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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
5
Governor Walcott and Prison Commissioner Bailey inspected the Charlestown facility following Herbert and Everett Willis’s escape plot. Officers Darling and Townsend were praised for bravery. Everett Willis remained in hospital, while Herbert Willis faced possible murder or assault charges.
Governor Wolcott and Secretary Bailey discussed adding a bar enclosure inside the rotunda to separate prisoners and visitors after a recent incident. They inspected revolvers found on inmates, noted one older weapon and one new, and reviewed pockets of Everett and Herbert with a knife found in Herbert's shoe shop. The tour included praise for officers Townsend Abbott Witham and Benjamin and a visit to Cherry Hill solitary cells where Jesse Pomeroy is confined.
All who honored the drowned surfman David Henry Powers at Wood End. Services led by Rev W P Buck included prayers at the grave. A floral buoy and boat-hook emblem honored the life saving service. Wood End Race Point Peaked Hill Bar High Head Highland crews attended. Bearers from Wood End and Race Point crews carried Powers to the grave.
At 81 Wareham Street a brick arch gave way during removal of its centres. W. F. Badger, 64, of Hyde Park, was killed. Arthur Gibbs, 3, of South Boston, and George Bonnell, 40, of 26 Clark Street, were injured. Badger owned and supervised the project. union officials blame faulty construction.
The Herreshoff built Dupont reached 28.6 knots on a 60 mile test course from Warwick Neck Light to Bonnet Point. Inspectors noted steady speed despite imperfect condensers while the naval board planned further trials and the crew reported favorable results.
Hope Island in Narragansett Bay suffered extensive storm damage. Henry Aylesworth’s caretaker and his wife, the island’s only inhabitants, are missing after the island home was lifted from its foundation and blown down a hillside. The workmen’s grand wharf disappeared, and much property was swept into the bay. A lone old gambrel roofed house remains intact.
Washington reports President McKinley has ordered Assistant Secretary Day to end his Ohio vacation and assume charge of the State Department tomorrow. Day will oversee all foreign affairs to prevent potential diplomatic complications as Sherman’s health and memory fade with age and intense public interviews.
The Post reports a mother and her sick child found in a South Boston shanty as doctors are added to the force to combat hunger and disease. It details the Fund's reach, contributions, and the Pediatric Doctors Corps aiding tenement families, with scenes of exhausted mothers and pleading children.
An excerpt describes a mattress, a wicker rock chair, and old sheeting in a room seen by Post medical staff in the Italian quarter of the North End. The faded text notes sunlit rays and a patient chair, with garbled OCR fragments surrounding the scene.
A summer visitor Joseph O'Kane about 17 sank while bathing at First Cliff. Miss Flossie McDonald jumped to aid but could not find the body. Fred Conroy failed to help. Fisherman Thomas Flynn recovered the apparently lifeless body after an hour of effort. the boy showed signs of recovery.
Alfred C. Williams was held without bail in Lynn police court after continued examination for the murder of John Gullo. State Officer Neal testified as court awaits grand jury action. District Attorney White and Attorney McCarthy argued for Commonwealth and defense.
The Post releases The Official Guide to the Klondike Country and the Gold Fields of Alaska at popular price. It covers when to go how to go and what to do once there and is on sale at the Post counting room for a quarter.
An advertisement argues consumption endangers marriage and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a cure. It claims 98 percent recovery, improved appetite, rich blood, and strengthened nerves, urging readers to buy via stamps from the World's Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo NY.
Official dispatches from Assouan report Abu Hamed fell to Anglo Egyptian troops led by Colonel Hunter after an eighteen hour march. The town was taken in a stubborn house to house battle with twenty one killed and sixty one wounded. Major Sydney and Lieutenant Fitz Clarence were among the dead. Three Egyptian officers were wounded.
A party digging for relics uncovered a sixty foot deep tunnel at the historic Louisburg fortress. They traced an exit to the south parade and a second outlet near the south gate. An arched masonry tunnel housed a skeletal remains at the entrance, with current property holders preparing to remove the obstruction.
Golli the Anarchist assassin of the Spanish premier was moved from Santa Agueda to Verazara for trial. On arrival he said his Calvary has commenced and that a priest will try to convert him. He referenced the executions of other anarchists in France and Spain.
The programme begins at 8 o'clock this evening at Central Square by Baldwin's Cadet Band. It features marches and overtures including Zingari Stradella's concert waltz Santiago cornet solo by Mr. Frank E. Partridge and selections La Vestale popular tid bits scherzo fantastique cocoanut dance reminiscences of Gounod and concert galop fantastique.
Twenty or more Quincy granite companies were swindled after men signed papers they did not read, targeting claims collection. The suspect is likely the same con artist active among Concord granite manufacturers.
Through a garbled line a travel notice references a route from Boston to Plattsburg via Ticonderoga and a presidential vacation context. Names and details are unclear due to OCR errors.
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