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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
10
New York City school officials move to cancel all schedules amid safety concerns in football. Board members and school principals debate the action, with lingering doubt on enforcing the ban and protecting players from injury.
Secretary Haldane spoke before the Eighty Club on the budget and government policy. He said the government accepted Balfour's challenge to go to the country or risk free trade, the budget, and the Lords. He stated the cabinet was absolutely united.
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 for Maiden, $5 to drop prosecution of a coal company Warren was involved with for short weights.
Richardson Watson Gilder, long time editor and writer, died at his home in New Jersey after a rapid illness. Born 1844 in Bordentown, he rose from a boy printer to editor in chief of Scribners and later Century Magazine. He married art student Helena De Kay in the Century office and left five children. Burial planned in Bordentown.
Fragmentary report mentions ded uses the ax four weighers. Evidence in 75 to 100 cases sent to Treasury Department. Wakeman's talk with Secretary MacVeagh ends with promise of thorough house cleaning. Loch to be backed. Do-Whitehead after job as agost ant Hia recollection of Corsa's dismissal Shaw's disposal of $12 Babe.
Former appraiser Wakeman says Secretary MacVeagh will cleanse the customs service, backing Collector Loeb. Washington talks reveal widespread suspensions of weighers and inspectors for accepting tips at docks, with many more cases expected as a broad cleanout proceeds.
Former Treasury agent William Theobald testified on immunity and compelled testimony, noting Congress could grant immunity as a condition to testify but could not force incriminating statements without it. He recalled a 1888 sugar refinery probe in Brooklyn that was halted after three days, with frauds a small part of annual government losses estimated up to 30,000,000. George W Whitehead described Henry C Corsa’s discharge from customs, citing possible unfitness or general force reduction, and said removal appeared to align with civil service law. Cross, a Treasury agent, said Williamsburg sugar cases had substantial undisclosed evidence and that investigators aimed for conclusive evidence through thorough inquiry and photographs of testing machines.
In Lima Ohio two men fall from a third story room over the Exchange Saloon during a friendly scuffle over a photograph. William Pack, son of Jacob Frick, is killed in the incident. Florence Adams of Toledo and Adaimy are mentioned. fraud and personal effects imply substantial sums. Miss Adams states the fall followed a scuffle.
Professor World Wheeler of the University of Illinois engineering experiment station killed himself, blaming the cried baby and domestic strain. A note to his wife described a planned death, citing 312 grains of potassium cyanide and insurance collection, while he appeared well liked by colleagues. The body was found at the university camp. The piece includes unrelated bakery promotion.
Paris reports Count Hont de Castellane has been in Rome two weeks seeking an annulment of his marriage to Anna Gould the Princess de Bagno Pacelli acting as intermediary with Vatican authorities negotiations proceeding in secrecy The rumor suggests the count aims for a future marriage rather than final dissolution of his current union.
Five men convicted of holding up the Union Pacific Overland Limited at Omaha on May 2 1909 were today sentenced in U S district court to life imprisonment. Named are William Mathews D W Woods Fred Torgensen Frank Griggale and Lawrence K Golden Shao. a school teacher aided in their capture.
Reporters doubt the Nourmahal, the Astor yacht missing for ten days, was 200 miles off course after Capt J Durie identified a craft near Hawks Nest San Salvador. The vessel, a large white steam ship with yellow funnel, matched the Nourmahal’s description, but distance and weather raise question. Treasury cutters are ordered to watch for the yacht, with Kingston as a possible departure point and Jamaica as a likely origin.
Stephen Chalmers, a known magazine writer, wrestles a wounded buck near Burnt Lam ten miles from town. He uses a broken shotgun stock to attempt a humane kill after first shot hits the deer in the breast. The animal charges back, leaving Chalmers with torn hands as the struggle ends unresolved.
New York reporter notes Albert T Patrick, serving life for the Rice murder, secured another writ of habeas corpus via counsel William McDonald before Judge Mirsehberg in Brooklyn. Writ returnable November 2. Patrick argued the case before the court earlier this year and was denied.
Virgil Strickler reports Mrs Augusta Stetson has been excommunicated from the First Church of Christ Scientist in New York. The ruling, issued by the mother church board, declares her actions against church teachings and members. Strickler says Stetson aimed to govern independently, prompting drastic measures amid a tumultuous leadership overhaul.
A Russian woman demonstrated a method to revive a rabbit using an electric respirator device before Edison Company officials in New York. She claimed the procedure could resuscitate humans, such as workers fatally injured in power-house duties. The demonstration showed the heart and lungs restarting after electric stimulation, with the rabbit recovering after about half an hour.
A fragmented report describes suffragettes rejecting prison uniforms and wearing none as a protest. Miss Paul of Tanadenha is mentioned, with references to her month in prison, forced feeding, and appeals from women’s social and political circles during a period of protest against government policy.
News from New York reports publisher William Latlan of the New York Sun is critically ill at his Lawrence home following an appendectomy performed Monday. He failed to rally and remained unwell through the week.
dispatches report U S action after revolutions in Nicaragua tied to Zelaya recognition delays at the White House. Des Moines and Vicksburg sent to Caribbean waters to protect American interests as the rebel government trots out executions and tensions rise with Panama and Honduras.
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