Senate Tariff Bill Prefers Householder With Moderated Changes
Special to The New York Times from Washington reports the Senate Finance Committee near completion of revising the Payne tariff bill. The panel plans to release amended figures, reduce duties on cocoa and manufactured foods, and drop the inheritance tax while leaving agricultural rates at Dingley levels. Debate over direct taxation continues amid debates on income tax legality, with no final plan yet adopted.
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New York Times
Washington
Senate Committee On Finance
Government Printing Office
Monetary Commission
Aldrich
Lodge
Smoot
Penrose
House
Senate
Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
Limoges
Haviland China
Payne
Ne Inter
Oil Schedule May Stand Amid Tariff Recall Efforts
Washington April 11 indications tonight show tomorrow in the House Norris of Nebraska will move to recall the Tariff Bill from the Senate to correct a blunder regarding petroleum products. General opinion holds the effort will fail. Neither Champ Clark nor Payne supports it.
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New York Times
Washington
House
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Champ, Clark
Payne
Banker's Wife Arrested After Shoplifting Scare
Gertrude Whitman, 35, is held on shoplifting charges after police found skirts and pocketbooks in her bag at a Newark department store. Her husband, retired banker Charles Whitman, identified a unconscious woman as his wife at Police Headquarters and arranged hospital transfer amid her heart disease. He promised bail when she recovers enough for arraignment.
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Newark
N. J
Charles Whitman
Littleton Avenue
Gertrude
Gertrude Zimmer
Bloomfield Avenue
Whitman
Wireless telephone links Paris to Melun thirty miles
A new model radio telephonic device, developed by French Navy Lieuts Colin and Jeance, completed successful experiments between Paris and Melun. Lieut Colin at the Eiffel Tower and Lieut Jeance with M Picard at Melun heard a clear conversation through a headpiece that blocks external noise during the thirty mile link.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Melun
Lieuts
Colin
Jeance
Lieut
Eiffel Tower
M. Picard
Radio-Telegraphic Manufacturing Company
Boulevard Grenelle
Telegraphic feat claims 250 mile wireless link
In December 1907 Berlin dispatches reported Waldemar Poulson had sent a wireless telephone call from a Berlin suburb to Lyngby near Copenhagen, about 250 miles. The sound of music was said to be distinctly heard, two messages were exchanged, and transmission was clear and audible.
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Berlin
Waldemar Poulson
Lyngby
Copenhagen
Plaza Christian Science meeting aims to establish city church
About 500 Christian Scientists and others gathered in the Plaza Hotel ballroom as Mrs Delia M Gilbert announced plans to start a Christian Science church on upper Fifth Avenue. Services would be held Sundays for a year, with leaders from other churches assisting. The adjourned meeting will reconvene next Sunday afternoon.
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Plaza
Delia M. Gilbert
Christian Science Church
Gilbert
First Christian Science Church of
Brooklyn
Eighty-fifth Street
Dyker Heights
Upper Fifth Avenue
Christian Sciences
Bull to Trot in Races in Western Pennsylvania
Trotters set for events against a four year old Durham bull trained by Dr. Joseph D. Chaney and John H. Ross. They challenge any 2:30 horse in the region for a large stake, claiming the bull has run a half mile to sulky in 1:22 and can mile in under 2:30. The bull surfaced trotting in Maryland as a one year old before being purchased.
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New York Times
Waynesburg
Penn
Bcards
Western Pennsylvania
Joseph D. Chaney
John H. Ross
Chaney
Maryland
Blackmailer Arrested After Letter To Passaic Priest
Edward Zalinski, a 20-year-old resident of Hoboken, was arrested after a staged meeting to pay a $2,500 Black Hand ransom. Detectives disguised a man as the priest, and a stranger accepted two marked dollars before his arrest. Zalinski admitted writing the letters to the priest and to an undertaking proprietor in Passaic.
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Edward Zalinski
Third Street
Hoboken
Central Office
Passaic
United Societies of Black Hand
Valentine Chlebowski
St. Joseph’s
Chlebowski
United Society of the Black Hand
New York
Fourteenth Street
Second Avenue
THE
United Societies OF Black
HAND
Father Chlebowski
Haggerty
New Jersey
William J. Bidnacky
Sheehan and
Brennan
Bidnacky
Ilam
Sheehan
Rounsei
Zalinski
St Paul Brings 180 Second Cabin Passengers to New World
The American liner St Paul arrived from Southampton with 180 second cabin passengers, many mechanics and tradesmen seeking work in Canada and the Western United States. Leonard Reading of London plans to settle in San Francisco and urges fellow English aboard to pursue a new citizen life. Miss Ada Baker travels to marry D N Robinson of Toronto. she awaits him at Belmont. Nine Chinese steerage passengers are sent to the Chinese Bureau. the Donald Line faces a potential $500 fine for escape.
