Favorable report on Eastport and Charleston rebuilding bills
Representative Wilkins announced the Public Buildings and Grounds Committee backed a favorable report on a bill to rebuild the burned Eastport Missouri government building, and aims to pass the Charleston building restoration bill as well. Mr Collins introduced a joint resolution to refer cases of illegally collected duties on borrowed money to the Court of Claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Wilkins
Committee On Public Buildings and Grounds
Eastport
Charleston
Collins
United States
Evenue
Court of Claims
Famous Bank Robbery Revived Case Decides Bank Action
Washington December 13 The Supreme Court sustains a Northampton National Bank verdict in favor of the bank in the 1876 Northampton Bank robbery case. Fanny D Wylie had claimed the bank failed to diligently pursue recovery of eight $1000 bonds and other property from the robbers. Justice Matthews writes the opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washngtton
Fanny D. Wylie
Northampton National Bank
Nominations for Indian agents announced across multiple states
Washincrox Dec 13 nominees include Timothy W. Jackson for New York, Charles H. Grover for Pottawattomi and Great Nemaha in Kansas, Jesse F. Warner for Omaha and Winnebago in Nebraska, and others for agencies in Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Dakota, Montana, Washington Territory, Wyoming Territory, Arizona, and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washincrox
Timothy W. Jackson
New York
Charles H. Grover
Kansas
Pottawattomi
Great Nemeha
Jesse F. Warner
Nebraska
Omaha and Winnebago
Bartholomew Coffey
Oregon
Umatilla
Jason Wheeler
Warm Springs
John B. McClane
Grand Ronde
Dale O. Cowen
Ohio
Fort Peck
Montana
Israel Greene
Dakota
Sisseton Agency
Hugh D. Gallagher
Indiana
Pine Ridge Agency
Timothy A. Byrnes
New Jersey
Utah and Ouray
Utah
William M. Neal
Lemhi Agency
Idaho
Charles H Yates
Colorado
Round Valley Agency
W. Leven Powell
Virginia
Neah Bay Agency
Washington Territory
Thomas Priestly
Wisconsin
Yakima Agency
Thomas M. Jones
Eos Shoshone
Wyoming Territory
James McNamara
Illinois
Colodrado River
Arizona
Nominations by the President Sent to Senate
The president sent a list of nominations to the Senate including Thomas E. Benedict for public printer Dabney H. Maury as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Colombia William H. Webster for chief examiner of the civil service commission and consuls David T. Bunker Seth A. Pratt Louis K. Church Fred A. Barker W i L Maginnis William G. Langford W H D Cochran for various posts in New York Connecticut Dakota New Hampshire Wyoming Territory and Washington Territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Thomas E. Benedict
New York
Dabney H. Maury
Virginia
Republic of Colombia
William H. Webster
Connecticut
Civil Service Commission
United States
David T. Bunker
Massachusetts
Demarara
Seth A. Pratt
Zanzibar
Postmaster Appointments and Political Moves in Washington
Acting Postmaster General Stevenson named fourth class postmasters Mrs. Mary Batchelder Windsor Maine Miss Etta Gates East Lee Massachusetts Burns W Pattee Enfield A Vice President met Senators Maxey Beck West and Ransom and hosted a public reception in the east room The House elections committee heard arguments in Page vs Pierce Rhode Island but deferred action Thomas G Connery former New York Herald editor urged as Turkish mission candidate after a State Department interview and pending White House call
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stevenson
Mary Batchelder
Windsor
Etta Gates
East Lee
Mass
Burns W. Pattee
Enfield
Maxey
Beck
West
Ransom
House Committee On Elections Today
Rhode Island
Page Vs. Pierce
Thomas G. Connery
New York Herald
Connery
Ivy
Cleveland
Inquest Finds Railroad Crash Not Attributable to Crew
Associate Justice W. Gile of Lawrence Police Court reports findings in the Lindsey death inquest. Thomas L. Lindsey died after being struck by a Boston & Maine wild engine at Osgood street crossing on December 2. The car shows multiple fractures and probable internal injuries. engineers Hall and Ricker are cleared of fault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
W. ¥. Gile
Lawrence Police Court
Thomas L. Lindsey
Boston & Maine Railroad
Osgood Street
Charles S. Hall
Ernest L. Ricker
Sumner Pennell
Wakefield
Middlesex
Boston
Suffolk
Boston Post
Doun W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
