Daly Widow Sues Wells Fargo Official for Coercion
Mrs. Margaret P. Daly, widow of Marcus Daly, sues Hosmer B. Parsons in the Supreme Court to recover sums claimed under an October 1905 agreement. Parsons says the signing was forced, and he mentions prior payments and investments for Daly including loans and stock subscriptions. He alleges she urged repayment of commissions to offset anticipated losses and describes a settlement and remaining liability on two loans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret P. Daly
Marcus Daly
Montana
Supreme Court
Hosmer B. Parsons
Wells Fargo & Co
Wells, Fargos& Co
Parsons
James W. Gerard
Daly
George B. James
Eastern Timber Company
Publishers’ Paper Company
Dair
Wellsargo Company
Wells Tareo Company
Arthur B. Cody
Charles E. Locke
Disobeying Orders Saved Lives At Parker Building Crash
Deputy Chief Langford and several firefighters testified to a commission about the Parker Building crash that killed three firemen. Langford said the stay-under-the-fire order was given to keep men safe, while a window escape was suggested. the order to stay was not fully followed. Other officials discussed communications, guarantees, and the city’s response, with testimony from engineers and department commissioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langford
Parker
Ume
Lves
Commissioners of Accounts
Yesterder
Binns
Stangford
Joseph T. Johnston
Law Department
Corporation Counsel's
John TW. McKay
Water Department
Brooklyn
Bonner
Commicsioner O'Brien
Department of Ssage Supply, Gas and Electricity
Woman Struck by Train in Midtown Accident
Florence Caliche of No 118 West 654 Street was struck by a southbound Sixth Avenue elevated train at 66th Street and Columbus Avenue. She died under the wheels as the car was lifted and the body removed. Meterman William Egan was held in $200 for inquest. Caliche had wished to marry soon and her daughter awaited a license due yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Caliche
West
66Th Street
Columbus Avenue
William Egan
Caliche
Contested Will in Jamaica Queens Probate
Mrs Edward Todd wife of a newspaper editor contested a will in Jamaica Queens Surrogate Daniel Nobie admitted the will to probate after testimony by relatives of the deceased editor. The estate is reported at about 34.00 and includes Todd who once served as Queens tax commissioner and as an assemblyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Todd
Isonity
Jamaica
Queens
Daniel Nobie
Lass
Todd
Une
Six Die to Save Others Off Delaware Breakwater
Six crew members perished when the barge White Band sank in a northwest gale off Delaware Breakwater while being towed by the tug M E Scully. Captain Albert Garcia, Thomas Gorney, Thomas Tully, William Smith and two unidentified women were aboard. Smith's wife ran a Providence restaurant and Garcia was to wed Miss Julia Healy next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
M. E. Scully
Delaware
White Band
Newport News
Henry W. Jeez
Scully
New Jersey
Albert Garcia
New York
Thomas Gorney
Thomas Tully
William Smith
Smith
Captain Garcia
Julia Healy
Pine Street
Fire Destroys Milliken Cousens Block in Portland
A major blaze last night leveled the brick block housing Milliken Cousens & Co and A F Cox & Son with widespread wholesale district losses estimated at 839000. Ten cities were summoned as walls fell, with 708000 in insurance and suspensions across a dozen firms amid suspicious origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Milliken, Cousens & Co
A. F. Cox & Son
Cox & Son
Parker, Thomas & Co
Russ, Eveleth & Ingalls
Adam P. Leighton
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Barge Grafton May Be Lost After Gale Off Point Judith
Newport R I Jan 7 The tug Concord arrived with barges Matanzas Fall River and Grafton adrift off Point Judith Crews of Matanzas and Fall River rescued by passing steamers Grafton not heard from and feared lost with her crew Boston Jan 27 The steamer Winifred after a 26 day voyage from Fowey England arrives in Boston with heavy weather since New Year’s Day One seaman knocked overboard by a large wave breaking a leg crew reports the vessel battered but intact at port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, R. L
Concord
Matanzas
Fall River
Grafton
Point Judith
Boston
Winifred
Fowey
England
Fower
Cape Race
Plans approved by Taft outline coast artillery build program
The War Secretary endorsed artillery chiefs plans to reposition coast defenses with 5.526 million dollars next year for new posts and barracks across 32 posts plus sub posts. Allocations cover Fort Totten Fort Schuyler Fort Hamilton Fort Wadsworth and Fort Hancock with eight to seven company complements and related quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
Secretary of War
Army
Coast Artillery
New York
Fort Totten
Fort ScHuyter
Fort Hamilton
