Gentlemen depart for leading department in dress goods
The firm announces a new department for selecting goods and executing fine work overseen by a senior fitter. They pledge latest novelties from foreign markets and a stock ready for the season in overcoatings and suitings. In Rhode Island, April 8, the Assembly stands fifty Democrats to forty six Republicans after new elections in South Kingstown and Little Compton. four senators and eight representatives remain to be elected.
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Providence
South Kingstown
Little Compton
General Assembly
Finding fault early on interstate commerce powers
Senator Spooner says the interstate commerce board holds broader powers than it has exercised. The Baltimore Sun criticizes the commission for suspending the long and short haul clause as the act awaits a decision. General Bragg defends the action saying authority remains and orders can be revoked. The first appointment to the commission was made today, E. L. Pugh named as clerk.
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Baltimore Sun Today
Interstate Commerce Commissioners
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Adam
Washington
Union
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Spooner
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Starrenexter
Commission
E. L. Pugh
Senator Pugh
Alabama
London Patent Trouser Stretcher and Steamer Chair Offer
Advertisement promises crease removal for winter trousers using a London Patent Trouser Stretcher at $2.50 and steamer chairs with initials for $3.00, delivered on board a steamer or to any address, targeting travelers needing fresh looks for crossing.
G. W. Simmons & Co Boston Address Change Note
G W Simmons and Company lists 82 to 44 North Street Boston as the current business address in a brief notice. The item notes a relocation or listing update for the firm within the city. The source emphasizes street number change and location in Boston.
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North Street
Boston
Wool Freight Rates and New England Wool Trade
A Boston visit by a federal commissioner examines wool freight rates from the Pacific slope, with New England wool merchants and shipowners arguing over long and short haul classifications. Dealers warn of delays and higher costs if rates rise, while officials pledge a fair review to protect growers, merchants, and manufacturers.
Bostons in Washington Push Peaceful Indian Interests
This morning's news notes Boston residents in Washington lobbying for peaceful Indian affairs. It covers reactions to fisheries policy, railroad and harbor issues, election gains in Rhode Island, blue laws in D C, and various regional incidents including floods and injuries.
Weather and civic notes from Boston area events
Fair and warmer weather sets the tone as Boston area readers note a forthcoming Roxbury kindergarten dedication on April 19. The City Missionary Society plans to distribute over 20000 Master cards to public institutions.
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City Missionary Society
North End
Boston
Francis Childs
Eastern Road Club
New England
Mechanics’ Hall
Pacific Coast
Fitchburg
Somerville
New York
Atchison
Mexican Central
Fish Commission ships plan Pacific work and Arctic tests
The United States fish commission steamer Albatross at the Washington Navy Yard will be stationed in the Pacific next autumn to study food fish distribution and develop fisheries, aiming to transform Gulf of California into a second Chesapeake Bay for shad. The Thetis, to cruise Alaska in Behring and possibly Arctic waters, will carry dredging gear to aid investigations. Also noted is the hanging of Patrick McCarthy at Fort Smith for the 1886 Cherokee nation murders, and publisher L W Standish of the Stoughton Sentinel indicted for criminal libel against the almshouse keeper.
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American Fisheries Union
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Fort Gibson
Indian Territory
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Henry M. Stanley
Omaha
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Rahway
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New York
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Emory
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Commission
Sea of Behring
Arctic Ocean
Patrick McCarthy
Fort Smith Ark
Thomas
John Mahoney
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Stoughton Sentinel
Mr. Woodbury
Stoughton Almshouses
Commissioner Walker in Town on Trade Petition in Boston
The Hon. Aldace F. Walker of the interstate commerce commission visited Boston yesterday. He arrived from New York on the 6 am train and left for Vermont at 8 pm after meetings with W. Oliver Blaney and William Henry Lincoln. Local merchants and steamship lines petitioned the commission to allow Chicago to Boston trunk lines to continue export trade on the same basis.
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New York
Walker
Blaney
Lincoln
Boston
Chamber of Commerce
Hersey
Goodwin
Chamber
New England
Asa
Commissioner Walker
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Merchants of
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Bradstreets Report Signals Mixed Trade Outlook
Bradstreet's reports from New York indicate weaker general trade compared with last week due to factors like the interstate commerce law, higher freight uncertainties, and delayed orders for iron and coal. Yet wages rise 10 to 15 percent where full-time work persists, while strikes and failures rise in early 1887. The domestic money market eases slightly as coal prospects improve and stock prices firm, though wool and some cotton goods stay sluggish. Overall, industrial activity remains hesitant with mixed signals across regions and sectors.
