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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
2
Paul Heffernan aged 25 died yesterday afternoon when buried by an avalanche of bituminous coal in the bunkers of the power station at the Army Base South Boston. Four hours and 100 workers plus Rescue Company 1 removed the body.
Heffernan was ordered to supervise coal flow in the plant bunkers on the fourth floor. He disappeared around noon and was found buried upright under tons of coal after workers emptied 550 tons and lowered ropes into the bunkers. Rescue crews and the district chief assisted as shovellers recovered the body.
The Rev. Nicholas J. Murphy pastor of St Anthony's Allston marks the 40th anniversary of his ordination. Ordained December 28 1882 in Troy he has served in Roxbury Charlestown Middleboro Belmont Peabody and Allston advancing church debt elimination and a new schoolhouse project. He observes the milestone quietly in Allston.
Kingston Inn proprietor Richard J. Rowland and others face connections to a $17 000 cash display in Littleton N H shortly before Edward C Cardinal was fatally shot. Police found $360 on Cardinal after he died at Jordan Hospital and pursue the path of an illegal liquor deal leading to the Kingston Inn death.
After the inquest, Mr. Kane met with Officers Stokes and Brouillard of the State police for an extended conference.
A Boston advisory from the Work-Horse Relief Association urges owners to care for work horses during Christmas holiday idleness. It warns of blackwater risk with two consecutive days off and recommends oats cut by half on Sunday and Monday, bran mash for all three days, and walking horses on Sunday and Monday.
Disabled soldiers at U S Public Service Hospital No 44 West Roxbury enjoyed a Christmas party last evening centered on a large Christmas tree. Patients and hospital staff joined in a festive dance following the tree lighting.
The Hastern Steamship Company must pay $25,017.54 after its vessel Herman Winter damaged Sagamore Bridge in Cape Cod Canal in July 1918. Walker D. Hines, director general of the railroads, brought the suit. Suffolk Superior Court jurors delivered the verdict yesterday.
Customs inspectors seized the freighter Hoboken library in New York after sailors defended books labeled Memories of Santos. In a shelf search they found hollow volumes containing half pint flasks of liquor, revealing a hidden liquor cache among the stacks.
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