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Hancock
Spies Foiled in Armory Robbery Attempt
In San Francisco on January 26 the California National Guard sharpshooters repelled a second armed intrusion at the armory housing coast defense maps and peninsula topo plans. Bullets failed to breached the building and authorities suspect Japanese spies sought entry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
National Guard
6Th Infantry
California National Guard
General Crawford Retired From Coast Artillery
Brigadier General Medorem Crawford, recently promoted from colonel, retired on age grounds. He hails from Oregon. Another brigadier general vacancy will arise next Friday with Brigadier General J M K Davis of the Department of the Gulf retiring at Atlanta. Davis, born in the District of Columbia and a 1867 Military Academy graduate, is expected to be replaced soon by the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Medorem Crawford
Coast Artillery Corps
Oregon
J. M. K. Davis
Department of the Gulf
Atlanta
Davis
District of Columbia
Military Academy
Death of Naval Apprentice Hartnet Attributed to Accident
Navy Department received Rear Admiral Merrell’s inquiry report on the death of H. A. Hartnet, a naval apprentice, from a brain clot after a fist fight aboard the training ship Cumberland at Newport. The department infers death was accidental and notes soft gloves and officers present. No action taken yet. report awaits judge advocate general recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. A. Hartnet
Newport
John H. Merrell
Navy Department
Young Hartnet
Cumberland
Judge Advocate General
Colonel Deems Sound Supports Before Retiring Board
Colonel Clarence Deems of Baltimore's artillery district faced a retiring board on Governor's Island after War Department orders. Evidence cited included testimonies about his affection for a fox terrier named Riley. Major Charles Richard reported Deems in first class physical and mental condition. no decision was reached yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Deems
Artillery District
Baltimore
War Department
Governor's Island
Deems
H. H. Whitney
Arthur Whase
Riley
Chase
Charles Richard
Army Medical Corps
Richard
O. S. Brown
Colonel Deems
Whitney
Des Moines Destroys Derelicts Along New England Coast
Newport R I Jan 27 The cruiser Des Moines arrived today after a voyage along the New England coast in which she destroyed several derelicts and hazardous wrecks observed offshore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Newport
New England
President nominates two captains as rear admirals
The President sent to the Senate the nominations of Captain William Swift and Captain Leavitt C. Logan to be rear admirals, announced from Washington on January 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
William Swift
Leavitt C. Logan
Major Hancock Case Reaches War Department for Presidential Action
Major William F. Hancock coast artillery, stationed at Fort Barrancas Florida, has a court martial verdict possibly leading to dismissal. The Atlanta trial focused on alleged pledge violations regarding intoxicating liquors. Hancock, a 1883 West Point graduate from Ohio, awaits presidential action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
William F. Hancock
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Barrancas
Florida
War Department
Hancock
Atlanta
Ohio
Military Academy
Admiral Luce Denies Defects in Battleships
In a January 27 letter to Secretary Metcalf Rear Admiral S B Luce retired says a sensational publication falsely attributing his views would undermine public faith in the battleship fleet. He states he knows of no structural defects and offers no formal denial if such claims exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Metcalf
S. B. Luce
False fire alarms spark Harlem arrest in school district
Four false alarms from Public Schools 108 159 57 and others drew Harlem firefighters across the city yesterday. Carl Weinstein of 5440 Wendover Avenue confessed after officers tracked him outside Public School 121 and 19% tampered with a fire alarm box stolen from Public School 184.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Carl Weinstein
Wendover Avenue
Thomas F. Dougherty
102D Street
Second Avenue
Weinstein
Dougherty
16Th Street
Lenox Avenue
Jack
Public School
110Th Street
Public School 57
115Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Kissena Park Sale Inquiry Brings Bermel into Spotlight
Nathan Vidaver a deputy attorney general led Queens County Grand Jury questions in the Kissena Park land sale case. Notary George Motz refused to answer about two Bermel mortgages and sought counsel, prompting contempt warnings from Justice Garretson. A transcript was ordered, with Motz warned of possible detention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kissena Park
