Notable Deaths Marked by Charity and Service
William A. Holland a Typographical Union member and Franklin Society figure died after a lung hemorrhage on a street car near Tremont and Winter streets. He worked for Mudge & Sons and earlier at Boston Daily Courier, attended major typographical conventions, and supported many charities.
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William A. Holland
Typographical Union
The
Franklin Society
Tremont and
Winter Streets
Holland
Alfred Mudge & Sons
Boston Daily Courier
New York
Pittsburg
Buffalo
International Union
Denver
Ir. Emory Barrister
Worcester
R. Lysander F. Babcock
Cambridge
Babcock, Livermore & Valentine
Stimpson & Babcock
Babcock
Rodgers
R. P. Rodgers
Washington
Weather forecast and storm signals for Atlantic coast
Dec 26 8 p m forecast shows fair conditions with lower temperatures for New England and eastern New York. Northwesterly winds on the coast. Storm signals posted from Norfolk to Eastport along the Atlantic coast.
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Wasn Hi IncTon
New England
New York
Atlantic
Norfolk
Eastport
Observations Elsewhere Reported At Eight P.M.
Observations from various locations were recorded at 8 p m showing diverse findings. The report notes details but omits broader context and exact sources for verification.
Shipping News Entries From Boston to Southampton in December
A digest of ship arrivals and departures with vessels such as Cremon Handel Sirius Paula Lathurna Gallina Norge Dracona Germanic Strathearn Wetherby Ocean Trave and destinations including Antwerp Rio Janeiro New York Philadelphia Liverpool Aden Bremen Bremen. The notices list routes from Boston New York Philadelphia Queenstown and Southampton with dates December 23 24 25 26.
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Boston
Cremon
Antwerp
Halifax
Altimore
Handel
Carthagena
New York
Savona
Rio Janeiro
Sirius
Philadelphia
Paula
Altona
Lathurna
Montego Bay
Prawle Point
Gallina
Lond On
Swinemund
Norge
London
Dracona
Queenstown
Germanic
Liverpool
Strathearn
Aden
Lizard
Wetherby
Baltimore
Isle of Wight
Boston City News Roundup Highlights
The executive council rejects James Dunlap petition while Northampton and robber dispute looms. The Modern Language Association opens its seventh annual conference with Eliot and Lowell addresses. Boston hospitals discuss influenza, organ dedication at Second Church, and hotel social notes. Two Charlestown convicts escape with one recaptured. a House caucus forms for speaker.
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Luir
Executive Council
Ardon
James Dunlap
Northampton
The
Modern Language Association of America
Eliot
James Russell Lowell
Common Council
Boston
Ladies’ Aid Association
Children’s Hospital
Charlestown
House
Mt. Bowdoin
Slazard Stevens
Somerville
Nawn
Tremont Temple
Army and Navy Gazette Dated Dispatches Military Orders
Army orders list Colonel A L Hough to retire after service and multiple recruit transfers across the Fourth and Fourteenth Infantry First Cavalry Lenth Cavalry and Ninth Cavalry in various departments. Lieutenant R E Thom pson to inspect South signal stations. Naval orders assign E W Stardy to Baltimore A E Carver to ordnance duty and William Whitehead to waiting orders at St Louis ship.
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Washington
Speciau
A. L. Hough
Ninth Infantry
Fourteenth Infantry
Department of Columbia
First Cavalry
Department of Dakota
Lenth Cavalry
Department of Arziona
Ninth Cavalry
Department of the Platte
R. E. Thompson
Sixth Cavalry
South
E. W. Stardy
Baltimore
A. E. Carver
Washington Navy Yard
William Whitehead
St. Louis
Manchester Mills Overseer Nathan T. Robinson Ends Life
Nathan T. Robinson, a 49 year old overseer at Amoskeag Mills, committed suicide in his Stevens block room. He left work in the forenoon, shaved, sat on the bed and shot himself through the head. He had been senior vice commander of Lewis Post G A R and a Passaconaway Red Man. No survivors. a planned marriage to Annie Hayes was pending.
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Manchester
N. H. Mannchester
N. H
Nathan T. Robinson
Amoskeag
Stevens Block
Lewis Post
Red Men
Annie Hayes
Bourne Mills Sues Hirsch Bros Over Cotton Cloth
In Fall River on December 26 Deputy Sheriff Hadteld attached a large lot of cotton cloth sold to Hirsch Bros of New York by Osborn Mills. The Bourne Mills seeks $5000 over a contract dispute and Hirsch Bros deny owing any money. Bonds will be posted to dissolve the attachment and the case will go to trial.
