Market swings push stocks through heavy day of trading
The session saw 1,426,259 shares change hands as active issues like Union Pacific Reading Southern Pacific Amalgamated Copper and American Smelting tumbled 3 to 7 points before a late rally. Traders cited political disclosures and margined fears, with bears driving prices to new lows and a volatile close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Reading
Southern Pacific
Amalgamated Copper
American
William Rockefeller
Henry C. Frick
Wall Street
Shorts
United States Steel
St. Paul
Anaconda
Consolidated Gas
Great Northern
Louisville & Nashville
Northern Pacific
United States Steel Common
Great Northern Preferred
Erie Common
Stock Exchange
Captain Louis L. Squire Resigns as Quartermaster
Captain Louis L. Squire of the Mth Regiment Brooklyn must resign over a breach of discipline per order from Colonel Foote. The resignation takes effect after he accounts for and transfers all property in his care. He departs with the esteem of colleagues and is likely to become quartermaster of the 47th Regiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis L. Squire
Mth Regiment
Brooklyn
Foote
Squire
47Th
MANIAC MURDERS TWO AT ST ELIZABETHS ASYLUM
Andrew Light, a mulatto inmate at St Elizabeths Asylum, killed Patrick Maloney the grounds overseer and Millie Follin, another inmate, and injured Miss Robinson. He fled to a swamp, was hunted by police, shot in the leg, and captured back at the asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Andrew Light
St. Elizabeth's Asylum For the Insane
Patrick Maloney
Millie Follin
Miss Robinson
Rain Breaks Western Drouth Across Central States
Rain relieved the central States drought from St. Louis to St. Paul and Minneapolis today. The showers brought much needed relief in the West where rainfall had been scarce since August 1. Additional rain was expected tonight and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Central States
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Monster peat dredge burns at Black Lake
The monster peat dredge built by the International Power, Heat and Fuel Company for dredging peat and converting it into briquettes for coal burned today on Black Lake, Ogdensburg. The plant, completed after three years of development, had only been tested previously. fire started in the boiler room and wiped out the dredging plant, with insurance listed as 6000 though the loss amount is not stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogdensburg
XN. Y
Monster
International Power, Heat and Fuel Company
Black Lake
Three Fall in Elevator at Candy Factory Burns and Bruises
Three workers at the E. L. Diamond Company candy factory, 285 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, fell from the third floor to the basement when a freight elevator cables parted. A large pot of boiling candy overturned, causing severe burns and bruises to Isidor Ell, Louis Paffa, and Warner Cong. Police and reserves aided the panic-stricken workers, and Dr. Jaffe of Eastern District Hospital treated the injured before their transfer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Diamond Company
North 6Th Street
Williamsburg
Isidor Ell
George Street
Louis Paffa
North 3d Street
Warner Cong
Central Avenue
Allan Forbes Fined For Pony Cruelty In Pony Polo Game
Allan Forbes of Dedham pony polo was found guilty of cruelty to his pony after a Myopia game on September 12. Judge Sears levied a $50 fine and Forbes plans to appeal. Prosecution by C. Clark of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals indicates more cases to follow. a Saratoga player named Stephenson faces a similar charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Mass
Allan Forbes
Dedham
Sears
District Court
Myopia
Forbes
Clark
Massachusetts Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Saratoga
N. Y
Stephenson
Waiters' Union Denies Importing Help at Knickerbocker
The Waiters' Union No 1 asks Commissioner Watchorn to block several men who arrived aboard the La Savoie on September 19 from landing and working for James B. Regan, manager of the Hotel Knickerbocker. They threaten court action to enforce the contract labor clause if released. Regan calls the allegations absurd and says Malnati is not detained, is in the city, and has a job in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. 1
Robert Watchorn
