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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1908
Page
5
Contractors threaten to withdraw 250 watering carts and 700 other teams from city service unless Mayor Hibbard accepts pay rates of 3 dollars per day for single teams and 6 dollars per day for double teams. The deadline passes today and a Contractors' Association mass meeting is planned at the Hotel Langham to decide next steps.
President J. P. O Riordan released figures showing a two horse team costs $5.31 daily to operate. Ex Mayor Fitzgerald argues neglect of clean streets hurts residential areas in Dorchester and urges actions by Aldermen Clark and Brand to force the mayor to improve street maintenance and curb taxes.
In Garrett Indiana on April 3 Reverend Harry B Stevens pastor of the Baptist Church resigned and will become an exile missionary in Africa. He officiated at the marriage of Leonard Wigner Fort Wayne shoe merchant and Lucy Miller of Garrett who were both previously married and divorced. Conscience struck after signing the license and he left before the reception declaring himself unfit to preach.
In Westboro on Grove street Frank J. Goodrich, 57, a hermit, was found in his locked shanty tangled in a buck saw after refusing to live with his mother Mrs Adolphus Goodrich and other relatives. He died today from lack of nourishment, the shock noted but not the cause. His family is described as prosperous.
The steamer Camperdown laden with deal cleared yesterday for Glasgow but crew objected to sailing due to a pronounced list. A survey ordered discharging part of the deckload to restore balance to an even keel.
Complexion experts tout Dr Campbell's safe arsenic complexion wafers as a blemish remedy. The ad claims safety and twenty one years of success and offers 5000 Post readers a free box by contacting H B Fould in New York.
Alexander Berkman the anarchist was discharged after custody following the Union square bomb throwing. Magistrate Droege advised Berkman to join a non anarchist group and warned that police watch him closely, framing anarchists as criminals in the public eye.
The late Whipple W. Potter of Boston leaves the old Whipple N. Potter mansion at North Brookfield to the Congregational Church for a home for needy and elderly Protestant women of Worcester county. The estate endows the project with a five thousand dollar legacy and includes a three thousand dollar grant to Mt. Hermon School at Northfield.
Students at New York University who began a strike to protest the suspension of President Young of the junior class agreed to end the action and return to their classrooms.
A Hamadryas baboon named Handsome Harry arrived at the Bronx Zoo from South Africa. Dr. W. Reed Blair placed him in the monkey house where he immediately resisted confinement and attacked keeper Frank Eberhardt, consuming chewing tobacco found in the coat pocket.
Oswego N Y April 3 Captain Albert Laws of the Twenty fourth United States Cavalry was probably fatally injured today by falling down stairs in his quarters at Fort Ontario.
Washington April 3 reports a new anonymous letter claimed an Electric Boat Company attorney was urged as a congressional candidate against Michigan's Loud but withdrew after Loud promised to vote for submarines. Testimony by Micou and Pemberton described methods used, nonreprehensive, as the committee adjourned to Monday.
Washington reports that the United States will not guarantee Panama's independence from its international obligations. Officials view the Jurado clashes as a nudge for Panama to engage in diplomacy with Colombia and Costa Rica over pending issues. Jurado, a disputed frontier town, shows Colombia with the stronger claim. No serious consequences are anticipated from the alleged Colombian invasion.
An advertisement warns of eye strain redness and granulation after sun wind and dust exposure. It promotes Murine Eye Tonic as soothing and reliable relief and suggests asking your druggist about Murine.
Thomas I. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, announced a joint convention of miners and operators from Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The meeting aims to rehabilitate the interstate wage agreement in the central competitive field, which underpins wage scales in other fields.
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