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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1908
Page
1
Thomas Car leads the 96 mile race figure with de Dion car disabled at Kendallville. Protos and Motobloc run close as tenth day progresses showing classifications and arrival times for several teams across Norwalk Elyria Goshen and Kendallville with weather forecast noting colder winds and a warm air movement in the Upper Mississippi Valley.
The Paris Matin-New York Ties auto race reports the Thomas team traveling 17 miles to Goshen Indiana through a heavy snow storm. The American crew planned to start at dawn, was 99 miles from Chicago, and the Italian car reached Kendallville 26 miles behind as De Dion crews faced repairs in Chicago. Fred Motobloc overtook the German Protos at noon in Cleveland and reached Elyria by night while Protos continued ahead by miles.
The Thomas auto driven by Jack Sperry completed seventeen miles to Goshen in rough winter conditions. Several farm teams helped clear tracks, pilots and local residents aided, and drivers remained spirited as they battled deep snow toward the next waypoint.
English tramp Greystoke Castle reports sighting a burning vessel about 35 miles southeast of South Pass near the Mississippi mouth. The ship, mistaken for a Morgan liner, sailed east toward the Florida Straits after the aid attempt, with the fire fed by naphtha or petroleum and no distress signals observed. The vessel’s identity remains in doubt.
Emily Klinge 24, daughter of Gustave and Katharine Klinge of 114 Main Street Hackensack New Jersey stabbed herself through the heart at home yesterday morning. She had suffered melancholia due to a love disappointment and died almost instantly. A thin bladed knife found beneath her body. The family runs a Rochelle Park silk dyeing business where her siblings assist. A German romance involved Paul Dalius and Dr Krell, with Krell returning recently. Emily had planned to travel to Germany next month.
Alvert Kronicke a cellar firm collector was found unconscious at Bushwick and Johnson Avenues. He had a fractured skull and a $150 wallet from Queens customers was stolen along with cigars. Kronicke claimed three armed men robbed him on Johnson Flushing Avenues before fleeing with his horse toward Williamsburg. He described being sandbagged then revived to recount the incident. He was taken to St Catharine's Hospital by trolley conductors.
Madison, February 21 State Bank Examiner Meyer of Illinois arrived to inspect the Tri City State Bank which has closed its doors for lack of ready cash. President C R Kiser called it solvent but with very little cash on hand. Cashier W Burton absent. Miss Roxy Burton, assistant cashier, closed the bank and cited two large deposit demands as reason. Three directors commended her action.
Reports from Rome on February 21 claim Bulgaria is mobilizing troops, but there is no confirmation available and the information is treated as possibly alarmist.
A Baltimore and Ohio freight and a Lake Shore passenger train collided at a crossing in Elyria, thirty miles west of Cleveland. The B and O engineer was killed, his fireman and the mail clerk injured, the Lake Shore crew hurt, and two passengers reported injured.
Mrs Helen Combes of Sea Cliff in Oyster Bay has begun a chain of weekly newspapers. She already runs two papers and earlier started The Examiner in Glen Cove, where she served as sole proprietor and editor. A rival dubbed The Examiner a petticoat paper as she launched The Sea Cliff Recorder and plans more titles if this succeeds.
Seaboard Florida Limited offers a daily Pullman service to St Augustine Vinehurst Camden and Columbia. This shortest Florida route advertises travel via the 1 183 Broadway office.
Washington reports President may address Congress on the Naval programme and discuss Lilley’s corruption charges linked to submarine contracts. Lilley accuses rivals of graft. committee members deny specifics while naming eight Octopus submarine votes and party splits surface.
John F. Holland, inventor of the original Holland submarine, told a Washington naval committee that no new submarines should be built, arguing current designs are ineffective defensively and wasteful. He noted Japan’s Kobe submarines built from his plans, under Captain John Ide, and said a large flotilla may be under construction. He added submarines offer little defense against other submarines and are mainly useful against battleships or shore defenses.
Advertisement notes that Genuine Deerfoot Farm Sausages are not sold in bulk and must be wrapped in parchment with the name printed in red ink, warning readers to beware of imitations.
In Greenport I February 21 a fire set in the Orient Congregational Church behind the pipe organ was started in the pastor's basement study by a firebug. Rev Dr John Alexander Gray received a threatening note the previous Sunday reading Beware and claiming ongoing intent.
At Dickinson College Carlisle fifty freshmen cohorts planned a Harrisburg banquet while forty six sophomores boycotted chapel and skipped classes. The conflict grew after J Harry Morgan, Greek professor, was struck during a confrontation. the faculty demanded an apology or expulsion for the sophomore class.
Bayonne Recorder Truman Lazarus rules a mistress may slap or kick a maid who calls her a liar. In the case of Anna Gulack versus Mrs. Bertha Cohn, the court dismissed the assault charge after Mrs. Cohn testified she slapped the maid for failing to dust and called her a liar.
Florence McCuen Franker Place and Lucy Halton with an unnamed young man spotted smoke on a barge off Hust River near Fifty-first Street. Capt Thomas Hughes led the effort to move to safety as young McCuen ferried a baby to his sister and then, with Hughes, rescued two more children from the flames.
