Barber Files Suit Against Mack over 100000 Damages
George M Mack accused former asphalt boss Ames Lorenzo Barber of defamation in a New York Supreme Court action seeking 100000 in damages. The suit targets Mack and associates including voting trustees of the General Asphalt Company alleging malicious statements about Barber’s finances and conduct tied to the asphalt trust. The case promises to reveal the trust’s disintegration and reorganization amid litigation and political connections.
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Big Concern
John M. Mack
Asphalt King
Washington Port
New York
Liberty Street
Jaluy M. Mack
Pulphin
Miles & Johnson
Law
UL Wall Street
Supreme Court of New York
Ames Lorenzo Barber
Chet
The
Asphalt Trust
Barber
Mack
Byers
Witch
Sant Yer
General Asphalt Company
Trinidad Lake Asphalt Company (Limited
National Asphalt Company
Asphalt Com
Mexico
Garber
Acy
Castro
Ted New York and Company
Central Asphalt Compunity
Venezuela
Polon
York and Bermudez ‘Company
Generalphalt Company
Bermudez Lake
Matos
Mia
Yeeu
Elderly Scrapper Arraigned Over Bridge Fight
Louis Levey eighty years old of 142 Delancey Street appeared in Essex Market Police Court charged with fights. Police say two elderly newsvendors clashed with a gentler man near the Manhattan bridge approach. Magistrate Ercen reprimanded Levey and dismissed the case without a fine.
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Washington Pest
New York
Louis Levey
Delancey Street
Essex Market
Kehoe
Ercen
Manhattan
ORI O'S NEW GOVENOR III Refuses to Call Physician
Cleveland Ohio June 24 Gov Andrew L Harris bed ridden by illness at his home in baton Prebic County Exhaustion and acute indigestion keep him from returning to Columbus to assume State duties He would not let his wife call a doctor fearing medicine would worsen his condition He is over seventy years old If Harris dies Democrats would regain control through patronage from Pattison era State Senator Willams Democrat pro tempore next in line for governorship Office seekers press Harris for jobs
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Washington Post
Cleveland
Ohio
Andrew L. Harris
Baton
Prebic County
Columbus
Pattison
Willams
Senate
Harris
Policy Holders Form International Committeecampaign Oust Insurers
The policy holders committee names its public roster excluding English and French reps and plans a campaign through December to oust Mutual and New York Life. Members include Conwell Gray Longworth Olney Pennypacker Shook Smith and Untermyer, with Eaton as secretary and Shrugham as organizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual
New York Life
Olles
Gay
Broward
Flora
C. Blanchard
Louisiane
Russell &. Conwell
Baptist Temple
Philadelphia
Cardinal Gibbons
George Gray
Delaware
Frank Hunly
Indiana
John C. Hemphill
Charleston
Newn and Gourter
Harlow N. Higinbotham
Marshall Field
Chicago
J. A. Johnson
Minnesota
Lah
King's Counsel
Canada
Nicholas Longworth
Congress
Jewn Oho
Frederick J. Netderinghawé
St. Louis
Samuel Newhouse
Clair
Fremont Older
San Francisco
Ichard Olney
Massachusetts
W. Pennypacker
Pennsylvania
Alton B. Parker
New York
Henry Roberts
Connecticut
M. Shook
Nakiville
Tenn
Charles Emory Smith
United States
Russia
McKinsey
Gen
Benjaciin, Tricy
Sexy
Thomas B. Wannmaker
Wanamaker
City
Herr Henrich Wiegand
North German Livy Company
Jealousy Motive Ties Ga Foreman Murder
Oscar Knight, an apprentice, killed J. M. Stewart, Seaboard Air Line foreman at Bladen, with nine shots after allegedly learning of a wife’s jealousy. Stewart was shot twice in the back and seven more shots fired as he fell. Knight confessed and was jailed in Brunswick on a murder charge by the coroner’s jury.
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Georgia
Everett
J. M. Stewart
Seaboard Air Line
Bladen
Oscar Knight
Knight
Stewart
Brunswick
Tere e killed in Sunday row in Georgia
Survivor of Georgia shooting affray reports three men killed in a churchyard row near Dublin. Sam Mitchell John Wilburn and Docky Wright died in the clash. Parish Holches wounded. Copeland surrendered to officers.
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Georgia
Dublin
Strawberry Church
Duy Hill
Sam Mitchell
John Wilburn
Docky Wright
Parish Holches
Mitchell
Joe Copeland
Wilburn
Wright
Copeland
Col
James Regan
Must Face Attorney Title To The Bronx House
Coroner McDonald and A D A Cardoza plan to question Mrs Louise Malcolm Stanton and attorney Burton Gibson today in a final effort to solve the Bronx murder mystery of Mrs Allee D Kirthar. Stanton’s seventy eight pages of testimony yielded no valuable facts and Gibson’s responses were inconclusive. The probe will also address Shadyside property ownership and any quarrel over disposition of the estate.