Immigration
James B. Regn
Knickerbocker
Broadway
42D Street
la Savoie
Ellis Island
Regan
United States
Toto
J. Malnati
France
Malnati
Escoffier
Royal Hotel
Avion
Batonyi seeks bill of particulars in divorce suit
Aurél Batonyi, the horse show exhibitor, sued for divorce by his wife, formerly Mrs Burke Roche, asked Supreme Court Justice Giegerich yesterday for a bill of particulars detailing sixteen alleged indiscretions. The defense denies all charges as papers are ordered sealed and a decision reserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aurél Batonyi
Burke Roche
Giegerich
Supreme Court
Morris Cukor
Mr. Batonyi
J. Henry Work
W. M. K. Olcott
Olcott
Mr. Cukor
Columbia to adopt cooperative dining system change
The Columbia dining hall switches to a student and faculty run cooperative plan starting this week after a year of criticism over food and hall conditions. J. J. Cowan, former manager, resigned last year. C. R. Jones, ’09, will oversee the program with student workers from the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
University
J. J. Cowan
C. R. Jones
Camp Columbia
Morris, Conn
State Civil Service Examinations Scheduled for October 17
The State Civil Service Commission will hold exams on October 17 for multiple positions including assistant in clinical psychiatry, pathology, civil engineering draftsman, director's assistant at the State Library, health officer in Wells New York, inspector of masonry in Erie and Monroe counties, junior statistician, jail keepers and guards in Erie and Monroe, law librarian, physician sixth grade at state hospitals, reference assistant at the library, special examiner for the State Tax Commission, special policeman at Plattsburg State Normal School, structural draftsman for the Public Service Commission, teacher at state institutions for women, and veterinarian across state departments. Applications due October 10. Obtain full info and applications by postal card to Charles Fowler, chief examiner, Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Civil Service Commission
Pathological Institute
State Library
State Civic Service Commission
Wells
Hamilton County
Erie
Monroe
New York County
State Tax Commission
State Normal School
Plattsburg
Public Service Commission
State Departments of Agriculture and Health
Charles §. Fowler
Commission
Albany
English cloth Alpines at Broadway Stores
Fragmentary notice lists English cloth Alpines and three Broadway Stores with prices and locations Warren Street 13th Street 34th Street. Indicates a commercial listing or advertisement level detail without clear narrative outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broadway
Warren St
13Th St
34Th St
Chinese Editor Li Sum Ling Visits New York on World Tour
Li Sum Ling editor of The Chinese Mail arrives aboard the Kroonland after a voyage from Antwerp. Welcomed by Chinese students, he lectures on China US relations, favors a commercial alliance, and outlines his world tour goals including meetings with President Roosevelt and a broad plan to develop China’s resources peacefully while preserving independence. He defends American openness and the open door policy as boosting mutual trade without entanglements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Li Sum Ling
The
Chinese Mail
Hong Kong
Progressive Chinese Party
Kroonland
Antwerp
Li Sam
Knickerbocker
Li Sum
New York
Washington
Roosevelt
San Francisco
China
United States
America
Clarke orders inquiry into Mannes bail release
Kings County District Attorney Clarke orders an inquiry into the release of Samuel Mannes of No 38 West 98th Street who is wanted for shooting Mrs Frances McCabe daughter of a Brownsville physician. The incident raises questions about magistrate Geismar’s bail action and potential grand jury testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Kings County
Samuel Mannes
West 98Th Street
Frances McCabe
Brownsville
Geismar
Mannes
Elder
Supreme Court
Grand Jury
Hurricane toll in Windward Islands raises offshore fears
Nassau reports begin to arrive on damage from the week old hurricane across the Windward Islands. Several lives are lost, the schooner Sarah Douglas drifted ashore with its captain drowned. Long Island faced sweeping seas, crops and homes destroyed, people living in caves. News from other islands remains unverified but indicates severe impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nassau
