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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
1
Thomas car stops due to a broken gear as crew watches for prototypes. Shuster seeks new gear while Miller attempts to patch the old. Times correspondent reports on the affected vehicle and ongoing repair efforts.
Report from New York and Paris tracings show long distance routes and mileage. Entries list cities such as Viatka Omsk Irkutsk Vladivostok Moscow and Berlin with distances from New York to Paris and to other hubs. Records indicate transcontinental legs and positions across the calendar day.
From VIATRA Russia July 15 the American Thomas team has waited five days for a replacement driving gear after teeth broke in the gear train. Shuster travels to obtain new gear while Miller and the correspondent await repairs in Viatka. the car has suffered multiple gear failures in mud and hills along the Trans Siberian route.
Haan's Restaurant at Park Row Building invites patrons to enjoy cool downtown meals for luncheon and dinner. Live music adds atmosphere to a refined dining experience.
Capt Baldwin plans aerial experiments at Fort Myer with a two crew airship. Lieuts Lahm Foulois coordinate the effort as a hydrogen gas plant is built. Flights must cover ten miles total with 18 mph minimum speed and a one hour duration before a Army Board review.
Two ocean liners, Cunard Carmania and White Star Majestic, raced from Queenstown to Fire Island late July 6, reaching Fire Island at 11 PM and 10:46 PM respectively. They left Queenstown at 8:55 AM and 4 hours 20 minutes later Majestic began, the neck and neck contest continuing toward Quarantine with both slated to anchor off Sandy Hook Lightship at dawn.
Rudolph G. Leeds announced there would be no contest of his father William Bateman Leeds estate, valued at 8 to 10 million dollars. TheWill provides 1 million to Rudolph, with real property to the second wife and a residuary trust for their infant daughter. The elder Leeds died June 28 in Paris. the first wife had been Jeanette Gear Leeds, divorced in 1900.
Examiners of the Brooklyn Commissioners of Accounts report grave irregularities among some officials. No link found to Borough President Bird v. Coler, but top subordinates may be called to account for contracts let without bidding. Revelations include painting contracts to unlikely fitters, misused electrical roles, a laborer turned shade maker, and dummy contractors.
A terse classified notice promotes the New York Taxicab Co. offering speed comfort and economy. It urges readers to call phone 6600 Columbus for taxicab service and mentions Ady in connection with the company.
Archie Herron shot and killed Rev. S. E. D. Prickett in Metuchen. Prickett, 68, former editor of The Metuchen Recorder, had jailed Herron two years earlier. Herron shot himself in the hand during the posse arrest and was taken to jail in New Brunswick. Prickett leaves a wife and two sons, Charles and William.
In New Rochelle New York on July 15 eighteen year old Sarah Coniskey fired several shots at her father Sarman Comiskey while he sought police protection after being warned by boarders that she might strike. A single bullet grazed his head and the weapon was taken from her. She is confined as a likely mental case.
Seven miners were killed and ten injured at Williamstown Colliery Summit Branch Mining in Pottsville Penn on July 15 after a gas explosion. The No 1 shaft fire trapped and injured workers who rushed toward the entrance. Doctors fear several may die and one survivor was misidentified at the morgue before confirming status.
Congressman Champ Clark denounced national conventions as foolish and noisy saying they should be cut to half the delegates and held in halls for 2,500 to restore decency and order. He warned deliberation cannot occur in large crowds and favored reforms after a Denver trip.
E P Bryan head of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company obtained a three month leave of absence and is abroad with his wife and family. Rumors that August Belmont ceded control were denied by Theodore P Shonts who said Belmont's interest remains and a line reorganization is under way for economy and efficiency. Bryan will not be paid if he does not return.
July 15 report from Trenton details Henry Willis a negro captured after a blood tracked chase by County Detective Ellis Parker ending an all night search in Burlington County Willis was the man who on Monday attempted to kill Allertown farmer John L Borda and assaulted Mrs Borden. Physicians removed eight lead pellets from Willis back and treated a deep gash on his face and a head wound likely from a hoe used by Borden.
Greenwich Connecticut July 15 Actress Miss Nilsson who is sum mering at the Squirrel Inn saved the lives of Mrs Sharkey's two children Thaddeus five and Elizabeth ten from a hay loft fire. She dashed from under a tree seized a long handed rake and raked blazing hay toward her to rescue them. The fire department arrived as the blaze was extinguished.
