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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
1
Mayor Ousts Leary as Sewer Chief in Sudden Dismissal
Mayor Hibbard discharged John H. Leahy, superintendent of the sewer department, citing breach of confidence. City officials fear broad layoffs across sewer, printing and collector offices as gloom settles over City Hall. Leahy awaits official notice while attending S. Aug. Rogers funeral and pending mail at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hibbard
John H. Leahy
City Hall
Mayor Hibbard Statement Cites Clerk Record Request
Mayor Hibbard said he directed his secretary to obtain through Mr. Leahy the record of a certain sewer department clerk for his information. The note continues on Page 15-4th Column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hibbard
White
Leahy
Sewer Department
Jury Selected for Thaw Trial Delivers Smiling Twelve
New York January 10 Mrs Evelyn Nesbit Thaw approves the jury chosen to try her husband for the Stanford White murder. The 12 jurors include Charles E. Gremmell Arthur Naething George W Cary George C Rupprecht John H Holbert David E Arrowsmith William F Doolittle William H M Hug Frank J Howell William Burck Francis Dovale and James A Hooper. The trial opens Monday with the prosecution presenting its case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles EE. Gremmell
Arthur R. Naething
George W. Cary
George ¢. Rupprecht
John H. Holbert
David E. Arrowsmith
William F. Doolittle
William H. M’hugh
Frank J. Howell
William Burck
Young Men’s Christian Association
Francis Dovale
James A. Hooper
New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Stanford White
Thaw
Jury panel sworn in. intelligent middle aged businessmen
Five jurors were accepted and sworn during the morning and afternoon sessions today. As a whole the jury is made up of intelligent business men of middle age or over. Continued on Page 4-Second Column
Arrests Connect Death Case To Boston Doctor
In Providence detectives arrested Mrs. Ida L. Mason for manslaughter after she allegedly performed two illegal operations on Mrs. Alice G. Curtis of Newtonville. Frank G. Haywood was charged as an accessory before the fact. The case ties to Dr. Bishop of Boston and the death of Susan Geary in a dress suit mystery. William E. Curtis of Boston, Curtis & Bradford firm, spoke from Newtonville home expressing shock and uncertainty over his wife’s illness and the alleged operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence
Ida L. Mason
Captain Horton
Ahern
Fletcher and
O'Halloran
Newton, Mass
Alice G. Curtis
Newtonville
William B. Curtis
Curtis & Bradford
Boston
Frank G. Haywood
Mason
Thomas W. Dalton
Broad Street
Dalton
Bishop
Susan Geary
Newton
Frank C. Haywood
William E. Curtis
Post
Harvard Street
Band figures in Newtonville death case linked to Bishop office
Ida I Mason and Frank C Haywood were arrested in Providence as principal and accessory in a crime causing Mrs. William E Curtis’s death. They reportedly belonged to the Dr Bishop office connected band linked to the dress suit case mystery of Susan Geary. Thomas Dalton, Mason’s husband, was Mrs Bishop’s private secretary and vanished from Boston before exposure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida I., Mason
Frank C. Haywood
Providence
William EE. Curtis
Newtonville
Dr. Bishop
Susan Geary
Thomas Dalton
Mason
Bishop
Boston
Japan Names Takahira Ambassador to U S
Tokio January 11 Baron Takahira has been chosen ambassador to the United States succeeding Viscount Aoki.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Takahira
U. S
Tokio
Baron Takahira
United States
Viscount Aoki
Japanese envoy Takahira named to peace mission
The appointment of Baron Takahira to the peace envoy role is cheered as it ends speculation that Japan would refuse to appoint a successor. His Portsmouth diplomacy credentials are noted as central to the move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan. I
Baron Takahira
Portsmouth
Japan
Aoki
Factions in Bitter Dispute Shape New Political Body
The Feeney Democracy collapsed into fragments as George Fred Williams Joseph P. Lomasney and Daniel J. Kiley clash over whether floating at large delegates can join with district delegates in a temporary organization. Daniel H Buckley and the Whitney camp push that only district delegates should form the State committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feeney
Mr. Feeney
George Fred Williams
Joseph P. Lomasney
Daniel J. Kiley
McNary
Daniel H. Buckley
Whitney
Democratic split flares in state committee meeting
McNary and Kiley battle over at large roles while Williams and Bartlett factions clash. Bolters seek fusion to exclude Feeney Kiley Williams and McNary as district alignments form. Wednesday meeting will reveal if district factions unify amid heated rhetoric and near violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNary
Kiley
Whitney
Williams
Bartlett
Feeney
Feeney- Williams-Kiley
Democratic State Committee
Paper Selling on the Common Revoked by Mayor
Mayor Hibbard notified Commissioner O'Meara that all permits for selling newspapers on the Common are temporarily revoked as the activity is deemed a nuisance to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hibbard
