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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1913
Page
5
Mrs Berel Bremen 28 swallowed a bi chloride of mercury tablet at home in Quinsigamond village while guests visited. She was taken to City Hospital and will recover. Present were John Scales Boston and Edward Bradett Worcester. Police could not determine the reason.
The body of John W Holliday superintendent of the New England division of railway mail service died yesterday at Metcalf Hospital Winthrop from typhoid fever. It will be sent to Washington for interment in the National Cemetery.
The Nantasket Beach carnival week opened with a record baby parade featuring 300 infants. Dorothy Davis won the prettiest baby prize while Paul O’Kane received the top carriage prize. The event drew thousands amid festive bunting, steamboat surges, and vaudeville shows.
The Institute of Commercial Teachers of New England opened at the State Normal School Salem for a five day session. About 150 teachers registered today with expectations of 1000 attendees by end of convention. Leaders include Dr David Snedden and J Asbury Pitman with remarks from William Orr Harry P Gifford and Sumner W Cushing.
Thomas Keene shot his wife Rita Keene after she refused a goodbye kiss in Philadelphia. He then swallowed poison, police contained him, he was hospitalized, died in custody. The couple had been separated seven months and divorce papers were served that day.
Undaunted Moran and Higgins plan to sail the Wink across the Atlantic after a first wreck. The second attempt will wait until next June due to a large hole in the bow and a month needed for repairs at the Columbian Boat House. Weather risks mid-ocean render the voyage foolhardy.
Washington August 25 a judiciary committee agreed unanimously on a thorough investigation of United States District Judge Emory Speer of the southern district of Georgia to determine if he has engaged in impeachable misconduct.
Tomorrow Chairman Clayton will introduce a resolution to empower the committee to investigate the charges and compel witness attendance. The committee plans to report conclusions and recommendations, following impeachment precedents. The probe will likely use a sub committee and may include Judge Speer after his hay fever delay. He denies the charges and challenges their authorship with his physician advising postponement.
Thomas W. Lawson, president of the Marshfield Agricultural and Horticultural Society, telegraphed Boston naming winners of gifts at the fair. The Hupmobile touring car goes to 97, the Ford runabout to 3090, the Indian motorcycle to 10078. Winners: touring car E L Joslin Dorchester, runabout Peter Strang West Duxbury, motorcycle Margaret Winslow South Duxbury. Lawson provided three machines, with past gifts noted and a previous lottery charge dismissed by the superior court.
Lemuel Coughlin, detained at the request of Charles Burke of Prince Edward Island on a warrant for larceny of two breeding black foxes worth about 18 000 each at Montrose, was released after police and the county attorney found insufficient evidence to hold him.
Wireless reports from the Cunard line steamer Franconia speeding from Liverpool and Queenstown indicate a record voyage. At 7 yesterday morning she was 700 miles east of Boston Light with favorable weather and Captain C A Smith hoping to dock at the East Boston terminal at 7 o clock tomorrow morning.
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