Forgery charged in New York Life election case
New York May 1 George B Serugham manager of the international policy holders committee and Charles A Carrington and Charles Stirrup assistant managers were arrested on forgery charges tied to the recent New York Life Insurance directors election They were arraigned and held on bail with cases continued to Monday Other arrests included Jacob Frank and allegations that ballots were tampered and envelopes forged to influence the outcome The policy holders committee opposed administration tickets and faced legal scrutiny over ballot handling and election practices.
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New York
George B. Serugham
International Policy Holders’ Committee
Charles A. Carrington
Charles Stirrup
New York Life Insurance Company
Bona
Scrugham
Stirrup
W York
District Attorney's Office
George R. Serugham
Albany
Serugham
Charles C. Carrington
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Carrington
New York Life
New York Life Company
Jacob Frank
Samuel Untermyer
Europe
Board of Inspection
Mrs Mizner Seeks Divorce From Wilson Mizner
New York May 1 A suit believed to be for divorce has been filed by Mrs Mary Adelaide Mizner against Wilson Mizner and Louis B Hasbrouck was today appointed referee to take the money. Mrs Mizner was a widow of Charles T Yerkes the traction and subway promoter.
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New York
Mary Adelaide Mizner
Wilson Mizner
Louis B. Hasbrouck
Dunn for Judge Convention Chooses Dunn After 142 Ballots
A Republican judicial convention at Decatur selects Frank K. Dunn of Charleston on the 142nd ballot to head the pursuit for a supreme bench seat. Macon county shifts from Johns to Dunn as Vermilion joins, breaking Sangamon's bid. Other candidates like Myers Thompson Philbrick fail to unite delegates.
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Deenville, LL
Frank K. Dunn
Charleston
Jacob W. Wilkin
Macon County
W. C. Johns
Sangamon
Vermilion
Coles County
Dunn
Coles
Sperman
Camlidate
Sangamon County
Johns
Macon
Judge Myers
McLean County
Vermilion County
M.W. Thompson
George Buckingham
Philbrick
Ice Trust Found in Kansas City Ice Makers
Judge Walter A. Powell in the circuit court reversed the Special Commissioner and ruled that a combination exists among Kansas City ice manufacturers. The People's Ice, Storage and Fuel, Central Ice, Vanderslice Lynds Mercantile, and Kansas City Breweries are deemed guilty of maintaining an illegal agreement to curb competition and fix ice prices in Kansas City and vicinity.
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Kansas
Walter A. Powell
Fidependence
W. S. Flourney
Ice Trust
Powell
Kansas City
People’s Ice, Storage and Fuel Company
The
Central Ice Company
Vanderslice-Lynds Mercantile Company
Kansas City Breweries Company
Rescue of Foastwell Miners Becomes Epic of Mine Heroism
Seven miners entombed for over four days in the Foastwell mine near Johnstown were reached by rescuers after crawling through a mile of waterlogged tunnels. They survived without food, given stimulants and food later, as doctors feared a reaction to sudden air exposure. The rescue teams, split into two groups, faced life threatening flooding and near-drowning to reach the men. The event is framed as a heroic, endurance-filled rescue.
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Johnstown
Foastwell
Trainmen Meet Horrible Death Near Port Arthur
Port Arthur Ont May 1 A Canadian Pacific eastbound train crashed through a small bridge east of town killing Engineer William Fixter Fireman Veau drey and Brakeman Villneave as the locomotive and seven flour cars toppled into a ravine catching fire. The three men were pinned under wreckage in a brutal end to the catastrophe.
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Port Arthur
Ont
Canadian Pacific
Here
William Fixter
Veaudrey
Villneave
Negroes Beaten by Mob as Race Riot Strikes Greensburg
Bitter feeling against negroes sparked a race riot in Greensburg Indiana. An aged white woman was assaulted last Saturday and six Negroes were badly beaten, one possibly fatally, as a mob of about 500 visited saloons and places frequented by Black residents. Negroes found inside were beaten and warned to leave town. authorities later dispersed the crowd after pledges to expel deemed bad characters.
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Greensburg
Ind
Jay Gould Wins Finals In London Tennis Championship
London May 1 Jay Gould defeated Pennell in three straight sets to claim the international amateur court tennis title. The match concluded the finals of the American Victor ia Amateur Tennis Tournament abroad.
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London
Jay Gould
Pennell
Big Commission House to Dissolve
Chicago on May 1 reports the dissolution of Charles G. Gates & Co. the nation’s largest commission house due to dissensions stock losses high office expenses and a looming year in brokerage business. Official confirmation came yesterday with the New York announcement of the complete dissolution.
