Suit for Two Million Damages Over West Virginia Short Line
Moore Jackson of Virginia sues Henry H. Rogers George A. Burt and Alfred Bedford for 1 083 909 25 in the Supreme Court through Richard J. Donovan claiming fraudulent statements and failure to honor agreements about the proposed West Virginia Short Line Railroad. He alleges costs from developing coal and mineral lands along the route and impairment of credit after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad took control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moore Jackson
Virginia
Henry H. Rogers
George A. Burt
Alfred ©. Bedford
Supreme Court
Richard J. Donovan
Broadway
Jackson
West Virginia
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
West Virginia Short Line Railroad
New Martinsville
Ohie River
Belington
Wva
Clarksburg
Ohio River Railroad Company
Felington
West Virginia Central Railway
Standard Oil Company
Ohio River Railway
Rogers
Gallresa
Old Wills Found Shine Light on New York History
Abstracts of two hundred unrecorded wills from 1670 to 1730 found in the surrogates office will be published by the New York Historical Society under Robert H. Kelley and William S. Pelletreau. Wills reveal land titles on Broadway west side and early city directory precursors, with seals showing coats of arms and hints about owners like Maria Teller and Cortlandt descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. Pelletreau
New York Historical Society
Robert H. Kelley
Society
Pelletreau
Tribune
New York
Felletreau
Broadway
Cortlanét Street
Maria Teller
Andries Teller
Olof Stevense van Cortlandt
Pearl Street
Stone Street
Rachel van Thienhoven
Cortlandt Shett
Tellers
van Cortlandts
Henricus Selyns
Dutch Reformed Church
Garden Street
Exchange Place
Dominic Selyns
John Ferris
Burrough
Westchester
John Beis
Willis Forster
Spaniard Bullfighter Aims to Raise Charity Funds in Mexico
Gomez of Madrid has fought 350 bulls and plans to reach 400 in Mexico. He states he fights for pleasure and donates proceeds to charity. He was aboard the Slavonia en route to Mexico, saying he is not seeking money or a wife. A widow with five children relies on charity. a weekly pension is sought for six months. Contributions may be sent to the Charity Organization Society, W. Frank Persons, superintendent, No 1 East 72d Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Slavonia
Mexico
Gomez
Sefior
Sefior Gomez
Charity Organization Society
W. Frank Persons
East 72d Street
Church Suit Dismissed Over Park Presbyterian Merger
Justice FitzGerald in the Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a twenty year old action by W E D Stokes as trustee of the Phelps Mission against Henry Care and others and the Phelps Mission to restrain a merger with the Eighty Fourth Street Presbyterian Church. The court found the Park Presbyterian Church took over the mission and has continued its work, having spent nearly $1000 in twenty one years. Jackson After Inter Met today. Attorney General Jackson and deputy will renew to obtain permission to commence action to cancel the Interborough Metropolitan Company charter. The Appellate Division will hear arguments at 1 pm with Paul D Cravath for the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice FitzGerald
Supreme Court
W. E. D. Stokes
Phelps Mission
Henry Care
Eighty-fourth Street Presbyterian Church
Park Presbyterian Church
o@né
Jackson
INTER
William A. de Ford
Interborough Metropolitan Company
The
Paul D. Cravath
Haynes Bankrupt after bankruptcy filing for Mutual Reserve officer
Archibald C. Haynes ex president of Mutual Reserve Life Insurance filed for bankruptcy with liabilities of 176621.63 and cash on hand 1742. Creditors include Reginald Hart Daniels Heredon Cumberland Bank Byrne and the Equitable Life Assurance Society which holds renewal commissions as security. Haynes says he cannot pay debts and notes a suit against the Equitable for 140009.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald C. Haynes
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Haynes
Equitable
Reginald L. Hart
