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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1908
Page
1
Tokio reports the final Washington response on immigration has greatly pleased Japan. March 15. Washington’s stance is welcomed by Japanese officials, signaling progress in talks between the two nations.
A bandit posing as a postal inspector boarded the Great Northern Central Limited at Bonners Ferry Idaho and looted mail sacks between Bonners Ferry and Spokane. He bound a clerk, tied another in a closet, and escaped after rifling six sacks destined for Coast points. Blood on mail aided tracking by Draper’s hounds before scent died near a car line downtown.
Eight miles south of Ochelata Oklahoma on March 15 three bandits who robbed Tyre Kansas bank on Friday captured three of a six man posse sent from Ochelata to pursue them. They disarmed the three and took the best horses while the other two sections retreated. Leader Henry Starr is tapping wires to learn pursuer plans.
The Minister of Public Works and American engineers opened the Chilean section of the transandine tunnel linking Arica to La Paz. The tunnel will be the world’s highest and, upon completion, shorten Buenos Aires travel by six hours as the railway from Arica to La Paz advances.
Hackensack New Jersey March 15 Miss Addie Elling adopted daughter of George Elling of North Vale NJ was struck and instantly killed by a switch engine near that place at 7 this evening. She and two companions walked toward the Northern Railroad station on the bound track. The switch engine moved on the eastbound track and the young people seemed unaware of danger. Miss Elling shouted to the others to jump but was struck before she could save herself.
Patrolman Downe of the 143d precinct found four men unconscious in the street near 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. They were taken to Norwegian Hospital where Brady and Jorgensen were in critical condition. Andrew Wilson, Metrick Brady, Charles Anderson, and Hans Jorgensen identified a suspect, Hyman Jacobson, who was held on $3.09 bail awaiting charges.
Chattanooga March 15 James Johnson a capitalist and politician of this city died by self inflicted throat wound on an Alabama Great Southern train running between Chattanooga and Lingingham.
Beltimore March 15 United States Senator William Pinkney Whyte is ill at his home in Baltimore with erysipelas and a bladder disorder. His physicians say the condition is not critical but alarming as the 82 year old senator has grown worse since arriving in Washington Thursday, reducing chances for improvement.
A Port au Prince dispatch says Hayti saw serious disturbances with several people killed and many prominent arrests. Rumors of summary executions circulated, though not yet confirmed at filing time.
Paterson, March 15. An article in La Question Sociale urges arms, raids on armory, dynamite, and assault on police and soldiers. Prosecutor Emley considers legal steps but doubts laws cover the act. Federal authorities will be notified. The paper’s modest local circulation hides wider reach to Vermont and Virginia.
Telegraph report from Mexico City states a cavalry squadron was sent to La Mula ranch near the Texas border in Chihuahua to quash native opposition to dispossession by an American syndicate led by James R. Keene and William R. Hearst of New York. The squatters and forefathers have occupied the 200,000 acre ranch for over a century while Keene and Hearst push prospecting in the area.
Timothy Donahue, veteran customs inspector, found a case of pearls valued at about $3,000 in G. B. Umsted's pocket aboard the American liner New York arriving from Southampton. The pearls, later appraised at over $8,000, were taken for assessment to determine if they are American.
Chattanooga reports that about 75 percent of Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific railroad shop workers will be laid off indefinitely. Shops at Ludlow, Oakdale, Chattanooga and Birmingham are affected, totaling over a thousand workers. The union had been asked to accept a 10 percent wage cut pending financial recovery, but refused and took the issue to Washington's Interstate Commerce Commission.
Baltimore march 15 two boys frank rowles age ten and jacob sagovitch nine died from hydrophobia in the last twenty four hours. they were among fourteen persons bitten by a pet collie that attacked a crown of school children and others on the street about a month ago. the boys and all others bitten received pasteur treatment.
In Seabright New Jersey bloodhounds tracked a man from Rumson to a coal schooner where Philip Roher boarded, defied officials, and was later arrested after a stand on deck. Roher, with prior chicken stealing and cow killing convictions, will be arraigned in the morning with warrants issued by Mayor Packer.
Secretary Taft arrived from Washington and stayed with his brother Henry W. Taft at 3 West 48th Street. He plans to attend Yale Corporation in New Haven, then speak at the Brooklyn Armstrong Association meeting in Plymouth Church with Dr. Booker T. Washington. A private dinner at the Hamilton Club and other social events are listed, with possible meetings with Governor Hughes, as Taft intends to return to Washington Wednesday.
On the debris strewn Parker Building a Catholic priest administered last rites to another fire victim, bringing the toll to three. Andrew McDillis, 40, of 31 East 2d Street, fell through an elevator shaft on the seventh floor, bounced off walls, and hung on sixth floor planks until rescued. Dr. Simmons of Bellevue said skull fracture likely fatal. He died soon after at the hospital. Foreman John Richards was arrested by a patrolman.
