Pirates on the Sound Police Arrest Five Men
Greenwich Connecticut officers with Rye and Mamaroneck police seized five suspects and twelve boats or engines after weeks of informants. Key figures include Elmer Jones charged in South Norwalk and Captain John Arnold Beatty from City Island. Boats and fittings stolen from several local owners were recovered on Hen Island off Mamaroneck.
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Tribune
Greenwich
Conn
Ritch
Andrew Talbot
Rye
Mamaroneck
Port Chester
Hen Island
Elmer Jones
South Norwalk
Jones
Jonathan Dan
George
Otis
John Arnold Beatty
John Ike
Bean
City Island
Jonathan Bean
George Bean
Otis Bean
Lena Siegman
Byram Shore
James F. Lasher
Byram
Beck
Dr. Frink
Wilson's Cove
Norwalk
Jekyll and Hyde Case In Brooklyn Arraignment
John Dammers of East 31st Street Flatbush was arraigned in the Adams Street police court after a Utica Avenue car incident. Police describe him as a respectable man with a rogues gallery record and an automobile used to aid young shoplifters escape. His 16 year old daughter Winnifred was arrested for shoplifting and sent to the Children's Society. An older woman and another girl implicated Winnifred's influence.
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Adams Street
John Dammers
Davis
East 31St Street
Flatbush
Jekyll and Hyde
Utica Avenue
Winnifred
Children's Society
Strike leader Murphy arrested on assault indictment
Murphy, chair of the taxicab strikers committee and a top strike figure, was arrested on an assault in the second degree indictment issued after a grand jury. Det Walsh placed him under confinement at West 68th Street station following the Washington Hall arrest. The alleged assault targeted strike breaker Gebney on October 10.
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Murphy
Court of General Sessions
Washington Hall
Eighth Avenue
Th Street
Walsh
West 68Th Street
Gebney
Brooklyn Patrolman Arrested For Saloon Open On Sunday
Patrolman Carl H. Luerssen was arraigned before Magistrate Furlong at Gates avenue court and held for examination on Thursday after keeping his Broadway and Kosciusko street saloon open on Sunday. Two bartenders faced $1 bail each. Luerssen faced excise charges and a history of about sixty complaints since joining in 18%.
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Carl H. Luerssen
Broadway
Kosciusko Street
Williamsburg
Furlong
Gates Avenue
Luerssen
Titanic and Olympic to Join New York Southampton Service
White Star Line announc es that steamers Titanic and Olympic will enter the New York Southampton service in 1911 with a length of 30 feet. They will exceed Mauretania and Lusitania in length beam and tonnage but Cunard Line’s turbine ships will keep the speed record at 22 knots.
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White Star Line
Titantic
Olympic
New York
Southampton
Cunard Line
Concert in the Auditorium at 2 P M
Today's concert features Mrs Viola Waterhouse soprano Miss Lillian Snelling contralto with Mr Hans Krorold cello Mr Paul Dufault tenor Mr Andreas Schneider bass and Mr Arthur Depew organist in the auditorium at 2 PM
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Viola Waterhouse
Lillian Snelling
Hans Krorold
Paul Dufault
Andreas’ Schneider
Arthur Depew
Aerial Line Takes Step Toward Boston to New York
The Aerial Navigation Company led by Charles J. Glidden contracts Captain Thomas Baldwin to build a dirigible for Boston to South Framingham service. The first airship, expected by May, will seat two or more passengers and carry freight up to 550 pounds with a plan to expand toward New York and Albany.
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Boston
Thomas
Baldwin
United States
Aerial Navigation Company
Charles J. Glidden
New York
Framingham
Worcester
Brookfield
Springfield
Albany
South Framingham
Army Department
Suffragists Receive $10 000 Donation Boosts Appeal
In Buffalo the National Woman Suffrage Association seeks to raise funds amid a convention crisis. A $10 000 check from Mrs Catherine B Lewis boosts the drive, as Anna Shaw faces delegates over financing and an afternoon program shift follows.
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Buffalo
National Woman Suffrage Association
Anna H. Shaw
Shaw
Catherine B. Lewis
Mery T.L. Gannett
Rochester
Maude FE. Miner
New York City
Caroline Lexow
New York
Laura Gregg
Kansas
Woman rescues horses from Blair summer estate fire
Fire at Joseph A. Blair's summer home near Chittenango destroys a barn carriage house and garage with nineteen horses inside. Miss Lillian Hitchcock saved all but one horse by guiding them to safety. Incendiary origin suspected and substantial losses to carriages sleighs autos grain valued at about $60,000 with $15,000 insured. Blair related by marriage to W Gould Brokaw of New York.
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Syracuse
Joseph A. Blair
New York City
Chittenango
Lillian Hitchcock
Madison County
Blair
W. Gould Brokaw
New York
RUSH TO PROSECUTE FARMERS AND DROVERS BANK CASHIER
Washington October 10 depositor representatives urged President to have J B F Rhinehart tried for abstracting 1.3 million dollars from the Waynesburg bank. Justice Department to investigate. prosecutors fear statute of limitations may bar actions. Rhinehart trial scheduled for January 4, 1900, with bonds posted.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
N. W
United States
Dunkle
Department
Pittsburg
J. B L. F. Rhinehart
Farmers and Drovers’ National Bank
Waynesburg
Penn
Young
Rhinehart
Harry G. Watson
Allegheny National Bank
William Montgomery
Tornadoes Kill Four in New Mexico and Kansas
Four people died near Clayton New Mexico after a tornado and cloudburst last night. Twenty others were injured with three possibly dying. The Union County courthouse, costing 40000 dollars, was wrecked and many houses destroyed. The Colorado and Southern Railroad suffered heavy losses and the town lost its water system. Separately Sharon Springs Kansas recorded two tornadoes that damaged three homes and injured many, one likely fatally.