Philadelphia
A. M. Daniels
Larchmont
J. B. Heredon
Broadway
Cumberland National Bank
Brighton
Mutual Redent
Indians Occupy Theatre Box For Night Off at Broadway Show
Colonel Cody approves a Sioux party using a special box at the Herald Square Theatre to watch a Broadway performance. Chief Tren Tail leads the delegation, eyeing Lew Fields in the soda fountain scene. He notes a chief performer in the cast is married and jokes about marriage bringing horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cody
Burke
Hierald Square
Tren Tail
Lew Fields
Tron Tail
Woman held up in Brooklyn hospital matron severely ill
Miss Mary Dooling matron of Kingston Avenue Hospital Brooklyn is in critical condition after being held up and robbed by two men on a Nostrand Avenue car at Rutland Road late Wednesday night. The assailants followed her, one throttled her and the other searched her pockets, taking a $420 pocketbook before she crawled to the hospital two blocks away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Dooling
Kingston Avenue Hospital
Brooklyn
Nostrand Avenue
Rutland Road
Miss Dooling
Girl says she was kidnapped in New York
Annie Lolaw a fifteen year old girl from 136th Street New York claims she was kidnapped and led away by two middle aged men She approached a policeman at 6th and Spruce Streets and threatened suicide if not released The men Antonio Piroski and John Camella both over forty were arrested and held for further hearing under five hundred dollar bail each Annie was also detained by police
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Philadelphia
136Th Street
New York
Annie Lolaw
6Th and
Spruce Streets
Antonio Piroski
John Camella
Annie
Calvary Baptist Choir Holds Second Festival Concert
The Calvary Baptist Church Choir presented a large festival concert with 135 voices and four soloists under conductor Edward Morris Bowman at the organ. Soloists included Mme. Myrta French-Euersteiner, Mme. Bessie Bowman-Estey, Ernest Theodore Martin, and C Judson Bushnell, with the Banner Kroneld string quartet and soloists Michael Banner and Hans Kroneld also featured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvary Baptist Church Choir
Calvary
Calvary Choir
Edward Morris Bowman
Mme
Myrta French-Euersteiner
Bessie Bowman-Estey
Ernest Theodore Martin
C. Judson Bushnell
Banner-Kroneld String Quartet
Michael Banner
Hans Kroneld
Japanese Party Leaves New York for Europe
A group of fifty six Japanese visitors including three women sailed yesterday on the Cedric for Europe after twenty days in the United States. K Sugimura of Asahi Shimbun praised New York girls and noted his plans to study American life further before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Europe
Cedric
K. Sugimura
Asahi Shimbun
Japan
New York
Receiver Appointed for Hopkins & Co by Federal Judge Bethea
Federal Judge Bethea appoints Jay Edwin C. Day as receiver for Wallace H. Hopkins & Co after a petition by three creditors. The firm shows liabilities around 100.0% and assets of 590. Consolidated Zinc Company stock had been marketed by Hopkins as syndicate manager, with ads and literature flagged as highly colored by a Postoffice Inspector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bethea
Jay Edwin C. Day
Wallace H. Hopkins & Co
Consolidated Zinc Company
Hopkins Company
Postoffice
Stuart
Woollen Manufacturer Files Bankruptcy in District Court
Boston April 22. Herbert E Shaw of Wales Mass a woollen manufacturer filed a bankruptcy petition in the United States District Court here. Liabilities 105 372 assets 2 356. Of claims 74 600 are secured. Principal secured creditors include L F Dominick and F Vietor Achells of New York City. There are more than fifty creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Herbert E. Shaw
Wales
Mass
United States District Court
Shaw
L. F. Dominick
F. Vietor & Achells
New York City
Third Divorce Trial Ends in Disagreement in Hempstead Suit
