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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1897
Page
8
The House committee investigating Boston caucuses filed amendments to election laws. It cites a $720.61 total expense, with $500 to the clerk, and proposes strict voting rules, ballot changes, and penalties including fines up to 1000 and imprisonment up to one year for various offenses.
Ernest Dedring a 3 year old boy was found dead on his back doorsteps in Jamaica Plain near 22 Boylston Avenue. Police say he sat on the back steps after an evening with friends and died from freezing, with Mrs Dedring prostrated and neighbors discovering the body around 5:30 AM.
Annie M Tower daughter of Mrs in M Tower and John K Butler wed at the bride's Lamson Place Cambridge home. Rev Breen officiated. Wel lie Tower and Maud Butler served as bridal party. After a wedding tour to the South and West the couple will reside at Lamson Place.
The Forty fourth Regiment Association held its annual reunion at United States Hotel with toastmaster William Garrison Reed. Officers for 1897 98 were elected including Reed as president and Frank G Webster as secretary, along with a full slate of vice presidents treasurer and executive members from various companies.
The Edward J Ivory trial resumed at the Old Bailey with John Burns testifying that Meagher was absent when Ivory called. Mrs Meagher refused a letter from Kearney, and Caf frey and O’Hara were unavailable, one hospital bound and the other in Ireland. A Rotterdam telegram to Ivory for Bell in Glasgow dated Sept 11 referenced halted business.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting and elected officers. President Wallace F Robinson was absent ill. Vice President John E Soper chaired. Net income for 1896 reached 15615.02 with total funds near 25000 increase. mortgage reduced to 275000. Directors named Leroy Brown Frank Chandler George Leonard Louville Niles. The group approved arbitration treaty resolutions and called for a new Charlestown dry dock.
Harry L. Smith of Nova Scotia charged with deserting a baby in Hamilton woods on Oct. 9 will have the charge placed on file in the Superior Court in Salem tomorrow. He had promised to marry the child's mother Miss Bessie McIntosh after release. A passerby heard the infant crying and saved its life during a cold rainy night.
John A. Logan Post 186 G. A. R. marked its tenth anniversary in Cambridge with a banquet at Citizens' Trade Association Hall. Col John D. Billings presided. General John W. Kimball and others spoke on G. A. R. work in Massachusetts.
In federal court Judge Aldrich yesterday Fred E. Holmes Canton postmaster pleaded nolo contendere to embezzling $1000 in money order funds. Frank R. Moore Medfield postmaster pleaded nolo contendere to embezzling $400. Burton H. Packard Brockton former Whitman resident pleaded nolo contendere to sending an obscene letter through the mails. he was fined $100.
Parliament read the Queen's speech detailing condolences for Ottoman massacres, praise for the Egyptian advance into Dongola, upcoming arbitration with the United States over British Guiana, and a plan for famine relief in India. It notes bills on land, prisons goods, and reformatories, and calls for agricultural and water-board measures.
Lawmakers at the State House debated gas safety and investigations after a spate of fatalities. A joint special committee was proposed to study gas quality and distribution, with a March report deadline. Other filings included a Boston tramway fare plan and a bill to prohibit water gas manufacture.
Witnesses tracing victim Mrs. McCloud movements place her near Clement street and Odd Fellows Hall between 6 and 8 pm. Testimony includes cash transactions for her purchases earlier that afternoon and a doctor’s report confirming strangling and outrage.
Edward Records, an officer in the Massachusetts Car Company, who faced an indictment for obtaining bonds valued at about $30,000 from Arthur Atkinson through alleged false pretences on the company’s finances, obtained bail of $3,000 yesterday. The indictment remains pending in the Superior Court.
The speech outlines stern wartime measures and prudent spending. It calls for primary education support through voluntary schools and proposes education legislation along with a bill to improve compensation for workers injured in accidents.
George W. Murray, arrested last September for blowing open the Maine Cold Storage Company safe in Portland, will face trial soon. Identified by Boston Chief Inspector Watts as Alice Burke and several aliases, he is a famed criminal with prior prison terms for burglary in Pawling New York and Albany. His Pawling bank robbery in 1893 yielded 800 dollars in cash and 1000 dollars in government bonds.
The Jamaica Plain West Roxbury club may sell liquor to its members this year. Commissioners Clark and Curtis supported the license, while General Martin is understood to have opposed it.
Frank H. Miles former treasurer of the Boston Safe Deposit Company absconded weeks ago. His Sioux City, Iowa real estate has been attached for 20,000 dollars at the companys instance. Police have found no trace of Miles since he left Boston.
The Cambridge City Council last night set aside $1000 to modify the Central square city building to house the ambulance with the patrol wagon at Station 2. It authorized borrowing $8000 in anticipation of taxes and scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday on reducing metered water from 3 to 2 cents per 100 gallons.
John Mack sued the city of Boston for plastering done at the Court House in Pemberton Square in 1892. The third jury session of the Superior Court, before Judge Bond, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $4530.
Havana reports incomplete details of a January 10 attack by Cuban patriots on Ta paste in Guba Province. The defenders held a church four hours, with no losses cited. Separately, Cuban forces attacked Placetas, fighting three hours in the streets. six residents lay dead and sixteen garrison soldiers were wounded, with arrests linked to the assault.
The Vermont Association of Boston hosts its eleventh annual reception and banquet at the Vendome with Major-General O. O. Howard and Gen. William W. Henry among the guests. Alden Speare is elected president. officers include E. J. Sherman and W. E. Fuller as vice presidents. Elmer E. Silver as secretary and treasurer.
Miss Spevie eight months in the country from Russia was reported missing after leaving a Union Place home about a week ago. A sister notified police as a friend identified her in Fast Cambridge where she is now employed. She prefers not to return to her sister and has brothers in Charlestown and a sister in East Boston.
Brockton Massachusetts January 19 meeting of the Board of Aldermen discusses saving the old Hancock engine at the Heights and abolishing the volunteer company. The engine would stay in service with captain steward and clerk on salary, manned by a volunteer crew. the motion was laid on the table.
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