Jerome Denies Wrong to McClellan in Bronx Meet
In New York on October 20, District Attorney Jerome refuted a charge of sending a confidential emissary to Murphy and acknowledged a past fault toward Mayor McClellan. He said he should have avoided the foul blow but stressed his belief in organization over despotism and rejected an alliance with Tammany Hall.
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New York
Jerome
Bronx
Arhur von Briesen
Charles EF. Murphy
Tammany Hell General Committee
Tammany Hall General Committee
McClellan
George McClellan
F. L. Seligeberg & Co
Wall Street
Tammany
I. A. Matthey
William Moore
Moore
Benjamin Gomfert
Hearst
Frank
Stern & Oppenheim
Republicans for Jerome in tight New York City mayor race
Campaign notes report Seth Low presiding at Carnegie Hall as Ivins campaigns for mayor. Jerome's bid unsettles the Republican base with district leaders backing him now and protests against Tammany control. Betting crowds in Wall Street show McClellan favored though Jerome gains traction in Union Square.
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Seth Low
Wiliam M. Ivins
Republican Party
Carnegie Hall
Meyor
Iving
Teale
Wella
Board of Aldermen
Arso
Board of Estimates
Tammany Hall
Board of Estimate
McClellan
Jerome
Republican Committee
Ivins
George W. Morgan
J. W Hedges
Ealso
Union Square
Manhatttan
Taft Plans Panama Isthmus Trip for Canal Data
Secretary Taft outlined plans for a Panama voyage with a delegation including Col Edwards Maj Gen Storey Col William Black Maj Goethals and W W Mischler. The party sails from Washington October 27 reaches Colon November 2 and returns around November 16. They will study Isthmus developments to aid Congress funding decisions and assess commissary operations and fortification plans.
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Taft
Panama
Clarence R. Edwards
Canal Commission
Gen. Storey
Wiliam Black
Corps of Engineers
Goethals
Artillery Corps
Board of Fortifications
W. W. Mischler
Congress
Commission
Akram
Ohio
Army
Old Case Takes New Turn Hudson Sues Pickford
James L. Hudson sues Thomas H. Pickford for 20000 damages claiming malicious prosecution. The suit revisits a ten year dispute tied to an 1887 Montgomery County arson case at the Bryant mansion in Four Corners. Hudson, a printer, alleges wrongful arrest and prosecution stemming from 1901 grand jury indictments and subsequent dismissals.
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James L. Hudson
Thomas B. Pickford
Thomas H. Pickford
Bryant
Four Corners
Montgomery County
Hudson
Pickford
Rockville
Washington
Ferdinand Bopp
Hopp
Andrew A. Lipscomb
W. M. Elligon
Louisiana Avenue
Ninth Street
Canal Problems Loom Over Locks and Tide Level Plans
Aboard the Isthmian Canal Commission board of consulting engineers meets to weigh canal types, locks and tide level systems. Mr Dodge presents a technical report on progress, Wallace to testify, Taft to visit the Isthmus as Congress debates the canal.
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Dodge
Wallace
Congress
Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
Isthmus
Europe
America
Taft
Jathmus
President’s train reaches Macon on Florida route
The President’s train on the way to Jacksonville, Fla, stops in Macon at 9 o’clock. About a thousand people gather at the station and cheer as he speaks for five minutes. He notes visits to Roswell and Atlanta and praises the old Confederate States for unity and devotion to the country. He mentions Grant and Lee and Georgia as wonderful and beautiful and hopes to revisit Macon soon.
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Macon
Jacksonville
Fla
Hathway
Georeta
Mother
Roswell
Atlanta
South
Gald
Confederate States
Grant
Lée
Georgia
Acon
Steamship rate war at isthmus and New York service
The Royal Mail steamship Tagus sailed from Colon to New York via Kingston inaugurating a new fortnightly route between the isthmus and New York. Hamburg American Packet Company withdraws from the West Indian conference and cuts rates to Jamaica. Theodore P. Shonts offers J. P. Murphy the Panama Canal chief of materials and supplies post. Murphy has yet to respond.
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Colon
Tagus
New York
Kingston
Jamaica
Isthmus
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Shonts
Cleveland
Ohio
Theodore P. Shonts
Panama Canal Commission
Panama Canal
J. P. Murphy
Lake Shore
Lake Erie and Western
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
Friar Land Deal Closed in Final Payment
The friar lands purchase nears completion as the War Department directs a final payment of 3,521,637 gold dollars to Francisco Gutierrez for the Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company and the University of St Thomas. A preliminary 200,000 is to be paid in New York with the rest in Manila, finalizing the deal.
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Manila
War Department
Philippine Commission
International Banking Corporation
New York
Francisco Gutierrez
Philippine Sugar Estates Development Company
University of St. Thomas
New York City
Baron Sternburg Remains as Washington Ambassador
Berlin reports the German government does not plan to change the Ambassadorship in Washington and calls rumors of Baron Speck von Sternburg's retirement inventions. The North German Gazette semi-officially confirms no intended change amid ongoing speculation in recent weeks.
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Berlin
North German Gazette Today
Washington
Speck von Sternburg
Protests Over Vardaman as Roosevelt Skips Mississippi
Ex Gov Shands at Confederate reunion in Watervaley Mississippi condemns Gov Vardaman and others for Mississippi being the only Southern state where President Roosevelt will not stop or speak. He urges Confederate veterans to unite and reject sectionalism that costs them votes and belittles their cause.
