Recount Changes Brookline Ward 4 Council Seat
The Ward 4 Council recount shifts the seat from Fred J. Kimball to William L. Mahoney by a margin of one vote. Other ward totals show Joseph Connorton, George Garland, and Mahoney elected to the Common Council. Gas company appeals to the Gas and Electric Light Commissioners regarding Brookline Gas Street openings.
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Comm Council
Fred J. Kimball
William L. Mahone
William H. Casey
Martin F. Connorton
George A. Garland
Eseereeeres
John J. Hoey
Beshevaries
Christmas Day Programs for the Impoverished
A list of Christmas day events in churches charities and institutions. Trinity Church Sunday school festival Tabernacle Baptist Society Christmas tree and children's entertainment at 3 o'clock Church of the Messiah dinners for the poor Children's Hospital turkey dinner at noon Seamen's Friend Society sailors reception dinner all day Sailors' Haven Charlestown dinner and concert YMHA annual minstrel show Minot Hall 8 p m Children's Health Fund public dinner for destitute children Commercial Street at noon Baptist Bethel Hanover Street Christmas tree presents for all at noon Epworth League House presents and entertainments all day Emmanuel Church King's Daughters Christmas tree at 8 Christmas dinners for the poor State Prison Charlestown musical program at 10:30 dinner at noon Young Boys' and Girls' Club West End miscellaneous programme collation Sailors' Home Charlestown dinner at noon concert and speaking
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Trinity Church
Tabernacle Baptist Society
Church of the Messiah
Children’s Hospital
Seaman's Friend Society
Sailors’ Haven
Charlestown
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Minot Hall
Children's ‘Health Fund
Commercial Street
Baptist Bethel
Hanover Street
Epworth League House
Emmanuel Church
Newbury Street
King’s Daughters
State Prison
West End
Sailors’ Home
Seely Sentenced Eight Years For Bank Fraud
Samuel C. Seely, former bookkeeper of the National Shoe and Leather Bank, pleaded guilty to defrauding the bank and misusing funds. Judge Benedict sentenced him to eight years in Kings County Penitentiary, with expected time served about five years and four months. Seely said the past decade had been unbearable.
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New York
Samuel C. Seely
National Shoe and Leather Bank
Chicago
Benedict
United States Circuit Court
Seely
Frederick Baker
Kings County
Ludlow Street
State Prison
Boston City Actions Approve Debt for School Buildings
The city envisions borrowing $2 000 000 beyond the debt limit for schoolhouse construction. Trustees of the public library to install a bust of John Boyle O'Reilly in the library. Subway commissioners Dalton Gargan and Swain set to be paid 2500 each for service through July 27 1894. Police seek a new boat replacing the Protector and a $50 000 appropriation, referred to finance committee.
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Boston
John Boyle O'Reilly
Charles H. Dalton
Thomas J. Gargan
George F. Swain
M Ewan Dies in Railroad Collision at Braintree
An express train crash near Braintree on the Old Colony line killed William McEwan editor of the Braintree Observer and seriously injured Patrick Donahue. McEwan, 16, died at Massachusetts General Hospital after injuries including a severed right arm, skull fracture, and lacerations. Donahue, 39, from Dorchester, had his leg amputated and jaw broken. he remained under ether during surgery.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Old Colony
Braintree
Express
William McEwan
Patrick Donahue
Shelton Street
Dorchester
Post
Donahue
Deserted in Sound, Ship Towed In Port New York
The two masted schooner Addie F Sawyer brought into South Brooklyn with crew of seven aboard the abandoned British bark Talisman towed to Vineyard Haven, Mass. after a collision in the Long Island Sound. The Bark, 366 tons, built 1860 in Baltimore, had just been purchased and was uninsured. The Talisman was partially dismasted with three feet of water in the hold. Captain Norwood described the collision and escape. The Talisman’s captain Brown left for Vineyard Haven to tend the vessel. The Sawyer can be repaired in a week to ten days.
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New York
Addie F. Sawyer
Norwood
Hellgate
Brooklyn
Brown
McPartlow
Talisman
Vineyard Haven
Mass
Boston
Orion
Long Island Sound
Rio de Janeiro
Royal
Montauk Point
Haven
JL. & W. P. Armstrong
Samuel Reynard
Baltimore
New Bedford
Sawyer
Is It a Bad Debt
Special report from Washington notes Attorney General Olney examining a plan to settle Union Pacific debt to the government. The government would receive about 33 million dollars of the original indebtedness, with possible sale of the railroad if settlement stalls. Debate includes Reilly bill and interest rate adjustments as Congress weighs options before Olney leaves office.
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M To the Eagle
Olney
Union Pacific
Congress
Granite polisher loses leg in train collision
George Ellis, a granite polisher, was struck by a train at the West Quincy station on December 24 and had his leg severed. He was run over at the Atlantic line crossing.
