James Sherman Selected as Taft Vice Presidential Hopeful
The article profiles James Schoolcraft Sherman of Utica as a leading candidate for Vice President on the Taft ticket. It details his long political career in Congress, leadership roles, business interests in Utica, and strong local support. It also notes anticipated succession planning in New York and mentions other potential candidates.
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Ohio
Hayes
Wheeler
Garfield
Arthur
McKinley
Roosevelt
New York
Taft
Sherman
Congress
Republican Party
National
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Utica
Richard A
Mary Frances Sherman
Hamilton College
Clinton
Yale
Utica Trust and Deposit Company
Oneida County
Republican Committee
Cannon
House
Thomas B. Reed
David B. Henderson
Port of
Carnegie Hall
Republican Congressional Committee
House of Representatives
New Hartford Canning Company
Jim
Hughes
Senate
Platt
Chicago
New York State
Utica Celebrates Sherman Nomination Across City
Utica residents erupt in celebration at noon as James Schoolcraft Sherman is named the vice presidential nominee. City Hall flag, bells, church chimes, factory whistles, and cannons mark the moment with widespread decorations and public displays. Sanford Sherman, brother, confirms the news.
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Tribune
Utica
James Schoolcraft Sherman
Grace
St. John’s
Sherman
New Hartford
Sanford Gherman
C. O. Jones
Sire, Sherman
Fischer-Hansen Freed in Philadelphia Extortion Trial
Carl Fischer-Hansen, accused of extorting $15 from Joseph O'Brien of Philadelphia, was acquitted amid celebrations. The jury quickly agreed, with one ballot noted. Fischer-Hansen vowed to sue those responsible for his arrest, while Antonio Macaluso, once held by the DA, was released in habeas corpus.
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Carl Fischer-Hansen
Joseph O'Brien
Philadelphia
Justice Goff
Fischer-Hansen
Goff
O'Brien
Antonio Macaluso
Broadway
Justice Bischoff
Ex-Justice Hatch Defends 5-Cent Coney Island Fare
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lawyer ex-Justice Hatch tells the Public Service Commission that forcing lower fares would strip funds needed for future service and equipment. He says bonds fetch a 27.5 cent loss and the company has long funded property improvements, not dividends. Decisions await Commissioner McCarroll’s return.
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Justice Hatch
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Public Service Commission
Coney Island
Mr. Hatch
McCarroll
Suit to recover 8 dollars from Metropolitan Street Railway stock
In Municipal Court Justice Young heard the case of Mrs Minnie Welller and Emanuel Well versus Thomas F Ryan FE J Belmont August Belmont H H Vreeland and others to recover 8 invested in Metropolitan Street Railway Company stock. Walter Luttgen failed to produce correspondence with Rothschilds and stated no such documents exist. Weiller testified about wife Minnie Weiller's purchase without financial checks. Blum failed to produce committee records kept at Pine Street safe. Plaintiffs offered to deliver papers to the court.
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Minnie Welller
Emmanuel Well
Thomas F. Ryan
FE. J. Berwind
August Belmont
H. H. Vreeland
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Justice Young
Walter Luttgen
Rothschilds
London
Metropolitan
Luttgen
John B. Stanchfield
Daniel Weiller
Minnie Weiller
New York City Railroad Company
Isaac Blum
King Committee
Pine Street
State
Hill
Jury verdict in Rassler suit against Benjamin for leg loss
The jury awarded Solomon Rassler six thousand dollars against Julius Benjamin a Christian Science healer for the loss of his left leg in a suit filed to recover two thousand dollars.
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Solomon Rassler
Julius Benjamin
Four Ice Indictments Target Corporations Not Individuals
A New York special grand jury handed up four indictments in a branch of the Supreme Court accusing ice companies of illegal restraint of trade. Justice Goff indicated a full corporate conspiracy would violate state laws. Attorney General Jackson and deputies engaged in talks, warrants were withdrawn, and company counsel agreed to appear Monday. The panel remains active as it continues the ice trade probe.
