Denied resignation rumors target Cortelyou in New York move
The Tribune reports a blunt White House and Treasury denial of rumors Secretary Cortelyou would resign to join a New York financial firm. Despite strong interest from Knickerbocker Trust and others, Cortelyou is said to remain loyal to the administration as Congress debates financial policy and crisis responses.
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Washington
Mr. Cortelyou
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Treasury
Cortelyou
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
New York City
Lantry’s Mother Rescued From Fire by Police Captain
Police Captain John J. Lantry of East 66th Street station saved his mother Catherine Lantry from a second floor fire at 20 East 46th Street. With his nephew Patrick Cummings he led her to safety after flames reached the stairway, burning her hands. others escaped via the roof as the blaze caused little damage. Dewey’s Old Port for the Grippe ad accompanies the page.
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John J. Lantry
Eastalsi Stree Ctation
Catherine Lantry
Lantry
No. 20
East 46Th Street
Patrick Cummings
Ohio Nominees Held Up by Ohio Senators
Senators Foraker and Dick vow to block Federal patronage moves used to back a Presidential candidate. They forced rejection of four Ohio post office appointments and scrutinize about twenty-five more in the Post Office Committee. Further Ohio appointments remain held up on their initiative.
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Washington
Foraker
Ohio
Senate
Committee On
Senator Dick
Messrs. Foraker
E H Strobel Dies in Siam After Long Illness
Edward Henry Strobel, Bemis professor of international law at Harvard, died in Bangkok after a lengthy illness. He served as general adviser to the Siamese government and previously held posts at Harvard and in U.S. diplomacy including secretary of state aide and American minister to Ecuador and Chili. His death follows a bite that led to blood poisoning.
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Bangkok
Siam
Edward Henry Strobel
Government of
Strobel
Liam
Boston
Lindsay Swift
Boston Public Library
E. H. Strobel
Harvard
Egypt
United States
Bemis
Mr. Strobel
Charleston
S. C
Madrid
Washington
Ecuador
Chili
France
Lid lifted raid on West 40th street gambling house
Captain Horatio Young of Bath Beach led a raid with three plainclothes officers on a new gambling place at 145 West 40th street. They confiscated two fare lay outs roulette wheels and other equipment. The operation followed suspicions after entering the building via a roof scuttle and finding luxurious rooms with two new tables. No occupants were found and items were taken to Tenderloin station.
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Horatio Young
Bath Beach
Tenderloin
Barney” Kelleher
West 40Th Street
Lou” Ludlum
Pen Club
de Cantillion
White
Moore
Broadway
Captain Young
Lou
Stradivarius Stolen From Ysaye During Concert
Mme Ysaye reports her husband the Belgian violinist lost a Stradivarius valued at 10000 dollars while on a St Petersburg tour. He left the two violins in a large double case on stage. While searching the center of the stage he found the Stradivarius missing. Police have made no arrest yet.
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Mme. Ysave
Ysave
St. Petersburg
Ysaye
Copper mine cave in threatens Rio Tinto town
January report from Minas de Rio Tinto Spain describes ground subsidence endangering the town and forcing evacuation of four hundred houses. The mines, among the world’s most productive, employ over ten thousand workers and yield about twenty thousand tons of copper annually.
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Minas de Rio Tinto
Spain
Drugged at matinee robbery in New York theatre
Mrs. Robert Fox of New Rochelle was drugged in a New York theatre box by a young woman acquaintance. Fox fell ill and returned home with valuables, including a bracelet, cash, pearls, and jewelry, taken from her bag. Alice Moran, 17, of The Bronx, was arrested and charged with theft.
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Robert Fox
Sickles Avenue
New Rochelle
Saks
New York
Mrs. Fox
Mr. Fox
Diamond Mines Hit In World Market Slowdown
Johannesburg reports a downturn in diamond markets caused by the American financial crisis and European credit squeeze. Premier Diamond Mining Company postpones an $800,000 dividend, retains $1,200,000 government profit share, to conserve resources.
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Johannesburg
America
Europe
Doctor Chases Thief Through Harlem Stoop Chase
Dr Abraham Korn vice president of the Law and Order League of Harlem pursued a thief for several blocks after a burglary at his home on Madison Avenue. The man, Frank Gordon, was captured near East 126th Street and jailed on burglary and grand larceny charges.
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Abraham Korn
Law and Order League of
Harlem
Madison Avenue
Korn
East 126Th Street
Frank Gordon
Dr. Korn
Frederick C Stevens Diagnosed With Acute Appendicitis
Albany reports Frederick C. Stevens Superintendent of the State Department of Public Works is hospitalized at his Albany home with acute appendicitis diagnosed by Dr. Albert Vander Veer.
