Franchise Tax Battle Heard by Albany Supreme Court
The Third Department heard appeals from forty two corporations challenging a new franchise tax law. Arguments centered on home rule, separate franchise valuations, and the authority of the State Tax Board versus local assessors. The case involves Metropolitan Street Railway, Brooklyn City Railway, and several gas companies with about 12,000 dollars in dispute.
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Albany
Supreme Court
Third Department
Robert Earl
Suftt
Metropolitan Street Railway
Brooklyn City Railway
Consolidated Gas Company
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company
New Amsterdam Gas Company
Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Company
Earl
Herrick
State Board of Tax Commissioners
William H. Page, Jr
William N. Dykman
Frank H. Pratt
John C. Tomlinson
Charlies A. Collin
Charles F. Brown
Samuel A. Beardsley
Henry J. Hemmins
William F. Sheehan
Henry B. Coman
J. Newton Fiero
State Tax Board
Pace
Dykman
Frank H. Platt
Northern Union Gas Company
Central Union Gas Company
Tomlinson
Bond Neutral on Canal Route in Albany
State Engineer Bond states he favors no single route for the barge canal and will present statistics from the barge canal report. He says all routes were evaluated by an advisory board of engineers and he remains unbiased, to be guided by the Governor and public requests.
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Albany
Bond
No Decision Yet In Huntington Case Ventory of Estate
Surrogate Thomas ruled on a motion to show cause why an inventory of Collis P Huntington estate should not be filed in a suit by Walter Morshead a London lawyer now US citizen against the late Southern Pacific Railroad man s estate. Executors Maxwell Evarts argued the creditor status and statute of limitations may dismiss. Robert F Cutting for Morshead contends the facts only became known in 1894. Briefs due by next Friday.
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Thomas
Collis P. Huntington
Walter Morshead
London
United States
Southern Pacific Railroad
Central Pacific Railroad Company
Maxwell Evarts
Huntington
Robert F. Cutting
Morshead
Mayor Low Receives Open Letter on Civil Service Reform
Mayor Low acknowledged receipt of an open letter from the Civil Service Reform Association criticizing the local Civil Service Commission for higher examination costs and perceived inefficiency. He referred the letter to the Municipal Civil Service Commission for reply and said he would withhold judgment until a response is received.
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Mayor Low
Civil Service Reform Association
Civil Service Commission
Federal
Civil Service Board
Low
Municipal Civil Service Commission
Election of Vestrymen at Christ Church Oyster Bay and Others
Christ Church Oyster Bay elected wardens W Emlen Roosevelt and E M Townsend Jr and named vestrymen William J Youngs Charles E Rogers Stanley W Dexter Samuel V W Fleet Frank R Spicer Wilmot T Cox George E Armstrong and W H C Pynchon. St George s Church Rutherford Place selected John Pierpont Morgan as warden with vestrymen R Fulton Cutting William Foulke and William Jay Schieffelin. Holy Trinity Church Lenox Ave wardens and vestrymen listed. St George s Marey Ave Brooklyn wardens and vestrymen named. Church of the Incarnation Madison Ave wardens and vestrymen listed.
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Christ Church
Oyster Bay
W. Emlen Roosevelt
E. M. Townsend
William J. Youngs
Charles E. Rogers
Stanley W. Dexter
Samuel V. W. Fleet
Frank R. Spicer
Wilmot T. Cox
George E. Armstrong
W. H.C. Pynchon
St. George's Church
Rutherford Place
John Pierpont Morgan
R. Fulton Cutting
William Foulke
William Jay Schieffelin
Holy Trinity Church
St. and
Lenox-ave
Leander H. Crall
Edward Tcomsend
Alexander Wilson
William R }Eal
Henry P. Carrington
Marey-ave
Gateseve
Brooklyn
Henry Tomkins
Richard
Steves
James Meyer
Charles Peterman
William 8. Gavey
Church of the Incarnation
Madison-ave
J. L. Riker
G. F. Butterworth
Lessdon
J. A. McKim
Raids Carried Out by District Attorney Jerome and Team
District Attorney Jerome and colleagues conducted raids at three properties amid a broad crackdown. Investigators seized evidence across multiple locations as part of an ongoing corruption probe.
