Indications for New England Weather Ahead
Indications for twenty four hours starting 7 a.m. Monday foresee slightly warmer, fair weather across Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut. Eastern Maine to experience colder conditions with light snow followed by diminishing westerly winds and variable directions. Storm northwest signals cover the Atlantic coast from Wood's Hall to Eastport.
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Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Atlantic
Wood's Hall
Eastport
Boston Medical Library Plans New Fireproof Building
The Boston Medical Library Association at Boylston place has authorized its executive committee to buy land at St Botolph and Garrigan streets to erect a new library. The current quarters are crowded and not fireproof. The 18,000 volume collection aims to grow and serve future needs with public support.
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Boston Medical Library
Boston Medical Library Association
Boylston Place
St. Botolph and
Garrigan Streets
Library Association
Young Women Lead Temperance Meeting at Bromfield
At Bromfield Street Church the Young Women’s Christian Temperance Union held its annual meeting. The secretary reported distributing 9000 bouquets to hospitals. Officers elected include President Miss E. W. Bumstead and corresponding secretary Miss A. M. Mitchell.
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Fulton
Central Club
Young Women’s Christian Temperance Union
T. J. Dacey
John Fiske
New England
Old South Meeting House
New York
Clearing House
Bromfield Street
Young Women's Christian Temperance Union
Miss Gordon
Temperance Hospital of
Chicago
D. H. Ela
E. W. Bumstead
Jennie Hobbs
Carne Steele
A. M. Mitchell
J. Hunneman
A. B. Root
Patrols Guard West End Bridge After Car Disturbances
Saturday night Captain Folsom and six patrolmen were stationed on the West Boston bridge at the request of the West End Street Railroad Company. Disturbances on the cars by intoxicated persons from Boston prompted the move. ten were arrested on the West End side and three at Cambridge bridge.
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West End Street Railroad Company
Folsom
West Boston Bridge
Boston
Cambridge Bridge
Steamers Arrive and Sail as Ports Report December Traffic
A detailed shipping notice lists vessels arriving and departing across major ports. Steamers including Pavonia, Brooklyn City, Coronilla, Eider, Adriatic, Pennland, Peruvian, Cerdic, Zealandia, Hartburn, Marsala, Santiago, Floridian, Leerdam, and Umbria appear in multiple routes from Liverpool, New York, Savannah, Antwerp, and more.
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Boston
Pavonia
Liverpool
Hermann
Antwerp
Bristol
Brooklyn City
New York
Genoa
Coronilla
Savannah
Eider
Iremen
Adriatic
Pennland
Halifax
Bremen
Cerdic
Charleston
Sydney
Nsw
Zealandia
San Francisco
Philadelphia
Glasgow
Hartburn
Marbella
Dover
Marsala
Hamburg
Hull
Santiago
Kinsale
New Orleans
Havre
la Bretagne
Avonmouth
Chentsion
Baltimore
London
Denmark
Etruria
Iowa
Celtic
Navarre
Gibraltar
Dee
Mediterranean
Queenstown
Moray
Atoston
Hafis
Harbury
Latriun
the Lizard
Leerdam
Richmond Hill
Gloucester
Rattler
Indiana
la Gretagne
Floridian
Suez
Asia
Calcutta
Navarro
Cienfuegos
St Jago
Herman Winter
Umbria
Austria to Increase Defences at Once amid War Frenzy
Vienna reports a military council led by Emperor Francis Joseph with Tisza Taafe Kalnoky and other ministers. The decision to use 52 million florins for Galicia huts and equipage is announced while no Galicia force increase is decided. Russia tension moves Austria to step up vigilance, with further councils and possible 25 million florins for huts and uniforms in Galicia.
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Emperor Francis Joseph
Vienna
Count Kalnoky
Herr von Tisza
Galicia
Berlin
Pesther Lloyd
Russia
Linnell
Trafalgar Square
Count von Taafe
Interior
Bylandt-Rheydt
Herr von Korllay
Archduke Albrecht
Count von Wessersheimle
Austria
Baron von Fejervary
Hungary
Bulgaria
Poland
Count von Taate
Hier von Tisza
Landwehr
Berit
National Zeitung
General von Schweinitz
St. Petersburg
Prince Bismarck
Count von Moltke
von Moltke
War Office
Cracow
Jaroslav
Lemberg
Przemysl
Deeries
Constantinople
Herr von Radowitz
Porte
Bosphorus
Europe
Volhynia
Podalia
Dnieper
Kieff
Odessa
Balkan
Westher Lloyd
Trefort
Pesth Academy
Funeral Draws 100000 in Trafalgar Square Riot Victim's Ceremony
London crowds led the funeral procession for Linnell who died from injuries in Trafalgar Square rioting. East End bands marched the mile and a half route to the cemetery, as police kept minor clashes from escalating. The Dead March in Saul played at St Pauls as bells fell silent. Pallbearers included Cunningham Graham Stad Morris and Mrs Besant. Extremist clubs were represented.
