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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1900
Page
2
Rev Dr Braddin Hamilton of New York denounces Sunday golf and bridge whist among Newport's summer elite. He warns that lavish spending and private dinners on Sundays corrupt public morals and could create 10 million new gamblers in a year if patterns spread nationwide.
The Rev. Robert Stuart MacArthur of New York preached at Tremont Temple yesterday. The church was filled and nearly all remained for communion after the sermon on The Conditions of Discipleship. He cited Chinese missionaries as examples willing to take up the cross and bear it cheerfully.
The Rev. Frank de Witt Talmage preached at Park Street Church to a large audience. He urged parents to avoid overindulgence and warned that independence from children can safeguard their future. He cited the prodigal son and warned that costly habits tempt youth even in comfort.
The Rev. H. E. Fiske preached yesterday forenoon and evening at the First M. E. Church in Temple street while Pastor Rev. Franklin Hamilton was absent. A feature of both services was soprano Miss May Merrill. Dr. Fiske is connected with Northwestern University in Evansville.
The Rev. Thomas J. Rees of Somerville, who disappeared Saturday morning, was found wandering in South Boston by police and returned to friends. He had earlier suffered a paralytic shock and his mind has not been sound since. He appeared brighter before visiting a barber earlier.
The Shah of Persia, fearing assassination, cancels public appearances in Paris. He limits theater and England travel, stays at the Palace of the Princes, uses the telephone, enjoys cinematographs, and obsessively learns to operate a new automobile, measuring miles and rebuilding the engine for pleasure.
Mrs Henry Janpol, who shot at five men attempting to force entry to her top floor Allen Street flat, was released on $1200 bail with Dr Bychow of 11 Chambers Street standing as surety. Edward F Quinn, the injured man, remains at Massachusetts General Hospital, his condition improving.
Chelsea faces a heated fight over the lockup watchman post with Henry M. Kirk defending his status against Loren C. Clifford. Clifford claims illegal appointment and vows to win the job, while Kirk allegedly has political backing in the Senate and House. The aldermen delay action and refer the issue to the city solicitor as tensions rise.
Major Burnham the American scout arriving from South Africa may postpone a planned dinner and overnight stay with the Queen at Osborne due to the Queen’s bereavement. He warns Britain’s troops face vast distances, hard veldt, and mobility limits as Lord Roberts’s lines of communication stretch across Cape Colony, Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, and Pretoria.
Fourteen hack loads of Chinese mourners arrived at Mt Hope Cemetery yesterday to perform a major Chinese funeral rite. They carried roast pig and other foods to a large lot with a furface altar where poorer deceased are interred, while richer remains are sometimes shipped to China. They burned sacred papers to fuel a fire, offered food to the departed, and chanted during the ceremony.
Union Pacific east bound train No 4 was robbed near Hugo Col nine miles east of Denver. An elderly California visitor Fay refused to surrender valuables and was shot by robbers, dying from the wound. The assailants escaped after stopping the train.
At 11651 Washington street Gaelic School classes led by P. J. O'Daly and Miss Ellen Keohane held a general meeting. A plan for an aerial beach event at Squantum on Aug 26 was reported. Miss Keohane led eight or nine participants in a debate on whether Ireland could have a colony long enough to build the Kosachans before Milesian invasion.
The affair inflames Chelsea politics as Mayor Gould faces criticism over appointing Henry M. Kirk, a popular firefighter, to a non civil service post later found to be civil service. Loren C. Clifford is named watchman at the lockup after Kirk resigns, amid pressure from civil service commissioners.
J S Scott of Beaver county Oklahoma, a prominent cattleman, was arrested on charges of mortgaging cattle twice totaling 28000. Investigators say he obtained an 8000 mortgage in October through Ladd Penny Swazey by pledging 400 cattle later moved to a Boston bank, and a 20000 mortgage involving 700 cattle with the same parties and methods, a New York bank buying the second mortgage. He will be brought to Kansas City to await trial.
In New York on August 6 a small rowboat drifted between the Farragut ferry and the landing as it docked. Aboard was a dead man whose right arm was broken and fingers severed. The rowboat, stolen the prior night, was found half full of water and likely struck by a larger vessel.
New York August 5 Jacob Lorsch a 33 year old Peekskill lawyer is held on $1500 bail for further examination on larceny charges involving gems valued at $2000. Louis Lillienthal accuses Lorsch of pawning jewels he entrusted for safekeeping on May 2 after inquiring about settlement multiple times without success.
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