Thaw Victory in Federal Court Opens Extradition Battle
Harry K. Thaw won a key federal court ruling suspending the habeas corpus hearing and signaling a possible appeal to the Supreme Court. Judge Aldrich questioned New York’s extradition claim and raised Thaw’s sanity as a pivotal factor, with Gov. Felker to rule on extradition next Tuesday in Concord.
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New York Times
Littleton
N. H
Harry K. Thaw
United States District Court
Fagar Aldrich
Thaw
Aldrich
William Travers Jerome
New York State
Supreme Court of the United States
New Hampshire
New York
Concord
Mr. Jerome
Jerome
Loqua~ Cleus
Samuel D. Keiker
New York City
United States Supreme Court
Gov. Felker
United States
E. P. Nute
Holman Drew
Colebrook
Thayer
Httle Federal
Moses Grossman
Louis Vernaus
Stone
Pennsylvania
Nathaniel E. Martin
George D. Morris
Franklin Kennedy
Bernard Jacobs
Ferryboat collision hammers two New York vessels
The steamship Hamilton of Old Dominion Line backed into the ferryboat Philadelphia of Pennsylvania RR near Desbrosses Street, injuring one passenger and causing splintered bow plates. About 150 aboard the ferry and 100 aboard the Hamilton panicked as tugs pried the hulls apart. repairs estimated at 1500 dollars. The Hamilton to Norfolk sail was delayed. the Philadelphia headed to Hoboken for dock repairs.
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Hamilton
Old Dominion’ Line
Norfolk
Beach Street
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Desbrosses Street
Capt Rose
Pennsylvania Company
Hoboken
Gorman Wins and Loses at Maryland Democratic Convention
In Baltimore on September 16 the convention debated platform planks on initiative and referendum and woman suffrage. Gorman initially led 14 to 13 in the committee, but Smith forces reversed it 17 to 10, and woman suffrage fell 21 to 6. Murray Vandiver was elected State Chairman, Blair Lee named Democratic U S Senator nominee, and a voter-buying punishment amendment was endorsed.
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New York Times
Baltimore
A. P. Gorman
United States
John Walter Smith
Smith
Murray Vandiver
Blair Lee
Montgomery County
William P. Jackson
Rayner
Diggs Perjury Case Fails In U S District Court
Maury I. Diggs once State Architect and Charles B. Harris were found not guilty of subornation of perjury connected to the Diggs Caminetti white slave cases. The jury deliberated 90 minutes. Diggs Caminetti Warrington and Norris spurred a Reno elopement and Mann White Slave Act convictions. Diggs and Caminetti face sentencing today.
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San Francisco
Maury I. Diggs
Marsha Warrington
Lola Norris
Charles B. Harris
Diggs
Reno
Caminetti
Harris
Miss Warrington
Caminett
van Fleet
So Long II Boat Failure Leads to Watertown Trial
Carl R. Schultz of New York sues Fritz Hunt of Alexandria pur for 1000 dollars claiming the racing motor boat So Long II failed to meet promised speed. The craft allegedly underperformed from 23 mph to 19 mph, undermining expectations of the Summer colony aristo crats visiting the Thousand Islands. County Judge Reeves presides.
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New York Times
Watertown
N. Y
Carl R. Schultz
New York
Schultz
Fritz Hunt
Alexandria Pur
Jugie Reeves
Great Lakes
Thousand Islands
Sulzer's Trail as Big Borrower Plans for Impeachment
Testimony before the Assembly Board of Managers in Sulzer impeachment shows William Sulzer borrowing $26,500 from Hugh J. Reilly, a railroad contractor who aided Cuban government loans. Reilly described a $10,000 advance after Sulzer’s gubernatorial nomination, calling it a loan, not a campaign contribution, and said no security was taken.
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Assembly Board of Managers
William Sulzer
Senate
Capitol
Sulzer
Hugh J. Reilly
Btoadway
House Committee On Foreign Relations
Reilly
Sul
Mr. Sulzer
Board of Managers
Suler
Licely
Wall Street
Prince George
Frawley
Harris & Fuller
George van Valkenburg
Democratic County Committee
Greene County
A. E. Spriggs
Gove
Congress
Mr. Reilly
Roosevelt
Bomb mailed to Gen Otis threatens Los Angeles Times
A dynamite filled infernal machine sent by post to Gen Harrison Otis owner of the Los Angeles Times was opened at his Wilshire Boulevard home. Capt Felts confirmed rich dynamite power and a mechanism to trigger explosion. Police have no sender clue. Otis blames dynamite extremists tied to union opposition to his paper.
