Missing Jamaica Plain man sparks search for five motherless children
Andrew G Eckert aged nine from 179 Martine Street Jamaica Plain vanished after leaving with about $200. He was to marry Anna Koelbeck a domestic at 4 Atherton Street. Relatives say the match failed but others recall plans for a wedding tonight. Five motherless children aged 10 to under 2 and an elderly mother remain without subsistence as police continue inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew G. Eckert
Martine Street
Jamaica Plain
Eckert
Frank Gauter & Co
J.a Martine Street
Anna Koelbeck
Anna
Frank Kneisel
Atherton Street
Helen
Lizzie
Eckvert
Seized Modiste's Trunks in Boston Case
United States District Court in Boston hears a case against dressmaker Elien Manahan of 12 Newbury Street doing business as Slattery at 8 Beacon Street opposite Public Garden. Special agents seized two trunks of wearing apparel and laces valued at 5246.00, mostly purchased in Paris. A bill of information requires response within thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Boston
Elien Manahan
Newbury Street
Paris
Lyman
United States
Jones
RES
Peasy Saas
Aec
Gaelic League Banquet and Feis Held at Hotel Plaza
Delegates of the Gaelic League of America gathered at the Hotel Plaza yesterday afternoon and evening for a banquet and a Feis at 1151 Washington street. Dr. Heneby of Washington University and Dr. Robinson of Harvard delivered lectures in Irish and English respectively on Celtic topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaelic League of America
Hotel Plaza
Washington Street
Heneby
Washington University
Robinson
Harvard
Massachusetts Highway Association visits Cambridge
The Massachusetts Highway Association toured Cambridge yesterday led by Acting Mayor Walter C. Wardwell and Streets Superintendent Charles A. Brown. Dinner followed at Trade Association House with speeches by Mayor Lovering and Alderman Wardwell, presiding President A. H. Kimball. About sixty members attended with music from City Messengers Francis L. Pratt and John B. Whorskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Highway Association
Cambridge
Walter C. Wardwell
Charles A. Brown
Trade Association
Lovering
Medford
Wardwell
A. H. Kimball
City Messen
Francis L. Pratt
John B. Whorskey
McManus & Co. Premier Clothing Bid In Boston Trade
In Boston the top clothing house claim McManus & Co. earns first place by right. The store touts reliable goods and fair prices with a busy corner reputation. Delegates and visitors are urged to visit, noting hats, neckwear, shirts, underwear, gloves, and accessories at low city prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McManus& Co
Boston
Turkish Consulate Attache Arrested in New York
A Turkish attache at the consulate, Massaad, was ejected from the Waldorf Astoria for ogling women and arraigned at Jefferson Market Court. He protested he is a gentleman and asked for adjournment due to his lawyer's illness, with the case postponed to Thursday afternoon. He declined to discuss ties to the consulate, calling himself a palmist with patrons among Waldorf guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Astanda Massaad
Beau Brummel
State.-street
Waldorf-Astoria
Jefferson Market
Philip Sydney
Hobart
Massaad
George Gordon Battle
Post
Massaud
Harvard Debating Club Receives Endowment Cup Donation
Randolph Cassius Surbridge of Bos vest has promised a valuable endowment to Harvard University Debating Club to fund interclass cups and intercollegiate medals. Surbridge, a former prominent debater, will present the first Surbridge cups at the final interclass debate between sophomores and seniors in the Fogg Art Museum lecture room Friday at 8 o clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard University Debating Club
Randolph Cassius Surbridge
Bosvest
Surbridge
Fogg Art Museum
Princeton Wins Yale-Princeton Debate at Princeton
In Princeton New Jersey on May 8 Yale supported the affirmative that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty should be ratified as originally submitted to the Senate. After eight minutes of deliberation the judges ruled for Princeton marking their first victory over Yale since 1896.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
N. J
Yale
Senate
Lovering Recital Brings Park Theatre Charm to Benefit
An evening at the Park Theatre featured young students coached by Gertrude A. Lovering. Performances included recitations dances and songs by children aged 3 to 15, a sketch by Vernon Lovering and Zertelle Steele, the Advertising Girls sketch with a cake walk, Zambra Mandolin Club numbers, a Hamlet balcony scene, and a one act play The Rice Pudding. Miss Lovering received a warm reception and many floral tributes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Park Theatre
Gertrude A. Lovering
Dorothy Reeves
Oiga Brackett
Mildred Field
Nina Gilley
May Bartlett
Helen Cormack
Madelaine Dooley
Fred Ellis
Vernon Lovering
Zertelle Steele
Advertising Girls
