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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1914
Page
3
Oscar Von Hagan jailed in Joliet for burglary was killed when he tried to flee a guard posted at the quarry gang’s release. Guard Jeremiah Collins fired, hitting Von Hagan in the head as he dashed toward a gate. James O Neill, a fellow prisoner, was captured while fleeing the scene.
Seven year old Julia Lauzon of Cambridge was struck by Augustus N. Rantoul’s car near Harvard and Norfolk streets. Mrs. Talbot and the Rantoul wife aided the girl, rushed to Cambridge Relief Hospital, where authorities showed conflicting reports of her condition, now critical with abdominal injuries.
Tatios Topalaian 27 shoots wife 19 and brother 18 at 213 Chestnut Street Chelsea then kills himself. Wife in critical condition with liver and head wounds. brother wounded and expected to recover. all three born in Turkey. Jealousy cited by the brother as motive.
A double-runner carrying 25 riders in Bar Harbor struck a telephone pole after a steering gear break. Three boys suffered leg fractures and several others were severely hurt in the night incident.
Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee Institute addresses Radcliffe College students in the Agassiz house theatre this afternoon at four. The public lecture is open to attendees.
Boston politics heat up as ex mayor Fitzgerald clashes with Finance Commission head John A. Sullivan. Mayor Curley appoints Sullivan as corporation counsel, boosting reform support. Resignations loom across city offices including Judge Corbett, Logue, and City Record editor John A. Murphy. Man.us Fish or Parker tipped as next to leave.
At the Caledonian club’s 60th anniversary dinner a building committee led by City Councillor Walter Ballantyne was formed to pursue a $100,000 home for all Scottish organizations in Boston. A building association would issue $10 shares to club members to raise $25,000 with the club subscribing an equal amount. The plan aims to buy a site and begin construction after half the target is raised.
The New York sale of Helen King Robinson’s personal effects at the Hotel McAlpin raises details of a $7550 judgment won by Helen Dewey. Dewey alleges a gate split on lecture tours as part of a dispute over funds tied to Robinson’s speaking engagements.
Arnold Collamore Heath of Newtonville, infamous for eloping with a 17 year old and later a defendant in divorce and breach of promise suits, filed intentions to marry Miss Mildred May Symmes of Brookline at 79 Kenwood Street.
Boston publisher's son Heath faces a $50,000 breach of promise suit by Miss Gaetano Britt a New York harpist. He previously paid $1 a year alimony after his first wife remarried and he earlier eloped with Ida Seaver in Harvard days. His simple Feb. 12 ceremony at Mrs Henry Coolidge's Brookline home will precede a move to New York for a publishing job.
The Rivadavia, Argentine Republics great superdreadnought, departs Commonwealth pier Boston for a second trial. A civilian crew and Argentine officers board as she heads to Rockland Maine for speed tests, then Bermuda for coal consumption tests and armament checks.
Willie Hoppe the 18.2 balk line billiard champion defeats George Sutton of Chicago 500 to 226 in 17 innings at New York. Sutton showed limited form aside from a 123 run in the fifteenth inning, his best stretch of the match.
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