Joseph Bermel
Borough of
Queens
Nathan Vidaver
Garretson
Supreme Court
Flushing
George Motz
Brooklyn
Long Island City
Congressman Willett
Vidaver
Motz
Drops Dead Ordering Dinner at Terrace Garden
Edward C. Talcott a 37 year old resident of the Hotel Seymour died suddenly yesterday afternoon while ordering a meal in the Terrace Garden restaurant on East 58th street. He was with a woman who claimed he suffered heart failure and sought his medicine. Dr. Bastedo diagnosed heart trouble as the cause. The woman’s identity could not be confirmed at Dr. Bastedo’s home. The body was moved to Talcott’s brother in New York with burial planned for Hartford Connecticut. Talcott held leadership roles at Texas Crude Oil and Mining Co and New Jersey Leather Manufacturing Co with offices on Broadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward C. Talcott
Walter A. Bastedo
West 38Th Street
Talcott
Texas Crude Oil and Mining Company
New Jersey Leather Manufacturing Company
No. Ml Broadway
Captain Reynolds Reinstated After Court Order
James G. Reynolds, the Brooklyn police captain ousted by Commissioner Bingham for alleged defective eyesight, was reinstated by Justice Maddox of the Supreme Court. The court ruled the certificated lacked the required cause and details of his disability. This marks his second removal and reinstatement in the force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Reynolds
Brooklyn Polices
Bingham
Justice Maddox
Supreme Court
McAdoo
Fire and murder suicide at Mulberry Street flat
Carmio Bernardone set fire to his No 163 Mulberry Street dwelling after quarrels with his wife. Firemen found him dead in the living room and his infant Tony in the kitchen crib. The roof access was padlocked. Mrs Bernardone had previously had him arrested for assault and had just separated from him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmio Hemardone
Mulberry Street
Econ
Tony
Bernardone
Sailboat Capsizes Off Morro Castle. Two Marines Drowned
A pleasure trip sailboat carrying twelve marines capsized near Morro Castle in San Juan Puerto Rico. Two marines named Philip Nunez and Clarence Merritt died in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan
P. R
Morro Castle
Philip Nunez
Clarence Merritt
General Drain Defends National Guard at House Hearing
In Washington on January 27 General James A. Drain chairman of the National Guard Association executive committee spoke to the House Committee on Militia about a bill to improve militia efficiency. He asserted the National Guard has always claimed the right to fall in immediately behind the regular army when troops are needed in war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Committee On Militia of the House
James A. Drain
National Guard Association
Drain
National Guard
No Place for Dreamers Dies
Louis D. Goodman a 36 year old lawyer poet and newspaper man died today by self inflicted carbolic acid in St Louis He had previously attempted suicide by cutting his throat last July saying the world had places only for men of action not for dreamers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Louis D. Goodman
Wednesday Prayer Meeting Held by Ladies' Union
The devotional meeting of the Ladies' Christian Union takes place every Wednesday in the Chapel of the Collegiate Church at 48th Street and Fifth Avenue. Women are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ladies’ Christian Union
Collegiate Church
48Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Steam
Miss Frances Wilson Will Upheld by Surrogate Beckett
Surrogate Beckett sustained the validity of Miss Frances T Wilsons will challenged by relatives who claimed she was unable to make a will near her death on June 26 1907. Wilson lived with her brother in law Dr Frederick Danne who died March 27 1900 leaving a residuary estate in trust for Wilson for life with power to appoint the remainder by will. If she failed to make such appointment the remaining estate would go to her next of kin living at her death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. T. Wilson
Beckett
Frances T. Wilson
Miss Wilson
Frederick Danne
Tornado damages towns across three states
A tornado swept Pond Creek Valley late Saturday night killing James M. Cassidy and wounding five others. Dozens of houses were wrecked and Philadelphia Tennessee suffered additional damage. In Krowah County Alabama the storm caused substantial damage with no fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweetwater
Tenn
Pond Creek Valley
James M. Cassidy
Philadelphia
Krowah County
Ala
Fifteen Hurt In Trolley Crash Near Salem Ohio
A Youngstown & Ohio Electric Railway interurban car jumped the track three miles east of Salem and plunged into water. Fifteen of the twenty five aboard were injured but none fatally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Ohio
