Is Peters Breaking the Law A Heated Cattle Scandal
Representative Freeman O Emerson introduces an order seeking Attorney General Malone’s opinion on whether tuberculosis infected cattle may be killed and sold for food under Commonwealth law. The move challenges Governor Draper and Dr Peters who defend the state’s right to profit from the infected beef trade amid a brewing scandal.
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Freeman O. Emerson
Ward 12
House
Malone
Friends
Draper
Emerson
Dr. Peters
Emersons order read over to Monday morning in legislature
Representative Emerson presented his order late in the afternoon but a press of business delayed reading. The Senate defeated a similar order Thursday led by Worcester Senators Potter Cowee and Biren, allies of Governor Draper, who favors economy saving about 75000 yearly.
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Emerson
Senate
Worcester
Elmer
Potter
Edward A. Cowee
George Biren
Draper
Mounted Sergeant Rescues Woman From Fire
Sergeant Thomas Lynch rode a horse up York Street steps to rescue Josephine Wetzel the cook from a burning home at 203 York Street. He smashed through a window with the sash and flung the woman to safety, then rolled her in rugs to extinguish flames. She was taken to City Hospital in critical condition.
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Jersey City
N. J
Thomas Lynch
Jesse Davis
York Street
Josephine Wetzel
Josephine
Lynch
Davis Steps
City Hospital
Italians Found Guilty in Montreal Pedler Slaying
Perth New Brunswick report that Leon Sep pepil and Tony Arosha were found guilty of the December 20 murder of a Montreal pedler named Paddy Green. Judge Landry will set sentencing tomorrow.
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Pedler
Perth
N. B
Leon Seppepil
Tony Arosha
Montreal
Paddy” Green
Landry
Man shot by boarder in Watertown home
John Coleman 32 Arsenal Street was shot in the neck this afternoon by Anton Benda at his home. Coleman lies in critical condition at Waltham Hospital. Doctors failed to remove the bullet and could not say if he would recover.
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Watertown
John Coleman
Arsenal Street
Anton Benda
Waltham Hospital
Coleman
Watertown Man Surrenders After Fatal Shooting
Benda, a 42 year old laborer, turned himself in to police on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon after a shooting at the Coleman home. Mrs Coleman and her 13 year old daughter Saaie described a confrontation when Coleman returned drunk. Benda claimed he fired only to frighten him, saying he never intended to hit. Coleman was taken to Waltham Hospital in critical condition.
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Benda
Coleman
Waltham Hospital
Daniel HI. Cooney
Watertown
Painter's wife inherits $250 000 fortune
Mrs. William Cole of Methuen, wife of a painter, inherits about 250000 from a great-granduncle who died in England two years ago. She plans to claim the estate in August and invest in English real estate and coal mines, while her husband continues his painting work.
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Lawrence
William Cole
Methuen
England
Russia Defends Gold Standard in Duma Debate
In St. Petersburg March 5 during budget debate Finance Minister Kokovsoff urged preserving the monetary system and the gold standard. He cited a gold reserve greater than 1.2 billion rubles and a surplus of 480 million rubles, asserting stability postwar.
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ST. Petersburg
Duma
Kokovsoff
M. Kokovsoff
Two Robbers Nabbed For Big Jewelry Heist
Henry Hanson and Edward Meagher were arrested on Tremont street after officers traced bulging pockets full of jewelry and silverware. Police believe they are tied to multiple breaks totaling about 1500 dollars in plunder with recovered goods and weapons found.
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Henry Hanson
Edward Meagher
Tremont Street
Dudley Street
Charles Clark
Bellevue Street
Dorchester
Meagher
Hanson
Somerville
Brighton
Shields
Boys Rescue Boy From Drowning In Paul Revere Park Pond
Three 10 year old peers William Leonardi Robert Ignio and Charles Finley rescued John Sexton after the pond ice gave way at Paul Revere Park. They rushed to shore built a board ladder and pulled him to safety reviving him at Albert Reiths home on Fernwood Avenue.
