Rioting by rival Teamsters at Front Street pay office
Deserters from the United Teamsters and International Brotherhood of Teamsters clashed with clubs and revolvers in front of John O'Meara's office at 247 Front Street yesterday. One man was injured, Joseph Forkey, shot in the left leg by Thomas Walsh. Police dispersed the mob. several arrests for felonious assault followed as the pay line dispute ended with individual payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John O'Meara
No. 247
Front Street
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
United Teamsters’ Association
Peck Slip
Toole
Oak Street
Hudson Street
Joseph Forkey
New Chambers Street
Thomas Walsh
Pearl Street
William Brewster
George Hamilton
Walsh
United Teamsters” Association
Com Tafaul Rms
Bent Shovel Duel Ends in Death at Brooklyn Digging Site
A bent shovel sparked a fight between laborers digging a trench at Bath end Eighteenth avenues Brooklyn. Joseph Feneri was fatally injured and died after ambulances halted before St Finbar's Church where Father Gardener gave last rites. Patrick Sullivan was arrested on homicide charges as police dispersed about a score of workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath Beach
Bath End
Eigteenth Avenues
Brooklyn
Joseph Feueri
1St Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Patrick Sullivan
Devanney
Fairchild
Feneri
Coney Island
St. Finbar
Gardener
Sullivan
Haynes Resigns as Mutual Reserve Receiver
Archibald Haynes tendered his resignation as one of the three receivers for the Mutual Reserve Insurance Company to Judge Ward in the United States Circuit Court yesterday with regret. He cited constant hammering by critics and a hostile State Insurance Department examiner as factors. Rushmore and Russell will continue to administer the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald
State Insurance Department
Messrs
Rushmore and
Russell
Heynes
Wrestling swindle in New Orleans yields red ink plot
Davenport lumberman J A Kavanaugh reports losing 7.40 to a group posing as club reps in a staged wrestling bout. A Seattle wrestler allegedly used a red liquid gag to simulate a hemorrhage, then fled, leaving Kavanaugh to seek police after a Memphis trip.
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Iowa
New Orleans
J. A. Kavanaugh
Davenport
Kavanaugh
Seattle
Memphis
Écv
Explosion Kills Eight In Natchez Building Blast
An explosion of gas in the basement of the Natchez Drug Company building at Main and North Union streets today killed eight people and injured one. The blast ripped the rear wall, ignited a fire in eighteen nearby residences, and disrupted all business as militia guard the scene while rescuers plan to begin digging out victims under the brick debris tomorrow. Names of the dead include Cleve Laubat and Miss Lizzie Worthy. carpenter Elias Hotchkiss died after running from the building. John Carkett, 71, hospitalized with fractures and unlikely to survive.
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Natchez, Miss
Natchez Drug Company
Main
North Union Streets
Cleve Laubat
Ketteringham
Luella Booth
Lizzie Worthy
Carrie Murray
Inez Netterville
Ada White
Elias Hotchkiss
John Carkett
Torpedo flotilla arrives in Panama ahead of schedule
American torpedo flotilla under Lieutenant Commander H S Cone arrived in Panama Harbor at 2 a m. from Callao March 9, two days earlier than planned. Vessels are in good condition, crew well, celebrations prepared, and they plan to sail to Acapulco on March 21.
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Panama
H. S. Cone
Callao
Acapulco
Mexico
Reuterdahl to Washington Investigation Attendee
Henry Reuterdahl, critical of U S Navy battleship construction, travels aboard Calgoa from Callao and plans to attend the Washington inquiry. The Buffalo, commanded by Captain Charles Pond, will sail toward the north and may reach San Diego by Tuesday. Fortunes of the fleet practice and ciphered messages from Magdalena Bay fill the dispatch.
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San Diego
Cal
Henry Reuterdahl
United States Navy
Calgoa
Callao
Washington
Magdalena Bay
Buffalo
United States
Bay
Buffal
Charles Pond
Fortune
Supreme Court rules for Lyon in dispensary fund case
The South Carolina Supreme Court sustains Attorney General J Fraser Lyon over disbursement of 15 000 dollars from the dispensary fund. The decision overturns Judge Pritchard in federal court who claimed jurisdiction over the 800 000 dollar fund, marking a victory for Lyon.
