SUE FOR BAD HOSE BROUGHT AGAINST SURETY COMPANY
City action led by M F Loughman of Windsor Fire Appliance seeks about 25000 dollars in damages for hose sold to the Fire Department judged below contract specs. Investigations by the Commissioners of Accounts found fraud and inferior materials in the Geo Island cotton duck and rubber. The suit follows a review and testing by E W Francis and may prompt further actions on related contracts dating to 194. Loughman defends his role, noting testimony that he relied on others and was deceived by United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Company.
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M. F. Loughman
Windr Fire Appliance Company
Surety Company
Fire Department
Commissioners of Accounts
F. B. Pierce
Hayes
Loughyman
Gea Island
E. W. Francis
Philadelphia
Francis
Sea Island
Department of Water Supply
Gaswanda Electricity
Windsor Fire Appliance Company
United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Company
Windsor
Maine Narrow Escape At Hell Gate Steer Gear Fails
Sound liner Maine of the New Bedford Line suffered a steering cable snap while passing Hell Gate. Captain Webber dropped anchor in Pot o Cove as tugs and Mugboats assisted, keeping the vessel from wrecking on jagged rocks near Nigger Head. The ship was towed safely to its dock amid passenger relief and company telephoned updates.
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Maine
New Bedford
Hell Gate
Webber
Poto Cove
H. M. Whittmey
Metropolitan Line
New Haven
Rivalry Hastening Bridge Work On Manhattan Span
Report describes a friendly rivalry between crews at the New York and Brooklyn ends of the Manhattan bridge accelerating erection of footways. By last night all but sixteen Brooklyn land-span panels finished, with main cable stringing to start around August 15. Chief engineer Holton D. Robinson credited the workers for rapid progress. Louis X. Gross, superintendent, notes a first class crew and recalls prior Indian viaduct experience.
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New York
Brooklyn
New Manhattan Bridge
Anchorage
Holton LD. Robinson
Glynton Contracting Company
India
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Very Nice Letter From Elder and Betting Arrests
Police Commissioner Bingham received a letter from Acting District Attorney Elder regarding enforcement of betting at racetracks. He refused to publish it, saying it was a very nice letter. Reports from First Deputy Baker show forty arrests for betting at the tracks since the new law took effect and twenty two men indicted.
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Bingham
Elder
Kings
General Bingham
Baker
Brooklyn
B R T Ends Dog Permits On Transport Lines
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company forbids log transport permits, with all permits set to expire July 30. The action follows numerous passenger complaints about dogs in cars, including dogs nosing feet and occupying seats.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Bend ers not killed. Captain Stone denies Bender death
Kansas City July 13 Captain J E Stone longtime resident and former Montgomery County sheriff dismisses Downer’s claim that the Bender family were killed and buried by a vigilance party. Stone says ninety men pursued the family and that no Downer is known to have been part of it. He suggests the Benders are either dead or fled the country and offers to speak if more details emerge.
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Tribune
Kansas City
J. E. Stone
Bender
Hoe National Bank
Downer
Mr. Stone
Independence
Benders
Senator York
Sam’ Peterson
Chinese crew mutiny overboard and ship to Liverpool
The Strathyre’s twenty three Chinese sailors jumped ship near New York, were detained at Ellis Island, and will sail to Liverpool aboard the Lusitania then ships to Shanghai. British authorities may investigate brutality allegations while Captain Dunn defends proper treatment and accuses the mutiny stemmed from deserters seeking America.
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Strathyre
D. M. Gunn
Ellis Island
Lusitania
Liverpool
Church Street
Benham & Boyeson
The
Captain Gunn
Glasgow
British Board of Trade
Dunn
Norfolk
New York
Shanghai
Orient
America
Thaw Wins Adjournment In Sanity Trial Fight
Harry K Thaw secured a pause in his bid for a jury trial as Justice Mills adjourned the final hearing to September 21 and ordered Thaw back to the Poughkeepsie jail until then A stipulation backed by Thaws attorney set the stage while prosecutors contested the location and the judge balanced the agreement with travel plans Thaw’s return to Poughkeepsie followed with him posing for photographers and engaging in croquet before departure.
