Wheeler Peckham Dies in His 80 Broadway Office
Wheeler Hazard Peckham notable New York lawyer and brother of U S Supreme Court Justice Rufus W Peckham died in his office at 80 Broadway after a stroke induced by a long illness He had long been active in reform movements and politics including Tilden and Conor campaigns and served as District Attorney of New York County under Cleveland His death follows a daylong illness after traveling from Morristown New Jersey to New York City
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United States Supreme Court
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Morristown
N. J
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Hoboken
Daly
Equitable Life Society
Ren. York
Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Ville de Havre
Ocean
Court of Appeals
Albany
Union College
Albany Law School
Young Peckham
St. Paul
Miller, Stoutenburgh & Peckham
Peckham, Miller & King
Tilden
Charles
Q’conor
Tweed Ring
Tammany
Pecknam
John Kelly
Kelly
Democratic Party
Gov. Robinson
New York County
Grover Cleveland
Warner Miller
David B. Hill
People’s Municipal League
Maynard
Justice Blatchford
Supreme Court
Cleveland
Edward Murphy, Jr
Senate
William B. Hornblower
Hill
Murphy
Rufus William Stice
Justice Peckham
Io Court of Appeals
Mr. Peckham
John E. Parsons
Everett P. Wheeler
George Macculloch Miller
Mr. Frecknam Chove
Index to Departments and Page Citations
Index lists sections such as Amusements Arrivals of Out of Town Buyers and Society with page numbers including Courts and Weather. It notes Marine Intelligence New Corporations Real Estate Yesterday's Fires and United Service across pages 4 9 10 13 14 15.
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Commercial World
Marine Intelligence
Society
United Service
Weather Report
Beef Trust Cases See Subpoenas For Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Officials
Chicago September 27 Max Sulzberger vice president of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company and E B Fish a traffic official were subpoenaed as government witnesses in the Beef Trust cases against Armour Co and others Two other employees were subpoenaed Officials of Schwarzschild & Sulzberger previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to obtain railroad rebates and were fined about 25000 Attorney Weissenbach denied the firm is turning State s evidence and said witnesses will appear under protest George L Foffin Hammond Co stock yards manager was also subpoenaed today.
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Chicago
Max Sulzberger
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Packing Company
E. B. Fish
Beef Trust
Armour & Co
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Company
Weissenbach
W.nesses
George L
Diphtheria Outbreak Delays Naval Academy Leave
At Annapolis the Naval Academy extends leave for four classes due to a diphtheria outbreak. Bancroft Hall will be fumigated. Nine full cases and twelve with partial symptoms. five typhoid cases. Football candidates will practice away from buildings, housed at a city hotel.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Bancroft Hall
Prac
Midshipman
Republicans quit fusion call off as City race set
Republican district leaders at a hurried conference declare a straight Republican ticket will be nominated citywide. Fusion plans are dropped and the Citizens Union remarks hint at no campaign by them. Party leaders foresee Mayor McClellan's re election as fusion unravels.
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Republican Club
Fifth Avenue
Max F. Shmson
Municipal Ownership League
League
Fusion
McClellan
John Ford
Ord
M. Linn Bruce
Louis Stern
Job E. Hedges
Thomas L. Hamilton
Manhattan
Charles A. Schieren
Richard Young
William Berri
Brooklyn
George Cromwell
Richmond
Citizens’ Union
Mr. Jerome
Jerome
Republican Party
City of
New York
Jlr
Rpublicans
Conferrees
New York County
Tammany Hall
Citizens
Special weekend rail fares to Atlantic City from New York and nearby cities
The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell special round trip tickets to Atlantic City every Saturday in September from New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Newark. Fares include two days of board at $10.00 or $12.00 depending on hotel. See ticket agents for details.
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Atlantic City
New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Newark
Pennsylvania Railroad
Explosive Action Planned Against British Steamer Chatham
News from Port Said reports the British steamer Chatham, sunk in the Suez Canal after catching fire, will be exploded at 9 am to destroy remaining explosives aboard. Nearly ninety tons of dynamite and gelatine explosive are on board, with traffic in the canal expected to halt for days.
