New York Police Investigation Reopens After Break
The committee resumed its probe into the police department with ex officers testifying. William H. Kip and ex Police Commissioner Charles F. Maclean criticized civil service rules and police court power while Corporation Counsel Clarke explained selecting special counsel Wellman for the recent officer trials.
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Yous
New York City
Goff
William H. Kip
Charles F. Maclean
Civil Service Llaws
Corporation
Clarke
Wellman
Police Board
Mr. Wellman
Electrical transmission contract links Folsom power to Sacramento
The General Electric power and mining department closes a contract with Sacramento Electric Power and Light to transmit several thousand electrical horsepower from Folsom water power twenty miles to Sacramento. The project aims to supply lights heat and power, potentially replacing existing steam plants and marks a record long distance high capacity electric transmission.
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New York
General Electric Company
Sacramento Electric Power and Light Company
Folsom
Cal
Sacramento
Crout Divorce Row Sparks Cross-State Tangle in 1900s
In Ouanrer Mass Eliza Bernetta of Brockton Mass is at the center of a stir over a contested divorce and asset actions. Crout’s first wife filed libel for divorce and attached 100 in property. Arizona divorce claims complicate the dispute as Mrs Crout continues to receive 1000 annually.
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Ouanrer
Mass
Imagune
Eliza Bernetta
Brockton
Crout
Arizona
Police raid nets four men and a woman in lottery case
Jersey City reports a raid on the Hamilton Printing and Engraving company as Chief Murphy and detectives arrest proprietor J W Hamilton and all staff. Presses run while thousands of lottery tickets and circulars are seized including a list of winning numbers for the next drawing. Tacoma murder case stirs locals as two suspects in woods shoot at deputies, injuring Deputy Moore who is hospitalized.
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Jersey City
Murphy
Hamilton Printing and Engraving Company
J. W. Hamilton
Tacoma
Wash
Puyallup
John Fry
McMillan
Moore
National Zeitung reports Benin ruler suffers Bright's disease
The National Zeitung cites an authoritative source that the evar has kidney Bright's disease since last summer, but the illness is moderate and not immediately dangerous. Professors Leyden and Zacharin say milder climate should bring marked improvement. Arrests for violating feast laws follow in Baltimore.
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Benin
The
National Zeitung
Evar
Bright
Leyden
Zacharin
Arizona Train Robbers Reel After Quick Pursuit
Sheriff Murphy leads Maricopa posse along the Gila river trail seven miles east of Phoenix to a hastily abandoned camp where three Winchester rifles and horses were found. They capture bandit Frank Armour, who is wounded but believed to recover, and recover a streetcar watch taken in a prior holdup.
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Paase
Murphy
Maricopa
Gila
Phoenix
Frank Armour
Armour
West wins all points in Chicago Times stock dispute ruling
United States Court of Appeals overturns Judge Blodgett’s circuit ruling in the ownership case over 5001 shares of Chicago Times stock and Story estate property. Case sent to a master for adjudication as the appeal favors James J. West and Huiskamp’s side is defeated.
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Curiaco
United States Court of Appeals
Woods
James J. West
H. J. Huiskamp
Chicago Times Company
Story Estate
Blodgett
Circuit Court
Judge Jenkins Opinion on Labor Conspiracy and Strikes
The court upholds a section prohibiting laborers from conspiring to quit service to cripple a property in custody of receivers. It allows injunctions to curb conduct that harms a railroad’s operation while permitting withdrawal without force against nonparticipants. Noted by Justice Harlan with Ex-President Harrison present, the opinion analyzes labor organization rights and court powers.
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Jenkin
Jenkins
United States
Courts of Equity
Supreme Court
Estes
Wooda
Biinn
Grosseup
P. M. Arthur
Ambush in Lombok kills Dutch officers amid treachery
A Batavia telegram reports Dutch troops entering a Halinese ambush on Lombok. A captain and lieutenant died. ten were wounded. Natives, aiding the Dutch as spies, betrayed the detachments. In Saraoon a milk peddler Myron L. Green was shot after being mistaken for a horse thief. he is expected to recover.
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Amsterdam
Batavia
Lombok
Saraoon
Myron L. Green
Greenfield
Bart Wells
Prussian officials jailed for Berlin pistol duel
Herr von Kiderlen Wachter Prussian minister to Hamburg and Herr Potsdorf editor of The Kladder Adatech were condemned to four months in a fortress for a duel near Berlin on April 19. Five shots were fired and Potsdorf was wounded in the arm.
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Bertix
Herr von Kiderlen- Wachter
Hamburg
Herr Potsdorf
Kladder Adatech
Berlin
McKinley Opens Republican Missouri Campaign After West in Kansas City
In St Louis on Oct 2 Governor McKinley addressed a large hall crowd, opening the Republican campaign in Missouri as Senator West kicked off Democratic efforts in Kansas City. It is McKinley’s third state campaign opening in a week as the nation heats up politically. A separate dispatch from Worthington, West Virginia reports a fatal quarrel in Putnam county when Charles Montague and William McCopehey exchanged a dispute over a trifling matter ending in Montague firing a revolver.
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St. Louis
Senator West
Missouri
Kansas City
McKinley
Hystixetos
W. Va
Charles Montague
William McCopehey
Putnam County
Montague
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Smamokin
Wokinson
Pimneelf
Max Chaundry
Reading
Geleg
New York and New Jersey Bridge
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New York and New Jersey
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War Department
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Bank of Aded
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Plymouth
N. H
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Canada
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A.B. Thorn
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Moeher’s
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Baquet Institute
French and German School For Young Ladies
Short Hills
N. J
M. F. Thompson
Rockview Terrace
Plainfield
W. H. Brokaw
Arpenter
West Front St
Plainfield, N. J
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Fie
Surbrug
Park Avenue
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Brok and Cain
Grandview Ave
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Woolston & Buckle
North
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Wolf
Plainfield Ave
Cor Fourth
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Ayers
Plainfield Annal Training School
East Front Street
John Dalziel
Rockview Home Day School
Peck
Edith Bond
the Latin
Harned Academy
M. M. Dunham
P.M
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Metropolita
A. C. Blair
Frank May
Alice A. M
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H. M
Cael
Reri
William J. Stephenson
North Avenue
Fay Nie
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Fulpe
Infield, N. J
W. H. Rogers
J. “& Pro Co
South Second ST
Plainfield, W. J. P
David
Part
Thisyaealesure
Encyclopsedic
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Vermont
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