Bribe for murder wife accused in Newark trial
The case against Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm opened in Newark with testimony that she twice offered Frank Wilhelm’s killer money and discussed an earlier attempt. Witnesses Levy and Seigel, with Mrs. Levy, described dealings and plans tied to a building loan and life insurance, while Wilhelm’s death on February 1 remained the focal point.
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Mary J. Wilhelm
Newark
Nicholas
Shafe
Frank Wilhelm
High Street
William Levy
Cam- Gen Street
New York
Charles Seigel
Skipper Kind to Stowaway aboard Le Bretagne
A French youth, Henri Gallais, nineteen, stowed away on the Le Bretagne after seeking work in Havre. He was found in a cargo compartment ill and hungry but treated kindly by Captain Roch. He will be sent back to Havre.
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la Bretagne
Havre
Henri Gallais
le Bretagne
America
Roch
Alimony and bankruptcy case involving Abraham Minsky
Justice Seabury issued a writ of habeas corpus to bring Abraham Minsky before John Townsend referee in bankruptcy. Minsky was jailed on Ludlow Street for $1.9 in alimony arrears to his wife. Townsend sought testimony on the disposition of assets of Feinberg & Co. farriers, now in bankruptcy, with Minsky's son in law Weinberg linked to the case. The order required Minsky to show cause why he should not surrender the missing property. He could not be served in jail, prompting the habeas corpus proceeding.
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Justice Seabury
Abraham Minsky
Ludlow Street
John 4. Townsend
Feinberg & Co
Farriers
Mineky i Weinberg
Townsend
Minsky
Habeas Corporate
Harbor Goddess Salutes Passengers of Liner Arabic
The bronze statue Miss Liberty saluted the 29 cabin passengers from Liverpool on the Arabic as they arrived in harbor after eight days at sea. The group, comprised of 12 women and 17 men, sang Auld Lang Syne America and God Save the King. The ship’s captain said he could not delay passengers to wait for a perfect clocking at 5 p.m. and moved to clear the bay.
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Miss Liberty
Liverpool
America
Finch
Goodby
Peary Lectures on Discovery of the North Pole
Commander Robert E Peary addressed the American Geographical Society in the Engineering Societies Building at 29 West 39th Street. The crowded audience heard his account of expedition preparation and travel to the pole with stereopticon views and Esquimian images before and after.
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Robert E. Peary
North Pole
American Geographical Society
Engineering Societies
West 39Th Street
Pole
Dr. Cook
Cook
Esquimans
Peary Arctic Club
America
Girl's Dress Fire Kills Brooklyn Teen, Father Injured
Dorothy Ostrander sixteen is in critical condition at St. John's Hospital after a gas lit blaze in her Madison Street home. Her father Charles Ostrander suffered facial and hand burns while trying to smother the flames. The fire started when a lit match ignited a lace curtain and spread to the girl's dress. Doctors Shibley and Millis treated both victims before transfer to the hospital.
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Dorothy Ostrander
Charles Ostrander
Madison Street
Brooklyn
St. John’s
Dr. Shibley
Halsey Street
Dr. Millis
St. John's Hospital
Mr. Ostrander
Brooklyn Training School appoints new board of managers
Mayor McClellan announced resignations of the old Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School board and named nine new members including Michael Murphy Ephraim Byk and Carmody. Three Catholics Hebrews and Protestants are represented. all positions are honorary. First meeting set for 4 PM in Jefferson Building Brooklyn.
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McClellan
Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School
Michael Murphy
Fort Hamilton Parkway
85Th Street
Joseph McKeon
Sth Street
Ephraim Byk
Hancock Street
William F. Baker
Washington Avenue
Milton Reizenstein
Macon Street
Arthur M. Taylor
Putnam Avenue
Moses B. Schmidt
McDonough Street
Joseph Manno
Cortelyou Road
Lth Street
Francis X.carmody
Westminster Road
Murphy
McKeon
Carmody
Reizenstein
Schmidt
Manno
Savannah Mystery Killer Identity The City of Columbus Crew
A stranger slain in a lonely Savannah field is believed to be B. Ford of 22 West 224 Street New York. He had booked a reservation on the steamship City of Columbus but traveled in the intermediate class, removing identifying marks from his clothing before death.
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Savannah
B. Ford
New York
City of Columbus
Search&e
Trial of American Ice Co. enters third month testimony
The American Ice Company case before Justice Wheeler and a jury advances into month three. Wesley M. Oler, company president, finished direct testimony and faced cross examination as defense counsel Stanchfield pressed questions about monopoly aims and ties to Charles Morse. A board resolution praising Morse was read with evident humor from the minutes.
