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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1911
Page
4
Washington June 16. Senate finance committee pledges rapid action on the Canadian reciprocity bill and leaders express confidence of a clear majority for passage without amendment as Chairman Penrose drives it to a second reading.
The Senate considered the measure with few prepared speakers as Senator Penrose reported 6 votes for the bill and more against the Root pulp wood amendment. The chamber adjourned after the second reading with daily speeches expected, and Senator Townsend of Michigan signaled an amendment urging broader reciprocity talks with Canada.
William H. Mackintosh died at his apartments in The Warren Roxbury on June 12 and left a trust fund of nearly 250000. The income will be paid to his three sons John W of Sharon Newton of Boston and Frederick of Schenectady New York. Each son receives 100 out right besides the income from the trust fund.
Henry T. Oxnard told the House sugar investigation committee that the birth of the beet sugar industry in America and the sale of their Brooklyn cane sugar refinery to the first sugar trust in 1887 enriched the Oxnard brothers by more than half a million dollars.
Representative Madison pressed Mr. Oxnard on his claim to be key in American beet sugar development. Oxnard described the 20 million dollar American Beet Sugar Company, its ownership shifts, and argued beet sugar can grow if protected. he cited pricing and contracts with grocers as factors in competition with the American Sugar Refining Company. He urged patience to allow beet sugar to compete with world prices and praised forthcoming industry advances.
Representative Taylor of Colorado introduced a joint resolution to establish a summer capital with a commission to study the feasibility and advisability of a government summer home for the President and related office buildings. The measure awaits action in the committee on public buildings and grounds.
Washington reports that Rockville in Montgomery county Maryland borders the District of Columbia will administer whipping as punishment for men convicted of beating their wives. Sheriff Viett says he will handle the punishment and will not shirk the job. Justice Reading moved to harsher methods after fines and imprisonment failed to stop wife beating.
Judge Martin B. Gill of the District Court of San Juan Porto Rico aged 41 died in San Juan of a cerebral hemorrhage. A Somerville native and Harvard Law School alumnus 1894 he practiced in New York before joining Puerto Rico service. He served as secretary to Secretary Regis H Post and advanced to judge positions in Ponce and San Juan.
William H. Staples, 24, of Worcester received a prison term of eight to ten years after being found guilty in the Superior Criminal Court. He assaulted Fannie Cohen with intent to rob her while armed, in a Court street hotel in Charlestown.
Henry Cater aged 35 and married was found dead in bed at 3 Carlisle Street Cambridge yesterday morning by O B Mulert who boarded with him. Cater formerly lived in Chelsea. Medical examiner Swan ruled death due to natural causes.
Haytien foreign minister told U S Ambassador Furniss Castro was not on board the steamer Consul Gros tuck and could not have slipped ashore unobserved. He said the captain admitted joking about the Venezuelan ex president aboard.
Lilian Graham and Ethel Conrad faced arraignment for the fourth time since W. B. H. D. Stokes was shot on June 7. Bail dropped from 25 000 to 15 000 to 10 000, counsel arguing the sum is prohibitive and that detainees will stay jailed until the June 18 hearing. Stokes, under physician care at his Long Branch home, denies any change in pursuing charges.
President Taft plans a summer stay at the Beverly Massachusetts White House beginning July 1 with Mrs Taft and the children remaining through the season. He will then travel to Marion Indiana for a July 3 bankers association address and celebrate the Fourth in Indianapolis.
Avard J. Zroom of Lynn swerved to save a child on the Revere Beach Parkway causing a crash that injures four. Zroom and two passengers Daniel B. Cornish of Bowdoinham Maine and Edward A. Rideout of Richmond Maine suffered bruises. The Adams girl, age unknown, riding in the tonneau, was struck as the car toppled.
Henry M. Rowe of Newton leaves his Boston properties to lodge related trusts. The house at 6 Hudson Street goes to William A. Rodday for Joseph Webb Lodge with income held for two anniversaries and possible added trusts. The 61 Harvard Street property benefits the First Worshipful Masters Association without trust.
In South Straftsbury Vermont on June 18 a 15 year old boy Fred Elwell was shot in the back by a cocked shotgun carried by his friend Frank Harwood. The youths had been in the woods chasing red squirrels when the gun discharged. Fred was taken home to recover while his widowed mother Martha Elwell sought hospital care at Troy New York.
An advertisement touts Rough on Rats as a near 95 percent poison capable of killing rats mice roaches and bedbugs. It advises mixing strength with food at ratios from 1 part poison to 15 20 food for rats and 1 to 40 50 for mice, and to vary food type. Sold globally by E S Wells Jersey City NJ.
Rats outsmart common traps and pastes. they avoid familiar devices. Rough on Rats offers a odorless tasteless powder that can be mixed with different foods to disguise poison and stop rats effectively. Available at druggists in 15c 25c 75c.
George H. Lovering, a Somerville grocer, says his daughter Gertrude A. Lovering died by her own actions after being found dead in a bathroom at the Hotel Hollis. He cites a personal crisis and notes her behavior worsened after her mother’s death three weeks earlier. Medical Examiner Leary maintains accidental drowning as a likely cause.
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