Indictments Hit Sugar Weighers in Williamsboro Case
Federal Grand Jury returned numerous indictments against Sugar Trust weighers at the Williamsboro pier for weighing frauds. Ex Collector Edward S Fowler says Congress may probe. Col Fowler ready to testify if asked. Henry Corsa details bribe methods paying about $200 per cargo at Williamsburg and Jersey City piers.
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Federal Grand Jury
Custom House
Sugar Trust
Williamsboro
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Grand Jury
Port
Edward S. Fowler
Congress
Col. Fowler
Congressional
Washington
Times
W. B. Thomas
American Sugar Refining Company
Mr. Thomas
C. H. Genff
Senff
Williamsburg
Jersey City
Henry C. Corsa
Plainfield
N. J
Trust
Corsa
United States District Attorney’s Office
First Pennatube Train Opens New NYC Tubes
The Pennsylvania Railroad celebrates the completion of tunnels from Jersey City to Long Island City under Manhattan and rivers. A single special car and locomotive run from Harrison New Jersey to Jamaica and back, passing under the city via tubes D and B. President McCrea and Vice President Samuel Rea join the trip arriving Long Island City at 1 80.
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Jersey City
Long Island City
Manhattan
East
North Rivers
Harrison
N. J
Queens County
Jamaica
Pennsylvania Railroad
McCrea
Samuel Rea
East River
Wilson Won't Testify in Georgia Court Contempt Likely
R T Wilson of Palmetto Bluff South Carolina ignored a U S subpoena to appear as a witness in a civil suit filed by M R Marks against Col Estill's estate over 5750 in commissions. An officer offered travel money as required by law but Wilson refused, risking contempt charges in the Southern District of Georgia United States Court.
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New York Times
Savannah
R. T. Wilson
New York
Palmetto Bluffs
S. C
United States Court For
Southern District of Georgia
M. R. Marks
J. H. Estill
Mr. Wilson
Palmetto Bluff
Col. Estill
Estill
United States
Wilson
Free Speech Army Aims Thousands to Spokane Martyr Campaign
A meeting of the Free Speech Committee at the Labor Lyceum plans to launch a drive sending one thousand New York unemployed to Spokane to back a free speech crusade. Organizers Ben Reitman and Rose Pastor Stokes expect a broad mobilization with speakers including Phelps Stokes Boehn Kelly and Isler. Leonard Abbott to chair.
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Labor Lyceum
Highly Fourth Street
New York
Spokane
Wash
Doc
Ben Reitman
Pacific Coast
Rose Pastor Stokes
Phelps Stokes
Frank Boehn
Harry Kelly
Frederic Isler
Leonard Abbott
New Automatic Brake Device Stops Head On Train Collisions
A test on Erie tracks Newark to Nutley New Jersey demonstrated a third rail powered automatic safety and telephonic system. The device halted two approaching trains without crew input and maintained safe separation across multiple runs. Rail executives from Erie Pennsylvania New York Central Central Railroad of New Jersey Long Island Delaware Lackawanna & Western and other lines observed. The system also enabled stock quotations telephony between offices as trains sped along.
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Jacob A. Cantor
Oliver W. Bird
The
Automatic Signal Company
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Pennsylvania
New York Central
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Long Island
Delaware
Lackawannan & Western
Baltimore & Ohio
Interborough
Staten Island Rapid Transit
Newark
Nutley
N. J
Frederick Lacroix
Texas
Oliver Harriman
Broadway
James
Lacroix
Mr. Lacroix
Messrs. Cantor
Bird and Hartiman
R. C. Johnson
W. Morrison
E. B. Smith
H. S. Ballett
W. P. Allen
F. A. Moreau
Charles E. Spruer
J. H. Maddy
E. B. Griffith
A. C. Elston
W. B. Wetherbee
F. E. Smith
Central Railroad of New Jersey
W. H. Higgins
F. P. Paternell
J. M. Walden
P. H. Cassidy, J. H. Clark
J. E. Galbraith
Insurance policy filed for $1.5 million on Kansas City cement boss
George E Nicholson, 49, Kansas City cement magnate and head of several cement firms, seeks $1.5 million life insurance from two companies. Twenty five physicians found him in perfect health after a day of examinations. He already holds four policies totaling $325,000, with current plans to reach nearly $2 million.
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New York Times
Kansas City
George E. Nicholson
Nicholson
Iowa Portland Cement Company
United Kansas Portland Cement Company
Dixie Portland Cement Company
Mutual Life
Equitable Life of New York
Deer halts Hudson trolley on Hackensack trestle
A buck deer with two prongs blocked a Hudson River trolley on a Hackensack trestle at noon. The animal dodged between ties for several feet before leaping into nearby meadows and vanishing. A hunting party searched until dark but found nothing. It is believed the deer escaped from Havemeyer estate preserve at Mahwah, New Jersey.
