Hewitt Will Settlement Divides About 1.3 Million
In Owego New York a settlement ends the long contest over Frederick C. Hewitt's 1908 will. Relatives receive about 1.3 million of the estate while principal beneficiaries include the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The case highlighted the contested invalid will and the strong handwriting validity of Hewitt's will. The contestants withdrew objections to probate, with the will to be admitted soon. Charlotte Arnot, Hewitt’s sister and contestant, is said to be over eighty.
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Gedar
Frederick Charles Hewitt
Owego
Charlotte H. Arnot
Elmira
Gee
Fred W. Clifford
Frederick C. Hewitt
Hewitt
Mr. Hewitt
Frederica H. Elwood
Rochester
Fannie A. Whitney
James F. Pumpelly
Gestator
Gurden H. Pumpelly
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale University
Little Missionary Day Nursery
New Yerk
Free Industrial School For Crippled Children
Sheltering Arms Society of
New York
Netherwood New Jersey
Pumpelly
Pompey
Bright
Hewitt Timeelf
John B. Stanchfield
Martin §. Lynch
May Die After Assault On Rifle Star Van Allen
Stephen Van Allen former national rifle champion lies in critical condition at 78 Union Street Jamaica after an assault near his home. Craft builder of 277 Fulton Street arrested as a suspicious person. police suspect he knows details of the attack.
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Stephen
van Allen
Union Street
Jamaica
James Wicks
Craft
Fulton Street
Bbee Ieller
Joseph
Washington Street
Vanet
Peter C. Hains
Flushing
Ven Allen
Aerial Honeymoon Balloon Ride Ends Amid Crowd Rush
Mr and Mrs Roger N Burnham married in New Forest rose garden and began an aerial honeymoon in the balloon Pittsfield. A crowd of five thousand rushed the ropes at the get away imperilling the couple and pilot before the release.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Roger N. Burnham
New Forest
Emma Fay
Woods Hole
Heart of the Berkshires
Burnham
Eleanor Howard Waring
Savannah
George Houston Waring
Georgia
Miss Howard
Cambridge
Boston
Caroline Gilman
Radcliffe
Maria White
James Russell Lowell
Arthur Burnham
No. 210
Winthrop Road
Brookline
Harvard
Charles J. Glidden
Sero Park
Navy reports world cruise repairs total under four thousand each
Washington reports that thirteen of sixteen battleships in the world cruise have completed repairs at a total cost of 50 289 dollars. The Bureau of Steam Engineering spent 39 979 dollars and the Bureau of Equipment 10 301 dollars. The Illinois Kearsarge and Kentucky were kept in reserve without repairs.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Board
Navy Department
Mrs Higgins Contest Is Filed Over Inheritance
By telegraph from Binghamton on June 19 two Misses Edith M and Mary Higgins Cook heirs under the will of soap manufacturer Thomas C Higgins inherit 56 000 and one third of Erie Railroad stock and Brooklyn real estate. Mrs Gertrude Higgins widow contests claiming revocation by later wills destroyed in 1902. Higgins died May 6 at 79 1 2 Carroll Street Brooklyn founder of Higgins Soap Company and other Brooklyn enterprises.
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Tribune
Binghamton
N. Y
Thomas C. Higgins
Brooklyn
Edith M
Mary Higgins Cook
Mr. Higgins
Carroll Street
Gertrude Higgins
William H. E. Jay
Montague Street
Higgins
Higgins Soap Company
Higgins German Laundry Company
Soap Company
Manhattan
Long Island
George Anderson
Union Hill
West Shore Railroad
West 47Th Street
Leon
Chung Sin
Anderson
Texas law bars fortune tellers in Texas
Clairvoyants palmists and fortune tellers are outlawed by a new Texas vagrancy law that took effect June 12. They were licensed under the old tax statute, but no refund is provided for unearned occupation taxes. The old provisions are repealed.
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the Tribune
Austin
Tex
Texas
Net earnings under Sherman act debated by Finance Committee
Washington June 19 The Finance Committee wrestles with what counts as net profits for a corporation amid sharp splits over whether interest on bonds and preferred dividends are deductible. The Penn sugar case and a grand jury probe of the American Sugar Refining Company figure in the investigation.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Tribune
Chamber
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American Sugar Refining Company
John W. H. Crim
United States
Wise
Charles R. Heike
Heike
the Tribune
Pennsylvania
Paper Trust
Heinze United
Crim
Graves
Roadstrom
W.W. B. Thomas
Actor Guy Mercer Declared Insane After Dr. Jekyll Role
Guy Mercer, actor and organizer of the Guy Stock Company, has been adjudged insane and admitted to an asylum near Worthington Indiana. He played the title role in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and authorities say his fixation on the part led to mental decline. He performed daily at the hospital for fellow inmates and the illness is serious but recovery is hoped.
