Wife's Strange Death Sparks Narrow Culprit Case
Frederick E. Ryan of Peekskill faced arrest after his wife's sudden death on Thursday morning. The scene at the family home and a neighbor's account of quarrel and scuffle prompted coroner and doctors to seek a cause, with autopsy noting no disease but signs of suffocation or asphyxiation. The couple married March 17 at Ossining and moved to Peekskill April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick E. Ryan
Main Street
Peekskill
Ryan
Florence Pinkerton
Mount Vernon
Ossining
Lyon
Selleck
William Teets
Ryans
Teets
House Fire at Halsey Street Targeted Oil Soak
A late night blaze at a furnished double house at 3 Halsé¢y Street Park sought to burn rooms on the second floor. Four beds soaked in oil were found burning. occupants on the ground floor slept through. Harry Dunbar, staying on the third floor, was arrested on suspicion as Mrs Emma Dodge ran the house. Damage was slight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zi Halsé¢y Street
Park
Harry Dunbar
Dunbar
Emma Dodge
Farmers Union To Hold Cotton Remnant In 1997 Harvest
Atlanta April 12 President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association says in a public statement that the association and the Farmers Union have completed arrangements to hold the remnant of the 1997 cotton crop. Farmers Union cotton companies in Tennessee Arkansas Mississippi and Alabama have arranged with bankers to finance every base man held in Farmers Union warehouses. Similar arrangements are being made for cotton held by Southern Cotton Association members through central headquarters state divisions and other points. Jordan stresses the need to cut cotton acreage to avert a serious crisis next winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Harvie Jordan
Southern Cotton Association
Farmers’ Union
Tennessee
Arkansas
Mississippi
Alabama
Jordan
Workers consider weeklong strike over pay and overtime at Bradley Co
Engineers, rock drillers, ironworkers and pipe carkers on the loop between Williamsburg and Brooklyn bridges under Mott street may strike this week against Bradley Construction Company over a breached agreement with the House Movers Union. Francis Creamer said workers are paid weekly but receive fortnightly wages, plus overtime rate disputes. A committee will meet firm representatives tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamsburg
Brooklyn
Mott Street
Bradley Construction Company
House Bharers and Movers
Francis Creamer
Geregate
Union Carpenter Delegate Demands at Baseball Grounds
A Brotherhood of Carpenters delegate to the Central Federated Union complains non union carpenters work at the American League grounds and directs union fans to avoid the grounds until union labor is hired. He says he ordered a strike after failing to identify the responsible party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Central Federated Union
Tugs Banke Crew Rescued From Ice Jam On Lake Erie
Dunkirk reports the Banke fishing tug crew saved after a Friday ice jam ordeal on Lake Erie. Desmond and Viola remain trapped as relief parties cross the ice with food. The tug’s wheel was crippled and a hull hole found during the struggle to stay alive. Coal for several days is aboard, awaiting warmer weather or wind to free the ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunkirk
Banke
Lake Erie
Desmond
Viola
Madman for Captain. Speer recounts yacht tragedy off Florida
Christopher A. Speer of Belle Harbor Yacht Club arrived from Florida with details of the March 28 voyage aboard the auxiliary yawl Granger. Captain Halfdan F. Lund, an Atlantic Coast master, perished when a squall hurled him overboard as Speer fought to control the sinking craft and reach New River Inlet after a night adrift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somerville
N. J
Christopher A. Speer
Belle Harbor Yacht Club
Jamaica Bay
Long Island
Florida
Halfdan F. Lund
Speer
Miami
Fla
Yaw
Mr. Speer
Captain Lund
New River Inlet
Passover Food Gift Helps East Side 2500 Families
The East Side Poor Federation along with Isidore Richter and a committee distributed a week’s Passover food to 2500 East Side families. Rations included matzoths, potatoes, sugar, tea, wine, eggs, apples, and religious Hebrew books. Distribution occurred at 416 Grand Street with 1100 families aided Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Grand Street
Richter
Samuel Wittenberg
Abraham Hochman
Nathan Greenberg
Moses Abrahams
Big Tim" Sullivan
Tom” Keley
John F. Ahearn
Charity Organization Society
A. P. Shalet
