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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1905
Page
7
South Camden New Jersey August 11 The Kansas the mightiest battleship ever built at the shipyards here will be launched tomorrow Anna daughter of Governor Hoch of Kansas will break a bottle of wine over the great ship despite efforts to have water or native Kansas oil used in the ceremony
Of the 700 steerage aboard the Saxonia only eight were detained by the board of special inquiry yesterday noon. Anne Villadsen a Danish woman seeking to wed Anders Anderson of Rumford Falls Maine is among those held. Anderson, with Maine marriage papers, rushed to secure a Maine license for their marriage. Most detainees are Russian Hebrews delayed by funds or by relatives unable to claim them.
Malden officers patrolled on Aug 11 and seized 14 bottles of lager from Kate Crimmins at Middlesex and Charles. At D J Sullivan’s on Jackson and Charles they took 24 beer bottles 19 ale bottles and a half pint of whiskey. At Daniel Mahany’s they recovered nearly three gallons of whiskey two jugs about one gallon of beer and some ale.
David R. Francis former Missouri governor and his party visited Yellowstone Park yesterday and he said he will announce candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination if William Jennings Bryan is not blocking the path.
In Antrim on August 11 a murder case unfolds around Charles Lee whose mutilated body was found last Sunday. Clarence Sargent and Deputy Perkins pursue leads including a hearsay claim from the Simonds girl about a Sunday night quarrel between Lee and Knapp on the way home from Antrim Branch.
Mate John Rankin of the schooner Norman, already sentenced to three months in the house of correction for larceny of a $20.28 check, is held for the federal grand jury on charges of stealing the same check from the United States mail. Commissioner Fiske released him on his own recognizance. Bailiff Sullivan took Rankin to Deer Island to serve the Chelsea court sentence.
Washington reports the interment of John Paul Jones will be followed by formal exercises next spring. A French squadron is scheduled to participate in the ceremonies.
In Brockton on August 11 Inspector Chester E. Harris was found guilty of paternity and related charges brought by Stella Elliott and was dismissed from the police force. Mayor Keith ordered an investigation of the department and indicated further outcomes could follow.
The Bettis will remains intact after a conference between Horace I. Bettis and administrator Joseph F. Quinn. Miss Elizabeth Theresa Smith, house keeper for nearly six years, will receive the Bettis homestead at 26 Hardy Street, a lot on Daniels Street, and $2000 in cash. The final amount to be received was not disclosed.
C S Albee of Rutland Vermont received a despatch from J E his brother believed murdered near Ames Nebraska last February but possibly alive A body found there matched him and his baggage was sent to Rutland for identification He suspects Nebraska officers swindled him and explains he was away from Ames when baggage was sent and has since spent months in Nebraska buying cattle
Four of Uncle Sam's largest warships anchor in the harbor opposite Long wharf. The Alabama captain Davis, Iowa captain Tilley, Massachusetts captain Taussig, and Illinois captain Rodgers are open for visitors with boats running daily 8 am to 5 pm. They depart Tuesday for Provincetown then head to Newport for torpedo practice.
Dr Watson finds Holmes in talk with Jabez Wilson and two detectives. Holmes and Merryweather plan a stakeout at a bank cellar guarding 30 000 Napoleon bullion. They wait in darkness to intercept a bold nighttime crime aimed at seizing the French gold.
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