Judge under charges only one defense for act
Civil Service Commission cites statute of limitations as sole defense to charges against United States Circuit Judge Baker of Indiana for soliciting and taking campaign contributions in 1902. Commission transfers evidence to the Department of Justice, noting evidence from Goshen post office staff about pressures to fund party campaigns.
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Indiana
Clicmt
Civil Service Commission
Civ Service Commission
Department of Justice
United States Circuit
Biker
Maydr yaesterGay
Commisscir Greene
Civil Service Act
Gosner Ind
Guy C Boulter Tolerk
Goshen
Honoranus £ Baker
Uhnd States Circuit Court of
Totker
Baker
Boulton
Pat
Ber
Thielorks
Usud
Pt Rsuzway
E Het Boulten
Puk
Boclton
Bohir
Witess
Baler
Kiker
Shirwin
Sherwir
Motin
Schnurr
Jindze Baker
Peter
Wu Golich
Tomasian
Congress
United Brius
United Stites
United States
Atlantic Mail Contract With International Mercantile Marine
Postmaster Guneri Wortelyou yesterday signed a ten year contract with the International Mercantile Marine Company to carry mail from New York to Southampton with calls at Plymouth and Cherbourg. The agreement allows termination after five years with one year notice. The arrangement continues the trans Atlantic mail service previously run by the American Line under a March 3, 1891 act, at a rate of four dollars per mile by the shortest practical route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guneri Wortelyou
International Mercantile Marine Company
New York
Southampton
England
Plymouth
Cherbourg
France
At of Congress
Count Sclopis Honored with Turin Monument
A monument to Count Frederica Sclopis, president of the Alabama arbitration commission, was unveiled in Turin Italy on August 15 with King Victor Emmanuel and Queen presiding. The ceremony featured Sclopis’s service highlighted by S Wrola Italian Senate member and Turin mayor. The unveiling was reported to the U S State Department by the consul at Turin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turin
Italy
Alabama
Frederica Sclopis
United States
Great Britain
State Department
Victor Emmanuel
S Wrola
Arrest Shatters Romance on Chicago Newark Trip
Chicago passengers on an eighteen hour train from New York were searched. ZLJ Crooke was arrested for robbery after Samuel Hamm, a national bank examiner, reported his gold watch and $153 purse found in Crooke's suitcase. Crooke claimed innocence and said the plunder was planted by another. Crooke, a circus performer, had toured Europe and planned to wed in Newark on November 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Zlj Crooke
Crooke
Newark
Samuel M. Hamm
Illinois Legisjlature
Croaker
Europe
America
Brick for Solons Offices Opens Bids for 9 Million
Superintendent Woods opened bids yesterday for brick to build the new House and Senate office buildings. Eight firms submitted estimates from 779 to 1440 per thousand with Standard Brick Co lowest at 779. Delivery terms ranged up to 5,000 bricks daily and 1,000,000 in thirty days. Work on bricklaying will wait until next spring while footings are begun and concrete work progresses to prevent asphalt freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hllcott Woods
Capitol
House
Senate
Standard Brick Company
Ghlaid Brik Company
Washington Brick and Terra Getta Company
Potomac Brick Company
Anacostia Brick Company
Laurel Clay Products Company
Brik Standard Brick Company
Montecelio Brick Works
Mack Manufacturing Company
House of Representaties
Supt Woods
Senate Buzdiig
Thespians for Charity Forming Players Club Tonight
A meeting at the Montgomery apartment house North Capitol and M streets will formally organize the Players Club theater group. The group, aiming to stage charity plays this winter, includes Col Edwin Browne and Finley Hayes. current membership is fifteen with plans to admit honorary members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Players’ Club
Montgomery
North Capitol
M Streets
Col
Hdadwin Browne
Army and Navy Union
Finley Hayes
Edwin Browne
EF H Porter
J Extwin Browne
Browne
Ewington
Brooklyn
Kim
Joseph W Kay
Union
Street Railway Deficit Reported for Year Ended June 30
New York City Railway Company posts a deficit of 2 796 942 for the year ended June 30, with deficits since 1902 totaling 4 328 525. Heavy damage suit payments and legal costs drive the shortfall. President Vreeland notes subway competition may boost surface-traffic receipts but no definite earnings conclusions yet. Local items include a forgery and larceny charge against Philacerpnara of Newburg and a contempt of court matter involving Boyd funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City Railway Company
New York
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Herbert H Vreeland
Treasury Attic Stash of Counterfeits Counted for Destruction
