John J. Rogers Assigns as creditors take charge of warned restaurant
John J. Rogers, renowned restaurateur at Park Place Manhattan, has made an assignment for creditors. James P. Bennett is assignee with a meeting set for Friday at 10 A.M. to present assets and liabilities totaling about 15,000 dollars against 8,000 dollars in assets. Rogers cites depreciation, a damaging fire, and unprofitable ventures as factors.
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Park Place
John
Bennett
J. Rogers
James
Restaurateur
Iis
Denis A. Spellissy
Rogers
United States
Far Rockaway
Jessler-Kavanagh Company
Acker, Merrall& Condit
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger
Col. Sayles
Headeston & Woerz
M. P. Breslin, Jr
Mr. Sect
Crs’s
Astor House
Barclay Street
Hubert O. Thompson
County Democracy
William C. Whitney
Thompson
B& Rollin M. Squire
Cleveland
Rogers’s Place
Chester A. Arthur
Daniel B. Sickles
Stewart J. Woodford
Spain
Archbishop Corrigan
Cardinal McClusky
van Wyck
Friends of Ireland
St. Patrick's Day
Far Rockaway Hotel
Mrs Ramsey acquitted again in Garden Hotel murder case
Grace E Ramsey, who killed Herbert J Ramsey last year, was found insane at the time by a jury and acquitted again. She had been confined at Matteawan and was returned to the Tombs for further examination while awaiting possible release or recovery of her present state of mind. The case includes discussion of a child born at the asylum and Desire to return to Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Grace E. Ramsey
Herbert J. Ramsey
Garden Hotel
Blanchard
Matteawan State Asylum
McMahon
Allison
Williamsport
Penn
Aaron P. Williams
Green Island
Albany County
Morrison
Frank H. Deal
Deal
Williams
Third Department
Merwin
Gaspipe Thief Sentenced in City Court
Rudolph Feketh of 390 Madison Street was sentenced by Justices Holbrook Hinsdale and Jerome in the Court of Special Sessions to four months for petty larceny. He stole gas pipes and brass connections from multiple tenements risking tenant lives by possible asphyxiation. He was arrested ten days earlier in the basement of a large tenement at 1158 and 1150 Third Avenue.
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Holbrook
Hinsdale
Jerome
Court of Special Sessions
Rudolph Feketh
Madison Street
San Juan Hill
William
Welly
Consolidated Gas Company
Feketh
Henid
Third Avenue
Yuba
Roebuck's Screen Goods Ad at New York and Brooklyn Stores
Ad announces Roebuck's custom made wire window screens screen doors and fixtures sold at 172 Fulton St New York and 14th St and Hamilton Ave Brooklyn with telephone connections for orders or inquiries.
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Roebuck's
Roebuck’s
Fulton St
New York
14Th St
Hamilton Av
Brooklyn
May Summary of United Hebrew Charities Work
United Hebrew Charities reports May activity across relief, employment, and education. Applications 1681 with 470 first time and 2102 previously investigated. 558 relief refusals. 384 regular allowances. 79 transported to other regions. 1444 garments and 275 shoes issued. 109 furniture items. 21 nights lodging and 78 meals provided. 31 free interments. 7 bundles for mothers and infants. 1019 nurse visits to 51 cases. 51 recipients with nourishing food. 140 liquor and cod liver oil bottles. 23 surgical appliance orders. 618 prescriptions dispensed. Employment bureau logged 849 registrations. 82 found work, 35 referred, 402 no opportunity. Industrial School averaged 245 attending for sewing. 110 garments made. 42 new subscribers paid $660. Receipts totaled $14,850.55. disbursements for relief $13,800.31.
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United Hebrew Charities
Bureau of Relief
Europe
Employment Bureau
Auxiliary Society
The
Germans Arrested for Letter Box Theft Linked to Stolen Mail
Charles Lambert and Ewald Schlessler were arrested at Barclay and Washington for disorderly conduct. A search found four letters mailed June 16 to John Elsey, plus an 18 inch dagger and a 12 inch spire used by thieves. They were jailed on $1000 bail as Inspector Boyle probed the after hours letter box break.
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Charles Lambert
Ewald Schlessler
Barclay
Washington Streets
John Elsey
Washington Street
M. I. Boyle
Post Office Department
Grand Street
John Eisey
Mr. Elsey
Boyle
Elsey
Shields
Charitable bequests voided under sixty day rule
In a wills case Justice Freedman voided all charitable legacies from Marié O Hunt’s will, ruling charities cannot take by devise when the will is executed within sixty days of death. Barbara Kirsch, the sister, inherits the $5000 plus the charitable bequests after conditions. Next of kin’s $200 to a friend was discussed and the sister’s rights to funds and cemetery plot costs noted.
