Yellow dog funds traced in Mutual Life probe
Old man agement at Mutual Life Insurance Company under a grand jury spotlight as about $10,000 traced to a former official. Dr Walter R Gillette admitted holding the balance of a trust fund and sent a personal check to the current management. President Peabody calls it restoration not restitution and a possible “yellow dog” fund. DA Jerome continues the inquiry with ADA Kresell and company staff, while the grand jury nears June 15 dismissal and plans for future probes.
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Insurance Grand Jury
Mutual
Walter R. Gillette
Truesdale
the Mutual
Dr. Gillette
Grand Jury
Peabody
Equitable
Gillette
Jerome
Kresell
Frederick L. Allen
Law Department
Gallagher
Criminal Courts
Scott
Europe
Murder at Little Rock Hotel Closes Mouth on Graft
Memphis telegraphed dispatch reports Mrs. Charlotte Leetham proprietor of the Little Rock Hotel found murdered in her room. The hotel had been the Boodling gang’s headquarters in Arkansas and her death is viewed as an effort to silence her about grafting schemes. A servant notes a high official tied to the charges left the room at midnight after quarrel, hinting at imminent arrest.
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The
Tribune
Memphis
Charlotte Leetham
Little Rock
Legislative Booding Gang
Arkansas
Department of Agriculture
Tortured by Mexicans in Progreso Jail Nightmarish Escape
Crews of three American fishing smacks D L Taft Sallie Brearns and Lizzie B Adams tell of confinement in a Progreso jail after seizure. They describe packed cells with high walls and a single ventilation hole, brackish water, 12 cent buckets, limited clothing and harsh conditions during nine days of detention before release on bond and subsequent rearrest by Mexican soldiers.
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Tribune
Galveston
D. L. Taft
Sallie Brearns
Lizzie B. Adams
Progreso
Joseph Werks
Adams
Onsul
Verin
Explosion Burns Westhampton Couple on Long Island
Good Ground on June 4 reports Mr and Mrs Webster Gordon of Westhampton severely burned by a gasoline explosion at Canoe Place Creek. Also injured were Mr and Mrs Chauncey Robinson. one person escaped injury as a fire palliation failed to prevent the incident.
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Long Island
Webster Gordon
Westhampton
Canoe Place Creek
Chauncey Robinson
SEWEW'S CLARET OR SAUTERNE PUNCH
Rady 6 serve. Sure to please your svesta. mae & Bons Co le Fulien St New York.
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Sewew
Mae & Bons Co
le Fulien St
New York
Mrs Stanford accused in suit against estate in San Francisco
Annie F. Stanford sues executors of Jane L. Stanford will for 108000 claiming fraud and conspiracy. Chronicle details Asa P. Stanford’s 1869 stock transfer from Central Pacific ties, monthly payments, and a 500000 stock sum allegedly withheld. Annie seeks voiding Asa Stanford’s release of claims for 25000 and restoration of stock and payments.
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San Francisco
Leland Stanford
Annie F. Stanford
Senator Stanford
Jane L. Stanford
Asa P. Stanford
Asa Stanford
Annie Stanford
E. C. Humbert Injured In Auto Collision In Morristown
E C Humbert of Humbert & Son brokerage, New York City, lies seriously injured at his son J J C Humbert's Laon taka Way home after a Madison Avenue crash. He has a broken collar bone and injured shoulders. Chauffeur Fred Clark, driver of the other car, was arrested on $500 bail. Car occupants, six women and the chauffeur, were uninjured. Eastman of Tarrytown owned the wrecked machine. Humbert is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and several New York clubs.
