Trial of Captain Wynne Opens Deepening Court Martial Debate
The general court martial of Captain Robert F. Wynne USMC continues with testimony from Lt. Elisha Theall and Surgeons Decker and Furlong. The defense argues sunstroke and heat stress affected judgment, while prosecution notes the order to appear on deck and requests due process. The trial progresses amid appeals to Navy Regulations and concerns over mental condition and potential disability retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Wynne
United States Marine Corps
Poard
United States
Pennsylvana
Evans
Elisha Theall
Wynne
Theall
Newton
Captain Wynne
Admiral Evans
Theal
President to Synod at centennial review of two suspended pastors
At the General Synod centennial session two suspended pastors appealed their cases, Rev Sipka Koster of Hull Iowa and Rev C P Evans of Albany facing judicial reviews. Notables including President Roosevelt sent a regret letter. Dr Demarest resigns as Rutgers history professor to become Rutgers College president. delegates travel to West Point today aboard the Hudson River Day Line steamer New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Synod of the Reformed Church In America
St. Nicholas
Sipka Koster
The
Reformed Church
Hull
Iowa
C. P. Evans
Albany
Donald Sage Mackay
James I. Vance
Newark
D. J. Diakema
Holland
Mich
A. V. V. Raymond
Union College
Edward B. Coe
Roosevelt
General Synod of the
Dutch Reformed Church
United States
Conon
William H. 8. Demarest
Reformed Seminary
Ofew Brunswick
X. J
Demarest
Rutgers College
West Point
New York
Pawnee Bill Wild West Opens Brighton Beach Season
The Pawnee Bill Wild West and Great Far East Show will move into Brighton Beach quarters Monday and begin an eight dollar season on Thursday evening June 14. The spectacle uses over a thousand people and about five hundred horses, featuring Western life and Oriental displays. A Manhattan street parade is planned for Wednesday evening June 13 with line details to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brighton Beach
America
Manhattan
Rock fall injures worker in Pennsylvanian tunnel shaft incident
Christopher Parsillo, employed in the Pennsylvania tunnel at Long Island City, was struck by a rock at the bottom of the shaft near East and Borden avenues, fracturing his spine. Police investigate to identify responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Parsillo
Pennsylvania
Long Island City
East and Borden Avenues
Discharged 15-Year-Old Driver in Special Sessions
Frederick Scholle, 15, son of Albert W. Scholle, a broker of 763 Fifth Avenue, who was arrested May 23 for driving without a license, was discharged in Special Sessions Court as no law fit the case. He was not a chauffeur and did not own the machine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Scholle
Albert W. Scholle
Fifth Avenue
Special Sessions Court
Bey
Insane nurse appointed for insane women scandal at county asylum
Chicago June 7 A remarkable discovery reports that a young woman recently appointed as a probationary nurse at the county insane asylum in Dunning is herself insane. She was assigned to the women’s ward before examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Chicago
Dunning
Wien
Officials deny immediate third track on Second and Third avenues
Interborough Rapid Transit officials say the State Railroad Commission recommendation carries no binding power. Franchises lie with the City Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners and the Board of Estimate, with hearings likely to be revived to push the plan forward. Public opposition is minimal and the merger reduced any active bidders' concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
State Railroad Commission
Third Avenue
Interborough
Board of Rapid Transit Commissioners
City of New York
Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Interborough Company
John BR. McDonald
Metropolitan Street Railway
McDonald
East Side
Bronx
State Board
City Board
Rapid Transit Commission
John B. McDonald
Avenues
Commission
State Railway Commission
