Democrats in Niagara Orleans face anti-gambling clash
In Rochester May 10 report said Wadsworth forces back Wallace for governor reforms while McMahon lags. GOP leaders show apathy as the anti-gambling drive splits the party. Dems expect strong turnout a big majority, with independents wary and farmers busy with spring plowing.
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Carnegie and Mrs Sage Aid Hughes in Anti Gambling Crusade
Andrew Carnegie has backed Gov Hughes in his anti gambling crusade by sending a ceremonial check to the Albany office of the International Reform Bureau for use in stirring up sections of New York where it is advantageous for Hughes not to appear. Mrs Russell Sage has also contributed. Large anti gambling literature is being distributed, especially in districts of Senators Knapp Emerson Wemple Cassidy Ackroyd and Grattan.
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Hughes Leaves Albany for Special Session
Governor Hughes retired home from his campaign and health improves as he prepares a message for the special session to open tomorrow. He aims to push anti race-trick laws direct primaries nominations reforms and placing telephone and telegraph firms under Public Service Commission oversight. Few legislators are in Albany as tensions rise over race-track gambling bills and constituent pressure.
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Roosevelt Returns From Virginia Country Place
President and Mrs Roosevelt arrived back at night from Pine Knot Virginia looking well. He sent for Secretary Foster and sorted mail. no immediate statement on letters to Senators Smith Stewart and Rayner was issued. Senate resentment over White House communications remains, with efforts to smooth tensions before the campaign.
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Presidentes at Pine Knot Attend Virginia Church Services
The Presidential party spent a quiet day in Scottsville Va at Pine Knot. They attended Christ Church in the morning with Mrs Roosevelt joining breakfast at 10.00. After church they walked to North Garden for a Washington trip in the afternoon.
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Mass Supreme Court ruling on New Haven railroad holdings shocks officials
May 10 1920 New Haven Conn officials receive the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision that comprehensively covers the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad holdings in all sixteen trolley lines in Massachusetts and potentially affects the Boston and Maine. Jurisdictional clashes between Massachusetts and Connecticut raise fears of constitutional questions and wider railroad policy conflicts amid two-state incorporation.
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Rumor mill swirls around Police Commissioner Bingham
The Committee on Rumors circulated Rumor No 587 alleging Bingham may resign soon under pressure from Major McClellan. It claims he would also summon forty officers before the Board of Surgeons. Bingham and Mayor McClellan denied immediate resignation plans and said no public reason would be given. Times reporters found nothing to change these statements.
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Louisiana legislature faces race-track gambling fight
Baton Rouge May 10 The opening of the Louisiana Legislature tomorrow centers on three issues race-track gambling prohibition and cotton futures. Abolishing race-track gambling is expected to spark the fiercest battle while state-wide prohibition appears unlikely and New Orleans likely stays out of any prohibition measure. Cotton futures face a persistent push but lack of broad support keeps success uncertain. Luxurious turbine steamships Yale and Har nee to Boston commence today see adv.
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Bloodhound chase targets Lockwood brothers at Ridgefield home
North Salem New York May 10 police and four county sheriffs with bloodhounds close in on Stanford and Daniel Lockwood. The suspects, 23 and 20, are accused of attacking girls, burning a house, and wrecking interiors during a spree. Hint of capture centers on sister’s Ridgefield Conn home near the state line as volunteers guard likely den.
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Blood hounds trail suspects toward arrest in North Salem case
In Danbury Connecticut on May 10 blood hounds kept two young desperadoes of North Salem under track for two days before being returned to their owner. A posse including Westchester County sheriffs surrounded a house where the pair were said to have been tracked. Sheriff Marc of Westchester was expected there tomorrow as hunter temper rose to a high point.
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Two Young Men Sought After North Salem Outrages in Brewster
Deputy Sheriff Shuber reports after a two day chase for two young men wanted for outrages in and around North Salem New York. The pair are exhausted hungry and short of funds making train escape unlikely while all roads are watched.
