Commons Make War on Lords
In Hull and Manchester speeches, Mr. Balfour backs tariff reform as the party line while rejecting any compromise with the Lords over the budget. Echoes rise of Asquith and Redmond predicting resignations or battles in Parliament as Irish leaders push for terms. The Irish land bill passes Lords with amendments. a committee is formed to seek a House compromise.
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Walter Runciman
Board of Faucation
Hull
Asquith
Gladstone
Balfour
Manchester
Talfour
House of Lords
John E. Redmond
Irish Party
Dublin
Ireland
Lords
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Uniontet
Belfour
Lord Lanedowne
Steed
Augustine Birrell
Nickel Steel Bridge Contract For St Lavie
The American Bridge Company won the contract to build a new municipal bridge over the Mississippi at St Lavie using 11.482? tons of nickel steel. The project cost about 1 75 0 percent of the era. Carnegie Steel will supply the steel, with Bethlehem Steel not bidding. Merlintee Marshall and Pennsylvania Free competed but higher bids limited them.
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Triteune
Pittsburg
American Bridge Company
Mississippi River
St Lavie
Carnegie Steel Company
Bethleehem Steel Company
Rick Steel
Merlintee-Marshall Construction
Pennsylvania Free Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
BIRD S M GUIRE DIVORCED
Mrs Anna Mat tingly McGuire obtained a divorce from Rep Bird Segle McGuire of Oklahoma on grounds of incompatibility. She supported his campaigns and helped win his first nomination, having married him in Redan Kansas.
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the Tribune
Guthrie
Okla
Anna Mattingly McGuire
Bird Segle MeGuire
Oklahoma
McGuiire
Metjuire
Redan
Kan
Two Pedestrians Hit by Touring Car in Central Park
Jacob Sterling of 62 East 98th Street suffered a fractured right leg after a large touring automobile struck him and A D Marks of 1568 Third Avenue while crossing East Drive in Central Park. James Martine of 354 East 116th Street was jailed for highway law violation and assault. George Clark of 282 West 34th Street jailed for disorderly conduct.
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Central Park
Jacob Sterling
East 98Th Street
A. D. Marks
Third Avenue
Sterling
Marks
Jones
Arsenal Station
James Martine
No. 354 East 116Th Street
George Clark
No. 282
West 34Th Street
Drexel Student Arrested in Black Hand Letter Plot
Perry Ralph Minnick a nineteen year old Drexel Institute student was arrested in Philadelphia on a charge of writing threatening letters to D. T. Walker demanding 550 under death penalty. Police say he admitted the demand was to finance his college education. Bogus money order receipts were used to trap him as he went to cash them at the central post office.
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Philadelphia
Perry Ralph Minnick
Drexel Institute
Here
D. T. Walker
Minnick
Von Billow Death at New Orleans in River Jump
Edward von Billow, cousin of German Prince von Billow, died by suicide in the New Orleans river. He had lived in the U.S. twelve years, married in 1902, and fathered two children. A note on the body ordered delivery to his widow. He had worked in the federal revenue service and had been jailed on concubinage charges before disappearing.
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the Tribune
New Orleans
Edward von Billow
Prince von Billow
Germany
von Rilow
von Biilow
Federal Revenue Service
Fatal Auto Crash in West Springfield Kills Man
A car driven by J. Lewis Perkins of Holyoke crashed into a tree on Riverdale Road in West Springfield around midnight. One man, likely from Holyoke, was killed and two others, William B. Reid an architect and H. F Prebern a paint dealer, were fatally injured.
