Second Jackson Foresees 1900 Presidential Victory
Lowell figure William Wald, dubbed the second Jackson, proclaims his Republican nomination and landslide election in 1900. He cites solid South and West support and recalls a lifelong rise from Tuftonborough New Hampshire to Amherst College and a public career in New England.
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Lowell
American House
William Wald
Jackson
United States
Grant
Tuftonborough
N. H
Durham
Willie
Amherst University
New England
Boston Common
Tremont Temple
Wendell Phillips
Free Will Baptist Assembly
Hay
Boston Area Weekend Weather Outlook
Level forecast for Boston and vicinity for Saturday calls for fair skies and warmer temperatures with a southwest wind. The brief, updated outlook suggests pleasant conditions with seasonal warmth prevailing into the weekend.
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Washington
New England
New York
Boston
Wedded to Death in Face of Opposition
A pair facing family opposition chose to end their lives together by leaping from a precipice. They reportedly kissed at the moment of the plunge as tragedy secured their fate.
Two Lovers Die in Bon Air Elopement Tragedy
In Bon Air a Tennessee mining village, Carl French and Helen Hunt, lovers denied marriage by his father, leaped to their deaths from a 160 foot precipice. Their bodies were buried together as villagers mourned. Belgium? Belgardo Refuses to Aid Police in Minot Hall Robbery. In Boston, police puzzled as janitor Belgardo declines to cooperate after being robbed of seventy dollars in Minot Hall corridor. investigators doubt his account.
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Nashville
Tenn
Carl French
Helen Hunt
Bon Air
Indianapolis
Mr. French
French
Helen
Carl
Sunset Park
Dedham Street
Philip Belgardo
Minot Hall
Springfield Street
Leary
Dennessey
Doherty
Belgardo
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Jacob Payser
Harrison Avenue
Sullivan
Station 5
Arnold Street
Boyle’s Hotel
Hop Wah
Bolan Pass Telegraph Line Cut Sparks Frontier Anxiety
Reports from Quetta Beluchistan note heightened fears of a tribal uprising spreading to the region after word that the telegraph line through the Bolan Pass has been severed. The pass, a mountain defile on the route from the Lower Indus to Afghanistan, features ravines and a maximum elevation of 5793 feet. In Bombay, the Indian government presses the Amir of Afghanistan for direct answers on Afghan subjects' complicity in frontier outbreaks.
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Quetta
Beluchistan
Bolan Pass
Indus
Afghanistan
Bombay
Ameer
Debs Ill as Boston Social Democracy Reports Slump
The Boston branch of the Social Democracy of America held a meeting at 7 Park Square with seven members. Theodore W. Curtis presided as the Debs invitation was discussed and a letter from Sylvester Kelcher noted Debs recovering in Terre Haute Indiana from sunstroke and hay fever.
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Boston
Social Democracy of America
Park Square
Theodore W. Curtis
National Council of the Social Democracy
Chicago
Friedland
Sylvester Kelcher
National Council
Eugene V. Debs
Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
Virginia
Scaffold fall kills four men in Rock Island building
In Rock Island Illinois this afternoon a scaffold collapsed from the third story of a new building. Contractor J. W. Shreiner bricklayer W. H. Willis and John Lowe and colored hod carrier Joe Crudup were hurled to the stone sidewalk. Willis died within ten minutes. Shreiner had a temple wound and internal injuries. Lowe and Crudup suffered severe bruising and it was believed all would die.
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Rock Island
Ill
J. W. Shreiner
W. H. Willis
John Lowe
Joe Crudup
Willis
Shreiner
Lowe
Crudup
Cleveland Defeated Local Team for a Second Time
Cleveland beat the local team 10 to 4 as errors by the locals helped the visitors. The column reports Boston and Baltimore in pennant chase, with New York closing in on Boston, and mentions standings and a Temple Cup warning amid postgame gloom at South End grounds.
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Cleveland
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Boston Eagle
Tebeau
Cincinnati
South End
Baltimores
Lowe
Stahl
Rooters
Bergen
New England
Pope Rices
United States
Canal, Market
Friend Sts
Union Station
Not Murder: Autopsy Clears Woman's Death in Fitchburg
Medical examiner Kielty reports autopsy finds a heart clot and congested organs. Facial wound not connected to death, ruling out homicide. The woman, likely a laundry worker at Leominster Hotel, used the name Kenyon at an intelligence office. Clinton police verify a man named William Vertue in Lowell with pneumonia, not believed to be her husband.
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Fitchburg
Kielty
Nashua House
Leominster
Kenyon
Clinton
William Vertue
Lowell
Clinton Hospital
Electric railroad planned from Haverhill to Salem Depot
The Haverhill and Salem Electric Railroad Company formed to construct an electric line from Haverhill to Salem Depot, New Hampshire, within the next year.
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Haverhill
Haverhill & Salem Electric Railroad Company
Salem Depot
N. H
Boston L system lease talks possible 99 years
A draft lease for the West End line was discussed by the Boston Elevated and West End committees. Terms propose 99 years with 8 percent dividends to West End stockholders, but no formal agreement exists and officials say they have no binding knowledge of any settled deal.
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Boston
West End
Joseph B. Russell
Mr. Russell
Russell
Costly Ride Arrests Reported in Charlestown Larceny Case
Inspectors Leggett Wolf and Brookline Inspector Paige arrested William Farrar 26 of Everett and James Sullivan 21 of South Boston for larceny of a horse carriage and harness owned by Stephen B Small of Everett. The rig was taken Aug 18 from outside a Charlestown store and recovered in an Everett livery stable. Farrar recently released from the South Boston House of Correction. both had prior reformatory terms.
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Leggett and
Wolf
Police
Paige
Brookline Police
William Farrar
Everett
James Sullivan
South Boston
Stephen B. Small
Broadway
Mr. Small
Charlestown
Farrar
Concord Reformatory
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