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New York Times
Los Angeles
Harrison Gray Otis
Los Angeles Times
Wilshire Boulevard
Parkview Avenue
Gen
Otis
Sebastian
Capt. Felts
Police Department
Capt
Felts
Burgess
Shy
Huerta
Mexico
Gen. Otis
Porfirio Diaz
Republic
California
The
Wthen
F. J. Zeehaandelaar
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
International Asociation of
Bridge and Structuron
James B. McNamara
John J. McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Llewellyn Iron Works
Black Hand Band Threatened Klaw In Sicily Arrests
Italian police in Sicily reportedly detained the Black Hand group that allegedly attempted to extort $50,000 from theater manager Marc Klaw of New Rochelle. Klaw testified via affidavit as the Italian Consulate confirmed the arrests and custody.
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Marc Klaw
Sicily
Klaw
New Rochelle
Black Hand
Palermo
Lafayette
Spring Streets
Rochelle Park
Republicans map bid to unseat Bartholdt in 10th District
Reports from St Louis indicate several GOP bodies urge William T Findly state committee secretary to move into the Tenth District and contest the Congress nomination against Richard Bartholdt next year Bartholdt has long held ten terms in Congress and faced defeat last fall amid Mulhall revelations linking him to the National Association of Manufacturers Findly undecided whether to relocate to the Tenth or stay in the Eleventh to run again.
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New York Times
ST. Louis
Tenth Congressional District
William T. Findly
State Committee
Congress
Richard Bartholdt
Findly
Bartholdt
Mulhall
National Association of Manufacturers
Washington
Patrick F. Gill
Gillen makes two raids arresting alleged nuisance and gambling proprietors
Inspector Gillen and a squad arrested two men after raids within minutes. At Hotel Arthur 252 West Thirty-eighth Street, Samuel Krauss, 25, was questioned on a public nuisance charge. At 682 Eighth Avenue, “Jocke” Martin, a known Tenderloin figure, was held on gambling resort charges. guests at the hotel were unable to be moved. Magistrate Herbert issued warrants for both actions.
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Gillen
Hotel Arthur
West Thirty-eighth Street
Samuel Krauss
Eighth Avenue
Jack Martin
Jocke” Martin
Martin
Negro
West Forty-first Street
Herbert
Japanese dispatch torpedo boat destroyers to Nanking
Tokyo reports a flotilla of torpedo boat destroyers sent to reinforce warships ordered to Nanking amid fears over Gen Chang Hsun and further anti-Japanese actions. Japan holds Chang Hsun’s dismissal as essential to resolving the incident after Japanese subjects were killed in Nan king streets.
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Tokio
Admiralty
Nanking
Chang-Hsun
Nan
Root Not Senator's Kinsman
UTICA September 16 Senator Elihu Root left his Clinton home for Washington this afternoon Friends of the Root family said the American engineer killed in Mexico was not related to the Senator and had no relative in this vicinity
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Utica
Elihu Root
Clinton
Washington
Mr. Root
Mexico
U S Agents Seek Link Between Schmidt and Counterfeit Ring
Detectives pursue ties between Hans Schmidt the priest and Ernest Muret as authorities seize a counterfeit operation at 516 West 134th Street. Schmidt admits involvement in both the murder of Anna Aumuller and the counterfeit plot, while Muret claims innocence and hints at a family link.
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John J. Henry
New York
United States
Secret Service
Hans Schmidt
Anna Rumfiller
Ernest Arthur Muret
St. Nicholas Avenue
West 134Th Street
Muret
134Th Street
Schmidt
Father Evers
Inspector Faurot
Meriden
Conn
George Miller
Express
George Muret
Chelsea Press
Excelsior Press
William Flynn
United States Secret Service
Washington
Boy Dies In Balloon Accident At Connecticut Fair
George Bernier aged 13 was carrying a balloon rope at a Connecticut fair when the rope wound around his wrist. During inflation and ascent he was lifted 500 feet and fell to his death before 5,000 spectators as balloonist Harold Gates began his ascent.
