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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1891
Page
2
Twelve of Minden Citys popular young ladies gather to earn their own charity dollars by cutting and splitting wood on the main street. Over two days they work thirteen hours, each earning one dollar, then donate the money to desolate households in need.
A cablegram from Wassincron dated December 27 reports the French Senate ratified the Brussels anti-slave trade convention, with the Chamber of Deputies following on the 24th. Eighteen powers are represented and ratification by all is needed to make the act operative. France is the seventeenth nation to join, the United States remaining as the final hurdle. The exchange deadline is February 2, 1892, at Brussels, and the US Senate will hear the matter again next month.
New York reports M. Pateronotte French minister to the United States arrived aboard the La Champagne. Paul Deschanel deputy of the Department Enre et Loire also arrived to investigate social questions and workers. He will meet labor leaders such as I W Powderly and tour Baltimore Philadelphia Boston Chicago New Orleans and San Francisco.
A horse and a democrat wagon were stolen from Caleb M. Kelly’s stable on Loring avenue in Saxom during last night. No clues on the thieves. A double harness was stolen from the same place a few weeks ago.
The government denies the truth of reports that a battle occurred with Garza on the frontier. The district attorney seized the originals of telegrams published by some papers.
Colonel Charles de Arnaud asserts famine reports in Russia are exaggerated and the empire does not require foreign help. He cites his knowledge of Russia’s finances and grain supplies, notes the czarist relief effort and Red Cross involvement as appreciated but not essential.
M. Tirard, former French Finance Minister, argues a treaty with the United States could ease high tariffs limiting trade and aid France's role in the Chicago Fair. He criticizes the McKinley law as harmful and contends free trade could let the US become a dominant world exporter.
Paris officials press for stopping all outside hours trading and end the petite bourse. Coulisses resist fearing ruin from the ban, threatening a parliamentary debate on brokers privileges amid talk of a Russian loan to shore up finances.
London workers faces third Socialist rally attempt in Chelsea ending with police dispersal. Two leaders were arrested and bailed. Socialists seek union support for a February show of strength to demand the right to lawful meetings.
The Governor of Durango reports starvation in the state with corn sold at cost to the poor and money orders issued to buy corn through organized charity. The President directs federal officials to assist the needy in Durango and other states facing food shortages.
SauurSre December 27 reports evangelist Reverend W Wallace who has preached along the Canadian Sea area for weeks created a stir by marrying his convert Esha E Ross a well known woman described as a negress.
Mails aboard the steamer Bothnia from Queensland bound for New York include mail from the disabled steamer Germanic. The total reaches 1757 sacks, the greatest amount ever carried across the Atlantic on a single vessel.
A Rome despatch reports the U.S. government has agreed to pay the indemnity Italy demands for the New Orleans lynching affair. The notice outlines a settlement reached between the two governments.
Nine people were injured when the Glasgow train derailed at Haughshead near the English border on Saturday. The incident occurred late in the day and treatment was provided to the injured at the scene and nearby facilities.
London reports the Theatre Royal in Glasgow was destroyed by fire this morning with no one believed injured. fire crews battled the blaze as smoke and flames engulfed the building.
A large unreadable section of text references a building owned by Webster & Co. and insured through the Thompson Reed agency at 66 State Street. The smudge obscures key specifics like location, date, and policy terms.
Chief Webber and a brigade of firefighters faced dangerous conditions as a blaze roared through rubber and leather in Charlestown. Hoseman John MacInnery and several others sustained injuries from smoke inhalation, falls, and blows while multiple crews fought to rescue occupants and contain the flames.
A petition in Roslindale and West Roxbury asks Old Colony Railroad to place a passenger station at the Dudley Avenue bridge on the Dedham branch, midway between Roslindale and Central stations. Population growth nearby supports the need, and petitioners expect a favorable management response.
The board of survey considers extending Ruggles street from Washington to Dudley Mt Pleasant and Dearborn Streets with a possible straight Columbus avenue crossing. A curved route might alter access and a Dudley street connection could yield a new city entrance. The plan would replace a cluster of small wooden buildings with a substantial block.
The Board of Agriculture rebuts criticism from a Young Men’s Democratic Club member about abandoned farms. Secretary Sessions says criticisms of the board over an appropriation should wait until after funding is requested. He notes Massachusetts farmers cannot rival Southern and Western vegetable production and argues most farms remain woodland, orchards and sheep pasture, not prime park land.
Mr. Pierce J Grace of Georgetown University spoke on Dante at the Church of Notre Dame Des Victoires on Isabella Street last evening. The visuals came from Black negatives and the event included music by Alfred de Seve Signor Campanari and John Craig Kelley.
A defective fire started in a two story wooden cottage at 28 Rand street Roxbury at 12:50 this morning. The building owned and occupied by Frank P Magee. Damage estimated at 1000 dollars. Alarm from box 242.
