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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
12
In New York on December 95, defence counsel prepared for the murder case of Thornton Jenkins Hains. Hains remained in his Long Island City jail cell on Christmas Day awaiting the opening of the Flush ing court proceedings the next day.
Thornton Hains and his brother faced defense efforts after a key prosecution witness aided the claim that the brothers visited Bayside for real estate, not to kill Annis. Attorneys McIntyre and Jesperson shaped the strategy as they seek to exonerate Hains with fresh testimony and potential perjury charges against Hackman Skura.
The first session of the Pan American scientific congress opened at the Grand Opera House in Santiago. President Montt and his cabinet, the diplomatic corps, and delegates from all American republics attended. Leo S. Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania led the American delegation and praised the bureau of American republics and John Barrett for his work.
Cambridge jail held a Christmas celebration with a roast pork dinner and chapel entertainment. Inmates in the balcony included Chester A. Jordan awaiting murder trial, Napoleon Rivet charged with manslaughter, James B. Harmon linked to a sweetheart shooting, and Mary Kelleher facing arson charges.
Patrick J. Daly foreman for North Packing & Provision Company was drowned yesterday afternoon near the New Haven & Hartford piers in South Boston. He leaves a widow and seven children. The body was taken to the North Grove street morgue for identification and identified by his daughter Catherine. The family at 6 Squires Court East Cambridge was notified. Daly had said he would attend mass and return for the Christmas dinner at 3. How he fell into the harbor is unknown.
George Rider was mortally wounded in a church fight at Louisville Missouri with Edgar Parrish. Rider staggered to the Christmas tree in the Christian Church and collapsed dead at Santa Claus’s feet.
During a Christmas event at a rural church near Louisville, Rider was stabbed through the crowd and bled, as Parrish fled and is last seen. A late report from Louisville claims Parrish killed himself on a country road with the same weapon used on Rider. The feud began when Rider insulted women after box supper boxes were auctioned for funds.
Assistant Postmaster Norman C. Smith hunted substitutes for a sick letter carrier in Middleboro on Christmas Eve. He found Walter McCrillis exterminating gypsy moths in Rocky Meadow and hurried him to the post office to sort the Christmas mail on time.
The nightworkers chapel in a newspaper office district was decorated with holly garlands flowers and fir trees for a Christmas morning service led by Rev P J Lyons. A large crowd including women attended as high mass at 3 30 am featured Benediction and carols sung by the choir.
FALL RIVER Mass Dec 25 Herbert Williamson aged 17 and two companions fell through the ice on South Watuppa Pond while returning from a hunting trip. Williamson drowned. two friends escaped. The body of Williamson was recovered. He lived on Holden Street and is survived by his father and mother.
In Quitman Georgia on December 5 C A Foster a farmer killed himself after failing to provide Christmas toys for his children. He placed a shotgun to his chest with a forked stick and pulled the trigger. his wife and children discovered him after the shot.
Christopher Chisholm, 25, of Salem, was thrown from a buggy in the Lynn marshes when a Lynn bound electric car struck his team. He was unconscious and taken to Lynn hospital with a deep gash requiring 19 stitches.
Mrs Cannarli of 155 Skillman Street Brooklyn obtained a bondsman for her star boarder Frank Gentie to secure his release from jail so he could have Christmas dinner with her. She refused to aid her husband Martino Cannarli who remained jailed.
Mock Sen the leper who has been in the city’s voluntary and expensive charge since July 7, 1907, died at Municipal Hospital today from tuberculosis.
Boston doctors study fumes from phosphate fertilizer pits as possible aid against tuberculosis. Tests and worker reports suggest irritant gases may stimulate recovery, while experts urge formal chemical analysis and more research before conclusions.
A man visiting a friend for Christmas was shot on Valentine street by a woman who had lived with him for four years. She followed him after a quarrel over another woman and fired multiple shots, then surrendered to officers after an attempted escape.
John C. Proctor of Reading died from apoplexy after a hockey game on Mishawum Pond in Woburn. He joined Meadowbrook Golf Club members to play a local team, but lacked experience in the exertion.
In a Boston game, Mr Proctor collapsed at the end of the first half and died from apoplexy. The 38 year old Chicago native had moved to Boston six years ago to run a business on Milk street as the Wine Cocoa Company. He had just withdrawn his skates and watched from the sidelines when the fatal incident occurred.
Reports to the national monetary commission show silver price swings damage trade in China and Japan. In China silver standard markets hurt profits and imports, while dealers face losses on stock when silver falls. Experts say China’s shift to a gold standard could ease the disruption that began in 1896.
The obituary notes the late Mr. Proctor who had formed a cleansing fluid business two months ago and resided in Reading for five years at Hotel Elmwood. He was a popular Meadowbrook Golf Club member and is survived by a widow and sister Miss Gertrude C. Proctor of 49 Bickerstaff Street Back Bay.
John Wellington of Holyoke wed Mrs. Bessie Jenkins Woods of Richmond Virginia in a home ceremony at 202 Poplar Street. He found her photograph inside a tobacco can he bought. Wellington is a widower with one child and works at a local hotel.
An edict names Princess Tsai Tao Yu Lang and Grand Councillor Tieh Liang to assemble a guard from Manchu regiments for Prince Chun. The commission was given the duty of guarding palace gates.
In Vancouver on December, the fisheries committee of the Board of Trade drafts a strong memorial to the Dominion government. It seeks to define Canadian sovereignty in the North Pacific amid alleged poaching by American halibut fishing boats in Canadian waters.
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