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Chicago
Charles G. Gates & Co
New York
Charles G. Gates
United States
Wall Street
Eddie Tate an Impostor Declared by Joliet Officials
Chicago and Joliet authorities debunk Eddie Tate s sensational tale of a Peoria safe robbery involving Newton C Dougherty and others. Deputy Warden Sims says Tate s story is fiction and Tate offers no verifiable facts. In Iowa, Ira M Ball loses his mind after bank collapse losses and harms his infant and mother.
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Albia
Iowa
Frank Ralston
W. B. Griffin
Ralston
Chicago
Eddie” Tate
Newton C. Dougherty
Peoria
Harry Donovan
Dougherty
Joliet Penitentiary
Sims
O Ff
Deneen
Tate
Cook County
Donovan
Tam
Collins
Wilson
A Dougherty
D»neen
Peora
Ottumwa
Bank of
Seymour
Ira M. Ball
One Hundred Women in Fire Panic at Chicago
A chaotic fire panic in Chicago draws attention to a crowded venue as hundreds of women flee. The scene raises safety concerns and prompts limited details about the incident and its immediate aftermath.
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Chicago
Fire at Wabash Avenue building injures forty women
A Chicago fire at a Wabash avenue building injures about forty women formerly in a Story and Clark Piano company on the first floor and Lotus Lunch club on upper floors. Panic and jumps from windows occurred as fire cut off escape, two women treated for internal injuries, firemen saved others, losses estimated at 4 01000.
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Chicago
Wabash Avenue
Story & Clark Piano Company
Lotus
Lynch Room
Rose Wiley
Kate O'Rourke
Steamship Officers Strike Threat Looms Over New York Ports
May day brings limited wage demands in New York as seven of seventeen steamship lines accept the new schedule while officers threaten a coastwise strike. Commerce and Labor officials rush to avert trouble. Other strikes ripple across Paterson Newark Boston Waterbury Denver and Columbus as carpenters drivers and mill workers join calls for higher pay.
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York
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Paterson
N. J
Newark
Boston
Teamsters
Waterbury
Conn
Denver
Aid for famine victims sails to China with flour
Government transport Buford departed from San Francisco for Chinkiang carrying 4,000,110 pounds of flour for famine victims in northeast China. The relief cargo was donated and organized by The Christian Herald of New York. Twenty five congressmen and their wives traveling to Honolulu accompanied the ship.
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China
San Francisco
Cal
Buford
Chinkiang
Christian Herald of New York
Honolulu
Ithe Buford
Lawyer files injunction petitions against 79 saloon proprietors
Dubuque Iowa May 1 a bombshell in saloon ranks as lawyer C M Thorne files petitions for injunctions against 79 saloon owners on his own motion. The Law and Order league disclaims knowledge and temporary closings are sought at the May term next week. Moore Shield Murderer in Tangier May 1 Moroccan authorities withhold the murderers location of Mau champ s French subject killed weeks ago amid rumors of innocence or guilt.
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Dubuque
Iowa
C. M. Thorne Thorne
Law and Order League
Tangier
Mauchamps
Socialists fail to stir up Paris on May Day
Paris on May Day shows a largely normal city as 600 mounted guards and large reserve forces keep order. Socialists fail to rally mass turnout and calls for nationwide work stoppage receive little support, with the garrison ready to curb disturbances.
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Paris
France
Rail Officials Call on President Roosevelt Visit Describe Visit
President Charles S. Mellen of the New York New Haven and Hartford and T. E. Byrnes met with President Roosevelt in Washington. They offered no public explanation for the call and said there was nothing to disclose. The officials then went to the Interstate Commerce Commission after the White House meeting.
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Washington
Charles S. Mellen
New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
T. E. Byrnes
Roosevelt
White House
Mellen
Byrnes
Interstate Commerce Commission
April Coldest in 26 Years Near Record Low
Washington reports April ended as the coldest month in 26 years and within a degree of the record low. The weather bureau notes a sequence of cold spells sweeping the northeast Rocky Mountain slope and spreading eastward, with almost continuous cold and only brief warm intervals, ending with unusually low interior valley and southwest temperatures.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountains
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Charles Yerkes
Traction
Dark Horse
Wilkin
State Supreme Court
Decatur
ICE Men
U.S
Foastwell, Pa
St. Louis
Havana
Santiago
Tacoma
Henry Lee
C. J. Pember
L. B. Austin
Lee
A. T. Brisbin
Charles de F. Chandler
United States Signal Corps
J. C. McCoy
New York City
Washington, D. C
Chandler
McCoy
Big Cro
St Louis Aero Club
Leo Stevens
America
Cape Girardeau
Texas
J. P. Lightfoot
Pierce Oil Company
BIG Commission House
Eddie Tate
Joliet
Furty
Columbus
Ohio
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