Curley Not a Candidate for Suffolk Sheriff
Alderman James M. Curley denies any bid for Suffolk county sheriff despite reports. He says he is not a candidate and spoke with Sheriff Seavey about an appointment, noting it could aid a Democratic sheriff. Curley may still seek street commissioner later. Republican prospects for district attorney include Arthur D. Hill and Clarence W. Rowley, with Daggett also mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Curley
Suffolk County
Sheriff Seavey
Alderman Curley
Moran
Clarence W. Rowley
Arthur D. Hill
Hill
Fred A. Daggett
Winthrop
M Nary Seeks Boston Light Plant Legislation
Congressman William S McNary testified before a public lighting committee urging a bill allowing Boston to build or acquire an electrical plant to light streets and public buildings and to supply power for public purposes He argued municipal ownership could cut costs versus Edison Electric Illuminating Company Burdett for Edison opposed the bill saying city costs would not be warranted by current low rates
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William S. McNary
Senate
Boston
Committee On Public Lighting
McNary
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Edison Company
Everett W. Burdett
Guardian Sought for $80 000 Spendthrift Estate Case
Four year old Alexander L Modlich appeared via next friends before Judge McKim seeking a guardian to manage an estate reported at $80 000. The boy’s uncles Arthur and William Modlich oppose. witness described a run down business and his alleged spendthrift conduct including a $2000 mortgage to Miss Flossie McPherson. The case featured Bright's disease and unclear memoranda exposed in court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander L. Modlich
Arthur
William Modlich
W. Bartlett
Joseph Bartlett
Albert Connell
Modlich
Alexander C. Modlich
Frank Lee
Brigham’s
New Marlboro Hotel
Flossie McPherson
Bright
Bryan to Speak at Harvard Law School Night Lecture
William Jennings Bryan will lecture at Harvard University tomorrow night as the guest of the second year Law School students. He will address Harvard at 10 50 pm and attend a smoker in his honor after the talk. Dean Ames and attorney Samuel J Elder will also speak on law and its political relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jennings Bryan
Harvard
White
Bryan
Tremon Temple
Dean Ames
Harvard Law School
Samuel J. Elder
Verdi Orchestra Excels Under John Flockton at Chickering Hall
The Verdi Orchestral Club under conductor John Flockton delivered a refined Chickering Hall concert praised for musicianly intelligence crisp rhythm and balanced tone. Soprano Miss Sandelius impressed with her songs and earned an encore amid strong audience applause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verdi Orchestral Club
John Flockton
Chickering Hall
Miss Sandelius
Runaway Horse Fatal Dash into Car in West End
A Frost Forwarding Company horse bolted on Hancock Street and crashed into a Cambridge Street car. George A. Sweeney drove the team. passengers were shaken but uninjured. The horse had to be shot after the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock Street
West End
Frost Forwarding Company
George A. Sweeney
Cambridge Street
New York Club in Marvin Case
George D Cushman of United States Fidelity and Guarantee Company reported spotting an Italian woman with a boy matching Horace Marvin on a cross-town 135th street car. The woman and boy were seen near 135th Street and Eighth Avenue, and photographs of the Marvin boy were deemed excellent likenesses. A detective was assigned to pursue the lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George D. Cushman
United States Fidelity & Guarantee Company
Horace Marvin
Divorces Granted and Denied in County Court
Judge Richardson heard multiple divorce pleas yesterday. Caroline A Talbot failed to secure a decree due to jurisdiction limits. Cora A Beetle and others secured decrees or terms, including Nellie A Ott who gained her name change, Edith I Keith awarded alimony and child custody, and Jessie E Hodges obtained a divorce from Frederick H on grounds of drunkenness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richardson
Caroline A. Talbot
Josiah
Nellie A. Ott
Phil Ott
Phil
Nellie A. True
Charles C. Keith
Cambridge
Edith I. Keith
Jessie E. Hodges
Frederick H
South Framingham Votes $40,000 Armory Loan
At a town meeting in South Framingham on March 12, voters approved building a State armory and designated a $40,000 loan for purchasing land and constructing the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Framingham
Women Trade Husband for Legacy in Divorce Court
Chicago March 12 Mrs Olive Russell Burns gains $50 000 by leaving her husband through a divorce court after her father’s death left her a large inheritance to do so. She accuses Burns an actor manager of jealousy and stinginess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Olive Russell Burns
Rabid Cat In Patchogue Terrorizes Household
In Patchogue on March 12 Mrs. Gordon's pet cat turned rabid and attacked many in the home on Church street and Railroad avenue. The gas man killed the cat by choking it after it had bitten four women, one man, six kittens, four dogs, two rabbits, and a parrot. The incident was described as the liveliest cat Mrs. Gordon ever owned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patchogue
IL. S
