Alexander Resigns as Hyde Trustee in Equitable Case
The Equitable Life case erupts as James W. Alexander resigns from his Hyde trust role. Frick committee and state insurance officials expand inquiry with no word on receivership. Cromwell and Cortelyou cited amid rumors of leadership changes and peaceful settlement efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Iife
Henry Hyde
James W. Alexander
Society
Mr. Alexander
James
H. Hyde
Darius O. Mills
Frick Investigating Committee
Hienty
Prick
Larriman
Cornelius M Bliss
M. J. Ingalls
Brayton Fves
Jtresident
Sander
Equitable Directors
Frick Committee
Alexander
William’ Nelson Cromwell
Cromwell
Washington
George BB. Cortelyou
Cortelyeus
Eat
Heeihedoas
Austile Life Assurance Society
Saikdk
Mmquitabie Life Assurance Secier Lokona
dTenry B. Ulswe
James Ht. Hyde
Index to Departments and Page Designations
Continuation note lists sections and page numbers such as Amusements Arrivals of Out of Town Business Troubles Court Calendars Real Estate Society United Services Weather and Yesterday's Fires with page references across the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biyeg
Court Cailendirs
Ae Intelligence and Foreigh
Society
United Servics
Weather Report
Two Monk Eastman Aides Clash With Police on Fourteenth Street
Joseph Brown aged 23 of 28 Second Avenue and Thomas Murphy 28 of 20F Henry Street were captured after a gun battle with Capt. McDermott and detectives. They allegedly held up a billiard room on Fourteenth Street and Fourth Avenue and robbed patrons. Brown, identified as Eastman’s lieutenant, faced felonious assault and concealed weapons charges with bail set at 1000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monk” Eastman Gang
Fourteenth Street
McDermott
Fifth Street
Iis
Joseph Brown
Second Avenue
Thomas Murphy
Henry Street
Hiliard
Fourth Avenue
Manas
James Wilson
East Fourteenth Street
Third Avenue
Apt. McDermott
Wasserman
Butler
Moran
Reardon
Oo -Attorney’s Office
Fifteenth Street
Brown
Murphy
Capt. McDermott
Pares
Monk Eastman
Leonard Street
ILL NOT RESIGN HOOKER Denies Rumor of Step Down
Judge Hooker breaks silence denying reports he will resign over Dun Kirk and Fredonian Post Office scandals. He vows to fight the case to a finish. Governor Higgins says an extra Legislature session may be needed in June to dispose of the Hooker matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Slooker
Dunkirk
Fredonian Post
Ile
Albany
Higgins
Supreme Court
Hooker
Water Bills Passed by Senate in Albany Action
The New York State Senate approved two water bills, the Agnew State Water Commission bill by a vote of ZX to S and Mayor McClellan's water bill by 3 to 3. The Agnew measure goes to the Governor, while the amended McClellan bill returns to the Assembly. Senator Brackett attacked the Agnew bill as a patronage grab. Senator Elsberg complained the water bill’s electricity generation provision for water sources was defensible and urged restoring the original form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Albany
Agnew State Water Commission
McClellan
Senate
Assembly
Brackett
McClellin
Elsberg
Standard Oil Tin Shop Boys Strike for Higher Wages
About 75 can carriers at the Standard Oil plant on Long Island City went on strike over pay. They halted shipping from the tin shop to the shipping department while police kept order but no unrest occurred. The workers protested against John D. Rockefeller and tainted money.
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John D. Rockefeller
Standard OF Company
Tenth Street
Mast River
Long Island City
Kemp
Chicago Strikes Send City Toward Anarchy Amid Riots
Chicago faces widespread riots as teamsters strike disrupts commerce. Police guard merchants’ vans while pickets halt purchases and clashes injure officers and civilians. Mayor Dunne resists outside troops, urging restraint and resource use. Governor Deneen advised delaying militia until inquiries conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Teamsters
West Harrison
Despictines
Sidney Chambers
John Sharkey
James Kelly
Canal Street
Polk Street
Cay
Miley
Chambers
Liewis
Hnplovers
Poaming Company
United States Express
Employers’ Association
Springfield
Guy
Deneen
Liber Unions
Dunne
United States Soxpress Company
Staite
Randolph
Mivery
W. Jamison
Edward Boswell
Harrison Street
Michigan Avenue
Rumors Russia Bought Argentine Chilean Navies
May 3 report from St. Petersburg claims Charles M Schwab and Charles K Flint arranged sale of Argentine and Chilean navies to Russia. Admiralty denies, but speculation grows of transports leaving Kronstadt to man ships. Pu dhloft submersible transports and naphtha launches are cited. Paris correspondent notes Cronstadt transports for crews and equipment may depart May 6.
