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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1909
Page
7
Bring the children and visit our store where Spring stock ranges in styles and values as we celebrate the anniversary of the opening of Shep ard Avenue the shortcut from Temple place to Winter street.
Mrs. Weaty M. Ruhl and her husband Deputy U S Marshal present in Superior Court seeking 2000 dollars for injuries from a brindle bull terrier claimed to belong to Senator James H. Doyle. They say the dog bit and scratched her while she rescued their Angora cat Dot last October.
Funeral services for John J Patterson brother of Vicar General George Patterson were held at St Leo Church Dorchester. The ceremony was led by the vicar general with assistance from several priests and included thirty clergy present. Interment followed at Mt Auburn Cemetery.
The Merchants' Association starts an active campaign for passage of the Finance Commission charter. A charter legislation committee is named with John H. Fahey as chairman and 11 members from Boston addresses. The campaign slogan is the whole charter without change and will cooperate with the committee of one hundred and other allied groups.
Vice-President Sherman cancels a dinner engagement with the Staten Island Club in New York due to illness. He reportedly has the grip but officials at the Hotel Manhattan offered no definite word. Sherman traveled from Albany overnight and aimed to reach Washington soon.
A sewer department laborer named Thomas Lugio, an Italian man, was buried when trench sides collapsed in Jamaica Plain yesterday and smothered to death.
Boston business leaders react to the Trunk Line Managers' Association meeting in New York on differential freight rates. Bernard J. Rothwell says no need for Attorney General opinion. Henry M. Whitney favors regional consolidation. Eugene N. Foss warns withdrawal harms Boston and urges merger as salvation.
A committee of presidents from Eastern trunk lines failed to reach concrete results in the New Haven-Canadian Pacific despatch differential dispute. Grand Trunk officials were absent, plans for parity and lower rates stalled, and arbitration discussed for future consideration with a new meeting set for April 19.
William H. Lincoln rejects attacks over Back Bay street projects saying accusations are false and cites his opposition from the start. He describes involvement with land takings on Peterboro Street and explains the eventual betterment assessment and settlement with city officials and Judge Dunbar.
Shippers from many cities pressed the official classification committee at its semi annual meeting in New York to revise rates. Complaints about current classifications and requests for changes dominated the session, which may last two or three days. The committee is expected to discuss basing rates on commodity value rather than weight and bulk.
Dr Charles E Williams of 302 Warren Street, surgeon major of the British Veterans Association, was presented last evening with a sterling silver loving cup standing 14 inches high by his comrades.
Engine 19 from River Street house in Dorchester saw horses run away after a pole pin broke. They pulled driver James J. Higgins from the seat and collided with a lamp post before hose company members restrained them. Higgins, of 637 Norfolk Street, suffered back and leg sprains and was sent home after treatment by Dr. Guild.
Persian dispatches report that Ain Ed Dowleh, once grand vizier, the Shah's commander-in-chief, was assassinated near Tabriz by a bomb during a revolutionary uprising.
Resolutions issued by the Boston Allied Printing Trades Council criticise Alderman Thom J. Giblin for remarks at the March 29 meeting about printers at the municipal plant. Giblin said he referred to one walking delegate and did not target union labor. Council President Simonds deemed his explanation satisfactory.
Detroit report notes that more than 600 saloons and 10 breweries will shut down across 19 counties after yesterday's statewide dry vote.
Point a Pitre Guadeloupe April 6 Senor Cipriano Castro formerly President of Venezuela arrived this morning on the steamship Guadeloupe from France He did not go ashore tonight he continued on to Trinidad Castro has been denied landing at Trinidad by the British consul who said his government prohibited his landing anywhere in British territory
Arrangements are complete for American aviator Wilbur Wright to perform a series of aeroplane flights in Cherbourg. The exhibition date is not yet fixed.
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