C F U Tangled Over Bomb
Socialists and non socialists remained silent as a preamble and resolution blaming police for breaking up an unemployed demonstration at Union Square on March 28 were submitted for endorsement by Carpenters Union No. 208. The Central Federated Union denied any link to the march and refused to revisit the issue. The preamble accuses police of brutal action against a peaceful gathering and calls for court action against those who disrupted law and order. The resolutions were sent to the executive committee for review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Square
Carpenters’ Union No. 208
Central Federated Union
Apartment House Owner Held In Disorderly Conduct Case
Robert Lyons owner of an apartment at 250 Riverside Drive was arrested at West 68th Street Police Station after posting bail for William Huneke, janitor. Williams tenant alleges Lyons and the janitor entered his apartment and acted disorderly over a dispute about a water pipe. Lyons bailed out by wife then bailed out the janitor. Police gave limited charge details citing disorderly conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lyons
Riverside Drive
West 68Th Street
William Huneke
John M. Williams
Lyons
Leutenant
West Side
Postmaster shot during burglary at Sasafras post office
In clkton Maryland on April 12 postmaster Morris of Sas S afras Ceri] County was shot in the leg and beaten by three masked burglars who forced his wife to hand over 9 dollars after breaking into the post office and stealing stamps. The thieves fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clkton
Morris
Sassafras
Ceri
Parlor Socialist Talk Debates India and New Zealand
At the Church of the Ascension parish house a Socialist discussion compared British rule in India with democracy in New Zealand. Speakers including Charles Johnston and Charles Edward Russell criticized India’s poverty, military costs, and governance, while envisioning a New Zealand style utopia with universal woman suffrage and wealth moderation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Ascension
7Th Street
India
New Zealand
Alexander I. Irvine
Charles Johnston
India Civil Service
Mr. Johnston
Charles Edward Russell
Mr. Russell
Russell
Eutopia
Mo Russell
Irvine
Socialist Party
Easter Hat Parade at Coney Island Opens Season
Fifty thousand people crowded Surf avenue at Coney Island for an Easter finery display with no trouble reported by Inspector Harkins. Crowds lined Surf avenue as amusement halls plan to expand space without hurting profits. Steeplechase Park aims to open soon with May preparations and Coney Island to formally start the season as Jenkins Trust Company sets to open midweek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Surf Avenue
Coney Island
Inspector Harkins
Brooklyn
Steeplechase Park
Jenkins Trust Company
Eleven Injured In Trolley Crash Near Crownsville
A head on collision between two Washington Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway cars east of Crownsville injured eleven people, none seriously. Both fronts were damaged, one motorman jumped, the other stayed at his post, and neither car left the track. Speed was low, preventing a larger disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway
Crownsville
Annapolis
Detectives Halt Sunday Game Between Alaska and Dover Clubs
In Staten Island Alaska Baseball Club faced Dover Athletic Club of New Jersey before about six hundred fans at Alaska Park West Brighton. Detectives from Inspector Hogan's squad stopped the game after five innings with a 1 to 9 score for Dover and four players arrested including William Langon John Daley Cornelius Sullivan and Frank Sullivan. Bail was posted at West Brighton police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska Park
West Brighton
Staten Island
Alaska Baseball Club
Dover Athletic Club
New Jersey
Hogan
Alaska
Wiliam Langon
John Daley
Cornelius Sullivan
Frank Sullivan
Dovers
Runaway Horse Driver Fractures Head After Public Rescue
Rafael Gorthace of East 106th Street wrestled a runaway cab horse on 107th Street near Second Avenue. He steered it into a plate glass window at 485 East 197th Street, but fractured his skull and was taken to Harlem Hospital in serious condition. Cornelius Woods, the driver, was arrested. the horse and cab belonged to Matthew Smith of East onth Street. Stones thrown by boys sparked the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rafael Gorthace
106Th Street
107Th Street
Second Avenue
Gorthace
East 197Th Street
Harlem Hospital
Matthew Smith
No. 245 East Onth Street
