26 Aug 1897
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1897
Page
1
The Grand Army parade in Buffalo drew about 45 000 veterans and a cheering crowd of around 500 000. President McKinley led the line and rode to the reviewing stand amid honors from Gov. Black and Gen. Alger, ending with a late morning breakfast at the hotel.
After breakfast the President General Alger Governor Black and staff left in carriages to lead the column. The hotel crowd packed the street forcing police to clear a path while riders kept the crowd from the horses. The head of the column reached the front as the party awaited orders to move.
Forecast for Thursday calls for fair weather in New England and eastern New York with variable winds turning northwest. Boston area expects fair weather and westerly winds.
Reports from Arkansas describe a deadly mob action in Cleburne county with six black men hanged without trial. In Drew county a deputy posse burned a rapist in his home and a black murderer’s body hung from a Pine Bluff trestle. A Kendall picnic riot injured a white man, S T Johnson, who died. Authorities moved six more arrestees toward Orison jail as mobs threatened further lynchings.
A Crescent Beach division car and a Boston bound car collided at the Lynn and Boston railroad junction on Beach street and Nahant avenue Crescent Beach. Seven people sustained injuries including Miss Minnie Desmond Miss Nellie Denning and Mrs Shapiro. Injured were cared for at Nahant cottage before returning home. Patrolman Cobb aided the wounded until a physician arrived.
A trimmed listing of merchants and addresses in Boston with shop names and street locations across several streets including Bedford Green Essex Tremont Washington and more. Notable entries include Brown Co. 140 Green St Charles McDermott 87 South and Youngs Hotel.
Officers from Station 1 found a man in his early 20s lying on the steps at 149 Richmond Street. He appeared asleep but could not be awakened. The body measured about 6 feet, 0 inches tall and weighed around 160 pounds with a smooth face. A receipt book bearing the address of J. H. Costello, 120 and 12 South Street, was the only clue today for identification.
New York writer Mary Kyle Dallas died at her Mott Avenue home from heart failure. She was 3 years old.
On May 20 a bomb sent from La Plata Argentina was hidden in a box meant to explode when opened. The attempt targeted him but was thwarted due to suspicion.
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