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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1908
Page
3
In Webster on Friday evening a man Peter Caplette and Miss Annie Marrier drowned when drowning couples clung to each other. Caplette's body surfaced briefly before sinking again and has not been recovered. The woman was brought to the surface and thus confirmed the fate.
John Majewski faced a $20 fine in district court for assaulting William Andre Jczyk. Witnesses described how Majewski lay on the floor and urged the boy to lift him, then placed the boy on a red hot stove. The judge called it expensive fun and noted the $20 penalty. In Spencer residents complained about tree cutting along Greenville Street despite State Board of Forestry marks.
The quarterly meeting of the Suf folk County Federation of Catholic Societies met in the Cathedral conference room at 3 pm with President Henry Wess ling presiding. A credentials committee reported 24 societies represented by 81 delegates and the per capita tax for 1908 was set at 5 cents.
Mrs. Jere Knode Cooke seeks a divorce from her husband the Rev Jere Knode Cooke head of St George's Church Hempstead L I after he eloped with 17 year old Floretta Whaley nine months earlier.
Friends say Mrs. Cooke will begin divorce proceedings as soon as evidence is obtained in San Francisco where Cooke and his alleged paramour and child reside. Mrs. Cooke describes her nine years of marriage as hell and denounces Cooke’s public interview as cowardly while affirming her devotion and belief in marriage as a sacred sacrament.
London January 19 Irish affairs are set to consume much of the third and likely most critical session under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The King will open January 29. The Irish Universities bill Catholics grazing lands and a possible amendment to the speech on Irish policy will test Mr Birrell as unionists demand debate. Old age pensions and a sweeping liquor bill also loom with local option likely, while the House of Lords may curb reform.
The body found in H. M. Lowe’s Maple Grove cottage on Androscoggin Lake was identified as Flora Bigelow of Greene aged 45. After years of melancholia, she allegedly hanged herself using a rope made from torn shawl and a chair, the body found frozen stiff.
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