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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1916
Page
6
Amid the Lusitania controversy, William Jennings Bryan joins the fight, shaping expectations of a presidential victory. He counsels supporters on armed ships as he travels between New York and Washington, meeting with allies and influencing House strategy ahead of a key vote.
Charlestown representative Peter II. Tague said President Wilson would win by three to one when the armed merchantmen travel ban resolution reaches a House vote Tuesday morning. He insisted he backs the President despite reports of indecision and noted leaders asked colleagues to refrain from comment to allow a neutral outcome. The rule committee met and plans another session before the roll call, with Tague stating the resolution will pass decisively.
Baltimore March 5 Billy Sunday drew record crowds at the tabernacle with over 60 000 inside and 20 000 turned away. He attacked evolution and defended creation saying he does not believe the monkey origin theory and urged Christians to reject infidelity while urging immortality as the instinct that guides man.
The Moewe under Captain Burgrave Count von Dohna-Schiedlen arrived at a home port with four British officers 29 British marines and sailors 166 men of enemy crews including 103 Indians and 1 000 000 marks in gold. It reported captures include the Corbridge Author Trader Ariadne Dromonby Farringford Clan Mac Tavish Appam Westburn Hlorace Flamenco Saxon Prince and Maroni among others, with mines laid that damaged the battleship King Edward VI.
The West Stockbridge Marble & Lime Company plant was destroyed by a late yesterday fire in West Stockbridge with a $75,000 loss. Sixty workers were on site. no injuries occurred and only the office car was harmed. Insurance covers about half the damage. Ernest Smith of Boston and Carl P. Tomlinson of Hartford said a larger plant would be built.
One hundred conductors and motormen of the Bay State Street Railway paid tribute as a draped funeral car carried Peter Co. Hennigan, who died after being pinned between two cars at the Causeway street entrance. Burial followed at Holy Cross Cemetery after services at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. A separate flood from mains inundated Court Street, threatening explosions, injuring Jennie Barbour and causing widespread damage.
A main burst at 10 26 o clock flooded cellars in Scollay Square area cutting water to many buildings and restaurants while telephone lines and telegraph wires short circuited. Fire engines pumped water as emergency crews resolved the outage overnight.
Rose Dagnais 20 and Mary Dagnais 18 were hurt when their car, driven by Albert Perry, was sideswiped by a Swampscott bound street car at Broad and Sillbee in Lynn. They suffered cuts and bruises, were treated at Lynn Hospital, then sent home.
Members of the First Armenian Congregational Church of Boston used the new Church of All Nations at Morgan Memorial for a service yesterday afternoon. Future services will be held there on Sundays, but necessary changes could not be completed in time.
Bristol March 5 Nehemia C. Johnston, after failing to shoot his sweetheart, stepped from a boarding house porch and shot himself in the street. The incident follows an aborted attack and ends with his death.
John Johnston a 23 year old printer known across the state shot at Maria Mac Donald on Union street as she walked home with Miss Maude Sherman then killed himself in the street after declaring he had more cartridges. He lived with his mother on Cole street and worked for the National India Rubber Company.
The Rev H H Schumacher formerly of Helena Montana officiated yesterday as pastor of the Old Ship Unitarian Church Hing ham the oldest church in the United States He is its 11th pastor in 28 years The society formed in 1655 and the church built in 1681 His installation will occur later He was born in Quincy and trained at Boston University Harvard Divinity School and the University of Iowa
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