Auction of Amherst Gobelins Sets Draws High Bids
London Dec 11 The sale of Lord Amherst’s tapestries and French furnishings drew connoisseurs and dealers. Eight Gobelins panels sold for 63 000 dollars, other Louis XV and XVI items fetched 36 750 16 535 3 780 with total receipts near 200 000. Several pieces are expected to go to the United States, with J Pierpont Morgan named as a buyer of the Gobelins panels.
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New York
London
Lord Amherst
Louis XIV
France
Marqueterie Secrétaire
Courtois
P. Courtois
St. Lawrence
United States
J. Pierpont Morgah
Fight Over Hewitt's Will Proceeds in New York Case
In Owego New York the dispute over Frederick Cooper Hewitt's will continues as Mrs. Charlotte Arnot seeks to probate opposition. The suit targets a $6,000,000 estate given to art and charities including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University. Robert W. De Forest says Hewitt's will reflects long held wishes and questions of mental competency are denied.
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New York Times
Frederick Cooper Hewitt
New York City
Stephen T. Arnot
Elmira
Mr. Hewitt
Hewitt
Owego
Gordon Hewitt
Robert W. de Forest
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale University
Charlotte Arnot
N. Y
Barbison
Yale
Mr. de Forest
Yale Fund
Arnot
Dutch Threaten Venezuela Demonstration From Curacao
From Willemstad Curacao Dec 11 the Netherlands government plans a show of force off La Guaira with battleship Jacob van Heemskerck and cruiser Geldersland. They are cleared for action and may seize Venezuelan merchant ships to halt trade, risking a clash with Venezuelan coastal forts if Caracas fires on the Dutch ships.
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Willemstad
Curacao
Netherlands
Jacob van
Venezuela
Caracas
Castro Quiet in Paris After Arrival from Bordeaux
President Castro of Venezuela arrived in Paris as a private citizen and not a head of state. The French government warned he would be expelled if he stirred public order or spoke to journalists. He plans a quick stay to undergo an operation and proceed to Berlin for treatment.
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Paris
Castro
Venezuela
Bordeaux
Price
France
Berlin
Sefior Castro
Rodin Suffering Illness Halts Studio Work
Paris December report states sculptor Auguste Rodin age sixty eight is very ill at his Meudon home. He has not visited his Rue de l Université studio for a week and his condition alarms friends as staff prepare to finish large unfinished pieces at the workshop.
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New York
Paris
Auguste Rodin
Meudon
Rue de l'Université
Whistler
Vance
Rodin
Reichstag Adjourns for Holidays Amid Hale Interview Controversy
Berlin December 11 The Reichstag adjourned until January 12 for Christmas holidays after a budget referral. The debate touched on allegations that the government funded suppressing Bayard Hale's interview intended for Century Magazine. Hale denied any imperial funds were used.
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Berlin
Reichstag
William By
William
Bayard Hale
Century Magazine
Post Office Wireless Station Opens in England
Postmaster General Buxton opened a new wireless station at Bolthead on the Devonshire coast. The facility serves communications with ships at sea and signals plans for similar offices across the United Kingdom.
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London
Phil
Strat ‘Bost
England
Buxton
Bolthead
Devonshire
United Kingdoms
Examiners Find Shortage at Beverly Sayings Bank
Beverly Massachusetts December reports a $9,300 shortage in the Beverly Sayings Bank funds. Teller Albert Hoogs is sought by warrant while an audit cites ledger discrepancies versus cash entries. Directors confirm irregularities are confined to Hoogs and recounts span years.
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Beverly
Mass
Beverly Sayings Bank
Hoogs
Massachusetts Savings Bank
Roland
W. Boyden
P&d
Russian Official Jailed Six Years for Prisoner Abuse
In Kazan M Dubinoff, local Police Commissioner, was sentenced to six years forced labor for ill treating prisoners under his care. In St Petersburg authorities debated dissolving the corsusical system and land tenure measures amid apportionment disputes. An announcement from the Peninsular and Orient Steamship Company noted by Sir Thomas Sutherland followed.
