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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
9
The notice details numerous price reductions across boys suits and two piece long trouser suits with quantities and former prices. It lists 404 boys long trouser suits ages 13 to 16 with current markdowns and 240 two piece suits previously priced at 12 to 18 pounds now reduced. It cites Rocers Pret Company with three Broadway stores at Warren Street 43rd Street and 34th Street.
A city hotel canvass shows striking waiters are generally not being rehired. At the Plaza St. Regis Manhattan Gotham and other establishments managers report few or no former workers reinstated, while the Waldorf and Knickerbocker rehire some. W. C. Muschenheim notes 200 reinstatement applications but says he will act at his pace. The union head at 77 West Forty-fourth Street confirms telephone service was cut.
M J Reagan and J J Bealin of the State Department of Mediation and Arbitration told Hastings strikers that National Conduit and Cable Co would raise wages by 15 cents a day for workers earning up to 1.50 and crane wages by about 10 cents. The company would also recognize the union being formed. About five hundred attended. many have already returned to work and a vote was promised after a further meeting.
Fur Manufacturers' Mutual Protective Association voted to keep member shops closed until August 1 at a Stuyvesant Casino meeting. Secretary A. School said closing avoids rioting that could occur if strikebreakers filled positions. The closure affects about 1,200 manufacturing shops already crippled by the strike.
Special to The New York Times Brady is again a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He had left the hospital weeks earlier after an intestinal surgery and planned a recovery stay in Atlantic City. He returned to Baltimore fearing a recurrence, but officials expect a temporary illness and a possible discharge in a few weeks as New York delegates to the Democratic Convention visited him.
Amherst Mass June 26 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Bishop Thomas Frederick Davies were honored at commencement. Lodge received the Doctor of Laws degree and Davies the Doctor of Divinity. Edward C. Robbins of St Louis class of 1863 earned a Bachelor of Arts. Degrees in course were conferred upon ninety nine candidates.
Colby College awarded Doctor of Letters to George H. Lorimer of Philadelphia and Doctor of Laws to Stratton D. Brooks president of the University of Oklahoma in Waterville.
A class of 186 graduates received diplomas at Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire on June 26. Honorary degrees were awarded to Charles Sumner Ward for his work with the YMCA and Lewis Ross, director at Dudley Observatory in Albany.
Winnipeg Manitoba June 26 More than 1 000 000 damage from forest fires since Monday near Superior Junction east of Winnipeg No lives lost though many settlers are in danger as farms burn Rail way employees battle the blaze day and night.
Police found a dead young woman on a park bench near Boulder Bridge after a self inflicted pistol shot. A handbag held money two storage receipts for Miss Anna Ott and Miss A Muller. a box of cartridges bore L T Hansen's name. Relatives described Miss Ott as a German waitress with a sister in the city.
Mary Rumley, ex-wife of Brookes Buffington, is jailed on neighbors’ complaint after she threw dogs from her third floor window in Pittsburgh. Police shot one dog belonging to Rebecca Klein and will review her mental state tomorrow. Buffington, once jailed for murder of Frank Mitchell, seeks release claiming recovery from treason.
Nellie Redmond, 50, of 515 East 125th Street, threw snuff into Policeman Meyer at East 126th Street Station after claiming he had arrested her previously. Meyer went home sick after eye baths at Harlem Hospital. In Night Court Magistrate House jailed Redmond for ninety days for disorderly conduct.
Dr. D. E. Wylie of Calzona, San Bernardino County, was lost for three days on the Arizona desert after his horse bolted, dragging him ten miles before he collapsed. A search party from Wickenburg found him in serious condition, sixty pounds lighter and near death from exhaustion.
Miss Inez Coleman of La Tourette House Bayonne New Jersey, a newspaper woman, has been notified she will receive $10,000 from the will of Mrs Lucy W Drexel who died last spring at her home 103 Madison Avenue They were long time friends and not related.
Frederick W. Lehmann the Department of Justice solicitor resigns to return to law in St. Louis. He cites Democratic concerns and possible embarrassment in the coming campaign. President Taft and Attorney General Wickersham express regret as Lehmann prepares landmark trust case work and arguments before the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justice Kelley presided over the uncontested Crawford v Crawford case in Brooklyn. Mrs. Cherudine Crawford testified she loaned money to her husband before and after marriage and that funds were not used for household needs. She stated she never lived with him, prompting the judge to question the fairness of annulments and the state’s marriage laws.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that manufacturing smoking opium from yen-shee the pipe heel is lawful, while yen-hi crude gum remains contraband. Alfred Shelley, jailed a year for illegal manufacture, is released and four or five other Chinese defendants may follow. Shelley faces $1,500 bond if the DA appeals to the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Monte Beane, armed with a rifle, guards her bungalow at Arden near Wilmington to block Trustees G Frank Stephens Robert Rautenberg Will Price and Charles Shan from possession after Rautenberg bought land and bungalow at tax and attachment sales. She plans to test single tax land tenure in court.
In Washington on June 26 a 13 year old boy Guy Hurdle Tafts caddy at Chevy Chase golf links was found dead by his own hand. He had left home after a scolding by his mother and hanged himself from a hickory tree in Hangmans Hollow. The coroner ruled death by self destruction.
James Darby age sixteen, son of Thomas Darby, drowned in a pond at Glen Cove golf links after saving a younger boy from drowning. James Finnegan, also sixteen, tried to rescue Darby, later bringing the younger boy to shore but failing to save Darby. A nine year old caddie, William Youngs, entered the pond for a ball. A canoe and search found Darby’s body. Dr McCullough attempted resuscitation without success.
The Rev. Robert B. Kimber, superintendent of the Episcopal City Mission Society, has resigned and took leave from staff. The society oversees city prisons, reform schools, hospitals, alms houses, asylums, and chapels on Stanton Street Mulberry and Broome Streets plus Ellis Island. He may become rector of St Andrew's Parish Staten Island, 1708 origin. Kimber is son of Rev Joshua Kimber and serves as Secretary of the New York Diocesan Convention.
In Balls Kentucky Bettle Harp a cousin shoots and kills Oda Plumlee 17 to stop her from testifying against Harp who wronged the girl. Harp fled twelve miles to Alvis Plumlee's home hid then fled 24 miles to Bennett's Ferry Tennessee. No arrest reported. Harp's husband is in jail.
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