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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1908
Page
1
After a stormy meeting the Peabody School Board censured Miss Katherine Reynolds for locking a pupil, Manuel Silva, in a closet for about 20 hours. She left to attend a wedding Wednesday night and returned Thursday morning to find the boy near death from fear. The incident was reported to Principal Miss Sheehan and then to a subcommittee.
A committee of Jordan Connors and Sheehan fully reviews the Endicott Grammar School incident where teacher Miss Reynolds locked Manuel in a book closet to calm him after a whispering episode. Manuel suffocated fears until exhaustion and sleep. his mother seeks word as the board floats clemency for the teacher.
Four submarines Octopus Viper Tarantula and Cuttlefish completed a 300 mile nonstop sea run from Newport R I to Philadelphia after four days with no sleep and minimal food. Navy officials praised the craft while planning a second test from League Island to Chesapeake Bay and Charleston. Crews collapsed upon arrival, having endured extreme fatigue.
Budapest reports Servians killed three Austrian gendarmes on the Bosnian frontier as gunboats bombarded Serbians. Britain has dispatched a fleet to Turko-Grecian waters amid fears of Austro-Servian war and Crete crisis. Downing Street anticipates trouble. frontier fighting looms.
A bold firebug was wounded while allegedly setting fire to an unoccupied wooden dwelling at 8 Lowell Street Somerville early this morning. The blaze, about the tenth incident in a year, caused a department mix-up and a small panic in the tenement district shortly before 1 o'clock.
Andrew Lowrey reported a fire started from a bundle thrown into a window around 12 50. He fired five shots at the suspect, who fled, and fire crews arrived after signals from Box 38 then Box 39. The blaze was extinguished before heavy damage.
New York October 9 The Andrew Carnegie fund to the Republican national committee was announced by Chairman Timothy L Woodruff. A misread line says Mrs asse age contributed $1000 to the drive and Meyer?
Forecast calls for fair weather in Boston and vicinity with light variable winds on Saturday and likely Sunday. The outlook notes a warming trend into Sunday with light winds gradually becoming more brisk from the north.
F Gray Co promotes a sale with 1000 men’s suits priced at 7.90 and raincoats at 5.90 plus $26.00 worsted suits at 9.99. The brand proclaims quality and value as it touts discounts on fall garments. Sale is at Washington and Hanover.
After a Brookline Republican town committee meeting, Leonard C. Wasson Herbert R. Chase and Jesse Wiley will urge district court to prosecute 23 Democrats for voting at a Republican caucus amid Democratic voting within 12 months. The case stems from the Sept. 22 nomination fight between Norman H. White and John A. Curtin and involved 19 challenged voters and a stormy session.
In Hyde Park the home of Robert Krug and John Hubner near the Dedham line has been bombarded for two days with large and small stones. Windows are broken and residents and police have been struck. A large police and citizen search found no clues to the throwers.
Neighbors report stones raining onto the house as the investigation continued. Most windows are broken and a large stone pierced the roof of a rear chicken coop. Mr and Mrs Krug and Mr and Mrs Hubner deny enmity, living on the second and first floors respectively. Hubner recalls passing to a well behind the home when the incident occurred Thursday night.
A circulating rumor suggests the latest series outcome favored the Giants. No official confirmation or details are provided in the fragment.
Rumors circulate in Detroit that players from McGraws Giants may have laid down in the recent New York series against Boston. The chatter involves Bill Dahlen and George Browne, with fresh whispers about Philadelphia manager William Murray and McGraw pushing pitchers to throw games. No formal charges yet, but the brew of scandal could soil the national game.
David J. Curney of Quincy a professional diver was pinned under a wooden sewer outlet for twenty minutes in the Charles River. Lifeline tangled and air tubes cut off he lapsed into unconsciousness but was revived by comrades with a derrick. He survived and began recovering at City Hospital.
Carney, a diver on a lighter under Hiram W. Phillips, faced a perilous task at Berkeley Street sewer conduit. While replacing a heavy chain coil, his air line tangled, and a distress signal led Phillips to summon help as John Jacobson suited up to assist in the 20 foot deep water.
Joseph Caunt head of the Joseph Caunt Shoe Company returned to Lynn at 10 o clock tonight after a short absence. He expressed willingness to attend a conference with labor leaders to arrange an arbitration committee to settle the strike and proposed tomorrow as the conference date. He noted that a local arbitration board is agreeable and urged swift action.
Ora Lee a 21 year old woman was found shot to death on the road between Wadsworth and Custard Hook. Guy Rasor the man she was to marry tomorrow is detained. A marriage license obtained in Wooster is cited as Rasor’s possible alibi. police believe she was killed while riding in a buggy with a male companion.
The 16 big battleships of the Atlantic fleet depart from Manila en route to Japan after sailing orders by Rear Admiral Charles N. Sperry. The flagship Connecticut led the line, clearing Corregidor Island at 8 45. The ships moved north into the China Sea.
Boston heavyweight Fred Bradley KOed in the fourth round by Al Kaufmann at the National A C. He failed to regain consciousness and was thought seriously hurt at a late hour after a brutal slugging contest.
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