Liberal Triumph and Unionist Gains in British Election
The British general election results show Unionists netting fourteen gains on the day, with nineteen seats won and Liberals four, Labour one. John Burns secures Battersea, while Beresford leads Portsmouth with a large majority. overall Liberal prospects improve as Scotland and Wales lean Liberal.
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Scotland
Wales
the Tribune
London
Yorkshire
Constitutional Club
National Liberal Club
John Gorst
Winston Churchill
Preston
Harold Cox
Stockton
Wigan
Blackburn
Hoxton
Haggerston
North Paddington
North Kensington
Bedford
West Bromwich
St. Pancras
South Exeter
Chester
Colchester
Greenwich
Finsbury
Christchurch
Woolwich
Cheltenham
England
Midlands
Beresford
Portsmouth
Lord Charles
Chatham
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Burns's Big Victory In Parliament Return
In Lenton on January 17 Joan Burns of Batter 8 wins a major parliamentary victory. He defeats Shirley Benn of the Colonist by a margin of 555 votes amid a landslide environment. Burns leads Benn in a hard-fought contest with a total vote count reported as 7,055 to 7,055.
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Associated Press
Lenton
Joan Burns
Batter 8
Alhough
LEM
A. Shirley Benn
Burns
To. Benn
Confesses Murder in Brymer Case at Millbrook
Frank Schermerhorn, hospitalized after a suicide attempt, confessed to killing Miss Sarah Brymer in the home of Barnes Compton Millbrook. He claimed Japanese butler Ohashi delivered the motive and loot, later retracting that accusation and naming himself the sole actor. he plans April court action in Poughkeepsie.
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Tribune
Poughkeepsie, N
Frank Schermerhorn
Vassar Hospital
Sarah Brymer
Barnes Compton
Millbrook
Townsend
Hornbeck
Miss Brymer
Schermerhorn
Ohashi
Compton House
Mary Dutcher
Supreme Court
Poughkeepsie
Taxicab Crash Injures Columbus Railway President
Nicholas Monsarrat of 50 East Broad Street Columbus Ohio president of the Hocking Valley Railway Company was injured in a taxi crash at Sixth Avenue and 46th Street. He suffered a facial cut and severed artery behind the left ear, was treated at Flower Hospital by his private physician then moved to the Hotel Plaza. Patrolman Zaleha and Alexander Shaw assisted him from the taxi to a drug store before hospital care.
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Nicholas Monsarrat
East Broad Street
Columbus
Ohio
Hocking Valley Railway Company
Sixth Avenue
46Th Street
Flower Hospital
Monsarrat
Financial District
Zaleha
East 51St Street
Alexander Shaw
Wadsworth Avenue
Embezzlement charge hits Pittsburg bank clerks
Harry Muehlbronner and Charles Veverka former clerks at Workingmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company were held for court in 5000 bail on embezzlement and larceny tied to a reported 30000 shortage. Muehlbronner admitted speculations and taking deposit slips including those of relatives. the defalcations allegedly span over four and a half years. Veverka’s counsel says false entries protected Muehlbronner whose father is a state senator.
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Pittsburg
Harry FE. Muehlbronner
Charles Veverka
Workingmen’s Savings Bank and Trust Company
Emil Winters
Bank
Muehlbronner
Veverka
Justifies death by own action says doctor in Philadelphia talk
Dr Edward Spitzka, anatomy professor, told a Philadelphia audience that in some cases a person may be justified in committing death by own action. He cited a doomed cancer patient and a fire race toward a train wreck as examples, arguing no afterlife blame.
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the Tribune
Philadelphia
Edward Anthony Spitzka
Jefferson Medical Clinic
Clerical Brotherhood
Protestant Episcopal Church
New York and Florida Special Train Service
A brief notice describes a daily 1:25 PM train known as the New York and Florida Special, operating to Florida, Cuba, South Penns, and the Atlantic Coast Line from 1218 Broadway.
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New York
Florida
Cuba
South Penna
Atlantic Coast Line
B'way
Harriman and Lewisohns Take Control of Night and Day Bank
The Harriman and Lewisohn interests increased their stock in the Night and Day Bank giving them control. Mary W. Harriman would take an active role in management, the first woman with a major voice in a city bank. Rumors circulated of a new Hudson Terminal branch and a shift in leadership followed by director changes.
