Will Provides Million Estate If Dorothy Weds Approved Husband
Dorothy Falconer Ballard Smith stands to inherit over $1,000,000 if she avoids marrying any of Eleanor Phelps McKeague's sons and her spouse is approved by at least four of five trustees. If she ignores the clause, the estate goes to seven charities. The will also grants specific sums to Woodlawn Cemetery Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital Children’s Aid Society and various individual bequests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Falconer Ballard Smith
Sarah Kate Falconer Ballard Smith
Eleanor Phelps McKeague
Henry Sedley
Caroline F. Butterfield
Miss Dorothy
Ts. Butterfield
Fred Butterfield
St. Regis Hotel
Miss Smith
F. W. Lewis Butterfield
Francis
Butterfield
Woodlawn
Children’s Aid Society
New York Post Graduate Medical College and Hospital
New York Zoological Society
Jane G. Fayerweather
Kate Thursfield
Fred F. Thursfield
Julia Trask
Edith L. Mason
Gladys Park
Charles Harlow
Hamilton Harlow
May Martha Miller
Sarah E. McDonald
Marion Park
Lucius H. Beers
Elizabeth W. Doremus
Booming McCrum Howell Under Receivership
Stockholders of the McCrum Howell Company, placed in receivership on March 14 with liabilities of 2 118 000 and quick assets of 1 749 000, face offers from Dudley A Tyng Co to buy preferred stock at depressed prices. The firm, not on the Stock Exchange or Curb, has urged early purchases with promises of rising prices above 20 a share before assessments. The reorganizing plans contemplate creditors taking time obligations and a portion in common stock, with existing stockholders given first rights to subscribe. The shares were removed from the Chicago Stock Exchange and now have no regular market quotation.
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McCrum-Howell Company
Dudley A. Tyng & Co
Stock Exchange
Marconi
McCrum-Howell
Chicago Stock Exchange
Dixie Flyer Wreck Near Martinton Kills Engineer
Chicago report says engineer Kendricks is killed and a score of passengers injured when the Dixie flyer derailed near Martinton on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. The train with locomotive and nine cars left Chicago at 9 10 p m en route to Jacksonville via Evansville. Initial reports said the entire train left the track at high speed.
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Chicago
Kendricks
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
Martinton
Jacksonville
Evansville
Ind
Antarctic Film Pioneer Reveals Polar Life Scenes
Special Correspondent Ponting arrives in England after filming Capt. Scott's Antarctic trek. He brings 25,000 feet of cine film showing penguins, seals, gulls, and a dramatic whale attack on a mother seal and her cubs, with vivid scenes of life on Terra Nova near Cape Evans.
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NEW York ‘Times
London
Antarctic
H. C. Ponting
Scott
South Pole
Ponting
England
New Zealand
Mr. Ponting
K. Ponting
Firing Deepens in Roosevelt Strike Turmoil
In Perth Amboy New Jersey on June 26 strikers at Roosevelt opened fire on 150 deputies at the Williams and Clark plant. The city is described as an armed camp as pay day reached 100 of 1200 strikers. Mayor Hermann clashes with company officials over saloon closures and deputy patrols amid sheriff’s absence at a Baltimore convention. Grand Jury in New Brunswick will investigate the Perth Amboy strike with many Perth Amboy witnesses summoned.
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New York Times
Perth’ Amboy
N. J
Roosevelt
Williams & Clark
Joseph Hermann
Hermann
Bolschweiler
Baltimore
Perth Amboy
Perth
New Brunswick
Kidnapped Girl Found Alive After Mob Scenes
Ethel Hinson, seventeen, daughter of James Hinson of Choctaw Alabama, was found tied in a deserted cabin near Quitman Mississippi. A Black man named Watson was arrested and spirited away to safety as hundreds pursued the sheriff and a second mob formed in Quitman.
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New York Times
Quitman
Miss
Ethel Hinson
James Hinson
Choctaw
Ala
Watson
Miss Hinson
Hunter
Méridian
Tetanus Warning for the Fourth
The New York State Department of Health issues its annual tetanus warning for Independence Day due to explosions wounds and firecrackers. Health officers are urged to stock tetanus antitoxin which the department furnishes free. last year the state recorded 100 tetanus deaths.
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Albany
State Department of Health
Wesleyan Completes Million Dollar Endowment
A prominent Wesleyan alumnus in Boston reveals that the university and supporters secured a $1,000,000 additional endowment. The tally stood about $60,000 short at last week's commencement, with a July 1 deadline for completion.
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New York Times
Boston
Wesleyan University
Battle of Bachimba Expected to Begin at Daybreak
El Paso Texas June 26 Bachimba is nearly surrounded by Federals with a decisive engagement expected at daylight. Gen Tellez cavalry flanks Orozco reaching Huercacitas thirteen miles north of Bachimba as Gen Huerta nears Bachimba with his main column. Rebels plan to evad e by flank and burn troop trains while Col Steever sends Third Cavalry to El Paso to patrol the border.
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New York Times
EL Paso
Texas
Bachimba
Bachimba Pass
Tellez
Orozco
Huercacitas
Huerta
Torreon
Juarez
Steever
Third Cavalry
Fort Sam Houston
Dying of Hornet Stings Near Buda
Lena Chalmers eight years old lies dying at her parents home near Buda after hornet stings. Willie Laurens ten and Mary Huyck seven are seriously injured from the same attack while playing in the woods. Laurens escaped to seek help as Lena was found unconscious and her companion nearly unable to move.