The Treasury notes an attic hoard of counterfeit money, stamps, dies, and related gear awaiting destruction. A three clerk committee inventories coins and notes, with gold and silver melted into ingots and base materials sent to yards or foundries. Some items date to Brockway, Johnson, and Hancock counterfeits. total counterfeit value at about $31,000, plus over $10,000 in “queer” notes. The process continues with a Tuesday finish and full destruction thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shane
Secretary of the Treasury
Secret Service
Treasury
Secret Service Agency
Navy Yard
Shaw
Wilkie
C H Corwin
Samuel Wallace
O. HE Patterson
Brockway
Detroit
United States
Johnson
Cofm
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Young Widow Released After Poisoning Claims
Cincinnati, Oct 11 Mrs Bertha Hamer widow of Lorenze Hamer who died after alleging poisoning was freed from custody today. A coroner’s investigation had been pending while the chemist reported no poison in Hamer’s stomach. Hamer had become ill awaiting trial on an assault charge filed by his wife.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Bertha Hamer
Lorenze Hamer
Hamer
Yale Freshmen Form Apology Committee For Disturbances
New Haven Conn Oct 11 Yale freshmen held a meeting this afternoon and named a committee to draft an apology to the university and city authorities for the disturbances in front of Pierson Hall on York street last Sunday evening M C Hannah president of the freshman football association presided and is chairman of the committee
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Pierson Hall
York Street
M. C Hannah
Freshman Football Association
Printers on Amendments to International Union Constitution
Columbia Typographical Union chapels voted on four referendum propositions from the Toronto convention. Two amendments passed DC chapels. two failed. Proposals cover branches names in the constitution and Home trustees meeting attendance. Other items set salaries and actual hotel expense payments for officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapels of Columbia Typographical Union
International Typographical Union
Toronto
District of Columbia
International Union
Mailers’ Union
Responses to C A R G Gall Rally Funds for Continental Memorial Hall
The national Daughters of the American Revolution reported a lone contribution at headquarters for the Continental Memorial Hall fund on its fifteenth anniversary. A Seattle Lady Sterling Chapter draft for 6 arrived, while many chapters pledged or sent gifts to Mrs Donald McLean in New York. Officials expect sizable funds from future mail and upcoming board meetings, noting distant chapters face tight deadlines.
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Daughters of the American Revolution
National Society
Continental Memorial Hall
F Street Northwest
Lady Sterling
Seattle
Wash
Washington
General Headquarters
Donald McLean
New York
Treasury
Continental Hall Fund
Draper
McLean
Lady Starling
Minnesota
Morgan Pushes Majority Referendum on Chicago Traction Ordinance
Chicago reports that a referendum clause will be added to the Chicago Union Traction ordinance, requiring a majority vote in favor to carry. The change departs from the Chicago City Company’s rule and is said to reflect insistence by J P Morgan and the financial interests guiding the traction firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan
Chicago Union Traction
Chicago
Chicago City Railway Company
Focal Transportation
Chicago City Company
Union Traction
Grosscup
Traction Company
J. P Morgan
Chicago City and
Chicago Union Graction
Refused Room at Hotel Leads to Suit in New York
William S. Brown of Wakefield New York filed in the United States Circuit Court for $10,000 damages against William C. Muschenheim proprietor of the New Astor Hotel. Brown claims on August 6 after missing his last train he was refused a room in front of witnesses with an insinuation about his companion causing damage to his wife and himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westfield
N. J
New Astor
Washington Post
New York
William S. Brown
Wakefield
United States
William C. Muschenheim
New Astor Hotel
Brown
Spread of Gypsy Moth Covers One Fourth of Massachusetts
The gypsy moth department reports the infected area in Massachusetts has grown from 959 to 2,082 square miles, now about a quarter of the state. The department views the expansion with concern and has asked landholders in the affected district to cooperate with state efforts to exterminate the pest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Boston
War on white plague near Washington Grove Md