O'Meara
Higher fares proposed for Newton street railway
James L. Richards president of the Newton street railway argued at a dinner with selectmen and aldermen that the system loses money and must change. He suggested raising Lexington and Boston line fares to six cents and increasing Newton to Framingham service to every 20 minutes from every 15. No action was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
James L. Richards
Framingham
Woman Named as Whitmore Murder Witness Arrested
“Mrs. Georgie Dickinson” known in New York and Miss Charlotte McDonald, a sought witness in the Whitmore murder case at Harrison New Jersey, was arrested in Cambridge yesterday. She was brought to police headquarters and after talks with Chief Watts and Captain Dugan to the House of Detention as an accessory to the crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte -Mcdonald
Georgie Dickinson
Boston
Helena, Whitmore
Theodore Whitmore
Dickinson
Whitmore
New Jersey
New York
Charlotte McDonald
Harrison
N. J
Cambridge
Watts
Dugan
Boston arrestee defends innocence in interview with Post
A calm suspect in a New Jersey murder case is escorted to police headquarters amid flashbulbs and reporters. She claims no hand in the affair, waives extradition, and says she lived with her husband in New York while maintaining friendly ties to Mrs Whitmore and her relatives. Continued on Page 4-Sixth Column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Detention
Shields
Boston
Whitmore
The
Post
New Jersey
New York
Harry Dickinson
West Thirty-fourth Street
Fred Whitmore
Death by Own Action Shocks East Machias
In Machias Maine Mrs FE M Kirshgusner of Boston leaped into the East Machias River and drowned. Her mother committed suicide by drowning 18 years earlier and her brother Frank P Dennison did so in a mel ancholia episode a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Machias
East Machias
FE. M. Kirshgusner
Boston
Awaiting Lost Boy in Athol with $30000 reward
Clifford Bowker, four, vanished after 1905 move to North Adams with mother and grandmother. Father Ashley Bowker offers a share of $30,000 to anyone locating the boy, last seen in North Adams. Police and private detectives searched years, with no results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ATHOL
Clifford Bowker
North Adams
Ashley Bowker
Bowker
Overstudy Fatality Sparks Roxbury Student Tragedy
Mary Welsh, a State Normal School student living at 817 Dudley Street in Roxbury, died at home following a general physical breakdown attributed to excessive study. The death highlights the dangers of overwork among students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Welsh
Dudley Street
Roxbury
State Normal School
Armenian rug merchant amid fire origin suspicions
Reports say A. N. Karaghansian, Armenian rug merchant in the burned building, received threatening letters from the Hunchakist society. The letters are cited as a potential ground for suspecting arson as the fire’s origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
A. N. Karaghansian
Hunchakist Society
Four firemen die in Parker Building blaze on Fourth Avenue
A blaze at the Parker building in New York collapses floors trapping and killing four firemen and injuring many others. Fire crews from Manhattan struggle to control flames that swept the 12 story structure between East Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets as a rope rescue saves a group of workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Parker
Nineteenth Streets
Fourth Avenue
Manhattan
Firefighters Missing From Call After Blazing Fire
After a blaze was extinguished three members of Engine Company 72 and one from Fire Patrol 3 did not answer roll call. The names listed are Thomas Phillips Thomas O Connor John Lynch and John Fallon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engine Company 72
Thomas Phillips
Thomas O'Connor
John Lynch
John Fallon
Larchmont Wreck Report Details Investigators’ Findings
Secretary Straus transmitted to Congress the steamboat Larchmont disaster report by Withey and Stewart. They fault Pilot John L. Anson, now deceased, and absolve Captain McVey and the crew for the collision with the Harry Knowlton off Block Island last year, which caused many deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Congress
W. L. Withey
John Stewart
Toy Line
Larchmont
Harry Knowlton
Block Island
John L. Anson
McVey
Officer knocked off Brooklyn Bridge in New York tragedy
Policeman R. J. Fitzgerald attempted to save a man’s life on the Brooklyn Bridge by climbing down the railing when he was struck by an approaching streetcar. He was knocked into the river and his body had not been recovered by press time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
R. J. Fitzgerald
Weather forecast for Boston and New England region
Cloudy trend in Boston area with Saturday snow or rain and warmer conditions. Sunday expected snow or rain with clearing and northeast winds. Washington forecast notes rain or snow in New England Saturday and snow on Sunday with east winds increasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Vicinity
Washington
New England
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