Plymouth grand jury indicts seven in Marion whitecap case
The Plymouth county grand jury returned indictments against W. H. Potter Odber Andrews Noble E. Bates Owen S. Bumpus A N Gifford Hector G McCloud and Joseph Silva for unlawfully riotously assembling to disturb the peace and assaulting Mrs Clara F Potter and James McDonald The Marion incident of August 6 involved tar and feathers and driving McDonald from town with Mrs Potter also harmed The cases proceed in the current Superior Court term
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Plymouth
Plymouth County
Marion “Whitecap
W. H. Potter
Odber Andrews
Noble E. Bates
Owen S. Bumpus
A. N. Gifford
Hector G. McCloud
Joseph Silva
Clara F. Potter
James McDonald
Superior Court
Marion
Charles H. Potter
Potter
McDonald
Read ing police probe Mary Myers murder case deepens
A Boston man is under suspicion in the Read ing murder of Mary Myers as police pursue a strong motive of robbery. Bloodhounds traced the couple’s path to the fatal swamp and show the killer did not enter the swamp. Detective Whitney. arouse. The suspect, James McDonald, 43, was briefly arrested before being released as police build a solid case.
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Mary Myers
Boston
Reading
Lowell
James McDonald
Cambridge
Myers
Putnam Square
McMimion
General Whitney
Fabian Street
John Sheehan
Sheehan
Post
Baltimore
Weingert
Whitney
Miss Lawrence
Canton Street
Secoria
Doukhobors in terrible pilgrimage toward Winnipeg
Seven hundred Doukhobors reached Salt Coates 30 miles east of Yorktown on the march to Winnipeg seeking the new light. They wandered barefoot, abandoned clothing, and women and children suffered without shelter or food. Authorities struggle to handle the disorderly group while some seek Christ and insist they will press on toward Winnipeg.
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Yorktown
Salt Coates
Here
Winnipeg
Strickland
Speers
Christ
Jesus
Manitoba
Irom
Miners Wages Change Date Set by Commission
Scranton Penn October 31 An official announcement from the anthracite coal strike commission states any wage change shall take effect from November 4. The recorders note the move aims to allow deliberations without haste and to ease calculations for operators and miners.
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Scranton
Penn
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Theommission
Wright
Commission
One Fatally Hurt in Lexington Collision
In Lexington on October 31 a electric car on the Lexington and Boston division of the Consolidated Newton lines collided with an express team owned by Mr. Dyer of East Lexington. Both Mr. Dyer and his assistant Ingalls were thrown to the ground badly injured. the assistant is believed fatally hurt. One of the friaries attached to the wagon was killed and the wagon wrecked. The car was east bound and the expressmen were returning home after their day’s work.
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Lexington
Lexington & Boston
Consolidated Newton Lines
East Lexington
Dyer
Canada buys nearly fifty percent more from U S than rest of world
Washington reports a Bureau of Foreign Commerce advance sheet shows Canada’s total trade last fiscal year at 414 million dollars up from 379 million. Imports from the United States totaled about 121 million, far exceeding Britain’s 49 million and others at 83 million, with a strong rise in iron and steel shipments from Britain. Exports include cattle to Britain and bread stuffs, while the article notes Canada receives one half more goods from the U S than from all other countries and Britain buys more from Canada than from others.
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Canada
United States
Washington
Dominion of Canada
Bureau of Foreign Commerce
Department of State
Great Britain
Harvard Law student drowns in Charles River near Stilman Infirmary
Ernest C Mansfield of Springfield Kentucky, second year Harvard Law School student and Law Review editor, drowned after being overturned from a wherry about a quarter mile above Stilman Infirmary. Police to drag river for body as search begins. The accident shocks Harvard as the first aquatic fatality in years.
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Charles
Ernest C. Mansfield
Springfield
Harvard Law School
Stilman Infirmary
Harvard
Ansfield
The
Law Review
Mansfield
Four Men Die From Gas in Niagara Falls Sewer
In Niagara Falls New York on October 31 four men were killed and three seriously affected by a sudden rush of gas in the big tunnel trunk sewer near the 24th street heading. Officials believe sulphuretted hydrogen caused the fatalities after prior complaints of a noxious gas. Physicians say suffocation by gas led to the deaths.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
24Th Street
Boston Weekend Forecast Sees Rising Temps
Local forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for fair weather on Saturday and Sunday with temperatures climbing by Sunday. Winds remain light and variable as the weekend unfolds.
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Boston
Vicinity
Father John's Medicine Endorsed By Patient Suffering Asthma
James Maskell of Philadelphia reports four months of asthma and bronchitis cured after using Father John’s Medicine. He credits improved breathing and weight gain to the remedy and notes a money back guarantee for unresolved colds or bronchial trouble.
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John
James Maskell
Poplar Street
Philadelphia
Father John
Agai Gst
Tenement House Row Ends in a Murder
An angry dispute between Jeremiah Mahoney and Daniel Sullivan and his wife at 4 Call Street Place Charlestown ends with Mahoney dead from a stomach wound. Mahoney dies at City Hospital Relief station after being attacked in the entryway. the Sullivans are arrested on a murder charge. Police found a bloodstained longshoreman's hook near the scene. Mahoney leaves two children. Sullivan, 48, is married with grown daughters and a younger son.
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Jeremiah Mahoney
Call Street Place
Charlestown
Daniel Sullivan
Sullivans
Sullivan
Call Street
Mahoney
City Hospital
Bogan
J. J. Sullivan
T. F. Callahan
Fall River
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Feels Et An
Haggy Ponce
Trul
Mrs. Myers
City of
Central Oil & Gas Stove Co
Washington Street
Haymarket Sq
Grand Democratic Rally
A. J. Montague
Virginia
William A. Gaston
Josiah Quincy
John A. Sullivan
Arthur W. Dolan, Esq
Henry S. Russell
Cheever
Thompson Spa
Saint Ein
N. Sewer
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