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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1907
Page
2
A local train derailed entering a bridge over the Loire at Les Ponts-de-Ce, plunging a third class car with forty passengers and the engine into the river. The locomotive tender and baggage car also went in. all aboard perished, including the engineer.
Thomas Perkins of the Savannah steamer Nacoochie was slashed and taken to Relief Station Saturday night. James Climsdale, a fellow sailor, was identified as the assailant and is under arrest for assault with a knife. Both men are described as colored.
DeWitt Howe junior counsel for Mrs Eddy's heirs calls a West emanating tale about George W Glover withdrawing his suit a fake with no factual basis He notes Glover plans a masters hearing in Concord next week and Eastward travel followed by son and daughter accompanying him to attend proceedings while other counsel are unavailable or unreachable.
Miss Eva Thompson, messenger for Mrs. Eddy, carried a letter from Concord to George W. Glover in Southwood South Dakota. Alfred Farlow denies knowledge of the woman or matter. Glover expected in Boston. Senator Chandler urged his client to come.
John T. Ferguson of Amesbury Mass arrived Portland after his wife died of a broken heart after leaving him a week earlier. He located her in company with her acquaintance and her daughter, learned she died in Falmouth from heart disease. Ferguson plans to take the body to Amesbury.
Martin Joyce aged 88 percent of 3 West Second street South Boston yesterday allegedly broke into M. T. Doherty saloon 290 State street. Patrolmen Hildreth and Ferris chased him after glass was broken finding him loaded with wet goods. Joyce dumped the bottles in the street then ran to Milk street and Broad Street before stopping panting and shouting Here I am.
Leo R. Brown, 16, son of Mr and Mrs Michael J Brown of 67 Ward Street Worcester, drowned today in Lake Quinsigamond during a canoe race with another teen. Their canoes capsized. Brown sank before rescuers could reach him as his companion was saved.
Samuel Hopkins aged 78 residing at 14 Ruggles street was assaulted by two masked burglars Saturday night as they tried to rob him after he had deposited over 200 dollars in a safe. Neighbors’ cries driven burglars away. Hopkins, severely wounded, was taken to City Hospital. A lead pipe with blood stains was found near the scene. police suspect it as the weapon. Hopkins works as rent collector for Samuel Goldsmith at the same address.
Rev Edward Everett Hale proposes converting the Old South Meeting House into a public forum for religion art history and education with weekly Sunday discussions. He envisions rotating presiders from Harvard leadership state government and city hall to keep the church’s influence alive for generations.
Fourteen year old Julius Simon of New York caught a 20 inch alligator in a net while crab bing in the Shrewsbury River near Long Branch New Jersey on August 4.
Falmouth celebrates Batholomew Gosnold’s 1602 landing at Wood’s Hole with a five day program beginning tomorrow. A Mariners Memorial Monument, weighing 35 tons, will be dedicated in Crocker Park with a copper box of the hundred Falmouth whalemen and merchants. Governor Guild and Rear Admiral Rockwell will speak. Two revenue cutters join the event.
The case of the infant found late Friday night in Revere, cared for at Wonderland incubators, draws authorities and clergy into the investigation. The well dressed girl shows weight gain, while several locals report possible identifications linked to an automobile sighting and a pedler seen near the beach area. No distinctive marks or clothing aid identification.
Ware Aug. 4 Fire destroyed the Le land block on Main street causing about 10000 dollars in damage. The property was owned by Whitney Felton of Springfield. R Scheffer shoe store suffered 4000 dollars in damages insured. C A Pesky pool hall recorded 2500 dollars uninsured. C Hathaway & Co opticians lost 500 to 1000 dollars. Spontaneous combustion is blamed.
Alderman F Reginald Bangs of Boston was summoned to appear in Wareham court this morning after his name was added Saturday to a growing list of notables ensnared by Sheriff Barrows' auto trap in Buzzards Bay. Bangs and his family have long summers in the area.
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