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American Ice Company
Justice Wheeler
Supreme Court
Wesley M. Oler
Osborne
Oler
New York
Stanchfield
Mr. Oler
Charles W. Morse
Grand Jury
Morse
Mr. Osborne
Thomas Sturgis
Brooklyn Architects Press for Courthouse Site Plan
Brooklyn architects urge a formal commission to pick a site for the new Supreme Courthouse. They cite city growth and a plan by a city planning committee with proposals for diagonal streets linking Borough Hall Park, Fort Greene Park, and the Manhattan Bridge terminal to centralize public buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Supreme
Woodruff Leeming
No. 20
Broadstreet
The
American Institute of Architects
McClellan
Architects of Brooklyn
Brooklyn Institute
Brooklyn League
Borough Hall Park
Manhattan Bridge
Fort Greene Park
Lake steamer Badger State burned in Lake Michigan incident
The Badger State, owned by Alpena Cedar and Lumber Co, burned after fire started while moored. Captain Lennon jumped to another vessel, lines cut, ship drifted to Canadian shore and burned to the waterline. Vessel 213 feet, tonnage 2, valued at 14000 dollars. In a separate report, the Henry Steinbrenner sank after a collision with the Harry A. Berwind in St Marys River. crew reached Sault Ste. Marie aboard the Sonoma and signals are cited as causing the crash. raise possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine City
Mich
Badger State
Alpena Cedar and Lumber Company
Alpena
Lennon
Canadian Shorea
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
Henry Steinbrenner
Harry A. Berwind
St. Mary's River
Round Island
Sonoma
Steinbrenner
Arrest of Customs Inspector Charged With Bribery
Jacob Reichart customs inspector recently suspended was arrested on a bench warrant and arraigned before Commissioner Shields charged with accepting a bribe of 10 from Miss Anna Burke a recent passenger on the Rotterdam. The indictment alleges the crime occurred November 6 in connection with a trunk containing dutiable articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Reichart
Shields
Anna Burke
Rotterdam
Receipts From Field Estate Reported By Executors
Chicago, December 6. Net receipts from the estate of Marshall Field for March 1 to June 30, 188, were 34,922,349 dollars, according to a Probate Court filing by the executors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FIELD
Chicago
Marshall Field
Old Case Teethered as Testimony Perpetuated in Jersey City
Alfred Summers Molyneux of Jersey City files a bill in chancery to perpetuate testimony from pawnbroker Frederick W. Payne, alleging misrepresentation led him to sign papers about a real estate conveyance. Payne, uncle by marriage, is linked to Betsy Molyneux. Molyneux recalls hostile foster brothers and a prior indictment. The petition seeks sworn preservation of Payne’s testimony while he is still able to testify due to ill health.
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Trenton
N. J
Alfred Summers Molyneux
Jersey City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Perth Amboy
Frederick W. Payne
Newark Avenue
Molyneux
Payne
Henry Molyneux
Betsy
James
Frederick Molyneux
Alfred
Betsy Molyneux
Washington
George A. Hearson
Warden Says I Die for Country in Rug Murder at Sing Sing
Bedros Hampartzoomian, 26 or 40 in appearance, was executed at Sing Sing after killing Armenian rug merchant Hooshamee Tavshaniyan on July 22, 1907. Testimony showed the victim refused to fund an Armenian revolutionary group. The killer, claiming martyrdom, faced an initial 1908 death date after a prior conviction and appeal.
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Bedros Hampartzoomian
Hooshamee Tavshaniyan
Sing Sing
Hampartzoomian
Davis
State Electrician
Tarshanivan
East 17Th Street
Weill
Tenderloin
Tavshanivan
Fortune for sick: Burke will filed in Surrogate's office
John Masterson Burke who died at his home on West 18th street left a fortune built in shipping. He funded the Winifred Masterson Burke Relief Foundation with about 4 million for sick care and convalescence. He bequeathed sums to Clifton’s Mariners Society, Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer, fifteen cousins’ children, Annie Burns the servant, and other servants. Executors renamed to Frederick H. Denman and Francis B. Clark.
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John Masterson Burke
Westith Street
Burke
Winifred Masterson Burke
Mr. Burke
Annie Burns
William Bayard Cutting
Frederick H. Denman
Francis B. Clark
Talk on suffrage at Sunrise Club meeting
Mrs. Owen Kildare delivered a measured stance on suffrage at Café Boulevard Sunrise Club. She urged equality through nonviolent effort and criticized rigid dress and class judgments. Navy Captain Adams and Lt. Herbert Walters weighed in, with remarks on influence, temperance, and the limits of women’s political power. Henry Frank praised Mrs. Belmont’s warlike advocacy and called for women’s full political equality and intellect to be recognized.
