Courts rule corporations must show books in anti trust case
Milwaukee June 17 United States Circuit Judge Seaman rules General Paper Company must produce its books in open court and answer relevant questions in the antitrust case accusing it of restraining interstate commerce. The company plans to appeal while continuing to refuse to disclose contracts or divulge details, though books must remain in defendant’s possession unless urgent need.
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Milwaukee
Wis
United States
Seaman
General Paper Company
James D. Flanders
Paper Company
Circuit Court of Appeals
Mre
Congress
Governers Island Chapel Planned by Trinity Corp
The Trinity Corporation allocates 50000 for a new chapel on Governors Island named St. Cornelius's to replace the 1846 frame structure. Cornerstone to be laid in August on a site facing Buttermilk Channel after removal of current buildings. Rev Edmund Banks Smith initially presented the project, with support from Rev Dr Morgan Dix after approval from Gen Wade and Gen Grant.
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Trinity Corporation
Governors Island
St. Cornelius's
Buttermilk Channel
Edmund Banks Smith
Trinity Parish
Morgan Dix
Wade
Department of the Atlantic
Gen. Grant
Department
East
Three boys held on heavy bail after Harriman chase
Three youths aged fourteen to eighteen were arrested after a Friday night chase from E. I. Harriman’s residence on Fifty fifth Street and Fifth Avenue. They are in Yorkville Court on $1,000 bail for Monday examination. Alfred Schulmerich 976 Third Avenue was sent to the Children's Society. William Kennedy 233 East Fifty ninth Street and George Miller 978 Third Avenue go to the court prison. Kennedy and Schulmerich had prior arrests. Kennedy was convicted of petit larceny in May 1902 and spent four months in the Juvenile Asylum. Schulmerich claimed copper pipe was the object of the theft.
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E. I. Harriman
Fifty-fifth Street
Fifth Avenue
Yorkville Court
Harriman
Alfred Schulmerich
Third Avenue
Children’s Society
William Kennedy
East Fifty-ninth Street
George Miller
Court
Sennedy
Schulmerich
Kennedy
Children’s' Court
Smash of Two Trains Injures Five on Third Avenue Elevated
A southbound Third Avenue elevated train failed to brake causing a rear collision with a stalled train at the One Hundred and Tenth Street station. Five people were hurt, Gustave Eastman severely bruised with a scalp wound, others treated and released. Passengers remained calm as police reserves kept order.
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Third Avenue
One Hundred and Tenth Street
Gustave Eastman
East One Hundred
Harlem
Julius Pelenik
Twenty-seventh Street
Romance of the Slocum Brings Two Heroes Together
Sergeant William J. Ennis of East Fifty-first Street Station to marry Bellevue nurse May Hurley. Fire boat disaster survivors inspired their meeting as Hurley saved eight people from the river and earned two medals. Ennis, after typhoid, was nursed back to health by Hurley who will be his wife after she finishes nursing school. Best man will be Joseph Flam. Ennis, 36, Hurley is younger and noted for striking looks and black hair.
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William J. Ennis
Fifty-first Street
May Hurley
Bellevue
Sergi Eennis
North Brother Island
Miss Hurley
Sergt. Ennis
Sergi
Ismis
Joseph Flam
City Policeman Wounded by Trolley Car Firefight
Policeman Joseph Sullivan of the West 125th Street station was shot when trolley Car 810 on the Lenox Avenue line opened fire as it approached Lenox Avenue and 132nd Street. A fuse fragment lodged in his thigh after an explosion from the car motor fuse. he was treated at J Hood Wright Hospital.
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Joseph Sullivan
West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street
Lenox Avenue
Sullivan
One Hundred and Thirty-second Street
J. Hood Wright Hospital
Delafield
Scarritt Defends Automobilists Amid Accident Toll
Winthrop FE Scarritt ex-President of the Automobile Club of America argues motorists are unfairly blamed for recent fatal or serious crashes. He cites police reports showing fewer auto deaths and accidents in the first four months, noting higher fatalities from horse-drawn vehicles and streetcars in a large city.
