Night Rider Habeas Corpus Case Near Union City
Telegraph report from Union City Tennessee details a habeas corpus petition for Reverend E L Watson’s brother William Watson facing Night Rider turmoil. Governor Patterson defends legal bounds while noting arrests, cut telegraph lines, and a tense push to restore order as Colonel Tatum commands troops at Camp Nemo.
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Wren City
Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Company
Rios
Trenton
Kenton
Biobile & Ohio Railroad
Postal Telegraphs Company
Union City
Memphis
Reelfoot Lake
Frank Ferrino
Herschel Hogg
Wad” Morris
Camp Nemo
Gbion Ty
Mobile
Hindley accuses railroad leaders of conspiracy against him
Missouri Attorney General Hindley leveled sensational charges alleging that top officials of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad conspired to oppose him and influence employees to vote against him in the governor’s race. He claimed the accusations are direct and undeniable and urged public awareness.
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Tribune
Jefferson City
Hindley
Missouri
St. Louis
St. Louis & San Francisco
San Francisco
Aliens Count Bursts Through Ellis Island Immigration
Two thousand six hundred twenty three aliens reached Ellis Island yesterday from six steamers. A Southampton message said Kaiserin Auguste Victoria sailed with 1054 steerage passengers. The Cedric and Cretic of White Star, Samland of Red Star, Pretoria and Luise of Hamburg America, and Lusitania from Liverpool carried arrivals amid hopes of rising immigrant flow.
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Ellis Island
Immigration Bureau
Southampton
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
Hamburg
President Grant
White Star
Cedric
Liverpool
Cretic
Naples
Red Star
Samland
Antwerp
Pretoria
Lloyd Line
Cunarder Lusitania
Farman's Swift Flight Finishes Twenty Miles in Twenty Minutes
October 30 Mourmelon France Henry Farman completed a direct twenty mile flight to Rheims in twenty minutes without mishap. He ascended at 4 PM and reached Rheims by 5 PM amid wind that hindered engine work but left steering easy. He flew at 120 to 150 feet for much of the distance and held a three hundred foot height at times before returning to Mourmelon. In Le Mans Wilbur Wright's engine failed during a morning test but he landed safely and continued demonstrations after repairs.
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Mourmelon
France
Henry Farman
Rheims
Farman
le Mans
Wilbur Wright
Wright
Mr. Wright
Orville Wright Plans Return Home From Fort Myer Hospital
Orville Wright, confined at Fort Myer for six weeks, plans to leave soon and return to Dayton aided by crutches. Full use of his left leg will take months, and a year or more before he resumes aeroplane flights. Wilbur will likely finish Fort Myer flights to meet government contract. Orville plans to work on new ideas and supervise a Dayton machine build to replace the one wrecked on September 17.
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Washington
Dayton
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Steamer Luckenbach Fire Off San Juan Arrives With Hold Burning
The S V Luckenbach arriving from New York to San Juan in late October kept a fire burning in holds one and two and coal bunkers. Thirty one passengers and crew were saved with help from the Red D Line Philadelphia acting as convoy. Fire not yet opened for inspection.
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San Juan
P. R
S. V. Luckenbach
New York
Sandy Hook
Philadelphia
McLean
Droege Report Filed On Magistrate Otto Droege Case
William H. Willis, appointed referee by the Appellate Division, filed a report in court detailing the supplementary charges against City Magistrate Otto H. Droege. The referee’s findings favor the magistrate, noting unlawful discharges but downplaying full responsibility, while the Appellate Division has not yet ruled. The report includes a table of magistrates’ discharges from 1897 to 1908, highlighting sixteen unlawful discharges by Droege and suggesting broader practice rather than sole blame.
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William H. Willis
Supreme Court
Otto H. Droege
Crarge
The
Bar Association
Droege
Ex-Consul August Lieberknecht Charged With Embezzlement
A warrant is issued for ex consul August Lieberknecht formerly United States Consul at Zurich for ten years until October 1. He is accused of embezzling 2643 dollars in interest from an estate in Switzerland left to Mrs Henrietta Heine of Manhattan. The estate belonged to Oscar C Brumberger who died after a fall in West Hoboken last May.
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August Lieberknecht
United States
Zurich
Switzerland
Lieberknecht
Henrietta Heine
East 120Th Street
Manhattan
Oscar C. Brumberger
Heine
West Hoboken
Baltimore Lawyer Charged with Theft at Theatre
Thomas R. Clendinen, prominent Baltimore lawyer and politician, was arrested tonight as he left the Maryland Theatre with his bride of six weeks on a larceny charge. Jewelry and money valued at about $1,000 were reportedly taken from Mrs. Nora A. Cameron.
