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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1893
Page
6
Lot 6 describes 1000 heavy dark Cambridge Melton Ulsters at 54 inches. Lot 7 lists extra heavy blue ribbed beaver Ulsters with cassimere linings at 56 inches. Lot 8 offers 800 all wool black Melton overcoats with all wool linings and silk sleeve linings in excellent style, prices 6 and 7 dollars respectively.
Eugene Hennesy, 28, a truck driver for A Towle & Co, was crushed in a staircase elevator at Boyd and Coreys wholesale leather at South and Summer streets. He rushed from his wagon about 11 45 AM to reach the elevator, colliding with another driver Joseph Cox who appeared at the door and fled after the incident. Hennesy’s body, wedged between wall and elevator, required a long extraction. The case remains unresolved with Cox missing. Hennesy resided at 150 Main Street, Charles Town, and the body was sent to Jones undertaking on Lagrange Street.
Substitute fireman McDarrah Flaherty of Ladder 8 rescued a drowning man at Long wharf on December 9 around 2 am after hearing cries. He brought the man to the wharf and handed him to Division 2 staff, and the Board of Fire Commissioners later sent an appreciation letter dated October 18, 1898.
The New York adventuress Zella Nicolaus sails to Naples aboard the Normannia with Al Rahman and Sawyer Hummel claiming health as the reason. She says the Gould suit is dropped after arrangements with Mr Gould, while shopping before departure reveals expenditures around 2000 dollars and a change by her guardian to a marital name Harris.
A telegram from Portland arrives as nearly 100 resolutions are read at the AFL session. Western delegates push for independent action while a Nashville delegate proposes organizing South colored workers. Miners and iron and steel workers seek compulsory arbitration as Swift’s backers push for an address at the convention.
An attachment for 9000 dollars was placed on the property of Dr. William Bell in Middletown Connecticut. The action stems from a transaction involving a note indorsed by the doctor and includes attachments totaling 20000 dollars on his property.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a dental visit urging urgent tooth extraction at Hale Painless Dental Company with a suggestion to follow a presumed ore path and involve students in an experiment.
The Ed Jackes h dp session at Union Hall Cambridgeport hosted the first annual ball of the Veteran Firemen with about 150 couples in the grand march. Attendees included visiting firemen from Boston Cambridge Somerville Wakefield and other areas.
The Moondyne Club of Charlestown held its first annual ball at Monument Hall last night. About 150 couples attended. Floor Director James H. Leary led the grand march with Miss Cora Parker. assistant floor director was John H. Bench. Aides included J. J. Cronin, B. W. Farrar, T. J. Merrin, J. L. Murphy, and others.
New Bedford voters waited as the aldermen finished a post election recount. At the urging of Crapo supporters, the tally showed Crapo still defeated by twenty votes, with no change to the outcome.
Henry McDowell, held for the April 1891 murder of John Crowley, was transported from Windsor to Bennington Vermont yesterday. His case will be resumed today. The report also notes vessels and local notices including a schooner at Provincetown ordered to Boston and community obituaries and local civic notices across Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The Somerville Aldermen decided the shade trees on Washington Street will remain. City engineers were instructed to plan edge stones around the trees. An attempt to amend the city charter to change Aldermen and Common Council member election rules failed.
Alderman Barber introduced an order in the Somerville Board of Aldermen urging the finance committee to relieve city distress by employing the unemployed. He cited hardships and urged action. Alder man Phillips opposed the bread vs work approach, favoring city employment funded from the treasury. The order passed favorably.
In Medford Ward elections the council race stayed tight with W H Casey trailing Edwin Evans by one vote and J Berner by two. Evans led Ward 1 by five votes, prompting Casey supporters to sign a petition for a recount to be filed with the city clerk tomorrow, while Ward 2 challenger Ells also seeks a recount.
Unitarian churches across Boston present a Japanese village bazaar at Horticultural Hall to aid the Tokio Theological School. Shoppers wander a recreated street of shops with banners and Japanese wares while a cafe in the lower hall proves popular.
Colonel Robert Ingersoll is booked at the Adams House in Boston as counsel for the contestants of the will of G. E. B. Wason. Miss Maud Ingersoll is listed beneath his signature in the same notice.
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