Destruction of Metropolitan Street Railway Books Sparks Inquiry
Officials say old ledgers were moved from the vaults after a 1902 lease and sold to a paper dealer for destruction, a move officials and lawyers call remarkable and potentially criminal. District Attorney Ivins may probe, with implications for the Interborough merger and future inquiries.
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Lower Broadway
Tribune
Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Wiliam M. Ivins
New York City
Willcox
Public Service Commission
Commission
Metropolitan
Ivins
Interborough Metropolitan
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Fulton Street
Second Avenue
State Railroad Commission
New York City Railway Company
Theodore P. Shonts
Shonts
New York
Root Seeks Rest at Muldoon Sanatorium Near White Plains
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of State Elihu Root traveled to William Muldoon’s sanatorium near White Plains for rest due to overwork and constant visitors at his Clinton home. President Roosevelt reportedly visited by yacht to check on Root’s health, while officials deny any Roosevelt trip to the sanitarium.
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Tribune
Washington
Elihu Root
William Muldoon
White Plains
N. Y
New York
Hay
Lake Sunapee
Root
Clinton
Muldoon
Mexico
Senate
Bureau of Insular Affairs
War Department
General Edwards
Edwards
Department of State
Iteam
Reot
William
State Department
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Larchmont
Westchester
Loeb
Mr. Roosvelt
Provincetown
Pacific Fleet to Sail for the Pacific in December
An official statement from Secretary Loeb, at President Roosevelt's direction, says the Atlantic battleship fleet will depart for the Pacific in December. Sixteen battleships will travel via the Straits of Magellan to San Francisco, possibly visiting Puget Sound, with a destroyer flotilla leaving about the same time.
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Tribune
Oyster Bay
Loeb
Straits of Magellan
San Francisco
Puget Sound
Pacific
Newberry
Evans
Brownson
Leupp
Sandwich
Syosset
Glenn threats to annul Southern lease over rate dispute
Governor Glenn, back from New York rate hearing, says the new two and a quarter cent freight rate will hold on the North Carolina Railroad. If the Southern blocks the rate, he will seek to annul the Southern’s lease of the North Carolina Railroad, a 99 year agreement once held by Richmond & Danville and later by the Southern. The railroad, formed after the Civil War, runs Charlotte to Greensboro and has long faced lease challenges and fraud claims. Colonel W. S. Lusk urged nullification if the Southern failed to obey rate laws.
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Glenn
New York
North Carolina
Southern
North Carolina Railroad Company
Charlotte
Greensboro
Richmond
Danville
D. L. Russell
Russell
W. S. Lusk
Cortelyou Aids Money Market With Weekly Deposits
Secretary Cortelyou unveils a plan to deposit government funds weekly in New York, Boston and other cities for five weeks to ease money market strain during the crop moving period. He aims to prevent panic by using securities acceptable under current rules and to return funds after January 1, avoiding last minute shocks.
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New York
Boston
Secretary For Monetary Relief
Treasuryment
Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury Department
Huntington
Long Island
Treasury
Aldrich
Europe
Wall Street
Russian Mutiny Feared In Navy And Army
Odessa reports a commission of naval and military experts led by General Kolodovsky has been tasked with an urgent inspection of the entire Russian navy and Russia fortresses. Authorities conceal the reason, but fear a broad mutiny after revolutionary propaganda among sailors and soldiers.
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Odessa
Russia
Koladovsky
Stillman Family Gifts Hospital Addition in Lisieux
In Lisieux France August 23 the Stillman family of New York presented an addition to the local hospital to aid accident cases especially automobile injuries. The gift honors Thomas E Stillman who died in the hospital a year ago from injuries in an automobile crash between Lisieux and Dives sur Mer. Foundations were laid today with Stillman and Markness representatives present. Mayor M Cheron thanked the givers and benefactors will be listed on a city tablet.
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Lisieux
France
Thomas FE. Stillman
New York
Thomas E. Stillman
Dives-sur-Mer
Stillman
Markness
M. Cheron
Giants Catcher Bowerman Hurt In Polo Grounds Game
In the second game between the Pirates and Giants at the Polo Grounds Frank Bowerman was struck on the head by a Camnitz pitch and carried off unconscious. Dr. Quinner said Bowerman's skull may be fractured. Christie Mathewson visited Bowerman at the hospital, showing concern for his teammate.
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Pirates
Giants
Polo Grounds
Frank Bowerman
Camnitz
Seymour
Lynch
Bowerman
Arthur Bell
Quinner
Washington Heights
Christie Mathewson
Woman mail carrier a heroine in Delaware incident
In Edgemoor near Wilmington on August 23 Mrs. L A Donahue the only rural mail carrier in Delaware confronted an escaping prisoner Samuel Stewart at Pennsylvania Railroad yards. After watchman Plum line corralled two other suspects Stewart fled but Donahue appeared with a mailbag drew a revolver and forced him to surrender before the watchman recaptured him.
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Tribune
Wilmington
Del
L. A. Donahue
Edgemooor
Delaware
Samuel Stewart
Stewart
Edgemoor
Pennsylvania Railroad
Plumline
Shell blast injures Jersey City children at Boyd avenue
A shell brought from the wreck of the battleship Maine exploded while children played outside No. 165 Boyd Avenue. Elden Kenney 11 suffered a severed hand and other injuries. Grace Ruddick 12 and George O Rourke 6 were burned and cut. Windows at 165 Boyd Avenue were broken. Grace and George were treated at home.
