08 Sep 1913
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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1913
Page
1
The Tribune reports the Senate nears the end of tariff bill wrangle. Debates over revenue, free list, and tax adjustments show the chamber moving toward conference with House measures, while Democrats push to curb trusts and ease living costs amid currency urgency.
Miss Calvert in Armstrong divorce. Hold up man demands smile. Lynch Murphy cry at meeting. Hapgood and Johnson in duel. Mavemeyer dies at home. Prince's child on Broadway. Schools open for 70,000. Educating the Fulpinos urges more efficient army. Senate at end of Tart task. J P Morgan Co attacked. Tokyo howls for war with China. British science to meet miscellaneous.
Francis P Ampudia a Wall Street draftsman and his wife sought police aid after their eleven month old daughter Cire vanished. The infant was reportedly taken out in a go cart yesterday morning by nurse Clara Ryan who promised to return by noon. Despite hours of searching Harlem parks and days passing, no sign of child or nurse emerged. The nurse had worked for the family four months.
Michael Francis Joyce a seventeen year old Western Union messenger boy was killed when a kite tethered wire touched a live high tension line. Authorities estimate about 6609 volts flowed through his body as he lay beneath the wire.
Miss Laura P. Swan daughter of Mrs Elisha Dyer is at Newport Hospital with injuries from an automobile accident today. She rode with Andrew Robeson of Denton when their car collided with a Warburton vehicle at Friendship Street and Kay Street. Robeson was uninjured. Warburton’s car was badly damaged.
Relief from Argentina reports the first direct Buenos Ayres beef shipment to arrive Thursday in the Vandyck’s cold storage. The 1 000 quarters, preloaded Aug 22, will likely go on sale soon after arrival, offered below U S prices after duty and freight. If tariff changes allow free entry, larger imports are anticipated.
The steamer Newark with 450 passengers from Rockaway to Perth Amboy sank a leak and slowed as water flooded the boilers. Captain Ross steered toward Stapleton Staten Island pier where passengers were ordered off as waiters who spent all their money refused to leave and caused a half hour struggle before the crew bailed and relaunched the vessel.
A Paris swimming event ran 11 kilometers 700 meters from National at Bercy to Pont Mirabeau. Alize Pezet led the women’s center mile, finishing first among participants in a brisk Seine race along the western city arc.
An unidentified man about thirty one years old fell from the Brooklyn Bridge station onto a south bound subway car. He was removed to Hudson Street Hospital by Dr Carey where he died.
Justice Weeks grants Bela Armstrong divorce from playwright Paul Armstrong. Catherine Calvert, stage actress known for The Deep Purple and The Escape, is named as respondent. Referee found misconduct on a steamer and in Armstrong’s apartment with Calvert. alimony awarded totaling 15 000 over four years. custody given to Mrs Armstrong. Calvert later disclosed her real name Cassidy and described an oral teaching contract offering staged career guidance in exchange for strict obedience.
Samuel Moscowitz a Uni Cigar clerk at No 82 Sixth Avenue faced two robbers at about 9 last night. A revolver was aimed at him as the pair emptied the cash drawer of about $100 and fled after warning him not to raise an alarm. Police investigated but no arrests were made by midnight.
The body of Albert Lt. Wemerens, drowned Wednesday at Long Beach, washed up at Edgemere twelve miles west. He is the son of Albert J. Demerest of Leonia New Jersey, a contractor who has been building cottages at Long Beach. Officials suspect cramps after swimming soon after meals led to the drowning.
London plans a bold opera venture headed by Thomas Beecham with backing from wealthy donors. A 4000 seat opera house to surpass all but the Albert Hall is proposed, costing over 1 million dollars. Tickets would be priced like music halls from sixpence to five shillings.
A second portion of the young woman’s torso was found among abandoned boat hulls in the ship’s graveyard area near Weehawken New Jersey. The piece, about fourteen inches, lay in a weighted bundle with a bloodstained pillow slip and newspaper, and investigators believe it matches the first fragment.
Johnson signals Gaynor nominators will run below the Mayor’s name for Controller Prendergast and Aldermen McAneny named on the ticket. Mitchell may receive a second offer to head Independence League, while the Committee of 177 plans to welcome outside help to save the Board of Estimate.
John D. Rockefeller accompanied Mrs. James Adams to a car after church at Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland. Mrs. Rockefeller attended the summer service for the first time. Rev. Dr. Bustard preached his first sermon since vacation, speaking on The Childhood of Jesus.
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