Gambling raids target New York poolrooms in sweep
Seventeen gambling dens raided by District Attorney’s office, from Pete De Lacy’s 42nd street real estate office to Gene Comiskey’s Wall Street venue. Police found phones, a switchboard, and a few unused lines. De Lacy denied poolroom activity and blamed racetracks for gambling information networks.
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Pete” de Lacy
42D Street
Gene” Comiskey
Wall Street
Attorner
Inspector Walsh
Captain Daly
Mr. de Lacy
Pete
Spector Walsh
de Lacy
August Belmont
Aqueduct
Old Empire
Uncle Sam
Pector Walsh
New York
Daly
No One Met Fairbanks in Delaware Arrival
Vice-President Fairbanks arrived in Delaware at noon from Marysville for his mother-in-law's birthday. He found no one at the station and walked to a grove to sit. Ohio Wesleyan University alumni soon escorted him to campus and applauded him at the 72 table amid cheers of Who's who in 1872.
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Tribune
Delaware
Ohio
Fairbanks
Marysville
Ohio Wesleyan University
Sas
Ohio Wesleyan
Blaze Destroyed Four Floors At 117th Street Factory
A three alarm fire in a five story brick building at 117th Street and Southern Boulevard gutted four floors of Winter and Co piano manufacturers. Stock on the affected floors was wiped out, with damage reported over 150000. Night watchman Jacob Braunhoff raised the alarm, and Chief Croker directed operations from discovery until under control. cause undetermined.
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117Th Street
Southern Boulevard
Winter & Co
Jacob Braunhoff
Heck
Ladder 27
Croker
Church on Wheels to be Dedicated Chapel Car in Chicago
The first chapel car, a mobile church on rails costing 15000 dollars, will be dedicated at Lasalle street station next Sunday under Catholic Church Extension Society auspices by Archbishop James Quigley. Funded by Ambrose Petry of New York, the car seats fifty, with an altar confessional living quarters kitchen and a library. After dedication it will tour Kansas towns led by Bishop Hennesy of Wichita with a priest and cook.
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Trimine
Chicago
Lasalle Street
Catholic Church Extension Society
James Quigley
Chicaca
Ambrose Petry
New York
Kansas
Hennesy
Wichita
Four Firemen Burned as Brooklyn Plant Blast Flare
Four firemen were severely burned in the boiler room of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company power house at Third Avenue and 2d Street. A burst flue caused a back draft that blew the furnace door open and enveloped the men in flames. Ambulance Surgeon Green treated them at Seney Hospital. none were seriously injured. Two injured, Samuel McKenzie and Joseph Romani, will stay in hospital a week or more. the other three may go home in a day or two.
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Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Third Avenue
2D Street
Brooklyn
Seney Hospital
Green
Samuel McKenzie
Fleet Place
Joseph Romani
Columbia Place
Joseph Brayier
West India
William Lee
Robber Identified in 1889 Train Hold-up
John T. Dickey, Wells Fargo messenger, positively identified a prominent Houston merchant as one of two men who robbed the express company of about 25,000 pounds eighteen years ago. The 1889 hold-up occurred near Port Worth on the Houston and Texas Central Line, September 24. The merchant offered to repay the sum with interest if the case was dropped.
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Tribune
Galveston
Houston
John T. Dickey
Express Company
Dickey
Wells Fargo Express
Swiss Explorer Walter Volz Murdered in Hinterland
Berne reports confirmation of Walter Volz, famed Swiss explorer, captured by natives in Liberta. He was fettered then burned alive in a hut. a portion of his charred remains was recovered by a search party.
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Walter Volz
Africa
Berne
Liberta
Volz
June Snowfall Reported in Virginia Mountains
Telegraph reports snow fell thick for nearly two hours last night in the Fredericksburg area mountains, melting on ground. Officials say it is the first such weather in Virginia since 1816, when frost occurred monthly and corn crop conditions were noted.
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the Tribune
Richmond
Fredericksburg
Virginia
Forest fires devastate Michigan timber near Onaway
The worst fires in years have swept through Onaway Michigan since Saturday. Lumbermen report heavy losses as flames threaten standing timber lacking full foliage. Residents fear further damage if rain does not come soon.
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the Tribune
Onaway
Mich
Noted Philadelphia figure Thomas Robb Jr in Insurance
Philadelphia on June 12 notes Thomas Robb Jr a prominent city figure. He is son of the late Thomas Robb a retired merchant and a member of a leading Philadelphia family. He conducts insurance business with an office on Walnut Street.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Robb, Jr
Thomas Robb
Walnut Street
After All Usher's the Scotch Highball Ad
An advertisement promotes a Scotch brand named After All Usher's, touting it as the key element in making the highball famous. The brief copy emphasizes the product as essential to the cocktail.
Orchard Crime Trial Ties Kidnapping to Steunenberg Case
Boise June 12 defence cross examines Harry Orchard over the Steunenberg murder. The testimony traces earlier plots to abduct Paulson's child and the North Idaho crimes, including meetings with Coates and Jack Simpkins. Orchard recounts debts and thefts used to finance the alleged murder mission for Haywood Moyer and Pettibone.
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Orchard
Silver
Federation
North
Idaho
Paulson
David Coates
Colorado
Wallace
Pettibone
Denver
Hercules
North Tdado
Jack” Simpkins
Coates
Jack Simpkins
Nates
Paulsen
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
Parke
Haywood
Moyer
Hutte
Steunenberg
Los Angeles
Caldwell
Orchard the Burglar Testimony in Haywood Trial
James Orchard testified before Mr Rehardson at the Haywood trial in Denver about a plan to bomb Peabody in Canon City and discussions with Moyer Pettibone and Haywood. He described obtaining a Hawkins letter for a life-insurance job, the aim to discredit Peabody, and a fake hail insurance scheme that earned him money while planning the crime.
