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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1914
Page
4
District attorney expects key testimony from Mrs. Carman’s maid when grand jury convenes Tuesday. He aims to corroborate the maid’s account of events the night of the murder while ruling out improper influence and stressing truthfulness.
Lightning last night killed Herbert Harmimett of Brooklyn, a claim agent at the Hudson Terminal, in a hotel telephone booth. Mrs. Louise Phillips of New York was knocked unconscious for hours and may die. Other accidents included Albert Bailey’s severe injuries from a gasoline engine explosion and Louis Zion drowning in a hotel pool. Roy Bailey was wounded by a pitchfork tine, with survival likely.
In Paris central quarter after a heavy thunderstorm several street cave-ins occurred. A ten by ten foot section collapsed in Place Saint Augustine near a prior June taxicab subsidence. pits formed on Rue de Caumartin near Rue du Havre and in front of the Opera Comique. Traffic diverted. no casualties reported.
Chicago civic reformers Ella Flagg Young and Gertrude Howe Britton plan to accompany the Chicago Railway Terminal Commission on its European trip aboard the Lusitania. They press for inclusion despite not appearing on the official Boston list, stating they will study education and vice conditions.
News of the death of Supreme Court Associate Justice Horace Harmon Lurton, a Confederate veteran and former Tennessee and federal judge, reached Washington. Lurton, born Newport Kentucky, served on the Supreme Court from 1910 after Taft appointed him, and had battled illness before his death in Atlantic City.
Justice Lemuel E. Lurton of the United States Supreme Court has died. Friends and associates from across the country are expected to attend the funeral and services.
Ex Sheriff James A. Fulton of Wurtsboro was mortally injured when his touring car left the Wawarsing bridge in Monticello New York tumbling 15 feet. Fulton suffered three broken ribs and internal injuries. other party members escaped with minor injuries. Fulton was a prominent Republican official with multiple offices.
Hailstones during a thunder shower damaged gardens and greenhouses in Nashua as stones the size of hens eggs fell. The loud thunder disrupted services at South Merrimac church.
Salem relief committee will cease food distribution next Monday. About 4500 people are fed at Forest River camp Bever ly and the armory. Colonel John E. Spencer said special aid will be provided for truly needy families. The drive has raised nearly $489,000 with totals likely to pass $500,000.
W. F. Willoughby of Princeton University is named deputy legal adviser to the Chinese government. Dr. F. J. Goodnow, newly elected Johns Hopkins University president, will return to America in August but continue as adviser. Willoughby served as U.S. Labor Department expert from 1890 to 1901.
Dense fog yesterday caused the Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company to cancel the 2 45 and 3 15 trips to avoid the risk of collisions in the harbor.
Nevers' Band volunteers again as Manager Dearge at the Opera House plans a public mass meeting next Sunday evening. No admission will be charged and a collection will go to the fund which has now reached 1020.81 dollars.
The body found on a Jamesville flat car, once identified as Leonard Douglas of Albany, will be disinterred in Worcester and shipped there. Police seek to confirm identity and determine cause of death, suspecting murder. A second claim linked the body to William T. Burke of Boston, but Burke was later located in Rhode Island.
Dr. P Henry Mullowney a government expert loaned to the city to aid the Board of Health in its clean milk and pure food crusade rests at Carney Hospital South Boston steadily recovering. A recognized leader among veterinarians he would have been commissioned by Governor Walsh to represent the state at the national convention in Detroit if not for illness.
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