Phenix Insurance Co Head Removed in Brooklyn Collapse
Superintendent Hotchkiss of the New York State Insurance Department announced a sweeping critique of Phenix Insurance Co of Brooklyn led by George P. Sheldon. He said records show a one man operation with misreported assets, speculative margin accounts, and loans to Sheldon and secretary Koster. The investigation, begun in October, suggests possible criminal action, with Sheldon near death from ptomaine poisoning complications at his Greenwich, Connecticut home.
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George P. Sheldon
Phenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn
Hotchkiss
State Insurance Department
Jerome
Phenix
Sheldon
Paise
Insurance Department
Charles F. Koster
Phenix Insurance Company
Mr. Hotchkiss
the Maples
Greenwich
Conn
Compco
New York Insurance
Minch
Bowler
Wa Belen
Foch
Koster
Sheiden
Ritch
Suit for a million involving Prince Miguel Braganza
Budapest reports a creditor syndicate seeks one million from Prince Miguel of Braganza, claiming a promise to pay one fifth of Anita Stewart's dowry of eight and a half million dollars after his marriage. Miguel allegedly owes the amount beyond the original loan.
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Budapest
Hirlap
Prince Miguel of
Braganza
Anita Stewart
New York
Tulloch Castle
Dingwall
Scotland
Prince Miguel
St. Louis Man Threatens Suicide After Train Stop
Hector A. Piednor, a St. Louis lawyer and real estate dealer, arrived in Bellefontaine Ohio with $450,000 in negotiable papers and a valise. He announced at the station he would kill himself, later reported demented. Police placed him in a hospital. doctors found healed knife wounds and said associates planned to send him to an asylum and seize his property. Private advices from St Louis identified Piednor and noted a recent nervous breakdown and recovery at Muldoon’s farm near New York. his return to St Louis was expected tomorrow.
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Bellefontaine
Ohio
H. A. Piedner
St. Louis
New York
Piednore
Hector A. Piednor
Piednor
Muldoon
London Political Update Sees Tariff Debate Shift
In London the political scene remains quiet as Unionists abstain from campaigning. Churchill, Liberal ally and president of the Board of Trade, spoke in Manchester arguing tariffs would curb imports. He cited canal land value gains to justify budget tax increments. Rothschild, Liberal Unionist, claimed conversion to tariff reform at Tring.
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London
Winston Spencer Churchill
Board of Trade
Manchester
Manchester Canal
Lord Rothschild
Tring
Hertfordshire
Auto Hits Roller Skater In The Bronx Crash
Fourteen year old Gerald Hass was struck by a car owned by G H Tyrrell of Webster Avenue The mud guard struck him and he fell The car was stopped and the boy taken to Fordham Hospital where doctors said the right thigh was fractured Tyrrell was arrested on a charge of assault and bailed out after a short time at Bronx Park station
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G. HM. Tyrrell
Webster Avenue
The
Bronx
Gerald Hass
Decatur Avenue
Tyrrell
Fordham Hospital
Kitsler
Lynch
Bronx Park Station
Rosalind Safety Warnings Dismissed As Liner Reaches Port
The Red Cross liner Rosalind bound from New York via Halifax reported five miles offshore in dense fog near St. John’s Newfoundland. Several days overdue, she carried passengers from New York. she left Halifax Tuesday and encountered a gale off Southwestern Newfoundland. The cable steamer Colonia, three days overdue, arrived with part of a new cable linking Waterville Ireland to New York via Cuckold's Cove.
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X. F
Red Cross
Rosalind
New York
Halifax
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Colonia
Waterville
Ireland
JUDGE LURTON HOPEFUL
Judge Horace H Lurton of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals says he has heard from private sources that President Taft will name him to the Supreme Court bench. He has received no official word and has neither sought the position nor acted on it, preferring to continue in the appellate court if not chosen.
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Cincinnati
Horace H Lurton
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Nashville
Tenn
Taft
United States Supreme Court
Church opens grocery and meat market to pay debt
Evansville Ind December 6 The Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church inaugurates a small profit grocery and meat market in a building near the church. Profits will go toward reducing a church debt of about 4000 dollars with no short weights. Pastor Rev F Ga Burdette urged members to support the venture.
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Evansville
Ind
Twelfth Avenue Baptist Church
F. Ga
Burdette
Coldest Los Angeles day in 32 years at 41 degrees
In Los Angeles yesterday the temperature dropped to 41 degrees, the coldest since 1892. Fruit growers battled frost with smudge fires across many areas as the day stayed unusually frigid for the region.
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Los Angeles
Dewey's Wine House & Restaurant Ad
Dewey's Wine House and Restaurant advertisement for Dewey & Sons Co located near Fulton Street area. Promotion notes address 196 Fulton St and mentions half block east of Fulton Street.
