Night Riders Laws Captured at Reelfoot
Union City reports a copy of the Reelfoot Night Riders constitution and bylaws was found and will go to the grand jury. The document claims national reach, mandates 6 percent loan caps, bans black labor after July 1909, orders black residents to leave under death penalty, and fixes profits and wages. The group reportedly split into upper and lower squads with meetings in Protemus Samburg Bogus Hollow areas.
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Union City
Tenn
Reelfoot Night Riders
Rankin
Grand Jury
Night Riders
Obion County
Night Rider
Reelfoot Night Rider
Big Woods
Protemus
Samburg
Bogus Hollow
Spout Springs
Gibbs
Dyersburg
Burton
Camp Nemo
Patterson
Nashville
Matilda Ressaker
Rassaker
Frost Traction Tangle A Bankrupt Chicago & Milwaukee line
A startling audit reveals misused funds in the Frost traction case. Arthur Young & Co. report to the Frost receivers shows 1 512,?54.00 spent on the road amid inflated debts. Frost enterprises and Alaska Central Railway connections surface in the tangled misallocation.
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Tribune
Chicago
A. C. Frost
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railway
Arthur Young & Co
Peter 5. Grosscup
Frost
A. C. Frost & Co
Frost Enterprises
Alaska Central Railway
Seilang
Pastor Bellinger Called to St Agnes Chapel in NYC
In Utica on Oct 29 3 the Rev Dr W W Bellinger rector of Grace Episcopal Church received an unsolicited call to St Agnes Chapel in New York City. He arrived in Utica eight years ago from St Marys Brooklyn and did not decide tonight whether to accept. St Agnes Chapel ranks among Trinity Parishs key chapels and former Trinity rector Dr William T Manning was once its vicar.
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Utica
W. W. Bellinger
Grace Episcopal Church
St. Agnes’s Chapel
New York City
Bellinger
St. Mary's Church
Brooklyn
St. Agnes’s
Trinity Parish
William T. Manning
Morgan Dix
Trinity
Tailor Karenswit Robbed by Four Men on Bayard Street
Joseph Karenswit, a tailor at 57 Bayard Street, was robbed of about $206 by four men after a sale of trousers. He followed them to a station, describing the assailants to Lt. Murray. Police believe they can locate the Tebbers.
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Bayard Street
Joseph Karenswit
Shekels
Karenswit
Karenscit
Cat
Elizabeth Street
Murray
Hai
Tebbers
Brooklyn League Seeks More High Schools in Borough
The Brooklyn League discussed urging the Board of Education to build three additional high schools in Ridgewood Best New York and South Brooklyn. It also called for more classrooms as annexes and for expanded instruction in commercial industrial and academic branches to train first class housewives.
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Brooklyn League
Board of Education
Ridgewood
Best New York
South Brooklyn
Parkhurst Honored at Gotham as He Forms New Path After Resignation
Officers of the Society for the Prevention of Crime gathered at the Hotel Gotham to honor Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst on his retirement after seventeen and a half years as president. He will serve as a director, praising his church work and endowment while denying any board dissent. The event featured speakers including Justice John W. Goff and Chancellor MacCracken, and Mrs. Parkhurst attended. Separately, Elijah W. Sells testified in Kathrine Clemmons Gould v. Howard Gould, detailing Mrs. Gould’s past alcohol use, personal ties, yacht trips, and a Virginia farm purchase, with testimony to continue.
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Hotel Gotham
Charles H. Parkhurst
Frank Moss
Parkhurst
Trey
Society For the Prevention of
Nicoll
John W. Goff
de Lancey Nicoll
Hughes
MacCracken
Abbott E. Kittredge
Thaddeus D. Kenneson
Joseph N. Halleck
Frank Mason North
Elijah W. Sells
Haskins & Sells, Public Accountants
Edward G. Whitaker
Justice Bischoff
Supreme Court
Kathrine Clemmons Gould
Howard Gould
Sells
Europe
Tariff Revision Work by Auburn Experts Near End
William K. Payne chairman of the Ways and Means Committee joined by Major H. M. Lord and Thomas J. Doherty lead Auburn’s tariff revision team. They will go to Washington for final classification with New York and D.C. experts. Hearings on each schedule will be set after the election.
