Hughes Approves Telephone Bill And Liability Measure
Gov. Hughes signs measures on Employers' Liability and Public Service Commission jurisdiction extended to telegraph and telephone companies. He urges divided control of securities, discusses experimentation on workers compensation, approves criminal court reform for New York City and a host of wildlife and utility bills amid the Albany session end.
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New York Times
Albany
Gov. Hughes
Public Service Commission
Second District
A. E. Smith
New York City
New York
Williams signs 2100 bonds for canal project in one day
Albany June 25 Clarke Williams sets a record by signing 2,100 of the 11,000 per cent canal improvement bonds. He plans to sell them July 14 and adopts new rules under the Sullivan-Foley law allowing private bankers in first class cities to file investments as security in lieu of bonds. Each banker pays a $50 license and must deposit securities ranging from 10 000 to 50 000 at the Controller’s discretion.
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New York Times
Albany
Clark Willams
Williams
Sullivan-Foley
Willams
State Banking Department
Electric merger proposed consolidates three utilities
Albany June 25. Applications filed with the Public Service Commission by the Poughkeepsie Light Heat and Power Company Newbury Light Heat and Power Company and Hudson Counties Gas and Electric Company for leave to consolidate under the name Central Hudson Gas and Electric Company. The firms operate in Dutchess Ulster and Orange counties. The new entity would have a capital of 2 500 000.
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Poughkeepsie Light, Heat, and Power Company
Newbury Light, Heat, and Power Company
Hudson Counties Gas and Electric Company
Central Hudson Gas and Electric Company
Dutchess
Ulster
Orange
Grattan Sits and Adjourns Senate Session
Albany June 25 Senator Grattan of Albany alone presided the Senate today. He opened the session the journal of yesterday was read and adjournment declared until Monday at 11 oclock. The Assembly met briefly then adjourned until Monday night at 8 30 o clock.
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Albany
Grattan
Senate
Dead man found with bullet wounds near Lehigh Valley station
The body of an elderly man with two bullet wounds was found near Townley Union Township outside Elizabeth New Jersey. A passerby Alfred Gray reported the discovery and the victim wore a gray suit a pliable straw hat and a ring with red and white stones. Police suspect he may be one of two thieves shot during a wire theft pursuit. one captive Michael Barons was wounded and hospitalized.
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Elizabeth
N. J
Lehigh Valley
Townley
Union Township
Morristown
Alfred Gray
Gray
New York
Newark
Inion Township
Michael Barons
Hero Rescues Child From Imminent Street Car
Moses Ragan of 67 Willet Street saved 2 1 2 year old Georgie Miller who stepped onto Eighth Street tracks near 101 Essex Street as a crosstown car headed toward the Williamsburg Bridge. Ragan leaped out, caught the boy, and both were thrown clear. Ragan injured a cut arm and bruises while the child suffered facial bruises. A officer and bystanders aided as they were taken to a drug store for treatment and reunited with parents.
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Georgie Miller
Moses Ragan
Willet Street
Essex Street
Williamsburg Bridge
Ragan
Parker attacks executive power at New Hampshire Bar Association
Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic presidential candidate in 1904, criticizes the federal executive branch in a Portsmouth New Hampshire speech. He urges state leaders to uphold home rule against perceived overreach and cites a New York executive as a bold proponent of consolidation.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Alton B. Parker
New Hampshire Bar Association
Parker
New York
Sister Recovers Lost Memory After Street Hallucination
Agnes Hynd, found dazed at 116th Street and Third Avenue, awoke at Harlem Hospital with no memory of kin or home. Her sister Anna Hynd traced her by phone number 2077, learned Agnes remembered Lexington Avenue but not faces, and waited as nurses aided memory restoration.
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Third Avenue
Harlem
Lenox
Anna Hynd
Lexington Avenue
Agnes Hynd
Church Street
Jersey
New York Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Miss Hynd
Agnes
Anna
Scotland
Biddy Hen Hatches Ten Pheasants Aboard Northport Farm
An old biddy owned by lawyer Edward R. Ackerly of Northport incubates ten pheasant eggs from the Forest Fish and Game Commission. The mother hen resists the lively chicks but, after confinement, hatches all ten. The birds will be liberated in six weeks with one pair kept, as officials report.
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Edward R. Ackerly
Northport
L. L
Ackerly
Forest, Fish, and Game Commission
Ackaa
Correspondent Baron Sternburg Arrested in St Petersburg
St Petersburg reports Baron Sternburg, Austro Hungarian news service correspondent and Russian subject, was seized by the Secret Political Police after two dawn searches. Papers including private correspondence were seized but later deemed non compromising. He remains in strict confinement as the Austrian Embassy and M Belgard liaise with Stolypin.
