Banking law amendments proposed to widen conspiracy charges
Senator Page introduced three bills to broaden bank crime definitions and extend the statute of limitations. The measures would let prosecutions target bank officials based on fellow employees testimony unless the coworker profited from the crime. The bills were withdrawn as technically defective, and were said to be drafted by Howard Gans.
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Page
Cass
State Banking Department
Howard Gans
New York County
Reorganize Militia Bill Aims at U S Army Conformity
Albany January 1 a bill to reorganize the national guard and naval militia to conform with the U S army under the Dick law of 148 was introduced in both houses. The Wainwright commission report urges alignment with federal systems to access militia appropriations and avoid wasteful dislocations seen during Spanish War. The measure details within the military code changes for arms, units, staff, and support, and faces urgency to pass before Dick bill takes effect January 2.
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Albany
National Guard
Naval Militia
United States Army
Gey
Wainwright Commission
New York
United States
Congress
Stat of
Signal Corps
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery Corps
Wainwright
Westchester
Special Commission
Frishbie
Schenectady
Merritt Selected as Majority Leader in Albany Move
Speaker Wadsworth announced Edwin A. Merritt Jr of St. Lawrence County will chair the Ways and Means Committee and join the Rules Committee, elevating him to majority leader. Jesse Phillips of Allegany, Merritt’s rival, becomes chairman of the Judiciary Committee and serves on Ways and Means and Railroads.
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the Tribune
eAlbany
Wadsworth
Edwin A. Merritt, Jr
St. Lawrence County
Ways and Means
Merritt
Magll
Jesse Phillips
Allegany
Gunther Named Minority Leader By Brooklyn Republicans
Brooklyn aldermen elected John 2 Gunther of the 57th district as minority leader for the next two years in a surprise caucus. Manhattan Republicans named B W B Brown of the 28th district as leader to succeed Alderman James Cowdin Meyers. Gunther, in his fourth term, is described as pacific and friendly to the Sullivans.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
John 2. Gunther
No. 322
15Th Street
57Th
Brecklin
B. W. B. Brown
28Th
Teader
James Cowdin Meyers
Brown
Sullivans
Gunther
Fall in Front of Trolley Car In White Plains
Mystery surrounds how miom H. Prescoe ended beneath a Hu berry trolley on Railroad avenue. Relatives say he slipped and fell before the car. He lived at Hotel Carlyon Arms days earlier and aimed for Muldoon’s sanatorium for a rest cure. Motorman Joseph Holmes halted the car using a new brake, saving his life. Prescoe suffered a broken wrist several fractured ribs and loss of a finger.
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Miom H. Prescoe
Railroad Avenue
White Plains
White Plaine
Prescoe
Carlyon Arms
Muldoon
Westchester Avenue
Hailroad Avenue
Joseph Holmes
Emancipation Day Rally Backs Taft Backing Hitchcock
Ten thousand African Americans in Mobile Alabama celebrated Emancipation Day and pledged allegiance to Frank H Hitchcock as a key ally for Taft in the South. They voiced protests against efforts to revive the Lily White party and vowed to influence Northern supporters against candidates tied to that movement.
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Mobile
Ala
Frank H. Hitchcock
Taft
Hitchcock
Lily White
Lily White Party
Alabama
Lily White Movement
South
Taft skips Cabinet New Year gathering for War Dept duties
Secretary Taft returned to Washington from Boston and, while his train was berated, did not attend the Cabinet gathering at the White House for the New Year’s Day reception. He went to the War Department to handle personal mail. Taft also wrote the Hartford Yale Alumni Association that he hopes to visit Hartford on February 7 as their guest.
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Washington
Boston
White House
War Department
Hartford
Conn
Taft
Hartford Yale Alumni Association
Emancipation Day Meeting Backs Foraker Aspirations
A Topeka gathering of black Kansans passed a resolution praising Senator Joseph B. Foraker and pledging support for his aspirations. It urged southern African Americans to join in backing him.