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Worb
Marié O. Hunt
Barbara I. Kirsch
Father Drumgoole
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
William B. Pritchard
Justice Freedman
Fitzgerald
Testatrix
Barbara
Charity Society appeals for funds to aid elderly woman
The Charity Organization Society seeks 60 to shelter an old bedridden woman abandoned by age and illness. With no relatives to assist, contributions should be sent to the Society at 105 East Twenty second Street and will be acknowledged.
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Charity Organization
Society
Twenty-second Street
Halle Tries For Murder In Shop Shooting Trial
Aaron Halle sat unmoved as witnesses described his deliberate May 17 shooting of Mamie Brannigan in H Reinhardt Son store at Eighty sixth Street and Third Avenue. Eyewitnesses testified to two shots as Brannigan ran, and defense aimed to prove Halle was drugged. Prosecutors wrapped testimony. jury to deliberate after adjournment to 10 am.
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Aaron Halle
Supreme Court
Mamie Brannigan
H. Reinhardt’s Son & Co
Eighty-sixth Street
Third Avenue
Halle
Harriett Strauss
East Ninetysixth Street
Mamie
Louis Reinhardt
Isidore
Weisbader
Maurice Yuster
Frers
Henry Frers
George Schau
McIntyre
Horse Shies at Automobile on Wall Street Scene
A spirited horse attached to a cab driven down Wall Street from Broadway shied at a stationary automobile in front of J. P. Morgan & Co. offices. The horse reared and tried to jump the car, then toppled a fruit cart. Exclamations flew as the crowd scattered, but no one was seriously harmed.
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Wall Street
Broadway
J. P. Morgan & Co
Julia's Song Sparks Assault Case in Jersey City
Ten year old Julia May Walker sang outside 205 Ocean Avenue in Jersey City provoking Mrs Mary Reed who slapped the girl, Reed denies the slapping but admits reproving her. Reed was summoned to the Second Criminal Court and ordered to post $200 bonds to keep the peace.
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Marguerite
Board of Health
Ocean Avenue
Jersey City
Julia May Walker
Mary Reed
Murphy
Reed
Arcade Plan for Windsor Site Stirs City Interest
Reports say Elbridge T Gerry plans an arcade building on the Windsor Hotel site at Fifth Avenue between Forty sixth and Forty seventh Streets to house a fine arts gallery a china store and a photograph gallery. Gerry was in Newport with no official confirmation as yet from his office or his architects J B Snook and Sons.
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Elbridge T. Gerry
Old Windsor Hotel
Fifth Avenue
Forty-sixth
Forty-seventh Streets
St. Patrick's Day
Gerry
Newport
J. B. Snook & Sons
Broadway
E. A. Cruikshank & Co
Plans filed for Windsor Hotel site building at Newport
Commodore Gerry said plans would be filed at the proper time for any structure to be erected on the Windsor Hotel property. He would not affirm or deny that the plans include an arcade.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Commodore Gerry
Windsor Hotel
Police Auction Sells Revolvers For Pension Fund
The forty fifth auction of police and unclaimed property at Police Headquarters sold eight to nine hundred revolvers for about $600. A large portion came from Richmond County police, with a manufacturer’s representative bidding most of the lot. A woman was the top buyer, and many cheap guns sold in small strings. Proceeds go to the Police Pension Fund. many items recur through police court and pawn shops.
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Police Pension Fund
Police
Richmond County Police
Detective Arrested for Acting as Unlicensed Private Eye
William R. Anderson of 147 West Forty third Street was arrested after an advertisement offering private detective services drew in Francis Redmond, a state detective. Anderson admitted he lacked a license and was held in $100 bail for examination in Centre Street Court Magistrate Mayo’s custody.
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William R. Anderson
West Fortythird Street
Francis Redmond
Hudson Street
Redmond
Anderson
Broadway
Centre Street
Mayo
Police transfers reshuffle Captains and Sergeants
Chief Devery announced transfers of Captains Adolph G. Hasslacher William Dean and Sergeants Conroy Walling among East Twenty second East One Hundred Twenty six Street Alexander Avenue Mercer Street stations. He gave no other details beyond saying the moves were for the good of the service.
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Devery
Adolph G. Hasslacher
Twenty-second Street
One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Street
William Dean
Sergt
Conroy
Alexander Avenue
Mercer Street
Sergt. Walling
Fake wire tappers nabbed in city wide scam
Detectives Mooney and Becker arrested Thomas Putnam and Edward Lewis in a case tied to a fake wire tapping gang with operations in multiple cities. They faced arraignment before Magistrate Deuel on charges of attempted larceny after a sting involving an investor ad seeking 5000 dollars.
