Abolish the City Council Moves Divide on Charter Change
Six Democratic aldermen back abolishing the City Council if Mayor Hibbard’s bill passes. Republicans oppose the measure, Ellery Clark sides with them, and Curley seeks charter reform. The board approves a $300,000 sewer loan and swears in John T. Priest as city clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curley
Baldwin
Timilty
Donnelly
Finegan
Leary
Hibbard
Legislature
Finance Commission
Ellery Clark
Clark
Ballantyne
Tammany
Walter F. Burk
East
Burk
Ward 1
Republican Committee
East Boston
Republican City Machine
Alderman Parker
Gillespie
Sanitary Department
Board of Aldermen
Boston
South
John T. Priest
Mrs Roosevelt Visits Boston With Longworth Kin
Quietly and unheralded Mrs Roosevelt and the President's daughter Mrs Longworth arrived in Boston from Groton where they had been visiting Kermit Roosevelt. They will stay with Mr and Mrs George C Lee on Beacon Street and plan to visit friends before returning to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Roosevelt
Mrs. Longworth
Boston
Tasigi’s Wife Seeks Pardon After Long Efforts
Mrs Tasigi petitions the Governor again for clemency in the embezzlement case of her husband Iasigi a former banker now serving a long state prison term. Attorney Peabody declines to act while Governor Guild may grant relief as the minimum sentence nears and public sentiment warms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iasigi
Francis Peabody, Jr
Jasigi
Guild
Peabody
Post
Sad Days for the Little Son of Mrs. Artie Miller
Five year old Adelbert Miller lives with grandfather Andrew Manson in New Castle after his mother Artie Miller died following an alleged illegal operation. Father Daniel Miller, later rumoredly in New York or at Fort Andrews Boston, is absent and unknown. The boy, troubled by loss, has lived largely with his mother and grandfather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
N. H
Grother
Artie Miller
Adelbert Miller
Andrew Manson
New Castle
Daniel Miller
Coast Artillery
Adelbert
Miller
Cottage Hospital
New York
Fort Andrews
Boston
Cambridge High School Closed by Cold
Pupils arrived to find Cambridge High School buildings cold as furnaces could not be heated. The coal supply delayed by rush orders left only 20 tons stored by Sunday afternoon, delaying steam up and forcing cancellation of classes under the new school committee management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge High School
Consumers’ Coal Supply Company of
Cambridge
Bates
Coal Company
Pockets Queerly Picked Near East Cambridge Bank
Samuel Giddings, an elderly trusted employee of Charles W. Dailey, had his pockets picked between 105 Cambridge Street and the Lechmere Savings Bank. A total of 68 dollars in cash and about 75 in small checks were stolen after two men jostled him near Second and Cambridge streets. Giddings doubts the two loafers could have robbed him given the crowd and circumstances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Samuel Giddings
Charles W. Dailey
East Cambridge
Cambridge Street
Lechmere
Mr. Giddings
Police Chief Shot in Fayetteville. Suspect Captured
Samuel Murchison, a black man, was captured in a ditch near Fayetteville after shooting and killing James H. Benton, the chief of police, and wounding a Black man and a Black woman. A lynching is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Samuel Murchison
Fayetteville
James H. Benton
Attorney denies Mrs. Webster remarriage after death of husband
Peter A. Breen, attorney for Mrs. Everett B. Webster, denied reports that she has married again or plans a second marriage. He said she lives quietly in New York, consults on business, handles her affairs, and seeks an estate settlement. Health is poor since her husband’s death. location of residence is not disclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter A. Breen
Everett B. Webster
Mrs. Roy
Colonel Bartlett
New York
Autopsy Finds Death Not Inconsistent With Self-Induced Hangings
In Foxcroft Maine on February 24 Medical Examiner George B. Magrath of Boston concluded after a two hour autopsy that Mrs. Phebe Maud Woodbury’s death resulted from asphyxia and could have been caused by her own actions. He noted a neck bone fracture from the first autopsy but found no significance, and said the brain lungs and heart were normal. The hearing for Herbert Woodbury set before Judge C. W. Brown and Attorney Forrest Goodwin draws national attention as proceedings loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foxcroft
