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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1901
Page
8
Across Boston churches and nearby areas yesterday memorial services paid tribute to President McKinley. Speakers included J. J. Myers and Arthur H. Wellman who urged public responsibility, lawfulness, and opposition to lynching while stressing national unity and shared prosperity.
The Rev Dr George C Lorimer declares the president cannot be treated as mere man but as the embodiment of the nation and urges swift punishment for murderers, condemns immigrant labor for crime, and calls for diffuse wealth and stronger expansion policies in a Tremont Temple address.
The Rev F W Hamilton of Roxbury Universalist Church labels anarchism a social disease. He argues it stems from unsatisfactory industrial conditions and uneven wealth distribution, urging immigration limits and better living conditions to curb the movement. He divides anarchists into theoretical and murderous classes and calls for a broader social cure.
The Rev L H Dorchester spoke at the People's Temple after returning from London where he attended an Ecumenical Methodist conference. He described a union service held in honor of President McKinley before learning of the assassination and noted the deep fraternal ties between England and America strengthened by the tragedy.
Rear Admiral Sampson spent his last day at the Charlestown Navy Yard with his wife before leaving for Fort Hamilton New York to visit relatives and bid farewell to his daughter. He plans a brief trip and no formal leave taking is expected at the yard. Mrs Sampson will remain a week to arrange shipment to Washington.
A freight brakeman for Consolidated A4, Timothy J. Murphy, about 30, was killed when he fell from a New York to Boston through freight at Yale Avenue Roxbury. Murphy lived on Morpeth and Burrill streets. body sent to Boston. Suspected liquor raid arrests followed, including Paul Rupprecht and Charlie Reichenville, tied to a Cambridge express liquor haul.
A brief note instructs to save an item for morning and bring it along at a time labeled as zero o'clock. The wording is informal and cryptic, lacking clear entities such as people or places.
Early morning sale in Boston promises 50 percent off cost on fine clothing and hats from James Walker & Co Rochester bankruptcy. The 20th Century Dept Stores advertises Men’s and Women’s apparel, suits, overcoats, hats, shoes, and underwear at deep discounts with extended hours and mail order options.
Mr and Mrs Elias Lathrop marked their 60th wedding anniversary at their 1160 Broadway Somerville home. He 81 and she 79, both born in Cambridge Vermont. They married Sept 22 1841 in their hometown and have lived in West Somerville 17 years. They attend North Avenue Baptist Church. Their daughter Mary Emerson of West Somerville survives.
Funeral services for Captain Moses Sargent, famed detective, were held at the home of his daughter Mrs Frank W Lawrence at 29 Longwood Avenue Stookline Zestendar. Interment followed at Mt Auburn Cemetery.
In the Ghetto the Kol Nidro service drew crowded synagogues as mournful prayers and pledges of forgiveness filled the air. Elders blessed younger relatives amid tears and vows of peace, recalling the mid years of Jewish history and endurance.
Edward Foster of Portsmouth was found on the graves of his parents in Newmarket at dawn after taking laudnum in a personal crisis. He died shortly afterward.
Advertising list of bronze and brass goods including onyx tables piano lamps port smokers tables jardiniere stands mirrors sconces hat racks and related items. Note mentions 10 000 life size portraits of late President McKinley purchased from engravers to be given gratis to customers. Various prices listed from 25 cents to five dollars.
In Spring Valley Illinois twenty armed anarchists guard the L Aurore office while 2000 neighboring citizens offer aid to oust them. Editor John Cabilli is in hiding as a plan to dismiss all known anarchists at Spring Valley Coal Company workers is pursued. A mass meeting threatens to ignite a riot.
The Duke and Duchess of York tour Rideau Hall then plan a lumber camp excursion on the Ottawa River. They attend a Cathedral service with guards and police present, and will travel in canoes to Rockliffe and lumber camps, with a public Senate reception planned in the evening.
Louis Schofield a 21 year old man died from gas inhalation after apparently blowing out a gas jet in his room at 483 Dudley Street Dorchester. He had been intoxicated when last seen about 11 30 Saturday night. The landlord Aubrey Balzer found him dead at 7 30 yesterday morning and investigators note the gas escaped from the extinguished jet. Schofield worked at Bests bakery on Cottage terrace Dorchester.
A Boston Sunday morning vignette shows a boy Georgie Turner and a large citizen escorting a green pear through Putnam Street. A reporter questions the boy as the police figure looms, while the pear and child are paraded past onlookers in a tongue in cheek police satire with lingering mischief and mock gravity.
The Board of Aldermen meets at 8 pm to hear the petitioners for revocation of the Old Colony street railway franchise to lay tracks. The move impacts Roslindale residents who have campaigned for a 5 cent fare for over two years.
The former Lowell mayor Jeremiah Crowley aged 69 died tonight leaving a widow and an adopted son.
Buffalo reports chemical and bacteriological tests show no poison on the bullets or the revolver used to kill President McKinley. Alienists assess Czolgosz’s mental state as trial preparations begin under tight security in Erie County jail and Buffalo City Hall.
Cleveland investigative reports suggest a plot to kill President McKinley may have formed over a year before his re election. Waldeck Czolgosz admitted sending a remittance to Leon under an alias, as detectives seek the source of the funds. Authorities expect Leon to confess and unravel the broader conspiracy.
Sept. 22 in New Town Queens Johann Most the Anarchist was arrested on a disorderly charge amid an alleged saloon meeting in Corona. Christian Fricke was seized for violating liquor tax law and keeping a disorderly house. Most spoke to a crowd of about 600 as officers boxed in the doorway.
Constantinople Sept. 22 An agent of the brigands who kidnapped Miss Eben H Stone the American missionary in Djumabala Vilayet of Balonika has been arrested at Baritza. Stone has not yet been rescued.
New York reports Ellen Stone of Chelsea Massachusetts an American missionary abducted by brigands in the Djuma region of European Turkey. Her Bulgarian companion remains missing as Turkish troops search the mountains. The Sultan orders action and ransom is not yet demanded.
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