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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
6
On complaint of agents of the Law En forcement League John J. O Neill a Cunningham Drug Company clerk was freed yesterday in the Cambridge district Associate Justice A P Stone finding him not guilty.
One man was injured when a runaway horse bolted in front of the Forest Hills Hotel and crashed into a wagon driven by John Sandberg of West Roxbury. The horse ran into Forest Hills square in West Roxbury scattering women and children as it charged through late yesterday afternoon.
In Manchester New Hampshire the Industrial Workers of the World will start a 54 hour week struggle this Saturday. A 5000 seat field and bandstand have been prepared on the west side for the event. The effort aims to press mills to grant a 54 hour schedule with overtime pay discussions to follow.
The I W W movement aims at the Amoskeag corporation with 17 mills the largest cotton mill company. Leaders Haywood Trautmann Flynn Jones McGill and others will address workers amid a push for a shorter week. John Wolf leads the local I W W efforts in Manchester New Hampshire.
The Browning, King & Co. building at 407 to 411 Washington Street unveils a new mahogany front and enhanced unit displays. Brightly lit windows showcase an Easter display of men’s boys’ and children’s clothing furnishings and hats, highlighting refined window trimming and harmonized merchandise.
Mayor James E. O'Donnell of Lowell sent letters to Mill Agents and labor leaders urging a wage settlement. He proposed reopening all mills under the March 26 wage schedule, with operatives returning for three weeks to test the new scale, then pursuing demands only if differences persist. The mayor expressed hope agents would cooperate and that workers deserve at least a 10 percent raise.
Washington April 4 Included in the nominations sent to the Senate by President Taft today were those of Charles Albert McAllister to be engineer in chief of the revenue cutter service and Luke B. Colbert to be collector of customs at Marblehead Mass
Two unidentified Dorchester women were thrown from a light runabout when their horse suddenly bolted in Franklin Park. The horse crashed into a tree at Circuit drive and Schoolmasters' Hill, killing the animal minutes later.
The Downtown Mercantile Engineers' Union elected Frank S. Leavitt as president and Frank O. Rivers as vice president by a 6 percent last night. A committee of I W W asked for donations to aid the Towell strikers, and the locals planned to confer with A F of L officers before giving.
April 4 Chesley Dol Corkum of Everett was elected grand chief templar at the Massachusetts Grand Lodge International Order of Good Templars session. Carlos L. Brown of Gardner was chosen grand councillor.
Everett D. Yerby 20 a Massachusetts Institute of Technology student pleaded guilty to a series of locker thefts at a Back Bay building on Garrison Street. Yerby, from Washington DC, was ordered held by a probation officer awaiting his parents arrival. Police note his father, a Department of Agriculture official, has been informed. Sum of stolen money ranged from $2 to $10 per locker.
Patrolman Frederick S Howell of the Lagrange Street station retires on a pension of 600 dollars a year after twelve years with the force.
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