12 Apr 1899
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1899
Page
1
The Hon. Bellamy Storer, aged 52 from Ohio, will serve as the United States representative in Spain. He travels there to assume the role and duties of the diplomatic posting.
Washington reports Bellamy Storer, current U S minister to Belgium, will be named minister to Spain. The Madrid post offers a notable promotion with duties including negotiating a general trade treaty. Mrs Storer is Catholic and Due D Arcosom is expected for Washington. Storer, 52, Harvard and Cincinnati Law School graduate, served in Congress and on the foreign affairs committee. He supports civil service reform and has large private means.
In South Charleston Ohio on April 11 a tramp murdered Mrs. James Hutseler in her farmhouse while her children watched. The killer was captured and moved from London jail to Washington Court House to avoid lynching by outraged locals.
Four men died and twelve or more injured when a temporary Willis avenue bridge superstructure over the Harlem River collapsed this afternoon. Rescue teams battled water as a traveling derrick toppled the span, with several workers believed buried beneath wreckage. Names of the dead include Beattie and Delaney. serious injuries include Pursley and Perry. Continued on page nine.
The Roumanian cabinet has resigned in Bucharest. It was formed on April 12, 1897, and served for a brief period before stepping down. The government change follows days of political turmoil in Roumania.
In East Boston at 241 Chelsea Street a 5 year old boy nicknamed Jackie Maguire was killed when a caravan wheel ran over him. Driver Martin Kelly of Yeoman Street was arrested on manslaughter charges after witnesses said he spurred his horses forward.
A Charlestown neighborhood is found to have small pox at 2 Mystic Place after a mother seeks care for her year old infant. Four residents including father William P Sinnott and mother Paulina Sinnott are identified with symptoms and the Board of Health begins search for additional cases.
George Dryden, 28, linked to a Mrs. Harmon's boarding house robbery, arrived with Lynn officers after agreeing to accompany them. He pleaded not guilty at a preliminary hearing and was bound over for trial in Augusta. he later escaped from custody near the State House, prompting a city-police search.
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