Detective notes and will dispute in Baker case deepen
In Boston, detectives push for arrests only with conclusive evidence as Walter Baker's death prompts scrutiny. Papers in trunks hint at assets and transfers while attorney Malcolm A. Lawrence argues Boston relatives inflame the affair. Baker's lawyer Victor Hungerford says no comment until speaking with Mr Nay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Baker
Magrath
Walter Baker
Hidward Baker
Newbury Street
Baker
Malcolm Lawrence
George W. Young
Jiard
Dave
New York
Lawrence
Boston
Hurd
George B. Hurd
B A Files Its Report On Road’s Condition
Boston and Albany railroad officials filed a general report with Massachusetts railroad commissioners detailing the road’s condition and remedial efforts after weeks of preparation. Officials said the report would be released publicly on Thursday or possibly next Monday, but Chairman Jackson and other commissioners may not favor its contents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston & Albany Railroad
Massachusetts Railroad Commissioners
Jackson
Transfer of Quincy Pupils to Rice School During Repairs
At a school board meeting last night eight rooms in the Rice school house will house Quincy School pupils while their building is repaired. A note from the Board of Aldermen discussed locating the new Commercial High School near the Dudley street elevated station. The Brimmer school house will host the evening school during Quincy repairs. The committee later debated consulting the district attorney on weekly salary payments under the new law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice
Quincy
Board of Aldermen
Commercial High School
Dudley Street
Brimmer
Huntington Man Escapes Asylum Then Recaptured
Henry Huntington escaped from the asylum by climbing a wall but was returned after a fierce struggle with keepers. Huntington, the American who last July shot and wounded his two brothers and two sisters at his dying father’s bedside in this city, remains detained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
Henry Huntington
Huntington
Boston Relatives Blamed in Brief Note
A terse dispatch notes Edward F. Ba- blamed Boston relatives in a brief November 4 item. The fragmentary report provides few concrete details beyond the accusation directed at family members in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
New York
Edward F
Mrs Gordee Plans Rally for Husband’s Defense
Mrs Alexander Gordee, wife of the Boston man jailed in Chicago with Miss McLean on a conspiracy charge, said she will travel to Chicago and raise funds in his defense. She plans to spend all she can raise and to work in his interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Gordee
Boston
Chicago
Miss McLean
Post
Gordee
Waverley Avenue
Revere
Flimflammed 5 Year Old Boy in Store Trick
Last evening a man decoyed 5-year-old Robert Curran at 269 Botolph Street by requesting change for a $5 bill. The boy handed over ten dollars in two payments before the stranger vanished with no bills returned. The suspect is described as about 39 years old, 5 feet 10 inches, 130 pounds, pale and wearing dark clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Curran
Botolph Street
Robert
Aged Italian Woman Murdered and Robbed in Philadelphia
Harina Carmella Mongolluzzo, an elderly Italian woman, was killed and robbed of $700 from her savings. She died in a shed at the rear of her southwest Philadelphia home as the crime unfolded, with her pocket cut from her dress and her purse missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Navy
Harina Carmella Mongolluzzo
Missing Malden Youth Captured in New York
Lester Dana Hill 19 of Malden was arrested by New York police as he prepared to board a Ward line steamer to Mexico. He is in Gerry Society custody awaiting his father’s arrival. He left home with two other Malden boys, John Keefe 16 and Harry Crow 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Dana Hill
Ernest Hill
Malden
New York
Ward Line
Mexico
Gerry Society
Lester
John Keefe
Harry Crow
Sullivan Square Terminal
New York City
Steel Trust Secures Controlling Interest in Tennessee Coal and Iron
United States Steel Corporation gains control of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company in a deal concluded after Morgan house conferences. Price over 8 dollars a share, with a pool holding about 70 percent of Tennessee Coal and Iron stock transferred. The sale is expected to ease financial stringency by freeing loans collateral and boosting bank cash resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company
J. P. Morgan
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Brooklyn Club Taken Over by Ebbets Family
President Charles H. Ebbets and his son gained control of the Brooklyn Club by purchasing the stock of Howard Hanlon former manager F A Abell and the Van der Horst estate of Baltimore in a deal closed Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles H. Ebbets
Brooklyn Club
Charles H. Ebbets, Jr
Howard Hanlon
Manger
F. A. Abell
van der Horst
Baltimore
Seegeers Brothers Triumph In Supreme Court Bleeding Banana Case
Seaboard Air Line Railway sued Seegeers Brothers in Chesterfield County South Carolina for 175 cents claiming banana damage from Columbia to McBee in 1903. The dispute moved from Magistrate Court to State Circuit and Supreme Courts and reached the U S Supreme Court where Seegeers won.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Magistrate’s Court
Chesterfield County
S. C
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seegeers Brothers
State Circuit
Supreme Courts
Supreme Court of the United States
Seegeers
Columbia
McBee
Supreme Court Upholds Railroad Claims Adjustment Law