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iBy Telegraph
the Tribune
Baltimore
Thomas R. Clendinen
Maryland Theatre
Nora A. Cameron
Formalities At Amoy As Navy Arrives For Welcome
Amoy on October 30 sees Rear Admiral Emory and the second Atlantic Fleet squadron land amid a formal welcome by Prince Yu Lang and Liang Tun-yen. Sixteen hundred sailors roam the town while entertainment remains spare. only sixty British passes and limited Chinese guest access spark some resentment. The fleet, escorted by Chinese torpedo gunboat Fei Ying, forms in harbor with salutes as officers exchange cards with Chinese commissioners. Baseball and football teams prepare for fleet championship games as patrols secure the shore and no access to the native city is allowed. Peking officials send greetings by telegraph to the American fleet.
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Amoy
Emory
Prince Yu Lang
Liang Tun-yen
Foreign Board
Imperial
Young Men’s Christian Association
Tai-Tan Island
Fei- Ying
Louisiana
William H Emory
Patton
Culgoa
Sah
Dalwigh
Niobe
First Squadron's Trip to Olongapo From Connecticut
The first squadron of the Atlantic battleship fleet sails in latitude 17 north longitude 120 east about 140 miles from Olongapo. They expect arrival at 8 o clock tomorrow morning. Weather has been fine since leaving Japan. The ships continue squadron evolutions and target practice prep. Wireless contact will be kept with Manila during the stop at Olongapo.
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U. S. S. Connecticut
Manila
Olongapo
Japan
Boston Steel Officials Fined in City Contract Case
Boston officials David H Andrews of Boston Bridge Works and Charles N Fitts of New England Structural Company pleaded guilty to collusion in obtaining city contracts. Each paid a 1000 dollar fine and 5000 dollars to the city for extra profits. The case involved five structural firms and followed a Finance Commission report cited by President Roosevelt urging tougher corporate prosecutions.
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Boston
David H Andrews
Boston Bridge Works
Charles N. Fitts
New England Structural Company
Boston Finance Commission
Roosevelt
Congress
Insurance ouster suit targets seventeen companies in Arkansas
In Little Rock on October 30, the state’s Attorney General Kirby filed a circuit court suit naming seventeen insurers. The action seeks cancelation of licenses and penalties totaling 1,190,000 dollars for alleged violation of a law banning rate fixing agreements with agents. Named defendants include National Fire of Hartford, Hartford Fire, American Central, Orient, Fire Association of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fire, Spring Garden, German American, Citizens of St Louis, Pelican of New York, Girard Fire and Marine, Insurance Company of North America, Caledonian, Fireman's Fund, German Alliance, Queens of New York, and Royal of Liverpool.
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Little Rock
Ark
Kirby
National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford Hartford Fire Insurance Company
American Central Insurance Company
Orient
Lawyer Flichner Sentenced. Rodenbeck Implicated in East Side Assault
William H. Flichner a lawyer at 106 Wall Street was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary by Judge Crain in the Court of General Sessions after a grand larceny conviction. A crowd assault left George Levett a chauffeur badly injured and Rodenbeck of 6 Amsterdam Avenue was arrested as the man who hired the cab. Frank McCracken the bartender at 160 Hight Avenue saw his case dismissed after the complainant Charles Brady failed to appear. magistrate Butts stated the matter would be handed to the District Attorney.
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William H. Flichner
Wall Street
Crain
Court of General Sessions
Flichner
George Levett
East 724 Street
George Rodenbeck
No 6
Amsterdam Avenue
Rodenbeck
East 72d Street
Frank McCracken
No. 160
Highth Avenue
Charles JD Brady
Jefferson Market Court
Butts
Mrs Goulds Trips Links to Diversion Evidence in Divorce Case
Testimony in the Mrs Katherine Clemmons Gould vs Howard Gould divorce case details Elijah W Sells aiding in obtaining affidavits from Doody Tripp and Flint and others. Sells says he gave Mrs Gould 20000 for Wabash bonds and Missouri Pacific shares. June 1905 claims contradict alleged intoxication. Daughter Marjorie Sells testifies on Mrs Goulds drinking and travels with Gould party including Dustin Farnum and Eleanor Robson. Boston report notes Dreamwold visit to Thomas Lawson estate by Mrs Gould and Marjorie Sells with Lawsons secretary confirming farm admission card.
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Elijah W. Sells
Katherine Clemmons Gould
Howard Gould
Edward G. Whitaker
Mr. Sells
Gould
Isaac Tripp
Herbert Flint
Vito Milo
Chicago
Lord Royston
London
Blue Gap
Virginia
Castie Gould
Sells
North Castle
Miss Sells
Mrs. Gould
Hartford
Dustin Farnum
Philadelphia
Boston
Marjorie Sells
Thomas W. Lawson
E. F. McSweeney
Lawson
SISTER WANTED AS CREDITOR IN $34,350 SUIT
Mrs. Charles Levee faces a $34,350 suit from her brothers William and Alan Hawley in Supreme Court. Alan Hawley testified he gave notes totaling $25,400 to his sister for security amid the risk to their family business. William Hawley backed the notes and claimed earnings from the Hawley firm helped fund the family mortgage. Levee denied a speculative account with margins of 2.7, asserting no such activity since March 1891.
