Man’s Napoleonic Delusion Shocks New York City
Richard Brothers of Syracuse writes a long letter to President McKinley claiming he could serve the government as a military governor of the Philippines. The letter cites political figures, asks for a blockade, and details his imagined role amid a backdrop of accusations of mail theft by a postal worker named Hauvey who stole and diverted letters on a railway route.
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Syracuse
Richard Brothers
Tammany Hall
McKisley
Ringsters
Cannibatiem
Dreyfus
France
Cleveland
Thurber
Hoke Smith
Carnote
His
Murphy
Pratt
Depew
Belden
Driscoll
Croke
Mr. Brothers
Enrcutine Mansion
Washington
Porter
The
Philippines
Eat Spinach for Spring We All Benefit From Spinach
A New York Herald piece extols spinach as a healthful aid for tiredness and complexion. It cites potassium and iron content and notes physicians praise its digestive ease and tonic potential. The article likens spinach to a tonic and urges a spinach habit for better health and vigor.
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Bingo
N. Y
Equord Superintendent Faces Fraud Charge in New York
Ernest B Hammerstein superintendent of the Equord Medical society was arraigned in New York for obtaining money under false pretences. He waived examination and is held in $1900 bail. Bookkeeper Alvin Geisler testified the society operated in this city four to five weeks before moving to Hoboken. Society agent Morris Glaner allegedly collected $1 from Charles Brown. Hoboken arrest followed in a Hungarian cafe. requisition papers awaited.
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York
Ernest B. Hammerstein
Equord Medical Society
Hoboken
Stanton
Tie
Hudson County Crand Jury
Alvin Geisler
Hammerstein
Morris Glaner
Society
Charles Brown
Bloomfield Street
Weinthal
Second Avenue
Seventh
Eighth Streets
Mail Clerk Arrested In Mail Robbery Case
New York March 15 Charles J Sauvey a railway mail clerk with eight years service was held on bail by Commissioner Shields on a charge of robbing the mails. He was released pending further proceedings.
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New York
Charles J. Sauvey
Shields
Witty riff on choosing a wife by the music she plays
A magisterial quip lists songs that reveal a woman’s traits from travel taste to piety, noting: Maiden's Prayer signals reliability, Tattle of Prague hints nurtured upbringing, while Home Sweet Home crowns her as wholesome and suitable.
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Magneh
Neethoven
Liest
Verdi
Offenbach
Gottachalk
Mozart
Plowtow
Wagner
Prague
Woman Traps a Thief in New York Burglary Case
In New York on March 15 Mrs Tilne Effenbach traced stolen dress goods to Mrs Della Doehn through a torn label. After identifying the goods by matching label fragments and coordinating with police the suspect was arrested at East Sixty seventh Street station for burglary.
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New York
Til- Ne Effenbach
Mast Seventy-ffth Street
Della Doehn
Seventy-ffth Street
Reed's Literary Tastes
A March Ainstee's Magazine piece describes Mr. Reed's preferences. He reads Halzac in French originals and favorites Pere Goriot and Eugénie Grandet, Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and Hecky Sharp. His top Fineland novel is Charles Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth. He enjoys Tennyson Browning Holmes Whittier and Omar Khayyam's mysticism.
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Ainstee
March
Mr. Reed
Halzac
Pere Goriot
Fugent Grandet
Palgac
Thackeray
Vanity Fair
Charles Reade
Tennyson
Browning
Holmes and Whittier
Omar Khayyam
Salt Railroad Tracks Salting Case At West 57th Street
Four Metropolitan Street Railway employees James Booth Cornelius Madigan Antonio Tacreti and Patrick Carney were jailed in $200 bail each in the West 57th Street police court on charges of salting the Ninth Avenue horse car line between Forty second and Fifty third streets. Officers from the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals arrested them after witnesses said they shoveled rock salt from a flat car onto the track making it unsafe for horses. Chief Inspector James Parker posted bail and suggested they may have started their work too early.
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NPW
York
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
West Mth Street
Ninth Avenue
James Booth
Cornelius Madigan
Antonio Tacreti
Patrick Carney
Focelety For
Jamen Parker
Metropolitan Company
Expansion Foes Gain No Ground As Barnyard Doubles Spur Debate
Tommy rushes to tell his parents he found two double yolk eggs in the barn. His mother asks about prior finds and his father notes the uncanny omen as the family jokes about expansion. The tale ends with a humorous quip from the elder.
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Tommy
A New Mathematical Seminary At Princeton
A new mathematical seminary has been established at Princeton University in connection with postgraduate work. Funds totaling 2500 were donated by John L. Cadwallder Chandler W. Riker and Adrian Riker plus Thomas B. Jones David B. Jones M. Allan Starr. The gifts will fit up seminar rooms in the new library and expand the library with additional books.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
John L. Cadwallader
M. Allan Starr
New York City
Thomas B. Jones
David B. Jones
Chicago
Chandler W. Riker
Adrian Riker
Newark
Ice Plant Red Cross Auxiliary Raises Half a Million in New York
The Ice Plant auxiliary of the Red Cross raised 500000 for soldiers and sailors with 2000 contracts secured and 20000 unspent. Funds to be entrusted to a committee for use. The group started with 2000 for one ice plant and became the third largest Red Cross auxiliary. The March meeting at Miss De Peyster’s home reviewed work and adjourned with funds held for future use amid internal church faction turmoil.
