Barker Receives Five-Year Hard Labor Sentence
Thomas G. Barker was arraigned in Jersey City on February 3 after shooting Rev. John Keller at Arlington. Judge John A. Blair sentenced him to five years in State Prison with no fine, noting the verdict for assault with intent to kill and indicating possible clemency for provocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas G. Barker
John Keller
Arlington
John A. Blair
General Sessions Court
Jersey City
Barker
Albert C. Wall
Blair
Wall
Trenton
van Winkle
Polo Bachelors Win in Polo Match at Westchester Club
A polo match at Westchester Country Club pitted bachelors against married men. The bachelor team won 14% to 9% with 25 goals in four 15 minute periods and eight goals in under 30 seconds. Notable players included J M Waterbury Jr and J C Cooley Jr for singles and L Waterbury and J M Waterbury Sr for the Waterbury brothers. referee Everett Colby started, with Kingdon Gould officiating later. The Goulds observed from a yacht chartered by their party after the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Insley Blair
Westchester Country Club
George J. Gould
J. I. Blair
Edmund Randolph
J. C. Cooley, Jr
L. Waterbury
J. M. Waterbury
E. C.potter
Yang Gould
Waterbury
Gould
Goulds
Sybarita
J. M. Waterbury, Jr
M. Waterbury, Jr
Cooley
Potter
Aia Ae Bioe
Dra
Ban
Randolph
Everett Colby
Kingdon Gould
Miss Cooley
Olympia Athletic Club Plans Aug 10 Meet at Olympia Field
The Olympia Athletic Club of Harlem will hold an athletic meeting on Saturday August 10 at Olympia Field at Lenox Avenue and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street. Events include an all around competition for 150 pounds and under and a tug of war open to four-man teams. A seven lap track is being built to improve the club’s facilities. The club also fields a basketball team and aims to form a football squad in the fall with Ernest Hjertberg Columbia University coach guiding training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia Athletic Club
Olympia Athletic Club of
Harlem
Olympia Field
Thirty-fifth Street
Lenox Avenue
New Yor City
Ernest Hjertberg
Columbia University
Daly and wife die within hours in Yonkers
Joseph F Daly a leading Westchester County lawyer and municipal law authority died of heart disease at 43. His wife, 39, also died from heart failure. Their son Russell had just graduated from School No 6 when the news arrived. The double funeral is set for Monday 10 AM at the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers
N. Y
Joseph F. Daly
Warburton Avenue
Daly
Westchester County
Democratic Club of
New York
Tammany
Yonkers Board of Education
Leslie Sutherland
New York Bar Association
Westchester Bar Association
City Club of
City
Mount Vernon
Knights of Columbus
Russell
Carroll
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Disorders in Guam Draw Navy Attention
The Navy Department faces an alleged unsatisfactory situation in Guam as Commander Seaton Schroeder denounces hoodlumism and lawlessness claiming terrorism theft gambling and drunkenness. The restricted liberty order prompts possible inquiry by Gen. Haywood and a court of inquiry may be considered. Major H K White has not supplied a report on the troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Guam
Seaton Schroeder
United States
Haywood
Marines
H. K. White
Schroeder
Marine Corps
Women's and men's tennis reach final stages in Philadelphia meet
The Women's National tournament at Wissahickon Heights reached semifinals with Moore defeating Atkinson 6-2 9-7 and Jones beating Warren 6-1 6-2. Doubles and mixed events featured Jones and Moore posting wins as the field advanced. Also listed are entrants for the AAU swimming championships in Buffalo July 8 to 13 led by Schaeffer, Wenck, Krohn, and Reuss with multiple defending champions in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Penn
Wissahickon Heights
Bessie Moore
G. F. Jones
D. H. Rastall
Jones
Moore
Dr. Stevens
Miss Rastall
Mr. Hoskins
Roper
Hood
Clothier
Wils
Little
Hoskins
Carpenter
Souther
Mace
Hovey
Bond
Amateur Athletic Union
Buffalo
C. Schaeffer
National Swimming Association of Philadelphia
H. H. Reeder
W. C. Miller
L.J. Goodwin
Knickerbocker Athletic Club
Fred A. Wenck
R. C. Beecroft
New York Athletic Club
J. W. Spencer
Columbia University
W. A. Cook
Black Rock Cycle Club
Schaeffer
Herbert D. Hohn
Brookline Swimming Club
Massachusetts
George W. van Cleaf
New York
Harry Krohn
Pastime Athletic Club of
W. A. Corall
Rochester
Fred Wenck
W.reuss
Dr. Douglas
Wenck
Krohn
Reuss
Ruddy
Goodwin
Spencer
Corall
Wahle
American rider Walthour tipped for middle distance title
Fred Titus returns from Europe where a touring company met disaster. Tom Cooper rises to replace Westerner, winning the mile open at Vailsburg and setting a track record. Trainer Tom Eck pins hopes on Walthour as National Cycling rules target team work, promising a tougher, more level field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Titus
America
Europe
Johnny Nelson
Tom Cooper
Floyd McFarland
Cooper
Vailsburg
Tom Eck
Walthour
Eck
Michael
John Johnson
Batchelder
Board of Control
National Cycling Association
Expelled From Port Morris Christian Endeavor Society
