Italian wine merchant shot dead in Monroe Street shop
Police investigate the death of Franc isc o Crimi Renaldi a wine importer and alleged Black Hand leader shot in his No 28 Monroe street shop. Witnesses report a quarrel with 19 year old Chick Cavaliero who returned with a revolver. Renaldi died en route to St Gregorys Hospital. Three men identifying as witnesses are questioned.
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Francisco Crim
Rensidi
America
Sicily
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Renalé
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Alfredo Ventinglino
Frank Giesera
Boston
Renald
Renaldi
Francis Crimi
Francis Cramo
Crimi Renaldi
Francis Crimi Renaldi
Reneaiai
Black Hand Society
Chick” Cavaliero
Cavaliero
St. Gregory's Hospital
Charles Guegino
Angelo Paladino
Perl Dominico
Widow Fanny Bittenbender Dies En Route to See Son
Mrs. Fanny Bittenbender 47, widow of William H. Bittenbender of Cambridge Massachusetts, died in Greenwich General Hospital after illness aboard a car trip from Cambridge to New York to see her son sail for the Argentine Republic. She and her brother Thomas Austin started from Cambridge Saturday, traveled via Meriden, then Greenwich where she was taken to a cottage, then hospital. Her son, Harvard graduate, had delayed his trip to attend the funeral. Body sent to Brookline for burial.
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the Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Fanny S. Bittenbender
William H. Bittenbender
Cambridge
Mass
New York
Argentine Republic
Greenwich General Hospital
Bittenbender
Harvard
J. C. Baldwin
Belle Haven
Brookline
Curb Brokers Play Ball in Brooklyn Shrugged Off by Not Yets
A lighthearted Brooklyn baseball game at Washington Park pitted the Benedicts and other curb brokers as the “Slaves” against the “Not Yets.” The youngsters won 12 to 6 as Swat Gallagher starred at first base and age jokes, rain, and fielding miscues colored the afternoon. Percy Guard, a Brooklyn Atlantics veteran, captained the married men. Attendance was about thirteen, including three fiancées, amid light drizzle and a casual, comic atmosphere.
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Washington Park
Brooklyn
Gallagher
Percy Guard
Brooklyn Atlantics
Johnny” Maher
Raid on Promotion Firm Ends in Arrest in Brooklyn
Peter Garahan fifty three of 39 Linden street Brooklyn manager of a promotion and financing company with offices in Hudson Terminal Building was arrested charged with doing business under an assumed name Police allege failure to register with the County Clerk and lack of incorporation A stenographer described as daughter of a city official sent a letter triggering the investigation Garahan claimed the firm was incorporated with capital of 0 000 and aimed to finance Maryland Co-operating Developing Company to build a city seventy miles from Baltimore on Zion City lines Police seized a book listing stock subscribers and said further charges may follow
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Linden Street
Brooklyn
Hudson Terminal
Garahan
Woods
Browne
Maryland
Baltimore
Zion City
Gold Medal to Police for Animal Cruelty Work
The Humane Society of New York will award a gold medal to the police officer who has done the most praiseworthy work in preventing cruelty to animals. The medal will be presented during the annual police parade.
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The
Humane Society of New York
Tax Rate Near 1.56 Sets 1908 City Borough Levy
The Board of Aldermen fixed the coming year tax rates by borough with uniform city rate of 1.550 and borough adjustments. Richmond has the highest city and county rate while New York County shows the lowest. all boroughs rise 12 to 15 cents from 1907. The explanation cites higher city debt interest, increased appropriations, and a larger taxable property value, plus a $55,009 grant to restore a Broadway parkway.
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Manhattan
The
Bronx
Brooklyn
Richmond
New York County
Commissioner of Parks
Broadway
59Th Street
San Francisco Recovers Taxable Property Value After Fire
The assessor reports San Francisco’s taxable property value for the current year at 463,551,184, up from 376,138,742 before the 1906 disaster. Buildings destroyed valued over 47,000,000. Over 40,000,000 of losses replaced by new structures. Current assessed building value within 7,000,000 of pre fire levels.
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San Francisco
Federal court rules Massachusetts lacks jurisdiction over local trust case
Rochester July 21 Judge John R Hazel of the United States Circuit Court of the Western New York district held Massachusetts courts have no jurisdiction over a trust fund administered in New York by a New York citizen. The ruling ends a lengthy suit by Grace Kerwin against Bernard F Kelly of this city to compel payment of seven thousand two hundred dollars.