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ST. Petersburg
Baron de Ungern
Baron Sternburg
M. Belgard
Stolypin
Street Gamblers Raided Near Sevent Street and Avenue
Police raided a street gambling scene on Thirty sixth Street near Seventh Avenue. Detectives confronted about twenty to thirty men around a three card monte game as a dealer and spectator were identified and sent to the workhouse.
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Seventh Avenue
Cliff
Powers
Monte
Philip de Papa
Madison Street
Kernochan
Prison for Army Poisoner in Vienna Court
Lieut Adolph Hofrichter was formally cashiered and sentenced to twenty years in prison after confessing to sending prussic acid capsules to ten officers of the general staff. one officer died. He was arrested November 27 and had been confined for months before the confession. His motive was to seek a staff officer position through the death of a superior.
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Vienna
Adolph Hofrichter
Hofrichter
Murphy Arrested for Bowery Murder in Middletown
John Murphy alias John J Mansfield was arrested after a confrontation with five officers in a West Main Street chop suey house. He allegedly shot lodger Frederick Devlin in a Bowery lodging house on Feb 17 and identified by a hotel night clerk as the killer. He resisted, broke a revolver muzzle during struggle, then was handcuffed and sent to Goshen and onward to New York.
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New York Times
Middletown
N. Y
John Murphy
John J. Mansfield
New York
Murphy
Fred Devlin
Bowery
West Main Street
Ralph
Dayton
Herbert
Faulkner
Gier
Murphy Eicd
Mamie O'Brien
403
East Seventeenth Street
H. Watson
Paterson
N. J
John Millmore
Edward Armstrong
Goshen
John J. Murphy
West Twenty-seventh Street
Central Office
Armstrong and Millmore
James Desmond
Waverly
Frederick Devlin
Wiliam Duffy
Long Island City
Prisoner Tombe Records a Crime String in City Jail
A historical police record notes Tombe as a prisoner at Police Headquarters with prior terms. Nov 16, 10 two months on Blackwell's Island for assault. Jan 16, 1902 one year for assault. Feb 1903 one year for burglary. Apr 190? six years and seven months for shooting Joseph Coffey in Chinatown. He recently released before this term.
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Tombe
Blackwell's Island
Joseph Coffey
Chinatown
Four youths held for car rowdyism and theft on trolley
Four boys under 19, David Lippman, Max Lehrer, Louis Broghern, and Benjamin Ackerman, were charged after a Westchester Avenue incident. Inspector James Dineen reported fare evasion, seat-throwing, and theft of a transfer book, with a bat threat. Magistrate Kernochan ordered five days at the workhouse.
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Union
David Lippman
East Fifth Street
Max Lehrer
Delancey Street
Louis Broghern
East Thirteenth Street
Benjamin Ackerman
Lewis Street
Kernochan
James Dineen
Railway Company
Westchester Avenue
New Clason Point Road
Koster
Westchester
Clason's Point
Blue Army beef questioned by New York officials
Massachusetts Adjutant General Brigham denied tainted beef claims involving soldiers labeled as the Blue Army in southeastern Massachusetts last summer. He said Massachusetts rations were standard and refused to comment on events outside his state.
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Boston
New York
Red Army
Massachusetts
Brigham
Blue Army
Association Physicians of Long Island Meet on Handley Estate
The Association of Physicians of Long Island held its annual meeting at the R. H. Handley estate near Smithtown L I. Members traveled by special train and car to landing on the Misquogue River then by launches to the estate. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley spoke on Preventive Medicine from a Chemical Standpoint. A clambake followed the business session.
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Smithtown
L. I
Associated Physicians of
Long Island
R. H. Handley
Missequogue River
Harvey W. Wiley
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Heaton Nominated by Twelfth Indiana GOP for Congress
Kendallville Indiana June 25 Republicans of the Twelfth Indiana District Convention nominate former Judge Owen N Heaton for Congress. Resolutions endorse President taft and United States Senator Beveridge.
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Kendallville
Ind
Indiana
Owen N. Heaton
Allen County Saeier Court
Aft
United States
Beveridge
Taft backs Longworth in Ohio governor race
Columbus reports Republican leaders in Washington favor Nicholas Longworth for Ohio governor while George B. Cox backs Judge Britt Brown. President Taft may intervene to break the Cox Burton ticket alliance and influence the state convention outcome.
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New York Times
Columbus
Ohio
White House
Nicholas Longworth
George B. Cox
Cincinnati
Longworth
Washington
Cox
Britt Brown
Brown
Burton
Wade H. Elis
Walter F. Brown
State Central Committee
Myron T. Herrick
H. M. Daugherty
Willis. G. Rowland
Taft
Burton-Cox
Coz
Congress
Cole
Findlay
Taylor
Kennedy
Youngstown
Thomas
Niles
Harmon
Hamilton County
Harris
Akron
Roosevelt
Gov
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