08 Apr 1903
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1903
Page
1
Dutch railway strikers gain dockyard support at Rotterdam while a general revolt remains unlikely. Experts note Conservative Holland limits socialist gains and discuss potential clashes with state power, amid broader European trade and political concerns.
Karl Bitter heads the sculpture department for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition with Gustav H. Gerlach supervising at Weehawken. A dozen heroic size figures are loaded into Erie furniture cars for shipment to St Louis for the April 30 dedication, including four large pieces for the Mines and Metallurgy Building and lions to flank the Machinery Building.
Castle Loo April 7 Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry depart for The Hague with troops guarding the rail line. Advertisement notes through train from West 23d Street New York via Pennsylvania Railroad with daily Pullman cars and a dining car on Sundays. Return from Atlantic City in the same schedule with weekend variations.
Charles M. Masdork an employment agent was convicted of petty larceny in Special Sessions yesterday. He swindled clients by charging fees for bogus job placements, with at least fifty people paying him up to 250 total. The case prompts license revocation of similar offices and public notices to protect victims.
Belgrade April 7 King Alexander issued two proclamations. The first suspends the 1901 constitution, annuls the Senate and Skupshtina, dissolves the assembly, and returns laws to their pre 1901 form. The second proclaims full restoration of the constitution and reinstates ministers except Foreign Minister Lozanio replaced by Denios.
Paris reports a 281 to 228 vote invalidating Nationalist deputy Syveton’s election, signaling a possible reopen of the Dreyfus case. Socialists cite forged documents and a suppressed General Per Meux letter as key evidence, while War Minister André pledges an administrative inquiry and wider investigation.
Vienna reports King Alexander of Serbia suspended the 1901 constitution for minutes then reinstated the government. He dissolved the Skupshtina and repealed several laws, aiming to curb Radicals by tightening suffrage and replacing the press law with an 1882 measure.
Salonica reports a quieter scene as a battalion of Nizams and a battalion of tecifs arrive from Smyrna and proceed to Mitrevitza, signaling shifting military movements in the region.
Dennis Frawley a Pennsylvania Railroad detective known as a tramp catcher was shot three times in the arm near Trenton while pursuing four tramps. He had chained prisoners to a telegraph pole and hauled them toward a magistrate when surprised by gunfire. the four escapees freed the wagon captives and fled. Frawley has a reputation for fearlessness and rough prisoner handling.
Two Yonkers policemen Horan and Scheibel positively identify silk merchant Adolphe Openhym from a photo as the man seen in Getty Square before his mysterious disappearance. They recall seeing him in Yonkers about 11:30 last week and confirm the identification to Morris Hirsch. Captain Woodruff had received Circulars describing Openhym, aiding the identification during the ongoing body search and sewer expedition led by Captain Allen through Manhattan and Kingsbridge sewers.
Police from the Tenderloin station raided 28 East Twentieth Street seeking a poolroom and found sixty men on the third and fourth floors in a house now housing offices and the Phoenix Chess and Checker Club. The Roosevelt birthplace tablet remains in the first floor hall as officers clear the scene.
Anton Pschierra, found at Madison Avenue and Thirty-first Street, claimed he sought Mrs. Hetty Green to collect $5 and described Hallucinatory riches at her New York home. He posed as a Boston tailor and spoke of gowns, rolls of money, and delectable foods before being ejected by servants.
In the North Dakota capital Roosevelt meets twenty noted Sioux chiefs including John Grass Red Tomahawk and Water of the Mandans and Gros Ventres. Grass presents a peace pipe and a goodwill address as the President receives assurances of friendship.
President Roosevelt addressed a large crowd in Fargo on The Philippines and the Army. He praised Governor Taft and recalled Civil War heroes from the Northwest and McKinley’s promise kept regarding the Philippines. Also notes Washington tour and a Pennsylvania Railroad fare ad.
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