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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1906
Page
13
President W M Oler of the American Ice Company warns a price hike may come for large users to curb consumption, while pledging current rates remain for workers and small buyers. He cites a poor ice crop since June and rising artificial ice prices as a factor in potential adjustments.
Nineteen degrees were conferred at the St Francis Xavier College commencement in Carnegie Hall. One honorary degree was awarded to Very Rev William Joseph Cushing of the Argentine Republic. Dr James J Walsh delivered the address,テーマd American character amid beef and insurance inquiries and San Francisco disaster generosity.
Miss Marlowe and Mr. Sothern opened at the Academy of Music for four weeks with Twelfth Night and plan Hamlet revival. Jacob Adier and his Yiddish company offered The Merchant of Venice at West End Theatre to strong support. Fra Diavolo returned at the Alhambra with mixed success but enjoyed by local audiences. Seeing New York at Wistarila Grove was followed by new vaudeville acts, including The Rain-Dears with a rain effect drawing applause.
By Telegraph to The Tribune Providence June 18 The Brown University class day exercises scheduled for today were postponed due to rain.
Miss Mamie Ewart of 49 East 118th Street New York was badly injured when a trolley overturned at Ash Creek Bridge. She was thrown clear as the car broke a tie, and then crushed beneath the vehicle. One man died and several others were injured in the wreck.
In Brunswick New Jersey on June 18 the Court of Errors overturned the earlier conviction of Arthur Co Mount son of a Monmouth Junction hotelkeeper who was jailed three years for assaulting Swift Tarbell a Princeton student son of Gage E Tarbell of Equitable Life. Tarbell and two others rode to the scene after a dispute over a group of students. Tarbell was struck in the eye and lost sight of one eye according to the account Mount said he acted in self defense and was not the aggressor. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction but the Court of Errors reversed it.
An anonymous complaint to President Roosevelt prompted a review by Commissioner Watchorn. He dismissed the letter as likely from a crank, noting Ellis Island processed about five thousand immigrants daily during the peak rush and that staff are not overworked.
A former freight office worker recalls a tomato shipment fiasco in which two thirds of the fruit spoiled en route to a northern plant. He notes a ketchup factory bought the ruined load, leaving him unable to eat tomato ketchup again.
United States Senator La Follette of Wisconsin sent a letter to Jersey City Corporation Counsel George L. Record promising a week in September to speak in New Jersey for the Record Colby Fagan party. The gesture aims to boost the local political ticket.
John Wright of 211 Bay street Jersey City was struck by a trolley at South Orange avenue and Scotland street and died hours later at Orange Memorial Hospital. Motorman John W. Thompson and conductor William Hilser faced arrest after the collision at Newark Court House. Thompson posted 1000 bail, Hilser 500.
A baccalaureate sermon for East Hartford High School graduates caused a religious controversy. Rev. John Coleman Adams preached at First Congregational Church, drawing absences from most graduates led by Roman Catholic families. The Board of School Visitors considered stopping the practice to ease tensions.
President James H. Baker of the University of Colorado has received a presidency offer from Toronto University. He declines to confirm acceptance while noting Toronto’s salary is reportedly higher than his current pay.
The Hamburg American Line will run the Prinzessin Victoria Luise from New York to Jamaica every two weeks from December through April. Four new steamers Prinz August Wilhelm Prinz Joachim Prinz Eitel Friedrich and Prinz Waldemar will join service permanently between Jamaica and Colon next fall.
Thomas W. Lawson announces that Anaconda will be brought into court and that the inside facts of an effort to unload on Amalgamated stockholders large blocks of insider bought stock at low prices will be proven. Suit begins around June 23.
European debate centers on prohibiting non European beans amid health worries and past poisonings from Dutch colonial beans. Marseilles traders urge interior commerce and war ministers to review measures. In Brazil, Para port expands to handle rubber driven trade growth.
August R Ohman, a mapmaker, sues the city for 6000 claiming his copyright name was used in a district map printed in The City Record without permission. Controller Metz says the city faces a hard fight. he notes a similar claim may come from Brooklyn over a map by E Belcher Hyde, while Queens used a different map and Richmond was not redistricted.
Four Italian youths were seriously hurt when thirty to forty dynamite percussion caps were burned in a bonfire at Spring and Lafayette. They suffered copper wire embedded injuries and were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Police and ambulances assisted, with Thomas Gallesta, ten, linked to the copper wire find near the Criminal Courts Building.
