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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1911
Page
3
The Laura Farnsworth Schenk case in Wheeling West Virginia over administering lead poison and arsenic to her husband John O. Schenk nears completion. Arguments began at 3 15 PM and jurors are expected to receive the case by Wednesday noon The defense and prosecution each have three speeches and another day and a half may be needed.
Prosecuting Attorney Handlan wins a key motion when the court bars Mrs. Jane Hedges testimony about Albert Schenk's claim to "leave no stone unturned" against John O. Schenk's wife. The State rests after the ruling as defense counters with extensive instructions and scheduled speakers.
Congressman-elect James M. Curley and Mrs. Curley returned from Washington last weekend and he entered City Hospital yesterday for examination after a recent illness. He is expected to stay one to two weeks for observation.
The Boston & Maine railroad will after February 20 allow only 48 hours free time for cotton shipments destined on its line, aligning with the uniform demurrage regulations. The move follows earlier reductions from ten days to five and addresses dispatch issues caused by fragile cotton identification and delayed warehousing.
Mrs. Caroline B. Martin was sentenced to seven years in state prison for her role in the death of her daughter Ocey Snead. Judge Ten Eyck delivered the verdict after she pleaded non vult to manslaughter to an indictment for murder. Ocey’s body was found in a half-filled bathtub in a partly furnished East Orange house on November 29, 1909.
An advertisement asserts that Pape's Cold Compound cures colds and grippe within hours. It claims three years of research and a 25-cent package, with no quinine, and promises relief from neuralgia pains, fever, sneezing, and nasal symptoms after the first dose.
Edward W. Hurley, assistant grand chief engineer of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and longtime Dorchester resident, died in the Broadway Central Hotel in New York after a month long illness with typhoid pneumonia contracted in Virginia on Brotherhood business.
Mr. Hurley, assistant grand chief engineer of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers since 1894, died at about 50. He served on the New York New Haven Hartford line and was active in Massachusetts and Boston brotherhoods. Funeral at 308 Norfolk Street Dorchester.
In Cleveland at the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers national headquarters officials said the remaining grand officers may choose Hurley's successor but with five surviving assistant grand chiefs the office may stay vacant until the May 1912 bi annual convention. Grand Chief Warren S Stone is reported to be somewhere in the South.
In St. Louis on January 23, the corset coat is named the season’s top garment for men. Trousers will fit tightly enough to require removing shoes to change clothes as the “under exaggerated man” replaces the old look. Football-type physiques will be unrecognizable to partners in the new slim styles resembling a caricatured French count.
The destroyer Sterrett arrived in Newport Rhode Island after a 23-hour run from Boston Navy Yard along part of Long Island Sound at 15 knots. After receiving torpedoes, the Sterrett then sailed for Norfolk Virginia.
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