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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1900
Page
10
Lawrence date Oct 16 William S Jewett former bank president and financier tells jail side he will cheerfully accept sentence after reconviction. Court has decreed seven years in prison for alleged bank stock manipulation and related affairs at Lake National Bank.
The city reaches about 105,861 after last nights additions with 611 registered, pitting Democrats against McKinley era margins. Major growth seen in tenth district wards 16 20 and 24 as final registration day approaches.
The United States Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in a five year legal battle to prove Jewett innocent of a bank crime. He faces surrender next week to begin a prison sentence after a $20,000 bail was set. Jewett’s Boston attorney Hollis R Bailey awaits official notice. He previously led as president of Wolfboro National Bank and later acted as liquidation agent. Public sympathy grows among longtime residents who recall his financial aid to many.
John Balog is dead and seven other men at 250 Church street in Bridgeport are critically ill after eating toad stools mistaken for mushrooms. The group resided at a boarding house run by Michel Balog.
Edward Co Alphonse of Finet Orarge New Jersey died today in New York. He was a grandson of a Napoleon staff officer, a California forty-niner, served in the Civil War, and at death commanded Abraham Lincoln Post No 18 G A R of New York.
In Tremont Hall Roxbury, Ward 19 candidate Richard Sullivan attacked Democratic leaders, claiming McNamara’s nomination was illegal and calling for an adjournment to unite his supporters. He asserted his convention would save the party and threatened a clash with McNamara’s backers tonight.
The Democratic State and Duty committees unite to push for ratification of the proposed measure. Party leaders emphasize civic duty and broad public support, urging voters to back the constitutional change in upcoming elections.
A Bryan and Stevenson Democratic club organized at Boston University Law School yesterday afternoon. William J. Day opened the meeting, Michael F. Curran was unanimously elected president, a constitution was to be drafted, and the club planned ties to the national Democratic organization. Curran, a South Boston native, attended Lincoln Grammar School, English High, and graduated top of his class from St. Joseph's College in Kirkwood in 1897.
At a regular Ward 9 Hebrew Democratic Educational Club meeting at 298 Harrison Avenue Sol Sacks presiding the group endorsed Bryan and Stevenson for President and Vice President and introduced resolutions endorsing Robert Treat Paine Jr for Governor and the Democratic ticket. It backed T A Fitzgerald for Senator J J Gartland Jr and Richard J Hayes for General Court Representatives and Ralph Radio for Common Council with a rallying committee appointed to campaign.
Ralph Waldo Emerson will not appear on the ballot as National party elector because 1000 certified names were not filed by registrars. Ballot law commissioners say they lack jurisdiction as National party weighs court action and plans a statement today.
In Salem on October 15 John O Rourke of Salem was nominated for councillor by the Democrats of the fifth district. The Democratic county convention named Willard J Hale of Newburyport for register of deeds in the southern Essex district, and Daniel Sanders of Gloucester as county commissioner with KE Kendall Jenkins of North Andover elected county treasurer.
The Ballot Law Commission heard David Goldstein of Boston protest the Peare O Fihlberly wing nominations for presidential electors and Fred E Baker of Stoneham for Representative in the thirtieth Middlesex district. Malachi L Jennings defended the respondents. Goldstein and Edward Carr spoke for their side as about twenty five party members looked on. The hearing opened in Room 227 at the State House and was continued to today.
William S. Close and Frederick W. White admitted forging mileage tickets on the Boston & Maine railroad before Judge Stevens. Close’s case was placed on file while serving a six year term in Lawrence. White faces sentencing this afternoon. They used covers of genuine mileage books and printed imitation tickets. Fred N. and Melissa Foss were fined $59 each for adulterated milk in their possession after pleading guilty.
Marion Wilson Ray about 35 was found dead in a third floor room at 112 Madison Avenue New York from gas escaping from a jet. Police deem it self-inflicted. Landlord Mrs. Howard White barred inquiry. Read letters addressed to Miss Marion Wilson Ray Court Street Plymouth Mass. Local landlord Martin Feeney found the body.
Democratic leaders press Moorfield Storey and William H. Baker to resolve who seeks the eleventh district congressional nomination. Baker faces pressure, plans rallies, and may withdraw in favor of Storey to avoid splitting the anti-Samuel Su powers vote, as anti-imperialists mobilize for a district campaign meeting today.
Four men and a well dressed woman lounged in a back room on WL Oxford place when a Chinese boy burst in crying police. One Chinese man and the white woman fled while the others were seized. A Celestial suspect hid in Chinatown alley. the woman’s identity remains unclear though locals say she is a wealthy patron.
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