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Rochester
John R. Hazel
United States Circuit Court
New York District
Massachusetts
Grace Kerwin
Bernard F. Kelly
Grape-Nuts Transforms Health Says Man After Trial
A man credits Grape-Nuts for a dramatic physical and mental boost within a year, reporting weight near 150 pounds and improved digestion. He endorses the product with the slogan There’s a Reason and points readers to Postum Co. booklet The Road to Wellville for more information.
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Postum Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Monetary Board's Work at Narragansett Pier
Two private sessions of the National Monetary Commission met at the Hotel Imperial to assess the nation's financial needs. Senator Aldrich led the morning with procedural plans and a similar outline followed in the afternoon. Secretary Cortelyou reportedly would join tomorrow night to share information, and a committee to collect monetary materials was formed. Attending members included Aldrich Hale Burrows Teller Daniel Money and Representatives Vreeland Overstreet Weeks Bonynge Smith Padgett Burgess and Pugo.
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R. I
National Monetary Commission
Congress
Hotel Imperial
Nelson W. Aldrich
Rhode Island
George E. Cortelyou
the Treasury
Huntington
Long Island
Commission
Aldrich
Hale
Burrows
Teller
Daniel
Money
Vreeland
Overstreet
Weeks
Bonynge
Smith
Padgett
Burgess
Pugo
Vessel Imperiled near Santa Barbara on German Steamer Anubis
The German steamer Anubis bound from San Francisco to Hamburg ran aground in the Three Mile Channel between San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands, about thirty miles off Point Conception. Tugs from San Pedro Redondo and Port Harford were sent to assist, with fears the ship and cargo, valued at about $110,000, may be a total loss. Sixty eight crew members remained aboard as heavy fog, a light current, and a leaking hull threatened break up. no passengers were aboard.
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Kosmos Line
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Germany
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Santa Rosa Islands
Point Concepcion
San Pedro
Redondo
Port Harford
von Salzen
Johannes Doheran
Karl Loewe
Moran Returns to Office After Brief Health Leave
Boston July 21 District Attorney John E Moran surprised colleagues by walking into his courthouse office and resuming routine work He said he is not back for good and will review the Chinatown murder trial evidence before deciding on prosecutions Moran plans to go to Colorado for treatment at week’s end and expects a six month recovery period
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Boston
John E. Moran
Colorado
Moran
Chinatown
Murder Discoveries In Boston Woman Found Dead In Back Bay
Boston July 21 A brutal murder is disclosed with the body of Mrs Emma Paytow found gagged and throat cut in a Columbus avenue apartment by her husband Charles H Paytow when he returned to their room. Police secrecy maintained as details remain scarce. Also report a heat related collapse recovered at Bellevue Hospital and a dinner at Antwerp for Itasca officers with Commodore Plant and Yacht Yolande owner among guests.
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Boston
Emma Paytow
Columbus Avenue
Back Bay
Charles H. Paytow
Antwerp
Royal Yacht Club
Commodore Plant
Yolande
Forty Hurt In Wreck Near Aurora Illinois
Chicago dispatch reports forty people injured in a collision between two Aurora Elgin and Chicago street cars at Lovedale four miles north of Aurora. The southbound car failed to stop at a switch, both motormen jumped as cars telescoped, passengers were thrown through windows, some rescued from the riverbank, and fire from the trolley wire was quickly subdued.
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Chicago
Aurora, Elgin
Lovedale
Aurora
Spring Creek
Elgin
Gaspipe a Clew in Adelphi Hotel Case
Hackensack July 2 Special police found two gas tubing lengths at the Adelphi Hotel they deem evidence Gus Eberhard plotted to strangle his aunt Mrs Ottilie Eberhard and her daughter The elder woman was shot and left on railroad tracks the daughter Ottilie survived and wrote home doubting Gus the Hastings custody suspect turned out to be George Silkenstadt of Staten Island a grocery clerk not the man chased and he was placed in a straitjacket after fear of arrest.
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Ottilie Eberhard
Germany
Gus
Coalberg
Hastings
George Silkenstadt
Staten Island
Woman's Alleged Attacker Caught in Lynn Mass
Harry Maddox, sought by hundreds for assaulting Mrs. Josiah Low of Essex, was captured by a Lynn patrolman. He reportedly confessed the motive was hunger and need for food and money. Mrs. Low rests with good recovery prospects as Essex authorities are notified. Maddox awaits local court appearance slated for tomorrow.
