Jerome Defends His Detectives Amid Police Clash
District Attorney Jerome, defending his dissolved detective staff, accuses Police Commissioner Bingham of graft and misdirection. He asserts his men are honest, pledges to stand by them, and seeks to delay their trial while detailing widespread corruption at Central Office and in the 12th Precinct.
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Bingham
Reardon
General Bingham
Police
Binghem
New York
Wasserman
Butler
Brennan
Mata
12Th Precinct
Eldridge Street
Central Office
Mr. Jerome
Galvin
Devery
Marriage dispute over Vanderbilt heir and Scannell-Pepper Vanderbilt
A hearing for annulment is set for the first week of April after a motion challenging the court findings that Edward Ward Van derbilt was insane. The contest centers on the marriage between Vanderbilt and Mary Ann Scannell-Pepper- Vanderbilt and awaits higher court review of the commission and Sheriff's jury findings.
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Edward Ward Vanderbilt
Mary Ann Scannell-Pepper- Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Butler Rescues Family From Fire on Fifth Avenue Home
Mrs Frank J. Vanderbeek Jr and her young children were saved from their No 762 St Nicholas Avenue home by butler Edward Reilly as a blaze engulfed the parlor and stairways. The fire started by a overheated oil lamp explosion. the five story sandstone house suffered about 15000 in damage with no injuries.
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Frank J. Vanderbeek, Jr
St. Nicholas Avenue
Edward Reilly
Call for New Jersey Deep Waterways Association Formation
David Whitall Garrigues, secretary of the New Jersey delegation to a Philadelphia conference, urges a meeting of New Jersey interests to form a Water Utilities Congress of New Jersey. The group would fund its work, promote deeper Delaware River and Raritan Bay channels, seek a deep water canal, improve state waterways, conserve water and power resources, and prevent excessive charges for rights of way. Meetings may be held next Tuesday night during Governor-elect Fort’s inauguration in Trenton.
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New Jersey
Philadelphia
Garrigues
The
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Raritan Bay
Navy Yard
United States
New York
Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Congress
Fort
Trenton
Carnegie Hero Awards honor 16 acts of bravery
Pittsburg January 15 Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awards medals to sixteen rescuers across Massachusetts Connecticut and other states. Cash totaling 10000 plus annuities to widows and orphans mark first time payments of ongoing support. Recipients include George Grant Carlton Funk Florence House George La Croix Newell Gilman William Donovan and others for lifesaving actions from drowning fires and ice rescues.
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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Massachusetts
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Groton
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Dragoni
Charles Campbell
Boston
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Providence
Carlton H. Funk
Glastonbury
Jennie Buchsteat
Florence House
Chelsea
Mass
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George L. la Croix
Cambridge
Ernest J. Poirier
William H. A. Missett
Springfield Mass
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Thomas McGown
Worcester
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Rocky Hill
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Henry Dwight
Holyoke
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Lowell
James Murdock
Philadelphia
William T. Donovan
Lynn
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Annabelle Parnell
F. W. Carrier
Smith's Ferry
Patrick Gannon
Connecticut River
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Gravenhurst
Ont
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Lindsay
William Gilmour
Sorel
Que
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Buffalo
Yonkers Road System Faces Receivership Risk
Receivers may be appointed for Yonkers Railroad Company amid failed asset collection and severe underfunding across Yonkers Yonkers division lines. Westchester County street railroads in a cash crunch after unions face wage disputes. Union Railway Company holds major stock and a looming court action targets recovery, with Public Service Commission hearings promising relief if conditions prove dire.
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Justice Mills
Supreme Court
White Plains
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Public Service Commission
2D District
Yonkers Railroad
Maher
Westchester Electric Railroad Company
Tarrytown, White Plains & Mamaroneck Railway Company
Gas Electric Car Test May Transform Short-Line Railroading
Telegraph report from Schenectady dated January 15 describes a General Electric gas electric car reaching sixty mph on a seventy-five mile run. The core S cylinder gas engine powers two 60 horsepower motors via a 120 horsepower generator, all controlled by one operator in a compact space. The car seats forty four plus baggage, weighs thirty one tons, and uses hot exhaust for in-car heating with electric lighting.
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Tribune
J Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
Banker Case Nearing Jury Deliberation
Ritscher for the defense finished his argument and Mr Robyns is expected to close tomorrow as the case likely heads to the jury tonight.
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Ritscher
Robyns
Nurse in New Brunswick Tries Suicide Amid Embezzlement Charge
Alberta Thumeden, a local nurse, attempted self harm after a warrant for $145 embezzlement was served by Sergeant Kelly. She was rushed to St. Peter's Hospital in critical condition. The case ties to Rosina M. Moser who named Mrs. Lumsden, former nurse at the tuberculosis home, as a key witness in recent accusations against Doctors Janeway and Cronk over dog vivisection.
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New Brunswick
Alberta Thumeden
Kelly
St. Peter's Hospital
Lumsden
Rosina M. Moser
Boycott His Baby Carriage Over Nurse Girls Union
Real estate man Ferdinand H. Cook sued five nurse girls in a West Side court for blocking the sidewalk from 70th to 71st streets and harassing his children. He displayed a postcard alleged to contain hostile nurse girl poetry from Nora Thamers, the union delegate, who had called a strike on his work. Magistrate Herrman warned that further complaints would be met with the full extent of the law.
