Pittsburg Graft Probe Targets 17 More Councilmen
Seventeen additional Pittsburg councilmen were formally warned they must stay in the city or face immediate arrest as graft investigations widen. The Voters’ League refused immunity to any witnesses, insisting it has ample evidence to convict many under arrest and others yet free.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Voters' League
Voters’ League
Leo Weil
League
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pittsburg Street Railways Company
John Klein
Kiein
Robert Wilson
Scranton Municipal League
Wasson
T. D. Harmon
Two Die As Hot Ash Heap Suffocates Workers
Three mill workers slept on a burning ash heap at the Jersey City power plant of Millerd Construction. Two were found dead and a third unconscious. bodies sent to the morgue, one survivor hospitalized. Payroll numbers identify the dead.
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Millerd Construction Company
Erie
Bergen Hill
Jersey City
Tonnelle Avenue
Jaeger
Through Scow's Bottom Tragedy Encloses Child
Nine year old Mary Santangelo of East 107th Street fell into ashes when the scow Astoria moored at East With street broke its bottom compartment. Her companions Sam Seronti and Tessie Calzirone escaped to the pier. Harbor police searched the vessel but by midnight no body was found. Owner A H Hastron suggested children may have operated levers. other workers heard nothing.
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Astoria
East With Street
Harlem
Mary Santangelo
East 107Th Street
Sam” Seronti
Tessie” Calzirone
Mary
A. H. Hastrop
Librarian George C. Hurlbut Dies After Park Car Crash
George C. Hurlbut, 75, librarian of the American Geographical Society, died at Presbyterian Hospital after a car overturn in Central Park. His daughter Miss Inone Hurlbut survived but was injured. Hurlbut helped build the society’s bulletin and worked with Commander Peary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Hurlbut
American Geographical Society
Transverse Road
Central Park
Presbyterian Hospital
Inone Hurlbut
Mr. Hurlbut
Charleston
S. C
Martin Luther Hurlbut
William Henry Hurlbut
New York World
Stephen A. Hurlbut
Philadelphia
Mercantile Library
San Francisco
Hurlbut
Robert E. Peary
Society
Mead Replies to Archer Requisition Defends Washington Quiet
Governor Mead of Washington defends not honoring the Newark forgery requisition against Elliot Archer and cites lack of evidence besides the requisition. He argues Newark detectives offered no usable proof and says Washington has not needed militia or national guard to enforce the law.
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Fort
New Jersey
Mead
Washington
Governor Fort
Bank capital changes prompt regulatory action
Albany December 26 Superintendent Clark Williams of the State Bank Department authorized the German American Bank of Buffalo to raise its capital from 20000 to 300000. An application from the Broadway Bank of Brooklyn seeks to increase capital from 150000 to 200000.
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Albany
Clark Williams
State Bank Department
German-American Bank
Buffalo
Broadway Bank
Brooklyn
Assemblyman Murphy to Wed Jeannette Gray Hutchinson
Assemblyman Charles F. Murphy a Brooklyn Republican leader took out a license yesterday to marry Miss Jeannette Gray Hutchinson daughter of Mr and Mrs William Henry Hutchinson of 392 Clinton Avenue Brooklyn Murphy a lawyer with offices at 9 Church Street Manhattan and a veteran legislator from Kings County plans a Brooklyn wedding.
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Murphy
Charles F. Murphy
Kings County
Jeannette Gray Hutchinson
William Henry Hutchinson
Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
Church Street
Manhattan
Federal Packing Inquiry Promises To Be Widespread
Chicago readers learn that the federal grand jury investigating rebate charges against a stockyards firm has prepared subpoenas to be served on railroad and packing house employees in St Louis Kansas City St Joseph and Omaha The probe aims to reveal how meat prices are set by influential packers and how a substantial crew operates within the industry.
