Panic on Patten Line Steamer After Pivot Break
Two hundred passengers of the Little Silver fled in panic as the iron walking beam pivot broke, causing a shower of steam and a near-sinking scare. No injuries reported. crew restored order and towed to West Thirteenth Street pier. The incident follows a similar Patten Line accident earlier in the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patten Line
Little Silver
Roberts
Long Branch
Sandy Hook
Atlantic Highlands
Crest
West Thirteenthst
L. Reinman
Avenue A
Bart” Edwards
Rumored Railroads Buyouts Move Markets
Wall Street buzzed over a potential merger between Louisville and Nashville and Illinois Central via holding company control by J P Morgan & Co. Reports cited Harris Gates & Co transferring 200000 L & N shares to Morgan, with Harriman expanding Illinois Central holdings. Prices swung as Louisvill e and Nashville rose from 145 to 149 and Illinois Central from 16 to 16 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Nashville
Silkois Central
Wall Street
Louisville and Nashville
J. P. Morgan & Co
Harris, Gates & Co
John W. Gates
E. H. Harriman
Illinois Central
Morgan
Clinois Central
Lovsville
Foreman Thrown From Roof in West Forties Construction
Patrick Barry, a 42 year old laborer, allegedly threw Herman Brosky from a two story building at 224 West Fortyninth Street injuring him seriously. Barry fled and Brosky is at Roosevelt Hospital as police hunt for the assailant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Barry
East Sixteenth St
Avenue A
Herman Brosky
Myer Hellman
Brosky
Roosevelt Hospital
Barry
Kelley
West Forty-seventh St
Elley
Milliken
William Lohmeyer
Buffalo Elevator Pool Ends Rivalry with Unified Rates
Buffalo officials announce a settlement uniting Elevator Owners' Association and Western Elevating Company into a single pool. All elevators in the merged pool adopt a half cent per bushel rate, though the Great Northern 2,000,000 bushel capacity remains outside the pact. Earlier fights saw prices dip to one eighth of a cent per bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
Elevator Owners’ Association
Western Elevating Company
Great Northern
Marconi seeks injunction over wireless telegraphy rights
The Marconi company serves papers in U S court seeking a permanent and temporary injunction to stop the rival company from using its wireless telegraph system. The suit outlines patent history from 1897 through 1901 and argues substantial profits and costly stations in the U S and Europe. The defendant's counsel contends there is no grounds for infringement, noting fundamental system differences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Forrest Wireless Telegraph Company
United States
Marconi
Wireless Telegraph Company of America
Marconi Company
Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company, Limited
London
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited
London Corporation
Wireless Telegraph Company of
America
Europe
Butler
Knabe & Butler
Pirates of Elizabethport Target Coal Trade Suit
Edward Dalton sues Whitney and Kenmeier for freight in a suit to be heard in U S court. He bears a hip wound from past pirate attacks as detectives investigate a band patrolling Jersey waters boarding coal barges and seizing cargo. The Legal Aid Society backs the case with Clark Abbott noting widespread piracy tied to coal sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney & Kenmeier
United States
Elizabethport
N. J
Edward Dalton
Dalton
Legal Aid Society
Jersey
Clark H. Abbott
City Club Home Plans Filed For New Club Building
Plans for the City Club home at the club site bought by City Club Realty Co were filed at the Bureau of Buildings. Architects Lord & Hewlett, chosen by the club, design a fireproof seven and a half story steel and granite structure on West Forty fourth street for the club's use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Club
