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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1900
Page
6
An advertisement extols Pyramid Pile Cure as the sole effective treatment for piles, applied as a nighttime suppository to the affected area for rapid, natural healing. It claims safety, affordability at 50 cents, no opiates, and nationwide availability in the United States and Canada, with testimonials and broad success across forms of piles.
Fall River on Christmas Day saw two accidents. Joseph Corriveau, 85, fractured skull after alighting from a streetcar and remains in critical condition at Union Hospital. A barn fire on the Bailey Borden estate damaged Hose 8 when it struck a telegraph pole, injuring a horse and shaking the crew. loss placed at 300 dollars. Mrs. Mary Clark, 6, died at home with medical examiner attributing heart failure.
Miss Helen Gould gave dinner and distributed presents to the boys at Woody Crest Sanitarium near Tarrytown. Howard Gould and wife provided a Christmas tree and served lunch to 200 Port Washington school children on Long Island.
Boston observers noted official diplomats from Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Germany celebrating Christmas privately at their homes. British consul J E Blount and Mrs Blount were at Hotel Nottingham with fellow officials, sharing a simple day by their firesides.
New York December 25 Lieutenant Richmond P Hobson is steadily improving though not yet able to see the many visitors who call daily to inquire after him The report notes his gradual recovery and continued faint response to medical care lingering after his earlier injuries.
The third annual ball of the Boston Young Business Men's Association was held last night in Paul Revere Hall Mechanics building with about 500 couples attending. Bernard Drooker led the grand march with Mrs Drooker. list of attendees includes Sperber Goldstein Broudy Flax Gottlieb Steinberg Youdelovitz Ada Youdelovitz Weinberg Abramson Smith Levin Bessie Fleischer Sherwin Kunzinsky Silverman Siegel Epste in Crooker Youdelovitz and others.
The Robert Burns Musical Society held a ball at Odd Fellows Hall 615 Tremont Street last night. It was among the society’s first entertainments and proved successful with performances by A Mc Allister George A Mitchell H E Kinney Callender Quartet W F Bates and readings by W B Bates and others. The grand march was led by Dr. R P.
McKenzie presides over a society gathering with Laura McKenzie among guests. Notables include Dr A G Kennedy and George R Fraser. Proceeds will fund a Robert Burns monument with a $25000 goal and work to start within two years.
In Frankfort Kentucky a clerk uncovered a cartridge box with eight patched smokeless powder cartridges matching the bullet from the hackberry tree linked to the Goebel assassination. Henry Youtsey, once a clerk with access to the vault, is implicated by testimony from George Barnes who saw him with cartridges.
Early dawn yesterday a man was found prostrate in the gutter at Columbia street Cambridge after being beaten and robbed. His coat and hat were swapped, and only a pint flask remained. The injured man, Charles E Bancroft, travelling from New Hampshire, will be retained for further inquiry.
The memorial window at St James's Episcopal Church Worth Cambridge was unveiled after the 9 o'clock mass. Dr Abbott the rector led a short service and the inscribed pane honors Samuel Patchelder born 1880 and George Dexter born 183, laying founders of the mission dating from 1864. It depicts two disciples and the seventy missionary theme.
Lewis Wilkinson an elderly Malden fireman and Odd Fellow died yesterday at his Marrett street home. He served as a longtime member of the Malden Fire Department and was among its oldest veterans.
Fifty tons of candy have been sent to soldiers in the Philippine Islands, Cuba, and Puerto Rico by the Army commissary during the last three months. Medical officers say moderate confectionery promotes health and satisfies natural cravings. The note argues sweets are not injurious and suggests digestion aids like pepsin and diastase, highlighting Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as effective.
Christmas Eve celebrations saw Paris restaurants cafes and leading churches packed with festive patrons and masses a midnight hour. Boulevards were thronged and Christmas trade surpassed previous years as shopkeepers benefited from high sales and charitable acts including 7000 francs donated by Mme Loubet for widows in need.
The Old Stoughton Musical Society held its annual Christmas sing in Randolph today, the 116th such event. The meeting named Dr C C Farnham president, with James F Stevens, Hen S Porter, Cornelius A Faunce, and Elijah G Capen as vice presidents and Edwin A Jones as secretary treasurer. Choristers named Nelson Mann and Elias Capen.
