Grand jury to sue for back duty on Panama hats
United States Attorney Wise launched a federal grand jury probe into undervaluation of Panama hats at the port. The government seeks reappraisal and civil seizure of bonded stock, with potential hundreds of thousands in duties and the prospect of reliquidation suits. Secretary MacVeagh to discuss case with Collector Loeb.
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Custom House
United States
Wise
Panama
The
Tribune
Treasury
New Orleans
San Francisco
Loeb
Seid
Hatters
MacVeagh
Earthquake Benefit Concert Set for June 10 Costa Rica
Consul General Dr Juan J Nea announces a June 10 musical soirée at Hotel Astora to aid earthquake victims in Cartago Costa Rica. Volunteers include Mme Alma Webster Powell Mrs Marcelina Chabie Mrs Katherine O'Neill Mrs Flora Benelishe Mrs Mary Motie Jorge C Benitez George Cassa William Grating King and George Gillet.
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Juan J.nea
Costa Rica
Kaiser’s Prussia allowance to rise to five million
Berlin reports the Prussian Parliament’s Conservative National Liberal and Radical factions agree to raise the civil list for Emperor William as King of Prussia to about 5 million dollars. A bill will be introduced soon to fund the increase. The ruler already funds opera and royal theatres while managing fifty two residences amid annual deficits.
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Prussia
Berlin
William
Opera
Royal Theatres
Plans Chain of Hotels Formed in United Hotels Company
A $10 000 000 corporation to run a nationwide hotel chain was formed in Albany. The United Hotels Company unites Ritz Carlton interests of London and the Continent with Vanderbilt interests of New York. Fifteen existing hotels join the group with more planned. Thomas Hillom to oversee operations at the Waldorf Astoria.
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Telegraph
Tribune
Utica
United States
United Hotels Company
America
Ritz-Carlton
London
Vanderbilt
New York
Carlton Investing Company
Ten Bvek
Albany
Frank A. Dudley
Niagara Falls
Frederick W. Rockwell
Delos M. Johnson
Edmund L. Baylis
H. L. Gossin
Thomas Hilliard
H. Rogers Winthrop
D. K. Dean
Kansas City
Isaac Harter
Akron
Ohio
E. Clark King
Brighton Beach
Thomas Hillom
Waldorf-Astoria
Maimed Boy Bound to Live in Paterson Hospital
A twelve year old, John Vander Scharle of Haledon, is hospitalized after being crushed between two Erie freights on the Bergen Short Cut. He lost a leg and an arm, suffered a severe head wound, yet remains conscious and determined to survive as surgeons weigh a risky operation. His mother is a widow and he had been living with his uncle due to hardship.
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General Hospital
Paterson
N. J
John Vander Scharle
No. 17
Avenue B
Haledon
Erie
Bergen
France
Egypt
London
Rome
Taft
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Railroad Offers Summer Excursion Book
The Pennsylvania Railroad released its Summer Excursion Book on June 1. It lists about eight hundred North American resorts with hotel listings, routes, rates, and travel ideas for extended trips by rail boat or both. Copies cost ten cents in person or twenty‑five cents postpaid from Geo. W. Boyd, Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
North America
Geo. W. Boyd
Philadelphia
Gruser Delivers Jocular Roast at L I C H Alumni Dinner
The Long Island College Hospital alumni dinner at the Brooklyn Academy of Music featured Dr. Nathaniel F. Rathbun presiding and Abraham Gruber delivering a humorous critique of politics and medicine. Gruber lampooned doctors while praising their sacrifices and urged patience with President Taft amid Roosevelt’s influence.
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Long Island College
Long Island College Hospital
Brooklyn Academy @ Music
Nathaniel F. Rathbun
William Francis Campbell
Newell Dwight Hillis
Abraham Gruber
Gruber
Manhattan
Abe
United States
Christian Science
Moonshining in Chicago: Five Indicted for Tax Evasion
Chicago June 2 five men Simon Frindel Max Bronstein Abram Weise Frank Weise and Jacob Selzer were indicted by a federal grand jury for operating a moonshine still and defrauding the government of 112000 in internal revenue tax. Frindel headed the Illinois Fruit Distilling Company.
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Chicago
Simon Frindel
Max Bronstein
Abram Weise
Frank Weise
Jacob Selzer
Frindel
Illinois Fruit Distilling Company
Park Job Created In New York City Parks Department
Park Commissioner Stover announced the appointment of Howard Bradstreet as Assistant Superintendent of Parks for Manhattan and Richmond pending Board of Estimate action on establishing a supervisor of recreation. Salary starts at 2500 dollars with future increase. Bradstreet, from Rochester, has been secretary of the Parks and Play Grounds Association and leads local neighborhood recreation groups.
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Stover
Howard Bradstreet
Manhattan
Richmond
Board of Estimate
Bradstreet
New York
Rochester
Parks and Playgrounds Association
Henry Street
Neighborhood Workers’ Association
Hippo Hay Fever At Central Park Zoo
Visitors swarm Central Park Zoo over hippo hay fever as keepers report the two hippos eating hay. A baby hippo sneezes after grass touches its nose prompting questions from the crowd and staff confirming hay fever.
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Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Central Park Zoo
Bill Snyder
Nicaragua Crisis Deepens as US Stays Hands Off
Washington rejects any US protectorate over Nicaragua while factions vie for control. Castrillo reports Madriz forces crushed at Bluefields, Rama sparsity, and 400 prisoners. US gunboat Paducah enforces non intervention, while Madriz decree blocks Bluefields port entries after June 1 with duties due. General Lara's retreat and Estrada's forces gain ground near Bluefields as tensions rise.
