Labor Talks and Relief Committee Meet Over City Work
A mayoral office gathering hears labor leaders push for immediate city work. Talks cover hospital repairs, East Boston schoolhouse, Austin Farm, and wage standards, with proposals on meat tickets, lodging, and employing local garment and building trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Taylor
Miller
Jonathan A. Lane
Robert Treat Paine
Robert H. Gardiner
Relief Committee
Building Trades’ Council
Central Labor Union
The
Knights of Illabor
James O’connor
Plasterers
Boston
Austin
R. J. Anslow
Radigan
Labor
Harris
Maine
New York
Lane
Cornell eyes Oxford for American college rowing title
Commodore Charles L. Brown of Cornell says Oxford would be welcome to America with expenses paid and training quarters guaranteed on Lake Cayuga if they come to row for the national championship. He asserts Cornell crews have dominated Yale and Harvard and urges Oxford to contest on the Cayuga course this summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles L. Brown
Cornell Navy
Oxford
America
Cornell
Lake Cayuga
Yale
Harvard
Courtney
Thames
New London
Funeral services for Mrs. Susie F Burt of Newton
Mrs Susie Frances Burt wife of Frank H Burt official court stenographer for Norfolk and Plymouth counties died recently in Newton Funeral held at Channing Memorial Church with Rev Francis B Hornbrooke officiating A Newton Cemetery burial The New England Shorthand Reporters Association expressed sorrow and sympathy in a special meeting with a commemorative verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
Frank H. Burt
Norfolk
Plymouth
Channing Memorial Church
Hornbrooke
Springfield
Boston
Newtons
James P. Bacon
E. W. Harnden
William L. Kaskel
New
Cambridge
New England Shorthand Reporters’ Association
Earle H. Johnson
George W. Brazer
Henry P. Cole
Susie Frances Burt
Mother Minnie Finch Arrested Over Infant Death Mystery
Minnie Finch was arrested yesterday as investigators probe the death of her six month old baby found dead in bed yesterday morning. She was intoxicated when taken into custody after a Saturday night drinking episode.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie Finch
Smallpox Case Linked to Westminster Street Morrison Family
Mary Morrison a 19 year old Nova Scotian waitress at 12 Union Park Street restaurant worked nearly a week while ill with smallpox exposing hundreds. She had not been vaccinated and visited the Morrison family on Westminster Street before contracting the disease. Health authorities moved to fumigate the restaurant as fear of further spread grew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Morrison
Board of Health
Morrison
Westminster Street
Union Park Street
Miss Morrison
McDonald
Canterbury Street Hospital
Ary Morrison
South End Faces Contagious Disease Outbreak
Health officials report new cases of a highly contagious illness in the South End confined largely to one district and one house. The Morrison family sparked the outbreak, with several relatives and lodgers affected. vaccination stations offer free inoculations to curb the spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Morrison
Martin
Pest House
Morrisons
Edward Durant
Sudbury Street
Mary Morrison
Durant
Off to a Record Six Day Bicycle Race at Madison Square Garden
The start signals the 142 hour six day race in New York with Frank Prial presiding as riders thunder into the event. Entrants include Billy Martin and Charley Ashinger with others such as Tom Roe and D Fornwalt set for the long endurance contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Prial
Madison Square Garden
Seventh Regiment
W.S. Maltby
Eugene A. Neidert
Hamilton
Maltby
Teague
Billy Martin
Charley Ashinger
Albert Schock
Tom Roe
D. Fornwalt
Ashinger
Garden
Martin
Reading
Uncle Sam
Omaha
Pete Berle
Schock
Chicago
Friedrich Forster
Germany
Frank Waller
America
Six Day International Bicycle Race Opens at Madison Square Garden
At midnight in New York the six day international race began with a star-studded field headed by world champion William Martin and 72 hour champion C. W. Ashinger. Ashinger led the opening lap, trailed by Martin and Frank Albert as the rest followed in a tight pack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Madison Square Garden
William Martin
C. W. Ashinger
Albert Schock
Frank Albert
Frank Fuller
Dawson Fornwall
Peter Golden
Edward Reading
A. S. Meixell
John Barton
Frederick Foster
Germany
Albert Hosmer
H. E. Bartholomew
Frank Waller
C. Greer
P. Berlo
Marion
Iowa
George van Emberg
Wife Murder in North Andover Spinner's Family Quarrel
Captain John Wilton beat his wife Emily A. to death in Stevens Village North Andover during a quarrel over dinner. Boarders, including Hugh Sproghan, found Mrs Wilton dead. Wilton was arrested after Allan Stevens, son of Congressman Stevens, chased him to the station. Medical examiner noted bruising and blood. An autopsy is planned for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Stevens Village
North Andover
John Wilton
Congressman Stevens
Emily A
M. Wilton
Mr. Stevens
Wilton
Stevens
Toohey
Old Cochickewick Hand Tub Company Worker Arrest
The man born in Prestbury England May 1 1842 arrived May 1872 to work at Stevens mill He served with Manchester England police during the Allen Larkin OBrien affair He is reported as usually kind but drunk temper leads to family quarrels Wilton faces arraignment on Tuesday and has a brother in North Andover and one in Boston The couple married in England They had no children but adopted a daughter He will be arraigned next Tuesday in court
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller
Harris
Garment Workers’ Union Ria
Dolan
Building Trades’ Council
Esdaile
Painters
City Hall
Costello
Collins
Bay State Road
Mt. Bowdoin
Clinkard
Carpenters
Tucker
Martha Moore Avery
The
Equity Union
Faneuil Hall
Taylor
Old Cochickewick
Prestbury
Cheshire
England
Yorkshire
Eng
Wilton
Mills Prosper in Fall River Earnings Report
The annual earnings statement by G. M. Haffords & Co. shows Fall River cotton mills in strong condition. Thirty-four corporations with fifty-six mills paid $1,622,600 in dividends for 1893 on $20,378,000 stock, despite a brief wage cut and factory slowdowns. Print cloth contracts are solid and unions in good shape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall River
G. M. Haffords & Co
Weather forecast for New England and nearby states
Forecast for Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Eastern New York calls for showers with southwest winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut see fair conditions followed by showers Monday afternoon or night with southwest winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
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Committee of Relief
Matthews
Hart
East Boston
Austin Farm
Lemaire
Lafils
la Reine
Wilson Bros
Big Clock
Tremont Row
D. Pill
French Folly Burlesque CO
Dad
Dad Andie Insurance
Katl Life Inc. CO
J.T. Phelvs
Siate Ags
Dev
Burt
Canute
Ere
Kinley
NY. Hera
South End
Russell
Capt. Wilton
Station House
Perent
KINC
Longwood Avenue
Ruxbury
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