Republican Club Heads Yorris Scorches Tiger in Speech
The Republican Club annual meeting re-elected the Regular ticket led by Robert C. Morris as president. Dues surpassed $2,000 as Walter W. Price Charles P. Starr Albert G Wheeler Jr. Liston Aee and others faced off against veteran nominees John A Co XII Bevee Charles O Maas and Howard W Albro.
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Republican Club
Walter W. Price
Charles P. Starr
Albert G. Wheeler, Jr
Liston
Charles O. Maas
Howani W. Albro
Robert C. Morris
McClellan administration blasted over New York City misses and megaprojects
A new president's speech attacks Mayor McClellan for maladministration and extravagant spending. He focuses on Queensboro Bridge mismanagement, a costly Catskill aqueduct scheme, and lax supervision. He cites debt and procurement issues, with criticism of school and transit spending and calls to end the administration’s overruns.
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Morris
McClellan
Queensboro Bridge
Tribune
Catskill
McDelan
Ramapo
Tragic Death of Annie Dunbar Run Down by Truck
Annie Dunbar eight years old of 209 East List Street was killed when a truck from the New York Veal and Mutton Company 41st Street and First Avenue ran over her in front of her home. Driver William A. Little 769 Second Avenue stopped and carried her to a drug store where she died ten minutes later. He was arrested on a technical homicide charge.
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Annie Dunbar
East List Street
New York Veal and Mutton Company
41St Street
First Avenue
William A. Little
Second Avenue
Little
Residents Oppose Sands Point Crematory Plan
Rich New Yorkers fear a Jewish crematory near Sands Point Long Island and Roslyn residents oppose an insane asylum proposal. About fifty acres at Sands Point reportedly eyed but price unsettled while options on nearby William T Willis farm land near Harry Payne Whitney and Howard Gould estates are under consideration.
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Sands Point
Long Island
Roslyn
Kost
William T. Willis
Harry Payne Whitney
Castle Gould
Howard Gould
W. Bourke Cochran
Dismay at Princeton Seminary over student apology demand
Rumor says Princeton Theological Seminary directors plan to force an apology from a student committee or face expulsion after a dispute with faculty. The banished option follows a split vote and reprimands for lower classes, while students protest that changes to the curriculum are the real issue.
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Princeton, N. J
Princeton Theological Seminary
Russian Woman Arrested for Killing Russian Army Sergeant
Felicia Bekier, a 43 year old Russian woman, was arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of killing a Russian army sergeant in St. Petersburg six months earlier. Through an interpreter she said her husband joined a political party seeking government change by force. Her escape led to Canada and then Philadelphia where police traced her. Theodore Buzziki identified her and said she was wanted by the Czar.
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Philadelphia
Felicia Bekier
St. Petersburg
Bekier
Canada
Theodore Buzziki
Brooklyn Florist Killed by Ex-Employee at Greenhouses
John Scott a leading Flatbush florist, 42, was shot twice in the left breast by Aloysius Gross, a discharged night watchman and former employee, outside his East 45th Street greenhouses at Rutland Road. Gross, intoxicated and reportedly taunting Scott over his sister, was restrained and later jailed.
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John Scott
Midwood Street
Brooklyn
Flatbush
Aloysius Gross
East 45Th Street
Rutland Road
Gross
Mr. Scott
Chinese student held on naval documents theft aboard Borda
In Paris on April 18 a Chinese student aboard the French cruiser Borda was arrested for stealing secret naval defence documents. He attempted to photograph the papers and claims he took them to aid China and had no intention to sell them.
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Paris
Borda
China
Military Guard Lines Up at Imperial Mosque
The Yildiz Kiosk sits at the extreme left and the Imperial Mosque to the right as troops form a protective line for the Sultan.
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Yildiz
Imperial Mosque
Cunard Plans Faster Atlantic Sailings This Summer
Cunard Line aims to save time by sending Lusitania and Mauretania from Liverpool an hour earlier this summer and shortening Queenstown calls. The changes could land passengers in New York by Thursday afternoon, shaving about five to eight hours overall. Contemplated shift includes possible move of terminal from Liverpool to Southampton and skipping Queenstown for Irish mail, affecting rival lines and transatlantic traffic.