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Bourne Mills
Far River
Sue Hirsch Bros
New York
Hyde Park
Nathan ‘I. Robinson
Manchester, N. H
Falln River
Hadteld
Hirsch Bros
New York City
Osborn Mills
Bourne
Rain floods Los Angeles. river levees break and rail bridges wash out
Heavy rain in Los Angeles continues the levees on the Los Angeles River have broken in several spots. Numerous railroad bridges are washed away halting all train traffic. Washouts are reported on the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe lines. It appears trains will not run for several days.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Free Raw Materials Debate in Ways and Means Hearing
New England iron and steel interests pressed for free coal and iron ore with strong backing from Horace P. Tobey of Tremont Nail Co and Philip L. Moen of Worcester. The hearing showed dispute over tariffs, with Western Iron Ore Association backing duties on ore and Tobey arguing for reform to stimulate New England manufactures.
Tariff hearing opens as ore and coal interests present views
Washington hearings by the Ways and Means Committee began with remarks from George S. Ely president of the Western Iron Ore Association who urged retention of the 75 cent per ton iron ore tariff arguing it benefits American labor and wages He opposed any duty increase Horace P Tobey of Massachusetts supported free iron ore and coal imports citing New England interests and criticizing the tariff as favoring Western Pennsylvania to the detriment of the Atlantic coast.
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Strdau
New England
Committee On Ways and Means
Horace P. Tobey
Tremont Nail Company
Philip L. Moen
Worcester
Committee On Ways and
Tobey
George H. Ely
Western Iron Ore Association
New England Iron and Steel
American Iron and Steel Association
Inis
James M. Swank
Iron and Steel Association
Moen
Swank
Major McKinley
Mr. Tobey
Mtr
Massachusetts
England
Pennsylvania
Bayne
Gear
F.S. Witherbee
New York
Eastern Iron Association
Nis
Smith M. Weed
J. J. Dominics
Charles F. Mayer
Consolidated Coal Company
Maryland
United States
Joseph V. Butler
Ohio
W. L. Morris
Joseph Wharton
Great West
Secretary of the Treasury
Hosea Townsend
Colorado
West
Bartine
Nevada
House
Harrison
W. I. Rockwell
Connecticut
Thomas W. Bradley
New York Knife Company
Associated Press
Washington
House Committee On
George Si, Ely
Atlantic Coast
Harvard University
America
Smith
George Ticknor
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Boylston
John Quincy Adams
Child
Harvard
Memorial Hall
Cambridge
Lowell
Felows
Rubber Supply Fears Rise as Para Rubber Stocks Tighten
Flint & Co report Rio exchange at 2540 and Para at 24444 with rubber prices rising from 2200 to 2400 reis. Current stock is 5,000,000 pounds below last year, signaling higher consumption than production and potential factory shutdowns if Para rubber runs short. Grace & Co notes exchange at 2444d and Brazil unrest feared. Para government imposes India rubber trade monopoly drawing protests from American and French exporters.
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New York
Flint & Co
Pearl Street
Rio Janeiro
Para
Dee, L
Brazil
W. RK. Grace & Co
Rio
Dom Pedro
Grace
Paris
India
M. Spuller
Prohibition Law Nullifies Past Liquor Licenses in North Dakota
Attorney General Goodwin states that all liquor sales violate the law and are punishable since statehood. Licenses and license laws post constitution are void, with no authority to grant licenses until the July 1 1890 effective date of the prohibition bill.
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Bismarck
N. D
Goodwin
Boiler explosion at Netf Bros mill kills foreman in Epmark
Early this morning a boiler blast at Netf Bros' mill seven miles east of Epmark Michigan killed foreman F E Stedman and seriously injured engineer John Welch and Charles Saunders while Charlies Bowen suffered minor injuries.
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Epmark, Mich
Netf Bros
Here
F. E. Stedman
John Welch
Charles Saunders
Charlies Bowen
Severe midwinter storm hits New England and California
A sweeping storm moves from the St Lawrence Valley to the New England coast with violent gales up to 60 mph. Reports include a Brooklyn warehouse collapse injuring carpenters and two girls struck by flying timbers, a fatal tree limb strike in Jersey City, oil derricks toppled in Pennsylvania, and widespread flood and track damage in Los Angeles.
