HITT FOR CUBANS Belligerent Recognition Debate in House
In Congress today Mr. Hitt urged recognizing Cuban patriots as belligerents and supported a Senate aligned plan to offer friendly mediation for Cuban independence. He argued neutrality while acknowledging Cuban strength, citing Cuban army growth and U S ports as base operations. Boutelle opposed quick action, warning against war with Spain and urging full facts before any policy. Skinner expressed clear support for annexation.
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Washington
House
Hitt
Conference Committee
Senate
Congress
Spain
Cuba
United States of America
United States
Stornow
Beiligy
Enate
Ous
Hartford
Philaelphia
Patterson
Tenn
Fr. Patterson
Iba
Boutelle
Boutelie
Republican Party
Gulf of Mexico
General Grant
Hamilton Fish
George Washington
Skinner
Pop
N. C
Filibuster expedition lands in Cuba amid seized munitions
De Soto brothers report a seventh U S filibuster landing near Pinar del Rio in six weeks. The expedition left New York on March 25 with 35 men, 300000 cartridges, 2000 rifles and powder. Vessel name unknown, rumors point to a large steamer owned by a New York company. Ralph de Soto says it was carefully planned and escaped government notice.
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Wilmington
de Soto Brothers
United States
Cuba
Pinar del Rio
New York
Ralph de Soto
Madrid Denies U S Plan to Send Squadron to Cuba
A Madrid despatch reports the Spanish ministry denying rumors of a U S squadron being sent to Cuba or sending Trasatlanticas as cruisers. It notes two ships may depart with full armament amid discussions and cites bankers views on Jingoism in the Senate. General Pando’s return is linked to a dispute with General Weyler and not ill health.
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Bitt
Imes
Chile
Cuba
Ameris
Tvy
Madrid
United States
Barcelona
Spain
Herald
Senate
New York
The
Imparcial
Pando
Weyler
Five Negro murderers executed in Havana case
On July 12 Jose Castillo and his family were killed when five armed men roared into a road house near San Jose to Pijirigua. The assailants looted the house, killed Castillo's wife with a machete, and wounded a visitor who died later. Civil Guard captured the five killers seven days later.
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Havana
Jose Castillo
San Jose
Pijirigua
Castillo
Civil Guard
Philadelphia Artillery Experts On Bermuda Sailors
Philadelphia April 3. Reports say twenty artillerymen who sailed on the Bermuda were trained by a Philadelphia unit. They were members of a guard battalion regarded as among the best in the country. Details suggest plans to organize and train others, with intent to strike names from the battery roll.
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Delphia
Bermuda
Formul Stillerymen
Arwllery A
Pennsylvania National Bers
Condemned Doctor Playfair Faces Damages Suit
A London obstetrician, Dr William Playfair, was ordered by a jury to pay 60000 damages to his wife's sister in a case argued as a historic medical and legal issue. The suit centered on alleged disclosure of a professional secret and involved extensive testimony about a miscarriage, secrecy, and the integrity of Mrs Kitson and her husband.
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William Playfair
London
Lord Playfair
Sam Russell
Nahant
Playfair
Miss Kitson
Sir James Kitson
Arthur Kitson
James
Arthur
Australia
England
Singland
Austra
Williams
Dr. Williams
Dr. Playfair
Spencer
Harvard in the Sixties lecture by Moorfield Storey at Sanders Theatre
The Hon. Moorfield Storey spoke on Three Decades of Harvard's History in a Harvard course, detailing life at Harvard in the 1860s, the Civil War, and lessons for modern students. He contrasted simple college life with today’s complexity, noted athletic and intellectual shifts, and urged focus on high ideas over material wealth.
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Harvard
Sanders Theatre
Moorfield Storey
Storey
Justin Winsor
Mr. Storey
Arnold
Rugby
Hemenway Gymnasium
Lincoln
Senate
Infectious diseases talk at Essex Agricultural Society meeting
Bevery April meeting at City Hall featured Dr Theobalt Smith from the Bussey Institute discussing causes and prevention of animal diseases including tuberculosis glanders hog cholera and related diseases in farm stock and poultry. Local officials and civic members attended and discussed state testing and funding.
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Danvers
Lovett
Beverly
Peabody
Danvers Centre
Herrick
Andover
O.S. Butler
Georgetown
Senate
Cattle Commissioners
Woman’s Relief Corps
Watertown Pastor Closes Three Year Ministry on Easter Sunday
Rev. C. A. Littlefield of Watertown ends his pastorate at the Methodist Episcopal Church after three years of service. He is esteemed by parishioners and townspeople and will become corresponding secretary of the Boston Mission and Church Extension Society. He will preach Sunday morning and speak to the congregation Sunday evening.