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Chicago
Sims
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
Federal Grand Jury
Committee to Probe Wall Street Exchanges Initiated
A nine member committee appointed by Governor Hughes met at the Chamber of Commerce to begin inquiries into the New York Produce Exchange and the New York Cotton Exchange. Afterward it will examine the New York Stock Exchange and the Consolidated Stock Exchange. The panel plans a three month investigation funded by its members unless the Legislature provides an appropriation. Maurice L. Mubbleman was named secretary. The committee will reconvene January 4 at the Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hughes
Wall Street
Chamber of Commerce
Horace White
New York Produce Exchange
New York Cotton Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
Consolidated Stock Exchange
White
Maurice L. Mubbleman
United States
Metropolis Line Liens Upheld in Steamship Case
In Portland Maine Judge Putnam sustained a petition by W A Fletcher Co against Metropolitan Steamship Co. to liquidate claims totaling 140 000 tied to mechanic liens on steamships Harvard and Yale arising from machinery installation. The ruling allowed liens upon surrender of a promissory note and ordered a master appointed.
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Portland
W. and A. Fletcher Company
Metropolitan Steamship Company
Putnam
United States Circuit Court
Harvard
Yale
New Jersey
Grain shipments from Fort William and Port Arthur rise
Returns byFrank E. Gibbs government grain inspector Fort William show total shipments from Fort William and Port Arthur between September 11 and December 1 reached 43,935,596 bushels, up from 20,454,000 in the same period last year in Montreal.
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Montreal
Frank E. Gibbs
Fort William
Port Arthur
Bankruptcy Petitions Filed Against Local Firms and Individuals
Several bankruptcy petitions were filed in federal court yesterday. Fernekes & Weiss, nuts, liabilities 4 56250, assets 1 00342, cash 18210, owes Birdsong Company 1100. Schedules for Adolph Goldberg show liabilities 4704.57, assets 3500, stock 3250, fixtures 250. Max Dorf owed 38230 secured by mortgage 3000. Hyman Meirowitz Co case dismissed after settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernekes & Weiss
Park Place
Birdsong Company
Worth Street
Sarah H. Peckham
West 28Th Street
Stettiner Brothers
Duane Street
C. A. Read
E. G. Read
Chicago
Adolph Goldberg
Railroad Avenue
Max Dorf
East Broadway
Hyman Meirowitz & Co
Robert ©. Morris
Major New York White Goods and Fashion Sales Week
Macy’s Broadway and Mth Street announces a white goods sale for men and women. Hearn on Ith Street displays year end offerings. Abraham & Straus in Brooklyn promotes white goods. Matthews Sons in Brooklyn highlights muslin underwear and carpets. Bloomingdale’s third avenue and 58th street runs a pre inventory sale on cotton fabrics underwear hosiery and women’s dresses. ONeill Adams Company Sixth Avenue promotes trimmed millinery fur scarfs coats and dresses. Simpson Crawford Company Sixth Avenue promotes high class American and French underwear. Lord & Taylor Broadway and 20th Street touts black dress goods and foulard silks. Stern Brothers West 23rd Street shows spring silks and reductions in misses’ coats. Saks & Co Broadway and Sixth Avenue advertises coats and girls and misses coats. Arnold Constable & Co Broadway and 19th Street features silk sale tailored suits and coats. Hollanders Fifth Avenue and 26th Street runs annual clearance sale for misses children dresses evening coats and neckwear. Aitken Son & Co Broadway and 18th Street advertise French underwear. A Jaekel & Co 384 Fifth Avenue displays fur assortment. Greenhut & Co Sixth Avenue ith to 7th Street calls attention to an important sale in wife.
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A. D. Matthews Sons
Brooklyn
Bloomingdales
Third Avenue
58Th Street
Oneilladams Company
Sixth Avenue
2D Street
Simpson-Crawford Company
4Th
2Th Street
Lord & Taylor
Broadway
Stern Brothers
West 23d
Saks & CO
Ll. P. Hollander & CO
Fifth Avenue
26Th Street
AITKEN, 8ON @& CO
18Th Street
Record of 1908 rail main track and dividends review
The 1908 annual review notes only 3 214 miles of new main track, the lowest since 1897, with 761 miles laid east of the Mississippi. Montana leads in new mileage due to Great Northern and St Paul. Canadian roads rise 1 248 miles, 21.7 percent, and Mexico adds 435 miles. Cotton mill dividends average 6.99 plus from 27 125,000 capital, the best since 1902, with a strong business outlook.
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United States
Railroad Age Gazette
Mississippi
Montana
Great Northern
St. Paul
Mexico
Fall River
Mass
Maritime Almanac and Wireless Reports Summary
The record lists sunrise and sunset times, tide data at Sandy Hook and Gov. Island, and wireless vessel positions with ETA dockings. It notes ships like New York and California, mail vessel schedules, and sailings to Rotterdam Paramaribo Barbados New Zealand and Pacific routes with dates and times.
