New Treaty With Spain Aims For Ratification Before Christmas
Washington reports an effort to ratify a new Spain treaty before Congress adjourns for the holidays. The document, signed in Madrid on July 28, contains thirty one articles detailing trade, navigation, consular rights, burial and religious observances, and protection of citizens. The agreement extends ten years unless renewed with notice.
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Washington
Spain
Congress
Madrid
Gift to Seney Hospital Offers $125000 Toward Expansion
William Hall Jr a vice president of the Seney Hospital board announced at the dinner last night a conditional gift of 125000 to complete and extend the hospital. The money depends on the board raising 500000. The gift sparked strong enthusiasm and optimism for reaching the target.
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William Hall, Jr
Seney Hospital
George I. Seney
Seney
Hanover National Bank
Americans Ill Treated at Chinese Court Visit
A Peking dispatch says foreigners who visited the imperial court during its return from the summer palace were ill treated and detained. Among those arrested were members of the American Legation party at Peking, including two women, who were forced to bow before the populace before the court advanced.
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London
Peking
Summer Palace
Gloucester Fishermen Protest Hay Bond Treaty at Senate Hearing
Gloucester fisheries will be represented as Protestants protest the Hay Bond Fisheries treaty before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington. The Master Mariners Association adopted a resolution opposing ratification asserting the pact would destroy New England and U.S. fishing. The resolution has been sent to the committee.
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Gloucester
Mass
Senate Committee On Foreign Affairs
Washington
Master Mariners’ Association
Newfoundland
New England
United States
Senate Committee
City Council Considers Bradley Beach Sale Conditions
Asbury Park council meets with no response from Mr Bradley on proposed modifications for selling beach and sewers to the city. Officials warn that absent reply by the next meeting on Thursday, a legal fight may start to claim possession of the beachfront or to assert its public property status.
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Asbury Park
Bradley
Radley
Inquest Delay in Kruck Murder Case
Coroner Scholer postponed the inquest into Michael Kruck, the news boy strangled in Central Park, after police requested more time to pursue several murder leads. Greek flower pedlar Nicholas Kallas and Italian newsboy Joseph Esbarenza were questioned at Captain Thomas’s private office, with detectives Mulvey OBrien and O Laughlin present.
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Scholer
Michael Kruck
Central Park
Captain Thomas
Arsenal
Nicholas Kallas
No. 161 West Seventeenth St
Joseph Esbarenza
Kruck
Thomas
McCafferty
Mulvey, O'Brien
O’laughlin
Kallas
Central Park West
Eighty-sixth-st
Detectives arrest two men in alleged handbook game
Detectives Wines Woolridge and Braun arrested John C Vincent and Joseph Davis after noon yesterday on a complaint by William B Pettit who says he lost 4.95 in a handbook game. They were taken to Seene and bonded at 1000 each. Pettit says Vincent and Davis operated a handbook at 1420 Broadway and induced him to stake 4.95 on a horse named Prince Junior running in New Orleans.
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Wines, Woolridge and Braun
Central Office
William B. Pettit
West Thirty-fourth St
John C. Vincent
West One
Seene
Brann
Leo See Pettit
Leyh will cuts off son in disputed Brooklyn will
In Brooklyn two weeks after the poisoned beer death of George F. Leyh, the decedent's will was filed two weeks after his death. It disinherits Edward Leyh with $1 and splits the estate, estimated between 50 000 and 300 000, among five other children. Executors include Dr. George F. Leyh Lina McLeod and Isabella Leyh. The will dated June 19 1900 was drawn by Otto F Struse and witnessed by him and Kathryn Kampf. Robert Westphal case noted with a possible discharge due to lack of corroboration.
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Robert Westphal
George F. Leyh
Broadway
Brooklyn
Kings County
George F. Legh
Mr. Leyh
George H. Leyh
Edward Leyh
Isabella Leyh
Lizzie Miller
Lina McLeod
McLeod
Lottie Trippler
Franklin Taylor
Leah
Adami St. Court
Bailey
Westphal
Tobin's Father Rallies Against Him At Trial
Trial of Thomas Tobin for the murder of Captain James B. Craft continues with testimony from Dr. Manson and Dr. Campbell describing Tobin as sleepless, tremulous, and hysterical. Tobin's father, Richard Tobin, testifies of a long criminal life and incorrigibility, breaking under questioning as the defense rests. The judge adjourns to morning.