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Topeka
Kan
Jan
Kansas
Joseph B. Foraker
South
Woodruff and Parsons Busy in Albany
State Chairman Woodruff and NY County Committee President Parsons advised in legislative organization and Republican strategy. They backed Murphy for Cities Committee chair, sought committee placements for NY men, and urged Beverly Robinson for the Rules Committee. They met Speaker Wadsworth and William Barnes Jr., part of the trio behind Clerk Ray B. Smith and a Wadsworth governor bid.
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Albany
Woodruff
Parsons
New York
Charles F. Murphy
Beverly Robinson
Negroes Beat Officer After Arrest at Harlem
Patrolman Ryan of East 126th Street Station was beaten by three men while escorting William McKnight after he attacked Marian Taylor at 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. Ryan lost his club, was kicked, and will be out of duty for days. McKnight jailed on $1 bail by Magistrate Ross after ambulance transport to Harlem Hospital.
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Ryan
East 126Th Street
William McKnight
Marian Taylor
135Th Street
Lenox Avenue
McKnight
Harlem
Fisher
Ross
Harlem Court
False Alarm Fatal On New Year’s Volunteer Run
Rescue Hook and Ladder Company 1 volunteers from Flushing Long Island responded to a New Year’s false alarm. During the return voyage at speed William Gleason, 24, of 68 Grove Street fell after losing footing. The wheels passed over his abdomen, killing him almost instantly.
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Hook and Ladder Company 1
Flushing
Long Island
Main Street
William Gleason
No. 68
Grove Street
Fall kills epileptic Henry J. Miles at Riverside Drive
Henry J. Miles, 40, a machine manufacturer from East Orange, fell from the seventh floor window of Concord Court at No 8 Riverside Drive early today and died en route to J Hood Wright Hospital. Sister-in-law says epilepsy caused the plunge. Police cite a 20 foot drop. diary and medical notes found suggest treatment and distress but officer say jump likely.
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Henry J. Miles
Concord Court
Riverside Drive
J. Hood Wright Hospital
le Roy Miles
Hallboy
Mr. Miles
Inner Court
Dr. Weingartner
East Orange
N. J
Miles
Far West
Dr. Logan
San Francisco
Chicago
Olly
Flowers for Bill at City Hall Spark City Hall Fete
SADNESS AT CITY HALL Bill Hildebrand a third assistant cleaner at City Hall received a flood of flowers on New Year’s Day. Constituents of Alderman Adolph Moskowitz sent lavish blooms costing more than his salary. The First KronprinZ Rudolph Society presented ornate designs, but Moskowitz was absent and the bouquet was ultimately given to Hildebrand.
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Bill” Hildebrand
City Hall
Bowery
Bill
Hildebrand
Aldermanic Chamber
Tim" Sullivan
Tom
Adolph Moskowitz
Tammany
6Th
Kronprinzg Rudolph Society
Grand Street
D. Kaflich
Kronprinz Rudolph Society
Moskowitz
Kaflich
Katie Ulman
Bill" Hildebrand
Adolph
Rent Day Crisis Sparks Mass Tenant Protests in New York
Socialists in Grand Street report 300 fully organized houses with about 6000 families planned to refuse to pay more than 8 percent of demanded rents. Additional protests loom as 50 dispossess warrants have been served and hundreds more may follow. Mrs J G Phelps Stokes to join movement. Italians in Harlem slow to join. Parades and open air meetings planned with Rutger Square events. police expected little interference.
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Socialist
Grand Street
Madison Street Court
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Rose Pastor
Rutgers Square
Molten Steel Explodes at Edgar Thomson Plant
An explosion in converter No 3 at the Edgar Thomson plant north of Pittsburgh killed two workers and seriously injured thirteen others. Fifteen tons of molten steel spilled into the pit where fifteen men worked, blowing off the roof and damaging nearby buildings and windows.
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Pittsburg
Jan
Edgar Thomson
United States Steel Corporation
North Braddock
Here
Big Tom Now The Sheriff Takes Office In New Era
Sheriff Thomas F. Foley assumed duties yesterday and reappointed most deputies from the Hayes era. He kept all staff as Tammany men, with Charles A. Rader succeeding Patrick Flynn. Foley refused to free any prisoners, toured the jail with the old sheriff and Warden Regan, and received the jail key in a ceremonial handover.
