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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1912
Page
5
Premier Asquith invites representatives of coal mine owners and their striking workers to a joint conference for a free discussion of the whole dispute after lengthy talks with committees from both sides.
The government offers a joint conference as the fairest path to settle the miner dispute but keeps its proposals secret. The miners refuse to discuss minimum wage, insisting it be excluded, hindering progress. The National Conference of Miners will reconvene next Monday, while the strike widens with thousands more out of work daily.
The nominating committee has presented candidates for the Catholic Union of Boston annual meeting next month. President is the Hon. Joseph H. O Neil, vice-president George A Flynn, secretary and treasurer John B Kelley. Directors: the Hon. Daniel V McIsaac Thomas F Dolan and Francis A Campbell.
A Civil War veteran writes to Secretary MacVeagh to repay a saddle blanket he took from the government in 1865 upon discharge. The letter, signed by “One of Uncle Sam's Veterans,” comes from a small Illinois town and notes his repayment.
One of the best known pictures in Boston galleries the Lady of Clan Care by Louis Kronberg has been bought by the Museum of Fine Arts. Kronberg trained in Boston and has shown widely in local and European exhibitions.
The artist, represented in the Boston Art Club collections and by Mrs John L Gardner Frank Gair Macomber and Hon Eben S Draper, studied at the Boston Art Museum School and Academy Julian in Paris under Constant Laurens and Collin. He earned a Longfellow traveling scholarship 1894 1897 and belongs to the Boston Art Club Copley Society Society of Odd Brushes and the London Pastel Society.
Howard Woodbury proprietor of Woodbury's cafe in Boston is seriously ill at a private hospital on Newbury Street after an appendicitis attack while visiting his daughter in New Hampshire. His condition shows slight improvement but he remains in grave danger. He has led Woodbury's cafe for 26 years and is active in the Elks Knights of Pythias Masons and Shriners.
Cardinal O Connell becomes succursor pastor at St. Cecilia s Church Back Bay adopting duties similar to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. The Rt Rev M J Splaine D D remains rector and Rev John J McGarry D C L is named administrator. Cardinal O Connell will attend alternating Sundays and join major cathedral functions.
President Taft denounced a recall plan to overturn constitutional rulings as dangerous to fundamental rights. He warned courts must not bow to temporary majorities and said direct democracy cannot override the Constitution. He noted women's suffrage could shift overall electorate power.
This afternoon at 4 oclock the Boston University opera lectures will feature John P. Marshall discussing modern Italian opera in Jacob Sleeper Hall. An extensive program includes Rodolfo and Mimi from La Bohème, the third act quartet, Pagliacci prologue, Cavalleria Rusticana Siciliano, and other excerpts performed by Evelyn Scotney Jeska Swartz and Ramella Gaudenzi Polese of the Boston Opera Company.
Miss Catharine Conway of Boston, a faculty member at St. Marys College Notre Dame, has been awarded a medal an autograph and a diploma by Pope Pius X for services to the church. The honor marks a rare recognition for a Boston native and a woman in church circles. Her writings on Catholic topics have earned praise from ecclesiastics and laymen and appeared widely in Boston newspapers and magazines.
Colonel Roosevelt confirms all signatures are in for Roosevelt delegates on March 26 in New York County. He thanks his city committee for 12 district petitions and denounces the primary law as wicked and patronage ridden. Judge Duell and Roosevelt aides discuss the filing of petitions and criticize the statute.
Edmund Cote of Fall River announces his candidacy for one of the at large delegate seats at the Republican National Convention. He is a former chairman of the Board of Aldermen and ex member of the Sinking Fund Commission.
Harriet K. Clough of Lynn sues Isabel F. S. Clark over a yellow China crepe shawl valued at least 500 dollars. Beal died in December 1908 bequeathing the shawl to Clough. Executor Charles A. Clark handled the shawl before it passed to Isabel F. S. Clark, who refuses to surrender it. Clark died on June 11.
Ernest MacKechnie of Somerville complained in Cambridge District Court that Boston Elevated cars were not heated properly in cold weather. He said he carried a thermometer to check temperatures. The complaint was dismissed.
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