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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1897
Page
5
Canton Ohio December news reports Mother McKinley has weakened further with no hopeful change. Doctors and family monitor long, sinking spells as President McKinley consults White House lines. no nourishment since Thursday and heroic feeding deemed unsuitable.
Pope Leo XIII issues new poems translated into English. The collection includes To God and the Virgin Mother and two odes to Julius Sterbini and his three sons, with a revised piece praising water. It notes Leo's 1896 dedication to Sterbini and family and a tablet to mark the occasion.
President McKinley arrives in Washington from Canton aboard the Pennsylvania railroad at 7:45 AM. He is met by Secretaries Alger Bliss and Porter and goes to the White House for breakfast. A Canton telegram reports his mother sleeping and unconscious, with possible death imminent. a return trip to Canton is planned for tomorrow evening.
Paris dispatch reports Prince Hohenlohe replied to the Dreyfus family appeal that he cannot advise Emperor William to acquit. French papers urge restraint and patience while General Billot’s Chamber statement is seen as affirming the army’s honor above debate.
The piece reports on Gould leveraging a letter of introduction from Consul-General Baldasano to Senor Teixeira while being entangled with Turnbull in a scheme to secure Gould a private secretary post. Detectives questioned the consul about Gould and Turnbull, and the affair touches Teixeira, a famed painter and cousin to Dom Pedro, amid suspicions of a Brazil United States treaty angle.
A concise exhortation extols clear water as indispensable for all uses of life, arguing no substitute can match its utility and value in daily needs.
The Hon. Harvey N. Shepard, under the Knights of St. Rose, spoke at St. Rose Hall on The Government of Boston. He contrasted Puritan self government with present practices, lamenting rising expenditures and limited city control over commissions and county costs. He compared Boston unfavorably with major American and European cities.
Rome Morning Post correspondent reports the cabinet has resigned. General Pelloux's action is seen as a push to unite the ministry under Marquis di Rudini, with ministers of finance justice and public works from the retiring cabinet not serving in the new one.
A brick wall under construction at Vale and Dorchester toppled yesterday morning crushing 278 Dorchester Street, a two story wooden structure housing a laundry on the first floor and a glee club on the second. No one was inside though a meeting was planned that afternoon. The wooden building is wrecked.
Berlin reports German reinforcements will raise the garrison to 4566 men at Kiao Chau Bay the largest force sent beyond Europe. Officials deny rival squadrons entering the harbor to observe. The mission is seen as pressuring China for reparations and cession of Kiao Chau.
The Vienna correspondent reports Comtesse Eugenie Cerchi eloped with a Serb named Chevitch who she believed to be a captain. He ill treated her and they separated. It is revealed Chevitch was only an officer’s valet and already married to a kitchen maid.
The body of a man about 60 years old lies at Jones's undertaking on Lagrange street awaiting identification. He was found in China town by a Station 4 officer about 1 PM very drunk, taken to the station house, slept on a bench, and died around 4 45 PM.
A Harvard man recalls a summer romance with a Smith College student. He follows her to Northampton and Amherst for a Yale Harvard football game and campus escapades, detailing a clash with strict college life and his evolving view on women’s higher education.
Margaret Mather arrives for Cymbeline at the Boston Theatre with a dress rehearsal planned. Fanny Davenport may remake Theodora for New York in January. The Circus Girl horse gains stage charm at the Museum. In Town at Hollis features Marie Studholme and Maud Hobson. Broadway Burlesquers debut at the Howard led by McAvoy May and Emma Carus. Belle of New York sails to Philadelphia for Walnut Street Theatre. Kit at Bowdoin stars Henry Chenfrau like his father. Olga Nethersole to appear in Kipling’s The Light That Failed. Dangers of a Great City at the Grand. Hoyt improves at Old Point Comfort. Julius Cesar readings and Little Minister receipts noted. Zoo odor forecast this week.
An immense audience packed the Boston Theatre for a grand festival of sacred music in aid of Boston's poor via the Red Cross bureau. A 400-voice chorus and a 65-piece orchestra, led by George Lowell Tracy, performed with strong soloists and stage supervision by Lawrence McCarty of the Park Theatre.
Westfield workers at the Lozier Cycle Company walked out last evening protesting the hiring of girls to perform their work.
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