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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1909
Page
4
In Gabarus Nova Scotia lobstermen threaten a strike if a new price schedule is not paid by Saturday night. They warn they will not set any traps without agreed rates, per reports from Halifax.
Miss Isadore Douglass, a junior, was chosen president of the Student Government Association succeeding Miss Ruth C. Hanford. Elsie West, 10, of Upper Montclair, N J, will be vice president. Mabel J Lee was crowned May queen and elected secretary, with Mary Wells as treasurer. Constance Eustis and Katherine Bingham joined the executive committee.
The jag gallery bill passed the House but faced defeat in the Senate before being advanced to a third reading 18 to 16 after Senator Fisk persuaded reconsideration. Fisk, chair of the liquor law committee, says the measure fights blackmail by requiring a dealer to accompany warnings with a picture or description of the man. Doyle of New Bedford predicts the bill will go to the Governor for signature.
Yolanda Mero a young Hungarian pianist with European renown will perform in Boston. Critics hail her virtuosity and scope, noting she follows in the Liszt tradition as a master pianist. Born 1887 in Budapest she entered conservatoire at six and earned a scholarship and diploma by fourteen.
John Holleran and Joseph E. Ferguson were sentenced to not less than six years each in the State prison by Judge Sanderson of the Superior Court for breaking and entering and larceny. Their associate John Hart received a sentence to the State reformatory.
Richard F. Mitchell died at Pierce Farm on March 25 with multiple broken ribs and blood poisoning found at autopsy. Medical Examiner William G. MacDonald testified at the Superior Criminal Court trial of former attendants Murdock R. MacGregor and Roderick C. MacKenzie for manslaughter.
Dr MacDonald described Mitchell with multiple bruises and a fractured breastbone, ribs broken on both sides, and blood poisoning linked to the injuries. He believed the harm came from a front force four to ten days before death, not a fall. Witnesses testified about fracas involving attendants and violent restraint.
Representative Robb de Peyster Tytus of Tyringham, a young Democrat in a Republican district, rising in the Legislature for a Democratic State ticket this fall. A friend at the State House asked if he aims for Governor or Lieutenant Governor. He offered only a smile and silence. Tytus, under 35, is a Yale graduate of 1897 and a scientific farmer.
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mrs. Gregg, guardian of five-year-old Bessie Smith of Lynn after a two year guardianship dispute. Aunt Mrs Dyson had sought guardianship after the child was removed from her parents and placed with an aunt prior to Mrs. Gregg taking custody.
Mayor Hibbard names James Mullen superintendent of supplies to fill the vacancy after Walter F. Burke's resignation. The Civil Service Commission had held exams with 34 applicants. only two passed, Mullen did not. The mayor will seek Board of Aldermen confirmation next Monday. No deputy superintendent will be appointed, blocking Ball and Gates from the post.
The schooner Dart brought in the season's largest mackerel catch at Newport Illinois. Seven barrels were filled and the fish sold for 65 cents each. Nets were set near Brenton's Reef and some fish were shipped to Boston.
William Hayes, agent of the Barker cotton mills for over 25 years, collapsed and died this afternoon as he was about to enter the Auburn mill. A Lewiston native aged 62, he leaves a widow and three children William Hayes of Providence Rhode Island Mrs Alton Wheeler of South Paris and Mabel Hayes a teacher in Reading Massachusetts.
A letter to the editor notes that Massachusetts savings banks typically paid 4 percent last year, but claims the Nantucket Institution for Savings yielded 412 percent. The author, Almont Mowry, president, writes from Boston on May 6, 1809.
In New York on May 6, Surrogate Thomas opened proceedings over which of late Robert Seaman’s three wills should be probated. Seaman, Ironclad Manufacturing president and famed writer Nelly Bly, left most of his estate to widow Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman in two wills, while a third divided stock to employees and about 55000 dollars to relatives. The widow challenges the third will as dated two years before the others.
John Gyras tis, a Polish laborer, was held for the next grand jury session before Trial Justice Haley for stabbing William Goodspeed, a Hardwick farmer, and causing his death. He was taken to Worcester county jail.
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