Free Transfers Backed Amid Senate Debate
The Senate rejected a general free transfers measure amid a Republican bloc and two Democratic dissenters, with Chelsea Senator Roberts pushing a limited hearing bill for Lynn and Boston line transfers. Debates on fraternal benefit orders and insurance sparked sharp exchanges, while military needs prompted rapid approval for three $62,000 artillery batteries with swift executive action.
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Senate
Roberts
Chelsea
Mahoney
Holyoke
Shaw
Charlestown
Senator Hayes
Hayes
Gallivan
Irwin
Northampton
Lynn & Boston
Davis
Suffolk
Essex
Ashees
Clarke
Aeey
Bennett
Highway Commission
E. General
Lynn and
Salem
Commonwealth
Ordnance Department
Treasury
Stars and Stripes tossed at Eldridge building ceremony
The Stars and Stripes was flown at the Eldridge building on Boylston Street at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon with W. T. Johnson presiding over the event.
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Eldridge
Boylston Street
W. T. Johnson
Officers Happy Crews Enlist Regular Navy Service
The Catskill monitor crew of 110 men and two Massachusetts Naval Brigade officers received U S Navy commissions. Lt J P Parker and Ensign C N Borden kept their ranks aboard the Minnesota after new appointments. Lehigh officer reassignments followed as Parker, Dillaway, Jones, and others shifted roles. Sailors were ferried to Lehigh and will be sworn in once medicals finish. Captain Weeks aims to keep Catskill personnel intact where possible.
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Catskill
Massachusetts Naval Brigade
Navy Department
United States Navy
J. P. Parker
Signal Service Corps
C. N. Borden
Fall River
Parker
Signal Corps
Minnesota
Executive Department
Lehigh
Naval Brigade
Peck
Weeks
Denny
The
Dexter
Dillaway
Leutenant
Jones
W. A. Cook
Ryan, Cilley
Shiverick
Shrewbridge
Maynard
Monitor Catskill
Conductor Frederick Le Mote Buried After Accident
Funeral services for Frederick Le Mote conductor crushed by an electric car at Jamaica Plain car barn were held yesterday from Rosemary street residence. The Rev D Burr of Ruggles Street Church officiated with about fifty fellow conductors in attendance. Interment followed at Mt Hope Cemetery.
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Frederick le Mote
Jamaica Plain
Megirenes
Rosemary Street
D. Burr
Ruggles Street
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Williams Held in 3500 Bond for Felonious Assault
Amesbury authorities held Charles G Williams in 3500 bond for the grand jury after he faced charges of felonious assault against Miss Ada Hosman following an April 17 incident.
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Amesbury
Charles G. Williams
Grand Jury
Ada Hosman
Season opening sale bursts with color and low prices
A local retailer touts the season debut featuring the latest effects in rich colors and designs at historically low prices. Shoppers are urged to visit stores to take advantage of the discount period and broad selection.
Coal From Britain May Be Seized
State Department reports from London that four weeks of coal shipments from British ports to the West Indies for the Spanish fleet face seizure. Authority will seize coal landed at Spanish ports or found on the high seas if destined for hostile use. Britain’s neutrality proclamation warns subjects against carrying contraband with penalties under international law.
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Washington
State Department
London
West Indies
United States
Foreign Office
Navy Yard Stocking and Manning Amid Busy Work
The Navy Yard at East Boston bustles with 1200 workers as coal and repairs proceed on ships. Lebanon is moved from the dry dock, Oneida is on the marine railway for cleaning and repainting, and Southery will start hull work. Lancaster will host the post admiral and receive a marine draft, amid tightened security restricting visitors.
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Navy Yard
Lebanon
Vulcan
Shears Wharf
Oneida
Marine Railway
Lockwood’s Wharf
Boston
Southery
Key West
Notable Names in Early Detroit Banking and Society
Rufus Hatch Jr of Detroit is identified as Hitt’s son, with mention of William Howard Vanderbilt in Washington as a bank cashier. Also noted is their connection to the Vanderbilt family, including Jacob Vanderbilt’s grandson and a cousin to the New York Vanderbilts.
