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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 03, 1886

Page

3

Hopedale Bill Sparks House Clash Over Lobby Tactics

Debates in the Massachusetts House over the Hopedale incorporation bill prompt protests by Mr Stratton of Milford and accusations of paid lobby influence. Arguments accuse the Draper family and temperance forces, with calls to read newspapers and fight division, while final votes and senate plans loom.

Hoves Hopedale Stratton Milford Drapers Mason Worcester R. Stratton Statter Harrington Fall River Medford Wheeler Bolton Third House Knights of Labor Oxley Ashland Draper Draper Sons Bancroft Drapera Buffalo Bill Republican Party Temperance Adams House Statea O-ton Commonwealth

Substitute for the arbitration bill introduced in Plymouth

Representative Lord of Plymouth proposes a county arbitration board to settle employer employee disputes. The measure sets eligibility for workplaces with 25 or more workers and outlines selection, hearings, reporting, and enforcement procedures with a three week filing deadline.

Sail Board Pobate

Senate defeats junket order as Howes Norris away on railroad business

Senators vote 17 to 5 against approving a trip for the State House committee to Albany and Hartford to view capitols. Hayes and Joslin blamed for failing to back the measure, with a plan to reconsider on Tuesday and possibly pay own expenses. Contested election cases move to shelving Blue Book printing due to bulk concerns while Lilley presses pricing and binding issues.

Senate Amy Howes Norris Cottage City Créer House State House Committee Albany Hartford Messrs Hayes Joslin Aber Bayoton Douglas Danbar Forbes Gleaton Gunn Harlow Joyner Kendricken Lilley Milliken Morse Naphen Xourse Reed Wilbur Cogswell Switcminrely Election Laws Committee Expenditures Committee Morrill

Meryon etchings on display at Boston Art Museum

The Meryon etchings are loaned by Messrs Keppel & Co S P Avery and Howard Mansfield of New York and C C Perkins of Boston. The collection shows eighty one of the artist’s ninety seven etchings with many states. Notable plates include Haux fortes sur Paris Le Pont au Change La Morguy and Notre Dame. The San Francisco panorama cost Meryon his health and life. The exhibit runs for several weeks.

Meryon Art Museum Paris le Pont Au Change la Morguy F Rench Bracquemond Flannery

Bonenza Development and Tropical Telephone Court Caption

100 Bonenza Development and 60 People's Telephone are involved in a Stormont case. Suwa Tom CUBL is named along with SIMFIOMOTIND entities in a civil matter. The docket references Tol. Cin. and St. Louis and a 200 to 260 range of figures.

Bonenza Development Cecee IHO Stormont Ccasecessee Dbaueane Suwa

Market Prices and Provisions Include Fresh Meats and Hogs

A long list of provisions and meats is reported with prices for pork and lard, fresh ribs and sausage, lard pails, hams, beef cuts, and live hogs. The hog market shows higher bids and steady cattle, with notes on hides, pelts, and crude certificates. Western markets touch sugar, molasses, and grain movements with Chicago insights.

St. Andrews Cape Cod Norfolk Kale Worcester County Asion Briighton Tilgo

Trade Receipts and Wool Purchases Highlight March 1886 Boston Market

Boston customs receipts for March 1886 totaled 1 006 405 69 dollars, up from 1 590 228 14 in March 1835. February 1666 duties at the Boston Custom House reached 1 507 325 08 dollars. Foreign wool receipts show a large weekly surge with three vessels from Australia unloading. Purchasers totaled 24 407 bales, including local brokers and merchants, as two ships approach and one overdue Eugenia carries 126 days late with 2406 bales awaiting arrival. Market notes cover flour, corn, oats, feed, meals, malt, barley, butter, cheese, eggs, apples, potatoes, peas, fish, and green fruits with varied prices and dull to steady tones across commodities.

Boston Bostom Australia Uss Liegsckae Eugenia Minnesota Michigan Ohio Ipoiane Ilinois Wisconsin Canada Superior Canada New York Vermont New Mi'k Frepkins County Mass Ron Utter Liverpool Sage Chicago Uhree Tworth Near Cape Do Aroostook County New Brunswick Nova Scotia Baldwin Maine York State Tallman Sweet Evry Rose Aroostook County New Hampshire Maine Central Grand Trunk Beauty Hebron Burbank Do Northern Prolific Peerlies Rensselaer Washington County Rose Go Prolific Burbanks Do York Atais Jersey Messina Palermo Valencia Porto Rico

New York Cotton Markets Mixed Amid Broad Commodity News

April reports show quiet cotton prices with varied staple futures across U S ports. Notes include mixed wheat and flour markets, receipts and exports tallies, and price levels for corn, rye and sugar with several regional shifts.

