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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1910
Page
12
President Taft and party visit Monroe and Jackson for a Custer statue ceremony and college talk. Townsend wields friendly barbs toward Burrows while planning a Senate run, amid an informal political truce during the president’s Midwest itinerary.
Thavies P. Taft brother of President Taft left for Hamburg aboard the Amerika with his wife and daughter. He plans a slow continental tour for rest and did not answer questions about Roosevelt or the president's candidacy. Taft said he is out of politics and predicted Republicans would prevail in Ohio against Harmon.
Detectives and uniformed police apprehended about 200 men at a West 41st street poolroom during a coordinated three sided assault. Five men named as operators and gamblers were arrested as officers smashed doors and entered through a skylight. The operation followed months of suspicion of the Merrick Wheelmen's Club front.
Inspectors raided a Merrick Wheelmen Club site on a roof accessed from a skylight after climbers slid down a plank. About two hundred men were present, all well dressed. Officials took names and seized several telephones three thousand chips racing sheets and a fare layout.
Fred Dubey a sixteen year old apprentice at Underwood Typewriter Company was killed in Parkville when struck by a New Britain Bristol bound train as he chased a high fly. Spectators shouted warnings but the train did not stop, Leo Dubey his younger brother witnessed the tragedy.
Judge Landon said he would send a sheriff's posse to Middletown to identify ringleaders after juniors allegedly tossed headstones in Old Saybrook cemetery. He noted some students boasted of tying him to a monument, which he denies. Wesleyan President Shanklin says newspapers exaggerate the escapade and a professor will try to conciliate.
A clash in the Grand Opera House gallery during The Music Master led to six women and one man fainting as William E. Purcell accused ticket taker Michael Kenny of kicking his crippled brother. Security cleared the hall. Purcell and Kenny were arrested for disorderly conduct.
In Pennsylvania on June 4 the primaries produced spirited contests in 32 congressional seats, 25 State Senate seats, and 207 House members. Delegates to party conventions were chosen for Governor and other statewide offices. Key battles appeared in State Senate and House races with insurgent voters challenging party leaders in several districts. results showed Wanger renominated in the 8th District and Heaton defeating Alfred Garner in the 12th District on an anti-Cannon platform.
Telegraph dispatch from Pittsburg reports Congressman John Dalzell renominated in the 30th District after a tight race with Dr. R J Black ex Mayor of McKeesport. Early results showed Black ahead in McKeesport but later returns narrowed the gap with Dalzell carrying Braddock and other precincts.
Rochester June 4 ex assemblyman Henry R Glynn arraigned in police court on perjury charge by Zimm erman alleging false oath in an April 25 affidavit to Governor Hughes. Adjournment granted until June. Placed in context of a political move to curb Elmer E Charles and potential arrest of another Democrat.
Marion Fay twelve years old left home on Thursday to go to church triggering a police alarm. She was brought back yesterday by Mrs T V Smith after answering an advertisement for a nurse girl in newspapers. The girl wore a confirmation gown and was returned to No 443 West 48th Street.
New Jersey commuters rally after proposed railroad fare increases spark angry meetings. Governor Fort plans public protection actions while a plan to block the hikes forms. Pennsylvania Railroad moves to raise New York area rates up to 25 percent. a state Public Service Commission fight looms.
James Murdock a Brooklyn truck farmer was held for examination on charges of criminal assault and grand larceny after allegedly abducting Pauline Kraycke a nineteen year old Bohemian girl from the New Utrecht elevated station to his barn on Eleventh avenue and keeping her overnight. The complainant said she had $100. A prior similar charge against Murdock involved another girl Helen Wilson who failed to appear in court.
Dispatches report President Fallieres signed a decree elevating Dr J J Henna a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Henna, founder and dean of the French Hospital of New York, receives the honor amid the hospital’s centenary celebration. He resides at 2 West 72d Street.
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