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Three Drowned in Schooner’s Wreck

18 Others Saved as Vessel Grounds Off Mass. Coast

OWN FAULT OF VICTIMS

Those Who Lost Lives Returned To Ship To Get Belongings—Another Daring Sea Rescue Reported

Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 10 (AP)—Three members of the fishing schooner Ralph Brown‘s crew lost their lives today when the vessel was driven ashore in the blizzard off Briar Neck. Eighteen others, including the captain, reached shore safely. Although all suffered from exposure and cold.

Had Returned To Boat

The three men who lost their lives were drowned after they, with other members of the crew, had gone back to the schooner to get their clothes and other belongings after she had been washed to tho shore. The others managed to get off before a huge wave struck the 100 foot craft and drove her farther out to sea, but the victims found themselves helpless as the ship was battered by the roaring breakers. The vessel was pounded to pieces.

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Labor Riots at Lawrence, Mass

Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a parade of peaceful strikers. The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World.

A serious labor trouble has prevailed at Lawrence, Mass., this week, resulting from the strike of 15,000 textile workers. In changing from a 56 to a 54-hour week, the mills reduced wages accordingly. The hands wanted the full week’s pay. Now they demand an increase of 15 per cent, double pay for overtime and the abolition of the premium system. There was so much rioting that eight companies of the state militia were ordered to reinforce the police and civil officers. The state hoard of arbitration is trying to bring about a settlement, and there were indications yesterday that the troubles would soon be settled.

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Klan Disorders Rock Bay State

GUNS BLAZE, DOZEN HURT IN KKK RIOT

Police of Three Towns Unable to Restore Order in Massachusetts Battle

STATE TROOPS CALLED

Band of Klansmen Besieged in Cellar, Rescued From Mob of 500 Rioters

West Wood, Mass., Aug. 3. (AP)—Injury to a dozen or more persons, the wrecking of a farm house in the Islington district here, and the arrest of three men for carrying concealed weapons was the aftermath of the Ku Klux Klan’s first attempt to hold a meeting in the district since the state police stopped supplying guards for Klan gatherings.

Mob of Five Hundred

The meeting in a field of the Boston, Providence highway here yesterday, ended in a riot which the police of three towns were unable to quell. A mob of 500 anti-Klan sympathizers and three score Klansmen staged a pitched battle with fists, rocks and brick bats. Although fire arms were in evidence, no shots were fired.

Klansmen Escape

Most of the Klansmen escaped in their cars, but a few were bottled up on the south Stephen Illisleey where they huddled in the cellar while every window and much of the furniture disintegrated under a hail of rocks from the outside. Among those injured by flying missiles were Bernice Lee and May Wheeler of Waltham.

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July 14, 1862 – Death of Col. Cass

Colonel Cass, of the 9th Massachusetts Regiment

The gallant commander of the ninth Massachusetts regiment died at his residence in Boston, Saturday morning, from injuries received in the battle of July 1st. Col. Cass was an old resident of Boston, an old member of the volunteer militia, and his position and popular qualities gave him great influence among his Irish fellow-citizens. When the war broke out he immediately tendered his services towards raising the regiment which he has since commanded. The regiment has done noble service, and has met with fearful losses. Officers and privates who knew no fear, and no other place of duty that that of danger, have fallen like leaves before an untimely storm.

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Rythmic Tread Of Too Many Dancers Caused The Crash

Police, firemen, and officials view the remains of the collapsed Pickwick Club.

Boston, July 5 (AP)—Fire Chief Daniel F. Sennot placed the blame for the collapse of the Pickwick Club building here yesterday on the management of the club.

“The building was allowed to become overcrowded,” he declared, “and the tremendous weight, combined with the rythmic tread of the dancers was too much for the walls and floors. The fire of a few months ago had nothing to do with the collapse, as the damage from that was confined entirely to the floors above the club.”

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Craft Stranded in Boston Harbor Due to Heavy Fog

Boston, Feb. 10—Several craft were aground tonight in Boston harbor as the result of trying to find their way through the dense fog which almost without intermission has shrouded the shipping channels today.

The British steamer City of Boston, carrying a cargo from the Orient and bound for New York, edged out of dock this morning. After being held in the upper harbor until this afternoon, she attempted to run out when the vapor bank lifted momentarily. The fog suddenly descended again and the ship grounded on the mud of the lower middle. It was believed that she would be re-floated at high tide tonight.

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Eel Skin Gloves

Commenting on the use of eel skin for gloves, a Gloversville correspondent says: Eel skin makes a glove that is smooth, flexible and equal in appearance to real kid, and…
Posted inUS Civil War

December 7, 1861 – The Mountain Empire

The Philadelphia Press calls attention to an article by Rev Dr Breckinridge, the loyal uncle of the great Kentucky traitor, published in the Danville Review, and entitled The “Civil War; its Nature and End.” A very striking portion of it describes the Union feeling existing in the mountain regions of Western Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, which Dr Breckinridge aptly terms “the mountain empire.”

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Hold “Conny, the Rat” in Shooting of Boston Policemen

Boston, Dec. 1—Cornelius Moriarty, known in Boston’s South End district, the police said, as “Conny, the Rat,” was booked at police headquarters shortly before midnight tonight on a warrant charging him with assault with a dangerous weapon on a police officer in performance of his duties, in connection with the shooting last Saturday night of Patrolmen Thomas K. McCabe and Joseph F. Condon. Both officers are still on the danger list in a hospital here as a result of bullet wounds received following a holdup in the Back Bay district.

Picked up in the police dragnet after several witnesses had said that pictures of him resembled the man who shot down the two officers and then forced a taxi driver at gun point to drive hint away. Moriarty tonight denied any connection with the crime.

“I didn’t shoot those cops,” he told the Inspector who arrested him, and a moment later said, the detective asserted, “If I’d known you were out to get me it would be you and I all over the street and it would be you going to the station house.”