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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1909
Page
1
President Taft declares continuation of reforms from his predecessor. He urges tariff revision, antitrust enforcement, and federal supervision of railroads. He supports a Panama Canal expansion funded by bonds and calls for economic fairness, civil rights progress, and stronger national defense.
Jottings cover Cambridge rowing, Longboat vs Shrubb delay, Ritter to Denver, and a critique of the Marathon craze. Also: Silver Knight wins at Oakland, Shrubb defeats Pietri in Buffalo, a five mile addition proposal for Intercollegiate games, and a Toronto indoor record claim. Labor unions update with Canadian civic employes, Boston garment cutters, San Francisco firemen death fund, British Trade Union federation spending, and Belgian quarrymen. Regional notes include Polo Grounds seating, London Canada civic federation, and legislation in Albany on wages loans and loan sharks.
The article surveys prominent women and their activities. Flora Wilson, daughter of the Secretary of Agriculture, debuts in Paris and will appear in opera next season. Mrs. Hetty Green’s heiress daughter may inherit a large fortune. Dr. Mary Crawford is named house surgeon and head of staff at Williamsburgh Hospital. Elizabeth K. Jackson serves as claim clerk for Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad. Aubrey Blond notes climbs rival tennis. An eightyish member’s mother joined a long snow expedition. Helen Keller plans a move from Rhode Island to a Maine farm due to visitor pressures. The Geological Society of London rejects women as members by fifty to forty. In Nashville, two women are tried in a criminal court amid threats by Colonel Duncan B. Cooper to Senator Carmack.
William Vernon Booth and F R Robbins face a joint indictment for conspiring to obtain 300000 from Continental National Bank of Chicago. The case centers on A Booth and Co the large fishing business once led by Booths family and now under receiver. Witnesses describe deceptive statements to banks and a failed effort to cover assets.
Norfolk hosts the U S battleship fleet sailors with a noon parade through city streets and a grand luncheon at the Monticello Hotel. About two thousand enlisted men and nearly 200 officers were feted by a Citizens' Committee as residents turned out in force to cheer the returning sailors.
Easton Pa Dr James W Moore professor of mathematics and experimental philosophy at Lafayette College died aged sixty five after an ulcerated tooth caused blood poisoning and neck tissue swelling. He was born in Easton and graduated from Lafayette in 1864.
The St Quentin arrived from Buenos Ayres bringing about two hundred thousand bushels of oats. The shipment is bound for New York and was sent to order with the consignee’s identity kept in the papers.
A new lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks has been instituted at Lawrence. The report notes broader union activity with the Greater New York Building Trades Council representing about 80,000 trades workers, and references the eighth annual Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor convention in Warsburg, Pa. It also mentions the 1910 convention campaigns by hotel and restaurant workers and bartenders in Boston, the International Congress for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents in Europe, and a workingmen's clubhouse built in Newcastle by acMen Murray. The piece compares telegraph operators’ wages in 1908 and notes no women-only unions or locals in Germany.
In Washington the House saw a sharp exchange as Rep Gaines of Tennessee and Speaker Cannon accused each other of insults during the reading of the General Deficiency Appropriation bill. The Sergeant-at-Arms, prompted by Cannon, stepped toward Gaines with the mace, but was recalled as Gaines claimed he would be in order. The dispute centered on interruptions and perceived discourtesy, ending with the mace drawn and Gaines ordered to remain in order.
Massachusetts Supreme Court upholds a 1908 decision ordering the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad to dispose of trolley holdings in Massachusetts by July 1. The ruling affirms the Worcester and several other street railway company decrees, rejecting the railroad's claim of vagueness and confirming the duty to cease control of the lines.
United States Steel Corporation plans wage reductions around April 1 affecting about 240000 employees. The move follows lower steel prices and aims to preserve profit sharing, with unions largely out of the picture. Officials expect some mills may escape cuts, but widespread effects risk sparking labor unrest and stock market jitters.
Ralph Bristol, a University of Oregon student from Portland, was hazed by upperclassmen and ducked in an icy bath, leaving him committed to the State Insane Asylum. Bristol, who saved $1000 to attend college, had been a high school standout and later worked odd jobs to fund his education. His parents are longtime Portland residents.
