Betting on McClellan and Jerome narrows at Hoffman House
Election betting closed with odds 2 to 1 for McClellan and Jerome. The Hoffman House crowd swelled to fill corridors, lights went out as tension rose, and police cleared the scene after 11 pm. Wagers totaled about 150000. Hearst supporters briefly pushed odds to 9 to 5 before McClellan regained dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Jerome
Wall Street
Hoffman House
Hearst
Osborne
Waldorf
Better
Ivins
William M. Ivins
Billy ’’ Hayes
Mr. Ivins
Breslin
MrClellan
Senator Slater
Hayes
Slayes
Hoffman Oe
Amusement Arrivals and Page References
Index to departments lists topics and page numbers including Amusements Arrivals of Out-of-Town Buyers Business Troubles Commercial World Court Calendars Financial News Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails New Corporations Real Estate Society United Service Weather Report Yesterday's Fires with respective pages 2 9 11 12 13 14 19 VA and 9 12 13 19 11 2 9 2 9
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Commercial World
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Tammany Dough Day Grants Funds for Election Campaign
Tammany Hall distributed 225000 dollars for election day expenses with 175000 in five dollar bills to 35 Assembly district leaders at Tammany Hall. The balance 50000 covered contingencies and remained in safe. Leaders collected ballots and paraphernalia then departed by carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tammany
Charles F. Murphy
Murphy
Fifth National Bank
Third Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Tammany Hall
Mr. Murphy
Philip F. Donahue
Fourteenth Street
Ivins Warns of a New Day for New York in Last Letter
William M. Ivins ends his campaign by urging loyalty to the sunny side of the street and predicting a bright future if elected. He sends a final appeal to voters and targets Mayor McClellan, saying the opponent has a pain in his destiny while promising Long Island progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Ivins
Leander B. Faber
Queens County
Richmond Hill
McClellan
Garden Tower
New York
Long Island
Man Killed on Ninth Avenue Elevated Tracks
The body of Lewis M. Lane, 29, of 386 Manhattan Avenue, was found on the Ninth Avenue elevated tracks near Desbrosses Street after a train passed over him. A broken watch stopped at 9:35 suggests several trains, but motive and circumstances remain unknown. Lane worked at Adams Express, lived with his mother and sisters, and a satchel and umbrella aided the discovery.
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Lewis M. Lane
Manhattan Avenue
Ninth Avenue
Desbrosses Street
Lane
Adams Express Company
Broadway
Isaac Weiss
McHughes
Roberson
McKay
Leonard Street
New Club in Pierson Case Revealed At Inquest
Testimony at the Gambier inquest into Stewart L. Pierson's death on the Cleveland Akron and Columbus bridge details wrist and ankle marks on the student. Ralph McMahon says he swept the bridge for $3. Delta Kappa Epsilon members asked about trains the night of the accident. A special locomotive passed Gambier at 9 41. Fiber from rope found on Pierson's clothing after microscopic tests.
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New York Times
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Stewart L. Pierson
Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
Gambier
Calgrimm
Cincinnati
Pierson
Ralph McMahon
Fry
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Columbus
Boston University Sacks Prof Mitchell over doctrinal unsoundness
At a Boston Trustees meeting on November 6, Prof Hinckley G Mitchell was removed from the faculty for unsoundness in doctrine after a prior Board of Bishops ruling. His Hebrew and Old Testament Exegesis department will be split with Charles Rufus Brown named professor of Hebrew and Winfred Nichols Donovan named professor of Old Testament Exegesis, both from Newton Theological Seminary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Board of Trustees
Boston University
Hinckley G. Mitchell
Board of Bishops
Jerome exposes Tammany plot to mislead voters at Cooper Union
Jerome announces discovery of a Tammany designed scheme to trick Republicans into invalid ballots by urging crosses in specific circles on a sample ballot. He cites circulars signed The Jerome Nominators and describes a plan to circulate hundreds of thousands of such misdirecting forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome
Tammany
Cooper Union
Jerome Nomintors
Martin Brown
Fight for freedom and ballot power against the boss
A political speech denounces Tammany influence in New York campaigning for reform. The speaker claims primaries and conventions are boss ridden, vows that the people alone nominate him, and reveals a circulated circular aimed to invalidate votes. He frames the moment as a people powered revolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburg
