Subway costs hold steady despite lower bids for six mile route
The Boston Transit Commission reports total project cost at 4 966 948 with 1 000 000 real estate damages. Part of condemned property will be resold under easement, including Boston & Maine land between Haymarket square and Causeway street. Revenue from the completed subway is expected to cover debt interest and expenses without raising city taxes. April 4 1895.
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Rapid Transit Commission
Ure
Committee On Metropolitan Affairs
Boston Transit Commission
Causeway Street
Union Station
Tremont Street
Shawmut Avenue
Boylston Street
Providence Station
Boston & Maine
Haymarket Square
Boston Transit Comasion
George G. Crocker
Weather forecast for New England and eastern New York
The forecast calls for fair to warm conditions with shifting winds in New England and eastern New York. It cautions that rain is probable on Saturday.
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New England
York
Washington
Flor Gore
Wage Increase For Washington Mills Operatives Delayed
Lawrence reports workers at Washington Mills will receive a wage rise on April 8 though the exact amount is not disclosed by Agent Chapin. In Marlboro Dr. Charles Putnam, age eight, dies of bronchial pneumonia after fifty years in town, the oldest doctor there.
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Lawrence
Washington Mills
Chapin
Charles Putnam
Marlboro
Grafton
Armistice Talks Sought by Nodzu at Chinese Front
A Tokyo despatch reports General Nodzu at Hai Cheng on April 1 sent a Chinese messenger to the front to arrange armistice details and on April 2 sent a Japanese envoy and trumpeter for a reply within 24 hours. After radio silence, Colonel Aoki advanced with a flag of truce but was forced to halt as Chinese fire resumed. Nodzu asks if Pekin was informed of the armistice.
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London
Tokio
Nodzu
Hai Cheng
Aoki
Pekin
Gerry Fights New York City Police Justices Bill
In Albany on April 4 the final hearing on a bill to abolish city justices and create nine police magistrates concluded before the Senate judiciary committee. Elbridge T. Gerry urged striking twenty sections as unnecessary and vicious, accusing the bill of anti Catholic bias and political prejudice. Senators questioned possible sectarian influence and noted opposition from Justices Fellner and Taintor.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
Senate Judiciary Committee
Elbridge
T. Gerry
O’connor
Mr. Gerry
O'Connor
Gerry
McMahon
Committee of Ten
Fellner
Taintor
Imported Sugar Barred by Philadelphia Sugar Trust Order
Philadelphia reports a Sugar Trust order banning all imported sugars. Brokers say little impact, but importers and small jobbers face losses. Scotch yellows brands, imported and undercutting domestic grades, will be affected as about 60 000 bags are brought in yearly. obedience cited to avoid giving the trust leverage.
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Philadelphia
Sugar Trust
Electric Pooling Between General Electric and Westinghouse
The General Electric Company and Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company near completion of a patent pooling agreement. Each will manufacture under the other’s patents and contribute to a common defense fund with unused portions returned proportionally. Prior litigation costs amounted to about $1 million yearly.
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New York
General Electri Company
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr
Boston
General Electric Company
General Electric
Westinghouse
Fire test postponed for 367 Boylston Street
Notices to architects and builders state a fire test of floor constructions at 367 Boylston Street was scheduled for Saturday April 6 but has been postponed to a future date.
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Boylston Street
Lexow Bills Presented in New York Assembly
Albany April 4 Lexow New York city police bills were introduced in the Assembly today. Members argued the bills signal broader city legislation will be pushed in the Assembly and that the Lexow measures, as written, will be sent to the Senate before any action by the Senate can be taken.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
Assembly
Senate
Queen's London Visit Includes Zoo Audience and Dinner
A Nice despatch reports the Queen visited the Zoological Gardens in London this afternoon and received the Comtesse Train. She then drove to Sabron to see the Duchess of Saxe Coburg and later hosted a small dinner at the Cimiez Hotel this evening.
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London
Nice
Zoological Gardens
Sabron
Saxe
Countess Russell seeks conjugal rights in High Court
In London the Countess Russell opened her petition for restitution of conjugal rights against Earl Russell in the High Court of Justice. Her husband’s counsel denied the accusations of cruelty and stressed the unlikelihood of support if relief were granted. The case was adjourned for the day.
