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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1903
Page
4
Labor leader Samuel Gompers visited Lowell to urge unity and a firm stand against mill owners. He defended strikes as a constitutional right, urged targeting a corporation’s finances, and warned that defeat could follow if workers fail to act together.
Congregation Ahavas Achim Anske Sphard of Chelsea held a public presentation of the Torah to a large Hebrew gathering. Rabbis Friedman Rubinovitz of Boston and Chelsea Chief Rabbi Philip I Israelite, with Max W. Cohen and Louis Finklestein, spoke as mas sacres in Kishineff were urged not to recur and relief funds totaling nearly 3000 were announced for the national committee in New York.
Joseph Shea arrived at Patrick Shea's Bank Street home in Cambridge and was refused admission. After being refused he pounded the door, received a bucket of hot water on his head, then smashed the front door and went to Cambridge Hospital with burns to the head and hips. No arrests were made.
Clarence S. Darrow spoke to the Henry George Association on The Perils of Trades Unionism arguing that labor unions misunderstand core principles and must align with them to endure. He was chief counsel for miners in the anthracite coal fields arbitration.
About 740 Elks and guests gathered at Faneuil Hall to celebrate Boston Lodge No. 10's silver jubilee. Prominent figures including William M. Olin Jeremiah McCarthy and Gus Williams attended with civic leaders and congressmen. A banquet and speeches followed with toasts honoring the lodge founders and past leaders, as 32 new members were initiated earlier in the day.
Lorraine Barrows died and Marcel Renault was gravely injured when cars collided with a dog and overturned near Libourne and Couhé during the first stage. Renault withdrew all cars as the contest halted by order of Premier Combes. Additional accidents reported near Angoulême and Bordeaux, with crews and spectators affected.
The report notes a run over French territory from Bordeaux and suggests Premier Combes’s action will likely cause the race to be abandoned.
Bordeaux reports the planned illuminations for tonight in honor of the automobile race were canceled as a sign of mourning for the people killed during the contest.
A motorcycle swerved into a crowd of spectators in Bristol England yesterday. Two people were killed and many others injured seriously.
London newspapers express satisfaction over the stoppage of the Paris Madrid automobile race. They note dangers of racing but offer no proposals for general regulation or prohibition, or for the James Gordon Bennett cup race set to be held in Ireland.
Police Respond to cries of Help murder police near Williams street. Michael Harrison was found with a loaded revolver aimed at Jennie Clements. Officer Gainard wrestled the weapon away and both parties were taken to the station. Harrison urged the woman to accompany him to Peabody and threatened to shoot if refused.
President Eliot lauded Emerson as a national educator, seer and reformer, outlining his influence on elective education, manual training, art, manners, religion and social reform. The talk traced Emerson’s foresight from urban renewal to democracy, labor relations and the critique of modern conformity.
Clergymen from First Baptist to Second Unitarian Society delivered talks on Emerson influence in modern faith. Special services at the Second Church in Copley Square honored Emerson with 10:30 a.m. memorial, 4:30 p.m. youth activities, and readings from his works alongside a music program by the Boston Singing Chorus.
London May 24 Lord Knollys King Edward's private secretary authorized the Associated Press to state there is no foundation for the American report that the King is in ill health. He is in good health and recently fulfilled many public duties. He attended the opera Saturday night church this morning and received visitors this afternoon. He continues official duties with theater and entertainment visits. Rumors of an operation or fainting fits have circulated for weeks from unreliable sources.
Edward Duff of Roxbury married Nellie Murphy of East Boston by Rev. Peter Rowan. Best man John Stuffles and bridesmaid Miss Mary Murphy attended. A supper followed at the Grand Union hotel and the couple left for Washington to stay with Duff's uncle in the Treasury Department.
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