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Two Lockwood kin hunted by deputies and farmers near Ridgefield
Deputies and farmers from Westchester County and nearby areas search for two young Lockwoods suspected of multiple outrages. Authorities watch the home of Mrs Beardsley, said to be a sister of the Lockwoods, as night proceeds in Ridgefield Conn on May 10.
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Westchester Sheriff Tracks Lockwood Family Hideout
Special to The Times reports Sheriff Tane of Westchester County had not learned tonight whether the Lockwood boys of North Salem, wanted for felonious assault on two girls and other offenses, had been cornered. He knew they were being hunted and sent word last Thursday of a possible location but had received no update from North Salem since.
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Agreement on currency bill in Senate committee report
Washington May 10 A special committee from the conference will submit a unanimous report on a free land type currency bill after a five hour session with no major rifts. The plan ties national banks into contiguous associations and makes all banks in an association jointly and severally liable for notes, with a reserve feature.
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Governors at Washington Conference Arrivals Build Momentum
Washington May 10 Many governors and advisers have begun arriving for the Governors Conference with forty four governors of states and territories and leaders of national organizations among the attendees. The event aims to inventory natural resources and plan future prosperity as urged by the President in his invitation letter.
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Married After Long Wait At Pittsburg
Miss Nellie Foster of Jersey City aged 28 left for Pittsburg to marry farmer George Decker of Economy. A train mix up delayed their meeting. she waited days at the station before police escorted her to the central office. Decker arrived late Friday night and they wed late last night after securing a license.
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George Decker
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One Night In Jail Ends In Fine Payment
BELLEVILLE Illinois May 10 One night in jail was enough for forward Siebert who faced a ten dollar fine plus costs for disorderly conduct and threatened to serve time in the county workhouse. After a night in a cell he sent for his secretary to pay 218 50 in court to settle the fine and costs.
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Belleville
Foward Siebert
Jebert
Steert
Death by self harm at Butler Hospital for the Insane
Alphonso W. Davis, a Stonington farmer, died after cutting his throat with a shard during a struggle with two attendants at Butler Hospital for the Insane. Davis had recent losses of his mother and wife and twice attempted to leap into Narragansett Bay before being brought to the asylum. After violent arrival, a window broke during the struggle and Davis killed himself, dying three hours later.
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Five Italians Drown as Naphtha Launch Capsizes Off Plum Island
Newburyport Massachusetts May 10 Caught by a heavy wave near Plum Island at the Merrimack River mouth a naphtha launch carrying nine local shoeshop workers capsized Five men drowned Capt George E Bailey owner and three others were rescued by passing boats all the drowned were Italians employed in local shoeshops
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Taft Quiets Isthmian Disputes Before Leaving
Taft wraps up talks in Panama with President Amador and officials on canal treaties among Colombia the United States and Panama. An arbitration tribunal will decide land titles and valuations in the canal zone with Gov Magoon as umpire. Taft expects to finish canal business and depart Tuesday morning.
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Railroads Ordered to Add Trains on New City Line
The Public Service Commission in Albany has required the New Jersey and New York Railroad and the Erie Railroad to inaugurate a new two-train daily service on the branch between New City and Nanuet in Rockland County. The action follows a Rockland County citizens’ complaint over poor roadbed conditions, limited service, and inadequate New City station facilities.
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Children Have Dynamite in Las Vegas School Children
Las Vegas city residents fear a stash of dynamite and caps held by local schoolchildren after a warehouse theft. A dog found chewing dynamite prompted警察 to warn of plans to blow up all schoolhouses so students could avoid attending classes.
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Grover Cleveland Improves. May Leave Lakewood Soon
Lakewood New Jersey May 10 ex President Grover Cleveland shows signs of improvement. If no unexpected setback, friends expect a notable change for the better within days and a return to his Princeton home before next week. Mrs Cleveland left the patient twice today as he walked briefly at the Lakewood Hotel. Flowers sent by friends and family remain at the hotel while Dr Bryant attended the patient.
