Man accused of huge extortion linked to Warriner case
Edgar S. Cooke, once a Cincinnati clerk for the Big Four and now a Chicago resident, denies involvement in Warriner's alleged railroad embezzlement and claims to have earned wealth through mining and brokerage ventures. His wife and attorney speak for him as investigators pursue the case amid Cooke’s lavish lifestyle and prior entanglements with a woman named Mrs Jeannette Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Chicago
Edgar S. Cooke
Cincinnati
Big Four Railroad
Co. L. Warringer
Big Four
Warringer
Cooke
Lessing Annex
Warriner
Cole
Mr. Warriner
Cookes
Evanston Avenue
James
Alfred
Standard Oil Company
Jeannette Ford
Jeannette L. Stewart
Ford
Stewart
Travel offer for Atlanta trip from Nov 4 to 6
An offer for a round trip to Atlanta priced at $30.10 departing November 4 and returning November 6. Travel line reference Ing Seabar Line with route number or stop at 1182 Droneanes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Droneanes
Miss Mabel Choate III Sudden Illness Calls Parents to New York
Mr and Mrs Joseph H Choate rush by special train from Stockbridge to New York after learning their daughter Mabel Choate is seriously ill at Hotel Leonors on Madison Avenue. Doctor Francis P Kinnicutt treats her at home as family releases little detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph H. Choate
Pittsfield
Mass
New York
Mabel Choate
Choate
Stockbridge
Leonors
Madison Avenue
Sixty-third Street
Pulitzer Heir Seeks to Break Will After Vienna Death
Walter Pulitzer arrives in San Francisco with New York agents to gather facts for challenging Albert Pulitzer's will. The late magnate's eccentric habits, costly inquiries to Vienna doctors, and nocturnal memoir dictation are cited as basis, with Mrs. Gertrude Atherton and valet George Schindler slated as witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
San Francisco
Albert Pulitzer
Vienna
Walter Pulitzer
New York
Fairmont
Mount Tamalpais
Pollak
Gertrude Atherton
Tamalpais
Pulitzer
Desert pastor quits pulpit for money in business venture
In Winsted Connecticut Reverend J L R Wyckoff of Woodbury joins George and Willard Isbell in a North Woodbury manufacturing venture. Reverend J Spencer Voorhees resigns as pastor of Adams Massachusetts church to manage a Boston investment company, criticizing church wages and outlining a financial motive for leaving ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Winsted
Conn
J. L. R. Wyckoff
North Congregational Church
Woodbury
George
Willard Isbell
North Woodbury
J. Spencer Voorhees
Second Congregational Church
Congregational
Adams
Mass
Boston
Voorhees
Providence
Tong War Reignites in Chinatown Leaves Two Wounded
The See Sing Tong and On Leong Tong feud flared in Chinatown last night as four men from the Four Brothers Society shot two On Leong members. One man mortally wounded, another crippled. police swiftly arrested four suspects. Capt. Galvin credited Boston executions as the spark fueling the renewed conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinatown
Four Brothers’ Society
See Sing Tong
On Leong Tong
Boston
Hip Sing Tong
Michael Galvin
Elizabeth Street
San Francisco
Brothers’ Tong
Capt
Galvin
Pell, Mott
Dovers
Brickley
Hennessey, Smith, Miller
Lee Gong
Gong
Hung Ching
Policeman Hennesey
Dovers Street
Chatham Square
Hennessey, Miller
Smith
Quinn
Leong Tong
Hludson Street
Benton
Ching
Lung Hung
Chin Lung
Hudson Street
Shung
Lung Heng
Pell Street
Pell Stree
Chin Lee
Loy Jim
On Leong Tongs
Hearst executive S. S. Carvalho severely injured in fall
S. S. Carvalho general manager of Hearst newspapers slipped on Park Row and dislocated a kneecap while en route to Metuchen New Jersey. He was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital where Dr Walter M Brickner fitted a splint and the extent of the injury remained uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. Carvalho
Hearst Newspapers
The
American
William Street
Metuchen
N. J
Walter M. Brickner
Ue Ee Ena Ieee
Order Your Copy Of Tomorrow's Times Now
A brief notice urges readers to place early orders with newsdealers to secure a copy of tomorrow's Times whose notable features are advertised elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomorrow’'S Times