Youngstown & Ohio Electric Railway
Here
Tce
Education donor gifts fund Constantinople college
Dr Mary Mills Patrick head of the American College for Girls at Constantinople reported gifts totaling about 90 000 with four gifts of 10 000 from Mrs Russell Sage Miss Helen M Gould Miss Grace Dodge and John H Converse and a 50 000 gift for a preparatory school The college seeks endowment funds and a central building after a fire destroyed Barton Hall and much equipment The lecture was given at Miss Goulds Fifth Avenue home and Dr Patrick noted the colleges diverse cosmopolitan student body and notable calm during the hall fire
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Sage
Helen M. Gould
Grace Dodge
John H. Converse
Philadelphia
America
American College For Girls
Constantinople
Mary Mills Patrick
Central College
Dr. Patrick
Fifth Avenue
Patrick
Miss Gould
Levant
Barton Hall
Roxana Vivian
Board of Trustees
Charles Cuthbert Hall
New York
Samuel T. Dutton
Teacher C College
Ignorance of the Bible Urged by Ethical Culture Speaker
Percival Chubb addressed the women's conference at the Ethical Culture School on lightening the gross darkness surrounding the Bible for children and adults. He argued the Bible is vanishing as a literary force and urged selecting biblical passages as literary units to form a respectable collection for education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Society For Ethical Culture
Ethical Culture School
Percival Chubb
Chubb
Mr. Chubb
Plato
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alcohol Question Data Grows in Boston Federation Library
The Scientific Temperance Federation reports its annual meeting in Boston and a growing library with over one thousand books pamphlets abstracts and references on alcohol effects. The catalogued collection at No 23 Trust Street is available to public and social workers and William C Lilley of Pittsburgh is named president for the coming year as the group plans to keep its education campaign active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific Temperance Federation
Boston
Suffragettes Plan Parade and Campaign Across Cities
Miss Maud Malone of the new Progressive Woman Suffrage Union announces a demonstration and parade down Broadway to protest unequal political and economic rights for women. Other groups, including the League of Self-supporting Women led by Harriet Stanton Blatch, plan Albany hearings and mass meetings while preparatory events spread to the East Side and Seneca Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Side
Belle de Rivera
Equity Suffrage League
League of Self-supporting Women
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Albany
Hughes
League
Seneca Falls
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Charlotte Wilbour
Lucretia Mott
College Women’s Equal Suffrage League
Vassar
Cornell
Syracuse
Rochester
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Old Time Buckwheat Cake Recipe Guide
An old subscriber shares a buckwheat cake method using buckwheat flour yellow Indian meal and salt with hot water milk and yeast. It covers batter preparation several days of starter reuse for richer flavor and browning with molasses butter and griddle greasing tips. The piece cites Miss Leslie’s cookbook and notes variations using buttermilk oatmeal breadcrumbs or mixed flours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie
Miss Leslie
Kings and Kings Cakes in Paris Tales of Epiphany Customs
In Paris the Epiphany season centers on galette des rois a pastry that hides a porcelain figure. The king or queen chosen by finding the token leads the festivities with toasts and playful duties while bakers and couriers trade festive tokens and New Year gifts.
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Mrs
Wells Fargo
Parker Building
Clark
Orient
Suny
Laderra
Cadiz
Seville
Algiers
Malta
Egypt
Holy Land
Cori
Rome
Riviera
Europe
F.C. Clark
Times
Army and Navy News
New York Harbor
James A. Marshall
Alonzo F. Woodside
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Fort Banks
George Palmer
21St Infantry
Wendel J. L. Simpson
General Hospital
Washington Barracks
Navy
B. T. Moore
E. A. Anderson
H. J. Cone
RE. C. Bulmer
C. Riddle
A. €. H. Russell
W. N. Moonell
P. T. Dessez
F. E. Porter
E. A. Vickery
T. PD. Parker
Navy Yard
Mare Island
Buffalo
J. P. Morton
W. B. Decker
Prairie
Mississippi
E. G. MacKenzie
Naval Hospital
L. M. Schmidt
Annapolis
L. C. Whiteside
Naval Hospital, Newprt
M. Rixey
D. C. M'Dougal
Marine Corps
Sausalito
Leonidas
Portsmouth
N. H
Paducah
New Orleans
Guantanamo
Crawford
Hartnet
Major Hancock
Boy With Key
Bermel and
Kissena
Terrace Garden
Captain Reynolds
Self
House Committee
Gen. Drain
Tion
Kings
Paris
East
Father Christmas
Balthazar
Gaspard
Melchior
Abun
Bolt
France
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