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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1906
Page
9
Col Mann received a large fund as backers repaid in full. Editor Mann claimed the man he named is dead. The colonel, previously poor, raised 165000 dollars with investors taking stock as security at 1000 dollars a share. Sta Lawyer Osborne criticizes the paper alongside Judge Deuel.
Washington Post report details Col William D Mann of Town Topics receiving loans totaling over 165000 from prominent figures including James R Keene W K Vanderbilt John W Gates Collis P Huntington and J P Morgan. He admits unsecured notes and stock security in Town Topics stock valued up to 20 shares per loan.
Col Mann describes loans, stock deals, and pressure over Town Topics coverage. He cites loans from Schwab and Vanderbilt, a sale of Belmont stock, and a large loan from Keene secured by mortgage. He also explains advertising ties with Equitable and asserts few ownership stakes in the paper.
Chicago January 22 President Roosevelt is cited as central to the Packers immunity dispute. Attorneys argue a June 12 1905 Roosevelt letter to Attorney General Moody shows joint action by the Departments of Justice Commerce and Labor to obtain evidence. Cudahy faced implied jail threat for cooperation. defense says immunity was promised.
Leaders from the Sunday schools and league board gathered at a banquet to discuss benefits of league ties. A committee to draft rules was appointed, with George A. Pier James BE West and Edward F Colladay named. Attendees included E Colladay Rev J L Ailson G A Prevost F W Edgliiano J Verbryche M R Fishburn J H West Rev J A Dawson and others.
John Singer Wallace naval chaplain on the retired list died yesterday after a brief illness. A Lincoln appointee in 1863 he taught international law at Annapolis and was among the oldest chaplains. A native of Ohio he was seventy four. his remains to Washington for interment in Arlington Cemetery. Bethlehem Pa Robert Brown retired agriculturist and former State senator died aged eighty eight. he traced royal British lineage and Roosevelt ancestry. Frankfort Ky former Representative T Y Fitzpatrick of the Tenth District died midnight from heart disease.
Special to The Washington Post reports a Ridgewood train car derailed at the Fifth Avenue elevated junction with Myrtle Avenue in New York. The rear motor car hung half off the structure but avoided a deadly fall. A man, a woman, and a child were hurt and sent home, two women fainted, and no ambulances were used.
Bay City Michigan January 22 Jacob Rails a personal friend of President Roosevelt arrived here and denied reports from Sunday that Roosevelt would accept a third term if his fight against trusts continued. Rails said he told a Toledo newspaper Roosevelt would not abandon the fight and might later serve in the Senate or House to press the cause.
Houston news reports a strike in the Humble oil field involving 400 workers. Major producers Moonshine, Producers and Texas companies have shut down plants as union nonrecognition and dismissals drive the stoppage. Leaders say extension to other figures is only a last resort while managers refuse negotiations.
The Brazilian turret ship Aquidaban sank after a powder magazine explosion near Port Jakerepagua. Of 350 crew and officers, 212 died and 98 survived, including three rear admirals. The Barroso carried the minister of marine and staff. The ship once hosted a New York harbor demonstration in 1893 and was flagship of Admiral Mello during a naval mutiny.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft decided it would be impossible to quarter a brigade of troops in Manila. They dismissed a request from merchants firms and institutions arguing that Manila cannot provide the drill needed for field service in China. The decision ends the bid to base the unit locally despite plans to form a brigade near Manila.
Katharine Gray a former Vassar girl claimed to be Sen Asbury Gray’s daughter and heiress to 300000. She was arrested in Pittsburg after a court hearing ordered her to leave town within twelve hours. Laurence Faust, a coachman posing as a millionaire, was involved in the false pretenses. Postmasters Under Investigation in New Jersey amid reform efforts.
New York January 2nd testimony examined life preservers from the 1843 Gen. Sto Cum steamship disaster in which over a thousand perished. Capt William H Van Schaick faces criminal negligence charges as coroners and doctors recount the drowned victims and the torn lifebelts found on bodies including a woman whose preserver was half emptied of cork. Fire Marshal Freel linked a lifepreserver to a drowned passenger and noted no burn injuries on the woman.
In York on January 22 the Lennon Globe Insurance Company suit against Mrs Usar De Forrest Parker over 37000 paid on the yacht Levathian after a fire heard testimony that many fittings and most stores were removed before the ship burned. Hannah Starkinbe testified about removing curtains and replacing tables. Norman Jones, former assistant steward, said fittings were carted away from Erie Basin and stores were exhausted after the cruise. He described packing silver and glassware for safe deposit, with some items replaced by cheaper goods. The defense claimed plaintiff actions were instigated by the yacht's captain. The trial continues tomorrow.
In Talladega Alabama on January 22 over a hundred students withdrew from Talladega College to protest the hiring of D O Parks a Southern white man as college farm superintendent. President B M Nice refused their demand for his discharge and Dr S H Baird of the American Missionary Society sustained Nice. The protest centered on Parks race with the majority faculty remaining Northern white. The student body totals nearly 1000 and Rev B WN Tice the college president from Lockport New York leads the school.
A mob of about 300 men seized Ernest Baker from the county jail and hanged him from a beam of the city scales near the courthouse after he allegedly assaulted Miss Mary Gentry. The lynching occurred secretly, with inmates unaware until morning. The article also notes a church group inviting the President to a February banquet, which he could not attend.
The Senate scene centers on Aldrich Bailey and Bailey’s push to learn whether Rhode Island’s Mr Bailey will back Roosevelt for a third term or accept a renomination under people’s demand. Bailey argues for nonpartisan measures, urging alignment with the president’s railroad and shipper reforms and challenging party rifts.
An incoming Chinese dispatch from Marseilles recounts a three hour battle in Tonquin French Indo China where 100 French regulars faced 300 Chinese casualties. The French sustained 16 Foreign Legion deaths and 20 Annamites killed while the Chinese losses included 300 killed and 90 wounded. A separate note promotes a public viewing of art weaves and rags collected by Mr Boyafian at Sloan's galleries in Perala with sale hours listed.
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