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Winthrop FE. Scarritt
Automobile Club of America
Eight Annual Summer School of Philanthropy Opens
The eighth annual Summer School of Philanthropy begins tomorrow in the Charity Organization Society library at 105 East Twenty second Street. Robert W. De Forest presides at the opening meeting with Rev. Samuel M. Crothers to speak. Morning lectures start at 9 with a three part program: two weeks on constructive social work, two on care of needy families, and the final fortnight on institutions.
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Summer School of Philanthropy
The
Charity Organization Society
East Twenty-second Street
Robert W. de Forest
Samuel M. Crothers
Cambridge
Mass
Lost and Found ad in Times costs ten cents a line
The notice describes the Lost and Found column in the New York Times as the best place to advertise missing items with a charge of ten cents per line. It notes the heading Lost and Found appears atop the final page column.
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NEW York Times
Seventh Comes Home Bronzed and Hearty
The Seventh Regiment returned from Peekskill after a week of drill. They arrived at Park Avenue and Sixty-sixth Street and praised the new camp uniforms. The Twenty-second Engineers, with 470 in command of Lieut. Col. Treadwell, left for Peekskill earlier and will train with US regular engineers from Wrest Point.
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Peekskill
Underwood
West Sixtieth Street
Fiske
Regiment of Engineers
Sixtieth Street
Park Avenue
Sixty-sixth Street
Seventh
West Pointers
Lydecker
Humphrey
Seventh Regiment
Twenty-second Engineers
Eleventh Avenue
Treadwell
Franklin Bartlett
Richard Cobden
United States Regular
Wrest Point
M. M. Patrick
M. J. McDonough
United States Engineers
J. L. Hunt
Nineteenth Infantry
Annsville Creek
Gartland
Albany
Twenty-second
Seventh Regiment Rifle Team Sails for Bisley Match
The Seventh Regiment rifle team sails from Southampton aboard the St. Louis for Britain to face the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers at Bisley. They train in England until July 1 with the July 6 and 7 shooting match, competing for a silver challenge shield donated by Col. Sir Howard Vincent. Members include Captains McLean Underwood McAlpin and Lieutenants Crall Barnard Uhl Keach with Sgts Suydam Short and Privates Meyer Robinson Stevens.
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Seventh Regiment
Queen's Westminster Volunteers
Bisley
England
Southampton
St. Louis
Robert McLean
William J. Underwood
Benjamin B. McAlpin
Howard E. Crall
J. Augustus Barnard
Oswald W. Uhl
Oren M. Keach
Sergis
Harry L. Suydam
William Short
Daniel C. Meyer
Edward Robinson
Alexander Stevens
Sir Howard Vincent
Widow’s Chair Fatality Ends Engineer’s Life
Jacob Debus a 63 year old engineer of 386 South Third Street Williamsburg was found dead yesterday morning in his home. He shot himself in the head with a revolver. Debus a widower, lived with his married son and daughter in law who kept house for him. He always sat in his wife’s old armchair. On Friday night the son and daughter in law left him alone. They returned at midnight to find him dead.
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Jacob Debus
South Third Street
Williamsburg
Debus
Delius
Commencement at Jewish Theological Seminary hints at rabbinic ideals
The 531 West 123rd Street ceremony opened with a bac calaureate sermon by Rev. Joseph Mayer Asher. He urged candidates for the ministry to combine learning with devotion, noting that true rabbis need more than education and must use thought to avoid misrepresenting scripture.
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Jewish Theological Seminary of America
West One Hundred and Twentythird Street
Joseph Mayer Asher
Identity of Verona woman and child found in river
Pittsburg reports Miss Jessie Bissett aged 25 and her four year old daughter were identified as the victims found under a raft in the Monongahela River last evening. A brother confirmed the match. Miss Bissett had vanished ten days earlier from Mrs. Margaret Roney's home on James Street Verona. The body was believed dumped into the river.
