Diamond Robbery Foiled at Maiden Lane Offices
Two men attempted a bold diamond theft at Cooper & Forman on the eighth floor of No 3 Maiden Lane. William Stenson confronted them with an empty pistol, police arrived, and James D Shank and Frederick Kenny were arrested and held on grand larceny charges in $2,000 bail each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper & Forman
No. 3
Maiden Lane
William Stenson
James D. Shank
West 192d Street
Frederick Kenny
West Sth
Rogues
Breen
Tombs
Mr. Forman
Forman
Stenson
Monihan and Nugent
Daly
Trafic Squad
Kensico Reservoir Plans Condemn Major Westchester Lands
Supreme Court Justice Keogh appointed three sets of watershed commissioners to condemn land for the Kensico reservoir costing 15 million dollars. The move will wipe out Kensico village and flood the area to create one of Westchester County largest artificial lakes. Appointments were sought by H. T. Dykman of White Plains. Commissioners hail from Westchester with three Manhattan members in each section, led by Edward Wells Peekskill and John Digmey White Plains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. Keogh
Supreme Court
White Plains
Kensico
Westchester County
H. T. Dykman
Manhattan
Edward Wells
Peekskill
Francis A. Winslow
John F. Healy
New Rochelle
P. F. Donahue
John M. Digmey
Stephen van Tassell
Blount Vernon
Samuel J. Foley
Raid on De Sota apartment gambling den nets wheel and chips
Police raid on the De Sota building at 19 Fast 224 Street targets an alleged gambling house on the first floor rear. A Wall Street broker lost $19 to a crooked roulette wheel and aided officers by reporting the incident. Detectives found a roulette wheel, chips, and a card bearing Augustus Masters MacDonnell in a back room.
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Wall Street
de Sota
Fast 224 Street
Murphy
Tenderloin
William Files
Detective Kinney
Steinbruck
Guiles
Hailboy
Augustus Masters MacDonnell
Captain Murphy
Auto Burglars At Work In Greenwich Belmont Cottage
Greenwich police search for two men in a car who stole about $5,000 worth of silverware from Edward D Farrell a retired New York real estate dealer staying at Copp cottage Belle Haven. The haul included silver trays salt cellars forks and spoons plus a golf loving cup marked Farrell Hyde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Edward D. Farrell
New York City
Belle Haven
C. McG
Mr. Farrell
Bay Shore
Edward Farrell
Lillian Hyde
Crosstown and Metropolitan Lease Modification Hearing Set
The Public Service Commission will hold a 10 a m Friday hearing on the Central Crosstown Railway request to modify its lease with the Metropolitan Street Railway. Crosstown and receivers for the M S R reached a one year continuation of current operations, with conditions, amid unprofitable fixed charges and bond obligations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Public Service Commission
Central Crosstown Railway Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Crosstown Railway
Messrs
Messrs. Joline and Robinson
Central Crosstown
Vreeland
Crosstown Company
Metropolitan
New York City Railway Company
Revolving house planned for Long Island estate
Architect Clarence True reports a revolving wooden house design for jeweller William Reiman at Little Neck Bay Long Island. Powered likely by electricity and mounted on ball bearings, the home would swing with wind and seasons, with safety exits and adjustable piazzas, estimated at 35000 dollars plus land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence True
Liberty Street
Little Neck Bay
Long Island
William Reiman
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Reiman
True
ROUT MEXICAN REBELS i
Reports from Las Vacas and Del Rio say a force of about one thousand Mexican troops led by Colonel Dorantes engaged a main revolutionary body about thirty miles south of Del Rio. The insurgents, estimated at five hundred, fought hard but were routed and broke into small bands retreating into the mountains. Federal cavalry and rurales pursue. no casualty figures reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
del Rio
Tex
Las Vacas
Dorantes
Here
Rebels Surround Town Near New Mexico Border
Telegraph report from El Paso July 6 says sixty Mexican cavalry moved from Chihuahua to Casas Grandes and then to Ascension south of Palomas where revolutionists attacked last Tuesday. Fifty gendarmes guard Ascension as Mormon volunteers report arrests of forty revolutionaries north of Casas Grandes. An El Progresso editorial urges colonias to arm and prepare amid ongoing revolutionary threats and potential murder and looting plans in Northern Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
el Paso
Tex
Chihuahua
Casas Grandes
Ascension
Palomas
New Mexico
Antonio V. Lomeli
Nuevo Casas Grandes
el Progresso
Mexico
Colonia
Dublan
Consular Officer Arrested Over Abandonment Charge
Sefior Don Enrique Nattes, chancellor of the Salvadoran consulate at New York Port, was held yesterday in Jefferson Market court on abandonment charges pressed by his wife. He admitted marrying her in New York twenty one years ago before his consular post. She said he deserted twelve years ago and had paid support of one daughter under court order, which stopped weeks ago. She feared him poisoning her and said he suspected another woman. Magistrate Wahle set the case for July 16 with the prisoner paroled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sefior Don Enrique Nattes
Republic of Salvador
Port of New York
Jefferson Market Court
Sefior Nattes
Colonel J. F. Wilson's Son Dies in Scotland
Colonel John F. Wilson of North Plainfield reports the death of his son Alan Wilson in Edinburgh Scotland. Alan was manager of the Philadelphia branch of the Ingersoll Rand Company and was injured in an automobile wreck a year earlier while traveling from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. He had planned to spend the summer abroad seeking improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Plainfield
