Two Chinaman suspects questioned over Elsie Sigel murder
Police outlined a theory of two men involved as Chong Sing and Leon Ling, both Chinese residents, with Chong telling a revised account after interrogation. Officials described the case as a possible two-man murder and reported multiple detentions and mistaken Leon sightings nationwide.
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Chong Sing
Elsie Sigel
Leon Ling
Chong
Leon
Chong Ling
Carey
Eighth Avenue House
Quang Wick Nam
Quang Ick Nam
Chinatown
Nam
Shong
Sigel
Chu Gain
Mott Street
Chinese Consul Appeals for Help in Chinese-Led Murder Case
The Chinese Chargé d Affaires in Washington issues a manifesto urging Chinese in the United States to report the whereabouts of two suspects in the murder of Elsie Sigel. He notes shame over the crime and asks informants to cooperate with police to aid arrest and trial. The Acting Chinese Consul in New York confirms cooperation with authorities.
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Washington
Ou Shou Thun
Leon Ling
Elsie Sigel
New York
San Francisco
United States
Pantomimic Killing in Court Before Jury
Policeman James F. Dillon testified in his own defense in Brooklyn Supreme Court about the shooting of Louis Probber the nineteen year old during a scuffle after a cheese knife confrontation with Louis mother and the grocer Isaac Probber. Dillon described arresting Isaac for Sunday law violation and reenacted the struggle showing how the pistol discharged accidentally.
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James F. Dillon
Adams Street
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
Clarke
Louis Probber
Dillon
Florence J. Sullivan
Isaac Probber
Louis
Myrtle Avenue
Probber
Max Probber
New Ethical Society Plans $300,000 Four-Story Meeting House
Architect Robert D. Kohn filed plans with Building Supt Murphy for a new four story and basement meeting house and Sunday school for the Society of Ethical Culture to be erected at the southwest corner of Central Park West and Sixty fourth Street. The building will cost $300,000.
Hunted biographer Julius Waterbury captured after long chase
Julius Waterbury known as Doc Waterbury was seized in Harlem after a weeks long transatlantic pursuit. The fugitive faced federal fraud charges for soliciting money from Congress members promising biographies for a non existent Associated Press sanctioned book and fled on bond.
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Europe
Julius H. Ford
Doc” Waterbury
Harvey Waterbury
Harlem
Department of Justice
Washington
Ford
Waterbury
Associated Press
Federal Grand Jury
Liberty
London
Paris
Canadian
Ford of
United States
Manning
Braddock
126Th Street
Eighth Avenue
125Th Street
St. Nicholas Avenue
Conrad
West 125Th Street
Federal
Federal Building. There It Was Decided Not To Arraign Waterbury
Shields
Capital
Jules Waterbury
New York
Congress
Associated Press Biographical Bureau
Gravesend Spring Meeting Ends with Strong Attendance and Profit
The Brooklyn Jockey Club finished its Gravesend track Spring meeting with high attendance that filled the grand stand and left the club profitable. Managers reported remaining stakes were light and overall racing days yielded a profit.
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Brooklyn Jockey Club
Gravesend
Pennsylvania Railroad Announces Summer Schedule to Long Branch Resorts
The Pennsylvania Railroad sets a new summer timetable effective Sunday June 27 serving New York to Long Branch Asbury Park Spring Lake and other points on the New York and Long Branch Railroad. Fast trains are added parlor cars on express trains and a Long Branch Special departs New York at 2 55 P M weekdays arriving Long Branch 4 32 P M with stops at Red Bank and Matawan. Returning the train leaves Long Branch 8 13 A M weekdays arriving New York 9 33 A M. Timetables available from Ticket Agents after June 20.
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New York and
Long Branch
Asbury Park
Spring Lake
New York and Long Branch
New York
Red Bank
Matawan
Atlantic Coast
Point Pleasant
Pennsylvania Railroad
Heat Prostration Claims One Life in City Sizzling Day
One person died of heat prostration Theresa Tesriello 45 of 157 Thompson Street attended by Dr Desantis. Twenty nine prostrations in Manhattan and the Bronx eight in Brooklyn. Temperatures rose to 89 after 3 45 PM with a 96 degree high in 1888 for June 23.
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Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Tesriealo
Theresa
Thompson Street
Desanttis
Heat Fatality and Related Incidents in Tarrytown
A heat wave in Tarrytown claims Nicholas Brantico of Lockwood & Parteman when he collapsed unloading coal at Irvington and died from a skull fracture. A Rockefeller estate worker fainted and was hospitalized after a lawn mower incident. Mrs. H Edmonds, 300 pounds, was in critical condition from heat affecting her heart. A hay loft fire at Odell & Co in Ardsley destroyed buildings worth 40000 dollars. Odell family away at the Thousand Islands.
