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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1894
Page
1
Robbery on West Canton Street Hits Elderly Merchant
Albert Gay, a 69-year-old wholesale grocer from 21 India Street, was robbed of about 160 dollars on West Canton Street near Tremont. Two young men 25 to 30, about 5 6, wore straw hats and fled toward Columbus Avenue, pursued by bystanders and a tailor, with witnesses including a servant and a painter identifying the suspects. Police, led by Captain Foster, and Special Officers Lynch and Shields, investigated using a photo gallery. the incident occurred while Gay was renting and collecting rents at his Canton Street home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Gay
West Canton Street
Mr. Gay
Montgomery Street
Dartmouth Street
Columbus Avenue
Gay
Boston & Albany
Foster
Station 5
Lynch
Shields
Tremont Street
Timothy Gay & Co
India Street
Wellesley
Canton Street
West Canton
Berkeley Streets
Shawmut Avenue
Tremont Streets
Wellesley Hills
Post
Daniel Haggerty
Litchfield
Errand of Mercy In Swampscott Japanese Clergyman Visits Prisons
The Rev. Tomeoka, a Japanese clergyman studying prison reforms in the United States, stays with Dr. George Gordon in Swampscott. He has entered his first Americanized dwelling on Rockland Street and seeks reform methods from Concord Reformatory officials after visiting the prison. He plans further visits to other penal institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swampscott
Tomeoka
George Gordon
Rockland Street
Concord Reformatory
Closing stock sale data from G. W. Simmons & Co market list
A stock take on Monday shows deep discounts in the Men's Department with items such as Thin Summer Vests, White Navy Pantaloons, White Duck Trousers, Duck Sailor Suits, Black Alpaca Coats, Linen Dusters, Tennis Trousers, Bicycle Suits, and Bicycle Breeches. Angus’ closing prices are listed for each item, offered at low overall levels to shed stock before next season in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shuman Corner
Angus
G. W. Simmons & Co
North &T
Miracle Brings Train to Halt on Bear Camp Bridge
On August 1 at Kearsarge House New Hampshire a through express from Boston bound for the White Mountains had its driving-rod break and strike the engine. Engineer Nat Willey pulled the air brakes and stopped the train on the Bear Camp bridge preventing a forty‑foot fall. Conductor Jefferson led the car and no one was injured though the passengers were delayed for hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kearsarge House
North Conway
Nat Willey
White Mountains
Jefferson
Mystery Solved Perhaps in Georgetown Murder Case
Mysterious findings near Georgetown revive belief that the body found in the brook last March is Pat Richardson the key government witness in the Wilton murder case of December 1893. Descriptions including tattoo marks match, suggesting he was abducted near Georgetown and disposed of with a rock attached to his clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgetown Brook
Haverhill
Georgetown
Pat Richardson
Wilton
North Andover
Richardson
Lonaghan
Lowell
Unionists Abandon Moves on Evicted Tenants Bill
London August 1 Unionist members of the House of Commons decide to abstain from further action on the evicted tenants bill and refrain from moving amendments. They will not take part in divisions on amendments, many of which are McCarthyite motions, making passage likely by week’s end. Opposition may raise third reading amendments but will move none.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
House of Commons
Business men urged to trust EMERGENCY EXTINGUISHER
Business men can now leave home in a contented frame of mind for women and children can use the emergency extinguisher io 292 Franklin St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin St
Blue About the Tariff and a Meeting Record
Washington Aug 1 The tariff conference drama continues with discord over the refined sugar differential. House and Senate conferees failed to agree on a schedule and adjourned awaiting tomorrow’s talks. Senators fear another disagreeing report while some call the Senate bill superior to McKinley or Mills bills. The White House and Secretary Carlisle remain central to the bargaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Ways and Means
White House
Jones
Carlisle
House
Senate
Bailey
Hendrix
New York
Let Congress Resign Petition Sparks Senate Debate
Senator Lodge presented a printed petition bearing the title Let Congress resign, adopted at Faneuil Hall and Boston Common. Hoar argued the people, not a small group, demand resignations and set a date for all officials to quit. The Senate resumed the sundry civil appropriation bill with immigration amendments and ongoing debate on Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator Lodge
Rep
Mass
Faneuil Hall
Boston Common
Congress
Senate
Hoar
Morrison I. Swift
Chandler
N. H
Libel suit in London over Dr Lombard affair ends in Milledge victory
Almira Milledge keeper of a Norwood boarding house wins £100 damages in a libel action accusing Mrs Gill of jealousy and threats amid alleged intimacy with Dr Josiah S Lombard Harvard physiology assistant professor in the late 1860s. Evidence shows Lombard denied the marriage claim and noted his past Harvard tenure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Almira Milledge
Norwood
Miss Milledge
Gill
Dr. Lombard
Milledge
Harvard College
Cambridge
Post
Europe
South
Swindler Edward Simpson Flees Lynn With Bicycle
A Philadelphia man named Edward Simpson, about 22, stayed at Hotel Seymour in Lynn after arriving July 25. He posed as a traveling agent for H Bowker Co and borrowed money from the hotel clerk, leaving with a bicycle borrowed from Date and Hayes. His grip held several pounds of nails, and he disappeared last Friday afternoon after securing meals and lodging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
President's sister joins Mrs Cleveland on Buzzards Bay sail
Mrs. Cleveland and Miss Maude Harrison have returned from vacation at Buzzards Bay Massachusetts. The President's sister enjoys a sail in the catboat Ruth with skipper Stillman B Wright as heat waves linger. A new naphtha launch arrives at Onset prompting local curiosity. A windmill is built nearby to supply water to the President's yacht.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Maude Harrison
Cleveland
Connecticut
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Messrs. A. Shuman& CO
Young Men’s
Summer Apparel
Adies
Boys’ & Children’s
Young
Remai
Sairts
Russia
A.shuman
Clothiers and Outfitters
Boston
Canton
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Acushnet
New Bedford
H. W. Cushman
Rueter & CO
Folsom
Union
Atlantic Ave
BUCS
Barnard & Co
Nat
J. T. Phelps
Blue
Equity Swift
Morrison Swift
Gay BR. Lombard
Harvard
Swindler
Waitt & Bond
Blackstones
New England
Havana
Cuba
Amsterdam
MFRS
Blackstone St
Paine’s Furniture CO
Canal ST
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