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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 18, 1880

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2

Saco Water Power Machine Shop Supplying Mills in the South

Maine based Saco Water Power Machine Shop will furnish three mills in the South with machinery. The units are to be built at Anniston Alabama Clifton South Carolina and Natchez Mississippi. The local shop management had resisted southern work before and implied southerners are not fit to distinguish a cotton mill from a gin mill.

Maine Saco Anniston Ala Clifton 8. C Natchez Miss South

Press discredits Bayard speech and Dover card dispute

Special despatch outlines how The Philadelphia Press is accused of misquoting Bayard and cites doctored stenographic reports tied to Dick Harrington. It notes Conkling and others alleged to profit from funds tied to Phelps Dodge and reports on clerks Lew is and Hamon discharged from Boston Post Office amid calls for investigation. Congress business eyed with no extra session planned.

Boston Post Washington Philadelphia Press Bayard Dover Amden Dick Harrington Delaware Conkling Phelps, Dodge & Co Harrington New York Phelps Dodge Wilmington Ciary New York Customs Jayne House Committee Department of Justice Boston Post Office Messrs Lewis Hamon Post Office Tobey Post Office Department Tyner Harmon Hayes Massachusetts Boston Congress Military Academy Senate Finance Committee

Butler praised for safeguarding bonds tied to soldiers homes

Gen Butler, slated to be in Boston, is praised in a Boston morning account for securing $122,000 in bonds for the Soldiers' Homes. The tale recounts a 19th century episode where bonds belonging to the home, sent from Europe, were deposited in a bank that later failed, with Butler losing none and the homes losing nothing.

Butler Washington Boston Martin McMahon Soldiers’ Homes Gen. Butler Horatio Ward Europe Missouri North Carolina Tennessee Virginia Homes

Yorktown Centennial Plans Adopted by Joint Committee

The Yorktown centennial celebration committee approved the programme and named Robert C. Winthrop to deliver the oration and James Barron Hope to write the poem. The panel faced criticism for restricting government participation to three days. Secretary Thompson to retire with a year-end reception. other Senate actions included Pensacola rebuilding, a NY statuary bill, and pension measures.

Washington Congressional Committee Yorktown Butler Loring and Knnley Lon. Robert C. Winthrop Massachusetts James Barron Hope Virginia Joint Committee States Yorktown Centennial Association Thompson Indiana Howard West Point Ord War Department

Otis Arrested in New York for Check Forgery Case

Police arrest James D. Otis alias Nash at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on a forged check case tied to boot and shoe makers S. W. Nash and EB Nash of Boston. Bail set at 2000 after Windsor Hotel clerk testified to a $10 advance on the instrument. Also reported: fatal wheel explosion at West Fifty fifth street factory injuring owner John Ettles. Hackensack Savings Bank cashier Berry indicted for $134000 robbery. Broadway Underground Railway ruling refused. Dora Shernikton convicted of abducting Eliza Doll. counterfeiter Joseph Seinsoth jailed for three years.

New York James D. Otis Nash Cosmopolitan Hotel S. W EB. Nash High Street Boston B. Lowenstein & Bro Church Street National Bank Hackensack N.J Berry Hackensack Savings Bank Supreme Court George Ticknor Curtis Dora Shernikton Eliza Doll Joseph Seinsoth Brooklyn Albany

Ireland Crisis Noted in Times Liberal Opinion

The Times reports Liberal leaders are embarrassed by the Irish situation and fear coercion may be used. Whitbread condemns the reign of terror in Ireland and warns government actions risk appearing as concession to lawlessness. A scene at Dublin jury drawing shows Papist accusations amid mixed panel. Evicted tenant Kilmore is rebuilt by 1000 people with a relief supply, and Cork labor demand prompts estate works.

Congress London the Times Whitbread Commons Bedford Ireland Mr. Gladstone Windsor Dublin Dillon John Dillon Crown Office Kilmore County Mayo McNicholas The Land League Cork Times Earl of Cork Earl Charleville County Cork New York John Boyle O'Reilly Boston Michael Davitt United States America Canada Massachusetts Prussia Russia Washington, D. C National Board of Trade Great Britain Washington Paris Marhal MacMahon de Cissey MacMahon la Read Ministry of War Manchester Guardian Emile de Girandin Chamber of Deputies Department of the Seine Armenia Bournemouth Duchess of Westminster Duke of Sutherland Turkey Germany Crete Greece St. Petersburg Skobeleff Hague India U.S. Grant Cith Fouks Marco Polo Travers Geo. M. Towts John M. Beecher Follen Uso Mus. Anprises Dr. Extor LEE & Shepard, Publishers Radical Club Prive Bartel Grand Alcott Emerson Clarke Frothingham Channing Everett Weiss Phillips Garrison Higgingon Henry James John Weiss J. M. Davidson Mindley Temple James Freeman Clarke Price Jean-Francois Millett Millett George du Maurier Charles Keene du Mourier Keene England Scribners William Winter Joseph Jefferson

