Philadelphia rail chief admits accepting coal gifts in three years
Joseph Boyer chief clerk for A W Gibbs superintendent of motive power for Pennsylvania Railroad testified at an interstate commerce hearing he received stock gifts totaling about 11 000 and cash up to 46 000 from five coal companies over roughly three years plus fuel coal allowances of 3 to 5 cents a ton. He kept the money and said payments had followed a prior departmental custom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Joseph Boyer
A. W. Gibbs
Pennsylvania Railroad
Interstate Commerce
Clement
Bower
Mr. Hastings
Second National Bark
Altoona
Boyer
Graff Coal Company
Clearfield and Granton Coal Company
Dunkirk Coal Company
Smith & Turner
Thomas Blythe & Co
Clearfield and Granton Company
Blythe & Co
Eck
Glasgow
Mr. Itr
Graft Coal Company
Clearfield and Iranion Company
Dunkirk Company
Thomas Blythe
The Famous Lake Shore Limited Schedule Note
Train service from Cincinnati to New York runs daily at 69 p.m. via Grantest route on the New York Central Lines, with no excess information provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Shore Limited
St. Toute Ail Tee
Cincinnati
New York
New York Central Lines
L C Ledyard Weds Isabel Morris in Private NY Ceremony
Lew is Cass Ledyard, noted lawyer and transit official, marries Mrs. Isabel Morris at her West 58th Street home in a small gathering. Attending were family and friends including Dave Hennen Morris and Alfred Hennen Morris. Ledyard’s social and professional ties span yacht, law, and railroad interests. He is 56, with Newport residence and a No 2 East 87th Street city home.
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Lewis Cass Ledyard
Francis Isabel Morris
John A. Morris
Dave Hennen Morris
Richard B. Mattice
West Chester Presbyterian Church
West 58Th Street
Alfred Hennen Morris
Henry B. Ledyard
R. Colgate
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard
Elliott F. Shepard
Hennen
New Orleans
Ledyard
Gertrude Prince
William E. Prince
Newport
East 87Th Street
New York Yacht Club
Lewis Cass Ledyard, Jr
Harvard
Bar Association
Metropolitan
Century
Tuxedo
Harvard, University
Down Town
Knickerbocker
Union League
Jeky] Island
John Claflin
Rapid Transit Commission
Carter, Ledyard & Milburn
Wall Street
National Exess Company
Boston & Maine Iiroad
Great Northern Paper Company
Maine Central Railroad
Merchants’ Despatch Company
Alliantic Mutual Alliance Company
United States Trust Company
General Toledo Advancing in Guatemala Conflicts
General Toledo commanding revolutionary forces in Southern Guatemala has won two engagements. Government troops were driven back and Toledo is receiving heavy reinforcements of well armed men.
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City of
Mexico
Toledo
Guatemala
Heat Wave Causes One Death and Several Prostrations
Heat and humidity yesterday caused one death and seven prostrations in the city. Many sought relief on recreation piers and Battery Park was crowded. Temperatures ranged around 88F until 2:30 PM, then fell. a brief 0.15 inch shower occurred between 6 and 7 PM. Victims include Harry Senelat, 62, who died at Union Market police station, and prostrations of Carrie Brown, Elizabeth Burgess, Frank Fisher, Waiter Kane, Vincent Moran, John Aadon, and Aaron Weiss, hospitalized at Roosevelt, Bellevue, or Hudson Street Hospitals. A new five hour train between New York and Boston starts June 11 at 6:00 AM.
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Battery Park
Senelat
Harry
Delance
Union Market
Brown
Carrie
West 63d Street
Roosevelt Hospital
Burgess
Elizabeth
1St Street
Fisher
Frank
First Avenue
4Th Street
Second Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Kane
Waiter
Broadway
Mail Street
Hudson Street Hospital
Moran
Vincent J
Jersey Avenue
Jersey City
Warre
Aadon
John
Weat 40Th Street
Exchange Place
Broad Street
Weiss
Aaron
St. Nicholas Avenue
Maiden Lane
Fire in Boston subway jolts city. injuries and delays
A series of explosions in the Boylston street subway caused by shorted power cables delayed thousands, injured three minor victims and three firemen, and knocked out service for nearly two hours as debris and smoke filled the station and nearby streets.