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C. A. Littlefield
Watertown
Methodist Episcopal Church
Funeral of Thomas Lyons Held at Sacred Heart Church
The funeral for Thomas Lyons, aged 78, was conducted yesterday afternoon from the Church of the Sacred Heart in Mt. Auburn by Rev. T. W. Coughlin. Burial followed at Mt. Auburn Catholic Cemetery. Lyons had lived in Watertown fifty-five years, served twenty-five years as kitchen gardener for John P. Cushman, and fifteen years as a flagman for the Fitchburg railroad.
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Thomas Lyons
Church of the Sacred Heart
Mt. Auburn
T. W. Coughlin
Mt. Auburn Catholic Cemetery
Watertown
John P. Cushman
Fitchburg Railroad
Sailboat Dismasted Needing Aid Off Watch Hill
NEW LONDON Conn April 3 Captain T A Scott was sent to Quonocontany halfway down Watch Hill beach where a small schooner was dismasted and in need of assistance. The vessel name cargo and destination were not learned. Tug Alert was sent to assist.
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New London
Conn
T. A. Scott
Quonocontany
Watch Hill Beach
Mr. Scott
Insurance Agents Seek 125 600 Damages From New York Life
In Dallas on April 3 the firm J T and Daniel Boon filed suit in the U S Circuit Court against the New York Life Insurance Company seeking 125 600 damages claiming they acted as agents and helped grow the company's business from 2 000 000 in 1888 to 8 000 000 in 1895 and that a contract through 1897 entitles commissions they allege the company withheld and violated the contract. Daniel Boon is a wealthy St Louis insurance manager and J T Boon is the Dallas area general agent for New York Life.
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Dallas
Tex
J.T
Daniel Boon
General Insurance Solicitors
United States
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Life Company
St. Louis
J. T. Boon
New York Life
Ayars Dead Longtime Cambridge Lawyer Passes Away
Henry Morton Ayars, respected Cambridge attorney, died yesterday at 329 Broadway after weeks of illness. Born in Cleveland, he was 32, Harvard graduate of the class of 1886, admitted to the bar in 1888. He leaves a wife and a child. Burial will be Monday afternoon.
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Henry Morton Ayars
Cambridge
Broadway
Ayars
Cleveland
Harvard
Diphtheria Case Report Sparks Board of Health Action
The Skinski family reports delayed disinfection after a four year old boy on Silver Street was diagnosed with diphtheria in late February. Despite notices from the Board of Health, no disinfection occurred as officials say the premises were inspected and found in good condition. the child recovered by April 2 and school attendance remained restricted.
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Bernard Shalinski
Mary Skinski
Silver Street
Stephen
Board of Health Office
F. W. Stuart
Bacilli
Tracey
She Wins The Prize For Oil Painting From Hallgarten
Miss Mary Hazelton wins the $800 prize for the finest oil painting by an American under 35. Her work titled In a Studio shows a white clothed model against white drapery with a gray background and brown curtain. Hazelton, daughter of Dr L W Hazelton of Wellesley Hills, described the scene.
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Mary Hazelton
Julius Hallgarten
Miss Hazelton
L .W. Hazelton
Wellesley Hills
Allard case draws New England interest in Fall River editorial
The Fall River Herald urges keeping religion separate from the Allard case and notes public interest across New England. It says no line should be drawn between Catholicism and Protestantism as witnesses and bondsmen are Catholic, and mentions upcoming June sessions in New Bedford with cases against Allard and the Smith woman.
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Fall River
Allard
Fall River Herald
Republican
New England
Smith
Superior Criminal Court
New Bedford
Will contest over Ladenburg estate valued at $7 million
Objections to probating the will of Adolf Ladenburg senior of Ladenburg Thulman & Co were filed in Queen's County Surrogate's Court Jamaica. The estate is valued at $7,000,000. The will leaves all property to his widow, formerly a Boston belle, but a daughter born last year raises questions about dowry rights. A hearing is set before Surrogate Wheeler in three weeks.
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New York
Adolf Ladenburg
Ladenburg
Thulman & Co
Queen’s County
Jamaica
Daniel Brown
Far Rockaway
Niagara
Nassau
Boston
Snow Hauls Bangor and Portland In Deep Maine Storm
Bangor was cut off from Boston by a heavy snow storm that stalled wires and damaged lines as six inches fell and winds blew hard. Portland and other parts of Maine saw a statewide snow billow with roads blocked and sleighs replacing wheels in oxford county where nearly a foot piled up.
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Bangor
Boston
Portland
Oxford
Morrill Earns German PhD With Honor
Miss Georgiana L Morrill now in Heidelburg Germany reports to her father Rev Abner Morrill pastor at the First Baptist Church that she has just been made a Ph D with honor She has studied in Europe since 1893 and is the second American woman to obtain a German degree and the third of any nationality She graduated from Vassar in 1882 earned an A M from Vassar in 1889 taught at the Harvard Annex and other women colleges and plans to return to America in June.
