Smoke nuisance grows as big offices burn soft coal
Authorities warn dealers hold 200000 tons of anthracite awaiting law enforcement. In Manhattan offices smoke test alarms public concern while the Board of Health pursues prosecutions against soft coal users.
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New York
Lower Broadway
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Chicago
William and
Liberty Streets
Hillman
Acme Soft Coal Company
Broadway
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Board of Health
Lederle
Corporation Counsel
Corporation
A. F. Cosby
Bureau of Incumbrances
Nassau Street
New York Times
Cosby
Greater New York Shoe Polishers Union Formed in New York
About eight hundred Italians and several other nationalities met in Manhattan to form the Greater New York Shoe Polishers Union No. 1. Officers were elected, eight hundred fifty members enrolled, dues set at five cents for a shine and ten for a polish, with pledge cards issued for display. The group called on the mayor to push Sunday shop closures at 2 o clock and planned a bill for legislative action.
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Marion Hall
Lexington Avenue
Twenty-fifth Street
Greater
New York
Millionaire Peter Hall Killed by Train at Schuetzen Park
Peter Hall a seventy year old Jersey City contractor and financier worth over a million dollars was struck and killed by a train on the Erie Railroad Susquehanna Division at Schuetzen Park New Jersey. He called at Homestead yards of Hall Jaegal Bellis Coal Co before walking along tracks to the station. He lived in Ridgefield and was survived by two sons Frank and James P. Hall previously served in the New Jersey Assembly.
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Peter Hall
Schuetzen Park
N. J
Erie
Mr. Hall
Hall-Jaegal-Bellis Coal Company
Homestead
Ridgefield
Jersey City
Hudson County
Frank
James P
The
New Jersey Asssembly
Doctors' Annual Conclave Ends Four Day AMA Session
Saratoga N Y June 13 The American Medical Association four day conclave ends with 362 members evolving 390 papers read in 12 sections. Retiring President Dr John A Wyeth of New York City praises the meeting as most successful. Frank Billings of Chicago elected President and given the gavel. 1908 New Orleans hosts next. 1904 return anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
N. Y
American Medical Association
John A. Wyeth
New York City
Frank Billings
Chicago
Drs. G Lenox Curtis
F. H. Wiggin
Willy Meyer
M. L. Maduro
A. L. Sherman
New Orleans
Potteries proposed at Derry by Pittsburg capitalists
East Liverpool Ohio June 13 William J Harvey formerly with Shenango China Company New Castle Pennsylvania arrived to contract for machinery for five new seven kiln potteries to be erected at Derry Pennsylvania by Pittsburg capitalists including Gov Stone and Judge Potter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Liverpool
Ohio
William J. Harvey
Shenango China Company
New Castle
Penn
Pittsburg
Ov. Stone
Judge Potter
Derry
Nomination News From District Judge Kincaid
District Judge Kincaid completes action on nominating a candidate for Congress in the AAA district. The brief item notes the nomination status and the involved party, with emphasis on formal judicial progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kincaid
Passengers Escape From Burning Broadway Electric Car
A defective wire ignited a Broadway electric car from Thirty-third Street toward Fiftieth Street. Passengers, including many women, jumped from the car as flames spread through the floor. Fire crews and bystanders helped, the blaze reached the barns on Fiftieth Street and the block from Thirty-second to Twenty-eighth Street was affected. Car 662 collided with an express wagon at Thirty fifth Street, driver uninjured but wagon damaged.
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Broadway
Thirty-third Street
Metropolitan Railway
Fiftieth Street
Hotel Imperial
Thirty-second
Twenty-eighth Street
Senate Debates Crozier Nomination for Chief of Ordnance
Washington June 13 The Senate debated Capt William Crozier for Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance with emphasis on the Feb 1901 law exceptions and Crozier patent interests The discussion noted Croziers Buffington Crozier gun carriage patent transfer to the government and adjourned without a decision
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Washington
Senate
William Crozier
Bureau of Ordnance
Proctor
Gen. Crozier
Friends of
Senator Proctor
Cockrell
Foraker
Committee On Military Affairs
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Fire at H. M. Rosenblatt & Co. factory in Philadelphia
Fire destroyed a four story novelty factory at Second and Oxford Streets in Philadelphia. It injured about a dozen, forced many to jump into nets, and damaged the John Moffett Public School and nine nearby houses. Loss is about 165000 dollars with insurance coverage.
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Philadelphia
H. M. Rosenblatt, & Co
Second
Oxford Streets
John Moffett
Leather Works
Katie Scheidell
Rosenblatt
Pushcart Market Plan discussed at Victoria Hall
East side pushcart vendors from three associations crowded Victoria Hall at 86 Clinton Street for speeches on a pushcart market near the East River Bridge from Norfolk Street to the river. Gustav Lindenthal, Bridges Commissioner, endorsed the idea and said it would demand his official attention. He noted booths or pushcarts would be decided later and promised to curb graft and blackmail. Further meetings were planned to advance the plan.