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Thomas F. Foley
Patrick F. Flynn
Nicholas J. Hayes
Tammany Men
Charles A. Rader
Mr. Flynn
Broadway
Tom
John F. Gilchrist
Foley
Hayes
Johnson
Big Tom
Charles Regan
Regan
New York Dressmaker Dies by Own Hand in Canada
Mrs Eliza Faurote a New York dressmaker visiting St John New Brunswick committed suicide by shooting. She had become despondent over business losses amid financial troubles. Local news notes tracing the tragedy as a result of her financial anxiety.
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St. John, N. B
Eliza Faurote
New York
Builders Hail Harmony as Wages Not Cut for Now
A statement from the Building Trades Employers' Association says most building trades are idle yet wages should remain at the current high levels. Some unions under arbitration failed to agree for the year and will operate without a formal wage plan, while others keeping old wages and hoping for improved conditions in year. The piece lists unions under agreements and those still in arbitration, noting open shop and past rulings affecting painters and Housesmiths and Bridgemen.
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Building Trades Employers’ Association
Amalgamated Woodworkers’ Union
Bricklayers and Masons
Electrical Workers
Electrical Workers’ Union, 5,000; Journeymen Stone Setters
Marble Cutters’ Union
Marble Polishers’ Union
Plain and Ornamental Plasterers Society
Modellers’ Union
Wood Carvers
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Metal Lathers
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers’ Union
Plumbers’ Union
Composition Roofers and Waterproofers
Cement Masons’ Union
Brotherhood of Painters
Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s Union
Open Shop
Cats Share Kidneys as Carrel Pioneers Eye Human Transplants
Rockefeller Institute experiments by Alexis Carrel show kidneys transplanted between cats with 14 trials from February to October last year. Five failures due to conditions at operation. surviving cats lived from three to thirty six days, suggesting potential future human organ transplants if ethical and practical hurdles are overcome.
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Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Alexis Carrel
Mr. Carrel
Rockefeller Institute
Transfer of Vital Organs Coming, Says Flexner
Professor Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute predicts soon transferring sound organs from animals to humans through new experimental surgery. He notes successful arterial transplants as a first step, sharing findings from studies on rats and mice and discussing vivisection's impact on pathological research.
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Chicago
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Flexner
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Society
University of Chicago
Ludvig Hektoen
New York
Parrott Arrested on Steamer Return to Plymouth
James Henry Parrott was arrested on the Plymouth dock last night after disembarking the steamer Majestic from New York. He had eloped with Miss G. Lawrence and earlier faced a charge of taking an automobile from M. T. Fletcher of London. He volunteered to return without extradition and now faces charges for selling Fletcher’s automobile. The elopement is not related to the arrest.
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Plymouth
James Henry Parrott
Majestic
New York
Parrott
G. Lawrence
M. T. Fletcher
London
Four Dead in Kentucky Duels Fight Turns Fatal in Stores
In Beattyville Chief Joseph Davidson and Robert Evans, a merchant, killed each other in Evans's store over an old grudge. In Owingsville a shotgun duel at Yale left A J Ballard and Boone Henry wounded, Ballard having past ties to a 20 year old deadly fight.
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Merchant
Beattyville
Yale
Joseph Davidson
Robert Evans
Davidson
Owingsville
A. J. Ballard
Allie and
Boone Henry
Ballard
Seaboard Rivalry Ends With 1900 Consolidation
A century ago a complex rate war and corporate battles among Ryan, Williams, and Middendorf shaped the Seaboard Air Line system. After multi state suits and failed charters, a 1900 compromise formed an independent Seaboard with later financial struggles. Blair & Co and Ladenburg offer to buy matured coupons and equipment bonds to preserve the system’s integrity pending readjustment plans.