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TRE
Jerome
Brakeman Decapitated on Market Street Freight Car
J. W. Robbins, a 33 year old brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was decapitated yesterday morning while riding atop a freight car as it crossed Market Street Newark. A lowered trolley wire caught his neck, severing his head. his body fell on one side of the car. Robbins hailed from Philadelphia.
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J. W. Robbins
Pennsylvania Railroad
Market St
Newark
Robbins
Philadelphia
Contagious Foot and Mouth Disease Spreads Across New England
Reports indicate the cattle disease is extending with infections in Westboro Southboro Northboro and new sightings in Worcester and Norfolk Counties. Dr Daniel E Salmon warns of dangerous contagion from diseased cattle and visitors, while ships and states tighten quarantine rules to stamp out the outbreak.
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Boston
State Board of Agriculture
Westboro
Southboro
Worcester County
Northboro
Norfolk County
Daniel E. Salmon
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Salmon
British Prohibition On Livestock Landing From New England
Washington officials report Great Britain has banned landing live animals from Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut due to foot and mouth disease. Secretary Willis L Moore says veterinary surgeons and experts will be sent to New England to assist Dr Salmon and stamp out the spread amid uncertain origin of the epidemic.
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Warren Line
Liverpool
Boston
St. John
N. B
Halifax
Great Britain
Springfield
Yates
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Washington
New England
Department of Agriculture
State Department
Willis L. Moore
Board of Agriculture of
United Kingdom
Maine
British Board of Agriculture
Salmon
Wilson
Rhode Island moves to honor Andersonville dead and fund cattle disease fight
Providence December 2 Rhode Island General Assembly convenes House files a $5,000 appropriation to combat foot and mouth disease in cattle. Senate introduces a bill for a monument at Andersonville Georgia honoring Rhode Island soldiers who died in prison.
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Providence
R. I
General Assembly of
Rhode Island
Senate
Andersonville
Interesting Art Sale At Fifth Avenue Auction Rooms
An exhibition and sale of fine oil paintings water colors drawings engravings miniatures on ivory bronzes carvings porcelains and curios will be held at 238 Fifth Ave on Thursday and Friday afternoons and evenings and Saturday afternoon. The collection includes works by Barque Diaz Corotima Tadema and Millet offering notable value.
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Fifth Avenue
Fifth Ave
Barque, Diaz
Corotima-Tadema
Millet
Police raid clears three42 New York private clubs
Police tagged and removed poker tables and roulette setups from Canfield's, Farrell's, and Ludlum's Savoy Club as officers raided the venues. Patrons hoped to gain entry by cards, while investigators prepared charges against those arrested. Capt. Lantry stated he would not testify.
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Tenderloin
Monte Carlo
Canfield’s
Canfield’s, No. 5 East Forty-fourth St
Farrell's
West Thirty-third St
Ludlum's
Savoy Club
West Fortieth St
Canfield's Place
Mr. Canfield
Farrell
Professor Baldwin's Son Commits Suicide at Maine Apartments
John W. Baldwin eighteen the son of Professor Arthur Baldwin of the Post-Graduate Hospital died by his own hand last evening at 533 West 124th Street Maine Apartments. A note was found addressed to his mother suggesting he felt useless. The coroner and police are handling the case with no disclosed motive.
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John W. Baldwin
Maine Apartments
West One
Arthur Baldwin
Post-Graduate Hospital
Horace Mann School
Columbia University
Baldwin
West
East Williston man pleads guilty to overspeeding on Jericho Turnpike
W. L. Stow of Westbury appeared before Justice Foster L. Oakley at East Williston and pled guilty to speeding his car on the Jericho Turnpike. A $20 fine was imposed. G. Brown, driver for H. S. Kean of Great Neck, also pleaded guilty and was fined $20.
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W. L. Stow
Westbury
Jericho Turnpike
Foster L. Oakley
East Williston
Long Island
G. Brown
H. S. Kean
Great Neck
Broadway Runaway From Unhitched Cart Injures Two
A frightened horse attached to Arnold Constable's delivery wagon bolted from 33 West Thirty eighth Street at 6 pm. It struck a cigar store window on Broadway, knocked down Miss Nellie Keegan near West Eighty seventh Street, and collided with a trolley car. The horse then hit Owen McDonald's florist wagon on Madison Avenue, throwing driver P. McDonald from his seat. Both injured people had their wounds dressed and went home.