Camille Clifford's Photos Bring $125000
London reports Lord Aberdare, father of Henry Lyndehurst Bruce and Camille Clifford's father-in-law, paid over $125,000 for twelve photos and one plate portraying Camille as a servant in a fashionable home to erase the memory of her past work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lord Aberdare
Henry Lyndehurst Bruce
Camille Clifford
Camille
Coeds Brave Tunnel To Hold Their Banquet
Ann Arbor March 12. University freshmen hosted their annual banquet in Barbour gymnasium while four toasts were interrupted as sophomores held them prisoner. Several guests wore dress coats and corduroy trousers and some girls used tunnels to reach the gym.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor, Mich
Barbour Gymnasium
Brocklebank Twins Stir London Social Scene
Liverpool shipowner's daughters the Brocklebank twins dominate society chatter as George Westinghouse Jr. allegedly mistakes one sister for his fiancée Evelyn Violet, causing amusement and chagrin among London's smart set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Brocklebank Twins
Liverpool
George Westinghouse, Jr
Evelyn Violet
Woman Arrested for Insults to Mrs McKinley in Canton
Mary E Feicht wife of G A Feicht a Canton resident was brought to United States District Court in Cleveland charged with sending offensive letters to two dozen leading Canton citizens including Mrs McKinley widow of the late President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland, O
Mary E. Feicht
G. A. Feicht
Canton
United States District Court
McKinley
Woman sues former fire chief for 15000 over alleged kisses
Miss Laura White of Central Valley sues John J. Scannell, 67, ex fire commissioner, claiming he hugged and kissed her three times while she lived on his stock farm with her mother, seeking 15000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Laura White
Central Valley
John J. Scannell
Hits
Scannell
Woman Hangs Self With Husband Necktie in Philadelphia
Mrs. Jessie Welch Wilkin wife of the Security Corporation Company Philadelphia manager hanged herself at home using a necktie from her husband after returning from a sanitarium in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Jessie Welch Wilkin
Security Corporation Company of
Florida
Rich Heiress Mends Car Drives Union of Lovers
In Brooklyn a poor auto garage tester, Annie W Jarvis, repaired the car of rich Miss Margaret Bauer swiftly and well. This led to her falling in love and marriage to Jarvis despite her father Richard T Bauer's opposition. Jarvis now trains in real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Annie W. Jarvis
Brooklyn
Margaret Bauer
Richard T. Bauer
Young Jarvis
Poor fisherman nets $18000 pearl in Loreto harbor
Pablo Martinez, a poor pearl fisherman in Loreto, found a pearl while fishing in the harbor and sold it to a local buyer for 18000 dollars. The pearl has been sent to New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guayamas
Mex
Pablo Martinez
Loreto
New York
Refuse to Marry White Man and Negress in Connecticut
James Edward Packard 28, son of a Vermont quarryman, and Daisy Bell Brown 20, a New London black woman, travel seeking a clergyman to wed. Packard had a Westerly Rhode Island license but clergymen in Rhode Island and several Connecticut towns refused due to color. the couple is now in Stonington awaiting a possible marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
Conn
James Edward Packard
Vermont
Daisy Bell Brown
New London
Reformatory for Men Who Stole City Books
William H. Chisholm and William E. Miller, arrested in Somerville, were charged with larceny of boxes from an express wagon containing city records. Judge Crosby sent them to the Concord reformatory in Middlesex Superior Court yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Chisholm
William E. Miller
Somerville
Concord Reformatory
Crosby
Middlesex Superior Court
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Alderman
M’nary
Guardian
A. L. Modlich
Mmodplich
Flossie
Tor
Smoker
Verdi Orchestra
BY Olin Downes
New York Club
Marvin Case
Sim
Ilar
Eighth Ave
Washington and
Winter Streets
Ains
Axminster
Anestry
Brussels
sAavis
Aris
Westinghouse
Walter M. Lowney CO
Mass
M’kinley
L. E. Bova
Barnabee
Novelli the Merchant
Venice
the Snow Man
Stanislaus Stange
Cherub
R. A. Roberts
Dick Turpin
Theresa Renz
Clifton Crawford
Edith Helena
Gene Hughes
Monaftis
Swor Brothers
John Bowker
Chas
Serra
Connor
Raymond
Vesta Victoria
Enronor Theatre
Hamlet
Brutus
Julius Cesar
MR. Hackett
MR. Hopkinson
Dallas
Elford
Reformatory
Hawley Street
Mont Tem
Burton Holmes
Cairo
the Nile
Athens
Naples
Vesuvius
Singl
Icolumbia
Dreamland
Harvard Dental
Brockton High
Eden Musee
Admisa
Washington St
Grand Opera House
T. Aldrich
Secret Service
Sam
Old Crist Mill
Madeleine Lucette Ryli
Tremont
Winter St
East Lynne
Ellis Parker Butler
Sunday Post
Fall River
Providence
Gale
Van’s
JOY Line
Percy Williams
Heum
Oxford
May Boley
Billy van Almasio
Howard Truesdell & Co
Werdenwell & Loses
O’brien
Buckley
Kinetegraph
Sanday Night
Effie Lorraine Case
Arene
Aamy
BIJOU + Berotens
John Craig & Co
Chinatown
Pringe Karl
Howard
Hollis ST
Maxine Elliott
Clyde Fitch
Ee Gillette
Colonial Theatre
Pixley & Luders
Frank Moulan
Boston Theatre
Lawrence McCarty
Lessee
Mgr
Chauncey Olcott
Eileen Asthore Tinee
Eve
TEXA
Williams & Walker
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