The program lists events from 10:00 AM with Roosevelt and Taft leaving the White House to 8:30 PM when Taft attends the inaugural ball at the Pension Building. It includes arrivals at the Capitol, signing of last bills, Sherman's oath as Vice President, state address, and parade review. The sequence ends with Taft's ball attendance.
In Philadelphia Charles McDevitt plunged headlong from the theatre gallery during a National Theatre performance. He struck the steps, toppled to the orchestra, and died at the hospital from a crushed skull. His fall startled patrons and caused a panic as the curtain rose between acts two and three.
California woman Minnie Beekman and her four children died in a house fire four miles south of Bakersfield. Police say the fire was murder and the house burned. The children ranged from six to fourteen. their bodies were found burned in their beds. The husband had died a year earlier and left $100 to two half siblings, with the remainder of a $75,000 estate to his widow and children.
Pittsburg reports a jury found William Brand, John F Klein, and Joseph C Wasson guilty after fifty three hours deliberation. W W Ramsey was acquitted by court order at the District Attorney's request. The men allegedly conspired to pass a paving ordinance for wooden blocks after payments from a detective posing as a contractor. Klein and Ramsey had prior bribery convictions.
Possums fetch ten dollars each in the North after Taft’s banquet in Atlanta, far above the fifty cents to one dollar pre visit. Orders from Hartford and large regional demand push dealers to scramble for supply. The animals are sought as pets and for Republican events, not food, with hunts ongoing across Georgia to meet the craze.
The House in Washington defeated by 113 to 83 a Sundry Civil bill amendment directing the Attorney General to prosecute the Steel Trust for its absorption of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.
Mrs Margaret Teal wife of Ben Teal theatrical manager was found guilty in New York City of attempted subornation of perjury and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Congress authorized a battleship to bear the name Arkansas and assigned it a suitable designation. The ship will join the fleet under the chosen moniker.
In Indiana's local option election forty-one of ninety-two counties have voted against liquor. Seven more counties will hold elections next week as part of the ongoing dry campaign.
President Roosevelt traveled from Washington to attend the funeral of his nephew Stewart Douglas Stobinson. He spent four hours in New York City before returning to the capital.
A series of brief items reports Taft being made a Mason in Cincinnati by Ohio Grand Lodge, Sven Hedin hailed on return to Stockholm, King of Spain joining Britain's Royal Automobile Club, McKim declining Washington site commission, Speaker Cannon in chair with odd pose, Professor Strong tied by Rockefeller kinship, a madman bite incident, Bunell-Varilla on Gatua Dam weight changes, the wealthy Hitt era figure in Congress, and Florence Pullman prior to her marriage to Frank Lowden.
Charles Kelly a Chicago restaurant cook was stabbed to death by waiter G C Harbaugh after an argument over cooking two eggs instead of three. The incident occurred on a Sunday in a city dining house with a butcher knife involved.
Stub Kinds of News notes various items including Abraham Lincoln appearing on a new cent, the Hawaiian Senate tabling a fishing aliens measure, Premier Asquith on naval talks, receivers appointed for Washington Life Insurance, Vesey Street Lighthouse slated for demolition, a Unity in Central Park proposal, a New York Grand Jury indicting lawyer Joseph Shay, and a French count Peyrque de Passy in New York seeking a wife.
Congressman Samuel W. McCall of Massachusetts declines an invitation to become president of Dartmouth College. He says his duty to public service makes it inadvisable to accept the offer and cannot be dropped in what he calls no very grave crisis.
At the annual meeting of the directors of the New England cranberry sales company it was reported that at season end the shortage in the trap 127 is above twenty five percent. The total shortage for the company will be about eight percent. London suffragettes arrested. Thirty suffragettes rearrested in London and their attempts to reach the Prime Minister were frustrated.
Reported Paris 8 P C A will vote to expel the Dowager Duchess d Uz es for organizing star hunts. Miss Annette Kellermann reputedly possesses the world’s finest figure and danced at the Nate Astor for the Rainy Daisies in New York City. Mrs Joseph Scharff threatened to kill herself if her husband is not restored, speaking at a New York neighbor meeting. A woman signed a hook and ladder company in Jamaica NY to take down a tree struck by a bulldog. Edward Meyers in New York City rescued Miss Annie Phelan from flames with burns to himself. Lady Constance Stewart Richardson announced her barefoot dances at Sherry’s mark a farewell to New York as she plans a Canada visit amid a British suffragette uptick and police action.
