Boston Daily Globe (Newspaper) - January 17, 1896, Boston, Massachusetts A LITTLE WANT in aays get you what you want whether it is little or TRY IT AND SHE I Wants But thats what the float whether he wants Or the quickest way to get it la sorting a WANT AD IN SUNDAYS VOL JANUARY PRICE TWO CENTS GREAT ASSIGNEES SALE OF Clothing We close re marking our Entire Stock to ess than OneHalf of Cost to We shall open With the Greatest Unloading Sale of FINE CLOTHING Ever Held In Boston or BOYS AND CHILDRENS Ulsters Trousers AT ABOUT NO REASONABLE Central Clothing House 408 WASHINGTON Per Order Assignees BOSTON LAD NEARLY While Skating Near Weston He Broke Through Into the Swiftly Running Jan a young Boston had a narrow escape from drowning In the Charles river near Weston this after Young Chase was and ventured too close to the edge of the ice just above the The outer edge had been worn thin by the swift cur and broke under his The water at this spot la and the stream runs like a The boy was rapidly down the stream when his cries were heard by a young man from Waltham named Cav who at hurried to his as With the aid of a fence rail he suc In drawing the drowning boy to After young Chase had been dry clothing at a neighboring house he left for noihe very little the for hla cold THE Jan For New Hampshire and cloudy and threatening slightly warmer south be V coming I M K Rhode Island and Increasing probably followed by snow at night shifting to For eastern New cloudy and followed by snow In south ern portion at night south shift ing to Local probably followed by rain or snow Friday slightly va riable CONTENTS OF fuge Tenants Of three houses on Bast ton st overcome by gas from leak in the sUeet main child found dead and two aged Women seriously Death of Hon Charles Theodore Rus Democratic national convention to be held in Chicago July Two little girls assaulted and the assailant African church of Chelsea trams a paid note with due Boston lad skating near Auburndale nearly Pope Loo proposes to act as arbitra tor between England and the United beats the bowl ers state league and other Russian press hostile to Managers of an Indecent phonograph held In ball for womens auxiliaries first district Williams student nearly fatally hurt In the Meeting of executive committee of the I horse show to be held In this New Bedford and Salem win polo Adrian Anson Issues his annual base ball Page Middlesex clubs ladles night ban quet and Brilliant wedding reception on New bury Schooner William Wilson run down and sunk off Chatham fate of her crew Pace Merchants club has a doctors Common council will appoint commit tee to protest the abolition of the Fire on the U S S Pace 5 South Boston citizens association meets for of topics of vi tal Importance to the peninsular dis Charles Horns experiences in trying to be an honest Frank Rice swindled Maine busi ness Convicts help to fight a fire In Sing Sing Henry Irvines son engaged to Do rothy as has taken London by Bold highwaymen rob a Missouri Pa train Autopsy reveals two bullet wounds In trie head of James whose body floated association enjoys Its second annual News from the News from the state Harry of N arrested In Boston on a charge of his Warren Hobbs Installed pastor of st Fifteen Manchester liquor sellers fined a total of Page Arrangements for the funeral of Mar tin which will take place In Saturday at 11 a Brig Brewer denies that Commander was withdrawn from ha command of the Salvation army In his country because he had tried to Anglicize his followers Page Extent which New ance companies by Jewett store works in Sudden death of William wellknown business mart the ol Steamer Barnstable libeled by owners of the schooner sunk In the collision off Highland light Monday Chairman Paul announces his stand ing committees of the school Real estate Awards at the cat and pigeon exhibition at Mechanics Ten counterfeiters captured In New Pave Important auction sales of horses and Page Career of Rev called from to the Phillips Congregational church of South Mayor remains away from city hall to make up his for annual Charles James McQuade ant William alleged held fo the grand Roxbury flat ransacked by burglars and property valued at Basin 6 of the Boston water system Just Terse statement of the situation In Seventytwo hour boiler test by stu dents of the Institute of New England Christian association goes on record as opposed to secret 9o ANOTHER VETERAN Hon Charles Theodore Russell Has Passed from Father of the and Himself Distinguished for His Legal Attainments and His Public The Temperature as Indicated by the thermometer a Thompsons spa Sam 6 a m 11 9 a iff 13 m 3pm 8pm 9pm 12 mid average tempera ture yesterday 21 The Weather Saturdays weather now promises to be overcast probably stormy with rain or snow in the follower by clearing and colder weather in th afternoon or but with no extrem winds from northerly