City Police Reform Plan Backed by Mayor
Mayor Low names Partridge Philbin and Andrews to a commission to draft amendments for police administration. He argues for easier removal of corrupt or incompetent officers, praises current gains against vice, and outlines plans to study platoon changes and trial administration while urging improved coordination with courts and finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Low
Partridge
Eugene A. Philbin
Avery D. Andrews
Po Cee
New York Sunday liquor laws redefine hotel sales and police duties
The text explains the updated excise law allowing Sunday liquor sales in hotels with meals, while bars must avoid serving in the barroom. It outlines hotel definition, door locks, raised screens, and restricted access, noting about one in five saloons now legally selling on Sundays. It discusses police responsibilities to enforce hotel-licensed openings and to avoid overreach in a cosmopolitan city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookyn
Roosevelt
Police Commission
City of
New York
Strong
Mayor Low Starts Three-Week Vacation at Bar Harbor
Mayor Low begins a three week vacation aboard his yacht Surprise to Bar Harbor. While away he will suspend official duties with President Fornes as Acting Mayor who cannot make appointments or dismissals for thirty days, returning around September 3.
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Mayor Low
Bar Harbor
President Fornes
Fornes
Police crack down on Raines law hotels in The Bronx and Harlem
Acting under Commissioner Partridge orders, police target Raines law hotels not meeting room counts and fire safety. Forty hotel keepers appeared in Harlem court after summonses. magistrate Zeller Most gave two weeks to comply. Investigations expand beyond Harlem toward Newark and The Battery.
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Partridge
Bronx
Harlem
Harlem Court
Zeller
Baker
Morrisania
J. J. Ward
Tremont
Lynch and Loyle
Bergen
Bronx Park
Harlem River
Battery
Newark
Raines Law
City Health Report Shows Lower Death Rate and Disease Trends
The Department of Health report for the week ending August 2 shows a death rate of 19.41 per 1000, down from 24.52 last year. Richmond Staten Island had the highest rate at 32.45, while Manhattan’s total deaths were 1,365, down from 1,662 last year. Cases of tuberculosis led infections at 223, with diphtheria and croup at 186 and measles dropping from 612 to a lower level. smallpox nearly disappeared with 4 cases last week and typhoid rose to 63.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Health
Queens
Richmond
Staten Island
Manhattan
Death of Clarence Horton in the Philippines confirmed
Clarence Frost Horton, 30, engineer and U S Army captain, supervisor of La Union province in the Philippines, died July 21. Born February 10, 1873 in Peekskill, he studied at local schools and Columbia University. He married Bertha Carrick of Delmar on December 1, 1900. His remains were confirmed by War Department dispatches to his brothers in Peekskill.
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Clarence Frost Horton
San Fernando
Province of
la Union
Philippine Islands
War Department
Washington
Peekskill
Horton
United States
Mr. Horton
Ezra J. Horton
Highland Democrat
Eastern State Journal
White Plains
Oakside School
Peekskill Military Academy
School of Mines
Columbia College
C. E
M. E
Philippines
Bertha Carrick
Delmar
Albany County
Greek King Welcomes Olympian Games Delegates
King George of Greece received Judge John B. Payne Laverne W. Noyes and Henry J. Furbish Jr the Olympian games delegates from Chicago at the Hotel Splendide in Aix les Bains France. The half hour interview yielded the king's personal support and pledge to spur Greek interest in the events.
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Aix-les-Bains
France
King George
Greece
John B. Payne
Laverne W. Noyes
Henry J. Furbish, Jr
Chicago
Splen- Rae
Mayor Low to Appoint Man to Polich Law Post
Avery D. Andrews named as a potential appointee in the mayor’s plan to fill a public law position. Photo credit Prince.
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Low
Who Owns the Money In Cuba Loot Case
Washington debates who holds about 6.30 dollars seized from Charles F. W. Neely after his Cuban postal fund theft arrest. The cash and negotiable papers were sent to General Leonard Wood in Cuba then returned to the War Department. Secretary Root may not use or surrender funds absent Congress orders. Neely, pardoned by Estrada Palma, plans to sue for title, with possible Cuban counterclaims.
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Darin
Department of Street Cleanine
Bureau of Final Disposition
Wood- Mayor
Woodbury
Washington
Charles F. W. Neely
Post Office Department
Cuba
Neely
Leonard Wood
Wood
Havana
War Department
Secretary Root
Congress
Estrada Palma
Root
Postoffice
Postoffice Department
State Department
Palma
Treasury reforms expand duty free reentries on foreign goods
Secretary Shaw moves to reform customs by allowing free re entry of foreign manufactured items on proper safeguards. Articles must be registered at export and fully identified on return, with certificates issued to owners. Washington and New York officials receive instructions as the department ends the rule that duty is due on every importation.
