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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1908
Page
1
Governor Hughes camps for Taft in Chicago with a monster Coliseum meeting drawing 10 000 to 15 000, amid fireworks parades and cheering crowds. He argues for Taft over Bryan and warns against Tammany while urging support for four future Supreme Court picks.
Act ing Captain Burke led a Brooklyn raid on the Windsor Club in Bedford avenue near Fulton street arresting thirteen men, charged with gambling. Officers broke in through an oak door and battered multiple barriers to reach a card room with roulette and chips. Captain Zimmerman disputed knowledge of gambling in his precinct.
Borough President Bird S. Coler ordered 2000 Brooklyn workers laid off after the Board of Estimate failed to provide funds. Public baths, the Coney Island sewage plant, and highway and sewer bureaus shut down. Coler claims gross discrimination and warns everything will close without funding. President McGowan rebutts Coler, saying apportionment would have been granted.
The Louisville & Nashville Railroad president Milton H. Smith denies plans to vote for William Jennings Bryan. He states he has registered and will vote for Judge William H. Taft on Election Day, despite rumors.
Col. William F. Stewart has been retired from active service by order of the President after the army board found him incapacitated for duty due to service related disability. The War Department notice confirms the retirement under Section 1251. Stewart, once at Fort Grant in Arizona, objected but accepted the final action and expressed continued status as an army officer.
Norman E. Mack chairman of the Democratic National Committee said he was at a loss to understand how the campaign fund list appeared in newspapers and questioned whether it originated in New York or Chicago. The remark was delivered in Chicago on October 10.
A speech recap contrasts Hughes and Chanler on ending government by commission. It cites abuse in transit holdings and describes how the Interborough Metropolitan Company controlled NY transit assets, questioning past private-for-profit practices and urging support for reform.
Clarence J. Shearn, running for Governor on the Independence line, attacked Lt. Gov. Chanler and New York District Attorney Jerome in Albany. He pledged that within thirty days of taking office he would remove Jerome from his post if elected.
In Schenectady on October 10 Union and Wesleyan played a brutal game with seventeen players knocked unconscious and five seriously hurt sent to hospital. Captains Potter and Hammond left early with broken collarbone and concussion as officials called it the roughest contest seen. The final score remained 0 to 0 with many scrimmages ending in injuries.
Denver October 10 Harry Payne Whitney and L and Thompson of New York have organized a large hunting party to depart Glenwood Springs around October 20 in search of bear and mountain lions Jake Borah Roosevelt era guide will lead the group which will use fifty horses
Manchester October 10 The operative spinners and cardroom workers have agreed with cotton manufacturers to accept a 4 percent reduction the wage question to be revisited in three months for readjustment.
Edward Rachel and two friends lost brakes on a steep Swartswood hill, the car sped downhill and smashed through a small barn on John Emmons’ farm. All were bruised but not seriously hurt, and Rachel quipped that shooting escaped lions now seems tame.
Belgrade crowds press war as Crown Prince George appeals for support while the Skuptschina debates. Vienna reports gunboats at Semlin and a frontier corps movement. In London M Iswolsky and Sir Edward Grey discuss joint action with no decision. Constantinople sees a boycott movement against Austrian Bulgarian and German goods.
Crowds flocked to Crown Prince George at his palace and the Skupstina building amid rousing calls for war. Officials warned hostilities seem unavoidable as the national assembly met in a tense session while demonstrations spread through Belgrade.
Russia presses for a modified Balkan congress and discussions with Austria Hungary fail to yield. The Austrian ambassador Count Berchthold remains blocked from meeting Nicholas as Vienna signals possible war rather than yield. The portrayal centers on the “hemming policy” test and Austria’s stance on Bosnia’s annexation.
British Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey and Russian Foreign Minister M. Ignalsky, who arrived from Paris, spent hours in London discussing the Near Eastern crisis but reached no decision. Officials said the meeting was a preliminary exchange of views, with hope for a friendly solution.
In fog off Scheveningen the German steamers Pretoria and Nipponia collided. Thirteen Nipponia crew members, including the captain, drowned. Pretoria, owned by Hamburg America Line, was unhurt and sailed from New York September 26 for Hamburg. Nipponia, owned in Stettin, left Lulea August 11 for Emden.
A Rutland bound train on the Boston and Maine line struck a wagon carrying six people about a mile north of Melrose. Four occupants, including Frank Luther and a two year old, were killed. two Luther children were injured. Coroner Hutton planned an inquest as hospitalized survivors faced wounds.
An auto party traveling from Richard O. Dixey’s Tanglewood villa in Lenox to J. Malcolm Forbes’s Boston villa faced a three foot embankment plunge when their chauffeur sneezed and lost control. Mrs. Walter Boreman of Teneriffe, Lady Sutton, and Herbert Astley of London escaped serious harm as the car overturned but landed on a mossy rivulet bank. The group proceeded to Boston by train.
Lieutenant Marquand of the torpedo boat flotilla reports the Octopus Viper Tarantula and Cuttlefish crews, escorted by Scorpion, willingly undertake another voyage though storm hazards and gas exposure impaired the crew. Viper and Tarantula separated during the four and a half day trip from New York, causing great anxiety until recovery.
Miss Abbie S. Fessenden sister of the late Samuel Fessenden was shot in the eye by a careless boy in Hillandale Park. A pet dog she led home helped reach safety as doctors warned the bullet could have struck her brain had it shifted slightly.
Edward Wieren, 19, confessed stealing 700 dollars from the W and D Allen Manufacturing vault in Chicago. He hid in the vault four days without food or water, then knocked down superintendent Henry Gibbs, fled with the money, hid 600 in a Chicago bank, and was arrested during a withdrawal.
In Littleton New Hampshire on October 10 a farm hand collecting chestnuts was bitten by about twenty squirrels. Weather expert I C Richardson warns the animals stockpile chestnuts for a hard winter as the nut crop is small.
A mob of hundreds besieged the Spartanburg county jail after John Irby, a Laurens native, attacked Miss Lillie Dempsey at the Saxon mills. Four workers were wounded, Sheriff Nichols shot, and Irby captured by mill operatives before militiamen and guards secured the jail. The crowd grew with reinforcements from Clifton and Greenville as threats of a triple lynching loomed amid ongoing gunfire and arrests.
A mob of about fifty white men hanged one innocent negro and shot two others near Hickory Mississippi. William Fielder, father in law of Shep Jones, was found hanged. Dee Dawkins and Frank Johnson were killed. A negro church and lodge hall were burned as white residents pursue alleged retaliation. Authorities alerted Governor Noel.
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