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Ferdinand H. Cook
West End Avenue
West Side Court
Mr. Cook
Nurse Girls’ Union
Nora Thamers
Cook
Herrman
Interstate Commerce Ruling on State and Interstate Rates
The Interstate Commerce Commission held that discrimination created by a combined state and interstate rate remains within its jurisdiction when the carrier sets the state rate. The Reliance Textile and Dye Works case against the Southern Railway involved cotton piece goods from Cincinnati to Chicago and alleged bias against Cincinnati versus Clearwater South Carolina and Lanette Alabama.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Reliance Textile and Dye Works
Southern Railway Company
Cincinnati
Chicago
Clearwater
S. C
Lanette
Ala
New Haven Demurrer Sustained in Rail Case
Massachusetts Supreme Court sustains the demurrer of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad in a common law information by Attorney General Dana Malone. The case alleges illegal takeover of street railways and guaranteed stock dividends. the court says the action should be in equity, not quo warranto. Action in equity has been heard by a master whose report is pending.
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Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Dana Malone
New Haven Road
Massachusetts Street
Clark's annual winter cruise to the Mediterranean voyage
Clark announces a tenth annual winter cruise from New York on February 6 aboard the steamer Arabic. The 70 day voyage visits Madeira Cadiz Seville Granada the Alhambra Jerusalem Alexandria Cairo Naples Pompeii Rome Nice Monte Carlo with prices by stateroom. All expenses including excursions hotels carriage drives and guides are included. The second item notes Home Insurance Company declares a 14 percent semiannual dividend and shows policyholder surplus of 10,208,211.27 dollars.
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Orient
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Board of Directors
Would Enjoin Mother in Law
Carl Emil Christensen asked Judge Carpenter to restrain his mother-in-law Bertha Larsen from meddling in his home. He claimed his wife is over-sensitive and that he has exhausted every method to keep the two women apart.
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Chicago
Carl Emil Christensen
Bertha Larsen
Carpenter
Beauchamp Shot Dead by Brothers of Victim at Rock Island
Dr E D Beauchamp was killed at Rock Island station Lawton while en route to Hobart for a murder trial of Charles Thomas. Charles Thomas's brothers John F Thomas ex City Attorney Lawton and Will Thomas of Chico Texas surrendered after firing. Beauchamp killed Thomas on February 25 1907 over alleged intimacy with Mrs Beauchamp. At today’s meeting all three drew revolvers. the Thomas brothers acted faster.
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Tribune
Lawton
Okla
E. D. Beauchamp
Hobart
Charles Thomas
Rock Island
John F. Thomas
Will Thomas
Chico
Tex
Detroit 3 Cent Fares Proposal From Mayor Thompson
Mayor William B. Thompson in his annual message to the Common Council argues for universal 3 cent street railway fares due to expiring franchises. He notes the need for a lasting plan beyond limited workman’s cheap tickets and calls for this rate for all riders at all times.
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Detroit
William B. Thompson
Common Council
Delaware liquor test begins in New Castle County court
The challenge to last November's local option election in Delaware moved forward in the Court of General Sessions at Wilmington. Chief Justice Lore and judges Pennewill and Grubb heard arguments on the constitutionality of the statewide dry counties vote after Kent and Sussex counties went dry.
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Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Delaware
Kent
Sussex
New Castle County
Bank says Reed Manufacturing notes total 100000
The Merchants National Bank of New York filed an answer in U.S. District Court to Reed Manufacturing Company bankruptcy alleging conspiracy to defraud the bank and creditors. It claims Reed notes valued at 100000 are due in four months with 2600 security, and implicates Reed officers and Lisk Manufacturing Company of Canandaigua, owner of Reed’s 500000 capital stock. The bank asserts Reed is solvent.
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Buffalo
Reed Manufacturing Company
Newark
N. Y
Merchants Nations Bank of New York
United States District Court
Reed Company
Lisk Manufacturing Company
Canandaigua
Regina d Italia Released After Writ Discontinued
The steamship Regina d Italia seized at Jersey City on December X was released yesterday afternoon as the attachment writ, brought by Sir James Laing & Sons Co of Sunderland, England, was discontinued. The suit claimed the Lloyd Sabado Societa Anomina Navigazini owed about $1.97 million for three ships not built to contract terms.
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Jersey City
Sir James Laing & Sons Company, Limited
Sunderland
England
Lloyd Sabado Societa Anomina Navigazini
Steamship Company
Walsh Funds Trial Reaches Closing Phase Today
Chicago Jan 16 The Walsh bank misapplication case enters its final stage as Assistant District Attorney Pletcher Dobyns opens the summing up to the jury. The proceedings began with the reading of previous testimony and arguments from defense counsel.
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John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Pletcher Dobyns
Mr. Dobyns
John 8
Miller
Yale Ball Player Weds Golfer
Miss Helen Trowbridge Carrington daughter of Mr and Mrs J B Carrington wed Burnside Winslow son of Mr and Mrs J H Winslow in Center Church The Rev Dr Newman Smyth officiated The bride a famed East golf player The groom Yale class of 4 captain of the baseball team bridesmaids included Pauline Maches with guests from Philadelphia New York Boston and elsewhere
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Yale
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