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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1897
Page
8
The jurors in Glenville West Virginia fail to agree on the Atkinson case and are dismissed. The defendant, Mrs. Atkinson, faced an all night session, claiming she signed documents as a clerk under the late Judge Camden's dictation, with the trial paused to accommodate Judge Blizzard’s circuit schedule.
The international court of arbitration named M. Maertens of Russia as umpire and president of the court. Arrangements aim to assemble the body in Paris in late summer or fall next year. Maertens, a renowned international law authority, is a Russian foreign office official and professor at Saint Petersburg University.
James H Whitney a conductor with the Quincy and Boston street railway was arrested by Chief McKay in Quincy and will be arraigned on assault and battery charges related to James Haley found unconscious near Boston and Albany Station on Knee land Street.
Eastondale Oct 13 The Jones Neal breach of promise case was settled out of court. Charley Jones a brakeman on the old Colony division of the New York New Haven Hartford road sued for damages to his heart and feelings after Charley alleged she married Mr Neal following a promised marriage and his preparation of a home.
Lansing October 13 A pupil at the State Industrial School for Boys died after a fellow student delivered a back hand blow to the chest Fitzsimmons’s olar plexus blow caused the death John Carson sixteen asked Frank Martin to strike him in the chest Martin struck Carson who collapsed and died immediately during play at the school yard
Lawrence Foster received a four to five year state prison term for larceny while Dan Sullivan was sentenced to two years and six months in the House of Correction for the same offence.
The Dominionner Canada sails at 11 this morning for Queenstown and Liverpool with 30 saloon passengers, 60 in second cabin, and 140 in steerage. The saloon list includes Miss H W Rubin, Miss Margaret Rubin, Miss Chittick, Mrs Emerson, Miss Fawkner, Master Thomas Fawkner, Mr J K Fitzpatrick, Mrs Hunt, Mr E B Hunt, Miss Helen O Brien, Mr Reg Wells, Mr Albert H Whitin, Mr John F Whitney and others.
Governor Wolcott refused to honor Maine Governor Powers extradition papers for B F Crossman of Boston on charges in Portland for obtaining money under false pretences. Crossman’s counsel argued papers faulty and not a fugitive. Maine and local officials debated legality before Hallowell ruled papers fatally defective.
Captain Warren reports stock at Station 4 ready for woollens shirtings and shirts but thieves stole most of it from freight cars in railway yards. Fines and Lafferty were arrested yesterday along with James Butler and John Blake. Police took them to the station about 2 30 yesterday morning.
Senorita Evangelina Cisneros arrives from Havana aboard the Ward line steamer Seneca, fatigued and seasick after perilous travel. She is met by New York Journal officials at the Waldorf and will attend a reception at Delmonico's with a public welcome.
Miss Cisneros, once jailed, watches reporters from barred windows as she nears freedom aboard a tug. She retreats to a cabin with other women, then the tug departs the battery and heads up the North River toward Pier No. 6.
New York report notes John Armstrong Chanler, great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, confined for six months at Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane with a parasis diagnosis. Once married to Amelie Rives, now Princess Troubetzkoy, his condition is said to be steadily worsening.
The Havana escape tale follows Juana Cisneros, alias Juana Sola, as she flees in disguise aboard the Seneca. Spanish detectives linger after the voyage, while supporters greet her ashore and a jubilant crowd celebrates her arrival beneath Cape Hatteras light.
Havana dispatch reports an Official Gazette edict signed by a military judge orders Evangelina Gosio to surrender for a fifteen day jail term. Authorities are to capture her and send her to Havana jail if found. In other news, American James Lanton was killed near Guanajuay. Sancti Spiritus reports 350 deaths last month.
Governor Hastings received a letter from Secretary Sherman about an Austrian claim of rights violations in the Latimer Penn shooting. The note notes a mob killing of about twenty miners. Sherman asks for the facts and status of the cases and Hastings assigns Sheriff Martin and General Gobin to advise.
A reported scheme by Wall Street bankers to reorganize Union Pacific debt could cheat the government of more than 50 million dollars. The plan seeks to pay 62 percent to the government on an 83 million claim while government securities receive 175 percent. Allegations link the scheme to Hanna campaign funds and a cabinet official, with history tracing subsidies, land grants, and bonds that allegedly enriched promoters at the government’s expense.
Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan editor and politician dies in Asheville North Carolina. His body arrives by train to Lawrence amid large crowds at Boston & Maine stations. Funeral services planned for St Patrick's Church tomorrow morning with arrangements yet to be announced.
The incomplete subway work advances toward new downtown stations of steel and heavy glass enabling ticket purchase before entry. Last section from Haymarket to Causeway Street bids open Oct 28 with work starting Nov 1 and a June 1 1898 completion target. West End Street Railway pays quarterly rent under lease. sinking fund advances bond redemption. transit figures show forty year rent covers subway construction.
Temperance advocates attack patent medicines containing alcohol at a Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society directors meeting. A lecture by Professor D Hooper on the chemistry of alcohol featured a demonstration with a still and explained alcohol effects. Alfred Noon urged forming county or town groups for regular quarterly meetings statewide.
The U S District Court grand jury before Judge Brown yesterday indicted eight counts against Antonio Volpe and Elizabeth Volpe charging mutilating coins making moulds for coins counterfeiting coins and possession of counterfeit coins Edward A Rollins of Boston was indicted for using the mails in a scheme to defraud.
In Pittsburg on October 13 deputies raided Sandy Creek strike activities arresting fifteen men including a brass band. The band played as they were taken to the sheriff's office amid reports of riotous conduct denied by strikers. DeArmit mines claim full operation.
George W. Streeter of Keene New Hampshire pleaded guilty before United States Commissioner Fiske to stealing $12 from the Townsend post office on October 4. He was held on $2000 bond and sent to the grand jury, later sentenced to three years in the Reformatory and fined $100.
Luigi Carcano files a bill in equity in Suffolk Supreme Court against John Merriam as administrator of Emily Merriam’s estate to enforce an agreement made in 1877 before Carcano married Merriam’s daughter. Defendants demur claiming laches. Judge Knowlton heard arguments and reserved decision.
George Fred Williams opens his bid for governor tonight at Faneuil Hall with lawyer Thomas Riley presiding. Riley will reference past and coming campaigns while the Massachusetts Club attends en masse. Doors open at 7 with the platform and gallery reserved for ladies until 7 55. A band plays until 8.
Foreman F. H. Marg at Park Street station was robbed yesterday afternoon or last evening when a thief picked his pocket and took a black leather pocketbook containing $20 and papers.
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