Consul reports on magician's death at sea
Details from the State Department cover the February sinking of American magician W. B. Wood known as the Real Devil and his daughter Hertha off Yucatan. Investigations by American consuls and Mexican authorities seek if robbery occurred over about $14,000 carried by Wood, with crew questioned and no wreckage found yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
W. B. Wood
Hertha
State Department
Wood
Canuto Bulnes
Edward H. Thompson
Progreso
Yucatan
Clawson
Frontera
Thompson
Robert S. Boyd
Laguna de Terminos
Boyd
Canute Bulnes
Rantera
Laguna
Mr.Wood
Miss Wood
Mx Wood
Mr. Wood
Conteut
Mr. Boyd
Siore
Anay
Mexico
Borough Bank Receivers Discharged
Supreme Court Justice Betts granted an order discharging Henry Powel and Isaac M. Cox as temporary receivers of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn and permit the bank to reopen for business on April 14. There was no opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borough Bank
Albany
N.Y
Supreme Court
Betts
Henry Powel
Isaac M. Cox
Borough Bank of Brooklyn
Auction Includes Letters of Sir Walter Scott and Dickens
Readers learn that an auction in this city will feature letters from eminent authors. Highlights include a two page Sir Walter Scott letter to his son Charles, dated 1820, and a charmed Dickens missive from Richmond dated March 19, 1842. Also present are letters from George Cruikshank, Eugene Field, Henry W. Longfellow, and a curio verse by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Walter Scott
Charles
Charles Scott
Teheran
Mary Monica Maxwell Scott
Lockhart
Walter Scott
Scott
Laidlaw
Locharts
Lord Linter
Lord Tragnair
Emma Mordecal
Charles Dickens
Richmond
Charles. Dickens
George Cruikshank
London
Leigh
Eugene Field
Henry W. Longfellow
Cambridge
Charlotte F. Bates
Geneva
Edward Bulwer Lytton
FALL IN EXPRESS EARNINGS FOR 1907 REPORTED
United States Express Company total gross $17 790 260 with net $158 280. six month period 1906 and 1907 compared. Wells Fargo gross $23 813 534 net $2 197 943. American Express gross $30 785 197 net $659 159. Investments and treasury stock declines noted. cash on hand fell from 1 306 734 to 371 380.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wells-Fargo
American Express
United States Express
Comany
Rector Street
Trinity Place
Wells-Fargo Company
American Express Company
Treasury
Audubon Seeks Refuge Network To Save Birds
President Roosevelt backs Audubon Society efforts to protect wild birds by designating bird refuges on national land. The effort targets maribou and other plume sources, with Tortugas Island set aside and wardens assigned to protect nesting sites. The article details legal changes, international trade impacts, and the shift to domestic fowl plumage in fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
William Dutcher
National Association of Audubon Societies
Indian Empire
Audubon Society
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Dutcher
Tortugas Islands
Florida
Key West
Audubon - Society
Audubon -Association
United States
Bird of Paradise
Papuan Islands
Australia
Massachusetts
Virginia
North Carolina
California
New York
Turkey
Guinea
Germany
Africa
France
Europe
Auction of Rare Latin Bibles and Manuscripts in City
A sale in the city features rare early manuscripts on vellum. The highlight is a 15th century Latin Bible dated 1447 with gold initials and a Cardinal portrait, bound in levant morocco. Other items include Nicolas Jarry’s Chansons Frangaises on vellum with twenty six leaves and ten portraits, plus Latin sermons and a thirteenth century palimpsest from Royamont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levant
Morocco
Isaiah
Daniel
United States
Henrietta Maria
James Bindley
Asburnham
Sts. Augustine
Ambrose
Hieronimus
Rebdorff
Royamont
France
Lawyer Sets Trap for Boy Accuser in Extortion Case
The boy Macaluso, a potential witness against Carl Fischer Hansen, was arraigned at the Tombs Court on charges connected to an alleged bribe offer. Police foiled a staged escape plot as Fischer-Hansen’s office reportedly arranged $550 to keep the witness from testifying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aritony
Macaluso
Carl Fischer-Hansen
Joseph E. O'Brien
Philadelphia
Steinert
Fischer- Hansen
Fischer-Hansen
Irving Place
Twentieth Street
Joseph Brown
Misses' Double Breasted Suit in Shadow Stripe Serge
Advertisement describes girls suits for 12 to 16 years in silk red with a full pleated skirt and fold. Priced at 32 50 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
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Tug
Yuca
Ttan
Anderson
Anderson & CO
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Dickens
Wells-Fargo Co
Maribou Boas A Menace
Audubon
St&ag
BOE
Dutian
Snare Macaluso
Wit
Ness
W Nievenstuber
Ibetlo
Tony- Jo
J. B
Nievenstuber
Sun
Ric
Riewenstuber
Bey
Wiewenstuber
Mataluse
Malen
Macaluse
Micien
Lord & Taylor
Waist Dept
Broadway
20Th St
5Th Ave
16Th St
Stern Brothers
Pongee
Zao
Paris & Lyons
Novelty Silks
Panama
Batiste
Lée
Npe
Norfolk
Twenty-third Street
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