Milford Street Railway Franchises Clash Over Hopkinton Line
Milford is abuzz as several firms seek a Milford to Hopkinton street railway franchise. The Milford Holliston and Framingham Company wants a Cedar Street route, while Milford Attleboro and Woonsocket and Worcester and Middlesex also push routes via Pearl Purchase Dilla Barthes and Cedar streets. Hopkinton shows public support for the Worcester route and the line would run Milford to Westboro via Hopkinton and Woodville.
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Milford
Hopkinton
McLoughlin
Boston
Milford, Holliston & Southmingham Company
Pearl, Purchase, Dilla
Cedar Streets
Pearl
Barthes
Street
Worcester & Middlesex County_Streetway Company
Milford, Attleboro & Woonsocket ‘Street Railway Company
Milford, Holliston & Framingham Company
Cedar Street
Worcester & Mideen Company
Thepkinton Selectmen
Westboro
Woodville
Fea
Young Thief Arrested in Tufts College Ticket-T Office Heist
Boston & Maine ticket office at Tufts College was broken into last week. Several dollars in tickets were stolen, one recovered near the station. Patrolman Goff arrested Eugene Gernaugh, 11, who admitted involvement and was turned over to his parents for court.
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Somerville Po-Lce
Boston & Maine
Tufts College
In & Field
Goff l
Eugene Gernaugh
Barkhurst
Heirs of Elisha Crowell Plan to Secure Fortune in England
A meeting at Palladio Hall Somerville gathered forty alleged Crowell heirs to decide on how to pursue a large estate reputedly worth forty to sixty million dollars deposited in the Bank of England. John A Crowell led discussions, a delegate to England was to be sent, and Greenwood Gribble of London handles the Boston Crowells' interests.
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Elisha Crowell
England
Palladio Hall
Somerville
Bank of England
Greenwood & Gribble
London
Boston Crowells
Crowell
Post
Colored Leaders Confer on New England Race Conference
A committee of prominent colored men met at No. Pemberton square to plan a Boston conference within ten days. The event aims to unite New England leaders against efforts to diminish black political rights and to reject any measures subverting those rights. Attendees included I. D. Barnett E. G. Walker T. P. Taylor and others.
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Pemberton Square
New England
Boston
I. D. Barnett
E. G. Walker
T. P. Taylor
W. ®. Johnson
W. A. Hopkins
J. 8. Gaines
G. W. Forbes
E. T. Morris
Fire destroys wareham street dry house causing heavy loss
A blaze from the dry house of Perkins Mellish and Co on Wareham street northeast corner broke out shortly after 1 yesterday. The fire quickly spread, with damage near six thousand dollars. Twelve thousand feet of oak lumber owned by Mellish Byfield Co caught fire. Ladderman Michael Hayes of Ladder 3 collapsed from smoke but recovered after medical attention and returned to duty.
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Perkins, Mellish & Co
Wareham Street
Mellish, Byfield ‘Company
Michael Hayes
Ladder 3
Miss Teresa Blake Buried After Fatal New Rochelle Horse Jump
Miss Teresa H Blake who died Tuesday when thrown from a horse at a stock farm near New Rochelle N Y was buried yesterday. Services at 39 Brimmer street Brookline were simple with Scripture readings prayer and singing by a quartet. Attendees included Henry Cabot Lodge Henry Parkman T Dennie Boardman James J Higginson and Major Henry L Higginson among others. Interment followed at Forest Hills.
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Teresa H. Blake
New Rochelle
N. Y
Brimmer Street
Friends of
William H. Lyon
Walnut Street Unitarian Church
Brookline
Henry Cabot Lodg Theon
Henry Parkman
T. Dennie Boardman
James J. Higginson
New York
Miss Blake
Henry L. Higginson
Boston
Blake
Forest Hills Cenerere
Tragedy at Bay State Brick Yards Injury Then Amputation Feared
Alfred Comeau aged 23 was run over by a freight train at the Bay State brick yards in North Cambridge today. Both legs were badly mangled with one to be amputated and the other possibly ruined.
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Alfred Comeau
Bay State
Cambridge
London plague cases reported by Surgeon Thomas
The Marine Hospital Service received a telegram from Past Assistant Surgeon Thomas noting four plague cases and two deaths in London as of August 3. They confirmed diagnosis by bacteriological tests and expected no further spread, while quarantine enforcement at ports remains vigilant. Separate despatches report yellow fever in Hillsboro County, Florida, with investigation underway.
