25 Oct 1910
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1910
Page
1
Reports of various standing committees will be considered and acted upon beginning this morning. The session opens with routine motions and committee introductions as delegates discuss agenda items and procedural rules.
The open convention enters its fourth week with no agreement on the organic law for New Mexico. A brief session approved tomorrow’s early sessions and committees to consider reports, while petitions on railroad terms, judges, and women voting rights were presented. The Republican caucus adjourned to discuss Supreme Court selection methods and the proposed corporation commission.
Judges of the supreme court open today's caucus, likely dominating tomorrow's session. Advocates of the elective system claim a Republican majority in the caucus to support judge elections by public vote. The initiative and referendum loom as a disputed issue to be debated tomorrow. Party leaders hope for agreement and GOP unity on the floor, though some Republicans foresee stirring times before the questions are settled.
The funeral of David Bennett Hill was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church Albany on October 24. Governor White attended along with the Democratic state committee, Albany county bar association, and Albany county Democratic general committee. Many prominent politicians who opposed him in campaigns also attended.
The steamer Miami arriving from Key West to Jacksonville reports a wireless message from the tank steamer Oklahoma seventy miles off Jupiter indicating all well. The Oklahoma earlier sent a wireless distress call.
Senator Cummins of Iowa opens Republican campaign warning that voting Democratic for Congress would abandon tariff reform and revenue duties. He argues true reform requires Republican unity on rail regulation and prohibits misleading capitalization by common carriers.
The interior department orders public sale of unallotted lands totaling about 1,650,000 acres of the Seminole Creek and Cherokee nations and 1,540,000 acres of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. Forest lands in the Choctaw nation to be offered later. Sales run from November 21, 1916, to March 1917 with minimum bids and staged payments.
A brief dispatch reports four hundred deaths after a tidal wave swept Ischia Island Italy. The Rome authorities have not verified the casualty figure and details remain uncertain.
A rescue party from the Aero Club of St Louis will use the balloon America II and the St Louis to search the Canadian wilderness for missing pilots Alan R. Hawley and Augustus Post. J M Rielly accompanies Von Phul as they head toward Sault Ste Marie with provisions and a canoe to ride favorable air currents toward James Bay and north of Lake Superior.
Edmund Stratton of New York launches an Eastern Canada inquiry to locate Alan Hawley and Augustus Post aboard the American Eagle airship. He will coordinate routes, drift, and reports from Canada to direct search parties if the aerostat is sighted, with operations in Ontario Quebec and Newfoundland regions.
Washington reports census bulletin shows 1909 deaths in gainfully employed across the United States dominated by tuberculosis and heart disease. Among 216,570 male deaths, pneumonia and heart disease are prominent. among employed women, tuberculosis and typhoid feature strongly, with cancer and other illnesses contributing.
Washington reports the Connecticut population in the thirteenth census as 1,114,756. The rise since 1900 is 209,346 or 23.7 percent, with the 1890 to 1900 increase at 162,162 or 21.7 percent.
A report notes moves to secularize Portuguese schools by replacing religious instruction with civic morality. Reform leaders push suppressing theology at Coimbra University and ending oaths for students and professors.
A severe hurricane devastates Ischia and Salerno province coastal towns. Casamicciola is nearly destroyed after a tidal wave. Cetara, Amati and Sorrento report heavy damage. Four warships and relief aid are sent as casualties rise into the hundreds and millions in losses.
Naples reports describe Ischia island in the Mediterranean as storm swept with extensive damage. Initial tallies of life were high but later estimates say few deaths with partial recoveries as Casamicciola and surrounding areas suffer collapsed houses and scattered debris. The city and suburbs endure gale damage amounting to millions as officials rush to assess and organize relief efforts.
James A. Garfield denounces former Senator Joseph Foraker for attacking Theodore Roosevelt and urges voters to defeat Senator Charles Dick. He accuses Foraker of betraying republicanism and defends nationalism and federal protection of public resources against special interests.
Headquarters discounted a Quebec report that the missing men were found and en route to the city. Officials noted lack of details and suggested any route to Quebec would pass via the National Transcontinental Railway from the Saint Lawrence River.
Havana reports the attempted attack on General Pino Guerra remains a mystery as police hold an unidentified suspect incommunicado. Newspapers suggest personal hostility is unlikely and point to political motives amid calls for replacement by General Montenguedi or Colonel Roman Guerra. General Guerpa’s condition after the shooting is described as still serious.
Seattle government contracts monthly dog mail service from Cordova to Fairbanks via Copper River route and new rail line. Mail for Seward and for Copper River district will travel by dogs, with stage and train legs to Fairbanks. Valdez Fairbanks trail abandoned as winter route.
Postmaster General Hitchcock announced that the postal deficit for the year ending June 30 fell to 6.1 million from 17.6 million, a saving of 11.5 million achieved without reducing facilities. The Commerce Department expanded rural routes and 1,500 new post offices, with salary increases totaling 3.0 million for clerks and carriers, tied to efficiency ratings.
London reports yacht designer William Fife has agreed to build a racing schooner for an unnamed owner. The plan aims to defeat the American schooner Westward, owned by Alexander Cochran of New York, which sailed under Captain Charles Barr and won Kiel and Cowes regattas last summer.
Aviator Drexel soars to 7,105 feet setting a new American altitude record at Belmont Park. He then descends and lands safely in the field, achieving the feat with a controlled descent and landing.
J Armstrong Drexel sets American altitude record at 7 105 feet during the New York Belmont Park event while Walter Brookins earns second altitude honor with 4 882 feet. Wrights’ new climber and Antoinette demonstrations thrill crowd as Beaufort and Radley trade early engine trouble in ongoing contests.
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