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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1904
Page
5
Dispatches from upstate leaders around the Fifth Avenue Hotel reveal deep strain in Republican ranks. Officials and governorchairman efforts fail to stem the drift, with most believe the State ticket faces crushing defeat, though such remarks remain unspoken in public.
James B Connolly athlete and writer and Miss Elizabeth F Hurley married yesterday morning at St Augustine's Church Dorchester street South Boston. The couple met at Harvard during his war service and later wrote books. Guests filled the church and reception followed at Mrs Hurley's West Fifth street home.
Front dispatches from St. Petersburg report continuous outpost skirmishes along the Liao and Taitse rivers as General Kuropatkin maintains contact with Japanese forces. The main Japanese force is centered near the Yentai mines while fresh troops and convalescents flow into Mukden. Reinforcements arrive, the railway from Mukden aids supply lines, and losses at Port Arthur are noted on the Chinese side.
Two chorus girls Bessie Scanlon and Jennie Prescott were arrested in Lowell while trying to pawn a $200 diamond ring. They claimed Nashville origins and told conflicting tales of meeting two rich young men in Boston. The ring was telegraphed to police and inspectors escorted the pair to Boston as detectives investigate. The suspects expect discharge.
King George of Saxony is much weaker. All members of the royal family living in Dresden have gathered at Pillnitz, the summer residence of the Saxon court.
James McGuiness fifty of 17 Laconia street Samuel Eaton thirty three of Stonington Missouri and an unknown companion were rescued after a boat capsized in Fort Point Channel late last evening. Drawtenders Gookin and Hickey aided by launching a boat recovered the men and rushed them to City Hospital with Eaton revived and McGuiness in critical condition feared dead.
Miss Lillian Louise Eckhoff daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Lewis Eckhoff of 65 Eleanor Street Chelsea and William Henry Bigglestone of Chelsea were married at 730 last night at the Horace Memorial Free Baptist Church Rev Alvin Robbins officiating Bridesmaids were Mabel and Florence Bigglestone maid of honor Myra Eckhoff and flower girl Miriam Martin Best man Rudolph Emerson The bride is prominent in Chelsea society.
James A. Murphy stabbed Herbert H. Smith in the Charles Town State Prison during a march. Both convicts had been lovers of the same woman, a feud lighted by an old love affair. Smith was wounded four inches in the back and Murphy placed in a confinement cell. Prison doctors could not determine Murphy's sanity due to excitement. The pair were imprisoned five months ago for terms of 8 to 16 years.
A tall, stylish woman struck a pursuing masher on Lagrange Street last evening. A middle aged flashy man briefly joined her, then she swung and landed multiple blows, sending him sprawling to the pavement.
Mr. Wolf outlines a store policy at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets to protect patrons from high prices on popular merchandise. He stresses a low profit, high volume model focused on serving customers, offering money back on request as a core principle, and rejects the notion of selling for maximum profit.
Miss May Handy married James Brown Potter of New York in Richmond Virginia with only Mrs W Frank Powers as witness. The couple leaves for New York and plans a month in Paris. The bride, daughter of Navy Captain Edward Handy, wed Bishop Potter relative James Brown Potter. Potter’s first wife was Cora Urquhart, mother of their child Fifi.
Miss Adeline H Hanley daughter of Captain John H Hanley of Division 16 married William M Murphy of Roxbury at St Joseph's Church parochial residence Roxbury last evening. Rev Father Moylan officiated. A reception followed at Captain Hanley's 7 Abbottsford street with Miss Mary F Hanley as attendant and Edward Murdy as best man. Mrs Murphy leaves today for a Southern trip.
Dr Phineas J Horwitz of Philadelphia died at Bar Harbor Maine after a long illness. He served as head of Tampico Hospital during the Mexican War, later medical inspector and director in the United States Navy, retiring in 1884. He also led the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery after the Civil War and worked on tabulating war casualty data.
A Bingville town meeting held with the board of trade discussed constructing a new town hall after the old one burned last spring. Residents debated costs, taxes, and options, with opinions ranging from a $15 minimal structure to at least $25, plus consideration of borrowing and size. The report notes the meeting’s lighthearted tone and references the Bingville Bugle from the funny paper.
Ex Mayor Alexander B. Bruce of Lawrence toured Boston and told a Post reporter he won the Democratic nomination fairly for the Fifth District. He said he already held 87 pledged delegates out of the 67 to which the convention is entitled.
In Philadelphia at the National Athletic Club Hughey McGovern and Tommy Murphy of New York battled six swift rounds before a crowded arena. With no decision allowed by law, spectators declared the bout a strong draw.
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