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Kazan
Russia
M. Dubinoff
ST. - Petersburg
Mrs Johnson's will contest reveals codicil request in letters
Boston court hears letters alleged to show Mrs Caroline Johnson sought a codicil after her daughter's marriage. The 2 million dollar estate is in dispute with Mrs Taylor contesting on grounds of mental capacity. Whitney, her nephew, is named beneficiary and executor and keeper of the will.
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New York Times
Boston
Caroline E. Johnson
Josephine W. Taylor
Johnson
Taylor
New York
Hoffman Miller
Providence Guided Her Says Adele Ritchie
Adele Ritchie recounts guiding authorities to locate Mrs. Pierce in a New York madhouse and securing her release. The actress says Mrs. Pierce is bound by release terms not to speak, while Ritchie describes locating Pierce in a hospital after a failed search in South Norwalk and Yorke’s care.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Hand of God
Mrs. Pierce
Misa
Adele
Ritchie
Norwalk
Oklahoma Prison Brutality Report Highlights Cruel Punishment
Kate Bernard Oklahoma commissioner of charities and corrections details brutal treatment of convicts at Kansas State Penitentiary under contract with Oklahoma. She cites water cure shackles, the stunt forced digging coal, and a seventeen year old boy abused in a dungeon as punishment for poor performance.
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New York Times
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Kansas
Kate Bernard
Opty
Bernard
Prices Hit 52.50 for Italian Lace at Art Gallery Sale
Yesterday at the American Art Galleries a sale of needlework and laces drew affluent buyers from the Metropolitan Art Museum and prominent collectors. Highlights included a 52.50 for a large Italian lace feature and Roman mosaic panels. total sale receipts reached 3495.
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Paul Bacon
Campbell Clark
Loris‘lard
Morton
Nichols
Charles Tiffany
John D. Trevor
Richard Trimble
Weiss Morris
Metropolitan Art Museum
Wien Cate
Hankeré
Apd
Ae Blackborne
Art Museum
Whaling progress on 33-foot right whale at Amagansett
Work began today after Capt Joseph Edwards and crew hauled the 33-foot right whale ashore at Amagansett. About a score of men women and boys assisted in cutting blubber and bone and hauling to nearby pots a mile from South Beach dunes. The whale is expected to yield fifteen to twenty barrels of oil and four to five hundred pounds of bone valued at one thousand to one thousand five hundred dollars each.
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New York Times
Amagansett
Joseph Edwards
Alf ‘ Wemen
South Beach Dunés
Exhibition of Work by New York Blind For Social Efficiency
The New York Association for the Blind hosts an art and crafts exhibition at 118 East Fifty-ninth Street showing blind attendants running stenography sewing weaving and toy making departments. Visitors see cards games and checkers, and a knitting department showcases sweaters stockings jackets and shawls. The event runs until 6 PM and aims to demonstrate the institution’s work while seeking funds. $100,000 is needed with $47,000 already raised. Officers listed include President Richard Watson Gilder Secretary Mrs. Winifred Holt and Treasurer Mrs. Herbert S. Barnes.
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New York
Richard Watson Gilder
Winifred Holt
Herbert S. Barnes
No More Straw Bail Escapes Prompt New Police Order
Police Commissioner Bingham issued a new order to stop straw bail escapes after the Jack Gormley case. At night, when a felony bail is requested, the desk lieutenant must prepare a blank coupon stating the charge and send it to the magistrate for review before arraignment. Gormley served four years at Sing Sing after his capture.
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Jack” Gormley
Bingham
Jack Gormley
Sing Sing
Morristown trolley line stay in legal challenge
Robert H. McCurdy and Samuel V. Abell owners along the Morris County trolley route obtained a judge ordered show cause why Hanover Township’s franchise to the trolley company is lawful. Returnable January 19 the order stays work as officials prepared to run cars between Morris Plains and Morrisssey.