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Lyon
South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
Supreme Court of
J. Fraser Lyon
General Assembly
Pritchard
Hepburn on Wall St Defends His Stock Tax Bill
Washington dispatch reports Representative Hepburn of Iowa defending his stock transaction tax bill as a means to curb gambling on exchanges and relieve business from drain. He argues most transfers are speculative and cites revenue potential, noting likely fewer transfers if enacted. He details legal avenues, past tax precedents, and confidence in constitutional power to tax stock sales.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Hepburn
Iowa
New York
Tencerloins
Monte Carlo
United States
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
New -York Stock Exchange
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Reform Wave to Sweep New York May Day
An officer from the Lager Beer Board of Trade said a reform wave will hit New York on May 1. The Brewers' Association and the committee of fourteen will shut down objectionable liquor outlets. The aim is to close all places operating illegally and deny aid to proprietors not compliant with the excise law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lager Beer Board of Trade
Brewers’ Association
New York Brewers’ Association
Manila Plans to Greet Fleet at Naval Station
Manila March 14 Preparations have begun for the reception and entertainment of officers and crews of the American battleship fleet. A large reception committee of Americans and Filipinos will be formed immediately. Officials expect a sizable squadron to remain in port as Congress designates Manila a naval station and must have a big fleet present. The islanders praise President Roosevelt for sending the warships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Congress
Islands
Roosevelt
Hearst or Hisgen Likely Leaders of New Independence Ticket
Indications point to William R Hearst or Thomas L Hisgen as the Independence Party presidential contenders after the Denver convention. Hisgen, a Massachusetts figure famous for opposing Standard Oil, is considered a strong local favorite. A Chicago convention in July is expected to name an eastern candidate and form a provisional national committee with state appointees.
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Independence Party
William R. Hearst
Thomas L. Hisgen
West Springfield
Mass
Independence League
Bay State
Denver
Hearst
Democratic Party
Massachusetts
Hisgen
Standard Oil Company
Tom” Hisgen
Thomas
Albany
Standard
Provisional National Committee
Alabama
James D. Drake
Birmingham
California
Hugh McIsuae
Om Drancince
Ges
Cambridge
William N. Osgood
Lowell
Michigan
A. W. Nichols
Greenville
Minnesota
J. T. P. Power
St. Paul
Montana
J. N. Calderhead
Helena
Nevada
Edwardstone
Goldfield
New Jersey
Joseph R. Buchanan
Newark
New York
William Randolph Hearst
New York City
Oklahoma
Harry W. Diffenderffer
Caddo
Rhode Island
James H. O'Neill
Confidence to the Corporations
Ex-Governor William A. Stone declares in Pittsburg that the Republican National Committeeman race should choose a candidate who can restore peace and confidence to the country, discipline corporations while avoiding broad blame of Roosevelt, and bridge labor and capital without conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stone
Pennsylvania
The
Tribune
Pittsburg
William A. Stone
Roosevelt
Fire destroys Union Station area in St Louis explosion
A gas tank under a passenger car exploded at Union Station in St Louis, igniting a blaze that destroyed eight passenger coaches and burned a shed section. Damage reached $100,000. Assistant Fire Chief Thomas W. Rucker was fatally injured, and his driver Harry Doerr was killed in a collision with a streetcar.
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St. Louis
Union Station
Thomas W. Rucker
Harry Doerr
Rucker
Elevator Boy Rescues Workers From Pearl Street Fire
Henry Coch an elevator operator at Arthur Essing candy factory 380 38 Pearl Street made five trips to upper floors to rescue many workers including girls as flames spread from the basement to the elevator shaft. Fire caused $50 000 in losses and halted Second Avenue Elevated traffic for about an hour. Three alarms, Chief Croker directing firefighters, blame lamp explosion for the blaze.
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Henry Coch
Arthur Essing
Pearl Street
Second Avenue Elevated
Coch
Brooklyn Bridge
Croker
Michigan town bars fraternities and sororities
Muskegon March 14 The Board of Education voted to abolish all school fraternities and sororities by March 20. About two hundred students belong to the three fraternities and two sororities, accused of snobbery lawlessness and lowering scholarship. A society recently harbored a skeleton and bell stolen from the schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskegon, Mich
Board of Educattion
City seeks new charter to replace ancient Boston copy
Concord mayor appoints a commission to draft a modern city charter. The current document, perhaps the oldest in America, mirrors Boston in detail and even prescribes strict Puritan police duties. It bans witchcraft practices and prohibits rum sales to Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Concord
N. H
Charles R. Corning
America
Boston
Wreck on Oklahoma trestle kills two officials hurt
A northbound St. Louis & San Francisco train plunged forty feet from a high Spring Creek trestle eight miles west of Bristow Oklahoma. Two were killed and several injured as an iron bolt nut on the track is suspected. A tramp and a group of local boys may be linked to the incident as investigators pursue the cause.
