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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1908
Page
9
Berlin reports quote a government source saying Liberals allied with the von Bülow administration will resist electoral changes that empower Socialists. Across Prussia, demonstrations demanding manhood suffrage drew varied police responses and scattered clashes from Essen to Frankfurt.
The Tien-Tsin-Chin-kiang loan of £5,900,000 was signed by the German Bank the British-China Corporation and the Chinese Foreign Board. The 744 mile line will run parallel to the Grand Canal with China securing full administration and revenue pledges from Chi Li Shan tung and Kiane su provinces. Redemption begins in ten years and foreign supervision is limited to book examinations.
Berlin report says Maximilian Harden has not died and remains ill from pleura aftereffects of a trial. He was recently sentenced to four months for libelling Count Kuno von Moltke in Die Zukunft. He can still lie in bed but is weak, according to at home inquiries.
W H Leavitt husband of William Jennings Bryan’s daughter dismisses divorce rumors as absurd. He received a letter from his wife who is in Prindisi with their children. The family, joined by Mrs Bryan, plans a Cairo winter for the children's health and will reunite in Paris in April.
Henry W. Jesup files for Edwin S. Wallace former consul at Jerusalem against D Appleton & Co seeking 59000 in libel damages over December 196 article Our American Colony at Jerusalem by Alexander Hume Ford claiming improper removal of Mount Zion Cemetery bodies in Jerusalem and noting Wallace’s past role in Greensburg and Ardmore Penn. Judge Holt allows the defense to prove its case.
A Paris dispatch reports France will confine action in Morocco to securing the Algerian frontier and maintaining port order under the Algeciras agreement. Admiral Philibert has eleven ships on the coast and General d Armande commands about nine thousand troops. Casablanca notes the general near Rabat awaiting developments. Madrid mentions Fez proclaiming a Sultan and a holy war stirring tensions and possible Marchica occupation with international approval.
Secretary Taft advocates widening the Panama Canal locks to 110 feet from 100. The plan would add about 5 million dollars to the lock cost, raising total lock costs from 52 million to 57 million and the grand project total by 5 million to about 200 million. The move aligns with naval expectations for larger future battleships.
The court martial of Lieutenant General Stoessel resumed in St. Petersburg with testimony on Port Arthur surrender. Officers described preparations, defense at Fort No. 2 and Eagle’s Nest, and the brutal Japanese bombardment as Russian troops held out.
The U S Supreme Court denied the mandamus petition against Judge Lacombe directing him to vacate orders appointing receivers for the Metropolitan Street Railway and the New York City Company. Justice Peckham ruled the Circuit Court had jurisdiction, noting no evidence of collusion or fraud and stressing the need to preserve property for all creditors and city users. Roger Foster led the petition on behalf of negligence claimants seeking intervention.
Raymond Robins told a Cooper Union audience that surplus labor and reduced wages fuel crime and the rise of vagrancy and illegal voting. He cited city lodging houses, prisons, and tuberculosis among workers, noting Chicago as the bleak example where child labor persists despite machinery displacement.
The Walter T. Griffin will filed in Kings County Surrogate outlines a multimillion estate with nearly half going to charity. Griffin died December 13 at his sister’s Brooklyn home and previously helped found the Peat Chemical Company, with substantial holdings in its securities.
At the twenty-sixth annual Thirteen Club dinner at the Hotel Astor Abraham Gruber as toastmaster critiqued national and local government superstitions. He listed beliefs about war, the Constitution, the Declaration, judges, and cabinet duties, followed by city sentiments. Officers were elected for the year and gifts presented, including a mahogany chest for Colonel Hobbs and a Masonic pendant for Marshal Lehmann.
Desperate bid to pass local option laws expands in Western Pennsylvania. The Western Pennsylvania Anti-Saloon League hires Rev. C. W. Carroll of Cleveland to lead the campaign while the Pennsylvania Civic Reform League trains church voters in North Side voting schools ahead of the February election. Churches plan to spend thousands to back local option legislation in the state Legislature.
Senator Foraker plans to present his Brownsville affray report on Wednesday then travel to Ohio. The minority assertion contends the Army findings fail to prove negro soldiers at Fort Brown involved in the disturbance or justify discharge. supporters deny the claims. Army orders include transfers and promotions. naval attaché Fremont reassigned. several surgeons detached. Warship movements list arrivals at multiple ports including Rio de Janeiro and Guantanamo Bay.
In Faneuil Hall the tenth annual meeting of the National Guard Association of the United States opened with adjutant generals from 35 states and territories attending. War Department delegates cited the Dick bill and a merged volunteer and regular force with federal funding as key aims. General Drain urged a national guard organized and ready for presidential orders during war, while Assistant Secretary Oliver described current military structures and stressed annual mobilization of state troops to central points with the regular army.
The second week of the Irish Fair at Madison Square Garden drew a large crowd as organizers labeled the week special and invited prominent figures. A lace exhibit by Mrs. E D Manes drew praise, claimed to match a piece once owned by Queen Alexandra and Empress Eugénie, with a history tracing to Napoleon III’s sale during the fall of the Third Empire.