Mr. Jerome
New York
Tammany Hall
Charley Murphy
Martin Brown
Midshipman Branch Injured in Annapolis Fist Fight
Special to The New York Times reports Midshipman James R. Branch Jr. of New York was seriously injured at the Naval Academy in Annapolis in a fist fight with a fellow student. Doctors performed a skull operation to remove a blood clot. a recovery is hoped. Col. Branch and Mrs. Branch were en route to Annapolis. investigation underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Annapolis
James Robinson Branch, Jr
James R. Branch
New York
American Bankers’ Association
Naval Acad
Emy Hospital
Col. Branch
Baltimore
Karr
Washington
Byrnes
Naval Academy Medical Service
West Fifty-seventh Street
Branch
Suit Filed Against Edna Hopper for Breach of Promise
James G. Morton, actor, sues Edna Wallace Hopper in Buffalo alleging she asked him to marry and later refused to fulfill the proposal. He seeks $10,000 for mental and financial injury. Hopper denies the claims, allowing only comments about his marital prospects as humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Buffalo
Edna Wallace Hopper
James G. Morton
Morton
Mrs. Hopper
Harriman to Testify in Mutual Life Inquiry
Edward H. Harriman has been subpoenaed to testify as part of the Mutual Life affair inquiry. He may follow James H. Hyde on the stand to provide accounts for questioning Harriman. Topics include interest rates on large Equitable loans and the Odell suit settlement with Mercantile Trust Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward H. Harriman
Robably
Mutual Life
James H. Hyde
Harriman
Hyde
Equitable
Gov. Odell
Mercantile Trust Company
United States
Wall Street
Paul Morton
Hunter
Truesdale Committee of Mutual Life
Stuyvesant Fish
Bouton Murderer Ends Flight with Double Fatal
Milton Franklin Andrews, wanted for the Colorado Springs murder of Bessie Bouton, shot his companion Nalda Olivia and killed himself at 748 McAlister Street. A typewritten confession tied him to Bouton’s murder, with Holyoke connections noted and prior arrest for a mail‑box theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Milton Franklin Andrews
Bessie Bouton
Colorado Springs
Nalda Olivia
Andrews
William Ellis
Berkely
Cal
Miss Olivia
McAlister Street
Holyoke
Mass
Miss Welch
Colorado
Steamship News From Fire Island and Nantucket
Arrived steamship Furnessia reports at Glasgow on Oct 29 after 10:27 PM contact southeast of Fire Island. Steamship Rotterdam in communication with Marconi at 11 PM about 110 miles east of Nantucket, due at its pier about 8:30 AM tomorrow.
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Furnessia
Glasgow
Fire Island
Rotterdam
Marconi
Siasconset
Mass
Nantucket
Dewey’s Port Ad Billed For Invalids In New York
An advertisement from H. T. Dewey & Sons Co. at 138 Fulton Street New York promotes Dewey's Old Medicinal Port claiming it will strengthen the weak and convalescents for invalids seeking tonic aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
H. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New York
Philadelphia mayor urges force if sheriff interferes at polls
In a tense Philadelphia scene Mayor Weaver accuses Sheriff Miles of criminal schemes and declares emergency power to deploy patrols. Miles says no deputies will be appointed and vows the city’s peace rests with the mayor as voting looms.
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Weaver
Miles
University of Pennsylvania
Swarthmore College
Franklin S&. Edmonds
Swarthmore
William T. Tilden
Lincoln Party
Penrose
Wesley R. Andrews
Republican State Committee
J. Lee Plummer
Pennsylvania
James I. Miles
James L. Miles
John Weaver
Philadelphia
Commonwealth
Sheldon Potter
Department of Public Safety
James
Sheriff
President Roosevelt Votes During New Jersey Visit
President Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb departed for Oyster Bay to vote today. The party used a private car and a tug ride to Long Island City and back to avoid New York City transit. The president plans a brief stay and return to Washington by 9:30 p m, with Dr. C F Stokes and White House staff accompanying.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary Loeb
Oyster Bay
Loeb
New York
Pennsylvania
Jersey City
Long Island City
New York City
C. F. Stokes
White House
EE Barnes
New Jersey
N. P. Webster
Brooklyn
Weaver Denies Telegram From New York Hearst Meeting
Philadelphia mayor William M. Weaver says he never sent a telegram on any political subject to New York. The Hearst meeting in Madison Square Garden read a message claimed from him and Municipal Ownership League officials debate its authenticity. Col. Amrose C. Dunn reported receiving a return message wishing the group “every success.”