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Harvard
America
Lynching in Tupelo Shocks Memphis Jail Mob
In Tupelo, about sixty miles from Memphis, a mob seized a jailed 18 year old Black man at 2 a m and lynched him in front of the courthouse. Sheriff overpowered at his home, keys taken as masked assailants escaped. The prisoner had allegedly assaulted a white woman two weeks earlier.
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Memphis
Jenn
Tupelo
Here
Octagon Whist Club Hosts Surprise Party for Mr Tobinsky
The Octagon Whist Club held a Thursday evening surprise party at Maurice Tobinsky's Claremont Park residence in Roxbury. He received a gold watch and chain as a gift. Walter Eldredge delivered the presentation speech. Alfred Ray Mitchell accompanied. The Warren Quartet of Roxbury performed, with games, singing, and dancing followed by a midnight collation.
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Octagon Whist Club
Maurice Tobinsky
Roxbury
Claremont Park
Walter Eldredge
Alfred Ray Mitchell
Warren Quartet
Mr. Stearns Gifts Piano to Watertown Parish Sunday School
Mr George A Stearns of Watertown who weeks ago gave the First Parish Unitarian Church a 6000 dollar organ has this week donated a grand piano to the church Sunday school.
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George A. Stearns
Watertown
First Parish Unitarian Church of
Massacres of Armenians Reported in Cilicia and Across Asia Minor
Lynn, April 3. News of ongoing ArmenianChristian massacres by Turks and Kurds reached via a letter from Cilicia near the Euphrates. In JanuaryFebruary villages saw hundreds killed, women abducted, and survivors cornered by Turkish forces. Some converts to Islam flee further oppression, while others choose death over renouncing faith.
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Lynn
Armenia
Cilicia
Euphrates River
Asia Minor
Philadelphia
Tal
Easter Sunday observed in Chelsea churches
Easter Sunday will be observed in nearly all Chelsea churches with special music. At Universalist Church Rev. R. Perry Bush will preach "The Easter Message" as soloists and choir perform a high quality program led by organist M Louise S. Currier and violinist Miss lian B. Williams. First Baptist Church follows with an elevated program by the regular choir under director A. McKee and organist M. Eugene Guelpa.
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Chelsea
Universalist
R. Perry Bush
Jennie Trecartin
O. H. Summer
Louise Atkinson
H. Asbrand
E. C. W. Bliss
George Willey
A. T. Hunnewell
Louise S. Currier
Lian B. Williams
First Baptist Church
A. McKee
M. Eugene Guelpa
Middlesex Superior Court Civil Docket Summary
Civil court notes list multiple actions with verdicts and pending cases. Plaintiffs Mayotte, Locke, Hutchins, and others sue defendants including city and town authorities. outcomes include damages awards and possession rulings. Numerous cases are in progress across Lowell Cambridge and surrounding towns with judges and attorneys named.
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Superior Court
Middlesex
Lowell
Clodgett
Charles W. Mayotte
Robert F. Gadley
Plaint
J. J
Wm. A. Hogan
D. J. Donahue
John McHale
Thomas Mclaughlin
G. W. Poor
Plains
Burke, Marshall & Corbett
George A. Locke
Clara V. Pike
G. W. Poore
J. F. Manning
Alfred L. Hutchins
Artemas B. Woodworth
Courtney & Courtney
F. B. Dunbar
Leary
Town of
Dracut
Giblin
Pro Ami
Faulkner
Admr
Cambridge
Fessenden
Hurley
City of Waltham
Connolly & Oe
J. L. Harvey
Ury
City of Cambridge
Bresnahan
G. A. A. Pevey
B. Hunt
J. W. Corcoran
Frost
Frost Vs. Robertson. 5780—Lally Vs. Jones
McMahon
Va. Jones
Murphy
Lynn
Boston St. Ry. Co
Same
Howland
Hodgdon
Warren
Girard
Saunders
Jones
Riley
Saunderson
Knuttson
Pierce
Soley
Boothby
Borden
Brown
West
Bean
Hudson
Sheffield
Flagg
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Carter
City of
Reunion of Company G Fortieth Massachusetts Volunteers at Chelsea
Thirty of fifty surviving members gathered for the annual reunion at Broadway House Chelsea last evening. President Warren S Field presided as Mayor Loud and numerous veterans spoke. Officers elected included President Levi F Corkum and vice president John Heenan with Charles T Ring as secretary and George H Buck as treasurer.
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Fortieth Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteers
Broadway House
Chelsea
Warren S. Field
Loud
Thomas ‘Aylor
John H. Roberts
Hancock Command
George H. Buck
C. A. Currier
A. J. Bacon
Nelson H. Sibley
J. B. Everdean
Levi F. Corkum
John Heenan
Charles T. Ring
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