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Pittsburg
Monongahela River
Jessie Bissett
Music Teachers Convention to push music in college entrance
The Music Teachers' National Association meets at Teachers College Columbia University for its twenty seventeenth annual convention. Experts from Harvard Cornell Columbia Wellesley Vassar Boston Chicago and New York discuss placing music on par with languages in entrance exams. Attendees will enjoy orchestral concert seats at St Nicholas Garden a Brighton Beach dinner trip Slatter's Band performance and a Friday lecture at the Metropolitan Museum with the Crosby Brown instrument collection on view.
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Music Teachers’ National Association
Teachers College
Columbia University
American Teachers
W. R. Spalding
Harvard
H. E
Richard Henry Warren
St. Nicholas Garden
Brighton Beach
Slatter
Fannie Morris
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Crosby Brown
Picnic Car Kills Williamsburg Boy on the Way to Park
Seven year old Emanuel Masse was killed when a trolley struck him after he ran from an ice wagon in front of 314 Bushwick Avenue Williamsburg. The car carried women and children toward a Ridgewood Park picnic. The motorman was briefly detained and released after a police inquiry.
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Emanuel Masse
Bushwick Avenue
Williamsburg
Ridgewood Park
Meant to Kill Lover Ends Her Own Life in Storefront Tragedy
Minnie Stoermer a dressmaker dressed in white set out to kill Louis Mayer in his Third Avenue shoe store but shot herself when the pistol misfired. Mayer fled, clerk Thomas Viechy blocked the weapon, and Stoermer collapsed dead after a brief confrontation. Coroner and family mourn.
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Minnie Stoermer
East Eighty-ninth Street
Louis Mayer
Third Avenue
Miss Stoermer
Mayer
Lexington Avenue
Chopin
Louis
Thomas Viechy
Viechy
Tom
Dr. Parmenter
Harlem
Band of youths disrupts Windsor Theatre lobby scene
About six youths under twenty, calling themselves Cherry Hill gang, chased by Max Finkelstein and others into Chinatown after resisting with pistols at the Windsor Theatre lobby during the Jesse James show. Three were arrested after a pursuit. pistol pockets found unloaded. Identified as John Lenahan sixteen, of 27 Monroe Street. George Mahr eighteen, of 194 Madison Street. John O Loughlin sixteen, of 154 Madison Street.
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Bowery
Cherry Hill
Windsor Theatre
Jesse James
Max Finkelstein
Finkelstein
Myer
Chinatown
John Lenahan
Monroe Street
George Mahr
Madison Street
John O'Loughlin
Art Commission Delays Bunker Hill Monument Cornerstone
Brooklyn Martyrs' Monument Association members express disappointment over plans to lay the cornerstone in Fort Greene Park. Municipal Art Commission postponed action on the monument design, with officials noting the architect's working drawings were not yet submitted.
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Martyrs’ Monument Association
Brooklyn
Bunker Hill
Fort Greene Park
Municipal Art Commission
Steamships report positions near Sandy Hook at night
The De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company said at 9 PM that the Ponce of the New York and Porto Rico Line was 30 miles south of Sandy Hook after leaving New York at noon due to fog. City of Columbus was 64 miles from New York at 8:50 PM after departing at 3:45 PM. Concho passed Sandy Hook at 9 PM after a 7:15 PM departure. Horatio Hall was 55 miles out bound for Portland after leaving at 5:05 PM. Weather described as foggy and calm.
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de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
Ponce
New York
Porto Rico
New Yok
Sandy Hook
City of
Horatio Hall
Portland
Eight New Priests Ordained at St. John the Baptist
In Brooklyn Bishop McDonnell ordained Patrick Hart Joseph Curran Charles Craig Charles Canivan Henry Spengler Gervase Kubec Stanislaus Rysikewicz and James J. Reilly as priests at St. John the Baptist Church on Lewis and Willoughby Avenues. They will celebrate their first masses in the churches they attended as students.
