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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
11
Edward tried Frank McCarthy a former Elevated conductor was acquitted by a jury after three hours deliberation yesterday on charges of throwing missiles at a street car and assault and battery on a strike breaking motorman.
McCarthy the first defendant in the strike related criminal cases to be heard in the Superior Criminal Court on appeal. Blake Edward, a second striker, faces trial for throwing a stone at a West Medford car as jurors return a sealed verdict to be opened this morning. George Edward claims a large progeny in a 23 year span. The judge cautions jurors on prejudice and unions.
The grand jury reports this morning on the Boston Elevated Railway over alleged employee dismissals tied to union activity. Six division superintendents faced perjury indictments for testifying they discharged no men for union involvement before the State Board of Arbitration.
The second day of arbitration hearings at the State House focused on employee testimony about long hours and low pay. Patrick F F Sullivan of Springfield said he earned 1.50 a day 20 years ago and now makes 1.75. Board chairman Dr John W Coughlin and other arbitrators include Francis H Dewey and William H Hayes.
Fifteen thousand employees of Chicago surface lines and elevated railroads will receive wage increases and a readjustment of hours after their contract expired August 1. The threat of a strike backed the demand for better conditions and pay.
Roosevelt prepares to launch the 1912 presidential campaign with an address in Providence tomorrow and another planned for Point of Pines Massachusetts Saturday. He leaves New York at 1 PM and expects a long, strenuous campaign lasting until election day, with a rapid East Coast schedule before a national swing.
Colonel Roosevelt announces plan to frame the race as a choice between a true Progressive program and a vague Democratic platform. He charging Wilson has not defined steps, vows swift open campaigning focusing on social and industrial legislation, tariffs, and court roles to force clear positions from both parties.
The Sunday Post Magazine notes strong reader interest in Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk of the New York Academy of Medicine. The forthcoming issue next Sunday will cover typhoid and is hailed as among the best in the series.
Colonel Everett C. Benton campaigning for the Republican gubernatorial nomination visits Duxbury for a non formal clambake hosted by Colonel Jim Myrick. He attends as past commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and is honored as guest of the Dandy Fifth Fusiliers.
Colonel Benton spoke from a soap box under an old apple tree as the Ancients gathered amid clam shells and onion skins. He urged the Republican party to shed cliques or face extinction while blasting Governor Foss and District Attorney Pelletier and praising Mayor Fitzgerald for energizing the party.
A canvass by his campaign committee shows Colonel Roosevelt significantly stronger than President Taft in this district, signaling shifting voter sentiment and momentum for the former president.
Washington reports Democratic leaders failed for the third time to override President Taft on the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The 158 to 107 vote fell 20 short of the needed two thirds, and the measure will be taken up again with the seven year tenure provision still in dispute. The plan to abolish the Commerce Court remains contentious but likely to be kept in the bill.
Mrs James Griswold of New York a Civic League member warns of heavy drunkenness among sailors in Newport Rhode Island She reports an intoxicated sailor who nearly knocks her down calls police but is ignored She plans a movement to forbid liquor sales to men in uniform and will hold a public meeting to push resolutions to the City Council
Nancy Shanahan of 56 Avon avenue Lawrence Mass joins 1000 plus claimants to Jeremiah Moynihan estate after filing to prove kinship. A will leaving the fortune to Glen Adonis Gilbert of Galena Ill has been filed in Probate Court and the hearing is set for September. Shanahan says Moynihan may be related through her daughter Margaret Shanahan who traced Irish kinship in 1908.
Governor Woodrow Wilson spoke to thousands of farmers in Gloucester on August 15 in Washington Park. He assailed Senator Aldrich and defended a broadened merchant marine and parcels post while praising tariff reform and national prosperity ahead of the 1912 election.
Governor Wilson argues politics should be a practical branch of national business not a stage for oratory. He urges farmers to scrutinize tariff legislation and to take ownership of their own affairs rather than blame others. He notes the farmer’s neglect in legislation and urges self reliance.
Harry F. Grant, famed auto racer, was reported as a burglar at his Cambridge home on Wednesday afternoon. A caller claimed burglars entered 25 Hurlbut Street, prompting a police response. The officer found Grant had just returned home, with windows open and the door ajar.
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