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New York Times
Morristown
N. J
Robert H. McCurdy
Samuel V. Abell
Morris County
Parker
Hanover Township
Morris-sey
Morris Plains
Maryland Representative Proposes Lincoln Boulevard Bill
Representative Pearre of Maryland introduces a bill to appropriate 4 million dollars for a 100 foot wide boulevard from the District of Columbia to Gettysburg battlefield via Antietam Maryland in memory of Abraham Lincoln. The highway would be built by a five member committee of disinterested citizens appointed by the President with aid from U S Army engineers and Agricultural Department road experts.
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Washington
Pearre
Maryland
Columbia
Gettysburg Battlefield
Pennsylvania
Antietam
Abraham Lincoln
United States
United States Army Engineers
Agricultural Department
Verdict Awards $26 291 to Real Estate Brokers in Lease Case
Supreme Court Justice Fitzgerald directed a verdict for Leon Tanenbaum and Benjamin M. Strauss, brokers, against Abraham Boehm and Lewis Coon. The decision awards $26,291 for commissions on securing a 23 year lease at the Acker Morrall Condit Building on Thirty-fifth Street and Fifth Avenue, though the lease signer did not sign due to new terms imposed by Boehm and Coon.
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Supreme Court
Fitzgerald
Leon’ Tanenbaum
Benjamin M. Strauss
Broadway
Abraham Boehm
Lewis Coon
Rlatm
Miss Cameron to wed Earl's son betrothal announced
London dispatch reports the Hon. Ronald Lindsay heir to the Earl of Crawford and Miss Martha Cameron daughter of J Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania announced their engagement. The announcement links a prominent British noble family with a U S lineage amid the social season.
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Miss Cameron
Earl
London
Ronald Lindsay
Earl of Crawford
Martha
J. Donald Cameron
United States
Pennsylvania
United Service dispatches personnel changes at fort and posts
The notice lists Capt. M. S. Jarvis as Quartermaster of the transport Sumner at Newport News, Maj. C. J. Stevens retired after long service, Capt. P. A. Wall assigned to Fort Leavenworth Prison, Capt. G. G. Palmer to Whipple Barracks, First Sgt. W. A. McDaniel to multiple posts for evidence gathering, and Lt. K. D. Smith ordered to report for further orders.
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W. Gton
M. S. Jarvis
Fourth Infantry
Sumner
Newport News
C. J. Stevens
Fifth Cavalry
P. A. Wall
Ihe
United States Military Prison
Fort Leavenworth
G. G. ‘Palmer
Thirtieth Infantry
Whipple _Barracks
First Tigar
W.A .McDaniel
Fifteenth’ ‘Infantry
Parkersburg
Grafton
Clarksburg
West Va
K. D. Smith
Adjutant General of the Army
Recruiting Station Duty Redirect in Dallas Texas
Lieut A Andrews named to command the Dallas recruiting station with duties in charge. The fragmentary text mentions Lieut Stith and scattered references to ships and locations including Maine New York Philadelphia and Colorado, but no coherent additional facts.
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A. Andrews
Dallas
Texas
W. Stith
Trn
Maine
Itety
Saturn
Mare
Philadel- Colorado
Italy reports large surplus for 1907 08
Rome December 11 Applause filled the chamber as Signor Carcano Minister of the Treasury announced a year end surplus of 7 500 for 1907 08 after settling liabilities total expenditures reached 21 500000 toward debt reduction and 2 000 000 for railroad construction he projected surpluses of 7 000 000 and 6 000 000 for 1908 9 and 1908 10 and praised the strong economic state and advances in industry agriculture and agricultural science
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Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Signor Carcano
Treasury
Germany credits Japan with full pledge on Kiao Chou
The German Foreign Office urged that Anglo German and Japanese ties are strong and that Japan’s adherence to the Anglo German agreement is broad and binding. A Oct 29 1900 note to Berlin and London is cited, and Germany views it as protecting its rights in Kiao Chou while Japan remains committed to the occupation of the territory.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Japan
Germany
Cting
Tokio
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