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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1907
Page
4
Harvey Chase & Co public accountants audit the Boston Consolidated Gas Company for July 1, 1906 to June 30, 1907. They verify assets and liabilities, trace receipts to bank deposits, and confirm no secret funds. They praise the bookkeeping system as well designed and well conducted and include a schedule of gas costs per thousand cubic feet.
Harvey S. Chase appears to attest that the audit report for the year ending June 30, 1907, is correct and true. He states the Cost of Gas per Thousand Cubic Feet has been thoroughly audited and the figures agree with the company books. Chauncey B. Allen signs as Justice of the Peace.
In Havana, Colonels Juan Masso Parra and Generals Juan Ducassi and Luis Lara Miret were arrested on conspiracy to disturb the public peace. Governor Magoon ordered their immediate detention after learning of plans to lead an uprising.
Solomon Robitscheck a 65 year old Lowell philanthropist poet and clothier was found guilty by a United States District Court jury of attempting to blackmail the Salvation Army. Co defendant Bennett Silverblatt a 25 year old Lowell lawyer was acquitted. Robitscheck left the courthouse after the verdict and did not appear as promised. He had written a poem The Starvation Army and sought 30000 from General Booth. He sent letters to Ransome Caygill treasurer of the army threatening public ridicule. Silverblatt said he knew nothing of the communications until Robitscheck brought a letter to him. The case is expected to bring Robitscheck to surrender today. He is free on $1000 bail.
The report says three men fomented the revolt in New York, claiming Parra Ducassi and Miret urged enlistment with Japan backing the uprising. Governor Magoon met with generals and aides then relayed a cipher to Roosevelt. He believes the uprising has been nipped in the bud.
William Ward of Concord Massachusetts a farmer's helper died yesterday afternoon on Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge when he slipped from his wagon seat and fell onto cobblestone. The wagon passed over his arm crushing it and he died instantly.
Dr. Hugo von Hagen, a German baron and mining expert, files five suits in New York against Anthony Blum, Boston mine promoter, seeking an accounting of the Laurentian gold mine of Canada. Blum, who controls 99 percent of the mine, denies removing two million dollars in ore though von Hagen asserts substantial losses.
John M Ney a former State Senator and Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor two years ago was found dead in his Hartford bed today.
About 250 lasters left W. L. Douglas shoe factories in Brockton after management refused to recognize Thomas B. Hickey of the Independent Union of Shoe Factory Operatives. The dispute centers on damaged shoes charged to a laster and the company’s contract with the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union. The walkout followed Hickey's demand for recognition and the company’s pledge to honor its existing contract. The union's walkout vote kept workers out as managers threatened to hire replacements.
Cyrus Baldwin an 85 year old Kane county farmer and prominent local figure confessed in Chicago today that he killed his wife aged 85 after a quarrel over their property division.
Retail druggists from across the nation gathered at Symphony Hall for the United Drugs Company stockholders dinner closing the fifth annual meeting. Over 800 were present as L. R. Leggett presided with Melvin M. Johnson as toastmaster. speakers included A. S. Seibert Thomas Voegels Charles R. Sherman Jerome A. Crane and Fred Rogers.
Captain A J Henderson of the revenue cutter Thetis confirms a violent eruption of Mt Makushin and notes a new peak rising from the sea near Seattle on September 26.
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