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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
8
A new feathered evening hat uses a huge bunch of birds of paradise plumage drooping about the back and sides. The black tulle foundation and pearl edged frame suit long faces and high foreheads while obscuring small eyes and short necks.
A dinner at the Somerset on May 2 honors Frank P Bennett for 25 years as editor of the American Wool and Cotton Reporter. A guest list includes Henry C Dexter John R Hinchliffe Charles B Ladd and many leading textile and banking figures.
April 4. A London dispatch reports that the Home Rule bill to be introduced April 11 would set up an Irish Parliament in Dublin with two houses. Ireland would not contribute to imperial revenue, maintain imperial control of customs and excise, and vary duties locally without altering articles themselves. Taxation would align with the UK system. old age pensions and land purchase schemes stay under imperial control. the Irish Parliament could not impose duties on British goods.
Anthony Viscon, a prosperous Italian fruit dealer on Larimer avenue in Pittsburg, received three extortion letters demanding 3000 dollars. Early today an incendiary fire destroyed his property and damaged the First Italian Presbyterian Church and other nearby buildings.
President Taft sent Congress his second annual message on economy and efficiency. He urges legislation to save over $11,000,000 annually, including placing local government offices in classified service and consolidating the revenue cutter service with the lighthouse service in Commerce and Labor.
President Taft urged Congress to fund the Economy Efficiency Commission for another year and called for $200,000 plus $50,000 for findings. He proposed pension agent classifications, abolition and transfer of land office duties, classifying political appointees in revenue services, merging lighthouse and life saving services, moving revenue cutter assets, consolidating auditing offices, and ending mileage and per diem travel allowances with subsistence lodging. Several estimates included $62,000 annual saving from pension agents, $200,000 from land office reforms, $100,000 from lighthouse consolidation, and about $1,000,000 yearly from revenue cutter changes.”
A Chicago & Alton freight train rammed a trolley car at South Kedzie Avenue near West Fifty Third Street. About 60 passengers were aboard and 16 were injured. Three bodies, including a woman with a child, were recovered after an hour.
The Bow Street magistrate released Mrs. Pankhurst on bail of 10 000 dollars to await Old Bailey sessions. She and Mr and Mrs Pethick Lawrence, editors of Votes for Women, face conspiracy and incitement charges tied to window smashing raids in London.
Harry Osburn of Lewiston was found guilty of fraudulently seeking a government pension and was sentenced today in U S District Court to two years in the Atlanta Penitentiary.
In New York on April 4 Mrs Lillian Kinsman, defendant in a divorce suit by Charles I Kinsman, embraced corespondent Ellis in court, drawing laughter as Belle Kuell, a plaintiff witness, hugged defendant’s counsel LeBarbier. He claimed a conspiracy by the husband, an officer of Sterling Bronze Co, who allegedly hired a detective to trap his wife near a cottage by Seaborn Hotel, Coney Island.
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