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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1887
Page
2
Dispatches from Meeker to Glenwood Springs describe 75 armed frontiersmen heading to engage Utes led by Colorow near Meeker. War Department notes indicate no confirmed outbreak and urge restraint while seeking peaceful resettlement at the Utah reservation.
The account describes a belief that an Indian who was cheated by an agent would seek revenge by killing a white man, equating murder of a white man with shooting the agent, as whites were viewed as a single brotherhood. The passage implies long held enmity and a code shaped by betrayal by agents.
Ex Congresssman Adams appears for H S Ives & Co before Judge Bookstaver at the Court of Common Pleas special term to settle the order of reference regarding missing books. The judge signs the Cromwell draft limiting examinations to named partners while excluding calls on other witnesses. Potter Stymus hold a $14,722 mechanic lien on Ives residence and a horse valued at $40,000 to $50,000 is claimed to belong to his sister.
Dover New Hampshire August 23 The strike at Martin and French shoe factory remains unsettled with both sides firm. Strikers claim broad labor support and potential aid from local businessmen while the firm contends it will move rather than yield to demands.
In Key West Cuba named La Lucha reports wholesale poisoning from milk at Mme Mendez 87 Obispo street. The Mendez family four children two servants and two visitors fell ill. Miss Mestre died and others were gravely ill. The milkman two house servants and two outsiders were arrested. The dead were socially prominent.
For over five years a telegraph pole bulletin on Mott Street has served as the Chinatown newspaper. Chu Yok was arrested while posting the column. The Bulletin suspended publication and Chinatown mourns the loss as editors seek counsel to uncover who ordered the shutdown.
Pensions awarded to New Englanders include original and reissue cases across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Rhode Island with listed recipients such as John C Bean Lewiston Charles A Parker Littleton Samuel Heath Raymond Chester W Ross Middlebury and Benoni Sweet Providence among others. Several names show increases restorations or reissues reflecting updated pension status.
Detroits move up as New Yorks edge Pittsburgs in a low scoring affair. Philadelphias down Indianapolis while Washingtons fall to Detroit in a muddied ground day.
A Philadelphia to Mail and Express dispatch reports Umpire Jerry Sullivan did not resign but said he would soon. Sullivan claims no jurisdiction over players after a game ends and defends his close-call decisions favoring the home club, expressing disgust at the controversy. In Cleveland, Cub Stricker, captain of the Cleveland Baseball Club, was arrested by the Law and Order League for playing last Sunday. the case will be a test.
Other games show Cleveland B rookins 10 over Brooklyn 6 and Cincinnati Cincinnatis 2 over Metropolitans 0. The results reflect a busy schedule with multiple teams scoring in double and single digits.
J Wesley Dunham from Rangeley faces arraignment in Farmington on a charge of attempting to poison Elijah Locklin's family with paris green. Locklin and two workers testified to poison found in food. Searles claimed Dunham hired him to poison the group for 3 dollars. Dunham denied knowledge and was held on 800 bond. Searles also charged at 800 but lacked bondsmen.
Lewiston Maine August 23 The sister of John Brophy who lived with him on Lincoln street died Sunday John went to a chest where he says he kept about five thousand dollars and he claims to have lost five thousand and ninety dollars in the incident
A man said a stash of cash hidden in milk cans was stolen, noting the total amount disappeared. He reports uncovering the hiding place and discovering the loss is complete.
J. T. Tucker critiques John Addington Symonds and the Fortnightly Review essay The Progress of Thought in Our Time. He argues the piece reveals a premature, dogmatic tone on evolution, religion, and morality, noting tensions between science and Christianity and contrasting views with Drummond and Huxley era debates.
Mrs. Gertrude Gross, 71, was found dead at her Brooxlen home with a head wound from a hatchet. Her husband, 73, fled but was later arrested on a murder charge. the couple had a troubled marriage.
The fifteenth annual Peabody family meeting was held at the Willows on Satem, Aug. 23. About sixty relatives from twenty families attended. the eldest was Francis Peabody of Beverly aged 75 and the youngest Ella Davis, 3. Officers elected were President George W. Peabody Wenham, Vice President John W. Peabody Dracut, and Secretary Treasurer John P. Peabody Salem.
Public notices from Suffolk and Middlesex Probate Courts cite heirs, executors, and trustees. Annie F Boise seeks letters testamentary in Boston with a three week newspaper notice in the Boston Post. George A Lawyer and William Hart appear as named administrators and executors with court dates in September 1887.
Mortgage sale notices a parcel in Roxbury district Boston under Edward P Morse to David H McKay dated February 24 1837 to be sold at public auction on Thursday September 8 1887 at four o clock in the afternoon. The land lies on plan by Garbett Wood dated February 24 1887 and is bounded by Shawmut avenue lot No 2 passageway center line of a 12 foot passageway and lot No on plan totaling 1403 square feet. Property subject to mortgage of 230800 and unpaid taxes. Cash payment required. Kern McLoud 23 Court Street Boston August 17 1887. $8 School Street.
Public auction of a Boston premises described as Lot 1 on a Garbett & Wood plan dated February 24 1887. Property bounds include Shawmut avenue Winthrop place a five foot sidewalk strip and a twelve foot passageway to remain open. Mortgage debt noted at 30300 with taxes and assessments due. For details contact Kern & McLoud Boston.
Public auction of two parcels in Dorchester District Boston with 82293.6 square feet total. Thomas Rice Ada C Rice and Eliza A Upham mortgage chain assigns to Joseph R Churchill trustee under Samuel Downer will. Sale on September 10 1887 at four o'clock. $500 cash required.
A historical listing shows no sales on Saturdays with a long ledger of financial instruments and company names. It includes banks, mills, railroad companies, gaslight firms, and various railroad and trust notes, detailing shares and bonds with limited dates and locations.
Auctioneers Br Day & Co announce free appraisals and sales every Wednesday and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. The Wednesday August 24 1887 sale includes numerous shares and bonds from Charlestown Gas Light Co Mt Vernon National Bank Atlantic National Bank National Bank of Commerce Great Falls Mfg Co and more with varied lots such as street railway stocks and railroad bonds.
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