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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1913
Page
7
Berlin, Oct 17. Twenty eight persons perished today in the explosion and wreck of Count Zeppelin's latest dirigible balloon the Ei h near Johannisthal. The entire Admiralty Board crew and guests aboard were killed. All who went aloft in the airship are dead.
A gas explosion on a balloonlette caused a fiery crash that instantly killed twenty seven and burned many as the wreckage plummeted 909 feet. Lieutenant Baron von Bleol of the Queen Augusta Grenadier Guards survived briefly before dying in hospital. Other fatalities include Captain Haesler, Lieutenant Koch, and Sergeant Mante in separate aviation accidents.
Ad claims a ten cent box cleanses the stomach removes sour undigested food and foul gases, relieves bilious headaches and liver and bowel sluggishness. It says Cascarets work while you sleep to leave a clear head, sweet stomach and regular bowels by morning.
Retailers note frozen Argentine and Australian beef is only about three cents per pound cheaper than Western beef. Prices at Robinson and Frost’s include rump 32, sir loin roast 22, sirloin steak 27, porterhouse 27, rib roast 20, corned brisket 15, stew meat 12. Markets report tepid demand with institutions the main buyers, while some stalls show limited stock and mixed quality.
Archbishop Bonzano arrives in Boston to lead the second American Catholic Missionary Congress opening with a pontifical high mass at the Cathedral. Cardinal O’Connell chairs, 500 priests and 10 archbishops expected, with sessions at Symphony Hall and services across the diocese.
The House of Bishops at the ongoing general convention favors a deputies resolution to allow intinction the dipping of the wafer into wine in communion as in the Eastern church. Denver health authorities protested passing the chalice lip to lip due to disease concerns.
The House of Deputies debated creating courts of review as intermediary tribunals for heresy trials. The court would sit between the trial court and the court of appeals, with bishops only on the panel and appeals to the appellate court. Tomorrow’s session scheduled to continue. Also discussed were appointments resignations and transfers of bishops including Osborne resigning in Springfield Francis seeking climate move possibly to Cuba or Puerto Rico Mann transferred to Florida. Vacancies noted in one diocese and five.
The House of Bishops will vote Monday to fill missionary districts after an executive meeting. The House of Deputies will confirm nominees, with candidates’ fitness reviewed by the Council of Bishops. Names of elected clergymen will be announced. Haiti and Santo Domingo join the Porto Rico district, and Cape Palmas becomes Liberia.
Boston city pavers will receive a wage increase with the new year. A union committee announced the agreement after last night’s talks with Mayor Fitzgerald and Public Works Commissioner Rourke, concluding a week of negotiations.
Dr. A. D. Melvin, chief of the bureau of animal industry, reports Argentina will ship large beef consignments to the United States to exploit the free beef clause of the new tariff law. He returned from South America after studying meat packing and inspecting conditions in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
In Brockton on Oct 17 a fatal gas explosion followed a Thursday night retirement. Stephen Haralompos, 25, died at once and Kostas Minas, also a newcomer to the U S, is dying in hospital. Both men had been in America nine days and in Brockton two days.
Pittsburg October 17 Henry Clay Frick visiting Pittsburg dismissed reports that he gave his son Childs Frick 12 million dollars and that the bride received 2 million after a Baltimore wedding last Tuesday calling the claims fabrications and annoying.
Prominent Ohio physician Dr F M Edwards promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe liver toner and laxative. The sugar coated olive colored tablets are presented as a substitute for calomel with no after effects and are sold in 10c and 25c boxes by The Olive Tablet Company of Columbus.
George F Murphy of Roxbury and James P Powers were arrested by Inspectors Hart Conway Shields and Dorsey for breaking and entering two Jamaica Plain houses with Leo Parquette. Powers faced habeas corpus and a $2000 bail. Murphy was later detained with Robert F Fanning, who yielded morphine. Fanning, 23, had been released from Charlestown State Prison months earlier.
Thousands of Boston's orthodox Hebrews prepare a large revival to combat reform influence on their children. Rev. Dr. Moses Hyanson, formerly London chief rabbi, will travel from New York to lead the meetings in Boston.
Patrick H Heffernan a Malden street department employee who lost sight in one eye sues the city for 10000 dollars The city offered 600 yesterday Heffernan rejects and seeks 2000 The city lacks accident insurance and plans to contest the claim
In Rockdale Texas seven of eight miners trapped by a cave-in and flooding at the Vogel Lawrence mine remain alive. The entombed men are 90 feet below the surface behind a water barrier but are believed safe if air lasts. One miner died in the incident. all workers are Mexican.
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