Irvine Talbot case collapses in Philadelphia dispute
Philadelphia reports indicate the Irvine case against Bishop Talbot has collapsed. Presenters led by J Frederick Jenkinson seek leave to withdraw the presentment and pursue a new one. Huntsingdon vestrymen plan to withdraw signatures citing irregular methods. Bishop Talbot visited Philadelphia then returned home.
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Philadelphia
I. N. W. Irvine
Episcopal Church
Ethelbert Talbot
Pennsylvania
Irvine
J. Frederick Jenkinson
Herbert Noble
New York
St. Louis
Tuttle
Talbot
Huntingdon
Penn
W.W. B. Bodine
Board of Inquiry
Bishop Tuttle
Attorney Noble
Jenkinson
Benjamin I. Odell
W. F. Noble
Bishop Talbot
Bethlehem
New Coaching System Aims to Guide City School Athletics
With opening day, Boston high schools start preparations for track basketball hockey under a new coaching system. Dr. William Holland and John O’Reilly will oversee all athletics starting Jan. 16, while Dr. James B. Fitzgerald reports plans to the school committee.
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William Holland
John O'Reilly
James B. Fitzgerald
Boston
Holland
O'Reilly
Ironworkers Strike in Boston Over Wages
One hundred sixty structural iron workers from six contractors in eight Boston buildings walked out for a 5 cent hourly raise to 50 cents. Four contractors have signed, covering 40 workers. Major jobs include Henry Siegel building with 60 ironworkers and projects at Heminway Street Dearborn schoolhouse Harvard Medical School Brookline Back Bay power house and more. About 7 percent may leave Boston for work in Baltimore Berlin Conn Passaic Conn and Goldenburg NY if the strike lasts. A Master Builders Association meeting is planned to decide on strike action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Messrs. Mack & Moore
Henry McGahey
J. McCoy
Michael Fitzgerald
Henry Siegel & Co
George A. Fuller Construction Company
Heminway Street
Dearborn
Roebling Construction Company
Harvard Medical School
Brookline
Back Bay Power House
Norcross Bros
Atlantic Avenue
East Boston Tunnel
L. F. Schumacher Company
L. F. Whitcomb
Beacon Street
Cambridge Central Square
Mead & Mason
Bond & McCann
Baltimore
Ryder, Conley Company
Berlin
N. H
Passaic Bridge Company
Coscob
Conn
King Bridge Company
Goldenburg
N. Y
Master Builders’ Association
Dr Chadwick Visits Wife at County Jail
Dr Leroy S Chadwick spent most of the day in his hotel room but visited his wife at the county jail around 5 pm. The pair met for about 30 minutes as the new sheriff and U S Marshal Chandler are set to cooperate. Access to Mrs Chadwick is limited to her husband son maid lawyers and specific court officials. Dr Chadwick will be taken to the Criminal Court tomorrow morning with bondsmen J P Dawley and Virgil P Kline. The temporary bond will be renewed with the new term of court.
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Cleveland, O
Leroy S. Chadwick
United States
Chandler
Dr. Chadwick
Criminal Court
J. P. Dawley
Virgil P. Kline
Mr. Dawley
Mr. Kline
Dorchester Catholic Club Names Officers
The Dorchester Catholic Club elects its officers. Frederick K. Jones is president with Redmond Fitzgerald as first vice president and Timothy O Connell as second vice president. James A McElaney serves as recording secretary Bertrand Murphy as financial secretary and John A Anderson as treasurer. John F Cavanagh Richard F Sheehan and Daniel Donovan appointed to the board of directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorchester Catholic Club
Catholic Club of
Dorchester
Frederick K. Jones
Redmond Ss. Fitzgerald
Timothy O’connell
James A. McElaney
Bertrand Murphy
John A. Anderson
John F. Cavanagh
Richard F. Sheehan
Daniel Donovan
Watertown Police Relief to Hold Annual Concert Ball
Watertown officials announce the Police Relief Association will stage its annual concert and ball in Town Hall tomorrow evening with music and festive activities planned for residents and officers alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
Watertown Police Relief Association
Town Hall
Rehoboth Posse Hunts 24 Hours For Dr Raymond Assailant
A large posse of officers and angry citizens searched Rehoboth for French-Canadian Jean Labria the alleged assailant who struck Dr Raymond at his home near the town. Labria is described as a giant and armed with a heavy revolver. The search extended all day and night with Labria possibly headed for Providence and authorities urged to pursue. Dr Raymond, at his home, has a bruised head broken jaw and nose with facial cuts but is expected to recover.
