27 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1911
Page
1
In New York on December 26 a planned peace dinner with President Taft as principal speaker sparks dispute. A Roosev elt aide reports the former president disagrees with the dinner's aims and calls attendees traitors to their principles.
The executive committee of the National Citizens' committee planned a large dinner but resolved in executive session to invite Mr. Roosevelt. He replied with a seven page letter indicating he would not attend under any circumstances, and a further interview today reinforced his intention not to attend.
The Republican city committee endorsed candidates for city council and the school board. City Council: Frank A. Goodwin, Thomas J. Kenny, Walter Ballantyne. School Board: George E. Brock, Joseph Lee. Details on Page five of today's Post.
Frank E. Ryan fired five shots at his wife on Winter street Somerville last evening before a 16 year old bicyclist trailed him through streets into North Cambridge. Ryan admitted the shooting and said his wife had been unfaithful. A dying statement from Mrs. Ryan suggested possible insanity.
Ryan is held at the Somerville police station charged with murderous assault, later to be upgraded to murder after his wife’s death. The 32 caliber bullets struck her at midnight as officers arrested him near Massachusetts avenue Cambridge following a tip from witness William A. Frink.
In Rome on December 26 the Vatican refused Count Boni de Castelane’s request for an annulment of his marriage to Anna Gould, now Duchess of Talleyrand and Sagan. Anna Gould, previously Countess de Castelane, had obtained a divorce with custody of their three children on November 14, 1906. About a year prior Boni had sought the annulment.
Cambridge voters backed the plan after the Cambridge City Council ordered Amherst Street closed. The move hinges on the Technology trustees deciding whether to purchase the land bounded by Harvard and Cambridge bridges facing the Charles River basin for the new MIT campus.
Alderman Curley opposed the order in both voice and vote while Gaffney led a bloc against it. McElroy Horan Malahan Leahy and O Hara sided with Gaffney in a 16 to 6 tally. Reconsideration votes failed in both branches, awaiting Mayor Barry's signature to finalize. The highways committee had previously recommended the order after reviewing the petition.
Rain is expected Wednesday and Thursday with much colder temperatures. Winds shift to the southwest and then increase as conditions generally become fairer.
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A proposed merger among Armour Swift and Morris aimed at a $500 million capital base with an $180 million appraised value. Parties deposited $1 million in a Chicago bank and planned to borrow $90 million. Bonds and stock for tangible and intangible assets were arranged, but the plan collapsed when New York capitalists failed to fund. In March 1903 the National Packing Company formed.
Chicago witnesses revealed a $500 million merger plan to unite Armour Swift and Morris interests to control the U S meat industry. The contract dated May 31 1902 was read in the government case against ten packers. The plan was abandoned and National Packing Company formed in 1963 to absorb independent firms.
The list of indicted men includes J Ogden Armour president of Armour and Co Louis F Swift president of Swift and Co Edward F Swift vice president of Swift and Co Charles H Swift director Swift and Co Edward Morris president of Morris and Co Edward Tilden president National Packing Co Arthur Meeker general manager Armour and Co Thomas J Connors superintendent Armour and Co Louis H Hayman general manager Morris and Co and Francis A Fowler department manager of Swift and Co.
Armour, Swift and Morris would receive bonds and preferred stock for tangible property and group stock for intangible assets and goodwill. They aimed to borrow 90 million dollars to fuel the new company, with an assessed value of the trio and their subsidiaries at 180.9 million. Each promoter deposited 1 million in a Chicago bank, but the plan faltered as New York financiers failed to provide funds. Veeder testified, defense failed to exclude pre 1990 transactions from the government case.
Testimony in the manslaughter case against Isaac Harris and Max Blanck of the Triangle Waist Company concluded as the defense and prosecution clashed over the authenticity of a door lock. Locksmith Hurwitz argued the shown lock and door panel did not match the alleged Washington Place loft door and questioned whether the lock could have melted as described.
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