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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
1
New York City school leaders move to suspend all sports schedules warning local officials to follow a sweeping act. Officials including Superintendent Stuart of Whhe and Principal Oyster confront risks to players amid growing concerns over game brutality and safety. The board faces pressure from principals to delay action until formal channels confirm the policy.
Secretary Haldane spoke to the Eighty Club on budget policy and government unity He said the government accepts Mr Balfours challenge to go to the country on the budget and that Lords rejection would not be asked for by the Liberals The cabinet is absolutely united with no drastic steps expected under the constitutional framework.
George H. Warren of Malden was sentenced to three months in the house of correction after pleading guilty to bribery. He admitted giving William T Dunn sealer of weights and measures $5 to drop prosecution of a coal company in which Warren had an interest for providing short weight.
Richard Watson Gilder, editor in chief of Century Magazine, dies at his New Jersey home after a long career as a writer, editor, and poet. He rose from early schoolboy printing to cofounding Scribners and guiding the Century. He married art student Helen De Kay and left five children. Funeral planned at the Ascension Church and burial in Bordentown New Jersey.
The article notes that deduced uses the ax four weighers, with 75 to 100 cases forwarded to the Treasury Department. Wakeman speaks with Secretary MacVeagh and promises thorough housecleaning, with Loch to be backed. Do-Whitehead after job as Agostant Hia recalls Corsa's dismissal and Shaw’s disposal of $12 Babe.
Former appraiser Wakeman says Secretary MacVeagh will clean up the customs service as never before. Col lector Loeb suspends 18 four inspectors and two others, signaling a wide drive against dockside bribery. Treasury evidence links many to sugar frauds as the agency plans further removals amid a looming reform wave.
Testimony centers on whether Congress can grant immunity to compel testimony in sugar import fraud investigations. William Theobald and George Whitehead describe investigations into sugar refineries in Brooklyn and port of New York appraisals, noting immunity factors and possible motives for dismissals. Cross details broader evidence in Williamsburg sugar cases and ongoing criminal proceedings, stressing unreleased material.
Lima Ohio May 18 A man named William Pack of Dulleville? son of Jacob Frick died from injuries after a fall from a third story window at the Exchange saloon when a friendly scuffle over a photograph occurred Florence Adams of Toledo also fell and was badly hurt Adaimy? claims the event. Frick reportedly carried $1000 in checks and papers. Adams will recover.
Prof World C Wheeler, 1st assistant in the chemistry division of the University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station, died by his own hand today. A note in his desk said he tired of living and directed his wife to collect insurance. He had refused meals at home since the baby’s birth and could not endure the infant’s cries. The suicide was attributed to aversion to the child and a detestation of domestic life. He left about 312 grains of potassium cyanide in his body. colleagues described him as well liked with no debts. The story notes a promotional plug for a bakery at the Pure Food Show.
Paris reports Count Hont de Castellane has spent two weeks in Rome pushing to annul his marriage to Anna Gould, Princess de Bagna Pacelli. An Italian lawyer acts as intermediary with Vatican authorities as negotiations continue in secrecy amid intense public interest.
Five men held up the Union Pacific Overland Limited at Omaha on May 2 1909 and robbed the mail car. In United States district court Judge TOC Munger sentenced William Mathews D W Woods Fred Torgensen Frank Griggale and Lawrence K Golden to life imprisonment. Shao boys and a girl school teacher provided information that led to capture.
Reports say the Nourmahal, missing for ten days in West Indian waters, was sighted near Hawks Nest Harbor San Salvador but Astor party doubts the craft seen was the yacht. Capt Durie of the steamship Annet reported a large white steamer similar to the Nourmahal, weather worsened, and inquiry orders were issued to revenue cutters.
Stephen Chalmers, a known magazine contributor, fought a wounded buck 18 miles from Burnt Lam. In twilight he used a broken shotgun stock to load a shot into the deer and then tried to finish it with his knife as the buck charged. His hands were torn by antlers in the struggle.
Albert T Patrick, serving life for William Marsh Rice murder, won another habeas corpus writ in Brooklyn. Judge Mirsehberg of the supreme court appellate division set the return for November 2. Patrick, who argued the case himself months earlier, faced a adverse decision.
Mrs Augusta Stetson, long dominant in New York’s First Church of Christ Scientist, is excommunicated by the mother church. Lurid internal conflicts, power struggle, and votes followed lengthy hearings, with Stetson denying direct notice of her removal. Strickler leaders claim loss of independence pushed by Eddy followers.
A Russian researcher demonstrated a method to revive a rabbit using electric stimulation and a torso heart lung device. Eyeing human employes at risk, Edison officials saw potential to revive workers fatally injured in power plants. The event, witnessed by doctors in New York, sparked debate over whether the technique could save lives.
A fragment describes suffragettes refusing prison clothing and wearing nothing, marching in protest. Alec Paul and Miss Paul are named among those jailed or appealing to Americans, with imagery of hunger strikes and forced feeding amid societal upheaval following Winston Churchill era tensions.
William M Lat tan publisher of the New York Sun lies gravely ill at his Lawrence home following an appendectomy performed last week. Doctors reported he did not rally after a surreal operation, and his condition remains serious tonight.
U S dispatches cruiser Des Moines and gunboat Vicksburg to Nic aragua amid a cited revolution and executions. State Department recognizes Nicaragua revolutionists and demands explanations from Zelaya while threatening naval protection for American interests.
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