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Port Said
Chatham
Cairo
Destructive Fire Devastates Colon Buildings
A massive blaze in Colon on Bolivar Street destroyed the Phoenix Hotel and several liquor shops and tenement houses. Fire damaged the Post Office and Panama Banking Company with only limited insurance coverage. government records and mail were largely lost. Estimated losses run to about 75000 dollars.
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Colon
Bolivar Street
Phoenix Hotel
Bottle Alley
Boliver Street
Cartagena Street
Panama Banking Company
Panama Railroad
Brooklyn Boy Antonio Marcandina Kidnapped
Six year old Antonio Marcandina of 556 Seventeenth Street Brooklyn vanished at 12 30 Sunday afternoon. Parents report threats demanding money and add several Italians were seen near the home. A ransom note promised return in a box if $500 is paid. Police and detectives monitor the case.
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Antonio Marcandina
Seventeenth Street
Brooklyn
Col
Michael J. Cady
Carson
Fourth Avenue
Little Antonio
Tony Muanino
Chicago Street Cars Offer Led By City Railway Counsel
General Counsel E. R. Bliss presented a traction plan to the Chicago Council Committee proposing a city buyout of street railways with a cash compensation around 28.35 million to 34.76 million over twenty years depending on traffic growth. The ordinance would allow earlier city ownership by paying current physical value plus an arbitrated value for unexpired franchise portions.
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New York Times
Chicago
E. R. Bliss
City Railway Company
Col. Bliss
Riots in Budapest injure dozens amid clashes
Rioters unaffiliated with the Coalition clashed with Socialists and students outside the Royal Hotel in Budapest. Police and citizens halted actions as knives and stones flew, injuring between forty and fifty people, with eight seriously hurt. Demonstrations continued into the night, but calm returned before 10 o clock.
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Budapest
Royal Hotel
Independence Club
Coalition
Hungary
Coalitionists
Austria
Vienna
Minnie Lee Indicted for Blackmail in Herrick Case
Cuyahoga County Grand Jury indicts Minnie Lee also known as Ellen Iber of Chicago for attempting blackmail Gov Herrick. One indictment cites verbal blackmail and the other writing. Chicago police pursue Marie Ivers Lawrence alias Minnie Lee with relatives denying knowledge of her whereabouts.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Minnie Lee
Ellen Iber
Chicago
Herrick
Marie. Ivers Lawrence
Guy Warren
One Night to Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited
The ad touts a 964 mile overnight run from New York to Chicago on the Twentieth Century Limited of the New York Central Lines. Leaves New York at 3 30 P M arrives Chicago 8 30 A M for a total journey of 18 hours. It claims to be the fastest long distance ride in the world.
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Chicago
Twentieth Century Limited
New York Central
New York
Ady
Saloon Keeper Subpoenaed in Jefferson Market Court
Edgar Sterck a saloon keeper at 54 West Eighth Street faces subpoenas for Police Commissioner McAdoo Inspector Hogan and Acting Captain Burke after Burke's men arrested Sterck and a bartender despite a Supreme Court injunction blocking excise and police interference. White Mountains Autumnal Excursions tickets on sale Sept 15 to Oct 7 inquire N B H & H R R Agents.
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West Eighth Street
Pool
Jefferson Market Court
McAdoo
Hogan
Burke
Sterck
Supreme Court
White Mountains
N. BH
Speaker Nixon Illness Update in Jamestown
The illness of Speaker S. Fred Nixon worsened this day with lung infection and high fever. He remains fully conscious but very weak and unable to talk. Fever fluctuated through the day with a slight drop in the forenoon.
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New York Times
Jamestown
N. Y
S. Fred Nixon
Nixon
Mrs Earle Grieves as Husband Buried in Jamaica
Mrs Deodata Earle the wife of Prof Mortimer Lamson Earle lies dying from typhoid fever contracted at sea aboard the Cretic after returning from Naples. The professor nursed her before his death and will be buried today in Jamaica L I.