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Rufus Hatch, Jr
Detroit
Hitt
Congressman Hitt
William Howard Vanderbilt
Washington
Jacob Vanderbilt
New York
Navy draft plans and cruiser movements at the port
A special draft will send fifteen men to the cruiser Columbia with supplies to Southern and the tool ship Vulcan. The cruiser San Francisco is ordered to the navy yard to coal before Columbia departs. The Katahdin remains off Rotten Row while Lehigh nears first class condition for coast defense. Montauk to Portland with New Jersey Naval Reserves crew seeking general service.
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Lancaster
Columbia
Southern
Vulcan
San Francisco
Howison
Washington
Navy Yard
Howse Hole
Lehigh
Montauk
Nobska
Argus
Portland
New Jersey Naval
Massachusetts Naval Reserves
Artillery Divided Fort Warren Batteries Sent Home
Batteries M F E and I U S A under Major Frye stay at Fort Warren per Major General Merritt orders. Remaining eight batteries from Boston Cambridge and Chelsea return to south armory Boston ready for swift front call, two heavy artillery battalions likely to Cuba or Porto Rico. Signal exchange occurs between Colonel Pfaff and Lt Currier at Hull with signaling party sent to Hull hill.
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U.S. A
Frye
Fort Warren
Wesley Merritt
Atlantic
Pfaff
Boston
Cambridge
Chelsea
South Armory
Cuba
Porto Rico
Charles Pfaff
Edward E. Currier
Tey
Williams
Kent
Newhall
Currier
United States
Hull
Dalton
Long Island
Eac
Women May Vote In Methodist Spring Conferences
Chicago May 11 The spring conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church vote on equal lay representation with 8278 in favor and 987 against. Last year the totals were 1459 for and 2666 against. Fifteen foreign conferences remain and fall voting starts in September. The proposition already surpasses the required three fourths by 119 votes.
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Chicago
Methodist Episcopal Church
Owever
Murder at Lundstratt house ends in death
C H Ridderbjelke, a Swede shot by Olaf Soderstrom in Lynn, died at Lynn Hospital at 5 am. Ridderbjelke had admitted striking Soderstrom at 25 Clifton avenue, Lundstratt house, before being ordered to leave. He asked if Soderstrom had the revolver before the fatal second shot.
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Lynn
C. H. Ridderbjelke
Olaf Soderstrom
Ridderbjelke
Soderstrom
Lundstratt
Clifton Avenue
Manchester Duke Engaged to Joan Wilson of Wes Hull
The engagement of William Angus Drogo Monague ninth Duke of Manchester to Joan Wilson daughter of MP Charles Henry Wilson and niece of the Wilsons is announced. The duke, twenty one, studied at Cambridge and has American lineage through his mother Consuelo Yznaga. A prior 1897 engagement rumor to May Goeiet was denied by her father.
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London
William Angus Drogo Monague
Duke of Manchester
Joan
Charles Henry Wilson
Wes Hull
Duchess of Manchester
Wilsons
Tranby Croft
Cambridge
Consuelo Yznaga
New York
Newport
Duke
May Goeiet
Whale caught in net near Northport killed
A twenty five foot whale became entangled in a salmon net in Penobscot Bay near Northport this morning. It was shot and killed and the carcass towed ashore.
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Northport
Penobscot
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Wheelmen and Golfers
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Beacon St
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Nashville
Pedro Ee Teamer
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Dolphin
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Suarez
Frasquito
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Padre de Dios
Santiago Apostal
Mayflower
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Vicksburg
Saranac
Laurence H. Moses
Mare Island Navy Yard
Brooklyn
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Ince
Long
Marine Guard
Special Yard
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Wallach
Marine Forces
Marine Corps
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Mackin
Saks Scacendt
Dale Bios Cesc
Rosenthal
Spain
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John Jacob Astor IV
Theodore Roosevelt
Oliver H. P. Belmont
William Astor Chanler
Oliver Iselin
Erskine Hewitt
Woodbury Kane - Hamilton
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Daniel Kennedy
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