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Shaw
Treasury Department
Custom House
Lecies
Washington
Rotary Customs
New York
Srtment
Baldwin defends Arctic voyage amid critics in interview
Tromson Norway August 7 Evelyn B Baldwin the arctic explorer said reports of difficulties on board the America during the Baldwin Ziegler expedition are incorrect. He called criticisms premature after only one year of a planned five year expedition and affirmed continued efforts to reach the North Pole.
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Tromson
Norway
Evelyn B. Baldwin
America
Baldwin-Ziegler
Baldwin
North Pole
Famine in Galician Peasants and Rising Colombian Duties
A Vienna dispatch reports famine mortality among Eastern Galicia agricultural laborers and a strike demand for higher wages with clashes between strikers and the military. Reports cite deaths and injuries in confrontations, while another note confirms a 50 percent rise in Colombian customs duties effective July 1.
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Vienna
Galicia
Neue Freie Presse
Neue
Freie Presse
London
Daily Express
Lemberg
Warships to Visit Corea From Che Foo
Rear Admiral Evans sails from Che Foo China with the Kentucky New Orleans Vicksburg and Helena bound for Chemulpo Corea on a routine cruise. Navy Department says no special significance attached to the voyage.
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Washington
Evans
Navy Department
Che-Foo
China
Chemulpo
Corea
Kentucky
New Orleans
Vicksburg
Helena
Moody takes guests aboard Dolphin for Newport maneuvers
Secretary Moody will sail with his guests on the Dolphin to join the North Atlantic Squadron off Newport Rhode Island for a week of open sea evolutions. Representatives Cannon of Illinois and others from the House, and Senator Hale of Maine, will observe to study naval operations and vessel types.
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Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Tracewell
Controller of the Treasury
Committee On Naval Affairs of
House
Newport
R. I
Moody
Dolphin
Naval Appropriations
Congress
Fleck Island
Cannon
Ilinois
Hopag
Illinois
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Meyer
Uisiana
Dayton
West Virginia
Memrs
Hale
Mainerman
Senate Committee On Naval
Moody Visits Charlestown Navy Yard Inspection Tour
Secretary Moody inspected the Charlestown Navy Yard in Foston on August 7. He was greeted with honors, met with officers, and toured the drydock with Civil Engineer Holliday before reviewing the prison and other departments.
Officers ordered to report for duty on battleship maneuvers
Acting Secretary Sanger directs Lieutenant Colonel William Livermore and Captain Charles S Bramwell of the engineer corps to report to the navy for duty on a battleship or cruiser during the coming maneuvers. They will observe from the enemy’s viewpoint and assist as umpires to judge each service’s performance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sanger
Wiliam R. Livermore
Charles S. Bramwell
Engineer Corps
Navy
The Pious Fund Arbitration Opens at The Hague
Washington notes preliminaries set at the State Department for The Pious Fund case arbitration at The Hague. Arbitrators include Sir Edward Fry and F de Martens for the US, Pacano Guainas and Savornin Lohman for Mexico, who will pick an umpire if needed. The American delegation sails from New York soon with Judge Penfield and Henry V. Armes arranging arrival for the group on August 16.
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Washington
State Department
Hague
Ficus Fund
Phe
United States
Sir Edward Fry
Court of Appeals of
England
F. de Martens
Russia
Mexico
Pacano Guainas
Court of Cassation
Italy
Savornin Lohnman
Trinidad Sugar Industry Faces Severe Loss, AG Says
Washington reports Alvin Smith transmits Attorney General’s statement on Trinidad sugar showing industry in Cuba level of distress. Net loss per ton $126 at $335 price, 60,000 tons exported, total loss about $778,640. Government may loan up to £50,000 with conditions and a possible refund to planters for past taxes. Loans to be first charge on estates, limited to those needing funds for cultivation.
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the Tribune
Washington
Alvin Smith
Trinidad
Cuba
Devery Versus Croker Sheehan Tammany Feud in IXth District
Ex Judge Van Hoesen predicts Devery will beat Goodwin and Sheehan in September primaries. He notes Devery spends generously and promises favorable treatment for the IXth District if elected. Sheehan allies plan countermeasures as Croker foes warn of Deveryism hurting Democrats in New York County.
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George M. van Hoesen
Tammany Hall General Committee
Devery
Goodwin
Tammany
John C. Sheehan
Greater New York Democracy
van Hoesen
Messrs
Sheehan
Ixth
Tammany Hall
Smith
Pequod Club
Friends
Croker
River to Pump Its Own Water in California Delta Plan
Washington reports a plan by J B Lippincott of the US Geological Survey to have the King's River irrigate and reclaim land by pumping its own water. Proposed reservoirs on tributaries and a 1800 horsepower plant would send power 45 miles to the delta, enabling irrigation of new lands and adding about 200000 acres of fertile acreage.
