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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1907
Page
17
Readers gathered around posters in Peterhof reading a Patriotic manifesto. The phrasing aimed at the lower classes drew no genuine interest. Many turned away in contempt, spitting on the ground as they dismissed the message.
The Hague June 16. News of Russia dissolving the Douma and introducing a new election system unsettles peace delegates. Russian delegates say the move was home government driven. Nediloff security is tightened. A anti military rally failed to gain momentum as Gustave Hervé faced legal delay at Nantes.
Warsaw reports extras announcing Comsy sensation and Emperor action sparking debate over a new election law. Citizens fear Poles may be excluded while the city stays quiet. nightly domiciliary visits and arrests of Socialists and Nationalists continue. About three hundred thousand troops are massed around the city.
June 16 Sebastopol reports the death of Colonel Guessekoffsky harbor commandant aide, shot near the docks. Police say the killer was arrested and taken into custody. The incident immediate court action and investigations begin.
The second Douma faces dissolution after clashes with the government over a broad range of reforms. Revolutionary members allied with London congresses against the throne. mutinies and strikes followed, while Stolypin’s regime tightened control through drumhead courts and executions ahead of elections held in January and February.
Mrs. Carolina Spaih twenty one? is in St James Hospital Newark burned head to foot after pouring kerosene on a stove to rekindle a fire last night. Her husband Frank twenty five? is also hospitalized after attempting to save her.
The Central Federated Union formed a committee to meet Mayor McClellan about withdrawing the order to remove newsstands in City Hall Park. A union delegate said the removal would harm many poor people, including cripples.
Paris reports that a Franco Japanese convention secures access to French markets for future Japanese loans. France seeks Indo China security while Japan needs about 5 billion francs in coming years to refinance high rate debts and fund industrial expansion.
The Ecuadorian government orders proceedings against Archer Harman, head of the Guayaquil & Quito Railroad, for breach of contract as the line from Guayaquil to Quito misses the June 14 deadline. Officials consider arbitration by Theodore Roosevelt. director T. H. Powers Farr cites contractual extensions for delays and asserts the project may finish by August despite landslides and disruptions.
Reports from Mexico City on June 16 indicate government talks to buy two armed transports two battleships with one transport possibly built in English yards and another in New Orleans. A European power is also said to be negotiating purchase of two new ships recently launched. A semi official denial followed. Governors briefed President Diaz on state forces totaling numerous battalions squadrons and regiments across Nuevo Leon Michoacan Jalisco Mexico San Luis Potosi Tlaxcala Hidalgo Tamaulipas Queretaro Oaxaca Morelos Yucatan Puebla Guanajuato Coahuila and Chihuahua offering state resources if needed. The federal army totals about thirty thousand with twenty six infantry battalions fourteen cavalry regiments two battalion scouts one battalion sappers and assorted skeleton units.
Simon B. Romarno, once a Gravesend Brooklyn grocer, was seized yesterday in Guttenberg New Jersey to face New York police on charges of involvement in the fatal March 28 shooting at Gravesend. The arresting detective is a cousin of Andrea Espernenzo, the deceased.
About five hundred East Side pedlers held a Pleasure Hall jubilee celebrating the defeat of Senator Frawley pushcart bill. Speakers in Yiddish German and English praised leaders, awarded medals, and toasted with beer. Delegations planned to petition the mayor and police for regular markets.
A New York Janitors' Society meeting at 215 East Broadway drew hundreds to protest mass arrests for not separating garbage from ashes and paper. They argue tenants bear responsibility, demand end to arrests, and accuse the Street Cleaning Department and Commissioner Craven of mismanagement and graft.
Frank E. Jackson shot his wife three times inside their home in Buffalo and, after locking the room to keep the children away, phoned police from a neighbor’s house and surrendered. He told officers it was a choice between himself and her. Authorities say quarrels with his wife had been ongoing.
The brief phrasing suggests a routine instruction to read the Tribune each day in the weak period, implying a recurring daily newspaper habit or a misprint indicating weekday consumption. It lacks clear names, dates, or events for a fuller summary.
New York woke to a real summer Sunday on June 16, 1907 as half a million flooded to Dreamland Luna Park and area beaches. Crowds jammed parks and ferries, while Jersey visitors swelled the seashore turnout. A heat wave brought a first prostration on Riverside Drive and transport delays from overtaxed power plants and overwhelmed streetcar lines.
A June 16 report from Antwerp notes a strike by steamship firemen and seamen with little effect so far. Red Star Line replaces Belgian crew with English sailors, and the New York strike failure may push Antwerp bound lines to unite to break the Belgian seamen’s union.
Mrs. Mary J. Thorne, ninety three, leaped from a second story window at 508 Perry street Hoboken yesterday. She sustained internal injuries and is at St. Mary's Hospital. Neighbors say she is mentally weak and the act may prove fatal.
Dr. Benjamin W. Zipser, a young East Side physician, has been missing since last Tuesday. Friends plan to involve Pinkerton detectives today amid theories he wandered off due to possible aphasia. Zipser is about 5'8" tall, 135 pounds, with dark hair and eyes, clean shaven, and wears a gray mixed suit with a silk waistcoat, Panama hat, patent leather shoes, and fancy hose.
Police and sheriff's officers arrested a large group in Newark on Saturday night for alleged cocaine use or sale. About a score of African American detainees were among those held for arraignment tomorrow morning as part of a broader crackdown yielding nearly a hundred similar arrests in the past month and ongoing jail sentences for many offenders.
New Haven June 16 Special Arthur F. Vorys Taft’s manager canvasses Connecticut Republicans. State leaders show strong Taft sentiment if Roosevelt does not run again, with Yale graduates notably backing Taft. Brandegee and Bulkeley may side with Fairbanks but are undecided. Governing factions discuss Lilley Lake and Walsh lines. harmony talks in Hartford surface plans for Lilley to run, Lake as lieutenant governor, and Banks as House speaker. Voters focus on Governor Woodruff’s future and reforms amid party maneuvering.
The Hartford report outlines tangled appropriations battles over free toll bridges the good reads bill the state library building and the arsenal and armory. It notes opposition from Senator McGovern and support from Senator Buell and House allies, with clashes between House and Senate over road funding and state spending for new roads and a state library. The piece highlights ongoing committee activity on the Insane pauper bill and protests against higher asylum costs.
A northbound Eighth Avenue car collided with an open carriage at 134th Street last night. Passengers Marjorie McAleenan six, maid Elsie Bremmer and coachman James Bray suffered serious injuries with cuts and bruises and possible internal injuries. They were taken to Harlem Hospital and expected to recover.
Massachusetts Senator Lodge and his son visited Ellis Island and toured the immigration bureau with Commissioner Watchorn. He observed steerage passengers from the Amerika and the Etruria passing through inspection channels and discussed the island’s work with the commissioner. Lodge chairs a sub-committee on immigration from the last Congress.
Nearly two hundred Texas bankers and their families arrived in Boston from Montreal after a Montreal to Boston trip. The group was entertained by the Boston National Bank Cashiers Association and Shawmut National Bank officials. They rode seventy autos through the metro park system and rode a trolley to Concord and Lexington before heading to New York on Monday night.
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