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New Orleans
Shands
Mississippi
Watervaley
Miss
Vardaman
Roosevelt
Meridian Summit
Vardamin
University of Mississippi
Confederate Veterans of
Birmingham
Commonwealth
Mrs. Roosevelt Entertained Before Washington Trip in Atlanta
Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanying the President to Atlanta, was welcomed by Atlanta society leaders including Mrs. Terrell and Mrs. Clark Howell. The visit featured a parade view from the governor’s mansion as writer Joel Chandler Harris met the First Lady at her request. The stay ended with a noon train departure and a brief drive through Brookwood and Peachtree Street to view final decorations.
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Mansio
Joel Chandler Harris
Remus
Roosevelt
Atlanta
Mr. Harris
Mrs. Roosevelt
Washington
Brookwood
Peachtree Street
Champion of Roosevelt editorial rails at past and praises present
Special to The Washington Post from Louisville reports Henry Watterson's forthcoming Courier-Journal piece calling Theodore Roosevelt a champion of the South after his visit to the North. It recounts old grievances over Booker T Washington Crum and rough treatment, then notes a changed Roosevelt post election and his Richmond Lee statue speech likened to Lincoln. The piece ends with Samuel Parsons named park commissioner succeeding John J. Pallas who died this week.
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Washington Post
Louisville
Henry Watterson
Courier-Journal
Crum
Nisnay
Watterson
Theodore Roosevelt
Lee
Richmond
Abraham Lincoln
South
Promised Land
Loot Recovered in Cunliffe Case as Accomplice Betrays
Bridgeport police recovered about 99,065 of the 101,000 stolen from Adams Express in Pittsburg. James Missett, a Bristol acquaintance, betrayed Cunliffe after learning a $2,500 reward. Pinkertons pressed Cunliffe for the hidden 10,500 and kept him under heavy interrogation in Bridgeport and Pittsburg.
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Washington Post
Bridgeport
Conn
Edward G. Cunliffe
Adams Express Company
Pittsburg
George Eiseman
Cunliffe
Hiseman
Black Rock
Biseman
Cunuffé
George H. Arnold
Armold
Dan
Arnold
James Missett
Missett
Bristol
New York
Pinkerton Agency
Broadway
Pinkerton
Minsett
Ger
George HE. Cunliffe
Adams Express
Pinkertons
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Second National Bank
Amerika’s Maiden Trip Confirms Record Atlantic Liner Arrival
The Hamburg American liner Amerika arrived in New York on its maiden voyage from Cherbourg Mole to Sandy Hook, covering 2040 miles in 7 days 17 hours 12 minutes. At 699 by 74 by 53 feet and 41 000 tons, she displaces more water than any before, though the Baltic remains longer and heavier. Notables aboard include Count A Fr Wachtmeister Swedish foreign minister, Herr Ballin Hamburg American director, and Gen Russell Frost.
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New York
Hamburg-American Line
Atlantic
White Star Line
Amerika
Baltic
Cherbourg
Sandy Hook
Count A. Fr. Wachtmeister
Herr Ballin
Gen
Russell Frost
Aged Couple Asphyxiated in Philadelphia Home
Philadelphia on October 20 reports Peter Collins and his wife Susan both about seventy five found dead in bed from gas asphyxiation. An open jet caused the tragedy in their room. Also noted is a miraculous escape story of A Pinske of Nashotah Wisconsin who healed a wound with Bucklen's Arnica Salve. 2c at all druggists.
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Payson Burritt
Eighteenth Street
Campbell
Alexander Campbell
United States Soldiers’ Home
Hiverett
Marting Everett
Nes Hale
James T
Martha W. Hale
Fifteenth Street
Congressional Cemetery
Wungerford
Katharine Louise Hungerford
Henry Swift Hungerford
Israel Kimberly Ward
West Blighty Third Street
New York
Payne
Johnie Payne
L Street
Lizzie L
W. H
Thatcher
Orville D. Thatcher, Jr
Leigh
Anna Thatcher
Adjt
O. D. Thatcher
Massachusetts Avenues Northwest
Mer
Dr Witmer
Margaret
Richard Hooker Wimer
Alabama
Philadelphia
Peter Collins
Susan
A. Pinske
Nashotah
Wis
Bucklen
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Leste G. Miller
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Clarense Day
Ancle E. Tolbart
Giesboro
George Clagett
Mebel A. West
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Cincinnati Exquirer
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Buffalo Courier
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ST. Louis Republic
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Undertakers
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N. W
J. William Lee
Ui Pennsylvania
R. F. Harvey's Sons
Fourteenth Street
Commosions
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George P. Zurhorst
Almer Pesarel
Euat Capitol
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Mastre Ad
Will Sa'l
Hampton Roads
Florida
Oppenheimer
Hecht
Henry, Oppenheimer & Co
Friar Land Deal
Baron Sternburg
Hock
To-Kalon ‘Wine Co
Chické
WLR Te
Massachusetts Avenue
the Association
G Street N. W
Henry van Dyke
Princeton
the Young Men’s Christian Association
Newcorn & Green
R. P. Andrews Paper:Co
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D &T
Ap Orner
Liquozone Company
Webash Aye
Chicago
the Sunday Post
HUB Furniture CO
National Capital Brewing CO
Hebbard Elothe
Hebbard
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Sidney H. Greer
Minneapolis
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