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Harry K. Thaw
Isaac N. Mills
White Plains
Charles Morschauser
Poughkeepsie
Stanford White
Mercury
Morschauser
A. Russell Peabody
Thaw
Justice Mills
Jerome
Matteawan
A. H. Mayper
Mayper
Dutchess County
Carlyon Arms Hotel
Roger O'Mara
Pittsburg
McCabe
Six Fall From Bridge In Auto Near Louisville
Six people were seriously injured in an automobile accident near Smithville, twenty three miles from Louisville, when their car plunged twenty five feet into Salt River after a bridge section had been blown away. The victims include Shelby Bonnie a distiller with a broken leg and Mrs Bonnie with cuts. Miss Elizabeth Sherley with serious bruises. Richard Menefee a merchandise broker with internal injuries. Dr Carl Wiseman with a broken leg. and Frank Ball the chauffeur. The party had just returned from Bowling Green and were brought to their Louisville homes for treatment.
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Louisville
Smithville
Shelby Bonnie
Bonnie
Elizabeth Sherley
Richard Menefee
Carl Wiseman
Frank Ball
Bowling Green
Salt River
Hearing on Lease Moves Met rail line toward approval
A Public Service Commission hearing yesterday on Central Crosstown Railroad Company’s modified lease to Metropolitan Street Railway Company drew no opposition and is likely to be approved. Witness E W Sayre testified about new cars bought with an $800,000 trust fund at August Belmont & Co after receivership tensions with Metropolitan Securities Company. The Crosstown faces $215,000 of 6 percent bonds and $2,490,000 4 percent bonds. The commission also heard Brooklyn Union Gas Company’s plan for a $3,000,000 stock issue to redeem debentures, with no opposition expected. A Coney Island fare decision may come this week if Chairman Willcox returns. Another afternoon hearing reviewed Lexington Avenue subway route modifications, with adjournment set for July 15. Ralph Wolf appeared for Broadway property owners but did not participate further.
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Eustis
Public Service Commission
Central Crosstown Railroad Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
E. W. Sayre
Central Crosstown Company
Messrs. Joline and Robinson
Crosstown
Crosstown Company
August Belmont & Co
Metropolitan Securities Company
August Belmont
Central Crosstown
Brooklyn Union Gas Company
Coney Island
Maltbie
William N. Dykman
Coney Island & Brooklyn Railroad Company
Willcox
Commission
Appellate Division
Lexington Avenue
Board of Estimate
T He Rapid Transit Commission
Alexander Brough
Abraham Hershfield
Lucien L. Bonheur
Charles S. Foote
William M. Wright
Rudolph Block
Broadway
10Th Street
14Th Street
Irving Place
Harlem River
23D Street
31Th
35Th Streets
Harlem
Gerard Avenue
Mott Avenue
121St Street
Henry B. Seaman
Ralph Wolf
No. 115
New Rochelle Judge Barricades Telephone Light and Air
Judge Solomon Levison protests New York Telephone Company light and air rights by barricading a side of its exchange with galvanized iron sheets. He plans to fight the firm as it seeks a court order to remove the barricade. The dispute follows years after he sold adjoining property to the company and reportedly rejected a lump sum offer for light and air.
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New York
Solomon Levison
New Rochelle
Judge Levison
Huguenot Street
Centre Avenue
Ridder Urges Roosevelt to Halt Paper Pooling
Herman Ridder, head of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, writes Roosevelt urging action against the Fibre and Manila Association and similar combinations he says raise newsprint costs. He notes penalties were inadequate and DOJ was remiss, argues pooling keeps mills from producing newsprint, fueling a paper famine while Canadian mills fill orders.
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Herman Ridder
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Bryan
Roosevelt
Ridder
Fibre and Manila Association
Department of Justice
Manila Paper
Allied Printing Trades Unions
Broker stabbed to death in Kansas City office quarrel
F. L. Mackay manager of the Western Commission Company was stabbed and killed in his office after a quarrel with James H. Chandler. Chandler was arrested and claimed Mackay had struck him, saying he came to discuss financial affairs of the commission company in which he invested.
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Kansas City
F. L. Mackay
Western Commission Company
James H. Chandler
Mackay
Chandler
Commission
Woman in Black Appears Tying Poison Death Case
Philadelphia detectives chase a mysterious woman in black amid the Dr William H Wilson poisoning case and a unidentified man found in the Delaware River. Chicago firm leader disputes seal duplication theory suggesting many copies exist from original seal used on the poisoned ale bottle.
City Must Save Ferries In Brooklyn Williamsburg Route
Brooklyn Ferry Company plans to end service at month end prompting public outcry from riders and workers. Possible city takeover or company city partnership discussed to avoid losses. Ferries affected include Roosevelt Grand Street 23d Street and 42d Street routes to Williamsburg. Workers fear long years of service will end with layoffs while riders depend on rush hour ferries.
