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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1903
Page
7
A bursting hogshead of molasses at Linden depot caused a temporary disruption to an outward bound train. Molasses flowed onto the tracks and clung to the wheels until workers using shovels and sand freed the train and resumed travel.
Providence May 13 A blaze devastated the Oakland Beach Hotel a popular Rhode Island and Massachusetts resort 12 miles below Providence. The 16 year old hotel valued around 26600 with 200 feet away stables and a cottage burned. Total loss estimated at 100000 with 21000 insured.
Private Matthew ONeill of the United States Artillery Corps died at Beverly Hospital after a quarrel over a woman in which Daniel Thomas allegedly kicked him in the abdomen. Thomas remains under arrest and will face a manslaughter charge and arraignment, with ONeill previously stationed at Fort Banks and residing in Brookline after three years of service.
In Ballston Spa New York on May 13 a jury in the Supreme Court awarded Miss Frances Pettit 3000 damages against James P. Tittemore after she testified he kissed her 1236 times during their 14 year courtship. Pettit claimed exact records and asserted Tittemore is about 50. Pettit is 15 years younger. Tittemore reportedly married a 14 year old girl in 1887 in Williamstown Massachusetts but the union ended in separation.
W. H. Price, general manager's representative, said the steam er City of Bangor touched the Rockland breakwater on its Boston to Bangor run. The paddlewheel suffered damage, with hull untouched. Repairs expected within about 24 hours.
Judge Schofield sentenced Daniel F. Burke alias John H. Lane and John J. Kelly alias James J. Sullivan to five years with minimum three years plus one day in solitary for a Middlesex street robbery in which a man was robbed of a watch. Thomas Reed was jailed 15 months for larceny of a doctor's bag. John J. Herman, idle and disorderly, will do a little farming at Bridgewater.
Carrie Davy of Lowell petitions Middlesex Superior Court to annul her marriage to G. H. Bennett. She says they wed in Lowell on November 18, 1892 and lived there until 1897, Bennett being her half-brother's brother. The petition asserts the union is illegal and asks the court to declare it void.
John M. Clark of Everett was arraigned in Charlestown Municipal Court before Judge Bragg on assault and battery charges against Lemuel T. James chief inspector of the surface division at Sullivan square terminal. Clark pleaded not guilty. Judge Bragg found him guilty and fined $25, with an appeal to the Superior Court.
John Curl, a seaman on the American schooner Madonna, was before Commissioner Fiske charged with assault on William De Costa of the Ocean House Gloucester on the high seas February 27. Curl held $1000 bail and committed for appearance next Saturday. Heclaims intoxication but cannot recall the assaults. The incidents reportedly occurred during a fight off St Peters. Curl says he was found guilty at St Peters and fined $4.50.
London May 13 The Chancery Court ordered cancellation of a deed giving the Cavendish estate to Mrs. Strutt and her children excluding Isabel Jay the former Savoy Theatre leading lady and wife of Cavendish from the claim The ruling clarifies succession in the explorer H S H Cavendish's estate.
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