The third divorce case of Augustus Mott of Hempstead Long Island against Catherine Mott again ended in a disagreement. A jury was discharged yesterday by Justice Scudder after hearing the evidence for a third time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Mott
Hempstead
Long Island
Catherine 5
Miss Ida Ruffy Deportation Sails Back to Europe
Miss Ida Ruffy, who arrived from Switzerland last week and was ordered deported when the fiancé failed to appear, sailed for Europe yesterday aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. Authorities had prior information suggesting deportation would not be necessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Ruffy
Switzerland
Europe
Escoffier Dines at Knickerbocker in New York Tonight
M. Georges August Escoffier world renowned culinary architect arrives aboard the Deutschland and dines at the Knickerbocker with manager James Regan for a week. He recalls Grasse birth, Franco Prussian War service, and a career cracking Paris Ritz Carlton kitchens while promoting his cookbook and peach Melba dessert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Escoffier
Deutschland
Knickerbocker
James Regan
Bay
Grasse
Nice
France
Metz
William of
Prussia
Paris
London
Berlin
Hamburg
Amerika
M. Escoffler
William
Jie
Merit Agricole
Interborough Plans to Issue 55 Million Bonds in Public Transit Deal
The Public Service Commission approved Interborough Rapid Transit Company’s plan to issue 55 million dollars in bonds, with 50 million issued initially to refund 15 million in notes. JPMorgan & Co. will underwrite, notes due in three years at 6 percent, bonds dated 1907 run to 1952 at 5 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
P. Morgan & Co
Interborough
William R. Willcox
George W. Wickersham
J. P.morgan & Co
Manhattan
Steinway Tunnel
Willcox
Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Subway Construction Company
Lynchings Reported at Skidoo Camp California
Joseph Simpson, a two game gambler, who shot and killed James Arnold last Sunday, was lynched at Skidoo California mining camp last night in an extrajudicial mob action reported from Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Joseph Simpson
James Arnold
Skidoo
California
Cleveland's Nephew Jailed After Bridge Trust Conviction
Toledo reports William N. Cleveland nephew of ex President Grover Cleveland and junior member of Huston and Cleveland of Columbus was convicted as a Bridge Trust agent. He received a $40 fine and five days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Willam N. Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Huston & Cleveland
Columbus
Bridge Trust
Princeton Auto Driver Exonerated in Accident
Corwin W. Nichols, Princeton student, was found not responsible by a coroner's jury after a Saturday night car skid in Trenton killed Charles Balliguin. The jury ruled Nichols used proper precautions and the death was accidental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Corwin W. Nichols
Princeton
Charles Balliguin
Nichols
Today’s events from museums to lectures and clubs
Free admission to the American Museum of Natural History and the Zoological Gardens with a slate of afternoon and evening programs. The Century Theatre Club hosts entertainment at Hotel Astor. Various club meetings, lectures, and charity events populate the day from Hoffmann House to Cooper Union and Waldorf Astoria, with school programs and illustrated talks across city venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Museum of Natural History
Zoological Gardens
Century Theatre Club
Hotel Astor
Woman'sDemocratic Club
Hoffman House
Shrew
Barnard College
Hrinkerhoff Theatre
Columbia College
Bridge Whist
Charity Euchre
Iowa New Yorkers
Waldorf-Astoria
Rand School of Social Science
Kallis
Park Place
Post Parliament Club
New York
Southern Industrial Education Association
Hotel Plaza
New York Lehigh Club
Maquin’s
Fulton Street
Edward Howard Griggs
Carlyle
People’s Institute
Cooper Union
Washington Heights Taxpayers’ Association
Corrigan Building
Broadway and
157Th Street
Opm
Georgia Society
Founders and Patriots of America
Manhattan
Board of Education
Wadleigh High School
115Th Street
Seventh Avenue
F. Fenollosa