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Boise
Idaho
Rehardson
Harry Orchard
Haywood
Charles HH. Mover
Denver
Orchard
Moyer, Pettibone
Haywoul
Cafton City
Cal
Peabods Moyers
Aberdeen Flats
Moyer
Peabody
Meyer
Peaberty
Cone
Pettit Bone
Ra Peabody
Dettibone
Cation City
Hawkins
Richardson
Orehard
Triauis
Telluride
Caton City
Federation
Pettibone
Mr. Peabody
Autopsy Planned in Fatal Illness of Aged Physician
Coroner Harburger orders autopsy for Dr. Oliver D Palmer age 71 at 117 West 6th Street to determine cause of death and whether embalming fluid was injected before death certificate. Autopsy today by Dr. O Hanlon with Prof. Larkin. details remain confidential pending findings.
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Oliver Davis Palmer
West 6Th Street
Harburger
O'Hanlon
Larkin
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Palmer
Hanlon
Ella Palmer
Raynaud
Arthur Beatty
Westith Street
Eric Johnson
No. 41
Westth Street
Yanion
West 90Th Street
Ella Palmeri
Johnson
John Palmer
Montgomery Street
Jersey City
Beatty
Br. Beatty
Elia Palmer
Actress Janet Priest Marries Thomas Robb Jr
Miss Janet Priest the comedienne from His Honor the Mayor wed Thomas Robb Jr son of a Philadelphia family. The ceremony at 7 20 pm was followed by a Wallack's Theatre stage appearance with Harry Kelly. Priest, once a Western newspaper woman and dramatic editor, told a story about Dan Frawley's critique.
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Janet Priest
Wallack’s
Thomas Robb
Philadelphia
Pr. Bagnell
Metropolitan Temple
Harry Kelly
Miss Priest
Dan” Frawley
Comediennes
P Frawley
Frawley
Borden Corners Market Cleans Up Print Cloth Line
Providence, AL June 1. Rey bought 110000 pieces of print cloth in New York through HB B Claflin & Co. Borden of Fall River has cornered the market for that grade. The cloth, made by B B & R Knight Co of Rhode Island, sold for 40 cents a yard, 1 cent above last February’s price, manufacturers say the grade may soon drop to 5 cents.
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The
Tribune
Providence
New York
HB. B. Claflin
O. M
D. Borden
Fall River
B. B. & R. Knight & Co
Rhode Island
Chinese Boxers Arm Steamer Leaves for China
Victoria B C June 12 mail advices report a large group of Chinese Boxers departed from America on a special steamer loaded with arms and ammunition. A Shanghai dispatch states local governors have been ordered to take precautions in consequence.
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Victoria
B. C
Tien- Tsin
America
China
Shanghai
Justice Crane Almost Killed In Near Miss At Train Tracks
Mineola Long Island June 12 Justice Frederick E Crane narrowly escaped being struck by an outbound train while leaving the courtroom after delivering a charge to the jury in the Mott divorce case. He jumped aside as the locomotive passed within about twenty feet. The Mott jury was locked up for the night.
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Mineola
Long Island
Frederick E. Crane
Mott
Senate Stands Ground In Raines Victory Over Apportionment Plan
Albany June 12 The Wadse worth apportionment plan faces a renewed showdown as Senator Raines delivers a blistering public rebuke to State Chair Woodruff and Speaker Wadsworth. The Senate votes 21 to 11 to endorse the Tully plan, delaying any settlement and prolonging the reapportionment deadlock at the heart of Albany politics.
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Tribune
Albany
Wadseworth
Senate
Haines
John
Wadsworth
Raines
Tully
Batnes
Woodruff
Lou” Emerson
Herbert Parsons
Horace White
Syracuse
Otto Kelsey
Court of Appeals
Kelsey
Armstrong
Hooker
Wadsworth-Wooodruff
Cortland
Chenango
Delaware
Tompkins
Tioga
Broome
Steuben
Chemung
Cayuga
Schuyler
Seneca
Allegany
Livingston
Wyoming
Genesee
Niagara
Orleans
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Peter de Laces
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W. F. Burke
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Cooper Square
J. C. Clark
Whitehall Street
R. Langdon
Broadway
Gene” Comisker
J. H. Edsall &O
Tehoe
West 38Th Street
FE R. Gilman
Bowery
C F Guthinger
East 30Th Street
W. B. Green
Gustave Minchot
West 28Th Street
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Broad Street
J. E. With
Seventh Avenue
East Side
41St Street
E. N. Sewall
Backer
Gus” Foehs
L. Peck
Hannigan-McCormick
Fifth Avenue
Holland House
J. ¢.Thomas
W. Westrow
Pete” DE Lacey
DE Lacey
Dewey’s
Z. Bower & Gons
Fulton &T
Bronx
Church ON Wheels
Novel
B. R. T. Power House
Texas
Michigan
Usher’s
More Orchard Crime
Hugies
Columbia
Will
Iam D. Haywood
Ernor Frank Steunenberg
Steun
Enberg
Charles E. Hughes
Hughes
Ratheny Station
Richardon
van Amringe
Columbia University
Theodore W. Dwight
Law School
Atlantic
Pacific
Lberty
Pont
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Borden Corners Market
Justice Crane
Caucus
Speaker
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Sherman Moreland
Steuben-Chemung
White
Hinman
Cassidy
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