Zambra Mandolin Club
James Calderwood
Josephine Cummings
Harry Parmelee
Halberta Houghton
Fire Gutts Three Story Building in Malden
A three story building behind 252 Pleasant Street in Malden was gutted by a morning fire. Newcombe Bros. run a carriage factory in the structure. total loss to stock and building estimated at $1600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malden
Pleasant Street
Newcombe Bros
BeWitched Killer Murders Mother Over Witchcraft Belief
BEWITCHED HE SLEW MOTHER READING reports that David Clay of Mt Etna Penn killed his mother aged 80 after failing to find a black kitten with three white paws believed to be a sign from a hex doctor He was urged to hunt the cat for days and struck his mother with a hammer, killing her Albany notes Miss Susie Swift formerly Brigadier Swift in the Salvation Army has become a Dominican nun in Madison Avenue New York City after years of religious shifts and vows to enter five years of preparation for perpetual vows to become a nun years after leaving the Salvation Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Penn
David Clay
Mt. Etna
Clay
Albany
N. Y
Susie Swift
Vassar
Salvation Army
Madison Avenue
Swift
George Henry Swift
Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
Scotland
Salvationists
Order of the Dominicans
Dupe Lover's Capture Fails to Save Engaged Bride
Frank Hennesy, jailed for stealing a watch in Milford, forged a Chicago lawyer persona to win Pauline Holmes. She paid his fine and he fled, stole sheriff’s clothes for a mock wedding, then was jailed again. Pauline, heartbroken, learned the truth and parted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Jervis
N. Y
Frank Hennesy
W. R. Rutan
Owlands
Penn
Milford
Pauline Holmes
Hennesy
Chicago
Pauline
Hennessy
Schley Sails for Rio with Flagship and Gun Boats
Admiral Schley with Change Montgomery and Elmington sailed from Bahia for Rio to dock and repair machinery. The Oregon has sailed from Yokohama for Nagasaki.
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Washington
Admiral Schley
Change
Montgomery
Elmington
Bahia
Rio
Oregon
Yokohama
Nagaski
Tragic discovery ties Crosier siblings to missing case near Lee
The bodies of Miss Bessie Crosier and her brother were found in Hol Brook meadows near Lee. Local reports say they disappeared in February amid a planned marriage to Neesick, whose alibi and actions sparked rumors as investigators exam the weathered remains and nearby fence stake.
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Lee
May
Holcombe
Hol Brook Meadows
Robert Jepper
Bessie Crosier
Neesick
Samuel Hopley
Miss Crosier
William JL. van Allen
William Devo
Cambridge mugging leaves John Walsh badly injured
John Walsh a brass moulder of Leverett street was attacked near Bowdoin Square in Cambridge street by two Black assailants who wounded him with knives cutting the radial artery in his left wrist. He reached Emergency Hospital after heavy blood loss and may recover despite severed tendons. He cannot identify his attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Walsh
Leverett Street
Cambridge Street
Bowdoin Square
Norfolk Medical Society Marks 50th Anniversary in Vendome Banquet
The Norfolk District Medical Society held its fiftieth anniversary reception and banquet at the Vendome with about 150 attendees. Retiring president Dr. E Peabody Gerry presided. after-dinner speakers included Dr. Ernst and others from regional medical groups. Officers for 1900 1901 were named: President F W Goss Roxbury and other posts across Roxbury Dorchester Milton and Milton with C A Cheever as nominating councillor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk District Medical Society
Vendome
E. Peabody Gerry
Ernst
C. E. Stedman
George W. Tinkham
South Norfolk
C. D. Blake
Roxbury
Jeffries B. Joy
Suffolk
R Fitz
Harvard Medical Society
J. Collins Warren
Charles M. Green
F. We. Goss
C. F. Withington
James C. D. Pigeon
Edward G. Morse
M. V. Pierce
Milton
C. A. Cheever
Dorchester
F. F. Sewell
Burial of William Crowninffield Endicott Today
The burial for William Crowninfield Endicott will take place at noon from his residence 163 Marlboro Street. Interment is private.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Crowninffield Endicott
Marlboro Street
Everett Club Association Holds Annual Reunion at Revere House
The Old Everett Club Association met at the Revere House for its annual reunion. Gill was elected president, J. H. Sheldon treasurer, and W. T. Vaughan secretary.
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Old Everett Club Association
Spremer
Revere House
Gill
Association
J. H. Sheldon
W. T. Vaughan
Distinguished Bostonians named Hall of Fame judges
New York May 8 Chancellor MacCracken released the 72 judges and 28 invitees for New York University hall of fame selections. The four divisions include college presidents scientists publicists and chief justices. Notables named span Eliot Faunce Hadley Bourne Hale Roosevelt and Brewer among others.
