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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1896
Page
6
The Republican platform avoids honest sport in prizefights with Sullivan and Corbett comparisons. Amendments by Kellner and Krebs were rejected. The bill passed 149 to 41 and proceeds to the Senate.
The House passed a bill to regulate rough sports and boxing, prohibiting matches with any prize or reward. Penalties include a fine up to 200 dollars or three months in jail. Amendments on gloves and trophies were rejected amid debate about crime and sports.
The Grand Lodge of the Good Templars opened its annual session with Grand Chief Templar Wyllie presiding. Officers elected for the next year include Joseph A. Fancy as grand chief templar and Hector Trumbull as grand councillor.
Opening night of the Hasty Pudding comic opera Branglebrink at Cambridge drew a crowded graduate and undergraduate audience. The production features strong chorus work and clever parodies with H. Schurz as Robert of Alles and E. G. Knoblauch as Princess Mirabelle earning praise, while Ralph Townsend and John Carpenter provide libretto and music. Three additional performances planned at Copley Hall and Cambridge club house into next week.
A letter from the Armenian Relief Association secretary urges urgent steps to stop Turkish atrocities in Turkey. Gallinger hopes for a way to check the abuses as calls grow for government intervention. London meetings demand protection for Protestants and Catholics and seek release of Rev. George P. Knapp, expelled American missionary. Government notes Egypt forces may advance to Dongola, in reply to Commons questions.
Henry Sanford Fitch a wealthy Washington real estate owner shot himself today. The motive remains unclear though the deaths of two friends weigh on him. Fitch was a close associate of Robert Gittings who recently killed himself and also knew ex Congressman Harter of Ohio. A Fitch brother co-owns the San Francisco Call and Bulletin. a son works in the pension office.
A South Boston court arraigned Russian Zieman for practicing medicine without registration. General Martin, police board chairman, pursued a broader probe tied to Lillian Small a 19 year old nurse who left Waltham for Boston. The case and related actions remain unsettled with ongoing inquiries.
The scene on Boston street reveals Josie Manning and Flynn shot dead in a room after years of secret romance and parental opposition. Flynn, a Salem businessman, was found to have died by a close range pistol blast, while Manning perished from a near nostril shot.
Newton club whist team at Newtonville beat the Philedians of Waltham by seventeen tricks in a match held at the Newton Club house. At the First Universalist Society of Newton annual meeting at Washington Park church, Rev Ira T Priest’s resignation was accepted 38 to 17 after an hour of consideration.
At East Boston on April 9 Mary F McCulpha nee Hughes formerly of Brighton died. Funeral from her late residence 312 Paris Street Saturday at 8 30 am Requiem Mass at Church of the Sacred Heart at 9 Relatives and friends are requested to attend.
No. 7 first class coaches depart Boston 8 30 AM except Sunday with connections to Albany. No 15 leaves 10 30 AM daily for Chicago via LSMSR and MOC BR RB, dining car Boston to Utica. No 19 departs 2 PM daily with buffet vestibule sleeping cars to Chicago via Michigan Central. No 23 leaves 3 PM daily except Sunday to Chicago via LSMSR, sleeping car Boston to St. Louis. No 37 departs 7 15 PM daily with vestibuled sleeping car to Chicago via LSMCR, and to Detroit and Chicago via Michigan Central. No 63 departs 11 PM except Saturday with sleeping car to Albany arriving 8 05 AM, Hartford New Haven and New York via Springfield line. No 88 leaves 9 AM except Sunday, buffet drawing room cars to New York arriving 1 30 PM. No 49 leaves 11 AM except Sunday, buffet drawing room cars to New York arriving 5 20 PM. No 48 leaves 12 noon except, coaches to New York arriving 5 30 PM. No 45 New York Limited leaves Boston 4 PM daily with vestibuled drawing room cars and coaches to New York arriving 10 PM. No 63 Night Express leaves Boston 11 PM daily with sleep cars to New York arriving 6 45 AM. Tickets and schedules at city office Kneeland St Boston. Assistant gen passenger agent A B Hanson.
March 10 1896 notices list Western and Eastern divisions departures from Union Station Boston to Portland Augusta Bangor Bar Harbor Concord N H Lewiston Manchester N H St John Halifax and Provinces St Stephen NB St Andrews NB Conway Intervale Glen Crawfords Fabyans Twin Mountain Whitefield Jefferson Lancaster and Grand Trunk Maine Central lines with multiple daily slots. Rail and steamer lines to Castine Deer Isle Sedgwick Southwest Bar Harbor Millbridge Jonesport Machiasport Eastport Calais St Andrews St John NB steamer from Portland Mondays and Thursdays.
The schedule lists numerous railway lines and stations across Manchester Concord New Hampshire and surrounding towns with varying daily and Sunday departures, including connections to Montreal Quebec Chicago and Boston. It names Belfmount Bristol Claremont St. Johnsbury Montpelier Burlington White River Junction and others with times such as 6 40 8 30 and 9 a m or 7 30 p m and notes Sundays late trains and special branches.
A wide roster names Fitchburg North Adams Williamstown Troy Albany Saratoga Utica Binghamton Hornellsville Elmira Syracuse Rochester Watertown Buffalo Niagara Falls Hamilton Toronto Detroit Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago St Louis and other points. The compilation reflects a broad geographic sweep across the Northeast and Midwest.
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