Conners and Ely tied to broad New York electric franchise
A Buffalo based analysis reveals William J. Conners and W Caryl Ely hold substantial stock in the New York Powers Securities Company, owner of a state wide franchise via the Economic Power and Construction Company. The Public Service Commission probes its rights and compliance as it pushes to open streets without local consent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Conners
Democratic State Committee
W. Yi Ely
Buffalo
Julius Henry Cohen
Hughes Allice
Public Service Commission
Hughes
Roswell P. Flower
New York Powers Securi- Company
Economic Power and Construcon Company
Wilhm J. Conners
W. Caryl Ely
Blic
New York Powers Securities Company
Buffa
New York City
24 District
Ecomic Power and Construction Company
Economic Powers Construction
Herbert P. Bispell
Powers Securiy Company
Public Fire Commission
Supreme Court of Erie County
Po- Department of Buffalo
Publi Service Commission
Public Service Comvision
Economic Power Couny
Economic Power Company
Mittee
Conners
Ely
Bissei
Supreme Court
Ir Conners
Mr. Ely
Mr. Bissel
Mr. Ners
Democratic Party
William F. Sheehan
Wiliam Sulzer
Senate
Amaca J. Parker
Albany
Pneumatic Power and Construction Company
New York Powers Securi
Roosevelt to Lecture in England and Paris in 1910
The Times reports President Roosevelt plans to visit London and Paris after Africa in 1910. He would deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford and receive the D C L at the university. Mrs Roosevelt would join him at Khartoum for the journey northward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Times
Roosevelt
England
Oxford
William
the Times
Paris
Sorbonne
Khartoum
Lincoln
Duck cost two lives in Minnesota River tragedy
Mrs Otto Sall and her husband drowned while hunting near Montevideo Minnesota after she waded too far into the Minnesota River to retrieve a wounded duck. The couple disappeared Tuesday morning and were found later by a searching party in fourteen feet of water along the riverbank. A boy found clothing and two shotguns on the bank but did not report it until the next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Montevideo
Minn
Otto Sall
Minnesota
Bridge Trains Stopped On Brooklyn Bridge Fire Delays
A grounded feed wire sparked a fire under the Fulton and Sands street platform delaying Brooklyn Bridge elevated trains for twenty minutes. Water failed to quell the blaze initially and current was cut off as sand was spread on the flames. Captain Murthat opened emergency gates at 6 25 to allow passengers to resume travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bridge
Fulton and
Sands Streets
Murthat
Record Heat Event Reflects Unseasonable October Surge
The city experienced near record heat with 83 degrees at 2 30 p m marking one of October s hottest readings. Last year s same day reached 64 degrees. A sailor from Bombay received treatment for heat prostration at Presbyterian Hospital as heat season appeared temporarily transferred. Temperature exceeded Key West by five degrees and Galveston by nine with 50 percent humidity at 8 a m, similar to summer norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Hospital
Bombay
Key West
Galveston
Negro shoots two in Brooklyn as crowd mauls attacker
Walter Hill of 127 Western street shoots two men on a Bergen street car in Brooklyn after refusing to pay fare. Henry Rilliakoff of 383 Myrtle avenue and John Chant of 650 Park Place are wounded. Chant is in critical condition. Hill is beaten by a crowd before police arrive. both victims sent to Seney Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hill
Western Street
Brooklyn
Henry Rilliakoff
Bergen
Myrtle Avenue
John Chant
Park Place
Hill
Albany Avenue
Billiakoff
Bedford Avenue
Union League Club
Nash
Bergen Street
Chant
Seney Hospital
Crossing Ocean to Vote for Taft Election Entry
Robert Walton Goelet sails from Paris to vote in the Presidential election for the Republican ticket. He plans to return to France to oversee improvements at his newly purchased chateau and host a large Christmas gathering for friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Newport
R. IL
Robert Walton Goelet
Paris
France
Taft Appeals to South in Tennessee Campaign
William H. Taft, first Republican to court the solid South, drew courteous, attentive crowds in Tennessee as he urged gradual GOP appeal to Southern Democrats. His Chattanooga speech, in a conversational tone, drew praise for politeness over declamation and noted Republicans praising the South’s traditions while previewing a longer strategy to win loyalty. Continued on second page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Bristol
Tenn
William H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Taft
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
South
Chattanooga
Representative Moon
Bryan
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Fifteen Die on Burning Relief Train Near Metz
Alpena Michigan October reports a relief train carrying Metz villagers fleeing forest fires derailed at Koniecnzy Crossing. Fifteen killed, eleven of them women and children. four more fatalities in nearby wreck and homes. Fire raging, survivors recount harrowing escape as crew and townsfolk rushed toward safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Alpena
Mich
Detroit & Mackinaw
Koniecnzy Crossing
Metz
Here
Frederick Wagner
Frederick Nowicki, Jr
Hawks
Government by Commission Regulation protects gas and electric consumers
The piece argues for Public Service commissions as a safeguard for gas and electricity customers. It contrasts pre regulation with post law outcomes, noting a fair 84 cent gas rate and avoided duplicate pricing. It cites costs of the 80 cent gas law and praises regulation over unfettered legislative action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Kaiser Backing Austria Signals German Military Support
