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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
1
A thousand or more Boston schoolboys will march in their annual parade led by brass bands. The procession honors the Governor, Mayor, and school committee and showcases the boys progress in the military art over the past year.
An advertisement touts light weight spring overcoats in three shades of all wool Oxford Cheviots. Exquisitely tailored with satin sleeves and velvet collar, claimed as extraordinary value and best in the city for the money. Immense clothing stock promised honest values with quick turnover.
In St Louis on May 10 the East St Louis street car strike escalated with police protection as cadets and high school regiments muster for a parade under Lt Col George H Benyon. A fatal brick attack on Flora Siegfried and infant yields another casualty of the strike amid talks for settlement. In Washington MacArthur reports Panay casualties, six killed and twenty one wounded, with specific injuries listed among the Twenty sixth Infantry.
Forecast shows fair and warmer conditions for Friday and Saturday in New England and eastern New York. Fresh northwesterly winds shift to variable by weekend.
May 10 dispatch reports heavy losses for insurgents at Tabako near Legaspi. A column of 200 riflemen and 800 bolo men prepared to attack. Captain Lester H. Simons and the Forty-seventh Volunteer Regiment engaged, killing many. A native priest leader was wounded and captured after his horse was shot. three Americans wounded.
Middlesex County jury set the price at one thousand dollars for injuries to Leo F. Martin a 10 year old boy. Ex Alderman Peter F. Rourke of Cambridge faced the suit filed by Martin after a kick on Webster Avenue Cambridge allegedly sparked by earlier vandalism. Coakley Coakley represented the plaintiff and H Hinslow the defendant. Rourke testified he kicked while trying to deter a crowd of boys damaging his tenement property and claimed Martin was among them.
The South Dakota Populist convention adjourned after nominating William Jennings Bryan for President and Charles Towne for Vice President amid tumult. The platform backed free silver, graduated taxes, postal savings banks, government railroads, and free trade for Porto Rico while opposing trusts and a large standing army.
The Middle of the Roaders in Cincinnati today placed Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania on the presidential line and Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota as vice president. Barker secured the nomination on the second ballot while Donnelly was declared the vice-presidential nominee by acclamation.
London reports Roberts advancing rapidly on Kroonstad with a wide battle line and flanking wings. Boers retreat in good order, avoiding heavy losses while Botha and Dewet reportedly quarrel as 65 000 British troops pursue. New Zealand scouts burn a farmer’s house where arms are found.
President Steyn of the Orange Free State declares in a Paris interview that they will fight to the end at the Vaal River and Pretoria and in the mountains. The statement underscores unwavering resistance amid ongoing operations.
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