Racing Men Indicted as G ambling Probe Hits Jockey Clubs
The King County grand jury indicted William A. Engeman Christopher H Fitz gerald and John G Cavanagh for conspiracy to violate the anti gambling law amid a scathing presentment condemning Coney Island Jockey Club and Brighton Beach Association officials for failing to stop betting. The panel noted open and systematic gambling at Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach and praised plainclothes police for later efforts, while urging Governor Hughes to act and reporting that bail arrangements were pending for the indicted men.
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Brighton Beach Racing
King’s County Grand
Coney Island Jockey Club
Brighton Beach Association
William A. Engeman
Brighton Beach Racing Association
Christopher H. Fitzgerald
John
Engeman Ard Fitzgerald
Ttvo
Grand Jury
Woth
Sheepshead Fay
Cenex Island Jockey Club
Sheepshead Bay
Brighton Beach
Coner Island
August Kuhne
Joseph F. Langan
Jacob van Warner
Hughes
Dike
Charlies H. Hyde
Hyde
Elder
Engeman
Justice Blancherd
Supreme Court
Bingham
Blantherd
Dog thwarted Greenwich home robbery by burglars
In Greenwich Connecticut on a Thursday night a collie belonging to Edmund C Converse a United States Steel director and Fairfield County Golf Club president alerted guards. Three men armed with revolvers were confronted near Conyers Manor and fled after the dog barked and the owners opened fire. A motor car waited outside and a private telephone line to the manor had been cut earlier, suggesting a plotted capture. The Converse family had prior danger when Converse daughter Antoinette Morrell was attacked years earlier, shot and severely wounded.
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Greenwich
Conn
Edmund C. Converse
United States Steel Corporation
Fairfield County
Conyers Manor
Mr. Converse
Andrew Talbot
Patrick Flanagan
Converse
Antoinette Morrell
Mounted Patrolman Dwyer Stops Runaway Horse on Ocean Blvd
Patrolman James A. Dwyer of Coney Island station saved five people in a Surrey when a bridled horse broke loose on Ocean Boulevard near Neptune Avenue. After a high speed chase, he leapt from his horse to seize the animal, aided by a passing automobile, and steered it into a tree to halt the danger. No injuries occurred among the Surrey occupants. Dwyer has stopped ten runaways this season.
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James A. Dwyer
Coney Island
Ocean Boulevard
Raphael Arkin
45Th Street
Brooklyn
Mollie Yackin
Fulton Avenue
Bronx
Surrey
Neptune Avenue
Boulevard
Dwyer
Dwyr
Court voids Belt Line lease in river area dispute
Judge Lacombe of the United States Circuit Court ordered the Metropolitan Street Railway receivers not to adopt the October 14, 1892 lease to Central Park North East River Railroad for the Fifty-ninth Street Crosstown and Belt lines. Accounting between the two firms reserved. Receivers may rent or sell cars horses or power to Central Park company during pending action. Public Service Commission official Eustis told Bloomingdale Brothers transfers considerations hinge on today's hearing.
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Lacombe
United States Circuit Court
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Central Park, North & East River Railroad Company
Fifty-ninth Street Crosstown
Public Service Commission
Bloomingdale Brothers
59Th Street
Third Avenue
Commission
Central Park Company
59Th Street Crosstown
Subway Extension Opens On Broadway Branch
The first regular train ran this morning to the new terminal at 242nd Street near Van Cortlandt Park. Regular service to the former 230th Street terminal remains unchanged. An experimental two car train preceded, with Frank Hedley and George H Pegram aboard along with Commissioner Eustis. The 230th Street station will shift to 231st Street and further north stations will be at 238th and 244th Streets.
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Broadway
242D Street
van Cortlandt Park
230Th Street
Frank Hedley
George H. Pegram
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Commissoner Eustis
Public Service Commission
231St Street
238Th
2441
Lloyds Draw Line at Sheath Gown Policy
London Lloyds refused a $10,000 policy on a shipment of Parisian sheath gowns imported by Bloomingdale Brothers. Isidor Kahn sought coverage to insure the gowns’ popularity in New York, but several insurers turned the request down, sparking doubt about the fad.
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London Lloyds
United States
London Insurance Company
Paris
Bloomingdale Brothers
New York
Isidor Kahn
Indictments against McIntyre dismissed after his death
Five indictments charging grand larceny against Thomas A. McIntyre of McIntyre & Co. were dismissed by Judge Foster after McIntyre died in Baltimore. The cases, tied to April business failures, had juries empaneled for July and adjourned to October due to illness. Bail was set at 29,000. Schedules list liabilities of 16,233.53 and assets of 1,297.18, including deposits with Commercial Trust Co. of Jersey City. Hulshizer figures show liabilities of 11,000 and assets of 14,133.97, with stocks and bonds valued at 12,540.