Government bonds fall below par as Treasury not acting
United States Government bonds weaken under pressure from bank sales with Panama Canal 2s trading at 99 percent and 1930 2s at 100 1 16. Banks and Wall Street inquire about Treasury action to bolster the market, but no plan is evident while deposits and security holdings influence pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wall Street
Washington
Treasury
Panama Canal
Panama
New Men Take Hold in Sugar Trust Shake Up
Resignations sweep the American Sugar Refining Company after government action on fraudulent weighing at Williamsburg piers. Longtime Williamsburg superintendent Ernest W. Gerbracht, private secretary Frank Wenzel, and chief electrical engineer William H. Wright resign. Philadelphia executives are being installed to fill vacancies as a partial reorganization begins following Havemeyer-era ties. Gerbracht plans to Europe, noting a 38 year service without vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
Williamsburg
Ernest W. Gerbracht
Gerbracht
Choice
Europe
Frank Wenzel
William H. Wright
James F. Bendernagel
Philadelphia
Bagam
H. O. Havemeyer
Sugar Company
Oliver Spitzer
Spitzer
Thomas
Sugar
Frank Fritz
Wenzel
Havemeyer
George A. Poole
Poole
Samuel C. Hooker
Boston
Dr. Hooker
Keap Street
Fourth Street
Treasury stays silent on Panama bonds as MacVeagh away
With Secretary MacVeagh at his Dublin NH retreat, Treasury officials refused to discuss a drop in Panama 2 percent bonds below par. They expect no action until his return. Treasury funds and working balance remain tight, around 23 to 30 million, limiting possible relief measures for the bond market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
MacVeagh
Treasury Department
Panama
Treasury
Dublin
N. H
Toda
Halley's Comet May 18 to Pass Sun and Earth
Harvard astronomer Director Pickering warns that Halley's comet will cross the sun on May 18 and earth may traverse the comet’s tail of gases. He notes the tail’s gas would be rarefied so unseen, but could produce meteor displays similar to 1860. He compares tracking the comet to locating a train on a railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Cambridge
Mass
Halley
Pickering
Harvard University Observatory
Sun Station
G. H.searle
Radium to be sold to public in Austria soon
Vienna reports government plan for public sale of radium for medical and experimental uses. A batch from Joachimsthal will be purified in two weeks, making at least one gramme available. Preference reportedly given to Austrian buyers. Sir William Ramsay notes radium price surge to 90 dollars per milligramme. global recovered radium estimated under a quarter of a pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Vienna
Joachimsthal
William Ramsay
Limehouse
London
Carnegie and Sage Million Gift Denied by Agents
Report that Andrew Carnegie and Mrs. Russell Sage would give 1 million dollars each to a hospital for consumption and pellagra was denied yesterday by an agent for Carnegie and by Robert W De Forest for the Sage Foundation. Originated in Washington as a jesting remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Mrs
Russell Sage
Carnegie
Robert W. de Forest
The
Sage Foundation
Sage
Washington
Honduran Navy Sent to Bottom by Fruit Boat Collision
Passengers arriving from British Honduras report the Honduran navy was sunk in a collision with a fruit boat near Port Cortez. The Tatumbla, a transformed tug and the republic’s sole warship, sank close to shore but no lives were lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Honduras
British Honduras
Republic
Port Cortez
Archbishop cheers fighter at Irish Nationalist fund mass
Contributions totaling 12500 were received by T P O'Connor for the Irish Nationalist campaign fund at a mass meeting in Philadelphia. Among contributors was Stanley Ketchel who sent a five dollar check from San Francisco as Archbishop Ryan joined in the applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
T. P. O’connor
Stanley Ketchel
San Francisco
Archbishop Ryan
Nordica Loses Suit Over Aunt Allen Estate