James Russell Reed
Lexington
Joan W. McKim
Sailor-turned-postmaster in Vermont commits suicide
Captain W. M. Davis of East Hardwick, Vermont, aged about 65, ended his life last Saturday by ingesting paris green. A former sea captain, he retired about 25 years ago to East Hardwick, ran a business, and served as postmaster for many years. A paralytic shock a year earlier left him partly disabled and he had recently felt like a burden to his family, with no clear reason for the self inflicted death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Johnspury
W. M. Davis
East Hardwick
Paris Green
Cohoes Mills Resume Operations Ending Lockout
Eleven of the Cohoes knitting mills resumed today, nine weeks after a lockout began. Sixteen of twenty six mills are now running with five already open. The remaining ten mills likely to reopen this week after terms with the Knights of Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
N. Y
Cohoes Knitting Mills
Association
Knights of Labor
New Penny Republican Prohibition Paper Planned
Luxon December 18 report states the Saturday Mirror plant will be moved and a new press bought. D W Foss named editor of the new penny Republican prohibition paper with Thomas P Nichols heading the mechanical department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luxon
Sprcrat
Saturday Mirror
D. W. Foss
Thomas P. Nichols
On Trial for Murder Spectators Pack Court Room
The prosecution begins its testimony as the trial opens with a crowded courtroom and the accused present. Key witnesses are expected to take the stand as evidence is introduced.
Groton Double Murder Trial in Cambridge Supreme Court
George F. Baker and wife Mary A. J. Baker faced trial for the murder of Susannah Prescott, 89, in Groton. Proceedings featured summaries of the crime, blood evidence, and witness testimony, with the case adjourned after a long opening and on October 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Baker
Mary A. J. Baker
Groton
Supreme Court
Cambridge
Susannah Prescott
Devens
Holmes
Sherman
Stevens
F.T. Greenhalge
Sewell
W. H. Atwood
Ayer
Boston
George Francis Baker
Baker
H.C. Hovey
W. F. Burns
Augustus Woods
Prescott
Susannah Blood Prescott
Woods
Mrs. Prescott
Mrs. Baker
Jones
F. E. Gilson
Hartwell
Fannie Woods
Sig Tapas
Newspaper Office Burglary in Lawrence
Burglars robbed the Sentinel office in Lawrence during the night. The safe door was found open and two drawers containing over $200 were pried open and the money taken, with no trace left of the culprits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Sprctax
Sentinel Newspaper
Woman’s Suffrage Bazaar Opens At Music Hall
Bright banners and flags floated above a large crowd at the Woman’s Suffrage festival and bazaar opening in Music Hall. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore opened the fair and presented Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mr. Henry B. Blackwell with gifts in tribute to their work for the cause. The event featured music, displays from many towns, handmade arts, and a Bazaar Journal, with the bazaar running all week and a revitalizing café for attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Hall
Mary A. Livermore
Lucy Stone
Henry B. Blackwell
Mary E. O’brien
Olga von Radecki
Josephine de Seve
Alfred de Seve
Fannie Kellogg
Rubenstein
Lassen
Abt
Susan
Lillian Ames
Winnifred Tucker
Elsie Osbourne
A. G. Candler
Misses White
Brookline
Etta Gardner
Boston
East Boston
South Boston
Roxbury
Worcester
Westboro
Leominster
Haverhill
Lynn
Seamminster
Bologna
United States Senate
Webster
Wendell Phillips
Bazaar Journal
Richard
Preliminary Hearing in Cambridge Poisoning Case
James Smith and Mrs. Annie Townes faced a Cambridge District Court preliminary hearing on poisoning Edward Townes. Medical and police witnesses testified to arsenic poisoning degrees, with Smith discharged and Townes committed for grand jury action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Smith
Annie Townes
Cambridge
Edward Townes
E. G. Walker
J. H. Wolff
Cooney
William C. Lane
Townes
Sergeant Ducey
Orcutt
Smith
Men Who Ought to Have Seats in Car Service
A Sun report notes an enterprising local horse car builder adding an iron spoonbill to front platforms to relieve drivers of whiffletree weight. Authors argue car men suffer extreme long hours and initial torture as feet ankles legs cripple under constant standing and pounding, urging seats for relief.
