Retaliation on Levy South Brooklyn moves
Lawyers for civic groups in South Brooklyn won an order from Justice Dugro calling the Mayor, Controller and Corporation Counsel to appear in Supreme Court to explain why an injunction should not stop further contracts and stock issuance for public improvements. The move, framed as not malice but to test city borrowing capacity, could halt about $100,000 in projects including the Municipal Building at the bridge and library-site purchases, amid the Fourth Avenue subway dispute.
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The
Tribune
South Brooklyn
Justice Dugro
Supreme Court
Jefferson M. Levy
Fourth Avenue
Blackwell's Island Bridge
Kings County
Riker’s Island
Manhattan Bridge
David Meyer
Alonzo C. McLaughlin
Frank A. Hutson
Matthew E. Wood
Meyer
Bay Ridge
Seven Die in Colliery Blast at Williamstown Mine
Seven miners were killed and ten injured in a gas explosion at the Williamstown colliery of Summit Branch Mining Company in Pottsville. The blast occurred in No 1 shaft after a shot caused coal to shift, wrecking the mine and starting a fire. Rescue operations drew volunteers despite dangerous conditions.
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Potteville
Penn
Williamstown
Summit Branch Mining Company
Exposition loan first lien claimed by U S government
United States government files petition in Jamestown exposition federal court proceeding seeking protection as a creditor for its 1000 loan and priority of payment. It states a balance of 897,953.57 due and argues the loan is a first lien under the statute. Court extends land options for states’ buildings from August 1 to November 1.
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Norfolk
United States
Tatley
Sixty-Year-Old Farmer Found Hanged With License
Dover Del July report of William Williams a sixty year old farmer found hanged near the Maryland line with a marriage license to a thirteen year old girl Elizabeth Walls in his pocket. Wounds on the head and bruises suggest violence. Maryland authorities to investigate the death.
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Dover
Det
William Wilams
Marydel
Templeville
Maryland Line
Williams
Elizabeth Walls
Willams
Crumpton
Maryland
Barrred from defending woman in night court case
Abraham Goldfarb a lawyer of 346 Broadway was barred from representing Louise Durbo twenty seven born in France at Greenwich Ave arrested for loitering in a night court. The magistrate Kernochan demanded proof of Goldfarb interest and ordered the prisoner committed to the workhouse after the lawyer left the bridge.
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Abraham Goldfarb
Broadwar
Kernochan
Louise Durbo
Greenwich Avenue
Park Pedlars Defy Ejection Amid Brooklyn Bridge Park Stands
Park Commissioner Henry Smith faced injunctions from Justice Dugro in the Supreme Court restraining him from ejecting two pedlers who set up stands near the Brooklyn Bridge extension at Park Row. McCarthy the fruit vendor and Sullivan the flower merchant operated the stalls under the stairway. Smith said Moses Hermann had issued permits to keep stands in the area, and that the extension prompted the move to Park Han Park, with permits revocable for cause.
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Henry Smith
Supreme Court
Dugro
Hall Park
Brooklyn Bridge
McCarthy
Sullivan
Smith
Moses Hermann
Park Row
Airship Accident Delays Zeppelin Flight
Friedrichshafen July 15 Count Zeppelin’s balloon suffered a damaged envelope and bent propeller after a gust drove it into the shed. Repairs will take at least two weeks, with a three week delay before the next Mainz voyage as gas must be generated anew.
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Friedrichshafen
Zeppelin
Mainz
Delagrange's Car Released for Paris Flight
Turin July 15 Leon Delagrange the French aeronaut left for Paris this morning. His aeroplane was detained at the railroad station by individuals claiming he owed them money. Delagrange's lawyer later deposited funds to guarantee debts and the aircraft was turned over to his representatives for shipment to Paris.