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Seaboard
Ryan
Seaboard & Roanoke
Seaboard Air Line
Maryland Court of Appeals
Seaboard System
Williams and Middendorf
Blair & Co
Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co
Morton Trust Company
Continental Trust Company
Baltimore
Comstock Thaw Witness Subpoenaed For Defence Case
A subpoena served on Anthony Comstock makes him star witness for the Thaw defense as the trial opens Monday. Lawyers plan to show Thaw’s mental state before the Madison Square Garden shooting with letters between Thaw and Comstock and details of Comstock’s advice. They claim Comstock knew more than others about events leading to the tragedy and Thaw’s state of mind.
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Anthony Comstock
Thaw
Madison Square Garden
Anti-Vice Society
Burglary suspect shot dead during Williamsburg break in
David Jaffe and his brother woke to attempted rear entry at No. 146 Meserole street Williamsburg. Jaffe fired, killing one intruder shot between the eyes. A second man fled, captured later by Patrolman Dahler. The third suspect, Thomas Byrnes of 143 Leonard street, was identified later and held on $1,000 bail. Jaffe was charged with homicide and paroled.
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David Jaffe
Meserole Street
Williamsburg
Jaffe
Dahler
Stagg Street
Stagg Street Station Told Captain Murphy
Thomas Byrnes
No. 143
Leonard Street
Byrnes
Manhattan Avenue
Cabman Stripped in Street Amid Ninth Avenue Incident
Patrick Hebron, cabman of West 6th Street, ran into Ninth Avenue in his drawers claiming robbery and arson as a man nearby allegedly robbed him. Patrolman Wille intervened and grabbed Thomas Greely of West 5th Street, charged with assault and attempted robbery. Hebron’s clothes lay along the avenue. he found few items, while Greely denied stripping him.
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Patrick Hebron
West 6St
Ninth Avenue
Wille
Hetron
Hebron
Thomas Greely
West Sith Street
Greely
Hunt Swamp Murderer In Jersey Mystery Deepens
Bloodhounds from the New York Police Department will trail the Hudson Jersey swamp murder in Harrison to identify the woman found in Hackensack Meadows. Agnes O Keefe survived a supposed murder and may be misidentified. A reward of 1000 dollars may be offered. Mrs. Catherine L Hunter claims the body could be her sister. Minnie Gaston case links surface as investigations continue at Harrison morgue.
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Branegan
Harrison
N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Orang
Miss O Keefe
O'Keefe
Drubell
Harrison Aldermen
Common Council
Catherine L. Hunter
L Street
Washington
Josephine Beck
Hunter
Dassitle
Agnes Young
Frank Hull
Minnie Jeanette Gaston
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Fight Ruins the Pies at Bakery Window Debacle
Two men fleeing with stolen goods from William McBride's hardware store were caught on Greenpoint avenue. John Travis of Meserolt street and Louis Snyder of Newell street clashed with Patrolman Morgan inside Bloomfield's bakery, injuring both sides as pies and pastries were strewn about. The baker seeks compensation for the ruined pies.
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William McBride
Pearsall Street
Blissville
Long Island City
Michael Morgan
John Robinson
Greenpoint Avenue
John Travis
Meserolt Street
Louis Snyder
Newell Street
Brooklyn
Station House
Tow Would Make 21 Mile Train
The steamer Sprague on its next Southern trip will tow forty five canal boats seven barges two fuel boats and one model barge carrying 1 305 000 bushels of coal. If loaded into ordinary freight cars this would form a train over twenty one miles long.
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Louisville
Jan. L
Sprague
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Monster
MR. Taft
Foraker
H. J. Miles
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Harmony
Employers’ ‘Association
Professor Flexner
J. H. Parrott
Miss Lawrence
Kentucky
John Jameson
Ww. A. Taylor & Co
Agts
Bway
N.Y
Comstock
Canal Zone
Racers, Pret & ComPany
Warren St
Lewis & Goncer
Hunt Swamp
New Jersey
Polk County
Tenn
Reliance
Louisville & Nashville
J. R Gaston
Riley B. Womack
Hattie Womack Hall
Dr. Womack
Kim
Minnie Gaston
Jersey
Harrison Morgue
Attorney Vickers
Hudson County
Alfred Thompson
Baker
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