New Providence
Bahamas
Sarah Douglas
Long Island
Anti-Gas Pumping Law Upheld By New York Court
The Appellate Division Third Department upheld major sections of New York State’s anti gas pumping law protecting Saratoga mineral springs. One general act section was declared unconstitutional. Justice Cochran dissented. bonds and injunctions in six AG cases were dissolved pending appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
N. Y
New York State
Supreme Court
Third Department
Cochran
Kellogg
New York
Court of Appeals
Dartmouth Trustees Consider Name for Presidency
Hanover announces Dartmouth trustees weigh Professor James Rowland Angell of the University of Chicago for the college presidency. In Kingston Angell avoids confirmation, traveling by foot after spending summer near Woodstock. no offer yet reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
William J. Tucker
James Rowland Angell
University of Chicago
Kingston
N. Y
Woodstock
Port of New York Ship Arrivals and Departures List 1908
Port of New York records show arrivals and departures on Sept 22 1908. Vessels including Domin ic Kansas City Ryndam Columbia Coupename United States Kronprinzessin Cecilie Arapahoe Havana Jefferson Provincia Frinz Joachim St Leonards Bradford sailed or arrived with passengers mails and cargo as quarantine details and bar times noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dominic
Smale
Manuos
Para
Booth & Co
Moise
Lam
Kansas City
Dreyer
Savannah
Ocear Ss Co
Ryndam
Roggeveen
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Holland-America Line
Bar
Columbia
Bartolich
Philadelphia
Phelps Gros & Co
Coupename
Haaswood
Demerara
Paramaribo
Trinidad
Royal Dutch West India Mail Service
United States
Dan
Wulff
Copenhagen
Christiania
Christiansand
Finch, Edge & Co
Kroonland
Doxrud
Antwerp
Dover
Archibald
Azua
Santo Domingo City
Macorts
Sanchez
Samana
Porto Plata
Monte Cristi
Clyde Ss Co
Clan Robertson
Ody
Barber & Co
Havana
Stevens
New York
Cuba
Malls
Jefferson
Catherine
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominion Ss Co
Provincia
Callot
Marseilles
Denia
James W Elwell & Co
Frinz Joachim
Ger
von Leitner
Savanilla
Port Limon
Colon
Kingston
Fortune Island
Hamburg-American Line
St Leonards
Hill
Sanderson & Sons
Pf Ames
Bradford
Certel
Port Antonio
United Frust Co
Marine Intelligence and Miniature Almanac
Weather and naval data from coastal stations with sunrise and sunset times, moon phase, and high water predictions. Wireless reports track ships Baltic Graf Waldersee and Carmania east of Sandy Hook with expected positions and times across the days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moon
Sandy Hook
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Sandy H
Graf Waldersee
Carmania
Sca
Crank but no president visits Oyster Bay
A man believed to be a crank visited Oyster Bay in a red automobile after the President left town. He stopped at a telephone pay station in John Cowell’s shop, rambling about a government place to Mrs. Cowell, who seized a hammer and ejected him before the chauffeur drove him away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oyster Bay
Sagamore Hill
John Cowell
Destination and steamer routes via multiple Pacific hubs
The notice lists transportation options with ships routed through New York and Tacoma to destinations including Hawaii Guam and Philippine Islands with September sailings at 6:30 pm. It details mail and vessel services via San Francisco Vancouver Victoria BC and other Pacific points toward Japan Corea China New Zealand and New Caledonia, noting special addressing and priority via various hubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Victoria
Japan
Corea
China
Philippine Islands
Seattley
Iyo Maru
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
San Francisco
Mariposa Wa
New York
Tacoma
Ballerophon
Hawaii
Guam
Poe Islands
OCOD
Cba
New Zealand
New Caledonia
Last Yonkers Stop for People's Line Steamers Set
The last Yonkers stop for the People's Line steamers is to be made on September 23. From that date until navigation ends the large boats will go directly to Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yonkers
People’s Line
Albany
Sydney Mitchell Named Co-Receiver Of United Box Board