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Gibson
Bronx
Stanton
New York
McDonald
Cardoza
Louise Malcolm Stanton
Burton W. Gibson
Stan*ton
Shadyside
Allee D. Kirthar
Givson
Murder charge in double slaying at Uniontown area
In Connellsville Pennsylvania on June 4 Michael Comatz a Slav was arrested for murdering bricklayers Thomas Bostey and Robert Collins in a quarrel that erupted while drinking One victim was initially thought to be telegraph operator J F Clark The body was identified as Collins A coroner's jury ordered Comatz held for court after what is described as a confessed beating with a fence rail to death
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connellsville
Michael Co|matz
Thomas Bostey
Robert Collins
Uniontown
J. F. Clark
Collins
Comatz
Italian Arrested in Paterson for Importing Girls
Italian suspect Antonio Sorianello was arrested in Paterson N J on charges of importing girls for immoral purposes. Police found a young woman on the street in a pitiable condition and another woman at the arrest scene. the street girl said she escaped by dropping from a window. Sorianello is held without bail on five counts including two for assault and two for keeping a disorderly house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
N. J
Italy
Antonio Sorienello
Sorianello
Sorjanellos
Yellow Fever From Havana Reaches New Orleans Quarantine
Special to The Washington Post New Orleans June 24 The Louisiana State Board of Health reports a yellow fever case from the steamer Holstein at the Mississippi quarantine detention station ninety seven miles below New Orleans The Havana bound ship arrived June 18 with a sick Cuban sailor whose case was deemed suspicious An examination confirmed yellow fever Also reported were two bubonic plague cases at Rio Janeiro aboard the steamer Salust arriving today.
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New Orleans
Washington Post
Louisiana State Board of Health
Mississippi
Havana
Rio Janeiro
State Board
Col Chinn Pays Fines After Harrodsburg Umbrella Duel
Special to The Washington Peat from Lexington Kentucky June 24 Col Jack Chinn paid a fine after a fight with G B Brown over a wheat field raid. Chinn struck Brown with an umbrella, Brown was fined 12 dollars, Chinn one dollar, total about twenty dollars. Both men reconciled after the payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lexington
Sky
Jack Chinn
G.B. Brown
Harrodsburg
Col. Chinn
Brown
Mr. Brown
Chinn
Col
Three Murders Reported in Washington County
Washington Pa June 24 three murders reported by Washington County authorities with no arrests yet. Michael Frebilen coal miner found in a tunnel on Independence Township with skull fractures and a head wound. body placed on tracks. Frank Ristar sought by warrant after a quarrel over money. Joseph Simpson coal miner found beneath railroad car at Burgettstown with head and chest wounds. An unidentified man found near Ballinicre Ohio tracks at Gilkeson with a temple bruise. Robbery suspected in all cases. police blame tramps for two deaths.
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Washington, Pa
Washington County
Michael Frebilen
Wa‘basti
Independence Township
Dive Prebike
Ballinicre
Ohio
Gilkeson
Tramps Ars
Will Go To The Wall Insurance Firms Face Closures
San Francisco June 24 insurers struggle to settle losses as only five or six companies have not supplied policyholder lists or extended deadlines. Assistant Attorney General George Sturtevant warns penalties including forfeiture and ejectment. Georgia will require semiannual statements, exposing financial health by July 1. Spencer of the underwriters’ dollar for dollar committee fears many firms may fail soon and cautions against labeling all as reckless.
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San Francisco
Cel
Fun Insurance
George Stur ‘Evant
Georgia
Spencer
Dolar For Dollar
un+ dJerwriters
Kansas Calls for Help to Gather Grain Crop
A telegraphed appeal from Gov Hoch to railroad officials and Western Passenger Association chair McLeod urges 8,000 harvest hands be sent to Kansas within a week to prevent grain loss. Chicago is asked to provide cheap fares for laborers, but railroads report few availability and widespread labor scarcity.
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Washington Post
Chicago
Fanéas Atona
Hoch
W. J.’ Black
Santa Fe ‘Railroad
B McLeod
Western Passenger Association
Kansas
Missouri River
McClellan Heads Europe Vacation Departure
Mayor McClellan sails for ten weeks in Europe promising a Democrat ticket and platform true to party traditions upon his return. He expects New York City to send a delegation to the State convention backing an honest governor with clean issues. President McGowan will serve as acting mayor in his absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
McClellan
Europe
Fzht
Bath
Man Who Registered at Niagara Falls Hotel Found Dead
A man who committed death by his own action by shooting on the Canadian side of the falls has been identified as Horace Bell of Memphis Tennessee, who registered at a Niagara Falls hotel. All identification marks were cut from his clothes when the body was found.
