McClellan defies Murphy in Tammany manifesto
New York Mayor McClellan releases a manifesto opposing Murphy and the Tammany leadership while announcing John T. Dooling as commissioner of alcohol licenses to succeed Voorhis. He pledges to strengthen genuine democracy but rejects the current Tammany control and declines any leadership role.
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Voorhis
Tammany
Washington Post
New York
McClellan
Cherlas F. Mwphy
Tammany Organization
John T. Dooling
William Atrest
John R. Voorhis
Tammany Hall
Dooling
Democratic Organization of
Twentieth Assembly District
Tammany Feall
Board of Elections
Page
New York County
McGuire
Kings
Michael~d Dady
Republiican
Rudolph C Fuller
Woodruff
Hughes
John B Pine
Frank Muller
Municipal Art Commission
Certified Checks Stolen In New York Theft Case
Capt Dunn of the Wall Street detective bureau reported two certified checks stolen. Checks Nos 8 and 9 valued at 50 dollars each, drawn by Herman Arpe and payable to Frederick Henks, were certified by Farmers Loan and Trust Company 22 Wall Street and parabolled at National City Bank. The incident was noted in Charleston and Summerville with railroad and information bureau references.
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Yeaswingevest
New York
Dunn
Wall Street Detective Bureau
Hermann Arpe
Frederick Henks
Farmers Loan and Trust Company
Wiam Street
National City Bank
Stolen Jewels Found After Atlantic Coast Line Heist
Special to The Washington Fest Savannah Ga Jan 2 a satchel of jewelry valued at at least 60000 brought to Savannah today by Conductor T H Adair of the Atlantic Coast Line. They will be restored to Senor and Benora Miranda from whom they were stolen on December 11 when they left New York for Tampa via the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Southern Railway. The Senor took the jewels from a safety deposit box that day. A moment later their watch over their treasure faltered and the thief grabbed the satchel and fled. The Mirandas reported the loss to Jacksonville Police who arrested Mra L C Brown and Miss Buelah Belle Brown on the car, but at a preliminary hearing they were released. Meanwhile Merry Walton a negro portal on the Atlantic Coast Line train to Savannah entered his closet and found there the satchel containing the gems.
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Wenl
T. H. Adair
Atlantic Coast
Senor
Benora Dionanus Miranda
New York
Tampa
Pennsylvania, Railroad
Southern Railway
Mirandas
Jacksonville
Miranda
Mra L. C. Brown
Buelah Belle Brown
Merry ‘Walton
Atlantic Coast Line
Thera
Arraigns Lawyers Railroads Rebates Robbery in Buffalo
New York jurist Justice William J Gaynor spoke at the Lawyers' Club dinner in Buffalo on January 2, condemning lawyers in legislatures for shaping anti-trust laws, condemning railroad rebates as robberies, and urging unified public education to curb abuses. He warned that judges dissolved trusts but legislatures then nullified those decisions by enacting favorable corporate laws.
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Lawyers’ Club of
Buffalo
N. Yu
William J Gaynor
Brooklyn
Lawyers’ Club
Standard Oil
Tes
New York
Ohio
Gaynor
Indian Weds White Girl in Nebraska Controversy
Special to The Washington Post from Lincoln Nebraska reports a dispute over Roosevelt era anti miscegenation views in education sparked by the marriage of Flora French a Cherry County white woman to a full blooded Indian who attended school with her The Cherry County superintendent Lulu Kortz fears mixed schooling and asserts the couple will live with the husband and his tribe Moras companions she says Separate schools for red yellow black and white are now favored by her a tragedy in her view and a shift in policy
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Washington Post
Lincoln
Nebr
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Flora French
Cherry County
Lulu Kortz
Misa French
Satiows
Moira
Miss Kortz
Prisoner Hangs Self in Steel County Jail
Owatonna Minn Jan 3 Fred Immer man accused of shooting Mrs Quam last Thursday evening hanged himself in his Steel County jail cell Tuesday night. The bullet wounded Mrs Quam when she fled to the Quam home. Witnesses described the incident as unsafe and unprofitable to leave surplus money idle then urged depositing funds in Union Trust Co banking department at 1414 I Street with interest on all accounts.
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Dept. of
Union L'Trust Co
Thaw and Nesbit Scandal Deepens in Pittsburg Probe
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw exits Tombs after interview with husband amid hostile talk from her mother and stepfather Charles Holman. Pittsburg letters said to reveal real cause of enmity between Harry Thaw and Stanford White guarded in a safe deposit vault. reports denied offers of 50 000 dollars for the Holman letters.
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White
Evelyn
Thaw
Washington Post
New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Elene of Victors
Sig
Pittsburg
Stanford White
Souman
Thaw Defense Focuses on Insanity as Motive
The article reports on Harry Thaw's murder case defense strategy. It notes emotional insanity as the planned defense, securing medical experts to claim insanity only at the time of the crime, and considers Thaw testifying with his mother supporting him. District Attorney Jerome is expected to personally conduct the prosecution and cross examine.
