U S Express Co Loses Bid for Receiver and Books Probe
Justice Guy denied both the receiver appointment and permission to inspect United States Express Company books. John L. Dudley, a 100 share holder, alleged fraud and mismanagement benefiting a few, but the court found no credible evidence of fraud or asset waste. The decision noted remedies through federal courts for federal law violations. Dudley plans appeal and may press dissolution or stockholder meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Guy
Supreme Court
John L. Dudley
United States Express Company
Dadiey
Guy
Adams Express Company
American Express Company
Jusice Guy
Louis H. Newkirk
No. 18
Wall Street
Express Company
Newkirk
St. Paul
Fulure
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bengi Sundberg
United States, Adams
American Express
Work Tegether
James Manahan
Minneapolis
Sundberg
Manahan
Children Travel Far Across Ocean on Minnetonka
Two children, ages three and eleven months, arrived aboard the Atlantic Transport liner Minnetonka. James Averill Lawrence, nearly two, has crossed the Atlantic four times with his parents, amid travel totaling thousands of miles by train and car. His companion John Hicks, three, has logged over thirty thousand miles on sea and land. The Hicks family journeyed from Oshkosh to Panama and down to South America then across to Europe and home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnetonka
James Averill Lawrence
James A. Lawrence
Riverside Drive
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
London
Lawrence
John Hicks
Chili
Oshkosh
Wis
Panama
Santiago
Chile
Hicks
Strait of Magellan
Rio
Lisbon
New York
Inventor Breaks Down Over Aerial Torpedo Device
John W. Carroll, veteran of the Spanish War and former master-at-arms on the cruiser New York, is confined at Chelsea Naval Hospital with a nervous breakdown after working on a device to fire an aerial torpedo with shiplike accuracy. The invention, if perfected, could allow airship crews to launch torpedoes as accurately as warships. United States Navy officials reportedly rejected the concept. Carroll has abandoned the detonator for the aerial torpedo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Boston
John W. Carroll
New York
Marine Corps
San Francisco
Nautth
Borough President Coler to testify at Brooklyn inquiry
Borough President Coler of Brooklyn will be the star witness this morning at 16 30 o clock at the inquiry by the Commissioners of Accounts into Coler s administration over the last three and a half years. He will explain his link to Medina Stone Company where he once served as director, which sold stone to Brooklyn, while Coler claims he never profited and his name was used without authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coler
Brooklyn
Commissioners of Accounts
Stewart
Medina Stone Company
Stone Company
Saving Summer Babies Aid From New York Nurses
Dr. John T. Cronin describes New York City’s summer baby protection program. Fifty six district nurses inspect new births filed by midwives, provide guidance on feeding and sanitation, and arrange free milk and ice. Medical inspectors support nurses and offer talks at charity and recreation sites to save lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John T. Cronin
New York
Manhattan
Charity Organization Society
Milk Committee
Children’s Aid Society
Lackawanna Passenger Killed at Grove Street Station
East Orange New Jersey June 28 Special J Frank Hawkins Advertising man for Art Metal Works Newark fell under wheels of a Lackawanna train while alighting from the smoking car at Grove street station. He was returning from New Canaan with his brother in law and left behind a wife and two children. Hawkins a known New Jersey advertiser once involved with The Red Bank Standard was thirty eight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Orange
N. J
Iin
Lackawanna
Grove Street
J. Frank Hawkins
Art Metal Works
Newark
Hawkins
William J. Bray
New Canaan
New Jersey
Red Bank Standard
New York Life Silent on Hotchkiss Report
Officials for New York Life Insurance Company offered no comment on Superintendent Hotchkiss’s report about the insurance law limiting annual business. The company, a leader among majors opposing the Hughes law restriction, has long argued the provision is a hardship. The Hotchkiss findings show only one New York firm could be affected, with policy terminations totaling over 149 million dollars for reasons other than death or maturity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Life Insurance Company
Hotchkiss
New York Life
New York
When Women Fall Out
Commissioner Shields hosts a smuggling case at the Federal Building involving Mme. Delonia M. Boulanger and Mile. Therese de Villiers. Boulanger faces smuggling charges over five trunks from the President Cleveland voyage. de Villiers testifies as principal witness. Marshal Henkel证 assesses gowns. The pair, once friends, faced dispute earlier in May. Boulanger is free on bail as the matter resumes July 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner Shields
Federal
Mme
Delonia M. Boulanger
Mile
Thérése de Villiers
Marshal Henke
Mme. Boulanger
President Cleveland
de Villiers
Marshal Henkel
Mile. de Villiers
West 56Th Street
United States Attorney's Office
Edison Storage Battery Ready in New Jersey Test
Edison says the long awaited storage battery is an assured fact and will undergo a final streetcar line test in West Orange, New Jersey. He cites a New York department store delivery wagon running a full day on one battery and envisions trucks carrying goods from New York to Philadelphia, predicting horses will be replaced in cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
New York
Philadelphia
London arrest brings back grand larceny suspect Harms
District Attorney plans to fly detectives Flood and Brown to London to extradite Conrad Harms, indicted for grand larceny and forgery in the first degree in New York. He allegedly stole 1637 pounds 14 shillings from J. S. Bache & Co. and forged their signature. A parallel case ties Eleanor Beatty to Gorham Manufacturing for silverware fraud.
