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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1913
Page
3
William Barb resigns from the port collection post and forwards the notice to Washington. The move clears the way for Loeb to become managing director of a Cageenbeinm vampanos venture, with related appointments already promised. A $100 lecture fee is noted alongside.
A Wabash train bound from Detroit to Buffalo toppled twenty feet down an embankment near Wayuga Ontario. Spreading rails caused the accident. Twenty persons were injured, with several seriously hurt including Mrs J Morris Chicago Miss Estelle Smyder Chicago Mrs Matilda Shipman Kansas City D. Un Water the agso di Ul Hamilton Emanuel Villman and Mrs Gillman and child, all of Chicago.
President Taft signed 350 commissions and hundreds of letters before a packed farewell at the White House. Gov Sulzer and Samuel Gompers visited as diplomats filed past, and crowds watched Mr and Mrs Wilson’s arrival. Taft removed his father Alphonso Taft’s portrait and left for Augusta, Ga, after a lengthy day of receptions and final duties.
President Taft commuted to expire March 28 the fifteen year sentence of William Montgomery once cashier at Allegheny National Bank of Pittsburgh convicted for misappropriation of funds. Bank failed with a one million dollar shortage. losses have been repaid and the sentence deemed excessive compared with similar cases.
President Taft yesterday remitted the 18 month prison term of Charles L. Hyde, convicted at Sioux Falls South Dakota for using the mails to defraud in connection with the sale of town lots at Pierre South Dakota. The sentence is commuted to a fine of 1500 dollars and costs. The clemency was opposed by the Post Office Department.
Blaine Washington March 3 Joseph Ettor a leader of the Lawrence Massachusetts I W W strike was deported after being taken from a train at White Rock British Columbia last Friday Immigration officers kept him under guard as he refused to answer questions Ettor declared he was a United States citizen on his way to Victoria to lecture and could not be detained He would not permit his baggage to be searched Ottawa issued the deportation order without stating a reason beyond labeling Ettor an agitator.
Referee William Klein recommended an absolute divorce for Mrs. Lucy Drexel Dahlgren from Eric B. Dahlgren. The report also favors awarding custody of their eight children to Mrs. Dahlgren. The husband reportedly was found in her company at a East Fifty-ninth Street house and the correspondent is tied to a wealthy private school.
Vice President-elect Thomas Riley Marshall of Indiana spent a packed day at the Shoreham hotel in Washington. He reviewed Culver Military Academy cadets, greeted Democratic leaders, and dined with Indiana delegates as he prepared to assume office with President-elect Wilson arriving nearby.
William Jennings Bryan arrived in Washington to a roaring ovation at Union Station and an escort to the Willard Hotel with his wife and Josephus Daniels. The party, including Mrs Daniels, met early colleagues, signaling his likely cabinet appointment as Secretary of State and Daniels as Postmaster General, amid denials that a New York official would receive the Treasury portfolio.
In a brief exchange with reporters the Secretary of State dismissed rumors about delaying a cabinet announcement over a protest against William G McAdoo’s nomination as Treasury. He warned reporters their signed stories would not gain credibility and declined to discuss personal plans, noting he would stay in Washington for a week because rooms were unavailable for longer.
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