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St. Paul
Southampton
England
Canadian Northwest
United States
Leonard S. Reading
London
Reading
San Francisco
Passow
Ada Baker
D. N. Robinson
Toronto
Belmont
Watch on newest bridge grows under Modjeska eye
The Manhattan Bridge construction proceeds under Chicago bridge engineer Ralph Modjeska who reported to the Mayor in June. Appointed last December after City Club pressures, he leads outside oversight and praised work so far. Spans near shores and piers joined, pathway likely within days for officials to walk across.
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Manhattan
Ralph Modjeska
Chicago
Modjeska
City Club
Board of Estimate
Williamsburg
Manhattan Ridge
Stevenson
Quebec Bridge
Lewisohns Car Kills Valet in Atlantic City
George Schafer valet to New York financier Lewis Lew isohn died when the 70 horsepower touring car flipped near Port Republic. Chauffeur Herbert Welsh narrowly escaped serious injury as the rear tire blew and steering locked. Coroner summoned. body to be sent to New York. Welsh to sail for Europe tomorrow.
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New York Times
Atlantic City
N. J
George Schafer
Lewis Lewisohn
New York
Lewisohn
Herbert Welsh
Schifer
Welsh
Port Republic
Schafer
Europe
German Hiss English Play In Berlin Debut
Berlin April 11 German version of Du Maurier play An English Man s Home staged at Neues Theatre before Imperial Court officials. Audience reacted with widespread hostility, laughing, stamping, and hissing from the second act through the final scenes, undermining any chance of a repeat performance.
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Berlin
du Maurier
Neues Theatre
England
Germany
Englishman's Home flop blamed on bad play and phobia
Berlin correspondents in London say the failure of An Englishman's Home stems from its inept staging and Anglo phobia. The German version and presentation are called a caricature, provoking the audience and press criticism. An unrehearsed shell-fire scene sparked a panic and nearly caused a riot, emptying seats.
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London
Berlin
Britons Cheer Roosevelt Aboard Admiral in Suez Passage
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt travels with a small party including Kermit Roosevelt and Major Mearns after a canal stop at Ismailia. The voyage includes bird specimen collection, a deny of a Paris Journal interview, and enthusiastic cheers from British passengers aboard the City of Paris.
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Suez
Roosevelt
Red Sea
Aden
Mogadiscio
Italian Somaliland
Ismailia
Mediterranean
Kermit Roosevelt
Major Mearns
Edmund Heller
J. Alden Loring
Paris Journal
Messina
Canal
City of
Paris
Kurrachee
Mr. Roosevelt
King Victor Emmanuel Meets Woodford in Private Audience
In Rome on April 11 King Victor Emmanuel received Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, former U.S. Minister to Spain, in a private audience. The King said it gave him great pleasure to meet Theodore Roosevelt recently at Messina, highlighting the cordial exchanges between the leaders.
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Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Stewart L. Woodford
United States
Spain
Theodore Roosevelt
Messina
New Fashion in Bouquets At Riverside Parade
A middle aged couple drew attention in Riverside Drive yesterday with extravagant outfits and a flower bouquet hat. The peachbasket hat and violet bouquet outlined with lilies of the valley and red roses extended from chin to waist, prompting a wary remark that the husband is an undertaker.
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Riverside Drive
Lenox Fire Kills Six Residents In 250000 Loss
Six people died in a Lenox fire that destroyed four business blocks and two homes, with losses estimated at 250000 and 111000 insured. The Clifford Building housed the dead. among the victims were Isabel Cook and Alice French. New Yorkers staying at the Curtis Hotel helped evacuees and a relief fund began with 2600 raised, plans for a 10000 fund among Lenox summer residents discussed, and emergency aid organized as fires spread to the Eddy Building and others.
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New York Times
Lenox
Mass
Curtis
James Clifford & Sons Company
George Root
Clifford
Horace Perrill
Perrill
Clifford Block
Alice French
Eddy
Pittsfield
Richmond
Madanna
Bull
Joseph Gilbert
Rose Colbert
Public Library
Curtis Hotel
New York
Boston Society
Lenox National Bank
Frank K. Sturgis
John BH. Alexandre
Helen Alexandre
Lindsay Fairfax
William Oh. Bradford
Lindsay “Fairfax
Fairfax
William H. Bradford
William D. Curtis
Samuel E. Guild
Boston
Barclay Hazard
Robert W. Paterson
New Lenox High School
Lee
Earthquake Strikes Sundsvall Sweden and Austria Shocks
A violent earthquake rocked Sundsvall near one minute long causing reported damage. In Liabach Austria three separate shocks were recorded by seismographs on Saturday, highlighting a sequence of tremors across Europe.
