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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1889
Page
2
In a broad House debate a bill granting pensions to prisoners advances with little dissent while criticism notes bad policy in exempting industries. The discussion on advertising bills shows rising costs and a push to codify criminal law for clarity and accessibility to all citizens.
Bills reported to incorporate George S. Briggs George W. Perry David W. O. Ellis Jerome L. Bourne O R Swift G W Ellis Elisha Ellis and W P Keene as the Bourne Cemetery Association fixing the salary of the justice of the Fourth District Court of Plymouth at $1000.
The House, on suspension of rules, received Berkeley’s petition for legalization of acts at its annual meeting and referred it. It adopted orders for mercantile affairs to visit Philadelphia to study municipal gas management and for a print report of evidence for hearings on wiring under ground. The savings bank officers bill was postponed. A resolution backing pensions for Union soldiers and sailors in rebel prisons passed unanimously. Wyman renewed opposition to a conveyances bill for married women deserted by husbands, but the bill passed to engrossment 54 to 47.
The senate met on Friday and broke their session record by ten minutes ending nineteen minutes past the hour. A notable action was suspending rules to authorize Boston to pay a widow the salary due to G F Goold late captain and harbor master for service until December 31 1889. An order allows the street railways committee to go outside the state. Amendments to child employment were adopted and the bill moved to third reading. The bond issue bill for street railway companies was recommitted.
Mr Thomas Curley urged codification of the Commonwealth's criminal laws before a judiciary committee. He argued lawyers' conservatism, the bias of precedent, and the need to arrange general principles scientifically, citing Harvard law school reforms and a 1836 Story Metcalf report as foundational.
Lewis Reinhardt testified he served as an office boy from April 1885 to September 1887 and did not act with any special reference to Miss Connolly or her alligator. Abner Goodell Jr described Miss Adams’s illness and need for asylum, denied impropriety, and explained pay differences between Miss Connolly and Miss Adams while noting he kept the office open for Adams.
The Boston legislature examined Commissioner Goodell under scrutiny of his role in Province laws. Miss Adams's absenteeism noted while Pillsbury praised the law work. A hearing on aligning Boston’s municipal and fiscal years was led by Herbert L. Harding with a bill to amend the city charter and a plan to enable year coalescence under certain conditions.
A Boston gathering in the Old South Meeting House supported the Confederate Soldiers' Home in Texas. Speakers including Colonel Henry Walker and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson urged northern aid, citing Texas use of the old Capitol and the need to care for veterans as Americans united.
Inspectors arrested Joseph E Wright after a man matching his description passed several raised checks on multiple banks. Checks from Taunton and New Bedford banks had been altered from small sums to ninety dollars and presented at Boston institutions, with bank officials confirming Wright as the issuer.
At a Chicago meeting of Methodist ministers a resolution was presented opposing Sunday military parades. It was to be sent to the President but initially addressed to his Excellency Harrison. The draft was revised and redirected to W. H. Harrisons grandson.
The April county sitting opens Tuesday with Justice William Allen presiding. The docket lists jury trials across multiple divisions including Washburn v. Moore, Brown v. Colt Woollen, Worthington v. Flanders, Harding v. Fenno, and Barrett v. Fenno, among many others, plus equity hearings and numerous civil actions.
On April 8, Probate Court (Suffolk County) issued letters of administration for Elizabeth O'Brien Michael Oy Lucy Eaton Franklin Woodside Aloys Kohler Hannah Pierce Michael O'Donnell Hiram Bean Catherine Ritchie Abba Hale Charles Edwards Elizabeth Ladd Charles Smith Helen McCarron Homer Caldwell Theodore Rioxnius Mary Foote C Goodwin Clarke Neal McKenna Honora Bohan Mary Powderly Lewis Josselyn Cynthia Hastings Mary Joyce Catherine Waters Dorothy Selinger George Pushee and admitted the wills of John White Mary Warner Mary Amory Sidney Bartlett Bulkley Hastings Dennis Martin Maryene Chubbuck Catherine.