A hasty double wedding unites Mise Marcus Helsler and Charles Henry Edge with bridesmaids Miss Jennie Lynn Baughley and Lewis Seward in two ceremonies. The couple wed at Union and Baptist parsonages with Rev. John W. Lynch and Rev. Dr. T. M. Eastwood officiating. An auto crash later injured County Engineer Earl Thompson and Freeholders Turner Birkhead and Edward Haines, while Richard Lamb escaped unharmed amid front-end damage and a trip to Mount Holly for medical aid.
Frank Lewis a well known young farmer returned to his boarding house from work to find his bride of a few weeks missing. He failed to come down to breakfast and was found in agony beside a bottle labeled carbolic acid. The missing bride was later located and promised to return.
Anta Novak a fifteen year old girl was returned to her parents by police after eloping with Harry Seward twenty one. They fled from Bordentown to Mount Holly failed to marry then walked twenty miles to Trenton where she was arrested. Parents refuse consent for the union.
Workers in terra cotta factories of the National Fireproofing Company at Perth Amboy who struck after last November’s election won a seven percent wage increase. A notice posted at the Raritan plant states they will get ten cents more per day starting April 1.
William Rule named as the new gas plant superintendent at Paulsboro. Responsibilities include producing gas, maintaining street lamps, testing pipes, making taps, setting up meters, and overall plant supervision. Salary set at 60 dollars per month.
The Rev. Milton Relyea a longtime Methodist Episcopal minister since 1858 died at his home in Pemberton aged seventy five. He served as presiding elder of the Camden district. Also, the Ocean City Board of Trade suggests changes to the proposed State Inland Waterway route to pass near the island’s southern section.
Salem raises hotel license fee from 600 to 800 dollars the highest outside Plainfield and Montclair. Veterans banquet in Glassboro hosted by Eugene Jones. Gloucester County markets see chickens in short supply with prices near 25 cents a pound and some items sold at 4 dollars per pair. Daisy Pine and Mrs North survive a carriage accident when a horse bolted after a car spooked it. Nellie Hart named teacher at Farmersville public school. Pleasantville reports record sickness tied to warm spring temperatures. Former Governor Stokes to deliver Marioria Day address to General Howell Post. Millville merchants plan incentives to attract manufacturing firms.
The Krollman five man team from Cincinnati set a new world bowling record with 293 in three games at the State Bowling Tournament in Columbus Ohio, surpassing the Bonds team of Columbus by four points from the Cincinnati tournament.
The United States reports 20,640,000 horses, up 648,000 from the previous year, reflecting a significant rise in livestock numbers.
In a historic New Jersey ruling, the Court of Errors and Appeals voided a proposed merger between United States Leather Company and Central Leather Company. The decision limits holding company powers, stating consolidation requires explicit legislative authorization. Promoters P A Valentine and J Ogden Armour profited from the deal as Central Leather holds most of United States Leather stock.
Los Angeles report states E. J. Baldwin known as Lucky died after several weeks illness at his Arcadian home. He was eighty-one and last survivor of the Bonanza Kings, rising with California gold fortunes in the 1850s. Born in Ohio in 1828, Baldwin left a fortune estimated at 25 million by his manager H. A. Unruh.
In Nashville Tennessee the prosecution in the Duncan B Cooper case sold its witness Dr McPheeters Glasgow to the defense for cash amid long lawyer haggling. Judge Hart condemned the act but said he could not intervene, outside his jurisdiction.
At Pierre the Senate passed the House resolution granting a popular vote at the next general election on a constitutional amendment to provide equal suffrage for women.
A member of the Big Six Typographical Union, George W. Jackson, reportedly died by suicide by jumping in front of a subway train in New York City. The report notes union ties and references a broad legislative session in Congress with naval, Indian, post office, and other appropriations bills under debate. Webster Penrose challenged Senator La Follette amid tense Senate proceedings. House actions included increasing Interstate Commerce Commission membership and mandating wireless telegraph devices on ocean steamships. The legislative appropriation bill advanced to conference with salary considerations for the Secretary of State under dispute.
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