City Club to Discuss Blocking Elevated Rail Plan
The City Club meets this afternoon at No. 55 West 44th Street to oppose new elevated railroads in the lower East Side. Bridge Commissioner and Brooklyn interests push a double decked structure in the crowded district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Club
No. 55
West 44Th Street
Lower East Side
Bridge Commissioner
Brooklyn
Lawyer Attacked in Broadway Office by Professor
Reno R Billington a lawyer at 1694 Broadway was assaulted in his office at 4 Broadway yesterday afternoon by John Bohlman a professor of languages at 431 West 41st Street. Bohlman was arrested on felonious assault charges while Billington was taken away by friends after a private physician treated his wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno R. Billington
Broadway
No. 4
John Bohlman
West 41Th Street
Bohlman
Trayer and
Connor
Bohlman, According To the Police, Entered Mr. Billington
Bohrman
Parker Norton
Harlem
Detective Bureau
Billington
Rohiman
Cooper Union Reports Arts and Science Admissions
The forty seventh annual Cooper Union report shows 6537 applications to science and art, 2504 total in three departments, 2380 in night school, and over 3000 denied admission. Examiners note many applicants and some graduates struggle with spelling and elementary English writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooper Union
Hospitals Fight City Hall Plan to Punish Refusal of Admissions
City Hall hears a showdown over Coroner Harburger’s proposal to fine $100 for hospital superintendents who refuse ambulance admissions or transfer dangerously ill patients. Coroners and hospital representatives clash over transfers blamed for deaths and questioned as to which patients count and which facilities would be obligated to accept them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harburger
Board of Aldermen
Joseph Schloss
Roosevelt Hospital
William Cochran
Bellevue
Fordham Hospital
Harlem Hospital
Albany
Board of Coroners
Schloss
O'Hanlon
L. S. Phillips
Flower Hospital
Fitzgerald
Phillips
Ernest Harvier
St. Vincent's Hospital
George P. Ludlam
New York Hospital
S.T. Armstrong
Bellevue and Allied Hospitals
Lathrop
Barge Captain Sues Railroad Over Eleven Days Without Food
John Munrad, a barge captain, sues Florida East Coast Railroad allied with Standard Oil for 2500 in U S District Court. He says he was left on a barge fifteen miles off Key West without food for eleven days after the tow separated, was rescued by the White Sand, then sent to the Norwegian Hospital in New York. He alleges illness from exposure and seeks damages. Represented by Richard Currier of the Legal Aid Society Seamen's Branch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
John Munrad
Florida East Coast Railroad
Standard Oil Company
Munrad
Key West
Mummad
Mobile
Dauntless
Miami
Fla
Sybie
White Sand
Bethel
New York
Richard Currier
Seamen’s Branch
The
Legal Aid Society
Building of Kingsbridge Bridge Floated to Fordham Heights
The middle span of the Kingsbridge Bridge will be floated down the Hudson on Monday or Tuesday and placed at Fordham Heights. Four large pontoons are built to carry the bridge and will be positioned at Kings Bridge at low tide then pumped full of water and later discharged as the structure rises. The double deck span replacing the present Kings Bridge span is under construction at 21st Street and the Harlem River, nearing completion. Terry and Tench Company of 130th Street and Lexington Avenue handles the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsbridge
Hudson River
Fordham Heights
21Ith Street
Harlem River
Terry & Tench Company
130Th Street
Lexington Avenue
Call for Leopold as a liar sparks Congo critique
Rev. A H Nassau arrived aboard the Majestic and attacked King Leopold of Belgium over Congo Free State abuses. Nassau, tied to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions since 1861, claimed a 15 000 strong army plunders rubber, calling West Africa’s treatment too awful for words and noting debate in Parliament stirred by E P Morrell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King Leopold
