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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
12
Chinatown stirred by the murder of Bow Kim 21 a New York resident from San Francisco. Chin Len 31 reported lover of Bow Kim, and Chin Sen fled a Mott Street tenement crying My woman been murdered. Police probed motive and assailant's identity.
The article describes a large-scale Red army advance toward the Blue lines with General Bliss directing from New Bedford. It details near daily moves from Mason's Corner to Rock and mentions the Whitehead and Washington Street communications, the Dandy Seventh and Connecticut regiments, and the improvised umpire system reshaping the exercise. A woman shot in the home of Chermowski is reported as fatally injured, with police and mob actions described in the North End.
A crowd of loiterers and sightseers gathered near Len's residence after a sensational murder of Elsie Sigel the missionary. Police and a detective rushed inside to a second floor rear room where Len unlocked a bedroom door. The victim lay stabbed multiple times with a hunting knife near her neck indicating a struggle.
A large, diverse crowd gathered on Boston Common yesterday afternoon enjoying the Municipal Band directed by Emil Mollenhauer. Attendees also debated at Socialistic meetings and listened to fiery political orations, while the Salvation Army brass band played nearby drawing hundreds away from the bandstand to hear a classic Bach and Rossini selection and the tune Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay.
In Moorehouse parish near Doss a Black man was lynched Thursday night after suing a white woman for shooting his cow. Police and sheriff units investigated the incident as authorities sought those responsible.
Aug 15 Brockton report states Dominic Uto, a Spaniard, tried to enter the grounds where the signal corps balloon was inflated. He struck a sentinel, was disarmed, and held until police. He faces $5000 bail on assaulting a US soldier on duty.
President Taft attended a church service in Beverly with his aide Captain Butt and two Secret Service agents. The Rev. Samuel Eliot preached on adversity as a source of strength and the value of competition, tying war and struggle to character development. Taft returned home for lunch then met Cuban officials before signing census-related commissions.
A confrontation aboard a Boston & Northern car on Broadway Chelsea near Crescent avenue led to Michael Pellisola of East Boston being cut in the neck during a struggle with conductor Charles Marsh over fares. Pellisola received aid from Acting City Physician McPhail as onlookers screamed and a panic spread among passengers returning from Revere Beach.
Miss Mildred Pierce a Stanford student and daughter of Harry Pierce the lumberman swam the Tuolumne Gorge rapids a feat never before accomplished by a woman in the state. The rapid span from 10 to 30 feet wide runs between 200 foot cliffs.
The U S torpedo boat Winslow rammed the bow of the steamship Betty Alden at Plymouth on August 15 while attempting to turn. Passengers crowded the bow to watch the maneuver, and a rush of onlookers surged aft as the collision occurred.
The Winslow crashed and ran aground on a submerged wharf before control was regained. Propeller guard tangled in piles, hull scraped, boat tied to a wharf awaiting Boston departure. Betty Alden sustains minor bow damage. Captain Carleton arrives aboard the Winslow for hull inspection.
Dr and Mrs Gallagher of New York returned from a six weeks honeymoon abroad aboard the liner New York which arrived from Southampton and Cherbourg carrying only three suitcases or rather three handbags and two steamer rugs as their baggage.
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