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London
Countess Russell
Earl Russell
High Court of Queen’s Bench
Henry James
Q. C
Lehigh Elects New President Dr Thomas M Drown
Dr Thomas M Drown elected president of Lehigh University at Bethlehem Penn He is a UPenn graduate and former Lafayette College chemistry professor now on MIT faculty He succeeds acting president Prof Coppe and the late Dr Lamerton with two years since Lamerton's death.
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Penn
Thomas M. Drown
Lehigh University
Drown
University of Pennsylvania
Lafayette College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Crown
Lehigh
Lamberton
Coppe
Death of Douglass heir Paul in Cambridge burial planned
Washington report records the death of Paul Douglass, one of three children named in Frederick Douglass's will to receive his estate. Paul, son of Frederick M. Douglass who died in August 1892, will be buried in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Washington
Frederick Douglass
Paul
Frederick M. Douglass
Ex-Governor William R. Marshall Dies in California
Former Minnesota governor William R. Marshall died in Pasadena California this morning. Born October 17 1825 in Missouri he helped develop the region and served two terms as Minnesota governor starting in 186.
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ST. Paul
Minn
William R. Marchall
Pasadena
Cal
Missouri
Minnesota
Missing Sixteen Gloucester Sailors From Mildred V. Lee
The schooner Mildred V. Lee with sixteen crew members is presumed lost after a Jan 30 departure from Gloucester for halibut fishing to Grand Bank. Wreckage near Sable Island linked to Feb 8 storm suggests fate. Crew hailed from Maine, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland. owners Gardner & Parsons. vessel 102.31 tons built 1891 Essex. insured in Boston Marine.
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Gloucester
Mildred V. Lee
New England
Cape Ann
Grand Bank
Sable Island
Henry M. Stanley
William T. Lee
Edgecomb
Asa Swain
Canso
N. S
Thomas Clausen
Sweden
John Chisholm
Judique
George Grant
Burgo
N. F
Thomas and
Richard Williams
Bay Bulls
Wallace Grindle
North
Finland
John Carey
Whitliss Bay
Fenwick Williams
Gardner & Parsons
Essex
Boston Marine Insurance Company
Wellington man dies at Faneuil Hall Market stalls
Yesterday afternoon 73 year old E. 8. Stacey of Fifth street Wellington dropped dead in stalls 6 and 8 at Faneuil Hall Market. Solomon ruled the death caused by heart disease.
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Stacey
Fifth Street
Wellington
Faneuil Hall Market
Solomon
Insurgent Maceo Defeated in Cuba Landing Battle Report
Madrid dispatch reports a Cabinet council chaired by Queen Regent Christian. Premier Canovas del Castillo read a Havana despatch stating that insurgent leader Maceo landed in Cuba, fought government troops, and was created.
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Maceo
Madrid
Christian
Canovas del Castillo
Havana
Cuba
Dr Parkhurst of Boston Attacks Liquor at Methodist Conference
Salem April 4 The New England Methodist Episcopal conference devoted the night to temperance with Rev I J Lansing of Park Street Church Boston delivering a blunt address. He warned that the liquor trade harms health morals wages and society and urged complete prohibition citing naval parade delays as a symbol of national hard times.
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Boston
Salem
New England Methodist. Episcopal Conference
Wesley Church
I. J. Lansing
Park Street Church
C. E. Davis
Melrose
Temperance Committee
Lansing
Parkhurst
My City
Bishop Tobin
Howard Street
Hudson River
Worcester
New York
Ireland
God
Scandinavia
Hell
Dr. Lansing
Subway repeal debate heats Boston transit mess
The House debated repealing the subway act with McCarthy leading the push and Meellen, Jones, Bates, and Rourke opposing. Supporters argued for proof that Boston voters oppose the subway while opponents warned of breaking faith with the people and delaying needed transit.
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Salvacea
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Washington Street
Cer, Maesland
New York Police Justices’ Act
LEXOW
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M.I. T
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E. S. Jaffray & Co
B. F. Larrabee & CO
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OH Robinson
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