Steinway bill signed granting city power to buy railways
Albany May 22 Governor Hughes signs the Steinway bill allowing the Public Service Commission to purchase completed or under-construction railways with city consent and favorable terms for rapid transit. The act notes potential condemnation should be added later. Creedmoor rifle range land transfer to Long Island State Hospital is also approved. election law tweaks and primary poll hour change are included.
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Tribune
Albany
Frawley
New York City
East River
Hughes
Public Service Commission
1St District
Board of Estimate
Creedmoor Rifle Range
Queens County
Long Island State Hospital
Anothe
Burke
Fire Island
Flower
Land Board
Orders Trolley Improvements
Albany May 22 The Public Service Commission 24 District orders Port Jervis Electric Light Power Gas and Railroad Company to repair railroad property and operate it to serve the public The commission holds common carriers must render safe adequate and proper service and maintain lines to provide reasonable public needs and fair return to sustain property used for service
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Port Jervis
Wallace Victory Certificat e Delayed Canvass
The state board of canvassers postponed the May 12 vote review in the 47th Senate District for the second time. Returns arrived from Lockport as members will be out of town. a Monday canvass could grant Republican William C. Wallace his certificate to take his Senate seat that night.
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Albany
State Board of Canvassers
Niagara-Orleans
William C. Wallace
Lockport
Wallace
Senate
Jury finds Wyman and Landers not guilty in bank embezzlement case
Pittsburg May 22 The jury acquits lumbermen W G Wyman and Joseph W Landers of Tionesta who were charged with aiding W W Bowman assistant cashier of Citizens National Bank of that place in embezzling 15 44.
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Pittsburg
W. G. Wyman
Joseph W. Landers
Tionesta
W. W. Bowman
Citizens’ National Bank
Anti-Gambling Meetings Planned Across Brooklyn Districts
Eighteen mass meetings oppose racetrack gambling in Brooklyn tomorrow at 4 pm in various churches. The Brooklyn Citizens' Anti-Racetrack Gambling Committee backs Governor Hughes's campaign with speakers including Walter M. Chandler Edward Lauterbach and Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis.
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Brooklyn
Hughes
Walter M. Chandler
Edward Lauterbach
John H. Mellish
Newell Dwight Hillis
Canon Chase
William McCarroll
Brooklyn Heights
Plymouth Church
Orange Street
Henry Street
J. E. Swanstrom
Nehemiah Oynton
South Congregational Church
Court
President Streets
Avner 5
Haight
Robert Bagnell
Paul Fuller
Hill District
Baptist Temple
Third Avenue
Schermerhorn Street
Robert J. Wilkin
Arthur Brisbane
Frank Moss
Clinton Avenue Congregational Church
Clinton and
Lafayette Avenues
Charles C. F. Murphy
Theodore L. Cuyler
Park Slope District
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Seventh Avenue
St. John’s Place
Alfred G. Reeves
George A. Green
William L. Felter
Twelfth Street Reformed Church
12Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Eugene M. Travis
George Freidell
L. W. Brigham
Bedford District
Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church
Classon Avenue
Monroe Street
William ©. Redfield
Stephen S. Wise
W. S. Chase
Thomas J. Surplus
Marcy Avenue Baptist Church
Madison C. Peters
Alexander 5. Bacon
Ainslee Street Presbyterian Church
Ainslee Street
Manhattan Avenue
W. B. Gunnison
Alexander S. Bacon
Warren H. Wilson
George F. Elliott
East New York
Arlington Avenue Presbyterian Church
Arlington Avenue
Elton Street
Darwin R. James, Jr
J. D. Burrell
Michael J. Flaherty
Frank Harvey Field
South Brooklyn
South Reformed Church
Fourth Avenue
Sith Street
Samuel Rowland
Luther W. Emerson
John N. Beach
John G. Bacchus
Borough Park
Edgewood Reformed Church
53D Street
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Elmer G. Sammis
L. P. Armstrong
W. E. Mountener
George D. Beattys
Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge Presbyterian Church
11St Street
Second Avenue
Charles E. Teale
Frederick F. Shannon
Williamsburg
St. John’s Methodist Episcopal Church
Bedford Avenue
Wilson Street
Ludwig Nissen
J. ©. Wilson
Nacy Magee Waters
Hughes completes state budget bills in Albany
Governor Hughes finished work on the general appropriation bill for state departments and the supply bill to cover deficits. The Controller reports total appropriations this year at 29,593,872.14 dollars with 608,041.65 disallowed. A reappropriation of 1,000 dollars for building on the Comstock site leaves 29,034,530.49 dollars, up from 28,867,855.46 last year, an increase of 166,975.03. The committee earned praise for safeguarding the state's interests.
