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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1913
Page
4
In Duluth Minnesota on August 13 seven of 23 people in an outing party drowned when a canopy top used as seats on the launch Dauplaise collapsed. Fourteen were thrown into the water and rescued.
The seven bodies recovered include Mrs. Louis Lasky and Miss Nettie Lasky both of Superior, Miss Clara Goldstein and Mrs. Aaron Segal and children Bennie 7 Philip 4 Sylvia 14 of Superior and Minneapolis. Seven people were pulled from the water by tugs and the government launch Nomadjs after a boat accident near a wharf. The Dauplaise was capsized by a heavy swell caused when the tug Sinclair approached, sending passengers onto a canopy top and collapsing supports. Rescued individuals were hysterical and some needed hospital care.
The battleship Idaho topped U S Navy efficiency in gunnery and engineering for the past year with a 100 gunnery score and 87.8 engineering. Its commander is Captain W L Howard. Close follows Utah Michigan New Hampshire Florida Maryland Delaware Wyoming and Virginia in merit.
Copenhagen August 13 Captain Koch the Danish polar explorer and his party completed a crossing of Greenland from east to west after starting in June 1912 with several scientists. They traversed Queen Louise Land and reached Proavem near Upernivik in Baffin’s Bay. Koch was part of the Mylius Erichsen expedition in 1906.
Washington August 13 An intruder leaped the White House fence and moved toward the presidential chambers before being stopped by a policeman. The suspect turned out to be Sylvester the Superintendent of Police who vowed a personal inspection of guard efficacy.
Washington reports the War Department recommends spending 20 million dollars soon to finish the inland waterway from Boston to Beaufort North Carolina. The plan calls for a 112 foot canal with a 90 foot bottom, to be upgraded to a sea level canal across New Jersey from New York Bay to the Delaware River with a 2 and a half foot depth and 125 foot bottom width.
Buffalo news reports more than 400 men battled a fierce fire at Mutual Transit Company freight sheds on Ganson Street and Buffalo Creek. A third alarm sent 400 handlers to work across the building and docks, saving one section while total loss reaches about $50,000 and damage potentially $500,000 in value.
Discussion of the agricultural schedule and proposed free wheat listing heated the tariff debate. Senator Gronna of North Dakota urged replacing free wheat with a six cent per bushel duty.
Democratic leaders call a caucus to speed consideration of the tariff and currency bills with a plan to recess Congress until November 1 after passage in the Senate and House. Senator Borah attacks Canadian reciprocity and warns free trade would ruin farmers as urban congestion worsens. He cites English wheat and barley acreage declines to illustrate long term effects.
Senator Williams urged freeing farm prices to boost agriculture and avoid burdening the poor. He supported possible bounty payments and criticized protectionism as harming common people while helping landlords. He hoped bread and meat prices would drop and farmers would see through Republican claims.
In San Francisco on August 13 a clerical error or fire destroyed records of August Geber's 1906 murder conviction and death sentence for Charles Hartman. His appeal was dismissed in 1911, but no resentencing occurred until yesterday when George Hartman urged Judge Dunn to resent Geber to death and Geber was ordered to appear Saturday.
Tokyo reports that about one hundred assassins were dispatched from Japan to kill Chinese revolutionary leader Sun Yat Sen, Huang Sing, and other fugitives by Yuan Shi Kai’s Provisional Government in China.
A herd from Brighton abattoir halted evening traffic on the Charles Town to Reading route near Sullivan Square terminal. Cows blocked car tracks after refusing to pass two cars and a team. Passengers joined in the round-up as conductors and motormen tried to move them. Some cows dashed into yards, trampling flowers and vegetables. The delay lasted about thirty minutes before the herd continued homeward.
Washington August 13 Senator Saulsbury of Delaware introduced a bill to raise the Vice President's pay from 12 000 to 25 000 dollars annually.
Panama reports the final dike in the Pacifico section between Miraflores locks and the ocean will be destroyed around August 25. The event will not match the earlier blast in spectacle but will create uninterrupted water communication for light draft vessels between Miraflores and the Pacific, advancing canal completion.
Democratic insurgents in the caucus praised progress after more than five hours debating the administration currency bill. Henry and Ragsdale supported insurgent amendments while Eagle, Bulkley, and Korbly defended the bill. President Wilson pledged rural credit legislation next term, insisting separate machinery be created for rural credits. The insurgents expect material amendments to finance farmers as the caucus continues tomorrow.
West Rutland Vermont August 13 Dr B H Stone of the State laboratory Burlington performed an autopsy on Miss Alice Kerrigan 50 buried in her home cellar Mrs Eugene McCarthy her older sister confessed to killing her and led police to the body The doctor found a chest wound as the cause of death The sister claimed she shot Kerrigan in the head after a slight quarrel McCarthy remained in custody likely to be examined for sanity before arraignment
The battleship Rivadavia will finish trials at Rockland Maine around September 1 after turbine bucket damage delayed completion. The ship’s transfer to the Argentine navy is now brief, and she will reach Boston Harbor on Wednesday.
Representatives of 4 000 000 women voters gather in Washington for a three day convention to map plans for submitting a resolution to Congress in December to amend the federal Constitution granting universal woman suffrage.
Miss Alice Paul chairs the NAWSA congressional committee as leaders declare state by state battles over. They plan immediate concerted action for a federal amendment. Jeannette Rankin reports Senate progress while Lucy Burns analyzes House status. Jane Addams leads Illinois delegation. A rules-committee briefing is slated for tomorrow.
Portland Oregon August 13 The Oregon Women’s Christian Temperance Union protests the Portola festival poster shown nationwide to promote a San Francisco October event. State president Ada Wallace Unruh calls the image of a nearly bare dancing woman insulting to womanhood and inappropriate for Pacific coast celebration advertising.
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