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Dewey's Wine House & Restaurant
Fulton St
MH. T. Dewey & Sons Co
City faces risk over Queensboro contract final payments
Legal opinions from the Corporation Counsel highlight that auditing and certifying final payments by the Bridge Commissioner may threaten the city’s recovery for contract noncompliance. The Controller, citing law, plans to pay certified claims, despite engineers noting work not performed per specs and outside New York supplier issues, signaling a shift in final payment policies for the Queensboro Bridge.
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Queensboro
Department of Finance
Queensboro Bridge
Finance Department
Northeastern Construction Company
New York
Feld
A Canadian Hero Swims Ashore With Rope
Robert Benenfant, a French-Canadian sailor, swam five hundred yards through breakers at Turk's Island to recover a rope from the wrecked Alexandra. He tied it to a tree and helped Captain L. Pothier and four crew members reach land after their schooner Laura was torn apart by the West India hurricane.
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Halifax
Turk’s Island
Robert Benenfant
L. Pothier
Pothier
Boston
Jamaica
Cockburn Harbor
Benenfant
WONT REDUCE WAGES IN FALL RIVER MILLS
Fall River Massachusetts December 6 no wage reductions for six months announced by the Manufacturers Association after a conference with textile union representatives the sliding scale agreement allowed an 8 percent cut but was waived by manufacturers this is the third time they have waived the right to reduce wages under the agreement
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Fall River
Mass
Manufacturers’ Association
Dying Man Found After Assault at Bronx Butcher Shop
Max Schilder a 40 year old salesman for Bronx Poultry Company was found dying in a back room of Jacob Seinselstein’s butcher shop on Westchester Avenue Bronx. He died ten minutes after arrival at Lebanon Hospital from cerebral concussion. He said a gang of boys beat him after Sunday night assault then sought rest in the back room.
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Bronx Poultry Company
West Farms Road
Jacob Seinselstein
Westchester Avenue
The
Bronx
Lebanon Hospital
Goldstein
Schilder
Popper
Benjamin Miller
Stebbins Avenue
Finselstein’s
Water Barrels at a Premium in Carthage Fight
Fifteen thousand Carthage residents rush to stockpile water as a potential injunction by Federal Judge Philips threatens to shut off the city’s water supply. Prices soar for rain barrels amid the five year dispute between Carthage Water and Power Co and the city over the franchise and municipal plant plans. Citizens fear violence as talks turn heated.
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Tribune
Carthage
Philips
G. Ralph Laighton
Carthage Water and Power Company
Shackled Inmates Testify At Ferris School Probe
Telegraph reports from Wilmington on December 6 describe brutal treatment of Ferris Industrial School boys. Former inmate William J. Ennis testified he was shackled with another boy day and night and signed a false affidavit under coercion by Superintendent Stewart. He alleged beatings with a hitching strap and forced labor without water, saying he was nearly killed. Fellow witness Harry G. Hamilton said he received 150 lashes.
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the Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Ferris Industrial School
Wiliam J. Ennis
Stewart
Harry G. Hamilton
Family may die from gas in Williamsburg row
Mrs Matilda Summerland and her two children, aged three and an infant, were found unconscious from escaping gas at 619 Bleecker Street Williamsburg. John Summerland broke a window to enter and rescue them. the tube to the gas stove was not connected. Marie, the three year old, is believed to have pulled the tube loose. All were taken to the German Hospital. doctors said recovery was doubtful.
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Matilda Summerland
Bleecker Street
Williamsburg
John Summerland
Summerland
Marie
Meise
Comets Seen In Small Telescope At Smith College
Cambridge reports Halley's comet visible December 4 through a three inch telescope at Smith College observatory Northampton Mass telescope view confirmed by telegram to Harvard College Observatory. Adot offers free replacement collar button if damaged.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smith College
Northampton
Harvard College Observatory
Body of Vassar student Marguerite Douerty found in cistern
The body of Marguerite Douerty, eighteen, daughter of Hughsonville pastor Rev. William H. Douerty, was recovered from a cistern behind her home after a daylong search. Detectives traced footprints to the cistern before pulling the body free, with authorities ruling out foul play and suggesting a voluntary death. Coroner Knapp and Dr. Cruise attended the scene as the family mourns the outcome of a young woman strained by her first year at Vassar College.
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Tribune
Fishkill Landing
Marguerite Douerty
Vassar College
Hughsonville
James Young
Central New England Railroad
Douerty
William H. Douerty
Hughsonville Presbyterian Church
Manning Cleveland
Hudson River
Young
Knapp
Miss Douerty
Vassar
New Jersey
Raines Faces Abdominal Tumor Surgery
Canandaigua New York December 6 Senator Raines condition critical as doctors report a tumor in his abdomen requiring operation. He will be moved from his Lake Shore cottage to Memorial Hospital tomorrow for treatment.
