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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1915
Page
9
Mrs. Helen M. Angle concluded her testimony in Bridgeport Superior Court detailing the night of June 23 when Waldo R. Ballou allegedly died after a visit to her third floor Stamford rooms. The manslaughter case centers on Ballou being pitched to his death downstairs following the visit.
The defendant insists she did not strike or push Mr Ballou on the night of his death. In cross examination she fainted briefly but recovered. Leonard Blondell, her father, testified she has hysteria at the sight of blood, not the blood itself.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company released a statement correcting a report about an accident in Dorchester last evening. It says a jack was on the car and used by the crew to raise it, and the child’s body was moved through the trap door to an ambulance within 10 minutes after the accident.
Governor Walsh and Mayor Curley head a list of officials and Boston Hebrews expected at a Cort Theatre concert next Sunday evening. The event, under the Boston Newsboys Protective Union, raises funds for Jewish war sufferers in Europe and Palestine.
The funeral for George Y Wellington was held yesterday afternoon at the family home 16 Maple Street Arlington. Attendees included local hospital representatives insurance agents and members of the historical society and Masonic brethren. Rev Frederic Gill of Arlington led the service.
A House labor committee reported favorably a bill requiring fire alarm signal apparatus in factories over two stories tall with more than 25 workers and in any building with hazardous work. The measure targets workplaces within the Commonwealth and aims to improve safety compliance.
A proposed fire safety bill requires monthly drills and audible alarms in factories, lets fire and police officials designate hazardous occupations and close noncompliant plants, with September 1 as the effective date. The education bill aims to ease costs for poorer cities and towns via a 50 cent per thousand city tax for a State school fund. Additional measures include a jitney bus bill requiring local permits and $2000 per bus bonds, acceptance of the Collateral Loan Company charter, Medford mayoral power to appoint a city solicitor, and mixed reactions to local option and administrative changes.
London dispatch notes T P O Connor reporting that most Irishmen back John Redmond and the Allied war effort. He cites Irish Americans with 85 to 90 percent backing the allies and recounts Captain O Meagher Condon, freed from penal servitude, now serving in the United States and aligned with England.
In Augusta on March 17 the Maine Senate approved the equal suffrage measure with only four votes against it and sent the bill to be engrossed in concurrence with the House. The final House passage is set for next Tuesday, with no opposition voiced during debate.
Testimony at Tremont Temple before the arbitration board described workers burned by molten metal while babbiting, blistered feet from heated floors, and painful postures. Workers said they stayed for higher pay, with some urging the arbiters to grant a substantial increase.
Professor Masaharu Anesaki of Cambridge lectured at Emerson Hall Harvard on Representative Figures in the Religious History of Japan in the second talk of his series yesterday afternoon.
Werner Horn seeks to block removal to Boston arguing the Feb 2 raid on the Vanceboro international bridge was an act of war. His counsel will press that the case belongs to the State Department not the courts. The defense compares Horn’s trip to a Civil War era raid tied to U S cross border tensions.
John B. Lyons of Brockton was arrested yesterday by a U S Deputy Marshal Ruhl on charges of stealing two dollars from money order funds at a local sub post station. He awaits a hearing on March 2% and was released on personal recognizance in $500.
State Auditor Cook reports a windfall of 189,723.51 dollars lying idle in the state treasury for years. The funds should have been transferred to the general fund to cover current expenses this year. The discovery is presented as a means to reduce tax burdens.
The Escheated Estates Fund consists of money turned over to the State by administrators who could not locate the heirs of deceased persons.
Baron van den Heuvel, newly appointed Belgian minister to the Vatican, presented his credentials to Pope Benedict in the throne room during a formal audience in Rome. The ceremony took place March 17 in the papal court setting, with the Holy See’s officials in attendance.
Calcimo sanitary wall finish sold in 5 lb packages covering 300 square feet of walls or ceilings. Priced at 45 cents. Free color card. Carpenter-Morton Co. located at 77 Sudbury St. adrt.
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