Lima Fortifications and Defenses Cited in Peru War Talk

E Belgado from Lima reports Peru defenses strong against Chilean move. Lima holds 30 000 troops with Peabody rifles and 6 000 to 8 000 citizen soldiers armed with Remington rifles. 110 field guns and 120 siege guns will be positioned. breastworks to surround the city.

New York E. Belgado Lima Peru Cambridge Mass

Hartland Seated After Bribery Scrutiny in Evesham

London reports Hartland Conservative declared MP for Evesham after a ballot scrutiny unseats Liberal Lehman who had won by 878 to 3876 votes. Earlier Ratcliffe was unseated for bribery, prompting the latest petition and results.

London Hartland House of Commons Evesham Ratcliffe Lehman Dixon Hartland Hell

Stock buyers deny pleuro pneumonia in U S cattle

Chicago reporters spoke with the largest buyers and commission men at the stock yards about Dr Lyman's claim that pleuro pneumona originated in the United States. They travel through Texas Kansas Colorado and other stock raising regions and say they have not seen or heard of any sign of pleuro pneumonia among farmers and buyers who recently moved to purchase stock steers.

Washington Senate Cockrell Missouri Treasury Educational Fund Ingalls Rep Kansas Davis Dem West Virginia Teller Hoar Massachusetts Inealls Patent Office Messrs. McDonald Indiana Pendleton Ohio Blair New Hampshire Morrill Vermont Jones Florida Hamlin Blaine Beck Kentucky Saulsbury Delaware Kirkwood Iowa Bureau of Education McDonald Yeas Messia Allison Anthony Batley Baldwin Brown Bruce Burnside Call Cameron Wis Coke Dawes W. Va Edmunds Ferry Garland Breford Will Hill Hoxt Johnston Kellogg Logan McMillan McPherson Maxey Morgan Platt Pugh Ransom Kollas Vance Walker Windom Ai Nays Jonas Saulabury West Voorhees Williames Joint Select Committee Congressional Library Capitol Grounds Wheeler Rhode Island California Oregon House Naval Farragut Gen. Heintzelman Chicago Journal Lyman England United States Texas Colorado

Baltimore Fire Kills Mrs Sewall. Vast Loss in Cincinnati Barn

Fire at Mr Ewall’s barn on Price's hill in Cincinnati destroys the structure and claims Mrs Sewall’s life. Also reported: stock market gains, a fatal shooting in Washington County, and naval railway debates. The Phil harmon ic concert in Boston features Liszt Faust Symphony and Adolphe Fischer’s debut cellist performance.

Philharmonic Philharmonic Club Music Hall Boston Theodore Thomas Choral Society C. F. Weber Sharland Listemann Adolphe Fischer Golter Imand Chopin Wagner Kaiser Grant Her Majesty’s Opera Company Globe Theatre Camille Mile Bernhardt Camile Mule Brown's Brigade Band J. Thomas Baldwin Weber Quartette T. Adamowski Walter Emerson Edward A. Cary T. W. Hendry

Fires burn multiple city blocks and businesses

Reports from Cleveland New York Des Moines Memphis and Concord detail fires destroying a six story block in Cleveland occupied by a stove maker with stock losses and partial insurance. A Lantern factory blaze on Cliff and Fulton damages other firms with losses above unknown insurance. An aged woman perishes in Newton Iowa house fire. Oak land Miss storehouse fire causes ten thousand dollars loss. West Concord New Hampshire polishing works burn with insured losses.

Buffalo N. Y George W. Tifft Perry Street Birge & Sons Thomas Fields John Malone Mike O’brien Stephen Hackett Martin McGee Peter Swanden John James Stout Jay Waitz Union Mall John B. Manning George W. Tiffton City Engine House Birge James Ryan John Kennedy Cleveland Viaduct Marwin Streets G. M. Atwater Springfield Mass Hartford Manufacturers Boston Cleveland Co-operative Stove Manufacturing Company New York Cliff and Fulton Streets R. E. Dietz Dickerson Des Moines Iowa Aramilla Mitchell Newton Mitchell Memphis Oakland Miss E. Granberry and Black & Son Concord N.H Anitear West Concord

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