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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
2
Homer Crippen of Hartford sued Benjamin Frye of Amenia for 75000 damages claiming alienation of his wife Helen Frye whom he married in 1904. The Superior Court granted the defense motion and non suited the case for lack of evidence.
Walter Beck aged 37 of 52 Montgomery Street, a carpenter, killed himself by leaping overboard from the esplanade into the Charles River basin. He sank at once and was dead when brought ashore after recent treatment at City Hospital for a mental disorder.
The Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander a Cambridge based professor of religious history and missions at the Episcopal Theological Seminary has been elected bishop coadjutor of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania on the second ballot at the Philadelphia convention. Rhinelander 39 defeated Rev. Alexander Mann and Dean William Groton among others and awaits official notification before commenting on acceptance.
After returning, he studied at Harvard and earned a master's degree. Following his Harvard studies, he became the associate of Bishop Henry Y. Satterlee of Washington and engaged in the cathedral project in the city.
Mrs. Jane R. Herrick, widow of Moses A. Herrick, died at 28 Herrick Street Winchester this afternoon aged 84. Born in Brighton, she lived most of her life in Winchester and was a member of the First Congregational Church. Survived by two sons William H and Rufus and a daughter Mrs Handel Bon Witten.
The Finance Commission informed the Mayor that the City Council cannot legally enact an ordinance charging large permit fees for illuminated signs lamps clocks and other lighted fixtures extending over public streets.
Professor Willy Kukenthal of Breslau University is appointed exchange professor at Harvard for the 1911 12 academic year.
In East Providence on May 10 Mrs Effie Haney 28 of Duluth Minn killed herself with carbolic acid after grief over her child’s death drove her to insanity. Her mother, visiting, was attacked with a knife as the deranged woman’s mind collapsed. A physician deemed her insane and plans for institutional care were set to proceed before her death.
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