In April 8 sessions, Isaac Lissner is charged with stealing a watch valued at $15 from Abram Goldburg. The docket lists civil case continuances and numerous attorney and party names, including Knowles versus Wallingford and Gibbs versus Smith, with many cross suits and plaintiff defendants.
Court will convene in Cambridge with juries on Thursday morning. Dockets include cases 3183 Wellington v Hol, 3754 Rogers v Thorp et al trustee, 3184 Same v same, 3755 Kilburn v Rice et al, 3667 Goode v Brown, 3764 MacDonald v Jones, 2778 Bailey compt v, 3770 Woodman v John McManus, Scanlon v Hillis 8793, Graffam v Brown, 3750 Haynes et al v Hall, 3799 Gooide v Brown, 3751 Same v Goodnow, 3801 Towle v Davis.
J Timothy Dacey and Rudolph Badinger received six months at the house of correction for assault and battery and larceny respectively. Thomas Blizzard was committed for breaking and entering to the Massachusetts reformatory. Patrick Nelligan and Edward T were sentenced for breaking and entering with lengths of one year nine months and related terms.
In Salem on April 8 the Probate Court for Essex County proved the wills of John E. Goss Haverhill Anna Emmerton Haverhill Hannah H Dorman Boxford Susan L Ellis Andover Susan Loring Merrimac. Admin grants went to Anna M Bradley Haverhill John A Dorman cormergen Edwin Gage Haverhill Adelaide I Mayberry Andover Mary Nelson Georgetown Catherine ee Lawrence Sarah O Russell Salem. Inventories include Ames W Giles Lawrence 615654 John Bertram in trust for Bertram Sparhawk and others 27043.75 William W Russell Haverhill 789775. Dorman Boxford will leaves 500 to First Parish Boxford ministerial fund.
In Plymouth County April 8 Harris wills probated for Lydia B Keene Pembroke Francis Collamore and others with executors named. Administrators appointed include Roswell EK Marshfield Joshua A Douglass Plymouth and many more for estates such as Lewis Raymond George Parlow Anna Maria Packard and Elizabeth Taber whose $400000 estate largely benefits religious and charitable institutions. heirs contest Taber will. case set for May term Supreme Court.
In Essex County a morning session lists multiple uncontested divorces by decree nisi. Cases include Arroll, Brown, Pierce, Kempton, Perry, Dunn, Bennett, Lewis, Whittredge, Waitt, Myers. Grounds include desertion cruelty adultery abuse and non support. custody awarded in two instances with alimony set at twenty dollars monthly.
A string of divorce cases from Lynn Haverhill Ipswich Lawrence and surrounding towns results in decree nisi or decree with custody or name restoration. Grounds include desertion cruelty adultery illegality of marriage and illegality of marriage in several filings.
Superior Court criminal term convened in Dedham at 10 oclock with Rev J B Seabury offering prayer. Cooney of Foxboro named foreman of the first jury and Converse Moody of Quincy head of the second. A lengthy docket of liquor trials and other cases delays finishing this term.
Obituary notes the death of Dr J H Kidder of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington from pneumonia. A Maryland native and Harvard graduate, he served as assistant surgeon in the navy, later directing international exchanges at the Smithsonian. A chemist of high rank, he was a leading social figure and leaves a widow, a daughter of the late Horace Maynard, and three children.
Nathaniel Carr of North Cambridge died at his home on Walnut street of rheumatism of the heart. He was born in Orange on September 2, 1813, moved to Boston at 17, joined D. Roby & Son, later ran the coal business under the old firm name, and served as vice-president of North Avenue Savings Bank. A widow survives him. Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the musician, died in New York after a long illness. A. J. McDowell of Boston, auditor of the Mexican Central Railway, died in Albuquerque after five days of illness while en route from Mexico City. The Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy, Greek professor at Cambridge University and member of the University Council, is dead.
The April 8 report lists Showalter defeating McLeod, Bird over D G Baird, Tchi gorin over Lipschutz, Blackburne over Guns berg, Gossip over J W Baird, Weiss over Del mar, Burn over Burille, Mason over Hanham, Pollock over Judd, Taubenhaus over Martinez. Tchigorin and Delmar unfinished with Delmar winning.
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