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Nicaragua
Sefior Castrillo
Estrada Provisional Government
Madriz
Bluefields
Rama Ifs
Diaz
Colon
Lara
Godoy
Revera
Chamorro
Rama
Sefior Castrillo Beleves
Mena
Ilias
Venus
Customs House
Bluefield Bluff
Gilmer
United States
Paducah
Irias
Knox
Estrada
Moffatt
Estradas
Julian Irias
Atlantic
Custom House
Bluefelds Bluff
General Lara
Zeledon
Heike Defense Opens in Sugar Short-Weighing Case
Charles R. Heike, secretary of the American Sugar Refining Co of New Jersey, faces a conspiracy to defraud the customs charge as trial resumes. George S. Graham and others anticipate Heike testifying. prosecutors allege long running falsifications tied to Havemeyer and Elder docks in Williamsburg. The defense aims to dismantle the government case as cross examination continues.
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Charles R. Heike
American Sugar Refining Company of
New Jersey
New York Company
George S. Graham
John B. Stanchfield
Heike
Mr. Heike
Havemeyer & Elder
Williamsburg
Henry L. Stimson
Ernest Gérbracht
James F. Bendernagel
Oliver Spitzer
Estrada Forces Overrun Madriz Contingent at Bluefields
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro reports Estrada army captured four hundred Madriz troops at Bluefields in a failed assault. Insurgents also seized enemy field pieces and a large stock of ammunition and supplies.
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Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
Emiliano Chamorro
Bluefields
Estrada
Madriz
Hungarian Elections Show Government Victory Amid Pressure Claims
Budapest reports indicate the government has secured a majority of seats in the next parliament. Eighty districts remain uncounted, while Francis Kossuth and Julius Justh led opposition groups defeated amid alleged widespread official pressure across constituencies.
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Budapest
Francis Kossuth
Julius Justh
Cragen Will Not Hold Court in Queens Amid Indictments
Municipal justice John M. Cragen, indicted for grand larceny, will not preside in Queens. Magistrates Kadien Denton and McLoughlin will handle assignments. Cragen seeks a speedy trial but expects no court action before fall due to summer vacations. Peary Presented To George V After Antarctic Talk With King.
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John M. Cragen
Queens
Kadien
Denton
McLoughlin
Cragen
Mayor Gaynor Faces Auto Group Over Ocean Parkway Plan
Mayor Gaynor told a delegation of automobile associations and manufacturers that he will sign a bill setting Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn as a horse speedway from Twenty second Avenue to King's Highway despite protests from Long Island and New York Automobile associations. He also signaled nonapproval of a courthouse site bill, and said he would defer to Commissioner Drummond on the West Side Settlement House takeover.
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Gaynor
Ocean Parkway
Twenty-second Avenue
King’s Highway
Brooklyn
Long Island Automobile Association
New York Trades Automobile Association
Commuters plan action against rail fare hike
Hackensack residents and nearby towns organize a campaign against the Susquehanna and Western Railroad's planned fare increase set for July 1. The Ridgefield Park Taxpayers Association hires ex Prosecutor Peter W. Stagg as counsel and schedules a mass meeting with speakers to discuss options.
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The
Tribune
Hackensack
N. J
Susquehanna & Western Railroad
Erie
Taxpayers’ Association
Ridgefield Park
Peter W. Stagg
Little Ferry
Bogota
Maywood
Rochelle Park
Railroad fares under review at Thursday meeting
They plan a proposed rise in daily passenger rates at Thursday evening’s meeting. The Centract and Pennsylvania railroads moved this step by posting notices stating intent to raise round trip rates to New York from to cents and single fares from 5 to cents.
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Centract
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Manic patient leaps to death at Ward's Island asylum
Irving Lesser thirty two a patient at Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane on Ward's Island leaped from a third floor window yesterday and died two hours later. He had told police on February first that a crowd followed him accusing him of murdering the Lomas and Shibley boys shot in Highbridge Park by Herbert Dennison. He had been confined to Bellevue and then Ward's Island where Dr Evarts said he suffered persistent delusions.
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Irving Lesser
Manhattan State Hospital For the Insane
Ward's Island
Lesser
West 125Th Street
Miller
Lomas and Shibley
Highbridge Park
Herbert Dennison
Bellevue Hospital
Evarts
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Hippo
Washington
Managua
Maériz
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Lagune de Las Perias
Escondido
Spitzer
Frederick Schwertfeger
Stimson
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Gerbracht
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Mr. Stimson
Joseph R. Malone
Havemeyer
George Mackellar
Henry Russell
Hungary
Kossuth
Justh
Earth
Brooklyn Speedway
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Elizabeth
Elizabeth Board of Trade
Adirondacks
Delaware & Hortson
Lake Champlain
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Ac Sable Chasm
Lake Placid
New York City
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Thompson-Starrett Company
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Bronxville
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Minmeygeuness
David B. Plummer
Arcade
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Alfred S. Amer
Pergola Coughlin
Astor Court
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Joseph P. Greaves
Florida East Coast System
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Orchestra
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Garden City
Long Island
J. J. Lannin Company
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L. I
Ocean
Woodward
Stew York
D. Green
Prospect House
Shelter Island Heights
Broadway, Cor
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Healthive
Ontario & Western
Summer Howes
Columbus Ave
125Th St
Desbrosses
West 42d
St. Ferries
Beaver St
Court St
Nostr Ave
J. R. Dunbar
Dept. A
Kaaterskill
Catskill Mountains
Murray Hill
Rexamere
Stamford-in-the Catskills
Moffatt & Peck
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N. Y
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W. Reed
Belle Vue House
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H. S. & A P. White
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Traymore Hotel Company
D. & White
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Dennis
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Marlborough
Blenbeitt Atlan A
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Ons Company Hotel Brunswick Eens Ee
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Stockbridge, Mass
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Alien TV
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Frank Cope
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Price
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