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London
Linnell
Trafalgar Square
East End
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Saul
Messrs. Cunningham
Graham
Stad
William Morris
Unionist Deserter Panic in Vienna and London
London dispatch reports Sir T. F. Grove MP Wilton division has shifted from Unionist Liberal to a different stance prompting talk of a Parliament meeting in February. In San Remo the Duke of Edinburgh is noted, with Dec 18 dated dispatches.
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London
T. F. Grove
Wilton
Wiltshire
San Remo
Duke of
Edin
Illness Strikes Prince Frederick Leo pold in Porspam
Prince Frederick Leopold is seriously ill with gastric fever in Porspam. The crown party including Prince Henry and the Duke of Edinburgh took a long walk yesterday after arrival.
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Burgh
Wince
Prince Henry
Edinburgh
Prince Frederick Leopold
Prohibitionist St John Targets Blaine in Speech
Ex Governor John P. St John addressed the Manhattan Temperance Association in Cooper Hall calling the whiskey traffic an unclean thing. He criticized James G Blaine for his interview on the President's message and tobacco tax, declaring him a monster for supporting high license destruction and tobacco as a necessity.
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St. John
Cooper Union
James G. Blaine
John W. Corcoran
Clinton
Washington
James P. Foster
Republican National League
New Yorks
John P. St. John
Manhattan Temperance Association
Cooper Hall
Blaine
Congress Getting Ready to See Santa Claus
Washington dispatch notes Senate and House plans during the holiday adjournment. A Senate debate over telegraph policy and a House call for a rules package are outlined, with nominations and secret sessions anticipated. The piece also mentions Boston figures visiting Washington, pension legislation discussions, and illness of Ben Butterworth.
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Congress
Santa Claus
Washrneron
Senate
House
Butler
Sawyer
Townshend
Opera star Miss Greenwood falls near Luna Island
Miss Marie Greenwood of Memphis slipped on Luna Island while viewing Niagara Falls and plunged into the water. She was rescued by Signor Tachapietra and survived the frightful moment, later recalling she was terrified by stories of the falls. The fall point is near the American Falls and known as highly dangerous.
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Niagara Fallls
N. Y
Marie Greenwood
Memphis
Tenn
Luna Island
Signor Tachapietra
Greenwood
Miss Greenwood
Keeley Brewing Bans Barley From Iowa and Kansas
The Keeley Brewing Company tells brokers to buy no barley grown in or shipped from Iowa or Kansas. Secretary John P. Taylor says the move is not punishment for prohibition but a reciprocal measure if those states will not buy their beer.
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Keeley Brewery
Kansas
Caraquette
N. B
M. M. Cunniff
Thomas J. Barry
Democratic City Committee
Boston
Cunniff
Executive Council
Washington
Baltimore
Philadelphia
General Collins
White House
Mr. Cunniff
Mr. Pratt
Mr. Lovering
Cmcaco
Keeley Brewing Company
Iowa
John P. Taylor
Brokers’ Committee
James P. Foster Elected President of Republican League
The Republican clubs convention at Chickering Hall elected James P. Foster of the New York Republican Club as President of the National League. Delegates selected vice presidents and executive committee members from New England states. Foster pledged strong partisan action and predicted a Republican victory in 1888 while the convention adjourned sine die.
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New York
Chickering Hall
National League
Chauncey M. Depew
James P. Foster
New York Republican Club
Evarts
Seward A. Simons
Buffalo
E. Lowden Snowden
Pennsylvania
Nathan Goff
West Virginia
Foster
South
Howard N. Fuller
Albany
United States
Repubicans
Cleveland
L. Q. C. Lamar
Supreme Conart
United States Senate
National Republican Clan
Washington
New York League
State League
Treasury
League
Eight Men Killed in Intercolonial Railroad Accident
A deadly crash near Caraquette station on the Intercolonial line left eight workers dead after the snow plough and engine derailed from a bridge into the river. Victims include Conductor Kearney and Driver Lanigan among Bathurst personnel, with recovery completed by noon.