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Albany
Frederick C. Stevens
State Department of Public Works
Albert Vander Veer
Standard Oil Fines Face 80 Million Push in Prosecution
United States District Attorney Sims returns to Chicago to pursue remaining indictments for rebating on the Chicago and Alton and Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroads. He plans to press about four thousand counts against Standard Oil, seeking fines up to 80 million overall, with a possible Supreme Court certification on Elkins Hepburn issues shaping the final outcome.
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Tribune
Chicago
Standard Oil Company
United States
Sims
Washington
Chicago & Alton
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
John S. Miller
Landis
Standard
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Whiting
East St. Louis
Alton
Waybill
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Great Northern Railroad Company
Campaign to combat tuberculosis in New York state launched
Sage money funds starting campaign against tuberculosis in New York State. Russell Sage Foundation contributed a modest sum. Robert W. de Forest, vice president, stated local voluntary contributions will support future efforts. Albany hosts campaign headquarters with educational aims modeled after New York Charity Organization Society. Homer Folks leads State Charities Aid Association effort with a large staff.
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New York State
Russell Sage Foundation
Robert W. de Forest
de Forest
Albany
Committee For
New York Charity Organization Society
State Charities Aid Association
Homer Folks
Indiana Game Hunt Tigers County Outrage
Petersburg Indiana is filled with excitement as over two hundred men and boys armed with revolvers guns and knives hunt a tiger believed to have escaped from a menagerie The beast has a heavy collar and has killed hogs sheep and dogs All schools are closed and the chase will continue tomorrow
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Tribune
Petersburg
Ind
Nevada lawmakers push to keep troops at Goldfield
Carson City Nev Jan 15 A joint caucus of Nevada Legislature special committees framed a resolution to ask the president to retain troops in Goldfield until the state can supply a police force or other means to maintain order in the mining camp The measure is expected to pass the Senate and likely the House.
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Carson
Nev
Nevada
Senate
United States
Goldfield
House
Chesebrough Uses Auto as Ambulance After Boy Hit
Robert A. Chesebrough of Chesebrough Manufacturing Company lent his car to transport a 12 year old boy named John Baker who was run down on Bradhurst avenue at 142nd street. The lad was taken to Harlem Hospital where Dr Bennett reported only a slight injury. No arrest was made.
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Robert A. Chesebrough
East 49Th Street
Chesebrough Manufacturing Company
State Street
Standard Oil
J. R. Thompson
West Laith Street
Bradhurst Avenue
John Baker
Harlem
Bennett
Death of George W. Allen Deputy Speaker in New Brunswick
Fredericton reports the death by self inflicted shooting of George W. Allen forty nine a leading attorney and Deputy Speaker of the Legislature and M P for York County. He was son of the late John C. Allen Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
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Fredericton
N. B
George, W. Allen
York County
Allen
John C. Allen
Supreme Court of
New Brunswick
Gonaives Hit by Earthquake and Tidal Wave
A serious earthquake struck Gonaives Haiti sixty five miles northwest of Port au Prince with aftershocks and a tidal wave. The town with a population around eighteen thousand and a busy harbor exports coffee dyewoods and cotton while importing dry goods and provisions from the United States. Communication with Gonaives is broken and no loss of life is yet reported.
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Herrmann
Adder
Frolibert
Gonatves
Haitian Republic
United States
Gonaives
Crawford's Death Solved by Body Found Near Fort Foote
The body of Lieutenant John W. Crawford, secretary to Admiral Dewey, was found below Fort Foote on the Maryland side of the Potomac. He disappeared November 22 after writing he was driven to death by financial troubles. Identification came from clothing cards. He came from Vineland New Jersey twenty years ago and rose to lieutenant as Dewey's secretary.
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Washington
John W. Crawford
Admiral Dewey
Fort Foote
Maryland
Potomac
Alexandria
Crawford
Virginia
Vineland
N. J
Boston Unemployed Seek City Aid After Meeting
About five hundred unemployed men gathered on the Common in Boston to hear Mayor Hibbard's reply. He said city finances prevent hope for relief. Governor Guild met with leader Morrison I Swift to discuss employment options and proposed state and city efforts, including possible wage measures and rent relief, while urging work elsewhere if needed.
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Boston
Hibbard
Morrison I. Swift
State House
Governor Guild
Mr. Swift
Swift
Guild
Tragedy in St Louis as Mother Kills Sons Then Herself
Mrs Camille Jacobs wife of Leo Jacobs general manager of Acme Cement Plaster Company poisoned her two boys Samuel fourteen months and Edwin five with prussic acid then took the same poison herself. She had a technical education and had suffered melancholia for over a year. Her husband was in Wyoming inspecting mills. She locked herself and children in the house after dismissing the servant.
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the Tribune
St. Louis
Camille Jacobs
Leo Jacobs
Acme Cement Plaster Company
Samuel
Edwin
Laramie
Wryo
Canada’s Emigration Case Settled Between Nations
Tokio reports that Canada accepts Lemieux’s labor emigration memo in good faith and will enforce restrictions. The Japanese government is to enforce the outlined regulations, with only memoranda exchange remaining between Canada and Japan.
