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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1908
Page
1
Mrs Wells stands by her husband who is jailed for theft as she proclaims his gentleness and happiness he brought to her life. She vows to stay by him despite family disownment or starvation, insisting she will never forsake him.
Harvey T. Wells, 21, son of a prominent Kenosha family and cashier at First National Bank, was arrested at the Cambridge Gas Light Company offices on a $6000 embezzlement charge after detectives tracked him across two continents. He had spent ten months eluding pursuers while honeymooning with his English bride, daughter of a Greenwich trader. The arrest followed a photo identification as he left the gaslight works in East Cambridge.
A mob estimated at about a thousand attacked the county jail in Pensacola Florida to lynch Leander Shaw after he assaulted a local woman. The sheriff and deputies held off the mob but Shaw was seized and hanged from an electric pole as hundreds fired on his body.
Mayor Hibbard declines to revoke the permit for the Knights of Pythias camp at Franklin Field after a conference with Harvard Improvement Association and Park Commission leaders. Judge Braley may hear a petition for an injunction to halt the encampment, as work proceeds unless a court order stops it.
Police believe two bandit supporters linked to Edmund Gut man may be in the woods as arrests hinge on locating the Mauren sisters. Once captured, investigators expect statements to reveal the hiding place of the wanted "veggs."
Reports yesterday claim two women entered Bussey woods carrying bundles to help Gutman’s fugitives. police from Roslindale investigated with only a vague description of the pair. A police official suggested capturing the Mauren sisters could bring the fugitives behind bars within 24 hours.
Excerpts urge temperance with sharp wit and cautions about money and vice. The account also notes the Island Queen firing on the Ohio River trip to Cincinnati on July 29, injuring a woman aboard while Taft and guests were present.
Leo Stevens Allen R Hawley and William Van Sleet survived a 10 000 foot balloon flight after they threw out ballast and food to keep the craft aloft amid a sudden wind cloud. The trio faced possible death as visibility vanished and momentum carried the balloon toward the Atlantic Ocean.
Two men described as anarchists sparked a blaze on two American flags hanging on the facade of a saloon at 151 Causeway street occupied by E. P. Clarke. They walked up lit a match and burned the flags valued at seven dollars each before escaping toward Charlestown as bystanders pursued them. Police search ongoing.
A man on an Ohio bank shanty boat fired a shotgun toward a river steamer near Dayton Kentucky as it passed. Mrs. Russell, wife of a Cincinnati ice executive, was slightly wounded by pellets. others were struck but not seriously hurt. Authorities planned an investigation to identify the shooter.
Evidence at the Northern Pacific rate hearing shows the J. P. Morgan syndicate earned a net profit of 22 202 393 dollars in the railroad reorganization of 1896.
Government prosecutors and Senator Kellogg announced they will seek a re argument of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals decision in the Standard Oil Indiana case. An application for reargument and a modification of the opinion will be filed at once. Trials in rebates prosecutions will press ahead.
The report details a dangerous balloon ascent by Van Sleet Stevens Hawley and companions. Toward 10 000 feet a cloud trap caused an abrupt plunge with ballast jettisoned and supplies thrown overboard before the balloon surfaced from the cloud and landed safely in an open field.
Rube Waddell struck out 16 Athletics to set a season record in a 5 4 St Louis win. Addie Joss beat the Red Sox. Cicotte shut out the Cubs 4 3. Pat Flaherty faltered as Boston could muster four hits off Mordecai Brown. Christy Mathewson edged St Louis 1 0. Pittsburg routed Brooklyn without Big Tim Jordan and Harry Lumley. Three NL teams were blanked Boston St Louis and Brooklyn. John McGraw complained that St Louis saves its best pitchers for the Giants while Pitt and Brooklyn enjoy easier picks.
The weather bureau in Washington will issue two week forecasts under a new system led by Professor Moore. The plan aims to ease vacationers' anxiety and forecasts will be printed in the Post during the coming fortnight.
Today fair in Boston and vicinity with a fair Thursday and Friday. Washington reports New England forecast for fair conditions with warmer Thursday and light to fresh south winds.
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