The Port Morris Congregational Church youth group voted to remove Mrs Blair and Miss Lizzie Dickinson after they publicly confessed Mormon conversion. Pastor Rev. Claude M. Severance said Dickinson could be expelled by congregation vote if she joins the Mormon church, with July 4 cited as a potential baptism date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor
Port Morris
Thomas Blair
Lizzie Dickinson
Society of Christian Endeavor
Blair
Miss Dickinson
Six Navy Warrant Officers Eligible for Ensign Rank
Washington June 27 The navy announces July 30 as the date for appointing six warrant officers to the rank of Ensigns. Previously commissions in the line came only through the Naval Academy, but Congress allowed presidential appointments from boatswains gunners or warrant machinists to Ensign if vacancies exist. No selections have yet been made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Naval Academy
Congress
Secretary of the Navy
Forty third Regiment Arrives in San Francisco from Philippines
The Fortythird Regiment, last of the volunteers to leave the Philippines, reached San Francisco today aboard the Kilpatrick after a 23 day voyage from Manila. The unit had served eighteen months in Mindanao and Leyte and was recruited at Camp Meade, Pennsylvania. The Forty second Infantry was mustered out today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Forty- Third
Philippines
Kilpatrick
Manila
Forty-third
Camp Meade
Pennsylvania
Mindanao
Leyte
Forty-second Infantry
United Service assigns and relieves officers across regiments
Second Lieutenant Robert G. Peck is assigned to Company I, Twenty-seventh Infantry. Capt. George E. Pickett is honorably discharged as Major, Paymaster, US Volunteers, effective June 26, to report for temporary duty. Multiple officers are relieved, reassigned, or dispatched to Forts and theaters including Cuba, Manila, Fort Sheridan, Fort Sam Houston, Fort Flagler, Fort Totten, Fort Grebte, Fort Caswell, Fort Caswell North Carolina, Fort Wadsworth, Fort Washington, Fort McHenry, and Fort Terry, with various duties in the Division of the Philippines and Coast Artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Peck
Twenty-seventh Infantry
George E. Pickett
United States Volunteers
Pickett
Department of California
Damaso T. Laine
Department of Cuba
San Francisco
Manila
Philippine Islands
Thomas McGregor
Ninth Cavalry
Frank Thorp
Fort Sheridan
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Field Artillery
Ephraim_T. C. Richmond
Division of the Philippines
Fort Flagler
Washington
John D. C. Hoskins
Arthur Murray
Philippines
Fort Totten
New York
William E. Birkhimer
Coast Artillery
Fort Grebte
John A. Lundeen
Fort Caswell
North Carolina
John C. W. Brooks
Quartermaster’s Department
Edwin St. J. Greble
William P. Duvall
Fort Wadsworth
Gustave W. S. Stevens
Fort Washington
Maryland
William C. Davis
Thirty-ninth
Fort McHenry
Richmond P. Davis
Thomas B. Lamoreux
Forty-third
Fort Terry
Dwight W. Ryther
Seventh Infantry
Harry D. Humphrey
Twentieth Infantry
Fort Collins
Colorado
Shipping and Mails Schedule and Notices
Maritime and post office notices list sailing times for numerous vessels, including Apache Jefferson Niagara and others. Supplemental mails and routes to Newfoundland Cuba and China are detailed with close times and connections. A separate report notes light vessel changes near Cornfield Point and the wreck of the schooner Waleda off Accra West Coast of Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alnwick
Argentina
Uruguay
Paraguay
Alps
Haiti
Santa Marta
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Athos
Fortune Island
Jamaica
British Prince
Antwerp
Ee Tee Fava
Heimfeld
Pernambuco
Santos, &c
Hindoo
Hull
Jamestown
Norfolk
Lucania
Liverpool
Canadian
Rome
Glasgow
Comus
New Orleans
Curitiba
Matanzas
London
Nueces
Galveston
Pennsylvania
Hamburg
Silvia
Newfoundland
State of Nebraska
Glas- Bow
Trinidad
Bermuda
Werra
Naples
Princess Anne
North Sydney
Miquelon
Boston
Cuba
Port Tampa
Fla
Miami
Mexico City
Costa Rica
Belize
Puerto Cortez
Guatemala
Army officers reassigned duties and reliefs through July
Absence leads to Evansville relief of Capt Grisard to join Seventh Infantry at Vancouver Barracks. Capt Averill to Richmond to relieve peerweiae duty. Garrard to sail to Manila from San Francisco by July 16. Pay Department officers Howell and Graham to San Francisco for temporary duty. Major Coffin orders revoked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
John S. Grisard
Seventh Infantry
Grisard
Vancouver Barracks
Washington
Albert Laws
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Richmond
Nathan K. Averill
Seventh Cavalry
Peerweiae
Louis F. Garrard
United States Volunteers
San Francisco
Naval promotions and academy orders issued in 1901
Lieut E Lloyd Jr to the Naval Academy on August 1. H Mcl P Huse named Lieutenant Commander from March 3, 1901. E L Bisset promoted to Lieutenant from March 3, 1901. R Earle promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade) from May 6, 1901. W H Bucher promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon from April 15, 1901. Roger T Atkinson and A W Balch appointed Assistant Surgeons from June 22, 1901.
