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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1898
Page
5
An advertisement claims Cold Cure checks nasal and eye discharges stops sneezing relieves throat and chest symptoms and tones the body It also touts Rheumatism Cure Dyspepsia Cure Kidney Cure and 57 cures for 57 ailments with doctors offering free advice from Tremont Temple
A West Erd avenue fire at the Raymond mansion killed two women and left a man and another woman gravely injured. Mrs Underwood leaped from a second floor window and died from a crushed heel on the sidewalk. Mrs Fl Rasyimond also died after falling to the sidewalk. William Poperr suffered a fractured skull and died likely. Warrier Pree perished on the third floor from smoke.
On December 20 the Governor and Council resumed the pardon hearing for Dr Joseph Moore of Manchester who has served twenty eight months of a four year sentence for over issuing stock. Concord official Gd PL Conn testified a blood sample indicated severe anemia and predicted death if untreated. The Governor and Council unanimously granted leave to withdraw the petition for pardon.
In Saco Maine Judge Burbank found probable cause and bound Crellin over to the January term of the Superior Court. The defense argued Creslin could be discharged if guilt could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The judge said it was the court, not him, who must determine probable cause.
HH Howe president of the S. H. Howe Shue Company reverses a prior consent to conference with national AFL representatives after a request from Samuel Gompers. Gompers now seeks a personal meeting with Howe, without reason given for the change.
Washington December 20 Western Senators including Wolcott of Colorado and Spooner of Wisconsin urged Secretary Bliss to stay in the Cabinet. Bliss said he would not reconsider and hoped the President would name his successor soon as he planned to retire January 1.
John Lord of Wakefield was found in Haymarket square yesterday afternoon with a broken left ankle and could not explain the incident. He was taken to the City Hospital.
Coroner's jury returned a split ruling on the New York Central snow-removal accident that killed eight men. Two juries found the company blameless and negligent respectively, with Coroner Kennedy signing the verdict faulting no one.
Washington reports Rear-Admiral Francis M. Bunce commandant of the New York Navy Yard will retire soon, with promotions expected across the service. Havana notes Captain-General Castellanos says evacuation of Havana should be complete by January 1, with remaining Spanish troops to embark. Springfield records John Vowell, Balaklava survivor, has died near St Jeannes Avenue. INSTE TM N reports the Red Star steamship reached Philadelphia from Liverpool via the J H Bowers rescue and provisioning. Hanover NH confirms Dartmouth College receives a $100,000 annuity and a $75,000 labowment from Charles T Wilder estate totaling $175,000.
John T. Sullivan told an East Boston meeting that on January 5 the East Boston tunnel case will be tried in Superior Court to decide if the act authorizing the Rapid Transit Commission to build the tunnel with Boston Elevated Street Railway as lessee is constitutional. The petition to run a car line from ferries through the subway to ease fast Boston residents’ access at five cents faced an unfavorable reply from Vice-President Bancroft.
In Everett Ward 5, about two hundred voters gathered at Hendersonville committee rooms to hear a smoke talk by Mayor-elect Arthur W. Hatch. Charles Carter presided, with Aldermen Buckley Bruce and Tukey, and Councilman-elect C. K. Townsend among speakers.
North Adams voters re-elected Mayor H A Cady by a plurality over labor candidate Dobson. Democrat Goodrich was defeated, license supporters won by a reduced majority.
George L. Parker known to police as Sidney Gripp was held for hours by Chief Watts yesterday but released as authorities failed to establish a connection to the November 27 Wrentham Bank robbery.
Chief Watts had been warned Parker and two companions were nearing the city. Inspectors Kelley and Shields found Parker asleep in a Harrison avenue lodging house with a loaded revolver and burglary tools. The pair were taken to police headquarters after the young man claimed the name Henry E Foley.
Residents of the North End enjoyed a city chamber event in Moon Street Hall the first time the Municipal String Quartet performed there. About 1000 mostly male attendees heard a classical program featuring Haydn Raff Bazzini Wieniawski and other composers performed by Carl Pierce Bernard Fiedler S BE Goldsmith Leon Von Viiet c J Leary and James T Whelan.
The Prince of Wales presided at a private meeting at Marlborough House convened by Lim to promote a war against tuberculosis. Speakers including the Marquis of Salisbury and the Earl of Rosebery urged education on prevention and control, noting the Queen ordered destruction of thirty six tuberculous dairy cows as a model for farmers.
The steamer Miami bound from Galveston to this port put into Key West with a fire in the cargo. Over 6000 bales of cotton are at risk as flames spread in the tween decks near the cabin. A government tug and flooding efforts were employed to control the blaze, with uncertainty about final extinguishment and heavy insurance on the cargo.
Fragmentary sports item notes a football game at Plymouth with players Jones Genereaux Farrell Fortin Mullen Mast and Wern. The text mentions a cold remedy from Warren's Formula and a reference to a victory by a Plymouth team over East Weymouth with a score of 45. Referee details are incomplete.
The bark J H Bowers with a cargo of hides and skins arrived safely in East Boston after a ninety day voyage from Rosario Argentina. Captain F A Magune commanded the ship which berthed at the astern railroad pier. The vessel, nominally a Carleton Norwood port scheme, flies a foreign flag and hails from Barbadoes.
Ed Bain 75 a Kinderhook N Y native and longtime president of the Bain Wagon Company died in Pasadena California from pulmonary apoplexy. Known as the man who never slept he reportedly did not sleep in bed for sixteen years due to constant business duties and spent his days in Chicago and his nights at theatres or billiard halls seeking brief naps.
I B Callender of Dorchester told Boston University Law School Liberal Club students that legal fame is transitory and praised Daniel Derlaney as the greatest American lawyer, whose name is little known today. He cited Derlaney’s Maryland opinions, the Stamp Act brief used by Pitt, and urged students to pursue diligent work in the profession.
The Wettledrum charity kettle drum opens Thursday evening at the Mechanics’ building to raise funds for the Woman’s Charity Club Hospital on Parker Hill. Thirty tables are set with goals for fifty. supper, dancing, and a full guest list including Governor Walcott, Major Quincey, and Major Charles Ek. Darling. The Sixth Massachusetts Infantry band will perform, with donations from Newton Highlands, Walpole, and other clubs. A long committee list details table assignments and roles for this gala event.
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