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Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Northwestern
New Orleans
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Southern Railways
New England
Middle
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Pennsylvania
United States
Canada
Fires Strike Businesses on Devonshire Street and Nearby Areas
Last evening at 7 04 two fires broke out in the dining saloon of G W Fuller at 4 Devonshire street and spread to the hat and cap store of C Runkle at 2 Devonshire street causing Fuller to sustain 875 in damage and Runkle about 200 A small fire also damaged the Forest Hills railroad station on the New York and New England line The room comedies by Nancy McLaney at 55 Cooper street suffered 15 in damage and a building on Sargent's wharf occupied by Knowle Freeman and Co sustained about 50 in damage from a furnace fire at 1 this morning
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Devonshire Street
C. Runkle
Fuller
Runkle
Forest Hills
New York & New England
Nancy McLaney
Cooper Street
Sargent’s Wharf
Knowle, Freeman & Co
Fire follows tenement blaze in Essex Street in New York
New York reports 200 residents of tenement No 12 Essex Street left homeless after a basement bakery fire. Thirteen hospitalized from burns. a girl about 10 believed to be Kate Schuman died at Bellevue. Donation of 300 dollars from Moses Meyerbach assisted relief for affected families. Property loss estimated at 2000 dollars for repairs.
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Moses Meyerbach
Bellevue Hospital
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Hellesne
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Austrian Galicia
Taganrog
Russia
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D.T. Hogan
Lawrence
Edward McCoy
North Andover
Exana
N. Y
Addison
Lupincron
Mich
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Aldrich & Brayman
Custer
Worersler
Blair’s
West Brookfield
James G Blaine Ills Report From Fort Gibson I T
St Louis reports James G Blaine seriously ill at Fort Gibson I T with bronchial catarrh and fever though later messages say he has slight fever and is improving A Fort Gibson post surgeon notes normal respiration and no typhoid symptoms Augusta report says illness not credited Despatches continue to arrive updating condition and travel plans for Blaine and physicians involved.
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James G. Blaine
Fort Gibson
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Blaine
Associated Press
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Charles P. Berne
Aveusia
Manley
Through Tickets Not to Be Sold by Interstate Lines
The Michigan Central will issue a circular to boycott 25 trunk line routes and remove through tickets on Western lines. Chicago roads except Northwestern Illinois Central and Milwaukee and St Paul are included. Excluded are Northwestern Illinois Central and M&StP. Kansas City routes barred. Lake Shore joins boycott. Baltimore & Ohio and Grand Trunk remain as seaboard lines not turning Western tickets. Interstate commission faces continued stalemate. new tariffs expected to equalize routes via Chicago and St Louis. Merchants plan protest over suspensions affecting lake route from Milwaukee. Pennsylvanias private note signals challenge to differential rates as discrimination under interstate law.
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Lake Shore
Baltimore & Ohio
Grand Trunk
Seaboard
Interstate Commission
Western
Missouri River
St. Louis
Kansas Ot
Milwaukee
Pennsylvania Company
Western Lines
Obituary notices for Knowlton Gaudin Spaulding Morse in Massachusetts
Obituary items report John Edward Knowlton of Malden died after a short illness at 40, survived by widow and four children, and noting his 20 years as general manager for Richard Briggs. Louis Gaudin of Woonsocket died at 109, his wife 102, his mother 108. Stillman C. Spaulding of Newton Centre, veteran of the Thirty Second Massachusetts Volunteers, lost limbs at Gettysburg and belonged to G A R Charles Ward Post 62. Lucius B. Morse, Salem tanner, died in Boston at about 65.
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John Edward Knowlton
Malden
Maple and
Cedar Streets
Richard Briggs
Crockeryware
Washington
School Streets
Boston
Gettysburg
Spaulding
Charles Ward
Newton
Lucius B. Morse
Salem
Boston Street
Mystery of the Stockholm Girl Deepens in N J
Hilda Hansen identifies the murdered girl as Augusta Matilda Carlson who arrived from Stockholm on December 9 aboard the Hungaria. Carlson's father, Carlson Lange, works for the Pullman Car Company in Chicago. A silk umbrella near the body matches Carlson’s, and she wore an engagement ring from a lover in a town near Stockholm. No engraved names on three rings. Undertaker face exhibition postponed until Sunday with the clothing and valise displayed.