In Cambridge Massachusetts Judge Rugg of the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled against Mme Lillian Nordica and her relatives who challenged the will of Mrs Vanny Allen of Melrose. The testatrix left her $100000 estate to charity as Nordica admitted funding the contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Mme
Lillian Nordica
Vanny
Aller
Melrose
Rugg
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Nordica
Allen
Mme. Nordica
Cave-In Near Waldorf Astoria Blocks Street
After a heavy truck passed through West Thirty-third Street near Fifth Avenue last night a 15 foot wide hole opened at the street edge near the Waldorf Astoria. The drop appeared to lead to the Pennsylvania tunnel below. A patrolman set up a barricade of planks and barrels to keep pedestrians away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Thirty-third Street
Fifth Avenue
Waldorf-Astoria
Pennsylvania Tunnel
Run Over Woman Injures Hat Trade Director
Mrs. Catharine Biggs aged 70 wife of Charles Biggs a Hat Trade Credit Association director was struck by a horse and wagon at Fifth Avenue and Twenty third Street. She suffered a compound fracture to her right leg and was taken to New York Hospital by ambulance. She declined to accuse the wagon driver James Stevens of 211 West Thirty seventh Street Police did not arrest. Mrs Biggs resides at 55 West Ninety first Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catharine Biggs
Charles Biggs
Hat Trade Credit Association
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Thompson
West Ninety-first Street
Savoie Crippled At Sea Delays European Steamer
A wireless from Capt. Tourette reports the Savoie disabled by a broken propeller blade. The Havre sailed liner, via Cape Race, will not reach its pier on schedule and may require repairs in company yards. Passengers remain safe. damage timing and extent are uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tourette
Savoie
Cape Race
Havre
Charitable Gifts Totaling 30 Million Highlighted
A report details large donations totaling thirty million dollars to charities, including thirteen million to a widow, ten million to Presbyterian groups, and significant gifts to an art museum, a public library, and Columbia University.
Kennedy will leaves vast $60 million estate to charity and kin
John Stewart Kennedy banker dies October 31 leaving about $60 million estate. About $30 million to charity and education, more than $10 million to Presbyterian Church and major gifts to Columbia University Met Museum of Art New York Public Library and others. Two nephews receive nothing for special reasons while widow Emma Kennedy gets city and country homes and $1 million plus cemetery lot with conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Stewart Kennedy
Kennedy
Emma B. Kennedy
Presbyterian Church
Mr. Kennedy
William Stewart Tod
Robert Eliot Tod
Robert W. de Forest
Mr. de Forest
Home and Foreign Missionary Boards
Church Erection Board
Presbyterian Hospital
Columbia University
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York Public Library
Church Extension Committee
Presbytery
Robert College
Constantinople
United Charities
John D
Rockefeller
Russell-Lace
Andrew Carpegie
West Fiftyseventh Street
Bar Harbor
Walter Stewart Kennedy
Andrew G. Tod
Mary K. Tod
Susan V. Baker
John Kennedy Tod
David A. Tod
William S. Tod
Robert E. Tod
Marion G. Tod
James B. Baker
Henry
Board of Foreign Missions
The
United Board of Home Missions
Presbyter Board of Church
Frection Fund
General Assembly
Presbyterian Presbyterian Hospital
New York
Astor, Lenox, and
Tilden
Museum of Art
Turkey
University of the City of New York
Presbyterian Board of Ald Tor Colleges
Society of the City of New York
School of Philan
Metropolitan Museum of Art Church Extension Committee
American Bible Society
I United Charities
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C. L. Warriner
W. C. Brown
New Yorkentral
Hackney
New York Central
Brown
Miss Mabel Choate III
Don
Park Row
Panamas
American Co
Company
Earth
Mrs. Sage
Ketchel
Waldorf
American Institutions
Presbyterians
Art Museum
Public Library
Columbia
Tre
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