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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
27
Senator Owen’s measure appropriation of 25000 dollars to honor Sequoyah inventor of the tribal alphabet. Two bills affecting administration of the government hospital introduced in the House.
Senate bills aim to modify the act authorizing the Baltimore and Washington Transit Company in the District of Columbia and to extend Meridian Place Northwest. A measure also proposes erecting a Sequoyah statue in Washington. In the House, bills seek to amend statutes on the Government Hospital for the Insane executive staff and to alter admission proceedings to the same hospital.
Senator What yesterday introduces a bill to amend an act authorizing the Tattimore and Washington Transit Company of Maryland to enter the District of Columbia. The proposal extends streetcar lines via Tait street northwest to Madison, Colorado avenues and Parke road junction, with southwestward routing to Pensilvania intersection. Senator Owen of Oklahoma offers a separate bill to fund a Sequoyah statue in Washington, with a triangular plot at Pleasant street and Parke road. An appropriation is made for the Rend named. Meridian place extension and hospital reform bills follow, detailing hospital administration, salaries, and inmate provisions, plus court petition procedures for admission and hearings.
Philadelphia faces a proposed vivisection project to obtain serum for spinal meningitis and fever cures. Mrs Caroline Earle White and the American Anti Vivisection Society plan to pressure Gov Stokes and convene meetings in Trenton and Philadelphia with physicians opposing vivisection and a fundraising bazaar to fund efforts.
A historical instruction describes mixing gol witsky with glycerine and half an ounce of Concentrated oil pine to create a cold remedy. Doses are a teaspoon to a tablespoon every four hours, with the oil sold in half ounce vials in light-protected cases. Cautions warn against bulk oil and imitations due to kidney harm and emphasize using Concentrated oil pine from pharmacists.
Through the Panama Foreign Office the State Department received a petition from Panaman merchants opposing the Isthmian Canal Commission commissary used for West Indian laborers on the isthmus. The canal commission will answer after review. The issue has long strained Panaman merchants who say the commissary hurts legal business, while the commission defends it on grounds of high merchant prices.
New York January 9 Rev Charles Aked pastor of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church was reported improved today and friends believe that a planned operation for his health problem will not be needed.
The Senate District Committee meets at 11 to discuss Union Station streetcar extensions and a permanent tracks bill by Senator Gati. Amendments by Senator Hansbrough on universal transfer and franchise tax loom. Temporary track proposals by Senator Gallinger floated for quick relief. Schools investigation proposals by Senators Scott and Burkett unlikely to move now. sentiment favors possible future action.
Albany January 9 Chester Gillette appeals his first degree murder conviction for Grace Brown of South Otselic. He allegedly lured her to Big Moose Lake July 1906 and threw her overboard. The defense cites Grace Browns letters as unfair evidence and questions the courts extraordinary term.
In Goldsboro, Georgia, January 9, two black farm hands killed Mr. and Mrs. Car lin Livingston during a 9 PM attack at their home. Livingston was struck with a hatchet and his wife cut in the throat. Both victims were fatally injured, and the suspects were captured and shot dead by others before authorities arrived.
Two Central American ministers Senors Herrarte of Guatemala and Mejia of Salvador plan extended vacations. Herrarte will depart Monday via New Orleans. Mejia leaves Tuesday via San Francisco. While away, Senor Bengoechea acts as chargé d affaires for Guatemala and Mr Gustavo Guerrero for Salvador.
Assistant Secretary Murray Disbursing Clerk Soleau and Harrison Nesbit will form a committee to examine administration efficiency personnel economy of operations and accounting and business systems in each bureau of the Department of Commerce and Labor and its subordinate offices outside Washington. The group will start in the Bureau of Fisheries and report with recommendations.
A heated Washington street railway discussion at the House District Committee session signals a strong push for universal transfers. Madden, Dunlop, and Harries plan to attend a Monday gathering to debate extending tracks to Union Station, with subcommittees named to handle session bills and railroad reforms.
Judge Blanchard hears Marl Laeske, thirteen, seeking to compel Equitable Life Assurance Society to pay one half of a $1,000 policy on her mother. Mart and Julia, named beneficiaries, would split the share. Julia has died, so her portion would go to the father, already serving a life sentence for the murder. Equitable denies payment, arguing the murderer should not benefit from crime.
A delegation from the Woman's International Missionary Union urged prohibition in the District and other reforms in a petition presented to President Roosevelt after a praise service at Luther Memorial Church. The President expressed sympathy and would refer a citizenship clause to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Also reported is the fourth fatality from the Hiram Georgia wreck, Alexander Forrester of Cleveland dying in Atlanta.
United States District Court in Springfield hears Rev. James A. Kaye pastor of Cumberland Presbyterian Church Lincoln DL on trial for counterfeiting. Kaye admits making coins but says he sought only to test if he could produce medals for Sunday school children.
In New York Victor Morawetz argues the Aldrich bill would worsen long term conditions by expanding note issue without contraction. He cites high per capita uncovered currency and warns banks would overexpand credits during normal times. Chicago reports a burglar stole $60,000 in jewelry from Samuel Schwarts of Waukegan, with no signs of entry.
Mr. Andrew McConnell promotes electricity of the body as a cure for chronic diseases. Dr. Herron of Italy donates $100 to spread these discoveries after witnessing self-healing in over ten invalids. Lectures from Life Electricity Inst. in Washington.
New York report describes a test of the Brooklyn tube and bridge crowding relief. In eighty-one minutes from 6:09 to 6:30, twenty seven trains carrying eight cars each from Bowing Green station carried about 27,000 passengers toward Brooklyn. Suburban express patterns reduced bridge crowds, with about 6,000 fewer riders per hour on bridge trains, a near ten percent drop at peak rush. A ceremony in Brooklyn celebrated the tunnel opening with officials, National Guard, and a parade through Borough Hall.
Five Belgian police dogs named Dana Max Lady Rags and Nogi start patrol duty in the suburbs under Lieut Wakefield after training in Ghent Belgium. The Ghent system backs the effort with about sixty dogs on duty in that city.
A report states a new protector oversees safety, with a claim that workers and children who ate lunch near the mill were assaulted, and the responsible party is now in charge of enforcement.
Representative Willan Sulzer discussed his marriage to Miss Clara Roedelheim of Philadelphia after she nursed him through illness in a New York hospital. He said the union was no elopement but a romance with a deliberate plan to wed, surprising friends in New York.
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