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Rehoboth
Jean Labria
Raymond
Nichols
Hus
Labria
Providence
Rhode Island
Sabria
Dr. Raymond
Mukden Heavy Firing Drives Japanese Back After Attack
Reports from Mukden say Japanese forces attacked to break the centre but were driven back with great loss. A heavy cannonade and rifle fire struck the Russian centre from dawn through the day.
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Mukden
Walter S Whitney Buried in Dorchester Day Services
Walter S Whitney long linked with Lee Higginson Co as confidential clerk died recently and was buried yesterday from his Dorchester home at 16 Columbia Road. The funeral took place at Forest Hills Cemetery.
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Walter S. Whitney
Lee, Higginson & Co
Columbia Road
Dorchester
Forest Hills
Revere Acts on Gypsy Moth Fight and Town Measures
At a town meeting Revere approved a $500 appropriation to combat gypsy and brown-tail moths. The water extension grants April 1 deadline to issue bonds up to $400,000. water commissioners election postponed to March. True Street accepted as public way. $650 allocated to grade and lay out street. Overseer of the poor salary raised from $600 to $900.
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Revere
Water Committee
Revere Water Company
True Street
Resolutions Adopted by St. Patrick's Abstinence Society
A Roxbury club meeting at 431 Dudley Street adopted resolutions to honor retiring spiritual director Rev. Nathaniel J. Merritt who has a new West Medford parish. Rev. Maurice F. Flynn will replace him and praised the group's work at the session.
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St. Patrick's Total Abstinence and Literary Society of
Roxbury
Dudley Street
Nathaniel J. Merritt
West Medford
Maurice F. Flynn
Lockjaw Kills Ware Man After Week’s Suffering
Michael Smith aged 28 died in Ware after a week of lockjaw believed to stem from a head injury. Three weeks earlier a wood splinter struck him while unloading beer kegs, entering the head near the temple. Despite medical efforts, he did not survive.
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Ware
Michael Smith
Smith
Thief Steals Grip From Ticket Window at New York South Station
Willam W Brower of 818 West Ninety first street New York City lost a grip containing jewelry money and checks worth over 500 at a South terminal window last night. The theft occurred in view of a crowd with no witness. Police aided in a search but the bag was not found. The contents included two checks from Gardiner Maine totaling 121, a 50 dollar roll, a diamond scarf pin 200 and a shield pin 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willam W. Brower
West Ninetieth Street
New York City
New York
South Terminal
Mr. Brower
Brower
McConnell
South Station
Reading Man Sues Phone Firm Over $20,000 Attachment
James Wilson of Reading filed a $20,000 attachment in the Last Cambridge courts against the New England Telephone and Telegraph and the Boston and Northern Railway in a tort action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
James Wilson
Reading
New England Telephone and Telegraph
Boston & Northern Railway
Sembrich Song Recital at Symphony Hall Saturday
Madame Sembrich presents a diverse program at Symphony Hall on Saturday afternoon January 14. Isidore Wuckstone will preside at the piano as tickets go on sale Friday January 6 with mail orders handled in order received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame Sembrich
Symphony Hall
Singer
Isidore Wuckstone
Kreisler Recitals Draw Boston Music Lovers to Jordan Hall
Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler, once a child prodigy in Boston, returns for recitals at Jordan Hall on Tuesday evening January 10 and Friday afternoon January 13. His European triumphs have solidified him as a leading living violinist, widely viewed as Joachim’s successor.
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Boston
Fritz Kreisler
Kreisler
Joachim
Jordan Hall
Amy Hewitt and Walter Pember Married at Trinity Church
Miss Amy Hewitt of Highlandville married Walter Pember son of the Rev Frederick Pember of Newton Centre at Trinity Episcopal Church. They left for Buffalo where Pember will head Green & Weeks landscape architecture department. She wore white mull and lilies of the valley in her bouquet.
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Newton Centre
Trinity Episcopal Church
Amy Hewitt
Highlandville
Walter Pember
Frederick Pember
Edward T. Sullivan
Pember
Buffalo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guy Lowell
Boston
Green & Weeks
Buffalo, N. Y
Famous sieges in history span ten centuries and continents
A list of historic sieges detailing locations such as Troy Azotus Jerusalem Syracuse Carthage Byzantium Alexandria Paris Gibraltar Lyons Malta Acrest Jean Sebastopol Lucknow Vicksburg Ladysmith Port Arthur and more. Each entry notes attackers, defenders, and siege durations reflecting a wide range of empires and wars.
