London Opium Death Ends Boston Minister Hurd’s Struggles
The Rev. Charles Sidney Hurd of Parmenter Street Unitarian Chapel Boston died by opium in London. An inquest verdict declared insanity. A letter to Rev. Stopford Brooke pleaded for help and resignation to death. Brooke funded burial. Hurd, once a Boston missionary, faced financial and personal turmoil.
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London
Charles Sidney Hurd
Parmenter Street Unitarian Chapel
Boston
Enston Hotel
Hurd
Stopford Brooke
Brooke
Maupen
Charles
Retter
Malden
Maplewood
Parmenter Street
Washington Territory
Northern Pacific Railroad
New York
New Brunswick
United States
Burlington (la.) University
Rochester University
Den
Post
Little
Frederick Chandler, Jr
Charlestown
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
Stopford W. Brooke
Edward A. Horton
Second Church
First Church
Horton
Parmenter Street Chapel
West
North End
Reception to a Pastor on S H Winkley Birthday
An evening reception at Bulfinch Place Chapel honors Rev S H Winkley for his seventieth birthday and forty third year in the ministry. Boston Unitarian ministers attended including Rev Brooke Herford and Rev E E Hale. Highlights included welcome by H H Putnam, poems by Caleb D Bradley and Rev Herford, readings, vocal solos, and a served collation.
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Bulfinch Place
S. H. Winkley
Unitarian Association of Boston
Brooke Herford
E. E. Hale
H. H. Putnam
Caleb D. Bradlee
Emily Gardiner
Mr. Herford
Ames
Church of the Disciples
George FE. Howes
Anna French
Week Etta Knowles
Nowles
Jumbo at Tufts College opens Barnum display
The Barnum Museum at Tufts College has placed Jumbo the mounted elephant skin inside the natural history building. To fit the mammoth specimen the portico doors were removed and the stone threshold altered. The move was supervised by Mr Barnum’s agent, placing Jumbo beside Bridgeport the small elephant.
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Tufts College
Barnum Museum
Phineas T. Barnum
Natural History Building
Barnum
Bridgeport
United States
Prosperity of the South Sees Race Issue as Major Obstacle
Frederic Taylor reports from Baltimore that the South shows a music of progress and potential boom driven by hard work. He identifies the race problem as the key obstacle to political health and local autonomy, noting planters keep tax payers in power. He predicts cheaper pig iron only outside Cornwall, with iron and cotton-related industries driving future growth and immigration aiding prosperity.
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Baltimore
Frederic Taylor
New York
A. S. Hewitt
Edward Cooper
Taylor
New South
South
Cornwall
Penn
Multiple Western Fires Blaze Through Shops and Lumber Yards
Fire swept Sheriff & Sons foundry and machine shops in Pittsburg causing about 60 thousand dollars in losses with 35 thousand to the firm and 10 thousand on the building. Nearby Empire Lumber yards in Hannibal lost ten million feet of lumber and several homes in a major blaze. A Hogan barn near Manila Iowa burned fatally injuring Mr Hogan and injuring neighbors. Cambridge box alarm tested at Park Packing by John P Squire.
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Pittspurg
Penn
Sheriff & Sons
First Avenue
Ferry Street
Anchor
Hannibal
Empire Lumber Company
Drs Moines
Daniel Hogan
Manila
Cambridge
Park
John P. Squire
Montreal Chamber of Commerce
le Bourdais
Joseph le Bourdais
Gylfe
Quebec
Glasgow
Portland
Lake Superior
Racine
Wis
Martin Rolland
Abingdon
Lake Marawaleonneie
Council Bluffs
Jake Gaudaur
George Hosmer
Charles E. Courtney
John Teemer
Dennis C. McCarthy
Meriden
Conn
First Congregational Church
Leicester
State of Maine
Simon Borg & Co
Newark
Concord
N. H
Charles H. Sanborn
Hemnan Sanborn
Jacob Hornung
New Albany
Brewer
Brown’s Cross Road
Nashville, Tenn
Nashville & Decatur
E. C. Greene
M. L. Ely
Albert Finch
George Ward
Elmira
N. Y
Ward
Canada
Maurice J. Crowley
Collinsville
St. Rose’s Church
Thomas R. Crawford
Tuxedo Park
New York
C. A. Blackman
Ansonia
Georgia Curtis
Northfield
Dublin
John Jameson
Fairfield County
Sherman
Findlay
Samuel C. Moore
Edward Spriggle
Pioneer Coal Company
Charleston
D. &. Paytor
Simeon Early
Robert Cemmins, Jr
J.H. Muginn
A.J. Welch
Hartford
John
J. W. White
McLean County
Covington
Halifax
Ritchie
Henry Hardie
D. 5
Billings
Burleson
A. J. Yarboro
Yarboro
Lucy Cahill
Peter Paul Mahoney
Brooklyn
N.Y
Chess Tournament Round Results From New York
In the afternoon session Burille beat MacLeod, Gunsberg beat Showalter, Pollock beat Hanham, Lipschutz and Taubenhaus drew. Evening results had Burille over MacLeod, Weis drawing Bird, Thorin defeating Gossip, Gunsberg again over Showalter, Blackburne over Bird, Judd over Delmar, Pollock over Hanham, and Taubenhaus drawing with Lipschutz.