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Albany
Hughes
Comstock
Metz Dismisses Dr Pflug For Ties To McGuire Faction
Controller Metz dismissed Dr Charles J Pflug medical officer of the Department of Finance yesterday. Metz said he had seen Pflug only once in five weeks and questioned whether he had worked at all. A report claimed Pflug warned to break from William R McGuire Democratic leader in Brooklyn. Deputy Controller McCovey said he had not seen Pflug in five weeks.
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Charles J. Pflug
Department of Finance
Metz
Dr. Pflug
William R. McGuire
Brooklyn
McCarren
McCovey
One Man Fights Seven On Broadway In Tough Street Brawl
Chicagoan Louis C. Dillman, twenty six, arrived from Chicago and fought seven policemen on Broadway near 42nd Street watched by about a thousand. He was charged with intoxication at Tenderloin station after a lengthy scuffle following his removal from the Hotel Knickerbocker cafe by house detective William Reilly and staff. Dillman said he had not drunk for a long time before the incident.
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Broadway
42D Street
Tenderloin Station
Louis C. Dillman
West 35Th Street
Chicago
Alderman Richter
Dillman
Knickerbocker Café
William Reilly
Reilly
O'Connell
Nihall
McCullogh
Indictments Handed Up in Lamphere Case at Laporte
Laporte County Grand Jury returned seven true bills against Ray Lamphere charging arson five murders and an accessory in the Helgelein murder. Mrs Belle Gunness is indicted as principal in the Helgelein killings though declared dead by coroner verdict. A skull was unearthed in a chicken yard dig, and jewelry of May O Reilly linked to Rochester resident disappearance.
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Ind
Ray Lamphere
Laporte County
Belle Gunness
Andrew Helgelein
Mansfield
S. D
Gunness
Mack
Lamphere
Helgerein
Sheriff Smutzer
Chicken Yard
May O'Reilly
Troup Street
Rochester
Smutzer
Alleged Slayings Linked to South Bend Man
South Bend Indiana May 22 James Brimmingstall aged forty is jailed in Dowagiac Michigan charged with six murders and confesses to two. Police say he tried to murder his wife who escaped and notified authorities. He also confessed to killing a Kansas man and a Missouri pair, with years and locations noted. A separate entry in Leavenworth Kansas mentions John Grimbstone alias Grimbstall, convicted for murder in 1889 and later released from federal prison after transfer.
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South Bend
Ind
James Brimmingstall
Dowagiac
Mich
Kansas
Leavenworth
Kan
Lansing
John Grimbstone
Grimbstall
Coler sets impossible bids deadline for Brooklyn courthouse
Brooklyn Borough President Coler imposes two days to order steel and 79 working days to finish a project that normally takes two years. Estimated alterations cost 350000 to 500000 dollars. He may reject bids from those unable to meet the time limits.
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Kings County
Coler
Brooklyn
Jury Rules Against Claude Day in Affections Suit
The jury decided against Claude F Day in White Plains in a suit by Mrs. Charles H Turner over alleged alienation of his wife’s affections. Mrs Day testified to honeymoon expenses and self‑funded wedding costs. she left Day of her own accord and her parents did not entice her away. Mrs Turner denied objections to becoming a grandmother. DIES AS RESULT OF AUTO COLLISION. Atlantic City May 22 Mrs Samuel T Bailey widow of a Camden oilcloth maker killed in an auto collision with a train at May's Landing three weeks ago died today from injuries. The Baileys were returning from Cape May when their car was struck by the train.