Christmas was observed by actors in Boston with a lively matinee. After the Hollis Street Theatre performance, the company surprised Mr. and Mrs. Goodwin with a bronze statue In Inspiration by Delperier. At the Boston Museum, Claire McDowell sent hand painted calendars for Hearts Are Trumps principals. Jessie Busley acted as Santa Claus during gift presentation.
The Conservatory of Music hosted about half the boarding students for the holiday break. Evergreens decorated the dining room and parlors, a special noon dinner was served, and a Christmas tree was provided in the evening. Studies paused for the off night as magic and ventriloquism entertained. Classes resume Monday.
Christmas was celebrated at the People's Temple corner of Columbus avenue and Berkeley street with a concert by the Marshall children and Mrs. Lillian Pierce Henniger. The group performed nine pieces including hand and Swiss bell selections and string solos with fine performances by the young musicians.
Mrs. Sarah Frank of Brooklyn died after swallowing Paris green mistaken for headache powder. She arose early to prepare the Christmas dinner but suffered a severe headache and consumed the poison.
A south bound passenger train collided with a freight engine near Geneva station on the Central Hudson Pennsylvania division. Fireman Louis Peters was instantly killed.
New York lawyer Buchanan Winthrop died at his home from complications of an appendicitis operation. A direct descendant of John Winthrop, governor of Massachusetts in 1620, he led the Winthrop family in New York and was born November 184.
The Christmas service at the Church of the Sacred Heart in East Cambridge began at 10:30 yesterday morning. Father Coffee led the rites with assistance from Father Durgin and two other priests. Potted plants and ivy provided a festive backdrop to the pulpit decorations.
Michael Kelly, 21, suffered severe burns as a lamp toppled starting a blaze in a top floor room of the three story building at 76 Longwood Avenue. The entire Kelly family narrowly escaped as flames raced across bedding. Alarm from Box 219 sounded at 6 44 yesterday morning. Fire loss estimated under $200.
Flames erupted from a third floor window at 322 Western Avenue Cambridge Port during a Christmas celebration. A beaconing fire started when children knocked into a lit tree, igniting tinsel and carpet. Fire brigade extinguished the blaze with minor damage.
During a North Hanover Baptist Church festival a ladder fell causing a chandelier to crash. A kerosene lamp ignited Mrs. Davis S. Stoddard and burned her four year old son. several others sustained burns while Frank Plummer aided extinguishing flames. Fire damaged pews and carpet but was contained with minor losses.
A candle left burning on a kitchen table at Cornelius Donovan's 90 Ash Street Chelsea residence triggered a fire alarm at 3 AM. The candle scorched the tablecloth and flames spread along the room side. Donovan’s loss was $10. the house owned by John Driscoll sustained $50 damage.
E P Yates & Co granary a five story brick building behind 1411 Main street was gutted by fire this afternoon with an estimated loss near $20,000 and partial insurance.
Henry L Wilbur aged 42 son of H O Wilbur cocoa and chocolate maker of Philadelphia was killed near Valley Forge when his horse threw him during a cross country ride to join the Chester Valley hunt. He rode with T N McCartney who paced with him as they chased the hounds.
Washington society awaits the Leiter ball to be held tomorrow evening. A notable feature will be the many white satin gowns with trains three to four yards long. An array of diamonds and extensive lace is expected to enhance the event’s courtly air.
Late last night a Station 5 officer found Chester E. Sargent a 5 year old boy wandering near Castle square. He said he lived in Portland Me and had lost his mother as they were about to take a train. The boy was taken to the Chardon Street Home.
John Tiger, a full blood Indian, shot multiple men in Bufala and killed two others as he traveled toward Missouri in a wagon with his family. Jesse Beck was wounded in the hip, Dave Porter and another man named Johnson were killed, and Bud Taylor, 18, was shot in the shoulder and not expected to live. Tiger was wounded in the arm and arrested by Deputy Marshal Johnson.
