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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1908
Page
1
Newington New Hampshire February 23 authorities search for Mrs Paul Roy stage name Gracia Calla after her brother George A Carkins death prompts questions. Autopsy and exhumation planned as police weigh conflicting narratives of murder versus suicide in a tense family tragedy.
Archbishops announce a public 1908 centenary observance in Boston marking 100 years since the diocese gained separate episcopal status in April 1808. The celebration will include cathedral services, a procession of diocesan religious societies, and a monster reunion in Symphony Hall with likely high ranking prelates.
Henry White, a typhoid patient at City Hospital, delirious and violent, broke a window and jumped 35 feet to the Albany street yard. Despite a desperate medical effort, the inmate died around 6 o'clock following injuries from the fall.
The Finance Commission says inferior coal was sold to trustees of pauper institutions, with 56 tons short in a 2550 ton order. Mayor Hibbard will refer the matter to the district attorney. The city could lose about $1100, and the commission criticizes the attempt amid ongoing graft exposures.
At a grade crossing near West Nyack a runaway wagon carrying a Spring Valley basketball party collided with a New York Ontario and Western train. Six people died and three were dying or seriously injured including George Reith assistant superintendent and team manager Nelson May Bertha and Edith Singer, George Shinn, Jeanette Palmer and Warren Palmer among the victims and responders. Henry Dieteren and Mary Edith Bird were also listed among the injured with serious conditions. The group had left for a basketball game in Nyack the night before.
Report says Mayor Hibbard will submit the recent pauper institutions coal contract on Long Island to the district attorney for investigation. In December the trustees awarded 2650 tons of Georges Creek coal to Maryland Coal and Coke Company for the institutions.
At the hospital tonight the fate of the injured was uncertain for hours. Miss Bird's condition was the most desperate among three. Responsibility for the accident remained disputed. The survivor could not be questioned, and the only other witness was the crossing gate tender. He says the team forced through the lowered gates. The approach gate was broken down, but the opposite side...
A main water pipe rupture on Tuileries street transformed the area into a flood. The Tuileries Garden filled as a large lake and cellars in nearby streets flooded. The central city area lost water supply.
Fr. John’s Medicine advertised as a remedy for throat and lung ailments promising healing. The item suggests a religious or tonic origin and highlights relief from cold symptoms.
Chief Watts and Acting Inspector Laughlin arrested Concetto Rizzo and Antonio Marabito, two Sicilian alleged Black Hand agents. They are charged with blackmailing Benjamin Piscopo, a leading Italian merchant, with operations said to stretch to New York and other major cities. Their headquarters were found at 209A Bowdoin Street in Dorchester.
Two men Marabito and Rizzo were arrested after a decoy letter sting at a Dorchester fruit store. Investigators recovered stamps and monograms matching letters sent to Piscopo who and his family were threatened with death over a $1000 demand.
Thomas A. Edison, 61, undergoing operation at Manhattan Eye Ear and Throat Hospital to relieve left ear trouble. Dr. Arthur B. Duel performed the procedure to open an abscess in the middle ear. Doctors report it not especially serious and anticipate a prompt recovery unless complications arise.
Fair and somewhat colder Monday, fair Tuesday with rising temperatures. Eastern New York expects generally fair conditions Monday and Tuesday, warmer Tuesday with light west winds. New England clears Monday and Tuesday, warmer in the west and north, light to fresh west winds shifting to variable.
An avowed anarchist Giuseppe Guarnacoto shot Fr. Leo Heinrichs at the altar rail of St. Elizabeth's Church in Denver. He carried out the murder after receiving communion and planned to kill four priests, with a Wakefield Massachusetts address listed in his pockets.
An Italian immigrant named Guarnaccio opened fire in a Denver church killing a priest. He claimed a general grudge against all priests and boasted of anarchist ties. Police detained him as chaos and fear spread among worshippers.
Patrick F. Purcell known as Pierce J. Mos faces divorce and marriage disputes. Mary Doherty of Boston seeks divorce from Purcell, while Astoria records show Purcell wed Martha A. T. Van de Vanter on Jan 7 at the Occident Hotel. Van de Vanter, widow of a Pacific coast race track owner killed in a car crash six months earlier, is involved.
Annie Doherty at her East Dedham home says she and her father trust Mr. Moss and expect a will reveal that Pierce J Moss and Patt Purcell are different men. She notes letters show her sister and Moss lived together after he left Boston for Chicago and Seattle and no recent trouble is known.
Brigadier General Rufus Saxton U S A retired collapsed and died in Washington on February 23 due to heart disease. He entered service in 1855 from Massachusetts as a first lieutenant of the Third Artillery and earned a congressional medal for Harpers Ferry defense. He retired April 23, 1904. Born in Massachusetts.
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