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Hackensack
N. J
Havemeyer
Mahwah
Kalff's Finestoma Opera and Music Noon
An urban advert fragment notes Kalff's Finestoma presenting a midday opera and music program. Details are sparse but highlight a cultural event slated for a noon performance.
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Kalff
Finestoma
Iekrere Adv
Boy Fights Burglars and Chases to Roof
Fourteen year old Robert McKenna chased two burglars through his home on West Ninety-first Street after they ransacked the second floor. He was struck in the face and kicked as he pursued them to the roof, where the thieves fled with about $5,000 in money jewelry and silverware. Local police are investigating the skylight entry and roof escape.
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McKenna
West Ninety-first Street
Young McKenna
Taft urged to pardon Shipp and co defendants
A widely signed petition from Fawn Ga calls on President Taft to grant clemency for former Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp and co defendants. It warns that carrying out the sentence would heighten danger to Southern women and reflects fear among local residents.
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Fawn
Taft
Joseph F. Shipp
South
Times Preview Push Encourages Preorders with Dealers
The notice urges readers to place early orders with newsdealers to ensure they receive the forthcoming features in next Sunday's Times.
Alarm grows over Astor yacht Nourmahal missing
Reports say Col John Jacob Astor and party aboard the Nourmahal were last heard near West Indian waters after a hurricane. Wireless efforts by eight ships and San Juan naval station aim to locate the yacht with revenue cutters to follow up. Ava Willing Astor sailed secretly to England on the Lusitania while Mrs Guinness received no word on the vessel.
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John Jacob Astor
Vincent
Col. Astor
United Wireless Company
Manhattan Beach
Key West
Fla
San Juan
West Indian
New York
Maritime Exchange
Treasury Department
Revenue
Algonquin
Porto Rico
Nourmahal
Ava Willing Astor
England
Cunard
Benjamin Guinness
Washington Square North
Fort cites Roosevelt on Sunday schools and modern distractions
Gov. Fort of New Jersey told the fifty first annual New Jersey Sunday School Association convention at East Orange that race death by self action is regrettable and that golf or automobiles may keep families from church. He questioned whether homes lack children to send and noted the convention will run all day today and tomorrow.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Gov. Fort
New Jersey
New Jersey Sunday School Association
Main Avenue Presbyterian Church
East Orange
Quick action saves baby from peanut choking case
Lieut Earl H Welcome Assistant Surgeon U S A rushed a choking year and a half old girl to Bellevue Hospital after a peanut lodged in the throat. With Dr Hooker he performed a tracheotomy saving the child's life as the frantic mother Mrs Bertha Fingerhut followed in joy.
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Earl H. Welcome
Willard Parker Hospital
Bellevue
Hooker
Bertha Fingerhut
East Twenty-first Street
Rec
Art agent missing from Fifth Avenue
John B. Lyman a Harvard graduate about 50 a renowned Fifth Avenue art buyers agent has disappeared from his office at the Silo Building 546 Fifth Avenue leaving thousands in paintings curios and antiques with his son returning identified property to owners. Police have been sought as families dealers express bewilderment over the case.
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John B. Lyman
Harvard
Fifth Avenue
East Thirty-fifth Street
Mr. Bonaventure
Lyman
West Thirty-fifth Street
Harvard Club
Warriner Case Prompts Cook to Cincinnati Visit
In Cincinnati on November 17, prosecutor Henry Hunt said he would invite Edgar Cook, former Big Four paymaster, to come to Cincinnati as part of the Warriner case. Warriner, ex-treasurer of the Big Four, remains jailed. additional arrests were anticipated. Meanwhile, Jeanette Timimons-Ford-Stewart posted bond and was released. In Chicago Cook denounced the charges, asserting his innocence and saying he may return to Cincinnati.
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New York Times
Cincinnati
Charles L. Warriner
Big Four Railroad
Edgar 8
Cook
Big Four
Chicago
Henry T. Hunt
Jeanette Timimons-Ford-Stewart
Edgar
Warriner
Mae Wood Heads for New York to Face Jury Charge
Mae C. Wood in Julesburg says she will travel to New York to face a perjury charge, aiming to prove the marriage to Thomas C. Platt is valid with conclusive evidence. She is ill with bronchitis but determined, owning a ranch with stock and a catin, aided by a brother with consumption.
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New York Times
Julesburg
Col
Mae C. Wood
New York
Thomas C. Platt
Miss Wood
Cate
Early Snow on Mars Report From Flagstaff Observatory
Lowell of the Lowell Observatory reports the first apparent antarctic snowfall on Mars at latitude 62.72 longitude 100.19 with two patches appearing between November 12 and 16, noted as unusually early for Martian polar activity, while a melting patch from August lingered nearby. A Boston dispatch quotes Prof Lowell sending Halley’s comet observation and a fragmentary note.