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New York
Ice Plant Auxiliary
Red Cross Society
Tts
Ae Kh
Missouri
Red Cross
Julia Delafield
Helen de Peyster
Catherine ®& Leverich
Fred J. de Peyster
Adrian Iselin, Jr
Missouri's Democratic Leader for House Seat Emerges
The Missouri Democratic leadership names Hon. David A. Armond as their candidate for the next House term. With fourteen years in politics and eight in Congress, Armond is described as able modest fearless uncompromising on party principles, decisive, a thorough practitioner and skilled organizer. The Louie Republic notes his selection will maximize advantage while guiding a defense of popular rights against a Republican majority.
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Missouri
David A. Armond
Congress
Loule Republic
Sheriff Torture in Court Trial Sparks Acquittal Ruling
In Warrensburg Missouri Port Swinehart faced trial for receiving stolen goods when an alleged confession was challenged after sheriff Lear subjected the prisoner to solitary confinement and suspension by a handcuff. The judge rebuked the officer and directed the jury to acquit.
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Warrensburg
Port Swinehart
Lear
Spook Contract Jury Drawn In Fort Scott Case
In Fort Scott Texas on March 15 Sam Wah, an unnaturalized Chinese man, was drawn as a juror in the suit of Mrs. Mary Eppe against Benjamin Bruce to recover $100 on a contract to remove spooks from two houses owned by Bruce. All parties and jurors are colored except Wah who serves as foreman by consent.
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Fort Scott
Tex
Sam Wah
Mary Eppe
Benjamin Bruce
Bruce
Modjeska Narrow Escape On Moving Train
Mme Modjeska escaped serious injury in Louisville Kentucky when the drawbar attaching her private car to the Baltimore and Ohio passenger train at Deputy 66 miles from the city broke. The car toppled off the track as wheels ran over the bar, and she was hurled against a wall with a lamp grazing her head though she remained frightened but unharmed.
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Louisville
Mmne
Modjeska
Baltimore & Hie
Deputy
Mme
Mod-jeska
White Woman Elected Kiowa Medicine Man
The Kiowa tribe elects a white woman, Belle Perkins also called Mrs. Poor Buffalo, as their new medicine man after the death of her husband who previously held the role. At forty she has lived with the Kiowas thirty years and becomes the first white leader of this kind. She is tasked with delivering news from heaven.
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Mra
Poor Buffalo
Belle Perkins
Poor Tuffalo
Trouble in a Church at Mount Olivet Colored Baptist
New York report notes trustee C Darnell and two deacons sought police protection before a Mount Olivet Colored Baptist church meeting on West Forty seventh Street. The evening began with Rev Dr Daniel Wisher presiding as tense factions lined up inside the church.
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Deacon Webb
H. H
Jones
Brother Jones
Deacon Jackson
New York
C. Darnell
Mount Olivet
Daniel Wisher
A Very Bad Boy in Freehold Arrested for Knife Threats
Joe Spellman a minor in Freehold New Jersey was arrested after threatening his mother with a butcher knife for five cents and then menacing neighbors He allegedly threatened to shoot others and attempted arson and assaulted his sister leaving her in the rain.
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Freehold
N. J
Joe Spellman
Mulberry Street
Praiseworthy Alabama Soldiers
The Third Alabama volunteers wish to re up under the new army bi and expect to be mustered out by month end. They feel a vocation for military life and their record merits consideration by the war department.
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Alabama Volunteers
War Department
Mobile Daily Register
Co operative Colony Established in Oklahoma County
A cooperative colony with 1000 members has been established in Oklahoma county Oklahoma. J M Powell serves as president and Dr Dean as secretary. The constitution provides for division of labor property held by the association plots of land for each family to build homes and system of visiting each member for the value of produce. The colony will be known as the Oklahoma Cooperative Industrial Association.
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Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma County
Oklahoma
J. M. Powell
Dr. Dean
Echp
Oklahoma Co-operative Industrial Association
Horse crashes through lunch room window in New York
In Dennett's lunch room at 2 Ann Street, New York, a horse tied to a delivery wagon ran loose yesterday afternoon. The animal bolted through a plate glass window, panicked during the street drive, and emerged with a minor cut. No injuries to people reported.
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New York
Dennett
Ann Street
Bonner's Backer Assaulted in New York Court
William Murray of 215 Bowery was held for examination in Exesex Market police court for allegedly assaulting Frederick Miller of 2 Stanton Street early Sunday. Miller, Bonner’s backer, sustained non serious injuries and was treated at Gouverneur Hospital before going home.