N. J
John F. Wilson
North Plainfield
Alan Wilson
Philadelphia
Ingersoll Rand Company
Edinburgh
Scotland
Wilson
Atlantic City
Convict Attacks Sing Sing Keepers in Stairway Fight
Edward Kinnane and Edward MacEneny, keepers at Sing Sing, were wounded in an encounter with a convict who threatened death and attacked them with a knife fashioned from a file. Kinnane suffered a deep wound to the right shoulder, while MacEneny sustained cuts to his hands during the struggle to subdue the inmate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Kinnane
Edward MacEneny
Sing Sing
Kinnane
MacEneny
Mrs Jessica Taylor Wins Interlocutory Divorce In Supreme Court
Justice McCall grants an interlocutory divorce to Mrs Jessica Taylor from Talbot J Taylor, Wall Street broker. Report by Leon Dessar. Co respondent unnamed. The Taylors married May 1892 and lived at Talbot House Cedarhurst Long Island with notable antique collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice McCall
Supreme Court
Jessica Taylor
Talbot
Foxhall Keene
Schoen Wheel Co Sold Amid Steel Trust Battle
Pittsburg reports Carnegie Steel Company, a major United States Steel subsidiary, bought Schoen Steel Wheel Company for 3 million dollars. The deal leaves inventor Charles Schoen with about 1 million in profit amid a long running clash over wheel steel and market control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schoen Wheel CO
IN Steel Trust
Self-Hypnotism Proves Fatal In Chicago
John Neriza died after hours of agony believed caused by self-hypnosis and auto-suggestion amid worry over July 4 noise. Doctors found no poison and attribute death to a weak mental state. An inquest is planned as physicians note possible annual deaths from such conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Neriza
Neriza
Fire destroys Rand cement works at Newtown Creek
A fire at the L. F. Rand cement works in Williamsburg yesterday afternoon killed William J. Groves, 34, of 34 Meeker Avenue. Thomas Raynor, at 239 Kingsland Avenue, was fatally injured while fighting the blaze. Fire hydrants were distant and fireboats unable to reach due to shallow creek, leaving the building consumed before hoses could be laid. Dr. Mary Crawford of Williamsburg Hospital cared for Groves and other injured workers before they were sent home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Rand
Newtown Creek
Williamsburg
William J. Groves
Meeker Avenue
Thomas Raynor
Kingsland Avenue
Groves
Gaynor
Mary Crawford
Williamsburg Hospital
New York and Bermudez Deny Castro Offer for Asphalt Property
The New York and Bermudez Company denied reports it offered 2,500,000 to President Castro for the return of its asphalt property seized by Venezuela. It rejected any compromise involving payment to Venezuela and noted ongoing arbitration efforts, while Castro has refused arbitration. The firm says it has never proposed such terms and views compromises as blackmail, though it previously considered one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York and Bermudez Company
Castro
Fnrm
Venezuela
New York and Bermudez
State Department
Jackson Sues American Ice Co Over Monopoly Claims
Attorney General Jackson serves suit against John R Bennett and the American Ice Company to bar further business in the state. The 47 page complaint alleges a monopoly with Knickerbocker and Consolidated Ice and cites harmful effects on New Yorkers. Defendants must answer within twenty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Ice Company
John R Bennett
Jackson
Ice Company
Mayer
Grand Jury
James W. Osborne
Grand
Coron
Knickerbocker Ice Company
Consolidated Ice Company
New York
William A. Deford
Impaled by Runaway Wagon In The City
An ironworker Louis Dershen was impaled on a wagon shaft after a runaway horse terrified by a passing car. He died under the horse’s hooves as the vehicle sped along Eighth Avenue. John Einstein, visiting from East 1st Street, was knocked down and later injured with a fractured leg. The horse, belonging to Gresting Brothers, was halted by a bicycle patrolman after the wagon detached at 120th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Dershen
Grestede Brothers
Eighth Avenue
114Th Street
Frank Lepartonio
Dershon
116Th Street
John Einstein
East 1St Street
Dershen
Einstein
120Th Street
Guardian appointed for President Johnsons grandson
Bristol Va July 6 A guardian has been appointed for Andrew Johnson Stover grandson of President Andrew Johnson who for thirty years has lived as a hermit in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee to look after his interest in the Johnson estate at Greenville Stover played on the White House grounds as a boy while his mother was mistress of the Presidents mansion during Johnsons administration After his mothers death he was not regarded as mentally sound and sought the mountains where he has lived alone subsisting on berries fruits and small game He is now about fifty years old
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The
Tribune
Bristol
Andrew Johnson Stover
Andrew Johnson
Tennessee
Johnson
Greenville
Stover
White House
Governor Names Delegates for Good Roads Convention
Albany July 6 Governor Hughes announced the appointment of delegates to represent New York State at the Legislative Good Roads Convention in Buffalo. Senators Jotham P. Allds Henry W. Hill George A. Davis William H. Hotchkiss and Arthur Warren are named. Six miles of highway near Williamsville will be demonstrated by State Engineer Frederick Skene and County Engineer George C. Diehl alongside exhibits of road building machinery and dust control products.
