Fear in Senate Over Governor’s Anti-Gambling Bills
Albany March 24 telegraph reports the governor’s anti race betting laws in grave danger as late money funds efforts in the state Senate to block passage. With only about 25 votes in favor including two Democrats and several Republicans, chances the bills pass diminish while pressure and speculation grow about the McCarren amendment and possible Senate action before Assembly consideration. The Assembly is expected to act soon, while race interests and bribery rumors circulate around lawmakers and campaign finance.
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Albany
Senate
McCarren
Sengor “Christy” Sullivan
Hughes
Sigor
Grady
Agnew
Mares
White
Talien
Micirman Bart
Wadseworth
Merritt
Becn
Agnew-Hart
Be Othey
Republcan
Fire Threats Foul Brooklyn Flat Amid Black Hand Scare
A three story apartment at Lincoln Pine and St Francis Place in Brooklyn caught fire after threats to the janitor who was told to dump money in a coal bin four hours after the last note arrived. Sudden accidents shook the building, fire spread before engines arrived, and much of the basement was ruined. Six ceilings collapsed as men fled. police suspect an Italian Brooklynite sent the threats and note that similar letters went to other janitors.
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Lincoln Pine
St. Francis Place
Brooklyn
Sayings of Buddha Translated at Columbia College
A student in the Gee Languages department at Columbia College has completed an English version of the Sayings of Buddha, an ancient Buddhist text. The translation aims to present the work, attributed to Buddha or his disciples in the fifth century B.C., in prose with some verses retained. The project reflects growing interest from Oriental studies faculty and students in translating early Buddhist writings, previously available mainly in Chinese.
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Bi Mteers
Department of Gee Languages of
Columbia
Buddha
Tudsang
Sen. Ork
Mies Viiua
Meat prices rise at retail markets in Tribune note
Prices of meat go up with beef and pork expected to advance two to five cents per pound while cheaper cuts rise one to two cents. Lamb prices also edged higher amid fat cattle scarcity cited as cause. Local specification fragment mentions Maiden Lane and adage Ms. at 55.
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the Tribune
Eer
Drury Lane Theatre Destroyed By Fire In London
London March 25 Drury Lane Theatre burned out interior and walls badly damaged after flames spotted about 4 am. No lives lost though the building had closed since the pantomime season and would have reopened April 18. Origin unknown. site has a long history from 1653 opening to many famous performers.
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London
Drury Lane
Dryden
Garrick
Kean
the Kembles
Mrs. Siddons
Drury Lane House
Charles I
Charles II
Thomas Killigrew
Nell Gwynn
Christopher Wren
Mr. Kemble
Hamlet
Sheridan
Arthur Collins
Sir Henry Irving
Unionist Victory in Peckham By Election
London March 24 The by election to replace the late Charles Goddard Clarke resulted in a Unionist victory for candidate A. C. Gooch by 2494 votes. Liberals had won the seat in 1906 by 2509. The contest focused on the government licensing bill with a swing toward Conservatives. Returns caused great excitement in the House of Commons with Unionists urging government resignation.
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London
Charles Goddard Clarke
Peckham
The
Thames
C. Gooch
House of Commons
Divorce in France advances to automatic three year divorce
Paris reports the Senate approved a bill allowing automatic divorce after three years of separation on request by either spouse. The move follows rising divorce rates since 1886 and a public polemic sparked by Paul Bourget’s play A Divorce. Bourget warns of free union as France splits into two camps.
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Paris
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
France
Paul Bourget
Friends of Greater Freedom of
M. Bourget
Dred Scott Papers Found in St Louis Storage
The original papers in the Scott case, long missing from the courthouse, were found by J. Clarence Taussig among discarded papers of his uncle George W. Taussig in a storage warehouse and returned to the circuit clerk. A previous search failed last spring and a lawyers receipt was found in place of the papers. The case began in November 1846 and the petition remains legible despite age.