George B. Magrath
Boston
Phebe Maud Woodbury
Exchange Hotel
Magrath
Herbert Woodbury
C. W. Brown
Goodwin
Burgess
Knowles
Holt
Buck
Hall
Dover
Cram Is Sued for Divorce in Newton Case
Mrs. Myrtle A. Cram filed for separate support against Benjamin H. Cram of Cram Mullikin & Co. She left their Newton home in January and now resides in Roxbury. Desertion and non support are cited. hearing set for Friday with no contest expected from him. Attorneys Bartlett and Anderson for the husband. Powers and Hall for the wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle A. Cram
Benjamin H. Cram
Cram, Mullikin & Co
Newton
Boston Society
Cram
Newtonville Avenue
Newtonville
Roxbury
Boston
Brockton Mourns Mary Baraby Oldest Local Woman
Brockton's Mary Elien Baraby aged 104 died yesterday at 3 30 am at 43 Franklin Street. Believed to be the oldest woman in Massachusetts she lived in Brockton 24 years and was a widow for over 50 years. Born December 15 1803 in Nicolet Canada she had 20 children six surviving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
Mary Elien Baraby
Franklin Street
Massachusetts
Barnby
Nicolet
Quebec
Canada
Church nursery opens with 40 workers in relays
The Rev. John A. Earl invites mothers to bring babies to his Chicago church and has arranged comfort provisions including nursing bottles. One parlor is fitted as a nursery to be run by a relay system of 40 young women during services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John A. Earl
Cilley and Lambert Trials Postponed to May Term
Salem docket reports the trials of Drs. Oran G. Cilley and John F. Lambert both of Boston for alleged illegal operation on Mrs. Oreh M. Shapleigh of Salem postponed until the May term. Arthur P. Shapleigh, the husband, faces an accessory charge with the same case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Drs. Oran G. Cilley
John F. Lambert
Boston
Oreh M. Shapleigh
Arthur P. Shapleigh
William Higgins Arrested for Shoplifting From West End Apt
William Higgins aged 81 of 12 Stanford Street West End was arrested by Station 3 officers yesterday on charges of stealing wearing apparel valued at $20 from the apartments of Jennie Ascovitch of 11 Billerica Street last Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Higgins
Stantford Street
West End
Station 3
Jennie Ascovitch
Billerica Street
Corry Boy 12 Hangs Self After Reprimand
Willie Martin aged 12 committed suicide at his home near Frick's Mills New York after being rebuked by his father. He hanged himself in the garret.
Three Nations May Lift Murder Case on Ellis
In New Orleans on February 24 the United States Great Britain and Norway may jointly determine responsibility for a killing aboard the steamer Ellis in the Gulf of Mexico last Tuesday. Passenger H B Taylor claiming American citizenship is jailed on Kentchums death, a Jamaica citizen and deck hand. The Ellis flies a Norwegian flag drawing Norway into the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
United States
Great Britain
Norway
Ellis
Gulf of Mexico
H. B. Taylor
Port Simon
Costa Rica
T. Ketchum
Jamaica
Two Bullet Holes Found in Carkins Back in Newington
In Newington on February 24 authorities exhumed George Carkins to test a possible murder linked to his sister Mrs. Paul Roy. The body showed a forehead wound and two back bullets, with an autopsy planned in Portsmouth to verify Mrs. Roy’s confession of a pistol fight over alleged jealousy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newington
George Carkins
Paul Roy
Gracia Catla
Carkins
Ham
Portsmouth
Nate
Exeter
City to force Maryland Coal Company to remove coal
Mayor Hibbard after a Finance Commission review orders the Maryland Coal & Coke Co to withdraw coal from the Long Island almshouse. About 1350 tons used. $12,000 cargo payment to be withheld pending district attorney review. trustees favor action and may pursue criminal proceedings for inferior coal and short shipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finance Commission
Hibbard
Long Island
Maryland Coal & Coke Company
Long Island Almshouse
Edward M. Gallagher
Board of Pauper Institutions Trustees
Baltimore
Georges Creek
Cumberland
Edward M.gallagher
The
Pauper Institutions Trustees
Post