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Thomas Tobin
James B. Craft
Glen Cove
Long Island
Empire Garden
West Twenty-ninth St
Stephen O’brien
L. S. Manson
E. H. Williams
Levy
John J. Conlon
Tobin
Conlin
James R. Campbell
Tombs
Richard Tobin
Manson
Dr. Clarke
Mr. Levy
Three Burned to Death in Tenement Fire on First Ave
Edward Bond mourns the loss of wife Mary and two children, Raymond seven and Rose five, after a blaze originating on the ground floor engulfed No. 2412 First Avenue. Baby Helen survived hospitalization. Bond and neighbors fought to save them. Fire condemned by bystanders who later donated to support him.
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Edward Bond
First-ave
Mary
Raymond
Rose
Helen
Harlem
Bonds
Bond
Man Dislocates Shoulder During Civic Service Exam
Harry Harris, 51, of 1335 Third Avenue, was taken to Hudson Street Hospital after a sixty pound dumbbell fell during a Civil Service Commission physical exam for a Central Park lawn mower driver. Doctors diagnosed a dislocated right shoulder.
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Harry Harris
Third-ave
Hudson Street Hospital
Harris
Dr. Houghton
Civil Service Commission
The
Commission
Criminal Courts Building
Central Park
Charities Dept Cuts Meat, Adds Diet Chief for Islands
The Charities Commissioner announced a future reduction in meat supplies for island institutions such as Blackwell’s, with vegetables to be substituted due to high costs. Florence R. Corbett was named general adviser and assistant on food purchase, distribution, cooking, and serving at a salary of $1 per year, taking office January 1 after leading diet departments at Elizabeth General Hospital and Kings County Hospital.
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Charities
Folks
Blackwell's
Charities Department
Florence R. Corbett
Charities Deartment
Cortt
Elizabeth General Hospital
Inlizabeth
N. J
Dieti Uan
Kings County Hospital
Cathedral aims to finish great choir within two years
Trustees of St John the Divine project a rapid build using steel and modern methods to complete a choir as large as any New York church. They expect about 600000 total cost, rely on two $100000 subscriptions and a $200000 bequest from Mrs Georgiana Morris, with loans and gifts to fund a synod house and episcopal residence nearby.
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Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York
Synod House
Morningside-ave
Georgiana E. Morris
George Macculloch Miller
Miller
Cathedral League
Amsterdam-ave
Onehundred
Death by Own Action in Firehouse Leads to Tragic End
George A. Hannon of Hook and Ladder Company 17 in The Bronx died after swallowing carbolic acid in the dormitory at No 589 East 143rd Street. The Bronx firehouse housed his trial over a ten year service absence, with Chief Peter Sloan present. Letters found on Hannon revealed posthumous meritorious acts, including two lifesaving fires. He had been unsettled by the charge and the aborted transfer and left behind a note of distress.
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George A. Hannon
Hook and Ladder Company 17
East One
Bronx
Hannon
Coroner O'Gorman
Sullivan
O'Gorman
City Island
Sloan
Ridge St
Allen St
Canfield Sues Jerome Over East Forty Fourth Gambling Raid
Richard Canfield proprietor of a reputed gambling house sues District Attorney Jerome Police Inspector Brooks and Deputy Piper to recover damages claiming illegal raid on December 1. The suit seeks $2 018 for destroyed lace curtains and woodwork while prosecutors subpoena witnesses like A A Housman and Jesse Lewisohn as part of the Canfield case.