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New York
Burille
MacLeod
Gunsberg
Showalter
Pollock
Hanham
Lipschutz
Taubenhaus
Weis
Bird
Thiorin
Gossip
Blackburne
D. G. Bird
Judd
Delmar
NOT A CLEAN SWEEP AT CHICAGO IN 1900s ELECTION
Chicago April 4 Today’s developments altered the local race scene as the city clerkship, a key post, did not go to the Democrats. Republican Franz Amberg defeats Democrat Michael J Bransfield by 89 votes, per police tally pending official results.
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Chicago
Chicaco
Michael J. Bransfield
Franz Amberg
Marshals Retreat Amid River Lands Evictions
United States marshals attempting evictions on Des Moines River lands faced armed resistance from a settler mob in Fort Copas Iowa on April 4. Settlers armed with Winchester rifles gathered at the evicted households, outnumbering officials who quietly withdrew. Additional help will be sought before further removals.
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Fort Copas
United States
Des Moines
Letter to the Editor Defends Nova Scotia Climate
Yarmouth resident G E L refutes Gloucester weather claims about Nova Scotia. He cites mild winters with minimal snow, open lakes by February, blooming flowers in early spring, and navigable Bras d'Or. He argues readers were misled and urges recognition of Nova Scotia’s pleasant climate.
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Yarmouth
Shelburne
Boston
New England
Bras d’Or
Cape Breton
Baddeck
Charles Dudley Warner
Boston and
Araby
Ceylon
Alaska
New
Hernicutt
Nova
Worker injured as earth caves in on State street
Michael Grady of 62 Beach street suffered a fractured skull when earth caved in in a cellar at a new building on State street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment.
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Michael Grady
Beach Street
State Street
City Hospital
Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company Investor Notice
The Northwestern Guaranty Loan Company of Minneapolis announces new features for investors. It offers debenture bonds five years at 6 percent net with denominations of 60 100 200 and 500 and redeemable partials. Boston trustees hold security deposits including government bonds and bank stock. Full information and investigation solicited.
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Minneapolis
American Loan and Trust Company
Boston
Rogers
Vicinity
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Supreme Court
Cambridge rifle shoot yields varied prizes and scores
Scores from the Cambridge City Guard rifle shoot at Cider Mill Pond list top marksmen across First Second and Third Class All Comers with gold and silver medals awarded. Civilians also competed with prizes. Separate Union Fast Day services were held at Grace Methodist Church Shepard Memorial and St James Church with local ministers delivering sermons and talks on constitutional amendment.
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Cambridge
A. R. Henderson
N. C
G. P. Cooley
A. B. Hayden
A. H. Whittekind
S$. Tower
Comany
L. Marshall
W. S. Getchell
F. R. Blake
K. Clark
W.T. Bates
R. Smith
R. B. Edes
Savory
J. W. Blake
Fifth Regiment
F. Marshall
R. H. Chittick
5. T. Sinclair
C. H. Brigham
W. J. Getchell
C. 8S. Ryan
J. E. Winslow
F. J. Brennan
Grace Methodist
Somerville Observes Fast Day with Services and Contests
Somerville marked Fast Day with union services at Prospect Hill and Franklin Street churches led by Rev. George S. Keene and Rev. FE R P Moulton. The East Somerville churches met for a prayerful session, while Winter Hill hosted a prohibitory amendment gathering. The Somerville Light Infantry held a shoot on Mystic avenue with Salem Eighth Regiment teams, 176 to 162. A Kramergold medal drill followed, Sergeant A W Furlong receiving the prize. Slant corps rifle shoot results at Somerville Rifle Club list scores from Kettell to Hastings. A carpenter, Mr. Quimby of Charlestown, fell from a staging on Perkins Street, East Somerville, possibly fatal. A new social club, Excelsior Council No 3, Royal Arcanum Social Club, formed in East Somerville.
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Union Square
Prospect Hill Congregational Church
George S. Keene
East Somerville
Franklin Street Congregational Church
FE. R P. Moulton
Winter Hill
Broadway M. E
Somerville Light Infantry
Eighth Regiment
Mystic Avenue
Salem
Kramergold
Potice
A. W. Furlong
Slant Corps
First Brigade
Somerville Rifle Club
Kettell
Fales
Skinner
Hills
Bettingson
White
C. D. Lyford
Tuttle
Borghardt
Twombly
Whitney
Robinson
Fenn
Wiswell
Crosby
Dunbar
Wells
Hastings
Morgan
Quimby
Charlestown
Perkins Street
Excelsior Council
Royal Arcanum
Swampscott Church of Christ Dedicated in Swampscott
The Burrill Street Church of Christ in Swampscott was dedicated with Rev. B B Tyler of New York delivering the opening sermon. The Romanesque wood church seats 450, features a 50 foot tower, stained memorial windows, a baptistry, and a 12000 dollar cost with over half funded.