PI Police of division 4 raided the building at 6 Warren ton pi yesterday afternoon securing a policy printing two BRING IN YOUR WANT ADS early for next Sunday to secure proper classification in New Englands leading want African Church of Chelsea Burn a Note for Which Has Bee Paid by Hard and Earnest A service was held with great re at the African church last evening to burn a paid not for part ot the Indebtedness The little band of colored people wh have built the church and kept Its hea above water are working heroically t make their undertaking a an getting this block of debt out of th way brings genuine enjoyment to them Many including five of other joined them last evening In their r Rev presiding elder of th presided over the Re boxes manifold Joca ffi blank slips and a dream The property was valued at several hundred They also arrested Louis Ste Fred Foster and aged re 21 and 35 Although many lots of goods have been closed out during our markdown sale ot Overcoats and Suits in Mens and Departments we have still a good stock to select from at prices which cannot but be ap predated by the careful Macullar Parker 400 Washington the Central Congrega led in This wa followed by a praise service led by th Rev Mr Morgan gave statement of the clal conditions during his Rev Charles pastor the Central Congregational made a congratulatory which Frightful Assault on Two Little Man Camel Aiay in a Condition of One of the Children Tenants of three Houses on East Canton St Face and Head Pounded by the Assailant Police Hunting for the HON CHARLES THEODORE Charles Theodore the eminent father of ex Gov died at last at hla 69 The causa of his death was pneumo from which he had been Buffering for several but which did not as sume a dangerous character until yes Mr although 81 years of enjoyed unusually good health up to a short time A week ago last Tues day was the last day he attended to his business affairs at his Boston He was suffering from bronchial trou and from that time on remained In his Last Monday pneumonia de but no serious result was an Yesterday forenoon the case took a decidedly unfavorable and on ad vice of Dr Swan ex Gov William Russell and other members of the fam ily were and once re paired to his Mr Russell was conscious tothe and conversed with the members of the family up to within a few minutes of his which was very Funeral services will be held at the Shepard memorial at 3 oclock Charles Theodora Russell was born on Nov He was of the eighth generation of the family In this Mr Russells father was for many years a merchant of the town of for more than a generation was town clerk and representa tive to the general court for eight con and four years In the He also served for three years In the governors Charles Theodore Russell lived at Princeton until lie was 17 years His father being a country the boy enjoyed an occasional visit to He fitted for college at a little academy that for a time was established in Princeton by Rev Warren and he owed all other preparatory tion that he received to Rev Dr who was settled as a Congregational minister at The fathers legislative duties took him away from home In the winters while Charles Theodore Russell was flt for and the young man was obliged to give up part of his time to the work keeping his fathers store and filling the office For all he was only 17 years old when he entered Harvard college in He graduated fourth in his and at commencement he delivered the salu address In Three years later he took the degree of master of and at that time the then usual In An unknown man criminally assaulted two little girls about 6 last night on the marsh which borders the Mystic river near East Not content with his cruel assault the fiend pounded the face and head of one of his victims In a terrible The children are Emily 7 daughter of Isaac 111 and Minnie B daughter of Daniel 131 Bast It was the elder that was Both the little girls are at their in a critical Emily Is the more seriously The children are pupils In the Bennett They have been in the habit of playing much and after school was dismissed yesterday with their they were playing on Lln wood At 7 oclock their parents becoming alarmed at long absence went out to look for the and met them dragging themselves wearily and pain fully The story they told la this Just before as nearly as they can they were on not far from their A man drove up In a wagon resembling the vehicles used by stopped the horse beside the curbing and spoke pleasantly to the little Ho asked them If they would not like a and by a little coaxing persuaded them to climb into the school near called the Smith after its and this school was set anart the children of the very long distances to from South and East Boston to get to this and this lii all sorts of The led by the late Robert and under tho advice of Phil lips and appealed from this condition of and the