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Thomas A. McIntyre
Baltimore
Foster
Court of General Sessions
T. A. McIntyre & Co
McIintyre
New Jersey
Commercial Trust Company
Jersey City
McIntyre
James E. Hulshizer
Subway trains collide at West Farms station
A three car train failed to switch and struck an eight car southbound train at West Farms station around 9 PM. No injuries, but one man suffered shock and was treated by Dr. Riley of Fordham Hospital. The man identified as James Pitagerald, 48, of 412 East 14th Street.
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West Farms
Riley
Fordham Hospital
James Pitagerald
East Lath Street
North Carolina Storm Leaves Deaths and Devastation
Eastern North Carolina reels from the West Indian storm with two drownings, major railroad washouts, rivers flooded, and widespread crop damage. New Bern records 9.75 inches of rain. Kinston reports nine inches in four days as bridges and tracks collapse block traffic and floodwaters threaten coastal lines.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Atlantic
Newbern
Kinston
Washington & Vandemere Railroad
Norfolk & Southern Railway
Morehead City
Beaufort
Steals Leper Wife to Flee Across Border
Brigadier General David K. Wardwell, retired and a two war veteran, abducted his wife from the county hospital where she is confined as a leper and fled toward the Mexican border. Officials say both threaten suicide if separation occurs, and no attempt will be made to return them.
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Los Angeles
David K. Wardwell
Suspects in Bonfire Murder Seized by Police
Patrolmen Mattes and Birody of Greenpoint avenue station Williamsburg arrested two Polish farmhands described as Julian Kusinski and Valentyn Borkorsky, both age 22, after a chase to a saloon at Norman avenue and Newel street. Borkorsky carried eight dollars two women's handkerchiefs and a small gold pin. The body of a woman was found in a bonfire in Williamsburg on Thursday.
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Mattes and
Birody
Greenpoint Avenue
Williamsburg
Julian Kusinski
Valentyn Borkorsky
Borkorsky
Norman Avenue
Newel Street
Saratoga lid raises a wee bit on gambling fringe
Saratoga, N Y July 31 gambling houses were not fully open but activity rose as a man at the door oversaw entry and sneak gambling. Police interference was minimal and residents expect potential wide opening in days if quiet into next week.
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Saratoga
N. Y
Chance
Tobacco Trust Sued for 1 506 000 Damages
Monarch Tobacco Company of Louisville filed a 1500 000 suit in federal court alleging that its trade was ruined by practices of the American Tobacco Company its subsidiaries and Mengel Box Company and naming company officials including President Duke as defendants.
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the Tribune
Louisville
Monarch Tobacco Company
American Tobacco Company
National and Williams Tobacco Company
Mengel Box Company
Duke
Tragedy at Coal Creek No 2 Mine Rescue Progress
Twenty three men were buried by a cave in at Coal Creek No 2 mine owned by Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company. Rescue teams, hampered by gas, had extracted twenty men by 3 pm. three remain trapped and are expected to be rescued. Two months earlier three miners were killed in the same mine.
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Fernie
Coal Creek
Crow's Nest Pass
WRECKED VESSELS ALONG LABRADOR COAST
Reports from Labrador indicate at least forty fishing vessels wrecked by a northeaster this week. All but three sailors reached shore. about 400 lacked food and shelter for days. Disasters centered within 100 miles north of Indian Tickle with no word yet from vessels farther north.
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St. John's
N. F
Labrador
Swinburne Heads Pacific Fleet in Change of Command
San Francisco aboard the flagship West Virginia Rear Admiral W T Swinburne succeeded Rear Admiral James H Dayton as commander in chief of the Pacific fleet. The ceremony followed the usual rites as Dayton and his aide Lieutenant John C Frémont Jr departed for Washington tonight.
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San Francisco
W. T. Swinburne
James H. Dayton
Pacific Fleet
West Virginia
Henry W. Catlin III In Mexico
Henry W. Catlin III a New York banker with mining interests in Mexico is seriously ill in Mexico City on July 31 His brother died weeks earlier at Oaxaca Mexico in the same country
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the Tribune
Mexico City
Henry W. Catlin
New York
Mexico
Oaxaca
Bolivar the Largest Elephant Dies at Zoo
Bolivar, billed as the largest captive elephant, died in his prison house at Philadelphia's zoological gardens. Weighing six tons, he surpassed most captives except Jumbo in height. Confined for twenty years in a small enclosure, he was about fifty seven or fifty eight years old and was bought by Adam Forepaugh about thirty years ago.
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Philadelphia
Bolivar
Zoological Gardens
Jumbo
Zoo
Adam Forepaugh
Clergyman Nets Massive Thirty-Two Pound Muskellunge
Syracuse July 31 The largest fish drawn from the St. Lawrence River at the Thousand Islands in years a thirty two pound muskellunge was captured today by Rev. Dr. C. F. Aked of New York. The two hour struggle exhausted the clergyman.
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Syracuse
St. Lawrence
Thousand Islands
C. F. Aked
New York
Hotel Roberval Burned With $100000 Loss
News tonight reports the total destruction by fire of the Hotel Roberval at Roberval on Lake St. John. The property loss is placed at $100000. The house was well filled with guests at the time but all escaped.