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Okla
St. Louis
San Francisco
Spring Creek
Bristow
Mystery in Double Tragedy at Ranchester
Sheridan Wyoming dispatch reports W. S. Buncker and Herman Haenken from West Side Iowa shot dead in their hotel rooms after a dispute at a tie camp project. Revolvers found in both hands, suggesting a double suicide or staged incident. The incident occurred at Pepper Hotel in Ranchester near the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
J Sheridan
Wyo
Buncker
Herman Haenken
West Side
Iowa
Ranchester
Pepper Hotel
Judge Landis Fines Janitor One Cent After Threat
Chicago March 14 Judge Landis fined the janitor one cent after he threatened his debtor with a postal card over a $2 debt. The judge had previously fined the Standard Oil Company a record $9 240 000 in the same proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Chicago
Youth Dies After Hidden Ride In Refrigerator Car
Ernest Kemperhaus, eighteen, crawled into a New Orleans refrigerator car to steal a ride to Chicago. The car started and traveled five days, arriving in Chicago with him unconscious and dying from cold hunger and thirst when opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Chicago
Ernest Kemperhaus
New Orleans
Lafayette Gleason Weds Frances Rich McEntee
In Bridgeport Connecticut Lafayette B Gleason a Delhi New York clerk of the Senate at Albany and Frances Rich McEntee were married by assistant town clerk Sidney N Lockwood. The couple arrived from New York at noon and left for New York on the 2 27 train after the ceremony. Mr and Mrs Edward H Pindar of New York accompanied them.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Lafayette B. Gleason
Delhi
Senate
Albany
Frances Rich McEntee
Sidney N. Lockwood
New York
Edward H. Pindar
City
Michigan Jury Indicts Seven In State Funds Case
The Ingham County Grand Jury report condemns treasury fund safeguards and accuses former State Treasurer Frank P. Glasier of depositing about $690,000 in Chelaea Savings Bank where he was president. It faults candidates for US Senate paying legislature campaigns. seven expenses are charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Ingham County Grand Jury
Frank P. Glasier
Chelaea Savings Bank
United States
Dictmion
Dewey's Claret or Lauterne Punch Ad
Dewey's Claret or Lauterne Punch ready to serve for social events. Provided by T. Dewey & Son Co at 135 Fulton Street, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Dewey & Sone Co
Fulton St
New York
White House Conference Reviews Sherman Law Revision
Washington March 14 another White House meeting discussed revising the Sherman anti trust law to curb undue application to organized labor and allow railroads to pool rates. Garfield Smith Neill and the President explored various aspects with no conclusion reached and more talks anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Garfield
Smith
Bureau of Corporations
Neil
Bureau of Labor
Messrs
Neill
Ottoman Ships Seized Rumor Rumor Circulates On Black Sea
Rumor from Vienna says two Turkish steamers carrying arms and ammunition were seized by Russian warships in the Black Sea. No confirmation available from the Foreign Office or the Admiralty in St Petersburg or Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Black Sea
Foreign Office
Admiralty
Venezuelan resolution moves to Congress after White House stance
The Secretary of State has approved the Venezuelan joint resolution and Senator Lodge awaits Venezuela correspondence and Foreign Relations Committee action to introduce it. The executive branch largely abdicates, favoring Congress and the people’s decision, while White House contemplates using the big stick on President Castro after long soft talk with limited results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
Secretary of State
Tribune
Lodge
Venezuela
Committee On Foreign Relations
Congress
White House
Castro
Mr. Castro
Alfred Peats Dead After Fire Death Suffered Insanity
Alfred Peats former Wall Paper Trust organizer dies in Bloomingdale Asylum White Plains after insanity linked to his six year old daughter's death in a Greenwich on the Sound fire. He was forty two, once a Chicago businessman, and the body will be sent to Chicago. His elderly mother lived in White Plains until her recent death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenwich-on-the-Sound
Alfred Peats
Wall Paper Trust
Bloomingdale Asylum
White Plains
Mr. Peats
Bloomingdale
Rockland
Ill
Chicago
Brothers die in fall at Manhattan Bridge site
Henry and Thomas Clinigan, brothers of Brooklyn, worked on the Pike street anchorage of the new Manhattan Bridge. Thomas toppled a heavy stone, lost balance, and fell sixty feet to the pavement below. Henry turned his derrick as the body was crushed. Half his bones were broken. A basket was lowered to recover the body and the crew quit for the day.