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Deodata Earle
Mortimer Lamson Earle
West Twenty Second Street
Naples
Earle
Prof. Earle
Jamaica
L. I
British want our goods for Woolwich Arsenal plants
The British Admiralty and War Office request large quantities of American equipment for Portsmouth dockyards and Woolwich Arsenal. Buffalo Forge won a contract for seven heating and ventilating plants with over fifty heaters. American Gas Furnace will supply furnaces for annealing tempering and hardening projectiles at Woolwich. Westinghouse to install electrical lighting equipment at Woolwich Arsenal.
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British
Admiralty
War Office
England
Buffalo Forge Company
Portsmouth
American Gas Furnace Company
British Arsenal
Woolwich
Westinghouse
Woolwich Arsenal
Lawn fete profits aid Newport tuberculosis society
The Rough Point lawn fete at Frederick W. Vanderbilt's Newport home raised 16,476 dollars for the Newport Society for the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis. Of that, 2,106 dollars from Mrs. Perry's Booth was set aside for her specific tasks. The society now has 17,749.54 dollars for its current year’s work plus last year’s balance.
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New York Times
Newport
R. I
Rough Point
Frederick W. Vanderbilt
Newport Society For
Marsden J. Perry
Meeting on school segregation sparks protest in Jamaica
Residents of Talford Lawn Jamaica S 1 plan to petition authorities after a meeting to decide if white children can attend a different school than No 48 where both races study. No 48 was once the colored school called the nigger school under Principal Dilldine on South Street near Sutphin Place.
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Talford Lawn
Jamaica
S. 1
No. 48
Dilldine
South Street
Sutphin Place
Runaway Horses Endanger Women in City Streets
A fire tender’s runaway team spooked two truck horses owned by H. Goodwin at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-second Street. Goodwin was thrown, women cried out, and police intervened near the Tenderloin Station. One horse died after hitting a pillar. the other was captured after a street stampede. Goodwin suffered minor injuries.
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H. Goodwin
Sixth Avenue
Fifty-second Street
Thirtieth Street
Ninth Avenue
Goodwin
Broadway
Allan Line Suspends Glasgow to New York Service
The Allan Line will suspend its Glasgow to New York service after the Numidian sails tomorrow due to expiring New York pier leases and inability to renew. The Boston service will be improved while managers seek to resume the New York route. Radcliffe Baldwin cites high pier rates and city policy as main causes.
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London
Allan Line
Glasgow
Radcliffe Baldwin
Austin Baldwin & Co
New York
Boston
Eleven New York tile firm heads surrender on contract labor charges
Charles E. Lawton Arthur T Mart J W Lantry Elmer Alexander Bernard Traitel Charles J Bogert Edwin C Cur rier Charles Sirrine Charles EB Ensign Julius Schloss and Charles Bosworth surrendered themselves yesterday and furnished 2500 dollars each for examination on Tuesday next in the contract labor law case.
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Charles E. Lawton
Arthur T. Mart
J. W. Lantry
Elmer Alexander
Bernard Traitel
Charles J. Bogert
Edwin C. Currier
Charles Sirrine
Charles EB. Ensign
Julius Schloss
Charles Bosworth
New York
18 Hours to Chicago Pennsy Special Schedule Ad
The Pennsylvania Special train runs daily from New York at 3 55 PM arriving Chicago at 8 55 AM and departs Chicago at 2 45 PM reaching New York at 9 45 AM. New equipment and rock ballast roadbed feature advertised.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York
Syndicate Profits Tied to Equitable Trust Funds Revealed
Insurance investigators led by Counsel Hughes expose unbooked syndicate profits linked to the Equitable Life Society. The George H. Squire Trustee account shows transfers to cover loans and hidden profits across multiple syndicates including St Louis San Francisco 1895 and Union Pacific Convertible Bond deals.
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Charles E. Hughes
George H. Squire
Equitable Life
Morton
Henry Rogers Winthrop
Equitable
New York Life
Hanover Bank
St. Louis
San
Iron Mountain
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