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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
14
From Berlin the rumor of a German insistence that a Briton Russian alliance would threaten war is unsupported. Officials could not be reached but German press remains restrained. The Nordeutsche Zeitung notes the King and Emperor toasted for world peace in Reval.
Paris June 11. The death is announced of Marie Louis Gaston Boissier grand officer of the Legion of Honor and perpetual secretary of the French Academy. He was born in 1823.
The United States government plans a large military cemetery on Deer Island to serve all posts in the Boston artillery district. A board led by Lt Col Edward Burr Maj Henry C. Davis and Capt Ira L. Fredendall will select the site, likely behind the new fort, moving interments from Hull Cemetery.
The estate of James Compton, formerly of Washington, D. C., won a judgment against the Wabash Railroad for 860000 in a dispute arising from a long standing title claim to a segment of the line between Toledo and the Ohio state line and ownership of certain stock shares.
In Reno on a June 11 tragedy Harry Mc Causland shot Nan Harrison in a local entertainment resort where she sang and then killed himself. McCausland, from Los Angeles, had been touring for Armour and Co.
Four died and over 50 000 acres of corn and cotton were flooded when levees broke on the Red River at Bayou Pierre near Coushatta and at Westdale near Grand Cane. More than a thousand people were rendered destitute.
Boston residents are assured no repeat of the New York hose scandal as all city fire hoses undergo tests. The Brighton district completed two weeks of testing finding most hoses strong with a few old pieces replaced. The supply is now deemed adequate for any fire emergency. London reports Russia shipping 20 to 25 million dollars in gold to St Petersburg to rebuild reserves after losses to the United States.
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