Byrnes Reorganization Fight Rocks Police Board
News from New York reports opposition to appointing Superintendent Byrnes to reorganize the police force. Key figures including Moss and Goulds are cited amid debate over Byrnes stance and past wealth disclosures. Public sentiment shifts as Parkhurst’s society and Lexow committee scrutiny influence the outcome.
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Byrnes
Goulds
New York
Martin
Board of Police Commissioners
Strong
Sheehan
Murray
Lexow Committee
Creedon
Moss
Society For the Prevention of Crime
Parkhirst
Fire wipes out Sherman business district in January blaze
A midnight fire in Sherman New York destroyed A J Peck clothing store in the Ellie block and Sperry Son warehouse along with five principal buildings on Main and Franklin. Losses total dozens of thousands with varied insurance coverage. post office and Hubbard residence also burned. Peck report shows 3000 lost stock fully insured. other small losses bring the sum higher.
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United Press
Sherman
N. Y
A. J. Peck
Ellie Block
Franklin Street
Main Street
Sperry & Son
Sperry & Marsh
Owsets
Joss
Stebbens
Jove
Hubbard
Lowe
Morton’s New Year Message for Empire State Reform Drive
Governor Morton outlines a reform agenda as New York begins the year. He notes strong finances with no state debt and a $200,900 principal permanent fund while urging mayoral control of New York City offices, a Greater New York charter commission, election law tweaks, canal improvements, and interstate highway cooperation. The Assembly elects Hamilton Fish speaker and the Senate nominates Edmund O’Connor for president pro tempore.
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United Press
Albany
N. Y
Hamilton Fish
Edmund O'Connor
Binghamston
Senate
Buxton
Morton
New York City
Lexow
Greater
New York
Pilgrim Riot After Apparition Sighting in Bohemia
A Bohemian peasant near Braunad claimed a Virgin apparition in Dorengrund forest drawing thousands. Pilgrims clashed with scoffers. gendarmes fired charges, ten injured, and both sides fought. Troops dispatched to quell the riot.
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United Press
Prague
Braunad
Bohemia
Dorengrund
Hraiinga
Moleski Arrested For Fraudulent Mine Certificates
Samuel Moleski of Mount Carmel was arrested in Shamokin Pa for selling fraudulent mining certificates to workers avoiding regular board examination. A stiff penalty is set for issuing forged certificates and this is the first case under the new law. He implicated J H Dawes and John Davis of Centralia. Dates serves on the Seventh district examining board.
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United Press
Shamokin
Samuel Moleski
Mount Carmel
Moleski
J. H. Dawes
John Davis
Centralia
Dates
Love and Life Painting Sent to Corcoran Gallery
The president ordered Watt's painting Love and Life turned over to the Corcoran Gallery for exhibition. The work, shown at the World's Fair, was donated by the artist to the government and kept in the White House awaiting final disposition.
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United Press
Washington
Corcoran Art Gallery
Watt
White House
Coal Mine Wage Cut Reported at Laurel Colliery
A cut of 18 cents per car was made at Laurel colliery of the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company in Hasleton Pennsylvania. Workers may accept the reduction or leave their positions.
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United Press
Hasleton
Laurel
Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
Local Notes and Appointments in Harrisburg Area
Adjutant General Grebniand ill at Harrisburg. Three George Telwell horses poisoned at Shartlesville Bucks county. Tabor Leader Hugh Dempsey case to be reconsidered by board of pardons soon. Last bond of 1877 loan matured, paid at state treasury. Steel mill managers in Harrisburg to supply frogs for New Orleans street railways. Cumberland County Agricultural Society elected Mullin president McCrea secretary Stock treasurer. Erdman appoints Seliver Hamburg cadet and Amey Allentown alternate for West Point cadetship. Dr James Rhoades ex president Bryn Mawr college dropped dead at railroad station aged 70.
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Grebniand
Harrisburg
George Telnwel
Fire at 25 Pitt Street Kills Mother and Two Children
Fire at 25 Pitt Street in New York claims Lena Lehman 14 and her children Sarah 2 and Henry 3 months. The blaze trapped a fourth floor mother and her babies as residents fled crowded stairs and fire escapes. Damage estimated at 4000 dollars. cause unknown. Aaron Lehman, husband, was away.
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United Press
New York
Ives
Pitt Street
Lena Lehman
Sarah
Henry
Aaron Lehman
Tometer
New AFL Officers Meet in Secret Session in New York
The American Federation of Labor held a secret session at 8 AM in New York with President John McBride and the new executive council. They audited Gompers era accounts, discussed relocation of headquarters, Debs legal appeal, and support for miners in large Tollgate county under trial.
