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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1891
Page
2
A discussion on radical legal reforms centers on Judge Russell as the focal figure. The report argues for abolishing a key legal principle, outlining reasons and potential consequences for the judiciary and public policy.
American Bar Association members were hosted by the Boston Association aboard the J Putnam Bradlee with Fort Warren fort explored. A General Council meeting followed featuring reports on juror unanimity and three fourths verdict proposals, minority defenses of unanimity, and calls for reform balanced against tradition.
Medal reported through Mr. Cortland Parker of Newark is to honor Earl Selborne and David Dudley Field for advancing juris prudence. Technical by law conflicts prompt postponement to this morning's meeting. Executive Committee convenes at 9:15, business meeting at 10, annual banquet at Algonquin Club at 7:30 p.m.
Alfred Russell of Detroit spoke at the morning ABA session urging abolition of the civil jury system. He blamed delay and uncertainty on lawyers, juries, judges, and a flawed federal jurisdictional provision. He argued juries in civil trials are unnecessary and that judges already decide many fact questions in some states and federal courts. The address pressed elevating the bar and funding judicial salaries to improve justice.
A speech examines avoidable delay in federal courts, criticizing the diversity citizenship rule and corporate jurisdiction as distortions. It urges abolishing costly juries in civil cases, replacing them with expert judges, and eliminating fiction about corporate citizenship to reduce litigation and strengthen state courts. The address acknowledges prominent legal figures and notes eighteen new members elected and a Pan American Congress invitation committee.
The British steamer Kansas with 200 steerage passengers arrived amid five measles cases, fourteen quarantined at Gallop's Island. Firefighter Joseph A. Kelly recovers at Massachusetts General Hospital after injuries from the Portland street fire. Captain Hutchinson of the Lizzie May was discharged after being accused of beating a maritime complainant. A Riverside train death is identified as William Brown, a Portland, Missouri native. New fire engines tested at Clapp & Jones met the 600 gallons per minute claim, delivering full stream in 48 seconds. Elevator accident at W. L. Lockhart’s warehouse injures two. minor bruises. Nan tasket Beach parade postponed. Burglaries at Hotel Byron apartments yield $500 in jewelry. Police dismiss complaints against several officers for rule violations. Park Department picnic attendees include city officials. Michael J. Flynn pleads guilty to adulteration of food. fined $10 on both counts.
The twenty seventh great sun council of the Great Council of Massachusetts Improved Order of Red Men was held yesterday in America Hall at 724 Washington Street. William Provin served as great sachem and J. P. Gardner as great chief of records. A home for the order in Massachusetts was proposed, the constitution and by laws revision referred to the Laws Committee, and officers were elected and installed.
Clothing contractors met last evening to form a local trade assembly with a large turnout. A subsequent meeting will be held to complete the organization and address actions against dishonest contractors who run up wage bills and abscond without paying workers. Freight Handlers Local Assembly 6572 met at Well’s Memorial Hall and endorsed T. W. Powderly for Pennsylvania convention delegate, censuring certain labor agitators who oppose him.
Herbert Dackrell, 10, son of Thomas Dackrell of 64 Eutaw Street East Boston, was crossing Meridian near Eutaw Street when a Chelsea streetcar horse kicked him. A wheel ran over his head, fracturing his skull and causing instant death.
The cornerstone ceremony for the new Mission Church of St. Augustine Episcopal will be held Sunday at 4 PM. The speaker will be Rev. George S. Converse of St. John's Church Boston Highlands.
The Ashfield academy dinner honors Lowell and the New England tradition, praising American patriotism, cultural dialogue, and the academy’s enduring role. Speakers reference Howells, Cable, Choate, Phelps, and Norton, with endowment aims rising from $5,700 to $40,000 and a sale of autograph volumes to fund futures.
London Aug 27 The British steamer Elbruz from Baltimore docked at Antwerp with Captain Andrews of the dory Mermaid aboard. He recounted a brutal voyage from Boston facing a storm for days, a capsizing wave, and two nights adrift. He harpooned a shark, endured near-fatal fatigue, then was rescued by Elbruz on Aug 22. He plans not to sail again.
The New York and New England line escaped a serious accident when a tender axle broke as the 12:20 express halted for picnickers at Dudley street. The forward truck settled on the sleepers but no injuries occurred and outward service was delayed about an hour, avoiding a Quincy jack horror.
A letter to the Post argues that Senator B. M. Fernald appeared on both ticket sides at the Melrose Republican caucus, implying split support between Crapo and Allen. The writer contends Fernald's stance is unclear and criticizes his past record as inconsistent. Published from Goston dated August 27, 1891.
