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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1895
Page
2
Advertisement notes Blackstones by Waitt and Bond outsell any three brands combined made in Boston. Londres leads ten to one, available in five shapes. Factory is the only building in Boston built solely for cigar manufacture with a clean sweet smoke guaranteed.
A serious spate of accidents reports George W. Pierce of 8 Savin Street Roxbury fell from his horse on Back Street and died within minutes from heart failure. Other injuries include Albert W. Craig bicyclist harmed near Joy and Beacon streets, James Biggin with a sprain, Peter Sate head injuries from an Everett car platform fall, and George C. Noyes injured while coupling cars at Charlestown.
J M Switzler sold 6000 horses to a Portland syndicate for slaughter in Portland. Meat will be packed and the carcass fully utilized. It becomes the sole market for thousands of eastern Oregon and Washington range horses. Price reported under five dollars per head.
A Peoria dispatch reports the Whiskey Trust reduced the price by 12 cents a gallon, setting a basis of 1.20 for finished goods. The cut comes amid trade competition and places price about 8 cents below production cost and 41/2 cents under the Spirit Association level. Ex-president J. B. Greenhut notes this is lower than post tax high wines pricing and comments on corn price effects.
Albert Nason, a long time Salem resident and noted fisherman, died yesterday at age 61. He was well known by many summer visitors at the Willows and Beverly Farms and supplied hotels and private homes along the North Shore for years.
Goods Right Prices Right Money Back if You Say So. Bicycling grows in vogue this year. Dress for wheel comfort with a gh wool sweater in white or maroon. Prices range from $2 to $3.50 with $2 value option.
Ex-champion John L Sullivan attempted to save Maggie Carr from a gas flame blaze at 51 Dover Street but failed. Carr died after ten hours of agony while Sullivan suffered severe burns and faced a likely cancelation of his New York engagement. Neighbors and the household aided, a City Hospital report followed, and Sullivan remained at 51 Dover Street under restrained attention.
Wah Yah Kee, proprietor of a Palmer Street laundry, Cambridge, was attacked with a hatchet in his shop while hosting dinner for fellow countrymen. Wah Wah Kee, charged with the assault, claimed he owed Wah Kee money. He was arrested by Patrolmen Conry and McNulty and held without bail.
Polish actress Mme. Modjeska, expelled from Russia, has appealed to Ambassador Runyon for intervention. She says the move followed a Pole support speech in Chicago and that she entered Russia with her company under Warsaw contracts. She posted 2000 roubles as surety and bills, then was ordered to quit within twelve hours with no reason given.
Forecast for Monday calls for Maine to see increasing clouds and showers with cooler night and fresh southerly winds. New Hampshire and Vermont will have showers and cooler conditions with southwesterly winds. Massachusetts expected showers and cooler interiors with fresh southwesterly winds. Rhode Island and Connecticut partly cloudy and cooler in the north with fresh southwesterly winds. Eastern New York to have showers and cooler interiors with brisk southwesterly winds.
Alfred J. Claffley, 24, arrested in Boston after a Worcester asylum escape, caught with a 32 caliber self cocking revolver. He is detained at Station 16 then moved to the Tombs for examination while his mother and sisters face the blow of his arrest.
An incomplete fragment describes a man answering questions in detail about a startling adventure. The visible text implies a direct, intimate exchange but offers no names, places, dates, or outcomes.
In Brooklyn on a April evening a battle among Italians in the Eastern district left two men dead and a girl wounded. John Orsello, seeking to stop rumors about his wife and daughter, fired a Winchester at Carmina Sessa wounding him and a bystander. Luigi Deprisco was also hit as Annie Decker, 18, was shot in the thighs while passing by.
A Greenville Alabama arrival reports five African Americans hanged near Greenville following the murder of Watts Murphy a popular white man. A suspect confessed naming two other men and two women as involved in the crime. Reporter notes the incident occurred last night about forty miles north of Montgomery.
In Butte Montana on April 21 E L Spalding a Salvation Army leader was arrested on counterfeiting charges revealing a wide scheme. Testimony by Hardlow tied Spalding to circulating the counterfeit, with a gang of ten operating in a secret tunnel and counterfeit dollars found in a theatre chimney. Hardlow later disappeared and officers fear he was killed by the ring as more arrests followed.
The body of Fred Stinson Julia Marlowe's late manager who died of pneumonia in New York on Friday arrived in Boston yesterday morning and was taken to the chapel over Undertaker Jones's establishment per directions from New York.
Mortals of Tom Gerraughty laid to rest at Holyhood Cemetery Brookline with simple affecting rites. Chief Bohman led a police escort of about twenty officers from Boston and vicinity crowds traveled to the cemetery for the interment.
Public supporters led by Alderman Barry press to widen Tremont street to eighty feet and Beacon street to fifty, using Tremont House land. City funds via bonds of 415,000 dollars at 4 percent for twenty years would back the project with premium proceeds to the sinking fund. Surveyor Humbert advocates the plan as a key, warning of fire safety and future uniform widening if the old Tremont site is cleared. Mayor Curtis voices financial caution while construction plans loom with the Tremont House site demolition.
Alice Walsh 25 is found unconscious in hallway at 143 Thompson Street and dies at Bellevue Hospital after a stabbing. Doctors describe wounds and contusions like the famous killer's method. Police detain Philip Mewley of 114 Thompson Street on suspicion.
A liquor squad member arrested waiter Edward Whiting, 45, at the Hotel Eastern cafe at Canal and Causeway for illegally selling intoxicating liquor after observing patrons order drinks without meals. Whiting claimed ignorance of the law and said he worked there only on Sundays.
On the Potomac near Second Street Irving Lyles and Miss Chase Cantor were seen arguing in a boat that capsized. Cantor was rescued momentarily but both sank. Cantor's body was recovered later while Lyles remained missing. Both hailed from Anacostia, Washington.
Public inspection halted subway work yesterday drew large crowds in the Common and Public Garden and near the old burying ground. Officers kept spectators from entering the Boylston street mall as workers planned to resume with greater force today.
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