Market Woes and Banking Struggles Across the Nation
The London market rose on American buying while the home market stayed dull with little demand. Failures and suspensions rose, notably National Tube Works of New Jersey with $700,000 debt, signaling a crisis buildup. Gold influx continues as France reports gold outflow and silver gain.
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National Tube Works
New Jersey
Bank of France
St. Paul
Lowell
General Electric
Burlington
General Eledtric
Western Union
St. Paul and Atchison
Sterling Exchange
Sterling
Congress
Along the Water Front by The Landsman
A column notes Captain Sylvester Whalen of the Sylvester Whalen and his expected new fast vessel. It mentions repairs at the Bisbee Endicott wharf Chelsea and the Chelsea Rubber Company lease to Elias Brewer. Updates on Captain Claire, First Mate Hany, and W H Hannah’s yacht Miriam are included along with a brief theft investigation by Officer Billy Symonds yielding recovered rope but no arrest.
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Julia Whalen
Bisbee & Endicott
Chelsea
Bisbee
Chelsea Rubber Company
Elias Brewer
Claire
Bowden
Hany
Sanuit
W. H. Hannah
Ames Building
Miriam
Billy Symonds
International Steamship Company
Longfellow
Symonds
The North Shore Wet Evening Entertainment and Outing
A busy North Shore update describes Johnson's Colored Minstrels at the Casino, a fishing trip from New Winthrop aboard the Sprague with prizes for W. H. Rich and Nellie McLaughlin, and a rain-cleared concert by Innes and the Thirteenth Regiment Band at the Point of Pines with plans for an operatic program.
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James Graham
Dorchester Cottage
Tewksbury Street
Neptune
W. H. Rich
Nellie McLaughlin
J. B. Lyons
Spain
Ernest McKim
Ss. J. Hamilberg
Globe Theatre
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Pines
Innes
Thirteenth Regiment
Cooney to Lead Middlesex Prosecution in Trefethen Murder Trial
It is said ex-District Attorney Cooney of Middlesex County will be the leading prosecuting attorney in the Trefethen murder trial. Attorney-General Pillsbury will not participate, leaving the matter to Cooney assisted by District Attorney Weir.
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Cooney
Middlesex County
Trefethen
Pillsbury
Weir
Gypsy Attempted Kidnapping in Hartford Street Scene
Hartford August 17 a gypsy woman unknown tried to seize and carry off George Lawrence a Manchester New Hampshire boy on Morgan Street near East Harbor bridge He was visiting H Montier at 53 Morgan Street The boy’s companions alerted police but the woman dropped him and fled
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George Lawrence
Manchester
N. H
Morgan Street
East Harbor Bridge
H. Montier
Car accident in Biddeford injures three women
In Biddeford Maine this afternoon Mrs Lorenzo Hill of Goodwins Mills her mother Mrs Cousens of Biddeford and another woman were thrown from a carriage. Mrs Hill suffered a broken leg and may be fatally injured. Mrs Cousens had both arms broken and the third woman was head injured.
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Biddeford
Lorenzo Hill
Goodwin's Mills
Cousens
Rhode Island Gold Hunters Start Gloucester Mine Work
Rhode Island gold hunters report operations began Tuesday at the Gloucester mine by the recently organized Ponegansett Mining & Smelting Company.
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Rhode Island
Providence
Gloucester
Ponegansett Mining & Smelting Company
Castine Gunboat Drives Seventy-Two Knots in Test Run
In Bath Maine on August 17 a preliminary trial of the gunboat Castine was held. The vessel achieved seventy two knots over five hours in a demanding sea test signaling strong performance for the new craft.
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Bath, Me
Castine
Trials at Abington Focus on Railroad Dispute
At North Abington on August 17 two district court cases centered on the railroad war. Edward J. Mackey faced charges of interfering with engineer John H. Barton, assaulting fireman Charles P. Blair, and locomotive larceny, with a $70 fine and 30 days in jail for the interference count, while John Griffin admitted cutting a trolley rope used for wiring, was found guilty on tampering with the trolley and fined $25. The proceedings drew a large crowd and featured Walter L. Bouve as associate justice.
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District Court
Abington
Court House
Walter L. Bouve
Kelley
Electric Road
Blair
Mackey
Barton
Bailey
House of Correction
Superior Court
John Griffin
Consolidated Road
Griffin
Bouve
Railroads defend Abington action over grade crossing danger
Vice-President Kendrick of the New York New Haven Hartford asserts the railroad acted to shield property from trespass and warns that persistent track laying by the Abington local road could lead to dangerous grade crossings. He notes electric cars lose motive power on grades and urges overhead or highway crossings funded by all rail lines to prevent liability.
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Kendrick
New York, New Haven & Hartford Rairoad
Abington
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Racehorse Sailor: Schooner Hits Ground and Leaks Near New London
Schooner Racehorse, Captain Hanshaw, bound from Rondout to Boston with cement, ran aground in fog opposite West Point. After hours of work she floated free, then sprang a leak at 122 o'clock Wednesday night, taking on water at 100 strokes per hour. A diver prepared to haul out on Morgan's way this afternoon.
