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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
21
Albany dispatch reports Speaker Wadsworth and Senate leader Raines opposing Governor Hughes's Massachusetts ballot plan. He argues the current ballot already serves voters, cites machine voting limits, and notes potential extra sessions and cross-issue opposition shaping the fight ahead.
At the Flatbush Taxpayers Association annual meeting a resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing the Brooklyn League's drive against racetrack betting. Dr. George W. Brush introduced the resolution praising Governor Hughes's gambling recommendation. The league backs a bill making horse race betting a misdemeanor with six months to a year in prison, likely to be introduced by Assemblyman Warren I. Lee, with broad support from ministers and civic groups.
Minneapolis Mayor James C Haynes returns from New York where he hunted delegates for Governor Johnson. Local Democrats push to block New York delegates for Bryan and build a slight over one third bloc to thwart a first ballot Bryan nomination. Johnson Hearst Bryan ties and national convention maneuvers unfold with dinners, speeches, and public rifts.
Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon, leading the second elective term movement, remains undeterred. He predicts a major development within sixty days and says the President may be compelled to run again, despite recent setbacks. He urges the public to wait two months to see that the idea is not dead.
Secretary Taft listed confirmed speaking engagements over the next two months. January 10 at Cooper Union New York City January 14 Ohio Society of Philadelphia dinner January 29 Tippecanoe Club Cleveland McKinley Day dinner February 1 Young Men's Republican Club of Missouri Kansas City and February 1 Lincoln Grand Rapids Michigan.
Campanini the Manhattan Opera House musical director received a Buenos Ayres invitation to head the New Colon Opera House when it opens in May. He said he could accept if released from Covent Garden and Buenos Ayres would pay him 30000 dollars for two months of work.
Van Norden Trust Company serves as executor and trustee taking full charge of real estate and mortgages. It keeps accounts for charitable institutions and trustees and furnishes information for purchase and sale of investment securities. Located at Fifth Ave and 60th Street, New York.
Governor Hughes declines to accept for collection one million dollars in defaulted North Carolina state bonds. He cites propriety, noting gifts of claims to prosecute against a sister state are improper and that suits should not be brought in the name of New York to benefit individual bondholders.
The Tammany Board of Aldermen will meet at City Hall at noon to divide committee posts. Tim Sullivan seeks vice chair and Finance Committee chair, with a seat on the Sinking Fund Commission. Dowling vies for floor leader as Democrats hold seven of nine committee seats. The organization meeting is set for Monday with supporters planning ceremonies.
Attorney General Jackson sues Mayor McClellan and William Randolph Hearst in the Supreme Court. Eugene L. Richards requests a struck jury from a sheriff panel to hear the issues. Clarence J. Shearn calls the move a delay tactic and predicts potential appeals. Decision reserved.
Albany January 3 The Court of Appeals will reconvene to hear the order calendar and arguments over whether the Legislature may delegate rate fixing to a commission The Saratoga Gas Electric Light and Power Company appeals a Public Service Commission order setting gas and electricity rates in Saratoga The Appellate Division upheld the act by a 3 to 2 vote and the company renews its challenge
In Wilmington Delaware on January 3 a federal court heard a petition by Peter J Kaiser a Tamaqua Pennsylvania stockholder seeking the appointment of a receiver for the International Finance and Development Company a New York firm chartered in Delaware with capital of 5 million dollars The company now in liquidation reportedly owes about 500000 and offices are listed at No 38 Park Row The court deferred action pending amendment of the petition
Des Moines Iowa January 3 Leslie M Shaw and Governor Cummins say they will keep hands off the Iowa National Republican delegation Shaw hints he may seek the Republican nomination for president and urges the state delegation go to the national convention uninstructed after a private conference with Cummins
New Orleans women Mrs. Max Routh and Mrs. Abraham Davis filed writs of habeas corpus contending Panama is part of the United States. They say their husbands stay in New York and argue President Roosevelt did not leave the United States during his Panama visit. The pair had been ordered deported on arrival three days earlier after reportedly belonging to a Panama theater chorus.
The U S revenue cutter Mohawk reached Tompkinsville after a six hundred mile cruise in search of the five masted schooner reported in distress off Hargegat ten days earlier. On New Year’s Day the crew sighted two masts protruding from the sea and found the wreck had been destroyed. Captain Reed learned it was the Estelle Phinney only upon return to port.
Mrs. John Van Ness Roberts known as Kath erine Stuyvesant died in her Riverside Drive apartment after a long stupor. Coroner Acritelli ruled an overdose of morphine likely caused the death, noting unpaid bills and debts amid a web of society connections and a pending will. Attorney Francis L. Patton Jr. returned from Princeton and held the will. Butler’s suit for $500 remains unsettled.
Carrie Nation arrived in Mexico City and said her mission is peaceful. She came to secure a relative from an insane asylum and plans to take the patient back to the United States.
A mass meeting organized by United Hebrew Charities and the Council of Jewish Communal Institutions will gather all charity groups tomorrow at Temple Emanu-El to plan relief for the unemployed. Officials warn the city faces mounting homelessness and seek funds and new measures until permanent work is found. The event follows reports of reduced bed usage at Municipal Lodging House due to stricter physician checks and vaccination requirements amid a harsh winter for garment workers.
About nine hundred Tremont branch depositors gathered at St. Joseph's Church to honor Justice Betts ex Judge Parker and President Montgomery for guiding the Hamilton Bank reopening next week. Depositors pledged new deposits and resolutions praised the departing and continuing bank officials.
Boston reports that the Merchants' Steamship Line begins service to New York, promising freight rate cuts about 10 percent below Morse Metropolitan line. The Metropolitan line vows to respond with further reductions, while Boston Commercial Exchange seeks competitive relief for shippers.
Joseph E. Tatem a wealthy Collinswood resident in New Jersey died by suicide tonight in Camden The death appears linked to the grief over his wife’s passing a year earlier Police said the fatal shooting was self inflicted at his home on January 3rd
The Thaw defense may seek insanity as the plea in the second trial with Drs and alienists likely to testify again. Anthony Comstock is reported to join the defense, while Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s companion will reportedly be absent. The court will again bar women from attendance and Jerome suspends social duties through February.
Coroner Acritelli and West 125th Street police investigate the death of George H. Mansfield architect forty four of 510 West 135th street who leaped from his apartment window and died later at J Hood Wright Hospital He was brought to the hospital shortly before midnight but police were not informed until his death at 1 21 AM Mansfield was under Dr E H Vines who resided at the same address and had advised removal to the hospital No reason is given for the suicide by the family of the deceased.
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