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Troy
Menelaus
Alexander of
Paris
Helen of
Azoth
Azotus
Psasammetichus
Egypt
Palestine
Jerusalem
Zedekiah
Nebuchadnezzer
Syracuse
B. C
Carthage
Scipio Ty
Byzantium
Severus
Alexandria
Amron
Duke de Guise
Henry III
Henry of Navarre
Gibraltar
France
Spain
Lyons
Convention
Kellermann
Malta
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sebastopol
Balaklava
Lucknow
India
Vicksburg
Ladysmith
Port Arthur
Chief Watts Targets Beggars in Crackdown
Chief Watts launched a crusade against beggars and vagrants as Detectives Smith and Patterson rounded up three cripples. The detainees Frank Flynn 26 Fred Carter 39 and Edward Donnelly 39 all at local addresses were charged with vagrancy and locked up.
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Watts
Smith and Patterson
Frank Flynn
North Russell Street
Fred Carter
Edward Donnelly
Commercial Street
Papers in $50,000 suit against former Cambridge mayor
Documents filed in Cambridge allege defaming remarks by former Mayor John H. H. McNamee in his acceptance letter as Democratic nominee and in campaign speeches last fall. Lester B. Harlow, a Cambridge city official, filed the suit seeking damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. H. McNamee
Cambridge
Lester B. Harlow
McNamee
Harlow
Boston Girls Enter Convent
Eight young women were received at the Convent of Mercy in Manchester New Hampshire today. Names include Miss Mary Kelly Hast Boston Mass and Miss Ethel Sennett Boston Mass among others from Portland Me and Pawtucket R I. They received the habit and the white veil of a novice.
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Manchester
N. H
Convent of Mercy
Mary Kelly
Boston
Mass
Mary Claudia
Ethel Sennett
Mary Aloysia
Annie Nolan
Portland
Mary Sylvia
Margaret Higgins
New Bedford
Mary Florence
Mary Lewis
Pawtucket
R. I
Mary Valerian
Elizabeth Donovan
Concord
Mary Magdalen
Marie Stewart
Mary Constance
Nellie Sweeney
Mary Andrea
Cambridge Aldermen Farewell Dinner of 1904
The Cambridge Board of Aldermen held a farewell dinner at Young's Hotel last night. President John B Coveney received a Morris chair while John B Whoriskey and Mr Brandon performed vocal selections for the gathering.
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Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Young’s Hotel
John B. Coveney
Morris
John B. Whoriskey
Mr. Brandon
Morse Dodge Indictments Expected Amid Divorce Case
New York reports three to five indictments likely in the Morse-Dodge divorce and marriage tangle. Charles F. Dodge, held under guard at Broad Way Central Hotel, may testify at the Criminal Courts building. Edgar L. Fursman and others tied to the firm Fursman Little Schwarzkopf are to appear before the grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
the Herald
Jerome
Charles F. Dodge
Broadway Central
Criminal Courts
Charles W. Morse
Edgar L. Fursman
Supreme Court
Fursman, Little & Schwarzkopf
Morse
Chelsea Inaugurates New City Government Under Mayor Willard
Mayor Willard proclaims Chelsea prosperous as new city government opens in City Hall before a large crowd. Alderman Cheney elected president, City Clerk Reed re-elected. City debts total 1,054,567 with water debt 206,017 covered by water receipts. Mayor urges 40,000 for street department and discussion on permanent assessor, plus extending the East Boston tunnel or securing tunnel privileges with the Boston Elevated and Boston and Northern companies.
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Willard
Chelsea
Philip L. Frick
Fred A. Cheney
Charles H. Reed
Water Department
East
Boston
Boston Elevated Company
Boston & Northern Company
Everett Mayor Proposes New Assessor System and Terms
Everett Jan 9 Inauguration notes Mayor Newton urged electing a principal assessor for three years by voters and replacing the present board. Four citizens would aid him annually in April to July. He proposed holding city elections with the state election in November and a two year term for elective officers. Officials reappointed or elected include Marshall Rogers Cannell Pettingill Partridge Murphy Thompson Emerton.