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Conrad Harms
London
Flood and Brown
J. S. Bache & Co
Broadway
Germany
England
Harms
Berlin
Scotland Yard
Harris
Foreign Department
James M. Gorman
Pinestreet
Blair Brothers
Broadstreet
Perr’s Bank
District Attorney's Office
Swiss Bankverein
Parr’s Bank
Parr
Woman's Vengeful Act Shocks New York Streets
Louisa La Barte fired five shots at Dominico Versassi at Spring and Sullivan, claiming he killed her husband Bruno La Barre last June with police inaction. Versassi died at St Vincent's Hospital. La Barte, 25, was detained after the shooting and remanded to the Coroner. The incident followed a prior Black Hand murder in 188, with La Barte saying authorities offered no help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominico Versassi
Sullivan Street
Bruno la Barte
Louisa la Barte
Houston Street
Versassi
Spring
Sullivan Streets
St. Vincent's Hospital
Mre la Barre
Versall
Versail
Bruno la Barre
Varick and
Downing Streets
la Barre
Versais
Master Carpenters Act in Arbitration Dispute
The Master Carpenters Association acted on a refusal by carpenters unions to accept the General Arbitration Board ultimatum. Carpenters are suspended from the board for not calling off strikes at fifty buildings. An employment bureau will hire carpenters for Building Trades Employers Association members, with union men preferred. The emergency committee ratified the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenters’ Unions
General Arbitration Board
Building Trades
Carpenters
Master Carpenters’ Association
Building Trades’ Employers’ Association
Steamboat Inspection May Suffer In Harbor Oversight
Captain Ira Harris, supervising inspector from Maine to Cape Charles, says the harbor will rely on his crew this summer as no extra funds exist for additional inspectors. Last year the port had 30 assistants from the Collector of the Port, keeping steamers well equipped and within lifesaving rules. Harris has reviewed river and harbor craft for days with no violations found ahead of the Hudson Fulton celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ira Harris
Maine
Cape Charles
Loeb
Harris
Department
Herris
Eight Drowned in Ontario River Canoeing Accidents
Toronto reports two young couples drowned while canoeing. The bride of J Loughlin aged twenty and her brother William Ward perished on the Kaminetquia River. W McCaughey and J Thompson died on the Red River. Four other drownings reported province wide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
J. Loughlin
William Ward
Kaminetquia River
W. McCaughey
J. Thompson
Red River
Walker Wins Long Fight Over Manhattan Public Buildings Office
William H. Walker, former Commissioner of Public Buildings in Manhattan, won a Supreme Court mandamus ruling sustaining his writ and directing his return to office. The decision follows his earlier back salary verdict by a jury and comes after his removal during Governor Hughes era and subsequent reappointment by Aldermen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Walker
Borough of
Manhattan
Ahearn
Hughes
Yester Gey
Justice Greenbaum
Supreme Court
Coffee Exchange and Dock Company Reach Settlement
The New York Coffee Exchange and New York Dock Company settle a dispute over losses charged to Patrick Carr. The Dock Company will hand over $32,299 in cash and 7,258 bags of coffee sweepings to depositors, with review by the Audit Company and distribution through the Coffee Exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Coffee Exchange
New York Dock Company
Patrick Carr
Exchange
New York Audit Company
Dock Company
Coffee Exchange
Western Maryland Railroad to Seek Plan with $10 Share Assessment
The Western Maryland Railroad plans a formal reorganization within a week to ten days, proposing at least a $10 per share assessment. The plan aims to reduce fixed charges and may swap first mortgage bonds for part bonds and part stock or other non fixed-charge securities. Existing bonds total over $42 million with further obligations, while receiver's certificates and subsidiary bonds add multi million dollar liabilities. R. F. Bush has been receiver since March 5, 18xx, with Gould interests leading the reorganization and John D. Rockefeller reportedly aligning with other bidders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Maryland Railroad Company
Generalien
R. F. Bush
Road
Gould
John D. Rockefeller
Morgan firm opens talks on Hankow and Sze Chien loan
J S Morgan & Co representing the American syndicate has begun negotiations with London Paris and Berlin bankers over the 27.5 million Hankow and Sze Chien Railway loan. State Department attitude monitored. A fortnight likely before a definite outcome. J F Morgan in England leads the talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
J. S. Morgan & Co
Hankow & Sze- Chien
Paris
Berlin
State Department
J. F Morgan
England
Gas Company Sale Announced in Wellsville and Andover
