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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
12
The city files lawsuits to recover damages from William R Hearst after a fatal November election night explosion in Madison Square is tied to a fireworks display. Hearst heads to respond to the suits while subpoenas and summonses are prepared for his return from abroad.
Paris reports a new murder as Auguste Remy a 77 year old retired banker is found stabbed at his Rue de la Pepiniére home. The crime last night appears tied to missing money and jewels with a wine carafe and three glasses suggesting possible involvement by three suspects once linked to the Steinheil murder.
An open car on the Creve Cour Lake Suburban Line ran off a sharp curve near Delmar Garden in St. Louis. The crash killed one man and seriously injured more than forty others, with many expected to die.
Yale juniors Arthur Ward Ruff of Schenectady and George Catlin of New Haven were capsized in the Sound while rowing from Stony Creek to campus. Ruff revived after hours clinging to the canoe. Catlin's body was not found. Wilbur Alonzo Curtis of East Haven was rescued unconscious from an overturned boat at Woodmont.
A Worcester canoeing party of four capsized on Lake Quinsigamond leaving two unidentified girls and Frank H. Farwell dead. Allison D. Watrous, thirteen, survived by clinging to the overturned craft after helping Farwell reach safety. Names of the two girls could not be learned pending body recovery.
John Hanselmann of Brooklyn was swept overboard while fishing near Scotland Lightship. James Thompson of Brooklyn leapt in to rescue and kept him afloat until aboard. Hanselmann, unconscious, slipped from grasp and sank despite efforts to recover him. He was 45 and married.
Herbert Morrison twenty year old son of John C Morrison of Philadelphia drowned in the Thoroughfare behind Ocean City N J this afternoon while swimming from a boat He sank in deep water before friends could reach him and his body was not recovered.
Investigators found an overturned boat and fishing gear on Sabattis Lake in Webster after two fourteen year old boys Frederick Gifford and Harry Currier disappeared while fishing. Currier was the son of musician Frederick Currier of New York City and Gifford was the son of Henry Gifford of Lewiston.
Bordentown New Jersey June 7 Albert Frank thirteen years old son of Albert Frank of this city drowned in the Delaware River at Whitehill this afternoon. He went into the river with other boys to bathe but could not swim and was carried out beyond his depth.
Lifeguards at Brighton Beach rescued seven people after a sloop capsized 154 feet from shore yesterday afternoon. The tillerman and six others were thrown into the water when the boat tipped while attempting to go about. They clung to the boat bottom until lifeguards towed them to shore. After bailing out the craft the party set off again without giving names.
Delanco New Jersey June 7 George Jones a Philadelphia decorator was drowned after falling backward from the naphtha yacht Atlanta near here in the Delaware River in sight of friends and his brother. The boat halted at once but rescue came too late.
Luther Edward Jones, 27, a balloonist from Hot Springs Arkansas, attempted an ascent at Mildred Park in Springfield Illinois. The parachute swung him into a dead tree, crushing his skull and killing him instantly. His wife, also an aeronaut, survives.
Nurse Sarah Koten, formerly at the sanatorium of Dr. Martin W. Auspitz on East 93rd Street, shot the physician at No 131 West 135th Street then killed him with a second shot at his throat. She admitted the crime at West 125th Street station saying she would not see justice in courts. She claimed the doctor ruined her and cited personal losses. Dr. Auspitz, an Austrian-trained intern at Bellevue, died instantly. he had been married seven years with no children.
County Clerk John A. Brown uncovered a will dated February 6 1778 by Jacob Blackwell. It bequeaths Blackwell's Island and a Long Island City farm to heirs with one third to the wife. Slaves are named among transfers and sums from 10 to 300 pounds. Harlem land and enslaved people set for sale to pay debts. A quarter acre burial site is provided for the family.
The Rev. Dr Milton H Mill rector of the Episcopal Church of the Radaimer Baltimore died of typhoid pneumonia at fifty one. His decline followed distress over his wife’s recent appendicitis operation, doctors say.
A cable from Puerto Cortes Honduras says F G Bailey president of Export Shipping Company New Jersey his brother A W Bailey and H H Meyers were arrested there at US government request. Bailey faces larceny charges over goods valued at 3200 tied to the Goldsboro cargo and bankrupted creditors followed his abrupt departure from the United States.
A rear end collision on Gravesend avenue near 16th street Brooklyn between a 15th street line car and a Ninth avenue line car injures nine. Passengers include Agnes Mullin Mary Mullins Annie Hart Mabel Hart and Mary David with cuts and fractures. Motorman James Donnelly and others are treated at hospital.
Six men are dead and eight others in critical condition from gas exposure at the Gold King mine in Gladstone Silverton Colorado after a Thursday fire destroyed the engine and shaft houses. Dozens of rescuers worked to reach trapped miners as victims were found at the elevator shaft and surface.
Adolph B. Spreckels, son of Claus Spreckels, secretly married Alma de Brettville in Philadelphia last month and sailed to Europe. The bride, famed in a breach of promise suit won for $1,259, rose to notoriety here and is described as a former actress and beauty. Spreckels owns a horse farm at Aptos and a country home near Napa.
William Pollock of New York received a second Black Hand letter demanding 5000 and threatening death from Pittsfield to Holmesdale His Pittsfield country seat two miles south was patrolled after a dummy package fooled the sender Italians appeared for it and fled when fired upon Police hunt for the men while Pollock hires armed watchers for day and night protection Mrs Pollock formerly Mrs John Kernochan of New York and Lenox.
The Telegraph reports a suit alleging a $305200 graft fund influenced the selection of a 16th street post office site against the Chamber of Commerce. Property cost $642226.40. Attorneys Wise and Minor sue Armstrong Lennox and associates for $22000. Armstrong countersue says $4900 paid and $58000 spent for help. A list of beneficiaries centers on a leading national figure with $15000 noted. A Washington reporter is named as intermediary with $5000 for services.
Washington report says Pension Office worker Dr Joseph Pospisiel held off police for six hours firing about fifty shots from a second story window before injecting cocaine and shooting himself. He dragged his three children to a neighbor's house then died en route to a hospital. He had lived in Washington for eighteen years with relatives in Wisconsin.
Three masked robbers halted Joseph Knight and Miss Sallie Pool on Dossville avenue. Knight was killed instantly while Pool was wounded fatally. The assailants fled as armed citizens, aided by bloodhounds, searched the area.
A tornado swept through Charles City Iowa at dusk demolishing about 206 houses and killing W R Beck and a child. Three children were reported missing as reports on damage to farms and stock were incomplete. Wires were down and barns, trees, and barnyard structures were destroyed along a path from southeast of town through the southwest part toward the northeast.
Chicago June 7 allies led by Senator Crane abandon plan to block Taft bid. They agree to proceed in regular order and accept committee decisions, pledging to avoid extreme speech and to comply with credentials committee rules. Taft aides reject any compromise but affirm seats for rightful Taft delegates.
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