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Springfield
Mass
J. Lewis Perkins
Holyoke
Riverdale Road
West Springfield
William B. Reid
H. F Prebern
Wreck Kills Engineer in Newark Freight Collision
Two heavy freight trains collided near Frelinghuysen avenue Newark killing Charles Anderson 35 of Jersey City the westbound engineer buried under wreckage. Three others injured pitched through the air. Cause sighted as a broken gondola section ripping into an eastbound coach. cars burned as they left the rails.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Frelinghuysen Avenue
Newark
Charles Anderson
Maple Street
Jersey City
Anderson
William Hodey
W. T. Gommery
George Keneer
Mrs Sage to Host Thanksgiving Feast at Pierson High
Sag Harbor November 17 Mrs Russell Sage plans a Thanksgiving Day feast for Pierson High School students inviting all eight hundred pupils to the auditorium. She also pledged to establish an industrial school for girls as an adjunct to the Pierson High School Beocool.
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Pierson High Beocool
Sag Harbor
Mrs. Sage
Brennan Monorail Gyroscopic Car Test in England
First photographs show the Brennan monorail gyroscopic car during a recent English test. Reported results promise a revolution in railway methods and could transform future transit systems.
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Brennan
England
Monorail trial heralds gyroscope car for rail speed
Rail men discuss Louis Brennan C B monorail demonstration before the Royal Society of England. A 22 ton car using two gyroscopes and a 40 foot length showed stability on a single wheel line, with a projected safe speed near 150 miles an hour.
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Paul Thompson
Louis Brennan
C. B
Royal Society of England
Brennan
Society
War Office
Chatham
Roosevelt biggest American known worldwide says Watterson
Henry Watterson editor of the Louisville Courier Journal tells reporters at the National Press Club that Theodore Roosevelt is the best known and most popular American in Europe. He predicts large city receptions in London Paris and Berlin and warns of factions within the Republican Party over Roosevelt renomination.
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Tribone Bureau
Washington
National Press Club
Henry Watterson
Louisville Courier-Journal
Theodore Roosevelt
Watterson
Europe
Roosevelt
Grant
London
Paris
Berlin
Taft
Buchanan
Douglas
Democratic Rtg
Aft
Democratic Party
Clarion
J J Storrow Named Citizens Mayor Candidate in Boston
James J. Storrow Harvard athlete and banker was chosen by the Committee of One Hundred and Fifty as the Citizens' candidate for Boston Mayor under the new city charter plan. The committee formed a permanent Citizens' Municipal League to sustain the effort and the campaign is expected to begin soon.
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Boston
James J. Storrow
Harvard
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Joseph H. O'Neill
United States
John F. Fitzgerald
George A. Hibbard
Frederick J. Brand
Aldermen
United Action
Charles 8. Hamlin
the Treasury
Richard Olney
Citizens’ Municipal League
Snowslide Sweeps CP Freight Into Fraser River
A Canadian Pacific freight train emerging from a tunnel was struck by a snow slide near North Bend. The locomotive and four cars plunged down a 50 foot embankment into the Fraser River. The engineer is believed drowned. The fireman escaped by jumping. Two other crewmen were injured. An eastbound passenger train missed the slide by about 30 minutes.
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North Bend. B
Canadian Pacific
Fraser River
Jerome Promotes Aide Trio In Final DA Actions
District Attorney Jerome Surprise promotions elevate Karl Miner to full assistant at 7500 a year and advance Robert Manly and Mason Trowbridge in the District Attorney's office effective December 1. The moves, aimed at reshaping the staff before Whitman takes over, spark questions about loyalties and tenure.
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Jerome
Charles S. Whitman
Whitman
Karl R. Miner
Robert E. Manly
Mason Trowbridge
Miner
Oliver Street
Big Tom” Foley
Criminal Courts
Foley
Mr. Foley
Delmonico
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany
the Tribune
Tammany 'Tall
Pardon Petition Pleads Sheriff Shipp Case in Georgia
Residents of Rising Fawn Georgia sign a petition to President Taft seeking a pardon for ex Sheriff Joseph Shipp and co-defendants. The letter argues the sentence would endanger women and inflame ignorant and irresponsible African Americans in the South.
Zelaya Declares End to Nicaraguan Revolution
San Salvador reports from Managua that President Zelaya has practically ended the rebellion, with fighting now limited to Bluefields and surrounding areas.
