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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1901
Page
10
Wakefield plans a May 8 town hall event featuring a unique firemen contest open to all departments. Competitors must perform while in bed with pants on, then don gear and tackle a staged hose deployment for prizes to honor the fastest and second fastest performances.
The second annual Boston Latin School class of 1900 dinner at Quincy House last evening elected officers for 1901 02. Harry F. Phillips was chosen president with Harry H. Ham as vice president and Louis H. Reuter as secretary.
Teutonia Council 225 K C held its eleventh annual ball at Castella Hall on Shawmut Avenue. About 250 couples danced the grand march led by H Ochs of Teutonia Council and wife. Holy Trinity Church clergy and other dignitaries attended as honorary guests, with numerous community leaders among the attendees.
Emery Spears of 124 West Street died at the Emergency Hospital about 11 o'clock yesterday from gas poisoning. He worked for the Boston Gas Lighting Company at 29 Congress Street South Boston and fell from a high step ladder while adjusting gas fixtures when overcome by escaping gas.
Washington reports the engagement of Miss Edith Patten to Adjutant General Corbin of the U S Army. The Patten sisters hold considerable wealth, and reconciliation followed back and forth. Edith is described as the best looking sister, tall with dark blue eyes and strong features. Corbin had shown marked attention to Edith for about two years.
Faneuil Hall hosted a machinists meeting last night with at least 150 attendees including both union and non union members. Samuel Gompers spoke to the crowd about labor issues and the union movement.
Sophia Maloof sues to annul her marriage to Jacob Maloof on grounds they were under the age of consent. Case filed yesterday by Lawyer Malvoy and to be heard at the next Suffolk county divorce court sitting. Sophia’s saga includes Damascus arrival, disappearance, and rival Joseph Nadour in Syrian quarter before she wed Jacob.
Mary De Velie a young actress was found unconscious at 24 Somerset Street and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. Doctors say she was drugged. her home is listed as 636 North Main Street Brockton. Police fear foul play as they investigate the mysterious incident and contact her father in Brockton.
The State Senate approved a measure to raise the smoking age from 16 to 18. The act bars sales to anyone under 18 and prohibits giving cigarettes to minors by anyone other than a parent or guardian, with fines up to 50 dollars for violators.
David Barrie, Lipton’s American representative, received a cable stating Shamrock II will be launched on Saturday. The Marchioness of Dufferin will christen the vessel. her husband is commodore of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, which coordinated Lipton’s challenge to the New York Yacht Club.
Photo by Gottwells of Washington shows J. J. Connelly, general organizer of the machinists, addressing last night’s gathering at Aneull Hall with Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and James O’Connell, president of the International Association.
A large open meeting led by John J. Connelly and President Samuel Gompers urged adoption of a nine hour workday for machinists nationwide by May 20, with New England possibly excluded without a strike. Gompers warned against compulsory arbitration and promoted voluntary arbitration as essential to industrial liberty. The talk highlighted the plan to reduce daily hours across trades, noting the need for more workers and the impact on Connecticut machinists.
Eva Lee, 19, survived an attempted suicide after taking carbolic acid and laudanum in Dover. She claimed she came to wed a local athlete, but the fiancé refused to see her and the mother disputed the romance while doctors fought to save her life.
Lord Kitchener reports from Pretoria that Colonel Sir Henry Rawlingon’s column attacked the south laager near Klerksdorp at daylight. Six Boers killed, ten wounded, twenty three captured. one pom-pom and two ammunition wagons seized. British casualties three wounded. Colonel Plumer captured a field cornet and seven men with ten wagons and eighteen rifles. During Colonel Pilcher’s operations in the One River Colony seven Boers were...
The Massachusetts Minute Men of 1861 held their fortieth annual reunion with a 10 o'clock business meeting at Horticultural Hall. Veterans marched in procession to Faneuil Hall and were reviewed at the State House by Governor Bates. Speakers at the banquet included Sub-Treasurer G A Marden and Rev E A Barton among others.
Station 6 officers stopped four young men last night amid suspicions of shoplifted goods. They were jailed after no adequate explanation was given for how the items, described as boots, were obtained. One owner is also wanted in connection with the case.
In the case of Mrs. Anna Maddern versus Jesse M. Gove filed in the Superior Court clerk's office about twenty trustee defendants have answered the writs denying possession of assets or credits of Gove. The trustee answers do not deter prosecution as Maddern aims to recover a loaned sum and a broken marriage promise.
Abraham Lipkin, a jeweller on 3 Street, reported a theft last night after three men entered before 10 o clock and fled after asking to be shown rings. A tray containing 36 rings was missing from the display, valued at $80.
A young woman, Minnie Gans, living with her father, attempted suicide at 124 Prince Street with Paris Green. She was found and transported to Massachusetts General Hospital in serious condition.
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