Joseph A. Kelly of Steamer Company 27 Charlestown was injured in the Colman's stables fire on Thursday morning. He is at Massachusetts General Hospital and is somewhat better after a very comfortable day yesterday.
William S. McGregor of Woburn, injured in a Park House stabbing on the morning of the 21st, lies at Massachusetts General Hospital sinking rapidly and at a late hour was thought to be dying.
Providence notes an August 27 theft at the Mathewson House Narragansett Pier apartments of Mrs B R Weeden. Diamonds and cash totaling about 800 dollars were stolen in the Wednesday break in.
The September Atlantic showcases Mr. Rudyard Kipling as the feature, plus a quaint tale A Disturber of Traffic told by a lighthouse keeper. It includes installments The House of Martha and The Lady of Fort St John, The Quest of a Cup, At the Market of the Dead, Dyer s Hollow, and poems by Higginson Parsons and the late Philip Bourke Marston. solid articles feature Fiske on Europe and Cathay Octave Thanet on Town Life in Arkansas, with reviews of new books and the Contributors Club making up an excellent number.
Scribner's is admirable this month in both text and illustrations. It features Lieutenant Ridgely Hunt's Steamship Lines of the World with focus on the P. and O. and Asian Austra lian lines. Additional capital illustrated pieces include City of the Sacred Bo-Tree by Ricalton and Odd American Homes by John R Spears. Literature includes Browning's Asolo via Felix Moscheles, Stevenson’s The Wrecker, and stories by Thomas Nelson Page and Charles G Roberts. The Point of View is unusually entertaining.
Harper's begins with Mr Abbey's illustrations of Much Ado About Nothing and Lang's commentary. Besant's Plantagenet London is entertaining while Wheatley's New York Chamber of Commerce is valuable. Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson reaches a dramatic state. Howell's An Imperative Duty continues. de Biewitz offers European politics.
The complete novel in Lippincott's is praised as singularly striking and brilliant with Ruth McEnery Stuart's vivid New Orleans sketches. The magazine's remaining contents are diversely excellent including sketches of Julia Marlowe, a clever Julius Chambers story, and poetry by Louise Imogen, Guiney, Marston, Scollard, Sinden, and Chandler.
The issue opens with John Fiske on The Doctrine of Evolution and includes an instalment of Andrew D White's The Warfare of Science. Herbert Spencer writes The Limits of State Duties, Henderson on Glass Making, with contributors Francheschini Piccard and Warren Upham.
The August English Illustrated spotlights George Wilson, a gifted painter who died young at 42, with reproductions of his distinctive work. It also features the Dean of Gloucester on Tewkesbury Abbey, Kitton on Dickens and Punch, "The Jewish Immigrant" and "Old Landmarks" as glimpses of rustic English life, Crawford’s Witch of Prague, and the short story Gentleman Jim.
In The Forum and Arena the Journalistic type continues. A education symposium led by Dr Henry A Coit President Jordan Professor H W Tyler and Alice Freeman Palmer takes first place. Putnam's piece on author publisher relations is discussed elsewhere. The Arena's September issue draws critique for indecent illustrations in the editor's Fashion's Slaves article.
A long hotel register snippet lists visitors by property and origin including Youna Wood Chicago J H Ridson Montreal Mrs G L Orme Ottawa Miss Kirby Montreal A M Logan Woodstock Vt and many others from New York Montreal London and beyond at Adams Clark and other venues. The fragment catalogues names and towns, showing a cross section of guests at multiple hotels.
The Wall Mall Gazette notes Tennyson’s secluded homes at Aldworth on Blackdown and Farringford near Freshwater with views shielded from the public. It describes the poet’s routines, social ties, religious associations, and the annual Freshwater flower show.
The New York cotton market surged on August 27 with total sales of 186000 bales. Early declines gave way to bear covering amid pest damage rumors and cooler weather forecasts, while higher Liverpool cables spurred heavy long-position buying, closing at day’s peak.
In Waterville Maine on August 27 a barn belonging to Abraham Bartlett in Windom was burned. David Peters a 14 year old boy previously at the city poor farm and now staying at Bartletts confessed he set the blaze to punish imagined mistreatment. He was bound over to the Superior Court and sent to Augusta jail.
Rockland Maine August 27 United States steamship Dispatch arrived from Bar Harbor bound for New York Secretary Tracy is aboard accompanied by several female relatives Weather prevented her coming ashore and the vessel has remained in harbor all day
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