application was referred to a special committee ot which Rev Dr brother the was The committee reported against the but Charles Theodore alone of tho ami wrote an elaborate minority He stood by the theory that the colored children should be admitted to the pub lic schools on an equality with the white Next year he was Incontinently dropped from the but under the influence or Phillips and Garrison the AntiSlavery society presented to him very complimentary the negroes went wild over their young In 1841 he was elected a member of state legislature from Again in 1846 he was sent to the out In 1846 he declined another In the campaign between Mr Polk and Henry Clay he participated very active that time he was made secretary of the whig state central com of which Jonathan Chapman was For 13 weeks during each of two polit ical campaigns the committee published a campaign paper called the setts Jonathan Chapman and Mr Russell were the editors and pub i He was active and conspicuous in the campaign for Gen and In tie consented to stand for the house and was In the fall of that year the famous coalition came He wont through a Very hot campaign for Robert Wln throp for governor of Mr received a large plurality of but a majority was and he did not get the He the study of law In the office of Henry John An who was to become one of Massa most famous was a student there at the and the two young men formed a warm which ever remained In 1839 Mr Russell entered the law school at and studied under Prof and Justice At the same time he was appointed a proc tor in the After a year at Cnm i he spoke of having been associated bridge he was admitted to the bar pn while at college with a former pastor of the recommendation of Prof Greenleaf the Rev He told of the strong affection he had for his colored nurse when a He said he was clad to observe the small amount of In Chelsea against the colored Rev Reccord of the Unitarian church warned the church against the apathy which he said often followed He spoke of experiences with Booker After remarks by Rev Noble and Rev Da vla of N formerly of Chel the note wan with humor ous remarks by Rev George Collyer of the Walnut st Watertown Jan 16At the regu lar meeting of Watertown this the following cers were Installed Peter John Gallagher vice Michael Daley Sevler tin A banquet followed tho formal and addresses were made by the newly elected Lung Kuro cures Hacking and Justice He was In partnership with Mr Fuller two and in 1841 he started Two years later he moved Into the office In Brazers building at the head of State where he remained until about three years ago Charles Theodore Russell married Sarah the daughter of Jo seph the leading merchant of Boston of hta Miss was distinguished for her beauty and her re markable She num bered among her warm friends Henry Clay and Daniel Webster and many celebrated men of tbat Mr Russell was very successful In his law His first public office wan that ol member of the school committee ol It was early In the ana the ne of Boston were not allowed U attend tho public schools In company with the white There was a Charles Theodore Russell was elected to the state and became the leader of his parly This was the legislature by a strange combina after u most protracted elected Charles Sumner U S senator over Robert who had been appointed to the office to fill a He maintained Ms lead In the senate and the next year he was He was the candidate of his party for president of the In 1851 ho delivered the annual Fourth of July oration before the authori ties of The same year he de livered the address Inaugurating the Young Mens Christian the established In the He wag Its second He declined a for the senate and a nomination for the con convention of That year he spent In In 1854 tho destroyed the whig They offered him their nomination for but he de to have anything to do with the In 1866 he joined the He had moved to Cambridge the year before and In 1880 he was nominated for state senator on the democratic ticket and defeated by a very small In 1861 he was elected mayor of Cam He entered then upon a very active career In conjunction with the state authorities in Oiling up quotas of state In this work ho was as with Gov He visited the army on several occasions to look after the Massachusetts His efforts were very successful In recruit and under hla direction Cambridge offered the first large He was elected mayor In He de another unanimous election tho next and several times thereafter he declined nominations for the mayor In 1876 ho was elected to the state sen Tho girls say that they were at onco subjected to several The man asked their the place of their the names of their par their own In the meantime the children failed to note the streets through which they were being The littlo ones are only able to say that they were driven st along Washington st beneath the Low ell bridge