City Club Realty Company
West Forty-fourth-st
Bureau of Buildings
Lord & Hewlett
Carlisle Not to Divide Funds in Porto Rico Claims
Justice Greenbaum granted a temporary injunction at the request of Charles C. Leeds restraining John G. Carlisle Henry M Ward and Hernand Behn from distributing or using Treasury funds designated for Court of Claims claims related to Porto Rico customs duties after its acquisition. Leeds alleges a 1900 agreement with Ward Carlisle to split proceeds, with Behn taking 25 percent and Leeds and Ward Carlisle sharing the rest. Carlisle now claims Leeds has no interest and intends to divide warrants himself. The dispute centers on approximately $200,000 at stake and about $20,000 in warrants collected to date, largely held by Carlisle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Charles C. Leeds
John G. Carlisle
the Treasury
Henry M. Ward
Hernand Behn
Treasury Department
Court of Claims
Ward
Behn
Porto Rico
Mr. Leeds
United States
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds
Ward & Carlisle
Carlisle
Treasury
Bonynge
Mr. Carlisle
Woman Hit With Seven Husbands Claim in Alimony Suit
In Supreme Court Justice Steckler's chamber, Thomas E. Elliott alleges Helen Towle Elliott has married six men after him, including Duncan, Peck, Whipple, Markwith, Mason Smith, and Totten, with various arrests and convictions cited. Mrs. Elliott counters she believed Elliott dead and admits some marriages, claiming ongoing conflict over money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Steckler
Supreme Court
Thomas E. Elliott
Helen ©. Elliott
Elliott
Helen Towle
Hever
Ellen Towle
August Co. Duncan
Ellott
George Peck
Ellen Co. Duncan
Jersey City
Snake Hill Penitenttiary
Charles Whipple
Helen ¢. Peck
Helen Whipple
John Markwith
Orange
N. J
Markwith
M. Mason Smith
Downesville
Elliott Sans
Helen Smith
Waiton
William Totten
Duncan
Smith
Totten
City Club's New Home Planned at West Forty-fourth
The City Club will build at 55 and 57 West Forty-fourth Street a terra cotta brick building costing about 175000. It features a large first floor reception hall and billiard room, private dining rooms, a women's dining room, and a civics library for University Settlement Society and related groups. The second floor hosts a 100 by 42 foot dining hall for 300, with upper floors containing sleeping rooms and a roof garden. excavation is complete and completion is targeted for May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Settlement Society
Civil Service Reform Association
Women’s Municipal League
Boy Cured of Lockjaw At Harlem Hospital
Joseph Tiernan nine years old of Fifth Avenue was discharged after treatment for lockjaw at Harlem Hospital. Doctors injected antitoxin into the spinal cord rather than the brain, giving ten cubic centimetres daily. The jaw loosened by the fifteenth day and nourishment resumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem Hospital
Joseph Tiernan
No. 2
Fifth-ave
Tiernan
Mike” Tiernan
New York
Harlem
William T. Bevings
John J. Slevin
Teenager Lacey Dies by Poison After Grandmother’s Death
West Hoboken seventeen year old William Lacey killed himself with carbolic acid, reportedly tied to grief over his grandmother Mrs. Gerrity who died of apoplexy last Sunday. Lacey, employed at a New York wholesale drug house, died at North Hudson Hospital, after leaving a farewell letter to his mother. His funeral is set for next Sunday beside his grandmother’s grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Hoboken
North Hudson Hospital
William Lacey
Central Ave
New York
Gerrity
No. 248
Boulevard
Lacey
Grove Church Cemetery
Raid at Stewart Building Nets Bets and Bookmaking Ring