Hidden whiskey case arms branding ban in Boston shipment
A note describes a cache in French meaning a hole for concealing whiskey pods. The case of G. O. Taylor Old Carbon or Pure Rye Whiskey may be kept from view by not branding it. Orders may be mailed to Chester H. Graves & Sons or any wholesale druggist or family grocer in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Taylor
Chester H. Graves & Sons
Boston
Obituary notes several aged seafaring figures and locals
Captain A Stamford Perkins of Salem dies at 73. Born in Ipswich he sailed to California in 1848 as a forty-niner and earlier captained ships for Bertram & Pingree. Other obituaries include bootmaker David Burrell of Randolph, ex Governor Charles M. Crosswell of Michigan, master builder Charles Chipman of Boston, and shipmaster Emery S. Johnson of Salem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Stamford Perkins
Salem
Flo
Ipswich
California
Eliza
Zanzibar
Bertram & Pingree
Dorchester
Aaron
Jeremah S
Daniel
A. S. Perkins
David Burrell
Randolph
Randolph National Bank
Charles M. Crosswell
Michigan
Adrian
Mich
Charles Chipman
Boston
Jamaica Plain Sunday
Rufus K. Garland
Garland
Prescott, Ark
Emery S. Johnson
Essex Street
David Pingree
Europe
Denver
Col
T. C. Brenner
Western Division
New York & New England Railroad
Hawleyville
Conn
Samuel Mitchell
Dover
N. H
Cartier
Ont
Pacific Coast
Insurance Company Officers Elected at Annual Meeting
At the Firemen's Fire Insurance Company annual meeting yesterday morning officers for the new year were chosen. President Thomas W. Tucker secretary Henry C. Short and a slate of directors including Samuel R. Payson Charles Deane Samuel C. Cobb Nathaniel W. Pierce and others. Neptune Fire and Marine Insurance Company also reelected its board with President George F. Osborne and Secretary Eugene B. Hinkley among the listed officers and directors. Westboro in Worcester County has adopted electric light for street use and stores, with over twenty outlets in private use. the Whitney House block is fully lit and the first test was Saturday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firemen’s Fire Insurance Company
Thomas W. Tucker
Henry C. Short
Samuel R. Payson
Charles Deane
Samuel C. Cobb
Nathaniel W. Pierce
Thomas W.tucker
Gorham Rogers
Henry Whitman
Austin W. Benton
Charles H. Plimpton
Edward L. Packard
Thomas J. Whidden
Samuel B. Dana
Westboro
Worcester County
Whitney House
Stock Auctioneers Offer Free Appraisals Of Listed Shares
By R L Day Company, stock auctioneers and brokers, offer free appraisals of stocks. The notice lists shares including Shoe and Leather National Bank and Boston Belting Co, along with orders of trustees for shares in Second National Bank, National Exchange Bank, National Manufactory Bank and Old Boston National Bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
No. St State Street
Merchants’ Exchange
Reom L
The
Boston Stock Exchange
Eeet
Old Boston
State Natl
Exchange Bank
Second
Bank of Commerce
Boston
Athenium
Appleton Co
Third Natl
Washington
Amoskeag Mfg
Bates Mix. Co
Boott Cotton Mills
Hill Mfg
Laconia Mfg
Merrimac Mfg
York Mfg
Lawrence Gaslight Co
Cena Eeecentane
de Faneuil Hall Natl
Portsmouth
Falls & Conway RR. Co
Mansfield & Framingham RR
Concord & Claremont
Consolidated RR. of Vermont
Maine Central RR
Rutland RR
Burlington & Missouri
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy RR
Boston & Lowell RR
Hill Mfg. Co
de Conn
