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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1901
Page
2
An advertorial touts Omega Oil as a universal remedy while noting doctors disagree on cures. The copy urges readers to rub the liniment into feet legs arms or shoulders and claims many people have cured themselves with it, asserting proof of its effectiveness.
Miss Howard of Boston and her brother John Howard visited their brother at Raymond Street Jail but were barred without a sheriff pass. At the county courthouse District Attorney Clarke summoned them before the grand jury and issued subpoenas for the Howard trial set for January 22. He hinted their testimony could touch other matters beyond the bigamy indictment.
Henry Amy of the banking house H. Amy & Co. on Wall Street died today at his home in this city from pneumonia. He was 72 years old.
Jacob P. Adler and company performed The Jewish Priest by Jacob Gordin at the Boston Theatre to a near full Hebrew audience. Adler delivered a powerful title role with strong support from Mrs. Adler Scheingold Levenson Nathanson Weinblatt Isenberg and Mane under Joseph Wachtel’s management.
Cambridge school committee met for organization with Liager Dickinson presiding. Chairman Piper Clerk Hubbard and Page Frank T. Evans named to posts. Thurston opposed $400 clerk salary. amendment to $200 failed. Finance seeks $337 419 for year. New chairmen listed for several committees.
Marseilles reports the Australian, French mail steamer Aussie, ran aground off Faraman on Monday with 102 people aboard. After seven failed lifeboat attempts and brutal surf, Carro fishermen finally towed a line and rescued all survivors, with eight boats and many passengers, including women and a baby, carried to shore and sheltered in a lighthouse.
At 5 pm today the White House said the President continues to improve with no new unfavorable conditions. If improvement lasts, he may be allowed to leave his bed early next week. Secretary Cortelyou says he can sit up part of the time, though he must not engage in state affairs per Dr. Rixey.
The grip outbreak in Greater New York is aided by weather. Police records show 420 officers off duty today due to sickness, with fewer than 210 ill last Saturday. Superintendent Blair warns armories may be used as hospitals if conditions do not improve.
Secretary Hay continues to improve after a recent attack."
Albany on January 11 reports LieutenantGeneral Woodruff ill with the grip in the Hotel Ten Bey in the city.
William M. Gardner, an Andover Academy graduate of 1894, escaped from a keeper at the Adams House in Boston this morning. Residents in Andover, including his distressed mother at 71 Bartlett street, fear for his fate while authorities search for the 26 year old man described as 5 feet 8 inches, 135 pounds, dark complexioned with black hair, last seen in a brown ulster and brown felt hat.
At 12 30 this morning a 212 story building at 518 Washington Street Brighton owned by the Machet heirs and unoccupied sustained 500 in fire damage.
In New York on January 11 Miss Louise Schaefer, a teacher at Public School No. 25, 328 Fifth Street, fainted and was pronounced dead. Relatives noted movement in the body, a physician revived her, and she remained weak but slowly recovering, with plans to return to her class soon.
The annual minstrel performance by the Big club entertained attendees at No. 11 Myrtle Street last night with a string of quick quips and playful banter. The exchanged lines included a joke about a lady not being a lady when sulky, delivered by the interlocutor and Bones.
Four Juvenile Club members aged 12 to 16 put on a full house performance in the West End. Proceeds were to aid a local needy family with food or wood. David Michael did buck dancing, the club president sang ragtime, and the group closed with a cake walk. The jokes and singing, especially the quartet, drew praise.
Senate approves a reapportionment measure amid party line voting. Lawmakers debate district maps and representation as the bill moves toward final passage and potential changes in committee.
The will of John Miller, a Suffolk wholesale liquor dealer and rectifier, admitted to probate in the Suffolk Registry, was kept private by request. It reveals four public bequests of 1000 dollars each to Carney Hospital House of the Good Shepherd Home for Destitute Catholic Children and the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Maurice Pendergast collapsed on Massachusetts avenue near Quincy street last night around six o clock. Passersby lifted him from the snow and Dr Whoriskey, living across the street, pronounced heart failure the cause of death.
The Senate approved the reapportionment measure sending it to the President, upping representation to 386 seats. It dismissed a militia- army expansion clash over discretionary power to grow the forces. Debates touched on officers, corporal counts, and civilian liberties amid military sizing questions. The day also saw moves on Philippine force limits and a train robbery bill with a 20 year penalty and fine.
The Record reports that absolute control of major express interests may pass to railroad financiers. Preliminary steps are said to be led by J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill as part of recent railway deals, with express service to be run as a department of railroad operation.
In Cambridge a Middlesex County Superior Court jury awarded Annie M. Mosher 1000 dollars in a breach of promise case against Holland E. Shepard of Newton. Mosher, 42, widow for 20 years, sought damages and was described as a plaintiff. Shepard, aged 60, faced the suit.
In Lawrence on January 11 the Common Council again failed to organize as Republicans refused to join. The nine Democrats elected William B. Bartley president and he was sworn in, but the Democrats admit the election is illegal since a majority is required by the city charter to form an organization.
In Washington on January 11 the House approved 170 private pension bills in a single sitting the highest total since the Fifty-first Congress. The major item raised General Americus V Rice’s pension from 6 to 310 dollars with plans to consider the river and harbor bill tomorrow.
A small basement fire at N. A. Cudahy's Omaha mansion caused little damage but sparked an investigation. Officials consider incendiary origin, noting threatening mail received since his son’s abduction weeks earlier as supporting evidence.
J. J. McCarthy, surveyor of the port of Boston, arrived from Washington and said the Senate approval of a 50000 dollar appropriation to replace the Chandler with a new revenue cutter was highly gratifying to Boston merchants.
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