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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
3
The New York City Railway plans to install pay as you enter fare collecting devices across its system. Discharges for failing to register fares reached 5,584 in 1907, prompting talks of substantial annual receipts gains and complex financial rearrangements to fund depots and depreciation.
Prominent Wall Street men are among subpoenaed witnesses for the Metropolitan Street Railway stockholders suit against its officers and directors. The case seeks recovery of funds alleged misappropriated by management. Witness list includes Thomas F. Ryan H H Vreeland Lemuel E Quigg Charles A Conant and others.
D W Stevens adviser to the Korean Council of State rests easily at St Francis Hospital after an attempted assassination. Korean gunman I W Chang implicated. the incident attributed to a conspiracy inspired by a manifesto from the Korean Rightous Army calling for resistance against Japan.
Justice Dugro orders division of Mrs. Sarah A. Pierce estate worth 30 000 among sisters Ellen Perry and Miss Mary Jane McDaniel and beneficiary Mrs. Sarah H Davis currently in the Municipal Poorhouse in Boston. McDaniel faces perjury indictment tied to another Pierce property.
Minnie Gehnrich and her two year old twins Charlie and Willie Gehnrich fell from a second story window to the yard. Both suffered fatal skull fractures as police and ambulance workers responded, with no hope of survival.
Charles H. Campbell a 52 year old engineer formerly of Atlanta lived at 1721 Beverly Road Flatbush L I and shot himself at 136 West Twenty second Street dying an hour later at New York Hospital He had struggled to find work and had recently taken a position with Frederick W Shepperd Publishing Company in the same building Frederick Shepperd identified Campbell and notified his Atlanta relatives A woman claiming to be his wife identified the body at the hospital offering no reason for the act.
Albany March 24 The Assembly passed without debate the bill by Assemblyman Filley of Rensselaer requiring railroads to pay their employees semi monthly. The measure is tied to the State Federation of Labor and marks a rare passage after years of no action.
Five passengers were injured in a Reid Avenue line crash at Broadway and Marcy Avenue when an eastbound car hit an open switch and swung into a westbound car. Stephen Curtis, 16, was shocked by a live wire at the Brooklyn Rapid Transit power house and may lose sight in both eyes. Deputy Fire Chief Henry WackerMan faced arraignment for speeding. case sent to Special Sessions. Doorman Patrick Dunn faced charges for housing chickens in the Parkville Station cupola. case dismissed after narration of neighbor’s death and a hen dinner egg.
The Better Times Association of America launched in a Lafayette Street storeroom to oppose Theodore Roosevelt Taft and Bryan. President Henry G King said members’ names remain secret and outlined a platform favoring reforms without bloodshed and limits on executive power. The group plans postcards and campaign buttons to spread its message.
Frederick Lincks of 281 Van Wagner Avenue Jersey City N J fell from a west end train at Eighty fourth Street and Eighteenth Avenue Bath Beach yesterday afternoon and was dragged beneath the train for several blocks, instantly killed.
Timothy Li notes Woodruff, chairman of the Republican State Committee, returned from Washington after briefing the President on Hughes's candidacy. He asserts the boss wants the State Committee and Kings County organization to stay under existing control. Sherman to be permanent State Convention chairman April 11, Bruce to serve as temporary chair. Odell’s influence is waning with votes lacking.
The World editors and staff testified at Magistrate Moss that a Sixth Avenue gambling den was opened with police sanction as a sting against grafting officers. Wardmen Lyons and Horan faced hours of questioning, with Rose and Ward corroborating most details despite Horan's denials. Ward and Rose faced charges for possessing gambling paraphernalia while Edward McNaught, brother of a police lieutenant, fled after a raid.
The Navy reports no payments for constructing two battleships and two destroyers since March 6 due to funding delays. Major steel suppliers Midvale Carnegie and Bethlehem were also blocked, totaling nearly 500000 in suspended payments. Secretary Cortelyou laid the case before the House as appropriations remain stalled.
Delegates chosen in Illinois Eleventh District favored Joseph G Cannor for Speaker. Resolutions supported a new tariff and a postal savings bank and endorsed President Roosevelt's policies.
Indianapolis report says the first session of the Democratic State Convention opens at 11 am with strong odds that delegates will back W. J. Bryan. John W. Kern is floated for Vice President and supported by Indiana Democrats. Primary results show National Chairman Thomas Taggart and allies winning decisively in all wards.
The Society for Political Study yesterday marked its twenty second birthday at the Hotel Astor with a luncheon in the small ballroom. It had as fairy godmothers the presidents of most of the city’s other women’s clubs.
Ezra P. Prentice Republican leader in the Twenty-fifth Assembly District circulates a letter attacking the Odell Quigg faction. The missive charges they seek to use Gov. Hughes’s name to regain control for personal ends and says Odell, Quigg and associates were never Hughes supporters nor now.
At a Fifteenth Assembly District gathering, Republican leader Harry W. Mack alleged that the Quigg Odell faction aligned with Senator Saxe has struck a pact with Tammany to have about 200 Democratic voters cast Republican ballots in the primaries.
In Tennessee, indications point to a split in the State Republican Convention as Evans forces gain control and Brownlow adherents may bolt. Fourth District Republicans met in Lebanon, endorsing Taft, while Chattanooga Third District Republicans held two conventions one instructing Taft delegates and the other naming noninstructional delegates.
In Saginaw Michigan on March 24 the Eighth District Republican Convention selected delegates to the National Republican Convention. Delegates were uninstructed. one pledged to vote for Speaker Cannon if nominated. Resolutions praised Roosevelt and urged a continued Rooseveltite candidate. A Taft-instructing measure failed 51 to 14 by Shiawassee County delegation.
Norfolk March 24 The Second District Republican Convention chose uninstructed delegates to the National Convention and formally indorsed President Roosevelt and the Administration. Attempts to secure Taft endorsement failed.
Secretary Metcalf announced change in naval flags to display forty six stars with the addition of Oklahoma to the Union. On July 4 the flags will show six rows of stars reflecting the new total.
A widow named Mary Wells Jennings of Brewster New York confronted a court interpreter as crowds left the County Court House and threatened to horsewhip him. She claimed the interpreter owed her four thousand dollars on a loan.
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