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New York
American Federation of Labor
Ongantination
HW Cinton Street
John McBride
Samuel Gompers
Eld
Tila
Todianopelis
Eugene V. Debs
American Railway Union
Hlm
United States Eupreme Cour
Targewell County
Hastings Inauguration Committee Sets Up State Visit
Harrisburg officials report a joint legislative committee to arrange Governor elect Hastings inauguration. Senator George Handy Smith of Philadelphia chairs the group with Fletcher as secretary and M. Ef. Olmstead of Harrisburg as chief marshal. The panel will travel to Bellefonte next week to confer with General Hast iners.
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Harrisburg
Hastings
George Handy Smith
Philadelphia
Fletcher
M. EF. Olmstead
Bellefonte
Hastiners
Final Harrisburg Board Holds Last Meeting
The Harrisburg pardons board, as currently constituted, met for the final time. Frederick Boyle of Schuylkill and Hugh Dempsey of Allegheny counties saw their cages referred to the Incoming board as counsel sought to file more papers. A pardon for John F. P. Dobbs, an Allegheny railroad worker convicted of duty negligence, was denied.
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Board of Harrisburg
United Press
Harrisburg
Board of Pardons
Frederick Boyle
Schuylkill County
Hugh Dempsey
Allegheny County
John FP. Dobbs
Fraudulent Orders in East Norwegian Township Case
Lebleh Valley Coal company probes transactions by township officials in East Norwegian Schuylkill county leading to the arrest of Supervisor Thomas Mason Auditors John Stin yon and James Comer and Mrs Margaret Fee on fraud charges. Six miners injured in a powder explosion at Martin & Son coal mine near Rich Hill Missouri when a keg of powder exploded as a shot was fired. The December public debt shows a net increase of 11 820 000 with total cash in treasury at 782 704 289.
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Tinsted Press
Pottaville
Lebleh Valley Coal Company
East Norwegian Township
Schuylkill County
Thomas Mason
John Stinyon
James Comer
Mra
Margaret Fee
United Press
Rich Hill
Martin & Seon
Coal Ming
Here
Charles Harding
Fred
The
Washington
Treasury
Beef Packers Indignant Over German Sugar Embargo
Cattle and dressed beef exporters in the United States protest the Antwerp embargo on American beef as retaliation linked to the German Wilson tariff schedule. Industry leaders plan united action to urge Congress to legislate a remedy. Belgium also flags import limits on live cattle, signaling broader European reaction with possible impacts on Supreme Court and habeas corpus proceedings in a separate legal case.
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United Press
Antwerp
Gorman-Wilson
Congress
Washington
Belgium
Department of Agriculture
Germany
Department Ofielale
O Connell Case Blocks Extradition Over Habeas Writ
John O Connell is halted in Harlem police court as his counsel enforces a writ of habeas corpus to prevent transfer to Pennsylvania. The case centers on an alleged Dec 15 break in at an elderly couple near Slocum, with robbery of savings and ancient coins. Detectives from Washington township, Erie county, Pennsylvania, attend. Governor Flower countersigned requisition papers.
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United Press
New York
John O'Connell
George O'Connell
Washington Township
Erie County
Harlem
Pennsylvania
Flower
Sullivan and Stearns
Washington Police
Slocum
Knitting Works in Chicago Destroyed by Fire
Fire gutted the Prince Knitting works at Belmont avenue and Herndon street in Chicago. About 150 workers were employed, with 30 rescued from third story windows as flames spread, causing an estimated 40 0000 dollar loss.
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Chicago
United Press
Prince Knitting Works
Belmont Avenue
Herndon Street
Requisition Issued for Holmes Return to Fort Worth
The Dallas Fort Worth area dispatch reports that Texas Sheriff forwarded a requisition to Philadelphia for HW BH Holmes the alleged insurance swindler. If convicted here Fort Worth will hold first claim on his custody for trial or further proceedings.
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Texas
United Preas
Philadelphia
Linden
Forth Worth
Tex
BH. Holmes
Holmes
Fort Worth
Attorney’s Unyielding Efforts To Save Lambert
Washington January 2. Attorney for Lambert the New Jersey wife murderer under sentence of death to be executed tomorrow came to Washington this afternoon and secured a conditional writ. The case centers on a request to stay the execution and review potential legal errors.
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United Pros
Washington
Semple
Lambert
New Jersey
Continued hearing in Davies and Griffin case at court
Arbitrators listened to further testimony in the Davies and Griffin clothiers case over insurance claims on Lackawanna avenue. The defense argues policies void due to no resident in the building at the fire and alleged misstatements by plaintiffs. Further proceedings to occur this afternoon.