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Batuerst
N. B
Caraquette
Intercolonial Railroad
Gloucester Junction
McIntosh Cove Bridge
Kearney
Douglasstown
Miramichi
Lanigan
Bathurst
Pelix Bincher
Dr Peters Plans Babylonian Expedition Funded
Dr Peters has raised most of a $30,000 goal for a Babylonian expedition set to begin early next year under University of Pennsylvania auspices. Dr Hilprecht favors starting in Babylonia before Sepharraim or Persepolis, reversing initial plans. The project will involve Philadelphia Assyriologists and scientists.
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Puuaperpura
Peters
Sepharraim
Persepolis
Hilprecht
Babylonia
Babylon
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Record of Fires in Several Cities
Fire destroyed the upper part of J. C. Iversen’s picture frame shop on East Water street with Quinn’s Bookstore drenched. Total loss on stocks and buildings about 100000 with unknown insurance. In Norfolk a Franklin warehouse fire consumed Preliowe and Co’s warehouse and 7000 bags of peanuts and three carloads of coal. Loss about 560000 with insurance undetermined. A fire in Montreat Quebec hit the Canada sugar refinery office causing significant losses. In Havernutt a barn belonging to Leonard P. Spiller with ten tons of hay burned, loss 1000, insured for 800, incendiary suspected.
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Milwaavee
J. C. Iversen
East Water Street
Quinn
NorFolk
Dee
Franklin
Seaboard & Roanoke
Esterday
Preliowe & Co
Montreat
Que
Canada Sugar
HSUC
Havernutt
Leonard P. Spiller
Groveland Street
Organizing the House: Carlisle Faces Committee Battles
Washington scene on December 17 describes Speaker Carlisle weighing committee assignments amid a flurry of rival claims. Massachusetts rivalries over foreign affairs and ways and means spotlight John Russell, Frank Rockwell, and William Reed’s designated roles, with Governor Long backing Lodge and Lodge withdrawing to back Rockwell.
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Washington
Spxcran
Carlisle
Randall
Ways and Means
Committee On Foreign Affairs
New
Frank
Rockwell
New England
Rice
Massachusetts
Wall
Connecticut
Dingley
Lodge
Ledge
Reed
McKinley
Long
Ely
Russell
Portraits for Massachusetts Speakers to Be Honored in House
A Massachusetts day in the House will honor speakers Barnum Sedgwick Banks and Winthrop with portraits. Speakers Lodge Rockwell and local figures will speak, while Banks’ portrait on paper shows flaking, and Sedgwick’s crayon was discovered to be a copy.
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Massachusetts
Barnum
Sedgwick
Banks
Winthrop
Boston
Mr. Winthrop
Yorktown
Governor Long
Lodge
Colonel Allen
Lowell
Rockwell
Stockbridge
Stuart
Grace Parker
General Banks
General Collins
Mr. Russell
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Tremont Street
Miaittard’s
Bouillon
Parahmas
Allen, Solly & Co
Goodwood Searf
Hewins & Hollis, Outfitters
Hamilton Place
Observer's Office
Signal Service
U.S Boston
Maxim
Jean
Ascot
Portland
Snow Or Shield
Lock Island
Nantucket
Snowen York
Hreveport
Bair Fort Smith
Sylveston
Noxville
Rand Haven
Viailackinaw City
Arquette, Mich
Ochicago
Green Bay
Duluth
Saugeen
Can
Fontreal
Yarmouth
Alifax
Eavenworth
Wee
Vincent
Ismarck
Fort Butor
Fort Assinaboine
Custer
Helena
Wu Woo
Cheyenne
North Platte
Denver
Fair Edge City
Fort Sill
Ji Paso
Sewer
Joe
Derby & Kilmer Desk CO
Charlestown Si
Geo. H. Binney
Devonshire Street
Beors F
Holmes Furniture
G. W. Simmons & CO
North Street
Butterworth
Ohio
Parsons
Major Merrill
Lawrence
Niagara Falls
The
Christian Union
Brooke Herford
Harvard Chapel
General Paine
John Bascom
Young Men’s Christian Union
Luther
Calvin
Republic
W. S. Key
Tremont
Young Women’s Work
Christian Temperance Union
Cambridge
General Foreign News
Merrill
Grand Army
Riggs House
Lancaster Bank
Toonholm
Senator Hoar
Pennsylvania Avenue
Moseley
Real Williams
McDonald
Fairchild
Perry C. Smith
New Jersey
Treasury Department
Eugene Higgins
Smith
Post Office Department
Higgins
Ben Butterworth
Boston Merchants’ Association
Mr. Butterworth
Republican League
DR. Peters
Williams
Macaire
Mr. Whiting
Russell Ha
Arlington
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