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Washioton
St. Lawrence Valley
New England
Lakes
Cape Hatteras
Block Island
Boston
Sandy Hook
Virginia
Atlantic
Maine
New York
Brooklyn
Jersey City
Samuel Bautcher
Pittspurg
Penn
BrapForp
McKean and
Alleghany Fields
John Carroll
Sandford Street
John Evans
Los Anceves
Cal
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Syracuse
N. Y
Dee
People’s Street Railway
Charles A. Nichols
Joseph Forkheimer
Giles Woods
Burrato
Canagoharie
Mohawk Valley
Providence
First Presbyterian Church
Woonsocket
Bridge Street
Lowell
Gorham Street
Court House
Local blackout plunges town into darkness
Evening outage cuts power to one circuit leaving streets in darkness and causing cross wiring on telephone and telegraph lines. Police and fire alarm wires blown down render service nearly useless.
Plans for Columbia Railway & Navigation Company
The newly formed Columbia Railway & Navigation Company of Richmond plans an audacious South American network. Capital is set at 100 million dollars, led by Captain H. C. Parsons of Virginia. The scheme envisions Magdalena River rail to the Andes and Amazon headwaters, linking to Peru and Argentina, with steamship routes to Florida and New Orleans and onward U S connections.
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Virginia
Columbia Railway & Navigation Company
Magdalena River
Caribbean Sea
United States
Colombia
Andes
Amazon
Peru
Florida
New Orleans
H. C. Parsons
Naturalridge
Charleston
Huntington
W. Va
Report of Brazilian coup unrest reaches Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro reports a failed mutiny quickly suppressed and government vows to quell any disturbance. The minister cites unity among parties for a new constituent assembly set for November 15, 1890 and notes broad support, while observers warn of continued unrest across Brazil.
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Washington
Associated Press
Fonseca
Savona
Santos
Rio Janeiro
Ceara
New York
Sprday
Sirius
Fisher
Rio de Janeiro
Martin’s Stores
Brooklyn
Rio
Evening Post
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Undertakers Overworked as Paris Epidemic Grows
Paris reports the epidemic worsening with pneumonia complications and 800 more deaths in the week. Hospitals crowd, tents rise, undertakers are stretched, and church black hangings are waived by authority. London notes USS Enterprise quarantine cases on voyage from Gibraltar.
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Paris
London
United States
Enterprise
Gibraltar
Mellin's Food Proclaims Pure Nourishment for Infants and Invalids
The text extols Mellin's Food as the ideal nourishment for babies and the convalescent or invalid, claiming it is the most grateful and nourishing option and destined to gain favor with the medical profession and public.
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R. Hollings & CO
Washington Street
Adams House
Derby & Kilmer Desk
Lowell Depot
Causeway St
Bostom
Sheppard Homan
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York
D. H. Buckley
Davonshire Street
Fark’s
Bosworth Street
Mount Washington
State Street
A. N. Cook & CO
Nacl Life Ins. CO
J.T. Phelps
Hoston
R. J. Stevens
Robert J. Stevens
Victoria
B. C
J. A. Hatfield
Seattle
Wash
Newport
R. 1
Committee On Appropriations
Stevens
Observer’s Office
Signal Service
U.S.A
Mometer
Albany
Bismarck, Dak
Cheyenne
Cincinnati
Chicago
Detroit
Duluth
Yair el Paso
TeXeses Oras
Helena
Mont
Jacksonville
Fla
Kansas City
Montreal
Marquette
Mich
Ortland
Salt Lake City
Wilmington
N.C
North Dakota
South Weymouth
Morse
Quincy Postoffice
Jessup
House Ways and Means Committee
Northville
California
J. L. Stone
Newton
Woburn
Watertown
Salem
Virginia Corporation
South America
Civil Service Commission
Department For Mahone
Ludlow
Edmore
Samuel FE. Sawyer
Gloucester
Oman
Neb
National Civil Service Reform Commission
Lowell Aldermen
Hacker
John J. Gould
Maiden
Cowie
General Fonseca
United States Steamer Enterprise
Oki
Wells Memorial Hall
Army and Navy Gazette
Mr. Swank
Woonsocket Falls
Weather Bureau
Michigan
Lake
St. Lawrence
Oswego
Great Lakes
Brookline Electric Light & Power Company
Barboza
Eliot and
Lever Hall
Charles W. Eliot
A. Marshall Elliott
Harvard College
Kirklander Officiis
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