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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1904
Page
6
Police seek two women described by Mrs. Carrie E. Hall of 4 Hancock Street after a third fire in the same room. Lodger Mrs. Hugh Doherty recalls a threat from the suspects when told to vacate. Chief Cheswell says the fires appear incendiary.
Wong Sam Ark of San Francisco grand master of the Chinese Freemasons held a high court at 45 Eliot street last night initiating over 50 Chinamen. Nearly 200 Chinese from New England attended as incense and red lights filled the hall while sponsors stood at a rostrum. Ark, touring U S lodges to gauge strength, will depart for New York after a Boston stop.
The Boston Bartenders' Union 77 held a large election with over 1000 ballots, each listing 45 candidates. The main race featured John D. O'Brien and Richard W. Garrity for president, Edward F. Colbert was virtually elected secretary treasurer, and Thomas F. Mooney was expected to win the business agent post.
John L. Stewart, 78, was found exhausted and with memory loss wandering the South End last night. Patrolman Trainer took him to Station 5 and later traced his home to 6838 Parker Street, Roxbury. He had intended to visit friends in Canton and likely lost his way before getting on a car and roaming all day.
Thieves entered Gaspar Bergines fruit store on Broadway Chelsea by breaking two large plate glass panes last night and stole cigars tobacco and fruit from the shop. Police investigate the burglary and review nearby security footage for suspects and timestamps.
Boston Co L A delegates yesterday condemned using the Franklin fund for a trade school and urged similar to the Peter Cooper Institute in New York. A collection for Fall River children's fund raised thirty dollars. Dennis D Driscoll reported for the A F of L convention in San Francisco. C L U pledged support to striking longshoremen. Brewery Workers Union 14 fined five dollars for buying non union bread. President McCarthy announced the new year committees.
Arrangements completed for a mass meeting at Wells Memorial Hall on Tuesday night to discuss a uniform initiation fee. Local unions report wage gains, officer installations, and upcoming elections across Boston and surrounding areas, with multiple lodges and unions named.
A plan surfaces among Boston Republicans to abolish the present Board of Election Commissioners. They seek voters from both parties to elect the commissioners at primary elections instead of mayoral appointment. The bi partisan board currently includes John M. Minton Democrat chair and three others: David B. Shaw Democrat Charles R. Saunders Republican and Melancthon W. Burlen Republican. The move follows GOP charges of Democratic ascendancy over board affairs.
Medical Referee James T. Greely and doctors concluded an autopsy on John Shuta the Pole found in Hudson woods with his head nearly blown off. County solicitor Wason believes the death was a cold blooded murder and police seek Joseph and Stanislaus Bertig after tracing them to Lowell and possibly Boston.
Harvard Appleton Chapel sermon by Lyman Abbott argues for a religion not built on the Bible but on science and human compassion. He rejects a distant first cause, presenting God as immanent and present in all activity, with evolution and a single intelligent energy shaping humanity and law.
A raid at 37 Harrison Avenue by Sergeant Allen and Officers Hughes Howell and Sullivan found 12 Chinese men in a fourth floor room. Gambling instruments were concealed as police broke in. the electric gong warned entrants, and paraphernalia had been flung to a shed below for removal.
Hartford certificate filed for the C. B. McCue Company to manufacture and deal in motor vehicles and parts. Incorporators are Charles T. McCue Frederic C. Billings of Hartford and Herbert A. Wiley of Boston. Capital set at $10,000.
The revenue cutter Gresham, arriving from New London to relieve the Algonquin, responded to distress signals by Captain Coombs aboard the four masted straw schooner Strawbridge from Wilmington, North Carolina. She was leaking heavily with several feet of water in the hold, and the crew had worked the pumps for hours before the Gresham towed and brought her into the local harbor.
Representative Martin K. Lomasney is proposed as president of the Democratic city committee and ex-Senator William T. A. Fitzgerald as chairman of the Boston Police Board. Governor-elect Douglas praises Lomasney as a leading Democrat and cites Fitzgerald as a candid figure who spoke for commitments without seeking contributions while commending Boston campaign management.
Joseph Fabiano, 35, stabbed Generosso Tennaccio, 32, in the abdomen at Tennaccio’s home on Cleveland Place after being told to leave. Fabiano fled, returned for his cap, then fled again as police arrived. officers were still pursuing him late last night. Tennaccio is not listed as dangerous.
A large informal dinner at the Harvard Union will invite 57 undergraduates with varsity H letters in football baseball track and rowing along with many graduates. The gathering aims to form a Varsity Club to keep athletes connected through winter smokers and social events led by coaches Nichols Wrightington Dean Waters Wrenn Perkins Garcelon and others.
Captain Cain of Station 4 mobilized reserves to deter any clash between Hep Sing Tong and On Leong Tong as large gatherings formed yesterday amid word leader Loo The returned from New York. A possible outbreak hinges on talks with his lieutenants.
Mrs Mary Andrews Clark mother of United States Senator William A Clark dies at 92 after seven days illness in Los Angeles. Clark unaware of her illness sailed from New York for Europe on Saturday. Born near Connellsville Pennsylvania she had lived in the city since 1882.
Captain Thomas J. Lannery of the East Boston fire department was overcome by smoke while fighting a two story wooden dwelling fire at 186 Maverick street last evening. He was removed to his home and recovered. The damage to the building was about 31300.
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