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Victoria Hall
Clinton Street
East River
Norfolk Street
Delancey Street
Gustav Lindenthal
New York
Undertaker Murphy Exonerated in City Fraud Case
Undertaker Joseph J. Murphy of 2 329 First Avenue was honorably discharged in Yorkville Police Court after being accused by the Charities Commissioner of attempting to defraud the city of 31 dollars. The case involved billing the department for burying an old soldier when relatives had already paid most of the funeral bill.
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Joseph J. Murphy
First Avenue
Yorkville
Murphy
Pitcain Lunacy Verdict Links Wife to Estate
Jurors in Dixmont traverse of Albert Pitcain’s lunacy rulings found his insanity began in 1900, establishing his wife Mrs Pitcain as heir to an estimated $300,000 estate. The trial noted the 1897 marriage于 Aug 27, 1897 and questioned whether she knew of his condition.
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Pittsburg
Albert Pitcain
Dixmont
Pitcain
Weathered voyage sketches aboard the yacht Hiawatha by E W Kemble
A compact note describes cold weather stories aboard the yacht Hiawatha offsetting Mediterranean heat with clever illustrations by E W Kemble and plugs a feature in tomorrow's New York Times Advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Kemble
New York
Timmae Adv
Pawtucket Quiet After Deputies Withdrawn From Streetcars
High Sheriff Hunter C White pulled deputies from streetcars amid riots tied to a strike leaving 1 500 militiamen on duty. Seven arrests on Pawtucket Avenue as lines remained shut awaiting a police led reopening with militia support. Vener Petersen shot in neck reported alive. Mayor Fitzgerald closes all saloons.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Lawlessnes
Hunter C. White
Gov.Kimball
Pawtucket Avenue
State Armory
Vener Petersen
Fitzgerald
Arrest of 22 Canadians in Morristown for contract labor law breach
Immigration inspector Samuel Eppler arrested twenty two French Canadians at the Armstrong Brick Company works in Morristown on warrants from the Treasury Department. They were brought to Ellis Island after a Board of Special Inquiry decides their fate. Commissioner Williams calls it a flagrant violation and vows enforcement.
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United States Treasury Department
Samuel Eppler
Morristown
N. J
Armstrong Brick Company
Eppler
Ellis Island
Board of Special
Williams
Virginia election queries raise franchise questions in Virginia
Virginia leaders focus on applying the Constitution's franchise and understanding clause to the upcoming Congressional elections and primary contests. Attention centers on registration turnout in August or September and whether new Boards of Registration will affect white voter advantage, with uncertainty in counties controlled by old machines.
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Richmond
Virginia
Congress
Democratic Party
Boards of Registration
Railroads switch to rock ballast for dust control
The Boston and Albany will abandon oil for dust laying and install a rock ballast plant. Sections covered with broken stone show good results. The New York New Haven and Hartford also uses dust laying. Two thirds of the line between New London and New Haven is rock ballasted. Plymouth Division uses cinders to build a fine road bed despite sand. Ladies report fabric damage from settling particles.
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Boston
Mass
Boston and Albany
New York
New Haven
Hartford
New London
Plymouth
Cheaper Insurance Rates Spark Baltimore Mutual Firm
Baltimore announces a new 25 percent premium rating for all new policies prompting major firms to place over 1.5 million dollars in insurance with the Merchants and Warehousemen's Insurance Company. The Philadelphia based group aims to offer lower rates through a mutual plan. EK. F. Henson of E. P. Burke & Co. becomes president, with Le Grande Smith of Chicago named a director.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Fire Underwriters’ Association
Mutual Company
Merchants’ and Warehousemen’s Insurance Company
Chicago
Philadelphia
EK. F. Henson
E. P. Burke & Co
Pennsylvania Lumbermen’s Mutual Fire Insurance Company
le Grande Smith
Union Cold Literaza Company
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ST. Cree
L.douglas
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W.l.douglas
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Corona Kid
Corona Colt
Nat
LE. Douglas
Brockton
Third Avenue
Fulton Street
Eighth Avenue
Fifth Avenue
Cortlandt Street
125Th St
Brooklyn
Newark Avenue
Newark
Broad Street
Rose
Concord
Welch
Welch's
Welch Grapé Juice Co
Westfield, N.Y. al
Motha
T. MW. Stewart
7Th Avenue
28Th St
ORF
Cate
J. Callanan
Vesey Monthly
Homestead Station
Doctors
33D Street
50Th Street
Lindenthal
Undertaker Murphy
Ww. J. Henderson
Rhode Island
Boston and
Albany
New Mutual Company
Abe Cook
United States
Siegel Cooper
18Th Street
Charles Garvice
MY Lady OF Snow
Jasper Fairfax
Margaret Holmes
the Masserenes
Ouida
Brown, V. C
Mrs. Alexander
Miss Neville
Organdie
Mull
Batiste
Persia
India
Victoria
Owen Ty
Siegel Cooper Store
Martinique
Prince Albert
Priestley “Cravenette
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