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Thaw
Jerome
Rumors Delay Balloting in Michigan Senator Race
News from Detroit and Lansing reports a Republican caucus adjourned for a week without balloting due to Governor Warner's influenza illness and rumors of improper labor used to boost Arthur Hil's candidacy. Four candidates remain: William C. McMillan Willard Alden Smith Arthur Hil and Charles H. Townsend. McMillan is bedridden with influenza and not expected to travel to Lansing soon.
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Lansing
Mich
Republican Caucus of
United States
Russell A. Alger
Warner
Farmington
Arthur Hil
Baginaw
Hil
Wiliam C. McMillan
Detroit
Willd Alden Smith
Grand Rapids
Charles Hi, Townsend
Jackso Petroit, Malen
Willam Mcillan
McMillan
War on vivisectionist Watson shocks Chicago
Special to The Wahhington reports Chicago citizens plan action against Prof John B Watson of the University of Chicago over alleged cruel experiments on rats. Robert L Gifford of Ditnels Engineering Co. leads a push to stop the practices while Watson vows to continue. Humane Society leaders fear proof of cruelty may be hard to obtain against scientists.
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Chicago
John B. ‘Watson
University of Chicago
Robert L. Gifford
Ditnels Engineering Company
New York
American Association For the Advancement of Defence
Shortall
The
Humane Society
Watson
Gifford
Prof. Watson
Dr Sarah Stevenson enters Catholic retreat in Chicago
Fin ds home for life at St Elizabeth's Hospital and Home in Claremont and Lemoyne after turning wealth over to sisters. Attorney Louis M. Greeley says the prominent woman physician, once connected to Adlai E. Stevenson and social leaders, sought the arrangement for health reasons. She will have a room and care, aiming not to burden friends or relatives after a divorce.
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Chicago
Sarah Hackett Stevenson
Adlai E. Stevenson
Potter Palmer
Theodore P. Shonts
Charles Henrotin
St Elizabeth's Hospital
Claremont Avenue
Lemoyne Street
Louis M. Greeley
Stevenson
Fur coat halts shot in Laporte at town road
Mrs Harry C Garman wife of Purdues instructor and daughter of Gov J Frank Hanly was shot at by William Coe using a shotgun near Coes home as the couple passed. Several pellets pierced her sealskin coat but she escaped harm. Prof Garman also struck but unharmed. Deputies moved to arrest Coe after the incident.
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Coe
Willam Coe
Four Bakers Union Members Arrested for Poisoning Bread
Four men, alleged bakers union members, were arrested in Chicago on charges of placing carbolic acid on hundreds of loaves distributed to Jewish residents on the West Side. A bakery strike is ongoing and authorities say sympathizers also poisoned bread wagons. Police confiscated many baskets of bread as evidence and found carbolic acid and iodoform on the arrestees.
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Chicago
Bakers’ Union
West Side
Firemen threaten nationwide strike on Harriman lines
In Peoria on January 2 special telegrams report Grand Master Hanrahan refusing to comment as the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen prepares a general strike against seven Harriman railway systems. Arbitration may avert the walkout, with firemen standing by the ultimatum issued to E. H. Harriman on January 1 to settle or face a walkout.
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Hanrahan
Brotherhoo
Sirike
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Brotherhood
E. H. Harriman
Farmer shoots at couple in buggy near Lafayette
Mrs. Harry O. Gorman of Purdue University and her husband Prof. Gorman were targeted by farmer William Coe as they traveled to catch a train at Laporte Indiana. The shotgun blast shattered Mrs. Gorman’s coat and pierced Prof. Gorman’s hat and overcoat. Coe, reportedly insane years ago, fled the scene and was later sought by officers.
Prof A W Berg Dead After Thirty Years as Organist
ProfAlert W Berg renowned organist and composer dies at 83 in New York. He served thirty years as organist of The Little Church Around the Corner and was a former maestro of the Palma Opera Company. He leaves three other children and was surrounded by family at his death.
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New York
Alert W. Berg
West Twentieth Street
Elizabeth Pane Berg
Singer
Louia de Copper Berg
Europe
Walter Gilman Berg
Berg
Palma Opera Company
Chambers Street
Mme. Borghes
Mme. Pico
Persia's New Constitution Grants Assembly Financial Control
Teheran Jan 2 The revised constitution accepted by the national assembly grants the body charge of all financial matters including local and foreign loans and commercial treaties and authorizes formation of companies for railways and public works. Provincial administration discussions remain restricted to the assembly with dissolution requiring consent of both houses and a two thirds senate majority.
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Teheran
Persia
National Assembly
Senate
Atlanta lawyer shoots bridegroom at wedding veranda
Harvey Hill of Atlanta shot Dr Frank M Ridley Jr on the veranda of the Ridley home just after the wedding of Miss Eile Ridley and Benjamin Swanson in Grange Georgia. Hill surrendered to the sheriff and sent a grim warning to guests claiming he may have killed Ridley. The conflict stemmed from Hill’s suit with Ridley’s sister Milas Mary Ridley over marriage plans. Ridley, a University of Georgia football star and recent son in law of Gen John M Hood, faces possible death.
