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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1908
Page
2
Rio de Janeiro report says Count Munster, nephew of a former Brazilian ambassador to Germany and France, committed suicide in an insane asylum in the state of St. Paul.
The tug Nonpareil of Philadelphia sank off Staples wharf East Boston after taking on water. Betts Wrecking Co. has contracted to raise her and she will be towed to Green's yard Chelsea for overhaul.
The Rev Jeremiah M Prendergast S J of New York delivered an eloquent sermon on the two standards and the world’s love of wealth at the Church of the Immaculate Conception retreat. Overflow services were held as readers heard of the devil opposing God and the call to enlist under goodness.
The Commercial Club of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company held a banquet at their new rooms 178A Tremont street last evening with guests E. W. Wrightington W. W. Cummings R. C. Ware and W. H. Edmonson of the company. An elaborate spread was served. The Society of the Cincinnati met in Charleston South Carolina and selected Newport Rhode Island as the site of its 1911 triennial convention.
In Concord New Hampshire April 9 the Democratic State committee defeated old machine efforts to endorse William J Bryan for president and approved delegate conventions. Proxies from country towns were sought and credentials fights dominated the meeting. The state convention was set for May 27 in Concord with district conventions in Manchester May 28 and Concord to follow.
Julia Marlowe, amid accusations in Mrs. Louis Von Hermann's divorce suit, cancels all week engagements in New York and Pennsylvania. The Shuberts plan criminal action and question grounds for divorce while scrutinizing the couple's offer to sell facts and photographs to papers.
Huong Pao Seng, a wealthy Chinese official who renounced government honors, arrived aboard the Cunard liner Caronia and will attend the Methodist Episcopal conference in Baltimore starting May 5 as a delegate.
After factional discussions in Ward 17 the Common Council delayed Mayor Hibbard’s veto of the annual budget to a future meeting. Councilman Pendergast moves to obtain names of city employees discharged and reinstated, triggering a department heads’ information order and possible oath-bound witnesses with department books. If refused, a council committee may be appointed. The badge order veto is set for next week.
Joseph Henry Taylor, frontier author and publisher of Beavers and Their Ways and Frontier and Indian Life, died in Washburn North Dakota last night of heart failure. He reached the Platte River in 1864 and worked north along the Missouri River as one of the first white settlers in the region.
The American Newspaper Association offers a few hundred sets of the New Werner 20th Century Britannica on a pay plan requiring only a few cents daily. The 31 volume, 200 pound set is a vast reference library with maps and illustrations. After an agreement between publishers the cheaper editions will be withdrawn and no more copies will be supplied.
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