to a side street which led to They are unable to state whether or not it was Broadway that was but from their description tho police Infer that such was the case After crossing Broadway the girls driven Into a street which op tho Mystic and from there Into a The police are of the opinion that the marsh Is in the vicinity of Nunnery The man drove the wagon to tho ceil tor of this and reach Ing seized hold the As he dragged her to the ground she seemed to realize his and re slated and cried In a pitiful manner to be allowed to go The brute showing no tho lit tie child fought with sail the and energy at the command oC lie small arms and Her struck her several blows in the faue Both her eyes were and tooth was knocked Her lips war beaten to a and her forehead an cheeks were bruised black and He throat was finally grasped in such brutal manner that marks of finger were plainly discernible some hours af with as much savagery as h had attacked the brute his attention to She was H thoroughly terrified that she was and to make strenuous re and her assailant easily sub dued Htt then put the girls Into the wagor and telling them that If they made a outcry he would surely kill them h drove from the His course from that point has not yet been but the little ones were pu down near the corner of Cross and Al aton They were In such a condition tha they could hardly Blood wa streaming down the face of Emily an her general appearance was appalling They walked slowly down Medford st t Mrs Carney saw the coming along Washington Bt and hur up to It was then about Dr Thomas medical examine of the made an ex and states that the fiend ac Ills purpose In both case He considers condition pro Tho expressions of the fathers were o the most decided Mr Game declared that the hangmans noose would never be called upon to settle the affairs of the assailant If ho ever saw The police so far ore baffled In their attempts to learn who the assailant The girls can give only an Indefinite de They agree that he wore dark clothes and wore a beard of a few days The police hope they have located the and they have learned that the man was about 20 years of age and went toward Charlestown after putting the girls down on the Two Aged Women Seriously Affected and 21 Others Because of a Bad Leak in the Street Windy City Captures foe Convention Toot 29 Ballots Before flute St Louis Made Gallant If Losing Fight Mined His Hold on Moving a attempted to board a car of a moving train at the Residents of that section of East Can on st between Harrison av and Albany t were In a high state of excitement nil f caused by escaping gas rom a street which filled a three block and resulted In the death of a girl baby and the ng of the lives ot more than 100 The casualty list DEAD MAY 18 daughter at Alexander 89 Bast Canton SERIOUSLY AFFECTED Mrs Mary 77 88 East Canton At It Was thought she was but last evening she had greatly Improved and her recovery is Miss Catherine an elderly 88 Hast Canton st Condition precarious all of PARTIALLY Miss Mary 24 88 East Canton Miss Jennie 24 88 East Canton Mrs Mary 88 East Canton Robert 9 88 East Can ton Annie 88 East Canton Mrs Ella 88 East Canton Mrs John 88 East Jennie Frances IB SS Canton Alexander 89 East Canton Mrs Florence 89 East Can lon John 8 East Canton Mrs Henry 89 East Canton Mrs J 89 East Canton Mrs 89 Bust Canton Miss Margaret 89 East Can ton Miss Sadlo East Canton William 10 East Canton Mrs William 90 East Can ton 90 East Canton Mrs Hannah 90 East Canton Charles 12 years 90 East Can ton Besides the persons mentioned there were a score or more vhp slightly affected by the A half South end physicians were obliged to give their whole attention to their patients on that street during tho At 88 everybody In the have lost their lives hud not one ol the tenants been out attending a lodge To his return at 2 In tho morning and the discovery ot the ten ants dancer they owe their Tho man was John When he got homo his baby was his wife badly and two other per sons In the houso deaths Across the In hotel ventilation saved the Gnu filled from cellar to but a building became mixed with the poisonous gas and destroyed Its Immediate 89 is an apartment house known as the It is a big brick struc the south the with 20 all which were Early Wednesday evening the Henry who Is also tho agent of the building and an adjoining apartment the detect ed escaping Thinking that one of jets was open ho no attention to It at the At he tho odor wan and thinking that there was leak In tho cellar I went down stairs to I couldnt find the but shut off the supply In the Mr Hughes thought that by shutting ofC the supply to the building from tho main the trouble would be and so wont to At he awoke with a and discovered his par His suite was filled with After frequent applications of cold water to his head he was able to leave his Then he began an Inves and he the whole