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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1908
Page
1
Heavy fires across the Adirondacks threaten towns like Saranac Lake and Mount Bakerdodge, with losses including P Moynihan store and tonnage warehouse. Rain brings hope of control within 24 hours as 4,000 firefighters battle blazes across Bear Pond Cranberry Lake and Long Lake West corridors.
Thompsonville Mich Sept 28 Forest fires yesterday destroyed the Homestead village eight miles north of here. The blaze leveled the charcoal kilns and lumber yards of Alex Immerman Co causing losses over 60000 and leaving twenty families homeless. Women and children were moved to Copemish as firemen from Thompsonville and Frankfort aided relief efforts and a fund was started. A soaking rain began Sunday.
John W. Kern, Democratic vice presidential candidate, acknowledged a Big Four Railroad pass issued to him and valid until December 31, 1908. The note, found in Connersville, tied Kern to defense work for the railroad, and a clerk said Kern was the road's regularly employed attorney entitled to free transport.
Capt. Seth Bullock recounts that Kermit Roosevelt refused to kill any buffalo, citing desire not to deplete an almost extinct herd. The pair found stray buffalo on the Cheyenne River but an executive order blocked hunting on reservations. They hunted grouse on Plum Creek, with a top daily bag of forty eight.
A four ton sightseeing auto from the New York Transportation Company crashed into the Appellate Division building at Madison Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street. Driver Hugh Skinner was arrested for operating without a license and reckless driving after the vehicle refused to stop despite the reverse lever. Exterior decorations suffered about $2,000 in damage.
Robert Lincoln Clark of New York, Yale University alum and Harvard Law first year student, disappeared after sailing to St. Gingolph opposite Vevey to swim in Lake Geneva. His clothes and boat washed ashore as searches continued. Born April 29 1885 in Derby Connecticut he was son of William J Clark GE foreign manager and had two Yale brothers William M and H T Clark.
In Ninth Municipal Court Baum Brothers sued New Amsterdam Gas for 44.43 over gas for 216 220 Broome Street after a February 25 fire. Evidence showed consumption through Feb 23, and court found for the defendants, noting filing and metering errors and granting deposit restoration minus gas used.
Joseph B. Mayer was named temporary receiver for the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Streets Crosstown Railroad, held by Metropolitan Street Railway receivers. Mayer must post 25000 bond, with possible increase. Attorney General sought action after a petition by majority 5 percent mortgage bond owners represented by Central Trust Company. Crosstown Line previously ran a deficit of 72192. stock owned by Metropolitan Securities Company.
Mrs. Alice Pierce the huntress who was divorced from her husband faces a $500 damages suit in Hempstead L I filed by P Jones of San Antonio Texas and Boston resident Thomas Pierce alleging loss of personal property from a Hempstead house while she leased it. Papers served Friday as Pierce travels to a Mineola horse show. If no answer within twenty days judgment will be taken.
Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials report the new elevated approaches on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge improved flow for seven surface lines. Cars now use inclined tracks from the bridge to the car yard at Tillary Street, cutting Sands Street delays and adding about twenty cars per hour during peak rush periods.
Wilbur Wright captures three flights at Le Mans France on September 28. He flies solo for 1 hour 7 minutes 11 4/5 seconds covering about 80 miles. With passenger Tissandier he adds 11 minutes 35 2/5 seconds to set a new record. A third flight with Count De Lambert covers about 30 miles in 6 minutes 15 seconds.
Orville Wright rests after Fort Myer crash as Catherine Wright signs a request to the Signal Corps for an extension to June 28 next year to complete official tests. The appeal, sent to Secretary Wright, follows the deadline day when the government contract obligations would end.
Capt. Von Abercron and Lieut. Von Goltzheim survived a balloon ascent near Düsseldorf after the envelope ripped open at 6000 feet. Gas expansion caused a downward plunge of 2190 feet before the envelope opened like a parachute, allowing a one and a half hour controlled descent with minor scratches.
Madison Wisconsin September 28 President Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin argues that coal mines should be owned or regulated by the government as a public trust and criticizes Congress for blocking Appalachian forest reserve measures saying industry must serve the people or face government action. He lauds Roosevelt as a great statesman in conservation.
A general alarm went out for Elizabeth Granville a 15 year old girl living at 293 Lexington Avenue Brooklyn missing since Tuesday night. Her mother distraught was taken to Memorial Hospital. Police linked her to Barbara Reig who was killed at Irving Square Park and to a party with a young man named George Burt of 51 Kosciusko Street. Granville a widow waited up till 3 am for her daughter but she did not return.