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New York Times
Sterling
Lena Chalmers
Buda
Willie Laurens
Mary Huyck
Huck
Laurens
Chalmers
German-American Teachers League to Tour Germany
In Berlin on June 10 a German-American Teachers League visit to Germany is set for July 12. About 200 to 250 teachers will tour major cities including Bremen Hamburg Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Munich Nuremberg Dresden Leipzig and Berlin over five weeks. The fortieth annual convention will be in Berlin with a 2000 pupil concert and Berlin Charlottenburg hosting a reception and an open air school visit for weak children with a picnic lunch.
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Berlin
Teachers’ League
Germany
Bremen
Fatherland
Hamburg
Cologne
Frankfort
Stuttgart
Munich
Nuremberg
Dresden
Leipsic
Eisenach
Weimar
Jena
Prussian Ministry of Education and Worship
Charlottenburg
Anti Saloon Leader Arrested in Buffalo
The Rev. Alton H. Cowles, head of the Anti-Saloon League, was arrested by detectives on a second degree surgery charge. He allegedly forged Frank W. Hall’s name on a Geneseo liquor complaint after seizing liquor from a hotel when Geneseo went dry. Cowles dismisses the charge as a fight against the booze traffic.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Alton H. Cowles
Anti-Saloon League
Geneseo
Cowles
Frank W. Hall
Hall
London police resist pension reform demand amid 1890 act protection
The 19 000 Metropolitan police deterred a strike after police officials cited the Police Act of 1890 granting lifetime pensions after 26 years service. Sir Edward Henry warned borough authorities that no change could be made, arguing reform would require Parliament and stressing police risks and sacrifices over decades.
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London
Edward Henry
Lieut Mayo Taken Ill on Liner Voyage
Passengers arriving from Naples on the Cunard liner Ivernia include Lieut. C. B. Mayo of the U.S. S. Scorpion who was taken to the Naval Hospital after suffering appendicitis. The illness began during the voyage from Gibraltar and rough seas prevented on ship surgery.
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Lieut. Mayo
Naples
Cunard
Ivernia
Lieut
C. B. Mayo
U.S. S
Brooklyn Edison Meter Fraud Probe Targets Politically Connected
Detectives from Inspector Hughes's unit and private investigators tied to the Brooklyn Edison Company probe a scheme tampering with electric meters to lower bills. The fraud, with losses estimated at 100000 to 200000 dollars, involves at least 100 consumers and could implicate several politically linked individuals. Arrests of Alfred Schultz and Walter O'Donnell preceded further operations.
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Hughes
Brooklyn Edison Company
Brooklyn
Alfred Schultz
Walter O’donnell
Coney Island
Ironwood Bank Cashier Accused of Embezzling 123000
M A Fitzsimmons cashier of the Bank of Ironwood faced twenty counts of embezzlement for 123000 with a preliminary hearing held and bail set at 10000 after the bank closed its doors in Ironwood Michigan in June.
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Ironwood
Mich
M. A. Fitzsimmons
Bank of Ironwood
Curate Transferred Over Striker Sympathy Sparks Boston Protest
Five hundred striking carmen and sympathizers rallied in Malden after learning Rev Edward E Mitchell was moved from Immaculate Conception Church Malden to North Chelmsford by Cardinal O Connell citing his sympathy with the strikers. Malden Mayor Farrell allegedly contacted Boston Elevated Railway President Bancroft. Director James M Prendergast and Pastor Rev Richard Neagle brought the issue to the Cardinal. Mitchell served Malden four years.
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New York Times
Boston
Carmen
Malden
Edward E. Mitchell
Immaculate Conception
Chelmsford
Cardinal O'Connell
Farrell
Father Mitchell
Bancroft
Boston Elevated Railway
James M. Prendergast
Elevated
Richard Neagle
Robbery Attack Near West New York Hits Two Jersey Drivers
Charles Bonecken a Tomm Tobacco driver and his helper Harry Grube report being robbed by three men on Anderson Street West New York. The suspects fled after forcing them to hand over cash and cutting horse traces. Bonecken named two suspects and gave a description of the third.
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Charles Bonecken
Germania Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Tomm Tobacco Company
Cambridge Avenue
Jersey City
N. J
Fort Lee
Harry Grube
Zabriskie Street
Anderson Street
West New York
Bonecken
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James S. Coward
Greenwich St
Warren
TRUSO
Regal Shoe Stores
Summer Charities
Edwin G. Merrill
East 22d St
New York City
WM. Church Osborn
Co. Brace
New Jersey Central Seashore Lines
Sandy Hook
Ali
New York Telephone Company
Long Island
Kew Gardens
New York
Pennsylvania Terminal
N. Y
J.J. Britton
Marbridge
Greeley
Bryant
Dorothy Smith
Dixie Flier
Illinois
Wesleyan
Ortiz
Pascual Orozco
Chihuahua
Oriz
The
Pacific Northeast
Puget Sound
PBC Olympian
Seattle
Tacoma
Columbian
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Milwaukee & Puget Sound
W. W. Hall
Broadway
F. A. Miller
Alvin Cowles
London Police
Chattanooga
Coca-Cola CO
Atlanta
Keene de Ie
Wattow
Resent
Mr. Mitchell
PSI Fifth Avenue
Paris
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