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Mooney and Becker
Central Office
Howard Handy
West New Brighton
S. I
Deuel
Jefferson Market
Thomas Putnam
West Fifty-ninth Street
Edward Lewis
Chappie
West Fortieth Street
Lewis
Williams
Detroit
Handy
Church Street
Park Place
Detective Bureau
Moore Case On Appeal To Appellate Division
The People against William A. E. Moore was submitted on appeal to the Appellate Division after a first degree robbery conviction with mercy recommendation and a 19 year sentence. Moore, indicted with wife Fanny Moore for robbing Martin Mahon, seeks a new trial since the complainant is dead. Judge Levy argues insufficient evidence and improper jury question on robbery versus extortion. Assistant D A Barbier defends verdict. Court reserved decision.
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William A. E. Moore
Supreme Court
Moore
Fanny Moore
Martin Mahon
Abraham Levy
Charles -E. Je Barbier
Foreign Mails Building Plan Delayed by Commission
Postmaster Van Cott outlined plans to locate a building near West and Christopher Streets for exclusive handling of foreign mails. The commission, led by George W. Beavers, arrives Saturday morning to determine site and setup. Members include A. W. Machen, Alexander Grant, and Van Cott.
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van Cott
West and
Christopher Streets
George W. Beavers
A. W. Machen
Alexander Grant
Railway
Archbishop Corrigan Gift to Leo XIII Three Thousand
A Rome report claimed Corrigan offered the Pope $1,000,000 from his diocese parishes. A confidant called the tale ridiculous. The Archbishop presented a purse of $3,000, raised by priests just before departure.
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Leo XIII
Rome
Corrigan
Death by own action of Brooklyn industrialist
Herman Schaeffer president of the Dr Jaeger Sanitary Woolen System Company died at his Park Slope home by carbolic acid. He left letters expressing weariness of life and arranged funeral and household provisions. The tragedy followed the illness of his youngest son months earlier, amid family absence abroad.
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Herman Schaeffer
Dr. Jaeger Sanitary Woolen System Company
Broadway
Manhattan
Berkeley Place
Brooklyn
Charles Orbeck
Sanitary Woolen System Company
Schaeffer
Bertha Hanne
Orbeck
Mr. Schaeffer
Mrs. Schaeffer
Charlie
Wunderlich
Remsen Street
Louis Lehn
Carl Finkenburg Street
Godesburg-on-the Rhine
Otto Franke
Brook
Firecrackers Ruin Sabbath at Polish Church
Three boys Henry Gartelman Oscar Hansen and Wilfred Ehrson were fined 3 each by Magistrate Cornell for throwing giant firecrackers during a Corpus Christi service at St Roch Polish Church Robbins Avenue Fox Street. The blast caused panic but Father Nowak kept calm and directed escape. The youths, all from nearby Walter Avenue and One Hundred fifty eighth Street, are said to have a bad neighborhood reputation.
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Cornell
St. Roch
Robbins Avenue
Fox Street
Sodality
Father Nowak
Henry Gartelman
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William R. Grace
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Hugh J. Grant
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William Pitt Mitchell
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Richard Cunningham
James Fitzgerald
J. O'Donovan Rosse
J. R. O' Beirne
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John R. Fellows
Thomas P. Walsh
Daniel O Reilly
Charles Reilly
Timothy J. Campbell
J. A. O'Gorman
P. E. Benjamin
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Richard O
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Gaspipe
Legal Notes
Mary D. Tower
Harriet A. Wagener
August E. Carver
Fourth Appellate Division
Justice Spring
Peddler
Julia
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Windsor
W. R. Anderson
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Foreign Mails Building
Rocers, Peet & Company
Cor. Warren
Warren St
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West 33d
James McCreery & Co
Twenty-third Street
Great Clearing Sale
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City of
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Streey
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11Th St
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Cary Wilbur
Edna Ang
Adolf Zink
Little Fred
la Fafalla
Ralph Stuart & Co
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Francelli
Fox&Foxie
Geo. Fuller Golden
Mrs. Robyns
Queen's
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44Th St. Evs
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Rain Or Shine
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Victoria
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Price
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Sos
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Charming
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Lockhart
Yorke & Adams
Aldrich
Hayes & Lytton
Wilson
LENOX
Lyceum
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Polo Grounds
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Jockey Glub Sheepshead Bay
Lander
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Flatbush Avenue
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