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Clayton
N. M
N. H. Haight
J. S. Fox
Union County
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Sharon Springs
Kan
Belmont estate fire threatens Hempstead villa blaze on Meadow Brook grounds
A large fire swept Hempstead Plains threatening Brookholt villa the country seat of Mrs. C. H. P. Belmont. The blaze started in the Meadow Brook Club area in the morning with a strong north wind driving flames across roads and toward the Joshua Barnum property adjoining Mrs Belmont. Firefighters fought the flames late into the night aided by a big force.
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Brookholt Villa
C. H. P. Belmont
Hempstead
Long Island
Hempstead Plains
Meadow Brook Club
Joshua Barnum Place
Colonnade Burns at Chautauqua Grounds
Fire at the Colonnade on the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds destroys the building and its mail laden post office, stamps, and the entire November Chau tauquan edition. Estimated losses total $125,900.
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Jamestown
N. Y
Chautauqua Assembly
United States Post Office
Fire in Hemlock Tops Threatens Town
Forest fires continue as a hunter allegedly threw a lighted match on dry hemlock tops. Scores of men fight flames with water sand and switches. Fire Warden Stevens plans dynamite if fire crosses the road near farms and river bank. A heavy pall of smoke covers the town.
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Stevens
Forest fires rage across Berkshire and Green Mountains region
Thick smoke covers western Massachusetts and southern Vermont as fires burn hundreds of acres of timber. Hoosac Mountain and Bald Mountain near Woodford face major blazes with hundreds of men, including Williams College students, aiding efforts near Bennington.
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North Adams
Mags
Berkshire Mountain
Massachusetts
Green Mountains
Vermont
Hoosac Mountain
Florida Mountain
Buckland
Bennington
Bald Mountain
Woodford
Willams College
Forest Fire Threatens Staten Island Towns
A forest blaze near the Oakwood and Great Kills areas on Staten Island was likely ignited by a locomotive spark from the Staten Island Railway. Wind carried flames westward, coming within twenty feet of homes before volunteers and Tottenville firemen, aided by residents, brought it under control by 9 PM. It marked Staten Island’s first large forest fire in over twenty years.
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Oakwood
Great Kills
Staten Island
Staten Island Railway
Giffords
Great Kilts
Tottenville
Manhattan
Murky Harbor Weather Delays Waterway Traffic
A dense pall of dust fog and smoke from forest fires upstate New Jersey and New England hung over the harbor yesterday. Shipping men blamed the northwest wind for delaying waterway traffic as forecasters warned of continued poor visibility.
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New Jersey
New England
Weather Summary Warns of Fog and Smoke Delays
Hazy harbor conditions caused by fog and smoke delayed ferry traffic though no services were suspended. October rainfall remains low with only 0.22 inch vs the 2.70 inch average. A high pressure system over the St Lawrence Valley brings clearer, cooler weather and northeast winds today.
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St. Lawrence Valley
Mercury
Forty One Dead in Michigan Forest Fires
Alpena Michigan October 19 The verified dead in the Presque Isle and Alpena forest fires stands at forty one with several missing and fears of greater loss in Pulaski and Crakow townships. Six bodies were found in Pulawski including Mrs Herman Erke and children. Mrs Willam D Rose skeleton found near Ocqueoe. Back firing evidence shows a desperate fight for life. Over sixty families were said to be stranded along Lake Huron shore in northern Pulaski and Crakow with little word. A farmer and wife and four children sought refuge on a boat near Grand Lake and have not been heard from. Grace Harbor also silent. From Posen to Thagensville twenty eight farmers wiped out. Total houses destroyed in Presque Isle Alpena and Montmorency counties over three hundred.
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Alpena
Mich
Presque Isle
Pulaski
Crakow
Pulawski
Herman Erke
Willam D. Rose
Ocqueoe
Lake Huron
Grand Lake
Posen
Hines
Grace Harbor
Here
Thagensville
Montmorency
Illnois Banker Sees Savings Shift To Securities
John J. Mitchell of Illinois Trail and Savings Bank says the big drop in savings deposits nationwide largely moved into bonds and good stocks at low prices. He notes many securities yield 7 to 8 percent and argues savings logically go into securities as deposits shrink. He adds railroad interests and Harriman show improving conditions and predicts a peaceful retirement for Harriman if changes occur.
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John J. Mitchell
Illnois
Mitchell
Erie
Island
Alten
Wr. Herrimann
Hill
Preferred Stockholders and Hudson Companies Signaling Issue
The preferred stockholders and the Hudson Companies were to take up a recent issue of 5,000,000 dollars for three years at a fixed rate. Subscriptions from foreign stockholders and others are still awaited, with assurances of success from bankers based on descriptions received. The issue is secured by 150 percent of par value first mortgage bonds of the Hudson and Manhattan Rail Road Company. The preferred stockholders remain at par.
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Hudson Companies
Hudson & Hattan Railromt Company
Bureau Report Sealed Until Post Election Release
A bureau report previously withheld was released after the election. Earlier remarks by a bureau officer criticized the President's policy on the amalgamation of the engineer corps with the line of the navy, sparking attention.
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Engineer Corps
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