The widow of Judge Elias Merwin died in this city yesterday. She was a daughter of the late Dr. H. H. Childs of Pittsfield.
Five Newton police officers and City Marshal Richardson are confined to their homes with influenza like grip, disrupting police work in the city.
A freight train on the New York & New England line halted near Union City for unknown reasons when a fast freight struck it last night. Three cars and the engine left the track in a heavy wreck. Engineer Davis escaped uninjured by jumping, while conductor Dyer in the caboose was badly shaken and his head bruised.
An Erie railway transfer float with twelve cars carrying 190 cattle ran aground on Black Rock and sank after a hole was stove in the boat. Tugs rescued 47 cattle. 143 drowned. Loss estimated at $10,000. Cattle were bound for Salzberger and Schwartzbey of New York.
New York health officials announced eleven deaths from grip today. The report lists affected individuals and underscores rising concerns over influenza and winter illness in the city.
The Post announces a delay in the state engraving coupon publication until engravings are ready. Absence of several essential portraits halts the issue to avoid rushing high quality work. Hold complete coupon sets and complete incomplete sets when the coupon reappears.
In Denver, Dec 27, the prosecution withdrew objections to admitting a San Francisco letter as evidence. The missive, claimed to be from the doctor to Mrs Barnaby, aimed to show the doctor believed she was in San Francisco when the bottle was mailed. Judge Furman read the letter and it was debated during the doctor’s examination and cross examination.
Ogden Mills son of D. C. Mills and brother-in-law of Whitelaw Reid reports his casket of jewels valued at £5000 was stolen after a Madison Square cab ride. He bought about $5000 in jewels and several packages before returning home to East Sixty ninth Street. the casket vanished. The incident occurred prior to Christmas with Mills seeking the cabman and notifying police Thursday morning.
The National Cordage Company has acquired John Good’s Extension Cordage Works for about 2 million dollars. The deal, reportedly completed ten days ago, includes Ravenswood rope machinery and a Brooklyn rope plant. The purchase consolidates patent-owned equipment central to cordage production and follows earlier acquisitions in Boston and New Bedford.
Thomas C. Platt and Chauncey M. Crosby of United States Express Company sue Leonard Perrin for 50000 alleging he received 39150 from his son Phelps Perrin and J W Baker linked to the Tiurley Wis bank robbery. Suit covers loss, detective work, and prosecutions.
Willie Wright was shot and killed at Miss Phillips home twelve miles from Menipan by rival suitor Johnson who fired a shotgun through a parlor window after the wedding ceremony. Johnson, who had threatened Wright over the marriage, was captured.
Pitrssure Penninsylvania December 27 Governor Campbell of Ohio passed through Pittsburg on private business. He said neither Cleveland nor Hill would secure the Democratic nomination in 1902 beyond the nomination would go West and Palmer of Illinois appeared the likely candidate.
Charles H. Ingalls, 51, long popular county commissioner, has been confined at home with illness and now is violently insane. He has been taken to Northampton for treatment after a sudden mental decline.
Dr. T. H. Armstrong, superintendent of the Binghamton State Hospital, died suddenly today in Binghamton New York from heart disease. He had led the institution for eight years and was 54.
Professor W. E. Schliemann of Morgan Park Illinois will address the Baptist ministers meeting this morning. He will speak on Love as Motive in Modern Preaching.
William J. Burke, East Boston ferries superintendent and Massachusetts vice president of the Irish National Federation of America, calls on Irish Americans and sympathizers to back home rule. He notes a likely 1892 general election and argues Ireland should have its own Parliament to develop resources and welfare, citing the Land League and unity among Irish representatives.
A Christmas vesper service at Second Church Copley Square, under Suffolk Conference and Channing Club, featured carols and readings. Mrs Coffin and Mr Hill sang O Holy Night. Lilian Carll Smith performed The Old Old Christmas Story and Christmas Chimes. Rev EK A Horton wrote the words. Rev DeNormandie from Roxbury gave a brief discourse on embodying Christ's spirit.
Reports state a convict planned an escape last week but was thwarted by officers. A milk duty inmate found under a bed a complete jean suit with pepper and a sharpened knife in its pocket, though guards doubt the prisoner in that cell was involved.
The next section to be electrified runs from Bartlett street to the East Boston and Chelsea ferries with 23 cars. A temporary line will use Dunley street to the Norfolk Lease carhouse until Bartlett street carhouse is ready. Regular trips run every 15 minutes to Rowe's Wharf and every 30 minutes to Fitchburg depot, with Sunday service to Rowe's Wharf only.
Workers digging at the Bunker Hill site in Charlestown uncover relics from the fortifications era. A rusted iron piece two inches long was removed from several feet underground and is now with park police Sergeant W B Murphy as relic hunters converge on the hill.
