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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1908
Page
13
The national committee adjourned amid protests from Taft allies who vow to carry contested delegate cases to credentials and the convention. Governors Hughes and Dolliver figure in vice presidential speculation while taft supporters push for fair handling and possible reversal of territory representation cuts.
Lowell Mass June 7 Congressman Butler Ames arrives home from New York and denies involvement in forged Florida State Convention admission tickets. He asserts he neither received nor distributed tickets and calls J M Stripling's claim untrue. He recalls discussing ticket access and says Taft backers controlled entry. He reiterates opposition to binding delegate instructions.
The French steamer Martinique reports plague cases at Caracas, with Caracas officials confirming. La Guayra remains cut off, commerce not yet resumed, and funds for relief exhausted as new cases appear daily and the situation grows desperate.
Thomas P. Moffat American Consul at La Guayra Venezuela arrived in Brooklyn aboard the Wardener Seguranes after a nine day stay amid plague conditions. He cited eighteen deaths prior to departure and estimated daily fatalities at sixty five according to Trinidad reports. He described port quarantine shortages and noted only two Americans remained in La Guayra. He delayed leaving, aided by the U S gunboat Paducah, and later quarantined at Guantanamo before boarding to Santiago.
Judge of the Federal Court announces Ambrose H. Carner, former receiver of the New York and Bermudez Asphalt Company, has rendered a May accounting to be examined. Venezuelan government sued to compel an accounting of his four years’ administration. bond set at $200000.
Paris January 7 A prize of 2909 francs offers the first aeroplane inventor who can remain aloft for five minutes with the motor stopped at a height of at least fifty metres. M Quinton believes a man can surpass birds in speed and endurance.
Republican leaders expect a Chicago platform drafted chiefly by Wade Ellis. It will praise Roosevelt, attack Democratic plans, and push tariff revision and financial reform. The text will defend protection, memorialize Puerto Rico Cuba and the Philippines, and urge strong naval and postal policies, with a clear square deal.
Prominent Republicans from New York sign a memorial urging the Republican National Convention to declare confidence in the integrity and independence of state and national courts. They warn against attacks on the judiciary and stress courts as essential to the American system of government.
President MecStey of the Central Federated Union urges measures to identify food shortages among East Side children and opposes charity driven by notoriety. He calls for work instead and criticizes firms that raise prices while donating modestly.
William D. Haywood spoke at a Sulzer's Westchester Park Socialist gathering attended by about five thousand. He criticized the Supreme Court's relation to labor and echoed a Buck Stove Company decision, climaxing with a shouted denunciation of the Constitution before correcting it to the injunction.
William TH Wray of 53 West 68th Street was arrested on a John Doe warrant for speeding over a month earlier. Bicycle Patrolman Martin saw Wray at 72nd Street and Riverside Drive on May 3, colliding during Dyckman Street St Nicholas Avenue incline, suffering injuries after a somersault down the hill. Martin aided him before the arrest.
The Venona owned by George E. Bliss of Boston and flying the Eastern Yacht Club flag won Class C in the Marblehead to Hamilton race. It finished at 3 34 p m after 99 hours 32 minutes, with a 98 hour 12 minute corrected time, amid heavy seas and a damaged mainsail, arriving in Hamilton harbor at 6 p m.
A blaze racing through the Salvation Army industrial home on Morgan Street Jersey City forced 100 plus attendees to flee as flames spread from a basement to the adjacent tenements and stable. Captain Winchell led evacuations while Patrolman Dundon rescued a measles patient girl. Dozens evacuated, several firefighters injured and horses perished in the stable. Fire origin blamed on defective electric wiring.
A strongly supported anti Bryan movement gathers in North Carolina aiming to instruct delegates against Mr Bryan at the Democratic National Convention. Senators Simmons and Overman back the opposition and govern the state organization as candidates for governor Johnson gains support amid the contest. A convention clash looms on June 24 as Bryan pledged delegates may be named if the last instruction is not revoked.
City lawyers plan eighty new actions seeking damages tied to the Madison Square disaster. They argue Hearst furnished contribution or causation, aiming to hold him jointly responsible with the city, as he returns from Europe in July.
President's Commission members Samuel Baro ro, James Bronson Reynolds, and Henry Beach Needham arrived from Colon with the Panama Alliance to report to the President. They will study wages for canal employees and may urge halting new married couples to the zone due to shortages. The Alliance brought ashore the bodies of Ford Coggan and Joe Roach, victims of a May 22 dynamite accident caused by lightning.
Mr and Mrs Abraham Zsrin of Soae Street report their three year old son Julius missing since Saturday night around midnight. The father, a tailor, says he received Black Hand letters and fears kidnapping though he lacks proof. He pleads for the boy to reveal his name if found.
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