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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1906
Page
12
The weather lingers but new season apparel arrives. Suits priced from 10 to 35 dollars and topcoats 10 to 35 dollars highlight Morse-Made quality offering more value this season than any other clothing line.
Miss Johnstone Bennett, actress, is critically ill at her Montclair home and near death after a lung infection began with a heavy cold caught in Denver about two years ago. The prognosis is bleak with days considered the likely remaining time.
Beginning Sunday March 2 until further notice all service on Sundays and after 6 05 P M on week nights will be discontinued at the Boylston street transfer station and Rowe's wharf line.
The British steamship Ixia, idle for over a week after departing Naples on February 15, remains missing with Boston agents A. C. Lombard & Sons. Officials cite severe weather and fuel shortages as possible causes, while noting port diversions for coal may delay arrivals. The vessel, 25 years old and 1254 tons net, left Messina and Naples with cargoes, and Captain Robinson fell ill before a change to Captain Stephens.
Edward Pearson of Roxbury perished March 18 and his housekeeper Emma Montague died at the same moment. Judge Hammond must decide who died first as the 4000 dollar will splits between Montague and Cambridge beneficiary Mrs. R. P. Williams. Medical testimony contends Pearson, the elder, died first, potentially altering the share.
Lucius Rapp alias Lambert known as a college raffles offender, pleaded guilty to three counts in East Cambridge Superior Court and was sentenced to three to five years hard labor in state prison. Police say he committed multiple thefts at Harvard on Mt. Auburn Street, with ties to Chicago and Rockland.
Wesley Chick, a young farm hand, found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing his great uncle David Varney at Porter on December 5. The four day trial ended with a 50 minute jury deliberation and a life sentence likely to be imposed next week.
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