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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1908
Page
4
Mrs Kellum, described as a woman of fine physique, pulled a switch from her skirt and struck the teacher repeatedly after a spelling lesson mishap. She was arraigned in court and held on two charges assault and disorderly conduct with bail set at 800 dollars each.
The coasting schooner Madagascar, built in 1845 and owned by H. F. Eaton & Son, was towed into East Boston in a wreck after a topmast failure off Highland Light. Captain John Coleman, with 170 tons of coal aboard, escaped serious injury as the ship drifted for hours until reaching port. The vessel, once valued for long service between St George Staten Island and Eastport, is to be repaired and its cargo insured.
At St Pauls School Concord New Hampshire on June 4 alumni gathered for anniversary events. The day featured a chapel service conducted by Bishop William W Niles with sermons by Rev W Stanley Emery and Rev Prescott F Evarts and a luncheon with remarks from Richard Henry Dana Lawson Purdy and President Flavel S Luther. Delphians won the athletic meet with 84 points followed by Old Hundred 74 and Isthmians 29.
For three months hundreds of Boston families have departed for the provinces citing bad business, tight money, and unemployment. J F Masters notes two weekly Boston to Yarmouth trips carrying 12 to 15 returning families and ample household goods, with many Chelsea fire evacuees relocating to Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick communities.
In Beloit Wisconsin on June 4 deputy sheriff Ernest Sweet from Rockford Illinois fired at Carl Olson and Charles Dirle from South Beloit during a street brawl near the state line. A bottle in Olson’s breast pocket absorbed the bullet, sparing him serious injury or death. Sweet fled north but was pursued into Wisconsin where Olson Dirle and Sweet were arrested by Beloit police.
In Voronizh on June 4, Mlle. Feodorovna, aged 25 and once a schoolteacher, was hanged for the failed May 6 attempt to kill General Bibikoff, the governor of the province.
Farm and Trades School superintendent Charles H. Bradley appeals for funds to expand the institution on Thompson's Island. The 92 current students learn trades in print carpentry blacksmith and machine shops as a band led by ex graduate Mr. Brennan performs. The school, founded 1814 and on Thompson's Island since 1832, aids orphan boys aged 10 to 14 with clean records. Trustees report a $10,000 matching offer and $6,000 already raised toward a new light power and heating plant to be built this season.
John Sheehan a well known Boston businessman died after a brief illness at his home 204 Ashland street Roslindale corner of Brown avenue. He formerly operated at Tremont and Benton Roxbury and Washington and Keyes Jamaica Plain. Survived by widow three daughters two sons and five Civil War era brothers. Burial planned for tomorrow morning.
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