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Delagrange
Turin
Leon Delagrange
Paris
M. Delagrange
Balloon Tests Near Fort Myer Attract Visitors
Washington July 15 The aeronautical tests at Fort Myer are highly anticipated as Captain Baldwin’s flying machine nears arrival. Preparations include a hydrogen gas plant and a large tent on the south parade ground. Two courses are planned ten miles of flight with five miles out and back, toward Alexandria or Falls Church.
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Washington
Fort Myer
Captain Baldwin
Signal Corps
Foulois
Fort Leavenworth
Alexandria
Airship to arrive in New York by July 27
F B Lahm in Paris wires that Henri Farman’s airship will likely leave Antwerp on the steamer Kroonland next Saturday and reach New York July 27. Final details to MacMechan at the Hotel Astor promised today. Brighton Beach track venue engaged for Farman exhibitions from July to August 14, with strong backing from the St. Louis syndicate and Aeronautic Society.
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F. 8
Farman
Atlantic
France
Leon Delagrange
Aeronautic Society
East 29Th Street
Lee S. Burridge
Delagrange
St. Louis
Brighton Beach
Hose Makers Deny Responsibility in Fire Hose Suit
A New York civil suit against United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Company claims failure to meet hose specifications after a Parker Building fire killed several firemen. The company says none of their hose was used and Windsor hose was involved. Also reported, Sub-Treasury debit balance fell to $820,115 as banks returned $45 million in government deposits.
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Trenton
United and Globe Rubber Manufacturing Company
New York
Parker Building
Commissioners of Accounts
McClellan
O'Brien
F. M. Loughman
Windsor Fire Appliance Company
Loughman
Windsor
Sub-Treasury
Cortelyou
Wall Street
Socialists reply to Roosevelt speech on Underhill monument
A Socialist party statement issued yesterday responds to President Roosevelt's remarks at the Underhill monument unveiling. It questions whether the Rooseveltian appeal resonates due to ignorance or hostility to Social Democracy, and notes tactics in their ongoing fight will hinge on that assessment.
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Socialist Party
Roosevelt
Underhill
P. S. C. Approves Lease Modification of Central Crosstown RR
The Public Service Commission approved a one year lease modification for Central Crosstown Railroad. Receivers for Metropolitan Street Railway will pay 114600 dollars yearly in interest as rent, while being relieved from paying 90000 dollars yearly interest on stock. Commissioner Maltbie said the change frees funds for equipment and service improvements and does not bind future commission actions. Chairman Willcox agreed.
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The
Public Service Commission
Central Crosstown Railroad Company
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Central Crosstown
Maltbie
Commission
Willcox
Martble
Fulton Street Line Receiver Appointed in Foreclosure Suit
Gilbert H. Montague was named receiver for the Fulton Street Railway Company by Justice Blanchard in the Supreme Court. The action by Guaranty Trust Co seeks to foreclose a mortgage from November 1, 1895 on $50,000 first mortgage bonds. The receiver will operate collect tolls rents and income and enforce the franchise, with Metropolitan Street Railway and others enjoined from interference.
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Gilbert H. Montague
Fulton Street Railway Company
Justice Blanchard
Supreme Court
Guaranty Trust Company
Davies, Stone & Auerbach
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
New York City Railway Company
Messrs. Joline and Robinson
Improving the C I and B System
Superintendent D W Sullivan of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad announced the installation of improved equipment costing upward of one million dollars. The project includes burying overhead feed wires and a new power plant at Smith and 9th streets with up-to-date machinery, boilers, and two upright turbo generators.
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D. W. Sullivan
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
Smith and
9Th Streets
Woman thrown from window in Harlem. three suspects named
Mrs Rose Cohen, 40, of Fifth Avenue, sustained two broken legs and internal injuries after a fall from her fourth floor window. Police say three women quarreled with her before the assault and two suspects, Sarah Ruderman and Rachael Weinhaus, were arrested. A third woman, Mrs Klein, is being sought as the case unfolds with claims of a long, troubled relationship involving Meyer Ruderman and his two wives.