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Davies & Griffin
Woodru
Charles I. Wawley
J. W. Carpenter
Court House
Davies & Griffin, Clothiers
Lackawanna Avenue
Elon
Willard
Hand
Essup
Horice
Witnhessea
Rioting at Hazleton Amid Magyar Slavic Clash
A Hazleton riot at Sheppton involved Magyars and Slavs. One man fatally stabbed and several seriously wounded, including Mrs Lefanky and Joseph Handyka, as about seventy men fought after derisive mockery of uniforms at Hoofman’s hotel. Fifteen arrested.
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United Prose
Hazleton
Sheppton
Joseph Handyka
Andrew Lefanky
Maury Lyneta
Steve Hodik
Michiel Mandare
Hoofman's Hotel
Videl Mildred Crowell Ends Career With Choral Decline
Boston girl Videl Mildred Crowell, once noted in a respected family, died by chloral overdose in a Schell Street tenement on New Year’s night. Coroner’s inquest links long chloral addiction to her collapse after crime years earlier. Relatives will claim the body for burial.
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Videl
Mildred Crowell
United Press
Philadelphia
Boston
Schell Street
Wilkes-Barre
Pau
House of Correction
Minnie Davis
Sehell Street
New Coal Beds Discovered Near Carroll County Line
In Mississippi near the Carroll county line a vast bed of lignite or brown coal has been found. The extent runs into Tippah County with a width of about ten miles in one spot. Despite many borings the bed remains unpierced, leaving thickness unknown. A Birmingham expert is testing the area and has formed a syndicate with Nugent McWhite and others to assess coal value.
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United Press
Vicksburg
Miss
Holmes Courtly
Carroll County
Tippah County
Birmingham
Jackson Law Firm
Nugent & McWhite
Pierpont Morgan Visits Washington Then Florida Trip
J Pierpont Morgan and a party of friends traveled through Washington on a special car en route to Florida. They stayed over the weekend at Chamberlin's. Morgan reportedly visited the White House to convey respect to the president, prompting rumors he demanded Secretary Carlisle resign over bond issue dealings. Carlisle did not address the rumor.
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Washington
J. Pierpont Morgon
New York
Florida
Chamberlin's
Morgan
White House
Secretary of the Treasury
Carlisle
Cartiele
Indictment Filed Against English Anarchist Mobray
The grand jury returned an indictment against Charla W. Mowbray an English anarchist for making an inflammatory speech. He was arrested last Friday night after addressing a meeting of watchmen in New York. Albany reports the Lexow bill moves to broaden the commission to include mayors of New York and Brooklyn to draft a charter for union of Harlem area cities.
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Mobray
United Prec. Philadelpha
Jam -2
Charla
W. Mowbray
Mowbray
Greater New York
United Seas
Albany
N. Y
Lexow
New York
Brooklyn
Harlem
Telegraphic items from damaged Yorktown and beyond
Breach of wreck notes report Brakeman William Sehull killed in Yorktown Indiana while oil partner Jonas Walker dies in poverty in Prisco. Strike parade of shoe workers in Hiverhill Minnesota. A daughter’s jump from a moving train near Almonto Ontario drives John Armstrong insane. Ex Alder Charlee Johnson of Galesburg accused of impropriety. wife shoots him. Jack Browe mill owner and two Patrick brothers killed in Little Rock wage dispute.
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Yorktown
Tnd
William Sehull
Jonas M. Walker
Benator -Falr
Prisco
Hiverhill
Mit
Almonto
Ont
Tanneck
John Armstrong
Charlee F. Johnson
Galesburg
Chicago
Jack Browe
Patrick
Plato
Little Rock
Ark
New York Inventor Accused Of Patent Scam In Mexico
New York inventor James D. Lewin arrived in San Luis Potosi to face allegations of defrauding fourteen prominent businessmen with a bogus patent mining machine scheme. He supposedly sold rights to the alleged patent in Mexico, taking 8000 from each investor. Inauguration Military Display plans announced in Harrisburg involve a provisional brigade for the governor-elect Hastings ceremony.
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New York
United Press
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
James D. Lewin
Harrisburg
Schall
Hastings
Help For Nebraska Sufferers From Harrisburg
Funds and supplies are organized by the Market Square Presbyterian Church Christian Endeavor group in Harrisburg. Tomorrow a relief mission will depart with nearly 100 pounds of clothing seven barrels of flour and large quantities of canned goods and potatoes to aid Nebraska sufferers.
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Nebraska
United Press
Harrisburg
Joan
Christian Endeavor #o«ololy
Market Square Presbyterian
Weather Report for Eastern Pennsylvania Snow and Winds
A weather notice reports snow across eastern Pennsylvania with warming trend. Winds shift to northeasterly as systems move through region. Flurries may lessen later day. travel could be tricky during peak periods.
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Pennsylvania
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