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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1904
Page
2
A merger plan unites Metropolitan Bank with Traders Bank while preserving the Capital and Bank names. Capital remains about 300000 with deposits near 2.9 million. Traders Bank assets and the metropolitan group gain influence, creating a strong combined banking house.
Police report four suspects accused of throwing a brick through a laundry window. Witnesses described taunts toward a Chinese man during the incident. Four youths age ten to fourteen were named as arrestees following investigation after public complaints and police actions.
A convoluted police report describes a man named Allen charged with housebreaking at a four‑code street store, alleged to have targeted a shoe shop on Four Code Street Southwest. The narrative names other suspects, a courtroom sequence, and a separate incident involving a woman and a fall near the Seventh to Nineteenth streets NW.
Irving Williamazon, representing Thomas E. Waggaman, said he expects to file a schedule of assets and liabilities within ten days of adjudication. Referee Andrew Y. Bradley will then issue notices to creditors for the first meeting to elect a trustee. Bradley anticipated a large crowd at the Colorado Building and declined to specify a meeting site. Williamson reaffirmed the aim to pay creditors in full, and noted a composition proposal through Baltimore lawyers had been rejected by Waggaman. There were no court developments yesterday.
Edward Stallina a 30 year old negro dies after being crushed in a fifth floor elevator at 425 T Street NW. Fellow mover Rollins, in the shaft area, is fatally injured as the car rises. Coroner Nevitt orders an inquest. Locker held by police.
The Congo Reform Association through Ita Secretary HB D Morel presented a memorial to President Roosevelt at the White House urging U.S. intervention in the Congo Free State. Accompanied by Acting Secretary Loomis, the petition cites civilized concerns and is signed by world notable figures led by Right.
A recorded 1901 agreement between Dr. Leroy M. Taylor and his son Leroy M. Taylor Jr settles oral trusts of Rose M. Taylor’s estate. Mrs. Taylor left her estate to Dr. Taylor subject to debts and a $3,000 annual annuity to her son. The elder Taylor holds the property for life with trusts for the son’s descendants, and then for the son’s heirs, with options to pay certain expenses from income or principal.
John Carnell, 30, was hit by a Capital Traction Co. car at First Street and Pennsylvania Avenue last night and taken to Emergency Hospital with a concussion. He remained unconscious at midnight but doctors considered his condition serious yet hopeful for recovery. Policemen from the Sixth precinct investigated as Carnell, of 62 C Street Northeast, was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
A German woman about thirty two, identified as Mrs Sallis Tenhum, was found wandering near Pennsylvania Station and taken to the House of Detention by Officer Fears. She spoke broken English and said she came from Birmingham Alabama en route to New York for medical care with a one year old daughter aboard. Her husband is reported in Birmingham. The case will go before the board of Charities once the police can contact her friends.
Engliehmad and 12 prominent signers including the Earl of Aberdeen and Charles Kingsley urge the United States to aid a Congo inquiry. They condemn King Leopold’s rule for abject cruelties, forced labor, and severed limbs, calling for protection of native lands and open trade.
Earl Bullin an eighteen year old white boy from Winston Salem was killed at Thomesville N C while breaking into J C Kinney Co grocery store. Kinney fired shot from inside the store, Bullin fell and died. The body was sent to his parents in Winston Salem.
Police reported the arrest and conviction of John Taylor alias John Banka in Atlantic City for stealing a quantity of silverware from the Hotel Glendale. Taylor's loot had been shipped to this city where Detective Lacy recovered ten pieces of the table silver after the package arrived at a local express office.
A frame stable at 108 Street North as at was found fully engulfed after an alarm raised by Policeman Bartaman. J. E. Bishop owned the property and faced an estimated loss of 3000, insured.
A two story brick building used by East Ohio Natural Gas Co at Fleet street and Independence road collapsed after a gas explosion in Cleveland. Two men, employed at the distributing station, were buried in the ruins and probably fatally injured. Gas service was shut off city wide causing inconvenience while the cause remains undetermined.
Demop de Kay of Herkimer reports a scaffold collapse on a rail road bridge near Mountain View injuring four men and killing one. The deceased is unnamed. Injured include John Wilts with jaw fracture and abdominal injuries, John Smith of Montreal with leg injuries, and two Poles. Another worker was said buried in quicksand.
An unidentified bandit entered J. H. Slattery’s gambling house in Silverton Colorado and shot John Loftus, wounding two other employees who tried to overpower him. The assailant then shot himself.
Thomas Darrett a sixty year old black man collapsed while chopping wood at his Ploey Branch road home. Coroner Nevitt cited heart disease with likely overexertion as the fatal cause in Marion Indiana. In Landisville a Van Buren crowd attacked a political meeting injuring Orville Ramey and many others with four arrests.
Dalhart Texas Sept 30 a lone robber entered the Port Worth and Denver Railway and Wells Fargo Express office and tried to hold up night telegrapher G H Brown. Brown fired, the intruder fled to the railway yards and escaped. Also Trenton N J Sept 30 the Court of Errors and Appeals affirmed the conviction of Frank Bedea for the murder of Minnie Hood firing through a window. The court ruled that men over sixty five may be excused from jury service a key point in a separate case.
In Philadelphia the annual Brotherhood of St. Andrew convention features the Archbishop of Canterbury Randall Davidson and Dr. Davidson. Delegates elect the general council to 50 members and nominate 41 grand councilors. Activities include a luncheon at Bellevue-Stratford and remarks by Bishop Whitaker and others.
The Archbishop of Canterbury and figures including Mrs Davidson Admiral Dewey Gen Crogier Bishop Potter and J Pierpont Morgan host guests at Morgans country house to discuss clergy moves and new gospel outreach abroad. Lord Bishop of Hereford arrives in Boston to attend the International Peace Congress and Episcopal Church convention next week.
Albany Sept 0 This was the last day of prison stripes on clothing of first term prisoners confined to the four state prisons of New York. Tomorrow first term convicts will wear a new dress not suggestive of prison life. The change is part of a five year program by State Superintendent Collins to distinguish first term men from old offenders and improve conditions. Abolition of the jock step and cropped head accompanies the reform. Since these changes, punishments in all prisons have fallen over 40 percent. The new suits are dark gray cloth in a semi military style.
The Weather Bureau report notes a warm front over the St Lawrence Valley moving toward Newfoundland with strong northwest winds along the Great Lakes and Atlantic coast. Showers extend from the Mississippi Valley to the Middle Rockies. central valleys and Lake region see falling temperatures. Fair in the Northwest, rising temps between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. winds shift along the Atlantic coast. Special forecast warns Marquette Alpena and Marseille? Marla? harbor storm warnings. Local temps recorded midnight 78 to 65, rainfall 0.06 inches, sunshine 60 percent. Temperatures in other cities listed. Prisoners to be surrendered after demand is made by Carlton County authorities.
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