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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1911
Page
8
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The Boston and Eastern street railway bill to connect Beverly and Boston won a voice vote in the Senate with no roll call. Amendments from Senators Stearns and Schoonmaker were rejected. Governor Foss will sign. ex Mayor Charles Baxter predicts construction soon, with costs around 11000 dollars, serving much of Essex county.
The Saunders-Parks act for working men’s compensation was adopted by the committee on judiciary with one dissenter Senator Evans. The bill removes employer defences such as employee negligence fellow servant carelessness and assumption of risk. It establishes an insurance scheme and a plan of compensation with employer subscribers saved from damage suits.
Governor Foss vetoed a legislative resolve to build family tenements for state farm employees. He argued it is unsound policy for the state to furnish houses for workers at state institutions, except superintendents, and urged employees to live offsite when feasible.
William H. Partridge pleaded guilty to larceny of 594 dollars in jewelry from Margaret R. Sullivan with whom he lodged. He was sent to the House of Correction for three years.
William Gilman aged 43 of Beverly Farms is jailed at Joy Street station on manslaughter charges. Police say he struck an unidentified man early yesterday, who died at Relief Hospital last night from the blow.
Israel Rascovitz, 18, of 959 Tremont Street Roxbury, lit a match in the cellar of Julius Neustadt Hardware Co. the blaze started by varnish. He stamped and ran upstairs where Neustadt extinguished flames and Rascovitz was taken to City Hospital with burns on feet and legs.
Nine living survivors of the Kearsarge met at Hotel Rockaway in East Gloucester to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the famous Civil War action off France. Attendees included Austin Quimby Salem Peter W Ludry Dorchester John Sanborn Hyde Park George H Russell Wendell and Captain John H Bickford Gloucester.
In New York on June 19 the Supreme Court ruled the Carthusian Monks win over the Cuseni er Company regarding use of the monks trade mark and other indicia for a similar cordial. The Cusenier Company acts as agent for the French liquidator.
The Gloucester schooner Ida S Brooks lost four men in fog. On June 16, Captain Williams of the Harold B Couzens found a dory 30 miles east by south of Nauset light with the Ida S Brooks name on the bow proving the fourth man perished.
City Hall learned of a dramatic escape from Deer Island last week by a maniac named James O Neil who fought to avoid recapture after drifting in an open boat about 36 hours. He claimed Charlestown relatives and was held on vagrancy charges.
O Neil on Deer Island leapt through a window carrying sash, vanished, and was later found drifting two miles offshore in a government boat. Subdued after a struggle, he is confined in a padded cell and pronounced insane, to be moved to an insane hospital soon.
Miss Mary Ford, assistant at Cambridge public library, spotted a sneak thief rifling basement lockers at closing. She pursued him through stairs and corridors. he escaped with only a small amount of money.
Charles T. Thomas of Ashland was assaulted and robbed of a $20 watch and $7.77 in Franklin avenue off Court street shortly after midnight. Two young men believed to be the attackers were arrested a short time later.
Mrs. G Howland Shaw of 23 Commonwealth Avenue an invalid was asleep in her home last night while flames raged in the room beside hers Firemen broke in and saved her as flames neared her chamber extinguishing the blaze with chemicals and she remained asleep throughout.
Senator Edward J. Grainger of Winthrop announced to Dr. Frank Donoghue after noon in the Senate yesterday that he is a candidate to fill the Metropolitan Sewerage and Water Board vacancy now held by Dr. Henry P. Walcott.
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