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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
16
In Albany the anti racetrack gambling measure moves toward a climactic Senate vote with adjournment sine die likely tomorrow. Governor backers seek cloture while Grady and foes push to delay. Foelker’s health and arrival add uncertainty as leaders gauge party unity and potential final passage.
Senator Foelker suffered a severe attack of vomiting with cold hands and feet after a trip to Albany to vote on anti race track gambling bills. Doctors described him as very weak and nervous but hoped he would attend the session next day. Supporters seized the collapse as a forecast against the Governor's bills.
Albany June 1 Telegraph reports the Assembly Judiciary Committee declined to report Senator McCarren’s political party regulation bill as part of Hughes measures. The vote was 6 to 0 with only three true supporters. Committee also refused to report Travis Direct Nominations bill, 9 to 2, continuing smothering of Green’s identical Assembly bill.
Richard Croker Jr. married Miss Mary Brophy in Providence on Tuesday in a quiet ceremony due to Mr Bannigan’s illness. Brophy is Bannigan’s niece and Croker previously escorted her at Brown University. Croker serves as secretary of the Roblin Construction Company. Hotel Mount Pleasant opens the 22nd to host the ACA paddle surf event featuring the Ideal Tour.
The Tribune reports a city based conspiracy sending forged letters to senators supporting Agnew Herz anti racetrack bills. Headquarters on Thames Street operated with Sulzer Burns and Ferrell named, while letters also originated from a Syracuse hotel. Many signatures were forged or drawn from local figures, with race related influence via saloon networks.
Washington June 10 The Red Cross will split into war emergency and international relief departments. Secretary Taft heads the organization and hired Ernest P Bicknert to oversee Chicago bureau of c nities with San Francisco relief experience. The society seeks broader charity cooperation and receives 500 dollars from the Russell Sage foundation plus a donation from Mrs Sage to its endowment fund. A separate travel advertises a $1025 round trip to Buffalo via West Shore BR H via New York Central for June 14 and 15 with return June 41.
Chicago June 10. The vice presidential question unsettles the party while divisions and rumors swirl around Dolliver Guild Cortelyou Sherman and Fairbanks. Older leaders promise a solution in time as the field remains unsettled and chaotic.
The President at the White House declares a hands off policy on the Cortelyou and other vice presidential boom efforts. He may have preferences but will not express them, maintaining a neutral position as reported from Washington.
Wireless reports say the Cunard liner Lusitania, if not delayed by fog or accident, is speeding westward to surpass Mauretania on the long southerly course. A 641 knot run from Sunday noon to Monday noon already tops Mauretania’s best day by five knots, with an average speed of 25.37 knots during that stretch. Mauretania’s record long course average is 24.86 knots.
Four lives lost and over fifty thousand acres of corn and cotton flooded as levees fail at Bayou Pierre and Westdale near Coushatta and Grand Cane. A Cherokee woman and her three children drown. relief appeals sent to the Legislature. In Kansas City flood waters rise at Kaw and Missouri junction, stockyards flooded, rail lines crippled, and 15,000 refugees housed at Convention Hall.
Munica Mississippi June 10 Mrs Jacob Weinstein a nineteen year old wife shot and fatally wounded attorney J T Lowe in the street after Lowe earlier killed her father Perry M Houston in a March street fight over Yazoo Levee Board secretary election. Weinstein, married February to a Charlester merchant, fled but returned home guarded by deputy sheriffs as she is under arrest.
W F Burns of Jackson County reports six men robbed him and abducted his bride during a mountain bridal trip in Greenville County. Burns was bound and beaten. he says he has not seen his wife since. Authorities in Spartanburg and Washington are investigating the incident.
Patrolman McDonough of West 4th Street station tried to halt a runaway at Broadway and 4th Street yesterday afternoon. He tripped while grabbing the horse’s bridle, was dragged about forty feet, then run over by a hansom cab wheel. The horse was tamed as audiences fled theaters and danger loomed in the busy street.
Telegraph dispatch from Chicago details Secretary Taft gaining thirty-four votes and Foraker one extra delegate on the temporary roll after a unanimous compromise in the sixth Ohio district. The Ohio and Missouri contests sway Taft delegates onto the national committee, while Hughes supporters decry the seating. The Tribune tally adjusts Taft to 617 votes with Hughes at 56 and Foraker at 3 as Missouri Nagle arrives to back Taft.
An advertorial note extols Dr Dadirrian and Sons for Zoolak a healthful food and beverage. It claims rich milk and strict sanitary hygienic preparation under their direct supervision and professional chemists.
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