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Albany
Hughes
New York State
American Automobile Association
Buffalo
Jotham P. Allds
Chenango
Henry W. Hill
George A. Davis
William H. Hotchkiss
Arthur Warren
Rochester
United States
Frederick Skene
George C. Diehl
Williamsville
National Economic League forms from club movement
Boston reports steps to affiliate clubs from Portland to Baltimore into the National Economic League. A special committee directs the work with ex-Secretary John D. Long and Edwin Ginn among organizers. A temporary executive committee names William H. Lincoln as chairman and includes Charles J. Bonaparte and others.
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Tribune
Boston
Economic Club of
Portland
Providence
Worcester
Springfield
New Haven
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
National Economic League
John D. Long
Edwin Ginn
William H. Lincoln
Charles J. Bonaparte
John Graham Brooks
George Burnham
Peter Grosscup
Schurman
Embezzler William L. Wilson Get Six Year Range
Port Huron Michigan July 6 William L Wilson was sentenced for embezzling more than 75000 from the United Home Protectors' Fraternity He received a term of not less than two and a half nor more than five years in the State Reformatory with a recommendation for a longer term The shortage wrecked the fraternity and prompted the sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Huron
Micn
William L. Wilson
United Home Protectors’ Fraternity
State Reformatory
Wilson
Meintyre Case Pauses Over Suitability For Trial
Thomas A. Meintyre of the firm T A Meintyre Co faces five indictments with a delay over fitness to stand trial. Judge Foster heard a motion to postpone citing illness supported by a doctor’s affidavit. A Bay Ridge summer visit and a reception at Atlantis Yacht Club were cited by prosecutors as suggesting he may endure trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas A. Meintyry
T. A. Meintyre, & Co
Foster
Meintyre
J. B. McCrahon
William Shannon
No. 1
West Fist
McIntyre
Train
Atlantis Yacht Club
Dr. Lambert
Hastist Street
Bay Ridge
T. A. McIntyre & Co
Gilchrist
Watt on Trial for Song Prize Scheme In Mail Fraud Case
Eugene B Watt stands trial in the U S Circuit Court before Judge Hough and a jury charged with using the mails to defraud authors who sent songs and money to enter a 5 prize contest advertised by Temple Court Publishing and J A Bartlett Music Publishing. Several writers from Norwich Waterville Easton Fort Hancock sent $19 and songs hoping for a hit, while Watt promised responses on April Fool's Day before postal authorities halted the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx
Eugene B. Watt
United States Circuit Court
Hough
Temple Court Publishing Company
J. A. Bartlett Music Publishing Company
Watt
Norwich
Conn
Waterville
Easton
Penn
Fort Hancock
N. J
Watt Joseph Lowndes
Joseph Curram
Walter Sweeny
Gertie
Juries complain of too many indictments in July sessions
Judge Foster opened the General Sessions Court grand jury convening in July, noting juries here issue too many indictments that fail in trial courts. He reported 348 cases awaiting grand juries, with 135 defendants in prison, and recounted advocating for a wrongly indicted man whose name was not added to the panel to illustrate how haste harms justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foster
General Sessions Court
Ready to Return Money: Spaniard Arrested for Larceny
Enrique Lianas, a 23 year old Spaniard and Purdue student, was arrested at Broadway and 63rd Street for stealing 12.44 in cash from Mrs. Clark Smith of Lafayette. Detectives Curry and Han recovered 25 bills and a Central Railroad timetable from a suitcase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrique Lianas
Broadway
Curry
Han
Central Office
Lianas
Bogota
Colombia
Purdue University
Lafayette
Clark Smith
West Gd Street
Ind
West 63d Street
Mrs. Smith
West Set Street
Atte Lianas
Mr& Smith
West 68Th Street
Fire at Stapleton asphalt works devastates boiler house
A blaze at Barter Asphalt Co in Stapleton Staten Island yesterday destroyed the boiling vat building and damaged the engine house. Thousands gathered as a general alarm summoned all nearby apparatus. Nearby tenements dock and bank were saved by firemen despite explosions from a boiler. A Polish laborer reentered the engine house to extinguish fires after an explosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barter Asphalt Company
Stapleton
Staten Island
O* Island
Brady Brothers
Staten Island Rapid Transit
Richmond National Bank
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P. S.C
Fifth Avenue Jeweller
Salvador
J. F. Wilson
Talbot J. Taylor
Ker
America
India
China
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Michigan
Carnegie Company
Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
Schoen Steel Wheel Company
McKee's Rocks
Charles Schoen
Williamsburg Cement Works
Asphalt Company
Tennessee Mountains
National League
Mintyre
Della
Barber Asphalt Company
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