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Lynn
Burrill Street
Charles H. Till
Edward E. Doane
Freeman A. Baker
Emily Porter
Biba Eldridge
Porter
Milton D. Porter
Whittier Prose Works Reviewed in Riverside Edition
A critical overview of Whittier’s three volume Riverside edition, detailing the division of contents from past imaginative pieces to recent tributes and wartime writings. The piece highlights key items like The Heroine of Long Point and notes editorial judgments on Whittier’s critical stance, with reviews of related fiction releases and translations.
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Whittier
Mr. Whittier
Riverside
Margaret Smith
Long Point
Lowell
Oliver Johnson
William Lloyd Garrison
Garrison
Haverhill
Boston
Philadelphia
American Anti-Slavery Society
Leverett Street
Washington
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Funeral of Essex Lodge secretary ends with order honors
E S P Phillips longtime secretary of Essex Lodge I O O F was buried today with full order honors. The service was conducted at Lafayete Street Church with a prayer by the Rev. S L.
Man Found Hanging in Montvale Woods
April 4 Montvale forestry area discovery of Theophilus Cote a Canadian and former Winchester farmworker found dead hanging from a tree. Police identified him and noted he appeared to have attempted to save himself after the self inflicted death.
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Wosurn
Montvale
Theophilus Cote
Canada
Winchester
Man Killed by Train at Crescent Beach Accident
A man about 35, 130 pounds with a light sandy complexion was run over and killed instantly by the 9 15 train from Lynn on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn railroad between Crescent Beach and the Revere House last evening.
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Lynn
Oston, Revere Beach & Lynn
Crescent Beach
Revere House
Dead Lemon translations offer Gautier Balzac Mérimée and others
Andrew Lang and Paul Sylvester present The Dead Lemon a collection of French contes including Gautier’s La Morte Amoureuse Balzac’s La Grande Brétéche Mérimée About and Tolstoi’s The Taper The Witness of the Sun by Amélie Rives draws attention for its provocative sensationalism while translations vary in precision and charm
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London
Messrs. Harper & Bros
Mr. Besant
St. Cuthbert’s Tower
Florence Warden
Marsh
Mr. Daudet
Daudet
Dole
Anna Karénina
Tolstoi
Leman
Andrew Lang
Paul Sylvester
New York
Scribner & Welford
Amélie Rives
Lippincott’s
Walter Besant
Harper & Bros
Lovell
Lady Bluebeard
Théophile Gautier
Balzac
Mérimée
Th. Bentzon
Gautier
Prosper Mérimée
Kindergarten for the Blind Endowment Seeks Public Aid
The Kindergarten for the Blind reports $76,930 18 raised toward a $100,000 endowment, leaving $23,069 82 needed. A long list of individual and local contributions from Feb 27 to March 25, 1889 amounts to 76,930 18 with associated annual subscriptions and receipts to Edward D Peters, treasurer.
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E. L. Andrew
William Appleton
C. T. Endicott
8. B. Fay
J. U. Gardner
Northboro
G. 8. Cary
Richard Cary
A. M. Cheever
M. E. Cheever
Scotch Plains
N. J
Isabel Merry
Newark
N.J
Moore Street
Cambridgeport
Mrs. Voorhees
Miss Wiltze
Marion Call
Gertrude Velasco
Alice Meehan
Hattie Leming
Washington Street
Jamaica Rain
George H. Ellis
O. B. Frothingham
Martha Hale
Waldo Higginson
John C. Inches
C. E. Jenks
Henry P. Kidder
Anna C. Lowell
Edith Rotch
G. H. Shaw
Eliza Sutton
Peabody
Mary A. Tappan
J. Sullivan Warren
Sarah W. Whitney
H. Whitwell
Sale at the Working Girls Club in Back Bay
At 401 Shawmut avenue the Working Girls Club hosted a sale of hand carving and embroidery. The event featured three tables including one run by the King's Daughters, and raised about $300. The association runs an employment bureau for domestic staff and plans a fully equipped gymnasium by fall with solicited aid.
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Working Girls’ Club
Shawmut Avenue
Back Bay
Gmnasium
Body found in water near Berkeley Street
The decomposed body of an unidentified man was found yesterday morning at the foot of Berkeley street. He was about 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighed roughly 150 pounds, with a dark complexion. He wore dark trousers a blue coat and vest.
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Berkeley Street
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