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Boyd Avenue
Jersey City
Elden Kenney
City Hospital
Grace Ruddick
George O'Rourke
Kenney
Elden
Charles Foley
Accident at Niagara injures five workers in flood
A cast iron elbow failed at Niagra Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company station 3 at 5 pm, sending a flood through the plant. Five men were badly hurt and hospitalized. none are reported to have died. The penstock is nine feet in diameter and two hundred feet high, capable of 10,000 horsepower.
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the Tribune
Niagara Falls
Great Bear Spring Water Purity Boosts Fame
Ad text proclaims Great Bear Spring Water purity making it famous. No date or location provided, but the claim emphasizes quality and brand recognition in a concise advertisement style.
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Great Bear
Frick Chimes Debut Impresses Pittsburg Church
The $12,000 Meneely chimes gifted by H. Frick to Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburg were played for the first time. Made in Troy, N Y they drew praise from many observers but offended some East End residents who questioned Mr Frick's choice of tunes and event.
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Telegraph
the Tribune
Pittsburg
H. ©. Frick
Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church
Meneely
Troy
N. Y
East End
Mr. Frick
Auto Plunges Over Embankment Into River Near Pittsfield
A touring car carrying Mr. and Mrs. EF N Shaw of Pittsfield Maine ran off a narrow highway at thirty miles per hour and plunged forty feet into the Sebasticook River. Shaw swam to the car and freed his wife who was pinned beneath the machine before both were brought to shore.
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the Tribune
Pittsfield
EF. N. Shaw
Sebasticook
Omaha Railway Fined 20000 for Rebates Judged in Minneapolis
A $20000 penalty was imposed on the Chicago St. Paul Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company and $2000 on former general freight agent Hiram M Pearce by Judge Page Morris in Minneapolis federal court. The company and Pearce were convicted in April for granting rebates to Spencer Grain Company on a fifty count indictment.
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Minneapolis
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Company
Hiram. M. Pearce
Page Morris
United States District Court
Omaha Road
Spencer Grain Company
Hanged by trolley rope injures boy in near tragedy
Christian Leuser ten, of 178 Onderdonk Avenue East New York, was nearly strangled when a trolley rope swung from a rear platform in Wyckoff Avenue near Myrtle Ridgewood. The rope wrapped his neck and dragged him several feet as two cars passed at high speed. He fainted but suffered no broken bones and should recover in about two weeks per an ambulance surgeon.
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Christian Leuser
Onderdonk Avenue
East New York
Wyckoff Avenue
Myrtle Avenue
Ridgewood
Leuser
Tug Crew Strike Expands in Hamburg Harbor
In Hamburg on August 23 the tugboat strike widened as about fifteen hundred workers remained off duty, disrupting harbor operations and prompting further protests over pay and conditions.
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Hamburg
Treshols
Bridge Collapses injuring four in West Orange
A covered bridge over Millers River in West Orange collapses while contractor Frederick H Nutting tears it down. Four workers are injured. rescuers from a Boston and Albany train crew and section bands pull them from the wreckage.
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Worcester
Mass
Orange
Millers River
West Orange
Frederick H. Nutting
Boston & Albany Railroad
Taft Comment on Foraker Speech at Georgetown
The Cincinnati Times-Star editorial contrasts the Taft and Roosevelt speeches with Senator Foraker's Georgetown address. It characterizes Foraker’s remarks as personal, partly apologetic, and aimed at political advantage, noting his shift toward becoming a troublemaker within his party.
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Tribune
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Times- Star
Charles P. Taft
Taft
Senator Foraker
Georgetown
Roosevelt
Foraker
Taft Entertained in St Louis During Stop
Secretary Taft arrived from Lexington Kentucky and was welcomed by Senator Warner former Judge Franklin Ferriss and others at Union Station. He greeted spectators and was escorted to the Planters Hotel for a breakfast then luncheon at the St Louis Club before boarding a train to Oklahoma City for a speech tomorrow.
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St. Louis
Taft
Lexington
Union Station
Senator Warner
Missouri
Franklin Ferriss
Planters’ Hotel
St. Louis Club
Oklahoma City
Pittsburg Buckets Shops Targeted by County Detective
County Detective George H. Waggoner said he would raid every bucket shop in Pittsburg tomorrow in defiance of the Mesta anti bucket shop bill. He classifies bucket shops with poker rooms and says there are scores of brokerage offices to shut. The city police deny any bucket shops exist and a clash with county authorities is anticipated.
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The
Tribune
Pittsburg
George H. Waggoner
Waggoner
Bis
Little
War Against Tramps
Pittsburg August 23 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company asks police magistrates justices of the peace and other police court holders to sentence tramps severely and send them to prison. The request follows the Ridgway wreck blamed on tramps and cites annual damages of 25 million dollars plus 25 000 deaths or injuries among tramps and others.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
United States
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Sets Sail With Record Passengers
A Hamburg America Line steamer departed Cherbourg at 8 p m carrying 2353 passengers, the largest first class ocean liner load to date. The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria has 1085 cabin passengers and 1278 steerage, totaling more than a town’s population, and is due in port August 31.
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Cherbourg
Julius P. Meyer
Hamburg- American Line
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Kaiserin
Machinists Demand for Higher Wages Refused
At a conference at No. 23 Broadway the executive committees of the International Association of Machinists and the Amalgamated Society of Engineers informed the New York and New Jersey Metal Trades Association that their demand for a 25 cent a day wage increase for seventeen thousand machinists had been refused.
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International Association of Machinists
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
No. 23
Broadway
New York and
New Jersey Metal Trades Association
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