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Richard Canfield
East Forty-fourth-st
Jerome
Brooks
Piper
Canfield
St. Louis
Jerome Will Suboena
A. A. Housman
Jesse Lewisohn
Mr. Housman
Lord
Day & Lord
Newport
Saratoga
New York
Black
Fursman
Mr. Jerome
Forbes J. Hennessy
David W. Bucklin
Yorkville
Bucklin
Yorkville Court
Canfield House
Mike Canfield
Wireless telegraph system installed between Block Island and Point Judith
The Providence Journal Company installs a De Forest wireless telegraph link ten miles offshore. Messages from passing ships to Block Island will reach Providence by telephone, enabling preport notifications and tugs. To prevent cross talk among many ships, Lt Cmdr W S Hogg’s tuned frequency system will be demonstrated in naval tests between Washington Navy Yard and the Annapolis Military Academy.
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de Forest
Providence Journal” Company
Block Island
Point Judith
Providence
New York City
United States Navy
de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
Washington Navy Yard
Annapolis Military Academy
Assignments of New Judges in Supreme Court Terms
The Appellate Division released the 183 assignments for special and trial terms. Justices elect Davis McCall and Amend begin January 5 with specific Parts noted. Several justices named for special terms and trial terms, plus Barrett to preside over the Criminal Branch in the Criminal Courts Building.
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Supreme Court
Davis
McCall
Amend
Justice Davis
Justice Amend
Leventritt
Dugro
Freedman
Gildersleeve
O'Gorman
Bischoff
Greenbaum
Clarke
Scott
Blanchard
Truax
Maclean Fitzgerald
Giegerich
Justice Barrett
Criminal
Criminal Courts
Widow Wins Second Trial Against Railroad Firm
The widow Mrs Annie Geary won a second trial against Madison Avenue Railroad Company for damages after her husband John Geary a fireman on Truck No 2 was killed by a trolley car at Fifty third street and Madison avenue while answering an alarm on February 21 1901. The verdict awarded $15 and another appeal will be taken.
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Annie Geary
Madison Avenue Railroad Company
John Geary
Fifty-third-st
Madison Ave
Harlem Hospital Isolated By Dead Telephone Line
The Harlem Hospital has had its telephone out of order for two days, leaving it practically isolated. No calls have been received since Saturday, and superintendent Miss Gainsforth reports protests to the telephone company have failed. Information only reaches the hospital via the 122nd Street sub-police station and the East River. Other stations relay calls through that sub-station.
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Harlem
Jonasson Composition Discontinues Bankruptcy Proceedings
Hays and Hershfield for Meyer Jonasson & Co. announce consented order from Justice Adams to discontinue bankruptcy. Receiver Bloomingdale returns property to Jonasson to fulfill a 27 1/4 cent dollar settlement with 12 1/2 cents cash and the remainder secured by Sutro & Bros. notes due January 15.
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Sutro & Bros
Reception for Sons of the American Revolution leaders
A reception will be tendered tonight to the board of managers of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by the Empire State Society at the National Arts Club in West Thirty-fourth Street. George W. Bates, historian general, will deliver an address on "The Sons of the American Exolution and What They Have Accomplished."
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National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Empire State Society
National Arts Club
West Thirty-fourth-st
George W. Bates
The
National Society
Sons of the American
Rev Dr Cobb resigns as secretary of church society
The Rev Dr Levi H Cobb resigns after twenty one years as secretary of the Congregational Church Building Society of New York for ill health. His term ends December 31 and trustees will elect a successor. He improved receipts, started funds for parsonages and church buildings, increased contributing churches and attracted generous legacies.
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Levi H. Cobb
Congregational Church Building Society of New York
Cobb
Congregational Church Building Society
Denial of Inventory Bid in Huntington Estate Case
Walter Morshead representing minority Central Pacific stockholders sought an order to inventory Collis P Huntington's estate. Surrogate Thomas denied the petition, ruling plaintiffs not creditors and lack jurisdiction. He said the Surrogate’s discretion applies only to meritorious, non vexatious claims, which this is not shown to be.