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Auburn
William K. Payne
Serena E. Payne
Ways and Means
House of Representatives
H. M. Lord
Thomas J. Doherty
New York
Customs Department of the Treasury
Federal Building
Washington
Payne
Congress
George E Wolf Killed by Mad Carabao in Manila
George E. Wolf renowned merchant and resident partner of Castie Brothers, Wolf & Sons in Manila, died after being gored by a mad carabao while hunting last Saturday. Wolf, formerly of San Francisco, helped establish a major American trading house exporting hemp and copra and importing machinery and goods. The carabao, a heavy water buffalo, is noted as a burden in the islands.
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Manila
George E. Wolf
Wolf
San Francisco
Castie Brothers
Wolf & Sons
Mr. Wolf
Philippines
London
New York
Sydney
Islands
Jersey City Man Arraigned on Fourteen Counts
Paul C. Schreyner, 34, of 319 Palisade Avenue Jersey City Heights, faced Magistrate House in Harlem court charged with fourteen complaints. Held in 3000 bail for trial. He allegedly feigned coughing fits to lure room seekers then stole items. previously acquitted in Brooklyn County Court on an attempted burglary charge and rearrested after leaving Raven Street jail.
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Paul C. Schreyner
Palisade Avenue
Jersey City Heights
Harlem Court
Magistrate House
Schreyner
Brooklyn
Dike
Raymond Street
Branden burg brought to city on grand larceny charge
Broughton Brandenburg arrived with Detective Fitzimmons after extradition waivers in Ohio. In General Sessions Court he pleaded not guilty to second degree grand larceny and was held on 1500 dollars bail. Attorney Williams said the Cleveland letter’s authenticity matters for the campaign and Brandenburg will prove its genuineness.
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Dayton
Ohio
Cleveland
Fitzimmons
District Attorney's Office
Brandenburg
Rogues’ Gallery
Court of General Sessions
Foster
Joseph W. Williams
No. 22
Broadway
Fire in Neave Building Injures Dozens in Cincinnati
A blaze swept the eleven story Neave Building at Fourth and Race streets injuring more than twenty people, with at least ten sent to hospitals. Women crouched on window ledges as fire engines battled flames. A dressmaker named Louise Boute leaped to an adjacent roof, badly injured, while a hoseman fell from a ladder, also seriously hurt. Firemen contained the fire within minutes.
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Cincinnati
Neave
4Th
Race Streets
Louise Boute
Two Students Branded During Fraternity Initiation
Six Poly technic High School students were suspended with three more at risk after branding two Los Angeles High School pupils with nitrate of silver during a Kappa Delta initiation. Lusk bore K D on his forehead, Rouse showed 09. Both endured red scars. boys were stripped, bound in wire shackles, and thrown into Westlake Park lake before fleeing to a nearby house.
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Polytechnic High School
Kappa Delta Fraternity
Sho
Frank Rouse
Edgar Lusk
Lusk
Rouse
Westlaxe Park Lake
Race Across Continent Balloons Planned From Los Angeles
Captains A. E Mueller and Horace B. Wild prepare to launch the two balloons United States and America in a cross country race starting from Los Angeles. They flown earlier from St Louis Chicago St Paul and Columbus and forecast a world record. Mueller expects a coastward upper current to San Diego County Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi Valley while Wild sees a route over mountains to Salt Lake Basin then northeast into Canada.
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A. E Mueller
Horace B. Wild
United States
America
St. Louis
Chicago
St. Paul
Columbus
Mueller
San Diego County
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi Valley
Captain Wild
Salt Lake Basin
Canada
Weather Enthusiasts to Fly Kites at Morris Park Exhibition
In cooperation with Professor Willis S Moore of the Weather Bureau the Morris Park track hosts an Election Day display of flying machines, kites, and meteorological balloons. Professor A J Henry leads demonstrations on weather forecasting and upper air study with assistants. Aerial feats include catapult launches of gliders, balloon ascents, parachute returns, and a Scientific American cup contest for fifteen miles. Entrants include Curtiss Aerial Experiment Association Silver Dart, Stanley Y Beach’s horsepower aeroplane, and Wilbur R Kimball’s helicopter. Prizes await winners of aero and motorcycle events held concurrently.
