Newark Trolley Strike Disrupts Northern New Jersey Roads
A Newark strike against the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey began late afternoon and ended at midnight after talks with officials failed to resolve wage and hours demands. Union leaders plan to reconvene to consider further action as trolley service remained largely halted across cities from Jersey City to Caldwell.
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New York Times
Newark
Public Service Corporation of
New Jersey
William E. Conway
Conway
Jersey City
Hoboken
Paterson
Elizabeth Montclair
the Oranges
Passaic
Bloomfield
Glen Ridge
Irvington
Arlington
Kearny
Belleville
Nutley
Harrison
Caldwell
Public Service Corporation
Market Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Index to Departments and Page Listings
An index lists department topics and page numbers including Commercial World and Amusements on page 7, Arrivals at pow and Out-of-Town Buyers on page 9, Business Troubles and Court Calendars on page 9, New Corporations on page 8, Real Estate on page 12, Society on page 7, Weather Report on page 9, and Yesterday's Fires on page 2, among others.
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Tegal Notes
Ig 12
Ociety
United Service
Weather Report
Casey Would Not Drown on East River Bridge Fall
Michael Casey a bridge worker born in Ireland and now an American citizen survived a 150 foot fall from the East River bridge after losing balance. He grabbed a girder remained on the steel until hauled up by fellow workers and was taken to Bellevue Hospital with only a scalp wound and no serious injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Casey
West Twenty-eighth Street
Casey
New East River
Bellevue Hospital
Manhattan
Maryland Telephone Sees Expanded Network Across States
General Manager Webb announces a traffic agreement with United Telephone and Telegraph Company of Pennsylvania, linking Maryland with Hagerstown Winchester Chambersburg Carlisle and Harrisburg and many others. A line between Johnstown and Pittsburg nears completion linking Maryland to western Pennsylvania and Ohio Illinois Michigan as lines to Cincinnati extend.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Webb
Maryland Telephone and Telegraph Company
United Telephone and Telegraph Company of Pennsylvania
Maryland
Hagerstown
Winchester
Chambersburg
Carlisle
Harrisburg
Penn
Pittsburg
Allegheny Telephone Company
Maryland Company
Johnstown Telephone Company
Bad Minnesota Potato Crop Hurts State Supply
Wet weather across Minnesota has damaged the potato crop severely. Reports say there will be few if any potatoes available for shipping or even home use, with rotting tubers and early market runs likely causing higher prices and inferior quality this year.
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New York Times
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Northwest
Trade mark theft unsettles American bicycle makers in Japan
Tacoma reports Japan warns that a Osaka dealer is registering American bicycle trade marks as his own. He then bars sales to anyone not importing through him, halting business with many brands. Dealers fear, manufacturers worry, and Japanese firms seek remedies amid this mark seizure.
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New York Times
Tacoma
Wash
Chamber of Commerce
Japan
Osaka
Paren
Si Ogee
Brotherhood of St. Andrew train ad from Denver schedule
An advertisement notes travel via Lehigh Valley with four fast trains for the Brotherhood of St. Andrew in Denver. Details include amounts like $46.25 and a Broadway address 855 and 1234.
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Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Denver
Lehigh Valley
Broadway
Lost Life Over a Nickel on the Elevated
A man dies after a confrontation over a 5 cent fare on the Third Avenue Line at Fourteenth Street. Detective Kahn arrests ticket chopper John King of East 56th Street for homicide, with King claiming the victim jumped. Bailey's identity remains unconfirmed as officials seek witnesses and verify details.
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Fourteenth Street
Bellevue Hospital
F. E. Bailey
New Rochelle
Mount Vernon
New York, New Haven
King
East Fiftysixth Street
Bailey
Junker
Sergt. McNaught
Kahn
Thirty-fourth Street
Peter Barcham
East Severagerenth Street
S. Brown
Wall Street
John Alexander Gray
East Twelfth Street
Mr. Gray
Senator Green Granted Hearings Before Case Transfer
Washington reports say District Judge Ray and the Post Office Department will allow Senator George E. Green a further hearing before the criminal case moves to Washington. United States District Attorney Curtis has ordered witnesses from Washington for Monday. Friends claim Green will name higher Washington officials if he testifies. The Curtis letter asking to be relieved from prosecution has not reached the Department of Justice.
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New York Times
Washington
Post Office Department
Ray
Department
George E. Green
United States
Curtis
Senator Green
Department of Justice
Green in Aztec Mines in Sonora Captured by Ohio Visit
Charles L. Adkins of Binghamton representing the Yaqui Copper Company of Sonora, Mexico, is in Ohio meeting with Cleveland capitalists. The $5,000,000 company owns Yaqui River mines in Sonora once worked by the Aztecs. Initial surveys by New York and Boston capitalists praise the property, with another exploratory trip planned for this fall.
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Springfield
Ohio
Charles L. Adkins
Binghamton
N. Y
Yaqui Copper Company
Sonora
Mexico
Adkins
George E. Green
Yaqui
New York
Boston
Cleveland Fi
Sooners on Unopened Uintah Reservation
Prominent mining men join ten surveying gangs at work in the Uintah Indian reservation driving stakes to locate claims before opening the area. State and National Guard officials are implicated and protests will be sent to the Interior Department.