The Public Service Commission 2d District announces the sale of Mutual Gas Company Limited properties to Empire Gas and Fuel Company Limited for 222000.33 dollars. The commission authorizes Marine Light and Power Company to mortgage its property and franchise to secure 40000 dollars in bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Public Service Commission
Mutual Gas Company, Limited
Wellsville
Andover
Empire Gas and Fuel Company, Limited
Marine Light and Power Company
New York Central Must Pay Bridge Raise Expense
Albany June 28 The Attorney General advised State Engineer that New York Central Railroad Company must pay the cost of raising the bridge over the Oneida River at Three River Point. The canal project requires higher clearance to allow boat passage through the river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
O'Malley
Williams
New York Central Railroad Company
Oneida River
Three River Point
Huntington Named General Manager of MSP&S Rail Road
Minneapolis announces George R. Huntington appointed general manager of the Minneapolis St Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad succeeding Edmund Pennington who becomes president after the death of Thomas Lowry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
George R. Huntington
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad
Edmund Pennington
Thomas Lowry
Tennessee Central Railroad Chief Resigns
Nashville June 23. George W. Ristine president of the Tennessee Central Railroad has resigned effective July 1. Colonel S. M. Felton, board chairman, will assume active charge until a successor is elected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
George W. Ristine
Tennessee Central Railroad
S. M. Felton
The
Road
Nebraska Guaranty Suit Opens Before Federal Judges
Lincoln June 2 Fifty banks named as complainants in equity seek to void the Nebraska bank guaranty act. Webster alleges the law drives out private banks and compels incorporation. Legislative power to deem a business quasi public is questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
Willis Vandevanter
T. C. Munger
J. L. Webster
Webster
Nelson Morris to issue $12.5 million bonds for Oklahoma plant
Nelson Morris & Co plans to sell 41 1/2 percent thirty year first mortgage bonds totaling 12.5 million to First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago. Proceeds will fund a new packing plant in Oklahoma, repay floating debt, and boost working capital with part earmarked for a hides tanning plant. Major packers Armour, Cudahy, and Swift also expanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Nelson Morris & Co
First Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago
Oklahoma
West
Armour & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
Swift & Co
Moose Swim to Bar Harbor Court Crossing
A pair of moose swam at least ten miles from Frenchman’s Bay to Mount Desert and landed near Efen Street Bar Harbor Me. They crossed the lawn of the Henry L Eno place where one moose tangled in a tennis net before both animals vanished into the woods nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harter
Frenchman's Bay
Mount Desert
Efen Street
Henry L
Attempted to Save Laborer's Life in Mohawk River Tragedy
Amsterdam, June 23. David Tibbs of Buffalo, general foreman on the barge canal works, drowned in the Mohawk River while trying to save an Italian laborer. They were in a boat carrying a cable when it overturned. Tibbs, who could swim, vanished with the Italian. Tibbs was a thirty-second degree Mason.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
David Tibbs
Bufalo
Mohawk
Tibbs
Immigration Official Warns Lines Over Indigent Arrivals
William Williams, Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, said deportations have doubled recently and up to a quarter of arrivals are detained. He urged lines to admit only immigrants with sufficient funds and suggested a minimum of five dollars plus rail fare, noting no statutory rule but unsafe to arrive with less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Williams
Elis Island
Williams
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U.S. Express CO
Weir and Fargo
J. W. Carroll
Washington
Health Department
Mile. Villiers
Telus
Dover
Lds
Messrs
James Gorman
Harry Sutherland
J. §. Bache & Co
Bankverein
Master Carpenters
Employment Bureau For Building Trades Employers’ Association
New York Harbor
Ontario
W. H. Walker
Park & Tilford
Exchange and Dock Company
Maryland
P.*s. Commission
Mutual Company
NEW York Central
SOC
Tennessee Railroad
Alta
Hale & Norcross Alpha
Julia Andes
Kentucky
Belcher Seerree Ees
Occidental
Ib Bullion
Caledonian
Overman
Potosi
Savage Confidence
Cal & V
Imperial
Gould & Cupty
Ge Ynamary
Wanamaker's
Wanamaker’s
Wanamaker
Gramercy
John Wanamaker
A. T. Stewart & Co
Fourth Ave
8Th
10Th St
Nebraska
Reading
Supreme and Common Pleas
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia & Reading Railway Company
New Orleans
New Orleans Railway and Light Company
Moose
Bar Harbor
Henry L. Eno
Pre Far
Niagara Falls
Delaware Water Gap
Stroudsburg, Pa
Henryville, Pa
Analomink
Fulton Street
Broad Street
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