Washington Chosen For Peace Parley
Washington was chosen as the seat of peace negotiations between Japan and Russia after Tokyo refused a European capital and the war partners agreed Washington would host plenipotentiaries. President Roosevelt announced the decision after a lengthy meeting with Japanese Minister Takahira, with possible adjournment to a North Summer resort if Washington proves uncomfortable.
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Japan
Russia
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Paris
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International Arbitration Tribunal
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Europe
St. Petersburg
Wakahina
Governor Higgins calls extraordinary session for June 21
Gov. Higgins issued a proclamation convening the Legislature in Albany for Wednesday June 21 at noon in an extraordinary session. The call specifies only subjects formally presented by the governor and may include amendments to the insurance law depending on the State Insurance Department report on the Equitable Life Assurance Society. The governor is not expected in Albany before Saturday.
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Albany
Hendricks
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
Equitable
Index to Departments and Page Contents
A fragmented newspaper index lists sections by page: Commercial Work Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business roubles Court Calendars Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Realist Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires Burnett's Extract of Vanilla advertised as pure and strong.
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Weather Report
Fatally Hurt in Auto Accident on Amsterdam Avenue
An unidentified man, about forty, was struck while crossing Amsterdam Avenue at Ninety Street just before midnight. He died of skull fracture and extensive injuries at J Hood Wright Hospital. Chauffeur Edward H Farrell of the Bronx was arrested. the car owned by FE W White of Manhattan carried four men. A paper marked J B found on the injured man pointed to the Bennett Building in Ann Street. The party traveled from a lodge meeting and the car stopped at Eighty eighth Street to drop one passenger.
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Ninetieth Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Edward H. Farrell
Prospect Avenue
Bronx
J.B
Bennett Building
Ann Street
People’s Legal Aid Society
John W. England
West Forty-seventh Street
England
FE. W. White
West Fifty-fifth Street
Eighty-eighth Street
Dispute Over Santa Fe Prosecution Frays U S Attorney General
Washington June 15 The quarrel between Attorney General Moody and special counsel Harmon and Judson over Santa Fe railroad case broadens. They urged prosecuting officers of the Santa Fe for rebates. Moody argued for prosecuting the corporation only. Senator Knox supported Moody and ruled against individual prosecutions. Harmon and Judson resigned citing the dispute. Moody plans full public statement after Harmon's reply.
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Colorado Fuel and Tron Company
Paul Morton
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Senator Knox
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Mr. Moody
Colorado and Southern approves $100 million mortgage
A $100,000,000 mortgage for a bond issue was ratified by Colorado and Southern stockholders in Denver. The loan funds a gulf extension, Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway in Texas, Cripple Creek short line to Colorado, Colorado and Northwestern, a double tracking project between Pueblo and Trinidad, and Wyoming branch improvements.
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Denver
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Gulf of Mexico
Trinity and Brazos Valley
Texas
Cripple Creek
Coloride
Colorado and Northwestern
Colorado
Pueblo
Trinidad
Wyoming
Through Sleeping Cars to Detroit and Mt. Clemens
Lehigh Valley R. H. train service from New York to Detroit and Mt. Clemens via sleeping cars. Departures noted as Sundays with 40, 9725 and 235 Fulton St. Brooklyn address for advance tickets. Further details list 1,204 Broadway NYC.
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Mt. Clemens
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N. Y
Fulton St
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Beldame Wins Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay
Beldame, the champion filly, led a strong field to win the Suburban Handicap at Sheepshead Bay in decisive style. Delhi pressed the pace early, but Beldame rallied to finish a length and a half ahead of Proper, with First Mason third as a crowd of about 30,000 celebrated the turf victory. Belmont and Keene attended, and bookmakers faced a strike as attendance totaled well below last year's peak.
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Sheepshead Bay
New York
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Metropolitan Turf Association
Bel Dame Triumphs In Suburban Handicaps at Sheepshead Bay
Bel Dame wins the Suburban Handicaps at Sheepshead Bay denying rivals Delhi and Proper, with Graziallo withdrawing and Adbell and Shes Rege among the notable bettors. Delhi started as favorite but Bel Dame proves the standout racehorse, restoring her status as champion of her sex.
