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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
4
Washington notes recount Secretary Wilson’s humorous indifference to a bill before Congress. A member pressed for light. Wilson replied he signs nothing until asked to execute a law, prompting a quip-colored exchange. The piece also notes pension bill speed, salaries, and Oklahoma statehood talk.
Rome on Christmas Day hosted a gala at the American Embassy in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Meyer. Attendees included General and Mrs. Cloris, Miss Carew, St. Louis Fair Commissioners, A. W. Evarts, John Mason Little, and Mr. Chapin. The Pope received greetings from Emperor Francis Joseph and the kings of Spain Portugal Belgium and Saxony.
In Brooklyn a quarrel over a snowball fight led to the death of Saratora Vacharralia. Raffaelo Ferraiola, an undertaker, fled after shooting Vacharralia in the back as he talked with friends on a street. Detectives hunt Ferraiola on a murder charge while police work to locate him.
A man calling himself J. W. C. Beckham posing as Kentucky’s governor was arrested in Miami after arriving last week. He displayed a telegram from Secretary Cortelyou to meet the President and commuted a death sentence by dispatch to Clinton, Ky. The Clinton telegram proved fake, and he was arrested. he refused to talk, said his wife had died, and will be tried by the Circuit Court. Society awaits the outcome.
Russell A. Proctor a broker of 330 West Thirty third street was locked up in West Forty seventh street station last night on disorderly conduct charges after an after dinner quarrel at Sixth avenue and Forty fourth street. He struck the cabman with a cane and returned demanding detention for the driver. A woman in the party sobbed and asked to be jailed with him as police took him to the cell. The sergeant refused personal recognizance release.
Hartwell an eighty three year old local resident, famed as one of the town's wealthiest men, wandered from his home just after midnight. A drug clerk found him dazed near a quarter mile from home and brought him back, but caretakers were not informed. A search party failed to locate him before nightfall as a severe storm set in. authorities fear he may not survive.
The Soo Curling Club rink in Sault Ste. Marie collapsed Wednesday night as a large crowd had left. Weak construction and heavy wet snow caused the accident. The bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling Association was planned next month, with an open rink likely to be built with aid from the Canadian Soo rink. The rink cost $15,000 and was a total loss.
In Kansas City on December 2 William P Hollen shot his wife in bed then forced his seventeen year old stepdaughter into the street at gunpoint. After firing at the girl she fled and he shot himself. The wife is seriously wounded. The couple had separated recently amid police court proceedings for mistreatment and were negotiating reconciliation when tragedy occurred.
George H Burford former president of United States Life Insurance Company died last night at age fifty after a period of jaundice and illness. Born Gilmore he rose from office boy to actuary and director at several banks including Empire and Twelfth Ward National. He leaves a widow Bayard. funeral will be held tomorrow night with Woodlawn burial Sunday morning.
A blaze at the Union Stock Yards Company barns in South Omaha destroyed five hundred sheep and caused about fifty thousand dollars in damage. The fire, likely started by a workman’s cigar stub, led to a failed attempt to save all eight thousand sheep as several hundred returned to the flames.
Washington reports strong Alaska pressure to amend the land law this session. Proposals include 320 acre homesteads and proofing in unsurveyed districts, with repeal of the commutation clause and the stone and timber act debated. Interior urged repeal. grazing leases some support but time runneth short. Alaskans foresee southern valleys feeding corn belt and boosting cattle range for market.
The American Bolt Company of Lowell Massachusetts will relocate to Birmingham Alabama next month. It will consolidate with an existing Birmingham bolt firm and operate as the American Bolt Company of Alabama with new works planned. Colonel Percy Parker leads the Lowell operation.
Walter Pedrick thirty travels Christmas Day with companions Charles Littleford and Charles Harris toward Camden when his foot slipped on the Atlantic City Railroad bridge at Jackson Street. He cried that he was hung by the foot and then saw a train bearing down. Pedrick was killed. his friends escaped into a ditch. The coroner reported accidental death and the body was sent to the morgue and later claimed by his father from Pedricktown.
Spencerport resident William McGregor recalls a Civil War wound in 1864 Richmond. A rebel fired a steel bullet into his shoulder, later lost by surgeons. He tracked down Colonel Surry in Virginia, who invited him to live on his estate after the operation, sparking a rare tale of war fortune and reconciliation.
The schooner Lilly was attacked by natives at Mallicolo in the New Hebrides. Captain Henry Atkinson was killed with his own rifle and two crew members were wounded as natives stormed ashore during a burial matter tied to superstition. The Pearl was later fired upon at Espigle Bay with several native crew wounded.
