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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
8
Middleboro Nov 2 report says Rev William Bayard Hale formerly pastor of the Church of Our Saviour is now an inmate of a sanitarium suffering from nervous prostration.
In New York on November 22 Bartow S Weeks counsel for the prisoner protested the publication of a newspaper report claiming insanity as a last resort defense. Recorder Goff said defence information would be considered. District Attorney Osborne backed Weeks amid a jury selection delay with over fifty talesmen interviewed.
Condition is so serious his wife cannot see him. Dr and Mrs Hale have just returned from their bridal tour in Europe. Hale planned winter parish work in Ardmore Philadelphia. He was a prolific writer and reformer whose essays in Forum and Arena attacked church fairs. His wife was Miss Mabel Jolly of Middleboro.
An editorial notes an off year for rival candidates but asserts no off year in politics. It endorses The Cushing Process ticket and urges purity in politics and liquor advertising. The piece promotes Cushing Medical Supply Co at 580 Washington St Boston and offers ballots as orders.
Five jury seats remain unoccupied while more than 260 candidates have been examined. The process shows ongoing screening in a high profile trial with many potential jurors observed.
Emma Goldman, famed anarchist, departs under an assumed name for England claiming disillusionment with American workers and the political climate. She cites apathy among workers and ingratitude of comrades as factors in her decision to end her activities in the United States.
Edward S. Chester of Lynn recounts the treachery of some American soldiers in the Philippines He claims rebel commanders recruit by offering pay and posts and that U S troops aided Aguinaldo’s forces Chester enlisted December 28 1898 sailed January 19 1899 and served with the Seventeenth Infantry Battalion See details of action with Dakota and Nebraska regiments and a return to Manila after illness
At a Republican convention in the city the eight School Board nominees were chosen by a 25 member committee after a tense session at Young's Hotel. Willard S. Allen, Francis Meredith Jr., M. Ordway Daily, Emily A. Fifield, Fred S. Bennett, George A. O. Ernst, and Sir James A. McDonald were named amid protests led by Henry Gediman. The formal ratification at Wesleyan Hall lasted under two minutes before adjournment proclaimed by Jesse Gove.
Martin V. Bergin son of Princeton councilman Peter V. Bergin died from bowel inflammation today in Lawrenceville after a hazing incident last Friday. The Lawrenceville freshman was 12 and participating in the hazing when a fellow hazer fell on him.
About 100 workers installed a new curve on the Boston Elevated near Causeway street in front of the Fitchburg depot. The outward track was abandoned temporarily and all traffic moved to the inward line. Blockaded cars stretched from Haymarket Square subway to Warren Bridge.
About 100 women voters met at Bromfield Street Church and adopted the Republican school ticket replacing Dr James A McDonald with Francis L Coolidge of Ward 11. Speakers highlighted George A O Ernst and Mrs Fifield as favored candidates while rejecting independent nominations and McDonald.
At the Public School Association executive committee meeting last evening the school committee candidates were the same as the Women's Voters except for Garfield and Sayward. Irving McDowell Garfield, son of the late President Garfield, is with Proctor and Garfield and a Williams College and Harvard Law School alumnus. William H. Sayward, secretary of the Master Builders' Association, has served as labor referee and building instruction expert, with Davis R. Dewey of the Maineenents Institute of Technology presiding.
Registration for the city election closed last evening at 10 o clock. The final tally may reach about 103000 total voters with roughly 2300 new names added. women voters are expected to reach 10000.
William Hichborn general foreman of the Charlestown Navy Yard construction department and brother of Constructor Philip Hichborn died of heart failure yesterday morning near the Chelsea street gate as he saluted Private Morand. Dr Morse was unable to save him. Born Salem August 1 1830 he moved to Boston and served at the yard since 1860s. Rear Admiral Hichborn summoned from Washington.
The War Department reports detachment of the Twenty-sixth volunteers under Colonel Rice and Sixth Regiment defeat Filipinos northeast of Jaro. Major Dockman commands, seven enemies captured, four field guns and ammunition seized. Wheaton to advance by transport to Wigan to block Aguinaldo's northern retreat. Mountains east of the route may hinder his passage. General Young believed still at large.
General Young reports Aguinaldo with about 200 people including some women and carts passed Aringay on Friday November 17. American forces riding with Macabebes pursue toward San Fernando and Bayombong while engaging the rear guard at Aringay. A prisoner report says Aguinaldo escaped in peasant clothes after near-surround at Tarlac.
The Trinity Baptist Church Society of East Boston faces financial doubt after Rev. William H. Marshall foreclosed two mortgages on the building now used by the city for Chapman Grammar School. Marshall paid the first mortgage and now levied an attachment on the city rental, while the society seeks to resolve the dispute and locate Marshall who left for New Jersey with his family months ago.
In Philadelphia on November 2, secret service agents arrested Thomas O D E a, Harry J Fairbanks and Georgs W Peifer for allegedly seeking to influence a juror in the Ellery P Ingham and Harvey K Newitt case. The defendants faced $5000 bail. the alleged act involved offering payments to sway a juror against conviction.
The Knights of Labor considered permitting women to form district assemblies and favored a civics correspondence school in Washington D C A boycott was planned against Springfield Tradesmen allied products if the Central Labor Union did not remove a boycott on New York Viewers products The convention also forbade souvenir books and named new executive board members with ongoing sessions and upcoming resolutions on imperialism trusts and meeting sites
An informal appraisal of imitation pearls seized from Francis Bock of Providence aboard the French liner La Bretagne fixed their value at about . Bock faces arraignment before Commissioner Shields again tomorrow.
Berlin dispatch reports Czar instructing Minister Justice Muravieff to probe allegations that M de Witte manipulated the bourse for personal gain. De Witte reportedly attempted suicide. his wife sought an audience with the Czar but was refused. Several high financiers and officials are said to be implicated.
The New Hampshire Episcopal convention closed with a treasurer's report showing year disbursements of 2708.90 and the bishop's annual salary restored to 3000. It also voted to seek the resignation of John L. Farwell as trustee of the Protestant Episcopal Church of New Hampshire. Farwell, a Claremont banker, faced past reverses and criticized votes under his management.
The Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale spoke to the Young Men's Congregational Club at Brunswick about the role of such groups in church progress and critiqued theological institutes training students. He predicted religion would influence the twentieth century and read the covenant of the first congregation.
In Windsor tonight a semi state dinner at the Castle hosted 37 guests including a few minor members of the diplomatic corps. Emperor William and Empress will visit Sandringham on Saturday as guests of the Prince of Wales and stay one day longer than the DAG oil gene. apianpes, not leaving for Germany until Tuesday.
Kai ser declines London banquet invite but plans luncheon with Duke and Duchess of Marlborough at Blenheim. A special train will take them from Windsor at noon and they will return by four o clock.
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