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A.M
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
New York
California
Southampton
Colon
Cristobal
Panama
Merida
Havana
Oy Ward Vonia
Naples
Cunard
Thuibeville
Erika Gisbon
Mar
Galveston
Movie
Liverpool
White Peer
Texas Havre
Dlorado Mente
Curaga
Jacksonville
Barbados
Prinz August
Wm -Colon
Suriname
Paramaribo
Massachusetts
London
Atlantic
Shipping News From Port of New York December 26 1908
List of arriving and sailing steamers with origins, destinations, cargos, and passenger counts. Ships include Appiu ny eatkay Thorsa Comanche Hotterdam Ravenscraig Ocmulgee Lucania Californian Merida Acre and New York et al with passage times and quarantine notes.
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Port of New
Thorsa
Hansen
Barren Islan
Winchester & Co
Mane
Comanche
Watson
Jacksonville Dee
Charleston
Clyde Se Co
Nee
Mdse
Hotterdam
Amsterdam
Ravenscraig
Johnson
Newport New Y Dence
Offee
Moise
Merida
Rovertson
Vera Cruz
Progreso
Havana
New York & Cuba
Black Russia Calf and Patent Leather Boots Sale
Bargain alert as black Russia calf and patent leather button boots drop to 4.50 a pair from 6.00 to 10.00. Limited stock advertised for quick sale.
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Vici Kid
Russia
Coat Sale Prices Across Styles and Materials
A liquidation listing details full length coats in various styles and materials including chinchilla and velvet collar with prices ranging from 21.50 to 35.00 previously, plus discounted ranges 9.50 to 17.50 and 12.50 to 24.50 and a low 7.95 tag.
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Silk Department
26Th St
5Th Ave
16Th St
P. R. R. and
Street Railways
Thomas Johnson
Newark
Pinkerton
American Association of Directory Publishers
York
Geographical Society
GOV
West Twenty-third Street
The
Whitcomb Metallic Bedstead Co
5Th
40Th St
3Th Street
Produce Exchange
Metropolitan Line
United States District Court
Macy's
Mth Street
Hearn
Lth Street
Abraham & Straus
A. Jaeckel & CO
Greenhut & CO
7Th Street
Fall River Mills
Marine Intelligence
Cochra
Argentina
Barber
Saramace
Noordam
Rotterdam
Hotland- Am
Transpacific
New Yo
Australia
New Zealand
Fiji Islands
New Caledonia
Vancouver
U. S
Japan
Corea
China
Seattle
Iyo Eae Maru
Hawaii
Alameda
Philippine Islands
San Fran
West
Tee Islands
Gymettc
Philippine
Victoria
B C.j
Tacoma
Titan
Tahiti
Marquesas Island
Weert - Orie San Francisco
Mariposa
Sos Dan
Shipping News
Eatkay
Maceo
Pernambuco
Ceara
Maranham
Para
Seager Trading Co
Bar
Diamant
Ger
Throprich
Copenhagen
Shields
Philip Ruprecht
Bristol City
Carey
Bristol
Swansea
James Arkell & Co
Shimoen
Best
Kobe
Shimizu
Yokohana
Keelong
Hong Kong
Singapore
Penena
Perim
Suez
Port Said
Algiers
Halifax
Boston
Barber & Co
Satitla
Brunswick
St Paul
Battle Bey
Minneapolis
Seville
Haraier
Lisbon
Marseilles
Santos
Celile Princess
Perpambuce
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Proca Suez
Bechuana
Bry
Calcutta
Ince Hank
Inverclyde
Yokohama
Ett
Ferton
Statendam
Boulogne
Outh
Matta
Braemar Bry
Hieg
Hamburg
Phebus
Venezia
Fry
SC Havre
iLa
Huelva
Snestad
Nor
Glasgow
Caledonia
Havre
la Touraine
New Southampton
St Louis
Hurst Caste
Brow Head
Brooklyn City
Scilly
Charlots
Dutehy
Paris
Women’s Grace
Mousquetaire
Black Fox
Decided Reductions
Boys’ & Young Men’s Clothing
Rial
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