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San Salvador
Managua
Zelaya
Germany Braces as Snowstorm Cuts Wires Nationwide
A great snowstorm sweeps Germany causing widespread disruption. Berlin reports telegraph and telephone wires down across the country making domestic messages impossible.
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Berlin
Germany
A Jersey Canal Proposed To Link Delaware River And Atlantic
Washington reports Secretary Meyer envisions a deep New Jersey canal from the Delaware near Philadelphia to the Atlantic to enhance Navy readiness and provide an export outlet. He plans to present the plan to the Naval Affairs Committee this winter, noting potential vast commercial benefits.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
New Jersey
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Atlantic Ocean
Meyer
League Island Navy Yard
Delaware
Committee On Naval Affairs
Death in Mirror at West 158th Street Barbershop
James Grecco owner of a six story building barber shop found a body in the courtyard after hearing a clothes bundle fall. The dead woman was identified as Mrs Caroline Eckstein wife of traveling salesman Albert Eckstein who was away in Seattle. Mrs Eckstein had been bedridden and under medical care, and her mother Mrs Caroline Gaisel confirmed the identity.
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James Grecco
West 158Th Street
Hadeen
Dr. Scholer
Washington Heights Hospital
Greece
Caroline Gaisel
Caroline Eckstein
Child Loses 81 900 In Till Robberies Case
In Pittsburg Nevada Henry Sliskin a shoe dealer learned his eleven year old son Leonard had stolen from his till since July 4. Leonard confessed to regularly taking coins from the till and to gambling away more than 1000 at three local candy stores. Police raided the stores and arrested the proprietors.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Nev
Henry Sliskin
Frankstown Avenue
Leonard
Damages in Odd Suit Against Bell Telephone
William H. Rocap, a Philadelphia newspaper man, won $5,000 damages from Bell Telephone Company in Common Pleas Court for injuries at the Country Club on June 21 1906. A ball of fire struck his telephone booth during a violent thunderstorm as he telephoned polo report, hurling him 25 feet and leaving him unconscious for hours and bedridden for days. He claimed negligence.
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Telegraph
Tribune
Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court
William H. Rocap
Bell Telephone Company
Country Club
Recap
Duchess Dowager Consuelo Yanaga in critical state
Consuelo, Duchess Dowager of Manchester, formerly Consuelo Yanaga, is in a critical state in London after a period of serious illness. No other major details are provided about her condition or prognosis.
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Consuelo of
Manchester
London
Consuelo, Duchess Dowager of
Consuelo Yanaga
Congress Sugar Inquiry Opposed by Cabinet and Press
Washington report says lawmakers skeptical of a congressional probe into New York customs frauds and the Sugar Trust. Cabinet members MacVeagh and Wickersham favor continued executive inquiry to clean the customs service, arguing only federal prosecutions can effectively pursue guilty parties.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Congress
New York
New Yor
Senate
House
MacVeagh
Wickersham
Customs Service
Post Office Department
Tribune
Congressional
Department
Executive
Secretary of the Treasury
Attorney General
Port of
Department of the Treasury
Department of Justice
Committee of Congress
Treasury Department
Cole Lector Loeb
Stimson
Mr. MacVeagh
Wilbur F. Wakeman
Port of New York
Reynolds
Wakeman
Mr. Wakeman
Lyman J. Gage
Gage
Havemeyer
Ite
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Mr. Balfour
Iirish
Nickel Steel
Bird S. M’guire
Mrs. Okla
Homa
Ponda
Broadway
Autoin Park
von Buelow
Prince
Maillard
Spencer's
Maiden Lane
J.J. Storrow
Court of Appeals
Walker
Ahearn
Commissioners of Accounts
William H. Walker
Francis P. Garvan
Manly
Trowbridge
Shipp
Georgia
President Taft
Salvador
Nicaragua
Empire
Jersey Canal
Death IN Mirror
Dowager III
Dewey's
Tene & Sons Co
Fulton St
MacVeagh and
Treasury
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