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Sooners
New York Times
Salt Lake
Utah
Uintah Indian Reservation
National Guard
Interior Department
Special Trains to Trenton Fair via Pennsylvania Railroad
Trains depart West 23rd Street Station at 7 25 and 26 A M September 30 and October 1 with an extra departure October 1 at 10 55 A M. Round trip fare 2 25 including admission. Tickets go on sale September 28 20 30 October 1 and 2 and are valid to return until October 3 Adv
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton Fair
Pennsylvania Railroad
West
Warships Prevented a Massacre at Beirut
The Times publishes a Beirut letter stating only the U S squadron's presence averted a general massacre of Christians. It says Valiyy Reshid backed lawless groups, extorted foreign firms, and took bribes to overlook Muslims offenses against Christians.
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LonDon TimEs
New Yok Times
London
the Times
Beirut
United States
Valiyy Reshid
Mrs Jefferson Davis III Seriously Ill at Castle Inn
Mrs. Jefferson Davis widow of the South's president lies seriously ill at Castle Inn Buffalo with Dr. Charles G. Stockton summoned and another doctor consulting. She arrived from Port Colborne with a party of about twenty including granddaughter Miss Lucy W. Hayes.
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Buffalo
Jefferson Davis
Castle Inn
Charles G. Stockton
Maryland Rail War evidence in injunction case at Cherry Run
John M Hood former Western Maryland president testified in Baltimore Circuit Court on the injunction against Baltimore and Ohio to stop diverting freight at Cherry Run West Virginia. He alleged secret contract details. showed O and W M sharing in cut off improvements to 1901 and noted traffic shifts to Cumberland Valley Railroad causing material losses to Western Maryland.
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New York Times
Baltimore
John M. Hood
Western Maryland Railroad
Gould
Tidewater Line
Circuit
Western Maryland
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cherry Run
West Va
Hood
Altenwald
Fitzgerald
Baltimore and Ohio
Gen
Reading
Maryland
Goulds
Pennsylvania
Cumberland Valley Railroad
Chicago St Paul fare to rise to eleven fifty
The Chicago to St Paul passenger rate will return to 11.50 on October 8 after a three month 8 fare period caused by road dissensions. All lines accept the raise except Rock Island which cites unresolved issues including immigrant business division mileage ticket forms and party rate politics.
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New York Times
Chicago
Chicago-St. Paul
Rock Island
West
St. Paul
Priest Injured By Train In Madison Nebraska
Father Letterhouse a New York City Roman Catholic priest was injured after being dragged beneath a moving freight train at Madison Nebraska. He had been in the caboose and, while the train moved, tried to reach the car, suffering fatal looking internal injuries and a broken arm.
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New York Times
Madison
Neb
Father Letterhouse
New York City
Pen Vee
Miss Eva Taylor Injured in Opera House Trap Fall
Pittsburg report says Eva Taylor a leading stock woman at the Grand Opera House fell through an open stage trap while helping an expressman move trunks. She may miss the opening night with the company. An advertisement promotes Hudson Day Line Excur sions at $1.50 with concerts in morning and afternoon.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Penn
Eva Taylor
Grand Opera House
Moving platforms proposed for Williamsburg Bridge tunnel to Battery
Rapid Transit Extensions Committee backs immediate tunnel plan from Brooklyn end of Williamsburg Bridge to the Battery with an $8,000,000 outlay. The project could include a two cent fare if bidders, led by Schmidt & Gallatin with Vanderbilt and Fish backing, win the contract.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid Transit Commission
Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Battery
Orr
Stalin
Grout
Smith
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
William Barclay Parsons
Messrs
Rapid Transit
Schmidt & Gallatin
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Stuyvesant Fish
Vanderbilt
Subway Construction Company
Manhattan Bronx Tunnel
Parsons
Messrs. Schmidt & Gallatin
Ena Ee
Hey
Brooklyn Bridge
Leo A. Phillips
Chicago
Lindenthal
Friend of Lincoln Daniel Burner Dies at Ninety
Daniel Green Burner, a boyhood associate of Abraham Lincoln, died at age ninety in Galesburg Illinois. Born to Kentucky migrants, Burner lived in New Salem with Lincoln, who boarded at his home for years. Burner recalled Lincoln's studious ways and candlelit reading, and he once clerked in the Lincoln Berry store. He stayed connected with Lincoln through letters and assisted during the Lincoln Douglas debate inquiry.
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New York Times
Galesburg
Ill
Daniel Green Burner
Abraham Lincoln
Burner
Kentucky
New Salem
Knox County
Lincoln
Lincoln-Berry
Nome Chilly for Funston Visit in Nome
Nome mail advices assert that Gen. Funston was treated very coldly at Nome during his August visit. Indignation rose at home over his censures of Eskimos in a War Department report. Natives of Nome are described as hospitable and industrious, with many prospectors owing their lives to their aid.