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Cunard
Lusitania
Mauretania
Liverpool
Cunard Line
Sandy Hook
Queenstown
New York
Ambrose Channel
Irish Mail
Mauritania
Southampton
Cherbourg
White Star
Red Star
Lloyd
Cronin prison suicide attempt reported in Meadville
John Cronin awaiting trial for the murder of Harry Waters has attempted suicide by inserting needles into his abdomen and near the heart. He has pressed seven ordinary needles into his body and one near the heart, perforating the lining, leaving him in critical condition and in extreme agony.
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Meadville
Penn
John Cronin
Harry Waters
Dog Saves Building From Downtown Fire at Park Place
A spaniel named Sport alerted Jennie Whalen's family at Nos 30–36 Park Place, allowing occupants to escape as flames from Nos 34 and 36 spread through cellars and subcellars. Eight firefighters were overcome by smoke but treated, and police and church aides aided crowd control and rescue efforts during the blaze estimated to cause substantial damage.
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Park Place
Sport
Jennie Whalen
Michael Whalen
Whalens
Miss Whalen
Cox & Lafferty
Eliza Daly
Benjamin
Moore
Church Street
No. 38
Wallach Brothers
Roseville Pottery Company
Barclay Street
Caprato Statuary Company
Wrk
Croker
Rechad Sultan’s Choice Rumor Sparks Balkan Talk
Berlin reports a Vienna rumor that Sultan may abdicate to heir apparent Mahemmed Rechad Effendi and resign to a provisional government seat at Salonica. Young Turks in Berlin expect Constantinople garrison changes as troops move to disarm the capital, while Sofia banker Jules Deffes warns against civil war as a personality crisis looms.
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Berlin
Vienna
Mahemmed Rechad Effendi
Lokal Anzeiger
Constantinople
Rechad
Salonica
Yildiz
Young Turk
Jules Deffes
Sofia
Turkey
Sultan Must Abdicate Under Turkish Pressure
Paris reports that the Young Turks grant the Sultan until 7 p.m. to abdicate. Russian Ambassador Zinovieff negotiates while the cruiser Admiral Greig stands in the Bosporus ready to remove the Sultan. Demonstrators in the Latin Quarter demand France and the Sultan’s ouster, but police dispersed the crowd.
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Paris
Constantinople
M. Zinovieff
Greig
Athena
Bosporus
Latin Quarter
France
Bank Robbery by Dynamite and Handcar Sail
Two men dynamited the Havana Bank in Havana Kansas and took 2300 dollars before fleeing on a handcar fitted with a sail amid gunfire from residents. They cut telephone and telegraph lines and were later captured at Bartlesville Oklahoma by a watchman, but escaped before final capture.
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Havana
Kan
Bartlesville
Okla
Robert Morton
Girl shoots her father in front of Stuyvesant avenue home
Miss Agnes Wallace a seamstress of 147 East 117th street shot her father John W. Wallace 950 Lafayette avenue after meeting him on Stuyvesant avenue. The first shot struck his head and a second in the chest killing him instantly. Police locked up the 10 year estranged daughter who cited family disputes. News notes nearby witnesses and an unrelated ad for Madeira from Dewey and Sons.
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Agnes Wallace
East 117Th Street
Captain Becker
Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
John W. Wallace
Lafayette Avenue
Wallace
Stuyvesant Avenue
Emma Rothburg
117Th Street
Emma Miller
Driving the Sultan from His Throne May Enter Wednesday
Rumor of Sultan Abdul Hamid abdicating in Constantinople triggers wave of excitement in parliament lobbies. Reports of flight on a warship circulate but cannot be confirmed as crowds gather at the British and Russian embassies seeking clarity.
Rumors of Abdication Steer Turkish Crisis at Istanbul
The Turkish Foreign Office denies rumors while abdication seems possible and Prince Yussef Izzeddin is named as a likely successor. The palace is guarded as Constitutionalists push toward Istanbul with 20 000 to 30 000 troops moving from Dedengatch. Royalists await events as Sheik-ul-Islam prepares a public declaration.
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Downfall
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