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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1915
Page
3
New York. Dec 17. Heirs challenge the will of Mrs Frank Leslie widow of the publisher. The suit alleges Mrs Leslie's mother was a negro slave, impacting inheritance rights. Cromwell and Cranmer, executors and trustees, filed an accounting under the will.
Surrogate Fowler planned secret hearings in the Leslie will contest based on allegations about Mrs Leslie family history. Investigations followed claims her mother was a slave and her father a white planter, prompting detectives hired by executors and by Arthur Leslie’s attorney James H Westcott. The suit seeks to set aside probate and redirect the bulk of the estate to the Frank Leslie heirs under a claim the decedent was illegitimate and left no maternal heirs.
The Geneva dispatch from Paris reports the Berne peace congress postponed until spring as only half of the delegates can attend. France has refused to send representatives.
Natick report says Charles B. Swain a Boston lumber dealer seized his two children with lawyers and detectives at the Colonial Inn on December 17. He held a temporary guardian paper from Middlesex Probate Court after his wife left Medford with the children on December 4, asserting her incompetence to care for them.
Mrs Swain separated from her two children Hesta 8 and Charles B Jr 6 after a multi state flight with her mother 87 while her husband businessman Swain of Swain Boggs Boston and attorneys Barton Hardy Boston and Morgan Gardner Boston and Chief Evans pursued. Detectives traced taxi lodge routes to Wolf Tavern Newburyport Byfield Georgetown Bradford Haverhill and finally Na tick where they secured rooms at the Colonial Inn. The group demanded the children and the husband asserted custody. Mrs Swain showed signs of hysteria. Her wealth and family estate are tied to Boston interests with a conservator named Francis Peabody.
Five people died and 11 were injured in a rear-end collision between an accommodation train from Wilmington to Chester and idle express cars on the Baltimore and Ohio line near Felton, two miles south of Chester, as dense fog obscured signals. Two dead were railroad employees and two were unidentified negro passengers. Daniel Gallenger of Philadelphia was the fifth victim. most injured lived in Philadelphia, Chester, or nearby towns. Officials cited dense fog as the cause, hindering signal visibility.
The Boston Elevated will run Limited Stops on inbound trains between Coolidge Corner and the subway during weekday rush hours from 7:52 to 9:01 a.m. and outbound from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Trailer trains will skip boarding or alighting after signaling, with following local-stop cars ensuring passenger access at designated stations.
Relieve rheumatism with Eimer & Amend's N Y 2851. Highly recommended by users. Sold by reliable druggists listed in ads of the period.
War Department reports detail the U S coast defenses as the world’s most formidable but short on officers by 530 and propose 10 828 16 inch 60 caliber gun batteries as primary armament at major forts Their plan calls for mobile howitzers 16 or 17 inch to be mounted on railroad cars or trucks The full strength on June 30 totaled 105 998 officers and men with 68 258 in the United States and 14 840 on or near the Mexican border Recruitment rose to 48 813 in 1914 with about 90 percent native born Death and disease rates are noted with typhoid low tuberculosis at a new record and improved artillery accuracy at ranges up to 10 000 yards
Congress funded the defense system with $175 million to man forts and mine defenses. The existing batteries, costing $41 million, lack trained personnel to operate them, leaving gaps in national security.
The Rev Horace King a Catholic Apostolic Church evangelist died in Enfield Connecticut at age 88 He was ordained in 1872 and became minister of the local church six years ago retiring last year
Samuel Milstein, a young Palestine Jew, told a Post reporter at Long Wharf immigration station that news of the Zionist movement for reclaiming the Holy Land has long reached Palestine and the population awaits the day when Jews worldwide reclaim their origins.
Milstein said Louis D Bran deis is a well known Zionist leader in Palestine and in the United States. He noted the Jewish population in Palestine follows the movement with keen interest and daily prayers for its success. Milstein, a Turkish army refugee, arrived in Boston on the Cretic after escaping turmoil and the sinking of the Ancona.
Thomas Marsden was sentenced to eight months in the House of Correction for assault and battery on Mabel S. Haskell of Charlestown in the Superior Criminal Court. The attack occurred in Haskell’s home and knocked her false teeth into the roof, silencing her for minutes as neighbors heard her screams. Marsden fled and was later arrested.
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