Fusion bid collapses as Republicans seek own ticket
Citizens Union votes to back Jerome for mayoral aims, rejects city or county slates, and pledges to support Assembly and Board of Aldermen candidates. Republican leaders hold talks with Odell and Halpin, announce a straight ticket plan while criticizing fusion terms. Municipal Ownership League wavers over Hearst and Seabury.
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Jerome
Unicon
Assembly and Board of Aldermen
Union
Committee On
Municipal Ownership League
Samuel Seabury
Republican
William Halpin
Odell
Azeain
Robert Grier Monroe
New York
Halpin
Republican Party
Tammany Hall
Tammany
Citizens Union
Republican Organization
New York City
Wall Street Theft Forged Check Nets $360000 in Securities
Securities valued around 360000 were stolen after a forged 20000 check was used to obtain them from a leading bank. Pearl and Co. of 27 William Street collateralized a 390000 loan. Dyer Pearl is in Europe. Pinkertons halted transfers. thief may have disposed of some items.
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Stock Exchange
Pearl & Co
Williamst
Dyer Pearl
Europe
E. F. Slayback
United Steel Common
Rock Island Common
Missouri Pacific
American Tobacco
North American Company
Metropolitan Street Railway
Wabash Debenture B
Pinkertons
New York
N Y Life Bond Deals Up Secret Funds Probed
A heated insurance hearing exposed complex dealings at J P Morgan & Co and New York Life. Charles Hughes pressed George W Perkins over ledger entries tied to 4 million dollar St Louis Terminal bonds and related rail stock transfers amid accusations of dual roles and hidden accounts.
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Charles E. Hughes
Armstrong Insurance Committee
George W. Perkins
J. P. Morgan & Co
New-York Life Insurance Company
Perkins
Mr. Hughes
Mr. Perkins
Hughes
St. Louis
Insurance Company
M carren Murphy Pact Bridges Tammany Split
Charlies F. Murphy leader of Tammany Hall and Senator P H McCarren of Brooklyn met at the Democratic Club and agreed their corporate interests align. They signaled a municipal ownership plank in the party platform that reads two ways.
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Charlies F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
P. H. McCarren
Brooklyn
Democratic Club
British Persian Seistan Boundary Mission Faces Harsh Losses
British mission staff spent two and a half years marking the Persia Afghanistan boundary in Seistan. Fifty members died from various causes as 5000 camels and 120 horses perished. The Quetta base supplied Seistan 500 miles away across a desert while summer heat and winter cold, thirst, sunstroke, and wolves or jackal attacks took lives. The march saw six hundred camels killed in a March blizzard and many were bitten by animals leading to hydrophobia. The group recounts severe privations and acts of heroism as supplies ran low.
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London
Persia
Afghanistan
Seistan
Arthur Henry MacMahon
Quetta
Gendarmes Kill Striker at Longuyon Clash
Belgian workers replacing steelmen near Longuyon were escorted by gendarmes when French strikers opened fire. The gendarmes shot back, killing one striker and wounding several as the two sides clashed near the frontier.
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Arion
Belgium
Longuyon
Gas price cut plan tops political betting in five boroughs
A local Democratic source says Consolidated Gas and subsidiaries plan a near 50 percent reduction just before the election to blunt gas issue. The move aims to forestall Page petition hearings and temper campaigns against McClellan and other figures linked to gas bills. It is being circulated among Tamany leaders as a favored tactic.
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Consolidated Gas Company
Five Boroughs
Manhattan
Senator Page
Stevens Investigating Committee
State Gas Commission
Stevens
Page
McCarren
Brooklyn
Hearst
McClellan
Tammeny
Five Brutally Slain in Edna Family Tragedy
Mrs A J Conditt and her four children were found murdered at their home near Edna Texas. A two year old survived. Bodies show brutal mutilation and throat cuts. A black boy nearby reported seeing a man chase a woman. Countywide search launched. two suspects reported.
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Edna
Tex
A. J. Conditt
Here
Conditt
Eagle Stops Engines at Sioux City Traction Plant
An eightieth smokestack at the Sioux City Traction Company could not draw steam due to a captured eagle inside. Investigators found the bird had taken shelter there, the stack unused for a week. A six-man effort ended with the eagle's capture after a fierce struggle.
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Tribune
Sioux City
Iowa
Sioux City Traction Company
Smith College Freshman Margaret Kelley Dies During Exam
Margaret Dana Kelley of New York, a Smith College freshman, collapsed and died during a pre gymnasium examination in Northampton. Authorities remain reticent while the medical examiner cites natural causes.
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Northampton
Mass
Margaret Dana Kelley
New York
Smith College
Christopher Seymour
MISS GOULD GIFT FOR ST LOUIS YMCA BUILDING
Miss Helen Miller Gould will donate 150000 dollars for a railroad Young Men’s Christian Association building in St Louis. The gift, announced by YMCA official Fred B. Shipp, honors Jay Gould and the project aims to finish by September 1 1906. A mass meeting at Light Guard Armory featured Robert Speer and Treasury Secretary Shaw.
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Detroit
Helen Miller Gould
Young Men’s Christian Association
St Louis
Railroad Department
Young Men's Christian Association
Fred B. Shipp
Gould
Miss Gould
Jay Gould
Light Guard Armory
Robert EB. Speer
New York
Shaw
Treasury Department
Bronx Engineer Group Flowed City Funds to Union Railway
The Bronx Bureau of Highways funneled city money to pay an engineer Brian C Collier and a gang of laborers who worked for the Union Railway in November 1902. Records show six days of city work for Collier while twenty four days were claimed on his Union Railway time sheets. Expenses were certified by Samuel J Thompson and Borough President Haffen, with payments charged to city funds.
