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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1899
Page
8
Rome notes Pope may grant dispensation to Count Festetics to divorce Wilhelmine Bischer so he can wed Allen of New York, daughter of a millionaire. Society reacts with surprise at engagement amid old world marriage norms and shifting alliances.
The Hungarian nobleman Paul Testetics, disinherited for an early misalliance, rose in Paris society after eloping with Wilhelmina Fischer. The pair, later separated, seek a papal dispensation for a church marriage, with plans to travel to America in early spring.
SING SING New York February 6 Mrs Martha J Place who killed her stepdaughter enters a period of prayer and meditation fearing it may be her last month to reflect on her life and fate as she awaits further developments in her case.
The text depicts capital punishment via electric chair, noting the procedure includes baring the leg, shaving the head, placing electrodes to complete the circuit, witnesses present, and gruesome sensations as the current is applied. It conveys graphic elements of the death penalty.
The body of Mrs. Mary B Watrous, reputed daughter of a wealthy Pennsylvania woman, lies in Senior's undertaking rooms as police hunt a motive behind her suicide by oxalic acid. Little else is known beyond her apparent desire for riches.
Captain Delaney questions a witness who describes Mrs. Watrous as from Pennsylvania with a wealthy mother and a deceased father. She used her mother's name after her husband vanished two years ago. The witness cannot identify a motive for her act and notes she had ample funds. A commercial traveller, Mr. Noyes, refuses to share details about himself or Mrs. Watrous's origin. He says the step-brother in Pennsylvania will fly in to cover funeral expenses.
The court ruling denies a new trial and leaves Mrs Place facing death. Governor Roosevelt may commute to life imprisonment, but prospects are faint. Warden Sage prepares for possible execution while she seeks religious consolation and prayers for clemency.
Mrs. Watrous 28 at Beauchamp apartments 78 West Eighty fifth street consumed oxalic acid after a distressing visit by Oliver H. P. Noyes of 32 West Tenth street. Doctors used a stomach pump but she died. Noyes and two friends accompanied Detective Walsh to the police station.
The Ward 16 Democratic Club gathered at their Boston Street clubhouse with city leaders present. President Coffey urged unity to keep Ward 16 in the Democratic column as the group aims to elect representatives to the Legislature and city government. Speakers included Prohan, Baldwin, Feneno, Kelcher, Sullivan, Kelley, Higgins, Murray, McGovern, and Collins as the drive for harmony continues.
The East Boston Cadet Band hosts its first grand social at Lyceum Hall this evening, praised for social success and notable turnout. The band consists of about fifty young men from the island and has already achieved strong progress and acclaim.
The Ward 22 Democratic Club of Roxbury has nearly completed plans for its annual ball at Curtis Hall Jamaica Plain scheduled for tomorrow night. The club, formed in 1897 to back Salem D. Charles for the Board of Aldermen, lists officers for 1899 and notable members including Salem D. Charles Street Commissioner and James J. Barry. Invitations have been extended to Boston figures such as Josiah Quincy Private Secretary Nathaniel J. Robinson John F. Fitzgerald and P. J. Kennedy among others along with leaders of local associations and ward clubs.
The Union Industrial Mission and Strangers Home held its first annual meeting at 101 Dudley Street North Cambridge. About sixty colored families and 125 children resided locally. Rev P Thomas Stanford moved there and led 187 meetings. He and his wife provided free basement space after seven months of rent strain. The Women’s Industrial Aid Association, YPS KE, and others aided financially, in employment, and sickness relief, while Stanford made 188 visits and spoke 26 times during a mission to England last October.
The eleventh in the series proved a grand success with instrumental pieces including Cary's Triumphal Post, rupees overture, Hunting for Luck, and Kacana waltz. Mr Thomas E Clifford sang two songs The Coming of the King and the Toreador from Carmen, drawing repeated applause.
Washington rumor says a cliqu e plots to discredit General Miles, choke off the beef investigation, and elevate Adjutant General Corbin to Miles's post with possible creation of a lieutenant general rank. The plan, alleged to come from Corbin allies, risks White House opposition, Army reform, and suppression of Miles's inspector general report.
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