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Tokio
Rodolphe Lemieux
Five Drowned While Skating At Jimtown Reservoir
A skating party at the Jimtown reservoir near Connellsville Pennsylvania ended in tragedy as five of six participants drowned. The deceased are John Luxner aged nineteen George Cochran twenty one Frank Cochran Jr seventeen William Fulmer twenty three and Elizabeth Fulmer seventeen a sister. A sixth member survived.
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Connellsville
Jimtown
John Luxner
George Cochran
Frank Cochran, Jr
William Fulmer
Elizabeth Fulmer
Roosevelt Praised At Bryan Dinner In Lincoln
About twelve hundred thirty five guests and many more spectators gathered at a dollar Democratic dinner in the Auditorium to back William J. Bryan. Speakers endorsed Bryan while crediting President Roosevelt and some Republican leaders in cordial terms.
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Roosevelt
Bryan
Lincoln
Neb
Wiliam J. Bryan
Bryan Hagens Meeting Delayed By Political Tension
Tammany Hall leaders including James J. Hagen cancel speeches at a Bryan rally in Cooper Union as Charles F. Murphy warns unpledged Denver support. New York figures like Sulzer Zucca and Augustus Thomas withdraw. The event proceeds with Jefferson Davis and T B Gore as speakers and Colonel Walker presiding.
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Charles F. Murphy
James J. Hagen
Tammany
Bryan
Cooper Union
Mr. Murphy
Hagen
Tammany Hall
Denver
Mr. Hagen
New York
Harry W. Walker
William Sulzer
Zucca
Augustus Thomas
Progressive Democratic League
Thomas
Jefferson Davis
Arkansas
T. B. Gore
Oklahoma
Davis
Colonel Walker
Senator McCarren
William J. Conners
Walker
Mr. Conners
Florida
James J. Hill
Conners
Mr. Hill
Johnson
Minnesota
Bob” Davis
Hudson County
James Smith
Newark
New Jersey
Passaic
Paterson
Smith
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
James M. Guffey
Democratic National Committee For Pennsylvania
William Jennings Bryan
Florida Everglades
Norman E. Mack
Erie County
Mr. Mack
Erie Democratic County Committee
Mr. Bryan
Buffalo
Hotel Iroquois
The
Missouri Society
Hotel Plaza
Married in a Hurry Wedding of Lockridge and Hartnell
An drew M. Lockridge traveling inspector for United States Steel marries Ella R. Hartnell in a hurried ceremony at Rev Henry Marsh Warren's home. Both are graduates from Penn and Stanford respectively. They plan a Chicago and South America honeymoon.
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Andrew M. Lockridge
United States Steel Corporation
Ella R. Hartnell
Salinas
Cal
Henry Marsh Warren
West
4Th Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Leland Stanford Junior University
Lockridge
New York
Aaid
Prince George
Ella
Chicago
South America
Aged Cellist Charles Baetens Ends Life in Omaha
Professor Charles Baetens, renowned cellist and composer, shot himself at his Omaha home aged eighty two. A native of The Hague, he studied at Brussels and became a noted European violin instructor before joining Theodore Thomas and teaching at the Cincinnati Conservatory. He later appeared in the Centennial Exposition program and spent years contributing to American musical life.
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the Tribune
Omaha
Charles Baetens
Theodore Thomas
Baetens
Hague
William of
Germany
Brussels
Charles Beriat
Fetis
Europe
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Wheat Worth a Million Burned in Kenora Fire
Fire in Kenora Ontario destroyed the Maple Leaf Mills owned by Hedley-Shaw Company. An elevator storing over 300000 bushels of wheat burned with the facility. Loss estimated at 1,000.80 dollars and insured.
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Kenora
Ont
Maple Leaf
Hedley-Shaw Company
Inferno destroys Boston church in anniversary blaze
A fierce fire torn through the old Second Congregational Church in Boston during its 115th anniversary celebration. The blaze, reported by telegraph, guttted the structure as firefighters battled the flames through the night. The Florida Route advertisement line appears in the copy alongside the fire report.
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the Tribune
Boston
Second Congregational Couvery
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Wall Street
Herbert L. Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Satteries-Parsons Committee of
Corteliou
Morgan
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Lattteries
A. Foster Higgins
Charles T. Berney
Knickerbocker
Ceortelyou
Corteiyou
DEWEY
Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Foraker and
Rio Tinto
Regina E'Stella
Salls
Jersey City
Cesare Conti
de Beers
Aiasncnde
Man
F. C. Stevens
Sage
Indiana
State Guard
Chesebrough's
W. Allen
Haytian Town
Port-au-Prince
Hayti
Work IN Boston Limited
Canada
Haan
Park Row
Usic
Murphys
William I
Boston Church
Atlantic Coast Line
R. KR
N.Y
Flamie P.M
Bway
Cor. 29Th St
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