Machine Leaders Begin Campaign Over Direct Nominations Bill
Albany reports machine politicians mobilize against Cobb direct nominations and Hinman Green bills. They claim governor Hughes backs a compromise while misstatements spread that he has backtracked. Campaign aims to delay enactment to avoid a top to bottom party overhaul and future expansion of direct nominations.
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Tribune
Albany
Hinman-Greef
Hughes
Cobb
Hinman
Meade
Senate
Hinman-Green
Congress
Woman testifies she was paid to skip Pawtucket trial
Miss Olivine Bedard, once a bookkeeper for contractor James Beach, testifies in Superior Court that William H. Barclay Pawtucket postmaster gave her 200 to leave town and not testify in the stone contract fraud case. She says Barclay followed her to Springfield then Montreal, where she hid in convents and changed her name. Beach and Casey’s trial is expected to last the week.
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Providence
Superior Court
Olivine Bedard
James Beach
Peter Casey
Pawtucket
Miss Bedard
William H. Zarclay
Springfield
Barclay
Montreal
Beach and
Casey
Priests in Auto Crash Near Sayville
In Sayville on June 1 Father N F Heffernan of St Lawrence's Church sustained a fractured right leg and other injuries when the priests car collided with a vehicle owned by W Bayard Cutting. Also injured were Father Welsher, Father Frank Cullen, and Thomas Wheeler the chauffeur. The priests were en route to a Brentwood school entertainment. steering gear failure caused the crash.
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Sayville
Long Island
N. F. Heffernan
St. Lawrence’s Catholic Church
W. Bayard Cutting
Welsher
Heffernan
Frank Cullen
New York City
Thomas Wheeler
Brentwood
Father Heffernan
Curtis's Leg Fractured Assistant Secretary Curtis Ill in Lawrence
James F. Curtis, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, high on an official visit, is reported seriously ill at a relative's home in Lawrence Long Island after a fall that fractured a leg. He planned to return to Washington May 22 and had recently observed a test of Havemeyer & Elder dock automatic scales.
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James F. Curtis
the Treasury
Custom House
Lawrence
Long Island
Curtis
Washington
James Burton Reynolds
Department
Havemeyer & Elder
Dragged by taxi cab injures Howard & Co. manager
William Cogle, 61, dressmaker firm manager, was struck by a taxicab at 43d street and Broadway while crossing with two friends. Dragged about thirty feet, his clothing caught by the crank and his head battered. He was taken to Flower Hospital with internal injuries and serious condition. chauffeur George Dundy was arrested.
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William Cogle
East 34Th Street
Howard & Co
34Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Flower Hospital
George Dundy
Stage Star William Norris and Miss Mabel Mordaunt Wed
William Norris famed as the Cinderella Girl star and Miss Mabel Mordaunt were married at St James Episcopal Church in Chicago. Archdeacon Toll officiated. The ceremony mirrors the on stage romance of the couple from the Whitney Opera House run. Mordaunt, twenty one, resides in Springfield Illinois.
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Ai E Tribune
Chicago
William Norris
Whitney Opera House
Mabel Mordaunt
St. James's Episcopal Church
Archdeacon Toll
Norris
Sir Francis Seymour Haden Dies in Bradford
Sir Francis Seymour Haden founder and president of the Royal Society of Painter Etchers died in Bradford. Born in 1818, he was knighted in 1894 and authored works on art and science. His wife, Dasha Delano Whistler, died in 1908.
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London
Francis Seymour Haden
The
Royal Society of Painter Etchers
Bradford
Lady Haden
Dasha Delano Whistler
George W. Whistler
Mr. Haden
James McNeil Whistler
Remarkable Michigan centenarian Martha Maddock Dies at 100
Mrs. Martha Maddock, among Michigan’s oldest residents, died in Pontiac at age 100. She recalled New York when it held only three brick houses and Michigan was a wilderness, with Detroit a tracing post when she settled there.
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Jy Telegraph
the Tribune
Pontiac
Mich
Martha Maddock
Michigan
New York
Detroit
Lee
Subways Smoke Fills Tunnel After Fire Collides Two Trains
A smoke-filled tunnel near Mott Avenue station caused a collision between two southbound Lenox avenue line trains. About eight hundred passengers were involved as one car was wrecked and several people, including guard Albert Buffington, were injured. Firefighters and doctors treated more than fifty passengers at the scene and stations further up the line, with traffic halted for hours.
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Mott Avenue
Lenox Avenue
O'Brien
Brooklyn
Albert Cummings
Second Avenue
E. Pixley
135Th Street
149Th Street
Robert Hamburger
Lorillard Place
Bronx
Ona
Hegeman’s
Riker’s
Subway
John Montgomery
Interborough
Third Avenue
Chamorro Forces Report Victory at Bluefields
Salvador Chamorro, father of General Chamorro, says his son defeated Madriz forces near Bluefields after a three day battle, with about three hundred prisoners taken. Separate dispatches note Lara’s defeat by Estrada forces and retreat toward Rama, amid strategic river and coastal movements along Nicaragua’s east coast.
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Panama
Salvador Chamorro
Chamorro
Provisional Army
Bluefields
Madriz
Lara
Padilla
Washington
State Department
Gilmer
Paducah
Estrada
Bluefields Bluff
Bluefields City
Mena
Rama
Mariz
Escondido
Monkey Point
Maa@riz
Navy Department
Dubuque
Colon
Vicksburg
Corinto
Nicaragua
Princeton
Bremerton
Puget Sound
Mines Used at Rama and Bluefields in Nicaragua War
In the Nicaragua conflict around Bluefields and Rama, General Estrada's insurgents repelled the enemy but lost the bluff and customs house amid treachery. A Bostonian mine expert Phil Pitman aided defense by detonating a mine that decimated advancing Madrid troops. Casualties ran high with many Americans among the dead or wounded.