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Coney Island
Graziallo
Delhi
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Adbell
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Secretary Hay Returns Healthy After Europe Trip
Secretary of State John Hay, recently ill, has returned aboard the Baltic and appears greatly improved. Doctors are satisfied with his health, and he says he has no plan to resign from Roosevelt's Cabinet. He was welcomed by his daughter and son-in-law, with a formal note from the White House.
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John Hay
Naples
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Roosevelt
Payne Whitney
Whitney
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Pete
Mr. Hay
William Barbour
J. C. Holliday
Henry L. Hotchkiss
W. D. Rea
Charles
Labor Trust ties in Chicago teamsters outlined
John C. Driscoll testified before a Grand Jury detailing a Chicago labor network centered on the Teamsters Union and the Coal and Freight handlers associations. He linked power to 1901 formations and cited strikes in 1902 and large bribe-like payments, signaling a major scandal per State's Attorney Healy.
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Chicago
John C. Driscoll
Building Trades’ Council
Grand Jury
Chicago Teamsters’ Union
Teamsters’ Union
Coal Team Owners’ Association
Driscoll
Albert Young
Packing House
Teamsters
Healy
Woman in Cedar Lawn Cemetery Dies after Threat of Suicide
Police report a Madison Avenue woman, Mrs Ella Eckerman, died en route to hospital after a threat to kill herself at Cedar Lawn Cemetery. She left a locket and letter to her son and daughter-in-law and had visited real estate office on Van Houten Street. A poison glass was found at the scene.
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General Hospital
Booty Recovered From Pacific Rail Robbery Case
Ex-convict Jake Terry helped the Canadian Pacific Railway recover securities worth 864000 stolen when the Dominion Express Company safe was robbed near Mission Junction last September. Bill Minor, once Terry’s San Quentin cellmate, is suspected as the robber leader and faces arrest with two others.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jake Terry
Canadian Pacific Railway
Dominion Express Company
Canadian Pacific Overland
Mission Junction
Bill Minor
San Quentin
Terry
Bellingham
Brown
Minor
Puget Sound
Adirondack Liner Passes Sandy Hook After Night Voyage
The Atlas liner Adirondack from Hayti passed Sandy Hook at 11 17 last night. The steamship Gwent from Baracoa also passed last night.
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Adirondack
Hayti
Sandy Hook
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Baracoa
France Prepares for Trouble with Germany
Paris reports fear of dangerous complications over the Moroccan question as both army and navy mobilize in secrecy. Premier Rouvier and German Ambassador Radolin continue discussions with no decisive results. Berlin hints at a possible conference, while Tangier and Tangier harbor plans face scrutiny.
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M. Delcassé
Foreign Office
Rouvier
Prince Radolin
Berlin
Germany
France
Morocco
M. Rouvier
M. Bourgeois
M. de Freycinet
M. Sarrien
Rentes
Chamber of Deputies
Children Foil Workmen In Hermitage Street
In Pittsburg on June 15, Mrs. Patrick Donohoe blocked a telephone company project by placing one child in each pole hole dug on Hermitage Street. Police withdrew as Bridget Donohoe flooded the holes from a second story window, and Mrs. Donohoe proclaimed she would not permit wiring around her property.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Hermitage Street
Patrick J. Donohoe
Bridget Donohoe
Bluecoats
Patrick Death Week Set By Court of Appeals
The Court of Appeals fixed the week starting August 7 for Albert T. Patrick to die in the Sing Sing electric chair for the Rice murder. A probable delay arises as ex-Senator Hill seeks reargument of the appeal, likely prompting a governor’s reprieve or a judicial stay delaying execution until October.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
William M. Rice
David B. Hill
Travel fare to Indianapolis for National Gymnastic Festival
Round trip rail fare 20.00 to Indianapolis and return via Pennsylvania Railroad. Tickets on sale from New York June 19 and 20, valid for return until June 27. Consult ticket agents.
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Indianapolis
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Rail Fare to Niagara Falls and Back Ad
Discount rail offer via Lackawanna Railroad tickets sold June 18 and 19. Return limit set to June 24, with option to extend to June 30 for 50 cents. Includes round trip to Niagara Falls and back. Adventure advertisement.