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St Louis
Scott
Transcript
J. Clarence Taussig
George W. Taussig
Yale Student Allan Malcolm Dies At Sea In Unknown Accident
Through the Marseilles consular service word arrives that Allan Schuyler Malcolm of Yale, age six, died at sea after falling from a vessel. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he studied in Medway and Worcester, earned the Hugh Chamberlain Greek prize and Berkeley premium at Yale, and later made Phi Beta Kappa before his health failed following graduation.
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New Haven
Marseilles
France
Allan Schuyler Malcolm
Yale
Melbourne
Australia
Medway
Mass
Worcester
Hugh Chamberlain
Berkeley
Phi Beta Kappa
Brisk Western Business Signals Confidence Returns
Telegraph dispatch reports Western business and Omaha markets showing renewed confidence. Nebraska railroad construction accelerates with 600 miles planned this year after 40 miles last year. Monday grain receipts set a record at the Omaha Grain Exchange with 489 cars of corn, wheat, and oats delivered to local elevators.
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West Point Omaha
Nebraska
Omaha Grain Exchange
Devonshire Death Ends Unique Personality
The Duke of Devonshire died unexpectedly after reports from Cannes suggested improvement. he had been critically ill in Egypt and his feeble heart action when he left England left intimate friends convinced his health was irreparably shattered. The loss is widely deplored given his sobriety of judgment and influence.
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London
Duke of Devonshire
Cannes
Egypt
England
Duke of Devonshire dies after career in Unionist leadership
The passing of the Duke of Devonshire ends a tenure marked by Free Trade opposition to Chamberlain and a steady, influential role in Unionist politics. His death shifts his vast estate to nephew Victor Cavendish, a Tariff Reform MP, who may join the next Unionist Cabinet. The report notes his robust character, public trust among middle-class and commercial England, and close friendship with King Edward.
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Birrell
Balfour
St. Asaph's
Joseph Chamberlain
Lord Cromer
England
Chamberlain
Edward
Victor Christian Cavendish
Lord Lansdowne
Sherman in ill health with gallstone attack
Washington dispatch reports Representative James S. Sherman of New York seriously ill with a gallstone attack confined to his rooms. He was moved to Garfield Hospital for treatment and a possible operation, with doubts about presiding over a Republican State Convention. His condition remained serious but not immediately dire as of tonight.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
James S. Sherman
New York
Sherman
Garfield Hospital
Wton
Paris man sentenced for mail bag thefts on steamships
Rousseau was convicted for possessing and trying to negotiate stolen checks and bonds from mail bags aboard La Savoie La Lorraine and the Teutonic. He received seven years in prison. Accomplice Kohminski drew one year. Semelle was acquitted on the same charge.
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Paris
Rousseau
la Savoie
la Lorraine
Teutonic
Kohminski
Semelle
Speeder race set for tunnel subway festival in Jamaica
A Jamaica automobile race is planned as part of the tunnel subway celebration in May inviting those arrested for speeding. The event on a three mile straight course near Hillside avenue will feature flying starts with a one mile final. speeders must slow and stop. The Flatbush subway opening is tracked for May 4 15 and 6 with proceeds split between Marys Hospital and Jamaica Hospital.
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Jamaica
Tunnel
Hillside Avenue
Flatbush
Fleet battleships push target practice at Magdalena Bay
Wireless reports say sixteen Evans command battleships rapidly progress at Magdalena Bay with 1 600 yard record shots on fixed 12 by 21 foot targets. The fleet moves April 12 to San Diego with 620 mile run planned at 11 knots. Officials will report records confidentially. Tennessee fire data show higher powder and shell usage at record practice.
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Cal
Magdalena Bay
Evans
California
Coronado Beach
Navy Department
Washington
Ridley McClean
Fleet Ordnance
Tennessee
Connecticut
Kentucky
Illinois
Fleet to Visit China and Other Nations
The battleship fleet will visit China as well as Australia and Japan and will be at home on Washington's Birthday for President Roosevelt to take part in the welcome before his retirement ten days later. The Cabinet accepted the China invitation and will decline further social calls. An earlier departure from San Francisco is possible depending on repairs. Admiral Evans reported progress in target practice at Magdalena Bay.