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Charles Levee
William
Alan R. Hawley
Justice Erlanger
Supreme Court
Hawley
Ditch Street
William Hawley
Police anger over Bingham demand for Benevolent Association records
Lieutenants captains and inspectors protested Commissioner Bingham’s order to turn over the Lieutenants Benevolent Association books papers and documents. Ex Captain Hodgins obtained a Supreme Court injunction delaying compliance and the case was postponed to November 10 as ex Captain Hodgins and other retirees vow to fight the move.
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Bingham
Lieutenants’ Benevolent Association
Bill” Hodgins
Supreme Court
Richard E. Enright
Hodgins
Enright
Piolice
Nutley Man Shoots Self in Greenwich Street Hotel
A man thought to be J. N. Smith of Nutley New Jersey registered at Smith and McNeils Hotel on Greenwich street yesterday afternoon and shot himself. Coroner Harburger reported letters indicating Smith was connected with the Consolidated Stock Exchange or its members. He left cards showing Nutley Lodge F and A M membership and noted service in the Spanish American War and Fortnightly Club membership.
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J. N. Smith
Nutley
N. J
Smith & McNeil's
Greenwich Street
Harburger
Smith
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Nutley Lodge
A. M
Ladies day at Union Square meeting for Taft election
A noon gathering by the Commercial Travellers' League at No 37 Union Square celebrated Ladies’ Day with mounted policemen, red satin coats, and speeches by Miss Helen Varick Boswell and Henry P Atwood praising women’s influence. The event supported Governor Hughes’ re election and urged women voters to participate at the Woods School polling site on election day.
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Commercial Travellers’ League
League
Union Square
Alexander Shephard
Helen Varick Boswell
Woman's Republican Organization
Mr. Atwood
Abraham Lincoln
William Grant Brown
West End
Woman's Republican Club
Hughes
Adelaide Stedman
Boswell
Golden Gate
California
New York
Harlem Equal Rights League Urges Women to Vote for President
The Harlem Equal Rights League invites the women of greater New York to vote for President, signaling organized civic mobilization and an assertion of suffrage influence in the upcoming election.
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The
Harlem Equal Rights League
Greater New York
War on suffragists forms national civic education league
The League for the Civic Education of Women, organized last spring under Mrs Richard Watson Gilder, has incorporated as a national body to study civic questions from an anti suffrage view. It plans branches in every state, lectures in New York, and informal talks at the MacDowell Club. The office at Madison Avenue coordinates literature and information, with a motto of Truth and fairness.
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League For the Civic Education of Women
Richard Watson Gilder
New York
Berkeley Theatre
Ith Street
Lyman Abbott
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
MacDowell Club
Metropolitan Opera House
League
Madison Avenue
Gilbert Jones
Jones
National League For the Civic Education of Women
Eleanor G. Hewitt
William A. Putnam
Samuel Untermyer
Julian Heath
Emil Kuichling
Andrew Carnegie
Grover Cleveland
Markets teem with pumpkins and autumn produce in Washington
Halloween sales boost pumpkin demand in Washington Market as cauliflowers fetch 5 to 20 cents and pumpkins 2 to 30 cents each. Prices spread across fruits and vegetables including endives 40 cents per pound, hothouse tomatoes 3 ½ cents per pound, and a wide range of apples, pears, nuts, and seafood reflecting seasonal supply and import costs.
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Washington
Belgium
Spitzenberg
Oregon
California
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E. L. Watson
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Tid” Burton
Tiptonville
Goph
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Coloniel Tatum
Attorme
D. J. Caldwell
W. H. Swiggart
Felix W. Moore
United State
Ty Miles
Tatum
Patterson
Lawlesness
Quentin Rankin
R. Z. Taylor
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Ifo
Mr. Hadley
Sir
Garpet
THOS
J. Stewart
Bway
46Th St
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Erie
Sth St
Rane
Finelite
Wahle
Steinert
Sweetzer
Breene
Whitman - Crane
Finn
Cornell
Baker
Barlow Walsh
House Kernochan O- Corrigan
Herrman - Harris Butts
Tighe Eerete Jugxinbotham
Geismar Ase
Oorhees Teehee
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Peking
STEEL
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Fitts
Arkansas
City News
Witness
Atlantic City
Benevolent Association
Bill’' Hodgins
Gane
the Woods School
125Th Street
Seventh Avenue
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Maud Malone
Martha Williams
Anna A. Maley
Mary Jensen
Lavina Leitch
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