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New York Times
Tarrytown
Nicholas Brantico
Lockwood & Parteman
Irvington
John D. Rockefeller
H. Edmonds
Cortlandt Street
Edmonds
William J. Odell & Co
Ardsley
Newburg Man Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Over Gambling Loss
Marshall Bell of Newburg New York declares in a bankruptcy petition that $110,000 of $113,000 unsecured liabilities stem from losses at a gambling house in New York City on November 13. He alleges deceit and notes for $80,000 $10,000 and two $10,000 bills payable on demand, all to Thompson. He disputes the notes as void for lack of consideration and due to the Securities Act, and deposition records were filed in White Plains. Bell also lists $3,000 in other debts including $1,200 to Sarah Bell $1,000 for legal services and $700 to Charles Mayer.
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Marshall Bell
Newburg
N. Y
Bell
West Seventy-first Street
Thompson
Mr. Bell
John J. McCauley
Broadway
Joseph Mayer
Archer Avenue
Mount Vernon
Mayer
Supreme Court of
Westchester County
White Plains
Milo J. White
Sarah E. Bell
Newbury
Christabel Runs Aground On Uncharted Ledge At Hay Harbor
In New London on June 23 the 164 foot steam yacht Christabel owned by Walton Ferguson of the New York Yacht Club ran onto an uncharted ledge entering Hay Harbor Fisher's Island New York. Efforts to free her failed and the passenger steamer Munnatawket was used as a wrecker until high water tomorrow morning. Ferguson stood on shore nearby awaiting departure when the accident occurred.
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New York Times
New London
Ferguson
Christabel
Long Island Sound
Call to Make The Call a Morning Paper
The Workingmen's Cooperative Association which controls The Evening Call and other Socialist Party organs announced it will convert The Call into a morning paper soon and raise the price from one to two cents. The change was proposed by the Directors and endorsed at a New York locals meeting.
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Workingmen’s Co-operative Association
Evening Call
Socialist Party
New York
Quater Interest in The Philadelphia Press Sold at Auction
The quarter interest in The Philadelphia Press owned by the Charles Emory Smith estate was offered at the Bourse in Philadelphia. The top bid reached 30 dollars per share for 1500 shares, but the auctioneer declared the stock withdrawn and it will be offered again at private sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
Charles Emory Smith
Automobile Exchange Ad Lists Used Cars for Sale Next Sunday
The Times announces a comprehensive Auto Exchange listing next Sunday with the best chance to sell an automobile at top price quickly. Readers are invited to consign vehicles for exposure in the issue.
German Saengerfest Kaiser Prize Awarded in Brooklyn
Nearly 100000 Germans gathered at Ulmer Park Brooklyn to hear the Saengerfest awards. The Kaiser Prize tied between Kreutzer Quartet Club New York and Junger Maennerchor Philadelphia with 56 of 60 points. Germania Newark finished third and multiple other clubs won class prizes.
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Ulmer Park
Brooklyn
Federation of Singing Societies of America
Madison Square Garden
the Garden
Crack Singing Societies
New York
Philadelphia
Kreutzer Quartet Club
Junger Maennerchor
Quaker City
Germania of
Newark
N. J
Concordia
Wilkesbarre
Arion
Baltimore
Williamsburger Saengerbund
N. Y
Jersey City
Liederkranz
Germania Maennerchor
Schwaebischer Saengerbund
West Hoboken
Syracuse Liederkranz
Syracuse
Washington Saengerbund
Washington, . C
Delaware Saengerbund
Wilmington
Del
Schweiser Maennerchor
Deutscher Liederkranz
New_Rochelle Maennerchor
New Rochelle
Mozart Maennerchor
Greenville Liedercranz
Concordia Quartet Club
Turner Maennerchor
Atlantic City
Union Hill Liedercranz
Union Hill
Riverside Maennerchor
Riverside
Bremerverder
Maennerchor
Adler Maennerchor
Federation Societies
United Singers of
Hudson County
Long Island City
Carl Lentz
Northeastern Federation
Frank Wuttge
Coney Island
Pain
Kaiser William
Taft
McCluskey and Mahon
Frank Monitor
West Thirty-eighth Street
Charles Roberts
Yonkers
No Action on Hughes Report at Stock Exchange Meeting
The Governing Committee of the Stock Exchange held its last regular meeting until September without acting on Hughes Investigating Committee recommendations. The petition to close on Saturday July 3 for a three day Independence Day holiday was approved, giving brokers a holiday from Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning.