Police led by Captain Wendel and Detectives Rauth Finn Bernstein and Burns raided a Chambers and Centre saloon run by Andrew Berger arresting George A Wallace for running a handbook and Berger for permitting gambling. In room No 2 of the Stewart Building detectives seized a money roll of 1400 dollars and twelve envelopes with 7945 dollars believed winnings. McDonald McCarthy James Jones and Berger detained. McDonald alleged head of the betting ring. Bail set at 500 for McDonald and Wallace. others discharged for lack of evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendel
Elizabeth St
Rauth
Finn
Bernstein
Burns
Chambers and
Centre Sts
Andrew Berger
George A. Wallace
Berger
Stewart Building
Walter Mack
Baker
James McDonald
James McCarthy
John Jones
McDonald
Spitz
Saratoga
Wallace
Flammer
Tombs
McCarthy
Jones
Minister's Son Takes Stage In Vaudeville Return
Charles S. Walsh son of Rev A Stewart Walsh of Brooklyn abandons coal and real estate to perform on the vaudeville stage with his wife Miss Jennie Suammis. They signed contracts for the rest of summer and next season as debts rose and profits lagged. The minister-turned-politician father is active in Republican campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charless. Walsh
A. Stewart Walsh
Brooklyn
Jennie Suammis
Walsh
The
Minery
Riot Committee Organizes After Funeral Riots
A citizens committee appointed by Mayor Low met at Edward B. Whitney’s office to organize and plan public meetings. Whitney named chairman with members W H Baldwin Jr Nathan Bijur Louis Marshall and Thomas L Mulry. He said the group would likely hold public meetings next week and would seek any information from Colonel Partridge or others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citizens’ Committee
Low
Rabbi Joseph
Edward B. Whitney
Wallst
Whitney
W.H. Baldwin, Jr
Nathan Bijur
Louis Marshall
Thomas L. Mulry
Yee
Yee and District Attorney
Olonel Partridge
Judge condemns grand jury habit in Slackinoff case
Judge Foster denounces indictments without evidence after Frederick Slackinoff, 18, is tried for jewel thief Benjamin Cooper’s pickpocket claim near Grand Street ferry. Court orders acquittal and warns of unjust indictments, while Greenbaum delays commitment of Harris Schnitzer for further medical proof of mental condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster
Court of General Sessions
Frederick Slackinoff
Ridgest
Benjamin Cooper
Grand-ave
Brooklyn
Grand-st. Ferry
Slackinoff
Cooper
Fortes
Deutschland Still Holds The Record In Atlantic Run
Experts from the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American Line conclude the Deutschland retains the fastest Atlantic crossing time and highest average speed. They deem Kronprinz Wilhelm’s claimed record erroneous and uphold Deutschland’s superiority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd
Kronprinz Wilhelm
North German
Lloyd Steamship Company
Hamburg-American Line
Deutschland
Atlantic
Last Grand Rally For 28th NY Veterans At Culpeper
The 28th Regiment New York Volunteers hold its Culpeper Virginia reunion to dedicate a newly erected Cedar Mountain battlefield monument. Veterans expect the event to be the last grand rally with speakers Col. E. F. Brown Orin Brown and Gen Horatio King. monument to be presented to the United States via S. S. Margin and accepted by Col. T. E. True. A battlefield visit tomorrow features Capt. C. M. Blackford on Gen Jackson’s staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
28Th Regiment
N. Y
Culpeper
Cedar Mountain
E. F. Brown
W. T. Williams
Orin B
Mayor’s Marshal Rules On License Revocation Case
