Lawyer in Newark arrested for grand larceny
In a Newark case linked to Frank C. Helm, a lawyer was seized by Detective Nelson on a grand larceny in the first degree charge. The arrest follows John F. Douthitt a decorator and art dealer reporting a note swindle of 25000 dollars connected to cobalt mining ventures and discounted notes. The hearing continues and Jacobs fights counsel access as Justice Blanchard presides. Department scrutiny focuses on forged telegrams and the Duluth angle as Jacobs remains jailed on a related charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank C. Helm
Blue Ridge Enamel Brick Company
Newark
Nelson
John F. Douthitt
No. 2
West 2Th Street
E. Crosby Kindleberger
Jacobs
Douthitt
Fifth Avenue
Thomas A. Brush
Ocean Avenue
Brooklyn
Cobalt
Canada
Frederick H. Wilmont
Lexington Avenue
Duluth
Minn
Wilmont
Wolcott Hotel
West 31St Street
Wolcott
Begs City Debt Limit Inquiry Opens in Library
General Benjamin F. Tracy began public sessions to determine New York City's debt limit. The hearing followed an injunction blocking a $2,800,000 Fourth Avenue subway appropriation. Finance staff and auditors answered questions while Cas sidy committee members observed and legal counsel appeared for injunctive parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Tracy
New York City
Library of the
Corporation Counsel's
Board of Estimate
Fourth Avenue
Finance Department
Cassidy
Louis Bedell
Phillips
Metz
Pendleton
Hahlo
Robert F. Wagner
Jefferson M. Levy
General Tracy
Borough
Ten policy sentences heard in crowded General Sessions
The campaign against policy playing yielded results as Judge Swann in General Sessions convicted twenty three of twenty nine case defendants. Ten were players, including two women, Mary Nicolese and Ada Black, who pleaded guilty to policy slips. Fines of 15 dollars were imposed, with 25 dollars asked, many unable to pay and remanded for fifteen days. Ada Black granted recognizance to avoid jail lest her ten month old baby suffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swann
Paris
Belgium
Garvan
Mary Nicolese
Ada Black
Eldridge Street
Thirty Year Old Suit Closed Against Butler
United States Attorney Stimson announced the death of Civil War hero General Benjamin F. Butler and urged termination of a thirty year old case. The 1878 suit by John H. Lester sought 100000 damages for false imprisonment. A verdict for Butler was returned in 1887, a second suit began but was never tried. Lester is presumed dead. records remain in the U S Attorney office awaiting court action pending record search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin F. Butler
United States
Stimson
General Butler
John H. Lester
Lester
United States Attorney's Office
Circuit Court
Negro School Strike Over Mixed Education Ruling
Alton Illinois on September 9 news reports nearly all Negro students boycotting white schools to enforce the state Supreme Court decision in favor of mixed schools. Seventy five pupils were refused admission as term began, with many more turned away today. Police kept order as mothers pressed for entry. Only twenty six of four hundred Negro pupils attended Negro schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Alton
State Supreme Court
Douglass
Lovejoy
Auto Kills S I Boy in Street Collision
Richard Agar, wealthy importer of the city, drove an automobile into a group of four playing boys injuring two and killing Henry Schumacher aged five of Brook street. The dead boy and two injured were taken to Smith Infirmary. Bennett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Agar
Tompkins Avenue
Hyatt Street
St. George
Mr. Agar
Smith Infirmary
Henry Schumacher
No. 7
Brook Street
Jack” Perine
No. 4
Elmer Meyer
Agar
Cahill
Handy
New Brighton
Jersey City Woman Shoots Husband to Protect Mother
Mrs Mary Bedell of Linden Ave Jersey City says she shot her husband Stephen Bedell after he attacked her mother. He lay wounded with three bullets in the neck and was taken to City Hospital in critical condition. She is held awaiting word on the outcome and claims self defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Bedell
Linden Avenue
Jersey City
Ocean Avenue
Fifth Avenue Widening Discussed by Association
At the Holland House meeting the Fifth Avenue Association executive committee appointed five members led by Robert Grier Cooke to oversee actions on widening Fifth Avenue from 14th to 47th Street. Property owners must remove encroachments by January 1, with possible extension discussed. Committee includes Curtis Bell, William P. Sackett, Simon Brentano, J. H. Burton, and William M. Kendall of McKim Mead & White.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue Association
Holland House
Robert Grier Cooke
Fifth Avenue
14Th
47Th Street
Curtis Bell
William P. Sackett
Simon Brentano
J. H. Burton
William M. Kendall
McKim, Mead & White
Association
Mildew Devastates Champagne Vineyards Yield Plummets
Mildew has ruined vineyards across the champagne region, reducing expected production from 45 million to about 2.9 million bottles. Growers face a loss nearing twenty million dollars as crops are practically destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rheims
Champagne
Army and Navy News: Gun Batteries and Warship Movements
Washington reports on machine gun batteries as a separate command to enhance efficiency. Manoeuvre camp notes praise new medical gear including a compressed bandage field desk and field chest. Army orders list officer transfers and leaves. Navy reports arrivals at Bradford and Guantanamo, with multiple vessels sailing from Newport, Detroit, and Chinwangtao to Buzzard’s Bay, Port Arthur, and Erie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune Bureau
Washington
War Department
Cuba
Army Medical Board
Frank W. Coe
Coast Artillery