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Harriman
Joseph W
J. Borden Harriman
Lewisohns
Mary W. Harriman
E. H. Harriman
Hudson Terminal
Harriman and
Lewisohn
Charles C. Tegethoff
Martin Vogel
Broadstreet
Tegethoff
Vogel
Albert D. Bennett
William H. Chesebrough
Vassar Girl Held After Waverly Place Demonstration
Miss Inez Milholland, a Vassar graduate aiding strikers, and Lt. Henry W. Torney were arrested at Mercer Street station after joining a protest in Waverly Place. Fifteen prisoners were taken, thirteen women and two men. Milholland and Torney were charged with refusing to disperse but their bail was posted by Milholland's father.
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Waverley Place
Inez Milholland
Vassar
Mercer Street
Miss Milholland
Torney
Waverly Place
Captain Henry
Dominick Henry
Barlow
Henry
Kernochan
TWO NEW THEATRES IN TIMES SQUARE ON BROADWAY FRONT
Henry Elkins secures lease of the Brewster & Co. site from the Sutphen estate for over 7.5 million dollars to develop two end theatres and a large restaurant with a glass dome, ice rink on the roof, and multiple kitchens. The project, south of 59th Street, plus a separate Broadway restaurant building, adds to recent Times Square plans.
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Broadway
47Th
48Th Street
Brewster & Co
Henry Elkins
John S. Sutphen
T. B. Robertson
Manhattan
Elkins
59Th Street
Times Square
Café de l'Opéra
Murray's
46Th
47Th Streets
Brewster's
Globe Theatre
Rockefellers Pocantico Hills Gets Seven Deputy Sheriffs
On Rockefeller request Sheriff Sherp of White Plains appointed seven men as deputies to guard the Pocantico Hills estate. The appointees include wealthier figures such as Paul G Thebaud Theodore Langdon Van Norden Richard Harding Davis Moses Taylor Oliver Harriman George F Beith J Campbell Thompson R R Coles Mayhew W Bronson Albert Bostwick Clinton M Martin and Colonel Edward Lyman Bill.
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John D. Rockefeller
Sherp
White Plains
Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Rockefeller Estate
Secret Service
Steer on a Rampage in Pittsburg School Yard
A wild steer bolted from a stockyards yard and roamed Margaretta street school yard in the East End. Police chased it for blocks and, as pupils cheered from locked doors and windows, an antiquated shotgun ended the chase and killed the animal.
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Pittsburg
Margaretta Street
Capitol death adds name to Harrisburg Capitol case
James Herbert Stevenson, private secretary to contractor John H. Sanderson, died by jumping from a ferry into the Delaware River. He had been linked to the Capitol furnishing scandal and faced a subpoena for Huston the architect’s trial in Dauphin County. Stevenson had lived in South Jersey to avoid subpoenas while grieving his mother.
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Philadelphia
James Herbert Stevenson
Delaware River
Harrisburg
Stevenson
John H. Sanderson
Capitol
New York
South Jersey
Huston
Dauphin County
Ten Indian Soldiers Arrested for Sedition
Calcutta January 17 a sensational arrest of ten men from the 10th Jats Regiment charged with sedition. The conspiracy is believed limited and the regiment will be transferred to another station. The unit was formerly known as the 16th Bengal Infantry.
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Calcutta
10Th Jats
16Th Bengal Infantry
Roosevelt report totals expedition specimens and materials
Ex President Roosevelt writes from Nairobi to Secretary Walcott that Smithsonian expedition under his direction up to that date has collected 8 846 vertebrate specimens and many mollusks invertebrates plants photographs and other materials include anthropological items. He provided no details on the expedition itself beyond a formal report.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Nairobi
British East Africa
Smithsonian Institution
Walcott
Smithsonian
California Book Offered by Railway And Agents
An unusually handsome California book has been published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It will be sent to any address for three cents postage. Geo A Blair Eastern Agent 331 Broadway New York contains details and order instructions.
