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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1910
Page
3
Washington March 23 The hulk of the battleship Maine sunk in Havana harbor will be raised to recover any sailors believed to be inside. An examination will determine how the vessel was destroyed if the Senate approves a House bill.
Remains of sailors possibly recovered will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery opposite Washington. The Maine’s mast will stand near the graves of its dead. For two hours today both parties debated removing the wreck from Havana harbor.
Ex representative John H. Ponce of Cambridge died after illness while visiting a client at the Charles street jail yesterday afternoon. A Cambridge attorney, he was born in East Cambridge November 1 1857 and educated at Holy Cross College Harvard and Boston University law schools. He served Cambridge in local government and state legislature and was active in several fraternal and charitable organizations.
Members of the Fourth Presbyterian Church in South Boston marked two events last night. They burned a $6000 mortgage on the church edifice and toasted Rev. Jamies Todd D D on his 25 years in the ministry. Mayor Fitzgerald attended and presented a purse to the pastor and a silver service to Mrs. Todd. Allen Campbell, board chairman, lit the mortgage, then trustees and others offered congratulatory addresses.
Four of the most valuable wireshaired terriers arrived aboard the Leyland line steamship Winifredian commanded by Captain Shepard. The pure white dogs, names Enacliffe Kepton Rosa Maid of Etive and Tweenie, were consigned to George S. Thomas of Hamilton Massachusetts. They were shipped by B L Turner of Liverpool.
In Brockton on March 23 a local fireman fought a moccasin in a stable and a tarantula that leapt onto his bed. He killed both creatures and is expected to return home in July, after a lively exchange with George C. Hanscom.
In Rockland Maine on March 23 the fishing schooner North Star lost steering in a squall and struck a dory carrying Captain William Gray. He died of heart failure and his mate John Diver helped drag him aboard before the vessel was towed in. An inquest returned an accidental death verdict. Gray, 57, of Brooksville, leaves four children.
Massachusetts students swept the Rollins and Smith prizes at Dartmouth College in Hanover. Rollins winners were Arthur K. Lowell Read ing Mass Clarence C. Meloney Brooklyn N Y and Harold E Burtt Haverhill Mass. Smith extemporaneous debate winners were Warren C. Shaw Lowell Mass and James Russell Lowell Portland Me.
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