Conners Tied to Blanket Charter in Electric Franchise
William J. Conners, Democratic State Committee chair, and associate W. Ely are named as large stockholders in a company linked to a statewide electric franchise. The New York Powers Securities Company, owner of the Economic Power and Construction Company, seeks authority to operate street by street across New York State, sparking a Public Service Commission inquiry in Buffalo into rights, stockholders, and the controversial franchise established under 1893 legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Conners
W. Jlly
Buffalo
Julius Henry Cohen
Hughes Allisee
Public Service Commission
Hughes
Blic Records
New York Powers Securities Company
Buffa
New York City
Eco- Fr Power and Construction Company
New York Powers Securit Company
Economic Power Construction Company
Iit
Philadelphia
Teons
Herbert P. Bisll
Powers Securit Company
Public Commission
Supreme Court of
Erie County
Po- Department of Buffalo
Comoil
Economic
Economic Power Company
Mittee
Conners
W. Caryl Ely
Ely
Bissel
Supreme Court
Mr. Ely
Verner Hughes
Legis Sure
Public Service Commissions
Roswell P. Flower
Willam F. Sheshan
Wiliam Sulzer
Senate
Amasa 3
Parker
Albany
Pneumatic Power and Construction Company
Plunkitt
New York Powers Securi
Long Acre
New York Edison Company
Roosevelt to lecture in England and Paris in 1910
The Times reports President Roosevelt will visit England after his African trip to deliver the Romanes lecture at Oxford and receive the honorary degree of D. C. L. He is also to speak at the Sorbonne in Paris with Mrs Roosevelt joining him at Khartoum. Dates and topics are not set.
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London
The
Times
Roosevelt
England
Oxford
William
the Times
Paris
Sorbonne
Khartoum
Lincoln
Washington
Upper Nile
Mr. Roosevelt
Duck Cost Two Lives in Minnesota River Tragedy
Mrs Otto Sall and her husband perished while retrieving a duck she had winged during a hunt in the Minnesota River Montevideo Minn October 16 The couple drowned in fourteen feet of water after a struggle to reach shore A boy found clothing and two shotguns on the river bank but waited to report until the next day A searching party later recovered the bodies
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tribune
Montevideo
Minn
Otto Sall
Minnesota
Bridge Trains Stopped Twenty Minutes on Brooklyn Bridge
A grounded feed wire sparked a fire beneath the wooden platform at Fulton and Sands streets causing elevated trains to halt for twenty minutes during the evening rush. Water failed to quell the blaze, current shut off, sand spread, and Captain Murthat opened emergency gates at 6:25 to release stalled passengers.
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Brooklyn Bridge
Fulton and
Sands Streets
Murthat
Record Heat Shatters October High
The city reported 83 degrees at 2:30 p m making it one of the hottest October readings. Last year the day reached 64 degrees. Surgeons at Presbyterian Hospital noted a temporary shift in summer conditions while treating a sailor from Bombay who arrived recently. The local max topped Key West by five degrees and Galveston by nine. Humidity was 50 percent at 8 a m, typical of summer.
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Presbyterian Hospital
Bombay
Key West
Galveston
Negro shoots two in Brooklyn streetcar incident
Walter Hill of West 27th Street shoots two men in Brooklyn after refusing to pay fare on a Bergen Street car. Henry Rilliakoff and John Chant are wounded. Hill is injured by a crowd. Chant is listed in critical condition at Seney Hospital.
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Walter Hill
West 27Th Street
Brooklyn
Henry Rilliakoff
Bergen
Myrtle Avenue
John Chant
Park Place
Hill
Albany Avenue
Billiakoff
Bedford Avenue
Union League Club
Chant
Nash
Bergen Street
Seney Hospital
Crossing Ocean to Vote for Taft in Newport
Robert Walton Goelet sails from Paris to vote for the Republican ticket in the Presidential election. After voting he returns to France to oversee improvements at his newly purchased chateau and plans to entertain a large party of friends during the Christmas holidays.
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The
Tribune
Newport, R. I
Robert Walton Goelet
Paris
France
Taft Appeal Well Received in the South
William H. Taft, first Republican candidate to campaign in the solid South, drawn friendly crowds in Tennessee. He spoke in Chattanooga to about four thousand, half Democrats, noting the South’s tradition and his aim to win loyalty gradually. A Chattanooga boy’s interrupting cheer for Bryan drew a civil rebuke from Taft. The trip emphasized cordial Southern reception and a conversational, non combative style.
