jiminez
Zenon Torribio
Porto Rico
Morales
State Department
Hazel Schmidt Awakes Briefly After Sleep of Seven Weeks
Hazel Schmidt of Vandalia Newfoundland opened her eyes after seven weeks of slumber and asked for breakfast. The episode occurred without medical treatment and she returned to sleep shortly after, remaining unconscious through the evening while family members watched.
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New York Times
Vandalia
Hazel Schmidt
Miss Schmidt
George Schmidt
Two Nights New York to Colorado Train Deal
Rock Island Lines offers the deluxe Rocky Mountain Limited and Mountaineer service from Chicago to Colorado with low fare excursion tickets advertised at Broadway.
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New York
Colorado
Rock Island Lines
Rocky Mountain
Mountaineer
Chicago
Mexico City Earthquake Kills Sixty Three and Wounds Many
A powerful June 7 earthquake in Mexico City killed 63 and injured dozens, damaging the old San Cosme Barracks, Belem Prison, two churches, and the National Palace. Factories and trams suffered, with at least $450,000 in property damage and many homes destroyed.
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San Cosme
Guadeloupe
Indianilla
Mexico City
Francisco I. Madero, Jr
Meteorological Observatory
San Cosma
Belem
National Palace
Santo Domingo
la Profesa
San Francisco
Gould's Control of Gaiety Disputed in London Theatre Row
Frank Jay Gould claims controlling interest in the Gaiety Theatre London and plans to take active management from George Edwardes. Edwardes disputes the move and says shareholders must decide. Edwardes may still hold a majority of shares and a showdown meeting is expected. Possible managers named include Patrick Malone and Alfred Butt.
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Edwardes
London
Gould
Patrick Malone
Edith Kelly
Alfred Butt
Palace Theatre of Varieties
Superior to Lemonade Ad for Horsford's Acid Phosphate
An old advertisement extols Horsford's Acid Phosphate mixed with cold water and sugar as a refreshing wholesome tonic. It promises invigoration and vitality as a health beverage option in a period-style sales pitch.
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Horsford
How King George Will Be Crowned
Archdeacon W M Sinclair of London analyzes the coronation ceremony in a Times coronation section. The illustrated article is among numerous pieces by distinguished men prepared for next Sunday's edition.
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George
W. M. Sinclair
London
Robber Pursued by Miss Thorne in Auto
Miss Thorne pursues an automobile thief who escaped into the woods after a robbery. Police investigation continues as the suspect eludes capture in the rural area.
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Miss Thorne
New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Margaret Thorne
Oakleigh Thorne
Trust Company of America
Millbrook
Ralph Deyo
Netherwood
Jacobus
Donahue
Mr. Deyo
Burton Woods
Thorndale
Thornes
South Millbrook
Townsend
Hornbeck
Mack
Deyo
Home Gate
Thorne
Cleve
Will of Adela Sloane Reveals Rich Estate and Bequests
The probate filing in Pittsfield outlines Adela Berry Sloane's will from April 21 1906. Bequests include 883 Fifth Avenue property and Wyndhurst estate to Evelyn Sloane and John Sloane Jr. with substantial sums to son William Sloane. The will details memoranda directing executors on asset distribution and lists broad shares of remaining estate to all three children, with executors named. The estate value is said to exceed 2 million dollars.
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New York Times
Pittsfield
Mass
Adela Berry Sloane
John Sloane
New York
Lenox
Evelyn Sloane
William B
Griswold
Greenwic Conn
Wyndhurst
John Sloane, Jr
William Sloane
Evelwold
John_ Sloane
Gene Eeaons
Fifth Avenue
Elberon
N. J
F. B. Nairne
Charles P. Howland
George Gibbs Kane
Vacation Notice Offer From The New York Times
Advertisement offers daily and Sunday delivery to country addresses for 75 cents per month. Readers are instructed to place orders through their newsdealer or by contacting the Circulation Department at 1000 Bryant.
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New York Times
Justice's Son Arrested in Fraud Case
Merritt Trimble Wyatt, son of Justice Wyatt, was arrested after a shop detective matched him to a $72 charge at a Fifth Avenue store. The bill belonged to Everett L. Judkins, a milliner from Riverside Drive, who denied it. Wyatt, previously arrested for alleged theatre ticket larceny, awaited a hearing and sought bail from his father.
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Merritt Trimble Wyatt
Justice Wyatt
Court of Special Sessions
Fifth Avenue
Everett L. Judkins
Riverside Drive
Judkins
Wyatt
John F. Larkin
West Thirtieth Street
Winter Garden
Suffrage Bill Fails in House Vote
The Hartford Connecticut House defeated a women's suffrage measure for municipal elections 168 to 49 after two hours of debate. The bill's defeat puts it at odds with the Senate, as both chambers have often supported varying forms of suffrage bills in past sessions.
