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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
1
The report notes KEENE'S BALLOT winning in a suburban race with mentions of Great Handicap and a puzzling injunction. It highlights new conditions limiting attendance at Sheepshead Bay while King James and Fair Play place second and third respectively.
The twenty second running race on a mile and a quarter track at Keepshead Bay features Ballot Netter King James Fair Play Master Robert and Dandelion among contenders. The event offers a $25,000 stakes with $20,000 to the winner and $2,000 to the third place. Owner James R. Keene and trainer James Rowe oversee the hopefuls as time records chase Hermis’s 1904 mark and the old distance record.
James Keene's four year old Bal lot captures the Suburban Handicap in 2 08 matching the course record. Police keep betting rings empty under the Agnew law as 18 000 to 20 000 attend. Despite injunctions and officials monitoring, betting persists in secret among insiders.
President Roosevelt prepared for departure to Oyster Bay for summer vacation after a cabinet meeting described as a light work session. He will travel by special train with Mrs Roosevelt and family, reaching Oyster Bay around 5 35 p m after leaving Union Station at 9 15 a m and crossing by boat at Jersey City. About thirty White House officials accompany him.
French aviator Delagrange plans an American tour this summer after securing backing from a St. Louis syndicate. A. B. Lambert of the St. Louis Aero Club aided the negotiations, with flights likely in the West on large enclosed grounds and paid admission. Delagrange’s Rome achievement on May 30 set a 15 minute 30 second duration and about 99.1 miles flown earning him 8 thousand dollars.
Friedrichshafen reports Count Zeppelin postpones his ascension due to a motor defect in the airship. The delay follows previous postponed attempts, leaving the public awaiting the demonstration.
William Bourbet 17, son of a New York banker, drowned while swimming at the Summer estate of W. T. Carrington, grain broker. His friend Alexander Leighton 16 witnessed the ordeal as Bourbet pushed a log and disappeared. divers later found the body in eight feet of water after the pond’s drain was opened. Bourbet vacationed with his grandfather Carl Drinkhorn in Greenwich.
In Monongahela Pennsylvania a mine explosion at Ellsworth No 1 mine of Pittsburg Coal Company leaves three dead two fatally burned and fifteen still entombed. Only one identified victim named John Beal. others are foreigners. Fumes hinder rescue attempts.
Unofficial returns from Salem show United States Senate candidate totals with George Chamberlain (Dem.) leading H. M. Cake (Rep.) 52,421 to 50,899. The June 19 results indicate Chamberlain holds a slight edge in Oregon’s primary race.
The Black Diamond Express will be restored to service on the Lehigh Valley Railroad on June 2. It will depart New York at noon for Buffalo Niagara Falls and West, resuming its historic route after repairs and timetable adjustments.
A bomb shattered the Kanawha Club basement meeting room at 129 East 128th Street last night causing fire and damage but no injuries. Secretaries Coleman and Gallagher and several firefighters battled the blaze as police investigate fragments including a tin box and a heavy glass bottle. Detectives search Harlem for a young man seen fleeing in darkness as others recall Nagle's past enemies and a prior shooting incident.
Walter Bernigan, 28, of Boston, was arrested in Armonk after a scramble at a friend’s home. He allegedly wrote death threats to Mount Kisco residents including Isaac Turner and George Raymond, and he held up Raymond’s watchmen at the scene. Sheriff Lane led the pursuit with deputies, and Bernigan was found armed and later disarmed.
In Morristown New Jersey on June 19 Joe Gilligan an 18 year old with severe amputations rescued two 12 year old boys from Gravel Pit Pond near Lackawanna tracks. He swam with one arm pushing the boys to shore while avoiding the drowned. Gilligan lost both legs and part of an arm ten years earlier in an accident in Brooklyn.
D. G. Miller, described as the most distinguished looking prisoner at Central Police Station, is accused by detectives Lally and Leff of fleecing prominent figures in New York Boston Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago and Pittsburg out of 200000. He posed as a Republican lobbyist aiming to fund a two cent fare law and produced letters allegedly signed by governors and senators. Miller had a victim list of about 3000 and was arrested after taking 50 from a Pittsburgh businessman. He claims money is planted in Chicago and did not reveal its location.
