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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
2
Somerset county authorities identify the suspect in the Mount Bethel home invasion last Tuesday night that killed the man and seriously injured the wife. Warren township officials previously posted a 250 reward, with plans to raise it to 1000.
Paul L. Roy the French husband of Gracia Calla is questioned again by M Boucard the examining magistrate in Paris. The deposition states that George A. Carkin was not armed at death and that Roy would have killed the two women if not for their fear. The women accompanied Roy to New York when he left for France.
On May 13 the Board of Trade voted down a proposal to forbid cornering grain by 182 votes. Cash grain dealers supported the rule while traders opposed it.
Minister Limantour has sent to Congress a bill establishing new banking laws. A key clause prohibits banks from lending to their own officers during the first year and restricts such loans thereafter.
On the White Star liner Canopic arriving from the Mediterranean and Azores, 792 passengers included 672 aliens with many failing the initial immigration exam. Among 93 saloon, 136 second cabin and 568 steerage travelers were Dr. Thomas J. Scanlan Rev. Arthur T. Hole Rev. Charles A. Nichols Alfred Di Pesa and Vicomtesse de Fontenillat traveling with husband to visit Mrs. C Grace Upton in New York.
Kansas City May 18 The state bank commissioner reports renewed confidence and growth in banks across the state with deposits up almost four million dollars from the panic peak.
Edwin Adams a former hat maker and mayor of South Norwalk in 1881 died after a two weeks illness. He was 80 years old.
Fire destroyed the Palace Hotel block in Tonopah causing an estimated $150000 in damages. No injuries reported. Fire crews battled the blaze through the night as investigators began inspecting the site.
John A. Quack enbush Republican member of the Fifty first and Fifty second Congresses died at his home near Stillwater after a long career in Rensselaer county politics He was 80 years old and well known in Troy N Y and surrounding community.
A legislative committee on street railways sent a bill favoring New Haven yesterday, challenging a Supreme Court ruling that New Haven cannot own Massachusetts trolley or steam road stocks. The decision marked an official first move in the Legislature and caused a statewide stir at the State House.
The Anti-Merger League led by William B. Lawrence and Louis D. Brandeis opposes a measure allowing Berkshire Street Railway to buy Bennington & North Adams Street Railway. The Berkshire bill, seen as a test of New Haven Railroad clout, could trigger a major political clash as committees delay merger bills and rumors mount of a New Haven push to retain control of trolley stock and Boston & Maine. Senator Thomas W. Williams dissents from the committee report.
Newburyport May 12 Miss Ethel Pritchard a young Newburyport singer has left for Montreal to wed Moses Brown Jr son of ex Mayor Brown of Newburyport The couple’s union ties a longtime local family to city lineage
Brown a Technology graduate works on exploration for the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company on the Canadian side of Lake Superior. His broad interests kept him from traveling south of Montreal for the wedding, so the ceremony will occur there and the couple plan to stay in Canada at least through the summer.
A draped figure painting by Caro Delayaille has been acquired by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia after being shown at the Salon de Beaux Arts.
In Lisbon on May 12 King Manuel visits the Pantheon and prays over the bodies of his father King Carlos and his brother Luiz, both assassinated in February, as part of royal mourning.
A citywide notice describes a three day extension of a free one month treatment for asthma bronchitis and catarrh urging beginning on or before May 16th. Citizens from Boston Malden Wakefield Farmington Lynn and other towns provide testimonials praising cures from rheumatism neuritis asthma and cancer claims.
Cured patients are presented as the best advertisements for the Osmo-Chemic physicians. Endorsements from Rev. D. C. Bixby of Haverhill Mass claim a tongue cancer cure. The text mentions Melville A. Stone of Reading Mass as a testimonial.
Everett G. Davis once agriculturist at the Lyman School for Boys recounts abuse including tying boys, beating with clubs and water whippings. His letter influenced a House defeat of the Lyman School bill after a heated melee led by Senator McEttrick and Mr Lomasney.
George Hewitt Clough of New York City a junior at Amherst College and Delta Upsilon member drowned while canoeing with classmate Hubert B. Goodrich. A high wind overturned the canoe and cramps or exhaustion led Clough to sink before reaching shore. Goodrich could not swim and survived.
Lord Avebury introduced a bill in the House of Lords to prohibit the importation of plumage to curb wanton bird slaughter. The measure mirrors New York State law on the subject.
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