Jerome probes old Dock Board to expose Tammany wealth sources
The Tribune reports District Attorney Jerome plans an inquiry into the old Dock Board, aiming to reveal concealed wealth of many Tammany men amid a Canal Street pier lease dispute. It cites Brown & Fleming and Naughton & Co links to Croker and Murphy, and notes potential corruption risks across Dock Board leases and public works.
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Jerome
Tammany Dock Board
Tammany
the Tribune
Brown & Fleming
Canal-st
North River
Old Dock Board
Dock Board
Charles F. Murphy
Hawkes
Thirtieth-st
Canal St
Murphys and Geffneys
Martian Messenger Delivers Heard Message at Calvary Church
A man about 27, entering Calvary Episcopal Church on Fourth Avenue and Twenty-First Street, announced he was a Mars messenger and prepared to read a “first message from Mars.” He read from a bound service book until the sexton intervened, and the reader departed with a courteous bow as the crowd watched in astonishment.
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Calvary Episcopal Church
Fourth-avenue
Twenty-first-st
Mars
Earth
Glorius
Many Hurt In Car Crash On Road To North Beach
A fast moving open car jumped the track near Flushing and Ehreaves, crashing into a roadside tree. Thirty five to forty passengers were bruised and cut, with none seriously hurt or requiring a doctor. The Ninety second street ferry car had left the terminal. the motorman was thrown forward but uninjured. Recovery crews cleared the wreck and traffic resumed with no major delay. An track inspection found no obstruction and wheel flanges were in good condition.
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North Beach
St. Ferry
Flushing
Ehreaves
Pasteur Cure Said To Relieve Epilepsy In Official
A Servian official treated at the Pasteur Institute in Budapest for hydrophobia reportedly saw his epilepsy disappear after the Pasteur method healed the bite wound. The unusual outcome has attracted medical attention and interest. The report comes from Vienna dated April 26. A separate item notes West Shore Railroad offering low fares to the Pacific Coast with Colonist sleeping cars from Junction and other details.
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Vienna
Pasteur Institute
Budapest
Pasteur
Pacific Coast
West Shore Railroad
Agen
Balkan border notes reflect mixed loyalties and tensions
In Sofia April reports describe a tense frontier between Turkey and Bulgaria. Bulgarian rebels pursue liberty, sometimes through harsh tactics, while Turks cling to authority. Miss Stone’s capture is reinterpreted, with Bulgaria aiding Christian Macedonians and Europe largely silent. A 20 hour New York to Chicago run is advertised as The Twentieth Jury Limited.
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Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
America
Macedonia
Miss Stone
United States
Miss Stone and Mrs. Tsilka
Europe
Sofia
Chicago
New York Central
Lake Shore
New York
Catoage
Twentieth Jury Limited
Advt
Openhym's body found after river search for reward
Adolphe Openhym, silk merchant, vanished after leaping from High Bridge on March 30. His body was recovered in the Harlem River near 157th Street, identified by cards and a dinner invitation. Captain Meehan, who found him, is to receive the $5,000 reward after the coroner's permit. The body was examined, prepared for cremation, and services planned at Openhym home with Columbia University's Professor Felix Ader leading.
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Adolphe Openhym
High Bridge
Harlem
John Meehan
Health Department
Ella Jane
Spuyten Duyvil
Meehan
August
Openhym
Riverside Drive
Openham
William Rolph
West
Robert D. Kohn
West Ninety-fifth-st
West One-hundred-and Fifty-Second-St
Scholer
Campbell Burial and Cremation Company
West Twenty
Kohn
Adolphe Openham
Waters of
New York
Undertaking Establishment
Fresh Pond
Long Island
Felix Ader
Columbia University
Lynching and Race Riot Reported in Thebes Illinois
An African American man was lynched by a posse after an alleged attempt to assault a farmer’s daughter. The mob hanged him from a tree and shot him multiple times. A subsequent race riot wounded many black residents as whites attacked a settlement, burning the filled tents.
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Thebes
Nason Admits Offer to Amory Amid Metropolis Dispute
Daniel Nason revealed he offered to buy stock from W. N. Amory in the Metropolitan Railway fray, denying links to W. H. Page Jr. or the Metropolitan Street Railway. He said the Amory meeting concerned a patent rights company and that his payment from Page was unrelated to Metropolitan affairs. The memoed accounting dispute over construction costs and investments is challenged as misapplied by Met insiders and accountants.
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Amory-Vreeland-Philbin-Metropolitan
Vreeland
Osborne
W. N. Amory
Daniel Nason
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Railway Company
Nason
W. H. Page, Jr
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Amory
Page
Mr. Page
Metropolitan Company
Stephen Little
Farquhar J. MacRae
Haskins & Sells
State Railroad Commission
Eesck
Second Avenue Railroad Company
Thirty-fourth Street Crosstown Railway Company
Railroad Commissioners
Tefal
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Canal St. Pier
Croker
Cram
Murphy
England
Dock Department
A. H. Hastorf
Man Low
William J. McGirr
Thirtieth St
East River
William Haestorf
Meyer
John F. Carroll
Carroll
Commissioners of Accounts
Accounts Department
Tammany Hall
East Twenty-first-st
East Seventeenth-st
Stuyvesant Square
J. Sergeant Cram
Th Dock Board
East Fortyfifth-st
Tribune
Man
Philbin
Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company
Interurban
Metropoltan Company
Third Avenue
ST. Louis
Pennsylvania Railroad
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