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Schwab and
Flint
Kronstadt
Pudhloft Works
Vladivostok
Admiralty
America
Paris
St. Petersburg
Petit Parisienne
Cronstadt
South America
Russia
Chile
Argentina
Bishop Codman Indicted for Libel in Maine
Lincoln County Grand Jury indicts Right Rev Robert Codman Bishop of Maine and Camden businessman Wilford Gardner with criminal libel over a letter to Dresden rector in which Codman called Gardner an excommunicated member Gardner contends no excommunication occurred and Codman declines further comment deeming the charge petty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York. Times
Wiscassiont
Lincoln County
Robert Codman
Maine
W.iloward Gardner
Camden
Plant
Dresden
Trder
Portland
Suspect Mrs Gelshenen Returns on Kaiser Wilhelm Der Grosse
The article reports that a woman possibly Mrs Cathrine Gelshenen arrived in New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a party including her son and several daughters. A sister claimed the woman was not Mrs Gelshenen and declined to discuss private matters related to the Morse-Dodge matrimonial suit or Grand Jury testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine
Europe
Jerome
Herr Gelshenen
Miss Gelshenen
Special Train Hits Handcar Near Painesville
A Lake Shore special train drawing Engine Now 682 struck a handcar about twenty eight miles from Painesville Ohio while traveling at a high speed. No one was injured. The chartered train carried E A B Clarke president of the Lackawanna Steel Co to reach Buffalo and then New York for an important meeting. The headcar was smashed to atoms and the engine was slightly disfigured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Avepalo
N.Y
Lake Shore
Painesville
Ohio
Buffalo
E. A
Clarke
Lackawanna Steel Company
Empire State Express
New York Central
Cleveland
New York
Physician Heals Himself After Ambulance Crash
Dr. James Rorke of the Suiargs hospital was injured in a collision with a trolley car while en route to Hempstead Crossing Queens. The ambulance overturned and the horse ran away before two men halted proceedings. Rorke, though bloodied, stood up and continued to Hempstead Crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Rorke
Suiargs
Fiospitid
Jamaien
Rorke
Hempstead Crossing
Queens
Bay Street
Fulton Street
Berke
Hempstead
Hastings College Endowment Gains From Grover Cleveland
Lincoln Neb May 3 P N Jackson financial secretary Hastings College reports from Princeton N J that Grover Cleveland has made a liberal contribution to the college endowment fund. The dispatch notes prompt support credited to the college seeking stronger resources for scholarships and programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
P. N. Jackson
Hastings College
Hastings, Neb
Princeton, N. J
Grover Cleveland
Niagara Power Bill Passes in Senate with Drescher Vote
Albany May 3 Senator Drescher of Brooklyn changed his stance securing a 26 to 20 passage of the Cassidy L Hommedieu Niagara Power bill after delays and absences. Rumors of a bloc to push the measure through Assembly persist despite Governor Higgins denial of promising sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drescher
Brooklyn
Mualby
Cassidy
Malloy
Senate
White
Bruce
Chamber
IL T Klommedieu
Grady
Ambler
Brown
Burr
Coggeshall
Cullen
Dooling
Martin
McCarren
Vrime
Riordan
Wilcox
Allds
Armstrong
Brackett
Carpenter
Cobb
Cooper
Cordis
Davis
Hisberz
Cates
Hinman
Lewis
Marks
Lage
Raines
Saxe
Stevens
Fully
Warnick
Assembly
Gov. Higgins
Leggett
Niagara, Lockport
Ontario
Lockport Company
Niagara Falls
Higgins
Fancher
Bank of Woodburn Robbed by Masked Bandits
Two masked men robbed the Bank of Woodburn in Oregon of 2000 dollars this afternoon. They covered cashier Tracy Poorman and bookkeeper Gertrude Eddy with revolvers while one distractor stood guard. Armed townspeople surrounded a swamp where the suspects were located. capture is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodburn
Oregon
Bank of
Tracy Poorman
Gertrude Eddy
Panic at Vienna Opera closes first act
During The Magic Flute at the Imperial Opera Vienna on May 3 the electric wires behind the stage short circuited causing a panic. Opera Director Mahler calmed the crowd by playing the piano and the performance finished with a smaller audience after loud cheers for Mahler.
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Vienna
Imperial Opera
Mahler
Herr Mithler
Long Ocean to Ocean Tour For New Gasoline Motor
E. H. Harriman approves a plan for a cross country test of a new gasoline motor shifted to Union Pacific. The car will run from Omaha to Portland then to New York via San Francisco Los Angeles New Orleans St. Louis and Chicago to test long distance power on grades. The motor can haul at least one heavy passenger car on moderate grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Portland
Ore
New York
San Francisco
Los Angeles
New Orleans
St. Louis
Cunard Lines Introduce Midweek New York Sailings
Queenstown May 3 The Cunard liner Caronia sails for New York to start a midweek Cunard service opposite White Star. The Friday White Star sailings have been viewed as harming Cunard’s Saturday departures.