Harry J. Cook of the Children’s Society warned Ollie Press for keeping an infant out while she played for pennies on 125th Street near Seventh Avenue. A crowd attacked him, and 13 year old Jeremiah Sullivan helped take the woman and child to the station. Suspected vagrants were sent to the hospital after police found the address false.
About twenty Negro churches schools and lodge rooms were burned by night riders in a 10 mile area near Albany Georgia. The attacks followed lynchings and warnings were left for the Black community as fires destroyed every targeted building including Mount Zion Pleasant Hill Christ Little Zion Belmont Mt Aetna and New Salem churches and schoolhouses. Authorities fear further violence though no arrests have been made and the Governor may offer a reward.
A Baptist church near the Kentucky Tennessee border was attacked by drunken youths after services. Deacons Edward Thomas and J W McKinney were killed, John Bennett also died, pastor Rev King injured, and another man James Gibbons wounded. Police hunt the assailants, believed from good families, amid a nearby bootlegging area.
Elizabeth, Sept. 28. Mrs. Ellis R. Meeker wife of ex Assemblyman Meeker died unaware her husband had died two hours earlier in an adjoining room. Mr. Meeker 60 collapsed yesterday and died soon after. He authored the Meeker Spring Elections act and served in the New Jersey Legislature in 1900 and 1901. The family includes three daughters and one son. Mrs. Meeker was sister of ex Mayor Alexander Gilbert of Plainfield.
TOKIO Sept 28 It is believed Japan will withdraw a large portion of the Japanese corps stationed in North China leaving only a small number at Peking and Tien-Tsin.
Fiaan’s Restaurant on Park Row gains notice for its acclaimed cuisine and attentive service amid a bustling dining scene. Local patrons praise varied menu options and the restaurant’s consistent quality.
A $24 000 bet against $20 000 on Chanler in the New York gubernatorial race was placed at the Waldorf Astoria with A L Hudson backing Chanler and R C Doggett backing Hughes. It marked the campaign’s largest wager to date amid talk at Aqueduct and among horsemen.
The Diamond Special southbound hit an open switch at Diveron Illinois injuring engineer A J Shell and fireman Edward Taylor. Seven year old Elizabeth McGuire was killed by debris while Barrymore rode in the coach and escaped via a window. she failed to reach a St Louis engagement tonight.
Special to The New York Limes Newport Rhode Island September 23 Two servants fishing in a small skiff were capsized off the Beeckman estate Mrs Beeckman on the veranda alerted her husband and both waded to rocks to pull the men to safety Landed exhausted on rocks they were aided back to the Beeckman house and given dry clothing
Mrs Anna Balanda of 30 East Thirty Ninth Street fell from a rear window clothesline on the fifth floor as she hung laundry. She fractured a leg and sustained internal injuries. rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where doctors fear her condition. Her two children beneath her window were frightened and did not recognize her at first. Neighbors calmed the youngsters.
Mrs. Mary Stort of 197 Nevins Street Brooklyn unintentionally smothered two month old George when she folded up a folding bed in a darkened room. The neighbor had earlier placed the sleeping child in the bed and returned to the sitting room. An ambulance surgeon confirmed the death.
Frederic Thompson rushed from Philadelphia to Chicago after learning his wife Mabel Taliaferro was very ill. He arranged with New York Central to beat the Twentieth Century Limited time, using a Buffalo connection and a fast Empire State Express to Cleveland at high speed. Officials said the run was unprecedented in railroading as the special neared daylight in Chicago.
United Disinfecting Co. removes roaches bed bugs and mice from premises at 517 West 451 St Ady offering full extermination services and home sanitation.
Dozens of passengers on a Third Avenue elevated train from South Ferry to 120th Street were stranded after a collision with a Bronx Park train between Third and Fourth Streets. Two cars derailed and amid panic three ambulances carried the most seriously hurt from LeHoyne Hospital. victims include Phierfelder, Pollock, Putterman, Richards, and Schiller. The line remained blocked for nearly an hour as wreck crews cleared the scene and trains were diverted.
Two separate Brooklyn trolley crashes left one man dead and several others critically hurt. In the Third Avenue and Sixty first Street collision Frank Kinney died after being crushed, while James Carney William Schultze and Julian Phillips were seriously hurt. The second wreck at Church and Reid Avenues wounded about a dozen riders, with David Cantor Frank Kinoski Cornelius Schute among the worst off and Cantor feared fatally injured.
John Camp is jailed in Nassau County on cruelty to animals charges after pulling tail feathers from a trotting ostrich at the Mineola county fair. Campbell first loitered by the bird enclosure and plucked plumes, sold them to a bartender, then took them again and was recaptured by a constable with a warrant from William Ford, manager of the birds, who says the ostrich bled heavily.
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