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Bureau of Highways of
The
Bronx
Haffen
Union Railway Company
Auditing Bureau
Department of Finance
Finance Department
Bureau of Highways
Union Railway
Mr. Collier
Collier
Alfred J. Ostrander
Leveller
John F. Joyce
Isadore Dilson
Rodman
John S. Turner
John A. Hennessy
Transitman
Bureau of Sewers
Robert F. Tighe
Cellier
Samuel J. Thompson
Thompson
Collier's Corps
Milliken Adds One Million For Decatur University Gift
At the Indiana Synod session in Martinsville Indiana it was announced that 100000 is needed to accept a 90 gift from James Milliken of Decatur Illinois. Milliken offered 1000000 more if 39000 could be raised by 1908. It was stated the funds would be raised. Dr W J Darby of Evansville Indiana was elected a trustee of the university.
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Equitable
Yellow Dog” Fund
George H. Squire
Louis M. Bailey
Henry Greaves
Navigation Syndicate
Little Black Book
J. W. Alexander
J. WW. Nes
Mercantile Trust Company
Equitable Trust Company
Mr. Squire
William T. Cornell
Squire
Equitable Live Assurance Society
In M. Bailey
West Virginia
Western Maryland
Winthrop
Paul Morton
Hyde
James W. Alexander
Henry B. Hyde
Martinsville
Ind
Indiana Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church
James Milliken
Decatur
Ill
Evansville, Ind
University
Wife of N H Governor Robbed of Jewels
Milford N H Sept 28 Mrs John McLane wife of New Hampshire governor was robbed of jewels valued at 1500 dollars. Items were taken from a trunk while the couple returned from Indianapolis. The trunk stayed at Ames station in Ayer Massachusetts from Saturday until Monday and was opened today.
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John McLane
Milford
N. H
New Hampshire
Oyster Bay Prepares for Roosevelt Visit
Oyster Bay decorators will begin work tomorrow to adorn village streets for President Roosevelt's Saturday departure to Washington, marking a formal honor for the visiting head of state.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Washington
Montgomery Alderman Opposes Funds for President Visit
In Montgomery on September 28 an Alderman led opposition to a proposed appropri ation to fund the entertainment for President Roosevelt's visit. The move aimed to allocate one dollar of the penalty money for the event, but amid a sparsely attended meeting and a lack of quorum the resolution was laid over.
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Ala
Sullivan
Roosevelt
Apple
Train of the Century Adverts New York to Chicago
The Twentieth Century Limited known as the train of the century runs New York to Chicago on a 3 30 departure with an 18 hour trip priced at 80 dollars for the night ride.
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New York
Chicago
New York Central Lines
Advt
Mr Fairbanks to Build Theatre in Springfield Ohio
Vice President Fairbanks and N W Fairbanks with local capitalists closed a deal for the Fountain Square site paying $82 000. They will start at once on an eight story office building and theatre.
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Springfield
Ohio
Fairbanks
N. W. Fairbanks
Fountain Square
Allee Pushes Union Republicans Toward Harmony in Delaware
In Wilmington on September 28 1930 Senator J Frank Allee called for a Union Republican State Committee meeting in Dover to form a sub committee with regulars to pursue party harmony. The move aims to sideline J Edward Addicks and may prompt a special legislative session to fill the Senate vacancy with Colonel Henry A Dupont the regulars’ candidate.
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Wilmington
Del
Republican
Delaware
J. Frank Allee
Union Republican State Committee
Dover
Allee
Union
J. Edward Addicks
Addicks
Senate
Henry A. Dupont
May Be Col Vanderbilt to Lead Newport Artillery
Newport R I Sept 28 Reginald C Vanderbilt is chosen as next commanding officer of the Newport Artillery Company one of the oldest in the United States. He will not assume the title until next April but will be elected a member before then to qualify for election. The present commander Charles L F Robinson yachtsman will retire next April.
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Tribune
Newport
R. L
Reginald C. Vanderbilt
Newport Artillery Company
United States
Vanderbilt
Charles L. F. Robinson
Colonel Robinson
Miss Anthony Attacks Cleveland Over Woman Suffrage
Rochester dispatch reports Susan B. Anthony dismissing Grover Cleveland’s recent portrayal of woman suffrage as hash. She says there is no new idea or argument, calling his views unfounded and based on generalized statements rather than facts.
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Susan B. Anthony
the Tribune
Rochester
Cleveland
Miss Anthony
Pennsylvania Special Inbound and Outbound Schedule
A Pennsylvania Special train leaves New York daily at 3 35 P M and arrives Chicago at 8 5 A M It departs Chicago at 2 4 P M arriving New York at 9 45 A M The notice notes new development and rock ballast as features of the service.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Chicago
Perkinson Stand Highlights Insurance Control Debate
Testimony before the investigation committee centers on a declaration favoring federal control of insurance. Cross examination of Mr. Hughes questions harmony in statements from New York Life to state insurance departments. The sessions also feature notable clashes between Mr. Perkins and Mr. Hughes.
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Hughes
New York Life
Perkins
Special railroad tickets to Atlantic City and return
Jersey City and Newark will be sold every Saturday in September by the Pennsylvania Railroad with two days board. Rates are $10.00 and $12.00 according to hotel connected. See ticket agents for details.
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Atlantic City
New York
xokIiven
Jersey
Ciiy
Newark
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Thomas Buckner
New-York Life
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Prudential
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Morris-ave
Tinton Railway
Morrise-ave
Sedgwick-ave
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Morris-eve
Mr. Milliken
Fights Fund
Montgomery
MR. Fairbanks
Union Republican Meeting
Col. Vanderbilt
Reginald C
Newport Artillery
MR. Perkinson
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