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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1908
Page
4
Lisbon reports reveal hiding places for revolvers daggers and bombs fueling a widespread plot. King Carlos signs decree granting magistrates broader powers as arrests rise and revolvers and rifles are found citywide. Three more newspapers suspended for seditious printing amid frontier expulsions of conspirators.
Jan 31 dispatches report panic in Tabriz as reinforcements for Prince Firma prove undisciplined and the bazaars shut. Refugees flee toward Russia while Julfa prepares Russian troops for emergency. Tabriz, a 180,000 strong city, hosts US Presbyterian and Swedish Mission Society missions with thirteen and two missionaries respectively.
A fire broke out in the Majestic's first class smoking room on arrival from New York. Firefighters controlled the flames after extensive effort. smoking room and cabins damaged. The Majestic sailings to and from Southampton and Liverpool are rescheduled with the Baltic moving up a day to accommodate booked passengers.
In Dublin on January 31, children from United Irish League families in the West stage a boycott threat. Sixty pupils from a Roscommon national school walk out after teachers refuse to teach four sons and daughters of men who have been boycotted, as anti grazing protests intensify.
International and political briefs report strikes closing northeast coast shipyards after wage cut refusals by workers who left Jan. 22. Estimates say 40,000 to 40,000 workers affected as lockout orders go out for tomorrow. Other dispatches note Belgian King Leopold meeting with Clemenceau and Pichon, Tirpitz seeking harbor funds on Heligoland, Davila elected president of Honduras, Jameson resigning Cape Colony posts, and Standard Oil buying Shell SA interests to form a British monopoly.
A citywide rule bars dealers from returning unsold Sunday issues. Newsdealers have no ongoing orders to reserve copies for customers. readers should place advance orders to ensure a Times Sunday paper.
Reports from Berlin indicate Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg Strelitz plans a divorce suit against Count George Jametel of France. The 1899 marriage stirred minor royal circles, with claims of Marie’s elopement and later estrangement from her husband and family amid French ties and Spanish influence.
A British commission reports on the 250000 dollar loss of St Patrick regalia jewels from Dublin Castle. It says the safe was opened by a key and cannot acquit Sir Arthur Edward Vicars of proper custody of the keys. Capt Neville Wilkinson named to succeed Vicars as Ulster King of Arms. Vicars calls for public inquiry.
Nassau Hospital in Mineola may be placed under Catholic supervision to resolve financial woes. Bishop McDonnell of the Long Island Diocese and Rev William B Farrell proposed turning over the hospital property and endowment of 43 000 with a 360 000 mortgage to the bishop to maintain current operations, backed by Mrs O H Belmont and others.
The Kines County Grand Jury handed four indictments to County Judge Fawcett against Policeman George Dawkins of Adams Street Station. Indictments accuse him of first degree robbery third degree burglary and first and second degree grand larceny. Dawkins pleaded not guilty and was remanded to jail pending trial.
Ex mayor Daniel D. Whitney of Brooklyn marked his eighty ninth birthday at his wholesale grocery on 20 Fulton Street. He has been in business sixty eight years and welcomed many old friends. He recalled Brooklyn’s past when Fulton Street had few houses above Sands Street and Fulton Ferry was the county’s business center. He was elected mayor as a Democrat in 1881 and served two years.
The estate of Mrs. Sarah Mac Farland reports the recovery of diamond earrings stolen after her death on January 22 in a Madison Avenue hotel. An investigation suggests only one or two could have removed them. Miss MacFarland initiated the search, prompting the return without police involvement. The earrings, valued at about $500, were not pursued for prosecution.
Supreme Court Justice Abel E. Blackmar attended a Hamilton Club dinner as honor guest. he formerly served as chief counsel to the Public Service Board before his Supreme Court appointment by Gov. Hughes. James W. Wadsworth addressed the Twenty third Regiment review at Bedford Avenue Armory on Feb 29, with a pre dinner visit planned at the Brooklyn Union League Club.
In a letter to Gov. Hughes the Canal Association responds to F C Stevens criticisms of the Barge Canal program. It argues that a full plan cannot be completed before cost estimates and that bids can be issued by section within a 101 million dollar appropriation. It rejects a twenty one foot deep ship canal from Lake Ontario to the Hudson, notes towpath limits, and says canal bonds must be sold by the State under the act.
The City Controller was made an honorary member by the Woman's Democratic Club after a talk at the Hoffman House. He criticized park land agitation and urged women to engage in city affairs while noting land sales and legal fees as cautions. Miss Margaret Fitzgerald suggested the club stand by the City Government and present the club pin.
Commissioner Bingham plans sending patrolmen to a city language school to learn foreign languages for better work with foreign residents. The school will teach thirty men free of charge. the plan came from the officers themselves and the Corporation Counsel approves a legal trial.
The annual Williams College Alumni Association dinner at Delmonico's featured Rev. Henry Hopkins who resigns next June and Prof. Harry R. Garfield who will become president. About 200 alumni from classes 1854 to 1997 attended with Yeebene as toastmaster and speakers including Rev. Dr. Grosvenor and Francis S. Hutchins the youngest living alumnus.
Mrs. Nomiie Crose Oliver lost her divorce suit and $160,000 alimony claim against William J. Oliver of Knoxville Tennessee. The suit claimed a common remarriage existed between the spouses and sought the Panama Canal contract context. The decision favored William J. Oliver in Atlanta on January 31.
Mrs Walter A Will arrived on the White Star liner Celtic after a long voyage from La Paz Bolivia via Mollendo Peru and Dunkirk France. Her voyage on the Charcas with only three passengers met storms and a collision near Cape Verde that damaged the ship, forcing a beaching before she reached England and then this port for Christmas dinner.
John Weldon, a contractor, leapt from a Vernon Avenue car as Annie Gervone, 6, caught in flames near 55 Webster Avenue Long Island City, screamed for help. He smothered the fire with his overcoat, placed her back on the car, and rushed toward St John’s Hospital five blocks away aided by a passing butcher. Doctors say the girl is badly burned and likely to die.
Rose Haas a 27 year old primary grade teacher at Public School 150 Mast Nine ty sixty sixth Street became deranged yesterday and ran into the street shouting the schoolhouse was on fire William Conrads of East Ninety sixth Street reported the alarm Policeman Donovan stopped the fire crew to prevent panic Miss Traas principal said the teacher had been acting oddly Dr Wells admitted her to Presbyterian Hospital Miss Haas residence is 444 Manhattan Street
Mrs Norah Keane wins 6000 damages from New York City Railway Company for the death of her husband, a car repairer killed November 16 1906 in a Fiftieth Street Seventh Avenue car barn pit. Trial marked the first under the new railroad act holding railroads liable for employee neglect.
A tunnel worker awarded five thousand dollars after a jury verdict found fault in the handling of injuries incurred in a tunnel project under the river in Pennsylvania. The case involved Garretson and Sons as defendants in a suit seeking damages for the worker’s injuries.
Six members of the Holy Ghosters sect including leader Thomas J. O Reilly were arrested at a West Forty third Street mission for violating public decency. The group, all Philadelphia residents, faced examination in the Tomhs Court after a letter from Mabel Collins mother prompted the arrest. They claim their rituals are divine and conducted with revival hymns as they were taken to the court.
Detectives arrested a second cabin passenger named Joseph Alexarter on arrival of the White Star Hiner Celtic. He confessed to being George Tughan of Belfast and said a reduced salary drove him to steal money from his employers Kirk & Partner to support his five children. Tughan was taken to Ellis's land and likely to be deported.
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