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Ice Trust
Supreme Court
Wendell
Justice Goff
Jackson
James W. Osborne
William A. DeFord
Grand Jury
New York
Paper magnate indicted as 25 mills face Sherman act charges
John H. Parks organized the Manila Paper Manufacturers Association and 25 mills, including Analomink, Continental Paper Bag, Detroit Sulphite, and Island Paper, were indicted for illegal restraint of trade. Stroock pleaded for most. Parks is abroad. The firms allegedly formed a cartel two years ago to avert bankruptcy amid price-cutting by agents of consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Grand Jury
John H. Parks
Manila Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Solomon M. Stroock
Hough
United States
Analomink Paper Company
North Water Gap
Penn
Bayless Pulp and Paper Company
Austin, Penn
Bedford Pulp and Paper Company
Big Island
Brownville Paper Company
Brownville
N. Y
Champion Paper Company
Carthage
Central Paper Company
Muskegon
Mich
Continental Paper Bag Company
Watertown
de Grasse Paper Company Pyrites
Newton Falls Paper Company
Newton Falls
Orono Pulp and Paper Company
Orono
Parsons Pulp and Paper Company
Parsons, W. Va
Racquette River Paper Company
Potsdam
York Haven Paper Company
York Haven
Meyer & Pratt
Lyons Falls
Munising Paper Company (Ltd
Munising, Mich
City News in Brief Highlights Various Local Matters
Manhattan hosts the Royal Arcanum thirty first anniversary at the park and casino on Eighth Avenue and 155th Street. Coroner Acritelli must plead to two election law indictments after Justice Goff denied a minutes inspection and overruled a demurrer. London Old Boys plan London Canada trip during Old Home Week with another meeting set for July 2. St Francis Xavier Alumni elect officers led by President Thomas S O'Brien. Doyle Adams and Dean arraigned after a moving freight train hand to hand struggle. Doyle bailed at 1500 and others sent to workhouse. George P Rowell sells Printers Ink and American Newspaper Directory to Hampton Biggs Romer. Berkeley School acquires Columbia Institute. merger to operate at 72nd Street and West End Avenue with Dr Edwin Fowler joining Berkeley. Hungarian carpenter John Kneip acquitted of murder in General Sessions.
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City News
Royal Arcanum
Manhattan Park and Casino
Eighth Avenue
155Th Street
Acritelli
Justice Goff
London Old Boys’ Association
Fitzgerald
East 27Th Street
London
Canada
College of St. Francis Xavier
Thomas S. O'Brien
John J. Clarke
Percy J. King
Francis J. Sullivan
Frank S. Gannon
Thomas F. Meehan
Thomas Doyle
Albert Adams
Charles Dean
West Side Court
Doyle
George P. Rowell
Printers
Ink
American
Directory
J. D. Hampton
H. A. Biggs
Hampton Advertising Company
John Irving Romer
Aeolian Company
Corporation of Berkeley
Columbia Institute
Berkeley School
72D Street
West End Avenue
Edwin Fowler
J. Clark Read
City Board OKs Streets Repair Funds Amid Contested Projects
The Board of Estimate approved between two and three million dollars for street repairs while most budget items faced tight scrutiny. Major debates involved Riverside Drive extensions and the Hendrik Hudson Memorial Bridge, with opposition to the wide subway spend.
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Board of Estimate
Meiz
Fourth Avenue
Ahearn
Riverside Drive
Hendrik Hudson
Union Square
15Th and
11Th Streets
Department of Charities
Harlem River
Riker’s Island
Plaintiff Arrested as Case Against Lazarus Levy Collapses
Mrs. Sadie Merrill sued Lazarus Levy for 31.9 for breach of promise. Judge FitzGerald directed a verdict for Levy and ordered the plaintiff and two witnesses perjuring. Dr Edward Paulding of 28 West 44th Street and Mrs Mary Lynch of Franklin Massachusetts were arrested for perjury with bail set at 20 each and taken to the Tombs.
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Sadie Merrill
Lazarus Levy
Justice FitzGerald
Supreme Court
Levy
Edward Paulding
No. 28
West 44Th Street
Mary Lynch
Franklin, Mass
Paulding
James W. Osborne
Note broker held in swindle case in Wall Street area
E Elliott Trautwein, a note broker living at 4 West 26th Street, was arraigned before Magistrate Wahle in the Fomes Court yesterday. Police say he involved in a note swindle gang, with $100000 of Hopper Morgan Company notes and $25000 of F L Burns notes at issue. Trautwein was held on $6008 bail, later reduced after talks with District Attorney staff. he agreed to testify against the ring.
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E. Elliott Trautwein
West 26Th Street
Wahle
Fomes Court
Wall Street
Trautwein
Woodmere
Long Island
Nelson
Police
Kindleberger
Hopper-Morgan Company
Watertown
N. J
F. L. Burns
Newark
Watertown Company
Hepper-Morgan Company
Tower Denies Wife Charges In Separation Suit
Major Frank A. Butts of Washington testified there was no sign of trouble between Albert E. Tower and his wife Mrs Tower. Tower denied all allegations and Justice Keogh urged a possible week compromise, noting the couple may stay married.
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Frank A. Butts
Washington
Albert FE. Tower
Poughkeepsie
White Plains
Justice Keogh
Keogh
Consolidated Gas Wins Appeal Over City Suit
The Appellate Division upheld Consolidated Gas Company’s demurrer to New York City’s answer in a suit to recover nearly $400,000 for gas supply and street lamps. Justice McCall had sustained the demurrer and the city appealed. The court allows the city to submit a new answer.
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Consolidated Gas Company
City of
New York
McCall
Supreme Court
Arrest of Mrs Machette linked to pennyweight diamond thefts
New York diamond merchants report the Washington arrest of Mrs Paul A Machette alias Fitzhugh alias Annie Silver, accused of ring thefts in Boston New Haven and this city under several names. She allegedly swapped rings using the pennyweight trick. authorities expect charges in Boston and New Haven as well. Her husband P Almers Castleton alias Paul Hall is in Washington Workhouse. another suspect was released for lack of evidence.