Claudius M. Seaman
James W. Clinton
12Th Infantry
Fort Jay
James P. Harrison
Edwin D. Kilbourne
Medical Corps
Fort Brady
Philippines
Daniel W. Hand
Fort Barrancas
Philadelphia
Aesvice
Courtland Nixon
Ina
Arthur R. Ehrnbeck
Corps of Spein
Los Angeles
General Hospital
Fortayard
Paul T. Hayne, Jr
12Th Cavalry
John R. Bosley
Navy Department
Nero
Bradford
Tacoma
Guantanamo
Newport
Buzzard’s Bay
Wolverine
Detroit
Erie
Mississippi
Rainbow
Chattanooga
Concord
Denver
Galveston
Chinwangtao
Port Arthur
Officers Finish Test Ride at Fort Ethan Allen
In Burlington Vermont on September 9 the third three day drill in the Department of the East led by Major General F D Grant ended at Fort Ethan Allen. Fourteen officers above captain rank completed the ride in good condition with Grant appearing the freshest as they reached the fort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
Department of the East
F. D. Grant
Fort Ethan Allen
Grant
Mrs Merriam Blames Red Tape Over Navy Command Removal
Annapolis Sept 9 Mrs Merriam wife of Captain Greenleaf A Merriam USN who died after an appendectomy says the immediate cause was failure to recuperate but she calls him a victim of Navy Department red tape for losing command of the battleship Missouri Pacific Fleet at Admiral Sperrys request and denying him a formal investigation Captain Merriam was removed from command after the ship reached San Francisco on the admiral's statement that the discipline aboard was a menace to the command
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Annapolis
Merriam
Greenleaf A. Merriam
Portsmouth
N. H
Navy Department
Missouri
Pacific Fleet
Sperry
San Francisco
Gompers Case Postponed In Contempt Suit
Washington September 9 The contempt of court case against Samuel Gompers Frank Morrison and John Mitchell of the American Federation of Labor was delayed for a month. Justice Gould presided as Albert Harper was appointed to take testimony with thirty days given to each side. Ex Judge Alton B Parker assisted the defense and opposed the postponement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Samuel Gompers
Frank Morrison
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
District of Columbia
Buck Stove and Range Company
Justice Gould
Gompers
Alton B Parker
Morrison
Mitchell
Cork Factory Fire Destroys Empire Cork Company
A spectacular blaze at Empire Cork Company on 552 State Street Brooklyn destroyed the stock and building. Loss estimated at 75000 dollars after starting about 1120 pm and drawing twenty thousand onlookers. Fire chiefs Croker Wise and Duffy supervised with multiple precinct reserves and Captain Hayes in command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empire Cork Company
State Street
Brooklyn
Flatbush Avenue
Atlantic Avenue
Croker
Charles Wise
Duffy
Joseph Hayes
Playground talk favors less overorganizing and DIY gear
Dr. E H Arnold urges simple inexpensive playgrounds with room for ingenuity. He cites a lumber yard and a bare tree as ideal play elements while critiquing costly apparatus and overbearing supervision. Other speakers warn against exploiting children and stress year round open playgrounds and community planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Harnold
Annua Congress
The
Playground Association of Apes
Arnold
Dr. Arnold
East Side
Everett W. Lord
E. B. de Groot
Chicago
Arthur Leland
George A. Hibbard
Boston
Aller Burns
Harriet Heller
Directoire influence waistline tops fall fashion demand
The Tribune Pattern notes that directoire influences will be featured this fall and winter and that a gracefully styled waist will be in high demand this season. The description highlights the waist as a key element likely to attract buyers and set trends for the upcoming months.
The Meal Bag Gown at Dressmakers’ Convention
The Dressmakers' Protective Association of America held a convention at the Masonic Temple with no bridegroom yet notable gowns. Elizabeth A C White notes directoire style wedding gowns and a navy blue meal bag outfit with soutache braid, rubes, and a jabot, priced at 25 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Miss White
Directoire
Why sugar is added late in fruit cooking
The text explains cooks add sugar late in fruit recipes because cane sugar supposedly changes to grape sugar after prolonged cooking, reducing sweetness by about a third. It also notes some chafing dish enthusiasts prefer grain alcohol over weed alcohol as fuel, claiming higher heat and cleaner burning despite higher cost.
Ex Senator boasted of lynching in Mississippi dispatch
A Memphis to Oxford report quotes ex senator W V Sullivan saying he led a mob that lynched Nelse Patton and would do so again to avenge a white woman’s throat wound. Albany reports no bids received for Barge Canal Contract 20, a $4.18 million dredging project on the Mohawk River from Rexford Flats to Little Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Oxford
Miss
United States
W. V. Sullivan
Nelse Patton
Albany
F. C. Stevens
State Department of Public Works
Mohawk River
Rexford Flats
Little Falls
Police Captain Shot in Los Angeles Burglary Case
Captain Walton H. Auble of the Los Angeles Police was shot and killed today when he tried to arrest burglar Carl Sutherland. Sutherland reportedly killed himself by drinking carbolic acid after his capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Walton H. Auble
Carl Sutherland
Auble
Sutherland
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Michael Jacobs
United States Attorney
Battie Creek
Michigan
U.S. A
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
AUTO
S. I. Boy
Army and Navy News
New- York Tribune
Messrs. McHugh
Joseph P. McHugh & CO
Sullivan
Hilary
Mabel Barnes-Grundy
Hazel of
Heatherland
Hazel
Baker & Taylor
East 17Th St
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