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William Leonardi
Robert Ignio
Charles Finley
John Sexton
Paul Revere Park
Revere
Sexton
Albert Reith
Fernwood Avenue
Pastor Offers All for Love in Caruthersville
In Caruthersville Missouri on March 5 the Rev Lyman F Jackson pastor of the Methodist church publicly declares willingness to stake everything on his love for Miss Cora Short a school teacher and church worker He has been expelled from his pastorate after a trial presided by Presiding Elder Crowe of Sikeston The Rev Jackson has a wife and three children Mrs Jackson and the children have left for Wichita Kansas She told him at the train if you ever can live with me as you used to let me know or come
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Caruthersville
Lyman F. Jackson
Methodist Church
Cora Short
Iie
Crowe
Sikeston
Jackson
Pope Remains in Bed With Cold. Illness Worsens
In Rome on March 5 the Pope, suffering from a cold, grew a bit worse and stayed in bed this morning. He could not attend the Lenten sermon delivered before the Sacred College.
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Rome
Sacred College
Red Sox shaping up into strong playing form
Veterans of other teams call the Red Sox a very strong agger emertion as they rapidly round into playing shape. Harvard trials and English High meet highlight a busy sports scene with 300 Harvard athletes in carnival trials and a Yale victory in wrestling due to an accident involving Dorando.
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Red Sox
Davey
Auguste
Bowerman
Cincinnati
Mclntosh
Jeffries
Boston
Newtowne
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Hayes
Dorando
Suring
Hallen
Baltimore Isolated by Storm
Baltimore remains cut off from telegraph and telephone service as the March storm destroys poles and wires within 30 to 40 miles. Trains run out of the city without a means to send orders amid widespread wreckage and tangled lines.
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Baltimore
Telegraph and telephone lines crippled by storm hits Baltimore area
Widespread damage along the Western Union route from Baltimore to Havre de Grace leaves more than 1900 poles down on three lines and about M0 wires inactive. Similar outages stretch to Washington with Postal Telegraph and American Telephone and Telegraph crews rushing in from Vermont and New York. Rail service remains steady for the Pennsylvania and B&O lines despite extensive damage from Havre de Grace to Martinsburg.
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Western Union
Baltimore
Havre de Grace
Washington
Postal Telegraph Company
Vermont
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Schenectady
Albany
Telephone Company
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio
Susquehanna River
Martinsburg
W. Va
Wires Downed Across Rail Corridor After Severe Storm
Worst storm since 1888 leaves 80 miles of pole lines ruined along the Pennsylvania railroad between Washington and the Susquehanna river. Telegraph and telephone services are prostrated south of Philadelphia, with extensive uprooting of poles and lines. Reconstruction crews rush from east of the Ohio river as restoration will take weeks.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Washington
Susquehanna River
Baltimore
Ohio River
Taft Administration Names Cabinet Amid Confirmation Chain
Washington March 5 the Taft administration took its first stride today with the President naming his Cabinet and the Senate confirming selections. Most members will take the oath tomorrow morning except George W Wickersham sworn in today as Attorney General and Dickinson and MacVeagh who cannot reach Washington for a week or more due to personal affairs.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
George W. Wickersham
Messrs. Dickinson and
MacVeagh
Taft Meets Republican Ways and Means Amid Tariff Talk
President Taft holds talks with Republican members of the ways and means committee as they frame a tariff bill likely to include an inheritance tax provision. Taft announces an extra session for March 15 and aims to limit the message to tariff revision to avoid delays. Knox leaves the White House in private life only to be quickly named Secretary of State. Governors Hughes and Prouty join Taft’s circle as New York and Vermont leaders plan to attend July 7 and 8 celebrations.
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Taft
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
White House
Knox
Roosevelt
Hughes
New York
Prouty
Vermont
Read ing Congregational Church Fire Leaves Landmark Destroyed
A Read ing Congregational Church burned completely after 7 PM, destroying the 75 by 30 foot wooden structure. Fire started from a defective electric fixture, with $50,000 in losses and $20,000 insured. Aid from Wakefield and Stoneham arrived as residents watched the blaze.
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Reading
Reading Congregational Church
Woburn and
Sanborn
Wakefield
Church Society
Dundonald
Joseph Butters
Leggett
Boston
Stoneham
Captain Mathews Shot by Policeman in Washington
Captain W. H. Mathews of the fifth precinct was killed at his desk in the station house by Policeman Collier. Five shots were fired two hit Mathews in the head. Collier was arrested by Lieutenant Sprinkle and gave no statement. Mathews, age 56, had served 20 years on the force.
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Washington
W. H. Mathews
Collier
Mathews
Sprinkle
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