Washington dispatch reports General Nelson Miles facing an expected rebuttal in a North American Review chapter from General Russell Alger’s forthcoming War With Spain. The piece supposedly details embalmed beef scandal charges, Alger’s evidence, and disputed claims about wartime rations and contractor ties. Miles says he will respond once the publication appears.
Thomas Webb Jay of Indianapolis set a near perfect mark by rolling 299 of 300 in a City Club bowling match. He strung strikes with three teammates until the final ball failed to knock down the eighth pin, ending one pin shy of a perfect score.
Eighteen year old Maggie Hoel, living with sister Mrs Charles Beattie three miles west of Pubblico, vanished after a veiled woman spoke with her in the Beattie home. Footprints toward Arkansas River and signs of a struggle raise fears of murder. Hope rests on a large search. the girl was soon to be married and had a Missouri guardian and a sorrowful sweetheart aiding the inquiry.
John McCarthy a 12 year old boy fainted after drinking whiskey mistaken for wine at his aunt's house in Cambridge. Dr Bryant treated him. electricity and massage revived him hours later. Father Jeremiah McCarthy and the boy were taken to Station 2 and later released.
Scranton Pennsylvan ia December 25. Scouts of striking car men caused ten of thirteen Syracuse recruits to return home and two to quit not to return. Only two cars ran in the county. one derailed under motorman Patterson at 11 with heavy damage, the other at 1 30 was taken in and housed. General Manager Silliman remained hopeful he could hire replacements after holidays as crews in other cities would be reduced and hundreds of men idle.
Cleveland, Dec 25 Miss Ruth Hanna daughter of Senator Mark A Hanna will make her formal debut as a society girl at a New Year reception to which 1900 guests have been invited. The ivory white gown with gold embroidery veils a white taffeta underdress and features a long skirt and decollate bodice with a bolero of Irish paint curves. Her white satin slippers bear gold trim and she will wear no jewels.
Charles B. Nelson of Cadillac Michigan formerly a Chicagoan and central figure in a sensational 1899 shooting lived with a bullet in his heart for years. The fluoroscope showed the ball rising and falling with each heartbeat, a bullet in his heart since the night of July 1, 1896.
Leland Robinson, an employee of the C B Pierce Company shoe findings maker and active in Pythian circles, collapsed and died in his chair at a dinner table at his niece's South End Brockton residence while playing Santa Claus for his nieces and nephews.
The Chelsea Masons gathered at Masonic Hall for the annual Christmas Greeting initiated by late Amasa G. Whitcomb of the Royal Arch Chapter of the Shekinah. Rev. R. Perry Bush offered prayer, with welcome by John Cartin and addresses by Crandon, Martin, Willard Howland, Buck, and George H. Rice. The Palestine Commandery of Knights Templars toasted Whitcomb and departed members, then Bush presented Commander Theodore H. Buck with a sword and belt donated by the commandery members.
In Hartford Connecticut on December 25 James Nolan a 70 year old builder and Mrs Mary Pillion were found asphyxiated in a lodging house. They turned on a gas supply to a radiator since burners were not lit. Nolan a widower had grown children and Mary Pillion had recently obtained a divorce.
Ezekiel Bates Lodge held a special communication and district grand lodge to lay the corner stone of the Chapel of All Saints Episcopal Mission on County Street Attleboro Massachusetts under the guidance of acting grand master R W Alfred R Crosby.
Vancouver reports a terrible massacre in China where 1500 reformers were killed and twenty seven leaders beheaded after a treacherous engagement in Central China along the Yang-Tse Valley dated December 18. The action led to demoralization and suspension of the movement in that region.
Captain Charles A. Boutelle of Bangor Maine will tender his resignation from the House of Representatives around March 4 in line with an understanding with President McKinley. A congressional resolution authorizing Boutelle to be placed on the navy retired list as captain will take effect before that date, though the appointment will not be made until his resignation occurs.
Reports from Cape Town on December 25 describe ongoing combat near De Aar with scarce details. About two hundred Boers departed Britstown after seizing available supplies, signaling heightened hostilities in the region.
Miss Mamie Stambough, niece of President McKinley, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Daniel Stambough, married Philip Gerald Cook, a noted Clarendon lawyer, in Youngstown Ohio today.
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