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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1914
Page
7
Tickets for the Boston Chamber of Commerce spring gambol at Copley Plaza on May 19 ran low with only 29 remaining last night. Last year 300 applicants missed out as tickets sold out, the final ticket fetching 10 dollars at auction while the normal price is four dollars.
The Buildings Trades Employers Association ordered a general lockout in San Francisco today affecting about 25 000 workers after union painters refused to wall off a strike for higher wages current for a month.
Lowell Massachusetts resident Joseph Mercier praises Father Johns Medicine for his seven year old son Clifford. He says it stops wheezing and night coughing, helps him gain weight, and he and others would not be without it. He recommends it to mothers of weak children.
C O Connell Galvin told Lorimer Hall that outside Belfast Protestants oppose opposition to home rule while Catholics and Protestants nationwide favor it. He continued the first in a series of addresses on the Irish Crisis.
Mr Galvin opened with a survey of Irish movements toward a national parliament. He traced famines and Fenian chapters to Butt and Parnell and praised the Protestant leaders among Ireland’s struggles while noting O Connell and Redmond as Catholics.
Robert W. Welch age 60 of 122 Hayre street East Boston employed by Boston and Albany railroad at Clyde Pier East Boston suffered a broken right ankle yesterday afternoon when he slipped from a freight car and a heavy box of merchandise toppled onto his leg. He was taken to East Boston Relief Hospital.
The Supreme Court ruled May 11 that sentences handed to Sam Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison for contempt of court in a 1907 08 boycott case were set aside as prosecutions exceeded the three year statute of limitations The ruling ends seven years of legal warfare though the court did not rule on whether the acts themselves were contempt.
In 1911 the Supreme Court set aside sentences for Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, ruling and then reopening proceedings after three years moved by statute, contending contempt must be begun within three years. Justice Holmes wrote that contempt offenses are not continuing conspiracies but specific acts, with dissent by VanDevanter and Pitney.
State Department officials protested after news that Vice Consul Silliman and clerk Marchani, plus others, were imprisoned by Saltillo authorities and that Silliman remained detained. Brazilian mediation was sought as consular records and valuables were seized under threat.
Mexico City dispatch reports rebels attacked Tampico Saturday but were defeated with serious losses. General Ignacio Morelos Saragosa, federal commander at Tampico, announced the federal victory in an official message to the war department.
May 11 reports from Mexico City describe unrest and a mob threatening Luis d Antin, an American embassy attache, at the Brazilian legation. Federal troops saved him as bandits looted bullion from a mine and sacked stores while Huerta seeks to curb bullion shipments. Boston Herald correspondent Haliday Witherspoon and a photographer, detained and mistreated, reached Vera Cruz after turmoil.
Reports describe scarce supplies and fortification gaps at Guadalupe while federals move toward the capital. Doster, once a reporter, is missing amid arrests and secret codes. American officials and residents face censorship, looting, and dwindling medical resources as British warnings urge departure.
A relief fund meeting for Newfoundland sealers widows and orphans will be held at Congress Hall South Boston tonight. Speakers include Rev Allen Hudson Brockton Rev Father James O Neil East Boston Rev Edgar Jones Somerville Mayor Curley and ex mayor Fitzgerald. The Hon James J Powers will preside. Congress man Gallivan sent a $100 check. executive committee meetings follow at Intercolonial Hall Roxbury to receive further returns. The fund stands about $4500.
Dorchester High School cadets held a prize drill and field day at Dunbar avenue grounds. Dr. Thomas F. Harrington, director of school hygiene, praised the exhibition and said the drill program should continue.
The school committee praised the drill as valuable and successful. Dorchester High School Regiment 4 demonstrated extended order movements used by regular army units, with twelve companies performing intricate signals and charges. Company D led by Captain Morse won first prize and promotions followed for several officers.
The parade awarded prizes to musicians and drill teams. Ralph J. MacDonald won the drummer prize while Sergeant Irving Winslow took the first bugler prize. Corporal James Kelly and others earned individual drill prizes under the supervision of officers including Captain Harry W. Chase and Major Frank S. El-Hott. Lieutenant Earle Button and others were advanced in rank by senior officers.
Charles A. Prosser warns that only industrial education and continuation schools can curb the influence of groups like the Industrial Workers of the World. Speaking at a Massachusetts Society dinner, he and others urge the need for industrial training as essential to Massachusetts prosperity and national growth.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce plans a noon dinner at the American House to welcome Secretary Redfield of the Commerce Department. More than 800 invitations have been issued as New England eyes a revival of Yankee selling methods to boost foreign trade.
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