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Lackawanna Railroad
Transcontinental train time reduced to 96 hours
Chicago June 15 Rock Island announces new schedules cutting New York to Pacific Coast travel to 96 hours and to Denver in 45 hours 50 minutes. Beginning next Sunday morning trains to Colorado and the Pacific Coast will connect at Englewood with Lake Shore and Pennsylvania fast trains. Through passengers reach Denver next day at 11 50 A M and Los Angeles in seventy eight hours after Englewood departure.
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New York
Rock Island
Denver
Pacific Coast
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Englewood
Lake Shore
Pennsylvania
Los Angeles
Englswood
J A Drake In Auto Crash Near Brooklyn
John A Drake the horseman was returning to the Waldorf from the Suburban at Sheepshead Bay when his thirteen thousand dollar car collided with another touring car at Ocean Avenue and Avenue U Brooklyn. Drake and his four companions were shaken but none seriously hurt. Drake said they hurried home as Mrs Drake was not well.
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Sheepshead Bay
Ocean Avenue
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Brooklyn
Back Pay for Roosevelt Under Spanish War Extra Pay Law
Washington June 15 The President received two months extra pay under a six year old act for Spanish War service abroad. The War Department Auditor initiated the case and a warrant for 583.38 dollars was issued, representing 291.67 dollars per month as Colonel of volunteers.
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War Department
Buffalo Express Derailed by Anocked Switch
An annocked switch derailed the Philadelphia express to Buffalo at Stockton New Jersey on the Belvidere division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. One car toppled, glass shattered, several passengers cut. Rumors of twenty five deaths proved false. no one seriously hurt. Passengers were transferred to another train and continued on.
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Trenton
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Philadelphia
Buffalo
Stockton
Belvidere
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lambertville
Northwestern grants eight hundred eighty seven degrees at 47th commencement
Chicago June 15. Northwestern University awarded 887 degrees at the 47th commencement in the Auditorium. Bishop William F. McDowell of Chicago delivered the address. Acting President Holgate announced $800,000 in subscriptions by six Board of Trustees members and a $200,000 guarantee fund from twelve trustees and one outside friend.
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Northwestern University
William F. McDowell
McDowell
Holgate
College of Liberal Arts
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Board of
FASTER TIME TO BOSTON PROMISED AFTER BRIDGE WORK
The New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad plans to cut about thirty minutes from Boston New York running time after finishing bridge work at Saybrook Westport and Cos Cob. The improved bridges will raise average speeds to just over 51 mph and allow heavier freight. Total investment near 20 million dollars aims to have fast trains running on the entire New York Boston line within nine months.
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New York
Boston
New Haven
New York-Boston
New York's lid loose praised by St Louis chief
St Louis Police Chief Matthew Kiely returns from a tour of major cities and says New York’s police force is strong but their curb on saloons is weak. He notes they only close front doors and ignore back and side doors, claiming to have kept the lid on with such methods.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
New York
Matthew Kiely
Ryan Alone Owns J. H. Hyde Stock Trust Agreement Public
Grover Cleveland Morgan J O'Brien and George Westinghouse trustees named by Thomas F Ryan met at the Hotel Buckingham as the trust agreement for Equitable Life stock was released. Ryan declares sole ownership of all 52,000 shares bought from James Karen Hyde for 2.5 million dollars and directs trustees to fill 28 director positions with policy holders and 24 with others.
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Grover Cleveland
Morgan J. O'Brien
George Westinghouse
Thomas F. Ryan
Equitable Life Assurance
James Karen Hyde
Buckingham
Equitable Life Assurance Society
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Mr. Hyde
Equitable
Ryan
Agreement for Mutualization of Equitable Society Leaders
Draft dated June 15 1905 in New York outlines division of voting power for Equitable Life Assurance Society. Thomas F. Ryan transfers 502 shares to Trustees Grover Cleveland Morgan J. O'Brien and George Westinghouse. Trustees to vote for 52 directors with 28 chosen by policyholders and 24 by Trustees. The plan aims to shift control pending legal actions and Superintendent approval.
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Thomas F. Ryan
Grover Cleveland
Morgan J. O'Brien
George Westinghouse
Trustees
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the
United States
Society
State of
Passenger fares to Niagara Falls round trip
Travel offer lists a nine dollar round trip to Niagara Falls for June 18 to 19. Information desks at 234 Broadway New York and 325 Fulton Street Brooklyn advertise Lehigh Valley Railroad services.
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Lehigh Valley R. R
B'way
N.Y
Fulton St
B’klyn
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