Trinidad Colorado March 15 Fire believed caused by crossed electric wires destroyed the cokes washer tipple engine house and laboratory of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company mine at Sopris. Damage set at 150000 dollars and about three hundred men were thrown out of employment.
Sharon Pennsylvania March 15 Announcement that the entire Sharon Steel Hoop Company plant will restart next Tuesday. The open hearth blooming mill and eight nine and ten inch billet mills will also start. About a thousand men affected.
Spectators at the Galerie des Machines cycle races in Paris rioted after a judges ruling, wrecking and setting fire to the grandstands. Three hundred police reserves were needed to restore order.
Marlboro mass March 1 reports that sleep on the beat is not laziness or shirking but a medical issue. The story notes C W Curtis former city marshal who died after an autopsy revealed pancreatic cancer as the likely cause of his excessive sleepiness on his patrol.
In St. Petersburg Minister of Justice M Chtcheglovitoff asks the Douma for 1 million dollars to enlarge overcrowded Russian prisons. Official figures show a prison pop rising since 1996 with 159,537 in January and 165,588 in February, including 13,000 political prisoners.
Boston officials at Long Wharf have ordered fleas from immigrants captured for microscopic examination. Each flea will be placed in its own bottle labeled with the host's name, home, and the captor.
Dewitt Fuller of Hancock, once Lincoln's private telegraph operator, was killed Friday afternoon at Narrowsburg while riding his track velocipede. The 70 year old man had worked forty years for the Erie as a telegraph repairman and was struck by a passenger train.
Telegraph report from Youngstown Ohio states that all mills in the Mahoning Valley will start full operation tomorrow morning. Tonight at midnight the Republic Steel Valley Bessemer and Frown Bonnell plants Carnegie Ohio Works and Ohio Sheet and Tube resume, affecting about five thousand workers.
A bomb shattered the central market in Barcelona on March 15 injuring a woman. A second bomb was found nearby and removed for laboratory analysis. Authorities searched the area as investigators reviewed the incident.
Governor Willson in Frankfort announced a 44 reward for tips leading to a night raid in the barley tobacco district and a 500 reward for arrests and convictions of bands that intimidate farmers or burn property. He aims to punish bandits who poisoned cattle in Fayette County and burned barns and shot at homes in Woodford County last week, urging Kentuckians to defend their homes liberty and property.
In Stratford on March 15 a sudden thunderstorm capsized a rowboat off Lordship Park. Peter La Croix aged 50 and his son Wilford aged 16, both from Bridgeport, and Henry Ellison, 50, of Bridgeport, drowned. Their bodies washed ashore hours later.
News from New Orleans reports a fresh outbreak in Grant Parish lumber camps where wage cuts inflamed tensions between black and white workers. The violence includes shootings, robberies, and a fatal police shooting after a negro suspect fled a Fulton Street raid. Police seized hundreds of suspects in rapid arrests as officers raid saloons linked to alleged race driven crime waves.
Mrs Lizzie Dickson a nurse in the Schuchard home at 67 West 15th street frightened by a thunderstorm tore walls and furniture, fainted since last June when her husband was killed by lightning at Fishkill. She attempted to jump from a third floor window and was restrained before being taken to Bellevue observation ward.
A fierce thunderstorm in Greenwich Connecticut today struck St Marys Roman Catholic Church causing the cornice to collapse into the street while the parish curate Rev Richard Morrisey was momentarily blinded yet later officiated at vespers. A second bolt split a elm in front of the Brush House and a third tree in front of the News Building was also split.
A severe thunderstorm in Massachusetts caused two powder magazines of the American Powder Company in South Acton to explode after being struck by lightning. Nearby homes in Wakefield and Malden were also struck and set ablaze, though no people were injured.
Joseph Bassnella was shot and killed by Sheriff Beck after being brought to bay near the Missouri River sixty miles from Bismarck. Alfred Woolen was recaptured. The pair tunneled 44 feet, 18 inch diameter, under the prison wall, hiding excavated earth beneath their two inch thick wooden cell floor.
A telegram reports Dr J A Lovett a Liberty banker and Smyley bank president was shot and seriously wounded at Smyley by his son in law J G Beavers former Smyley bank cashier. Cause of the shooting is not known.
On March 16 in Lyons a blaze from a bi biscuit factory spread rapidly to adjacent houses. By late night twenty two acres of buildings were ablaze as firefighters struggled to contain the fire.
The America battleship fleet in Magdalene Bay, San Diego, will start target practice tomorrow, extending ranges from 1,000 to 27,000 yards over the next two to three weeks. Reports compare current Pacific and Atlantic fleet scores, note new 10-inch turrets on Tennessee and Washington, and explain scoring differences by gun calibre and length.
In Sydney citizens cheered as Premier Deakin announced that the American battleship fleet will visit Australia. Deakin urged higher defence spending, proposing 39 million annually for an army of 20 000 and 15 coast defence vessels, arguing Britons and Australians must share naval burdens.
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