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New York
Willliam Murray
Bowery
Exesex Market
Frederick Miller
Stanton Street
Miller
Jack Bonner
Tommy West
Gouverneur Hospital
Woman Freed After Insanity Acquittal in 1898 Child Death
Hila Peterson, who killed her three year old daughter in Rockville Center in March 1898 and was acquitted on insanity grounds, appeared before Supreme Court Justice Gaynor in Brooklyn. On Dr. Allison's certificate that she is sane, an order mandating her custody by Queens County Sheriff was revoked and she is to be cared for by relatives in Brooklyn.
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New York
Hila Peterson
Rockville Center
S. 1
Supreme Court
Gaynor
Brooklyn
Allison
Matteawan Asylum
Dickey
Queen's County
Cracker and Biscuit Trust Formed in Pacific Coast
Charles M. Warner of Syracuse heads a trust securing options on seven large biscuit and cracker manufacturers on the Pacific coast. Factories are in San Francisco Sacramento and Los Angeles. The venture plans a 10 million dollar capitalization with New York financiers including Thomas A. McIntyre listed among associates.
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Syracuse
Charles M. Warner
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Cal
Slope
Warner
New York
Thomas A. McIntyre
McIntyre & Wardwell, Commission and Grain Brokers
Pacific Biscuit Company
The
American Biscuit Company
Brooklyn Heights Trolleys Operate Nassau Lines
The Nassau system sees its first practical test of control by Brooklyn Heights as trolley cars from the latter road ran on Fifth and Seventh Avenue Nassau lines yesterday replacing ailed combination cars. Passengers welcomed the smoother service and the change was well received.
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New York
Brooklyn Heights
Sugar price rise touches New York market
Prien s Sugar Rai we New York March 15 The American Sugar Refining company advanced it a price for granulated sugar yesterday one-eighth of a cent a pound or to 64 The advance was followed by Arbuckle Bros the Dooacher refinery and by H Howell Co
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Prien
New York
American Sugar Refining Company
Slanted His Mother Slanted His Mother
John Lang of 481 West Torty eighth street pleaded guilty to first degree assault for stabbing his mother with a carving knife causing multiple injuries. Judge Newburger lamented he could not impose the whipping post or the maximum five year term. In a separate case Catherine Murray, janitress of two West Twenty Seventh Street flats, died by taking carbolic acid in her apartment. Neighbors noted she worried over tenants and housing duties.
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New York
John Lang
West Torty-eighth Street
Asnault
Newburger
Catherine Murray
West Twenty-seventh Street
Spencer rents Ochre Point villa for season
J T Spencer rents his villa at Victoria and Wetmore avenues Ochre Point known as Aithorpe to Buchanan Winthrop of New York for the season.
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Newport
R. L
J. T. Spencer
Victoria and Wetmore Avenues
Ochre Point
Aithorpe
Buchanan Winthrop
New York
Skagway Weather Shows Mild Winter Despite Cold Spells
Skagway reports a milder winter than most states with February snowfall at 4.5 inches and total precipitation of 0.8 inches. The warmest day reached 44 above and the coldest 9 below with several subzero days. Umbrella dealers may relocate to Juneau to boost sales.
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Skagway
George Sexton
South
Alaska
Juneau
Gathering the Fruits and War Controversies
A Westward presidential voice calls to gather the fruits of the war era noting ongoing inquiries and controversies. References include the war investigating commission the Fagan court martial the embalmed beef inquiry the Alger Miles controversy and the senate Sampson dispute.
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Senate Sampson
St.Detroit Free Press
Alimony Granted in Pollard Divorce Case
New York March 15 Justice Gildersleeve on motion of Sarah Pollard grants alimony of 10 dollars weekly and a counsel fee of 5 dollars in her absolute divorce suit against Joseph Percival Town Topics writer. Dispute over Pollard income noted. wife claims 24000 dollars and at least 5000 dollars yearly from writing. husband lists 15 dollars weekly from writing and 600 dollars from an entailed German estate.
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New York
Sarah Pollard
Joseph Percival
Town Topics
Gildersleeve
Pollard
Germany
Water Contract Contest Turns On Jersey City Dispute
Lawyer Charles H. Thompson for F. H. Spengeman filed for a writ of certiorari in Trenton to review the water contract with PF. Flynn in the supreme court. Officials in Jersey City call the suit friendly and intended to test contract legality.
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New York
Charles H. Thompson
F. H. Spengeman
Jersey City
Trenton
PF. H. Flynn
Supreme Court
City Hall
Opinion on the national question from Senator Sorghum
The inquirer asks for a view on the new national question. Senator Sorghum replies that he is too busy seeking votes and watching the opposition to form opinions on anything, a remark attributed to the Washington Star.
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Sorghum
Washington Star
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Mary W. Martin
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Equord
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Salt Railroad
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Cracker and Biscuit Trust
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