A fierce Pittsburg thunderstorm blew down a canvas wall at the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show injuring Charles S. Howell, a real estate man and former railroad claim agent. Col Cody reassured the crowd as order was restored and the performance continued after a brief delay.
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania a 40 pound bulldog owned by Mrs Walter Dunk was killed after a fight with a large buck deer in Riverview Park. The dog broke loose from a chain and attacked the deer as hundreds watched. The buck fought back and finally killed the dog tearing him apart with its hooves. Mrs Dunk was injured while trying to reach a fence for a club.
Mary Af felt, a former weaver at the American Felt Company Mills in Glenville, won a $12,500 verdict in the White Plains Supreme Court. The injury occurred when a loom tore hair and part of her scalp.
A Nassau County Supreme Court jury awarded Mrs. H B W Ladew three thousand dollars in damages in her suit over injury to seven show horses shipped from Simsbury Connecticut to Hisnore Farms Long Island.
Hendrickson's Tours advertises a four day all inclusive trip for 16 50 with an option to extend seven more days to Montreal and lakes for 45 dollars. The offer includes travel from Brooklyn at 343 Fulton Street.
Leading doctors rate Mecklenburg Lithia Water as offering more relief than competing brands. The product is advertised as sold widely across markets.
Special cable reports the New York to Paris race as the Thomas car reaches Verkhnieudinsk after fifty four hours from Chita, two days behind the German Protos. The crew endures cold, hunger, caravan turmoil, and stampeding livestock while crossing rivers and bogs toward the goal.
The article places Verkhnieoudinsk mid way between Chita and Irkoutsk by Lake Baikal and notes a German car on a two day read nearing Irkoutsk. It suggests Paris via the Peking route could take forty days, match Itala’s Peking Paris record, with unconfirmed reports of damage to a Italian dust car map at Imianpo 384 miles from Viadi.
London dispatch reports that despite official denials a great international steel combination is nearing completion. The Iron and Steel Trades Journal says the trust includes leading European and American firms and will require extra capital beyond £150,000,000 to fund British works under the new patent act, creating thousands of jobs.
Judgment for the defendant was entered by agreement in a suit in the Supreme Court in Boston on June 19. Cadwallader M. Raymond of Somerville sued Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil for $56 million, asserting a claim from 1878 over a secret crude petroleum process.
James R. Keene confirms several dozen yearlings will be shipped to England today. He declines to link the move to the anti-betting law and says he has not decided to send his racing stable abroad. The yearlings will train overseas for at least a year before racing.
The Johns Hopkins Trustees accepted Henry Phipps's gift of 750000 dollars for a hospital building and the establishment of four psychiatry professorships. The resolution praised the donor's enlightened generosity and pledged joint effort by the university and hospital to advance mental health research and treatment. John S. Phipps and architect Atterbury were present to review the grounds.
Charles Cornell a New York City electrician was shocked by 2300 volts at the New Jersey Consolidated Water and Light Company plant in Long Branch. He dropped rigid and unconscious after touching a live wire but was revived by fellow workers and walked later an hour afterward with only a headache.
Albany June 19 The Executive Committee of the Home Rule Democracy after the Utica conference announces it will continue its work within party lines until the Democratic representation is regained in the State Convention and State Committee. The movement is not against any person but pro home rule, emphasizing principles over individuals.
In Ithaca New York on June 19 a 46 foot petition was presented to President Schurman and the Cornell Trustees by the Ithaca Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It asks the university to stop drunkenness among students at class banquets and to move the senior banquet to the armory. The petition claims student conduct is disgraceful and that alumni are as bad as undergraduates.
The SS Italian Prince departed Santos on June 17 as latest shipping news reports.
Local politics feature Sherman joining the Taft ticket as Beveridge eyes possible action. Report notes Delee rates and reactions from politicians who favor self-determination and independent moves in the campaign landscape.
The 14th National Republican Convention adjourned in Chicago after roughly ninety minutes with William Howard Taft as presidential nominee and James Sherman chosen for vice president. New York delegates led the Sherman surge amid mixed crowd response as administration support shaped the ticket.
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