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Tribune
Bristol, Tenn
William H. Taft
Mr. Taft
Taft
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
South
Chattanooga
Representative Moon
Bryan
Fifteen Die On Relief Train Near Metz in Michigan Fire
Fifteen persons perished when a relief train carrying Metz villagers fleeing forest fires was ditched near Koniecnzy crossing south of Metz. Aboard were refugees, including eleven women and children, who burned after rails spread. Two crewmen died. four more fatalities occurred nearby. Survivors describe heat, flames, and frantic escapes as the crowd moved toward Posen for aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Alpena, Mich
Detroit & Mackinaw
Konnecnzy Crossing
Metz
Here
Frederick Wagner
Frederick Nowicki, Jr
Alpena
Hawks
Koniecnzy Crossing
Barrett
Foster
Kinville
Posen
James White
John Nowicki
Albert Hardies
R. S. Richards
Bay City
George Boston
Mr. Boston
Government by Commission. Consumers gain from public utilities regulation
The piece argues that Public Service law protects gas and electricity consumers. It cites past unregulated pricing, notes the 80-cent gas law cost to the state, and claims the commission would set fair rates, prevent overcharges, and spur consumer benefits such as improved service. It challenges Chanler’s wish to abolish regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chanler
Public Service Commission
Mr. Chanler
Kaiser backs Austria in Bosnia annexation pledge
Budapest Oct 16 The German Emperor William sent an audience to Ambassador Herz von Tschirsky presenting a letter of approval for the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and promising firm support. He is the first sovereign to reply and his stance includes possible military aid if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Budapest
Herz von Tschirsky
William
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Germany
Francis Joseph
Austria-Hungary
Abruzzi to Visit U S as He Buys Jewels
The Duke of the Abruzzi will soon depart Italy for the United States and has ordered more jewelry likely as wedding gifts. In Milan the King urged awaiting royal consent for his marriage to Miss Katherine Elkins, but the duke remains determined to wed.
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Duke
Italy
The
United States
Turin
Abruzzi
Milan
Katherine Elkins
Miss Elkins
Tug collision on North River injures fireman James Charles
At 6 15 p m yesterday the steamboat New York of Albany Day Line collided with the tug William H Flannery off West 34th Street. Fireman James Charles was thrown into the water and rescued by the tug New York Central No 12. The New York sustained minor damage. Captain Harcourt alleged crossing bow miscue while Captain Stephen O Brien at West 34th Street Police arrested Tug captain Thomas M Farrell on intoxication and criminal negligence charges.
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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 Poetic Lover To Paris
Miss Fayetta Morgan, seventeen, daughter of J L Morgan of Marion North Carolina, has run away with W P Craig a young poet. They traveled from Florence to Paris where a marriage was planned but a ceremony was blocked. Morgan pursued them to New York and Italy. a cable says Miss Morgan sailed home to America on a steamer with her chaperon reporting the elopement.
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Tribune
Asheville
N. C
Fayetta Morgan
J. L. Morgan
Marion
Paris
America
W. P. Craig
Florence
Paris. Mr. Morgan
Italy
Craig
Miss Morgan
Mr. Morgan
New York
Woman Hysterical Clinches Baby Throwing Incident at Train Station
In Decatur Illinois on December 16 Miss Alice Lewis eighteen of East St Louis gave birth at a railway station. She wrapped the newborn in her skirt and flung the child onto the boulevard then vanished. The healthy baby was found alive and cared for. Lewis was later located and arrested admitting hysteria as the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
Ill
Get
Alice Lewis
East St. Loui
Pierce takes son from ex wife over theater influence
Boston Oct 16 Tom Pierce has removed his four year old son from his recently divorced wife who had been living at Mamaroneck New York. He alleges objection to Mrs Pierce’s association with theatrical people and their influence on the boy. 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
Arthur B. Orr, son of a rail executive, joined Maude Eichelberger in a mock marriage at Seiin's Grove Penn. A justice of the peace, unaware of the spoof, recorded the ceremony as real. Miss Eichelberger is prostrated and was engaged to another man.
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Tribune
Pittsburg
Arthur B. Orr
James P. Orr
Pennsylvania Railroad
Seiin's Grove
Penn
Maude Eichelberger
Lewisburg
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Eichelberger
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. The other main lines of Arkansas will file similar tariffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
Arkansas Commission
Arkansas
Morse Bank Loans To Clerks Spur Trial Allegations
In the Morse-Curtis trial before Judge Hough, evidence exposed hundreds of thousands in so called dummy loans at the National Bank of North America. Loans to clerks Davison Brown and Leslie E. Whiting were used to fund American Ice Securities Co. stock bets, with a net bank profit cited at 13240912. The proceedings highlighted opaque transactions, collateral notes, and later puzzling stock write offs and restatements as witnesses testified under DoJ scrutiny.
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National Bank of North America
Morse-Curtis
Hough
United States District Court
United States
Stimson
Davison Brown
Leslie E. Whiting
Primrose & 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
Ing
Negro
Brooklyn Union League Club
Ocean
Robert W. Goelet
Louth
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Southern Railroad
Michigan
John E. Kinville
William Foster
Arthur Lee
William Barrett
Kaiser
Austria
Stork
Miss Lewis
Morse Bank
Ice Securities Co
Hend'k
Hudson
West Point
Yale
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