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Everett
Everett Hall
Newton
Augustus 5. Marshall
A. T. Rogers
Cannell
Pettingill
Herbert A. Partridge
George A. Murphy
Walter 8. Thompson
Samuel M. Emerton
Malden
Port Arthur Falls as News Suppressed in Russia
In St. Petersburg on January 3, officials acknowledge the fall of Port Arthur after a long defense by General Stoessel. News is being withheld from the public amid rumors of radical demonstrations and the absence of the Emperor.
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ST. Petersburg
Port Arthur
Stoessel
British Praise for Stoessel in Port Arthur Defence
London dispatch reports praise from British leaders for General Stoessel’s defense of Port Arthur. Earl Roberts calls it magnificent, while Viscount Wolseley and Major-General Baden-Powell hail the bravery and tenacity on both sides. Sir Alfred Turner suggests Russia may refocus on India’s northwestern frontier.
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London
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Earl Roberts
Viscount Wolseley
Baden-Powell
Alfred Turner
Russia
India
Detained Immigrants Reach Boston on Canopic
Seventy six immigrants, mostly Italians, arriving aboard the White Star liner Canopic, were detained yesterday at the immigration bureau in Boston. Most await relatives and expect to make connections within a day or two at most.
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Canopic
Immigration Bureau
White Star
Boston
Lynn Drivers May Strike Over New 1905 Agreement
The Team Drivers' Union 42, including coal wagon and screeners, presented a 1905 agreement to coal dealers proposing a nine hour workday. Dealers rejected it and suggested referring the dispute to the State Board of Arbitration. The union voted to threaten a strike if the original demand is not granted by 5 pm Tuesday. About 12 to 15 firms and 176 men are involved.
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Lynn
Union 42
State Board of Arbitration For Settlement
Fish trade at the pier posts strong week totals
Seven schooners docked with 149900 pounds of fresh mixed fish from Saturday noon to Sunday night, Arcadia leading at 67000 pounds. Fourteen more vessels brought 71500 pounds, lifting yearly totals to 221400 pounds. Prices topped at 5.5 cents for haddock and cod, hake 3.5 to 5 cents, pollock 5, cask 3. The Admiral Farragut set a fast Jamaica passage to arrive at Quarantine in four days 14 hours 63 minutes. The Canopic arrived with 450+ steerage passengers aboard.
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Arcadia
Mary Cabral
Teresa
Alice
Catharine Enos
Fitz A. Oakes
Carrie F. Roberts
Metacomet
John M. Keen
Emitty Cooney
Ida S&s. Silva
Belbina Domingos
Oliver F. Kilham
Mary A. Gleason
Joseph H. Cromwell
Haddock
A& Pollock
Jamaica
Admiral Farragut
Port Morant
Long Wharf
Edwin Yandell
Peter Rupp
Leyland Line
Lancastrian
W. S&s. Wood
London
Antwerp
South Ferry
Donovan
Enoch Maddox
Canopic
Charlestown
Mediterranean
Azores
Shipping News Mini Almanac Update and Arrivals
The almanac lists sunrises and sunsets with day length and moonrise times. It details arrivals including JUAN and Lanecastrian with cargoes and passengers for several ports, and schooners and tugs sailing or towed to various destinations along with related freight and passenger data.
Business leaders to meet on arbitration treaties in Boston
A Boston Chamber of Commerce meeting will be held Tuesday January 10 at 12 30 to express business interest in arbitration treaties pending Senate ratification. Henry M Whitney will chair with John M Long presiding. Louis Tuttle Henry E Cobb William H Lincoln and others will speak. Resolutions will be adopted and a delegation named to present them to Massachusetts Senators in Washington.
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Chamber of Commerce
Boston
Senate
Henry M. Whitney
John MP. Long
Lucius Tuttle
Henry E. Cobb
William H. Lincoln
Massachusetts
Washington
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Casey
John F. Casey
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Boston Latin School
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Averge
Watertown Police
Manhuni
Charles M. Raymond
Swansea Road
W. S. Whitney
Nathaniel Merritt
Lockjaw
New Yorker
Reading Man
Phone CO
Sembrich Song Recital
Pember—Hewitt
M’namee
Chelsea Happy
Shipping News
Juan
Maddox
Genoa
Palermo
Naples
Ponta del Gada
White Star Line
Lanecastrian
Wood
Frederick Leyland & Co
St. Croix
St. John
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Eastport
Dominion (Br
Louisburg
H. F. Dimock
Kennebec
Norfolk, Va
S. O. Go
Bayonne
N. J
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