Cornelius Woods
Invention makes X ray harmless by Cornell tube
Professor Albert C. Gersey of Cornell Medical College unveils the Cornell tube a lead glass device that prevents burning during X ray therapy and directs radiation through a precise mint glass window over the lesion. Demonstrations before physicians and medical society representatives included patient testimony of painless treatment and no burns in 5000 uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Albert C. Gersey
Cornell Medical College
Geyser
Cornell College
Drowning of David Labelle in Troy stadion incident
David Labelle, 42, of Watervliet, drowned in Troy today when his steam yacht left winter quarters and shed into a rowboat that overturned. He could not swim and was unable to reach safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
David Labelle
Watervilet
Stadion
Labelle
Theatre Services Spark New Church Mission Meeting
A meeting at the Belasco Theatre of the New York Federation of Churches explored a theatre based Sunday service initiative led by Rev. Dr. William Carter of Madison Avenue Reformed Church. Attendees included several pastors from major denominations and Federation president Dr. Walter Laidlaw. Carter praised ongoing success, noted funding was available, and urged an extended, centrally located movement. He plans a year’s leave of absence for health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belasco Theatre
New York Federation of Churches
William Carter
Madison Avenue Reformed Church
James H. Hoadley
Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church
F. M. Goodchild
Central Baptist Church
West 42d Street
G. W. Downs
Eighteenth Street
Walter Laidlaw
Federation
Carter
Laidlaw
Free Synagogue Celebrates First Annual Meeting
The Free Synagogue on List Street held its inaugural meeting and anniversary celebration yesterday. Acting chairman Henry Morgenthau Adolph Lewisohn and Rev Dr Stephen Wise addressed the attendees alongside Rabbi Sydney E Goldstein and Eugene H Lehman. Officers were named for the coming year and finances discussed. The East Side and poor relief programs ran last year with a $12,000 budget. Wise urged a free pulpit press and platform and spoke on Sabbath observance amid modern life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Synagogue
List Street
Henry Morgenthau
Adolph Lewisohn
Stephen 8. Wise
Sydney E. Goldstein
Eugene H. Lehman
East Side
Wise
Dr. Wise
Palestine
Was Jesus a Socialist Says Calvary Baptist Lecture
The Rev Dr Robert S MacArthur told a Bible School class that Jesus had no views on property ownership and viewed poverty as a blessing not an evil. He traced socialism from ancient times to Karl Marx, rejected anarchist excess, and urged that Christian socialism is the true socialism of Christ. Christ, in the narrow sense, was not an advocate of public ownership of property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bible School of Calvary Baptist Church
Jesus
Robert S. MacArthur
Greece
Karl Marx
Union Square
Robert Hunter
Hunter
Christ
Temple Cornerstone Laid by Ansche Chesed Hebrews
Two thousand Hebrews attended the cornerstone ceremony for the new temple of Ansche Chesed at 14th street Seventh Avenue and Nicholas Lane. Isidor Straus officiated as Rev. Gustav N. Hausmann led a prayer. Mayer Goodfriend introduced speaker N. Taylor Phillips who noted Harlem’s Hebrew population at 150000. The brick three story Renaissance style temple will cost about a quarter of a million dollars and cover 130 by 140 feet. America was sung by the crowd with the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band at ceremony’s end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregation of Ansche Chesed
14Th Street
Seventh and
St. Nicholas Avenues
Seventh Avenue East Drive
America
Hebrew Orphan Asylum
Isidor Straus
Gustav N. Hausmann
Mayer Goodfriend
N. Taylor Phillips
Harlem
City figure denies bias in crime, backs temple spirit
Mr. Phillips rejected claims that his race swelled the city’s crime class but endorsed the conservative ethos of the temple. The remark frames a political stance amid community concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillips
Temple
Priest After Jacob Riis Warning For Catholic Parish
Father James B. Curry of St. James's Church urged parishioners to keep children away from Settlement houses and charity workers, linking them to pauperism and grafters. He criticized Settlement activities near Henry Street, questioning authority and motives behind the social reformers who target Catholic children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Curry