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Brooklyn Ferry Company
New York
Williamsburg
Grand Street
Manhattan
Broadway
SLAIN GIRL IDENTIFIED IN MURDER AT TEAL'S POND
The body of Hazel I. Drew, 19, daughter of John Drew of Troy, was identified by a brooch and hatpin found with the body. Found floating in Teal's Pond near Sand Lake, the victim had a crushed skull and no water in the lungs, indicating murder rather than suicide. Rensselaer County authorities pursue leads as clothing and initials confirm identity.
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Troy
N. Y
Teal's Pond
Sand Lake
Hazel I. Drew
John Drew
Ith Street
Rensselaer
Drew
Duncan C. Kaye
Larkin
Averill Park
Miss Drew
Forest Fires Rage Across New England States
Fire crews battled blazes across Maine New Hampshire Vermont Rhode Island and Massachusetts as fires intensified causing extensive timber loss and property damage. In Maine Plymouth faced encroaching flames while a large blaze near Albany NY concerned officials. An Adirondack fire raised alarms as authorities assessed threats. In Maine Crockertown forest fire threatened Bigelow village with substantial timber losses and $100000 plus damage. Fires also burned near Lake Gardner Bath Allenstown Mount Major Pine Mountain and Peterboro with multiple areas under strain.
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Boston
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Washington
Manchester
UL. H
Lake Gardner
Bath
Allenstown
Hooksett
Mount Major
Pine Mountain
Alton
Lake Winnipesaukee
Peterboro
Drought Depresses Schenectady County Farmlands
Schenectady County New York endures severe drought with crop damage and with pastures drying up after a sparse June 9 rainfall. Light showers since have failed to relieve dry conditions, leaving meadows brown, potato vines rotting, corn leaves shriveled and farmers feeding stock on old hay.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Schenectady County
State aid to fairs continues under existing policy
Albany reports no change in state policy on financial aid to county and town agricultural societies. Commissioner Pearson says $250,000 was appropriated at the last Legislature for apportionment under Section 8% of the agricultural law, with funds already sent to reimburse premiums from last year. No society can receive more than $4,000. The Richard Webber Mutual Aid Society picnic, for Harlem packing house employees, is set for tomorrow at Sulzer's Harlem River Park and Casino, with the store closing promptly at noon.
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Albany
R. A. Pearson
State Agricultural Department
Pearson
Amew-Hart
Richard Webber Society
Richard Webber Mutual Aid Society
Richard Webber
Harlem
Sulzer
Harlem River Park and Casino
126Th Street
Second Avenue
No Tetanus Deaths Reported From Fourth of July
Health Department has not received tetanus death reports from Fourth of July explosives and notes no tetanus cases that may develop. Overall deaths last week reached 1,516, up from 1,456 last year, with heat causing higher under five mortality at 690 versus 559. Measles caused 14 deaths versus 29. scarlet fever 16 versus 15. diphtheria 35 versus 31. and whooping cough 3 versus 5.
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Health Department
Exhume Paterson Woman’s Body for Autopsy Findings
In Paterson New Jersey on July 13 the body of Mrs Fannie Tapack was exhumed and taken to Dufford and Vandevoort morgue for an autopsy by Drs Armstrong Bullen and Silverstein. Stomach and intestines sent to Bellevue Hospital. results expected in a week or ten days. Mrs Tapack died last Saturday at 3 AM and was buried at 2 PM. She held a $6000 policy issued eight months earlier by her son Louis who is out on $2900 bail for robbery. policy lists age 55 though she may be about 70.
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Philadelphia
William H. Wilson
Wilson
Delaware River
the Tribune
Paterson
N. J
Fannie Tapack
Armstrong
Dufford & Vandevoort
Victor Bullen
Samuel Silverstein
New York City
Bellevue Hospital
Former Pensacola bank cashier released from insane asylum
G C Scudamore former cashier of the Pensacola Bank and Trust Company was brought to Pensacola and jailed after being arrested as he left the Florida Insane Asylum at Chattahoochee. He had been confined on an insanity plea after embezzlement charges. authorities recently ruled him sane and discharged him.
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Pensacola
Fla
G. C. Scudamore
Pensacola Bank and Trust Company
Florida Insane Asylum
Chattahoochie
Scudamore
Injury kills Eddy relative's kin in New Hampshire
Concord reports Dr. Alpheus Baker Morrill a leading physician dies from a skull fracture after being forcibly removed from a Hooksett saloon two weeks earlier. Morrill, relative of Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy, accompanied her move from Concord to Chestnut Hill. Hooksett man William E Thiebeautt is jailed on aggravated assault charges. complaint may be amended to manslaughter.
