Harris Says Capitol Furnishings Cost Massively
Frank G. Harris ex State Treasurer testified before the Capitol investigating commission that contracts for furnishings from 1902 to 1904 ran into millions. He admitted blind spending, mispricings, and lack of market inquiry, noting the architect and contractors collected large commissions. The hearing adjourned with no further testimony until next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Penn
Frank G. Harris
Clearfield
Capitol
Harris
Europe
Public Grounds and Buildings
Pennsylvania Construction Company
Capitol Park
William H. Berry
George F. Payne & Co
Joseph M. Huston
Huston
Lecagues
Uy’s
Sanderson
Striking Italians Besiege P&G Plant in Holland’s Hook
Patrolmen saved Arthur Haynes, construction superintendent at Procter and Gamble’s Holland’s Hook plant, from two hundred striking workers demanding he discharge Hungarians. Haynes refused and hired replacements. The Italians armed with revolvers and knives pressed their challenge, but he locked the office door and waited for police to intervene. No arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Haynes
Procter & Gamble
Holland's Hook
Haynes
Percy Janis Rumored to Die by Own Action on Transatlantic Voyage
Broadway buzz centers on Percy Janis brother of Elsie Janis who disappeared from the Atlantic Transport Amer Minneapolis bound for London. Mrs Josephine Janis says Percy was engaged to Eloise Steele and denies any quarrel. She cites stomach trouble and seasickness as possible causes and suspects the London death may be an accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Percy Janis
Elsie Janis
Amer
Minneapolis
London
Josephine Janis
Marie Antoinette
Eloise Steele
Miss Steele
Rescue at River Capsize In midstream incident
Frank Fuchs and his brother Anton capsized their boat on North River near Gansevoort Street while returning to Union Hill New Jersey from a fishing trip. Fireman Frankequa and mate Alfred Angus assisted, lifeboat rescue by the George B McClellan fireboat saved the brothers who were later taken home. Spectators crowded Gansevoort as rumors claimed two boats went down.
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Frank Fuchs
Anton
North River
West Point
West Shore
Gansevoort Street
Union Hill
N. J
Frankequa
Alfred Angus
Mary Patten
George B. McClellan
Requa
Angus
Gansevoort
Rev W G Herbert dies in Baltimore after brief illness
Baltimore April 18 The Reverend W G Herbert a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city died tonight from acute indigestion following a short illness He had been indisposed after meals and the cause and circumstances were detailed in local obituaries reflecting on his long service and standing in the church community
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
W. G. Herbert
Methana Episcopal Church
Carpet Cleansing T M Stewart Bris Av Pounded 198
Carpet cleaning ad for T M Stewart Bris Av offers service at 198 near Cheicca with telephone contacts 63 and 64 Cheicca. ad highlights rapid cleaning and local availability.
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T. M. Stewart
Quakes in Manila report no damage from shocks
Manila April 19 two severe earthquake shocks were felt this morning. No serious damage is reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
No Need For Big Stick In Ambassador Bryce Dinner Talk
Philadelphia April 18 James Bryce British Ambassador told Transatlantic Society of America that if America had remained a colony England, Roosevelt faced fewer world problems and would not need a big stick. He said slavery might have ended sooner, railroads fewer, and less conflict. Mrs Bryce, Lt Governor Murphy, Mayor Reyburn attended.
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Philadelphia
James Bryce
Transatlantic Society of America
America
England
Roosevelt
Bryce
United States
Edward
Murphy
Stuart
Reyburn
Bishop Mackay-Smith
Taft Leaves San Juan for Home on Mayflower
Secretary Taft and party sailed for home from San Juan on the Mayflower at noon, escorted by retiring Governor Beekman Winthrop and Mrs. Winthrop. Immense crowd bid farewell as trooops escorted them through streets. Taft praised Winthrop, returned from Guayama, spoke at Atena on island prosperity, avoided citizenship topics. Governor Winthrop gave a dinner for Taft and the Supreme Court.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Taft
Beekman Winthrop
Winthrop
Marjorie Ide
Guayama
Judge Munoz
Atena
Supreme Court
Victory for Baltimore and Ohio in rail case
In Clarksburg West Virginia Judge Nathan Goff dismissed six indictments against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The charges alleged violation of Interstate Commerce laws and car distribution discrimination favoring Fairmont and New York mine companies over Pittsburg Vein Coal and others. The judge ruled the counts failed to specify what the defendant was truly accused.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
United States Circuit Court
Nathan Goff
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Federal Grand Jury
Pittsburg Vein Coal Company
Fairmont Coal Company
New York Mine Company
Goff
Bar to Municipal Ownership in Chicago Transit Deal
Supreme Court decisions announced tonight include a ruling that the Mueller act is invalid. The act authorized Chicago to issue certificates totaling 75 million dollars to buy street railways, repaid from surplus earnings. Critics argued the indebtedness exceeded constitutional limits. supporters said certificates would lien the railway property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Supreme Court
Chicago
Fire Ruins Finch Stables At Clyde Resort
The bunga low stables and dog kennels of Potter Finch near Clyde, a Colorado summer resort, were burned early today. Loss estimated at 20000 dollars. Charles Lounsbery, guest and son of T C Lounsbery, seriously burned while trying to save five horses and twelve blooded Boston bull terriers.
