Cropsy Ex-Police Chief Sharpens Attack on Gaynor
James C. Cropsey former Police Commissioner and Kings County DA testified before the Aldermanic Police Investigating Committee detailing his resignation in May citing Mayor Gaynor and the Civil Service process. He insisted his actions aligned with conscience and criticized the mayor’s appointment method. Waldo, Creelman, and the Civil Service Commission disputed who bore responsibility for patrolman appointments. The investigation continued with Buckner pressing for accountability on the Doyle case.
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James C. Cropsey
Kings County
Aldermanic Police Investigating Committee
Gaynor
Mr. Cropsey
Cropsey
James Creelman
Municipal Civil Service Commission
Gayfnor
Kings
Rhinelander Waldo
Emory R. Buckner
Creelman
Waldo
Civil Service Commission
Buckner
Mr. Buckner
Patrick Doyle
Mr. Waldo
Doyle
Electric sleep by current touted by German physician
Berlin reports Dr. Nagelschmidt has devised an electric current to induce sleep by stimulating the brain base. Animal tests show quick return to consciousness and normality, with claims of pain elimination during electrified states and tolerance for surgical incisions.
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Marcon
New York Times
Berlin
Nagelschmidt
Pope Banishes Modernist Scholar in Vatican Campaign
A Milan telegram reports Pope Pius X intensified his anti Modernist campaign by ordering the banishment from Italy of Padre Giovanni Semeria of Genoa. Semeria, a famed pulpit orator beloved at court and by Queen Margherita, led the Barnabite College in Genoa. His removal to Brussels followed Genoa’s archbishopric vacancy and conservative Archbishop-elect Mgr Caron’s demand.
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NEW York Times
London
Daily Chronicle
Milan
Italy
Giovanni Semeria
Genoa
Margherita
Mer
Caron
Padre Semeria
Brussels
Gems missing from Miss Wormser in Deal Beach case
Detectives traced a burglary at Miss Gwen Wormser’s country home in Deal Beach New Jersey where several thousand dollars in jewelry vanished from her sleeping chamber. A vine ascent through a screened window allowed entry. two others in the house were in bed. The thief left the screen on a hedge and took items including watches rings pins and earrings.
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Gwendolin Wormser
Roseld
Deal Beach
N. J
Miss Wormser
Maurice S. Wormser
Florine Ranger Wormser
Argue With Silk Stockings Silk Stocking Club Planned
The Woman's Department of the National Republican Committee plans a silk stocking club to prove Republican frugality. A display of silk hosiery will precede memberships open to women who send their names to the Times Building. The event promises many colors and price ranges including ratine samples from 60 cents to 8.75.
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Woman’s Department
The
National Republican Committee
Mary Francis
Democratic Chamber of Women
Wilson Chamber of Horrors
Union Square
Silk Stocking Club
Woman's Department
Times
Banks End Chinese Loan Talks as China Refuses Oversight
American bankers led by J. P. Morgan Kuhn Loeb First National Bank and National City Bank announce the 50 million dollar loan offer to China ends the planned 300 million dollar mobilization. China will fund reforms and arrears but rejects foreign supervision and outside borrowing ban, with State Department and Taft administration cited. The statement notes groups from Britain Germany France America Russia and Japan sought to finance China under safeguards, and that negotiations may reopen if China cannot obtain funds through other means.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
First National Bank
National City Bank
China
A. Wendell Jackson
Charles Birch Crisp
United States
International Syndicate
Sixpower Group
State Department
Washington
Knox
Taft
H. P. Davison
Peking
Maritime Customs Organization
Customs
Foree
London
High Cost of Living Interview in The Times
In an exclusive interview Roger W. Babson, renowned statistician, questions John Hays Hammond about a critical public issue of the day. The discussion centers on economic pressures and mining industry insights.
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Roger W. Babson
TIMES
Escaped Murderer Caught in Bronx Flat
A murderer who fled is recaptured in a Bronx flat after trailing his steps. Police tracked the suspect to a residence and secured him without further incident. The arrest closes a high profile escape case and prompts renewed manhunt precautions.
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Bronx
Reynolds Fosbrey
Fosbrey
Canada
Fox Street
Bell
Dougherty
Riley and
Wyne
O'Meara
Flynn
Connolly
Edward Davis
Riley
Meyer Brown
Dominick Riley
Commissioner Dougherty
Wilson Wins In New Jersey Primaries Defeating Smith
Gov. Woodrow Wilson scores a decisive victory as ex Senator James Smith Jr. loses Newark Essex County power base. Judge William Hughes leads in many counties with strong Wilson support while six Newark policemen are arrested for voter intimidation.
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Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
James Smith, Jr
Newark
Essex County
Gov. Wilson
Hughes Leads Smith for Democratic Senate Nomination in New Jersey
Reports from across New Jersey at midnight show Judge William Hughes of Passaic leading former Senator James Smith Jr. for the Democratic nomination for U S Senate by about three to one. Newark wards reportedly favored Hughes 12 to 1 in eight wards.