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New York
Washington
Paul A. Machette
Fitzhugh
Annie Silver
Maxwell
Bittigen
Boston
New Haven
Thomas Long
Deprecate the Labor Vote Reflects Chicago Convention Views
National employers officers who visited Chicago reported Democrats skeptical of labor influence. They said the so called labor vote means little and unions’ threats to lawmakers are not feared by informed legislators. Gompers and AFL threats were described as wind.
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National Associations of Employers
Chicago
Democratic Party
Republican Party
John Macintyre
United Pygethete of America
Union Square East
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
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James S. Sherman
Genesee Street
Carrie Babcock-Sherman
Lewis H. Babcock
Oneida
Utica City National Bank
Utica Ice Company
Thomas Wheeler
Seth G. Heacock
Herkimer
George W. Ward
A.B. Steele
Waens
Pasteur Institute
Paris
George G. Rambaud
la Provence
Auguste Marie
Rambaud
M’carren
Brooklyn
McCarren
Kings County
McClellan
Charles F. Murphy
Tammaay Hall
Francis K. Pendleton
E. L. Bourke
John P. McNamara
The
John Kneip
Kneip
Stephen Versko
Em Adee S
No. Dw East Ith Street
Metz
Coler
Controller Color
E. E. Trautwein
TOWER
Ironmaster
Consolidated Gas
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
West 468Th Street
Charles F. Aeed
D. P
Five Foints House OF Industry
Worth Street
N. Penfield
Mus
WM. B. Garrutt
ALL Souls’s Unitarium
Thomas R. Slicer
Paster
Christ
Lenox Avenue Unitarian Church
the True Church
Merlett Croix Wright
Fifth Avenue
Willa Rdichs
Robert Davis
Richards
Broadway Tabernacle
Broadway and
Sethst
Jefferson
Central Presbyterian Church
West Ith St
Ith Ave
Wilton Merle Smith
Smith Esatila m
P.m
Young Peoples
E . Gs
Calvary Methodist Episcopal Church
120Th St
7Th Ave
Charles L. Goodell
D. D
Church OF the
Messiah
Unitarian
34Th St
Corner Park Ave
Robert Collyer
John Haynes Holmes
Charles Graves
Church OF the Ascension
Sth
Percy Stickney Grant
Walter E. Clifton
Alexander Irvine
Church OF the Divine Paternity
Central Park West
76Th St
Frank Oliver Hall
Church OF Zion
Timothy
West Sith Street
Henry Lubeck
D. C. Blair
A. m
Calvary
West Sith St
C. P. Macgregor
MacArthur
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
15Th Street
J. Ross Stevenson
Edwin F. Hallenbeck
D. B
Stevenson
Hallenbeck
Fourth Presbyterian Church
West End Ave
Edgar Whitaker Work
Metropolitan Temple
John Wesley Hill
M. A. Shipman
Christian Science Services
W. 45Th St
Madison Ave. Reformed Church
Cor. Sith St
WM Carter
Henry Taylor
Madison Sq. Presbyterian Church
Madison Ave
24Th St
H. Parkhurst
George R Montgomery
Montgomery
Madison Ave. Baptist Church
Edward Loux
Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church
Northeast Corner
Henry Sloane Coffin
Julius A. Bewer
Union Theolgical Seminary
Memorial Baptist
Washington Square
Edward Judson
James M. Bruce
WM. N. Hubbell
Ezekiel
Madison C Peters
Alhambra
North Presbyterian Church
155Th St
Bet
Amsterdam Ave
John R. Mackay
Old First Presbyterian Church
Sthave
Ith
Howard Duffield
James A. McAgue
Rutgers
Presbyterian Church
Oadway
Robert. MacKenzie
Allen W Rdy
McCurdy
Religious Society OF Friends
Ith St
Rutherford Place
Manhattan
Nermerhorm St
Boerum Place
St. Bartholomew's Church
Reacher
Joseph G H Barry
ST Andrews M. D
Columbus
George Clarke Peck
St. Paul's M. E
Séth St
George P. Eckman
A J. Kavanagh
Middle Collegiate Church
Ave
7Th St
John G Fpagg
Simon Blocker
Sthare
David Jas. Burrell
Alfred E. Myers
Jesus
Collegiats
48Th St
St. Nicholaas
Donald Sagackay
Hugh Black
West End
Weer End
Henry Evertson Cobb
Thomas M Bride Nichols
Tla
the Salvation
Ares
R. S Macart Cemmullen
Tatu M'Pherson
University Place Presbyter
Wthst
George Alexander
Nell “Gren
West End Presbyterian Church
Edwin Kiigwin
D. Paster
Keigwin
S Mer Christians
Ferdinand Iglehart
West Presbyterian Church
Anthony Hevans
West
BT Presbyterian Church
John Bancroft Devins
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