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Ariz
Lowell
Lowell Observatory
Mars
Boston
John Ritchie, Sr
Harvard Observatory denies Lowell news plan change
Harvard Planetary Centre reports Prof Edward Pickering denies a proposal that Dr Percival Lowell’s Flagstaff observatory become the main distributor of international planetary news. He confirms Harvard’s plan stands and urgent discoveries are cabled to Kiel at cost to subscribers, with non urgent items mailed free.
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Mass
Percival Lowell
Flagstaff
Ariz
Harvard College Observatory
Edward C. Pickering
Pickering
Kiel
Lowell
Harvard
Prof
Snowslide Hits Canadian Pacific Freight Train
In North Bend British Columbia a CP freight train emerging from a tunnel was struck by a snowslide. The locomotive and four cars plunged 300 feet into the Fraser River, drowning the engineer. the fireman escaped, two other trainmen were injured, and an eastbound passenger train passed by half an hour later.
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North Bend
B. C
Canadian Pacific
Fraser River
Wife Leaves Home as Mule Causes Man's Death
Pittsburg report says Mrs. James Edmonds of Washington County deserted her home taking household goods and five cattle, leaving an old mule. Edmonds filed desertion and larceny charges. the mule, later, fatally kicked him in a hospital.
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Pittsburg
James Edmonds
Washington County
Edmonds
Hill Sentenced to Prison for Manslaughter in Rhode Island Case
Taunton Mass November 17 Frank L Hill herb doctor from Fall River pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Amelie St Jean of Woonsocket Rhode Island He was sentenced to seven to ten years in State prison The case followed the death and Hill dismembered the body distributing parts in nearby woods Tiverton later details indicate the grim sequence of events in two states
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Taunton
Mass
Frank L. Hill
Fall River
Amelie St. Jean
Woonsocket
R. I
Hill
Tiverton
Diphtheria Strikes Eight Nurses at Cook County Hospital
Eight nurses at Cook County Hospital are stricken with diphtheria and confined to infectious wards. All cases developed in the last week. To prevent spread, remaining nurses are screened and anyone with headache or sore throat will receive toxin testing. Besides these eight, only one diphtheria patient remains admitted.
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Chicago
Cook County Hospital
Charles J. Happel
Explosion Damages Sacred Heart Church in Clinton
In Terre Haute Indiana today a dynamite blast wrecked the front of the new Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church at Clinton. Hungarian and Bohemian miners forming most of the congregation quarrelled over church leadership. Three hundred sticks of dynamite were found around the edifice with many fuses poorly set, though most charges did not explode.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Sacred Heart
Clinton
Towns Sues Coler For Fee In Brooklyn Libel Case
Mirabeau L. Towns won a 750 verdict against Borough President Bird S. Coler in Brooklyn justice court, seeking 3750 as part of a 7000 fee for Towns's services in Coler's libel suit against The Brooklyn Eagle. Coler says the arrangement paid whatever Towns saw fit. The judge reserved decision.
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Mirabeau L. Towns
Brooklyn
Bird S. Coler
Garretson
Supreme Court
Justice Garretson
Mr. Towns
Coler
Brooklyn Eagle
Delos McCurdy
Isaac Franklin Russell
New York University Law School
Russell
Savannah Line ships sail to Southern resorts from Pier 35
From Pier 35 on the North River the Savannah Line offers large ships sailing to numerous Southern resorts with onboard home comforts. Call telephone 2595 in spring for tickets and reservations.
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North River
Savannah Line
Secret New York Wedding Revealed of Count Czaky
Count Kalman Czaky and Mrs Maud Howard Bryan were secretly married in New York about November 17, 1908. Mrs Bryan disclosed the union after relatives objected, saying they were married in New York and would live at 36 West Fifty-ninth Street. The couple had met in 1908 and planned travel before settling in New York. Czaky has prior marriage history and military background.
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Kalman Czaky
Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Maud Howard Bryan
Portland
Ore
Times
Hotel Netherland
West Fifty-ninth Street
Bry
Central Park
Maud Stoward Bryan
West
New York
West Fiftyninth Street
Fifth Street
Michael Oberall
Broadway
Uberall
J. V. Uberall
Rudolf Czaky
Syrpes
Budapest
Runaway Horses Kill Newport Coachman at Scene
Michael Fitzpatrick long time coachman for Mr and Mrs James Andrews Swan died at Newport Hospital from internal injuries after a runaway accident. A carriage driven toward Broads Way was frightened by a passing car causing the horses to bolt and overturn the coupe trapping Fitzpatrick. Swan escaped with minor injuries and a dog survived. Coroner's inquest ordered.
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New York Times
Newport, R. I
Michael Fitzpatrick
James Andrews Swan
Newport Hospital
Fitzpatrick
Swan
Sadie Harvey
Superior Court
Collins not murdered former Western tennis champ dies by streetcar
Coroner's inquest into Kreigh Collins death rules out murder and finds he was killed by a streetcar. No bullet or knife wounds were detected, clearing rumors that his body was placed on the track after the death in Chicago.
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Chicago
Kreigh Collins
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