16 Feb 1909
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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1909
Page
1
A disastrous theater blaze in Acapulco traps crowds at exits, leaving many dead or burned. Reports note a destroyed telegraph office and a theater known as Flowers, with chaotic attempts to rescue victims and widespread grief across the city and port area near Acapulco.
Panic hit Indianapolis housewives as a local food trust collapsed amid a furious revolt. Voters telephoned to declare no more defense wires. farmers and new contracts moved in. Butchers protested with a tense meeting, forfeits shown, and a wave of price shifts and disrupted deliveries spread among old customers.
Raymond Huen, the actor, filed a petition in bankruptcy in the federal district court. He lists unsecured debts of $982 and says he has no assets beyond $16 deposited in a bank.
New York February 1 A H Clark of Cleveland and Henry Thorpe bought rare angling titles from John Gerard Hecksher’s library sale Part 2. Thorpe paid for The Angler a Poem in Ten Cantos and other volumes including A Brooke of Fishing with Hook and Lyne and Sundry Engines and Traps to Take Polecats. Clark acquired Masenil’s Rare Works and a French angling book Amugemens de la Cam pagne. Total of the sale was about a future figure.
Henry Vignaud secretary of the American embassy at Paris resigns to take effect March 31 at age 78. A fund of 20000 dollars is raised by prominent Americans including Levi P Morton Whitelaw Reid James Gordon Bennett Andrew Carnegie and J P Morgan to support his remaining years. Garrett may succeed him as secretary of the embassy in Paris after a long career beginning with the Mason and Slidell mission and later serving as diplomat and author in high regard.
Richard Gregory, a Black man, was executed at the District jail for the August 31 1907 killing of William Garner in Rock Creek park and assaulting a woman. He maintained innocence as he stepped to the scaffold singing Tell Mother I'll Be There, and his case involved contested sanity rulings and a last prayer from Rev John Roberts.
Daniel Frohman says if Margaret Ilington divorces him to marry J Bowes, he would approve. Miss Ilington, resting in San Francisco, says she wants a domestic life with children and socks to darn, not a stage career, and that no coercion occurred.
A partial Tel conversation with Mr Frohman centers on a woman's insistence that a man provide protection, home, and status. The speaker emphasizes work as the sole common ground, lamenting a lack of cohesion when work ended.
In Myers Ithaca New York on February 16 barber George Smith blew up his shop with dynamite just after finishing a shave. He was seriously injured while customers escaped as the stove exploded the wall and ceiling collapsed.
An unknown vessel rammed the Belgian steamer Australia during a February storm near Laiboran Istana in the Mediterranean about 100 miles from Gibraltar. Both ships foundered with 214 fatalities. Ten Australia crewmen in a small boat were rescued by the Libera and brought here.
Cincinnati Feb 15 Librarian Hodges of the Cincinnati Public Library received word from Andrew Carnegie that he would give 100110 to build a new branch library. Carnegie had previously donated 180000 to the Cincinnati library for branch libraries.
George Spencer Millett, 15, an office boy in New York, died after a stenographer allegedly tried to kiss him fifteen times. The case centers on Gertrude Bobbing, jailed on homicide charges, who describes a panicked scene with blood on Millett's coat. The police report casts doubt on intent, citingaccidental stabbing during an attempted kiss.
New York Feb 11 customs officials reveal a drug smuggling plot by three stewards of the Kron Prinzesain Cecilie and Alfred Willembricher. They admit bringing codeine into the United States for years and arranging sales through a physician, with one conspirator dying after a quarrel. The stewards are jailed on $2000 bail. Willembricher released. A separate notice from Clarksburg protests liquor legislation and seeks local option measures in the legislature.
Athole B. Reader, husband of Ella Rawls Reader, sues James B. Haggin in New York Supreme Court seeking 250000. Reader claims he secured options from about 300 Peruvian landowners for mines Haggin bought for 2600000, then sold to Cerro de Pasco Copper Co and Cerro de Pasco Mining Co for 60000, with Reader alleging a 10 percent share. Justice Fitzgerald allowed an amended complaint be served.
Washington leaders and business and church figures gathered at the Willard Hotel as the Young Men’s Christian Association of Washington marked ten years of growth under Samuel Walter Woodward. Commissioner Macfarland presided, praising Woodward’s leadership and the association’s civic impact. Speakers included Gen John W Foster, W Finley, Alfred E Marling, John B Siemanar, Thomas W Smith, and Reverend Dr. Samuel Greene. A testimonial volume set and remarks from William Knowles Cooper highlighted the decade’s achievements, while Taft sent a congratulatory message.
Montreal reports vigorous protests by Ontario Quebec and New Brunswick against the fisheries section of a new international waterways treaty with the United States. Provinces claim proprietary rights are being seized while opponents allege the plan opens waters long since poor for fishing to American interests. The dispute centers on licensed access and fears of broader concessions triggering further opposition from border states.
The speaker drew loud applause as he rose to close and thanked the audience. Mr. Woodward stated that the association’s ten year success rests not with the president but with the committee chairmen, active members, and the loyal board of directors.
Warrants issued for about twenty local dairymen on charges of poisoning eight people with formaldehyde and preservatives in milk. Mrs Philip Hollis, a prominent woman, is near death. several children are affected. Health officials warn of multiple past deaths tied to dairy adulteration in the area.
A wireless dispatch from the flagship Connecticut reports the fleet nearing home at 8 pm with positions given off Cape Verde and near Hispaniola as the Maine signals from its squadron base. Cadiz reports Arabic greeting Rear Admiral Sperry, while Old Point Comfort prepares for the naval review and Washington march.
Berlin reports indicate five women of the working base were wounded in the city and suburbs yesterday while this morning the wife of a merchant was injured by an assailant nicknamed Jack the Hip. None of the injuries were serious except the merchant's wife whose knife blade broke at her stays and who was knocked unconscious.
Congress clears the way for Knox to join Taft cabinet after the House passes a Senate bill lowering the secretary of state’s pay to eight thousand dollars. The vote split largely along party lines, with Republicans broadly supporting and Democrats opposing. the measure now heads to President Roosevelt for signature.
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