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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1908
Page
1
Four sweatshop workers perish as a seven story warehouse at Water Street catches fire. Fire chief says incendiary origin. two women cling to a fifth floor fire escape as flames trap others. Rescue efforts save two dozen workers, while investigators seek missing bodies amid $75 000 damage.
The Macre family from East 109th Street wandered to a Brighton Beach Creek area for wildflowers. Frank Macre sank to his ankle in mud and his daughter Janette followed. rescue came from Joseph Hamilton, Carrie Hartt, and Lilla Hartt with boards and a rope. Both were saved by a plank and rope pull, then received stimulant from Dr. Jentzer and recovered at the Hartt home.
William Jennings Bryan staged a public posing in Chicago to allow admirers nationwide to glimpse him in action. A moving picture crew followed his motorcade from the railway station to the Auditorium and at the hotel the camera finally captured Bryan with Democratic leaders Norman E. Mack Col. John Jr. Martin and others waving from the curb.
A series of small blazes hit the Century Bank on the ground floor of a ten story building at Fifth Avenue and Twentieth Street. Watchman Charles Stein found a fire on scaffolding used by painters. Engine Company 14 forced a door to reach it. A second blaze appeared upstairs under a canvas, then a third in the floor below. The fire patrol investigated and extinguished all, with a basement blaze later reported at 10:30 pm. Fire crews remain vigilant as causes are unexplained.
An eighteen foot launch named Merry Widow capsized off 131st Street in the Hudson when wash from a steamboat and two barges toppled it. Captain Jacob Wang of the tug Three Brothers rescued the three crew members, landing them at Cobweb Yacht Club and beaching the launch at Spuyten Duyvil. the vessel belonged to Louis Ennett of Fort Lee. Police did not learn the crew’s names.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention taxicab service in New York and a taxi company, Paxtcabs or Pax taxi, with reference to Columbus. No clear events or outcomes. summarize as a brief item noting taxicab business mentions and local city references.
San Francisco dispatch notes E. H. Harriman warns that apathy in the presidential campaign could be dangerous as voters grow tired of agitation. He discusses tariff reform, Pacific interests, and subsidies, then mentions his son Roland, age twelve, who shot a bear at Pelican Bay during the family outing.
The Mesaba Range faces renewed fire danger after days of calm. Snowball, a 100 resident town, was destroyed while Hibbing Nashwauk and Buhl remain at risk as flames creep along a 22 mile front from Hibbing to Nashwauk. Foresters fight fires around Aurora and Mitchell near Hibbing amid encroaching smoke and strong winds.
Panes Disinfecting Co. advertises extermination services for roaches mice and bed bugs at 517 West 45th Street with full disinfection options.
Omaha report details Dr. F T Rustin case with claims of multiple suicide attempts over three years. It recounts alleged self inoculations with cancer germs typhoid tetanus and other secret methods to fake natural death. Friends sought to curb him but he warned a future attempt would surely succeed.
A Tennessee writer proposes Capt. Peter Dc Hains Jr and his brother T Jenkins Hains commit suicide to atone for the Bayside Yacht Club shooting of William E Annis on Aug 15. The letter argues the crime must be publicly avenged to honor the code of honor.
A burro owned by Albert Brothers stables on 119th Street and Lexington Avenue halted a Lexington Avenue trolley for about fifteen minutes last evening. The animal gnawed free from its halter and occupied the southbound tracks, shattering a car headlight before calmly returning to its stall with the stable employee. Patrolman Farrell intervened with a club but the burro avoided harm.
Herbert L. Bradley of New Haven told Lieut. Hallahan at East Fifty first Street station that a young man in a dark suit and derby robbed him after hitting him with a sandbag near the Vanderbilt Hotel on Lexington Avenue and Forty second Street. Bradley lost $50, a gold watch and chain, a $125 ring, and a return ticket. he described his assailant and noted a link to Grand Central Station watchers. Detectives Cummings and Tobin flagged a possible clue as crooks have lately stalked rich-looking travelers near Grand Central. Bradley returned to New Haven last night.
The schedule advertises a 2 hour train service between New York and Philadelphia via New Jersey Central with trains every hour from early morning to evening. It notes a schedule at the station and a 10 o'clock departure.
London reports Prof Harold Wager demonstrates that many leaves act as lenses capable of forming clear images. He shows photos including Darwin and landscapes produced by plant eyes and notes light directing movements in leaves akin to animal vision.
Bankers in Pittsburg react to the sudden closing of Cosmopolitan National Bank by Examiner John B. Cunningham amid rumors of intoxication. A Controller investigation will probe responsibility, with Judge Oldham present and a possible reopened bank. The bank’s condition had troubled regulators for months.
Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania his wife and their son were bruised and shaken in a motorcar crash near Geneva after a tire burst. The car was damaged beyond repair and shipped to Paris for repairs before the family continued to Basle.
The State Journal published a Sept. 7 letter from an unidentified author in Topeka Aug. 27 warning Secretary of War Taft of a plot to kill the next president. The letter describes four or five men in a box car planning to implicate Black men and aiming to shoot from a skyscraper in Chicago.
In St. Petersburg last week there were sixty six deaths by own action. A large proportion involved young women in the 18 to 25 age range working as girls in the city.
Miss Annie S. Peck of Providence Rhode Island has reached the summit of Mount Huascaran on her second attempt within a month, estimating the height at 26 000 feet. A Swiss companion suffered frostbite with gangrene and an Indian guide was saved after a 1000 foot fall. The ascent began August 2 and followed a prior 25000 foot climb halted by a guide's illness.
Count Zeppelin has arranged a large airship factory site at Lake Constance and leased land for fifty years. Prof H Hergesell, Government airship commissioner, arrived from Strasbourg after a Kaiser's discussion on air navigation. The Kaiser praised national unity and said Zeppelin could always rely on sovereign support.
Fred Biaggi an 18 year old prune rancher from San Jose leaped into a balloon basket at the word of a dare and rose to about 6000 feet while parachutist W S Warring detached at 2500 feet. The craft drifted over the coast range for two hours before Biaggi landed unharmed to the delight of hundreds of spectators.
Mrs Eliza D Newmann widow of Paul Newmann legal adviser to former King Kalakaua of Hawaii leapt from the City of Sydney service liner off Acapulco on Sept 1 after news her son Ensign Newmann died in a turret explosion aboard the Georgia near Boston last fall. The ship reversed course but search failed to locate her.
Patrolman Theodore Wardam pursued through lawns and shrubbery in Central Park last night and arrested Michael Supple of 216 West Fiftieth Street after he allegedly attacked Arion Club steward August Husing on East Drive near Sixty-fourth Street and tried to snatch his watch.
Partial transit note lists $55.50 round trip to Denver via West Shore and $60 via New York Central with a few scattered numbers and a telephone contact 5680 Matson. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear dates or events.
In Melbourne on September 7 a patrol search failed to locate 221 sailors who did not join their ships when the battleships sailed for Albany. Rewards were posted for their apprehension as the pursuit continued.
Adyv hails Great Bear Spring Water purity as its defining claim to fame.
Boston crank armed with a loaded revolver was disarmed by Secret Service at Sagamore Hill after a struggle. He claimed to be John Coughlin and St Patrick of Boston and said he fired at President Roosevelt last Saturday while on a canter. Authorities hold him at Mineola as a possible shooter amid a government manhunt led by Chief John Wilkie.
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