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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
5
In Waltham on August 2 burial in consecrated ground was refused for William McDonald electrocuted at Sing Sing for murder. His body remained at Calvary Cemetery receiving tomb after a cemetery rule blocked interment, with two veiled sisters present and no clergyman officiating.
Governor Voorhees resumes hearings on alleged cruelties by the superintendent and teachers at the Industrial State School. Witnesses describe corporal punishment, hired men used for restraining girls, and a 17 year old inmate Kate Barlow, possibly maltreated, with a dark room confinement and harsh exercise as punishment.
The governments of the United States and Hayti near agreement to submit three claims of an American citizen for alleged indignities and losses in Hayti to arbitration. The unique arrangement appoints a U S arbitrator, Judge Day, a former Secretary of the interior, to decide the dispute.
Naval wing ship Enterprise under Commander F. M. Wise from Gardner's Bay anchored at Vineyard Haven this evening on its passage to Halifax.
The Governor appointed Joseph B. Barnes a Republican lawyer from Ward 1 East Boston to fill Judge Walsh's death vacancy, amid Democratic opposition and protests from East Boston leaders. The choice contrasts with a Democratic successor named in Holyoke District Court.
Refugees flee Norfolk by boat and train as rumors of fever spread. Quarantine tightens on Hampton Peninsula with Old Point Newport News and the peninsula restricted while the Louise mail route is halted. The Hampton Roads steamship is freed to serve peninsular points for relief.
Boston officials vote to halt all vessels from Virginia ports or the Chesapeake Bay at quarantine for examination. No ship or person aboard may land without authorization from the port physician, in a bid to curb yellow fever risk.
The Hampton Soldiers Home outbreak provides a practical field for the army medical corps to extend a two year old inquiry into yellow fever. The Marine Hospital Service directs quarantine work and Dr Westlin, an expert from the Hampton home, is among two surgeons who recently returned from Cuba with collected cultures for Washington laboratory study.
Lisbon Falls Me August 2 The Wor Umbo woollen mills halt operations after a strike. Finishing and carding rooms to close this week with finishing to follow in 10 days. About 450 employees face unemployment as agents seek work elsewhere amid fears of trouble. Both sides stand firm.
Judge Thomas of the U S District Court refused a writ of habeas corpus for Maite Stascevic and seventeen Austrian miners who landed June 14 at New York and worked in Rathbun Iowa. They were detained on a deportation warrant issued by the immigration secretary after allegedly entering under contract. The judge said the court cannot intervene though the law is harsh, as the Treasury Secretary has authority.
The Aldermen authorized the comptroller to issue corporate stock totaling 2,100,000 to finance the site and building of the new hall of records. They also formed a special committee of lawyer members from the council and Board of Aldermen to safeguard assembly legal interests and draft counsel for the body.
Paris reports M Deleagne to visit St Petersburg to discuss Count Muravieff and the Paris Exposition of 190, with speculation that France may seek wartime support or mediation. Transvaal tensions continue to shade European diplomacy.
Boston sent an advance guard of the Second Brigade to South Framingham for an eight day encampment with the Fifth, Eighth, and Ninth infantry regiments. Battery A from Boston arrived in camp, as Y M C A tents rise on the field marking a first on Massachusetts militia grounds. Brigadier General Bancroft commands the Second Brigade with local and Rhode Island supporters aiding the encampment setup.
A spate of accidents in Greater Boston yesterday left Charles Welden dead after a fall from a lighter aboard the Cunard dock project. Patrick Burke and Michael Devine were critically injured by gas and a head fracture respectively, while Margaret Anson, James Brangon, James O Neil, Frank Murray, and J R Cafferty suffered injuries ranging from lacerations to crushed fingers. Police and hospital crews attended the injured as officials investigated the incidents.
Lawrence report lists Colonel W. H. Donovan appointing non commissioned staff for the Ninth Regiment MVM. Names include Sergeant-Major Devine of Lawrence Quartermaster-Sergeant McCrane Paymaster-Sergeant Monks and Steward Hickey of Boston Color Sergeant Authers and Nagle of Boston.
Late tonight two cavalry troops of the First Battalion arrived from Boston. The Ninth Infantry and other commands will assemble at the East Armory at 7 00 A M and march to the South station by East Newton Washington and Summer streets. Captain Landy and a large corps prepared the camp grounds with a green carpet lay. The signal corps will set up a telephone line connecting headquarters and booths across the field. Dwight Leete Rogers of the Massachusetts YMCA will attend provisions for reunions and camps.
Victoria B C August 2 report that Japanese coast typhoons caused heavy damage. The steamer Victoria reported a fierce storm in Japan while City of Pekin Doris and Hohenzollern were delayed or steered back. High death tolls from Oita Asha Jumamuru and other towns. China also hit with crops destroyed and floods.
United States Senator George C. Perkins returns from Alaska and cautions that the Alaska boundary issue may settle without arbitration. He argues there is nothing to arbitrate and questions the need to redraw the boundary between the United States and Canada, praising Alaska's development as proof of American direction.
Henry H. Buswell special justice filed the inquest report on the June 27 death of P. B. Jones, an engineer on express freight No. 86, struck by a construction train on the N Y N H H railroad at Sharon. The immediate cause was Jones failing to observe a flag signal. antecedent cause was railroad failure to notify trains of each other’s whereabouts.
In hot weather, take a twenty two mile sail on a spacious Winthrop line steamer to Salem Willows. The trip offers shaded willows and ocean breeze with an excellent band. Steamers are large and comfortable. women from Boston visit daily with children. on Mon Tue and Fri children under 8 travel free with adults.
Joseph Alfred Smith longtime Boston Museum stock company actor dies at Edwin Forrest Home born 1813 oldest resident. A. W. Row to debut with Minnie Maddern Fiske. Mary Gardiner joins Modjeska company. Lilian Lawrence to vacation after Arrah na Pogue run. Orrin Johnson to lead next season with Maude Adams. Edesen leaves. Jerome K. Jerome's Miss Hobbs to star Annie Russell. Richman to lead. Madge Lessing linked with Jennie Joyce era. Frohman Gillette plan Sherlock Holmes Lake George vacation.
The Castile Square Theatre stock company presents She Stoops to Conquer to large audiences with keen appreciation. Next week they plan an elaborate production of Arrah na-Pogue by Dion Boucicault.
The Davis automobile party arrived in Buffalo New York this afternoon and will depart for the West tomorrow morning as part of their cross country journey.
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