Agreement Reached on Railroad Bill and Commerce Court
The conference report on the railroad bill earns strong support in Congress with a unified plan retaining long and short haul clauses and Interstate Commerce provisions. A new commerce court of five judges is created to rule on interstate cases while the commission gains broader powers over railroads telegraphs and ferries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond Commission
Commerce Court
Weshington
J Tribune
Taft
House
Senate
Elkins
Newlands
Interstate Commerce
Congress
Conference Committee
Commission
Bel
Mier
Presim
Supreme Court
State Commerce Commission
Commission Telegraph
Sco
Conferrees
Ae Ee
Conference Report Adjusts Senate House Differences
June report notes reconciliation of striking differences between the Senate and House on a feed bill. Congress retains Supreme Court involvement and commerce court orders while maintaining certain house provisions. The method of selecting contes remains contested, with ongoing injunctions referenced on the third page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senne
House
Senate
Court of Commerce
Bete Supreme Court
Inter- Gan
Drowns Near New Haven Yard Pond in East 145th Street
Axel Magnewson of 510 East 136th Street drowned after he and a friend used a raft made from railroad ties in a pond at the New Haven railroad yards near East 145th Street. Companions cried for help but workmen ignored them until patrolmen from Alexander Avenue recovered the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven Road
145Th Street
Axel Magnewson
East 136Th Street
Axel
Alexander Avenue
Heany and
Heidenreich
Drowned Child Suspected In Tenement Family Tragedy
Mrs Richard Rose of 405 East 54th Street sent sons Richard Jr seven and Hamilton three for an airing. Hamilton reported Richie fell into the river nearby. Neighbors searched the river and the grandmother confirmed the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Rose
East 54Th Street
Richard, Jr
Hamilton
Richard
Richie
Marriage bribe claim tied to Great Barrington will case
Mrs Harriet M R White testified in the Great Barrington will contest over Mary A Mason of New York. She said she received a $6000 offer from Mrs Mason to arrange a marriage with Dr M T Cavanaugh. Dr Cavanaugh called the remark sanity proof. Mason’s will left $50 000 for a library, $15 000 to her coachman, $20 000 to attorney Frank H Wright, with the rest to friends in Great Barrington. The contestants seek to break the will. many New York witnesses follow tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Pittsfield
Mass
Harriet M. R. White
Great Barrington
Mary A. Mason
New York
Frank H. Wright
Lilla Olive Henriques
Henriettta Trowbridge
Mrs Pierce Loses Suit Over Furnishings At Meadow Brook
Mrs Alice C R Pierce known as Mrs Tom Pierce faced a Supreme Court jury in Mineola for a suit by Patrick Jones seeking 115 for furniture alleged taken from his Hempstead house during the 1907 1998 hunting seasons. Jones testified the house was bare upon return. Pierce claimed she rented furniture for 150 and hired it herself, noting three pieces were mistakenly taken by her men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Long Island
Alice C. R. Pierce
Meadow Brook
Warrenton
Jones
Juror Weighs 455 Pounds Causes Comical Court Struggles
Pittsburg reports juror N. J. Huffman thirty sits in Criminal Court and weighs 455 pounds. He cannot fit in the jury box chairs and must sit on two chairs, squeezing through narrow gateways as he moves in and out, amusing the judge and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
N. J. Huffman
Criminal Court
Huffman
Hutman
Peters
Gudge
Dirigible Flight by Plucky Youth Dazes Belleville crowd
Frederick Owens, twenty, launches a cigar shaped gas balloon from Hillside Park Belleville N J. He ascends to 200 feet, maneuvers above Passaic and Belleville, then plans a Manhattan City Hall loop before returning. Crowds cheer as the "air boat" sails the morning sky.
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Frederick Owens
Hillside Park
Belle
Ing
Passaic
City Hall
Manhattan
Owens
New Jersey
Jersey Meadows
Belleville
Martin Millman
Manhattan Island
Circle City Hall Park
Pegasus
Equitable Life Voting Trust to Continue Under Morgan
J Pierpont Morgan plans to maintain the voting trust controlling the majority Equitable Life Assurance Society stock, with five year terms and possible renewal. Trustees O'Brien and Westinghouse favor continuation, while Morgan may appoint new trustees. policyholders' confidence cited as reason to extend the arrangement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grover Cleveland
Morgan J. O'Brien
George Westinghouse
Messrs. O’brien
Westinghouse
Mr. Morgan
Equitable
United States
Cleveland
Messrs
O’brien
Huffmier Found Guilty in County Fraud Case
Aaron P. Huffmier, former supervisor of Schenectady’s 13th Ward, was found guilty of presenting a fraudulent county bill for 42 dollars in the name of W. Clark for horse hire. He was acquitted on a grand larceny charge. Justice Van Kirk denied a venue change for George Pepper in a separate grand larceny case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Schenectady
N. Y
Aaron P. Huffmier
13Th Ward
Huffmier
W. Clark
Cloudburst in Berlin Causes Massive Citywide Flood Damage
A historic cloudburst in Berlin caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. Cellars flooded street traffic halted and the subway filled with water. Outdoor furniture swept away and water depths reached three feet in main roads. Twenty people were struck by lightning with no deaths reported.