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Countess to Address Mass Meeting in Ohio District
Bellefontaine Ohio May 19 Special to The New York Times Countess of Warwick will address about 15000 negroes at a mass meeting and back Socialist E G Wharton for Congress she will speak in six districts amid Republican dissension and a plea to the district’s black voters. Congressman Ralph E Cole says Mrs Roosevelt Longworth will not visit the district this fall nor take part in the campaign.
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Poisoned pork found near Clark kennels in Asbury Park
In Asbury Park on May 10 pork laced with strychnine, enough to kill fifty high quality dogs, was found near W. N. G. Clark's kennels at 986 Sunset Avenue. The target included champions Mersha, Hameo Belga, Rustic Stone, and Saxton Stone. no suspects or motives are known.
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New Yorker Lost in Africa
Boston May 10 A letter from Rev Peter McQueen exploring in British East Africa reports the disappearance of photographer Peter Dutkewitch of New York Dutkewitch left to reach the coast to fit cameras but never arrived McQueen fears harm noting that natives have killed white men including a man killed for his heart which led to executions at Mombasa in April.
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Peter McQueen
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Row in a Lakewood School Sparks Turbulent Meeting
Lakewood New Jersey May 10 Six hundred men and women jeered as County Superintendent Charles A Morris said he was not ready to report on charges against East Fourth Street School Principal D E Delap The principal allegedly raised pupil markings improperly The district has long been divided with strong public support for the principal and turbulent school affairs ongoing
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Attempt to wreck a train near Raritan Station
An early morning attempt to wreck a fast freight on the Central Railroad of New Jersey occurred between midnight and 1 am near Raritan Station. A fishplate was placed on the rails, the train struck it and dragged it some distance, but no mishap occurred. A crew search found no wreckers, and authorities suspect tramp involvement.
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Engine Foils Wreckers On Panhandle Line Near Washington
Railroad detectives probe an attempted derailment on the Panhandle route between Washington and McDonald after a shifting engine failure thwarted a planned obstruction. The eastbound St Louis to Pittsburgh flyer escaped disaster as crews uncovered the setup late last night. Further details and suspects are sought as the investigation continues.
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Foelker Undergoes Appendectomy in Staatsburg
State Senator Otto G Foelker of Brooklyn representing the Fourth Senate District was operated on for appendicitis this afternoon at the home of his father in law red Bodenstein in Staatsburg. Dr St Prescott Grant of New York City and Dr Murphy of Staatsburg performed the operation. Reported tonight that the procedure was necessary and Foelker is resting comfortably.
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Reached sermon in coffin shocks Pittsburgh crowd
Special to Ti New York Times Pittsburgh May 10 Staff Captain Trevet of the Salvation Army preached a sermon while standing in the coffin he expected to be buried in the coffin carried through streets led by pallbearers. The lid bore silver plate revealing his supposed demise and the crowd reacted with sobs and prayers as Cant Trevet spoke on after death. He said the display was to attract people to hear the sermon and admitted the stunt was a prop for the message.
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Clergyman Fires On Burglars At Bloomfield Home
Reverend Alexander Ivanov of St. Valentine’s Church Bloomfield New Jersey fired three shots at a burglar who entered through a roof scuttle at dawn. The intruder escaped after being wounded and leaped a back yard fence. Neighbors formed a posse but could not catch him. Blood stains marked the spot near the fence.
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Balil's Restaurant Opens At Park Place With Live Music
Balil's Restaurant at 14 18 Park Place invites patrons for fine dining and charming music. The venue stays open till midnight offering a refined, ambient atmosphere for guests seeking a casual yet elegant evening.
Americans Bet on Car Crew in Japan to Reach Siberia
Yokohama May 10 1908 The American Yarikea racer team arrives aboard the Shawmut after a calm Pacific crossing. They plan to move from Yokohama to Kobe then to Tsugaru and onto Vindivestak, aiming for Siberia by Saturday. The voyage sparked bets and local excitement as French Italian and American cars drew attention and wagers on Paris arrival.
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