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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1914
Page
3
Paddy the Irish terrier and beloved mascot of Somerville Engine 2 was killed when an engine ran over him on Bonair Street while rushing to an alarm. The dog had been leading ahead, warning pedestrians, before becoming entangled with the horses and crushed under the wheels.
Edward Simpson shot and killed his mother and father at his Hillsburg area home near Guelph Ontario, then barricaded inside with a rifle. His sister escaped to raise the alarm as Hugh Simpson was shot while entering the barn and Mrs. Simpson lay dead in a lane from the house.
Semi official word from Washington confirms Frederick S. Wynn purchasing agent for the Southern Railway will succeed the late R. D. Lankford as secretary. He will not become vice president.
About $500000 was bequeathed to widows orphans aged men and women and for other charitable purposes by Benjamin Leeds an aged Roxbury recluse whose will was filed yesterday in the Suffolk registry of probate Leeds was unmarried lived at 88 Lambert avenue Roxbury with an office at 31 Exchange street which he owned with other downtown buildings.
The will leaves $50,000 to the Church Home for Orphan and Destitute Children and the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital. Each of several named institutions receives $25,000, including the Boston Fatherless and Widows Society and the New England Home for Little Wanderers. S. N. Ryder gets $5,000. The remainder funds Protestant Episcopal missions and related causes in Massachusetts. St Luke's Home for Convalescents and St James Episcopal Church Roxbury receive small bequests. Clothing goes to the poor.
Providence January 27. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad weighs transferring its Rhode Island Company trolley system to trustees to manage until sale. Lawmakers say the matter has been discussed. trustees would need borrowing power for maintenance. Vice president Duff F. Sherman confirms the proposal has been raised.
Lisbon January 27 The Portuguese Cabinet led by Dr Alfonso Costa resigned today amid a parliamentary deadlock and ministerial crisis after the opposition majority in the Senate rejected all government proposals.
A woman folder at the American Print Works returned to work today under the same conditions and wages that prompted the three week old strike, marking the first crack in the striking ranks in Fall River.
President and Mrs. Wilson hosted the second state reception honoring the judiciary of the United States. Supreme Court justices, Congress judiciary committees, and government judges attended with about 3000 guests invited. Cabinet members assisted. Marine Band performed. parlors and east room richly illuminated.
Concord, N H Jan 27. Arrangements for New Hampshire participation in Plymouth Pilgrims landing tercentenary celebration are placed with a committee at the State Board of Trade annual meeting. A second committee will organize a state industrial exposition. Mayor George B Cox of Laconia elected president.
Swansea January 27 Dr James L Welling ton Harvard’s oldest living alumnus marked his 96th birthday. He belonged to the class of 1838 with notable peers James Russell Lowell and William Wetmore Story. His father was in class 1802 and his grandson joined class 1910.
Chester I. Campbell has been asked to accept leadership of an International Civic Exhibition planned for Dublin, Ireland. The event, announced with a Champlain & Farrar photo credit, seeks a managing figure to organize the exhibit.
The Countess of Aberdeen cabled an urgent invitation to Chester S Campbell to manage an International Civic Exhibition in Dublin planned for summer and autumn. Campbell, tied to Boston interests, could not commit but would consider if it did not conflict with his upcoming Mechanics' Building national exhibitions within three months.
The Turkish government granted a concession today for a street car line from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and for electric lighting in Jerusalem. The concession was awarded to the French bank that financed the Brazilian dreadnought Rio Janeiro, recently added to the Turkish navy.
Rare autographs and manuscripts from the late J F D Garfield collection sold at Libbie's auction. Harvard Law Library and Library of Congress bought items. notable pieces include a Nathan Dane manuscript set fetching $900 and a Thomas Bailey Aldrich letters group for $21.50.
In Huntsville Alabama three men were arrested in a room described as an arsenal. Prisoners named N C P Pruit who says he served time in North Carolina penitentiary, Glen Martin and Reese Powers of Galveston Indiana.
Poslam is advertised to quickly relieve raw and itching skin and to control eczema and various surface disorders. The claim states itching stops upon application and healing improves daily with rapid results, with free samples offered by Emergency Laboratories in New York.
St Johns Newfoundland January 27 two prominent figures James Pitts financier legislative councillor and former cabinet minister and Judge Woodley Prowse longtime colony figure and retired judge died in the Imperial Order of St Michael and St George loss of two leaders in Newfoundland public life
J. B. Richardson of Hartford was sentenced to one year in jail in police court for taking Carmello Mazze aged 17 from Hartford to Springfield and making her believe a local marriage license constituted a marriage. Cephas W. Derby was held for federal bail on a mail charge after a meeting at the North station.
Readers are invited to a free ga tern event described as a welcome seasonal activity. The notice emphasizes broad participation and a light, social aim for the community gathering.
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