Wheat and grain markets in London and Liverpool slip notes

London and Liverpool market reports show wheat firmer, corn steady, and flour prices mixed as cargoes and spot trades move. Prices in London and ports are described with quantities and varying regional quotes, while weather and breadstuffs demand influence valuations.

London Beerbohm Chamber of Commerce Mark Lang Liverpool Nosland California

Financial market notices from London and Havana dated April 2

London stock quotes show Consols 1007 16 for money and account with United States 4193 1141¢, Canadian Pacific 6744, Erie 26% and Illinois Central 1421¢. Havana reports Spanish gold 239, exchange quiet, sugar firm with 835 bags sold, polarization 97 degrees at gold per quintal.

London United States Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central Milwaukee St. Pacommon New York Central Pennsylvania Central Philadelphia Reading Havana

Freight receipts from multiple railroads amid 19th century trade

A dense ledger lists cargoes for several railroads including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Fitchburg and others. Commodities cover cotton wool flour corn meal sugar butter cheese eggs beef pork leather hides and more with numerous bale, bus, box, and case tallies.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Rairoad New York and New England Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Boston and Maine Railroad Boston and Maine Rairoad Lowell Railroad By Express

Receipts of staple products at port compare to last year

The table shows total receipts from all shipment points for week ending April 2, including in transit goods, with figures for 1886 and 1885 across cotton Sugar Wool Molasses pork butter oats cheese wheat beans potatoes and more. The second table lists today’s receipts versus last year for Cotton Wool Molasses Butter Lard Beef Pork and other staples with numerous itemwise figures.

Augusta Galveston New Orleans Great Brisin France Mobile Mia Sac Savannah Charleston Continent Wiwington Norfolk Coastwise Baltimore Cincinnati Louis Louisville Philadelphia New York Great Britain United States Liverpool Heather Rolla Sean Botter Boxer Qleo Cermmoanl Bois Bexse Gatmes Nbia Yoo Eather Ward Oftekina Oteiaus Ftee Goftee Mats Beis Bage

Railroad matters outline February financials and new lines

The report notes St Joseph and Grand Island show a favorable February and a stable year outlook with fixed charges from May. It covers New York and Boston Rapid Transit with $310,000 spent, plans for a 183 mile line at $50 million, and stock controlled by Rapid Transit shareholders. Also updates Winthrop Railroad management, a Chicago rate dispute, Louisville and Nashville February figures, and a new Billings Clark s Fork Cook City Railroad with $1.0 million capitalization to open mining districts and oil fields.

Northwestern St. Paul Omaha Michigan Central Lake Shore Delawars Hudson Lackawanna Cental New Jersey Missouri Pacific Pacific Mail Esriy Southern Pacific Western Union Baltimore and Ohio United Telegraph Pacific Coast St. P W. and Tlantic Pacific Western Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati Indianapolis Elizabeth Lexington Big Sandy Milwaukee Lake Snore Western Missouri Kansas Texas Nashville Chattanooga St. Louis Peoria Decatur Evansville Canada Southern Chesapeake Ohio Southwestern Chicago Western Indiana General Erie Wie Minneapolis Iowa St. Joseph and Grand Island New York and Boston Sehsme Monarch Parlor New York Quebec Tas Atossa Cleopatra New Haven Hartford Connecticut River Sullivan County Pascampsic Montana Idaho Billings Clark’s Fork Cook City Clerk’s Fork Wyoming

Salem and Danvers railway lease proposed by Naumkerg Street

Naumkerg Street railway seeks long term lease of the Salem and Danvers line with a 5 percent stock guarantee. Many Danvers stockholders favor the plan and an arrangement seems likely. John G Estes of Peabody dies on Boston street. he was a Civil War veteran and G A R comrade. John Fitzgerald, nicknamed the Marine, attempted suicide with chloroform but survived after doctors treated him for about ninety minutes. physicians say he is likely to be sent to the Danvers asylum as he is deemed insane.

