HIPPODROME'S BIRTHDAY TO BE A GALA EVENT; 1,000 Bathers Will Splash Merrily in the Big Tank. MARCELINE SIGNS FOR LIFE Then Insured for $100,000 -- Show and Feast for Performers After Tomorrow Night's Curtain.
Date: 11 April 1906
Quite a budget of news came from the Hippodrome last night. First of all, the first anniversary of the great playhouse is to be celebrated to-morrow night in distinctly novel fashion.
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TO SAVE THE BOSSCHIETER GANG; A Movement Which Should Meet Prompt Condemnation.
Date: 11 April 1906
M.H.C
The first page of to-day's TIMES contains one of the most startling, one of the most shocking, items of news that has appeared in years. It is headed "To Save the Bosschieter Gang," and goes on to state that upon the plea of "poor health" application has been made to the Court of Pardons for the pardon of two of the murderers of Jennie Bosschieter.
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THE FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Fall; Call Money Rates, 6 25 Per Cent. Foreign Exchange Weakens Again and $1,000,000 Gold Is Taken.
Date: 10 April 1906
After four hours of intense dullness, this contraction in business being the one result of Saturday's very unfavorable bank statement, although it was aggravated by an early rate of 25 per cent. for money, yesterday's stock market gave way abruptly in the closing hour to the declines accompanying an outburst of activity.
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THE FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Lower; Call Money Rates, 15@20 Per Cent. Demand Sterling Falls 70 Points -- Good Winter Wheat Position.
Date: 11 April 1906
After a display or considerable strength in the fore part of yesterday's Stock Exchange session, in the course of which advances of a point or more were scored by Union Pacific, Reading, and the Copper shares, to which most of the interest of the day attached, prices fell sharply in mid-afternoon, the stocks named declining some 3 points in each instance.
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MARION CRAWFORD ON THE ERUPTION; Author Cables His Story of It to The Times. EXODUS OF THE PEASANTS Pitiful Flight of the People of Bosco Trecase. FIERY SERPENT'S MENACE Lava's Advance Down the Mountain Side -- Delusion That the Volcano Is Moving.
Date: 11 April 1906
Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. MARION CRAWFORD
SANT' AGNELLO, Bay of Naples, April 10. -- The present eruption of Vesuvius is one of the most terrible on record. For some time past the volcano has been unusually active, and last week the outbreak began which has now done incalculable damage.
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WHEN VESUVIUS BURIED POMPEII IN A.D. 79; The Younger Pliny's Account of the First Great Eruption. DARKNESS; RAIN OF ASHES Poisonous Vapor Which Killed the Elder Pliny -- Description of the Panic-stricken People's Flight.
Date: 10 April 1906
The most graphic account in existence of the first recorded eruption of Vesuvius, on Aug. 24, A.D. 79, is contained in two letters written by the younger Pliny to his friend the historian Tacitus.
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