Schmitz and Ruef Held for Blackmail in San Francisco
Mayor Eugene Schmitz and Abraham Ruef were indicted on five counts each for extortion connected to French restaurant operators. Bail set at 10,000 each. Ruef seeks bondsmen as Schmitz travels toward New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
San Francisco
Eugene Schmitz
Abraham Ruef
Tony Blanco
Joseph Malfanti
Delmonico's
B. J. Marchand
Marchand’s
Schmitz
Reuf
Bianco
N. M. Adler
Jean Lowipy
Thomas Reagan
J. A. Drinkhouse
H. W. Hutton
Martin Stevens
J. P. Donahue
Shielding Ruef
Heney
Murasky
Ruef
Basy
Patricia
New York
Torton's
Howell
O'Neill
Mayor Schmitz
California
King Victor Emmanuel Presents Discobolus Fragments
Found during Castel Poriano excavations near Rome, the marble Discobolus copy by Myron was presented to the British Museum by King Victor Emmanuel. The restored statue is described as superior to the Vatican’s celebrated Discus Thrower copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
British Museum
Castel Poriano
Myron
Vatican
Amusements and Notices Listed by Page
The index lists sections and page numbers for a newspaper issue including Amusements Society Weather Marine Intelligence and Foreign Mails Real Estate and Deaths with specific pages for each topic. It notes arrivals of out of town buyers court calendars financial news and advertisements among other features.
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Marine Intelligence
United Service
Weather Report
Plea For Colored Soldiers At County Committee Meeting
The Republican County Committee of New York County unanimously urged President Roosevelt to rescind the War Department order discharging dishonorably three companies of the Twenty-fifth Regiment U.S. Infantry. Gilchrist Stewart urged the measure and the committee promised a final report at the December meeting. A transit reform committee was also approved with one member from each Assembly district and fifteen more.
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Republican County Committee
Murray Hill Lyceum
Roosevelt
Twenty-fifth Regiment
United States Infantry
Gilchrist Stewart
Thirteenth Assembly District
War Department of the
United States
Army and Navy
New York County
War Department
William S. Bennet
Negro Baptists condemn Roosevelt over army dismissals
Salisbury North Carolina November fifteenth 1906 At a meeting of the Negro Baptists Assocation of North Carolina resolutions denouncing President Roosevelt for discharging three companies of the Twenty fifth Infantry were adopted The body represents 160000 and protests against punishing the innocent and guilty alike The resolutions call for a committee to unite with other committees to seek review by the highest tribunal of the land
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
N. C
Negro Baptists’ Association of North Carolina
Roosevelt
United States
Electric Trains Trial Expands on New York Central Line
New York Central plans larger scale electric motor trials for suburban service starting next Sunday. Initially trains will run without passengers between Wakefield High Bridge and Mott Haven as staff training continues. Supt Smith said passenger service will begin soon but gave no exact date.
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New York Central
Wakefield
High Bridge
Mott Haven
Supt. Smith
Graft Allegation Delays Post Office Site in Pittsburgh
Secretary Shaw deferred choosing a new Post Office site as graft charges surface over the Leslie Armstrong option at Fifteenth and Pennsylvania. Officials claim a $985,000 demand versus comparable plots at $430,000, suggesting about a 125 percent overcharge. Congressman Burke and Chamber of Commerce push for delay until details are produced.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Shaw
Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Streets
Leslie- Armstrong
Chamber of Commerce
Barchfield
Police in New Caps Indicate Gen Bingham's Police Reform
Officers and men parade in new caps blending American and Prussian styles. The cross bell cap with a forward tuft is praised for dignity yet unpopular amid snow and rain. Younger officers welcome the look while older ones grumble about comfort and a riot guard.
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Bingham
Shipping News Briefs Arrive From Batavia and Altai Ports
Arrived steamship Batavia from Hamburg on November 8 and steamship Altai from Savanilla on November 6. The report notes routine port calls and cargo movements among these lines.