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Berlin
Stranded on Niagara Gorge Wire Endangers Carnival
Niagara Falls N Y June 14 Oscar Williams a local steeplejack hung by his teeth from a wire across the gorge during the international carnival. He suspended forty five minutes before rescue by the Maid of the Mist as firemen rigged a rope pulley to reach him. He reached the deck of the boat after the wire cleared the river by about 125 feet near the power tunnel outlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Niagara
Oscar Williams
Williams
Maid of the Mist
Two prisoners in New Jersey jail commits suicide
Two inmates in New Jersey jails died by hanging after arrest on minor charges. Marvin Truax, 19, of Newark, hanged himself in his county jail cell using a belt tied to a door. John Liptock, 53, of Garfield, hanged himself from cell bars after threats to kill his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
Marvin Truax
No. 98
Seventh Avenue
Newark
John Liptock
Division Street
Garfield
Scranton Man Duped by Brown Paper Wizard
Martin Gurdis of West Scranton was swindled out of 259 dollars by a stranger who claimed to convert common brown paper into 29 bills. To prove his trick the man produced a rhubart leaf, sang Home Sweet Home, and used a chemical process on Gurdis's banknotes placed under a pillow. The impostor disappeared with Gurdis's cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Scranton
Penn
Martin Gurdis
West Scranton
Gurdis
Gurcis
Adam garb causes unrest on Michigan town first day of summer
On Michigan's first summer day Steven Mahavice appeared in Birmingham in Adam’s clothing. Merchants seized him and held him with a two barrel option pending the town marshal. His clothes were later found along the highway into Birmingham. Mahavice said he started for a walk and cooled off due to overheating.
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Pontiac
Mich
Birmingham
Michigan
Steven Mahavice
Adam
Mahavice
Artist Leon Guypen Ends Life in Studio
The well known illustrator Leon Guypen shot himself at his studio 360 West 26th Street yesterday afternoon. A letter warned friend Hiram Merrill who arrived too late to intervene. Guypen, 38, a French native, studied in Paris then New York and faced a doomed romance with Miss Agnes Foster of Roxbury, Massachusetts. His will left 7212 dollars to Miss Foster and his paintings to Merrill.
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Leon Guypen
Harper's
Scribner’s
Ladies’ Home Journal
West 26Th Street
Guypon
Hiram C. Merrill
West 134Th Street
Merrill
Guypen
France
Paris
Art Students’ League
New York School of Art
William Chase
Brittany
Agnes Foster
Albert J. Foster
Roxbury
Mass
Miss Foster
Bank Safe Cracked. $18 000 Missing in Mount Holly NJ
Mount Holly New Jersey June 14 experts toiled over twenty four hours to break the safe at Mount Holly National Bank. The safe would not open yesterday morning and the alarm clock ran down before tampering was found. Cashier Lee counted $18 000 missing while securities and collateral remained intact and a warrant for arrest is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Mount Holly
N. J
Mount Holly National Bank
Lee
Mothers Congress Urges Federal Home and Child Department
The National Mothers' Congress adopted a resolution urging creation of a federal department of home and child with a Cabinet head and plans to reconvene in Washington next year for the officers election. Dr George Walter Holden warned that high school Frat life and late hours promote tuberculosis among youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Denver
Federal
Department of Home and Child
National Mothers’ Congress
Washington
George Walter Holden
Phipps Sanatorium
Miscegenation Bill Passes in Louisiana House
The Louisiana House approved a miscegenation measure by a narrow 9 to 10 vote. It bans whites from living with any person of color except Japanese, regardless of marriage duration, prompting Representative O'Connor to warn it would wreck families and invalidate many marriages.
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Tribune
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House of Representatives
House
O'Connor
Yale Baseball Star to Wed in Brockton Mass
Yale law school senior class president Barney Reilly, former Chicago American League second baseman, will marry Mary Rose Murphy a childhood sweetheart on Monday after returning for commencement. Reilly captained his freshman team at Yale and Andover. ineligible for college baseball since freshman year.
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the Tribune
New Haven
Barney Reilly
Chicago
Brockton
Mass
Mary Rose Murphy
Reilly
Yale Law School
Andover
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William Cody
Eighth Avenue
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Loretta Kornbluth
Drowned
Baby Boy
Runs Back
Tom’’ Pierce
Brooklyn Bridge
Fred Owens
Brooklyn
City Hall Park
Jersey
Feat
Equitable Life Voting Trust
J. Pierpent Morgan
Morgan
Wall Street
Equitable Life
Henry P. Davison
J. P. Morgan & Co
Guaranty Trust Company
E. H. Harriman Estates
Mutual Life
Boston
Leon Guypon
People’s National Bank of
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Home and Child
Mothers’ Congress
YALE
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