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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1908
Page
1
Former ambassador Choate tells President Roosevelt to name malefactors he claims evade statutes. If counsel Ald and the wicked evade law, Choate says reveal names. Saya notes the Bar Association of New York is offered a chance to intervene if the executive does not know who they are.
At a Washington dinner, ex Ambassador Joseph T. Leata accused President Roosevelt of protecting corrupt lawyers. Choate warned officials may be named if such figures act outside statutes, urging the President to reveal malefactors and stressing constitutional limits on executive power.
Special to The Washington Post. Wellesley Mass January. Students undergo initiation stunts on Washington Street near the college gate. A girl climbs a telegraph pole and a line of peers cheered. A sedate member steps a streetcar and ties a shoe, thanking the conductor. A candidate is asked to propose to the policeman. The crowd chases, hoots, and the uniform proves too much for one student who flees to her dormitory.
The Italian retreat and old age end Ouida life. Mile Louise de la Ramee known as Onida, born 1840 in England, wrote many novels including Under Two Flags. Once wealthy from 250000 to 400000, she faced poverty and rejected charity ending with a quiet death near Florence.
Alfred G. and Reginald Vanderbilt endured a frigid Friday snowstorm delay on a Providence bound train. The pair and their party suffered exposure with no food or shelter for fourteen hours aboard the stalled car near Middletown before returning to Newport. A second item notes coal premiums and travel ads from Seaboard Air Line with multiple daily trains offered.
On the Adriatic from Southampton to New York, Lady Juliet Duff and Hon. Violet Vivian openly smoked in the lounge, defying the Little Tim Sullivan anti smoking ordinance. The pair, young and titled, argued women have equal rights to smoke, as American passengers panic at first then imitate.
Jan 25 Brownsville Pa A wealthy Tokyo merchant Caleb J Mil tertay aged 65 commits suicide by hanging. Japanese government enacts passport rules to curb immigration of Japanese laborers to Hawaii and the United States. Washington officials see the move as tightening controls, with Mexico and Canada also targeted. Officials expect stricter regulations and enforcement in coming months to reduce Japanese immigration. A dispatch to Tokyo via Ambassador O'Brien is cited as influential in advancing the measure.
Charleo V. Patt erson aged forty, junior member of a retail dry goods firm, was found asphyxiated by gas in his residence after a twisted tube near his mouth. In Louisville, Joseph Bloch senior member of Bloch Brathere whisky brokerage shot himself in his office amid nervous prostration. In New Haven Just before appearing in court Charles Fingerle aged fifty five killed himself with carbolic acid after daughter in law filed divorce allegations.
Haitian revolution nearly crushed as Jean Jumeau, leader of the insurgents, is captured near Gonaives and executed by government troops. Government forces occupy Gonaives while a blockade is set by the gunboat Centenaire and a British steamer is labeled a pirate. The Paducah proceeds from New Orleans toward Haiti for orders.
A mob of about 200 men gathered in Ottumwa on January 5 demanding Roy Edwards a Black man under arrest for attacking Mrs Clara Ervin. Police and Sheriff Jackson said Edwards was taken out of town. The mob briefly tried to force entry, but learned Edwards had been removed and dispersed.
Boston financier C R Johnson failed in a salvage effort for gold aboard the 1862 Golden Gate wreck at Manzanillo Mexico. Reported drownings and one fatality occurred during a recent storm. A gasoline launch sent from San Francisco sank in the same storm, complicating salvage work.
Matthew M Sniffen of Philadelphia secretary of the Indian Rights Association was sent to Montana to investigate alleged irregularities on the Crow Reservation and was arrested there and placed in the guardhouse. Federal grand jury now investigates the official conduct of Maj Reynolds, Crow Agency agent, with possible Washington instructions behind actions.
