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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1915
Page
4
The senior festivity committee chose May 26 for the Harvard 1915 class outing at Peddock's Island. The day will be devoted to revelry and all seniors may be absent from classes with college approval.
In Mineola New York on May 4 testimony began in the second trial of Mrs Florence Conklin Carman for the murder of Mrs Louise D Bailey. The case centers on the June 30 prior incident in the Carmans’ office with Dr Edwin Carman. The first jury disagreed at last year’s trial.
District Attorney Louis J. Smith previews new evidence from detectives hired by Mrs Bailey's husband. He claims Mrs Carman shot through Carman's office window to kill Mrs Bailey in daylight, aiming to prove jealousy over her husband. The defense suggests a tramp fired at Carman, hitting Bailey as she left.
Protestant churches report a debate tonight at Maverick Church East Boston on whether Birth of a Nation is an educational benefit. John Cusick and Butler R Wilson will argue the question. Dean Rousmaniere will address the Cathedral final fellowship meeting tomorrow night on The Fellowship of Silence. Bethany Woman's Union meets today at Bethany Congregational Church with Mrs Amy Ford Evesail as principal speaker. Federation of Women of the Central Congregational Church Jamaica Plain holds its annual meeting this afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Antonio Serri of Wellesley a worker for the Wellesley Gravel Company was killed when his clothing was caught in a fly wheel during excavation work. He was hurled by the wheel and sustained fatal injuries to his head and shoulders.
Attorney General Attwill declared the jitney bill unconstitutional after presenting his view to the House. The measure would require city or town permits before jitneys operate and allow local authorities to set rules, with bonds of at least 2000 per bus.
In the Legislature a new bill is introduced to replace the prior hotel bill found near sending to the Governor. The measure would make it an offense for anyone to register under incorrect names and addresses.
Senator Ellis of Newton to the Senate presented a new hotel registration bill after suspending action on the old measure. The bill requires only sleeping room occupants to register with correct names and addresses and bans false entries with penalties up to 500 dollars or two months in jail. Hotels must keep registers for six months.
A proposal concerning hotels was presented to the Senate yesterday, signaling potential policy action. The brief outlines the main objective and anticipated impact, with lawmakers expected to debate next steps.
A New York Supreme Court jury awarded 16-year-old Mary Haynes of Brooklyn twenty thousand dollars in damages against Cooke & Cobb Company dye makers. Her hair was pulled from the roots in an accident at the defendant's factory and doctors testified it would not grow back.
The Fish and Game Commission will release millions of brook and rainbow trout, black bass, and white perch to ponds and streams. Hundreds of adult pheasants and mallard ducks are being set free in state woodlands, and applications for pheasant eggs are now being taken.
An official release outlines plans to distribute 12,000,000 white perch fry in state waters along with hundreds of thousands of brook trout fingerlings rainbow trout fry and thousands of young bass. About 700 to 800 mallard ducks will be released as a new geographic distribution plan covers from Cape to the Berkshires.
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