Justice Brewer sustains the State Supreme Court ruling and rejects the 14th Amendment equality challenge. He notes the act targets all common carriers and pertains to adjustments of claims based on the nature of public business. The carrier's knowledge of shipment details justifies the penal statute even for small shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Brewer
State Supreme Court
Little Girls Strike at Rosen Bros Tailors
In a strike at Rosen Bros on 296 Boylston Street, 25 workers including four children led by Rebecca Godis 13 Fannie Golden 15 and Lena Golden 14 demand union recognition and respectful treatment. Rebecca describes a crowded room with a consumptive worker causing fears of contagion as they endure while they await changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosen Bros
Boylston Street
Rebecca Godis
Fannie Goldon
Lena Goldon
Ladies’ Tailors and Dressmakers’ Union
Rebecca
Oswego Street
South End
Rosen
Golden Girls
Morse’s Men Eliminated
The Hudson Navigation Company elected new officers to replace Charles W. Morse’s representatives. John Englis becomes president and general manager, Charles W. Englis is elected vice president, and Andrew Fletcher is treasurer. Morse and Calvin Austin stay on the board. Campbell and Arthur Braun retire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hudson Navigation Company
Charles W. Morse
John Englis
Calvin Austin
Charles W. Englis
Andrew Fletcher
W. A. Fletcher & Co
Hoboken
N. H. Campbell
Campbell
Morse
Arthur Braun
C. M. Englis
Fletcher
Mr Morse
Consolidated Steamship Lines
Albanian Held After Alleged Knife Assault at Court
Signor Mattizi, an Albanian resident of 223 Pleasant Street, was arrested by a U S Deputy Marshal after an alleged pocket knife assault in the corridor outside a United States District Court hearing. He is held on $1000 bond for a Wednesday hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assan’ Sinovici
United States District Court Room
Signor
Chin Mattizi
Pleasant Street
United States
Marshal Waters
Labor officials hear case on lithographers immigration
A hearing was held by Secretary Straus Assistant Secretary Murray and Labor Commissioner Sargent on the admission of eight lithographers detained in New York as contract laborers. The session weighed impacts on organized labor and lithography employment in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Straus
Murray
Immigration Sargent
Department of Commerce and Labor
United States
New York
Man Attacks Man After Anonymous Turkish Letter Incident
In Chicago a man named Mattizi attacked Sinovici in a corridor after receiving an anonymous Turkish letter warning of a man breaking up his home. Sinovici denied authorship but handwriting matched. Mattizi injured Sinovici with a pocket knife. Sinovici sustained neck and throat injuries and was taken to a relief station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattizi
Chicago
Boston
Post Office
Sinovici
District Court
James Donovan
Waters
Marshal Bancroft
Ship Sewall Sighting Off Cape Flattery
The four masted ship Arthur Sewall, which sailed from Philadelphia in March for Seattle with coal, was sighted off Cape Flattery today. There is unease due to the vessel being overdue from its voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Arthur Sewall
Philadelphia
Cape Flattery
Immigration of Eight Lithographers From Europe Approved
William Voight and seven lithographers arrive at Ellis Island after contracts with New York firms. AFL and the lithographic artists league oppose under the alien contract labor law. Secretary Straus rules they were admitted in good faith under Attorney General Bonaparte’s 1907 opinion and directs future cases to be decided on current facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Voight
Ellis Island
Europe
New York
American Federation of Labor
America
Voight
Straus
United States
Three Seek Cambridge Mayoral Seat After Withdrawals
In Cambridge the mayoral race remains crowded with three candidates ex-Alderman J W Cove ney ex Representative J F Aylward and ex Alderman Michael H Flynn pledging to enter primaries. Ex Representatives Barry and Deitrick withdrew Friday to aid party unity and will likely run for the Board of Aldermen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
J. W. Coveney
J. F. Aylward
Michael H. Flynn
Barry
Deitrick
Tobin Re-elected General President of Boot and Shoe Workers Union
John F. Tobin of Boston wins re election as general president of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union in Brockton with no vote totals released. Others elected include Collis Lovely Charles Baine Z Lesperance G I James Fred W Lee George Bury George Conant and several delegates to the AFL convention. The vote ends a long contested cycle dating to 1906 with Tobin favored by administration backers and Emery his sole opponent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brockton
John F. Tosbin
Boston
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
Collis Lovely
St. Louis
Charles L. Baine
Z. Lesperance
Montreal
G. I. James
St. Paul
Fred W. Lee
Chicago
George Bury
Cincinnati
George H. Conant
Rockland
American Federation of Labor
William Tateman
John D. Cullea
Lynn
Warren M. Hatch
Tobin
William J. Emery
Detroit
Union
Thomas B. Hickey
Toronto
Also Mentioned on This Page
Walter F. Baker
Henry Bray Hurd
Natalie Hurd
Frank N. Nay
Harry Lee
Browne
Ker
Massachusetts
Chloral
Malcolm A. Lawrence
The
Hurds
George Young
Railroad Commissioners
Eotei
Mrs. Gordee
Stranger
Back Bay
Lester Hill
Malden Boy
Steel Trust
Pool
Ebbets
U. S
Lomasney
Eney
Sewall
Lobin
Shoe Workers’ Union
Maryland
Uiman, Boykin & Co
Weilhart & Ruhm
Franklin Avs
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!