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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1912
Page
2
London escaped a heavy snow storm while trains blocked telegraph lines and traffic halted across England. 48 hours of cold rain and hail linger with fierce gales and nine hour delays on one continental line. Snow depths reach six to ten feet in some areas.
Henry W. Pond aged 0 years of 8 Maple Street Lynn was hit on Western Avenue at 11 30 pm. The vehicle sped away and Pond was taken to Lynn Hospital with a broken hip and ankle and placed on the dangerous list.
The Republican city committee of St. Louis adopted a resolution tonight endorsing Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency in 1912.
Silas N. Phelps, the Monroe Bridge murderer, moved to the death house cell after the executive council refused to commute his sentence. He expressed sorrow that he could not pay his wife’s carfare to visit before his execution next week, for the murder of Sheriff Haskins of Franklin County at Clairmont on June 12, 1910.
Little Aileen Martin, daughter of a Southern Pacific foreman, flagged the Overland Limited to avert a wreck after finding a rail broken in three spots on the snowy line between Sacramento and Reno. She telephoned Towle, fetched her sister, and signaled the train, saving passengers on the troubled train.
In Lebanon a court awarded J. B. Bordner six cents nominal damages from his brother Addison Bordner for injuries from an assault on July 24, 1909. Bordner, a cripple, remains affected by the beating and sought $1500 in damages.
A full game of checkers, the first on record, was broadcast wirelessly in Minneapolis today between C. L. Helton and James A. Coles. The contestants live two miles apart and remained in near continuous contact from start to finish as Helton captured Coles last piece.
In Asheville North Carolina Robert Smith aged 70 was pronounced dead yesterday morning. At the funeral hour friends fled in terror when he suddenly opened his eyes and asked about the rain. He died this morning leaving a baffling case for local officials.
Fred Koenig drove his car across the ice from Ossining to Irvington racing an express train from Tarrytown to Helen Gould's dock. Passengers cheered as he beat the train before visiting the Tarrytown lighthouse keeper and Sing Sing prison convicts with speed displays.
New York January 18 Mayor Gaynor orders training for police to wrestle with suspects. Commissioner Waldo announced that Tom Jenkins the Cleveland wrestler will teach grappling to prevent using force with billy clubs. Jenkins has instructed West Point and arrives with War Department sanction.
In Dawson Yukon on January 18 the Sixty Mile diggings draw prospectors despite 60 degrees below zero. Shafts are being sunk as the gold commissioner renames the main South fork of Sixty Mile River to Matson Creek to honor early prospector John Matson who worked the ground 14 years ago.
Nineteen vessels began the voyage home after ice barriers at Bay of Islands melted. Seven ships remain trapped at Bonne Bay, delaying the Gloucester fleet’s return.
The Gresham and Androscoggin press toward the ice bound coast to break a passage. Vessels that left Bay of Islands yesterday did not report in and are presumed to have reached liberty. A heavy northeast breeze pushed ice off shore, easing access from the harbor and allowing the fleet to clear Cape St George by midnight. Today east wind drives ice farther away.
Captain John Belong of the schooner Tattler arrives from Bonne Bay. He says storms from all compass points raged there, making rescue by cutters unlikely. The Tattler took 15 days home, crew frostbitten, to prevent founder the ship rode near the gulf stream in warmer water. Ice coated the vessel on arrival at Gloucester, 3 to 12 inches thick.
John J. Fitzgerald of 12 Magee Street Cambridge was arraigned in Cambridge District Court for disorderly conduct on a Boston Elevated surface car. He was found guilty and fined ten dollars.
Eugene Kelly banker, son of the founder of Eugene Kelly & Co., died suddenly at 53 in New York. He was the oldest Knight of St Gregory in the United States by date of creation, a title conferred by Pope Leo XIII. Cardinal Farley went to the Kelly home to offer condolences.
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