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New York Times
Tacoma
Washington
Nome
Funston
War Department
President Roosevelts Return to Washington Planned
Arrangements are made for President Roosevelt and family to leave Oyster Bay on Monday at 9 AM by special Long Island Railroad train. They will transfer at Jersey City to a Pennsylvania Railroad special, arriving in Washington at 4 10 PM.
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Oyster Bay
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Long Island Railroad
Rty
Ennsylvania Mrailro
Jersey City
Roe
Roosevelt Family Plans and Guest List for Washington Visit
Absent thirteen weeks and two days, Miss Alice Roosevelt is expected to arrive with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt in Washington. Theodore Jr and Kermit have returned to Groton Mass, Hthel resumes Cathedral School studies, Archie stays home due to delicate health with a tutor, and Quentin will attend Force School. Luncheon guests included Collector Stranahan, Assistant Treasurer Hamilton Fish, Dr Lyman Abbott, and J C Shaffer of The Chicago Post.
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Alice Roosevelt
New York
Washington
Quentin
Amnes
Force
Roosevelt
Collector Stranahan
Hamilton Fish
Lyman Abbott
J. C. Shaffer
Chicago Post
Restricting Coal Output Hits Anthracite Mines
In WilkesBarre Pennsylvania on September 24 the suspension of work ordered by the Delaware and Hudson Lehigh Valley and Susquehanna coal companies will idle 27000 mine workers for half or a third time weekly. The stoppage will cost about $115000 in wages weekly and depress regional business while merchants hope cold weather will boost demand and restore full production.
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New York Times
Wilkesbarre
Penn
Delaware and Hudson
Lehigh Valley
Susquehanna Coal
Promise of cheaper coal for coming winter
Reports from mining regions indicate partial mine shutdowns to curb production. Operators forecast top prices may be reached soon but a winter oversupply of poor quality coal persists while domestic sizes are being held back to push smaller grades on consumers. Road carriers fear disrupted distribution and a possible break in existing coal trade agreements.
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Delaware and Hudson Company
Pennsylvania Company
Wilcox
The
Delaware and Hudson
Wey
Reading
Erie
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Goulds Opinion on Texas Crop and Money Market
George Gould and party arrived in Dallas at 1 pm and visited the State Fair Grounds before continuing to Fort Worth. He predicted a large cotton crop in Texas, noted liquidity in country merchants and banks, contrasted with scarce money in New York due to railway and industrial financing, cited the Pennsylvania Railroad’s $90 million loan, and said the stringency would correct itself with no need for alarm.
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New York Times
Dallas
Texas
George Gould
Fort Worth
State Fair Grounds
Gould
New York City
New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dies Performing Operation in Emporia
Dr Charles Gardiner a renowned physician in the West collapsed and died of heart disease during a tonsil operation at a patient’s home in Emporia Kansas. He had just completed the procedure and was aiding bleeding control when he turned pale and fell. The patient bled severely and nearby physicians revived him after a while. Gardiner a Rush Medical College and University of Pennsylvania graduate, was prominent in scientific social and Grand Army circles.
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New York Times
Emporia
Kan
Charles Gardiner
West
Gardiner
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Boynes
Grand Army of the Republic
Salmon prices rise on record Alaska reds in Tacoma
Special to The New York Times reports opening prices for this year's red salmon at 1.30 per dozen, the highest ever named for Alaska reds. Alaska Packers Association set the opening quotation, with pinks and other grades expected to follow. Total Alaskan salmon pack reached 2,400,000 cases, a 220,000 case shortfall from last year.
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New York Times
Tacoma
Washington
Alaska Packer’s Association
Alaska
Puget Sound
Columbia River
Murphy Invites Fight in Convention Over McLaughlin Stand
Tammany Hall leader Charles F. Murphy pressurized Kings County Democrats to back Congressman George B. McClellan for mayor at a City Committee meeting amid party tensions. Murphy asserted control, outlined a plan to nominate McClellan, and prepared a public address to deter independent fusion votes before the October 1 Carnegie Hall convention.
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Democratic
King’s County
George B. McClellan
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
Democratic Club
Hugh McLaughlin
Manhattan
Tammany
Murphy
McLaughlin
Willoughby Street
Kings County
Broooklyn
Patrick H. McCarren
Congressman McClellan
Bronx
Queens
McClellan
Brooklyn
Senator MevCarren
James Shevlin
John L. Shea
Bernard J. York
Dr. Crosby
Richard Croker
Mmings
Cassidy
City
Crain
Coler
McCarren
Brooks
Thomas F. Smith
Daniel Noble
Franklin C. Witt
Richmond
James F. Quigley
Kings
Arthur C. Butts
Messrs. McCarren
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Public F Service Corporation
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Gladnece
W. W. Wheatley
Orezion Orr
McCarter
United Companies
Green
Mrs
Jefferson Davis III
Canada
Gen. Hood
Rock Island Road
Rapid Transit Committee
Williamsburg
Emancipator
Arctic City
Mr. Roosevelt
Kansas
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