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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1913
Page
5
Tripoli reports Italian troops under General Gandratti withdrew following a clash with Arab forces on May 16 at Sidi Garba near Derna. Details arrive from Benshazi.
Italian forces advanced in three columns against Arab positions but faced stubborn resistance and retreated to Derna. Three Italian field guns were abandoned and damaged. Arabs reportedly suffered about 500 casualties, while many Italian officers were wounded.
In Chambery on May 22 military engineers detonated 900 pounds of dynamite to blow the loose peak of an 86 000 cubic foot rock formation threatening the town of Tormery in Savoie. Villagers moved animals and portable property to nearby hills before the blast.
Supreme Court decision frees Anson Brown aged 87 and Mary 86 of Foxboro from a $214.45 promissory note signed under fear that their son Anson Brown would be arrested. Anthony & Colwell Company of Providence had sued after a furniture lease balance became due September 17, 1907. The Browns signed to protect their son. lower court ruled against the company, which appealed.
A delegation led by national president Mrs. Frederick Schoff of Philadelphia visited Laconia to organize a local mothers society and planned to form a Manchester branch that afternoon. The congress selected Portland Oregon as the 1915 national meeting site.
A crowd of men and 12 horses struggled about half an hour to move an eight ton girder, 60 feet long, lodged on the car tracks at Broadway and Second street in Everett. Broadway streetcars were routed to Bucknam street and Sullivan square via West Everett to clear the blockage.
A seven year old boy threatened a 12 year old, Paul Lawless of 112 Pleasant street Malden, with a pistol and robbed him of 50 cents in Malden square yesterday afternoon. The yeggman fled a half mile before being arrested as bystanders chased him.
A boy named Lawless resisted a young robber who demanded his money. The robber produced a water revolver, grabbed the money, and fled but was chased and captured by police. Lawless recovered his cash and police suspect mov ing pictures influenced the crime.
Hazel Snow of Lewiston Maine pleaded innocence to a larceny charge involving $310. She and Louise Paradise were accused after a May 9 incident at an Appleton Street house. Snow received a suspended sentence with $500 bond. Paradise appealed and was held in $500 for the Superior Court.
The French liner Senegal struck a mine while departing Smyrna Asia Minor. Five people were killed and six injured when the explosion tore a side from the forward end. The captain ran the vessel ashore near the fortress to prevent foundering and all uninjured crew and passengers were landed in small boats.
Berlin May 22. Diary extracts from artist Herr Rave, a rescuer, describe the German Arctic expedition under Lieutenant Schroeder Stranz. The party abandoned the Herzog Ernst on Sept 21, 1912, and details of their movements at Advent Bay are telegraphed from Berlin.
The note details Captain Ritschel initiating an abandonment plan in September as the ship ran low on supplies. Dr. Rudiger suffers frostbite while the team braves huts at Wilde Bay and Mossel Bay. Frosted digits, amputation, starvation, and a late rescue mark a doomed Arctic expedition aided by Dutch and Norwegian relief, with Staxrud’s fleet arriving in April.
W. C. Brown of New York Central Samuel Rea of Pennsylvania and Daniel Willard of Baltimore & Ohio are expected to visit Boston early next month to confer with New England shippers about a proposed five percent freight rate increase.
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