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New York
New York University
MacCracken
United Sttates
University of College
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard Uni
W. H. P. Faunce
Brown University
Arthur T. Hadley
Yale University
Caroline — d
Wellesley College
Willam Dew. Hyde
Bowdoin College
Alice F. Palmer
Cambridge
W. J.tucker
Dartmouth College
Edward G. Bourne
G. J. Brush
Sheffield Scientific School
New Haven
Edward Channing
Harvard University
John F. Jameson
Grown University
Edward C. Pickering
Anson D. Morse
Amherst College
Orge F. Swain
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Orden P. Bowne
Boston University
Grover Cleveland
George P. Fisher
Edward Everett Hale
Roxbury
Albert B. Mart
Thomas W. Higginson
James F. Rhodes
Boston
Vernor Roosevelt
Charles Dudley Warner
Ord Cone
Supreme Court
Melville Waler
David J. Brewer
Washington
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
THE
Hall OF Fame
Family Reunion After Seventeen-Year Separation
Julia Lawlers of Roxbury Massachusetts has located her brother Patrick Lawlers and sister Mary Lawlers in Amesbury after tracing her birth in the town and receiving a Roxbury inquiry about John Lawlers. The siblings expect a reunion within days.
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Amesbury
Julia Lawlers
Roxbury
Mass
John Lawlers
Elizabeth Brackett
Boston
Patrick Lawlers
Mary Lawlers
Favors Fitchburg Lease Consolidation of Rail Lines
Ex Senator John Quinn Jr advocates the consolidation of the Boston and Maine with the Fitchburg railroads as a major Boston foreign commerce booster. He cites deep water front, bonded warehouses, terminal wharves in Charlestown, and direct rail to steamship links as key to lower freight costs and stronger New England manufacturing against Southern competition. He praises Lucius Tuttle’s leadership to unite the systems and maximize dockside handling and returns to foreign ports.
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John Quinn, Jr
Boston
Boston & Maine
Fitchburg
Atlantic
Boston Maine
Charlestown
Atlantic Coast
New England
New York
Philadelphia
Allied Roads
Lucius Tuttle
Lowell
Lawrence
Biddeford
New South
Boston & Maine Railroad
Tuttle
Charleston Bath
Water Front
Cambridge to Remember Washington With $500
Cambridge Common Council debated July 3 observance marking Washington 125th army command anniversary. Councilman William H. Lewis urged full funding, opposing a $500 appropriation cut from $2000, with hearings held and the order passed to await the dermen adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge Common Council
Finance Committee
William H. Lewis
Ward 6
Washington
Lewis
Harvard
Wen
Tufts College Publishing Association Elects Editors and Officers
The Tufts College Publishing Association held its annual meeting at Goddard Chapel to elect editors and officers under a new competitive system. The Tuftonian editors were approved and a Weekly editor board was formed from thirty five candidates, with officers named including President E W Barron and Vice President A F Errickson.
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Medford
Tufts College Publishing Association
Goddard Chapel
Tuftonian
Tufts Weekly
The
Messrs
W. H. Price
I’. L. Hayford
A. F. Hawes
R. B. Mambert
A. I M. Wood
R. B. Dame
T. H. Thomas
G. W. Fuller
M. Jenkins
P. D. Bixby
A. H. Morse
P. M. Hayden
A. W. Coolidge
W. A.moore
D. S
Association
E. W. Barron
A. F. Errickson
J. E. Mason
T. J. O'Donnell
J. P. Clark
H. C. Turner
A. I. Errickson
C. L. Baker
Sheriff John O'Brien laid in state at 216 Charles Street
From 2 to 7 PM yesterday the late Sheriff John O'Brien lay in state at his residence, surrounded by floral tributes and mourners. Officers stood guard as a long procession viewed the body. Funeral services set for 10 AM at St Joseph's Church with high mass and a eulogy by Rev Joseph Anderson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Charles Street
Joseph Hooker
Post 23
Eleanor
Grandpa
Corporation of the Home For Destitute
Suffolk County Benefit Association
John B. Fitzpatrick
Vailey
St. Joseph’s Church
Chambers Street
O’brien
West End
Supreme and Superior Courts
William Byrne
V. G
P. J. Walsh
Plague at Hong Kong Reports Breakout
Washington dispatch says the United States consul-general in Hong Kong telegraphed the Secretary of State that plague had broken out at that port. Authorities in Hong Kong respond with quarantine measures as concerns rise about spread to other regions.
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Washington
United States
Hong Kong
Secretary of State
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Norfolk Medical Society
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