Europe
Ssth Street
Abel J. Grout
North Carolina
Dominick
Clark and Broome
Alice D le Tiengeon
East 20Th Street
Mary ‘. Crowley
Broadway
Academy Street
Verwilven Avenue
John F. I
St. Nicholas Avenue
27Th Street
Kenneth S. Guthrie
York City
Illustrated
Avenue A
Tith
Suffolk
Rivington
Elias W. Thompson
Oklahoma
Land of Now
Third Avenue
J. Newton Gray
Mosholu Parkway
Briges
Bainbridge Avenues
Hedford Park
Mary Proctor
Fordham Avenue
Malin Street
City Island
Stuart Gager
Anthony and
Tremont Avenues
Charles W Chadwick
Ltd Street
Heaumont and
Cambrelling
Albert Ll. Blatt
Benjamin Wranklin
Jerome Avenue
14Th Street
Silas H. Berry
Castle Hill Avenue
Black Rock Avenue
Unionport
Frederick W. Moore
Four Dead in Ellsworth Colleries Mine Explosion
Pittsburg reports four men killed in a gas explosion at Mine No. 1 of Ellsworth Colleries Company in Ellsworth. Over a hundred miners were at work. the blast occurred away from the main working area, sparing others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Ellsworth Colleries Company
Ellsworth
City News in Brief: Bail, Fairs, Dinners and Lectures
Henry Weil of 161 West 34th Street was held on bail for further examination in the Tombs Court on a gambling related matter. Thirty six Christodora House Settlement clubs plan a fair at 947 Avenue B with old brass and Japanese linen sales. Prominent Republicans including Senator Depew Hedges and Woodford attend the Ivy Club beefsteak dinner at Sokol Hall 420 East 71st Street Monday. City History Club exhibit on West 44th Street with a lecture by Harvard’s Professor Bushnell Hart at Berkeley Theatre tomorrow. Mrs. Robert Abbé to speak. George D. Varnard of 110 West 112th Street held for hearing on forged checks after attempting to obtain $100 on a $237 check at a Knickerbocker Hotel patrol. He remains jailed until Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Weil
No. 161
West 34Th Street
Tombs Court
Christodora House
M47
Avenue B
Senator Depew
Job K E. Hedges
Stewart L. Woodford
Ivy Club
Sokol
City History Club
West 44Th Street
Bushnell Hart
Harvard
Berkeley Theatre
Robert Abbé
George D. Varnard
No. 110
West 112Th Street
Jefferson Market Court
Knickerbocker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hi. Rogers
G. A. Burt and
A. C. Bedford
J .Irginian
Historical Society
Sweet Charity
A. C. Haynes
Colonel Cody
Herbert L. Towle
Aldrigh
Ferris Greenslet
William Williams
High Alps
Richard Harding Davis
City OF Good Airs
Buenos Aires
Arthur Ruhl
John Fox, JR
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Girl
N. Y
Globe Trotters
Escoffier
Georges August Escoffer
Caneton de Rouen
I. R.T
J.P. Morgan & Co
Skidoo, Cal
MR. Cleveland
Vitali Benguiat
Thomas FE. Kirby
American Art Association
East 23A St
Madison Square South
New Jersey
Marlborough
Bienheim
Josiah White & Sons
Traymore
Zatlantic City
Traymore Hotel Company
Chas. O. Marquette
D & White
Chalfonte
Atlantic City
Leeds Co Company
Montclair
Montclair, N. Oe
Ontario & Western
Columbus Ave
West 125Th
Desbrosses
West
St Ferries
Beaver St
Court St
Nostrand Ave
J. Anderson
Beaverst
Shelter Island Heights
City News
Pennsylvania
Kittatinny Delaware Water Gap
American Plan
Frank Cope
Virginia Hot Springs
Fifth Avenue Waters
Aths
Omca
Pennsylvania Railroad
Fred Sterry
Hot Springs
Raymond & Whitcomb CO
Union Square
Brunswick
Fifth Avenue
Starin
Sound
Hudson
Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Harlem
Lenox Ave
Asbury Park
M J. Young-Fulton
Ornam
Saturda
Aed
Immedi
Board of Water Supply
Board
Newark
CO. «& Field CE
Marbletown
Ulster County
John A. Bensel
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A.sia
J. Waldo Smith
Thomas Nassett
Doviars
Whitehall Street
York
Harter
Gibraltar
Aden
Port Said
Malta
Suez
Algiers
Perim
New
Sandy Hook
T. S
Ss. Patten
Ington D
Seale
1St Street
N. E. Street
New York Avenue
Proposa
Henry BF
Mack Arland
Anset I. West
J McRrow
Uss
NEER
Mtuel Pdas
Key West Harbor
Las Singh Beach
Col Engis
Neale
Office of Board
Wallkill
Paltz
Gardiner
John A
Charles A. Shaw
Water Suip
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