Passumpsic Rivers RR. Co
R.L. Day & Company
State St
Merchants’ Exchange Building
Shoe and Leather
Boston Belting Co
Old Boston Natl. BR
Natl. Exchange Bk
Gray’s Dynamo Electric Machine Company
Third National Bank
Great Falls & Conway Rd
Pullman Palace Car Co
St. Ry
Merchantean National Bank
National Insulator Co
Second National Bank
American Waltham Watch Co
Naumkeag National Bank
Salem
Essex
City of
Also Mentioned on This Page
Minor Capitol News
Woman's Suffrage Bazaar
Sun
Insurance Companies
Medical
Hmmphreys
Humphreys
Humphreys Medicine CO
Fulton St. N.Y
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Fulter Ste, Mo
Humphreys’ CO
Fulton St
Shipping
Crub
Post Publishing Company
Milk
Washington St
Bastan
C&md
ST. Croix
Jamaica
Alinid IN
M. Doherty & CO
Kneeland Street
Endicott Street
F. Doherty
M. Doherty
Margaret Letson
Brooklyn
County of Kings
State of
Kate Letson
Minor
Margaret Goodfellow
JOM Monwealth
Probate Courfp
Levi Doolittle
Homer Frye Thacher
Said
Charles R. Ford
Abby Clark Ford
Cremonwealth
Suffolk, &S
Messenger’s
William S. Shaw
Charles A. Bray
Shaw
Court Square
William DL. Martin
John W. McKim
John Burbank
Thain Alaine
Lewis H. Brown
Benjamin Rockwell
Elijiah George
Yormonwealth
Herberts&s, Litchfield
Stephen Thacher
Milk Street
Stetson, Moseley & Co
E Street
Kilby Sr
Huckins & CO
Border Street
East Bester
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Epps Cocoa
Epps
Ghana
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chemists
London
England
Squires Parlor
Sidney Squires & CO
Tremont Street
Hollis Street
Cyrus L. Harris & CO
Deane Street
St. Domingo
Comey’s Wharf
Natalie
Barahona
Crotches
Do Sabicu
Doane Street
John C. Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet & Co
White St
Townsend & Montant Auctioneers
Leonard Street
Philadelphia
Samuel Bunting's
S. R. Knights & Co
Washington Street
Main St
Cambridgeport
Sanborn Thick Ford Hilton
Dee
Green
High
Charlestown
Telephone
Gho. H. Abbott
Rogers Building
Worthington Street
Huntington Avenue
Hichborn & CO
Court Street
Cross Street
Julius Tren Tiaelvon
Meyer Hollander
Massachusetts Title Insurance Company
Nathaniel J. Bradlee
Arnold A. Rand
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Loston
Lippincott, Son & CO
ATI
Francis Henshaw & CO
Iare
Boston & Lowell R. R. Co
Connecticut River R. R. Co
Colateral- Boylston Mutual Insurance Co
Lancaster Mills
Essex Co
Lowell
Lowell Machine Shops
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester
R. B. Co
Howard Natl Bank
Alb
Detroit, Hillsdale & South Western R. R. Co
Third Natl. Bank
Traders’ Natl Bank
Little Rock Junction
R. R
Bridge Loan
Revere Bk
Reece Buttonhole Machine Co
Freeman's Nat. Bank
Batapilis Mining Co
Providence Ds
Man
W. L., Gold
Lowell Mfg
Big Belt N National Bank
Provincetown
International Button Hole Mach. Co., Div
Suffolk Natl. BE
Do Concord BR
Newton Natl. Bk
Newton
Saratoga Victory Mfg. Co
Ancien & Erie
Metropolitan Rd. Co
Chicago Rolling Mills
Pal. Car Co
Newton and Watertown Gas Lt. Co
Do Rapid Transit RR
New Mexico
Se. Pac
Iag. Val
St. Louis RR
Dixon, Peoria & Hannibal
Lake Champ
Burk & Q
Burk. & Q
Essex RR
Jackson, Lans. & Sag
Elkhorn & Mo. Valley
City of Cambridge
Sand. & Cleve
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Florida
Macon
Ex Steamship Restormer
Messina Oranges
Palermo Oranges
Messina
Palermo
Fiske’s Wharf
Gorham Rogers & CO
Federal Street
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