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Montreal
Roberval
Lake St. John
Mitchell Begins Work as Head of Civic Federation Trade Dept
John Mitchell ex-President of the United Mine Workers takes formal charge of the National Civic Federation trade agreement department, now salaried. He stays on AFL executive council, refrains from political campaigning, and defends President Gompers amid AFL criticism.
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National Civic Federation
Fourth Avenue
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers of America
ROW OVER GOSPEL TENT MINISTERS IN A RUMPUS
A gospel tent at Claremont avenue and 12th street was removed for being too large for few attendees. Rev. John Newton Lyle opposed by Rev. George Graff and Joseph Taylor led to arrests for tearing down the tent. Police court dismissed charges after magistrate urged amicable settlement. Rev. Dr. C L Goodell chairs evangelistic committee. tent tied to Lexington Ave. HQ. John S. Huyler and Miss Helen Gould among major donors.
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Claremont Avenue
12Th Street
Evangelistic Committee of
Greater New York
John Newton Lyle
Lyle
George Graff
Joseph Taylor
Mr. Graff
Mr. Taylor
C. L. Goodell
Calvary Methodist Church
Harlem
Bible Training School
Lexington Avenue
49Th Street
John S. Huyler
Helen Gould
Wright at Sea Girt Sees Warm War Secretary Welcome
General Luke E. Wright Secretary of War visited Camp Fort at Sea Girt New Jersey for about three hours. Governor Fort hosted a public reception. Wright reviewed New Jersey and U S troops, dined with over a hundred state leaders, and departed by Central Railroad of New Jersey private car to New York.
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Tribune
Sea Girt
N. J
Luke E. Wright
Camp Fort
Governor Fort
New Jersey
United States
Wright
J. Franklin Bell
Austen Colgate
Wilbur F. Sadler
Central Railroad of
Central Railroad
Atlantic Highlands
Manhattan
New York
Bell
Sadler
Taft Campaign Call Orders New Jersey Meeting
Former Governor Franklin Murphy heads New Jersey Republican efforts to organize for Taft and Sherman. A committee meeting is set for August 7 in Newark to solidify the campaign with potential speeches in New Jersey after the September primaries. Hudson County may nominate an organization ticket August 12. Names mentioned include George T. Vickers and Clarence Van Deren for the 5th District seat.
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Franklin Murphy
New Jersey
Republican State Committee
Newark
Murphy
Taft
Sherman
Hudson County
Republican Committee
Congress
George T. Vickers
Jersey City
Clarence van Deren
West Hudson
Preachers Face Off in Brooklyn Police Court
Two gray haired ministers appeared as plaintiff and defendant in Gates Avenue police court Brooklyn yesterday in a suit over a threatening letter sent through the mails. The plaintiff was the Rev.
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Gates Avenue
Brooklyn
Mrs Ben Teal and Mousley Held for Trial
Miss Mabel MacCauslan testified a plot to manufacture testimony against Frank Jay Gould in his wife’s suit led Magistrate Corrigan to hold Mrs Ben Teal and Harry S Mousley, private detective, for trial. Bail set at $5000 each. Julia Fleming remains in the Tombs. Counsel Bluntenthal refused defense, citing inability to locate Bessie De Voie.
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Mabel MacCauslan
Frank Jay Gould
H Wife
Corrigan
Ben Tea
Harry S. Mousley
Julia Fleming
Maurice BK. Bluntenthal
Teal
Count Frederick von Gordon Seefeld Indicted for Hotel Swindle
Count Frederick von Gordon Seefeld of Rhode Island was indicted by the county grand jury for fraudulently obtaining 3986 from Mrs. Louisa C. Cammack. She says he posed as a silent partner of R Holligan Co brokers and used her money for his own use. She alleges she never received stock certificates or her money back. The Seefelds left the Waldorf shortly after.
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Frederick von Gordon -Seefeld
Rhode Island
Narragansett Pier
Louisa C. Cammack
Seefeld
R. Holligan & Co
Broadway
Indictment Charged Murphy With Extortion Amid Strike
Charles Murphy of Keith and Murphy plumbers faces an indictment after a grand jury charged him with attempted extortion connected to a strike on Bing and Bing’s building project. Witnesses included Bing and Herzog, with ONeill admitting to calling the strike. A separate item notes M. R. Preston, jailed for murder, refusing the Socialist Labor presidential nomination and August Gillhaus named as proxy.
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Charles Murphy
Keith & Murphy
O'Neill
Bing
New York
Preston
Socialist Labor Party
National Executive Committee
M. R. Preston
August Gillhaus
Gillhaus
Daniel de Leon
Congress
Northwestern Orders 1000 Freight Cars
Chicago dispatch reports the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Company placed an order for one thousand new freight cars. The order was shared among three manufacturers to ensure prompt delivery across the fleet.
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Northwestern
Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company
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Mousley
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Bedford Avenue Congregational Church
J. L. Aylesbury
Cor‘cna Methodist Church
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Wickersham
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H. Addington Bruce
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Alan Brnghampton
B. R. Winslow
Roberta Hillyer, Coquette
Susie Bouchelle Wight
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