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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1909
Page
1
The Senate moved toward prompt consideration of the Payne bill after hours of debate. Republicans pressed to keep hearings closed and advance the measure, with discussions focusing on inheritance tax, tea and coffee duties, and higher beer and tobacco taxes to boost revenue.
Independent steel companies close a 50 million dollar purchase of 100000 acres of Pittsburg coal lands in Greene Fayette and Washington counties held by J W Thompson and associates. Bethlehem Steel's Charles M Schwab heads the holding company with heavy industry participation, while Morgan declined. First payment made. coal averages nine feet thick and accessible by railroad.
William F. Downs, a 26 year old clerk in Baltimore City Register's office, remains in custody as he faces embezzlement charges totaling up to 190000 dollars. A hearing is set for tomorrow with bail fixed at 50000 dollars after a habeas corpus appeal. City officials note potential additional larceny charges and probe possible defects in bonding.
At Cheswick Penn a clash between striking miners and two deputy constables left one man dead and another gravely wounded. Mike Strengard died after a revolver duel with deputies Holland and Blair who shot Norwalk Butterge multiple times as miners attempted to free a detainee.
The schooner Carlin Vought sailed to Galveston with a cargo including a ironbound box said to hold $5,600 in Peruvian silver and five trunks. The owner E. C. Griffith, once of Missouri, is jailed in Honduras. Letters for funds accompanied the ship. Griffith and Miss Beauchamp, tied to a Ballatti Honduras operation, faced arson charges after their store burned.
In Sorrento on April 1 the attending physician reported novelist F Marion Crawford is better with fever subsiding and clearer intelligence. Although some improvement was noted, convalescence is feared to be slow. Also an advertisement touts Great Bear Spring Water for its purity.
Mayor Murphy leads seizure of luxury gowns valued at about 830000 after authorities uncover three sleepers hidden in trunks aboard the Red Star pier. Officials report the operation disrupted an elaborate smuggling scheme and led to tightened port controls.
Trunks from the Gothland opened at the Public Stores reveal 150 Empire gowns valued at 34 900. Deputy surveyors Tierney and Norwood found the items after baggage clearance, part of a wider seizure streak tied to the Red Star and American liners and shadowed by ongoing Tammany Hall political maneuvering.
Thomas F. Ryan will move from the northwest corner of 12th Street and Fifth Avenue to 858 Fifth Avenue just north of 67th Street. He bought the property from the City Investing Company for about 845060 dollars. The five story American basement house fronts 55 feet by 125 feet and was formerly Isaac Sterns.
Juvisy France April 1 Archdiocese of Paris Archbishop Aniette with the co adjutor and many clergy solemnly blessed the new aerodrome and two Voison aeroplanes before a large crowd including Count Boni de Castellane and his children. The archbishop affirmed the Church supports progress and sought heaven's blessing on human flight noting man is meant to rise not crawl.
Berlin reports the Prussian Diet has a bill forbidding foreigners to acquire mineral properties or operate mines in Prussia without royal or authoritative permission. The measure appears tied to debates over American fertilizer interests buying potash mines in Prussia to bypass the German potash syndicate.
Mayor McClellan will receive an abstract Monday of a long letter from Park Commissioner Joseph I. Berry in response to findings by the Commissioners of Accounts on his department. Berry turned in the letter last week, but the Mayor asked the Law Department to prepare an abstract. The Mayor is not pleased with last year’s record and expects Berry’s resignation. Borough President Haffen has several candidates, and Charles F. Murphy reportedly has names to present. No action expected until next week.
Wealthy Pittsburg families sent daughters to perform at Carnegie Music Hall in aid of the Women s Christian Temperance Union. The event drew notable participants including Miss Helen Frick Miss Virginia Frew and the Misses Harper. Net receipts were substantial, reflecting the fathers aggregate wealth near 350000 dollars.
Cornelius Winant Jr a clerk at Corn Exchange Bank No 15 William Street was arrested at his desk charged with larceny of 3 from Miss Florence Barrington of West 102nd Street on March 30 He claimed innocence and faced 1000 bail Tilson of West Sith Street offered real estate as security for bail later that night and Winant left with him without discussion of the case
H. H. Rogers sails from Sewall's Point with friends including James M. Beck and Mark Twain on the Jefferson to attend the April 3 opening of the Virginian Railway of which Rogers is president and sole owner. They expect the first coal train from Deepwater W Va. to reach the new line.
Buenos Ayres reports that Venezuela asks Argentina to request Minister to Italy Dr R Saenz Pena to act as arbitrator in pending questions with the United States. Argentina Foreign Affairs Ministry has telegraphed Saenz Pena.
The Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound Railway announced that the last rail of its Pacific Coast extension was laid two miles east of Missoula Montana, completing a sixth transcontinental railroad. Freight and passenger service will start after June 1. The project covered about fourteen hundred miles with extensive tunneling bridges and rail laid at a total cost of 85 million dollars.
Police uncover two dead victims hidden beneath cellar brickwork after an early morning house fire near Toledo. Ludwig Krueger aged sixty six and his wife sixty three were last seen Tuesday evening. robbery suspected as motive. Soboleski, a tailor who paid Krueger $2000, is held for investigation after the blaze.
About one hundred thousand names were added today to the protest against the Payne bill’s increased wear ing apparel duties. Women in Chicago organize to send signature blanks to other cities including Minneapolis St Paul Indianapolis Kansas City St Louis Denver San Francisco and Cleveland. It is hoped these cities will soon display the glove and stocking banner.
Otto Herbert Dilley died of consumption at his home in Senecaville Ohio at age thirty five. He directed the Iroquois Theatre orchestra in Chicago the afternoon of the fire five years ago and kept the ensemble playing to prevent panic.
E H Harriman returns to New York after long Western travel and warns of clashes with the government over plans to divert water from the Laguna dam area. He argues for Sherman act revisions and better treatment of weaker rail lines while noting government inquiries and potential future financing. He also plays a light April Fool’s joke with newspaper men at Yonkers and plans to rest at home in New York.
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