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Tribune
Morristown
N. J
E. C. Humbert
E. C. Humbert & Son
Broadstreet
New York City
J. J. C. Humbert
Laontaka Way
Mr. Humbert
Madison Avenue
Humbert
Fred Clark
Joseph Eastman
Tarrytown
Clark
Eastman
New York Stock Exchange
Reform
Baltusrol Golf
Crescent Athletic Clubs
New York
Young Doctor Insane Linked To Cuban War Heroic Past
The young physician from 1433 Lexington avenue was removed to Presbyterian Hospital after his father cited hallucinations from recent kidney surgery. He had joined insurgents with Herbert B. Seeley during the Spanish Cuban War, endured a storm voyage, fought four months under General Lacret, survived a sword wound, and returned with kidney ailments.
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Beauvoir Bennett
Lexington Avenue
Presbyterian Hospital
Joseph S. Bennett
Dr. Bennett
Herbert B. Seeley
Seeley Dinner Fame
Tampa
Fla
Cuban
Lacret
Seeley
Bennett
British May Boycott American Meats Over Scandal
London discusses President Roosevelt's meat scandal message and urges British or colonial products. Editorials warn against imported beef and pork lacking proper inspection, urge imperial preference, and question free trade. Dr. Cooper cites weak meat inspection and calls for preferential duties to colonies.
Race With Death Lost Bur toy Out Of Senate
A seven year old girl Ruth Percival Dowling died on a New Haven railroad express en route to New York Grand Central while undergoing transfer to specialists after tetanus set in from a earlier arm fracture. Her father Robert Emmet Dowling holds several city and state posts. At Grand Central, doctors attempted to revive her but failed. The story also covers United States Senate changes in Kansas as Foster Dwight Coburn was appointed to replace resigning J Ralph Burton, with Burton's resignation letter dated June 4 1906.
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New York
North Adams
New Haven
Ruth Percival Dowling
Robert Emmet Dowling
Mott Haven
Grand Central Station
West 3d Street
Sharon Springs
Conn
E. B. Culby
Park Avenue
William Jones
Ansonia Hotel
Grand Central
Topeka
Kan
Foster Dwight Coburn
Kansas City
United States
E. W. Hoch
J. Ralph Burton
Coburn
Senate
Jefferson County
Wis
Kansas
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Burton
Hoch
Fairbanks
B. P. Waggener
R. P. Hackney
Auto Light Saves Her In Richmond Park Tragedy
Miss Minnie Ashby an eighteen year old Idlewood cashier plunged into the miniature lake at Idlewood park in Richmond Virginia last midnight. James Allgood driving a passing automobile stopped his car and rescued her from the water. She was resuscitated with difficulty. Report says she planned suicide after a quarrel with her sweetheart who failed to appear to take her home.
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The
Tribune
Richmond
Minnie Ashby
Idlewood
James Allgood
Allgood
Dead Man Returns After Thirteen Years Absence
John Mooney, long presumed dead, returns to Pittsburg after thirteen years away carrying thousands in cash. His wife had collected a $10,900 life insurance and later died along with a son, prompting Mooney to a mental collapse when told of their deaths. A former Knoxville property owner, he had vanished during the Panic, traveled to Ireland to find a brother, then drifted through New Orleans and Missouri before reappearing. His holdings have since appreciated, making him wealthy.
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The
Tribune
Pittsburg
John Mooney
Mooney
Knoxville
Ireland
United States
New Orleans
Missouri
Both Sides Claim Oregon in Early State Race
Portland June 4. With no precinct results yet, chairmen of both state central committees declare their candidates for Governor United States Senator and Congressmen have carried the state.
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Portland
Ore
Dispute over Lincoln birthplace shakes Kentucky claim
Investigators from Springfield Kentucky report Lincoln was born in Washington County not Larue County despite the Lincoln Birthplace Association’s purchase. They cite sworn affidavits claiming Lincoln’s birth in Beechland in Washington County and a move to Larue County at six weeks old. Lincoln Birthplace Memorial Association officials deny the claim, upholding Larue County as birthplace. An advertisement for equinox Ginger Champagne appears at the end.
