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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1907
Page
2
Rhode Island General Treasurer Walter A. Read announced that no more state bills will be paid before December 15 except for small accounts. He said over $400,000 from the general revenue tax should be available then to settle obligations.
The late Tom Riley's will was filed for probate yesterday revealing that his big estate is bequeathed to his wife. The document outlines the distribution and confirms the widower's surviving spouse as primary heir.
Friends mourn the sudden death of Captain A M Jewett from heart failure aboard the schooner Ernestine anchored off Bird Island flats Wednesday night. His brother Captain Lincoln Jewett, captain of the schooner Eleanor A Percy, learned the news on arriving yesterday morning. The body was taken by tug Ariel to East Boston for burial preparations.
In South Boston two month old child of Mr and Mrs Powers died and Dr George P Morris refused to sign the death certificate saying he suspects convulsions but wants the medical examiner to decide.
In Municipal Criminal Court Blanche Dunn and Edith Wilder faced shoplifting charges before Judge Murray. A floor walker's discovery of an alarm clock from Miss Wilder's stocking caused amusement as detectives recovered the item. One defendant pleaded guilty and the other was found guilty. both were fined 80 dollars to be paid after probation.
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