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Woodstock. Conn
George Bernier
Harold Gates
Newburyport
Mass
Gates
Bryan Ignores Critics at Staunton Lecture
About 1600 people gathered in Staunton Virginia to hear William Jennings Bryan speak on Signs of the Times under the Swarthmore Chautauqua Circuit. Bryan dismissed critics, saying he had no plans to answer them.
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Staunton
William Jennings Bryan
Swarthmore Chautauqua Circuit
Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
J J Hill 75 Years Old at Glacier Park
James J Hill founder of the Great Northern Railway celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday at Glacier Park Mon Sept 16. Over 300 members of the Great Northern Veterans Association attended the first annual session. The veterans presented him with a large bouquet of American Beauty roses.
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Glacier Park
Mon
James J. Hill
The
Great Northern Railway
Veterans’ Association of the Great Northern
Hill
Franklin College President Surrenders on Assault Indictment
Terre Haute Indictment charges Eljah A. Hanley president of Franklin College with assault and battery against his father. He surrendered to Sheriff Snea and was released on a $300 bond signed by a local businessman. Hearing date not set.
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New York Times
Terre Haute
Ind
Eljah A. Hanley
Franklin College
Snea
Heinze Given 60 Days to Redeem Securities
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court orders F. Augustus Heinze to redeem or file an intention to redeem securities valued near 600 000 dollars pledged five years ago with A D F Adams for 300 000 dollars in loans. Adams is imprisoned for related crimes. Most lenders knew the pledged securities belonged to Heinze, with two Boston financiers as notable exceptions. The case has dragged through the courts for almost four years.
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New York Times
Boston
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
F. Augustus Heinze
Montana
A. D. F. Adams
Adams
Red
W. A. Gove
Charles P. Gove
Heinze
Mrs. Clark Not Afraid Arrives in City on Train
Mrs. Champ Clark wife of the Speaker arrives on the 8 03 from Washington. She will meet her daughter Miss Genevieve Clark in New York and plans to board a revenue cutter to greet a vessel. She jokes about flying in an airplane once.
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Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Washington
Clark
New York
Genevieve Clark
Europe
France struck by violent storms causing damage and drownings
Storms across France caused major damage in Marseilles where cellars flooded and goods ruined. A fishing boat capsized in Marseilles harbor with five of six aboard drowning. Lightning struck homes in St Agrève and Ardèche areas with property losses reported.
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Paris
France
Marseilles
St. Agréve
Ardéche
Weant probes death of Ella Warfield in Maryland
State Attorney E. O. Weant of Carroll County investigates the death of 80 year old Ella Warfield a relative of ex Gov Edwin Warfield on a rural Maryland farm. An empty bottle likely containing poison was found on her bed and Dr Daniel B Sprecher cited acute indigestion as the cause of death.
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Baltimore
E. O. Weant
Carroll County
Ella Warfield
Edwin Warfield
Warfield
Sykesville
Daniel B. Sprecher
Sprecher
Ora Miller
Miller
Weant
Rival Repeater Duels Against Auto Fire in Relay
Three drop in the first fight but remain in good form as they battle through a field of 290 policemen watching. Four captured in one car amid a list of 408 names to be voted on where hot contests waged.
Primary Day Violence Flareups Christmas Day Edition
Amid gunfire between rival gangs and factional factions in the Fifteenth Assembly District, police deployed reserves as guerrilla groups escorted by the Hudson Dusters, Rose gang, and Jack Sirocco's Chinatown entourage clashed at polling sites. One man arrested for attempting to vote under a false name.
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Jack Sirocco
Hudson Dusters
Rose
Lower West Side
San Juan Hill District
Sixty-ninth Street
West End Avenue
Broadway
Sixty- Sixth Street
Fifteenth Assembly
James J. Hagan
Tammany
George F. Form
Hagan
Amsterdam Democratic Club
Amsterdam Avenue
Form
Progressive Democratic Club
West Sixty Eighth Street
Chinatown
Farm
Greenwich Village
Rose Gang
Eleventh Avenue
William Duggan
Shereman Square
Seventy-first Street
West Sixty-ninth Street
O'Donnell
Rohr
West Sixty-eighth Street
Peter Shevlin
West Eightythird Street
Alexander George
Patrick Shoevlin
West Eighty-fourth Street
Shevlin
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