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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1914
Page
12
About 800 hens on the Joseph Pellerin farm in Bedford were burned to death when an oil lamp toppled by a morning breeze started a fire. The incident occurred near Manchester New Hampshire on April 23.
The Rev. N. K. Bishop officiated at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church service for Mr Collier. A large turnout of friends attended the funeral with many floral tributes. Pallbearers were Charles H William P Edwint and Arthur G Collier. Burial took place at Woodlawn Cemetery.
A special town meeting is planned to consider removing two men and three women from the Saugus school committee who declined to hear Principal Butterworth of Saugus High School amid charges leading to his resignation.
Pupils returned to seats this morning after a threat to strike within days over a public hearing or reinstatement of Principal Butterworth. At a special school board meeting Chairman Bryer cited 75 signatures for a hearing and 50 for reappointing Butterworth, while pupils insist there were 500 signatures backing the public hearing.
The State branch of the United Irish League of America met at Gilbert Hall Tremont Temple to push a final appeal for the $20,000 home rule fund. Nearly $800 was pledged leaving about $4,000 to raise. a committee including Bernard J. Rothwell Thomas B. Fitzpatrick and Michael J. Jordan was formed to draft the appeal and plan a State celebration.
The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals announces a Saturday Arbor Day event on Boston Common near the pond to memorialize George T. Angell. Miss Venita Dudgeon leads the effort with Mayor Curley and Secretary Guy W. Richardson scheduled to speak. The Marine Band performs and Boy Scouts assist and salute the colors.
White-haired Mrs. Maria Kelley of Roxbury testified for over an hour in Superior Court claiming $515 for services as housekeeper and nurse to the late Mrs. Anna Galvin. Estate funds totaling $824 were in a Roxbury bank. Morgan of Roxbury is Galvin’s administrator. his wife Henrietta is a Galvin niece.
Mrs. Kelley, assisted to the stand, described living with Mrs. Galvin in the final years and receiving $5 and a stove and bureau from Morgan after Galvin's death. She claimed the stove was worth 25 cents and the bureau 40 cents, while denying making any mark on a release she allegedly signed.
In Rome on April 23 the pope welcomed 400 members of the International Anti Alcoholic League. He praised their work and urged a wide campaign against the scourge causing physical moral and economic evils.
John IX Dyer claims he earned about 6000 over twenty years while married to Hattie A Dyer and that she saved the money in various banks. He says she has a living former husband and would separate. He asks the court to restrain her from withdrawing funds and to bar several banks from allowing any withdrawal.
Alfred J. Fisher and Clarence G. Kim were sentenced to extended jail terms after pleading guilty to perjury charges. The cases arose from testimony in a federal inquiry, with prosecutors describing the pair’s lies as obstructing justice and eroding the integrity of the proceedings. Fisher faced a longer term due to prior related offenses.
Fisher received three to five years in State prison and Kimball two years in the House of Correction for perjury. Mrs. Cornelia Minton, who turned state's evidence, was not sentenced. The trio testified against Mrs. Luella Fisher and Edward Long in a West Roxbury court proceeding weeks earlier.
Charles Garnett editor of the Independent Gazette at Ovid New York was killed near Interlaken while driving his new car. The auto struck a telephone pole causing the fatal accident.
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