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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
2
Canadian report notes interest in inviting the Prince of Wales to a future event with local officials considering the proposal as part of an international engagement.
Washington reports no formal invitation yet from the State Department for the Prince of Wales to visit the United States after Quebec's tercentenary. Diplomats note Congress would authorize any official entertainment with emergency funds if needed.
The Women’s Aid of George Junior Republic holds a benefit at the Colony Club to raise funds after hard times threaten two cottages at Freeville. Mrs Elizabeth Pattee Wallach and the Flonzaley Quartet will perform, with Mrs Henry Burden and others overseeing arrangements at the Hotel Gotham.
Posters placed across East New York advertise a $500 reward from the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the arrest and conviction of those who started the fire at Morris J. Halpern's factory at William and Belmont Avenues last Monday night. Losses include the building and three adjacent houses totaling $60,000. Police and Fire Department officials believe the blaze was incendiary amid tensions from a recent strike between strikers and workers. Fire Marshal Beers cites threats by a woman striker about “no place for the scabs to work.”
Joseph Navilio and his wife reported to Charles Street Police Station that a man and a woman bound and gagged Mrs Navilio as they looted her West Fourth Street boarding house room on Saturday afternoon. Jewelry and a pocketbook were taken, with prior thefts including jewelry, a wedding dress, and $50.
A man fled a barn theft attempt near Rumson and was chased by bloodhounds to a schooner in Sea Bright. Police and marshals boarded the vessel, the suspect surrendered, and was jailed. The case notes prior chicken-stealing convictions for Philip Roher.
Colorado Springs report links Samuel Barkwell to the Fehringer druggist killing. A complicating factor is Mrs Scofield the matron and Barkwell shared a relationship that prompted a fatal confrontation when Scofield shot Barkwell in self defense. The case ties to a possible motive to win Mrs Scofield.
William Schettelman pursued a thief who jumped into a buggy after stealing his horse. The chase drew riders and bystanders as a trolley car sped to Crescent and Fulton streets. The suspect, Thomas McCormick, was captured and jailed on grand larceny charges at Liberty Avenues Police Station.
A mass meeting of about 800 Italians in Webster Hall New York condemned the Rome conviction of Nuncio Nasi former Italian Minister of Public Instruction on misappropriating funds. Speakers claimed persecution for Sicilian origin and called for reforms and a republic while praising Nasi.
Frank Rowles aged 10 died at the Pasteur Institute of the City Hospital from hydrophobia. He is the second victim of the mad collie that attacked residents of South Baltimore two months earlier, fourteen persons were bitten by Og.
The racers halted at Ogden after a long night run to Rawlins taking over two hours to cross. They chose to stay overnight and resume at daybreak toward Bitter Creek, changing tires due to rough tracks. Sirtori plans an early start after the men slept on the station floor.
After three idle days the De Dion car completed repairs at Crescent and departed via Council Bluffs and Omaha toward Cheyenne along the Mormon trail. Autran fitted new parts at Union Pacific shops, with St Chaffray aiming to drive all night, pursuing the Paris racers Thomas and Zust who are heading to Paris, and vowing to overhaul them in Alaska if needed.
Lieut Koeppen and the German Protos wait in Ames Iowa as tire shipments ordered from Chicago fail to arrive. The driver plans to start tomorrow morning heading to Omaha then west, aiming for a twenty hour run. A Seattle shipment of Alaska tires was stopped and will be redirected to Grand Island, resolving a key delay.
G. B. Umsted, an American pearl dealer, landed from the New York with about $8,000 worth of pearls. He showed a Consular certificate but did not declare the gems. Pearls sent to Public Stores pending proof of American origin. Forty trunks of Easter goods from 10 dressmakers and milliners were appraised and stored.
Charles Godard and his French Motobloc crew, en route from New York to Paris, wandered off the Cedar Rapids road and endured a soaking storm in Iowa. A Cedar Rapids motorist guided them back to the route, and they reached Hotel Clinton after midnight awaiting onward travel toward Marshalltown tonight.
Affidavits filed in Montclair New Jersey describe William Finn and Terence Mc Mann encountering a strange river creature in the Passaic near Boonton. Finn reported a heavy bite, a struggle of about 15 minutes, and the creature surfacing with a fish head shell turtle ten inches long and an eighteen inch tail. Both men corroborate the unusual description and attest to each other’s character in supplementary affidavits.
Margaretta Borden a 15 year old girl in Trenton shot herself in the heart amid family troubles. Her dying mother and a recent disapproval from her father over a suitor left her worn and despondent. Her brother found her body shortly after she declared she was tired of it all.
With a heavy Sierra Nevada snowpack the leading car contemplates a southern detour from Wells, Nevada, via Ely Goldfield Tonopah route to Crucero and Santa Fe lines. The planned coast route to San Francisco through Saugus and Los Angeles cuts about 900 miles off the Reno Sacramento path.
The leader still faces about 1500 miles to San Francisco and must take the April 1 boat after missing the March 24 ship from Seattle. Arrival in Valdez will be late for Nome crossing unless an early thaw. the Southern route is flat and allows fast progress except through the San Bernardino and Mojave Deserts. Extra car weight must go by train from Ogden, while Standard Oil stocks gasoline and zeroline at Goldfield Daggett Ravenna Santa Barbara and San José to cover 150 to 300 mile gaps.
A Times Building crowd of 500 plus debates the New York to Paris auto race reports. Italians, Germans, and French supporters dispute which car leads, with chatter spanning Mulberry to the curb and jokes about seat placement and Siberian miles.
Abraham Davis, 34, a salesman living at 10 East 105th Street, was arrested at the Summit Hotel on Canal Street and Bowery and held at Police Headquarters as investigators probe the death of Wilhelmina Eggestedt, 19, of 122 Hudson Street Hoboken. The sister says the girl feared poisoning after drinks with two young men and Edna Brundage at a Chinatown milk store. Davis denies the charge. Dr E Eafel says death from gastritis with no poisoning signs.
Addison Morton of 14 Main Street Orange reports a man entered the daughters Miss Agnes and Miss May Morton’s room early yesterday. Jacob Sullivan of Newton Sussex County claimed the sleepwalker status after being arrested by Policeman Robert Brennan. Sullivan says he did not know his actions. He faces arraignment before Justice Bray.
Commissioner Bingham deployed fifty plainclothes officers plus uniformed police in Chinatown after two failed arsons at Mock Duck’s home on Pell Street. The Hip Sing and On Leong Tongs risk renewed hostilities, prompting heightened security measures.
Herman Jacobson known as Fight, a six foot four longshoreman, fought six policemen for an hour at Fourth Avenue station Brooklyn. Four victims, including Andrew Wilson Patrick Brady Charles Anderson Hans Orgenson, were hospitalized with skull fractures and concussions. Jacobson posted $3,000 bail as court heard his account.
Miss Addie Elling 21 adopted daughter of George Elling of Northvale New Jersey was struck and instantly killed by a switch engine near that place about 7 o clock last night while walking with two companions toward the Northern Railroad station on the east bound track. Her friends heard the warning whistle in time to save themselves.
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