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Atlantic
YTIC
George Ellis
Quincy
ELOPER CAUGHT
Dr. the horse doctor from Llomville eloped to Brooklyn with Miss Main and returned to Llomville during the afternoon. Miss Main has not returned.
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Llonville, Conn
Miss Main
Officer Assaulted During Rescue of Prisoner in Boston
John Coleman 26 of No 7 South Boston was arrested for drunkenness when his father Michael Coleman and his two sisters Hannah and Mary attacked him at home. French, a police officer, received a beating with a lamp causing a wounded eye and right wrist. The assailants, including the sisters aged 22 and 15, were placed in custody.
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Nan Prince
John Coleman
Pope Gift Receives Autograph Copy of My Country Tis Of Thee
A New London Connecticut dispatch reports an original autograph manuscript of America’s song My Country Tis Of Thee, written by Rev Samuel Francis Smith, is en route to Rome as a gift to the Pope. David Pell Secor of Bridgeport arranged the offering with Rev William Maher D D overseeing the plan.
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Samuel Francis
Rome
David Pell Secor
Bridge
William Maher
Gunboat Castine Anchors at Navy Yard for Compass Fix
The United States gunboat Castine, twin screw steel ship built at Bath Iron Works in 1892, anchors off the Navy Yard for compass adjustments after arriving shortly after 2 PM yesterday. She is to stay about two days and was en route to Castine Maine to receive a silver service from locals. The vessel measures 204 feet length, 82 feet beam, 12 feet 8.5 inches draft, 1271.6 tons, with 2106 indicated horsepower and 16.08 knots maximum speed. Armament includes a bow torpedo tube eight four inch guns four six pounders two one pounders and two machine guns. Crew of 180 sailors and ten marines.
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United States
Navy Yard
Castine
Bath Iron Works
Bath
London Athletes to Face New York Club Challenge
The London Athletic Club received a challenge from the New York Athletic Club dated December 12. New York invites London to send a team to compete next summer in New York and the London club will consider the proposal promptly.
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London
London Athletic Club
New York Athletic Club
New York
Treasure Island Serial in The Post
Poem announces serialized publication of Treasure Island in The Post in five or six installments. It invites readers to enjoy sailor tales of storms, islands, buccaneers, buried gold, and old romance retold in the ancient way, urging studious youth to keep the appetite for adventure.
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Kingston
Ballantyne the Brave
Cooper
The Old Buccaneer at the Admiral Benbow Inn
Narrator recalls the brown seaman who lodged at the Admiral Benbow, a taciturn captainlike figure feared by locals. The man sought rum and bacon, watched seafaring visitors, and issued a eerie weather-eye payment for a one legged sailor, while tales and songs unsettled the household and neighbors.
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Admiral Benbow
Bristol
Melrose Fire Claims Two Women In Fatal Kitchen Blaze
In Melrose on December 24, Maggie Callahan from Houston and Mrs. Sidney Howe died after a live coal ignited Callahan’s dress. Howe rushed to help and also caught fire, both women succumbing to burns. Mrs. Howe, 26, leaves two children. Callahan’s family lives in Houlton. Dr. Jackson treated both before their deaths.
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Sidney Howe
Pope Manufacturing Company
Boston
Howe
Miss Callahan
Houlton
Melrose
Jackson
Child dies in street bonfire accident
Bertha Yargsay a five year old girl burned to death on Church street in Bridgeport Connecticut after tumbling into a large bonfire created by a group of dancing children. Companions pulled her out and a mother watched in grief as emergency aid arrived too late.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Bertha Yargsay
Church Street
Bertha
Carnegie steel wage cuts at Homestead posted
The new wage scale at Carnegie steel works Homestead shows an average 15 percent reduction across the mill with higher paid workers facing 35 percent cuts. Several high priced men are dismissed and rents on company houses are materially reduced. Despite some dissatisfaction, the scale is expected to be accepted.
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Pittsburg
Carnegie Steel Works
Homestead
Weather forecast for New England states
Forecast issued from Washington notes rain and warmer conditions for Maine New Hampshire Vermont with increasing south winds. Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut see rain and warmer, high southeast winds. Eastern New York expects rain with warmer temperatures and south winds.
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Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
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George Faul
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Sir Thomas Reynolds
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D . Wee
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Charles T. Witt
John H. Lee
Alpheus Sanford
Perlie A. Dyar
James W. O’brien
William F. McClellan
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George H. Bond
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James H. Nugent
Augustus Donegan
William W. Knox
Frank Parson
Jonas Hagar
Edwin M. White
James M. Marden
Levi H. Turner
Charles E. Marks
Albert J. Taylor
William A. Mayer
Merit V. Webster
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