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Connecticut
House
Senate
Hartford
Conn
Maillard’s Vanilla Chocolate Ad Claims High Value
An advertisement touts Maillard’s Vanilla Chocolate as high in nutritive value and unexcelled in flavor, claiming no higher price.
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Maillard’s
Adv
Fire on a Leyland liner Oxonian near Waarden
The Leyland Line steamer Oxonian travelling from New Orleans to Antwerp caught fire off Waarden in the River Schelde. The blaze was confined to the after part and proved hard to control but was extinguished after several hours of effort.
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Flushing
Holland
Leyland Line
Oxonian
Antwerp
New Orleans
Waarden
Schelde
Taft's Son Offered Nashville Law Move After Bar Hurdle
Nashville Industrial Bureau telegrammed Robert Taft to come to Nashville, take the State Bar examination, and practice there. He was denied in Ohio for not registering when beginning study, and must wait two years before taking the state exam there.
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Nashville
Tenn
Nashville Industrial Bureau Today
Robert Alphonse Taft
President Taft
Taft
Ohio
Dukes Donate $160000 to Trinity College Endowment
In Durham on June 7, Trinity College announced plans to raise $1,000,000 more in endowment while revealing that James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke contributed $160,000. J B Duke added $50,000 for a dormitory and B N Duke $110,000 for campus lands and improvements, bringing the Dukes' total gifts to $2,000,000. The college now stands the best endowed in the South with the largest campus, and the Methodist denomination has given $200,000.
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New York Times
Durham
N.C
Trinity College
James B. Duke
B. N. Duke
J. B. Duke
Southern College
Methodist
Fed by Vassar Girls Find Missing Woman Near Vassar
Margaret Mitchell, 71, wandered from the Dutchess County Almshouse a week earlier and was found starving in an unused barn near Manchester Bridge by Vassar College sophomore girls. They fed her two days and then notified authorities. She was taken to the county jail.
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New York Times
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Dutchess County Almshouse
Margaret Mitchell
Manchester Bridge
Vassar College
Vassar
Singer Hilda Billin Tries Suicide in Yonkers Home
Mrs Matilda Cucca known on stage as Hilda Billin attempted to poison herself at 25 Park Hill Avenue Yonkers. In St Josephs Hospital she denied the act but Coroner Hes says evidence shows she took six bichloride of mercury tablets dissolved in water and swallowed them after a quarrel with her husband Louis who faced assault charges.
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Matilda Cucca
Hilda Billin
Park Hill Avenue
Yonkers
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Cucca
Manhattan
Iles
Joseph Fortuna
Wedding Excitement Fatal Claims Final Prelude
Mrs Thomas J L Rushmore 83 of Mamaroneck died suddenly in Orienta Park on the eve of her granddaughter May Shelton Bell’s wedding to Kenneth Millett. Excitement for the ceremony is blamed for a heart attack. Invitations were recalled and the marriage postponed. She left five children and twenty-one grandchildren.
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Thomas JL Rushmore
Mamaroneck
Orienta Park
May Shelton Bell
Kenneth Millett
Attorneys Challenge Indictments in Ohio Bribery Case
In Columbus on June 7, defense lawyers for Representative George B. Nye and others filed demurrers to indictments against Senators Cetone Andrews Huffman and Sergeant-at-Arms Dregel. Trials on bribery charges set for Saturday. if demurrers prevail, indictments against Crawford Lowry may be voided. A report quotes James E. Pilliod of a Toledo brewing firm alleging a Dean bill payoff of 6000 to pass local option repeal, which prosecutors dismissed as false.
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New York Times
Columbus
Ohio
George B. Nye
Cincinnati
Dayton
George L. Cetone
L. R. Andrews
Isaac C. Huffman
Senate
Dregel
Edgar T
Women Involved In Shooting Stokes At Varuna Apartment
W. E. D. Stokes, Ansonia Hotel proprietor, was found wounded at the Varuna apartment. Two young women Lilian Graham and Ethel Conrad shot him amid claims of blackmail over letters. Japanese servants detained as witnesses and alleged participants in the melee.
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W. E. D. Stokes
Ansonia
Seventy-third Street
Broadway
Varuna
Eightieth Street
Lilian Graham
Ethel Conrad
Stokes
Roosevelt Hospital
Mr. Stokes
West Sixty-eighth Street
Miss Graham
Miss Conrad
Patrick Casey
Casey
Andrew J. Tully
Twenty-eighth Street
Coney Island
Graham
John Bloom
Tully
Devery
Lillian Graham
West Eighteenth Street
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Fishkill
Domingo Plot
Republic
Mexican Central Railroad
Madero
Mexican Central
Santa Maria
Colonia Roma
Gailty
New Yorker
Frank Jay Gould
Savoy Hotel
Gaiety
Atre
George Edwardes
Times
Will OF
Adela B. Sloane
Justice
5Th Ave
Young Wyatt
Industrial Bureau
Dukes
Trinity College At
Singer
Toledo
Dean
W.E. D
Ansonia Proprietor
Conrad
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