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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1907
Page
12
William H. Taft secretary of war and his party arrived in St. Petersburg from Moscow. They were met at the station by officials including the imperial aide Count Konitz. The group checked into the Hotel de Europe for their stay.
Secretary Taft arrived at the hotel with Brigadier-General Edwards and others then met Foreign Minister Iswelsky and War Minister Rudiger. He toured the Tauride Palace box with Stolypin present as Baron Ostensachen guided the party and interpreters spoke. Taft noted the chamber's grandeur while diplomats and lawmakers listened to speeches by Shu binsky Tymsha and others.
Heavy travel to southern Europe fills ships as White Star line overcrowds the Romanic bound for Ponta del Gada Gibraltar Naples and Genoa. The Cymric sails a day later with Cherbourg connection for onward ports, carrying many steerage travelers including Italians and Portuguese.
Burglars arrived by car and blew the safe in the Garden City post office in Nassau County Long Island early today. They took $1000 in cash and stamps and robbed a village watchman who interrupted them, locking him in a building with the keys he carried.
The matinee of Rob Roy at Castle Square drew a large enthusiastic audience from leading Boston theatrical companies. Notables present included Miss Jessie Millward John Glendenning Hamilton Revelle J W Cope Cecil Kingstone and W H Denny. The cast received warm repeated encou ragement as the operetta performed well. The evening performance will be a special Scottish night with dignitaries from the Scots Charitable Society and Caledonian Club in attendance.
The Co ban steamer of 689 tons net, owned by Black Diamond Steamship Co of Montreal, ran ashore at Black Point near Cranberry Head while bound from Halifax to Sydney in ballast. It refuses assistance. The 230 foot schooner rigged iron vessel built in Sunderland England in 1882 is under Captain McPhaill.
Mrs Mary Magdalen Kerekes Greenough widow of Josephey Greenough testified in Probate Court to establish title to the million dollar estate. She said she was born in Hungary and became a noble, that a common law marriage formed in 1886 followed by a church ceremony in Philadelphia, and that she produced evidence of her noble birth at Greenough's request before the ceremony.
Miss Bertha Osis of Brookline, diagnosed with leprosy, is sent from the Southamption Street pesthouse to Woods Hole and then to Penikese Island under State Board of Charity care. The island houses five other lepers and sits off Vineyard Sound as her last journey begins.
Four sudden deaths were reported to police yesterday. Two men, Giovanni Invario 26 and Gregorio Benedicto 43, were found at 186 Maverick Street East Boston after a gas jet was left burning and extinguished. Michael Driscoll 70 collapsed on Stamford Street, and John Lynch 65 a Togus Maine veteran was found dead at the Hampton House Haymarket Square.
Nantasket Beach was found yesterday morning covered with hundreds of plump yellow lemons washing in the surf and on the sands. Local fruit company offices could offer no explanation or source for the fruit. Some suggested a tossed overboard by the steamship Romanic from Palermo, Italy, while others thought it might have come from a vessel heading to New York that encountered trouble offshore.
Captain Walter McLean reports the Sadie C. Sumner, with 610000 feet of cypress lumber, rode a 28 day voyage from Apalachicola to Vineyard Haven, forced to lash temporary stays after a November 25 gale off Shinnecock. Captain Harding’s fore and aft schooner Dorothy Palmer, carrying 4650 tons of coal from Newport News, endured a similar storm 25 miles northeast of Fenwick's Island, sustaining heavy wash and damage.
About 180 of 600 aboard the Canadian Pacific steamship Mt Temple were saved and sheltered at the immigration station in Halifax after the ship ran aground on Iron Bound Ledges near the La Have River in a snow storm. The passengers are foreigners including Slav, Galician, Russian, Italian and German nationals. The vessel is reported to be a total loss.
Joseph Silveri of 23 Bickford Street Roxbury told police that two Italian men asked to change his money into Italian notes and fled with $200. The incident occurred yesterday morning as all three prepared to return to Italy.
Michele Carpinelli, charged with murdering Antonio Genova and Pasquale Capobianca in a shooting affray, won Sept. 19 and was today sentenced in Waterbury to life in State prison after pleading guilty to murder in the second degree.
Historical law text states that anyone proposing incorporation or amendment of a railroad street railway elevated line or canal company must publish a copy of the petition in newspapers directed by the secretary of the Commonwealth. The final publication must occur at least fourteen days before the session where the petition is presented.
The document states that a petition to amend alter or extend a company's charter or corporate powers shall be referred to the next General Court and not to a committee unless proper notice is provided under Chapter 3 of the Revised Laws or other applicable law.
A joker in revised laws could delay President Mellen’s plan to merge the New Haven and Boston & Maine railways. Lawmakers may require a weekly three week publication to block the merger, with the final notice due by December 18. Officials seek Attorney General Malone’s ruling amid uncertainty about the law’s reach.
William B. Lawrence of Medford filed with the Secretary of State on behalf of the Lawrence stockholders of the Boston and Maine a petition seeking sweeping anti merger legislation. If enacted and constitutional it would block the New Haven from purchasing the Boston and Maine and would bar the New Haven from buying any railroad or street railway in the state and force it to divest its holdings.
Newport December report notes John Nicholas Brown, called the richest six year old, taken by his mother to Europe. A Newport nurse accompanies the boy as Mrs Brown joins Harold Brown’s wife abroad for a continental automobile tour. The ill child’s health prompted the trip. destination remains unknown to Harbor View attendants.
In Concord New Hampshire on December 3 Howard T Mandigo aged 20 shot himself in the head. He was despondent over his sister being committed to the State hospital after she injured herself by thrusting her arm into a flame and burning badly.
A fund raising gala at Hotel Vendome on Friday evening supports the Daly Industrial School of Dorchester. Archbishop O Connell and Governor Juggins of Rhode Island are expected as guests. they will be welcomed by Mrs. Margaret R Burke and other organizers including Mrs. W M Clark and Mrs. Richard Lynch, president, with assistants Eleanor Murray Annie Moran Mary E Mullins Mae F Burns Ella Donovan Mollie Shelley Nan Sullivan and others.
John Reardan aged 27 was taken to City Hospital yesterday afternoon in morphine poisoning but was pronounced out of danger last night.
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