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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1903
Page
6
A New York market table shows the twenty leading dividend paying railroad stocks declined over six months. Prices dropped about 16 percent in total value, averaging a yield just over 4 percent, with eight under 4 and twelve over 4. The declines surpassed the 1902 lows and matched the Gates Room high in 1902.
David P. Greenleaf of Everett died at Somerville Hospital from spinal meningitis after falling ill en route to his fiancée Miss Bessie Chamberlain in Somerville. He was 23 and employed by Francis H. Batchelder & Co. of Boston. Burial planned in Boothbay, Maine.
A War Department inquiry traced six Civil War infantry captains killed at the Wilderness. Only Captain Jefferson Newman of the Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry left a widow and two children. His widow Elizabeth Newman of Elkhart Indiana filed for pension in 1865 with daughters Julia and Ida. General Ainsworth notified Mr Berry and Mrs Newman will be approached to verify if the baby in the photograph is her younger child.
Twenty one Daughters of Jesus sisters expelled from France under the law of associations were cared for in St John, New Brunswick by local Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Sisters of Charity. They arrived by the Lake Erie steamer from Liverpool and head to Three Rivers, Quebec, where eight houses have been established due to the French law.
Grover Cleveland Stone, living in Waterville after 18 years of independence, traveled to Winchester New Hampshire where his mother Mrs. Sarah Hubbard, long separated, recognized him in a remarkable reunion. The mother, twice remarried, had learned of him via a newspaper notice. Stone found two half brothers, Lester and Eugene Rumrill, at the factory where he worked.
In Waltham, Alderman Carney and Mayor Clement exchange heated accusations over appointments. Clement, also a lieutenant colonel of the Fifth Regiment, M. V. M., demands a public retraction. Tonight Carney is expected to reply.
Reserve Officers Cronin and Kavanaugh, acting on orders, searched the North End for liquor. After refusals and evictions they obtained a drink at 7 North Margin street from Annie Kacherich, leading to her arrest for unlicensed sale. Later Leopold Ciconi at 120 Prince street allegedly sold five bottles to Annie Phillips and was arrested.
In Paris at the Theatre Francais during the second act of L Autre Danger a pistol fired in the foyer wounded dramatist Gustav Salary. He had just had a play rejected after being told it would be accepted, and he planned to end his life. He will recover.
Captain Coffin of Massachusetts and 12 crew members reach Tromso to join the Zeigler Arctic expedition. Repairs on the expedition steamship America are finished and all stores will be bought in the United States.
Rome March 29 The Pope intends to hold a consistory at the end of April or the beginning of May to appoint bishops. No decision has been made on nominating new cardinals and there may be none.
East Boston Zionists yesterday elected officers led by Michael Ober as president and Samuel Goldberg as vice president. Delegates to the Zionist Council of Greater Boston were Abraham Weinberger Samuel Wallerstein and Louis Canner. An installation is set for April 5 at Ohel Jacob Hall.
London reports say Mrs Joseph Chamberlain, American wife of the colonies secretary, will be made Viscountess of Highbury by the King. The move follows Disraeli precedent with Chamberlain reluctant to take a peerage himself. She, formerly Mary Endicott of Massachusetts, is described as guiding her husband and receiving public gratitude for reconciliation in South Africa.
Joseph Wheel, found in full women’s attire in Frank Grant’s house, faces Springfield sanity exam. He was convicted on disguising to intimidate, disturbing the peace, and assault and battery, with suspensions while probable cause on breaking and entering charges led to grand jury bonds of 1000 and 500. Identifications tied clothing to residents. Wheel blamed spells and sought freedom, promising beard growth.
Daily to April 30 the Chicago and North Western offers excursion tickets from New England to California Oregon Washington and British Columbia at more than 17.00 under regular second class rates. Tickets and information from J. E. Brittain agent 3868 Washington street Boston.
An advertisement touts Graves Maryland Malt Whiskey as a cure for coughs. It claims the product stimulates the body's defenses, aids recovery, and builds new tissue, sold in sealed quart bottles with the Graves signature. Licensed dealers and grocers carry it at reasonable cost.
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