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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1904
Page
3
A Washington inquest opens at the morgue into the Teecreation tragedy that sank Saturday afternoon, killing ten. Witnesses include doctors, survivors, and family members. Masonic orders lead funeral arrangements with services at multiple churches and private graves, as victims are laid to rest Tuesday.
Mourning four Nobles of the Mystic Shrine drowned in the Potomac regatta catastrophe, Almas Temple charity excursion to River View is postponed. Potentate Tred W. Behrens and Samuel W. Stinemetz, committee chair, announce postponement with date to be set later. Drowned: J Herbert Coates, William H. Smith, Charles H Blumer, J George Smith, all of Columbia Commandery Knights Templars. William H. Smith helped lead the donations and prizes committee. Dr. Charles A. Stewart, a Recreation launch owner, was saved and also served on the committee.
Walter Hamacher twenty seven, of 412 Third Street Northwest, drowned around 1 a m yesterday at Colonial Beach while attempting to swim from the pier to shore. An all day search failed to find the body, and recovery efforts were suspended at sunset. Hamacher, an expert swimmer and amateur baseball player, had come from Washington with William Schmidt for a river outing. Schmidt warned against the swim, but Hamacher stripped and plunged in, possibly struck by a buried pier or a cramp. His body remains missing as authorities and relatives organize continued efforts.
Among passengers arriving today on the steamer Columbia from Glasgow and Movile were J. C. Higgins United States Consul at Dundes and Judge Game of South Carolina.
A lengthy summary of a Republican campaign textbook 49044 outlines topics from tariff and trusts to the Panama Canal and Cuba reciprocity. It includes speeches by Hanna, McKinley, Hay, Fairbanks, Root, and Cannon, with discussions on platforms, gold standard, and Roosevelt era policy to guide campaign orators and voters, plus a charged note of a chair assault on Lena Taylor.
Ex Comptroller Eckels of Chicago elected chair of the Democratic finance committee in Illinois. He aims to raise substantial funds and win over gold Democrats like MacVeigh, Field, Moran, Tree, Gregory, and others. Republicans push voter registration and industrial canvassing, while New York hosts a Democratic college club and figures such as Harrison and Curtis shape ongoing campaigns.
Judge Alton B. Parker, Democratic nominee, spends the night at Winnisook Lodge Ulster County New York at 2700 feet. He travels from Kingston with Mrs Parker and relatives, greeted by Big Indian residents with a flag. The club, founded twenty years ago, seats twenty members and lies at the foot of Slide Mountain. Bryan曾客 at the club in 1896.
Democratic National Committee chairman Taggart will open the party headquarters at 1 West Thirty-fourth Street in New York and devote two days to organization work. He plans to depart for White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, for Wednesday’s notification ceremony for Vice Presidential candidate Henry G Davis. He returns to New York Thursday evening. He ordered DNC employees to report for duty at 7 o'clock Monday morning, asserting punctuality beyond nine.
Chairman Cortelyou of the Republican National Committee met President Roosevelt in Washington for a lengthy briefing. Secretary Hay and Secretary Wilson also visited the White House with Wilson returning from the West to report on political and crop conditions.
London Times cables report no major shift in trade and industry in the past week. Grain markets stay volatile amid U S and European activity with speculation, while cotton shows cautious improvement. Wool and iron sectors offer muted or mixed signals as forecasts suggest varied harvests and output across regions.
British mission in Lassa Tibet faces shortages with no talks underway. Tibetan officials say peasants cannot be forced to sell grain. One thousand troops with four guns march to Daiping monastery to secure supplies after a letter to the abbot is met with stone throwing. Monks send a delegation with white flag and provide 100 maunds of barley and flour after delay. abbot given four days to produce 3,500 maunds.
Mrs Florence Maybrick travels under the alias Rose Ingram aboard the Vaderland. Accompanied by attorney S V Hayden of Washington she departed Antwerp after meeting in Paris with Percy Barnard of New York. On arrival in New York she will be hosted by Dr Densmore. her mother Baroness de Roques plans to follow.
Special to The Washington Post Elkins West Virginia August 14 H G Davis Democratic Vice Presidential nominee departs at 1225 AM for White Sulphur Springs to receive formal notification at 1 PM Wednesday. He travels aboard his private car Graceland with brother Col Tom Davis son in law and daughter Arthur Lee Mr John T McGraw and sister Misses Sheridan Mrs R S Kerens and daughter Gladys and Secretary Charles Robb. This morning he attends church and later calls on neighbor R C Kerens at Glauystone Abbey.
Low barometric pressures span the U S with a trough along the New England coast and showers possible in the Ohio Valley and Southwest. Temperatures rise east of the Rockies, with cooler fits from local rain and storms. Mon daylight brings fair to moderate temps in New England and the Lake region. masses of rain likely in Middle South Atlantic Gulf states and Ohio Valley. Winds shift from westerly along New England to southerly across coasts. fresh southwesterly winds toward Grand Banks. Local figures show midnight 71, 2 am 71, 4 pm 84, max 88, min 70. humidity 69 percent at 8 am. Sunshine hours about 69. yesterday max 67, min 64. Sunrise 5:12, sunset 6:56. tides high 10:38 am and 11:24 pm, low 5:04 am and 5:27 pm. Temperatures in other cities listed with twelve hour rainfall ending 8 pm.
Mrs. Lucy Howard, carrying a three month old baby, sat in the Garfield Hospital vestibule overnight after being refused ward admittance. Authorities called police to remove her as officials suspected mental imbalance, and police sought relatives to arrange care.
The Times reports the Titian portrait known as Portrait of Ariosto, long in Lord Darnley’s collection, has been bought for the national collection from Sir George Donaldson for £30,000. Private donors contributed £18,500, with backers including Waldorf Astor, Alfred Bell, Lord Burton, Lord Iveagh, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Lady Wantage.
In Shamirun, a village five hours north of Bitlis, Turkish troops reportedly attacked Armenian residents with Kurdish involvement. Two villages are said to be destroyed as a result of the assault.
President Palma orders reform of Cuban municipal tax collections on the Eastern island to raise revenues. He will appoint Carlos Ortez as secretary of state and justice and Carlos Alberto Smith as secretary of agriculture. Separately, Trans-Caspian land frontier closes due to cholera outbreak in Persia and Afghanistan.
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