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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1908
Page
5
In Manhattan two courtrooms are used as ballots are tallied with 154 boxes counted and 40 gain reported. Officials expect final totals by June 24 with counting nearly complete.
Officials opened ballots yesterday as part of a recount in the Twenty Fourth Assembly District. The process focuses on verifying vote totals and addressing any disputes raised during the initial counts. Local election authorities reiterate accuracy and transparency remain paramount.
Hearst's net gain fell from 238 votes in 630 boxes to 228 in 781 boxes as recounts continue. Clarence J. Shearn warned of a possible blunder in the liberal ballot ruling while Justice Lambert defines legality. Mayer McClellan has benefited so far, but Hearst districts loom.178 boxes remain in Manhattan with 154 to be finished today. court hopes recount ends by Wednesday June 24.
Garden City June 15 The Committee of Trustees led by Rev C F J Wrigley Arthur T Hechlitt and Rev Paul F Swett say St Giles the Cripple the city home at 417 419 Clinton Street Brooklyn is unsafe and must be vacated The institution seeks 100000 to buy a lot and build a new city home within the diocese and is unsure how to house eighty children if winter construction cannot be completed The Summer home St Giles in the Field remains at Garden City
Patrolman Buckley of East 104th Street Station testified he faced an attempted larceny charge by Robert Lattimer on a Third Avenue car. Magistrate Kernochan rebuked Buckley and discharged Lattimer after hearing both sides of the dispute.
The White Star Line issued a statement saying the withdrawal of five freighters Bovic Cevic Georgic Armenian and Victorian from the Liverpool New York trade was due to general weak trade and not solely railroad rate actions. It noted the Inland Grain Rate Association’s impact and said regular passenger mail and freight service would continue from New York to Southampton every Wednesday and to Liverpool via Queenstown on Thursdays, with the Baltic Celtic Cedric and Arabic able to carry large freight volumes.
Elise Hartwig of 9 West Twenty-ninth Street sues Daniel O'Reilly a former Assistant District Attorney and later Harry K Thaw attorney for 1047 dollars for millinery. O'Reilly says the wife bought the goods and disputes over several items led to nonpayment. The shop confirms the goods were bought by Mrs O'Reilly.
Coroners' physician Dr. Philip F. O'Hanlon shows marked improvement after blood poisoning followed a hand cut during an autopsy. A week earlier he performed the autopsy on an Italian shooting victim and a minor hand wound led to the illness.
On trial before Justice Goff, Carl Fischer Hansen is accused of extorting $15,000 from Joseph E. O'Brien through letters and a diary. Witnesses Antonio Macaluso and John Buckley described the dealings, as O'Brien testified he paid to suppress incriminating letters and avoid scandal.
Boston June 15 Governor Curtis Guild Jr resumes duties as Massachusetts chief executive after a three month absence due to illness. He faces a heavy load of appointments and the need to clear petitions for numerous departments and parsons.
Solomon Raisler sues Julius Benjamin in the New York Supreme Court seeking $25,000 damages over an alleged failed treatment for a disease in the great toe. Raisler, who later had his left foot amputated, claims Benjamin posed as a licensed practitioner and treated him daily or every other day between March and June 1904, charging 76 dollars. Benjamin, who says only 40 dollars was paid and that fees covered instruction in Christian Science, admits no medical pretension and cites prayer and meditation.
New Rochelle reports Fuzzy the Reliance mascot, owned by yachtsman C. Oliver Iselin, died after his mistress left for Europe. The grief stricken dog refused to eat, lay in state in a velvet coffin, and was buried in Iselin’s Echo Bay rose garden.
D O Mills through Howland Murray and Prentice files in Supreme Court to appoint a receiver for O S W Corporation tenant of Mills Building at 15 Br Street and 35 Wall Street to recover about 800 dollars in rent. Justice Blanchard reserved decision. offices closed since May 1 after an April suit. O S W formed to promote patents for steel wire packing and indestructible cloth with James J Byers as president. Herbert Pomeroy Brown suit against Byers for 100000 dollars, alleged misrepresentation. Wingate and Cullen appealed.
June 15 Passaic New Jersey report shows Mrs Anna Kisebia the widow who believed God told her to joie yesterday morning is improving at General Hospital. She woke in better condition, ate breakfast, did light work, and spoke of religion noting disappointment at not being taken as promised.
New Pittsburgh plan to photograph and measure bank clerks to deter theft draws sharp doubts from New York bankers. They warn such a gallery could undermine morale and fail as a theft prevention tool, while bond firms see mixed feasibility.
Bids for the regular army supply totaling 1.5 million dollars were opened at the Army Building in Whitehall Street. Samples on exhibition showed a department store like range of items from buttons to uniforms and belts. American manufactured goods will receive preference when contracts are awarded.
Traffic on the East River halted as Mayor McClellan on the steamer Massasoit signaled the first rope of a temporary cable for the Manhattan Bridge. Over the next fortnight sixteen steel wire ropes will span the East River, forming four cables and temporary footbridges before the 21 1/2 inch permanent cables are set. The project aims for completion in December 1909 with potential for the mayor to cross before his term ends.
Charles Bartlett aged 84, convicted of forgery, told guard the sentence was too light after Judge Rosalsky sentenced him to three years. Bartlett has spent 27 years in various prisons. The complainant was Arthur B. Harris of 108 Worth Street. In May 1907 Bartlett induced Harris to cash a 125 dollar check drawn on the First National Bank of St Paul, signing the name Charles W. Gor. He pleaded guilty yesterday claiming he was down and out.
Judge Lacombe in the United States Circuit Court denied Albert T. Patrick's habeas corpus writ. Patrick, a Sing Sing life prisoner, claimed his death sentence was the result of a conspiracy to plunder the Rice estate and stop enforcement of Rice's will leaving most of the fortune to him.
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