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Arnold Constable's Department Store
West Thirty Eighth St
John J. Doyle
Ninth-ave
Thirty-eighth-st
Sixth-ave
Nellie Keegan
West Eighty-seventh-st
M. Schlesinger
Broadway
Henry Ward
Milford St
Jersey City
Owen C. McDonald
Madisonave
P. McDonald
East Fifty-eighth-st
Artist's Mother Stricken With Apoplexy In Street
Mrs. Mary Phelps seventy four years old residing with her daughter Miss Helen W W Phelps a well known artist at No 58 West Fifty seventh street was stricken with apoplexy while strolling in front of No 116 West Fifty seventh street near her home An ambulance from Flower Hospital took her to the hospital where she was reported in critical condition.
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Mary Phelps
Helen WW. Phelps
West Fifty-seventh St
West Pitty -Seventhest
Flower Hospital
Miners to Take the Stand Before Anthracite Commission
Scranton reports the Anthracite Strike Commission will hear mine workers witnesses from Hazleton and other districts, led by D. J. McCarthy, as they press wage and living-condition data. Officials seek wage tables from Delaware and Hudson and Philadelphia and Reading to flank testimony while settlement talks vs outside arbitration continue.
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Tribune
Scranton
Penn
Nichols
Lackawanna
Wyoming
Hazleton
D. J. McCarthy
Delaware and Hudson
Philadelphia
Reading
Markles
Coxes
Pardees
Coxe, Markle and
Pardee
McCarthy
Coxe Bros. & Co
Wayne MacVeagh
Ira Burns
Debates Over Mine Wages and Labor Policy Highlighted
Harper's Weekly notes show the commission acting as a jury on facts in dispute with Mr. Mitchell under scrutiny. Key questions include wage demands, foreign worker earnings, eight hour days, and the impact of labor trusts, unions, and militia service on employment and industry vitality.
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Harper's Weekly
Mitchell
United States
Gray
Watkins
England
Germany
Wilcox
Delaware and Hudson Company
Coal Trust
Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Chicago
Organized Labor
Empire Commonwealth
Coal Nuisance Abating Says Dr Lederle Amid Shortages
President Lederle of the Board of Health told a Tribune reporter that the elevated road has increased efforts to secure hard coal and that by week’s end soft coal use will decline. Small steam coal sizes are said to grow plentiful with dealers able to supply large orders. Inspectors will be increased to prosecute offenders. A prominent coal dealer noted mild weather and post strike shortages as the cause of supply strain, fearing winter suffering if cold snaps come.
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Lederle
Board of Health
Tribune
Lederie
New York
Coal shortage closes Brooklyn Public School No 9
Public School No 9 at Vanderbilt Avenue and Sterling Place Brooklyn closed for two days due to lack of coal for furnaces. About two thousand pupils dismissed Monday as classrooms registered 45 degrees. Superintendent Simmons ordered fuel. school heated Tuesday, but coal did not arrive.
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Vanderbilt Ave
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
Hugh Bannon
Bureau of Supplies
Frank L. Greene
Parker P. Simmons
No. 9
Vanderbilt Are
Simmons
International Sanitary Conference Opens in Washington
The first international sanitary conference of the American republics met in Washington with delegates from Mexico Cuba Chile Costa Rica El Salvador Honduras and the United States. Quarantine and sanitation topics were to be discussed with plans to form an international sanitary bureau before next year’s conference. Dr Walter Wyman called the meeting to order as ambassadors Azpiroz and Quesada presided with welcome addresses by Secretary Shaw and Assistant Secretary Hill.
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Washington
Mexico
Cuba
Chile
Costa Rica
Salvador
Honduras
United States
International Sanitary Bureau
Azpiroz
Quesada
Walter Wyman
Marine Hospital Service
Shaw
Hill
Dr Knapp’s Charitable Eye and Ear Work Lecture
Dr Herman Knapp the oculist will lecture Friday at 8:15 PM in Hosack Hall at the New York Academy of Medicine on Scientific Educational and Charitable Work of Eye and Ear Hospitals. He has run an eye and ear hospital at his own expense offering private patients and a public clinic. Directors plan a larger modern building on a plot near Central Park facing the west side of Sixty fifth Street to secure permanent support.