Belgium
Congo Free State
A. H. Nassau
Majestic
Dr. Nassau
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
West African
Leopold
West Africa
E. PD. Morrell
Webb Academy Shipbuilders holds tenth commencement at Fordham Heights
The tenth annual Webb Academy for Shipbuilders commencement was held yesterday at Fordham Heights. Fourteen men received degrees. Police Commissioner McAdoo was to present diplomas but could not attend. Addresses were delivered by Rev. A R Pillingham Rev Dr J M Hodson David Keary and President Stevenson Taylor. Lewis Nixon, a school trustee, was present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webb Academy
Fordham Heights
Fix-Police
McAdoo
A. R. Pillingham
J. M. Hodson
David Keary
Stevenson Taylor
Lewis Nixon
Brooklyn Inspector orders report on cabman Martin Schmidt death
Borough Inspector Adam Cross of Brooklyn demands a full report from Police Captain Gardiner at the Stagg Street station regarding the death of cabman Martin Schmidt aged thirty of 330 Mauser Street. Williamsburgh man was found dead in a cell at the station after being arrested for intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Cross
Brooklyn
Gardiner
Stagg Street
Martin Schmidt
Mauser Street
Williamsiurg Wt
Prisoner Seeks Marriage While Held at Tombs
United States Marshal Henkel received a letter from Wilhelm Mayer, jailed in the Tombs awaiting extradition to Germany for killing his aunt. Mayer asks permission to marry Sophie Christian, arrested with him, who would accompany him to Germany and testify again. He requests approval from the German Consulate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Henkel
Wilhelm Mayer
Germany
Sophie Christian
Heakel
Mayer
Congo
Italian immigrant Martino dies by suicide while awaiting deportation
Antonio Martino, a 40 year old Italian immigrant held at Ellis Island for deportation due to trachoma, hanged himself in a cell yesterday after a failed escape attempt following arrival on the steamer König Albert. His body was found by the water and later cremated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antonio Martino
Ellis Island
Martino
Kénig Albert
Paca
Ugne
Warships Move From Provincetown To Rockport
Rear Admiral Evans moves the battleships Maine and Missouri and the cruiser Yankton from Provincetown to Rockport, Mass, in line with announced plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Evans
Maine
Missouri
Yankton
Provincetown
Rockport
Mass
Tucker to Die in Charlestown Week of June 19
Boston June 7 Charles Louis Tucker of Auburndale. convicted of the 1904 Weston murder of Miss Mabel Page, will be executed at Charlestown State Prison in the week starting June 19. Governor Guild refused to commute the sentence, and the case dominated his day. Dobson, who sought Tucker’s reprieve, was examined by brain experts and urged commitment to an insane hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Charles Louis Tucker
Auburndale
Mabel Page
Weston
Charlestown
Curtis Guild
Guild
Tucker
Charles L. Dobson
Dobson
State House
Dismissal Sought in Terranova Murder Case
Josephine Terranova faces a second indictment for murder of her uncle Gaetano Riggio. Justice Scott may hear the dismissal motion Monday, with ex Judge Palmieri guiding the defense. District Attorney reportedly will not object to avoid a second trial, House say she could be freed next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Terranova
Scott
Palmieri
Terranova
Gaetano Riggio
Josephine
Sisters of Mercy
Child Run Down by Railroad Car in Brooklyn
Five-year-old Josephine Fiende of 153 Hamilton Avenue Brooklyn was killed yesterday when struck by a car of the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad in front of her home. Her mother is ill and the child’s death leaves the family in need of food assistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Fiende
Hamilton Avenue
Brooklyn
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad
City News in Brief
