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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1909
Page
32
School officials consider canceling all schedules as action by local authorities follows Georgetown University concerns. Board members discuss safety and rules, with captains and principals debating postponements and potential abolition of football play until protections and regulations reduce injury risk.
Secretary of State Haldane speaks to the Eighty Club on government policy regarding the budget and free trade. He says the government accepts the challenge to go to the country, vows cabinet unity, and notes no plan to force the Lords to block the budget.
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 in which Warren had an interest for giving short weight.
Richard Watson Gilder, longtime editor of Scribners and later Century Magazine, died at his Jersey City home after a long illness. Born February 8, 1844, in Bordentown, he rose from schoolboy printer to influential editor, marrying artist Helena De Kay and leaving five children. He authored six books of verse, including The Celestial Passion and The Great Remembrance, and helped shape late 19th century American literary publishing.
Evidence in 75 to 100 Cases Sent to Treasury Department. Wakeman after talk with Secretary MacVeagh save housecleaning will be thorough and Loch will be backed. Do-Whitehead after job as agent. Hia recollection of Corsa's dismissal Shaw's disposal of $12 Babe.
Former appraiser Wakeman says Secretary MacVeagh will clean up the customs service after suspensions by Collector Loeb. Dozens of weighers and inspectors face charges for taking tips at docks as Treasury probes widen, with more removals anticipated amid sugar fraud inquiries and a looming housecleaning in federal customs leadership.
Former Treasury official William Theobald testified about sugar import frauds dating back to 1888 but said initial investigations were dropped after three days. George W Whitehead described Corsa’s customs dismissal, while George Cross and Richard Parry noted substantial yet undisclosed evidence in Williamsburg cases.
Lima Ohio May 18 a man named William Pack son of Jacob Frick and Florence Adams of Toledo fell from a third story window at Tixchange saloon during a friendly scuffle over a photograph. Frick died of injuries. Adams was not seriously hurt. Tricks brother and sister dispute the name. $1000 in checks and papers found on Frick. Both legs broken. Adams to recover.
Professor W O Wheeler, first assistant in the chemical engineering team at the University of Illinois, died by his own hand in his campus home. A note alleged to his wife explained his planned death, citing distress over his infant and a poten tial cyanide poisoning, while a report said he had avoided meals at home since the baby's birth.
Paris reports Count Hont de Castellane has been in Rome two weeks seeking an annulment of his marriage to Anna Gould now Princess de Bagan Pacelli. The process is handled by a geologist advocate acting as intermediary with Vatican authorities in secrecy. Observers believe the count would not pursue dissolution without new nuptial prospects.
Five men convicted of the May 2 1909 Overland Limited mail car robbery near Omaha receive life imprisonment in the United States district court Judge Toc Munger presided. Names listed include William Mathews D W Woods Fred Torgensen Frank Griggale and Lawrence K Golden. A Shao boy and a school teacher aided investigators leading to capture.
Reports from Capt Durie of the Annet say a yacht matching Nourmahal’s description was sighted near Hawks Nest Harbor San Salvador while the Nourmahal’s crew and Astor party remain doubtful about the identification The Nourmahal reportedly left Kingston Jamaica between November 10 and 14 for Puerto Rico or other West Indies ports amid stormy seas and communications cutoffs. Treasury cutters are ordered to remain on lookout for the vessel with no word yet.
Stephen Chalmers, a noted magazine contributor, engaged in a life and death struggle with a buck 18 miles from town. In twilight he fired a broken stock shotgun at the deer wounding it in the breast. The deer vanished after Chalmers dropped the gun. The buck later charged and Chalmers suffered torn hands from antlers.
Albert T Patrick, serving life for the 1900 murder of William Marsh Rice, gains a new writ of habeas corpus from Judge Mirseh berg of Brooklyn's appellate division. The writ is returnable November 2. Patrick, who argued his case before the court, faced a prior adverse ruling.
Virgil Strickler reports Mrs Augusta Stetson has been excommunicated by the First Church of Christ Scientist in New York after a three day secret board session. The Mother Church found evidence supporting charges of working against members and opposing Christian Science teachings. Strickler notes Stetson aimed to lead independently, prompting the drastic action by the church hierarchy.
A Russian woman demonstrated devices claiming to revive the dead using electric currents on a rabbit and claimed humans could be saved too. Doctors observed heart and respiration restarting in minutes, suggesting resuscitation potential for workers in power plants. The spectacle drew attention from officials of the Edison company and medical observers.
A fragmentary report notes suffragettes resisting prison dress by going without garments, with Miss Paul of Tanadenha cited among those jailed and appealing to Americans for protest over their treatment. The piece mentions a March 10 event at Guild Hall and a mayoral banquet as context.
Publisher William M. Baffan of the New York Sun is reported seriously ill after a surgical operation performed Monday. Conflicting early reports say his condition remains critical as doctors monitor his recovery in Rome.
The State Department recognized the Nicaragua revolutionaries after the execution of two American citizens. Des Moines cruiser and Vicksburg gunboat were ordered to Caribbean waters to protect U S interests. Navy plans included a Greyhound report and possible reinforcements if the situation escalates.
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