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Bluefields
New Orleans
Estrada
Rama
Madriz
Tara
Madrid
Phil Pitman
Boston
Estradan
Lara
Guy
Jury to decide bleached flour case in two weeks
Kansas City June 1 A jury was seated and the government opened in the bleached flour case before Federal Judge Smith McPherson. Attorneys expect disposition within two weeks as jurors will taste bread made from bleached and unbleached flour to judge if processing affects quality.
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Kansas City
Smith McPherson
Harriman Sign Up Again In Turner Village Row
In Middletown New York on June 1 protests rose as the Erie Railroad replaced the Turner station sign with Harriman. After initial pressure the name was changed back, and a mass meeting is planned to oppose any future renaming and to address Congress the Public Service Commission and the Erie Railroad Company.
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Tribune
Middletown
N. Y
Turner
Harriman
E. H. Harriman
Erie Railroad
Congress
Public Service Commission
Erie Railroad Company
New Airship Prize Aims City to City Race
Washington organizes an airship race with New York and Washington as endpoints. A $20 000 prize is planned for the winner with the Fourth of July target date. A Chamber of Commerce committee teams with the Washington Aero Club to raise funds along the proposed flight path from Governor's Island via Philadelphia and Baltimore to end in Washington.
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Washington
National Capital
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Washington Aero Club
Governor's Island
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Aviator Race in 72 Hours For 25 000 Prize
Chicago and New York flying contest offers a 25000 dollar prize from The New York Times and The Chicago Evening Post. Competitors must complete the cross country trip within seventy two hours with unlimited stops and continuous operation by the same pilot from August 1 to November 1. Entries close August 1.
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Chicago
New York
New York Times
Chicago Evening Post
Flight prize fund launched for 288 mile St Louis to Kansas City run
Governor Hadley and John H Curran started a fund to reach 10000 dollars to be awarded to the aviator who flies from St Louis to Kansas City in twenty four hours. Each official subscribed ten dollars to the fund to support the challenge.
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St. Louis
Hadley
John H. Curran
Immigration of
Missouri
Kansas City
650 Mile Aeroplane Race Planned Triangular Route
A B Lambert of the Aero Club of St Louis announced plans for a 650 mile aeroplane race on a triangular course Indianapolis to St Louis to Chicago back to Indianapolis. Rules to be released within a week with a purse near 40000 dollars funded by aero clubs in St Louis Chicago and Indianapolis and about seventy towns along the route. The event likely takes place in October.
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St. Louis
A. B. Lambert
The
Aero Club of St. Louis
Indianapolis
Chicago
Aero Clubs
Tragedy in Crockery Store: George Schwartz Kills John Strumpf
In a tense late night scene at 117 First Avenue, William Schwartz shot and killed John Strumpf after pursuing him from a saloon. Schwartz claimed family troubles and fled, firing at a pursuing officer before being disarmed. His wife, later interviewed, denied any marital wrongdoing and described the couple’s long marriage with no children. Strumpf, a clerk for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was killed at point blank range in front of witnesses including several women. Detective Maloney later took Schwartz into custody and questioned his wife.
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First Avenue
William Schwartz
Fast 9Th Street
John Strumpf
Pennsylvania Railroad
Schwartz
Strumpf
Stumpf
7Th Street
Purnhagen
5Th Street
Avenue A
Crockery
Maloney
Fifth Street
4Th Street
Knight Promises to Tell All on Bankrupt Firm Testimony
John W. Knight of Decatur, in charge of Knight Yancey & Co. affairs, is due to testify tomorrow before creditors. Attorneys say he will name signers of the alleged spurious bills of lading and that two or three men may be implicated in the matter.
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Birmingham
Ala
John W. Knight
Decatur
Knight
Yancey & Co
Income tax amendment to go to referendum in 1912
Louisiana voters will decide on a federal income tax proposal in the 1912 state primary. A Senate amendment moves the May 1912 referendum into the campaign agenda, making the issue a focal point of the next state race.
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The
Tribune
Baton Rouge
Senate
John Marks
Panama hats seize triggers treasure trade scare
Treasury agents seized more than 1000 dollars worth of Panama hats held in bonded warehouses in Manhattan. The investigation traced undervaluation practices in major commission houses, with invoices used as the basis for valuation. If confirmed, indictments may follow and the trade could face prolonged stock hold ups and price hikes.
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Treasury
Manhattan
Treasury Department
Secret Service
Panama
Government Service
Colon
United States Attorney General
Brooklyn Man Survives 20 Foot Fall From Window
Solomon Levy aged W& years of 27 Pitkin Avenue Brooklyn walked from an open second story window mistaking it for a door. He fell twenty feet to the sidewalk unconscious but revived by nightfall and predicted to recover. His wife Pauline Blumberg Levy and daughter Theresa await further news as neighbors offer sympathy.
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Solomon Levy
Pitkin Avenue
Brooklyn
Bradford Street Hospital
Pauline Blumberg Levy
Theresa
Frownsville
East New York
City hires Abraham Lincoln as deputy city paymaster
The Finance Department announced the appointment of Abraham Lincoln as Deputy City Paymaster at 2500 dollars per year. Lincoln serves as election district captain in the 12th Assembly District Brooklyn where Controller Prendergast resides.
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Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Brooklyn
Prendergast
General Henry Confirmed as Port of New York Surveyor
Nelson H. Henry of New York was confirmed by the Senate today as surveyor of customs at the Port of New York. He succeeds a Clarkson. Salary set at $3,000.
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Washington
Nelson H. Henry
New York
Senate
A Clarkson
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