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The
Tribune
Colorado Springs
Col
Potter Finch
New York
Clyde
Charles Lounsbery
T. C. Lounsbery
Finch
Schwab vows larger scope for Homestead training schools
Charles M. Schwab, in Pittsburg, pledged to expand the manual training schools he founded at Homestead beyond the Carnegie technical schools in size and scope. While attending the Carnegie Institute dedication he inspected those schools and then visited his own, promising to return on Founders Day May 23 to reveal plans and endowments.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Charles M. Schwab
Homestead
Carnegie Technical
Carnegie Institute
Schwab
Carnegie
Two Young Lovers Die by Their Own Hands in Virginia
Springwood Va April 18 Stewart C Gay nineteen and Miss Mabel Pendleton nineteen leaped from the suspension bridge over Jackson River at Clifton Forge and died. The couple had started for Washington to wed last night but were intercepted at Staunton and returned to Clifton Forge.
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Springwood
Stewart C. Gay
Mabel Pendleton
Jackson River
Clifton Forge
Washington
Staunton
Broadway Estate Sells in Landmark Deal for Million
The Ross estate sold the southwest Broadway corner at 46th Street for about 1 million dollars. The 12,864 square foot site fronts Broadway with 127.3 feet and 99.3 feet depth, adjoining the Astor Theatre. Buyers reportedly include a realty company with possible theatre plans and Ingram Brothers & Co as possible lessees. exact buyer names kept private.
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Broadway
West 40Th Street
46Th Street
Ross
Astor Theatre
45Th Street
Ingram Bros. & Co
George Ross
Churchill
West 46Th Street
Jennie W. Franck
Ingrem Brothers & Co
Buildings Department
47Th and
48Th Streets
Seventh Avenue
48Th Street
47Th Street
Thomas F. Murtha
Moritz B. Philipp
Murtha
Philipp
Bradford Lee Gilbert
Cars Crush Carriage on Broadway at 29th Street
Mrs. David B. Turner of 1045 Fifth Avenue narrowly escaped injury when a brougham she rode in was crushed between two Broadway cars at 29th street. The carriage failed, but the woman, driver Peter O’Hara, and the horses were uninjured. Traffic halted for about thirty minutes as wreckers cleared the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David B. Turner
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
29Th Street
Peter O'Hara
Big Strike at Odessa Paralyzes Harbor Trade
Disturbances in Odessa flare as Union of Russian People members attack noncompliant workers by the harbor. Two workers are killed and five wounded. No arrests. Laborers retaliate by striking, demanding disarmament of unionists. harbor exports halt as railroad workers join, crippling trade and causing heavy losses.
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Odessa
Union of Russian People
Suspect Arrested In Fraud Case In Yorkville Court
A middle aged man who claimed the alias Frank Russell, alias Vinton Murphy, was arraigned in Yorkville court after police say he obtained 4000 dollars from Alfred Seligman by pretending he could secure a large discount on an automobile. He gave address 118 West 23d Street.
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Vinton Murphy
Frank Russell
No. 118
West 23d Street
Yorkville Court
Alfred Seligman
Mr. Seligman
President Ro osevelt urged Elks to drop elk teeth charms
Springfield April 18 President Roosevelt asked the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks to discontinue wearing elk teeth charms. The grand lodge meets in Philadelphia in July to consider the action. Western residents fear elk extinction and appealed to the government to protect the species from buffalo fate.
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the Tribune
Springfield
Ohio
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Grand Lodge
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Government to Pay Campaign Funds Plan Considered
The President weighs a plan for Congress to fund national election campaigns with government money. He cites fundraising evils and seeks a strict accounting, with a bipartisan committee to apportion and audit funds. Details to be worked out before next annual message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thoune
Washington
Congress
Government Printing Office
Woman Held as Thief in Department Store Case
Mrs Nellie Zebley a fifty four year old guest at the Empire Hotel was held in eight dollar bail in Jefferson Market court on a shoplifting charge. Detectives Rose McCormack and D D Kash testified she took two corset covers and a silk night dress valued at fifty five dollars and had the items in her muff when arrested. Zebley pleaded guilty but a lawyer arranged an exam. She claimed her husband failed in Wall Street ten years ago for a million dollars and said they traveled recently to Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nellie Zebley
Empire Hotel
Jefferson Market Court
Sixth Avenue
Rose McCormack
D. D. Kash
James van Dyck Card
Columbus Avenue
Card
Worcester dental suit settled out of court
Settlement of the $2100 suit brought by Dr. Robert Eugene Payne of New York against Mrs. Pauline L. Taylor of Worcester was announced. Lawyers said the case would not be tried, terms to be filed soon. The dispute arose over Payne’s bill for dental work at the Waldorf Astoria last year, which the Taylors deemed exorbitant. Mrs. Taylor and her husband Willard S. Taylor are prominent Worcester, Providence and New York theatre and real estate owners.