Liabon January report says conspirators sought revolvers and bombs to sway officers and soldiers for a political revolt. Government pledges measures to ensure order and army loyalty while awaiting elections. Lisbon reports say no further arrests. opposition parties blamed for abortive republican move to halt elections. Cabinet ready to restore the constitution and faces no fear of elections or Parliament.
Special to The Washington Post Cincinnati January 25 1905 Mrs Bellamy Storer is reported to soon receive a decoration from the Emperor of Japan for her Japanese bronze work created during four years with a renowned artist while her husband served as Ambassador to Spain A dragon piece praised by the artist is cited and the exact decoration type and timing remain undisclosed. Mrs Storer is currently in Boston.
The Washington Post announces its Educational Contest with cash prizes for successful contestants. The competition is open to all readers of The Washington Daily and Sunday Post, with details available on Page 3, Second Section.
War Office issues urgent orders to auxiliary forces across Great Britain to be ready for immediate service and possible garrison duties. Government plans to move large regular forces to India, citing unrest there and Transvaal actions as justification. Some speculate Boer motives aim to strain British leadership with India.
Pottsville hastern steel company announces reopening with open hearth furnaces lit and two of three rolling mills to start Monday, third on Tuesday, restoring work for about 3000 workers after weeks of partial closure. Reading hardware company cuts hours as sales slow, with nearly a thousand employees moved to fifty hour weeks from thirty nine, signaling brighter hardware trade prospects.
The body of Josephine Malone a dressmaker who had been missing since Wednesday night was recovered from the river in Tenn esville Wisconsin close to where actress Madamine Odell Clayton was recently found dead. Officials reported drowning as the cause with no signs of violence and noted missing hat and left hand glove. The case remains mysterious with speculation about a possible foul play.
Sir Alan Johnstone the British Minister to Denmark and Lady Johnstone arrived in New York on the Amerika en route to Washington due to the illness of Lady Johnstone's father James W Pinchot of Washington. Pinchot, father of Gifford Pinchot, Chief Forester, had been ill at his home 1615 Rhode Island Avenue and was reported improved last night. The sale at Sloan's resumes Monday at 11 am featuring colonial mahogany and Adams furniture, rare books, china, glassware, prints, silver, and paintings, with daily sessions at 11 am and 3 pm until sold out, plus a new consignments. The McComas law library will be sold Tuesday at 8 pm under a separate catalogue. The Washington Sunset Route moved its office to Street northwest for better service to California, A. J. Poston, general agent.
The edition catalogs varied items including iChoate's demand on the President, a death of novelist Oulda, notes on a Haitian rebel leader, British forces in India, and political polling on Taft. It lists banquet plans, student affairs, editorials on labor and street car measures, society notes, and a wide range of sections from education contests to clubs and real estate reviews. The issue also highlights theater, fashion, markets, and magazine features with many named individuals and organizations.
A two year old child at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati was scalded to death when a nine year old girl turned on the hot water after a nurse left the room for soap. The incident occurred this afternoon at the Protestant Episcopal institution serving poor women and children. The baby’s screams drew attention but rescue came too late.
Jane Valdez, a married Havana resident aboard the Mascotte, disappeared near Port Tampa as the liner neared the pier. Her husband, also a passenger, suspects she leaped to death, noting prior dementia. Search for Mi raela Sanchez Valdez continues with no trace found.
Harvard professor Barrett Wendell denounces privileged classes as despotic laboring groups while praising upper class merit. He argues taxation and representation should align with wealth and influence, linking labor unions to wartime policy and criticizes Asiatic exclusion on the Pacific Coast. Advertisement notes Baltimore to New York florist travel fare and train details.
A murder near Union Station draws seven suspects eight including a woman held in connection with the crime. Detectives press multiple theories as they seek direct links while police guard the Vinci neighborhood where the victim Hans Wo Bold, a North Capitol Street saloon proprietor, was found fatally wounded. Suspect Charles Phillips and brother Frederick tied to the case alongside Emma Jasper and others as investigators pursue admissions amid contradictory statements.
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