The mutiny aboard the German fruit steamer Bradford off Green Island involved eighty four Jamaican banana packers and four stokers who refused to work. Captain Oelting forced the mob back and sailed to Green Island where the mutineers were taken to Kingston with officials. The captain released the mutineers to save the cargo from spoilage.
In Whitley County Mountains a deputy sheriff's posse and mountaineers clashed. Joe Lawson and John Williams were killed and Levi Bays wounded after Williams, newly released from prison for assaulting Bays's daughter, traveled from Frankfort with a Winchester to avenge himself. Sheriff’s posse pursued them to Brush Creek where the final rifle and pistol duel left Williams and Lawson dead.
Russia's foreign trade in 1905 reached 785.85 million dollars with exports at 508.1 million and imports 276.75 million, up 17.05 million from 1904 amid ongoing war with Japan. Exports dominated by cereals. imports rose in tea rye barley coal while others fell. Principal markets remain Germany Britain and Holland. U S imports decline due to war and internal turmoil. Moscow consulate data show exports to the United States including calfskins and wool among top items.
A Sunday night collapse in a Pennsylvania tunnel on Long Island City’s Borden Avenue left a 20 foot long cave in the roadbed. A live-in was placed to monitor the ground while only one car could pass at a time. Contractors evacuated the site and engineers conducted tests with no immediate signs of further breaks.
Police intensify search into the Mrs. Alice C. D. Kinnan murder at the old Bronx estate. Detective Sergeant Price cites circumstantial letters from the Stenton house pointing to a single person amid a long standing family quarrel. A flintlock pistol and a trove of papers are examined as investigators pursue weapon clues and witness statements.
The committee report accuses Street Cleaning Commissioner Woodbury of wasteful administration costing the city thousands yearly. Ivins, counsel to the committee, has examined 10 000 to 12 000 pages and 27 000 000 dollars in four years. The report will not name Woodbury or Deputy Gibson as having intent to defraud. It aims to propose savings without harming service, with submission delayed to next week.
Mayor McClellan held a fifteen minute cabinet meeting yesterday with all but the Fire Commissioner present. He announced a city absence from next Saturday to September and urged departments to submit estimates in a warned and orderly form.
Petitions were filed against Philip Isaacs a salesman living at the Hotel Belleclaire reporting assets of 150 dollars and liabilities of 700 against declared. Involuntary petitions were filed against Richard W Hillman Empire Health Company and J M Drillich with various creditor claims and preferential payments alleged. Receivers were appointed for several firms including Borris M Shaine Louis Block and others with bonds set.
The Federal Treasury report from Washington dated June 18 outlines the condition of the treasury at the opening of business, detailing available balances and current fiscal posture as the day begins.
Captain Neero and crew were taken off the grounded Italian fruit steamer Vincenzo Bonnano two miles east of Fire Island by a volunteer lifesaving crew. The ship lay on a sand bar as high seas hampered efforts to refloat her. over a third of the cargo was discarded. The wrecking tug Y E Chapman hopes to pull her off and the captain and officers plan to return aboard.
Sunrise and sunset times for the day with moon phase and high water marks at Sandy Hook Gov Island and Hell Gate. Wireless reports note the Finland 120 miles east of Nantucket Lightship due to dock about 7 thirty this morning and the Noordam 90 miles east of Nantucket Lightship due to dock about two this afternoon. Brings mail.
Shipping notices list close times and destinations for Pacific routes aboard multiple lines. Vessels include Victoria Hamburg La Savoie Credo Oscar II Merida and Bremen to several ports with connections via Vancouver and Victoria. Ocean liner schedules show June departures for Japan Corea China Hawaii and Tahiti on ships such as Tartar Mariposa Empress of China and Mary Gwin.
Incoming steamers list includes Minneapolis, Furnessia, Inca, Aller, Advance, Northtown, I Piemonte, Bradford, Gwent, Caracas, Aureola, Comus, Larimer, El Rio, Seneca, City of Atlanta, Camal, Jamestown, City line, Manna Hata with details on ports, dates, cargoes, passengers and quarantine statuses. Weather shows wind east, fog off shore as boats sail.
Dover reports the steamer Kroonland from New York to Antwerp then Southampton arriving June 15. Orinoco (Br) from New York to Kingston Colon via St Michael's. Hambur lists Amerika arriving New York then sailing via Plymouth Cherbourg. Grosser Kur firster and other vessels arrive and depart via Cherbourg and Plymouth with Gibraltar references.
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