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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1911
Page
3
A runaway engine belt caused a 25 foot flywheel to burst at Boott mill No 7 Lowell January 26. Two workers injured slightly as 150 employees face vacation. engineer narrowly escaped. one 800 pound fragment pierced roof. steam pipe burst but no fire. Repairs expected weeks.
Sir Charles Went worth Dilke died today in London. Born in 1843, he represented the forest of Dean division of Gloucester in Parliament from 1892 and was educated at Cambridge. He served as under secretary of state for foreign affairs 1880-82 and president of the local government board 1882-85.
Frank Silva a 9 year old of 18 Hamblen Street Charlestown died after being struck by an outbound Saugus train near the Boston and Maine towers East Somerville while collecting coke to make a fire for his invalid sister He was thrown 85 feet seven ribs broken and died two hours later at Massachusetts General Hospital
United States District Attorney Asa P. French urged the Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold an 18 year sentence against Keliher for aiding and abetting George W. Coleman in misapplying National City Bank of Cambridge funds. The appeal argued Keliher was an accessory to the bank loot by a gang of fare swindlers.
Mr. French states that aid and abet mean the natural, ordinary sense and include conduct making an accomplice under the statute. He argues Kelcher led a gang of faro swindlers using Coleman to steal bank funds, describing the defendant as ruining a weak clerk to betray trust for gang benefit.
Mrs. Alvin Bailey of 1 Richardson street Newton was named Massachusetts candidate for vice president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution at a regents meeting in Pierce Hall. She defeated Mrs. Herbert Davidson of Watertown by 18 to 15 votes amid a stormy rules debate.
Two fires consumed parts of the Hancock building in City square Quincy yesterday. The first sparked at about 10 oclock, the second in the afternoon from smoldering embers from the morning blaze. Loss estimated near $20000.
A district court adjourned for the day as a prisoner remained in the cage waiting bail. An explosion in Shaw Furniture Company repair shops on the first floor started a blaze that trapped workers, forcing a man named Andrew Cully to jump from a rear window to escape. The fire, reported out by 11 pm, rekindled at 1 pm in the upper floors, prompting firefighters to rip up floorboards in the Masonic Hall to reach hidden flames.
Within an hour the blaze was under control causing about 2000 in damage to the Alasonic headquarters. The Shaw Furniture Company on the first floor suffers about 10000 in stock loss. The East Norfolk District Court on the second floor sustains slight courtroom damage, with court records safe. Building damage totals about 5000.
Mayor Fitzgerald promised strong backing from city and state for the art museum at a luncheon hosted by Theodore A. Vail of the museum board. Speakers urged renaming Huntington avenue to better reflect the museum, citing educational benefits and MIT and state aid prospects.
In San Diego on January 26 the first airplane to rise from water, fly about, and land again on the surface completed a sea flight proving water takeoffs and landings possible.
Glenn H Curtiss demonstrated a hydroplane on San Diego Bay covering about two miles. The craft floated on water with hydroplanes and front-surface arrangements before taking off, reaching 50 feet after a quarter mile ascent. Army Lieutenant John C Walker dra and Navy Lieutenant T G Enison observed the tests.
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