21 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1907
Page
1
Secretary Taft wraps up a world tour as head of the War Department saying he is sure of peace with Japan. The statement caps an extended diplomatic and military outreach during the travels.
Charleston South Carolina reports wireless contact with Admiral Evans's fleet. Messages from the Connecticut describe fine weather and light winds 280 miles north-northwest of St Thomas. Missouri landed Fireman Northway for peritonitis at San Juan P R. Indicated return via Suez not confirmed. Trade winds forecast arrival at Trinidad late Monday.
An American, Mrs. Paterson formerly Virginia Knot, caused a scene on the Avenue de l Opera in Paris. Police escorted her car to a hospital where she will be detained while her nephew and Frank H. Mason, the American Consul General, arrange transfer to a New York asylum.
James H. Oliphant head of Oliphant & Co. was shot in his Broadstreet office by Dr. Charles A. Geiger of Beaufort South Carolina who owed the firm thousands. Geiger then killed himself. Oliphant died at Hudson Street Hospital after being conscious until midnight. Coroner with evidence of a $5,000 loan and $80,000 loss by Geiger, no prior intent found. The tragedy drew rapid alarm through the financial district.
The schedule lists Secretary Tafts August to November voyage events. He spoke in Columbus Lexington Oklahoma City Joplin Claremont Webb City and Seattle then sailed to the Orient arriving Yokohama Tokio Kobe Shanghai Hong Kong Manila Vladivostok Moscow St Petersburg Berlin and Cuxhaven before returning to the United States. A narrow escape occurred on the Transsiberian Railway.
Secretary of War William H. Taft and party arrived aboard the President Grant after a 120 day world voyage ending in New York. He declined to discuss the Republican nomination, praised Japan’s restraint, and defended the Pacific fleet plan while noting his trip focused on Philippine conditions and Asia. Taft emphasized peaceful relations and outlined trade ties with Japan, downplaying war talk as unjustified.
Boston December 20 Harvard President Charles W Eliot told a Menorah Society audience that Jews are inferior to almost any other group citing generations of hardship. He urged Jews to join militias take part in college sports and mingle with the world to reclaim a lost martial spirit and opportunity.
Herbert S. Dyer of Portland a noted mineralogist and graphite mine expert died in Madrid Maine after a hunting accident. The rifle fired when its trigger snagged a tree limb, bullet entering above the hip and exiting the stomach. Age forty five, former Portland City Council president, long connected with New York Life Insurance Maine office, recently a mining broker for New York firms.
Washington dispatch reports President Roosevelt orders U S troops to leave Goldfield by December 30 after telegraphs to Governor Sparks criticizing the state for failing to mobilize police powers amid mob danger. Officials cite no imminent insurrection and insist Nevada must handle order locally.
Washington dispatch reports definite plans to keep four battleships from Rear Admiral Evans quartet away from home waters indefinitely. After target practice in Magdalena Bay, the fleet may stay in San Francisco or Bremerton for provisioning and overhaul before further steps toward sailing to the Philippines. Four ships Alabama Illinois Kearsarge Kentucky to remain in Far East with Sperry in command.
August Rodriguez, president of the Cuban Production Company, was held in 100 bond to keep the peace after being arraigned in Fifth Avenue court for registering thirty five fares on a Brooklyn Rapid Transit car sidetracked at 36th street and Fifth avenue. He admitted pulling the register rope thirty five times after a transfer dispute with a conductor. He said he would sue the company.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company hires strikebreaker James Farley who has 1800 men nearby to replace Amalgamated Association workers if they strike. The firm also secured 4000 cats and prepared housing and provisions to keep streetcar service running as union members threaten action despite no vote yet. A meeting is planned for tomorrow.
A Van Dyck portrait of the artist’s sister was found among convent rubble in Waesmunster, Brussels. The damaged painting was purchased for 10 cents, but the head remains intact and restorers believe the work can be repaired.
From Ann Arbor Michigan December 20 a Telegraph dispatch reports Professor Demuralt of the University of Michigan argues that duelling is a germ of a college education. He reflects on his student days at Munich’s Polytechnic where he was first challenger in his corps and cites duelling as training in quick perception and action.
Captain ELF Green of the United States army transport service sails from Los Angeles to Washington to join the battleship fleet in Rio de Janeiro. A 56 year old veteran with seventeen Strait crossings, he began sailing at fourteen in the Confederate navy and first voyaged in 1860.
Newport December 20. Commander Albert Cleaves will protest to steamship companies over wireless devices on Long Island Sound vessels, claimed to interfere with naval torpedo station message reception. The station captured parts of messages from Connecticut, the flagship of Rear Admiral Evans, and the battleship Alabama, while Sound steamers’ devices reportedly hindered full reception. Lloyd Rooney, fourteen, with his own invention, also received messages from distant battleships, confirming the station’s verification.
Thomas Taggart seeks to shift Democratic National Committee headquarters from New York to Chicago for 190? campaign operations. Publisher Phocian Howard says Taggart backs West-focused strategy with Bryan as probable nominee and aims to contest Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Minnesota as key battlegrounds.
Paul Sarkasian was seized at Third avenue and 28th street by Detective Cassasa of the Central Office in connection with the May murder of Armenian priest Father Kasper Vartarian. The priest’s body was found in a trunk at 333 West 37th Street. Sarkasian claimed he arrived five days ago from Marseilles and worked at 122 Worth Street, meeting John Morodian in a midtown restaurant. He said Morodian left May 22 and a trunk with the priest’s body was discovered after he found the warm corpse and used a key he found in the room to open the trunk. Morodian reportedly fled to Providence thereafter.
Panic broke out at the Nixon and Zimmerman Opera House in Wilmington Delaware around 11 pm as a moving picture machine in the gallery caught fire. About three thousand spectators escaped after quick action by police and staff prevented loss of life or serious injuries.
Governor Dawson sent a telegram to Senators Elkins and Scott urging Congress to adopt a joint resolution creating a commission of experts to thoroughly investigate mine disasters. He warned that recent calamities and rising mining deaths threaten the coal industry nationwide.
Goldfield Nev December 20 The Goldfield Mine Owners Association refused to recognize the Western Federation of Miners or deal with the local miners union as a body. The move ends the compromise effort by C N Hilton sent by President Moyer. Hilton telegrammed Roosevelt that the commission hears only one side and accuses bias favoring mine owners. Fifty strike breakers arrived from California. Continued on second page. Savannah Line advert follows.
The U S S Connecticut reports at noon the battleship fleet is 280 miles north northwest of St. Thomas. A fireman aboard is ill with peritonitis and the Missouri left to land him. The Illinois followed later to land C H Montgomery, a coal passer, due back tomorrow. Montgomery has pleuro pneumonia and Culebra island near Porto Rico hosts a Navy column of about one thousand residents.
The Standard reports the Admiralty will form a Pacific and North American squadron next May with a base likely at Esquimault. Also notes promotion of Great Bear Spring Water as famously pure in an advertisement.
Dr J F Edwards from the Bureau of Health reported a long running typhoid epidemic in Pittsburg. He cited 50200 cases and 7615 deaths in the last twenty five years with 5729 cases and 508 deaths last year, blaming contaminated water and milk supplies. The city expects fewer cases after the new filtration plant becomes operational.
In Mays Landing New Jersey on December percent a will awards $150,000 to Lewis H. Austin of this town for acts of kindness to John Caywood of Lewistown Pennsylvania. Caywood's estate valued at about £300,000 is left equally to Austin and Caywood's daughter Miss Sarah Caywood of Lewistown.
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