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Washington
Marine Hospital Service
Thomas
London
Marine Hospital
Wyman
The
Marine Hospital, Service
J. H. White
Key West
Fla
Hillsboro County
White
Lords clash over invasion defense and Wolseley authority
In London on August 8 the House of Lords debated England not invulnerable to invasion. Lord Rosebery challenged War Secretary Lansdowne over summoning Lord Wolseley to endorse militia plans, arguing for clearer accountability. Salisbury noted the abstract nature of the dispute and the subject was dropped.
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London
House of Lords
England
Lord Rosebery
Marquis of Lansdowne
Lord Wolseley
War Office
War Secretary
Lord Salisbury
Lord Lansdowne
Billerica Girl Edith Lowe Disappears From Home
Edith Lowe aged 16 daughter of Mr and Mrs William Lowe of 64 Wilson street North Billerica has vanished. Her father left for Boston in search of her after she lost her job at Faulkner’s mill last Tuesday. She is dark featured about 6 feet 6 inches and very bright talking.
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Lowell
Edith Lowe
William Lowe
Wilson Street
North Billerica
Boston
Faulkner's Mill
McKinley Niece to Wed Dr Hermanus Baer in Somerset
Canton reports President McKinley and Mrs McKinley will attend the September wedding of Miss Mabel McKinley to Dr Hermanus Baer in Somerset Pennsylvania. Mabel, Abner McKinley’s daughter, is noted for wit beauty and musical talent. Baer recently graduated from a Philadelphia medical college. Grace McKinley, Mrs Hillen McKinley and other relatives are described.
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Canton
McKinley
Morse
California
David
Mabel McKinley
Grace McKinley
James McKinley
Grace
HURRIEDLY WED. Indiana Elopers Married in a Buggy on the Highway
A Jeffersonville magistrate married an Indiana couple on the road in a carriage amid 1000 Seymour excursionists heading to boats. Richard Be Johnson and Annie Gertrude Case wed as diners ate nearby, after eloping from Pleasure Ridge.
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Indiana
Louisville
Jeffersonville
Court House
Richard BE
Johnson
Annie Gertrude
Seymour
Ind
Pleasure Ridge
Mother Foiled Cupid in Wilkesbarre Wedding Plot
Frank Burke and Anna Jones went to the register's office for a marriage license but were blocked by Anna's mother who arrived first. She declared the girl underage and Burke too old, so the clerk refused issuance without parental consent. The couple departed in defeat.
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City Register
Frank Burke
Marriage Dissolution Placed Over Pacific Walla Walla Tale
Anna B Fairchild sues in District Supreme Court to sever marriage to Lee Fairchild described as a gifted orator. She alleges habitual drunkenness, failure to support, and desertion in June 1898. She works as a War Department clerk.
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Washington
Anna B. Fairchild
Lee Fairchild
Walla Walla
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco
Seattle
District Supreme Court
War Department
Vacation Schools Schedule and Locations
The vacation schools established by the school committee will have two public days on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 1 and 2, from 9 in the morning until noon. They are located at Lyman Street in West Boston, Paris Street, the Lewdoin School on Myrtle Street, Boston, and the Aaron Davis Primary School on Yeuman Street, Hoxyury.
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Lyman
Paris Street
West
Boston
Liewdoin
Myrtie Street
Aaron Davis
Yeuman Sreet
hKoxyury
Bennington Street Rail Boulevard Proposal Voted On
A Board of Street Commissioners hearing at City Hall considered reserving twenty five feet of Bennington Street for a street railway boulevard. About fifteen property owners attended. Five supported the plan and ten opposed. Opponents urged concessions from the railroad before a public highway concession. The board took the proposition under advisement.
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Board of Street Commissioners
City Hall
Bennington Street
Thomas J. Giblin
William F. McClellan
Stners
Railroad Corporation
Eas
Boston
Giblin
England to Borrow Three Percent War Loan
The British government plans a three year 3 percent war loan to be offered in the United States through Morgans of New York and Philadelphia and Kidder Peabody. Notes will run on the English exchequer at 3 percent annually and sell at about 98, netting investors roughly 3 8 percent. Official announcement expected today as Boer War costs drive the issue.
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Morgans
New York
Philadelphia
Kidder, Peabody & Co
England
Army commissions 48 enlisted men as second lieutenants
Washington Aug 3 The President appointed 48 enlisted men in the regular army as second lieutenants, assigning them to various arms. Merits based on excellent service records and high exam averages. These appointments follow this year's academy graduates, leaving eleven civilian vacancies to be filled soon.
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Washington
Military Academy
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