Stubbs Questioned Over Housekeeper's Death
Charles Byrnes and Chief McDermott questioned George Stubbs at his Burlington farm about the death of Mrs. Sarah Higgins. Stubbs said he found the body at the cellar stairs, buried it near the hen house, and admitted hiring a carriage when electric cars ceased running. No arrests are expected as of now. authorities say no evidence warrants one.
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Woburn
Charles E. Byrnes
State Police
Charles ¥. McDermott
Woburn Police
George i Stubbs
Burlington
Stubbs
Leath Ff Higgins
Tae Farmer
Jubbs
Post
McDermott
Baby with sores treated by X-falia healing liquid
The notice warns of a baby with a flesh full of sores needing immediate care to prevent lifelong effects. It promotes X-falia as a soothing liquid that keeps the skin moist and speeds healing.
Investigators Probe Worcester Probate Office Payroll
Nov 6. In Worcester two state examiners arrived at the probate register George H Harlow’s office to audit accounts. District Attorney George S Taft had acknowledged an investigation into the probate office prompted by clerks’ payroll stories.
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Harlow
Worcester
Register of Probate
George H. Harlow
State House
George S. Taft
Two Examiners Review Worcester Probate Office Probes
Examiners W Hi Wing of Malden and J M Cushman of Taunton joined Register Harlow for a close look at the probate office files. Their spring inspection follows Worcester county commissioners’ investigations begun last July linked to District Attorney Taft’s recent involvement. County Treasurer Edwin A Brown is to present books for 1908 45 and 6 for immediate scrutiny though his office faces no probe. the issue centers on Register Harlow allegedly requisitioning payroll and paying clerks directly.
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W. Hi. Wing
Malden
J. M. Cushman
Taunton
Harlow
Worcester County Commissioners
Taft
Edwin A. Brown
Brown
Register Harlow
Porter and Choate Return From Hague Conference
General Horace Porter and Joseph H. Choate, American delegates to the Hague peace conference, returned to New York on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie and will report to the President in Washington. They praised the 14 conventions adopted while noting the lack of formal obligatory arbitration.
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New York
Horace Porter
Joseph H. Choate
Hague
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Washington
Porter
Mr. Choate
Choate
General Porter
Red Cross
The
United States
Governor Odell in Serious State in Newburgh
Serious complications developed in the illness of former Governor Odell. Dr. Hotchkiss was summoned from New York and Dr. Erdman operated to remove pleural fluid caused by three weeks of pleurisy. Odell rested more comfortably after the procedure, though his family remains concerned about his condition.
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Newburgh
N. Y
K. Bb. Odell, Jr
Hotchkiss
New York
Erdman
Odell
Divers recover bodies of railroad workers after trestle plunge
Richford Vermont authorities confirm divers recovered the bodies of Roland Draper engineer and Hugh McKinney fireman from the locomotive cab after the freight train plunged 60 feet into water near Wast ham Quebec on Friday.
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Richford
Roland Draper
Hugh McKinney
Acific
Wastham
Que
Richest native gold strike found in Colorado mine shaft
At 85 feet in a new shaft on the Columbia claim on Chicago Mountain Idaho Springs Colorado a boy poking a candlestick into the wall near the bottom unlocked a rich vein of native gold described as among the richest strikes in the nation The find occurred today and suggests a major ore payout for the prospectors involved.
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Idaho Springs
Col
Columbia
Chicago Mountain
Notable deaths and science honor in early November reports
Chicago mourns Henry Binmore a 74 year old shorthand reporter lawyer and author who served as secretary for Stephen A Douglas and reported the 1858 Lincoln Douglas debate in Chicago. Hartford confirms Professor Edward Morley of West Hartford received the Davy medal from the Royal Society for distinguished scientific service by cable.
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Chicago
Henry Binmore
Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln
Hartford
Edward W. Morley
West Hartford
Sir Rayleigh
Royal Society of London
Mill Labor Shifts May Hit Biddeford Loom Work
Biddeford Maine reports new Three Rivers mill in Canada drawing French speaking loom fixers and weavers likely to hurt local mill industry. Also notes a fatal fall in Pawtucket and a planned linen plant opening in Bellows Falls with American yarn.
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Biddeford
Three Rivers
Que
Bellows Falls
Board of Trade
Oxford Linen Company
Worcester Boys Walk Across Continent Reach Frisco Safely
Worcester reports two youths, Walter H. Barber and Herbert L. Brown, completed a Boston to Frisco walk. They set out months ago to do it in five months on a wager, arrived safely despite delays in photographs that funded their trip, claiming a record by four weeks and five days.
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Worcester
San Francisco
Walter H. Barber
Herbert L. Brown
Boston
Blood purifying cure for rheumatism urged by authority
An advice piece urges warm dress and dry feet to avoid rheumatism, claiming it is a blood disorder from inactive kidneys. It describes poisons like uric acid and oxalate and prescribes a home remedy of Dandelion fluid extract, Compound Karyon, and Sarsaparilla syrup, shaken in a bottle after meals and at night.
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