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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1903
Page
10
Bargain lineup features Fancy Worsted and Cheviot suits now $7.50 reduced from $10 and $12. Also sees reductions to $10 from $15 and $15 from $22 with $20 from $25 in this sale.
Judge Emmons told a Post reporter he works long hours and justifies a higher salary for chairing Boston's Police Board. He urged the special legislative committee to raise his pay from 4500 to 6000, arguing his legal experience and duties warrant the increase. He also proposed abolishing the fee system but keeping dog license fees locally.
Boston police trace Willard Allen to Toronto while searching for the missing $70,000 in bonds and securities of the Preachers' Aid Society. Pinkerton detectives probe the theft as $110,000 is cited in a circular, with total loss around $80,000 to the society and Methodist Historical Society.
Walter Lutes a ten year old boy drowned while fishing today at Lynn Floating Bridge. He became entangled in his line and toppled into the water. Police were attempting to recover the body.
In Quincy Judge Avery bound Sam Scott over for the September term of the Superior Court at Dedham for breaking and entering Charles W. Clifford’s Wollaston residence and murdering his step-brother Arthur Heale. Bail set at 3000. he stayed in Dedham jail. A Brooklyn rattan maker’s letters link the prisoner to a Chicago and Frankfort prison past under the name James Johnson.
Louis Goldman was convicted of forging two checks for 162 dollars and 23 dollars. Despite a large showing of good character witnesses, Judge Fox sentenced him to 18 months in the House of Correction yesterday.
Frank Murray of Lynn, who had received a valuable diamond as a gift, lost the $400 stone during an Nahant Elks outing while traveling to the dock. After a frantic search with his brother Ellis and friends Tim Bannon and P. H. Keefe, the diamond was found trodden in the Relay House lawn still gleaming through the dirt.
At Duxbury camp, Fifth Regiment, M. V. M. held a sham battle, a battalion drill, and a large reception for Governor Bates on the camp’s final day. Bates praised the troops as the regimental band performed on Colonel Wright’s lawn before the men broke camp and headed home the next day.
Edmund K. Davis, a noted painter aged nearly 80, toppled from a staging in Rockland this afternoon. Fears are high that his age will aggravate the injuries and prove fatal.
Washington August 13 Thomas A Whalen municipal printing office Boston introduced to Typographical Union speaks on municipal ownership hopes Boston not only city to hear at next meeting. memorial for Amos Cummings urged Colorado granite monument at printers home Colorado Springs report by memorial committee. Frederick Driscoll Newspaper Publishers Association criticizes strike at Seattle Spokane arbitration urged. President Lynch promises statement on merits. Gompers lauds conciliation yet warns against anti unionism extremists likened to Herr Most partyism attacked. By law amendment adopted to hear Newspaper Publishers Association or United Typothetae on changes in laws. Philadelphia situation dominates afternoon.
Colonel William H. Stratton prominent in New England and New York insurance and manufacturing circles died this afternoon at his Hartford home of Brights disease. He fell ill while in England in July and was manager of the Factory Insurance Association and a member of several industry groups including the New England Cotton Manufacturers Association and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
The Highland Union will hold its annual garden party and field day tomorrow with speakers Hon. John F. Fitzgerald Postmaster George A. Hibbard Congressman William S. McNary and Colonel William A. Gaston addressing attendees.
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