St. James's
James Street
Jacob A. Riis
Henry Street
Father Curry
East Side
Charities
Ninety two join at Central Presbyterian Brooklyn service
At the communion service held at Central Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn Rev. Dr. J. F. Carson pastor, ninety two new members were added yesterday morning. Forty seven were received on confession or by letter from other churches, bringing total active membership to 2,158, not counting branch or mission churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Presbyterian Church
Jefferson and Marcy Avenue
Brooklyn
J. F. Carson
Arch
Probate Notice in New York Surrogate Court
The People of New York invite heirs and named parties to appear before the Surrogate’s Court of New York County on May 6, 1908 to probate the last will and two codicils of Martha T. Fiske Collard, late of Newport Rhode Island. Citations include George W. Collord and others, with guardians for underage respondents. Judge Abner C. Thomas oversees the proceedings. clerk Daniel J. Dowdney and attorney Jabish Holmes listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF
New York
God
Mary Leavitt
Nina Maguay
George Maguay
Catherine D. L. Parsons
James Ewing Cooley Leavitt
Robert Walter Leavitt
James B. C. Leavitt
Leavitt Cooley Parsons
Mary C. Parsons
George Ayers Parsons
Louisa Magnay Villiers Legh
Katharine Alice Villiers
Constance Barbara Villiers
George John Theodore Hyde Villiers
Peter Legh
James E. Cooley
City of
County of
Hall of Records
Wiliam W. Appleton
Daniel Appleton
Avner
L. S
C. Thomas
George W. Collard
Anna E. Smith
Cecelia F. Lincoln
Fanny A. Smith
Alice Smith
Martha Therese Smith
Linda K. Winsor
Mary Babcock
Edward P. Kennard
Frederick H. Kennard
Margaret Buckley
Hubert Buckley
Wilfred Buckley
Alwyne Buckley
Martha T. Fiske Collord
Central Trust Company of
George W. Collord
Newport
R. J
William P. Dixon
City of New York
County of New York
Martha T. Fiske Collard
Rhode Island
Abner
County
Daniel J. Dowdney
Surrogate’s Court
Jabish Holmes
Liberty Street
New York City
Eliza
Puniop
Samuel H. Dunlop
Frank Duniop
John Franklin Dunlop
Anna Dunlop
Harry R. Dunlop
Edward D. Dunlop
George H. Dunlop
Dane S Dunlop
William W. Dunlop
Charles M. Dunlop
Edward E. Dunlop
Gertrude Dhawes
Agnes Dunlop
Helen D. Hutchinson
Marie Louise D. Taylor
Estelle Dunlop
Rachel E. Dissten
Robert W. Dunlop
Luelia ID. Kimball
Laban S. Major
Alma Sue Major
Hermon G. Conrad
Elizabeth Hriggs
Union Trust Company of New York
Frank H. June
Dunlop
Clark W. Dunlop
Hannah Dunlop Andrews
Samuel D. Dunlop
John R Dunlop
Herbert Frost
Elizabeth Frost
Thomas Surrogate
Charles Sumner
New Toes
Eliabeth
D. Butman
Arthur D. Butman
Per Harold R. Butman
Alice Butman
Skiddy Marden
Mariani Marden
Marden
Elanor Gay Marten
Hollan United States Trust Company
James Bitchett
James D. Gutman
Alice P. FE
S&s
Thomas
New Tork
Hanson
Mary A. Halloran
Jane PF Mier Beeste O'Byrne
Laura B. Ferguson
Elizeteth Holland
Margaret A. Kail
John F Byrne
Thomas Byrne
Dora Byrne
William Jy. Holland
Thomas J. Syme
Marion Byrne
Madeline N_ e
Thomas J. Byrne
Senate
James O’rourk
F Byrne
New
Xow
Dante
Surrogate
Upreme Court
Itton Bank of
Iham Silverson
Beckie Cohen
Alter Gottlie
Charles Reines
Bennett & Gompper Menestein
Michael J. Saltzer
Julius Lie J. Dowd
State Bank
Asmselp
FITCH
Mott & Plaintif
Postorifice Street
Borough of Manhattan
Mons
James Fitzgerald
Supreme Court
Manhattan
City of New
A York Supreme Court
New York County
Henry Phelps
New York Supreme Court
Dutchess County
John G. Butler
Joh A Delany
Stella M. Delany
John E Duffy
The
William J. Swain
Title Insurance Coun Y
Title Guarantees & Trust Company
Rail Street Exchange Building Association
Andrew Sheridan
Peter Reynolds
John P. East
Plain Ofice
Post Office
Broad Street
Boroush
William J. Swaim
J. Swain
Warley Platzek
State of New York
County Court House
Borough of
Also Mentioned on This Page
Newark
Farmers Union
TUG
Executive Committee
Brady
Williams
Chicago
20Th Century Limited
N. B
Columbus Avenue
West
125Th Street
Grand Central Station
Pulton St
Entral Lanes
L. F. Vosburgh
G.E.P.A
Broadway
N.Y
Madison
Coney
Dr. MacArthur
Cohen
Coward
James S. Coward
Greenwich St
N.Y. Sear Wanbef Street
Jacob Rus
MFG
Fifth Ave
Maiden Lane
Jacob A. Bils
Richmond Hil Island
Church
B. Akan & CO
34Th Street
35Th Street
St. Avenue
New Park
Dougherty
Olcott & Tenney
William St. Borough of
the Tribune
Regu
Dat
7Th
Ad Ave
Téth
Tech
Gilet St
Ist
Tremont Ave
Surress Court
Delany & ST. John
Attorn
Rector St
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!