Budapest reports Emperor William sent an audience to German Ambassador von Tschirsky to convey approval of Austria Hungary annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. The German Emperor promised not only diplomatic backing but military assistance if required, marking his first reply to Francis Joseph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Herr von Tschirsky
William
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Germany
Francis Joseph
Austria-Hungary
Abruzzi Buys Jewels Before U S Visit
The Duke of the Abruzzi will soon depart Italy for the United States. He has bought several pieces of jewelry and given jewellers new orders, believed to be wedding gifts. In Milan the King urged awaiting royal consent for his marriage to Katherine Elkins, but the duke remains determined to wed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke
Italy
The
United States
Turin
Abruzzi
Milan
Katherine Elkins
Miss Elkins
Tug hits Albany boat on North River collision injures fireman
The steamboat New York of the Albany Day Line was struck by the tug William H. Flannery off West 34th street while descending the North River at 615 p m. James Charles a fireman aboard the tug fell into the water and was rescued by the New York Central tug No 12. Captain Harcourt reported the incident and Captain Stephen O Brien of West Side police arrested tug captain Thomas M Farrell on intoxication and criminal negligence charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albany
North River
William H. Flannery
Flannery Towing Company
West 34Th Street
James Charles
New York Central
No. 12
Harcourt
Stephen O’brien
West Sith Street
Thomas M. Farrell
American Girl Flees With Poet in Seventeen Year Old Miss Morgans Escape
Asheville reports seventeen year old Fayetta Morgan daughter of J L Morgan of Marion N C fled with W P Craig a prematurely gray poet who wooed her into marriage plans. They traveled from Florence to Paris where a ceremony was planned but canceled. A cable said they boarded a steamer home. Mr Morgan pursued through New York and Italy and a friend rushed to stop the parent from greeting his daughter at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Fayetta Morgan
J. L. Morgan
Marion
Paris
America
W. P. Craig
Florence
Mr. Morgan
Italy
Craig
Miss Morgan
New York
Woman in Decatur Abandons Newborn at Railway Station
Miss Alice Lewis, eighteen from East St Louis, delivered a son in a Decatur station and throws the child onto the boulevard. The baby was found alive and cared for. Lewis was located later and arrested, saying she acted in a hysterical state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Alice Lewis
East St. Louis
Objects to Theatrical Influence Causes Custody Move
Boston on October 16 reported that Tom Pierce took his four year old son from his recently divorced wife who had been living at Mamaroneck New York. He objected to the wife associating with theatrical people and cited the influence on the boy as the reason. He brought the child back to the Topsfield house and placed him with his sister.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Tribune
Boston
Tom" Pierce
Mamaroneck
N. Y
SHE MARRIED THE WRONG MAN
Pittsburg October 16 Arthur Orr son of James P Orr general freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad went to Seilin s Grove Penn a few days ago to attend the marriage rehearsal of a friend Miss Maude Eichelberger of Lewisburg Pa was present and they agreed to go through a mock ceremony to gether A justice of the peace was summoned and amid much hilarity the words were pronounced which made the couple man and wife The justice did not know that there was any mock business about it and had the marriage recorded in regular fashion in the bureau of vital statistics and it has been decided that it holds Miss Eichelbergers prostrated She was engaged to another young man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Pittsburg
Arthur Bb. Orr
James P. Orr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seiin’s Grove
Penn
Maude Eidhgelberger
Lewisburg
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Eichelbergers
Railroad Tariff Filed For 3 Cent Passenger Rate
Little Rock Arkansas October 16 The St Louis and San Francisco Railroad filed a 3 cent passenger rate tariff with the Arkansas commission today. Other main lines of Arkansas are expected to file similar tariffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Morse Bank Lend Big Sums to Clerks in Ice Stock Deals
Trial details reveal Morse Bank advanced hundreds of thousands to clerks Davison Brown and Leslie E. Whiting of Primrose & Braun, financing speculative American Ice Securities holdings. Prosecution shows net bank profit of 132409.12 from Ice stock plays while loans vanished and reappeared amid the 1907 panic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bank of North America
Morse-Curtis
Hough
United States District Court
United States
Stimson
Davison Brown
Leslie E. Whiting
Primrosé & Braun
No. 43
Exchange Place
Morse Brokers
American Ice Securities Company
Brown
Whiting
Brown and Whiting
Edward P. Moxey
Department of Justice
Moxey
John R. Walsh
Chicago
William M. K. Olcott
Olcott
American Ice
United Copper
John F Carroll
Tammany Hall Fame
Calvin Austin
Consolidated Steamship Lines Company
Philip J. Britt
Mr. Morse
John K. Elliott
Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company
Wesley M. Oler
Mercantile National Bank
Morse
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Wolds
Robert L Frvier
William K. McFarlin
East Orange
Wiliam Hamlin
A Robinson
Broadway
Newark
Robert E. Powers
St. James Place
L. Jones
Ashland Avenue
John Bord Thacher
Edward McMaster Mills
East Aurora
Harry T Ramsdell
Soll
Vernor Hughes
Public Service Commissions
Washington
Upper Nile
Mr. Roosevelt
Negro
Brooklyn Union League Club
Ocean
Robert W. Goelet
Louth
Michigan
John E. Kinville
William Foster
Arthur Lee
William Barrett
Barrett
Foster
Kinville
Posen
James White
John Nowicki
Albert Hardies
R. S. Richards
Bay City
George Boston
Mr. Boston
Chanler
Long Acre
New York Edison Company
Kaiser
Austria
Stork
Miss Lewis
Arkansas
Morse Bank
Ice Securities Co
John F. Carroll
Hend
R Hudson
West Point
Yale
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