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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1905
Page
4
May 1910 Montpelier Vermont reports that unless a special Supreme Court session is called for Saturday morning the fate of Mary Rogers will be decided by tomorrow afternoon. The public believes she faces execution a week from tomorrow. If no session is held court will adjourn and await the decision, while sheriffs warn of a likely denial of a new trial.
Mary Rogers shows listless conduct in her Windsor Vermont jail cell as execution day nears. She rarely communicates with keepers or lawyers and appears resigned to her fate, despite previous efforts for a new trial and a February stay of execution.
John Kellarkey, nearly 80, who vanished from Pratt's Junction May 11, was found near Sterling campgrounds, partly buried under leaves. He wandered two days without food, slept in the woods, and was aided by local workers before being returned to the town farm.
In Malden on Belle Rock a bronze tablet listing revolutionary soldiers was damaged last Monday. Four bronze acorns securing the tablet were broken off and stolen, leaving the plaque disfigured. Police are investigating the vandalism.
Lewiston May 2 The Hon William H Newell will file in Androscoggin County Court a petition by 10 Durham taxpayers seeking an injunction to stop Durham from paying Shiloh teachers without a town vote It alleges illegality of current payments to teachers at Shiloh.
Monkeys chased through woods around Crystal Spring after escaping from a Circus display at Central street grounds. No capture attempts were made last night due to darkness.
The Brookline Country Club hosted a grand horse show with society figures including Mrs. Jack Gardner and Miss Katherine Gardner in attendance. Races featured $100 cups and notable entries from Reginald Vanderbilt and Eben D. Jordan with awards across multiple class divisions.
Brockton May 25 Chairman George Co Holmes reports the Brockton sufferers' fund has a total of 102675 87 after a 10000 donation from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission and 50 from the San Francisco Boot and Shoe Manufacturers Association. The committee holds about 50 names of valorous act performers and seeks evidence to forward to Carnegie.
Berlin May 2. Eugen Richter longtime Reichstag radical leader and former Freisinnige Zeitung editor is losing his eyesight with no hope of avoiding total blindness.
A Chicago May 2 report says lightning struck the Williams home during a violent storm on May 11 and, after a fire caused by the strike, Mrs Warren S Williams recovered from typhoid fever with blood poisoning. Doctors attribute improvement to the lightning but note she should recover fully in a week.
Fred Wallace 18 of Washington street near the Norwood line was jolted from a Dedham car on Washington street at 11 pm. He fell from the rear onto an embankment and, unconscious, died later at Dr. C L Gould’s Norwood office from shock.
Miss Margaret Roosevelt, 16, cousin of the President and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt, saved herself from a grave accident as her horse bolted during a Central Park ride. Three pursuers, including a groom and two mounted officers, chased her while she dodged riders and obstacles until the groom halted the horse and she calmed it. She remained uninjured and downplayed the incident to friends.
A testimonial from Mrs. Anna Potts of Hot Springs Arkansas praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring health after miscarriages and enabling her to bear a healthy child. The ad-like letter urges other women with female troubles to seek the remedy and write for free advice.
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