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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1906
Page
12
Maxim Gorky spoke at the Grand Opera House in Boston urging aid to buy steel with silver, attacking the Czar for bloodshed and oppression. The packed audience roared, cheered, and translated portions of his three part lecture while praising the Russian cause and denouncing autocratic rule.
About 2000 bricklayers and masons may strike Friday if 60 cents an hour and a Saturday half holiday are not granted for the year. Unions 3 17 9 34 37 unified after a joint meeting to press the wage demands and reporting at 45 Eliot Street.
The Cigarmakers Union 97 will hold a special meeting this evening at Fancuil Hall to discuss actions related to the ongoing strike.
London May 23 Harry Samuel Simons and Frank Lin Bhverhart, both Americans, were found guilty of conspiring to obtain large sums by fraud. Simons received two years at hard labor and Bhverhart eighteen months at hard labor.
A Boston crowd cheered a monster five mile work horse parade along Beacon Street and Bay State Road. Winners included teams from J. G. & B. Ferguson Co. and Hovey Co. Dolly the horse, 36 milestones, and Dick the 80 year old led old horse classes. Mayor Fitzgerald awarded blue ribbons as Miss Gladya Carrier passed certificates to drivers. 85 classes, about 600 entries, with chief marshal Arthur Parrin and veterinary inspector Dr. Frank Sullivan.
Sixty two well groomed horses hitched to Ferguson bakery wagons at 853 Albany street formed an independent parade yesterday. They marched along Albany street to Massachusetts avenue through major streets to Eliot square, then turned homeward. Ferguson Baking Co also exhibited and won six prizes for their display.
In Transcaucasia near May 80 an assassination attempt on General Alikhanoff, Governor General of Kutais, failed as two bombs exploded during his train departure to Tiflis. He and several staff were wounded, Cossacks opened fire killing many and burning nearby buildings. The general is hospitalized.
In Hopkinton on the South Middlesex railroad two trolley cars collided head on. About twenty passengers were injured, many with severe bruises and cuts. Jennie Elliott, 70, of Westboro suffered a skull fracture and severe shock. she was taken to Framingham hospital and was feared unrecoverable tonight.
General Alikhanoff, known as the pacifier of Kutais province, became the most hated man in the Caucasus as revolutionists controlled the rail line from the Black Sea to Suram tunnel. He led a punitive column that burned the Rion valley, slaughtered hundreds, and wiped out fifty villages, with women driven to Cossacks and men forced into the mountains.
In St Petersburg on May 30 the government abruptly moves to prosecute leaders of a recent Social Revolutionists meeting. Authorities had allowed press reports and appeared to encourage the group for two weeks before seeming to provoke a disturbance.
In Lodz Russia Poland May 30 owners of ribbon works met at Schmidt and Weichert to discuss the strike. Strikers surrounded the factory, doors were shut and the manufacturers faced threats of death before agreeing to a wage rise and compensation for five weeks of idleness. The concession came after five hours of imprisonment and threats.
Twenty passengers aboard two interurban cars suffer contusions cuts and bruises when the east bound car collides with the west bound car at a turnout. Motormen McDonough and Long and Conductor Smith said the west bound car should have waited, but they forgot to pause.
A tribute recalls Michael Davitt’s life as founder of the Land League and a key figure in Irish reform. It notes his trials, imprisonments, and political shifts from Meath and North Meath to Cork and Mayo, his stance on the Boer War, and his lasting impact on Ireland’s freedom movement. His death is mourned worldwide by Irish supporters and liberty advocates.
Boston readers express grief over Michael Davitt death with tributes from Denis O Callaghan John Cummins Mathew Cummings T B Fitzpatrick and others praising his lifelong work for Ireland home rule and liberty Davitt organized the Land League and endured imprisonment for his conduct celebrated as a leading patriot and humane advocate in both Ireland and abroad
Campbellton New Brunswick May 80 The Rev C A Fournier a Roman Catholic priest for over a decade in North Dakota and Saskatchewan has joined the Baptist denomination at Grand Ligue He is son of the late Charles Fournier former MP and nephew of the late Bishop Panet of Quebec City.
A horse ran into a crowd on Washington street Brookline yesterday morning as the G. A. R. line formed. Patrolman Allen captured the frightened animal and restrained it. No one was seriously injured.
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