Miss Margaret Driscoll of Brooklyn visiting relative Miss Demers in Forestville was robbed near Greystone while an auto party traveled with Miss Babcock of Boston and friends. A highwayman seized a gold watch from Driscoll and Kruger took $30. the occupants fled to a farmhouse as help was summoned. Driscoll, a private tutor in Le Ouinn and French, fainted.
Officer Peter Vreeland of Kearny New Jersey reports he was attacked by a sand crane during patrol yesterday. The bird swooped in without warning biting his sleeve and clawing his face before he killed it with his club. The crane measured about a yard from tip to wing tip.
An advertisement for Kalil's Restaurant located at 418 Park Place highlights a refined downtown dining experience with charming music and a focus on the finest and coolest ambiance.
In Lincoln Nebraska July 15 1901 William Jennings Bryan said if elected he would invite John W Kern into the Cabinet as an adviser though not to hold official position He argued the Vice President should be involved in state affairs and gain knowledge by service in the Cabinet.
A Newark Times dispatch from Cranbury New Jersey reports a severe electrical storm that killed a man named Ray and two horses, while a farm laborer named Lawyer is feared to be permanently paralyzed. The lightning struck as workers sheltered in a wagon house on George Wolff’s farm causing further injuries to two horses.
Jeremiah Sheppard of Bridgeton New Jersey drowned while clam digging with his wife off Somers Point Eye Harbor River. The wife carried their five year old as he disappeared in a rising tide. Other clammers rescued the woman and child but the body was not recovered.
The bodies of Canovio Rodriguez alias Eljorbado Antonasio Reyes and Philocarpo Reyes were found in the mountains west of Durango. They were accused of killing H. S. Jones, owner of the San Ignacio Ranch, last May. It is believed rurales shot them after their guilt was established.
The Russian Ministry of Finance proposes a state monopoly on platinum, with seven tons produced annually mainly in Russia, the United States, and Germany. The plan would nearly double the metal price from its current level, affecting electrical industries where platinum is essential.
Special to The New York Times. Secretary of the Treasury George Bruce Cortelyou plans a Huntington Long Island vacation after three days above 100 degrees. His family will join him. Cortelyou jokes about taking a vacation leaving Secretary Luke Wright to represent the Cabinet as aides recall his strained smile.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson sold the Lombard Street hill house overlooking the Golden Gate for 25000 dollars and plans to relocate to Santa Barbara. The residence featured Samoan tapestry and weapons and housed South Seas curios and Stevenson manuscripts. Bohemian Club members saved it during the great fire by carrying water in buckets.
David Wilson, longtime head of the Dodge Express Company in New York, sustained serious injuries in a runaway accident in Great Barrington Massachusetts while attempting to protect his wife and child. He was knocked down and twice run over as horses frightened by an automobile bolted toward a plate glass window. John F. Maloney stopped the team.
In St Louis on July 15 the Populist National Committee planned to open its headquarters but no action occurred. Twenty two rooms at the Madison Hotel on Chestnut Street remained reserved as national chairman R H Mallett of Claiborne Texas reportedly passed through en route to a Democratic convention in Denver with no further contact.
Adrian C. Anson ex captain of the Chicago National League team faced Judge Landis who appointed a receiver for his billiard and bowling establishment amid a suit by Mrs. Charles Taft of Cincinnati seeking 6500 in rent. Petitioning creditors filed about 20000 in accounts due, with assets available for liquidation between 7000 and 8000.
Giuseppe Alia, who killed Father Leo Heinrichs at St Elizabeth's Church in Denver, was hanged at 8 30 tonight after shouting anti clerical and pro Italy slogans. He waited at the altar on February 23 and shot the priest as he administered communion.
An advertisement offers a $27 Chicago and return fare with contact point at 355, 1460 Broadway. Inquiry encouraged for details on travel terms.
Henry E. G. Cooke, leader of a widespread land fraud, is in custody of Deputy Marshal Nicholson and headed to New York for prosecution. About a score of Elmira, New York victims remain in Baker City, Oregon, amid revelations of thirty fraudulent land grant entries and ties to Nat Cooper and A. G. Marshall.
Investigations trace Henry E G Cooke from New York swindles to an Oregon timber land fraud scheme that shipped thirty eight victims near Baker City. He allegedly targeted women with bad checks and lodgehouse debts after joining Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and even claimed a religious reformation last March.
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