Vice-Chancellor Howell in Newark signed an order making permanent the appointment of Sydney Mitchell of Chicago as co-receiver of the United Box Board and Paper Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howell
Newark
Sydney Mitchell
Chicago
United Box Board and Paper Company
Bank and security firm declare quarterly dividends
The First National Bank directors announce a 5 percent quarterly dividend on capital stock, above the usual rate, while identical directors of the First Security Company declare a 3 percent initial quarterly dividend on the holding company’s stock. Both dividends are payable October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank
First Security Company
Steamers at foreign ports listed with routes and dates
Shipping desk notes multiple ships bound for New York with routes to Liverpool Buenos Aires and beyond. Vessels named include Lusitania Kaiser Wilhelm II Satsuma Mantinea Castilian Prince Heston and more. dates range Sept 17 to Sept 22 with ports including Queenstown Marseilles Gibraltar Trieste and Dakar. World-wide outbound sailings recorded in terse schedule format.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queenstown
Lusitania
New York
Liverpool
Bremen
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Ger
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Copenhagen
CF Tietgen
Dan
Christiansand
Adlsid
Finland
Sever
Montevideo
Satsuma
Buenos Ayres
Rosario
Melbourne
Sydney
Auckland
Dantzic
Standard
Albany
West Australia
Rben New
Port Natal
Clan Matheson
St Vincent
C V
Hretz Izel
Cape Town
Adelaide
Spithead
Fremantle
Marseilles
Germania
Trieste
Emilia
St Thomas
Guiana
Palermo
Laura
Gibraltar
Altonia
Flame
Etc
Lizard
Mesaba
London
Pennsylvania
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Amalgamated Copper Steece Sa
Anaconda Sanwene Dy Bos
Atchison One
Omnia
Sas Atlantic Coast Line
Baltimore & Ohio
Brocklin Rapid Transit
Acific
Chesapeake & Ohio One
Sy Beane
Otee Eee
Tllinois Centrea
Missouri Pacific
Eee
New York Central
Eae
Rock Island
L. L Squire
14Th Regiment
Maniac
Western Drouth
Monster Peat
Batonyi
Justice Giegerich
State Civil Service Examinations
Evans
Racers, Peet & Company
Ere
Dartmouth
Trad Mark
McCutcheon
Sth Ave
Waldorf-Astoria
Hippodrome
Twite Daily Battle
Majestic 7 Xigne
Norris
John Mason
Venir
Glorious Betsy
LYRIG
Mary Mannering
Lulu Glaser
Mile
Mischief
Uesday
Louise Gt Gunning
Marcel
Daly
Vvenos’ Herald
Henry W. Savage
Ij Theat Inarerie
Shipping News
Port of
Steamera Ghazee
Fernandina
Nicholas Cuneo
Ner
Kelvinhead
Bermudien
Bermuda
Rio Grande
Tampa
Mobile
Sittria
Hudson
Havre
Hamilton
Nord Amerika
Ital
Naples
Genoa
Iroquois
Charleston
Jacksonville
el Sigio
Galveston
City of
Nieuw Amsterdam
Kaiser Wilbus der Grosse
Cherule
Marine Intelligence
Maude Seeee
Huelva
Adgai
Barbados
Jae Buan
Indrasamba
Lloyd Meridian € Oncho O- Middlesbrough
Mallory Pallanza Seee
Damburg
Hamb-Am Korea
Eee Libau
So Pacific
Armania Liverpool
Southampton
White Star Speranze
Cristobal
Panama
Idaho
Eaee -Hull
Wilson Erny
Comus
New Orleans
So Pac
Baltic
White Star
Gia Provence Havre
Acre
Waldersee
damb-Am Kinig Albert
Doradoton
Pacifician Maree
Oo Mallory
Columba
Transpacific
Mauretania
Cunard
Oceanic
White Stac
Devonshire
Pernambuco
Alleghany
Gua Hambbo A
Comal
Mallory
Old Dom
Thur Deutschland
Hamburg
Hamb-Am
la Savote
Rene
Mexico
Ward
Oonny Houston
Hellenes
Argentina
Star Pourtinn
Celtic
Grosser Kurfurst
Lloyd
Slavonia
Cunare
di Piemonte
Oceano
Hagen
Tampico
Yard
People’s
Empire Tm Facines
Tod John Drew
Sank ‘Serant
Hudson West 44Th
Bxar
Irobert Edeson’s
Lyceum Miss BI
Morrow
Illie Burke
Griterion
Hattie ‘Wiliams
Knigkerbogker the Girls OF
Ning
Gottenseac
35Th Street
Joseph Coyne
Alexandra Carlisle
Doris Keane
May Irwin
Savoy i
MATER
IENRY
SEER
Pth
New Amsterdam Theatre
Kew York Theatre
Liberty Theatre
Iay
Bent
Lillian i Russell
Hobart
Wildfire
Eatre Broadway
NEW
MUSIC
AL “Peay
Algeria
Academy OF Music
Weber
Gaal
Astor Fois
Hodge
Arnold Daly
Belasgo Arliss
Weet
Stuyvesant
Blanche Bates
Hachette
James K. Hackett
Zenda
Ammerstein’s
Blaneys
George Fuller Golden
Lincoln SO. Wood
Felix
Catre
Maude Hall Macf & Co
Gordon
Barnold’s
St. Watermelon Girls
Dally Matinee
Italian Opera Co
Carmen
I. Oe Ata Web
Sousa Sin
Alhambra
Eva
Salome
the Vandyck
Karno’s Pantomime
Human Mover
Chas & Fannie We
Naked Truth
White Empire City Quartet
Geo Jack Norworth
de Btere
Stuart
Manus
Eden World
Cinematograph
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