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Owen Kildare
Sunrise Club
Café Boulevard
Adams
Navy
Herbert Walters
Henry Frank
O. H. P. Belmont
Seamen Protest Call for Global Union at Cooper Union
More than 1500 sailors and harbor workers gathered at the farm opposite the White Star Line pier and packed Cooper Union to denounce ship owners. Speakers including Andrew Furuseth and Samuel Gompers urged creating a worldwide seamen federation to unite the shipping world against owners and imperial control.
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White Star Line
10Th Streets
Cooper Union
Lincoln
International Seamen's Union of America
Gilsey House
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Andrew Furuseth
Furuseth
Democratic League forms sixty nine member county committee
The Brooklyn Clarendon Hotel meeting launched the Democratic League local organization and revival of the Shepard Democracy. A six member sub committee’s report led to a Kings County Delegation of the Democratic League to represent Brooklyn at future conferences. The committee is mainly independent Democrats chosen beyond Assembly district lines. The next state convention will be held in Albany in January.
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Democratic League
Clarendon Hotel
Brooklyn
Saratoga
Kings County
Clinton Avenue
The
League
Albany
Thieves Target City Churches in Sneak Theft Spree
Thieves struck several churches in Manhattan as Advent decorations and sacred items vanished. The Church of St Mary the Virgin on West 46th Street lost its censer, Christ Church at Broadway and 11th Street reported a missing pulpit hanging, and Trinity Chapel on West 25th Street saw a pulpit fall disappear. Caretakers and police warned other open churches to heighten vigilance.
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Church of St. Mary the Virgin
West 46Th Street
Christ Church, Broadway
11St Street
Trinity Chapel
West 25Th Street
First in New Headquarters Marks Police Debut
Two hundred fifty masked detectives in the new Police Headquarters inspected sixty prisoners under Inspector McCafferty. Prisoners were masked to avoid recognition on release. An old offender admitted prior prison time after denouncing the arrest as an outrage. The detectives fault the new examining room due to truck noise in Centre Market Place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCafferty
Centre Market Place
Rebuke of federal prosecutor ends in court rebuke
In the Five Indian Tribes land case from Oklahoma the hearing opened in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals with Assistant United States Attorney General Charles W. Russell. Judge Hook denied defense counsel S F Bledsoe's motion to strike the brief, citing urgency and magnitude of the matter. Russell criticized Judge Campbell’s Oklahoma ruling while praising the court's intelligence.
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the Tribune
St. Louis
United States
Charles W. Russell
Oklahoma
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Hook
S. F. Bledsoe
Department of Justice
Russell
Ralph Campbell
Bread trust denied by New York bakers leader
Max Strasser president of the New York State Association of Master Bakers rejected talk of a looming bread trust in greater New York. He explained about four dozen factory bakers seeking consolidation, but the bulk of bread comes from retail bakers and dairy lunchrooms, with 75 000 barrels weekly used by retail bakers and a total of about 100 000 barrels flour consumed in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Strasser
New York State Association of Master Bakers
Greater
New York
Greater New York
Milk Trust Probe Gauges Monopoly Allegations in New York
Justice Seabury named William Grant Brown referee to take testimony in a New York conduct equity suit brought by the Attorney General against the Consolidated Milk Exchange and related firms. The action seeks to determine if the exchange acts as a monopoly in violation of the Donnelly anti trust act.
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Justice Seabury
Supreme Court
William Grant Brown
O'Malley
City of
New York
Consolidated Milk Exchange
John A. McBride
William B. Conklin
Joseph Laemmie
Dairymen’s Manufacturing Company
Rock Island Railroad completes reorganization
Chicago December 6 Rock Island Railroad announced a full reorganization with four new vice presidents under President Henry A Mudge James E Gorman becomes first vice president in charge of freight traffic F C Melcher becomes second vice president in charge of operation John Sebastian becomes third vice president in charge of passenger traffic and E S Moore becomes fourth vice president in charge of purchases W S Tinsman may become general manager and L M Allen may become general passenger traffic manager W H Moore denies links to Lehigh Valley deal with Wabash ownership context provided.