The Times reports an authoritative source that the Weatherford Weatherford Texas and Pacific branch will run to Mineral Wells Texas and extend to Trinidad Colorado. There a connection will join the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, providing Denver a direct line into Texas and the South. The Weatherford Trinidad leg will span about 450 miles and link Gould’s system from New Orleans to Ogden Utah, creating a western outlet to Gulf shipping points.
Rome reports the Pope sent a prelate to Geneva to probe the flight of the Crown Princess of Saxony and seek reconciliation as part of ongoing Saxon Court negotiations.
A crowd gathered at Thirteenth Street and Broadway when Henry O Kale a printer of 160 Bleecker Street was wounded in the leg by a Rogers Peet & Co watchman after allegedly breaking a light in a window to steal. Kale admitted hunger drove the act and called it his first offense. An earlier incident near the same store last year ended similarly.
In Stamford Connecticut December involving Kostes Sentimente ten year old Greek left at Jersey City police by Benjamin Wright. Sentimente and another man deny intent to abandon the boy and say the aim was to place him for proper education. A black man paid for transport and lied about encounters. The boy says Wright struck him and threatened punishment. Prosecution planned with details to be reviewed by the attorney tomorrow.
Leticia Drake, 19, suffering from consumption, committed suicide at her sister Mrs Parker’s home 63 East 112th St by drinking carbolic acid during a family Christmas gathering. A prior despondency followed holiday cheer. she died before Dr Mallon could arrive.
Joseph Flynn of Yonkers and John McCudden clashed in a barber shop and later a hallway scuffle led to Flynn being stabbed in the heart. Flynn died after an ambulance was summoned. Coroner Schafmeister ordered Kellert and McCudden held for grand jury while Kellert denies stabbing.
The article recalls Rev. John Pierpont, J. Pierpont Morgan’s maternal grandfather, a 19th century poet whose Litchfield County centennial piece foreshadowed the financier’s Yankee traits. It highlights Pierpont’s influence, the centennial exercises, and samples from the poem praising Yankee industry, skill, and invention.
Local Weather Bureau warned at 7 pm last night that temperatures will fall twenty degrees or more from 8 pm tonight through Saturday morning, signaling an abrupt deepening cold wave for the area.
A severe December storm lash es the coast with nine snowslides on the coast division of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific and five earth slides on the coast lines. No trains have arrived since Tuesday night, disrupting service in Seattle.
A fierce blizzard in Grand Rapids Michigan began at 6 p.m. and trains on all roads run three to five hours late. By midnight the storm raged on. The Pere Marquette trains from Chicago Detroit and the North were not yet in. Huge snow drifts filled the cuts.
The cableship Silvertown, sailing from San Francisco on December 25, will finish its voyage Friday and lay the first transpacific link. In Honolulu connection the line will be buoyed 35 miles from shore end and spliced. In the last 24 hours 250 knots laid, totaling 2,199 knots from San Francisco amid rough seas and no calm days.
The cab and carriage drivers strike in St. Louis, started at midnight for higher wages, has extended with 39 of 570 drivers out. Seventeen stables agreed to the demands, but only one member of the Livermary's Association has fulfilled its pledge.
A fire in Bloomington Illinois tonight caused about 29000 dollars in losses. The blaze leveled the W A Nicolaus Co dry goods and women s furnishings building and damaged the adjoining W Klein wholesale and retail dry goods store by smoke and water. Assistant fire chief Charles Abrams fell from a ladder and was seriously injured.
Pedro Rodrigues a Porto Rican who robbed General Miles and Colonel and Mrs Maus in Honolulu on their way to the Philippines was found guilty of larceny in the first degree and sentenced to three years hard labor in Oahu Penitentiary. He stole clothing from Mrs Maus jewelry and General Miles papers. all items were recovered by police.
Credit letters enable owners to cash checks and drafts without question or cost at all hotels in U. S. National Hotel Association location 7 East 42nd Street, New York. Contact phone 4866-35 for services.
Seven hundred newshoys enjoyed a turkey dinner at the Newsboys Lodging House on Duane street provided by broker William F Fleiss of Broadway. For thirty six years he has funded the Christmas dinner with two hundred fed in relays. Superintendent Heig distributed seven hundred gloves to the boys, a gift from Randolph Guggenheimer, after performances of recitations songs and music upstairs.
The Sunday Tribune highlights the Children's Page as a feature to educate young readers. It promotes reading as a daily joy for children and invites families to explore the page together.
Health Commissioner Lederle impersonates Lanra Claus and delivers Christmas cheer to Willard Parker Hospital for Contagious Diseases. Nurses’ letters, ward wide trees, and gifts brighten the wards while visiting physicians help manage the sizable toy and meal distribution to children and adults.
Chicago date line reports James Kildee aged 102, long regarded as Illinois’ oldest resident, has died in Danville after a long life marked by endurance and local ties. The obituary notes his age and status, with brief references to his residence and passing.
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