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Niagara Falls
N.Y
Horace Bell
Memphis
Tenn
Father and Daughter Die in Separate Tragedies
Nelson Towne died of apoplexy while sharpening a knife in Hudson. His daughter Mrs W H MacGlinchey found him dead at the barn threshold. An hour later his daughter Mrs C W Burchard was killed in Mechanicsville after her wagon was struck by a train. Funeral services are planned for Wednesday in Hudson.
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Waspington
Hudson, N. Y
Nelson Towne
W. H. MacGlinchey
Chimney falls kill boy and injure aunt in rooftop hammock tragedy
Four year old Arthur L. from Cincinnati and his aunt Miss Essie Ferguson of Chicago were injured when a roof chimney collapsed onto their shared hammock at 488 Higath avenue. The boy died, while Ferguson suffered a fractured knee and multiple contusions and is hospitalized at Roosevelt.
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Hammock
Hart
New York
Arthur L
Mig¢ Ferguson
Roosevelt, Hospital
Jez and Bruiges
Hotel guests listed across many cities in transit
A long OCR list records guests at major hotels in cities like Baltimore Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia and more. Names include Charles Richsiler Raleigh George G Denver L J Gordon and many others with affiliations to Willard Shoreham Raleigh and National hotels. The piece also notes U S Army and Navy personnel and international guests from Canada Cuba and Mexico.
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Baltimore
Charles. Richsiler
Raleigh
George G. Denver
L. J. Gordon
St. James
J. Armstrong
A. ‘R. Levo
Wits
William Dinwiddie
Hugh
HL Patterson
Charles UL. Murphy
Alfred, Kuble
J. Hamipton King
W. B. St. James
L” Broncr
Charles Hionacdtt
Avite
avite,”Themog J. Merap. and Wife, Natinagl. Eo Oo ~ Fhiladelphia—D, 7. Caimphatt
Regent
W. Schaubel
Higea
J. J. ‘BlacLellan
Misa Wraon
Witla H. Xrglder
Ratelzh
Mins M.wilson
Charles G. Estes
He Compte
National
Pietsburg
J. W
Stephens
New Wilerd
Her— Mon A. Schulz
Fred
Ingersoll
Jerdona, Jr
Richmond
Stayman
Plunett
James
Alabama
A_ Daly
Hirmingham
Nigho
AL. Britton
Fiorote
Jamey
George Th’ Walt
Lester R. Gruent
Seline
Powers
Evann
Ayame
Anee Ryan
Dangilto
Indiana
D. G. Butler
I. D. Buller
Huntington
H Bright
Indianapolis
D. Detres
Shelbyville
U. Picken
HLM
Gienrist
News Willard
IoWn Wiley
Davie
TH. Smith
Cedar Rapids
New
Willard
Fredy
Agnew
Coffeyvile
Kentucky
E. D
Bassatt
Hopkinavilla
New Witlard
D. Hines
Framllort
Ries Louisiana
Withier Ohm
Ite
New Com Jenny
St. Jame
Maryland
Witliam A
Betey
Vite
Springto
Michigan
O. L. Harper
Grand Hiapla
Ralelet
Minnesota
A. Melgard
Warren
Bart W. EB. Hyens
Loutop
Kansas City
Willarddon
St.Louis
Ebbitt
Willamwits
Farmington
A. le Coleman
John
Wen Willard
Onion
Heasey
Zanegvila
Flea
B. OM
Wilkes
Mia
J. Orton
Qaledo
MeéCormick
John Penton
Harvey
Cleveland
Oklahomas
M. Barrett
Lawtoi
J. Hi Winns
South McAlester
Oregon
A. 'C.' Winters
Portiana
C. E. Ole
South Carolina
Columbus
New Willard
Eugene C. Gwathues
Winnsboro
J. L. McCartar
Aiken
South Dakotas
Hopkins
Watertown
Nationals
Tennessee
W. — Ghattanooge
St. Jones
Mra
Berry
Feremy
Nashville
New Witland
Texas
Joseph 4. Smith
Dalvis
Utah
W. H. Rolosh
Onden
M.wittick
White Ports
United States
Assails Witte Policies Stir Russian Cabinet Crisis
A Telegraph dispatch reports a two column commentary by an unnamed Russian cabinet member criticizing Count Witte and the Douma. It notes Conservative Gentrist party efforts to replace Goremykin and calls for a cabinet with moderates. The piece highlights reform delays and the tense parliamentary stance amid Russia's political turmoil.