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Weaver
Hearst
Madison Square Garden
New York
Municipal Ownership League
Ironworker Votes From Ambulance Stretcher
John Karlson of 26 East Eighty second Street will be taken to the polls in a private ambulance after breaking a leg in a fall at Eighty sixth Street and Third Avenue. He asked the officer to ensure he could vote for Hearst, and hearst headquarters at the Hoffman House arranged the proper procedure.
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John Karlson
East Highty-second Street
Karlson
Eighty-sixth Street
Third Avenue
Hearst
Hoffman House
Fatal 13 500 Volt Shock At Newark Substation
Frederick Hendershot a 26 year old East Orange man lies near death at Newark City Hospital after 13 500 volts surged through his body at the Public Service Corporation sub station on South Fourteenth Street. The new employee touched live parts with bare hands instead of using a switch stick and was knocked unconscious when the current hurled him against the control switch.
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Frederick Hendershot
Sterling Street
East Orange
Newark City Hospital
Public Service Corporation
South Fourteenth Street
Hendershot
Riots and Polish Autonomy News Across Europe
Reports from Kalisch and Thorn describe flags of Poland raised on churches and public buildings as a labor party manifesto calls for a National Diet in Warsaw. In Warsaw the governor general bans gatherings and threatens force. riots resume in Wola as authorities face strikes and language disputes.
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Poland
Kalisch
Thorn
West Prussia
Labor Party
National Diet
Warsaw
Missing $80,000 Santa Fe Central Railroad Bonds
Pittsburg November 6 eighty thousand dollars worth of bonds of the Santa Fe Central Railroad are reported missing. The late cashier T Lee Clark of the Enterprise National Bank was treasurer. Receiver Cunningham cannot locate them after a thorough review of papers and bank books. No record or trace of the securities has been found.
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Pittsburg
Santa Fé Central Railroad
T. Lee Clark
Enterprise National Bank
Cunningham
Enterprise Bank
Three Held in Murder Case in Lewistown
A Pinkerton detective and local officers arrested H. Ray Long Edward W. Taylor and A Julius Heinicke in Lewistown for the murder of Samuel Studzinski on August 25. Studzinski was killed for a tray of diamonds and $2000 in gold. a placard in his blood was nailed to his body. He had a wealthy jeweler brother in San Francisco.
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New York Times
Lewistown
Mon
Pinkerton
Samuel Studzinski
H. Ray Long
Edward W. Taylor
A. Julius Heinicke
Studzinski
San Francisco
Outlaws Cross Border Near Cumberland Gap
Telegraphic lines restored between Middlesboro Kentucky and Cumberland Gap as Frank Ball and his gang move to the Tennessee side. Sheriff seeks Tennessee aid to rout them. Houston Ball says Frank did not lead the attack. Riley Ball, 16, led the desperadoes and is under murder indictment.
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New York Times
Middlesborough
Cumberland Gap
Frank Ball
Tennessee
Houston Ball
Riley Ball
Letter Denies Ties to Robber Band from Fank Ball
Courier-Journal receives a letter claiming to be from Fank Ball, denying links to any robber band and pledging to surrender for a fair trial. The report accompanies a separate incident near Bell County where Mrs Patterson was fatally wounded by soldiers after being fired upon near sentries.
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New York Times
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Fank Ball
Ewing
Virginia
Bell County
Charles Patterson
Patterson
Cumberland Gap
Polls Open Today For Registered Voters From Six A.M. To Five P.M
Polls are open today from 6 AM to 5 PM. Voters must cast ballots at their registered polling place. This notice reminds residents to vote at their registration location.
Peasants Rise Against Jews Near Odessa
Disturbances erupt near Odessa as mobs clash with Jews and Russian troops move in to restore order. Reports say troops were dispatched after fresh disorders flared at 5 o clock this evening.
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Odessa
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Hoffman
Tammany’s
Desbrosses Street Station
Pierson Case
Prof
Mitchell
Jerome Nominators
J. R. Branch, Jr
Young Branch
Edna Hopper
Situa
Mr. Roosevelt
Russia
Bessarabia
Witte
ST. Petersburg
Bibikoff
Wola
Caucasus
Bachmut
Count Vorontzoff-Dashkoff
Moscow
Count Witte
Council of Ministers
Nicholas
M. Shipoff
Moscow Zemstvo
Treasury Department
M. Nemschaeff
London
Daily Mail
Transcaucasus
Georgia
Daghestan
War Office
Bucharest
Kishineff
Ismailt
Bendery
Santa Fe Central Securities
Montana
Outlaws
Ball
His
Kentucky
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