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Chicago
Rock Island Railroad
Henry A. Mudge
James E. Gorman
The
Santa Fé
W. B. Biddle
F. C. Melcher
H. A. Mudge
John Sebastian
E. S. Moore
E. L. Pollock
W. S. Tinsman
Mr. Melcher
L. M. Allen
W. H. Moore
Rock Island System
Rock Island
Lehigh Valley
Frisco Plans Independent Operation From Hawley System
B L Winchell new president of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad says the system will be operated independently of the Hawley system. He notes Frisco tonnage per mile is highest in the nation and mentions acquisition of St. Louis Brownsville and Mexico and future Gulf connection. Frisco offices to stay in St. Louis and Chicago for Biddle and Winchell.
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B. L. Winchell
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Evansville & Terre Haute
Chicago
Hawley
Frisco
United States
St. Louis, Brownsville
Mexico
Houston
Brownsville
Tex
St. Louis
Biddle
Norfolk & Southern Sale Under Foreclosure Auction
Norfolk Virginia December 6 The Norfolk and Southern Railway now in receivership since July 1 198 will be sold at public auction at noon tomorrow under foreclosure by the Trust Company of America trustee of the 25 million dollar first and refunding mortgage. Expected reorganization led by Marsden J Perry Thomas L Chadburne and Oakleigh Thorne with possible opposition bids from Philadelphia and other locations.
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Norfolk & Southern Railway
Trust Company of America
Norfolk & Southern
Marsden J. Perry
Providence
Thomas L. Chadburne
Oakleigh Thorne
New York
Philadelphia
Seek Maryland Coal Proxies Challenge Management
A circular to Maryland Coal Company stockholders by H C Rogers J C Curran and William H Ziegler seeks proxies for the annual meeting to oppose current management, accusing wasteful spending while noting the firm holds 1,885,005 dollars in preferred stock and 11 dollars common. The company operates bituminous coal properties in Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania and reports over 1.4 million dollars spent on lands and improvements in the past five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland Coal Company
H. C. Rogers
J. C. Curran
William H. Ziegler
Maryland
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Army and Navy Dispatches on Protests and Movements
In the Army notes protests from residents near coast artillery posts over firing heavy guns are forwarded to Washington by General Leonard Wood who voices opposition to disruption of target practice. The Navy reports several vessel movements and retirements, with crews reassigned, ships arriving at and leaving key ports including Hampton Roads Cristobal and Guantanamo Bay during December.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Wood
Governor Denies Reinstatement of Cairo Sheriff
Springfield reports Governor Deneen refused Frank E. Davis's petition to return as Alexander County Sheriff. Davis commanded Cairo's force when a mob seized William James and Henry Salzner and lynched them on November 11. The governor ruled Davis did not fully protect prisoners nor resist with force, condemning violence as illegal and incompatible with the constitution and laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Deneen
Frank E. Davis
Alexander County
Davis
Cairo
William James
Henry Salzner
Illinois
Medical Student Dies After Fainting During Operation
Dee Cleveland reports that Harry T. Simmons a junior at Western Reserve Medical College fainted at blood during a minor operation, fell unconscious with a skull fracture and died on the operating table despite efforts to relieve medullary pressure. He was a track athlete and baseball player.
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Cleveland, Dee
Harry T. Simmons
Western Reserve Medical College
Simmons
Frederick C Herrick
Unconscious Young Man Found Beside West Street
A 21-year-old student named Willem Drayton, claiming no relation to J. Coleman Drayton, was found unconscious on the sidewalk in front of 48 West Second Street. Bloodied face and hands prompted an ambulance from Flower Hospital. Drayton regained consciousness after treatment and declined to explain the injuries.
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Willem Drayton
J. Coleman Drayton
Mr. Drayton
No. 48 West S2d Street
Flower Hospital
P. R. R. Mail Service Cut Discontinues Train
The post office announced the special mail train from Jersey City to St. Louis will be discontinued after December 7, causing about five hours more in transit to St. Louis and longer to points west. Mail will shift to the Southwestern Limited of the New York Central with a similar schedule and connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jersey City
St. Louis
Southwestern Limited
New York Central
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Reports Year Surplus
The Public Service Commission released the annual report for the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad for the year ending June 30, 1900. The line carried about thirty million passengers, fares brought in 1,405,121.02 dollars, total passenger revenues reached 14.00 dollars more, total operating expenses were 172,000 dollars, and net revenues totaled 71,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Coney Island & Brooklys Railroad Company
Sugar Refinery Plans Under National Company Build
The National Sugar Refining Company forms to build a large sugar refinery. It has acquired a substantial water front property at Newtown Creek, Long Island, through New York Land Warehouse Company. The value is stated as 3.00087 and reflects a major industrial investment.
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National
Mollensuer Sugar
National Company
New York
Newtown Creek
Long Island
New York Land Warehouse Company
Wat Trent
Dewi
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