Robert Mangell of Trenton pleaded guilty to forging a 218 dollar check while assisting an Equitable National Bank receiver and is held on 2000 dollars bail. A fire at 194 Grand Street caused about 500 dollars in damage as bank clerks dumped 10,000 dollars in cash into a safe and fled. Patrolman William F. Sheehan was discharged on a felony charge, rearrested, and held on 3000 dollars bail. Luna Park hires Harry K. Montague, son of Adam Forepaugh, for electrical work. The Madison Avenue Baptist Church on 31st Street will pause services until September. The new house on Fifth Avenue will be ready for occupancy early.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Mangell
Trenton
N. J
Equitable National Bank
No. 194
Grand Street
J. Derchio
William F. Sheehan
East Walh Street
Moss
Tombs
Justice Cowing
Harry K. Montague
Adam Forepaugh
Luna Park
Aera
Suere Cee
Louise Montague
Madison Avenue
Fighters to Be Tried at Special Sessions Over Prize Fight
McGovern and Britt in a ten round bout at Madison Square Garden are named among defendants in Special Sessions for violating Penal Code Section 458. Judge Breen ruled prize fighting unlawful, with complaints to be filed June 18 in Essex Market court and defendants to appear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGovern
Britt
Madison Square Garden
Harry Pollok
Tim Hurst
Breen
Jefferson Market
Essex Market
Police Stop Boxing Match at Longacre Clubhouse
Police barred entry and halted last night’s boxing bout at the Longacre Clubhouse on West 29th Street after a police cordon was set, per an order from Commissioner Bingham. Max Newman protested the action but complied as plainclothes officers and reserves enforced the closure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longacre Athletic
West 29Th Street
Max Newman
Schmitthberger
Bingham
Police Matron Buys Lucky Land in Queens Borough
Miss Charlotte Godley of Bayside bought a long narrow Gore land near a major highway outside Bayside. A syndicate later needed the strip to straighten a plot and divide it into full sized lots. Police report she received thirty thousand dollars for the land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hunter's Point
Long Island City
Charlotte Godley
Bayside
Godley
Marine Intelligence Miniature Almanac
Daily navigational notes list sunrise and sunset times for Sandy Hook Gov Island and Hell Gate with moon phase and heights. Times show morning and evening passages across key points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Transpacific Mails From New York to Pacific Routes
Lists destination and steamers for transpacific mails to Hawaii Japan Corea and China Korea via San Francisco. Mentions schedule times for today 12:30am Japan Corea service via Wananiak, and a 0 pm Hawaii Guam and Philippine Islands route on U S transport via San Francisco. Date June 11 12:30am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
Hawaii
Japan
Corea
China
Korea
San Francisco
Tencer
Wananiak
Guam
Philippine Islands
U. S
Shipping News Arrivals and Passenger Details
Ships arrive with mixed passenger counts and cargo notes. Majestic bound for White Star Line sails from Liverpool and Queenstown with 168 cabin and 549 steerage passengers. Consuelo arrives Hull bound with 10 passengers and mdse. Barotse reports Colombo and Calcutta routes with moise. Shimosa voyages from Bombay to Singapore with multiple ports. Valdivia reaches Cape Ha, Port-au-Prince, Gonaives, Savanilla. Livingston lists 14 cabin passengers. Skuld and Disa bring sugar and fruit. City of Atlanta reports Savannah transit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Majestic
Hayes
Liverpool
Queenstown
White Star Line
Malls
Mds
Bar
Consuelo
Watson
Hull
Beston
Sanderson & Son
Mdse
Barotse
Tarver
Calcutta
Colombo
Algiers
Boston
Norton & Son
Moise
City Island
Cape Ha
Port-au-Prince
Gonaives
Savanilla
American Linn
Wien Pnetngsere
Matl
Main American Line
Livingston
Nor
Olsen
Baracoa
Atlantic Fruit Company
Skuld
Hansen, Cienfuegos
Tweedie Trading O
Disa
Swed
Ingvarsson
Sama
Trading O
City of Atlanta
Misher
Savanneh
Transatlantic steamers and shipping notices from June log