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Tribune
Worcester
Mass
Robert Eugene Payne
New York
Pauline L. Taylor
Taylor
Dr. Payne
Superior Court
Scotch Collie Inherits Income In Odd Bequest
Mineola Long Island April 18 Miss Emily N Cook in a will drawn before death last June probated today left 5000 among 28 legatees including a Scotch Collie dog Ida Young cousin to manage the dog and 15 dollars monthly for its maintenance The dog reportedly saved her from a burglar attack.
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Mineola
Long Island
Emily N. Cook
Ida Young
Judge Rosalsky's Port Warden Adler Ill at Home
Judge Rosalsky announced Adler Port Warden of the 8th Assembly District is very ill at his home on Broome street. Adler, Republican leader and Rosalsky's campaign manager, is suffering from pneumonia.
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Judge Rosalsky
Charles Adler
Broome Street
Adler
Assembly
Delmas Declines Thaw Case Citing Lawyer Dignity
Delmas will not join Thaw's defense next trial and wrote the family he refuses. He argues Thaw wants lawyers on call as a valet, not legal partnership, and plans to stay in the city to practice. District Attorney investigates a juror being approached by a policeman. several figures to be questioned.
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Delphin M. Delmas
Thaw
Mr. Delmas
Delmas
California
Henry C. Brearley
Jerome
George Pfaff
Charles D. Newton
John S. Dennee
Criminal Courts
Broadway Central
Daniel O'Reilly
Hartridge & Peabody
Hartridge
O'Reilly
New Thaw Trial Bill Aims to Limit Insanity Narration Testimony
Albany April 18 Assemblyman Duell of Westchester introduced a bill to bar testimony describing a witness narration of facts given to the defendant in criminal trials where the defendant’s insanity is in issue unless the facts narrated are first proven. The measure targets testimony intended to show the narration could aggravate insanity.
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the Tribune
Albany
Assemblyman Duell
Westchester
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
High Chicago Officials Targeted in Civil Service Probe
The Civil Service Commission aims to gather evidence and remove at least twenty high officials accused of leading the levy of tribute on illegal resorts and their inmates for years. Commissioner Powell says subordinates won't be punished for orders from superiors, focusing on top officials. Early testimony included Captains O'Brien and Gibbons about resort protection, with proprietors of taxed resorts among future witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Chicago
Civil Service Commission
Powell
O'Brien
Gibbons
Wilmington postal clerk arrested in $10,000 theft
Edward A Nelson, 27, a railway mail clerk from Wilmington, confessed to stealing $9,400 from a mail pouch while transferring between Wilmington and Rocky Point. The money was buried at his home and recovered. Nelson posted $5,000 bail for a May 10 preliminary hearing.
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Wilmington
N. C
Atlantic National Bank
Chemical National Bank of New York
Post Office
Edward A Nelson
Nelson
Rocky Point
Postal Service
United States
Collier
Prehistoric Bones Unearthed Near Hollidaysburg Quarry
Telegraph dispatch from Altoona reports the discovery of perfectly preserved bones of large prehistoric animals in the American Lime and Stone quarrys near Hollidaysburg along the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fossils are guarded awaiting Carnegie Institute agent, dating back at least twenty thousand years. Quarry finds include a thigh nearly 10% inches in diameter and a ball joint about 74g inches across, with a tooth 6% inches wide and a vertebra of substantial size.
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Tribune
Altoona
Penn
American Lime and Stone Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hollidaysburg
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburg
Belgian anarchist fires at consul in Nice
In Nice France on April 18 a Belgian anarchist identified as Van Loo fired six shots from a revolver at the Belgian consul but failed to strike him. The incident occurred amid heightened tensions surrounding anti government sentiment.
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Nice
France
van Loo
Governor at Buffalo Addresses Good Government Dinner
Nearly a thousand Buffalo business leaders gathered for the Chamber of Commerce dinner as the new chamber building, thirteen stories tall, was dedicated. Governor Hughes spoke, praising Buffalo’s progress from 84,630 to over 380,000 in population and outlining the public-spirited role of business, labor, and government in sustaining growth and prosperity.
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Buffalo
Chamber of Commerce
Robert R. Hefford
William H. Gratwick
Main
Seneca
Hughes
Ellicott Club
William C. Brown
New York Central Lines
John B. Thayer, Jr
Pennsylvania Lines
Henry J. Pierce
International Railway Company
J. N. Adam
Bach
Gratwick
Mayor Adam
Gratewick
Niagara Frontier
Lake Erie
Lake Ontario
J. N. Scatcherd
Empire State
Republic
United States
Commonwealth
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Mr. Bryce
MR. Taft
Mr. Winthrop
Baltimore & Ohio
Carnegie “Tech
Western Theatrical
Price
D. B. Turner
Harbor
Elk
Usher’s
Adyt
Apter High Officials
Chicago Civil Service Commission
Pennsylvania
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