President Baldwin of the Young Men's Christian Union arranged a Christmas vesper last evening. The hall was crowded and many were turned away. Featured performers included Mrs. I P Whitney and Mrs J H Long as sopranos, Mrs Alice J Harris and Miss Anna G Sawyer as contraltos, Dora P Damon on cornet, Frank A Kennedy on violin, G Frank Munroe and George Lawrence as tenors, Albert F Harlow bass, Walter Lowes Heath baritone, and Van Veachton Rogers on harp.
William Coogan aged 14 of 16 Roy Street Roxbury shot his left palm while fooling with a revolver yesterday afternoon. He was taken to City Hospital. John H O Keefe of 87 Prentiss Street was also taken to City Hospital after a noon incident suffering burns from a kettle of boiling water caused by an epilepsy attack on Christmas morning.
The Rev. James De Normandie of the First Church in Roxbury denied a call to King's Chapel saying he has a good parish and doubts they want him. He spoke to a Post reporter yesterday.
Alarm from Box 23 Newtonville at 2 45 yesterday afternoon reported a fire in Peter Tancred's dwelling on Highland avenue. Loss estimated at 1000 dollars. Cause attributed to children playing with matches.
Residents of Newton and West Newton may soon enjoy free mail delivery as a plan proposes merging nine independent post offices into two central hubs at West Newton and Newton Highlands. Supporters cite sufficient salaries to cover costs and the encircling Boston and Albany railroad as making two offices feasible.
Frank E Williams a Roseland milkman was instantly killed in Orange New Jersey when an old District Messenger Company wire crossed an Essex County Electric line. He touched the live conductor to release his horse and suffered a fatal 2000 volt shock. The horse was injured and to be shot.
A Santa Fe vestibuled limited derailed after reaching Bear Creek seventy five miles east of Kansas City. Two chair cars two Pullman sleepers and the dining car left the track and slid down a steep embankment. No fatalities. several injured including Conductor WoopwokTs and cooks William Easton and Charles Dempsry. Cause undetermined.
The disabled steamer Kansas, battered by a heavy gale, was towed into the Mersey at Liverpool. After leaving Liverpool November 28 for Boston, a shaft snapped December 4, delaying the voyage. Passengers were transferred to City of Chicago and reached New York December 15.
St Paul Minnesota reports strong confidence and ample money for the 1892 National Democratic Convention. Total: $220,000 raised with $120,000 earmarked to remodel the market building into a large auditorium featuring a steel and glass convention hall.
Washington December 27 Speaker Crisp remains confined to his bed after a crip attack. He is better tonight than last night and no serious danger is seen to his health, with a short recovery expected.
St. PeterspurGe reports the city bought large quantities of flour for famine relief at high cost but discovered the flour is adulterated and unfit for eating. Officials moved to address the scam as inquiries begin.
A report from Fort Mackintosh describes Captain Hardie’s Fifty-man Third Cavalry detachment clashing with Garza’s revolutionists near Carrizo Texas. Fourteen U.S. soldiers are said killed with no confirmation Garza killed. Mexican troops rout Garza followers at San Ignacio ranch. border guards ordered to net revolutionists. Captain Hardie pursues Garza’s men as War Department seeks rapid border peace.
Police arrested E. J. Jones at his West Medford home on a charge of breaking into a Shawmut avenue Boston bake shop. He implicated H. Williams and named a stolen watch’s location, after confessing involvement and leading to Williams’s prior arrest.
Two thousand men and women gathered at the Second Regiment armory to protest police raids on two peaceable meetings at Grief's Hall West Lake street on November 12. Resolutions called for a committee to present facts to the State attorney and the next grand jury and seek impeachment and punishment of the officers involved.
New York on December 27 E M Field persists in refusing food. He drank three glasses of whiskey today. Warden Dunlap is alarmed by his prisoner actions. Physicians advised dosing with whiskey. Field spent a lonely Sunday with no visitors. He ignored newspapers, scarcely looking at them.
Corynoy Iowa residents report a dispute at a shooting match near Davis's coal mine when a gun discharged during a struggle, fatally wounding Newton Houk who tried to separate Herbert Fry and John Houk. The incident occurred yesterday and details are under investigation.
Two men using the name Fisher were seized while trying to pass counterfeit money. Police found over 200 counterfeit silver dollars hidden on their persons and a large sum in their hotel valises.
An unknown person released brakes on a cable car after the grip car detached. The car sped down a steep grade and left the track killing miner William Cunningham and fatally injuring Dan McDowals while T. C. Cameron also sustained injuries.
In Taverhill on Henry street Edward Hackett stabbed Everett Br. Sherman with a knife during a Sunday altercation at Welch's boarding-house. Hackett, who was intoxicated, was arrested and jailed.
The ad promotes careful living to regain plumpness and health, noting thinness as a warning sign. It touts Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil as a remedy and offers a free booklet from Scott & Brown, chemists in New York, with druggist availability nationwide.
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