Mayor’s Marshal Brown held a hearing on the Legal Aid Society bid to revoke the license of 113 First St proprietor 5. 5. Schwartz of Atlantic Shipping Co. Complainants Solomon Sasson and Nathan Goldman alleged paying $25 for muleteer positions to South Africa. Upon arrival in New Orleans they found the war over. Co. H. Graham Jr. represented the Legal Aid Society. The marshal noted a prior district court dismissal and adjourned the case indefinitely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshal Brown
Legal Aid Society
Schwartz
Atlantic Shipping Company
No. 113
First St
Solomon Sasson
Nathan Goldman
South Africa
New Orleans
Co. H. Graham, Jr
Thirteenth Site Offered for New Postal Building
Washington dispatch reports a broker for Abram S. Hewitt offered a Lexington Avenue tract between Forty second and Forty third streets owned by Cooper Union for $700,000 The Ogden Goelet estate trustee offered the Grand Central Palace block at Lexington Avenue Forty third and Forty fourth streets and Depew Place for about $1 3 million The Post Office seeks a site near Grand Central Station within a $1 500 000 appropriation but faces congressional hurdles
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postoffice Department
Washington
Abram S. Hewitt
Lexington-ave
Forty-second
Forty-third
Cooper Union
George F. DeWitt
Ogden Goelet
Lexington Ave
Forty-fourth Sts
Depew Place
Grand Central Palace
Post Office Department
Congress
Grand Central Station
Excise Department Reports Liquor Tax Receipts Total
Albany shows Excise Commissioner Cullinan reporting receipts under the liquor tax law from May 1, 1898 to July 1, 1902 amounting to $85,288,119.72. The figure covers the department since its organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Cullinan
Viscount on last lap of historic world overland trip
The Viscount de Clinechamp, French member of the De Windt Mission, sails home aboard La Bre tagne finishing the first around-the-world overland trek started December 1, 1901 from Paris. Two companions remain en route, Rastorguevs in Vladivostok and Harding in a roundabout return. The party began on the trans Siberian route to Irkoutsk then Behring Strait by dogsled to Cape Nome, Yukon to Dawson City, with two English members heading to California. Albert Chapin, Santos-Dumont’s chief machinist, returns to France to supervise airship No 7 for the St Louis Exhibition after preparing Santos-Dumont No 6 for the voyage to the Battery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscount de Clinechamp
de Windt
Paris
la Bretagne
Harding
M. Rastorgugeus
Vladivostok
Russia
France
Irkoutsk
Siberia
East Cape
Behring Strait
New French Consul Arrives After Quarantine
Maurice Soufflot de Magny arrives as the new French consul for the city after two days on Hoffman Island in quarantine per port health rules. He sailed from Havana aboard the Morro Castle on Tuesday and has 35 years in diplomacy with postings in Constantinople Lisbon Rome Valparaiso and Havana. In 1870 he represented France in the dispute with Chile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoffman Island
Maurice Soufflot de Magny
M. de Magny
Havana
Morro Castle
Cuba
Constantinople
Lisbon
Rome
Valparaiso
France
Chili
Two Drowned in Housatonic Skiff Capsize at Stratford
Stratford Conn Aug 7 Captain George Culliver aged 55 and Miss Iva Muller aged 23 were drowned when a skiff capsized on the Housatonic River near the Pootauck Beat Club house. Culliver's body was recovered. Both were strong swimmers and authorities believe the strong current held them underwater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford, Conn
George Culliver
Iva Muller
Housatonic
Pootauck
Culliver
State reserves cash to cover all 1903 needs without borrowing
Albany Aug. 7 The State Comptroller says the state has about 8 million in cash available for appropriations earning 2 to 3 percent. By Oct 1 1902 there will be a surplus of 7.5 million if current appropriations are met, and no borrowing will be needed in the year ending Oct 1 1903 leaving 3 to 4 million in treasury.