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Hilda Hansen
Augusta Matilda Carlson
Stockholm
Hungaria
Carlson Lange
Pullman Car Company
Chicago
Miss Hansen
Miss Carlson
Oldshipping
Arrivals Reported for Carina and Austria in Early April
New York dispatch notes late ship news with the steamer Carina and air ship Austria arriving recently. London reports and maritime traffic details accompany the briefing, outlining seaborne movements and port activity.
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Carina
Airship
Austria
London
Chicago Strike Fails to Settle as Mass Meeting Flops
In Chicago on April 8 only nineteen master carpenters turned out to discuss striker demands while the union claims 260 bosses oppose them and are ready to concede. Violent scenes erupted as nonunion workers quit and police clashed with strikers near Humboldt Park. Knights of Labor factions debated leadership and a possible return to work, with a Knights meeting set for tomorrow to decide whether to end the strike and resume work for up to 8000 carpenters.
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Master Carpenters’ Association
Jackson
Clinton
Warren Springer
Humboldt Park
Kliver
Carpenters’ Council
Knights of Labor
Carpenters’ Brotherhood
Dauntless Captain Denies Fabricated Rift With Colt
New York reports Captain Samuels of the Dauntless arrives aboard the Adriatic after a transatlantic race loss to the Coronet. He denies a split with Caldwell H. Colt, calling rumors a fabrication. He cites a rough voyage and high winds as factors, praising the Coronet and noting Cork Harbor as the finish.
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Samuels
Dauntless
R.T. Bush
Queenstown
Caldwell H. Colt
Mr. Colt
Mr. I
Cork Harbor
The New Steel Yacht Built for Speed by General Paine
General Paine announces plans to build a steel yacht near Mayflower dimensions with minor changes. Commodore James D. Smith welcomed the project, praising Paine’s role in the American fleet and noting it aims for commission in the New York Yacht Club cruise depending on steel availability.
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James D. Smith
General Paine
Commodore Smith
Congress Street
Boston
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New York Yacht Club
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Letter From Ames D. Smith to General Paine on Yachting Cup
In New York on April 7 1887 Ames D Smith praises General Paine for his liberal spirit regarding the Arrow yacht conditions. He hopes for a fast European yacht and a stronger home defender to uphold American supremacy in yachting and congratulates Paine on his chivalrous conduct.
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General Paine
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England
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Ames D. Smith
Body of Infant Found Murdered in Horn Pond Woburn
The dead male infant, said to be hours old, was discovered in Horn Pond. The throat was cut and the skull crushed. Authorities report a homicide in the tragedy. Lucius Lathrop, missing from Newport New Hampshire, arrested in St. Augustine Florida for forgery totaling about 15000 dollars and to be returned. Croydon voters sue over alleged bribery at March meeting, legal action started. Fred Bostel, four, Exeter New Hampshire, missing since yesterday, found drowned in a river.
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Horn Pond
Woburn
Lucius Lathrop
Newart
N. H
St. Augustine
Mia
Croydon
Fred Bostel
Exeter
Indians' removal urged by Boston leaders in 1900s
In Washington on April 8, former Boston mayor F C Prince ex Senator E I Thomas of Brookline and George M Chapman urged Secretary of the Interior to move Apache Indians from Fort Marion Florida to western lands and be treated like other peaceful tribes. Lamar promised to help as Indian Defence Association pressed the issue for Cabinet discussion with the President reportedly favoring removal of all but Geronimo's immediate followers.
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Wasmycton
Sprder
F. C. Prince
Boston
E. I. Thomas
Brookline
George M. Chapin
Secretary of the Interior
Fort Marion
Fla
Eretary Lamar
Indian Defence Association
Geronimo
Forestation Report Promised by Forestry Division
Wasnixcron, April 8. The forestry division of the department of agriculture, led by Dr. Fernow, plans a valuable report on forest culture. He notes extensive tree planting but a lack of systematic study of forest culture and timber growth relative to lumber cut. This forthcoming report will be the first of its kind in the United States.
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