Ships Depart and Arrive as Navy Fleet Movements Report
The New Orleans sails from Che Foo China for Yokohama. The Wisconsin leaves San Francisco for Port Angeles. The Massachusetts departed Newburyport for Newport. The Dixie arrives at San Juan. The Iowa is at Port Angeles. The Essex at Cold Spring Harbor. The Monongahela at New York yard. The Indiana with Annapolis graduates aboard reaches New London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New Orléans
Che-Foo
China
Yokohama
Wisconsin
San Francisco
Port Angeles
Massachusetts
Newburyport
Newport
Dixie
San Juan
Iowa
Essex
Cold Spring Harbor
Monongahela
New York
Indiana
Annapolis
New London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Westchester
Kingdon
M. Waterbury
Ate
Dase Ena Pein
Sould
Eee
Sock Conshts
Pooley
J M. Waterbury, Jr
Aheate Lees
saEee
Heae Aiee
Joseph H. Daly
New York Times
England
Burnhams Phillips Custom
Cemple Court Annex
Nassau St
Port Morris Christian Endeavor Society
Mrs. Blair
the United Service
Army
Shipping and Foreign Mails
A. M
Apache
Charleston
Jacksonville
Brunswick
Gaull
Jefferson
Niagara
Mexico
Transpacific
Japan
Vancouver
Hawaii
Australia
West Australia
New Zealand
Fiji
Samoa
San Francis
Campania
Sierra
van Cott
Hongkong
Shanghai
Honolulu
Catalina
Barcelona
Devon
Shields
Fontabelle
St. Kitt'’s
Fuerst Bismarck
Hogarth
Barbados
Swansea
Lady Armstrong
Stettin
Panama
Bordeaux
Pretoria
Plymouth
Prins Maurits
Port Au Prince
Ventnor
Bohemian
Etruria
Ixia
Gibraltar
Pontiac
Richmond Castle
Algiers
el Norte
Hamilton
Huelva
St. Michael's
la Champagne
Havre
Maranhense
Para
Marquette
Maskelyne
St. Lucia
Statendam
Astoria
Hildur
Curacao
Laurentian
Louisiana
Nomadic
Zeeland
Katherine
Old Dominion Steamship Company
Germanic
Haddock
Queenstown
White Star Line
The
Bar
el Mar
Grant
J.T. van Sickle
George Farwell
Brewster
Georgetown
J. C. Turner
Hekla
Jespersen
Copenhagen
Finch, Edge & Co
Fire Island
Xenia
Kruse
Mosse
Tordenskjold
Thomassen, Cardenas
Sandy Hook
N. J
el Cid
Jessica
Columbia
Cherbourg
Brilliant
Flushing
Newport News
Santiago de Cuba
Santiago, &c
Cable
Auguste Victoria
Kaempff
Cher
Bourg
Trave
Weyer
Genoa
Lewis
Scilly
Oceanic
Cameron
Helios
Jansen
Lahn
Pohle
Southampton
Bremen
Tampican
Pickthall
Koenigin
Luise
Volger
Lucas
Brooklyn City
King
Bristol
Brow
Pocahontas
James
Palermo
Lynalder
Waring
St. Vincent
C. V
Melbourne
Lyttleton
Port
Jensen
Leixoes
Oporto
Hesperia
Coverley
Oleta
Span
Salgado
Porto Empedocle
Dressler
Paula
Hettmeyer
York
Desterro
Chester
Julis
Norge
Egense
Christiansand
Butt
Potsdam
Boulogne
Sid
Third Lighthouse District
Cornfield Point
Connecticut River
Conn
Cornfield Point No
Accra
Africa
Waleda
Parrsborough
N. S
Kemp
Port Greville
Intosh, Terrie & Co
Cortlandt
Rootbeer
Charles E. Hires CO
Malvern
Park Plage
Uneeda
Winjer
Waufer
Winjer Waufer National Biscuit Company
Uneeda Siscult
Mark Twain
Compressed Gas Capsule CO
Broad Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!