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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1910
Page
9
The destroyer Sterrett completed a four hour voyage from Rockland Maine to Boston Harbor and then to Fore River works to be overhauled for final navy acceptance next month. She exceeded the required 29 1 2 knot speed, reaching 30.4 to 30.5 knots.
Mr and Mrs David Leach of Litchfield New Hampshire celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with guests from Roxbury Foxboro Somerville Mass Plattsburg New York Hooksett and Manchester. A large wedding cake lunch and a poem by F W Emerson read by Mrs EB Stark highlighted the event. The couple received a gold purse and Mrs Leach a bouquet of golden chrysanthemums.
Mrs B. B. Lamprey of Westfield owns Teddy a Persian cat described as clever and attentive. The dark tiger cat is noted for long hair and big eyes and wakes its mistress by leaping onto the bed and pulling her hair each morning.
Rice A. Pierce Jr., son of a Tennessee politician and defender of Reelfoot Lake night riders, is arrested for the murder of Jack Chanler, stage manager for a Memphis show. Chanler died after being shot in the back during a quarrel aboard the company’s departure, Pierce surrendered to police. Chanler’s family ties include a Nyack step-sister and a Togas, Maine uncle.
Theodore Roosevelt returns to Oyster Bay after a week of travel covering over 8000 miles with speeches in New York Maryland Ohio Indiana and Iowa. He plans seven open-air speeches starting at 7 40 tomorrow, five before 10 o'clock, then office conferences and more talks.
Wireless from the U S Jamestown reports the schooner Earl H Mason of Providence RI badly damaged with attached mizzenmast sails after a collision with the steamer Shawmut of Philadelphia four miles south southwest of Fenwick Island lightship. Shawmut bows stove in, both vessels were under no apparent distress and signaled no assistance.
Congressman Peters denounces a circular claiming he sent Langdon Pickering of Cambridge to the Naval Academy as a falsehood. He says only two men, Lewis Clifford and Henry L. Abbott, have been appointed to Annapolis from his district, and Cambridge could not be represented. The Cambridge claim was debunked during his nomination campaign.
Republicans here acknowledge Draper’s 650 vote edge last year may shrink but remain confident of carrying Medford. Democrats expect to pick up many progressive Republican votes yet offer no firm forecast.
At 2:00 AM a street fire on Antonie Brom Leon TS40 9:1 box 103 Webster Street. 10:30 AM still alarm on Havre Street East with Louis Bolths reporting a loss of $25. 10:00 PM box 130 Dory foot of Alshi Street Boston with follow up staff at 46 Auburn and Hox 120-Ngediens.
The Boston City Club will discuss new telephone rates next Thursday night with advocates and opponents presenting arguments. MIT's Professor Dugald C. Jackson, Wakefield Representative Charles A. Dean, Edward K. Hall of the telephone company, Joseph J. Leonard, and Judge James F. Jackson serving as presiding officer will speak.
Two Austrian immigrants arrived in Boston with a letter of introduction. At 3 Smith street place Roxbury they were exposed to illuminating gas in an unlocked room. Joseph Stanada 28 is dead Christian Anderson 44 lies dying at Cuy Hospital after the gas leak was stopped.
Maggie Brown, nine, and Walter Brown, six, were found asleep in a packing crate behind a business block. Their father, Moffett Brown, searched for them as police learned they fled to avoid a new baby in the home. The children headed six miles toward Cherokee to reach their grandfather.
W Dudley Cotton Jr Republican candidate for Congress in the first district says he ran a clean campaign and will win. He criticizes Peters for opposing progressive legislation deserting his party and supporting Cannon rules, and cites Democratic resolutions condemning Peters. He defends his alderman record and predicts a progressive victory on Tuesday.
Manuel Elscaport, a pony fishing fleet member at T wharf, was attacked by six wild cats on the north side of Long wharf. Fellow fishermen with sticks and ropes beat the animals off, and the tribe fled under the Immigration building. The colony of cats, growing fierce, threatens crews and cargoes and a planned hunt aims to exterminate them within a week.
Agricultural experts from the Eastern States and Canada assemble in Worcester for the New England Corn Exposition starting today and running through the week. Prominent businessmen educators and public figures join the educational program under the slogan More and Better Corn.
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