Planning war on trusts in three states
Attorneys general from Missouri Kansas and Texas gather in Austin to draft anti trust legislation plan suits against corporations and propose measures for state legislatures to consider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Blood Transfusion Gives Hope After Severe Injury
Massachusetts General Hospital doctors monitor a transfusion case after Harry Ferguson of Somerville survived an 85 foot throw by a Boston & Maine locomotive at 40 mph. Hip shattered, bladder pierced, multiple operations failed. His brother Arthur donated blood. transfusion shown early success with potential full recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harry Ferguson
Allston Street
Somerville
Boston & Maine
Conant
Arthur
Raise Ban on Aliens Sparks Immigration Debate
General Frank P. Sargent speaking for President Roosevelt told the Channing Club in the Vendome that while he believes immigrants should be admitted regardless of race or creed he supports excluding certain "undesirables" and favors a selective policy. He boasted Yankee pride and suggested some Americans could be willing to send others overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Frank P. Sargent
Immigration
Washington
Channing Club
the Vendome
Vermont
Lords Press for Time on Congo Reforms and U S Cooperation
Lord Fitzmaurice of the foreign office urged the House of Lords for more time for Belgian Congo reforms. He cited international and Belgian obstacles, stressed US cooperation as vital, and noted ongoing consultations between British and American governments in Brussels for Congo reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Lords
Congo
Lord Fitzmaurice
Foreign Office
Belgium
Larkin Confesses Burglaries At Endicott and Hargrave Hotels
James Larkin, 21, of East One Hundredth Street, confessed to burglaries at the Endicott Hotel Columbus Avenue and Eighty First Street taking 5000 dollars in jewels and at the Hargrave Hotel West Seventy Second Street taking 3000 dollars in jewelry. Boston police seek his arrest for related robberies and suspect prior time served in 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
James Larkin
East One Hundredth Street
Endicott Hotel
Columbus Avenue
Eighty-first Street
Larkin
Hargrave Hotel
West Seventy-second Street
Watts
Boston
William Schwartz
Larkin alias Sears Faces New York Arrest Link
Boston police say James Larkin is really Walter Sears, a Boston criminal. Chief Watts wants Sears charged with a robbery at the Hotel Carlton on Boylston Street and aims to connect him to Back Bay burglaries. A certified New York warrant has been sent for Larkin alias Sears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Larkin
New York
Boston
Walter Sears
Watts
Sears
Hotel Carlton
Boylston Street
Massachusetts Avenue
Back Bay
New York City
Larkin
Marines Involved In Hospital Assault, Chase Ended
Joseph Gadreau thirty seven 27 a marine at Charlestown navy yard is under arrest for assault and battery on Matteo Russo 40 of North street at the Relief Hospital. Russo escorted Peter Valitchi 40 to the relief station where he was treated for scalp wounds. Three marines from the navy yard brought John Welsh 25 with scalp wounds to the hospital. The assailants fled at the police call but were caught by Patrolmen Kelliher and O'Brien at Hanover street station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haymarket Square
Washington Street
Joseph Gadreau
Charlestown Navy Yard
Hanover Street
Matto Russo
Russo
Peter Valitchi
North Street
John Welsh
Kelliher and
O'Brien
Struck on Nose With Chisel Injures Boston Worker
John Lowery aged 22 was struck on the nose by a sharp chisel while at work at Harrison avenue in the Boston Elevated Company shop. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lowery
East Fifth Street
South
Boston
Boston Elevated Company
Harrison Avenue
City Hospital
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Longworth
Tasigi
Mrs
Newcastle
E. B. Webster
Mrs. Woodbury
Woodbury Hearing
Higgins
Collis
A. Thurston Parker
Michael J. Griffin
Litle
John H. Bartlett
Roy
Gallagher
Mr. Jeffries
Max E. Wyzanski
Board of Trustees
Stharkess
Sargent
America
Fitzmaurice
England
Africa
International Association of the Congo
Congo Free State
Brussels
Carlton
Greem
Bond
Tetay
Holland
Stitutes
Ateree
Holland Wine CO
Arams Square
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