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Washington
King’s River
California
J. B. Lippincott
United States Geological Survey
King's River
Fresno
Sierra Nevada
Lippincott
Sierras
Try TE
Colored Home and Hospital to be Renamed Lincoln Hospital
Justice Steckler granted the Colored Home and Hospital in Forestave, between 141st and 142nd Streets, permission to drop the title and assume the name Lincoln Hospital. Trustees said white patients avoided the facility due to the word colored and the change would remove prejudice and attract patients.
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Colored Home and Hospital
Forestave
Steckler
Supreme Court
Lincoln Hospital
Power Witness Hearing Delayed As Power Remains Missing
The Peter Power contempt case against Northern Pacific directors continued without the defendant’s presence. Attorney George Lamb urged adjournment pending Power’s arrest, while Pinkerton detectives and Marshal Henkel hunted Power across the country.
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Peter Power
Northern Pacific
Mabey
United States Circuit Court
Federal
George Alfred Lamb
John A. Gier
J. P. Morgan & Co
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Lamb Cross
Camille Weidenfeld
Guthrie
Lamb
United States
Marshal Henkel
Mr. Power
Mr. Guthrie
Mr. Lamb
Mr. Henkel
Pinkerton
West Hurley
N. Y
Power
Canada
Major Waller to Defend Him in Court Martial
Erie Pa Aug 7 Major L W T Waller Marine Corps of Philippine fame is expected to defend Charles W Penrose assistant paymaster US Navy on the steamer Michigan. Penrose faces charges of false returns embezzlement neglect absence from station and illegal checks drawn in favor of the Ebbitt House Washington with alleged shortage of 96 dollars. The court convened in the US Circuit Court room Government Building with a panel of officers led by Paymaster E B Rogers as judge advocate. Penrose awaiting arrival of his attorney.
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Erie
Penn
Charles W. Penrose
United States Navy
United States
Michigan
United States Circuit Court Room
Government Building
Perry Garst
Read Frazer
William F. Halsey
Edward F. Leiper
W. H. Chambers
E. W
Ebbitt House
Washington
General Smiths Trip to the East Quiet Departure
General Jacob Smith and his wife departed San Francisco for the East in a quiet move that few people noticed. The general left the city today, August 7, with plans not disclosed.
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San Francisco
Jacob Smith
O'Brien Faces Hearing In Perjury Case In Mass
Ex Corporal Richard J. O'Brien of North Adams was arrested and had a brief hearing before U S Commissioner Wood in Pitsfield. The case was postponed to resolve bail. He was moved to the House of Correction and faces a forthcoming trial based on testimony before a Senate committee.
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Pitsfield
Mass
Richard J. O'Brien
North Adams
United States
Wood
O'Brien
O’brien
House of Correction
O' Bien
Preme Court of
District of Columbia
Maintaining Army Discipline in the Philippines Courts Martial
A Washington summary reports Philippine court martial results with 27 dishonorable discharges 21 forfeitures of pay 115 other punishments 110 fines and 3 likely sentences. Charges include murder assault and attempted assault, though most were for trivial offences from Filipino complaints, with some cases carrying severe penalties including death.
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Washington
Philippines
Islands
Manila
Likely Papal Delegate to the Philippines Is Guidi
Rome August 7 reports suggest Monsignor Guidi is the favored candidate for the Philippines apostolic delegate. Earlier dispatches cited a preference for an American prelate, though Italy on August 5 claimed Guidi had been appointed.
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Rome
Philippines
Monsignor Guidi
Associated Press
Cloe
Mi Guidi
Italia
Signor Guidi
Death in Old Feud Rocks Jackson County
In Jackson County Tennessee an old feud between the Carter and Lynch families ends with deaths and injuries. Jim Highpeach and Brooks Carter are killed, John Carter wounded, Richmond shot in the wrist during a country store fight as talk of an election sparked gunplay. The Carter brothers are under arrest and further trouble is feared.
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Nashville
Tenn
Jim
Highpeach
Brooks Carter
John Carter
Richmond
Jackson County
Carter
Lynch
Brooks
John
Jim” Highpeach
Boyd
Leslie Lynch
Yaoistols
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Brooklyn
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Prince
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Pach Bros
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Legation
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MR. Moody
Charlestown Navy Yard
Pious Fund
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Trinidatus Sugar Industry
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Correction
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Frank
Democratic
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Frank J. Goodwin
King's River Valley
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Penrose
General Smith
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Gould
O'rien
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Sth Infantry
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Charles S. Riley
Monsignor
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