Police Commissioner's Aide Titans Patrol Duty Findings
Three patrolmen were tried for neglect of duty in New York City. A patrolman from West Thirtieth Street Station was dismissed on the spot for two and a half hours off duty at Proctor's Theatre. Colonel Thurston recommended dismissal and Commissioner Partridge approved the judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Partridge
Ois
Twenty-fourth St
Proctor’s
Russell
Thurston
Roundsman Jones
Harley
Twenty-fourth-st
Sixth-ave
Forster
Two Men Burned On Third Avenue Elevated Rail Incident
Two workers were badly burned when a third rail shock occurred while repairing the southbound track near Twenty eighth Street on the Third Avenue elevated line. John Wolfert 28 and John Coughlin 36 suffered severe injuries with Coughlin in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Twenty-eighth-st
John Wolfert
Third-ave
John Coughlin
Tenth-ave
Coughlin
Wolfert
East
Bellevue Hospital
Wind Storm Razes Oceanic Hotel at Carolina Beach
A fierce wind storm near Carolina Beach destroyed the Hotel Oceanic at 9 PM injuring thirteen guests, with one possibly fatally hurt. Telegraph lines were down and roads blocked by debris. relief arrived by special boat to Wilmington around 4 AM with medical aid and nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
N. C
Carolina Beach
Oceanic
Tracy's Last Daring Act Surfaces in Outlaw Tale
Davenport Washington August 7 curious crowds flock to view the body of Harry Tracy the dead outlaw Inquest likely to wrap tomorrow as Oregon witnesses arrive The body may go to Spokane then Salem for burial Tracy's guns may go to Creston posse Relic items already given McGregor Wilbur livery keeper identifies Tracy as the man who visited his stable last Friday night He says Tracy had two horses a rifle and a bundle left with him before riding away after paying his bill and eating in town
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Wash
Harry Tracy
Oregon
Spokane
Salem
Ore
Tracy
Creston Posse
Mr. McGregor
Wilbur
Bundle
Rifte
B and O Notifies Western Maryland of Traffic Split
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad serves notice to Western Maryland Railroad that it will discontinue business turned over at Cherry Run. The move appears as retaliation in a broader fight with Pennsylvania Railroad and Gould interests over trunk-line plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Western Maryland Railroad Company
Cherry Run
Pennsylvania Railroad
Western Marylan
Goulds
Baltimore and Ohio
Pennsylvania
Spencerport Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Settlement
Spencerport New York marks its centennial with historical notes on founder George W Willey and early settlers. The piece recalls initial log homes, the Phelps and Gorham purchase, early mills, schools, churches, and Civil War service as the town celebrates a century since 1802 settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencerport
N. Y
New-York
George W. Willey
Connecticut
Colby
Willeys
Dillinghams
Pleasant Hill
Phelps and Gorham
James Wensworth
Geneseo
Presbyterian Church
Willey
Dillingham
Esther Clark
Peter van Nest
New York
Philadelphia
Webster's Basin
Body of Frank Sprague Found Near Moravia
The 24 year old Frank Sprague of Binghamton was found dead at the Moravia outlet of Sylvan Lake after attending a Firemen's Convention. His skull was fractured and a large sum of money believed stolen was on him. Police suspect homicide and robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N. Y
Frank Sprague
Binghamton
Moravia
Sylvan Lake
Sprague
Physician Dies at Mountain View Camp in N Y
Malone New York report states Dr J L Brunell a leading Montreal physician died suddenly last night at his Mountain View camp due to heart disease. He had been in camp at Mountain View, New York, before death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malone
N. Y
J. L. Brunell
Montreal
Mountain View
Americans Find The New York Tribune Abroad This Year
Americans traveling in Europe and Great Britain can buy The New York Tribune at hotel book stalls reading rooms and major railroad stations across the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
New-York Tribune
Great Britain
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J. P. Morgan
Flower Hospital
MYS
Axel Eberston
Eberston
New Rochelle
County
Ebereton
DE Forrest Wireless Company
West Forty-Fourthst
Boy
Stewart
Handbook Men
Charles S. Walsh
Brook
LYN
Troy Steel Plant
A. F. Ponovan, OF
ST. Louis
Troy Steel Company
Breaker Island
Albany County
Troy
Rensselaer County
Guarantee Trust Company of
A. PF. Donovan
Continuous Rail Joint Company of America
Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Company
Witherbees
Port Henry
H. H. Rogers
Standard Oil Company
Justice Foster
Harris Schnitzer
Hyman Schnitzer
Charles G. F. Wahle
Staten Island Road
New
Richmond Street Railway Company
Richmond Borough
New York City
Staten Island Electric Railway Company
Waldo 8. Reed
Englewood
William T. Newkirk
Paterson
Cornelius W. van Voorhis
Mariner's
Arthur G. Whitman
Newark
Lewis H. Knapp
Freeport
Nassau County
Excise Department
SION
Nathan L. Miller
Maryland
Little Western
New-York Town
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