Natalie Hurd, four year old heiress to Walter F Baker’s estate, died at home in Bogweian Nod after contracting diphtheria and scarlet fever. The will, dated last fall, left one third to the child, $10,000 to her mother Helen Bray Hurd, one third to Harvard, and the remainder to relatives. The cause of illness emerged after a fire was found in her room.
Kansas delegates at the state convention unanimously resolved to cast a solid vote for Bryan at the Denver Convention. The gathering showed strong enthusiasm after adopting the resolution. In Tennessee, Nashville hosts a gubernatorial convention set for July 14 with the state Democratic committee endorsing Bryan for the Presidency.
Baron Eugene St. Clair, a member of an old French family, died at Williamsburg Hospital last night from starvation and exposure. He wandered to the Bedford Avenue Police Station four weeks prior and was admitted to the hospital. He claimed former wealth, was 52, and spoke twelve languages. He had been a professor in European colleges and in the Western States.
A dealer on Broadway reports crowds seeking The Sunday Times for New York to Paris Automobile Race coverage. People walked from 11th Street to Fifty-ninth Street, trying every newsstand in vain. advance orders ensure delivery next Sunday.
Policeman James O'Brien of New York travels to Washington to wed Hannah Enright, longtime lady's maid to Baroness Hengelmuller. The ceremony at St Patrick's Church features the ambassador's seven year old daughter as bridesmaid and a breakfast at the embassy with diplomats and Washington society.
Rockville Centre ministers led a clash with the Board of Trustees over the town Sunday law. The clergy cited violations while business leaders and barbers kept Sunday trade, prompting possible arrests and a District Attorney case to settle the dispute.
Eleven indictments charge J. E. Brady former president of Merchants' Refrigerating Co with embezzling $76,000 and violating the warehouse receipt act. Nine violations relate to transactions in butter and eggs worth about $49,000. Brady was arrested and released on bond as the Grand Jury’s funds and actions are pursued.
At Magdalena Bay the Maryland set two world marks in naval target practice. Using three inch guns the crew hit 18.65 times per minute on 18.05 shots per minute. With six inch guns the ship achieved 843 hits out of 1070 attempts. Final scores show Maryland leading with 78.89 percent.
East of the season via Pennsylvania Railroad leaves New York on March 35 for a special Pullman train to Jacksonville. Tickets are valid returning until May 31. Itineraries and full information available from ticket agents.
The rumor that Enrico Caruso would leave the Metropolitan Opera for Hammerstein was denied by Hammerstein Dippel the Met press rep Barthelemy and others. Caruso did not comment and friends say the tenor has no plan to breach his contract despite questions arising from Conried’s retirement.
Paris court upholds lower court ruling ordering Count Boni de Castellane and Mme Anna Gould to pay opera singer Vera Memidoff 21000 dollars for jewels bought prior to their divorce. Gould argued she was unaware of the transaction, but court says jewels were for the buyer's wife.
A Lisbon telegraph reports Paris that troops guard the palace after a royal transition. The garrison is confined to barracks and ball cartridges issued to soldiers, signaling high unease amid the new king’s arrival.
A man burst into the Ladies' Auxiliary meeting of the A. O. J. L. in New Britain, snatched his crying baby from his wife present there, then dropped the infant into her arms saying he could not care for it. About fifty members witnessed the incident in Waterbury on February 21.
Peter Andrews, boarder at Mrs. Mary Murphy's home at 119 Ninety-ninth Street, Fort Framiston, laughed at a joke during supper. A ruptured blood vessel in his head caused his death despite Dr. I. T. Rodman’s efforts. He was 52 years old.
Baltimore February 21 Mrs Dossirian Nowar was granted an absolute divorce from George I Howard of this city on grounds of estrangement. The couple met at a theatre party in Baltimore, wed in New York, went to Europe, and soon separated. Witnesses were Richard C MacTavish of New York and Walter C Forber a local attorney.
In White Plains on February 21 two brothers, Joe Valveri 12 and Leon 9, playing tag on the Harlem Railroad crossing near Hamilton Avenue were struck by an engine. The engineer applied brakes but both boys died, Leon on the scene and Joe shortly after. Father is a White Plains laborer.
William Morley, 24, of 228 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, sentenced by Justice Dowling in the Criminal Branch to 18 years and 4 months for killing Policeman Charles Sheehan in Chatham Square on the morning of October. Indicted for first degree manslaughter Morley faced a range of 18 years and 4 months to 19 years and 4 months.
Washington February 21 Mr Sheppard of Texas introduced a bill making it a punishable offense to originate or transmit a false wireless message purporting to be official to interfere with a wireless station while it transmits an official message or to refuse to cease sending a private wireless message when an operator with an official message requests.
Natica Rives Burden wife of Williams Proudfoot Burden was found dead in her mother in law’s Fifth Avenue home. Police and coroner called accidental illuminating gas asphyxiation from a misadjusted gas lamp tube. Noted social figure connected to prominent families and society circle.
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