building filled with In the upper suites It was oven worse than In his which Is on the lower Many of the tenants were found to be aware of tho leak when the janitor went them to Inform them of their The most of them were tick from and many were hav ing fainting It was In this houso that the girl baby Alexander with his wife and three occupied a lower suite According he at His youngest was 11 with whooping cough and when got up he went to the crib where she lay She appeared to be all right but very Mr awoke again an hour His head seemed splitting from his stomach and It was with that he succeeded in from his Going to his daughters crib he found her cold In Mrs McSwain was but the hus band succeeded In reviving her and then went for a Florence am the other were also suf fering from the effects of the Dr Thompson and Dr Fernald attended the Asked If the gas caused the childs death they expressed the Unit It hastened although give a answer without performing an autopsy or mak New Dropped Out as a his was badly He wrapped a shawl around his wife and Went to the window to get fresh Mm was very and It was with difficulty that she The air restored the Then Mr went into the carrying a He did not think that there was enough gas Into the building to cause any danger by this but when ho Rot to the cellar he found that It was pouring In through the and it seems miraculous that there wasnt an As It there camo near being At tho collar door he noticed a blue flame coming from the He rushed to tho street door and extin the Ho discovered that tho gas was com ing from the Then he opened all of the doors and tho skylight giving a good In the meantime Mrs fearing that others In the building might have suffered more than went among the different She found Mrs Pur dy and Miss Powers They each lived Mrs was lying prone upon the where she had fallen while trying to get to the win Miss Powers was found In a piti ful and physicians were by her bedside the greater part of the Careful an the part of Mrs and good medical attention brought the two out of danger before and there is hope of their ulti mate At 00 tho neighbors say the scone was one which might be expected to trans pire In a The Corcoran family was In a great state of Tho family ln dudos wife Anna and on William who Is Tho latter uid the front room and breathed the as for The father was affected be ng made halt Ho yelled and tamped around the house and tried to awake his He found the son stupe and U was with difficulty that he The father has a heart and it was feared hut he would lot but late last night he was considered out of On the third floor lives Mrs Millikon with her married and a The hitter Is the boy They were all af Cody lives In a room over occupied by the Corcoran and was but recovered before As a matter of fact there was hardlj a on that part of the street that gas did not penetrate to Home ox All day long was per The loak was found to be In a pipe aid on the northerly aide of the The spot from which tho gaa escaped wan directly in front of and but few feet from the Regarding the manner in which the gas got into the houses the workmen employed by the company said owing to tho It had worked Itself downward Instead of to the through tha soft places and nto the cither through the floor or through tho As to the probability of blame being on the a resident of the street said There Is no ono to Had tho company known that the pipe was and had neglected to at tend to the the matter would have been different but no one knew that Uio gas was until It was too As soon as It was discovered workmen wore sent In response to the and they fixed the Dale Fixed After a Somewhat Lengthy Jamaica Plain elation early yesterday Ing a vory The on the Tilled father telt certain that It for the little one was getting batter when the morning and sustaining u com pound fracture of the Ho removed to the UHS was noticed In the whore he died ftt 1 u Hu was b7 and lived at 303 West Man Held Up on Prospect Michael Doyle of 1C Marlon reported at the Joy at sta tion at laHt night that ho had been on Prospect st by four who knocked him down and relieved him of a gold watch and worth He could give no description of his Blake Still Jan 10Sllas a wellknown resident of Glen who was seriously Injured by falling dawn at his la atil from the effects of his and the doctors have hope of his Lung Kuro cures The Sparrow family had u narrow The mother U able to bo ubou the out the two daughters are 11 In A 14monthsold baby of Mrs for breath all day but Is not believed to be dangerously At 88 the gaa wua probably felt tho It was In this that Mi He had been to a lodgi meeting In and returned a 2 In the On entering the ha ho noticed the odor of He knew that the pipes did not enter the house and that there wua a leak It tho main und that U had Ita way Into the He lives on the third and belor making an aa to the cause went to 