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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
5
A dozen actors and actresses of The Miseries of Life were trapped atop a barbed wire fence in Bayonne after an audience pelted them with stones and refuse. They freed themselves as missiles and chairs flew, then fled through the stage entrance amid a frenzied crowd.
A false key worker visited three West Somerville houses on Saturday night between 3 and 11. He stole money and jewelry valued at $100 from Walter E. Stewart at 32 Dears on Avenue and William E. Ells at 106 Josephine Avenue. Mrs William King, 77 College Avenue, surprised him on the piazza and he fled.
Marion Garson of New York demands $50,000 from artist Will Grefe claiming the face in The Heart Hunter poster resembles her. Grefe says the girl posed briefly, quit, and the piece was completed and sold as a sketch.
The American Red Cross Society in Washington reports strong public response to Christmas stamps aiding tuberculosis work. About 3,000,000 stamps at one cent each have been sold, with roughly 330,000 raised so far. Sales continue until New Year with final tallies due after. In Massachusetts Miss Louisa A. Barker led the effort, distributing 1,500,000 stamps with an estimated four-fifths sold by Christmas, under Walter E. Kruess’s presidency of the state relief group.
The funeral for John P. Fay, who died in Oakland earlier this week, was held this afternoon at the Masonic Temple with Rev. Paul Stirling presiding.
In Amoy area Tun gan north of Amoy natives were ordered to stop planting opium poppies. They resisted and riot ensued, killing one officer and ten civilians. Six thousand five hundred troops moved in to restore order as authorities pledge to enforce the anti opium edict.
Rumors say Rev. William J. Farrell, assistant at St. Bridget's Lexington, will move to St. Patrick's South Lawrence as assistant to Rev. John J. Gilday. Another rumor places Rev. David D. Ryan from Star of the Sea East Boston to Church of St. Cecilia Back Bay as assistant to Rt. Rev. Mgr. William Byrne.
Democratic members of the Board of Aldermen, who hold a majority, likely cannot elect a chairman. A caucus showed a majority backing James M. Curley, but party conditions suggest he cannot win without Republican votes.
Aldermen-elect J Frank O H are and John J Attridge may block Curley’s bid for chairman after a six member caucus. Four votes went to Curley while Attridge and O H are refused to vote for him. Rumors to a compromise with Whelton denied. Curley to act as temporary chair if no election occurs and will appoint key committees.
West End police raided the lodgings at 9 Temple Street, home of Patrolman George A. Tuttle, arresting two couples and another woman after breaking in. Officers said the residents offered fictitious names as they face charges of statutory offenses and disorderly conduct. all were due in court this morning.
Leon Durbin the 14 year old son of Mrs. Mary J. Durbin of Ashmont is very ill at home after police believe he accidentally shot Gerald S. Shay 9, of Dorchester. The bullet grazed the skin and caused a flesh wound but Shay is expected to recover in a few days.
Five children bitten by a mad dog on November 28, undergoing Pasteur treatment, have been pronounced normally well by Dr Cc B Fuller of the Board of Health. Patients named Lucien Martin Dennis Mahony Ralph Bolton Thomas Kenny and John Hanley.
H M Herbert sanitary engineer for the State Board of Health says Delaware River water from Port Jervis downstream is unfit for consumption. By the time it reaches the filtration beds at Torresdale for Philadelphia, it becomes dangerous to health.
Berlin reports the Kaiser will appear before the public at the Royal Castle for New Year celebrations. He last appeared in Berlin on November 21 and will travel from Potsdam to attend the event next Friday.
The North German Lloyd Steamship Company commissions Herr Bollhagen of Bremen to gather American historical data and local color for a series of pictures on the life and times of George Washington in Berlin.
A note proclaims Cascarets a week’s treatment widely sold by druggists. It claims the product to be the biggest seller in the world with about a million boxes sold each month.
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