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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1891
Page
2
A Paris express collided with a special excursion train at Zollikofen near Berxe Switzerland. Eleven women and three men were killed and twenty four seriously injured, many needing amputations. The crash disrupted centenary fêtes and halted the Septennary processions.
Berlin reports that to combat rye price spikes the government will use wheat for army bread. A cabinet decision keeps existing corn duties despite calls to lower them, with Caprivi defending the tariff as negotiations with other nations proceed. Market reaction was muted though prices for rye and wheat fluctuated. Paris notes a French rye and wheat outlook with a large rye shortfall and a one year suspension of the wheat surtax.
The International Labor Congress assembled at 10 o'clock in the Halle St. Michael Brussels. Speeches were limited to ten minutes with five minutes for a second speech on any subject. Daily sittings run 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 to 5 p.m. A committee with one delegate from each nation will arrange business in the interval.
In Vienna on Aug 17 Swiss Austrian and German delegates met to discuss fresh Swiss proposals amid tense commercial negotiation talks. No final accord reported and discussions continued into the next session.
The presented commercial league failed to reach agreement and negotiations were indefinitely postponed. Switzerland has been Italy’s top customer for two years with France and the United States next. Rome reacts as Austria and Germany’s concessions thwarted. Austrian and German delegates head to Munich amid the rupture concerns.
Paris reports a serious labor agitation at Fourmies near Avesnes with troops sent from Lille to quell disturbances in the Nord department. London notes nail workers in Worcester and Staffordshire striking over a proposed 10 percent wage cut, affecting about 8000 men and potentially spreading to other trades.
A new Haitian cabinet is announced with M Archin as Exterior Relations minister M Joseph Public Works M Monvas War M Apollon Public Instruction M Stewart Finance and M Pierre Louis Interior. The city remains calm as the formation is reported Aug 17.
Three men were jailed at Station 4 after a late night brawl in South Cove on Federal Street near Beach. Patrolman Ready pursued suspects as fights moved through East Street Place and Cove Street, ending with one man subdued by club blows and another unconscious after a pistol and revolver were temporarily drawn. Michael Crowley aided a prisoner rescue but was jailed. William Maxwell, Joseph Kendall and Maxell’s companions were processed at the box.
A young man about 18 tried selling a $135 safety bicycle for $65 at Cambridgeport and Boston stores. Suspicious observer followed him to Cambridge, where police intervened. After a chase toward Station 2, Morse kicked the bike to stop the rider, who was identified as Jason C. Stearns of Woodbine Street Worcester and locked up on theft charges.
The box alarm from Box 19 reported by Charles E. Kimball, bookkeeper for Slattery & D Arcy at 15 Charlestown Street, as a blaze in the cellar of their five and a half story brick building likely started by a gas jet. Dense smoke but total loss under a few hundred dollars. Dexter Me Aug 17. Hill Brothers wood working mill at Harmony burned early today, cause a hot box, loss about $20,000.
A cloud burst near the junction of the One Hundred and Two and Platt Rivers washed away houses barns and stock and ruined crops. The river rose twenty feet in six hours wrecking twelve or fifteen farms with many narrow escapes and no confirmed deaths. A second cloudburst this morning caused further damage.
London August 18 The Times argues that many office seeking abuses in the United States stem from the power to reelect the President and that forbidding reelection would be better. It notes Cleveland’s question What will you do with the ex Presidents as the only argument against change.
Patrick Hagan and George Dunnett, both 15, were arrested last evening in Cambridge for breaking and entering James Wiley's Brookline Street grocery. Warrants are out for other boys connected to the break.
The Gloriana defeated the Oweene Beatrix and Sayonara in a tight 84 mile race, with Barbara and Jessica close behind. Nat Herreshoff steered the Gloriana, while crowds cheered from the Yorktown and others as crews celebrated a hard fought victory and prizes.
The Naval Committee watched the yacht race from the Yorktown in Newport and then inspected the naval training station. The White Squadron is expected to sail for Boston tomorrow morning.
A woman who gave the name Annie Everett of Brookline was arrested by Inspector Robinson yesterday afternoon for allegedly stealing a small amount of goods from Houghton & Dutton and the Star Corset Company on Tremont Row.
Mrs Ellen McNanna of Coggswell Place North Cambridge fell down stairs at her home landing on glass. She suffered deep cuts to both hands and wrists and was transported to Cambridge Hospital by police ambulance for treatment.
Monroe Evans and his son John Evans were seized from custody by a mob in Cuttman Alabama on Saturday and hanged for the May shooting of Pierce Mooney who is near recovery.
The International Hygienic Congress in Loxpon concluded after lengthy debate over the next host city, finally selecting Budapest. Separately at Batu Missouri on Sea Wall Beach Mary Keating and Maria Duffy, servants of J H Manley of Augusta, drowned this forenoon during a bath.
A critical review discusses R Heber Newton’s Defence volume, arguing his critique of Nicene Creed, Unitarian influences, and modern thought. It weighs humane zeal against murmur of martyrdom, praising breadth while opposing new wine in old bottles. Also covers Portugal history by Stephens, The Problem of Jesus by Boardman, and Songs of the Life Eternal by Knowles.
A book review praising Genung for a fresh translation of the Book of Job with extensive notes and an introductory study. It argues for focusing on the poem's universal significance and the inner life rather than chasing multiple meanings. Boston edition priced at $1.26.
The series volumes on The Church and Heaven present Universalist tenets in concise unpretentious form. Dr Weaver and Dr Ruge offer firm, confident guidance. A travel chronicle in heavy cream paper, Dr Webb’s California and Alaska lightens the shelf. Portugal’s story follows a newer plan with careful groundwork of the book’s aim.
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