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Lynn
Mass
Harry Maddox
Josiah Low
Essex
Maddox
Civil Service Reform Moves to Jersey City
Public demand for Civil Service reform drives the Jersey City Board of Aldermen to adopt the act to protect city employees of clerk rank from political influence. If not adopted, a popular vote is expected next November. A Civil Service League, created by Republicans and Democrats, presses the campaign, aiming to depoliticize city and county workplaces and ensure work based on business principles.
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Jersey City Evening Journal
Board of Aldermen
Jersey City
City
Civil Service League
Obituary of Aniceto Garcia Menocal Navy Engineer
Aniceto Garcia Menocal, a civil engineer in the navy, died at his home from arterial hardening. He faced a 1870s court martial for neglect at Brooklyn Drydock, was pardoned by the President, retired in September, and had a notable career including involvement with canal route debates and a Legion of Honor decoration. He was born in Havana and educated in Cuba and the United States, later contributing to U S Navy engineering and Cuban drainage plans. His career also included service in Washington and a 1879 attendance at the Paris International Canal Congress. He was affiliated with several engineering societies.
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Rist
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Brooklyn
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Cuba
United States
Troy Polytechnic Institute
Department of Public Works
Congress
Nicaragua
George B. McClellan
Department of Docks
Navy Department
United States Navy
Washington
Daniel Ammen
Paris
Panama
de Lesseps
Menocal
Grevy
Legion of Honor
Bureau of Yards and Docks
American Society of Civil Engineers
Dr John M Ewan Wetmore Dies After Long Medical Career
Dr John McEwan Wetmore a longtime physician in the city died of heart disease at his home on West street. He was seventy six and a Williams College graduate class of 6. He belonged to the Church Club Williams College Alumni American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Funeral set for Friday at 10 30 AM.
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John M'Ewan Wetmore
John McEwan Wetmore
Westith Street
Williams College
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Wetmore
Church Club
Williams College Alumni Association
American Museum of Natural History
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Death of Greek author M Bikelas in Athens
Athens reports the death of M Bikelas longtime Greek author who translated Shakespeare into modern Greek and advocated reviving the Olympic games. Born 155, Dimitrios Bikelas was a noted modern Greek poet and historian, famed for patriotic hymns and works on Greece in the Middle Ages and the Eastern Question.
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Athens
M. Bikelas
Dimitrios Bikelas
Greece
Obituary notes for Clint Brower Cornell Chapman Brooklyn figures
Obituary notes report the death of James Clinton Brower known as Clint Brower at his Brooklyn home from kidney trouble. A veteran of six years in the 1st Cavalry, he was active in multiple Brooklyn and Manhattan clubs and survived by his wife and mother. Also noted is Nicholas Cornell a Civil War veteran who died of apoplexy at his Brooklyn home after forty years at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with family survivors and lodge membership. Maria Barton Chapman, born Warren Rhode Island, died suddenly at Rogers Rock New York. daughter of the late John Davos and widow of Dr Edwin N Chapman, longtime Brooklyn physician, and former president of local women’s employment and Samaritan societies.
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Clint Brower
Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
Clint” Brower
1St Cavalry
Brower
Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn Lodge of Elks
Central Lodge
A. M
Clinton Commandery
Tt Army and Navy Club
Manhattan
The
Riding and Driving Club
Pleasure Drivers’ Association
Parkway Driving Club
Nicholas Cornell
Cumberland Street
Valley Stream
Long Island
158Th Regiment
New York Volunteers
Stevenson Post Grand Army of the Republic
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Montauk Lodge of Odd Fellows
Maria Barton Chapman
Warren, R. L
Rogers Rock
N. Y
John Davos
Edwin N. Chapman
Long Island College Hospital
Female Employment Society
Samaritan Society
Church of the Saviour
Steamer Trojan Hull Work Continues in Newburg
Work on the hull of the steamer Trojan, built for the Hudson Navigation Company to ply between New York and Troy, continued in Newburg on July 21. The day’s progress paused briefly when the crew stopped for the new class 6 December.
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N. Y
Trojan
Hudson Navigation Company
New York
Troy
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Williston
Benedict Lockwood
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