864 how his family Jen POPE LEO AS A Has Proposed to Act as Arbitrator Between Great Britain and the United Jan Chronicle will tomorrow publish a dispatch from Homo saying that tho through Cardinal has made semiofficial offer to Pres to act as arbitrator be tween Great Britain und tho United The dispatch adds It Is believed that his holiness will Instruct Cardinal to sound Lord on the though was much hurt by Great Britains refusal of his offer to arbitrate between her and Ven In BEADY TO OLD Jan 7 named today by the national demo cratic committee as the date for hold ing the national and after 21 ballots Chicago was chosen as the The full committee went Into execu tive session shortly after 11 oclock to consider the various matters that will come before The principal work of the session re lated to the various resolutions fixing the date on which the convention shall be held Mr Allen Thurman of who held the proxy for New offered a resolution fixing the date for June Mr Thomas of Colorado amend ed this by fixing the date on June while Mr Wallace of Washington of another amendment providing for June Mr Ellison of Virginia opposed June as it with the con federate which will occur at Richmond on that He thought July 7 would be more Other speakers objected to June 30 as being likely to carry the convention Into the fourth day of to which there seemed to be considerable opposi Thereupon Mr Wallace of Wash ington moved that July 7 be agreed The roll was and 32 mem bers supported the with IS voting In the while one mem ber refrained from At tho committee took a recess until 3 At 3 oclock the banquet room of the brilliantly lighted decorated with the national flag In all varieties of was thrown open to all who had cards of and soon every seat At chairman rapped for order and directed the roll of states to be so as to know definitely the cities which desired to have the con He stated that then these cities would be called In their alpha so as to have the claims of each for which purpose a half was to be The state to be reached having a competitive city was and on Us behalf the city of Chicago was pro In due succession came St New York and Judge of Chicago was the speaker for that He said that Chicago claimed to be the best conven tion city In the United It had tho best facilities for entertaining the vast and its transportation fa were Gentle said Judge If you want to win come to You have never elected and seated a democratic president who was not nominated In Unit city since The claims of Cincinnati were pre sented by Messrs Ingalls and Mr Ingalls said that Cincinnati had had no convention since She had the bast hall in the world for political con and she had ample transpor tation facilities and fine hotel accom Waldo president of the New York grocers presented tha of New York He mentioned tho many attractions at the great and a week In New York was a liberal education 1 and a university course The claims of New York were further J urged by Simon Mr by Col John Ex Gov Francis of Missouri then ad tho claims of St SI he had a public hall thai would accommodate SI Louis had been tried as a city and had proved equal to the Missouri for 25 years had cast electoral vote for the democratic Mr Francis said that the republicans j were claiming the He that the convention be hold at St Loula In f Lake Captains at Detroit Fledge Support to the United Jan 10 the session ot the lake curriers association hero today the dispatch from Toronto stating that the lake captains were In session and had offered their services to the Brit ish government should present compli cations render such was read and a resolution was adopted that the members of the lake carriers associa tion tender their craft to the U S gov for toe In case the present complications a serious Useful Boofe Given ABT liai recently a Work and that tut in table iray pin with Thu together with will be sent freo to any realtor who for tha at coupon ami a to COUPON This any rentier af The it OIK at fancy Art Oteo and Home Tlie above offer U to the Diamond and to get book upon dyeing Into tha ol woman who want to well by clothing look like Ilio nut him bouu the trd for nearly twenty aail thai their ula from year to U pott live tbat they Imra never Imil on Continued on the Third A FINE The Drawing Room the sofa of which is here bears the im press of the pseudoclassic taste which characterized tho style of the best furniture in the early part of this There is a strong suggestion Sheraton in the peculiar outlines these frames anil in the The suit Is notably and cannot fall to It part an air of elegance to the dingiest The covering is a silk with a profusion of flowers and trail Ing vines in natural colors on a sof The frames are Mexican mahogany with rare inli of Spanish ced V We emphasize once more the ve low prices that we are quoting thl season on drawing room Paine Furniture 48 aVSa
