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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1906
Page
12
Shannon enters the dividend class with a 50 cent distribution while board reshuffles p ace to Paine Amster interests by Nov 21. Boston market sees mixed tone as industrials and copper shares decline and Reading leads declines amid broader investor caution.
The Spanish War memorial for the Second Massachusetts Regiment was unveiled at Carew triangle Main and Plainfield streets Springfield at 2 pm. Sculptor Meochzar H Mossman created the bronze figure of El Caney marching atop a granite pedestal. Governor Guild spoke. Harriet Dickinson unveiled the statue. Brigadier General Embury P Clark and regimental staff attended with the Second Regiment Band.
In New Haven a consignment billed as copies of old French masters to Charity Commissioner R. J. Dillon and owned by Patrick Francis Sheedy of New York was seized at the local customs house. Experts from New York review the paintings valued by Charles Noel Flagg and George Oliver of Boston, who say some originals may be present.
Secretary Root urged the Japanese government to arrest and punish poachers who tried to land on Alaska seal islands and fled to Japan after one of their party was killed. The State Department treats the attempted landing as an invasion.
Nipissing, Superior & Pittsburg, Balaklala, Abitibi & Cobalt, Keweenaw, Majestic Copper lead today’s curb market. Boston imported Nipissing in New York and local trades with a high at 27 1 2, opening 27 38 8, closing 26 ¼, down 1 2. Majestic rose to 4 1 2, up 1 3 4, while Superior & Pittsburg fell to 25 1 2, off 5 8. Keweenaw Copper gained 1 point to 12, American Rotary Ring peaked at 17 1 2, ending 17 1 2, down 1 2 from yesterday. Insiders boosted Majestic Copper purchases as market fluctuations spread across the list.
Fall River stockholders voted to authorize a 60 percent increase in capital at the King Philip cotton mills. The new capital will total 1 500 000 dollars and the additional stock will be issued as dividends.
Brussels reports the National Bank increased the discount rate to 4 1/2 percent. The action aims to curb money supply and influence lending conditions.
William G. Doll sues Cincinnati surgeons J.S. Atkins George A. Fackler and John C. Oliver for 10000 alleging excess skin removal under a graft contract. He says a one by six inch strip was agreed but skin was taken from both legs totaling 42 inches for his own benefit.
An independent committee of Massachusetts policy holders from the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York urges fellow policy holders to vote for the united committee's ticket in the trustees election closing December 18. They state they own substantial policies and have no alliance with the other tickets, but advocate reform and urge support for their slate.
The Countess Montignoso Crown Princess Louise of Saxony returns to Saxony with her daughter Pia Monica and her mother the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. She, divorced from King Frederick Augustus of Saxony, had eloped in 1902 with tutor Giron after the death of King George.
The fear is general that the famous lead works here have been closed forever. The probability is that the plant will be removed to the new central factory of the trust located at Perth Amboy New Jersey.
The North Carolina State exhibit at the Boston Food Fair draws many visitors with a 26 pound amethyst cluster worth about 300 dollars in crude form. Hiddenite, sapphires, rubies, rhodolite and sea green beryl are displayed along with placer gold. Sousa concerts boost crowds as the fair nears closing.
Father L. L. Connardy, companion of Father Damien, travels to Canton to aid Chinese lepers. He seeks 2 12 cents per day for 300 lepers and will begin once funds are assured. Subscriptions may be sent to St. John's Seminary, Brighton.
Daniel Chisholm aged 36, painter of 44 South Sarsfield Street, died on the way to City Hospital following a fatal 40-foot fall from the Hotel Oxford yesterday morning.
In Montpelier Vermont the Vermont Supreme Court heard Charles A. Phelps appeal for dismissal of exceptions in a 1904 bucket shop case. Phelps, charged with running a Barre bucket shop for H R Leighton Co of Boston, was fined 800 dollars plus 86 dollars costs. His attorney Arthur T. Johnson moved to affirm the lower court and execute judgment, a motion today reversed the prior appeal. Johnson paid the fine and costs on Phelps behalf.
The will of the late Anna Q T Parsons filed for probate allocates major gifts to the South End Industrial School the American Invalid Aid Society the American Peace Society the Normal Institute of Utica N Y and 20 shares of Warren Bros Co Boston preferred stock. Following the death of her sister Mrs Caroline L P Stephenson and nieces Anna Wilder and Mary Wilder funds go to New England Hospital for Women and Children Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Elizabeth Peabody House Kindergarten for the Blind and the Boys Institute of Industry Tremont Street. J D Bryant named executor and trustee.
Peter Shafer of U. S. Fastener Company on Columbia Road South Boston found a white carrier pigeon in the company yard yesterday afternoon. The exhausted bird, fed but not hungry, bore a leg band marked 5127-1906.
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