The June shipping bulletin records arrivals and departures of multiple steamers. Vessels include Teutonic Oceanic Penn Grosse Dewan Kaempf and others sailing between Liverpool New York Plymouth and Cherbourg with destinations such as Montevideo Jamaica and New York. A wireless contact with the Anchor Line Columbia is noted from Glasgow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Teutonic
Gam Thompson
New York
Queenstown
Oceanic Cameron
Plymouth
Amer Pen On Grosse
Ger
Bleeker
New Yor Fork
Bremen
Cherbourg
Dewanland
Kaempf
Hamburg
and Wiheim II
Hogemann
Remem
Southampton
Montevideo
Setamer Bernille
Colorado
Pearce Barbadoes
Tune &—B
Orinocoaeee
Kingston
Colon
Nieuw
Dam
Bonjer
Boulese
Rotterdam
Naples
Marco Leen
Ital
Borgna
Genoa
Nor
Palermo
Tune
Altonta
Trieste
Prumer New
Sable Island
Columbia
Glasgow
Moville
York
Marconi
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Capt. Wynne
Navy Surgeon
Decker
Alabama
Court Martiel
Francie M. Furlong
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy
Dr. Osler
SYNOD
Mystery
Man
Kingsbridge Bridge
Hudson
Webs Academy
Army and Navy News
Tribune Bureau
Taft Party
H. C. Corbin
J. A. Moss
Taft
War Department
Corbin
Hen Gey
ARMY
William P. Stone
Willoughby Walke
Artillery Corps
Fort Monroe
Ternice E. Murphy
Harry W. Newton
Allen D. Raymond
Artillery
William F. Hancock
Ira A. Haynes
Presidio of San Francisco
Moor N. Falls
12Th Infantry
Department of the East
Frederick G. Knabenshue
Charles T. Leeds
Corps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
H. Minett
Naval Hospital
Norfolk
J. S. Sears
Naval War College
A. T. Holmes
Dixie
K. M Alpine
Naval Station
Cavité
Ohio
C. W. Dyson
Davis
Bureau of Equipment
Navy Department
F. C. Bowers
R. ©. Moody
J. G. Church
Naval Academy
J. M.C. Luby
Philadelphia
G. M. Mayers
Naval Medical School
Navy Yard
F. E. Campbell
Constellation
G. H. M'Connon
F. E. Rider
A. Carlson
Puget Sound
Charleston
J. H. L. Holcombe
Mare Island
Leonidas
League Island
Kentucky
Sylph
Denver
Newport News
Wisconsin
Shanghai
Hampton Roads
Provinestown
Maes
Dubuque
Guantanamo
Cape Hayrtien
Tacoma
Potomac
Bermuda
Huisha
Mr. Mie
Mothe
City News
Tribune
Mall
Frank HH. Graf
Sixth Avenue
Avenca
Tribune Almanac
Ry&glasses
Spencer’s
Maiden Lane
McGovern, Britt, Pollok, Hurst
Longacre
Syndicate
Marine Intelligence
Loyette
Gerea
White Star
Valdivia
Aux Cayes
Hamb- Am
Finance Oe Colon
Lampasas Mobile
Mallory Patricia Famb
Hudson Boulogne
Havre
San Marcos Conne Galveston
Werereeres
St. Pant
Amerion
Memphis
Savannah
Savannah Weston
Morgan St
Columbia Wenenses Lasgow
Wanes
Carolina
Tuan
Maracas
Renada
Trinidad
Brooklyn City
Bristol
Swansea
Zeeland Antwerp
Red Star
Potsdam
Holland Am City of Columbus
Clases
Alhtanca
Panama
Pring E. Friedrich
Brunswick
Mallory
Antilla
Clerfuegos
Ward A
Hamilton
Olé Dominion
Lucania
Cunard
Kroonland
Antwerp
Curacca
Morro Castle
Havana
Ward
Sarnia
Jamaica
Habny
Astoria
Batavia
Hohenzetlern
Shipping News
Port of
M. Cohan
New York 'Se
Tile “Waten
Amy
Wate
Empire Theatre
Sm G
Maude Adams
Sarin
Peter Pal
Lyceum A Som
Marge
Victoria
Rice & Prevost
Woodward
Bard Brom
Green & Werner and Otherm
Savoy
Patsy
Ee Vesta Tilley
Mabel Hite
Ealter Jones
Genaro & Dalles
Meseseente
Belasco Navid Belasco
Blanche Bates
Resent
HE Fays
Delighe
Broomstick Witchen
Hussars
Sidney Grant
Otis — — ‘Len
Tae West
Henry E. Dixey
Bernhardt
Eighth Avenue
49Th Street
Columbus
Dreamland
MUSEE
World IN Wax
Spectal Groups
Cinematograph
Royal Italian Orchestra
Mystic
Brooklyn Jockey Club
34Th
39Th St
Culver Line
Whitehal Ferry
Wright
N. Y
New London
Governor's Island
Fort Jay
Knabenshu
New York Arsenal
John E. Greer
Comdig
37Th St
So'cloels Pe
Vias Seave.s . Cor
6Th Ava
West
125Th St
Eth and
Tite Sts
1St St
Ist Ave
Set St
Tremont Ave
Sd Ave
41St St
Bleecker St
Ocean Ss Co
Mdise
Huron
Chichester
Jacksonville
Clyde Ss Co
Boaz
New Yolk
Old Dominion Sx Co
Samen Goldsbors
Curry Philadelpaim Wae Co
Highlands
Amerika
la Lorraine
Grefuerst
Bramen
Atheniana
Pathfinder
Aguadilla
Vigilancia
Vera Crum
Port Arthur
Dan
Christiania
Kagen
Manzanilio
Pr Deutschland
Tank
Flushing
Jefferson
Macon
Bluefields
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