Associated Charities committee on prevention of consumption hears encouraging report on its project stock is partially subscribed plans for education campaign this winter consumptives may be received as patients at the new sanitorium near Washington Grove three months after the movement began stock subscribed by Washington citizens funds needed to finish the building and equipment lectures to be given in homes schools and public buildings to spread warning and practical instruction a central city house to be rented for instruction and a board of instruction to be prepared next week more doctors and longer daily dispensary hours planned plus a campaign to raise remaining stock and a push for congressional appropriation for a municipal hospital for consumptives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Grove
George M Sternberg
Hospital Society
Associated Charities Committee
Jexs J
Washington
F Street
Sternberg
Gen Sternberg
D Percy Hickling
George Wilson
S B Hege
Richard Kingsman
W. H. Baldwin
D Olin Leach
D. E Wiseman
W. &. Duffield
Charles F Weller
WF Downey
Jesse
Philadelphia
Jesse Ramaburgh
Tross
Ramsburgh
Hatch
Paricr
John van Schick
Board of Charities, District Commissioners
Wilson
Tme
Clew to 1853 California post office burglary emerges
Oakland workers uncover a moldy bundle of letters from the Clinton post office era as demolition reveals a draft for 100 dollars dated 1858 and addressed to Francis Stead. The 1853 burglary in Alameda County left gold slugs missing and the mail unrecovered, with no arrest ever made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Oakland
Cal
Alameda County
West
Clinton
Francis Stead
New Orleans
Horace Bean & Co
Jacob Little & Com
New York
Col Frost Elected Commander in Philippines Army Reunion
In Chicago the Army of the Philippines elected officers led by Col A S Frost of Evanston Illinois as commander in chief with Col W Pope of the US Volunteer army as rival. Other officers named include Capt A Crow senior vice commander and Col J C Loper first junior vice commander. Des Moines Iowa will host the next annual meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army of the Philippines
Chicago
A. S Frost
Evanston
Col . W. Pope
United States Volunteer Army
Col. Frost
A. Crow
Tenth
Pennsylvania Volunteers
J C. Loper
Iowa Volunteers
E L. Hamiltion
United States Volunteers
Charles EB Metz
Minnesota Volunteers
Yies
George J. Weinheimer
United States Volunteer Infantry
Des Moines
Iowa
Missing bank official prompts $600 reward claim
Relatives of Abraham Schiffer, a defunct Bank of Alamosa official, offer $600 for any information on his whereabouts in New York. They believe he may have killed himself after arriving to seek funds and announcing plans to go to China, having not been heard from since late September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hirgelf
New York
Abraham Schiffer
Schiffer
Bank of Alamosa
Colo
Union Prenters Enjoined In Chicago and Toledo Printing Disputes
In Toledo Ohio on October 11 Judge Morris of the Common Pleas Court granted a sweeping injunction restraining the local typographical union and the Central Labor Union from interfering with employees of the German Express Company which recently backed the open shop in Chicago. Judge Jesse Holdom later granted an injunction restraining Typographical Union No 16 and its members from interfering with employees of Chicago printers amid a strike. The order also bars picketing and offers of bribery to employees of printshops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Toledo
Ohio
Morris
Common Pleas Court
Typographical
Central Labor Union
German Express Company
Open Shop
Jesse Holdom
Typographical Union
Printers’ Union
Iso
Mms
Deportation Looms for Notorious Anarchist Annie Bailen
Cleveland Oct 11 United States District Attorney Sullivan ruled Annie Bailen alias Nejdley, linked to the Czolgosz anarchist ring, under Labor and Commerce jurisdiction. Deportation to emigration authorities is probable. Bailen is said to be known to police in the U S and Europe and part of the same group as Czolgosz who killed President McKinley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Bailen
Cleveland
Ohio
United States
Sullivan
Nejdley
Department of Labor and Commerce
Ballen
Europe
Anarchists
Czolgosz
Presdent McKinley
Brakes Fail as Cable Car Slams into Ferry House
In Brooklyn on a steep Montague street hill, brakes on a cable car failed, sending the car down two blocks into the Will street ferry house. Motorman Frank Well is believed fatally injured amid injuries to five passengers including two women who were cut by flying glass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Montague Street
Brooklyn
Will Street
Frank Well
Murdered sweetheart killer caught after stabbing
In Cleveland, William Towns, a boarder at 69 Franklin Avenue, arrested in a Lorain Street restaurant after admitting the murder of Mary King. Towns, once a rejected suitor, allegedly threatened her and killed her at her home last night, with the bloody knife still in his pocket.