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Burns
Newark
James Ball
Thomas Fahey
Matthew Early
Richard Dolan
Fred Heller
Noble Dearing
Hudson County
George L. Record
New Idea
Hamill
Smith
Hughes
Atlantic County
Cumberland County
Ocean County
Gloucester County
Monmouth County
Bergen County
Hackensack
Camden County
Philadelphia
New York Times
Trenton
N.J
United States
James Smith, Jr
William Hughes
Passaic
Gariner Appears To Win Home County Big Majority
The New York Times reports Congressman John J. Gariner seems to carry his home county by a large majority over Isaac T. Nichols and Griffith W. Lewis of Cumberland and Burlington Counties. Lewis won in the Highth Precinct of his home ward.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
John J. Gar Iner
Senate
Isaac T. Nichols
Griffith W. Lewis
Cumberland
Burlington
Lewis
Foss Wins Democratic Nomination in Massachusetts Primary
Gov. Eugene N. Foss led by more than 16,000 votes over Joseph C. Pelletier in preliminary returns from three-fifths of the state including Boston. In the Republican contest, Joseph Walker trailed Everett Benton in early returns, while Allen T. Treadway led Herbert Parsons in the First District.
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Boston
Eugene N. Foss
Joseph C. Pelletier
Suffolk County
Joseph Walker
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Everett C. Benton
Governor's Council
Gov. Foss
Pelletier
Walker
Allen T. Treadway
Stockbridge
Herbert C. Parsons
Greenfield
Edward M. Lewis
Amherst
Richard J. Morrisey
Westfield
William A. Davenport
John W. Weeks
Newton
Richard H. Long
Framingham
Joseph Welsh
Falmouth
William Nye
Bourne
William J. Bullock
New Bedford
Mayor Harrison Brings In Largest Bull Moose Trophy
Chicago Mayor Carter H. Harrison, via telegrams, shot the largest bull moose ever killed in the Parc Quebec region. The moose was spotted on Lake Marie, 140 miles north of Quebec City. Friends plan to present the trophy to Progressive Party headquarters, with Democratic leaders noting bipartisan support for both Republican wings.
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Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Parie Quebec
Lake Marie
Quebec
Progressive Party
McGann
Burlington Railhead Chief Snowbound in Wyoming Cabin
G W Holdrege general manager of the Burlington Railroad is snowbound in a Dome Lake cabin near the Big Horn Mountains summit forty miles from Sheridan Wyoming. Four feet of snow blankets the area and more falls today trapping him for a week with no clear escape. His summer cabin on the lake is high above sea level and well provisioned to endure the isolation.
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New York Times
Sheridan
Wyoming
G. W. Holdrege
Burlington Railroad
Dome Lake
Big Horn Mountains
Pearl finds man vows to share jewel with wife
Capt. William Odell a harbor policeman and fisherman in New Rochelle finds a large pearl at Neptune Island after selling clams. The jeweler says the gem is worth 75 dollars but Odell refuses to sell and plans to make a ring for his wife Clara, praising her help over forty years of digging clams.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
William Odell
Neptune Islan
Long Island Sound
Pea Island
Odell
Clara
Prodigal Son Forgiven as Father Settles Fine
Harold F. Hoops, son of a wealthy Chicago manufacturer, was released from the city workhouse after his father paid the remaining fines with a telling note. The father forgave past misdeeds and offered honest work to begin anew, stating the past is forgiven if he proves himself. Hoops paid the fine, then went to his father's office by streetcar.
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Chicago
Harold F. Hoops
Hoops
May Withdraw Militia in Kanawha District Amid Strike
Gov. William F. Glasscock and military commanders opened talks on reducing State soldiers in the martial law district of Kanawha County where a miners strike is active. A militia company was attacked near Dryanch with over fifty shots fired. no injuries reported. A private detective agency challenged the military commission's sentences seeking habeas corpus, centering on Williams Tucker of Virginia, a mine guard jailed for weapons without a license and non resident police duty.
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Charleston
West Va
William F. Glasscock
Kanawha County
Dryanch
Military Commission
Supreme Court of Appeals of
West Virginia
Ww. Y. Tucker
Virginia
Root Has Grip on Convention and Hedges Boom Strongest
The convention scene centers on a dominant coalition as roots of influence secure control while a rival edges ahead with a rising boom. A dark horse candidate could emerge after a heated floor clash, reshaping the contest dynamics.
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Root
Dark Horse Emerges In New York State GOP Contest
Saratoga N Y Sept 24 delegates gather on eve of the Republican State Convention amid gloom and doubt. With a dozen or more gubernatorial candidates the field narrows to a dark horse as Job E Hedges James W Wadsworth and William S Bennet vie for ballots. Oscar S Straus faces a slim, scattered backing while the Newcomb Straus stream shows limited early strength.
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New York Times
Saratoga
N. Y
Dark Horse
Job E. Hedges
New York
James W. Wadsworth
Livingston
Assembly
William 8. Bennet
Hedges
New York City
William Barnes, Jr
Wadsworth
Barnes
Mr. Hedges
Bennet
John B. Rose
Orange
Straus
Oscar
Josiah T. Newcomb
Newcomb
Kings
Charles
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Mr. Right
Passaic County
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Camden
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Hoboken
H. Otto Wittpenn
Robert Davis
Sheriff Wedin
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Foss
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