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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
1
King commands bands of crepe to honor the Great Captain Kitchener who died when the cruiser Hampshire hit a mine off Orkney Islands. The loss plunges Britain into national grief with officers ordered to display mourning crepe.
In Massachusetts the rift widens between the McCall and Weeks factions of the Republican party. An allied committee meeting of three McCall and three Weeks supporters carried out the Old Guard fight, signaling continued threats and reprisals in upcoming Bay State contests.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt denied telephoned Progressive leaders to nominate him for president if Hughes is named by Republicans. He stated he had sent no message and declined further comment on Hughes speech.
Chicago reports that Justice Charles Evans Hughes is likely to be nominated by the Republican Party for President. The Roosevelt faction has not secured the needed votes, and conservative Bull Moose leaders like George W. Perkins must restrain delegates eager to back Roosevelt or abstain.
On the eve of the national conventions the Progressives risk a split as leaders struggle to compromise with Republicans. With talks failing to yield a basis for agreement a third party possibility looms larger than before.
The excerpt notes a stance on Roosevelt with no mention of a fallback option and urges decisive action. It reflects editorial emphasis on choosing Roosevelt without an alternative plan.
Middlesex District Attorney William J. Corcoran takes charge of the Wakelin murder investigation in Melrose. An inquest is ordered at Malden District Court with Loretta Wakelin's family and witnesses to be examined, Judge E Leroy Sweetser presiding. The DA will interrogate family members and witnesses to patch together a clear alibi.
Mr. Corcoran, in possession of all evidence secured by the police, expresses dissatisfaction with conflicting stories about the hour the body was found and the times given. He calls for clarifications as investigations continue.
June 6 court martial opens in Dublin for Captain Bowen Colthurst charged with murder in the shooting of F. Skeffington editor of the Irish Citizen and two others. Prosecution says he ordered executions after saying he would shoot them. Witnesses describe exhaustion, alarms, and disobedience during Mons retreat. Medical testimony cites unbalanced mind.
Ambassador Page in London informed the State Department that John J. Kilgallen, a New York student arrested in Dublin over the Sinn Fein uprising, will likely be interned until the war end under the defence of the realm act. A request for his release was made by Senator O'Gorman of New York. Kilgallen studied in Dublin. charges are not disclosed.
London reports the Russians announcing a major offensive claiming 25 000 captured and 480 officers along a 275 mile front from the Pripet marshes to the Roumanian frontier. They describe successes against German and Austrian troops and a well coordinated, well supplied advance.
Edmund A. Whitman was named chairman of the Cambridge overseers of the poor for five years by Mayor Rockwood at a City Council meeting last evening.
A convoy carrying the war chief and his staff to a conference with the Russian czar was wrecked. None of the travelers survived, and the commander’s staff perished alongside him.
An official statement says Earl Kitchener will meet Emperor Nicholas to discuss military and financial questions, then travel to Archangel Petrograd and the front for munitions supply aid. A later report confirms Kitchener and his staff aboard HMS Hampshire were lost off Orkney Islands, shocking Britain.
Telegrams from Admiral Jellicoe report Hampshire sunk near the Orkneys around 2 p.m. yesterday with Captain Herbert J. Savill and Lord Kitchener onboard. The admiralty confirms the disaster and the probable death of Kitchener and his staff.
Early returns from 93 of 99 counties show the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage trailing at 8 PM with 137,760 in favor and 143,663 against, a margin of 5,909 votes, as Des Moines reports.
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