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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1901
Page
8
A Lotchener despatch from Pretoria dated today notes since August 26. Boer losses include 19 killed and 3 wounded with 212 captured as prisoners and 127 surrendered. The report cites 194 horses, 27,560 rounds of ammunition, and 7500 head of cattle captured.
A Boston based appeal urges citizens to oppose Mr Lawson by ten days to prevent breaking up the Independence before a fair cup defense. The message asks supporters to sign petitions and contact 20th Century Dept at 43 Hanover Street, with Thomas W. Warrngworth as general manager and 50 American citizens endorsing the effort.
Mayor Hart says the city has no power over the Elevated railway as rights come from the state while health officials seek legal guidance. A surge of third rail eye cases floods city hospitals with dozens treated and many more reported, naming numerous injured workers and residents.
Boston Elevate Railway officers met under secrecy to discuss the third rail eye outbreak menacing riders and pedestrians. General Bancroft refused to speak to reporters as the mayor questioned city power to curb the epidemic and demanded action from the state backed company.
Captain Wales was buried yesterday at Mt Hope Cemetery with a volley fired by G A R Post 68. He led the Roxbury Forty fifth Regiment Association and the Boston Loyal Legion, and served twenty nine years in the Boston Custom House appraisers department. The services in Second Church Dorchester honored his charitable and church work with family rooted in the pew since childhood.
A large turnout from across the state attended the funeral of former war Charles A. Busiel at the Serene Church at 3 pm. Rev C A G Thurston of Medford Mass, a former associate, officiated with Rev Richwain of the First Congregational Church assisting. Honorary bearers included M K Bowker, Thomas P Cheney, John H Brown, Augustus D Ayling, and others from the governor's staff.
Police Captain Dawson, badly burned by a red hot spark from the Elevated, is confined to bed with bandaged eyes and severe pain. He describes weeks of agony, inability to move, and ongoing treatment as doctors say he improves slowly.
Sept 8 report from Walpole details Fred L. Jenks shooting Charles Mailers after interference with Jenks plan to shoot his former sweetheart Myra Belle Spear. Jenks reportedly told others of his intent. questions arise about police restraint. Both victims are recovering.
The Society of the Atonement near Graymoor New York seeks to form a global church union under the Pope. The group has long pursued recognition of its order by the Vatican as the high church faction of Anglicanism moves toward reconciliation with Rome.
Paul M Kelley alias Francis A Kel lore was arraigned in Somerville court yesterday on two counts of larceny from a building. He was arrested Sunday after a struggle with Mrs Francia Inslow at 111 Cedar Street as he attempted to leave with a dress suitcase of stolen items. He pleaded not guilty and waived examination. Held on $1000 bond for the Superior Court. Kelley, 25, has a criminal record. police cite possible links to other thefts in Bomerville.
A Boston man, Lewis F. D. Smith, was killed in Harwich this afternoon by an accidental revolver discharge while cleaning the weapon. The bullet pierced his heart and caused instant death. He was 82, a longtime employee of Arthur McArthur in Boston, and he is survived by a widow.
In Scribner's story A Derelict Richard Harding Davis omits Schley and downplays Sampson's absence, prompting critics to discuss his portrayal. Davis replies a year earlier that the tale was fiction with no intent to reflect on Schley and rejects treating it as history.
Cohasset notes a surprise wedding as Miss Mary J. Sweeney weds Mr. George A. Bryson of Charlestown. The ceremony occurred Sunday in Charlestown rather than Cohasset as expected, leaving the town abuzz about the union of a longtime local resident.
The Cohasset community notes the marriage of Miss Sweeney to Mr Bryson after a church refusal. Miss Sweeney, athletic and popular, and Mr Bryson, a Charlestown electrician, wed with an Episcopal minister in Charlestown the following day.
A suit filed at East Cambridge seeks 20 000 from five defendants including J H Whitney medical examiner Thomas M Durell and Joe D Litchfield for trespass on Mrs Grogan S property and alleged acts on January 2 1901. The case claims breaking locks removing the body and performing a dissection on the deceased husband.
Nora Dempsey, 19, arraigned in Municipal Court on murder charges for throwing her newborn from a window at the American House last week. She waived examination and was held without bail pending grand jury action.
The funeral for Charles A. Hall, drowned when a yacht overturned, drew a large Beachmont crowd. Born on Oak Street, Boston, 47 years ago, he was a respected local figure linked to multiple groups. Relatives, Knights and Ladies of Honor, and Berkely Cycle Club members attended. service led by Rev. Henry S. Fiske. burial at Reading family lot.
Newport New Rhode Island reporting on a heated quarrel at Trinity Episcopal Church over memorial windows. Ogden Codman Jr and D B Updike sign a circular urging preservation of the Queen Anne sanctuary’s original design amid memorial window proposals and seating changes.
In a Greater New York divorce hearing, Dr John Gorse Simmons named Lea Galters as co respondent. Mrs St Simmons of Westchester seeks absolute divorce citing a scandal that stirred village chatter. Galters, once a Westchester real estate agent, church choir member and Literary Society secretary, is the named partner. Dr Simmons is a leading Westchester physician.
Jury returned indictments in the Pittsfield Superior Court with John Leary, a county jail prisoner, charged with murder for the July death of Warden James W Fuller. Leary pleaded not guilty as junior counsel Joseph Ward Lewis was assigned. Charles B Hibard was asked to undertake the defence.
Buffalo police jailed Charles Milton Leighton, known for multiple marriages, after a nationwide string of deserted wives and emptied purses. Detective Robert J. Cromie traced his movements from Georgia to New York, with sworn vows and escapes cited, amid reports of prior desertions and a fatal shooting incident in Boston.
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