Senator Scott Public Service Committee Orestes M. Pratt Sixth Infantry Foster William F. Burke Leutenant Walsh James H. Shea Burke Charles J. F. Madigan Ninth Infantry Cincinnati Hayes City of Cogswell Street Railway Committee Commonwealth House Committee Messrs McQueeney Lawrence Maguire Boston Harrington Fail River Liccantile Affairs Oaught South Boston Gaslight Company Revere Water Company Fisheries and Game Ssiit North River Plymouth Fraser J. A. Fraser Messrs. Williams & Everett Frazer New York John H. Reed Boston Machine Company E. H. Bennett George W. Hitabrook Augustus Russ Charles T. Gallagher J. H. Benton, Jr Daniel Houghton Robert Moore Plaitiff C. W. Cushing C. F. Donnelly Farrington Et al Robinson J. l. Powers Charles Robinson J. O. "Teele Charles Smith Frank L. Vak P. N. Blanchard H. N. Sheiden Ae South Society William Wainwritt Spring Lane Tall Bench Hoaing M. Child Richardson Naumkerg Street Railway Salem and Danvers John G. Estes Peabody Boston Street Post 50 Peabody. John Fitzgerald

Remarkable Rescue Sparks Community in Kingston

A Kingston letter describes Jere Smith who survived a deadly ordeal with Hunt's Remedy, prompting widespread local endorsements. Cornelius B. Smith and W.H. Winton of the Kingston Freeman recount similar experiences and praise the medicine for health restoration amid doctor skepticism and high prices.

Boston Herald The Herald Jere Smith Cornelius B. Smith State Insurance Department Kingston Freeman W.H. Winton Smith Mr. Winton Hunt Edwin H. Fassett Kingston William D. Brennier Cooper Winchell Winthrop

Mid 1880s Mercantile Failures Decline Nationwide

Quarterly reports from Dun and Co and K Russell show a drop in business failures. First quarter 1886 failures total 203 with liabilities near 29 million dollars, down from 3668 failures and 46 million in 1885. Liabilities for the last quarter are the lowest since 1873, with notable declines in the middle states. The text lists a sequence of bankruptcy cases and assignments across multiple firms and individuals in Boston and other cities, including names like William M. Pray, Charles H Foster, Walter F. Sherburne, and Durant & Co, with various creditors' settlements and assignments noted.

R.G. Dun & Co K. Russell & Co Crad Berkrupts McKim Yhey William M. Pray Creighton House Tremont Street Charles H. Foster East Concord Street Walter F. Sherburne George Rt. Stimpson Sherburne & Stimpson Washington Street Charles H. W. Pope Lincoln Street Charlestown Joseph W. Howard Albany Swett Street Roxbury Whitmen B. Smith W. E. Smith Whitman B.smith & Son Quincy Market Greenwood Soule Bedford Street Philome J. Cole Milford J. Cole Union Park James H. Carter Berkley Street Peter F. Judge Desser Dana Silver Streets Boston John F. Cronan L. G. Pattee Lebanon National Bank Pattee Meccabee & Long Undertakers North Cambridge Long D. W. Wilxie Geneva N. Y Cyrus Stone Providence Edwin C. Pieres Patrick White Central Falls BR. I H. L. Parsons M. Loeb Columbus

Stoughton Baseball Club Reorganizes for Season In Town

Taxable property rises as twenty dwellings go up this spring and more projects start soon. The Stoughton Base Ball Club reorganizes for the season and has arranged a game with the Riversides of East Boston to be played here on the last day.

Hopedale Senate Pillsbury Scott Stoughton Cearon Riversides East Boston

Financial instruments and bonds listed in Boston area notes

A fragmented archival snippet shows multiple bank names including National Exchange Bank Charlestown and Glow National Bank with trustee orders and bonds. Mentions Mexican Central Co and Brush Electric Lighting Co of Boston, plus various bonds dated 1892 to 1903 and sums like 1000 and 5000 dollars linked to rail and city financing.

S.ms Monument Nat Bank Charlestown Mass Glow Nat Bank Old Boston Nat Bank Mexican Centrala Co Air & Do Brush Electric Lighting Co Boston Maine

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Strong Uniom Pacifice Burlington Wisconsin Central Schlessingerville Central of Massachusetts Rutland Atchison Plain Sonora Osceola Mining Tamarack Osceola Famarack Lombard Investment Company B. Lombard, Jr James L. Lombard Lewis Lombard William A. Lombard John D. W. Joy Isaac 2. T. Edmonds Irving Wood Webster L. D. Skinner George EK Spartan King Wichita Kan William McGeorge, Jr William B. Bement George Burnham George Philier George M. Troutman Fall River National Bank National Mount Wellaston Bank of Quincy Merchants’ National Bank of Newburyport Ocean National Bank of Newburyport Mechanics’ National Bank of Newburyport Long Island Railroad Company Brockton Gas Light Company A Tpa Insurance Company Phonix Fire Insurance Company Billings & Spencer Company Dartford Court Record United States Circuit Court Judge Wrnre Cellmoid Manufacturing Company Alfred D. Chandler L. P. Brané@eia William G. Russell A. D. 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