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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1900
Page
8
An agent’s sample line of hammocks is offered at substantial discounts, with prices slashed from $1.25 to 75c and other reductions from $1.50 to $1.00 $3.00 to $2.25 and higher. Bamboo porch curtains Japanese porch stains offered in multiple sizes with dramatic markdowns.
A New York woman identified as Sophie Neil or related to Gaetano Bressi is questioned as an accomplice in the murder plot against King Humbert of Italy. Police search Bressi’s Prato home and Bressi’s associates in Paterson are under scrutiny amid ongoing investigations and Italian consular involvement.
London Aug 1 The Lorenzo Mar correspondent reports Frank Pettigrew son of United States Senator Pettigrew has joined General Botha's staff. A war office despatch updates Roberts on Prinsloo surrender figures to 936 men 1432 horses 96 rifles and a Krupp nine-pounder. Some leaders in distant hills delay surrender claiming independence.
At the Elks carnival in Combination last night Captain Stone of Light C received a telegram from Com Hasbrouck in Newport stating the battery would proceed to China with orders to return to Newport when ready. It is set that the battery will appear today for a final Medford showing drawing a crowd.
Report continues on the Italian succession as Queen Margherita sends cordial greetings and the Hohenzollerns observe three weeks of mourning. A Bockenheim Hussars delegation plans to travel to Rowe with the regiment in crape. Berlin press讨论 pacification with the papacy and religion as counter to anarchism. Police find Humbert's assassin once stayed in Mannheim as a padrone for Italian plaster bust makers.
A Madrid despatch to Temps reports police captured Bressi the assassin of King Humbert in Barcelona during the Spanish interior minister Dato's visit. He reportedly planned to strike Dato but was deterred by Catalan anarchists seeking pardons for their fellow adherents. The dispatch notes the St Sebastian police expelled an Italian arrival from France without papers.
In London on July 3 Lord Salisbury told the House of Lords that anarchists transcend political lines. He cited the past fifty years where three presidents and two monarchs were killed, warning against the depth of this threat.
The motion for mourning orders was adopted in both houses. In the Commons A J Balfour spoke in step with Lord Salisbury and Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal leader, seconded the motion. The orders prescribe mourning for King Humbert from Aug 2 to Aug 23 and for the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha from Aug 2 to Sept 18.
Paterson New Jersey July 11 Italian workers at the Riverside silk and dye mills were laid off provoking threats of retaliation. Mill owners called in Chief of Police Grate who deployed plainclothes guards to patrol the Italian district amid references to the King Humbert and the Pessina murders.
Yesterday in the Catholic church the feast of St Ignatius was observed signaling the annual changes among Jesuit priests in the city. Rev Thomas I Gasson S J will become professor of ethics at Boston College. Rev Bernard Heaney S J departs for Kingston Jamaica. Rev M C Dolan S J long associated with the Immaculate will be reassigned.
The premier praised King Humbert while condemning assassination as a morbid lust for notoriety that threatens society. A discourse on remedies followed, noting society’s leniency. Parcels report clerical moves with the Earl of Kimberley’s parish assignments and Jesuit faculty transfers to Penn and Coawago.
Advices from Martinique report many young Martiniquans have memorialized President Loubet asking for arms and defense to go to South Africa and assist the Boers. The French Antilles show strong anti British sentiment.
A Hartford Probate Court heard a petition to revoke Charles H. Hoyt’s commitment to a state retreat claiming lack of jurisdiction and misapprehension. Charlestown witnesses testified Hoyt thought he would be treated briefly and did not know of legal confinement. Judge Freeman reserved his decision.
In Chelsea a letter carrier James P. Kelly was arrested for drunkenness Sunday night. Postmaster Hibbard said a recommendation to Washington to discharge him was made. Also noted are a fugitive rearrest and a jury of local incidents with several arrests and accidents in Boston and surrounding areas.
Memorial services were held in Berlin today for the Bismarcks and Mau soleum entities. Emperor William had sent a magnificent street plan which was placed upon the memorial site.
The United States Civil Service Commission lists examinations in this city for Japanese interpreter immigration page Vancouver B C and for the position of surgeon attendant at the navy yard service.
In Fitchburg on July 381 the Albee family records a second death from glanders. Wallace Albee, 17, died after over two weeks of illness caused by treating a horse with glanders. Earlier Lyman C. Albee died two weeks prior. Wallace was his only child and had been gravely ill at the time.
A horse fell into a water department hole on Beacon Street last night. The animal, blind in both eyes, was rescued after several men and a water department derrick team worked to lift it out. the driver was reportedly intoxicated.
George F Spaulding long residing in West Medford and a noted Boston newspaper advertising man died at 68 Harvard Avenue at 9 this morning from paralysis. He leaves a widow seven children two sons in Boston newspapers and a daughter married to Samuel S Holton of West Medford.
Melrose July 31. Tonight's Aldermen meeting saw two orders introduced to authorize the city treasurer to borrow funds for a new high school and for a fire station. Each measure was aimed at defeating the other, and both moved to a second reading.
At a meeting of the executive council Governor Crane nominated William D. McClintock of Chelsea Harold Parker of Lancaster and John H Mannion of Pittsfield for the State Highway Commission Louis D Brandeis of Boston was named to the commission on unity in legislation to succeed John C Gray Lawrence E James of Boston was named associate inspector of gas and gas meters The Governor also proposed William French and Lincoln Simonds of Gloucester as special justices for the new District Court of eastern Massachusetts
Count Tarnowski and American hosts stage a midnight to morning serenade in Newport Rhode Island. Henry Clews Jr Robert L Gerry organize the outing with famed families including Vanderbilt Belmont Fish and Winthrop. Bands visit Wayside Belcourt and Belmont residences and guests are awakened by music.
Mr. Daly, longtime representative of New Jersey’s seventh district, came to Rockaway planning to return to Hoboken. He missed his train and spent the night at a boarding house. Early this morning he suffered apoplexy and died.
About 600 attendees watched M J Downing open the ceremony as County President William J Cronin led the installing of officers for Division 13 A OH and Ladies Auxiliary No 2 at Gray's Hall. New officers include William Farrell and Katherine Mullen. State Secretary Mary Finlay attended. Refreshments followed.
Michael Brennan a 29 year old laborer from 19 Woodward Square Brookline has been missing since July 19. His wife Bridget seeks information on his whereabouts. He wore black trousers gray coat a soft hat and tan shoes and stood about 6 feet 7 inches tall with brown eyes and a smooth face. Brookline police are active in the search.
Several small fires drew fire department attention on Boylston Street, with a main blaze at 184 Boylston Street in rooms 44 and 4 on the fourth floor of a six story building. Rosie Solomon occupancy. Loss about 2000 dollars, partly insured. Building owned by the Lawrence heirs.
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