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Bishop McDonnell
Church of St. John the Baptist
Lewis and Willoughby Avenues
Brooklyn
Patrick Hart
Joseph Curran
Charles Craig
Charles Canivan
Henry Spengler
Gervase Kubec
Stanislaus Rysikewicz
James J. Reilly
Physician Hurt In Runaway In Brooklyn Heights
Dr J G Johnson of 153 Joralemon Street was injured when a runabout team took fright on Montague Street near Clinton. The physician and a woman relative were thrown out as the horses bolted to Henry Street and into a car before being stopped by Mounted Police. The doctor suffered bruises while the woman escaped unharmed. The runabout and horses were damaged.
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J.G. Johnson
Joralemon Street
Brooklyn Heights
Montague Street
Clinton
Henry
Byrnes
Week-end at Tuxedo brings social whirl to June
In Tuxedo Park on June 17 society guests flocked to clubs, cottages, and outdoor sports. Notables such as Pierre Lorillard and the Harriman sisters hosted house parties and dinners attended by a long list of prominent New York families.
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New York Times
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Tuxedo
Pierre Lorillard
Washington
Samuel Spencer
John G. Elliott
Albert Gould Jennings
Charles B. van Nostrand
L. J. Pooler
Samuel A. Walsh, Jr
Morgan Gibbs
Barnwell
J. H. Towne
Alonzo Potter
John H. Foster
J. Nelson Borland
F. B. Kessler
Frederic Foster
W. H. Young
Moore Cottage
Wee Wah Lake
Seven Drowned in Canoe Accident on Skeena River
A Hazelton dispatch reports seven men, most likely miners, drowned when their canoe capsized on the Skeena River while traveling from the coast toward Lorne Creek. The tragedy is described as the worst canoe accident in Northern British Columbia history.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Hazelton
Skeena River
Lorne “Creek
Clerk's Aim Foils Hold Up at Bowery Lodging House
Four men entered a Bowery lodging house with intent to rob. In the ensuing fight clerk Robert Douglass shot one attacker, who fled to Hudson Street Hospital to have a neck wound dressed. Detective Lawton arrested Douglass as the wounded man was cared for before ambulance transport. A felonious assault charge was filed against Douglass. Albert Robinson was jailed for further questioning.
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Bowery
Hudson Street Hospital
Robert Douglass
Albert Robinson
Douglass
John Lawton
Chinatown
Murtha
Eldridge Street
James Reynolds
Robinson
Murphy Surrenders Front Yard Highway to Save Beach View
Charles F. Murphy, East Quogue L I, agrees to allow a road through his rear property rather than his front yard to avoid blocking the view from his home. A compromise with neighbors and ex-Judge Wauhope Lynn cuts a highway through the Murphy estate back in the woods, enabling a beach access and boat landing. Workmen have been engaged for weeks and funds allocated for improvements.
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New York Times
East Quogue
L. I
Charles F. Murphy
Tiana. Bay
Murphy
Wauhope Lynn
Judge Lynn
Rutgers College Commencement Week Plans Outlined
The 139th commencement week at Rutgers College includes a bac calaureate sermon by Rev Edward A Reed a class day Tuesday and an alumni meeting on Wednesday The annual alumni address The Simple College will be given by Philip Milledoler Brett LL B of New York City A portrait presentation of Robert H Pruyn LL D by Andrew S Draper Robert C Pruyn of Albany attends the ceremony Lieut Gov M Linn Bruce is expected to speak at the alumni dinner The exercises culminate with the commencement in the Bal lantine Gym and several honorary degrees including LL D and D D to various church and state figures
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Rutgers College
First Reformed Church
Edward A. Reed
D. D
Second Congregational Church
Holyoke
Mass
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
New York City
Board of Trustees
Philip Milledoler Brett
Robert H. Pruyn
United States
Japan
Robert C. Pruyn
Albany
Andrew S. Draper
New York State
M. Linn Bruce
New York
Robert F. Ballantine Gymnasium
Amzi Dodd
Newark
William H. Corbin
Elizabeth
Cornelius Woelfkin
Greene Avenue Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Herman Vanderwart
Reformed Church of
Public Service Corp Fined Five Dollars For Flat Wheels
In East Orange on June 17 Recorder Doremus fined the Public Service Corporation fifty dollars for operating trolley Car 705 with flat wheels on the Central Avenue line. Police had recorded car numbers after residents complained of the pounding. Police testimony by Frank Gardner stated the car ran with flat wheels on April 19, a claim the company did not rebut.