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Misa Hood
Baltimore
Benjamin H. Hill
Miss Ridley
Washington Post
Grange
Eile Ridley
Benjamin Swanson
Frank M. Ridley, Jr
Perhaaps
Harvey Hill
Atlanta
Ridley
Hill
Frank
Dr. Ridley
Milas Mary
Mary Hidley
Miss Mary
Xudiey, Jr
Ya Ea
Dolctor
Atlanta Judicial Circuit
University of Georgia
John M. Hood
Captain Koehler Convicted for Criticizing Gen Wood
Fourth Cavalry officer Captain I M Koehler was found guilty by a general court martial for criticizing General Wood. The sentence, likely a reduction in rank, cannot be public until reviewed by the War Department. Koehler remained under arrest as the case awaits disposal, expected to take about three months.
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Mindanao
P. 1
I. M. Kohler
Fourth Cavalry
Wood
War Department
Koehler
Capt. Koehler
Wer
Registrar of Deeds Thomas Temple Ends His Life
Boston January 2. In low spirits after a defeat for re election to a post held for twenty five years Thomas Temple registrar of deeds for Suffolk County killed himself at his Neponset home by inhaling illuminating gas. He was seventy and connected with various business corporations and philanthropic groups.
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Boston
Thomas Temple
Suffolk County
Neponset
Temple
Carey mother inquest finds arsenic poisoning death
Philadelphia January 2 Mrs Bridget Carey, earlier detained on suspicion of poisoning her two children aged eight and six, was committed for trial after an inquest. Coroner Jermon presided as the jury found the deaths resulted from arsenital poisoning.
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Philadelphia
Bridget Carey
Mary
Annie
Jermon
Block Signal Rules Widely Ignored, Rail Disasters Raise Alarm
Washington officials confirm widespread disregard of block signal regulations across U S railroads. Chairman Knapp notes signals increasingly ineffective by design, while a Cabinet official recalls Jane Hil warning that two to three trains enter each block, heightening danger amid rising disasters.
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Washington
United States
Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Jane J. Hil
Von Buelow warns he cites French Revolution
Berlin Jan 2 Chancellor Von Buelow released a vigorous election manifesto explaining government aims in dissolving the Reichstag. He sought to free the government from clerical dependence and unite liberals with conservatives to curb socialism and clericalism. The manifesto denounces communistic dreams and condemns religious influence used by political groups. Berliner Tageblatt notes the piece omits famine and Catholic influence topics while hinting at future Reichstag moves if elections turn unfavorably.
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Reichstag
von Idebert
Empire League
Social Democrats
Gauger
Germany
Bonaparte
Robespierre
Berliner Tageblatt
The
Tageblatt
Center
Money Shower Delights Park Row Workers In New York
In New York city park row lofts workers witnessed a coin shower as Interborough Rapid Transit Co collected its New Year haul. Three NY Coin Handling Co employees spilled 28,000 dollars of nickels dimes quarters and halves from a fifth floor bag onto the elevator platform. Two bags of quarters dumped over the edge creating a silver stream as crowds gathered. Elevator crew and workers recovered most coins bent and twisted, leaving at least five missing.
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New York
Jane
Park Row
New York Coin Handing Company
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Interborough Railway
Lfnt
Coin Handling Company
Washington Post
Man Dies While Singing Widely Known Mason
Special to The Warmington West New York Alfonso Semuzzo a prosperous Mason and builder at 76 Hamilton avenue died during a birthday party at his brother Michael s home 7 Hamilton avenue while trying to reach a high note with a string orchestra present The incident occurred on January 2 in Warmington West New York The Washington Post Educational Contest mention appears incidental and unrelated
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Warmington West
New York
Alfonso Semuzzo
Hamilton Avenue
Caruso
Michael
Iamuzzo
Engineer Blamed As Signal Rules Violated In Terra Cotta Wreck
Coroner Nevitt opened an inquest into the Baltimore and Ohio disaster at Terra Cotta that killed forty five and injured many, with Superintendent Galloway, Hobbs, and Dispatcher Dent testifying. Officials pointed to rule violations after No 2120 passed a red signal at Takoma Park, triggering a collision with No 66 as investigators from the Interstate Commerce Commission prepared a broader probe of block signaling systems.
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Hobbs
Goth
Nevitt
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Terra Cotta
Hildebrand
Weather Bureau
C W' Gallo Way
O. H. Hobbs
Baltimore
Metropolitan Branch
Thomas F. Dent
Camden
Timiwerdy
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Takoma Park
Frederick
Washingen
Terra Costa
Cid
Dent
No 66
Takoma
University Station
No. 66
Washington Junction
Washington
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Tuaca- Tora
Freght
Takoma Perk
Sliver Spring
Interstate Commerce Commission
James M. Watson
Safter-Appliance Division
L. M Wai
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