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the Stock Exchange
Hughes
Hughes Receives Degree From Colgate in Absentia
Gov Charles Be Hughes receives in person the Doctor of Laws from Colgate University during today’s commencement in Hamilton New York. Presiding officials include Colgate trustees and Dartmouth College president with several honorary degrees and a large graduating class.
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Hamilton
N. Y
Charles BE. Hughes
Colgate University
Colgate
Dean Greene
University
Hughes
Upen
Nicholas
Dartmouth Cllege
Hephron
Syracuse Medical College
John H. Leete
Baptist Church
Gov. Hughes
Eigh Seminarians
Branshaw
Governor Fort Speaks at Rutgers College Centennial
Governor Fort attended Rutgers College commencement in New Brunswick New Jersey and spoke at the Alumni banquet and centennial of Old Queen's. He received the Doctor of Laws degree during tonight's exercises as an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees. The oldest alumnus present was Cornelius C Cruser class of 47 of Irvington aged over eighty.
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New York Times
New Brunswick
N. J
Gov. Fort
Rutgers College
Old Queen’s
Cornelius C. Cruser
Irvington
Williams College confers honorary degrees at 115th commencement
The June 23 ceremony at Williams College in Williamstown highlighted honorary awards to Richard Achille Ballinger Secretary of the Interior, Wilfred Thom Grenfell a medical missionary in Labrador, and others including Adolph Frederick Schauffler and Alexander Hamilton Vinton.
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Williamstown
Mass
Williams College
Adolph Frederick Schauffler
New York
Alexander Hamilton Vinton
Worcester
Richard Achille Ballinger
Henry Burchard Fine
Princeton University
Alfred Clark Chapin
Wilfred Thom—— Grenfell
Larador
Townsend Receives Doctor of Science at Washington and Jefferson Commencement
Washington and Jefferson College conferred the Doctor of Science degree on Charles Haskins Townsend director of New York Aquarium. Townsend attended in person to receive the honor. Rev. Dr. Henry Wallace of Des Moines editor of Wallace's Farmer also received a degree and spoke at the alumni banquet.
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Washington, Penn
Washington and Jefferson College
Charles Haskins Townsend
Aquarium
New York
Townsend
Henry Wallace
Des Moines
Iowa
Wallace
Farmer
National Country Life Commission
Roosevelt
Trinity College 83rd commencement diplomas awarded
Hartford June 23 Thirty eight students received diplomas at Trinity College eighty third annual commencement exercises. Honorary degrees were conferred including Master of Arts to John Shepard and Louis McLellan Potter Doctor of Laws to Charles Frederick Johnson Professor Emeritus Duncan Black Macdonald Doctor of Divinity and Rev James Jackson president of Boone College.
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Hartford
Conn
Trinity College
John Shepard
New Britain
Louis McLellan Potter
Charles Frederick Johnson
Big Doctor of Divinity
Duncan Black Macdonald
Hartford Theological Seminary
James Jackson
Boone College
Gibbons Rebukes Pessimistic Youth at St John’s College
Cardinal Gibbons presided at St John’s College commencement in the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He praised American birth and education, contrasting with speakers who warned that education and government were moving toward godlessness. Three graduates urged society without God, prompting his defense of American religious life.
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St. John's College
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Cardinal
Opera House
America
Thomas M. Holland
Bernard J. Reilly
Francis J. Garcia
Plato
Greece
Socrates
Ameri
United States
Europe
St. John the Baptist
St. John the
Taft plans tax shifts amid push for inter state reform
The piece notes President Taft aligning with party regulars in Congress to advance a winter program focused on antiovercapitalization measures. It highlights a forthcoming inter state commerce commission driven reform, drafts by Cabinet lawyers, and Senator Root’s dual Senate-admin role. It also reports on tariff votes, including lumber coal and pineapple duties, with party divisions and notable names such as Aldrich Cannon and Root.
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House
Senate
Aldrich
Cannon
Congress
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Bureau of Corporations
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Knox
Nagel
Dickinson
Ballinger
Root
Townsend
Washington
Senator Root
Finance Committee
John C. Spooner
Nove
Daniel
Bailey
McCumber
Canada
Burton
Bristow
Brown
Bur Burton
Carter
Clapp
Crawford
Mins
Curtis
Dolliver
Gamble
Joh
la Follette
Nelson
Chamberlain
Foster
McEnery
Martin
Simmons
Smith
Maryland
Taliaferro
Tillman
Beveridge
Burkett
Florida
Aldricht
Senate Tariff Bill Progress Reported In June Debate
Washington June 23 The Senate made its best progress so far in the Tariff bill discussion today as debate continued on the measure.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate
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Amsterdam
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