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Sweden
Austria
Copenhagen
Sundsvall
Liabach
May not honor Swinburne burial in Abbey discussed
London April 11 reports no official suggestion to bury Swinburne in Westminster Abbey. The Dean refused comment and The Daily Mail notes a prevailing view that the poet may not lie in the poets' corner.
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Westminster Abbey
NEW York Times
London
Swinburne
Westminster
Daily Mail
Governor Hughes Turns 47 Quietly at Albany Mansion
Albany April 11 Gov Hughes marks his 47th birthday with a private family day at the Executive Mansion. He receives congratulatory messages from friends and admirers across the state and beyond as the quiet observance goes by.
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Albany
Hughes
Executive Mansion
American Killed in France Near St Raphael Station
A well dressed American dubbed Emile Amy was found headless on railroad tracks near St Raphael station in France. Police questioned whether the death was an accident or self-inflicted. Among his belongings a circular from Crocker National Bank San Francisco and a UK bank note referenced funds from Credit Lyonnais of Mentone.
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ST. Raphael
France
Emile Amy
Crocker National Bank of San Francisco
Union of London and Smith Bank, Limited
Credit Lyonnais of
Mentone
Boy Shot at Celtic Park in Long Island City Riot
Charles Hass a special policeman fired on 14 year old Thomas Daly during an amateur Marathon at Celtic Park near Daly’s home at 243 East Twenty ninth Street. Hass fled, changed clothes, and was arrested on felonious assault charges as a 5,000 strong mob gathered. Daly lay wounded and in precarious condition at St. John's Hospital.
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Charles Hass
Celtic Park
Long Island City
Thomas B. Daly
East Twentyninth Street
Hass
Powers
St. John’s Hospital
Daly
Bishop Burgess Undergoes Eye Operation in Mineola
Episcopal Bishop Burgess of Long Island attended confirmation services at Garden City and Hempstead with his left eye bandaged and left without delivering the usual class address. He had undergone an eye operation for a slight problem performed by Dr. George R. Hare at Nassau Hospital Mineola.
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Garden City
Hempstead
Burgess
Long Island
George R. Hare
Nassau Hospital
Mineola
New Haven Railroad to Restore Old Salary Schedule
New Haven Conn April 11 The 10 percent salary cut last year will be reversed soon and former wages will resume for all employees earning up to $2000 a year. Directors reported improved freight receipts and business this summer. Electrification Stamford to New Haven discussed. next month’s meeting may order plans.
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New York Times
New Haven
Conn
New Haven Railroad
Stamford
First Mrs Earle in Hiding Near Paris
Paris report says Ferdinand Pinney Earle would face his former wife and her father if he seeks reconciliation. The wife, now with child, is in hiding near Paris and has not communicated with Earle since the divorce. Her father W. C. Fischbacker asserts she will not meet him and must be found first.
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NEW York Times
Paris
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Miss Kuttner
W. C. Fischbacker
Earle
Police Stop Dozens for Auto Speeding in Borough Roundup
The New York police under Commissioner Bingham arrested over fifty speeders in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Richmond. Notable detainees include Frank M. O'Brien secretary to Mayor McClellan and Dr. Joseph A. Blake’s chauffeur, with O'Brien facing speeding and license charges and Blake delaying a Connecticut operation.
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Bingham
Manhattan
Bronx
Richmond
Frank M. O’brien
McClellan
Joseph J. Ryan
Fifth Avenue
Thomas I. Ryan
Harry F. Zinnerly
Kings County
O’brien
John G. Dwyer
Dwyer
O'Brien
Broadway
110Th Street
West 100Th Street
107Th Street
109Th Street
Mr. O'Brien
Ryan
Dyckman Street
Echols
West 152d Street
Andrew Freedman
Red Bank
N. J
Louis Martz
Joseph Augustus Blake
Madison Avenue
Harry L. Zinnerly
Blake
College of Physicians and Surgeons
William T. Bull
Litchfield
Conn
McI Isaacs
104Th Street
Samuel Gorta
Gorta
Harlem Court
Harlem
Walsh
Connecticut
Paul Arnold
William 8. Friedlander
Passaic
Zinnerly
160Th Street
Adolf Peterson
Hudson Street
William T. Fickling
Columbus Avenue
Lehane
West Sixty Eighth Street
Magistrate House
West Side Court
Fickling
Columbus
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King Victor Emmanuel
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Ventres
Edward Sr
Leslie
Catherine Root
George
Arthur
Gov. Hughes
Boy
Bishop Burgess
Mineola Hospital
Frank O’brien
Joseph A. Blake
Cian
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