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Tribune
Lexington
J. W. Lewis
W. D. Claybrooke
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Larue County
Lincoln Birthplace Association
Lincoln
Washington County
William Hardesty
Hardesty
John Hardesty
W. F. Medord
W. F. Booker
Thomas Lincoln
Nancy Hanks
Richard Berry
Robert J. Collier
Lincoln Birthplace
Lincoln Birthplace Memorial Association
Collier
Chinese student wins Sandham prize at NYU contest
JGE Tung Lee a Chinese junior at Dwight School and Canton native won second prize in the Sandham oratorical contest at NYU with The Exclusion of the Chinese. Arthur Henry Limouze of Leonia NJ took first prize $75. Limouze is a junior and a Methodist minister in New Jersey. Judges were Rev Dr William Stevenson Prof Welland Herdick and F W Brodsky.
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Joe Tung Lee
New York University
Sandham
Lee
P. Ka Isaka Seme
Columbia
Arthur Henry Limouze
Leonia
N. J
Dwight School
Canton
Limouze
New Jersey
William B. Stevenson
First Presbyterian Church
Yonkers
Welland Herdick
F. W. Brodsky
Sleeping Cars to St Louis and Cincinnati on Central Lines
There are sleeping cars for St Louis and Cincinnati with perfect service. Leave New York every day at 50 m via New York Central Lines. No excess fare.
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St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
New York Central
Priest condemns peek a boo waists at Rochester church
In Rochester Pennsylvania on June 4 the Rev George M A Schoener urged women to go home and remove unseemly waists resembling bathing costumes. His remarks made many blush as he called the style peek a boo and warned the church is not a bathing resort.
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the Tribune
Rochester
Penn
George M. A. Schoener
St Louis Limited via Pennsylvania Railroad Departs New York Daily
The St Louis Limited leaves New York at 1 55 p m daily and arrives in St Louis at 4 30 p m the next day. This through train offers high grade Pullman equipment.
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ST. Louis Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
St Louis
Sanitary inspection ordered for Chicago stockyards
Chicago health chief Commissioner Whalen announced today that, following the Roosevelt message to Congress, he would immediately order a sanitary inspection of the stockyards.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Congress
Whalen
Health Department
Miners ill from corned beef at Eleanor shaft
Forty miners at the Eleanor shaft in Punxsutawney Pennsylvania fell ill Saturday and quit work after being poisoned by corned beef. An advertisement notes the Mayflower Limited leaving New York at 10 o'clock with four hours in Boston, then Merchants Limited at 5 reaching New York by 10 p.m.
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Punxsutawney
Penn
Eleanor Shaft
Mayflower Limited
New York
Boston
Merchants Limited
Inspectors Probe Chicago Stockyards and Packing Houses
Washington June 4 The Reynolds and Neill report details an investigation into conditions in Chicago slaughterhouses and dressing plants. Two and a half weeks were spent in Chicago examining major stockyards facilities and several smaller ones, with an additional day in New York City reviewing leading slaughterhouses.
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Chicago
Neill and
Reynolds
Roosevelt
Congress
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Nelson Morris & Co
G. H. Hammond Company
Omaha Packing Company
Anglo-American Provision Company
Libby, McNeil & Libby
Schwarzschild-Sul
Burrill and
Grindley
Messrs. Neill and
Senate
House of Representatives
James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Messrs. Reynolds and Neitl
Mesars Reynolds and Neill
Pomene Speentian
Washington
Messra Reynolds
Neill
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Young Doctor Insane
James B. Reynolds
Charles P. Netly
London
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Chamberlain
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Cooper
Bermondsey
Daily Mail
Dr. Cooper
Great Britain
Germany
England
Burtoy
Child
F. D. Coburn
Joseph R. Burton
Auto Light
Doughty
Oregon
Acker-Merrall, Park & Tilord, Charles & Co
Jge Tung Lee
Orator
Chinaman
Neill-Reynolds
United States Department of Agriculture
Messrs
T. J. Burrill
University of Ilinois
H. S. Grindley
Messrs. Neill and Reynolds
Tribune Bureau
Gorman
Beef Trust
Beveridge
Theodore Roosevelt
White House
Chicago Health Department
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