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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1897
Page
8
William Greenwood fixes a disputed fence by nailing Mrs. Sarah Waltman to the board as she protests the border claim. Her husband and police secure warrants. Greenwood posts bonds and faces assault and battery charges with the fence left punctured by a single missing plank.
In Eli Jennings farm house in New Fairfield crowds gathered to honor Sally Betsy Jennings on her 100th birthday and her son Peter Haviland Jennings on his 80th. Generations danced to Money Masic with the centenarian leading, joined by five of her children and grandchildren in a lively rural celebration.
Henry Savage Landor, noted artist and explorer, returned to India after a brutal Tibet journey. Abandoned by companions, he faced capture and torture ending with the stretching rack before eight days of confinement. He bears twenty two wounds and has long published works on Asia and Africa.
Edward W. Ellard of 559 Medford Street drowned after falling from Tufts wharf while fishing in the early morning. James Daggett dived in to help and recovered Ellard's body but life was not present.
Yesterday afternoon Charles Hall Joseph Spring Philip Taste and Vito Ciulo, Italians, all residing in the North End Boston, were arrested by Patrolman Creelman of Brookline for card playing on the Sabbath.
Louis Miller of New York and editor of Forward spoke on The Social Democracy of America and the Socialist Labor Party at West End Union Hall. Max Capeloff presided over the gathering.
A meeting of the Coal Teamsters and Handlers Union will be held next Sunday in Broadway Hall at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Lynn prepares for a week of festivities with elaborate street decorations and nightly sights. The carnival opens Monday with band concerts and tight wire acts, includes a four division parade by Essex county Odd Fellows, daily program changes, and features Troop F cavalry, a monster cycling pageant Tuesday night, and valuable prizes.
The body of Albert HB Walsh line man killed Friday October 1 on Freeport Street Dorchester was sent to Antigonish Nova Scotia for interment. Delegations from Division 17 AO H Roxbury and Union Electrical Workers Boston attended the services at James Fallon’s undertaking rooms Jamaica Plain. Representing the AO H were Stephen A Gaffey Recoding Secretary James H Murphy Joseph Lyone and John Dugan. From the Electrical Workers were David Flynn Michael Birmingham Alexander Cameron and James Hanrahan. Both societies contributed a pillow of roses. The brothers of the deceased accompanied the body to Nova Scotia where final services will be held Tuesday morning.
Belfast Maine October 8 James Brown aged 70 of Head of the Tide died today from a paralytic shock suffered last night. He long carried the mail between Head of the Tide and this city, making the last trip yesterday.
Friends of Rev. Dr. Andrew Gray urge Bishop Lawrence to block Rev. J. Quinn of Mason Ohio from joining the church board and demand the removal of Vestryman T. Clarke. The unsigned appeal warns that many communicants will withdraw if demands are not met.
At a Social and Economic Club meeting on Boston Common yesterday, resolutions denounced the proposed lease of the West End street railway to the elevated railroad and urged a reopened popular hearing. The group argued streets are public property and called for more police on patrol routes to curb robberies, noting gaps in Forest Hills and Roslindale areas and demanding better patrol coverage and route redesign.
At 12 30 yesterday the ponderous meteorite returned from the frozen North began its move to the Brooklyn wharf. The party aboard the Hope including Lt and Mrs Peary, Mr and Mrs C A Moore and son, plus Esquimaux passengers, observed a careful transfer wrapped in sail. Experts valued the nickel steel mass highly beyond its scientific interest and the Hope heads to Perth Amboy for return to St John s with a larger ship planned next year.
West Roxbury sees increased burglaries and attempted robberies in the past month. Officers from Station 13 call for redivide routes to improve police protection after holdups and diversions target dwellings and stores amid sporadic passersby frighten suspects.
The bodies of Mrs. Robert Rivinius and her four children, asphyxiated in New York, were buried at West Point. The funeral from the Rivinius home drew many locals from West Point and Highland Falls as Post Chaplain Shipman led Episcopal services. Soldiers of the army service detachment bore the coffins, with six classmates beside Laura and Willie at their respective graves.
Paris reports M. Henri Rochefort has wed his niece Vervoort who accompanied him to England during exile. The paper notes he divorced his second wife, the Marquise de Rochefort Lucay, months earlier and never cohabited with her again. The new wife is described as a handsome brunette about thirty years younger than Rochefort.
Professor W L Lewis of Bliss College was accidentally shot by a fellow sportsman at Rockingham Junction yesterday. He is in precarious condition with about 100 shots removed from his body.
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