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United States Weather Bureau
Morris Park Racetrack
A. J. Henry
Wright Brothers
Aeronautic Society
Glenn H. Curtiss
Aerial Experiment Association
Silver Dart
Stanley Y. Beach
Wilbur R. Kimball
Bridge Switches Cut Brooklyn Bridge Traffic
Interlocking switches at the New York end of the Brooklyn Bridge failed at 6 22 PM causing no elevated trains to depart for fifteen minutes. Switches were restored at 6 37 PM and traffic resumed. Heavy crowds due to bad weather filled platforms as gates closed during repairs. Trolley cars were not affected.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Scalding Steam Spurs Fireman Jump From Express Engine
A defective fire in the locomotive drawing the express leaving Grand Central for Poughkeepsie scalded engineer W Suttr and fireman Henry Wen. Wen, blinded by steam, jumped from the cab at sixty miles per hour and was found in a ditch later taken to Dobb's Ferry Hospital. Passengers transferred to a second train.
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Poughkeepsie
Henry Wen
W_ Suttr
Wen
Dobb's Ferry
Dinner for New Catholic Knights Honors Mulry and McMahon
A Café Martini dinner last night celebrated Thomas L. Mulry and the Rev. Dr. Dennis J. McMahon for their knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory by Pope Pius. Attendees included Herman Ridder Patrick F. McGowan Archbishop Ferley and Monsignori Lavelle Hayes and Mooney. Mulry leads the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank and McMahon runs Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.
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Thomas L. Mulry
Dennis J. McMahon
Order of St. Gregory
Pope Pius
Farley
Herman Ridder
Patrick F. McGowan
Archbishop Ferley
Monsignori Lavelle
Hayes
Mooney
Mulry
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Dr. McMahon
Catholic Charities
Archdiocese of New York
Jail Inspector Dr Shirley Brage Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Montgomery Alabama October 26 Dr Shirley Brage state jail inspector and nephew of General Braxton Bragg shot and killed himself today at age fifty five investigation pending whether intentional or accidental.
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Ala
Shirley Brage
Gener
Braxton Bragg
Bribery on Bribery in Ruef Case Heard in Court
In San Francisco on Oct 29 E A B Blake a contractor faces sentencing after conviction for attempting to bribe John M Kelly to serve on a Ruef trial jury and vote to acquit Ruef. Blake testified of a $10,000 offer from Ruefs associate counsel and of a $100 monthly payment to his wife. he also described an earlier $1,000 offer from Ruefs lawyers to sway Kelly. The testimony caused shock in court and the sentencing was postponed for two weeks.
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Blake
John M. Kelly
Abraham Ruef
Ruef
Frank J. Murphy
A. O. Newburgh
F. J. Murphy
Kelly
Keily
Burglars Return Miss Perkins Heirlooms From Express
Morristown reports burglars who robbed the Misses Perkins on 4th Street last Friday morning sent back a prepaid package from New York. The bundle included a gold locket with ancestral hair, their mother's wedding ring, an amethyst cross, rosary beads, and about fifty old English coins. Police will work with Wells Fargo to identify the sender.
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Morristown
Perkins
Express Company
Paymaster Otto Ermel pleads guilty in theft case
Otto Ermel paymaster of Laden Leather Works in Glen Cove admitted stealing $9,000 over several years in County Court. After an accountant reviewed records he returned $3,200 in cash and a $2,000 car. He was remanded to jail and faces sentencing Saturday before Judge Jackson.
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Mineola
Long Island
Otto Ermel
Glen Cove
Jackson
Ermie
Andrews Wins Columbia Title In Lawn Tennis Final
W. 8. Andrews defeated A. 8. Moses 6 0 4 6 6 4 6 4 to win the Columbia University singles championship at South Field yesterday. Andrews, former Cambridge captain, used a rapid service and cross court drives to overpower Moses. Management plans a six man match with Yale this Saturday in New York, boosted by additions Moses and Peiser.
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Columb University
South Field
Moses
Cambridge University
Columbia
Yale
New York
Peiser
Langford O Brien Bout Postponed Exhibition by Keyes and Griffin
The boxing bout between Sam Langford and Philadelphia Jack O’Brien scheduled for the National Athletic Club tonight was postponed. Bert Keyes and Charley Griffin of Australia will instead present an exhibition for club members.
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Sam Langford
Philadelphia
Jack” O’brien
National Athletic Club
Bert Keyes
Charley Griffin
Australia
Rogers to Extend Virginia Road
It is reported that Henry H. Rogers owner of the Virginian Railroad plans a Roanoke to Flood Court House road of about twenty miles to tap mineral and timber lands. The line may eventually connect with the Southern Railway at a yet unspecified point.
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Roanoke
Henry H. Rogers
Virginian Railroad
Norfolk
Court House
Southern Railway
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