10 Feb 1901
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1901
Page
1
A report lists a person charged with wrecking who cannot be located. Investigators issued a notice seeking the individual and details remain unavailable. Local authorities request tips from the public to locate the suspect.
Patrick Donahoe veteran editor born in County Cavan Ireland aged in his 90s lies dying at his Shawmut avenue home in Boston surrounded by family. Once founder of the Pilot he faced a $300000 fire loss and another $290000 owed after a friend’s failure but rebuilt the paper and banking business.
Government officials detail how the bank’s funds disappeared with estimates showing United Cities Co American Fibre Co and related entities among the alleged expropriations. The table lists individuals and amounts totaling about 209 850 dollars, wiping out capitalization and surplus with only partial realization expected.
Peabody reports show a warrant issued for Louis Steinfeld over the South Danvers bank wreck. Secret service and Treasury agents searched in New York and Massachusetts but have yet to locate him. Investigations target conspiracy charges and probes into bank officers and directors who reportedly owed large sums. The case centers on Foster and the American Fibre Company debts, with receivership and ongoing book reviews.
Colonel Cuild began military service at age ten in a school battalion and progressed through its grades. He served two years in the Harvard Rifle Corps before joining Troop A, First Massachusetts Cavalry, rising from private to officer. He was named brigadier-general and inspector of rifle practice by Governor Wolcott and later served as lieutenant-colonel and inspector-general under General Fitzhugh Lee in the Seventh Corps occupying Havana after the Spanish-American War.
Curtis Guild Jr won on the twelfth ballot to lead the Second Brigade of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia succeeding General Bancroft who resigned. Six staff officers from the Fifth Eighth and Ninth Infantry plus Major William Perrins of the First Cavalry voted in room 227 at the State House.
Ladder Truck 183 rushed to a second floor fire at 87 Edinboro Street when a wet street caused an Adams express team and an electric car to collide hazards. The driver steered the five horses onto a sidewalk, narrowly avoiding injury to bystanders, wagons, and vehicles.
Captain Potter of the Louise B Crary reports the Jan 29 loss at sea of First Mate John A Olsen of East Boston Mass He was washed overboard while securing the spanker boom during a gale Two skylights were wrecked the cabin flooded and the spanker gaff broke in the gale in Galveston.
A single storm off the New England coast brings brisk northwesterly winds. Snow flurries and colder conditions are forecast for Sunday and Monday in Maine New Hampshire Vermont and eastern Maine while Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut see fair, colder weather with brisk winds.
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