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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1909
Page
5
Ernest Pick, once unfrocked after 22 years as an elder at Mt. Lebanon Shaker community, has been admitted again to the Shaker faith at Enfield Connecticut. He withdrew treasury funds and wandered before joining Enfield this week. restoration to elder remains possible if repentance endures.
Rogers FH H. Rogers lies in state at his Fairhaven home after arriving from New York where funeral rites began. The procession includes family, close associates, and notable guests. flags fly at half mast as the body rests before the Unitarian Church ceremony.
Butte Montana May 21 work at all Amalgamated Copper Company properties will stop tomorrow at 12 30 p m 2 30 p m Eastern time to observe the funeral in Fairhaven for Mr Rogers in accord with orders issued by John D Ryan managing director of the company.
At Mohonk Lake New York May 21 the fifteenth annual Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitration closed with speakers including British ambassador James Bryce Alfred Mosely Richard Bartholdt Edward Wheeler Frank Chapin Pray and Dr Richard Watson Gilder. Bryce defended newspapers from misrepresentation claims saying they reflect the people’s opinions.
Fire officials filed charges against James M. Burke of Engine 4 and Frank L. Lyons of Engine 29 after a fist fight aboard the hose cart attached to Engine 39 following a small fire on Long Wharf. Fire Commissioner Parker will schedule a hearing within the next one to two weeks.
Giovanni Locatelli, a trainer who arrived from Naples, alleges Calignari of Naples and Heggeman of Berlin bought aged animals from European zoos over the past two years and shipped them to British East Africa via devious routes. He claims a polar bear was sent from Malta to Port Melindi by mistake.
Locatelli says he supervised a Malta station where firms shipped tropical animals to Port Melindi and released them near Mombasa. He reports at least 100 large beasts moved, including decrepit hippos and consumptive leopards, with a polar bear misrouted to Africa until discovery. He was discharged after the error.
At Mombasa on May 21 Colonel Roosevelt shot a lioness asleep and found a three month old cub with a broad ursine snout and unusually long white streaked fur. The cub is under guard by expedition naturalists who cannot explain the anomaly.
Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit continue hunting from Heatley ranch along the Nairobi River. Two bull buffaloes were shot, with the larger taken by Roosevelt alone and the second by Roosevelt and Kermit jointly.
Patrolman Lynch reports two youths about 11 admitted breaking into Parker's dry goods store in West Somerville on Tuesday night and to another Arlington store break the same night. A break at James H Brooks dry goods at 22 Union Square occurred Thursday night, also blamed on young offenders.
A man claiming to be David Stevens, sought for a Keene New Hampshire homicide about a year ago, was arrested in Rumford Falls Maine. Police say a confession is alleged.
One of the city’s largest civil suits is on trial in the old courthouse. John Hetherington & Sons Ltd of England sues the William Firth Company for failure to sell its textile machinery exclusively in the United States and Canada, seeking 300000 with both British and U S involvement. trial expected to last ten days.
H A Aronson, the Boston shoe merchant, opened a large new shoe store at 295 Main Street Springfield. The 140 foot deep shop was crowded all day with many floral gifts and a telegram of congratulations from the Boston staff. Every 10th customer received an extra pair of shoes. Reduced round trip fares to Adirondack points offered May 28 to June 5 from 366 Washington Street, Boston.
Counsel for Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw moved in the United States circuit court to require Clifford W. Hartridge to file a bill of particulars in his suit to recover 125000 dollars in counsel fees and 70786 dollars for expenses as Harry Thaw's attorney in the Stanford Thaw murder trials.
Mrs. Louis Carsten killed her three children and herself in a farmhouse near East Hampton. Louis, 10, and a 10-month-old girl died. seven-year-old John and Mrs. Carsten were fatally wounded, believed insane at the time of the tragedy.
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