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White Plains
Charles H. Turner
Atlantic City
Samuel T. Bailey
Camden
Pennsylvania Railroad
May’s Landing
Delmonico’s
Adeline Genée
Oscar Duryea
Julia May
Margarita Schile
Dorothea Duryea
Mile. Genée
Milo
Genée
Sylvia Judson
Zaida Pressinger
Riette Walter
Duryea
Edith Ellis Baker
Inquest Finds Poggi Guilty in Coney Island Shootings
The Coroners court in Brooklyn held an inquest into the deaths of Max Zwetback and Samuel Tietch after they were shot by Louis Poggi at Coney Island. The verdict found the two men dead and Carol Terry wounded by Poggi’s bullets. Police guarded Poggi as he was brought from Raymond Street jail and returned under guard.
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Louis Poggi
Coney Island
Coroners’ Court
Brooklyn
Max Zwetback
Samuel Tietch
Carol Terry
Poggi
Raymond Street
Barnard College Class of ’08 Plants Scarab on Noble Elm
Barnard College's class of 1908 held a quadrangle ceremony at Brooks Hall to attach its emblem the scarab to a noble elm overlooking the tennis courts. Miss Irma Alexander led the event witnessed by college and Columbia dormitory crowds as seniors sang the Tree Song and delivered the steps oration.
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Barnard College
Brooks Hall
Irma Alexander
Columbia University
Alexander
Adelaide Regna
Elizabeth Freeman Fox
Markets Report From The City Fruit And Produce Prices
West Indian fruit shipments arrive for spring as local gardens push out imports. Jersey asparagus at 30 cents a bunch. lima beans among last southern offerings. Bermuda parsley plentiful though beds slow. tropical parsley praised for flavor. Hot house cucumbers 10-15 cents. green corn premium at 150 a dozen. Fruits show strawberries 15-25 cents quart. California cherries 35 cents per pound. watermelons unchanged at 16. musk melons 125-150. hothouse grapes 2 per pound. apples 7 cents a dozen. Fish scarce shadowing due to cold, but abundant flounder 8c, sea bass 10c, perch 10c, weakfish 6-7c, bluefish 18c, halibut 15c, codfish rising.
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Jersey
Commission
Bermuda
New York
Epicures
Long Island
California
Market Prices for Seafood Meats Poultry Listed
The notice lists seafood and meat prices including lobsters at low cents per pound, soft shell crabs five cents a dozen small, one dollar large. lamb leg sixteen cents per pound, chops at sixteen cents. prime rib eighteen or sixteen cents, sirloin and porterhouse eighteen, fresh ham twelve and a half, poultry sixteen cents per pound.
Uses of Ribbon Inspire Spring Shirtwaist Fashion
The bengaline and black satin ribbons with pointed ends and fringe create a sharp finish for shirtwaists paired with tailor made skirts. Velvet ribbon remains key in dainty neckwear, while skilled hands craft quaint knotted ties and bows. The fashion trends hint at home employment for women either for pleasure or profit.
Protective apron with half sleeves and optional yoke
Describes a protective apron pattern for busy women with half length sleeves that can be drawn on easily. It notes the garment is full and ample and can be made with or without the ornamental yoke.
Tissue paper pattern No. 6001 mailed for 19 cents
The pattern No. 6001 for a work apron is offered in small medium and large sizes. It lists fabric widths 7% yards 24 74 yards 27 or 3% yards 3% inches wide. Send 19 cents to Pattern Department New York Tribune with pattern number and size clearly stated.
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New-York Tribune
Find Woman Somnambulist's Body Near Norwich
The body of Nellie M. Williams, missing since March 13, was found in the river below the village. She had been visiting S. A. Marshall in Norwich and was known to suffer somnambulism, leading authorities to believe she wandered into the water while asleep.
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Norwich
Nellie M. Williams
Miss Williams
Cazenovia
S. A. Marshall
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