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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1908
Page
19
The Washington Post notes a slack week in the market with limited stock price moves and modest trading for standard issues. Hedge funds and speculators show confusion as investors weigh possible post election trends, tariff effects, and winter wheat prospects against a general sense of gradual upward movement.
London markets show improved tone with brisk gilt demand despite BoE reserve cuts. American gold shipments and New York activity support European sentiment as Paris and Berlin trade caution amid Austro Turkish tensions and cautious outlook.
Long Branch captain John Hennessy and crew receive Treasury Medal for 1893 life saving amid a gale near Red Bank. They saved five men from the schooner Thomas W Havens after the vessel wrecked off Long Branch. The act drew townspeople and a bold rescue mission despite danger. The article notes a luncheon by the Associated for the Blind and broader civic notices.
National Rivers and Harbors Congress gathers in this city Wednesday with delegates from Cincinnati Pittsburgh and other points. A special train will transport about 75 delegates led by Andrew Carnegie along with leaders from Louisville Wheeling and Los Angeles as part of a packed official program featuring speeches by Fairbanks Gompers Cannon and other notables.
Ohio's 8 counties are dry while others swing wet after six months of Antisaloon League efforts since Ross county option law took effect. Voting spreads to remaining 24 counties in coming months. Nearly 1,730 saloons have been voted out, about one third of pre-option total.
Delegations from 32 commercial bodies in 15 Southern states gathered in New Willard for the Southern Commercial Congress with Gov Hoke Smith of Georgia using a Georgia headquarters suite. An estimated 2000 attendees are expected at the opening session as Secretary Straus presides at 10 AM after a Marine Band concert and a prayer.
Senator Isaac Stephenson of Wisconsin argues that tariff revision to remove or reduce tariffs on raw materials would unlock markets closed by trust control. He cites iron ore and coal as examples and says free raw materials would aid small manufacturers without harming investors or workers, while depriving trusts of leverage over material supplies.
The United States Atlantic fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry entered Singapore Harbor to a loyal welcome from thousands of spectators. The Connecticut led the salute to the fort as launches and small steamers ferried observers to the ships. Reports say the voyage from Manila was uneventful and the weather was favorable.
Six specialists in the Bureau of Manufactures studied labor costs and production abroad for over a year. Their findings, kept in Maj. John M Carson's office, aim to guide tariff policy by detailing foreign costs, wages, and factory conditions to support American producers against foreign competition.
Indianapolis resident Ehecca Bennet recounts severe fainting spells tied to heart weakness. She credits Dr Miles Heart Cure with restoring heart action and nerve strength after using five bottles, noting initial benefit and a money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co. in Elkhart Indiana.
At a church service in New Britain Connecticut Mrs Asenath Bancroft widow of Willard Bancroft aged 72, a deaconess, collapsed and died in her pew. She had been housekeeper for Aaron Buttrick, the elderly miser who died days earlier leaving an estate of about 4500 dollars, mostly to her.
In Asheville a moonshiner's wife paid a dawn bet to revenue raiders led by Collector Will Roberts. She guided them to the still after a deputy taunted her, destroying eighteen years of operation and leaving her husband a fugitive while she provided a meals for the officers.
Special to The Washington Post Bellefontaine Ohio December 6 Judge H P Ingalls died at his Huntsville home aged 82 He was a famous showman partner of Barnum and Tony Pastor once owned the Philadelphia Museum and was superintendent of the Cincinnati Museum Ingalls gained fame and fortune with the Siamese twins and the Nova Scotia manta in America and Europe
Capt Samuel W A Patterson and Lieut Newton of the United States Marine Corps are ordered before a naval court martial at the Norfolk navy yard. Patterson is on trial for alleged disobedience of orders for failing to sleep in the headquarters when ordered to remain on duty. Newton awaits summons for a hearing as part of the case against him. The court convened last Thursday with Rear Admiral Nathan Niles USN presiding. Capt John M McGill serves as judge advocate.
Kell of Nome Alaska dies from peritonitis after an appendectomy at Annapolis Emergency Hospital. He had been appointed to the Naval Academy and hoped to be Alaska’s first naval officer. His death follows a Tuesday surgery and likely prevents return home for burial. his father is a prominent prospector.
Wireless from Newport indicates the Yankee, sunk off Chickens Shoal, may be raised or recovered. Cold, calm seas aid operations as air compressors may be used more easily. Bow still visible at high water with tops of masts and stack showing.
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