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Rose Cohen
Fifth Avenue
Harlem Hospital
East 126Th Street
West 126Th Street
Sarah Ruderman
Meyer Ruderman
Klein
Monroe Street
Merish
Russia
Ruderman
Mrs Horner Freed on Bail in Suffolk County
Mrs Elia C Horner widow of Hartley T Horner of Northport Long Island was held for the Suffolk County grand jury after waiving examination in a shooting case against her son in law Dr James W Simpson. Bail set at 5000 with her daughter Mrs Julia H Simpson and an officer accompanying. Doctors report Dr Simpson improving at Roosevelt Hospital. bullet not removed.
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Elia C. Horner
Hartley T. Horner
Northport
Long Island
James W. Simpson
Suffolk County
R. W. Hawkins
Horner
Julia H. Simpson
Justice Gaynor
St. James
California
Dr. Simpson
George H. Furman
Roosevelt Hospital
Demand D& H Bonds Fully Subscribed In Debut
The entire 13 309 000 first and refunding mortgage four percent bonds issued by the Delaware and Hudson Company were bought by Kuhn Loeb & Co and the First National Bank after public subscription on Tuesday. Subscriptions were said to be at least twice covered. The bonds opened on the Stock Exchange yesterday and traded strongly up to 994, yielding over two percent profit to lucky allottees.
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Delaware & Hudson Company
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
First National Bank
Stock Exchange
Explosion blamed on jealous Swedish sweetheart at Watts Court
Police ruled out the Black Hand in the Watt's Court explosion at No 161 to 169 West 140th street. A Swedish maid's former lover, an ironworker ordered from the building, is suspected of revenge against tenant Mr. Monelis, with the blast damaging the right hand court and shocking residents.
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Watt's Court
West 140Th Street
Petrosini
Joseph Monelis
Monelis
Peter Beecher
Watts Court
Watts Farm
The
Lenox Realty Company
Broadway
Watts Manor
Mary H. Pinkney
Pinzola Bonaventura
Francesco Spinella
East 1Th Street
Breen
Petrosin
Bernard Porgis
St. Mark’s Place
Barlow
Yorkville Court
Brokers Fear Infection at Stock Exchange Probe
Following a civil health inspection after a lung trouble outbreak among four hundred stock exchange employees, a clinical check of three hundred floor telephone operators began. By Tuesday three new tuberculosis cases were found. the examination should take about nine days. Firms adopted treatment plans and sent earlier cases to Sullivan County. one has returned cured.
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Stock Exchange
Board of Health
Exchange
The
Sullivan County
Actress Amber Lawford Sails After Marriage Claim
Former actress Amber Lawford sails to Europe on the Adriatic amid renewed claims of marriage to Samuel Willets master of hounds of Meadow Brook Hunt. She confirms a marriage but cites not when or where and says she and Willets are really man and wife. She cites nervous strain from notoriety and travels with only her maid.
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Samuel Willets
Meadow Brook Hunt
Europe
Mr. Willets
Willets
Miss Lawford
Headless Body Found In Juniper Swamp Queens
A man about 35, 5 feet 7 inches, 135 pounds with a severed head found near a foot from the body in Juniper Swamp Middle Village Queens. Police suspect Black Hand links. body near ten days in swamp. taken to Stengers morgue Ridgewood. Two police divers rescued by companions after one slipped into bog. No identifying marks.
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Juniper Swamp
Middle Village
Borough of
Queens
Newtown
Hatton
John Dowling
George Henrich
John Raab
Raab
Stenger
St. Nicholas Avenue
Ridgewood
PennsylvanIa Railroad Scenic Route Promises Constant Change
The Pennsylvania Railroad highlights its scenic westward route from New Jersey through Pennsylvania and the Alleghenies to Indiana and Illinois. It touts varied landscapes, the Horseshoe Curve, Susquehanna and Juniata valleys, and the mist of the western plains, claiming daylight travel enhances the journey on its dustless, stone-ballasted roadbed.
