25 Dec 1907
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1907
Page
1
Burglars cut a back door panel at John J. Knox broker 56 East 77th Street and stole $500 worth of knives forks and spoons from a dining room. The crime was interrupted by Mary Corcoran and another maid who cried out as the burglars fled to a yard.
Port of Spain reports the first day of the American battleship fleet vising a cordial reception. Two thousand sailors toured shore, attended a garden party with officials including Governor Sir Henry Moore Jackson. Admiral Evans and staff visited Government House, while ships conducted shore leave and social events amid a festive harbor scene. The flotilla faced mechanical issues delaying departures to Para, and the Yankton tender arrived overnight trailing the others. Port of Spain is praised as a clean modern English town with welcoming customs and tropical parks alongside busy harbor activity.
Secretary Metcalf sent a wireless Christmas message to over fourteen thousand officers and men of the Atlantic battleship fleet and torpedo flotilla at Port of Spain Trinidad. Admiral Evans reports the fleet and Yankton arrival. Navy Department expects all aboard to be well.
Mrs. W A H Sillowaye aged seventy six is in Bellevue Hospital after a week in which severe poverty and hunger plagued her and her husband William A H Sillowaye a former Civil War brigadier general and Lincoln friend. He stated both faced dire wants for weeks and he scavenged scraps from refuse for food. The couple lived at 178 Waverley Place in a furnished room prior to her hospitalization.
In Salt Lake City on December 24 guardian Mrs. Maddison leads children of Anna Bradley Arthur Brown Bradley and Martin Montgomery Bradley in filing suit to break Senator Brown’s will. They claim repeated acknowledgment of their mother and fear of abnormal mind due to habitual intoxication. Estate valued at $50 000. Workers spurn Christmas charity in Union Springs Alabama as baskets for the mill district poor are refused. residents order no aid.
In Wilmington Delaware Lieutenant T Bankgom Holcomb of New Castle was arraigned before Magistrate Robertson charged with knocking down Rev B Wylie a Presbyterian minister of New Castle Holcomb waived a hearing and was held for court He alleges the clergyman made uncomplimentary remarks about him.
Christmas gift from Mrs. William Luck to her husband produced two boys and two girls in Richmond Roanoke area today. All babies reported doing well in a rare fourfold birth noted by Roanoke dispatch.
Chicago reports a forty pound infant son of Policeman William J. Shoemaker performing feats such as lifting a coal scuttle, handling five pound dumbbells, and walking up a vertical front while held only by the parent’s forefingers. The child has largely taught himself.
Toronto reports McMaster University may open a medical department with possible $2,000,000 from John D. Rockefeller. Chancellor McKay says the plan needs additional endowment. Rockefeller has already given $50,000 for a residence wing. his Cleveland pastor Rev. C A Eaton was a former McMaster lecturer.
Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, heir to Sir Mylles Cave-Browne-Cave, is sought after his English title and estates. A Kansas City attorney said a man calling himself Genille Cave arrived in Kansas about two years ago, worked as a sidewalk builder, and hoped to become a cowboy while seeking reconciliation with his disowned parents.
Pittsburg area mills in McKeesport Glassport Duquesne and allied plants will reopen by January 6 restoring work for over forty thousand men idle for weeks. Additional Shenango tin mills New Castle expect full operation by end January affecting about three thousand workers.
William Jennings Bryan and Governor Campbell will leave Austin for a bear hunt in the Texas canebrakes tomorrow, according to a telegraph dispatch. The trip emphasizes notable figures taking part in a hunting excursion.
A royal edict in Peking signals hope for a future constitution while delaying a specific timeline. It notes the Government Council and provincial assemblies as first steps yet acknowledges provincial bodies remain unrealized. The edict calls for a constitutional commission to regulate political societies and curb agitation.
At Quito a fresh conspiracy to overthrow the Ecuadoran government was uncovered. General Emilio Maria Teran and several conspirators were arrested, with arms seized from their homes. Officials say the plot aimed to assassinate President Alfaro, who had been opposed by Teran during the 1906 overthrow of Garcia.
James Barry aged 25 of 501 West 47th Street died after slipping from an improvised elevator on the ninth floor of the new Metropolitan Life Building tower annex. He fell about eleven feet to the basement as the shaft remained open, his body taken to West 21st Street station.
Governor Campbell pardoned fifty convicts in Texas to celebrate Christmas. The action, described as unconditionally liberating, set new pardon records for the state and was reported from Austin on December 4.
Pittsburg detectives and agents from ten cities seized seventeen alleged Black Hand recruits and two instructors in a raid on No. 37 Clay Alley. The kitchen passagedown led to a cavern classroom where stiletto forging and secret escape routes were uncovered.
George Douglas at 269 West 131st Street loses a wheel as the United States Express wagon careens down Sixth Avenue near 56th Street. The horse bolts through Christmas shoppers, colliding with E L Young’s Jersey City Heights auto at 52nd Street. The wagon rocks upright on impact, strikes the elevated pillar, and the horse crashes into a streetcar before collapsing. Douglas escapes with minor injuries.
A. D. Bailey, a miner trapped 1 000 feet underground in the Alpha Mine at Ely Nevada since December 4, sends a holiday letter to a friend. He notes supplies being lowered by rope in small vessels and that a telephone line now allows communication with workers above. The note expresses cheerfulness and gratitude for the support from the surface.
Rear Admiral Willard H. Brownson resigned today as chief of the bureau of navigation. Commander Winslow will succeed him pro tempore, with possible permanent promotion if he proves effective. The President backed Surgeon General Rixey in the hospital ship Relief command dispute, prompting Brownson’s resignation.
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