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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
4
St Chaffray may attempt De Dion run over Skaguay route. May awaits Thomas Wil and the American car from Vladivostok under Lieut Koeppen expecting cable instructions.
Unclear text describes Thomas Valdez trust in San Francisco and De Dion. Mentions Kelson Utah. paths impassable. Reference to taking steamer for Seattle with return to Vladivostok then repairs in Ogden. Steamer for Seattle due to day.
As the steamer City of Puebla arrives Seattle discussions focus on whether the French and Italian cars should use the Valdez route or move via Skaguay and the White Pass. Agreement with the American team alters time allowances in Siberia and may delay Alaska crossing while Lieut Koeppen seeks orders.
The Jacques Cartier, carrying a polar expedition commanded by Lieut Bernard, sailed from Dunkirk on April 12. The mission aims to test the theory that Newfoundland whales retreat to the Barents Sea in the Arctic Ocean, a region kept ice free, with magnetic equipment for oceanographic study.
A German auction house will offer 4 074 lots of tokens and medals from George Alex of Hamburg. The collection includes rare early Spanish coins and a brass piece said to be among the first issued in America, linked to Sir Walter Raleigh 1584 colony attempts. The sale, conducted by Adolph Hess at Frankton-on-the-Main, is set for May 11.
Lisbon notes Palm Sunday rites canceled amid street attacks on clergy. Madrid reports a Franco regime reform plan, 1908 09 budget, and royal civil list provisions. Valparaiso confirms Prof Charles Furlone of Cornell arrives after expedition across Terra del Fuego and the Patagonian Pampas.
Special Cable reports Oscar Hammerstein arriving in Berlin and saying he will stay until he secures concessions. He aims to engage the Kaiser, if possible, and attends d Albert's Tiefland to learn about obtaining American rights. He notes Herr Von Wühelsen, director of the Kaiser's opera, is in hospital.
Just before the Paris salon opening the National Society of French Artists ordered removal of three works by Jean Weber Renouard and Baffler to avoid offense in France and Germany. One lampoons the Kaiser, another satirizes the Dreyfus trial and a third presents a medal of Gen. Mercier.
Prince von Buelow the German chancellor arrives in Rome with Princess von Buelow to reciprocate Giolitti Tittoni visit. He plans to retire to a villa after leaving the chancellorship and will discuss politics with Italian officials during his stay, including meetings with the foreign minister and the king.
The American Ambassador Lloyd C. Griscom denies reports of a Berlin transfer after Dr. David Jayne Hill takes the post. He also rejects claims of a decided marriage between the Duke of the Abruzzi and Miss Katherine Elkins and says he has no news about such a union.
In Madrid on April 12 partisans of Premier Maura cite President Roosevelt's anti-Anarchist stance to back a government bill proposing harsh penalties for anarchists. Liberals and Republicans back suppression of anarchy but oppose stricter laws, warning conservatives could weaponize them against rivals.
Clarence Eustaphieve a former second lieutenant in the Twenty-third Infantry U S Army is arrested at the Millis Hotel on petty larceny charges after impersonating Lieut Arthur Copp. Police say he forged checks swindling hotels and lawyers and is to be charged with forgery as more hotel victims surface.
An apparent militia inspection in New York ends with Lieut. Eustaphieve abducted by unknowns after a tense exchange with Col. Schuyler and Mr. Hass. Hass calls Governors Island by phone for details as the young man vanishes from sight amid a police search.
Herman Markowitz an Armenian electrician was found in great pain in the hallway of his home at 170 East 118th Street. He denied taking poison and said he went out to collect a bill when nonpayment made him ill. Police and ambulance crews responded amid crowd noise.
Claude Laselle of New York City, 61, was arrested at Boston South Station as he left the Worcester train on a Warren Hotel defrauding charge. Captain of Detectives O Day ordered his return. Laselle claims kinship with Whitinsville Laselle family. Laselle mansion denies. He was at Police Headquarters Friday and is now a prisoner.
Lancashire cotton spinners abandon plans to buy cotton-growing estates in the Mississippi Delta due to legal barriers on alien ownership of real estate. The Cotton Spinners Association had formed a committee to explore forming a company to control a plantation in the United States following a British delegation visit last year.
William Lingreen and Max Wille ex clerks at the Hotel Martinique were held in $2,000 bail each by Jefferson Market Court on a charge of robbing a hotel guest and management of jewelry and cash totaling $7,000. The jewelry owner is Mrs Ellery Anderson. The items were left with the clerk and later presented. The pair fled to California before being traced and arrested.
Samuel B. Rosenberg a jobless shirtmaker killed himself last night at East Drive and 109th Street in Central Park by placing a revolver to his temple. A sealed letter and empty envelope addressed to Mrs. Rosenberg were found on him. He died instantly. police took his body to Arsenal Station as Mrs. Rosenberg and two of her children identified him. She said he had been despondent after weeks without work and had left home yesterday without saying where.
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