Arctic explorer Anthony Fiala spoke to a crowd at Public School 159 recounting perilous days aboard the America in 1993 and 1995. He described ice crevasses, losses of ponies, and a final rescue by William Champ aboard Terra Nova.
The Ithaca Liquor Dealers Law and Order League was formed in Ithaca New York and voted to impose dry Sundays with no alcohol served to hotel patrons. It will cooperate with anti liquor forces and post habitual drunkards’ names across saloons. Detectives have been hired to enforce the compact.
San Francisco January 13 Judge Dunne refused to admit former Mayor Eugene Schmitz to bail after his conviction for extortion was reversed by the Appellate Court last week The remittitur from the higher court remains pending and the lower court cannot act on the reversal until final thirty days pass F O Drew counsel for Schmitz said the denial was expected and other methods to gain bail were considered
Walter Drew, commissioner of the National Erectors Association, says housesmiths will not have wage cuts this building season. Open shop pay remains four dollars and fifty cents a day, with pre May 1 19% agreements existing with the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. The union struck against Post & McCord, leading to open shop in the trade. about forty firms nationwide belong to the association, including Mc Clintic-Marshal, Pennsylvania Steel, American Bridge, Post & McCord, May Foundry, J. B. & J. M. Cornell, and Phoenix Bridge.
In St. Petersburg on January 13, the Emperor dismissed M von Kauffman from the post of Education Minister and named M Schwartz, a classical scholar and Warsaw school district inspector, as his successor. The move ends Kauffman’s mildly liberal schooling policy and signals a tougher university regime under Stolypin.
King Haakon formally opened the Norwegian Storthing in Christiania. He cited Norway’s role in the Hague peace conference and integrity treaty, and announced bills on twelve year railroad construction and forest waterfall and mining concessions.
Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall near East 17th Street faced a burglary incident after an intruder appeared at his door claiming to fix electrical wires. Murphy alerted police, two East 22nd Street detectives responded, questioned the man, and confirmed he was electrician Sam Erasmus E. Guernsey of 238 East 124th Street.
Almuth C. Vandiver was chosen counsel to the New York County Medical Society replacing Champer S. Andrews who resigned to focus on private practice. Vandiver will retire from the District Attorney’s office February 1 and will join Charles S. Whitman in business after that date.
By Telegraph to The Tribune, they found booty in the hayloft of the Santa barn after failed sale. Judge Fay set $1,000 bonds for two youths to await trial tomorrow. Police say the pair have robbed many stores, prompting merchants to seek added protection.
New Haven reports that the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company has received between 4 and 5 million dollars in advance payments toward a 40 million dollar issue of 6 percent convertible debentures. Many subscribers paid in full and about 20 million is expected before week’s end. The subscription closed January 15 and 60 to 70 percent of stockholders and old debenture holders are projected to take up their rights.
A compilation from Chicago Greenville San Francisco Norfolk Philadelphia Muncie Chester Richmond Winchester and other locales with updates on bail in a embezzlement case a near fatal coasting accident coast guard statements on a bank receivership a proposed reopening of the Jamestown exposition martial law in Indiana a derailment injury at a Southern Railroad line river flooding and calls for support of the Atlantic Coast inland waterway.
James Cotton Holden longtime president of the National Safe Deposit Company died yesterday at his Madison New Jersey home where he had lived since 1874. Born in New York on December 15 1821 he pursued business after starting in a hardware firm and later joined iron trades before entering banking and insurance work. A longtime trustee of Mutual Life Insurance he engaged in many charities and YMCA work. He faced a lawsuit over the Mutual Life yellow dog fund as part of a committee dispute.
The Very Rev. Thomas C. Donovan of the St Joseph's Society for Neuvo Missions died in Baltimore at age 44 after a kidney ailment since September and a sudden heart dilation. Born in New York and reared in Kentucky, he devoted his priestly life to moral advancement of the Negro race.
Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, reputedly the oldest U S Jewish theologian and a leading founder of the reform movement in Chicago, died after a ten day illness. He was eighty six, a German immigrant who settled in Chicago in 1853 and later retired from active work.
Obituary notices report the deaths of John Harvey of Glen Ridge New Jersey age sixty eight from paralysis. J Gillman Chouteau seventy two from St Louis lineage. John Ford Arnold fifty born Perth Amboy. Constant C Hodgman fifty seven born Bath New York. Funerals scheduled at family homes in Yonkers Bath and Perth Amboy with burials in respective family plots.
Ernest Pacillo aged five and his seven year old brother Arthur were badly bitten by a large black dog on Atlantic avenue East New York. Ernest suffered facial and hand injuries and a broken right leg when the dog picked him up and threw him. Arthur sustained severe facial wounds and may lose an eye. Mrs Angelino Maurie and Mrs Katherine Caparillo restrained the dog with sticks. the animal ran off.
On the Pittsburg Beechview line a hotel sits with barrooms split by the city boundary. Beechview bars close at midnight while Pittsburg allows until 1 45 am. A front door in Beechview leads to a Beechview room, a Pittsburg side to extended service. A Beechview councilman candidate resides as a boarder with rooms in both sections.
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