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New York Times
Orange
Doremus
East Orange
Public Service Corporation
Central Avenue
Gedney
Frank Gardner
Gardner
Traction Company
McHenry Granted Divorce from Ida McHenry in Chicago
Myron E. McHenry, famed trotting horse driver, did not defend against his wife Ida McHenry's charges in Chicago court. Judge Heard granted the divorce. McHenry drove pacers John R. Gentry and Dan Patch when world speed records were set.
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Myron E. McHenry
Chicago
United States
Ida McHenry
Heard
McHenry
John R. Gentry
Dan Patch
Taft Hearing Continues Bowen Loomis Case
Secretary Taft continued the Bowen Loomis case with Minister W W Russell explaining a Venezuelan Company stock distribution as trustee. The transaction had no relation to Loomis and Taft expects more information Monday to close the case.
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Washington
Taft
Bowen- Loomis
W. W. Russell
Loomis
War game ends as squadron drills conclude near Fort Monroe
Rear Admiral Dickins reports his squadron has arrived at Newport News and the Washington Baltimore fortification exercises are finished. The final day opened with dawn assault on Fort Monroe by destroyers and gunboats, the fleet passing the fort in a coordinated display while the fort answered with heavy fire before launching a smoke bomb signaling the end of the joint army and navy maneuvers.
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Washington
Dickins
Baltimore
Navy Department
Newport News
Fort Monroe
Capes
Navy
Texas
Florida
Arkansas
Nevada
Newark
Atlanta
Haytford
District of Columbia
Whipple
Worden
McDonough
Stewart
Hornet
Siren
Silvia
Army
Church Opens Private Cure Clinic for Drunkards
A Newark clinic will treat alcohol addiction privately in St. Paul’s parish house at High and Market Streets. Rev. J. Martyn Neifert will supervise, with non sectarian aims and a mix of moral and medical treatment. Funds cover three months with chances to renew.
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New York Times
Newark
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
J. Martyn Neifert
St. Paul's
Coal men to be tried in Valentine anti trust case
Judge Stone in Common Pleas Court overruled the demurrer of the Cleveland Coal Dealers' Association known as the Coal Trust. Indictments were returned against plumbers' and mantel and tile dealers' associations under the Valentine anti trust law, naming twelve mantel and tile dealers and listing numerous individuals among the indicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Charles Striever
Frank Hildebrand
W. C. Thomas
R. E. Green
John F. Drees
Joseph Winterbottom
Eben Ellen
Charles Siefried
D. H. Roberts
August C. Caleb
Cleveland Mantel and Tile Dealers’ Association
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Trust
Governors Island Chapel
Mr. Scarritt
School OF Philanthropy
Dr. Asher
Seminary of America
Convention OF Musicians
ART Commission
Bunker Hill Day
Wireless
J. G. Johnson
MR. Murphy Surrenders
Will
Quogue
Simple College
Rutgers
Bowen-Loomis
Buffalo
VIA
NEW York Central
Hudson River
R. R
Grand Central Station
Utica
Syracuse
Rochester
Horner
R. J. Horner
West 251 St
Admiral Dickins
Ohio
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