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Walter Morshead
London
Old
Central Pacific Railroad of
California
Collis P. Huntington
Surogate Thomas
Central Pacific
Man Fatally Wounds Landlady In Jersey City Shooting
James Fanjoy also called Farrell, 53, attempted to kill Elizabeth Buch at her home 143 Montgomery St Jersey City. Five shots were fired with one deflected by a corset steel another missed heart and chest and two shattered bones. Buch and Fanjoy were taken to City Hospital with Buch recovering and Fanjoy injured.
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James Fanjoy
Farrell
Elizabeth Buch
Montgomery St
Jersey City
Fanjoy
William Buch
Buch
Butler
Mrs. Buch
Murphy
Cody
Piano Sale Tonight at Wise Warerooms
A piano sale will be held tonight at Wise Piano Warerooms Nos. 19 and 21 West One-hundred-and twenty-fifth street near Fifth avenue at 8 15 oclock. Benjamin S. Wise, auctioneer, will sell fifty pianos from William Knabe & Co. mostly used but in good condition, including instruments by Chickering & Son Knabe Weber Hardman Kranich Bach Lehmer Bradbury Hazelton Lindeman Francis Bacon and more. A Knabe baby grand in mahogany will also be sold. The pianos are on view from 9 oclock this morning until sale time and customers may try them.
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Wise Piano
West
Fifth-ave
Benjamin S. Wise
William Knabe & Co
Knabe & Co
Chickering & Son
Weber, Hardman
Married at Bellevue Ward After Illness
Miss Mary Connaughton aged nineteen, taken to Bellevue Hospital on November 29 with peritonitis, was married yesterday to William Baker, a clothier of 685 Second Avenue. The ceremony occurred in Ward No 2d on East Twenty Ninth Street, officiated by a clergyman in the hospital.
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Mary Connaughton
Bellevue Hospital
William Baker
Au Seems
Twenty-Ninth-St
Jerome to subp NA players
Proceedings against Richard A Canfield will be secret and heard before Magistrate Wyatt. Numerous young men tied to Canfield’s gambling circle will be called as witnesses, barred from private counsel, and must answer or face contempt. District Attorney insists on legal bounds including not revealing names. Civil suit aims to prove occupancy or ownership of No 5 East Forty fourth street as title work proceeds. A wagonload of gambling paraphernalia is moved to the Criminal Courts Building for today’s Bucklin case before Justice Wyatt.
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Richard A. Canfield
Wyatt
Canfield’s
Jerome
East Forty-fourth-st
Canfield House
Criminal Courts
David W. Bucklin
Court of Special Sessions
Partridge Eyes Retirements Of Several Police Officers
Commissioner Partridge plans to retire undesired officers as he stays in office. Board of Police Surgeons to examine Inspector Walter L. Thompson and Captain Theron S. Copeland on Monday. Also listed are Captains Schultz Brown Vredenburgh, and Sergeants Wormell Hamilton Graham Nelson. Absent case details for Inspector Grant and Captain Stephenson, adjourned to Monday morning.
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Partridge
Board of Police
Walter L. Thompson
Theron S. Copeland
City Hall
William Schultz
Bronx Park
Edmund Brown
Atlantic Ave
Brooklyn
Watson A. Vredenburgh
Amity-st
John Graham
Stagg-st
John Hamilton
Grand Central Station
John W. Wormell
William A. Nelson
Gates Ave
Wormell
Grant
Stephenson
Seeeeere
Ebstein
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Storer
Duke de Almodovar
Newsboy
Leyh
Edward
Butch
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Piper and Brooks
Widow
Jonasson
DR. Cobb
Huntington
Boarder
Bellevue Ward
Abraham Gruber
Gle Yana Sore
Wanamaker’s
Philadelphia
Doran Insurance
Cliister Sears
Tenth Street
Anamaker
John Wanamaker
A. T. Stewart & Co
4Th Ave
Tribune
Det
Eidstein
Capt
Moynihan
Justice Davy
Schurman
Catholic Prison Charities
Association of Catholic Charities
New Toms
Farley West
Floyd Jones
W. Vanderbilt, Jr
Hermann Oelrichs
Vier
Iselin
Neilson
de Navarre
John Beresford
John G. O'Keefe
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