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Batavia
Hamburg
Altai
Savanilla
Roosevelt Warns Panama On Isthmus Visit
President Roosevelt spent a busy day in Colon and Panama visiting the canal line and Culebra Cut. He met President Amador and Panama officials at Colon and Panama City, spoke to crowds, and praised the canal project while warning against revolutions. He toured Panama Bay aboard the Bolivar and urged wealth and liberty in the republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colon
Roosevelt
Panama
Tivoli Hotel
Canal
Culebra
Panama Bay
Panama City
Canal Zone
Amador
Panama Republic
Louisiana
Colon Dock
Shonts
Stevens
America
Senora Amador
Mr. Roosevelt
la Boca
Pacific
Bolivar
Cathedral Plaza
President Amador
Abed
United States
Panaman Republic
Shanton
Zone Police
Senor Amador
Gatun
Bohio
Mata¢hin
Isthmus
Cristobal
Messrs. Bierd and
Libby
Panama Railroad
Doctor Beaten by Footpads Near Bellevue Hospital
Dr. James O Neil, 87, was attacked by three armed men late last night on First Avenue near Twenty-sixth Street. He was robbed of ten dollars a gold watch and a diamond pin, knocked down twice, and beaten with a blackjack before being taken to Bellevue Hospital. Police drew a blank in locating the assailants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James O'Neil
East Thirty-fifth Street
Twenty-sixth Street
First Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
O’neil
Twenty-first Street
Dr. O'Neil
East Twenty-second Street
Riot at Sherry's as striking chauffeurs clash with strike breakers
After midnight a mob of about 200 strikers and strike breakers fought near Sherry's on Forty-fourth Street. A brick shattered a plate glass window, and several taxis had their tires damaged. Frederick Dengler, a chauffeur, escaped injury as eight men fled. no arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Transportation Company
Sherry
Sherry’s
Sherry’s Corner
Frederick Dengler
West Sixtieth Street
Forty-fourth Street
Fifth Avenue
East Fifty-first Street
Hearst Seeks Independence League Push After Defeat
W R Hearst and his wife arrived in St. Louis and planned to depart for Monterey Mexico. He said his political energies would now focus on building the Independence League into a national party and dismissed Bryan as a likely 1908 Democratic candidate. He credited his defeat to Democratic leaders and said he would start a daily newspaper in St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
ST. Louis
W. R. Hearst
Bis
Monterey
Mexico
Mr. Hearst
Independence League
Bryan
McCarren
Brooklyn
McClellan
New York City
Hearst
Gov Higgins Returns Home From Albany Visit
Albany November 15 Gov Higgins left for his Olean home at noon today and will not state when he will return. Close sources say his health has worried his family for months and is not improving as they wish. Reports of a serious condition were unfounded and no new developments have occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Higgins
Olean
45 000 Murders in Fifty Years
Judge Marcus Kavanagh told St Ignatius alumni in Chicago that 45 000 people were murdered in the United States in the last five years. He blamed law administration and the jury system as inefficient and outdated, claiming last year saw more murders than typhoid deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
cHic’co
United States
Marcus Kavanagh
St. Ignatius’s College
Trains Advertised From New York to Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad offers an 18 hour service to Chicago via rock ballast roadbed leaving New York at 3:65 PM and arriving Chicago at 8:55 AM with other fast trains to Chicago and St Lo Ado.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
St. Lo Ado
Central May Becomes Subway Competitor
The New York Central Railroad weighs a two track subway from Fifty third Street to Grand Central to move suburban traffic beneath the river front. Plans call for a spur east to connect with Grand Central yard and potential passenger service on the river front. Two route options via Canal West Streets or via Twelfth or Thirteenth Avenues and West Street are priced at 29.7 to 33.15 million dollars plus 0.85 million for spurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Central Railroad
Fifty-third Street
Park Avenue
Eleventh
Twelfth Avenue
George S. Rice
Rapid Transit Commission
West Side
New York Central
Grand Central Yard
Fiftythird Street
River Front
Grand Central
Central
Interborough
Upper West Side
Fifty-ninth Street
Rice
Eleventh Avenue
Canal
West Streets
West Street
Franklin
Twelfth
Thirteenth Avenues
Holly and Caldwell Quit Park Commission Posts
Willis Holly secretary of the Park Commission and John S. Caldwell Speedway superintendent resigned. Frank Laughman to succeed Holly and James F. Ryan to succeed Caldwell. Resignations linked to Nineteenth Assembly District primary fight between McClellan and Murphy factions. Holly cites business load, no politics in resignations.
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Willis Holly
Park Commission
John S. Caldwell
Speedway
Frank Laughman
Congress
Fifteenth Assembly
John F. O’brien
Water
Gas
Holly
James F. Ryan
McClellan
Caldwell
Murphy
Messrs
James Ahearn
Charles Hahn
James Reilly
Ahearn
Hahn
Reilly
Buffalo
McClellanites
Miss Marion Clark Injured In Horse Show Accident
Miss Marion Clark of 7 West Thirty seventh Street daughter of banker George C. Clark sustained fractures to both ankles when her horse shied at Southampton L I. She was transported by special car to New York for treatment and now rests at her father’s West Thirty seventh Street home. Details on her condition were not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Clark
West Thirtyseventh Street
George C. Clark
Southampton
L. I
Clark
Miss Clark
New York
Teament
Long Island City
West Thirty-seventh Street
Bragg of Brut Cuvee Sparkles From Dewey & Sons
A fragment mentions Brut Cuvee and branding with Sparkle and Dne as Dewey and Sons Co at 3188 Fulton St New Adv. The text references a local producer or retailer in a brief note.