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Herman Knapp
Hosack
New-York Academy of Medicine
West Forty-third-st
Eye and Ear Hospitals
Knapp
Eye and Ear Hospital
Board of Directors
Central Park
Tragic Death After Beating Ties to Manhattan Pool Hall
Frank Shannon a 35 year old laborer died in New York Hospital following a beating Monday night. He was found unconscious near Seventh Avenue with injuries to face head and body. Police arrested Jimmy Rose, 25, of West Twenty-Sixth Street, linked to Shannon’s companions at a pool hall on Sixth Street. Shannon’s residence is listed as Eleventh Avenue, though his wife reports West Twenty-Sixth Street as their home.
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Frank Shannon
New York Hospital
Shannon
Eleventh-ave
West Twenty-sixth-st
Tribune
Seventhave
Jimmy” Rose
Sixth-St
Churchman Again in Court He Faces Fraud Charge
Alfred Tilly of Brooklyn prominent in religious groups and a decorating business owner, was jailed in Tombs court on a $1,000 bail after being accused by Otto F. Von Arnim of obtaining $500 through misrepresentation. Tilly, chief marshal of the Brooklyn Sunday School Union and ex-president of Union Specialty Mfg Co, was said to have induced buying fifty shares in the company. He was arrested on Thanksgiving Day and later discharged.
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Alfred Tilly
Kingston Ave
Brooklyn
Atlantic Ave
Tombs Court
Otto F. von Arnim
East Seventy Ninth St
Devel
Mr. Tilly
Tilly
Brooklyn Sunday School Union
Long Island Baptist Association
Union Specialty Manufacturing Company
Broadway
the Tribune
Maryland Society Dance at Sherry's in New York
The Maryland Society of New York City hosted a reception and dance for members and friends at Sherry's last night. Sherry's string band provided the music as attendees danced to tunes including a Maryland themed number.
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Maryland Society of
New York City
Sherry’s
Sherry
Maryland
Attendance high at Maryland Dixie Star Spangled event
The Banner notes unusually large attendance at a society function with prominent patrons including Nevitt Steele and Mrs. J. Harry Steele. Patronesses listed include Mrs. Jennings S. Cox and Mrs. Archibald W. Spier Hull among others. Floor committee featured D. Baid Lew and Frank Bartleth Woodward led by committee members.
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Maryland
Dixie
Nevitt Steele
Jennings S. Cox
Charles
J. Harry Steele
Archibald W. Spier. Hull
Donald McLean
P. A. & Franklin
Ernest M. Price
Elon S. Hobbs
Horner
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Arrogate Thomas
Ventory
Frank Farrell
West Thirty-third-st
Illinois
State Department of Agriculture
Troy
Lantry
Long
Island
Mother Seriously Iil
Schenectady
National Guard
Eee Ey
New-York
United Mine Workers
New Zealand
Anthracite Commission
DR. Lederle
Board OF Honor
Schley
Wilsom
THE
Savannah
John Sullivan Schley
Admiral Schley
W. C. Wilson
Churchman
Maryland Society Dance
Theodore B. Starr
Madison Square West
25Th
26Th Streets
John St
Starr & Marcus
Freesel Normal Inst
A. Cutten
Irving Pl
E.itto St
Leslie Morgan
S6th Street
KS Finch
Madison Avenue
6Ith Street
Fowler & Wells CO
East Zinast
Rgt
Henry Barker
P. Nastum
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Son River Military Academy
Nyack
N. Y
J. Wilson
A. M
Concordville
Yale
Harvard
Wesleyan
J. Shortlidge
Prin
Nomerican and Foreign Teachers Agency
M. J. Young-Fulton
Union Square
George Dodworth
East 49Th Street
New York County
New York Security and Trust Company
David Olyphant Vail
Anna Murray Vail
Rosalie Schoenberg
Borough of
Manhattan
City of New York
Vincent 4. Ryan
Thirty-fourth Street
Eighth Avenue
Joseph Rosenfield
Elihu B. Frost
Coudert Brothers
West 34Th Street
Upreme Court
Margaret Welche
Broanough
Vincent- Ryan
Saint Jadement
West Ninth Street
Elihu B
Postoffice
Bork
West 6Th Street
Chase
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