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Canandaigua
N. Y
Raines
Lake Shore
Memorial Hospital
Admiral Evans Testifies in Private in Divorce Case
Admiral Robley Evans appeared in Izbanon, Pennsylvania court on crutches as a character witness for Colonel Kermany of the United States Marine Corps who sues his wife for divorce. Evans was not called to testify publicly and his testimony was arranged to be taken privately, to be held if needed. The suit alleges cruel and barbarous treatment and intolerable life with the wife.
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The
Tribune
Izbanon
Penn
Robley I
Evans
Kermany
United States Marine Corps
Autos Before Breakfast in Pittsburgh
A. R. Peacock, partner of Andrew Carnegie, reportedly ordered two autos costing 6500 each with 500 fittings to be delivered within three hours. The dealer received a cash payment of 1400. Peacock allegedly learned a friend had two more cars and acted before breakfast to keep pace.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
A. R. Peacock
Andrew Carnegie
Peacock
Leopard Attack at New England Park Kills Animal
A leopard from Norumbega Park in Auburndale attacked three park workers after resisting being moved between cages. The animal was shot dead by the park manager. All three men were not seriously hurt though clothing was torn and they were scratched.
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Newton
Mass
Norumbega Park
Auburndale
Scppa Eens
Day in Annapolis intensifies first class stand on liquor
At the Naval Academy the first class voted to oppose intoxicants by midshipmen after an incident over Thanksgiving. The brigade officers are drawn from the first class, signaling a likely end to liquor at the academy until the June graduation. They plan to ask Captain Bowyer for demerits instead of dismissal for a singled-out classmate.
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Tribune
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Bowyer
Novo Caine Rival Promoted by Har Morist Hospital Surgeons
Surgeons at Har Morist Hospital 138 East 2d Street unveil novo caine as a rival to stovaine in a procedure on Ida Moskowitz 152 2d Street. The operation for intestinal strangulation lasted 45 minutes with Mrs. Moskowitz conscious, praying, and reading from a Hebrew prayerbook as Dr. Leo Berger and house surgeon Dr. Benjamin Joblons performed.
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Har Morist Hospital
East 2d Street
Thomas Jonnesco
Ida Moskowitz
152
2D Street
White light lure changes signals on rail lines
The white signal light used along railroads will be replaced with a yellow light next week on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie road, with the New York Central system likely to adopt soon. Engineers have been confused by white lights in dwellings along rights of way, leading to past accidents. J B Yohe and A R Raymer led the plan, which several roads are expected to implement.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Dec
Lake Erie
New York Central
J. B. Yohe
A. R. Raymer
R D Muir Arrested After $118000 Bank Loot Uncovered
The People's Bank and Trust Company losses rise to at least $118000 with estimates likely surpassing $150000 as bank examiners take charge. Treasurer R D Muir, returning from New York, is arrested on embezzlement charges and held on $10000 bond. Directors report Muir claimed profits from stock market schemes including $30000 in a New Haven broker's office.
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Robert D. Muir
New York
Muir
London
Ernest L. Isbell
New York City
James B. Smith
New Haven
Smith
Carnegie institute to study aeronautics in Pittsburg
The Carnegie Technical Institute will establish a department of aerogation to advance aeronautics under expert instructors. Students are forming classes and practical airplanes will be built in the workshops, with experiments on models to be conducted in Schenley Park. Guards against supply needs and machine parts will be met promptly as developments proceed.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Technical Institute
Schenley Park
Institute
Department of Aerogation
Prize for Taft giant turkey at Missouri poultry show
Taft a fifty five pound gobbler won the grand prize over more than a hundred competitors from twenty three states and Canada at the Missouri State Poultry Show in St. Louis. Taft is owned by S C Havens of Shelbyville Indiana. The ad promotes the Flamingo quickest Florida train via P R and Seaboard Air Line with a thru sleeper to Florida resorts.
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Taft
Canada
S. C. Havens
Shelbyville
Ind
Flamingo
Florida
Seaboard
Jacksonville
Florida East Coast
UN Broadway
N. Y
Congress Opens With Quiet Session and Respectful Observances
The opening of the regular session in both chambers proceeded without notable incident. Senate attendance was crowded as Aldrich and Cummins shared cordial notes, while House members, led by Speaker Cannon, began amid tributes to deceased colleagues and a display of ceremonial flowers.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Aldrich
Cummins
Sherman
A. G. B. Pierce
Hale
Bacon
House
Cullom
Bailey
McCumber
Johnson
North Dakota
Cannon
Joe
Henry N. Couden
Spenger
DeArmond
Dalzell
Bennet
Clark
Congress
Jones
Virginia
Francia Lassiter
Missouri
Representative Dalzell
Mr. Payne
Cannen Announces Speaker Move Sparks Washington Speculation
In Washington, Representative Cannen triggered fresh speculation after announcing a move by Speaker to reshape leadership. The disclosure, coming today, set off immediate questions about timing and potential shifts in committee assignments and party dynamics.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Dec
Cannen
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