Taft May Be Called as Witness in Ward Suit
William H. Taft may testify in a Supreme Court suit by sculptor J. Q. A. Ward against members of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland to recover 32500 for breach of contract over rejected models of an equestrian statue of General Philip H. Sheridan to be placed in Washington. Ward says the contract was with the Army of the Cumberland, not Mrs Sheridan, and defends against a 1905 transfer of interest to a Congress commission. The commission's membership included Taft, Wetmore, and Gen. Corbin. Brigadier General Hodges seeks a bill of particulars as Ward’s counsel plans to file tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam H. Taft
J. Q. A. Ward
Supreme Court
Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Philip H. Sheridan
Washington
Ward
Army of the Cumberland
Sheridan
Congress
William H. Taft
Senator Wetmore
Senate Library Committee
Henry ©. Corbin
John A. Dutton
Hurry & Dutton
William Street
Congress Commission
Henry ©. Hodges
Dutton
Knockout Drops in Cigarette Alarm Police Detectives
Brescia, 17, of East 17th street, says a stranger offered a cigarette at Madison Square Park on August 20 and after a few puffs he blacked out. Detectives Summers and Horan identified George Mascopule of West 29th street as a suspect, with the cigarette butt kept for analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old West 2Th Street
Gapano Brescia
No. 407 East 17Th Street
Brescia
Madison Square Park
Summers
Horan
George Mascopule
No. 138
West 29Th Street
Mounted Men Fire Two Towns in Raid
Aberdeen police report a raid by mounted men destroyed business sections of Lowry and Akaske on the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad Missouri River extension. A bank, store, pool hall at Lowry and six buildings at Alaska burned. Authorities link fires to horse thief suppression. fires started near midnight at Lowry and 3:39 a.m. at Alaska. Citizens on scene observed mounted men departing.
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Aberdeen
S& PD
Lowry
Akaske
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Missouri River
Alaska
Corset Steel Saves Woman After Auto Shooting
Mrs. Edward H. Graves of South Orange narrowly escaped serious injury when a stray bullet shattered the rear of her car in Llewellyn Park West Orange. The bullet hit a corset steel and deflected, causing only a bruise. She was with her five month old child and nurse. driver and nurse aided her to Essex County Country Club for medical check. Police identified the shooter as Harry L. Folsom of Wildwood Avenue.
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Tribune
Orange
N. J
Edward H. Graves
Scotland Road
South Orange
Broad Street
Llewellyn Park
West Orange
Harry L. Folsom
Wildwood Avenue
Graves
Essex County Country Club
Ralph H. Hunt
East Orange
Three More Arrests In Car Death
Three men were arrested late last night in the murder of an unidentified woman thrown or pushed in front of an Amsterdam avenue car during a robbery. The suspects were Frederick J. Morse of Boston, William J. Solon of Chelsea, and James Lambert of New York. John Dunn, previously arrested, was sent to the House of Detention, while the motorman and conductor remained in custody of a railroad official.
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Amsterdam Avenue
Frederick J. Morse
Duna Street
Boston
William J. Solon
Hawthorne Place
Chelsea
James Lambert
West 150Th Street
John Dunn
West 20Th Street
Debs barred from stoking on Red Special trip to Lemont
Debs, Socialist candidate, faces opposition from Chicago & Alton Railway managers who refuse to let him act as fireman on the Red Special to the Lemont Socialist picnic. Tickets were set at two dollars with an extra charge for Debs to serve as fireman, but officials insist he will not take charge of the locomotive under any circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
Lemont, Ill
Debs
Chicago & Alton Railway
Lemont
Metropolitan system cuts losses by shedding unprofitable lines
Receivers report closing costly leases and culling underperforming routes to restore solvency for the Metropolitan and Third Avenue networks. They seal the Fulton Street and Belt Line losses, reduce transfer revenue share, and project over 100000 dollars annual savings from reduced overtime charges, while facing possible rate rulings by the Public Service Commission.
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Third Avenue
Natural
New York City
Fulton Street Road
Tral Crosstown
Lic
Aprian H. Joline
Douglas Robinson
Travis H. Whitney
Vanderbilt Begins Patent Suit Over Circular Tank Car
JJ. Aug. 24. Suit was entered today in the circuit court by Vanderbilt of New York against the American Car and Foundry Company for infringement of patents. He seeks a injunction to stop further use and sale of certain car improvements he says he wholly owns. The patents cover a circular tank car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilt
New York
American Car and Foundry Company
Rep iques to druggists show board election clash
Clarence O Bigelow chair Eastern Board of Pharmacy argues against popular vote or political appointment for the state drug board while defending current inspection and society-based elections. Health official Dr Walter Bensel says current methods are adequate and warns appointive schemes would raise city costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence O. Bigelow
Eastern Board of Pharmacy
Tribune
Metz
Charter Revision Commission
Higelow
Walter Bensel
Health Department
Gillespie Company a party to water main bid suit
Justice Pound in the Supreme Court orders the Gillespie Company joined as a party defendant in Willis Holly's suit seeking to block John H. O'Brien from awarding the 72 inch water main contract from Valley Stream to Amityville Long Island. Holly argues Gillespie won due to favoritism or monopoly tying the lock bar system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillespie Company
Six Overcome by Smoke in Flushing Fire
A fire confined to Clarence Lewis's second floor room at Stapleton House in Lawrence Avenue Flushing yesterday morning. Six occupants were overcome by smoke and rescued by policemen including Lewis and his wife Mrs Richard Stapleton, Mr and Mrs Frederick Frank Edwin Gavin and William Hartman. Mrs Frank taken to Flushing Hospital.
