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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1902
Page
10
Mrs Edith Hopkins of 6 Allston Street forwarded to King Edward copies of the Boston Post containing elaborate coronation pictures and photographs. She received a note of thanks yesterday for her kindness.
Reports from Massachusetts describe a carriage horse in Beverly killed after sinking in mud at Bates Park. In Gloucester a 20 pound lobster weighing about 2012 pounds with eight pound claws is shown in a tent near a summer colony. Mrs Pugh photographed the operation as the horse is tube–breathed for life.
Hilfenry's min strels drew a good sized crowd at Music Hall in Webster. A street parade followed featuring a large grizzly bear displayed in an open hack as a notable highlight.
Southbridge Sept 5 Dr William T Pugh veterinary performed a difficult tracheotomy on a horse owned by Julius Dresser. The operation created an opening in the windpipe and involved inserting a silver device.
Marlboro residents report increasing damage from hawks attacking poultry in outlying sections. In Wake, five Aspen Street children narrowly escaped a bull attack while blackberrying on Ware Town Junction. In Gilbertville, poultry and pets suffer dog attacks. a pet fox trained by James Shehan was killed after dogs breached defenses.
An old newspaper clipping notes a classified ad from Waldo Phipps of the Blue Front stable offering to buy 1000 hens for cash.
Corinne a terrier owned by Joseph McMullin of Cambridge rode the electric car to the Dudley Street terminal and back after winking at the conductor to avoid fare. On return the conductor alerted Mr McMullin who retrieved the dog valued at 2000 dollars.
Commonwealth Avenue Baptist Church in Boston begins music programs tomorrow under James D. D. Comey the new organist and choir director with about 15 years of experience. The quartet features Grace Bonner Williams soprano Homer E. Sawyer alto James H. Ricketson tenor and George R. Clarke bass.
Prominent real estate owner and retired businessman received an anonymous note demanding $2500 be placed behind a gate post a mile and a half from the city center or he would be shot within five hours. Police alerted. a panel package left as directed. the next day papers vanished. Case referred to the Postoffice Department in Washington.
New York reports the first public balance sheet of the Baron de Hirsch funded Jewish Colonization Association. In 1901 expenditures totaled 2,019,597 with seven eighths from interest and one eighth from capital. Notable items include a 117,000 loan to Dubrovna shawl weavers and a 120,080 land purchase in Galicia for colonization. Administrative costs reached 160,000, about seven and a half percent of total spend.
Roxbury man Thomas A. Malone was bound over to the grand jury under bonds of $ for manslaughter in the death of Daniel McGrath of Lynn Mass. McGrath died from a skull fracture after a street altercation near Rhode Island Hospital yesterday.
At the Clark home in Madison Maine on Wednesday Wenona Lauri Clark wed Bernard Gibbs. After a brief reception the couple escaped in traveling attire to catch a train eight miles away, avoiding a public sendoff. Wenona Clark is a Coburn Classical Institute and Wellesley College graduate of 1901.
Three men appeared before Special Justice Cutler in Chelsea Police Court to answer larceny charges involving piping. Thomas Roach and Daniel Sullivan allegedly took 18 pounds of lead pipe from Marion T. Gray a third man Albert N. Phillips alias Noel Norton alias Ansil Norton stood charged with 180 pounds of pipe theft. All waived examination and were held in 500 dollars for the grand jury.
Three days remain before the execution of John Best for the murder of George E. Bailey in Saugus. The warden will read the death warrant at midnight Monday as Best faces the chair. Legal avenues are exhausted and Best curses witnesses while Rev. Mellish of Salem counsels him.
John Riley of Chestnut street was stabbed in the arm at Hancock and Saville streets. He identified Patrick Malcolm as the assailant, who was arrested. An artery was cut and Riley was treated by Dr. Welch. Malcolm's case was continued to tomorrow.
Rev Father Power arrives from Danvers to lead St Rose Church Chelsea as workers raise the brick building six feet to add a basement seating 1400. A 30 foot rear expansion and moved altar reconfigure the church, with plans to reduce the need for new Chelsea Catholic churches.
Michael Bradley, a fireman aboard the foominton liner Vancouver, narrowly escaped death on the south side of Long wharf. He slipped and fell into the water, struck the rail of the tug William H. Gallison, suffering a bead cut on the head. Rescue proved difficult and Bradley was taken to Station 2 for treatment.
Requisition papers from Nebraska arrive for James S. Romine held in Worcester on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. Romine plans to contest extradition and will appear with counsel. His attorney says he will accompany to Nebraska without delay.
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