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Bhedal
Ted
Washington
Télegraph
Russia
Count Witte
sDouma
Garding
England
Tha Donma
Witte
Petersburg
Council of the Empire
Goremykin
Democratic Reform
Partite
Vermolott
Age Riéulture
Igeve
M. Yermoloft
London health committee backs public slaughterhouses plan
London county council health committee recommends seeking Parliamentary power to establish a food inspection system and public slaughterhouses in London. The move aims to standardize hygiene and oversight across the capital.
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London
County Council
Counnel
London Tailors Brag Over American War Uniforms
London tailors mock American remarks on War Department uniforms design. They claim New York experts are not superior and argue British fashion rivals Paris, criticizing US ready-made garments as tight, stiff, and ill fitting. They note London tailors supply West End fashion and fashion notes, challenging American notions of cloth and craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
London
United States ‘War Department
Winter
New York
West ‘End
England
Paris
Huo Bredy
Lenton
United States
Punishment of Sudanese by Boheia Expedition
Cairo reports a punitive expedition from Boheia to quell Tafoal garrison. About three hundred Sudanese were killed and 100 captured after an early June attack by native tribesmen. Forty Egyptians died. no expedition losses. Authorities blame resentment of a new government post in the area.
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Cairo
Boheia
Tafoal
Talod
Open Door in Manchuria Gains Civil Government Support
Market observers report increased optimism among commercial interests as the civil government in Manchuria appears willing to pursue an open door policy. The press advocates establishing Chinese customs at Dalny to collect duties on goods headed inland, aligning with the German arrangement at Klacho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Manchuria
Dalny
Germany
Klacchou
Alfonso Going to England Sail for Isle of Wight
News from Madrid and San Sebastian notes King Alfonso and Queen Victoria plan a royal voyage aboard the Giralda to the Isle of Wight with a July departure, while Germany moves to shift emigration routes and compete in transatlantic steamship service amid rate cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isle of ‘Wight
Madrid
Alfonso
Victoria
San Sebastian
Giralda
Sle of Wight
King Haakon and Queen Maud Receive Delegations at Trondhjem
Royal audience in Trondhjem features King Haakon and Queen Maud greeting Norwegian American delegates. Chicago’s Dr. Dane presents an address honoring Haakon’s accession. A portfolio from American musicians and poets is given, including works by Rev. Bothne and Odin Benning. Thousands of schoolchildren are reviewed, and a reception on the cruiser Aube follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trondhjem
Norway
Haakon
Queen Maud
Fitire
United States
Dr. Dane
Chicago
America
King Haakon
Bothne
Alfred Faulson
Olaf
Exe
Admiral Bayle
Aube
International
Fpremiér Michelsen
France
Peor AM
Mra
William J. Bryan
North Cape
Charles H. Graves
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Asphalt Trust Votion Board
George B. Blickensderfer III
Sanford, Conn
George B. Beusderfer
Blekensderfer Typewriter Company
Castell
Frederick O Flonan
Eleanor
George C. Castell
Agugier
Yale
Nicholas
Catharine Sanders
Tureday Marning
Lemarnlain Conception
Corey
George FE
Chapel
Glenwood Ceme
Mary Ro Uobaria
Aransom
Jone
Irma Longissk
M. R. Chuecit
Alxze
Caroline Walker
Teife
Lata Geo
Walker
John H. Clipper
NEW York Times
Toston Sloer
Undertakers
W. R. Speare
George P. Zurhorst
Elipaloe
R. F. Harvey
R. F. Harvey’s Sons
Embalne
Northwest
Orio
Teree
Ninth Infantry
Manila
Tune —Co
Ninth United States Infantry
Heart For Hire
Alexandre Weill
Lazyard Freres
Cudahy
P. Cudahy
Packing Company
Louisville Packing Company
Tg-Kalon Wine Co
Phono M
Doughty Kentuckian
Will
Wolellan
Lalks
Democratic Party
Mons
Pacific Mail
Orient
China
Ihe
Momiee
Hentin
Asalstaee Secreta
Ieneeto
Douma
New Conservative Party
Sorémylein
Zemstvo Party
Ruth
Gordian Sknof
Gitter
Concadt
M. Yetmoloft
Constitutional
M.’Vermoloft
Vermoloft
Parliamant
Copenhagen
Jane
Frederick
London Tailors
West End
Taloai
Gane Laxpeten
Berlin
Libau
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Basen
Krupp
C. M
McLellan
Leah Kleschna
Gomman
Beal
Baltimore Sun
Peat Trust
Norwegian Court
Bryan
Ache
King
Guthrie
Pittsburg
Wilk
Leason
Atlanta Constitution
Camden
Anheuser-Busch Brewery
Anheuser-Busch Brewing
Ass’n St Louis, U.S.A
Chas.h. Mayhew
E-St
Virginia Ave
W. Washington
Newspap
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