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Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
New
Daughter survives perilous climb to mother's room
Theresa Turner 26 of 277 West 130th Street climbed a ten inch ledge three stories to reach her mother Ellen Craig at 657 West 129th Street. She found her mother dead on the floor after forcing open a stiff window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West 129Th Street
Theresa Turner
West 130Th Street
Ellen Craig
National Fisheries Company Formed To Merge Boston Fish Trade
Plans announced in Boston on November 15 create the National Fisheries Company to consolidate most Boston fish dealers under one Maine incorporated firm with 5 million dollars capital. The deal will bring Gloucester firms' operations under the new company and establish a fixed fish price replacing current auctioned cargoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
National Fisheries Company
Maine
Gloucester
Drought Cripples France Prompting Government Aid Request
Paris reports a severe long drought across central and southern France. Ardeche, housing 117,000, has its first rain since April and seeks a government grant of 9.6 million dollars to alleviate widespread distress. Cows sell for eight dollars and sheep for one.
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THE
NEW York Times
Paris
France
Ardeche
Roosevelt Arrives in Chateau Bay After Delays
A Halifax report states the Arctic steamer Roosevelt reached Chateau Bay Labrador at 6 p m bringing news of earlier arrivals. The vessel, fog bound there, is to sail tomorrow for Sydney after spending several days at Battle Harbor following a delayed voyage due to bad weather.
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Halifax
N. S
Chateau Bay
Labrador
Roosevelt
Sydney
Battle Harbor
Rooseelt
Railroads Seek an Arbiter for Wage Disputes
Chicago November 15 executives of western railroads consider asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to act as arbiters in labor wage disputes. The idea has circulated among presidents and vice presidents in Chicago, with Eastern railroad figures consulted. Labor leaders reportedly do not oppose the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Eastern Railroad
Man 97 Hands In Policy At Mutual Life
Charles Rhind aged 97, oldest Mutual Life policy holder and Columbia alumnus, handed in his policy at Nassau and Cedar Streets yesterday. He received a cash payout of 4315.86 on a 2500 policy to prevent his sister, his only relative, from benefiting after his death. He is from 353 West Fifty-seventh Street and was a classmate of Hamilton Fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Nassau and Cedar Streets
Charles Rhind
West Fifty-seventh Street
Mutual
Mexico Considers 10 Percent Export Tax on Silver
Secretary of Finance José Limantour submitted a draft law to Congress to impose a 10 percent export duty on Mexican silver coins. Financial circles fear silver outflow. silver dollars have traded at a premium in Mexico City. The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill to tax silver pesos, acting on the government's urgent request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City OF
Mexico
José Limantour
Congress
Monetary Commission
Chamber of Deputies
Limantour
Peru Imposes 50 Percent Export Duty on Silver
Congress authorizes a 50 percent export duty on the gap between intrinsic and legal value of silver coins. Melting of Peruvian silver coins is prohibited and half a million sols in fractional coins issued. Government moves ease financial crisis as silver prices rise.
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Lima
Peru
Beaboard Air Line Resorts of Caro Florida
Booklets and advertisements blend in a downtown display, hinting at travel and lodging offerings. The fragment mentions Broadway and a Riverside area, suggesting tourism promotion in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaboard
Resorts of
Caro Florida
Broadway
Agyi
Suit 10 Break Up The Owl Trust
Moody hints at criminal proceedings as Ohio prosecutor weighs actions after top officials and a major division in Standard Stock amid a high profile trust case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
THE
OWL
Moody
Ohio
Big Drop
Federal suit to break up Standard Oil monopoly filed
The federal government began action in the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis aiming to dissolve Standard Oil. Attorney General Moody signaled possible criminal prosecutions, while three Ohio officers linked to Rockefeller, in hiding, pledge to appear Monday. Standard Oil stock fell 20 points to 545 as a new low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil
United States Circuit Court
St. Louis
Moody
Standard Oil Company of
Ohio
John D. Rockefeller
David
New Jersey
Historic Standard Oil Suit Filed in St. Louis
The United States files a Sherman anti trust petition in a St. Louis court against John D Rockefeller and associates with Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and 70 subsidiaries. It seeks injunctions to curb control and dividends and to prohibit restraint of trade, framing a long history of alleged unlawful acts. The action, backed by Roosevelt administration bodies, marks a major effort to dissolve the trust while criminal action remains for later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Standard Oil Trust
United States Court
St. Louis
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Henry H. Rogers
John D. Archbold
Charles M. Pratt
Henry M. Flagler
Oliver J. Payne
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Standard Oil Company
Ohio
Congress
Department of Com- Labor
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Department of Justice
Kellogg and
Morrison
Roosevelt
Rogers
Archbold
White House
Moody
Missouri
Hadley
Department of
Merce and
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England
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Wiil
Police
Usher
A. R. Ruiz & Hermanos
Jerez
Span
Gov. Higgins
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Subway
Riverside Line
Central Station
Fish Trust
Peary Safe
Railroads
Commerce Commission
U.S. Court
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