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Banger
Hudson
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West Point
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County Treasurer Missing With Cash In Omaha Area
Sioux City Iowa August 17 search is under way for Barrett Scott of O Neill Nebraska former Hall county treasurer. He has not been seen for two weeks and an examination of his books shows him about 99000 short.
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Barrett Scott
O'Netill
Neb
Hall County
Banker Arrested in Lenore and Robert Lee Bank Failures
San Angelo Tex Aug 17 W B Buchanan president of Sutton County Bank Lenore and Coke County Bank Robert Lee, both failed last week, was arrested yesterday on embezzlement charges.
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W. B. Buchanan
Sutton County Bank
Lenore
Coke County Bank
Robert Lee
Chief from Chelsea leads Union Veterans to victory at Faneuil Hall
The Union Veterans' Union held a business session in Faneuil Hall and unanimously elected General John H. Roberts of Chelsea as commander-in-chief. Other officers included General George J. Oakes of Rochester as deputy commander and General Charles O. Jennison of Michigan as deputy chief. A pension committee and transportation committee were formed, and resolutions condemned government actions harming veterans. The group then toured Bass Point Nahant with a seaside dinner and social gathering.
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The New Depot Progress and Delays at Causeway Street
Work on the new union depot is slowed by a defect in the union work delaying roof support. Baggage and express offices and the northern tower near Causeway Street near completion. Southern side partially demolished for a new power house foundations. Extension of the Nashua Street office under construction. The tower raised, terra cotta floors being laid, and iron ceilings installed. Completion expected early in November.
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Mr DArcy Charged In Destruction Of Property
A charge was preferred yesterday against Mr D Arcy of Slattery and D Arcy of Boston by Mr Hal of Everett for malicious destruction of property. He removed doors blinds and windows from finished houses on Irving street claiming nonpayment. Police halted the theft and arrested D Arcy as he loaded a wagon. He had believed the houses belonged to Hicks and Prindle. they were sold to Hall who now claims damage.
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D’arcy
Slattery & D’arcy
Boston
Hal
Everett
D'Arcy
Irving Street
John Emertin
Hicks & Prindle
Hall
Mnd
Nevins
Walpole Junction Union Station Construction Starts
Work begins on the New York and New England and consolidated railroads union station at Walpole Junction. M. W. Allen of Walpole handles the contract. The 1380 foot structure will rise over the old depot foundation, replacing the tower with a separate opposite structure.
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New York & New England and
Consolidated Railroads
Walpole Junction
M. W. Allen
Walpole
Boston Carpet Cleaning staff honor Swett on birthday
Employees from the Boston Carpet Cleaning Company at 64 Chapman Street surprised their employer Mr. William B. Swett on his fifty second birthday Tuesday August 15 by gifting an elegant office chair. The gesture reflects a pleasing harmony in the workplace.
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Boston Carpet Cleaning Company
Chapman Street
William 8. Swett
Brockton Man Attempts Suicide After Theft Warrant
Maver Clark, a crippled two year old? in Brockton, shot himself in an outbuilding near Bouve Crawford Co shoe factory after evading a theft warrant for 370 dollars against Marton Osborne. Wound not considered fatal.
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Brockton
Marton Osborne
Clark
Bouve, Crawford & Co
Deadlock as Boston gas strike stalls work amid rain
Strikers gathered on Northampton Street near the Tremont derrick in Brookline Gas Company digs refuse to work for less than two dollars per day for nine hours. The reporter noted few crews at Shawmut Avenue and a contractor Nevins awaiting banks and the clearinghouse.
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Tremont Street
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South End
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Eercer
Shawmut Avenue
Skelly
American Loan & Trust Company
Frogs and switches dominate transport meeting at Nahant excursion
Delegates traveled to Prison Point and Union Station to inspect frog and switch systems. At American House HQ they favored spring rails over stiff rails by 25 to 2 and assigned stationmasters over work crews. Greer backed steam shovel methods for ballast and unloading, prompting adoption of his approach.
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Sanborn
Union Station
American House
W. E B. Clark
Samuel Greer
Greer
Lentell
Nahant
Bass Point
Boston
Chin Poy Goes Missing After Border Smuggling Ring Bust
Chin Poy alias Charlie Wah Kee, a Boston Chinaman, who posed as the brother and former bookkeeper of a Harrison avenue merchant known as Old Sport, was part of a six person group indicted for smuggling Chinamen across the Canadian border at $100 per head. The United States commissioner at Montpelier set bonds at 1500 each. five remain jailed, Chin Poy fled. It is claimed Old Sport and others raised 1500 funds deposited with a Vermont real estate man via a Boston broker to secure Chin Poy’s bonds, and that Chin Poy has fled with plans to have the bond posted in his stead.
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Charlie Wah Kee
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Harrison Avenue
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Chin Pey
Vermont
Cheaper to Buy a Tigkey Arrest Report
A garbled OCR item notes an arrest on Brighton street in Baton Rouge with mentions of New York and a Conductor M. H. Crowley. Details are fragmentary but indicate custody in a transportation or transit context.
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Ja Murphy
Brighton Street
Baton 4
New Yo York
M. H. Crowley
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