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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1887
Page
2
Totece named executors of Betsey Hyneman, late of Boston, Suffolk County. They have taken the trust and given bonds as required. Creditors must exhibit claims and debtors must pay to Lewis Hecht and Louis Hyneman, Executors.
Mills and Long tally as Carlisle secures 163 votes to 148 for Reed and 2 for Brumm amid independents support. Carlisle takes oath, urges revenue reform, and outlines a path for tax relief. Officers elected by caucus resolutions, seating drawn for members, then House adjourns as Republican Senate caucus plans committees.
Albany report lists Frederick Cook 469 888 Henry George 70 055 Frederick D Grant 452 811 Dewitt Huntington 41 850 Edward Hall 7 622 The total statewide ticket vote reached 1 045 875.
Reading Pennsylvania December 5 production at the Reading stove works is cut by one third causing many to lose jobs. The pipe mill lapweld furnace at Reading Iron Works shuts down suspending about fifty more workers. In total around 200 workers discharged in days. Half time remains at Melinvain Sons boiler plate works with other plants trimming operations due to dull trade.
Colonel Arthur Loftus Tottenham M P for Leitrim and leader in the Irish Conservative party died in New York from malarial fever. Born 1888 in Dublin he served in the Rifle Brigade and won seats at Winchester 1885 and Leitrim 1886. He owned extensive Irish and English estates and married Miss Sarah Gore. He had recent business interests in Colorado.
Algernon Sullivan a well known New York lawyer died after a brief illness from bronchial congestion and typhoid fever. Born 1827 in Madison Indiana he studied at Miami College Ohio and later practiced law in New York. He served as assistant district attorney under Garvey and was active in social life with a son and a second wife from Virginia.
Obituary notices honor John M. Brackett of Wolfeboro a former Lake Bank president and Carroll County Savings Bank treasurer who died at 30. Also noted are ex Lieutenant Charles Hildreth of Boston police who died at 62 and General Samuel Hunt a 95-year-old former New York militia leader and banker, plus Eliza R. Snow a Mormon poetess.
In Jersey City Frederick Reilly ten, son of a dead crockery dealer, and Thomas Jones four, son of a laborer, were found with Reilly in charge at St Joseph's Convent. Reilly gagged Jones and placed him on a red hot range. Sister Mary Evangelist smelled burning flesh and rescued Jones. Reilly was arrested and showed no remorse.
Governor Bodwell became ill while traveling to Rockland and was brought home. His doctors report congestion of the lungs but describe his condition as not dangerous.
The town of Rockport has started a movement looking to the erection of a soldiers' monument in that town. H. D. Cornell, a master painter of South Norwalk, Conn., was fatally injured by the cars Monday evening. During the progress of a sale of furniture at an auction room at Teeswater, Ont., yesterday, the floor gave way, precipitating about seventy persons into the cellar. The fall was nine feet and twenty were injured. A locomotive on the Intercolonial railway exploded yesterday at Stellarton station, N. S., killing three men instantly and injuring several others. The killed are William Eastwood, Daniel Robinson, and Alex Frazier. The injured are Fireman Alexander Murray, Conductor Grant, and a man named MecInness. Springfield, Vt., voted to exempt the Jonesmpson Machine Company from taxation for ten years. Judge Cowing adjourned the hearing for a new trial in the Most case until Thursday. Black diphtheria is spreading rapidly in Clay and other Arkansas counties. Rev. J. J. McCoy was elected to fill the vacancy on the Westboro school board.
The U S Supreme Court ordered the discharge of Attorney General Ayers and Commonwealth Attorneys Scott and McCabe of Virginia. They had been fined and imprisoned for contempt after ignoring a federal injunction in a suit over tax coupon payments. The court held the injunctions were against Virginia, invoking the Eleventh Amendment. Justice Field joined the majority but disagreed on some points, while Justice Harlan dissented in part.
Alarm log records three fires in Boston areas. At 74 Devonshire Street bankers Chase and Barstow suffered about 1000 dollars in damage with 100 dollars in furniture loss. Crocker heirs own the 28 and 25 Bromfield Street building where W G Baker & Co faced 2000 dollars in stock damage and 250 in building loss. A third fire at 51 Bristol Street, Blair estate owned, damaged 50 dollars.
In Bennington Vermont the Bacon homestead in Sunderland and adjoining barns burned. Loss estimated at 4000 dollars with partial insurance. resident William Bacon perished in the flames. In Caras Maine a fire at Baring destroyed Eaton & Sons lumber mills including three gangs two planing machines lathe and shingle machines and bridge approaches with losses around 15000 dollars and about 8000 dollars insured.
For twenty four hours from 7 am Tuesday December 6 colder fair weather will cover Maine New Hampshire and Vermont with light to fresh northwesterly winds veering north. Rest of New England and eastern New York will see colder fair conditions with light to fresh winds and coastal Massachusetts Rhode Island gusty northerly winds veering to northwesterly followed by rising temperatures on Wednesday.
Rain to begin tonight across southeastern New England followed by a transition to colder, clearing conditions by morning. Weather observer H Weer Clayton reports the forecast for the next twenty four hours ending noon today.
Reports indicate identical observations at multiple stations with the same timestamp. The note records rainfall traces indicated by wt T at each station, suggesting synchronized measurements and a uniform weather event.
A sharp tin price drop unsettles traders on the metal exchange with spot down by a cent and futures off by ten pounds, while lead stays flat and copper and tin futures adjust. The market notes limited wholesale tin supply unless from the French syndicate and a copper shipment delay due to ice at Sault Ste Marie holds back 1.5 million pounds for December delivery.
The article surveys new and returning delegates in Washington including John A. McShane of Omaha and Mrs. Gilligan of Bridgeport. It notes Governor Biggs of Delaware, DD R Nasby, Congressman West, and details on foreign-born members composing Minnesota’s delegation. It cites Widely varied birthplaces, education, and careers among House members with Ohio leading in native births.
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