Race track gambling reform remains in spotlight after governor urged action
Governors push to ban race track betting faces Senate resistance as lawmakers refer Agnew and Hart anti-gambling bills to Codes Committees. Senator Foelker sick at home raises questions on vote impact while proponents insist penalties must align with constitutional aims and end discriminatory exceptions.
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Senate
Agnew
New York
Unger
Assemblyman
Heart
Brooklyn
Staatsurg
Poughkeepsie
Senate hears bills on race-track gambling and cattle TB
Governor urges abolition of race-track gambling and a tuberculosis prevention law for cattle. Republicans draft the measures while Senate leaders prepare to pass them. Senator Foelker reportedly ill but expected back by Wednesday to vote. The Senate also approves Senator Raines’s bill barring signing petitions for candidates one cannot vote for.
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Thevernor
Foelker
Albany
Senate
Ford W. Smith
Dutchess
Smith
Agnew
Raines
Federal Grand Jury Opens Fassett Telegram Inquiry
A federal grand jury in Washington will begin an investigation into the Fassett Cassidy telegram case. The probe concerns the alleged insertion of the word not into a telegram from Representative Fassett of New York to State Senator Owen Cassidy in Albany before a New York Legislature vote on the Anti Race Track bill.
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Washington
Federal Grand Jury
Fassett-Cassidy
Fassett
New York
Owen Cassidy
Albany
No Betting Prohibited at Overland Park Derby
Special to The New York Times reports Colorado Gov Buchtel issued an executive order banning all betting at the Overland Park race meet. The order, signed and sealed, directs the Attorney General to act in cases of open gambling while focusing attention on Overland Park where the Derby is to be run this Saturday.
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New York Times
Denver
Col
Overland Park
New Low Death Rate Reported in New York City
Health Department data show a weekly death rate of 14.41 per 1,000 in New York City, the lowest in history, a 3.05 percent drop from the previous June. Health Commissioner Darlington left for Boston to speak on heart disease causes while officials note fewer pneumonia and typhoid deaths this week.
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New York
Health Department
Darlington
Boston
United States
Bensel
Young Steve Brodie Dead at 27 in Bellevue Hospital
Stephen Brodie son of the famed bridge jumper Steve Brodie dies at Bellevue Hospital after chronic alcoholism. He was 27, unmarried, once tied to a fortune reportedly left by his father, and had worked as a Bowery bartender amid a fast life. Father McCabe was summoned as he lingered after being moved from St. Gregory’s to Bellevue.
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Stephen Brodie
Steve” Brode
Bellevue Hospital
Young Brodie
Cher
St. Gregory’s Hospital
Brodie
St. Gregory’s
Father McCabe
Bellevue
Bowery
Beef Prices To Rise On Shortages In Cattle And Canned Meats
Chicago officials say shortages of cattle and canned meats will push up beef prices. An Armour & Co. executive says increases will be small, between 1 and 2 cents per pound, with shortages not expected to last long.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
Armour & Co
Europe
Brooklyn church calls and fires noted in Brooklyn News
The Rev Dr John F Carson pastor of Central Presbyterian considers a call to Fourth Presbyterian Chicago, while Rev Dr Charles E Locke accepts a call to First Methodist Los Angeles. Mrs Sarah Fisher offers 50 reward for incendiary information at 466 Seventeenth Street as firebugs strike her factory. John Mahoney of a strong arm gang gets 14 years and six months with a warning from Judge Dike. Coal ash water barges launching postponed in Brooklyn Navy Yard. sponsors are twin Misses Fleaner and Esther Gregory, daughters of Luther E Gregory.
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John F. Carson
Central Presbyterian Church
Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
Carson
Sarah Fisher
Seventeenth Street
John Mahoney
Dike
Mahoney
Charles E. Locke
Hansor Place Methodist Episcopal Church
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Los Angeles
Cal
Robert W. McIntyre
Locke
Hanson Place Church
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Fleaner
Esther Gregory
Luther E. Gregory
New Charges Against District Attorney Jerome Arise
Gov. Hughes announced supplementary charges against New York County District Attorney Jerome. The charges cite testimony before Commissioner Hand and allege Jerome advised counsel changes for a reluctant witness, plus involvement in dice gambling for stakes and attempts to trap Nathan Vidaver in a bribery case. Jerome to reply by June 16, and Hand will refer the matter for further action.
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Albany
N._Y
New York County
Justice Davy
Edward Lauterbach
Jerome
Allen Ryan
Garvan
William Montgomery
Hamilton Bank of
New York
Nathan Vidaver
State of New York
Montgomery
Commissioner Hand
Hand
Judge Dismisses Mercantile Marine Suit Over Haverford Explosion
In a United States District Court ruling Judge Adams dismissed the Admiralty suit by the International Mercantile Marine Company against Joseph Fels and Samuel Fels over the June 14 1906 explosion aboard the liner Haverford at Liverpool. The court upheld the naphtha explosion theory and held the shipper failed to warn sufficiently about the naphtha soap, dismissing the libel.
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Adams
United States District Court
International Mercantile Marine Company
Joseph Fels
Samuel S. Fels
Haverford
Liverpool
Fels Brothers
Man Commits Suicide After Threats to Wife
Adam Oster a driver at 226 East 100th Street killed himself in his home after repeated threats to his wife and prior suicide attempts. Neighbors noted despondence from an arm injury and personal crisis, with Oster having been jailed previously for threats against his spouse.
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Driver
Adam Oster
East 100Th Street
Oster
Blackwell's Island
Mrs Brewster’s Romance After Divorce in Sioux Falls
Mrs Franklin Brewster, newly divorced from her Rochester New York millionaire husband, heads to New Jersey to visit son in law Senator Frelinghuysen. She hints at marrying a Greek court attaché and may become a Queen’s lady in waiting. daughters presented at the Grecian Court.
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Sioux Falls
M. D
Franklin Brewster
Rochester
N.Y
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Brewster
Greece
Ashton Knight
Paris
N. Y
FE. Franklin Brewster
EF. Franklin Brewster
Brewster, Gordon &Co
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