02 Dec 1889
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1889
Page
1
A. B. Atkinson & Co promotes carpets once named for quality now valued by texture weight and pattern. Their stock divided into six lots priced 49 59 69 79 and 89 cents per yard urges buyers to snap up durable options at lower rates.
A devastating warehouse fire in Minneapolis killed at least a dozen with the death toll expected to rise to twenty five. Victims include Professor Edward Olsen and editor Milton Pickett among printers and staff. One operator died after a heroic but doomed attempt to escape via telegraph wires. Officials cite structural neglect and a single narrow fire escape as factors. The disaster prompts indignation at building owners and renewed calls for safer protections.
Giuseppe De Lucca breaks down and confesses to the Milton killing of Edward Cunningham. Cocchiera Anato and Saverrio Anato corroborate, with police locating the revolver and arranging arraignment in Quincy court. John Reynolds to see De Lucca in court.
The forecast through 8 p.m. Monday calls for fair skies and warmer temperatures in New England with southerly winds. Eastern New York is also expected to have fair weather, warmer temperatures, and southerly winds.
Daily mean temperature 35.0 degrees with a high of 30.405 and a low of 0. Dew point 19.0. Total precipitation gees. Mean relative humidity 54.6 percent. Maximum wind 20.0 mph from the west.
A compiled list of passenger and cargo vessels with origins and destinations including Adriatic Yorkshire St Regulus City of Chicago from Liverpool Ocean Bremen Salerno Gothenburg Rotterdam Antwerp Liverpool Etruria Hamburg Bermuda Javre Rotterdam Jamaica Glasgow Montreal Dover European Montreal Aberdeen Barcelona Philadelphia Beaconsfield Aviona Baltimore London Oranmore Hamburg Savannah De Ruyter New York Deptford Antwerp Queenstown Gellert Hamburg La Gascogne Havre Moville and other crossings with dates in late November and early December.
Washington reports a Republican caucus output showing Reed with broad support and plans to steer the Fifty-first Congress toward high duties and tariff restrictions. Quay backlash prompts comment as Democrats plan to let Republicans organize, with McKinley likely to chair Ways and Means.
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