The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-31

Boston, Mass, Dec. 2S.-District At
torney John B. Moran is causing more
excitement in Boston than the city has
had in many years. AS he makes one
move after another in carrying out his
campaign pledges matters begin to look
more serious for those in opposition to
him. The Boston board Of police COM
missioners have already been placed in
a peculiar position. They have under
taken to fight Moran, but up to the
present have not met with much sue
cess. The latter has carried his point
insofar as the four leading hotels of
Boston have acknowledged that they
have been violating the law, and have
given up their licenses. Applications
for new licenses have been made, and
if Mr.. Moran is disposed to push mat
ters it is very doubtful whether they
will be able to secure new licenses, as
the law provides that violators of the
law shall not receive another license for
at least year after the first have been
forfeited. The police commissioners
have been acting in such manner that
persons who were at first disposed to
side with them as against the sensa-
tionalism Of Moran have changed their
views, and even the liquor dealers now
declare that what he is doing will even
tually result in bringing about better
condition of affairs in Boston. Follow
ing the example Of District Attorney
Jerome in New York, Mr.. Moran asked
the police commissioners to assign spe-
| cial officers to collect evidence for him.
They refused and he applied to the
chief of the state police. The latter
consulted the governor, and the result
has been a long letter from the attorney
general which has been given different
interpretations; but the most significant
thing is that Mr.. Moran has not yet
been furnished with detectives, and he
has now taken steps to employ them on
his own account. The greatest curiosity
is felt in regard to the attitude of the
rest Of the state in the matter, for upon
the legislators from up-country will de-
pend the success of those who will en-
deavor to have the liquor laws amended.
Temperance sentiment, especially in the
country districts, is strong, and the
natural guardians Of the New England
metropolis. They have succeeded for
years in preventing the passage Of new
liquor laws, but there never has been an
agitation such as is now being carried
on, and it is felt that something will
surely be done to remedy matters.
The season brought several strange
romances. One was the marriage in
Brookline Of Mrs. Mary A.. Leighton,
a rich widow, who married the brother
Of her first husband, Joseph W. Leigh.
ton Of Hartford, vt. Both are consid-
erably over 60 years of age. Mrs
Leighton IS first husband was rich Bos-
ton manufacturer who died last year
at the age Of SO, and last summer his
brother, who had been frequent Wis
itor at the Brookline home, began to
pay marked attention to Mrs. Leighton
1 The groom has a fine estate in Vermont
and the couple will spend part of the
year there.
Even more remarkable was the recon.
Citation of Mr.. and Mrs. William Watts
at Vergennes, Vt. They ate their
Christmas dinner
Did This together, altho on
Thanksgiving Day
Ever Happen Mrs. Watts had
divorce, papers
to You? served on her hus
band. Mr.. Watts
is one of the owners Of Public Opinion
and was at one time assistant editor OF
the Review-of Reviews. Mrs. Watts is
): sister Of J. w. Ketchum, now serving
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