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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
1
Secretary Wilson reports 1909 farm product value at 5.76 billion dollars, up 869.9 million from 1908. Cotton 856 million, wheat 725 million, hay 665 million, potatoes 212 million, tobacco near 100 million. Overall cereals 3.0 billion, farm wealth rising with record crop production and strong prices.
Fargo N D November 30 Judge Charles Amidon of the U S District Court urges execution for professional criminals and the hopelessly insane in a Congregational Church address He argues it costs as much to jail a man as to educate him and that educated youths should not be deprived by public funds for unreformable malefactors He says reform rates among professional criminals are negligible and humane death would relieve misery.
A Harlem River power cable burned out suspending Third Avenue elevated trains for about 90 minutes last night. Passengers squeezed onto surface cars and dark stations left riders stumbling along rails until electricians located and repaired the fault beneath the Harlem River. Power resumed at 10:30 but service did not return to schedule for nearly another hour.
Two men stole a taxicab from 103 King street and wrecked it at West and Morton streets striking a fire hydrant. A woman with the trio was hurled from the car and injured. John Maher, 22 Clarkson street, was arrested for the theft after confessing. detectives found a purse and a letter to Josephine Carldon in the wreck.
Morristown New Jersey November 30 William Lyons owner of the Bernardsville Inn was killed in an automobile crash on Fox Hill Parsippany Road. Chauffeur Andrew Kaggen seriously injured and Will iam Sommers slightly hurt. Car struck a telephone pole as Sommers lost control, Lyons thrown from the vehicle and killed. Kaggen sustained multiple injuries and Sommers escaped with bruises.
Charles Meyers a 22 year old shoemaker at Cincinnati city hospital is shown as a rare case of leontiasis ossea. Doctors warn that his skull has enlarged, eyes receded, and he may soon descend into insanity or death. Only a few cases are on record.
Midshipman Karl W. Wilson, quarterback of the Naval Academy team, who has been paralyzed since a game with Villanova, has now sat up in bed for a short time. Surgeons report the spinal cord pressure was relieved by a recent operation and hope for complete recovery from the paralysis.
In federal court at Williamsburgh six former American Sugar Refining employees deny wrongdoing and argue they merely followed orders in a dockside duty fraud scheme. They dispute reports that James F. Bendernagel confessed and vow to block scapegoating while witnesses, including Oliver Spitzer, are readied for trial. A separate fatal incident on 4th Street claims a 15 year old boy died after being run over by a truck, with driver McConnell arrested on assault charges and the coroner awaiting details.
Liberal Premier Asquith and David Lloyd George headline a coming struggle in Britain as Lloyd George leads the finance bill effort. MH HW are noted as figures in the leadership discussion.
The Controller of the Currency, Lawrence Murray, orders national banks to amend bylaws to require at least monthly board meetings and the creation of examining and discount committees. All new banks must submit bylaws with charter papers, and poorly managed banks will face quarterly examinations in the directors' presence.
John D. Rockefeller and his party left Forest Hill for East 105th Street station and a train to New York. Sawyer Smith, a Minerva merchant, alleged a plot to kill Rockefeller, prompting Cleveland police to offer an escort which Rockefeller declined. The Rockefellers will spend the early winter in New York while Health delays at Forest Hill extended their Cleveland stay.
Fireman James J. Murphy of Hook and Ladder Truck 1 rescued a three year old boy from death by suffocation in a basement at 48 Mulberry street. The child was unconscious but revived by a surgeon from Ludsen Street Hospital after Murphy carried him to fresh air as firefighters extinguished the fire causing about $100 damage.
Lillie Hummer, 17, of 126 Smith Street Elizabeth New Jersey, planned to marry within days but took her life by inhaling illuminating gas. Report says she was torn between two suitors and troubled by the choice. Image copy includes unrelated advertising lines.
Copenhagen November 30 Rector Torp of the University of Copenhagen invited Dr Maurice F Egan United States Minister to Denmark to witness the reception of Dr Cook's polar records and to be present during the subsequent examination the Cook records are expected aboard the steamship United States due here about December 6
In Guthrie Oklahoma Northern friends push to form a new county from parts of Caddo and Canadian counties to bear the name of explorer Dr Frederick A Cook amid his disappearance. A suit was filed in Logan County District Court to force Governor Haskell to issue the election proclamation.
The late Clarence H. Clark’s library, one of the city’s largest book auctions, brought 23 000. A rare large paper edition of Bull’s Memoirs of Count Grammont sold for 4400 to an unnamed buyer. Dealers from across the country attended, with Pierpont Morgan representatives among the New York collectors present.
Governor Haskell sent a letter to the State Board of Public Affairs urging a boycott on four railroads that secured a temporary restraining order on tax collection. He called for shifting state shipping and public construction to tax paying roads, naming two roads that paid taxes last year as deserving consideration. Royal J. Allen of the Public Affairs Board said the suggestion would be followed.
Harriet Bidwell Mott, sister of the Bidwell brothers famed for Bank of England forgeries and Newgate imprisonment, died in Muskegon at 76. She spent years fighting to free them, sacrificing her fortune of about 50 000 dollars. Born in New York State, she lived in Muskegon at their conviction.
Count Uvareeff of the Douma and Alexander Guchkov, leader of the Octobrist Deputies, fought a pistol duel near St. Petersburg over a political dispute. Uvareeff was wounded in the shoulder.
The House of Commons adopted a resolution ratifying the Franco-Canadian treaty. Ratifications will be exchanged and the treaty will take effect about January 1, 1910.
In London the Lords adopted Lord Lansdowne's motion to suspend the budget by a large majority, 275 to 75, amid a decorous, solemn session. Bishops and neutrals abstained or opposed as Archbishop of York and Lords Cawdor and Crewe spoke on constitutional issues and finance. Continued on third page.
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