14 Apr 1901
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1901
Page
1
London dispatch notes British Foreign Office desires on a Clayton Bulwer revision, with Lansdowne resisting Senate changes. Commentary on Manchurian convention and viceroy trust, plus Westminster and canal news. Colonel McCalmont arrives from South Africa. news service gaps in South Africa. Colombian minister says Britain’s Panama stance may aid Colombia. potential future talks in Washington.
Washington reports Secretary Hay has set a novel path for Isthmian canal talks. He will first consult the United States Senate to gauge if two thirds agree on a basis acceptable to both the executive and Great Britain before reopening negotiations with Britain. The effort aims to avoid past failures and secure prompt consensus.
Polish promotion text mixed with train service note and tea advertisement. It mentions natural spring water and a sleeping car service to Pinehurst via Staboard Air Line Railway, operated five times weekly and discontinued May 1. Extra cars planned from Washington on April 13, 15, 17, and 26. Tea Ettte ad appears with light copy on tea quality.
The article discusses indecision among leading senators over the treaty basis, making it hard for the State Department to inform Lord Pauncefote of terms before his June London departure. Negotiations have not begun and no quid pro quo has been discussed for releasing the United States from the Clayton Bulwer Treaty.
In Havana on April 13, the Constitutional Convention opened with Senior Nunez urging a clear yea or nay on the Platt amendment. Conservatives favored a rejection, radicals avoided a firm stance, and a compromise formed to not express an opinion while sending a commission to Washington to seek the best possible agreement with the President.
A man about thirty five, likely William S. Narg, drank carbolic acid and cut his throat on the elevated sidewalk at the Speedway and 185th Street. He died after reaching J Hood Wright Hospital. Police found a German memoranda indicating despondency and intent to die.
Berlin reports from a reliable source that war expenses claims on China are fixed as Russia 360000000 marks France 260000000 marks Germany 240000000 marks England 9000014 marks with France to push for Italian mission indemnity and the United States offers to cut its $25,000,000 claim by half if others also reduce.
Washington reports that transports Indiana and Sumner will sail from Manila to Taku at month end or early next month to bring troops from China back to Manila. Two steamers will also take horses of the cavalry artillery and quartermaster departments. The plan delays troop departure from China by about two weeks due to Bay of Taku conditions and prep work.
Judge Parlange of the United States Superior Court dismissed Boer representatives suit to stop the shipment of mules and horses to the British army in South Africa. He ruled private citizens may trade with belligerents as per international law and the 1871 Washington treaty, leaving U S courts with no jurisdiction to intervene.
The Birmingham Post reports joint war ministry orders for a broad submarine mine network at Port Arthur and Vladivostok. The mine laying apparatus is dispatched from Odessa and is due to depart early in May.
A State Department report from Consul Smith at Moscow states rails laid on Hailar Zizikar division and two thirds of Techna to Vladivostok completed. The full line is expected to open for passenger traffic by May this year.
Frank C. Van Houten a 21 year old broker's office worker from Belleville was arrested at Newark Theatre on a burglary charge. Investigators traced $200 in solid silverware stolen April 1 to a Newark pawnbroker and matched the suspect to Van Houten who had frequented the Schaeffer home. He confessed after initial denials, saying he acted from Wall Street speculations.
Charles Broadway Rouss is ill with catarrhal appendicitis at his home 682 Fifth Ave. Dr W Travis Gibb favors nonoperative care. He moved from his Broadway store after a Thursday illness, confined to bed, resting easily, risk of crisis passed. Poland water ads and Tonics noted among other clippings.
Captain Lantry and wardmen halted a man sketching the exterior rear of the Vanderbuilt mansion at Fifty-first Street and Fifth Avenue. He claimed to be amusing himself, tore the paper, drew a razor, and was jailed for disorderly conduct. Names given included Aleck Wagner and John De Pol, with addresses on East 111th and East Houston Street.
William Hussman an office employee of Barrett Manufacturing Company for thirteen years admitted to embezzling and forging totaling four thousand dollars over a nine month period. He was arrested in St Louis on the confession and is to be prosecuted.
Elsie Luthe seventeen, a servant in the Earle home at No 58 Manhattan Ave, fell from the sixth story firescape to the yard and died instantly. She was helping a guest to leave when she lost balance at the railing. Her body was taken to the One Hundredth Street station and her Hoboken relatives notified. The report notes the fatal fall occurred last night. The incident occurred amid a mix of unrelated ad copy about a Seaboard Air Line Railways service and a tea advertisement.
Engineers and firemen gain wage increases and a 100 mile per day limit. Telegraphers and trainmen retain current rates for now with wages to be reviewed in three months. Conference at Communipaw led to an agreement and no immediate strike.
General Daniel Butterfield, about seventy one, is seriously ill at his Fifth Avenue residence. He suffers paralysis on the right side but is conscious and capable of speech. Dr. Castle attends. the family says the condition is not alarming and he has a fighting chance.
London April 13. The budget will reveal whether sugar or corn taxes prevail and how incomes tea tobacco and spirits are taxed. The speech could revive Liberalism if imported food bears duties and may determine Mr Chamberlain’s leadership. Tensions with Sir Michael Hicks Beach cloud the Treasury as control shifts between old Toryism and imperial tariff revision. The piece notes social revival in London with West End weddings and theater, plus a joint publishers booksellers dinner signaling closer ties and price policy shifts.
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