Autoists Face A Wake of Fines In City Court
An unusual stream of arrests for traffic violations led to fines in a city court on Wednesday. James Calnan paid 25 dollars for speeding on Oct 6 and appealed. Nathaniel Seeley and Everett H. Davis were each fined 25 dollars for overt speeding. Several others faced smaller penalties for not keeping lamps lit, with amounts ranging from 5 to 10 dollars.
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James Calnan
Thomas P. Curtis
Nathaniel Seeley
Everett H. Davis
I'red B. Pearson
Hudson K. Condit
Stearns R. Kilis
Joseph Feeney
Thomas J. McGinley
Daniel F. MacCarthy
Boylston Street
Perkins and Pray Found Guilty in Prison Assault Case
After hours of deliberation the jury returned a guilty verdicts against Deer Island officials Lorenzo D. Perkins and Orrin Pray for assault upon a prisoner. Both men face possible sentencing tonight.
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Lorenzo D. Perkins
Orrin Pray
Deer Island
Gloucester schooner Fannie E. Prescott released after fine
The Gloucester fishing schooner Fannie E. Prescott was released from detention at the local yard after owners paid a 200 dollar fine plus costs for alleged fisheries law violations. The vessel had been seized by a government cruiser last winter for fishing inside the three mile limit.
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Halifan
N. S
Gloucester
Fannie E. Prescott
Prescott
Cox Denies Hat Story in Middlesex District Row
Councillor Cox of the Middlesex district refutes rumors of enmity with former Harbor and Land Commissioner Woodward Emery. He says Emery supported Glidden not out of loyalty but to strike back, and asserts Emery never rebuked him for hat etiquette in his office.
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Walter Glidden
Somerville
Cox
Emery
Harbor and Land Commission
Harbor and Land Commissioners
Middlesex
Harbor and
Woodward Emery
Boston City Coal Purchase Clash Delays 940 Ton Delivery
Acting Purchasing Agent John B. Martin rejected 940 tons from Merchants' Coal Co as Quemahoning coal failing thermal tests. He prefers market price of 4.74 not the 4.74 per ton contract, citing cheaper alternative by Daniel Doherty at 3.88. Martin plans no acceptance even with a rebate. dispute centers on fuel for ferry department and a 6000 ton contract signed by Mayor Fitzgerald.
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John B. Martin
Michael J. Mitchell
Finance Commission
Merchants’ Coal Company of Boston
David Sturtevant
Merchants’ Coal Company
Martin
Fitzgerald
Merchants’ Coal
Quemahoning
Daniel Doherty
Boston
Ferry Department of
Supply Department
Merchants’ Company
Mars believed inhabited by professor after South American expedition
Panama reports Professor David Todd of Amherst College concludes Mars has likely been inhabited in the past and probably is now. He spent six weeks with the Lowell telescope in Chile's Tarapaca Desert during four months in South America, taking over 7000 photographs including 20 shots of Mars double canals.
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Panama
Galveston
Tex
Mars
David Todd
Amherst College
South America
Todd
Lowell
Taripaca
Chili
Frithjof Lost 16 Drowned Off Iceland
The Arctic steamer Frithjof, from the Wellman Spitzbergen expedition, was lost off Cape Langanes Iceland on October 5. The captain and 15 crew members drowned while the engineer clung to a plank and reached shore. The ship, bound for Norway, was damaged by ice and unable to withstand the storm.
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Copenhagen
Frithjof
Wellman Chicago Record-Herald
Spitzbergen
Cape Langanes
Iceland
Norway
Roosevelt’s Guide Insane in Ogdensburg
Michael Cronin, one of the President's Adirondack guides, has been adjudged insane and admitted to the State Hospital in Ogdensburg New York. Cronin drove with Vice President Roosevelt 16 miles through the North Woods in 1901 to the nearest railroad station when news of McKinley’s assassination arrived.
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Ogdensburg
N. Y
Michael Cronin
Cronin
Roosevelt
North Woods
MckKinley
Sixteen Haitians Sentenced to Death for Conspiracy
Kingston reports sixteen men were condemned to death by a Haitian court for conspiring to overthrow the government. The dispatch notes the country is quiet but fears of a possible revolution persist.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Haiti
Harvard St Pauls Catholic Club Hosts Phillips Brooks House Reception
At Phillips Brooks House the St Pauls Catholic Club of Harvard held its annual reception for Catholic students. Ad W Fleeh er presided and the audience heard Rev J J Farrell the Hon M J Murray Professor J D M Ford and President Eliot. The page includes an old ad for Brownoquinine cough remedy with FE W Grove signature.
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Phillips Brooks House
St. Paul’s Catholic Club
Harvard
Ad W. Fleeher
J. J. Farrell
M. J. Murray
Boston
J. D. M. Ford
Eliot
Boston Society Women Targeted in Jewelry Theft Scandal
A Boston maid who stole about $15,000 in jewelry and goods fled to Europe after being discharged by Miss Janet Fish of New York. The thief had worked previously for Mrs. James Russell Putnam of Beacon Street and Egypt, Massachusetts, hinting at a wider social-set ring of victims. The ship reports the trunked loot includes four cases of jewelry, with $5,000 identified by Miss Fish, and authorities await arrival for possible extradition.
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Boston
New York
Anna Street
Europe
Miss Fish
Fish
Ice Men Trial Set After Long Court Delay
District Attorney Moran’s noted ice cases may go to trial next Monday as nearly twenty ice men face conspiracy charges. The alleged plan sought to raise ice prices when not required, ending a year of court inaction.
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Moran
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