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Henry
Thomas Clinigan
Brooklyn
Pike Street
New Manhattan Bridge
Thomas
Anchorage
Five Men Feared Drowned In Ashland Towboat Collision
Ashland Kentucky reports five men missing after the towboat Boat struck an exposed pier near the Ashland Renton bridge in heavy fog. The vessel carried twelve coal boats and sixteen barges with about thirty five crew aboard. most barges sank and deck hand William Matticks says several men were seen in the water.
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Ashland
Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Catlettsburg
Ashland-[renton
William Matticks
Calvé Says She Will Wed Again
Mme Calvé hinted after Carmen at the Manhattan on Friday that she will marry again though she refused to name the groom. Questions swirled among opera goers about a second marriage and whether the claim was a jest as she remained unseen at Lafayette-Brevoort last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Calvé
Mme. Cairé
Manhattan
Lafayette-Brevoort
Tragedy in York as man kills wife then himself
In York Pennsylvania on March 14 George Bentz of Frederick County Maryland shot and killed his wife then took his own life in the dining room of Charles O'Brien’s boarding house. The family of four children sat nearby as Mrs. O'Brien tried to intervene but was overpowered. Bentz, unemployed and despondent, was described as jealous of his wife.
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York
Penn
George Bentz
Frederick County
Charles O’brien
Taft Delegates Gaining Momentum Across States
Telegraph report from Columbus, Ohio, March 14 notes Taft gaining 30 delegates this week, totaling 146 instructed delegates in 178 selected states with 258 votes. Nebraska yields four at large and eight district delegates, Iowa four district, Ohio six district, Oklahoma four at large and two district. Fairbanks delegates also named in Kentucky and Indiana. ni, St. Louis lists Hughes pledges. Taft contends Oklahoma and Nebraska solidify, while disputed and contested seats rise.
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The
Tribune
Columbus
Ohio
Taft
Chicago
Roosevelt
Taft Bureau
Nebraska
Iowa
Oklahoma
Fairbanks
Virginia
St. Louis
Nethringhaus
Hughes
State Committee
Indiana
Kentucky
Neidringhans
Coz
Foraker
Robbery attempt linked to Morgan case and Pry arrest
Louis Pry a Brooklyn butler, under arrest for vagrancy, previously fought at J P Morgan's Fifth Avenue home during a robbery attempt. Detectives suspect Pry and Minnie Pry knew of a diamond breach worth 500 dollars and a diamond ring worth 250 dollars stolen from Mrs Rowley. Pry has served time at Auburn Prison and was held by Magistrate Tighe in Adams Street Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Pry
F. C. Rowley
Buckingham Road
Brooklyn
Pry
J. P. Morgan
Fifth Avenue
Morgan House
Manhattan Central Office
Auburn
Tighe
Adams Street Court
Minnie Pry
Minnie Woods
Rochey
Rockefeller A Day in Augusta Says He Never Touched Whiskey
In Augusta Georgia on March 14 John D Rockefeller told a Herald reporter he had never touched whiskey and spoke on prohibition. He called it a good measure to keep liquor from the negroes and lower whites, said it uplifts and teaches thrift, and predicted growing anti liquor sentiment in the United States and England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
John D. Rockefeller
Augusta Herald
Georgia
Rockefeller
England
United States
TOG DISCHARGES GUN IN FLUSHING OFFICE
Frank Talleur of Corona Long Island narrowly escaped death after a Newfoundland dog tangled its leash with a shotgun trigger in a Flushing office. The blast knocked him down and shots hit the side of his head, while the gun left behind the door wrecked the room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Talleur
Corona
Long Island
Flushing
Talleur
Strike Feared On Gould Road Rail Labor Clash
Denver March 4 The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad has announced termination of all labor union contracts prompting fears of a general shopmen strike across the system after more than a week of conference between union and company leaders with no agreement reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Denver
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Pittsburg Counterfeiters Caught
Secret Service men and detectives arrested J A Haas, a drug clerk, and John Furman, an Italian, in a Braddock shop surrounded by moulds and spurious half-dollars. About 5000 was captured. The city had been flooded with bad half dollars. the coins were perfect except for weight. Planters Burgalee tea advertisement notes grow it and cost at your grocer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Secret Service
J. A. Haas
John Furman
Braddock
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Wall ST
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NEW Party Ticket
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Cor
30Th St
Adrt
Landis
Lafayette
Gleason
Philadelphia
Jersey Central
MR. Root
Pike Street Anchorage
Manhattan Bridge
Ohio River
Calve
Morgan
Butler
Tog
Gould Road
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