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Joseph de F. Junkin
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania Company
Grand Jury
Mr. Earle
Earle
Philadelphia
Junkin
Henry A. Wise
United States
Crim
Washington
Wickersham
Mr. Wise
H. L. Stimson
Wise
J. Harwood Graves
Department of Justice
Victor N. Roadstruck
Graves
Frank B. Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
Roadstrum
the Tribune
Worthington
Ind
Guy Mercer
Mercer
Dr. Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll
Guy Stock Company
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Fire destroys Shattuck's Inn in Jaffrey with guests losing clothing
Fire at Shattuck's Inn in Jaffrey New Hampshire started in a woodshed and swept toward the hotel in high winds. About a score of guests lost all clothing and valuables as the building and furnishings valued at 66,000 dollars burned late this afternoon. Most guests were away when the blaze broke out.
Controller Gaus Plans Summer Field Duty Tour
Albany June 19 State Controller Gaus has improved enough to join the Third Brigade field duty tour at Crown Point and Plattsburg from June 27 to July 10. He is ordnance officer with rank of major and has served twenty nine years in the national guard.
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Albany
Gaus
Crown Point
Plattsburg
National Guard
Roosevelt Captures Wildlife Arrives in Naples
The German steamer Feldmarschall brings two wolves and one wild boar alive to Naples, captured by ex-President Roosevelt. They will be transshipped to New York aboard the Pannonia, sailing next week.
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Naples
Feldmarschall
Roosevelt
New York
Auto for the Pope Arrives in Rome
Rome reports an automobile believed ordered by an American millionaire for the Pope reached the city this afternoon. The detail underscores papal transport arrangements amid growing international interest.
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Rome
Kingston man saves train at Pocono Summit
M C Davis of Kingston New York a Lackawanna engineer was killed instantly but managed to brake a descending train near Pocono Summit. The engine halted a car derailed the others while fireman and conductor investigated. Davis lay crushed at a loading platform after toiling to save the train.
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Wilkes-Barrie
Penn
M. C. Davis
Kingston
N. Y
Pocono Summit
Davis
Five Men Die In Livery Stable Fire
Five hostlers perished as a blaze gutted the Board of Trade livery stable in Duluth Minnesota. Sixty eight horses were burned and the bodies were found near the rear entrance after firemen subdued the flames. Officials suspect a gasoline explosion caused the fire.
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Duluth
Minn
Board of Trade
British cruiser Sappho sunk after collision near Dungeness
London reports the British cruiser Sappho collided off Dungeness last night. Lifeboats rescued two hundred crew. no lives reportedly lost. The 3400-ton third class cruiser, built at Poplar in 1891, carried 773 men and armed with multiple guns and torpedo tubes. It sank after the incident.
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London
Sappho
Dungeness
Poplar
Punta Arenas
Mark Twain Sues Over Loaned Money
Mark Twain attaches a cottage and sixteen acres of land owned by his former social secretary Mrs. Ralph W. Ashcroft in Redding to recover 3009 dollars he says he loaned her. The farm adjoins Twain's Italian villa, valued at 1209 on the tax list, with 700 dollars in improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Ashcroft are abroad.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Mark Twain
Ralph W. Ashcroft
Isabel V. Lyon
Redding
Whistling and dancing grounds for divorce says master
In Delaware County Court master Ernest L. Green recommends a decree for Mae D. Dannaker of Chester to divorce George Dannaker. The bill accuses cruel and abusive treatment including repeated whistling singing and dancing at the foot of her bed to irritate and annoy her.
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Penn
Ernest L. Green
Delaware County Court
Mae D. Dannaker
Chester
George
Cedric to Land Mails at Holyhead from Queenstown
The Cedric will sail from Queenstown to land English and Continental passengers and mails at Holyhead likely opening Holyhead as a regular American mail landing station. White Star Line officials join the Cedric to observe the new departure. The ship will also land 41 passengers at Liverpool after disembarking 24 in Queenstown. Another item reports Michael F. Burke of Boston arrested on a warrant for $1,000 alleged theft tied to a Worcester woman.
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Cedric
Holyhead
White Star Lime
White Star
Liverpool
Boston
Michael F. Burke
Mary Walsh
Worcester
Burke
Body of Elsie Sigel may be sent to Potter's Field
Police believe the unidentified body found in a trunk at No 782 Eighth Avenue is Miss Elsie Sigel granddaughter of General Franz Sigel. They seek William L. Leon, the Chinese associate, and have four witnesses detained with a fifth released after resembling Leon. Coroner confirms identity and orders body held at the Morgue.
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Eighth Avenue
Elsie Sigel
Franz Sigel
William L. Leon
Paul Sigel
Wadsworth Avenue
Potters Field
William Leon
Leon
Miss. Sigel
Chu Gain
Port Arthur
Mott Street
Miss Sigel
Washington
Gaia
William
Fort George
Gain
Chung Sin
Chinatown
Gervin
Brickley Chinese
Carey
Homicide Bureau
Sun Leung
Pell Street
Sigel
The
Christian Herald
Bible House
General Sigel
Bronx
Postal Telegraph Company
National Hotel
Leon Ling
Leong Lee Lim
William T. Lion
James M’cafferty
Bureau
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Hale Dewey & Sons Co
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Mr. Roosevelt
Pope
Lackawanna
Collison
ODD
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Welsh
Potter's Field
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