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China
Australia
Japan
Roosevelt
San Francisco
Evans
Magdalena Bay
Forty Hurt In Wreck Car Plunges Into Store
An interurban car on the Detroit United Railway derailed near List street in Detroit and crashed into a store on March 24. About forty hurt and twenty taken to hospitals. two in serious condition. Rail defects blamed. The car struck a telegraph pole, buried six feet into the building, with no fatalities.
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Ann Arbor
Detroit United Railway
List Street
Jersey for Judge Gray
New Jersey plans to send a delegation to the Democratic National Convention in Denver pledged to Judge Gray. Leaders outside Hudson County favor keeping ex-Senator James Smith Frank Katzenbach Senator Johnston Cornish and ex-Judge Howard Carron as delegates at large. Robert Davis of Hudson is left at home for supporting W. J. Bryan.
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Tribune
Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Denver
Gray
Hudson County
James Smith
Frank Katzenbach
Johnston Cornish
Howard Carron
Camden
Robert Davis
Hudson
W. J. Bryar
Hayti Quiets Tensions as Warships Depart Hint
In Port au Prince on March 24 the Haytian government shows a conciliatory shift aimed at hastening foreign warship departures. Five officers, last prisoners from the March 13 plot arrest, are released and restored to duty. The regime also drops objections to refugees aboard foreign legations sailing from the port.
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Port-au-Prince
Haytian
Rhodes Scholar Ralph Many Drowned Off Cornwall
Ralph C Many, a twenty five year old Rhodes scholar from Louisiana at Queen's College Oxford, was washed from rocks and drowned near Port Isaac Cornwall. He was born in Brooklyn and came to New Orleans with his family in 1893. He starred in Tulane athletics and served as Tulane eight stroke. His body will be returned to New York for burial.
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Ralph C. Many
New Orleans
Port Isaac
Cornwall
Ralph Conover Many
Louisiana
Queen's College
England
Brooklyn
Tulane University
Harvard
Many
John L. Many
John S. Talmage Company
Tulane
New York
A. K. Read
Baby in Contempt of Court by a Infant
In Essex Market Court a six month old baby named Harry Benyan ate the summons for his mother Leah Benyan of 34 Orchard Street. Magistrate Breen and court officer Swartz witnessed the infant seize the document. the baby bit Swartz when a summons was tried to be retrieved, and the magistrate could only laugh at the scene.
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Harry Benyan
Leah Benyan
Orchard Street
Breen
Essex Market Court
Schwab Tax Move Shows Residency Tax Twist
Charles M Schwab formerly of United States Steel faced a New York City tax issue after moving to Riverside Drive. The Tax Department initially treated him as a non resident with a 129000 assessment on personal property under the Saxe law. Schwab requested residency status, but upon examination no tax was due because as a resident his debts could be deducted from his assessable property.
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New York City
Charles M Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Schwab
Riverside Drive
Lawson Purdy
Harriman Retirement Rumored as Union Pacific Chief
A Boston telegraph report says E. H. Harriman may retire as Union Pacific president and become chairman of the board. Rumors place Charles S. Mellen to succeed him, with Lucius S. Tuttle slated to lead a joint Boston & Maine and New Haven system. No confirmation exists.
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Tribune
Boston
E. H. Harriman
Union Pacific
Charles S. Mellen
New Haven Road
Mr. Harriman
Morgan Control
Lucius S. Tuttle
Boston & Maine
Mallen
New Haven
Tuttle
Haffen Realty Holder Stock Revealed In Bronx Probe
Borough President Louis F. Haffen of The Bronx holds a one tenth stake or fifty two shares in Sound View Land and Improvement Company. The stock books show his name and indicate he paid cash for the shares. Other officials including his brother John Haffen and Martin Geiszler also hold one tenth interests. The disclosure comes during a public investigation of the Borough President's office at City Hall.
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Louis F. Haffen
Bronx
Sound View Land and Improvement Company
Cilason
Haffen
John Haffen
Martin Geiszler
Mitchel
Sound View Company
Liebertz
Michael Cunningham
Cunningham
1005
Julius H. Haas
Geiszler- Haas Realty Company
Geiszler
John F. Murray
Bie
Florida
Bll Health
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