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Mass
William E. Thiebeautt
Hooksett
Dr. Morrill
Move in Oklahoma oil fight escalates
Guthrie Oklahoma July 13 Another move in Attorney General Wests fight on Standard Oil was taken today when suit was filed in Logan County District Court asking an order compelling the Prairie Oil and Gas Company to relinquish its entire holdings of oil lands leases and wells in the eastern counties traversed by the companys pipeline
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Guthrie
Okla
West
Standard Oil
Logan County
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
Fall kills Mrs Mary Fuller in Ossining incident
Mrs Mary Easton Fuller widow of Edward Fuller died after a fall at her home in Claremont Ossining on Birney's Lane. She slipped on the stairs while joining her visiting nephew Charles Easton and struck her head on a chair, fracturing her skull. She was eighty.
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Mary E. Fuller
Mary Easton Fuller
Edward Fuller
Claremont
Birney’s Lane
Ossining
Prisoner Taken to Cincinnati in Murder Case
Cincinnati police inspectors departed Boston with Edward Evans who faces murder charges in Cincinnati for the death of Frederick W. Singleton on August 12, 1907. Evans waived arraignment on fugitive from justice charges and was surrendered to Cincinnati officers.
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Boston
Cincinnati
Edward Evans
Frederick W. Singleton
Evans
Crowding the Docks of Boston
An unusually large number of foreign steamers arrived in Boston on July 13 bringing many passengers and freight. Several ships will remain at sea until docking facilities free up while passengers and baggage were landed without trouble. Vessels listed include Cymric Laurentian Menominee Bedonia and Agnela.
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Boston
Cymric
Laurentian
Menominee
Bedonia
Agnela
Metz Wins an Inquiry on Brooklyn Subway Financing
Justice Blanchard in the New York Supreme Court ordered a referee to examine the city’s financial condition after former Representative Jefferson M. Levy sued to stop the Board of Estimate and Apportionment from awarding six contracts for the Fourth Avenue subway and from issuing 15 million dollars in bonds. Levy, acting for Controller Metz, argues the city’s debt limit is about 1.5 million. The injunction remains in place pending the referee’s report. Borough President Bird S. Coler’s bid to appear privately was denied.
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Justice Blanchard
Supreme Court
Jefferson M. Levy
Board of Estimate
Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn
Levy
Metz
Erlanger
Blanchard
Bird S. Coler
Borough of
Corporation
Body Found Near the Ramble in Central Park
A young woman's body was found near the Ramble in Central Park by Patrolman William Sullivan. A tin box with white powder, believed to be cyanide, and a Japanese handbag with a letter receipt raise suspicions of self harm. The victim, linked to Mrs Curran of East 85th Street, is taken to the Morgue. inquiries continue.
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Central Park
William Sullivan
Arsenal Station
Kath Garrity
East $5Th Street
M Curran
East 85Th Street
Joseph Curran
Curran
McVane
Presbyterian Hospital
Philadelphia
Navy Department Replies on Civil Service Political Activity
District No 15 of New York and vicinity reports retaliation against workers at Brooklyn navy yard for political activity. The Navy answers with Civil Service rule amendments from June 15 1997 and May 14 190s, clarifying prohibitions on active political participation by federal employees and possible discharges.
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New York
International Association of Machinists
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Civil Service Rules
Executive Civil Service
Civil Service Commission
Department
Navy Yards
Naval Stations
Plague Suppressed in Venezuela Says Caracas End Declared
Reports reach Washington from Willemstad state there have been no Caracas plague cases since June 2 and last death at La Guayra occurred in June with July 3 declaring the plague ended John Brewer a former Caracas clerk and consular agent supplied the information from the American Legation in Caracas.
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Washington
State Department
Venezuela
Willemstad
Caracas
la Guayra
John Brewer
Pipers Seek Boston Visit in Highland Concert Tour
The pipers of the 2d Regiment of Halifax Nova Scotia request a Boston visit from July 15 to 28 to perform in Highland costume. The Governor of Massachusetts must approve, with the State Department routing the inquiry to him before the trip can proceed.
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Washington
the &2d
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Boston
Massachusetts
State Department
Inquest Postponed Over Delaware Cornfield Shooting
The inquest into Columbus Jackson a Black man shot in a Clayton area cornfield was delayed until tomorrow evening to obtain evidence for possible arrests. Middletown residents will testify to Jacksons good character and sobriety while State Detective Hawkins seeks two men who fled the field after the shooting.
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Tribune
Wilmington
Del
Columbus Jackson
Clayton
Middletown
Jackson
Hawkins
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Essex County
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