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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1910
Page
5
Aug. 7. Chief Burrell wires Sydney to hold Restelli the suspect in a murder. He has been seen with Conductor Griffin on a Sydney train and cannot leave by boat that left at 7 p.m. today. Burrell has made no report of any attempt to depart.
Chief Burrell believes the suspect seen near the Cape Breton route is the same man wanted. Messages from the Moncton passenger train indicated Restelli among travelers. The train was searched at Moncton. the suspect fled, jumping at a small station before Moncton. Sydney reports tie the fugitive to Truro and potential Newfoundland passage tomorrow.
A large audience gathered beneath elms at N and Ninth streets in South Boston to hear Howard C. Lantz open air evangelist preach. The event marked the season’s first Evangelical Alliance of Greater Boston meeting with Mrs. H. C. Lantz and Miss Minnie Thompson assisting singing. Meetings continue Sundays at 4 p.m. with Lantz and his team confident of a successful City Point season.
A 5-year-old boy, Everett Busse Weber, was severely injured in Chicago when a thoroughbred rooster attacked him. The bird leaped at the child’s head and delivered deep gashes in the forehead, leaving the child unconscious before it was driven away.
An All Ireland deputation led by Dublin and Belfast mayors and business leaders will sail on the Oceanic September 22 to meet U.S. Postmaster General Hitchcock in New York. They seek Cunard steamers to resume calls at Queenstown Ireland.
Katherine M. Lord wife of Chester M. Lord managing editor of the New York Sun died at her Brooklyn home after a lingering illness. A native of Adams New York she and Chester married in 1871 and moved to Brooklyn in 1872 leaving two sons as survivors.
New York Aug 7 Charles Frohman, famed theatrical manager, discusses modern drama, Maude Adams, and the American stage mobility. He praises Chantecler and the shift away from self sacrificing heroes, notes New York opinion no longer dominates U S play tastes, and extols an American manager who expanded plays abroad while supporting home audiences.
In Woonsocket Rhode Island on August 7 two men died while swimming in the Blackstone River and Harris Pond. Belonie Avelarr 58 a teamster drowned in the river likely from cramps. Alexis Cartier 48 a carpenter drowned when a capsized boat sank him. Both men left wives and nine children.
Patrick F B Moran, 24, a Fall River native and local newspaper man, died when a leaky boat sank during a Swansea pond sailing party of five in Keene New Hampshire. Four others were rescued. Moran’s body was not recovered.
The capsizing at Nickersons Lake costs Harry Berry life. George Putnam, 15, recovered the body after diving in 25 feet of water within 15 minutes. Berry leaves a wife and one child.
Sixty Joseph Warren Commandery knights from Boston arrive in Chicago for the Knights Templars conclave. Led by George A. Norton, they travel on a Michigan Central train and stay at the Great Northern Hotel. Prominent among them is Ss. [¢. Tinkham], who popularized the white capes at Saratoga. Delegations from Pittsfield and Providence join.
Theodore Paquette two year old of 24 Border Street East Boston fell from a second floor window into the yard about 25 feet and is dying at East Boston Relief Hospital.
Within a week the Ayer mill of the American Woolen Company in Lawrence will be topped by the largest illuminated clock in the Western Hemisphere. The clock is being installed in the tower to finish the big plant.
The Ayer mill clock towers over Lawrence with 150 electrical bulbs behind each dial and a 5000-pound bell hung in the tower. Each of the four dials spans 24 feet and will be visible citywide day and night. The clock will wind weekly and serve as a master timepiece for all mill rooms.
The article notes the vane nearly 300 feet high and the ball bearing vane 10 feet by 17 feet. Between clock dials lies 40 feet of brickwork, making the tower 90 feet across. The engineer and master bricklayer differed by only a quarter inch upon completion.
Governor Increase Sumner, who rose from Roxbury birth in 1746 to Harvard graduate, served Massachusetts from 1797 until his death on June 7 1799. He helped frame state constitutions, sat in Congress briefly, and as judge and governor was mourned with 40 days of citizen badges.
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