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California
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway
Geo. A. Blair
Fram Eastern
Broadway
New York
N. Y
Advt
Young Pastor Ends Life in Sewickley Barn
The Rev. Paul Axtell twenty eight year old pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Sewickley suburb shot himself in a barn at his father's home near Homestead after ill health. He came to Pittsburg from New York in December 1907 where he was assistant pastor at Central Presbyterian. His body was bound by his brother Eugene.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Paul Axtell
First Presbyterian Church
Sewickley
Mr. Axtell
New York
Central Presbyterian Church
Axtell
J. 8. Axtell
Lebanon Presbyterian Church
Lebanon
Homestead
Eugene
Fear Another Transit Strike Looms in Philadelphia
Philadelphia reports rising tensions between the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and its union motormen and conductors. A general meeting is set for tomorrow to discuss alleged breaches of last summer’s agreement. Union members accuse the company of favoring a rival faction while company president Kruger cites disobedience among workers and hints at a possible new strike.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Kruger
Dewey's American Wine House Opens Nearby
Dewey's American Wine House operated by H.T. Dewey & Sons Co. at 138 Fulton Street, near Suburban Station, positioned as a regional wine shop in readvt era.
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Dewey's American Wine House
Fulton
Sub. Sta
H.T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Gift of $2 Million for Chicago Friendless Children
The will of Henry Curtiss Elliott, a mine owner killed by a Alaska snow slide on January 4, leaves $2,000,000 for a home for friendless children in Chicago. The will was filed for probate today with no definite construction date set.
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Chicago
Henry Curtiss Elliott
Alaska
Madriz Demands Trial for Those Tied to Shooting of Americans
President Madriz sends a message to the Supreme Court urging trials for all involved in the miscarriage of justice that led to the shooting of Americans Groce and Cannon. Salomon Selva is arrested in Leon. Medina resists arrest, barricading his home claiming illness. Warrants issued for court martial members. Zelaya is named as not appearing in proceedings.
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Madriz
Supreme Court
Groce
Cannon
Salomon Selva
General Medina
Zelaya
Medina
Selva
Leon
Shoshone Dam Completion Marked In Cody
The last bucket of cement was placed today completing the Shoshone Dam eighty miles above Cody Wyoming. The 328 foot high structure is the world's tallest concrete dam with an 85 by 200 foot base and 10 square mile artificial lake. It will provide water for irrigation of about 159 900 acres.
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Cody
Wyo
Great Government
City Wins Lake Front Property Case in Cleveland
The Circuit Court decides the city of Cleveland gains possession of about forty acres of lake front downtown, valued between 320000000 and 30000000 dollars. The lower court ruling is sustained and railways plan to appeal to the Supreme Court after sixty five years of railway control. The decision marks a significant city victory after a long dispute.
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Cleveland
Lake Front
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Imposter Student Arrested After Fordham Theft Case
Detectives tracked a man posing as a Fordham student to St. John's Hall dormitory. He carried pawn tickets for stolen items and claimed to be Jordan Freeman of Brooklyn. Police locked him up on suspicion of multiple campus thefts. he was not a registered student.
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Fordham University
St. John’s Hall
Flynn
Illich
Bronx
Jordan Freeman
Warren Street
Brooklyn
University
QUIT YACHT IN GALE NEAR ATLANTIC CITY
The schooner Mist of the New York Yacht Club was abandoned by owner Howard Binney and guests after a southeast gale drove it toward breakers off Atlantic City. Binney Mrs W L Darnell and child reached Ocean Pier and were rescued. Mrs Darnell was moved to the Hotel Traymore in serious condition. Lifesavers in a power lifeboat retrieved the four crewmen and cook after a protracted struggle. The Mist was en route from New York to Newport News in the Bermuda deep sea race.
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Mist
New York Yacht Club
Howard Binney
New York
Darnell
Traymore
Cook
Newport News
Bermuda
Hughes confirms Tribune story on governorship retirement
Washington dispatch reports Governor Hughes confirms The Tribune that he will not seek another term as New York governor. He plans to return to law, while fellow officials nationwide laud his leadership and predict a costly loss to public life for New York.
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Washington
Taft
White House
New York
Capitol
Chauncey M. Depew
Herbert Parsons
Republican Party
J. Sleat Fassett
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Bennet
Driscoll
Syracuse
Hamilton Fish
J. Hampton Moore
Pennsylvania
Martin
South Dakota
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Kansas
Hayes
California
Hitchcock
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