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New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Mountains
Indiana
Illinois
Susquehanna Valley
Juniata
Horseshoe Curve
Ohio
Seaboard
Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Standard Railroad of America
Lifetime as Priest Ends as Monsignor McGean Takes Vacation
After forty four years as a priest and twenty seven years of service at St Peter's in Barclay Street Monsignor McGean leaves for a long vacation. He will join pilgrims sailing on the Carpathia with Father Myhan and Father Briody. He plans visits to Rome and Ireland before returning. He is sixty eight and credited with debt relief at St Peter's and open doors daily for worshipers. He was made a domestic prelate by Pius X and is esteemed as a spiritual director in Lower Manhattan.
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Monsignor McGean
Archdiocese of New York
St. Peter's
Barclay Street
Tribune
Ireland
Carpathia
John J. McGrane
Father Myhan
St. Ann’s
Father Briody
Matteawan
N. Y
Rome
Farley
Pius X
New York
O'Farrell
Trenton
the Battery
Bronx
St. Peter's Church
Hurls Self To Death At Bellevue Hospital
Lena Richards a 36 year old Jersey City resident died after leaping from a fourth story window at Bellevue Hospital amid a struggle with a nurse during epilepsy treatment. Coroner Acritelli urged hospital management overhaul citing possible care shortcomings.
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Lena Richards
Congress Street
Jersey City
Bellevue Hospital
Richards
Woolridge
Acritelli
Bellevue
Chauffeur Held for Manslaughter in Long Island Crossing Crash
Coroner Savage at Islip held an inquest into the fatal collision Friday evening near East Moriches when the Hamptons Express struck the Hutchings family car as it crossed the LIRR tracks. The engineer fireman and conductor testified the warning bell and whistle were active. Chauffeur George Claws, though ill in bed, was held for manslaughter in the second degree and to be arraigned in East Moriches when recovered.
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Tribune
Centre Moriches
Long Island
Savage
Islip
William R. Hutchings
George Claws
Riley Howell
East Moriches
Chess decision favors America in inter varsity match
Walter Penn Shipley, referee of the cable chess contest between Columbia Harvard Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania versus Oxford and Cambridge, has ruled to call both unfinished games drawn. The Americans win the match by 3 to 2.
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America
Walter Penn Shipley
Columbia
Harvard
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Oxford
Cambridge
Mystery of Hazel Drew murder deepens in Troy findings
Police recover Hazel Drew's black handbag in a suitcase found in Troy and trace her movements on July 6. Detectives seek the suitcase owner and a possible male escort, linking a Troy arrival to the Averill Park route and Teal Pond discovery. District Attorney O'Brien says a lured attack near Teal Pond is possible. a $1000 reward stands.
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Troy
Teal Pond
Averill Park
Union Square
Tives
Miss Drew
Kaye
Edward Lavine
Chattanooga
Lawrence Eagas
3D Street
Congress Street
Thomas Carey
River Street
Ott Express Company
Carey House
O’brien
Pond
O'Brien
Frank Smith
Taberton
Smith
William Taylor
Hazel
Drew
Frank Richmond
Hazel Drew
Beneselaer County
Wisconsin bankers optimistic at annual convention
Milwaukee July 13 two leading bankers in the state gathered for the Wisconsin Bankers Association meeting. President John J Sherman of Algenton declared the clouds rolled away and the country stood on a secure financial foundation after reviewing the recent panic and its causes.
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Wisconsin
the Tribune
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Bankers Association
John J. Sherman
Angleton
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Lahm and
Henri Farman
Trenton Company
Parker
P. S.C
Fulton Street Line
Antiquated Horse Car Company
Mrs. Horner
D. & H. Bonds
Watt
the Scenic Highway
Mrs. Hutchings
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