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New York
White Star
Queenstown
Cunard
Caronia
Baltimore railroads award $12 million car contract
The Baltimores and Ohio Railroad Company announced a contract for 10,000 freight cars totaling about $12,000,000. It is the largest single order for cars by any railroad in the country. Deliveries run from September to January 81, 105.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimores and Ohio Railroad Company
Tunnel to Czar's Treasury Investigation Sinks Moscow Street
Moscow May 3 An investigation is under way into a trench eight feet deep that caused a pavement section to sink near the Imperial Treasury. Authorities believe the incident relates to a possible tunnel attempt to rob the treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Stillman Gifts France Prize for School of Fine Arts
Paris May Mm. Dusserand the French Ambassador reports James Stillman of New York has given 10000 dollars to establish prizes at the School of Fine Arts. The gift, unsolicited and unexpected, honors ties France has extended to American art students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
M. Dusserand
Washington
Foreign Office
James Stillman
New York
France
President Roosevelt Stormbound Hunting in Colorado
President Roosevelt and his hunting party remain stormbound in Glenwood Springs Colorado for three days as rain and snow block trails and make crossing mountain streams dangerous. The camp may move to Garfield Creek once horses can pass. The president is eager to hunt a grizzly and expects arrival Saturday night.
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Glenwood Springs
Col
Roosevelt
Mast Divide Creek
Garfield Creek
Man Thrown From Car In Sheepshead Bay Fatality
Edward Gannon aged 73 of 191 Steuben Street Brooklyn was found injured on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue U Sheepshead Bay at 9 last evening. Doctors say skull fracture and death likely. Witnesses say he was tossed from a passing car and left at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Gannon
Steuben Street
Brooklyn
Coney Island Avenue
Avenue U
Sheepshead Bay
Byo
Wilson
Dr. Dooling
Coney Island
Belmont Park to Host Court for Disorderly Conduct
Justice Archer B. Wallace will hold court daily at Belmont Park to handle arrests for disorderly conduct intoxication pocketpicking and related offenses. A room is reserved for him following a Rockaway Hunt Club precedent, as a prior venue used a holding area with a pit and ladder to bring detainees before the justice. Belmont Park lies in Hempstead township and the arrangement aims to speed minor case disposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Hempstead
Belmont Park
Moved Everything But Her as Family Disappears
A young girl, Ellen Cahill, cried after being found alone on Third Avenue near Fifty-eighth Street. She said her father and mother moved from Sixtieth Street, taking most belongings and pets, while she stayed behind. Police searched for her home while she gave addresses from Highbridge to Bensonhurst. A patrolman went to locate her family but did not return by late night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Fortieth Street
John Cleary
Pather Flynn
Church of St. Gabriel
East Thirty-seventh Street
Bellevue
Cleary
Bridget
Janes
Bessie
Wedat
James Lyons
James J. Devaugenite
John Cav
Henaugh
Devane
Clearys
Lyons
Third Avenue
Fifty-eighth Street
Ellen Cahill
Sixtieth Street
Billie
Gillender Estate Conservators Appointed in Greenwich
Judge J E Russell of Greenwich Probate Court rules Augustus Gillender of New York mentally incapable and names Gillender’s son in law Mr Fleiss of New York and Whitman S Mead of Greenwich County Commissioner as conservators of his estate. Gillender, a New York lawyer, is confined at Ardendale Sanitarium in Greenwich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Greenwich
Conn
J. E. Russell
Augustus Tllender
New York
Gillender
Fleiss
Whitman S. Mead
Ardendale
Disagreement in Patterson Case Ends in Discharge
The trial of Nan Patterson, accused in the Caesar Young murder, ended with a final hung verdict after a thirteen hour deliberation. Patterson appeared exhausted as the jury reported no likelihood of agreement and was discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nan Patterson
Florodora
Caesar Young
Kiss
Goff
Brophy
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HYDE
Mills
Equitable
James Hazen Hyde
Eastman Gang
14Th Street
Agnew
Standard Oil Boys
Federation of Labor
London Times
Charles M. Schwab and
Charles KK
Vies
Bishop Codman
Dr. Rorke
Spencer's
Maiden Lane
Niagara
Senator White
Dreeshar
Vienna Opera
Director Mahler
NEW Motor
Union Pacific
Usher’s
Cunard Line
Baltimore and Ohio
Czar’s Treasury
Stillman
Fine Arts
Ellen
MR. Gillender
Patterson
Weaver
Recorder
Rand
Mr. Garvan
Reilly
Tate
Nan Pattersen
Hist
Nan
Mr. Rand
Manshktughter
Park Row
Nan Paterson
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