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Boston
Boylston Street
Boston Common
Muellen
Tremont
Eliot Streets
Pleasant Street
Max Trautman
Andrew Reed
Anna O'Donnell
Boylston
Tremont Streets
Indictment Likely in Mutual Life Affair Lone Official Named
A special grand jury probes the Mutual Life Insurance Company with plans to indict a former high official for forgery over diverted funds and false book entries. Witnesses include Andrew C. Fields, Lysander W. Lawrence, and George McKibbin, while Robert Olyphant is excluded from indictment. The panel defers on a $2,500 1904 contribution case and expects to wrap up next week.
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Mutual Life Insurance Company
Criminal Courts
The
Mutual
Insurance
Mutual Life
Andrew C. Fields
Lysander W. Lawrence
George McKibbin
Robert Olyphant
Committee On
McCurdy
Olyphant
Walter R. Gillette
Robert A. Granniss
Gillette
Babcock
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Granniss
Walter F. Thummell
the Mutual
Jerome
Washington
State Insurance Department
unrest in russian army raises fears of mutiny
St Petersburg June 6 reports indicate serious unrest among Russian troops with mutinous mood in Kursk Odessa Rostov on Don and Rostoff muttering due to long absence from home new recruits spreading revolutionary spirit among peasants officials warn of possible uprising but say it is too early to tell if army cannot be trusted
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Kursk
Odessa
Rostoff-on-Don
Clerks Riot Wrecks Bronx Stores Over Closing Demands
About five hundred mobsters from Retail Clerks International Protective Association No. 496 wrecked grocery stores on St Ann's Brook and Willis avenues, demanding 7 pm closing in summer. Police arrested seven. ringleader Martin Finn confessed. Union president Peter Monahan denied directing violence.
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Bronx
Alexander Avenue
Retail Clerks’ International Protective Association
St. Ann’s
Brook and
Willis Avenues
143D Street
Carmick
East 134Th Street
Ferdinand Myer
Martin Finn
East Mth Street
McKeon
Finn
P. m
Peter A. Monahan
No.13
East 138Th Street
Monahan
Love Driven Suicide Linked to Cousin’s Marriage
Pittsburg report states Thomas O Connor Jones killed himself after being thwarted in love for his cousin Madeline Laughlin who wed Rev Maitland Alexander. Friends say he never recovered after hearing the ceremony made her Mrs Alexander. Coroner’s verdict death by own action. Funeral set for tomorrow in private.
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the Tribune
Pittsburg
Thomas O'Connor Jones
Jones
Madeline Laughlin
Maitland Alexander
First Presbyterian Church
New York
Alexanders
Alexander
Murdoch
Armstrong
Packers' Side Denies Chicago Packing Plant Catastrophes
Washington June 6 Thomas E Wilson manager of Nelson Morris Company testified before the House Agriculture Committee denying Neill Reynolds report claims about packing house conditions. He urged further time for objections to Beveridge amendment and suggested Chicago visits to inspect operations from hoof to can.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Neill-Reynolds
Chicago
Thomas E. Wilson
Nelson Morris Company
House Committee On Agriculture
Messrs
Neill and Reynolds
Beveridge
Wilson
Wilsom
Department
Agriculture
Neill
A. D. Melvin
Capitol
Standard Rendering Company
Standard Slaughtering Company
Scott
Kansas
Mr. Wilson
Messia
Reynolds
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NEW York University
B. F. McManus
Pennsylvania
Atttorney Glasgow
Blythe
L. C. Ledyard
Isabel Morris
Gen
Sie
Maglower Limited
Petween
Dewey
H. T. Dewey & Sons Co
Fulton St
Clerks Wreck Stores
Bucknam & Vanderpoel, Agts
W. B. Way
Advt
Packers
Neill. Reynolds
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