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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
8
Ten deaths and numerous heat prostrations reported in New York and Brooklyn as a heat wave persisted. Victims include infants, elderly, and workers. relief expected with showers and easterly winds. City crowds sought Battery Park and ferries, while soda fountains thrived amid the heat.
Philadelphia records five deaths and many prostrations as heat peaks at 90 degrees on July 2 with high humidity and hazardous conditions for residents.
Police capture George Coppinger known as The Ferret, an ex burglar, as he tried to peddle stolen items from the New York Coin and Stamp Company at Broadway. He admits identity and theft, with dealer confirming articles and loot found in Mills Hotel room. Detective notes fortune paper predicting luck on Thursdays and Fridays with numbers five three eight, though he doubts its value.
George A Cartwright of Cor dell Towing reports tug Victoria under Captain George Walker near North River docks Hoboken. A rowboat with three men frightened one jumped overboard. a life preserver was thrown. The two others recovered, but the companion drowned.
A bottle said to be poisoned was delivered to Dr William H Wilson at his home from a stranger who sent it via an express. Mrs Wilson, questioned at City Hall, led detectives to a wider search as investigators piece together Wilsons past and possible suspects. Authorities review letters of administration and note Wilsons lavish lifestyle while pursuing a man described as well dressed, mid thirties, linked to the delivery and ongoing inquiry.
John S Pierson famed as the Carnegie of the Sea died at his summer home in Orange after a half century serving seamen. A Princeton graduate who gave up law to aid sailors he built a shipboard library program and donated up to 70 000 books to the American Seamen's Friends Society and sailors directly. He read every book he placed aboard ships and earlier served as Bible distributor for the New York Bible Society.
English interests reportedly made tentative bids for control of the New York Ontario and Western stock held by the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The option on the Ontario stock prevents sale this fall, with prior options by the New York Central and possible involvement by Delaware and Hudson unclear.
The court argues that Section 351 does not criminalize receiving money or valuables from a bet. It interprets the statute as aimed at bookmaking and wagering operations, not ordinary individual bets. Distinguishing gambling from gambling houses, the decision warns against broad criminalization of winners and notes potential absurd results if applied to contingent bets.
Saranac Inn New York July 2 The first definite information of Supreme Court Justice Bischoff ruling that individual betting is not illegal and the release of Melville Collins charged under the anti betting law reached Governor Hughes as he returned from a boating excursion with Mrs Hughes The Governor declined to comment and likely will not discuss the decision further Governor Hughes and Mrs Tinghes then toured a lake in an Adirondack guide boat planned a lengthy tour for tomorrow including a portage to the Saranac River and a visit with State Tax Commissioner Benjamin I Hall at his camp on Oscotah Lake with a return to Saranac Inn in the evening.
Walter Laidlaw, head of the Antti-Racetrack Gambling Campaign Committee, released a detailed expense ledger for January 13 to June 20, totaling 2694 dollars 93 cents. Publicity costs led at 1003 dollars 70 cents, circulars 363 dollars 05, meetings and hearings 611 dollars 71, and office expenses 6647 dollars. The committee stated it nearly matched its spending with contributions and plans to stay active to defend and potentially expand the Hart-Agnew laws. Albany reports both the campaign expenditures and a separate filing by the Empire City Racing Association showing 5653 dollars spent opposing anti-race track legislation, with total racing associations’ expenditures surpassing 56000 dollars to date.
Senator Otto G. Foelker spoke nearly twenty minutes to the Republican Congress Club at 386 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn. He did not discuss the Agnew Hart law and noted messages from friends aided his illness. Resolutions endorsed Taft and Sherman, with Foelker praising their selection.
National Education Association delegates in Cleveland on July 2 discussed venue options for the next annual convention, naming Denver over Atlantic City Chicago and Seattle. The decision awaits final board action in December. The meeting covered rural, agricultural and industrial education with emphasis on practical farming, home gardening, and improved school laboratories. Notable speakers included Elmer Ellsworth Brown and Lorenzo Dow Harvey.
A protective committee forms as Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and its controlled lines miss July interest on mortgage and refunding bonds. Bankers Trust to hold deposits while leaders from Metropolitan Life Chase and Bankers Trust oversee actions. Foreclosure risk rises as note holders move toward legal remedy.
Four people were seriously injured and two houses partly wrecked when dynamite exploded at George Deavatoria's home in McKeesport. The victims include Deavatoria, his wife and father, and neighbor Elmer Bailey, whose condition is critical. Bailey had just returned from work when the blast occurred after Deavatoria ignored a Black Hand letter demanding 2000 dollars by July 1.
A Missouri Pacific fast California special from St Louis collided with a fast St Louis train from Kansas City two miles east of Knobnoster at 5 30 am. Six people were killed all on the Kansas City bound train and at least fifty injured. The dead include Michael J Burk W U Telegraph lineman and W J Frisbie St Louis shoe salesman. Injured include fourteen mail clerks from St Louis. Both trains derailed four cars on the St Louis train and three on the Kansas City train. An official inquiry will probe meeting orders issued by A Strang Sedalia.
Thomas Flanagan of 521 East 16th Street died from base skull fracture after a Fourth avenue surface car struck a truck on 19th street. Patrick Hussey and William Larkin were badly injured. Christopher Quinn, the motorman of No. 129 West 29th Street, was arrested. Dr. Moore treated multiple passengers for contusions and hysterical reactions.
The Public Service Commission ruled against replacing the Ashland Place loop with four additional tracks on Flatbush Avenue due to lack of space and prohibitive costs. Engineers estimated Ashland Place loop at 7 million dollars, with extra costs to build below water level. The Bronx protests over renaming Interborough Rapid Transit to The Bronx Cross-town Railway were noted, while hearings on the Central Park North and East River and ith Street crosstown lines continued, with a July 10 lease cancellation looming.
Theodore P. Shonts stated there is no foundation to reports that he and J D Oliver of the Oliver Plough Works formed a syndicate to complete the Chicago New York Electric Air Line from Laporte Indiana to Chicago.
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