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Clarence Lewis
Stapleton House
Lawrence Avenue
Flushing
Lewis
Richard Stapleton
Frederick Frank
Edwin Gavin
William Hartman
Frank
Flushing Hospital
Plans high speed in aeroplane flight test
New York aeronaut A M Herring denied plans to fly from the current location to Washington on the government delivery trip next month. He may tackle seventy to a hundred miles from Fort Myer and then fly the rest, but denied reaching one hundred miles an hour. He expects forty miles normal speed and warned winds and air currents affect balance. If accepted, the government must be taught two Army officers to operate the craft.
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A. M. Herring
New York
Washington
Fort Myer
McCafferty Attacks Wilkie Over Counterfeiters Case
Inspector McCafferty, head of the Detective Bureau, denounces reports attributed to Chief Wilkie and Captain Flynn of the Secret Service about uncovering George Williams, leader of a counterfeiters gang. Williams, arrested in Newark, says he preferred being caught locally and claims a blackmail attempt linked to a Waterman robbery.
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Flynn
George Williams
McCafferty
Detective Bureau
Wilkie
Federal Secret Service
Newark
Saturda
Jasper McCafferty
Secret Service
Willams
New York
Williams
Inspector McCafferty
Waterman Fountain Pen Company
Statendam and Kroonland Race to Sandy Hook in Atlantic Crossing
The Holland-Americanner Statendam and Red Star Line steamer Kroonland arrived within sight of each other after crossing the Atlantic. The Kroonland beat the Dutch rival to Sandy Hook by forty minutes, with quarantine delays leveling the final dash. The Statendam carried twenty two prize winners from a Western paper contest who enjoyed weeks in Paris.
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Statendam
Kroonland
Red Star Line
Atlantic
English Channel
Red Star
Sandy Hook
Paris
R. M. Egan
Springfield
Iil
New York
Chicago
Parta
Big steel plant changes hands in Brackenridge
The Allegheny Iron and Steel Company controlling interest at Brackenridge near Pittsburgh was sold by Captain Alfred Hicks to Harry F. Sheldon and Leechburg partners. Hicks reportedly received $500,000 cash and a forfeit for the rest of his holdings. The sheet mill has run with little interruption through the slump and holds orders to stay busy for a year.
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Leechburg
Penn
Allegheny Iron and Steel Company
Brackenridge
Pittsburg
Alfred Hicks
Harry FE
Sheldon
Kirkpatrick & Co
Mils
Hicks
Lawson Illness Strikes Boston Banker After Weekend Visit
Thomas W. Lawson III was taken ill Friday evening in his Young's Hotel apartment, and he was moved to Dreamwold only this evening. Physicians refuse to disclose the nature of his illness, withholding details from the press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Boston
Thomas W. Lawson
Young's
Minister in Tombs: Viennese Pastor Arrested for Larceny
The Rev. Emil Hagen formerly of Vienna, now in New York, took his roommate A. Stanowitz's suit to preach in Newark. He neglected to return it and was tried in the Court of Special Sessions on petty larceny with sentencing expected today or tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Hagen
Vienna
Hagen
New York
Dutch Reformed Church
Young Men's Christian Association
Second Avenue
A. Stanowitz
Lord Avenue Reformed Church
Newark
Mr. Hagen
Stanowitz
Hasen
Court of Special Sessions
Belgian mine expert arrives to study U S coal safety
Victor Watteyne, Belgian coal mine expert and chairman of the Belgian Bureau of Mines, arrived aboard the Red Star liner Kroonland as the guest of the American government. He will inspect large, unsafe U S mines and suggest safety improvements with two other foreign experts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Watterne
Bureau of Mines
America
A. Meisner
Germany
Congress
Watteyne
Stowaways Foiled by Wireless on Transatlantic Run
The Atlantic Transport reports two stowaways aboard the steamer Minneapolis after leaving London. A wireless alert to the Minnetonka caused it to alter course and rendezvous at sea. The stowaways were taken aboard the Minnetonka, while the Minneapolis carried six high school boys who had gone to London as cattle tenders to see the Olympic games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Minnetonka
Minneapolis
London
Minnesota
Traffic Policeman Arrested For Alleged Threat At Water Street
Frederick Struss of 246 East Sid Street, a mounted officer with City Hall traffic squad, was arraigned in Tombs Court before Magistrate Cornell on charges of pointing a pistol at marble dealer Frank Sanfillipe of 6 James Street. Sanfillipe testified of a Saturday night incident, a crowd around a dancing officer, a pistol, and theft of his purse. Struss claimed alibi at Coney Island with his wife. he was paroled for examination today.
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Frederick €. Struss
East Sid Street
Trafic Squad
City Hall
Tombs Court
Cornell
Frank Sanfillipe
James Street
Sanfillipe
Water Street
James Slip
Sanfillipo
Captain Walling
Struss
Coney Island
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Taft
South Dakota
Alten
Illinois
P.S. C
Metropolitan
Dacombe
Public Service Commission
34Th Street
116Th Street
Dorando
Postum Cereal Company, Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
Hudson River
Mohawk Valley
Lake Erie
New York Central Lines
20Th Century Limited
Grand Central Station
125Th Street
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Columbus Avenue
West 120Th Street
Wrooklyn
Fulton Street
Vosburgh
Madison
Eastern Pharmacy Board
Justice Pound
Holly
O'Brien
Mr. Herring
M'Cafferty
Thomas W. Lawson III
Tombs
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