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Cleveland
Unio
Mary King
Franklin Avenue
William Towns
Lorain Street
Towns
Magoon Reports Sanitation Work On Isthmus Panama
Governor Magoon prepares annual report focusing on sanitation for the Isthmus of Panama. Early plans took effect on his arrival. yellow fever cases declined from sixty in June to zero by October with no cases reported so far this month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Isthmus
Magoon
Tug Captain Likely Drowned Near Cape Henlopen
Lewes Del Oct 1 Captain Warring ton of the tug Cumberland vanished from the vessel about twelve miles southeast of Cape Henlopen while returning from Baltimore to Boston. He is believed to have fallen overboard and drowned. Tired mothers face long days of chores and cooking. Hood's Sarsaparilla claimed to refresh blood improve appetite and aid restful sleep.
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Lewes
Del
Warrington
Cumberland
Delaware
Baltimore
Boston
Cape Henlopen
Hood
Heiress Quick to Wed Actor Despite Mother’s Protest
Speculation swirls in New York after Hele na Sharpsteen of Boston and Errol Dunbar wed at the Little Church Around the Corner. Wealth and romance fueled by Sharpsteen fortune clash with Mrs Sharpsteen’s earlier opposition. Dunbar, star in Boston and New York stages, followed and married after confronting family barriers. They are believed to be abroad in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Washington Post
New York
L. Sharpsteen
Boston
Helena
Errol Dunbar
George C Houghton
Miss Sharpsteen
Beacon Street
Dunbar
Boston Museum
Paris
Dr Dunbar
Baltimore
Sher Jock Holmes
Final Scheff
Babette
East Twenty-ninth Street
Ami
Houghton
Providence
R I
Gulf Trade Expands As Atlantic Crumbles In Exports
Agricultural Department bulletin shows gulf coast ports gaining share in cotton wheat and flour exports from 1881 1888 to 1905 while Atlantic seaboard declines. Gulf ports handle 60 percent of cotton and 65 percent of wheat in 1905 with Pacific and border transit noted.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Agricultural Department
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
United States
Gulf
Pacific Coast
Pacific
Canada
Mexico
Illinois Central Officials Plan Alabama Western Railroad
Illinois Central officials filed articles of incorporation today in Birmingham Alabama for the Alabama Western Railroad to run from Franklin County toward Birmingham. The move follows a Mississippi charter secured weeks earlier to build from Corinth to Jasper. Boston and Maine stockholders voted to buy the Danvers and Newburyport railroads and authorized 43 037 shares of new stock plus 10 458 000 in bonds to refund maturing bonds and mortgage notes on the Eastern Railroad property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olinois Central Officiala Incorporate Railway Company
Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Stuyvesant Fish J T Harahan
Olinois Central
Alabama Western Railroad
Franklin County
Alabama Company
Illnois Central
Mississippi
Ilinois Central
Corinth
Miss
Jasper
Lawrence
Mass
Boston and Maine Railroad
Danvers
Newburyport
Boston and Maine
Eastern Railroad
New Publications The Grito by Moncure Lyne
Public notice announces a new romance The Grito by Moncure Lyne about Texas independence. Decorated binding and handsome letterpress, $150. Illustrated by FL B Madan Birmingham Age Herald and Atlanta Journal praise the vivid romance, robust Texans, and engaging plot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Flb Madan
Atlanta Journal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Atlantic Mail
Siclopis
Buckien
Solons’ Offices
House of Representatives
Woods
Thespians For Charity
Philacerpnra
Merry Srown
Newburg
N. Y
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Samuel Jones
Boyd
James W Boyd
Barry ML Clabaugh
Oscar T. Crosby
Crogby
Gasch & Birge
Dork Ave
Young Widow
IZE
Ayer
Columbia Typographical Union
C. A. R. Gall
Mice
Washington Grove, MD
Associated Charities Committee On
Roseburg
Orez
Here
Frost Commat
WER
Czolgosz Band
NEW Publications
Maine
GRITO
the Alamo
San Jacinto
Moncure Lyne
Heralyd
Old Vincennes
the Neale Publishing Co
Broadway
Fifth Ave
Eleventh Street
Human Life
Herrick
Christian Science
Roy Knabenghue
Human Life Pub CO
Dey
Dorflinger Fine
Massachusetts Avenue
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