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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1889
Page
2
A reader questions leprosy contagion and recalls Molokai settlement. They describe leper segregation as humane and note improvements in living conditions. The author argues Father Damien is not uniquely heroic, citing other missionaries who served lepers.
The Amateur Athletic Union in New York adopts a standard entry form for members and a stricter outsiders form to enforce penalties on clubs allowing barred athletes. Referees gain power to rule on protests, while finish line rules define tape finish and timing. Changes also affect hammer and shot rules and weight specifications. The Cahill case against boxing and wrestling was referred back to the governing committee.
The American Society of Modern Languages finished its sessions at Sever Hall Harvard with speeches by A Melville Bell and M D Learned on phonetics and Walther of Aquitaine. Grandgent and Grandgent papers followed on vowel measurements and French German studies.
The New Hampshire governor issues a strong proclamation calling for immediate desistance from illegal liquor sales and intensified enforcement of prohibitory laws. He urges sheriffs, attorneys general, and citizens to unite to close all saloons and promote sobriety across the state.
The Chicago Burlington and Northern announces a preliminary start Jan 1 lowering Northwestern rates to meet irregular competition after the Western States Passenger Association collapse. From St Paul and Minneapolis to Chicago first class falls from 11 to 9 dollars and second from 9 to 7. to St Louis from 15 85 to 13.
A mob of several hundred men seized eight imprisoned African Americans from Barnwell jail at 8 a m and shot six prisoners charged with Martin’s murder and two charged with Heffernan’s murder. The sheriff and jailer were overpowered and unaware townsfolk witnessed no details.
To Jacksonville Florida in forty two hours in a through Pullman buffet sleeping car commencing Sunday January fifth eighteen eighty nine and every day thereafter Train will leave Boston six p m arriving at Jacksonville second day at noon Office three twenty two Washington street Depot foot of Summer street
General Patrick A Collins presided at a Boston Theatre lecture by Daniel Dougherty on Fair Play for Roman Catholics. Dougherty urged end to prejudice, noting Catholics face political barriers and urging unity to defend the church and American ideals.
The 1890 yachting season will feature Valkyrie crossing, a 70-foot yacht for Sir R. Cameron, and a new seventy ordered by Mr. Burgess. New 80 and 40 foot classes include a craft for Saracen’s former owner. Lawley begins seven new boats, while Smyth, Williams, Prior, McPhail, Ambrose Martin and Woodbros stay busy. Hull Yacht Club adds Commodore Soley, Commodore Widger, and Vice Commodore Cushing to its ranks.
The American Society of Naturalists closed its year at Columbia College. New officers include President H Newell Martin of Baltimore, vice presidents Samuel F. Chase Williams College William North Rice Wesleyan University RK Ramsay Wright Toronto, secretary Henry H. Donaldson Worcester, treasurer William L. Seewick Boston. Executive committee William Libby dr Princeton and William Davis Harvard. New members elected W J Youmans Ohio George B Parker Princeton Sante Harvard Robert T Saree Boston Jr O Jordan Boston and Captain T L Casey US Army.
The steamer Commonwealth bound from Philadelphia to New York with freight ran aground on Townsend's Inlet bar in heavy seas. A brisk southerly wind and high tide threaten the ship's safety, with a request for aid sent and no crew members having left the vessel.
A wholesale arrest of persons for attending a dog fight occurred in Malden early Sunday morning and they will appear in court today. Named attendees include William R. Greenleaf John J. Roche Michael Brady Patrick Gurney James Callahan from Woburn John H. Daley Michael P. Carey Matthew Dooley Wm H. McArthur from Malden Timothy F. Sullivan Thomas Queeney Edw Keefe Patrick Murray David A. Dooley from Cambridge William J. Manning Watertown James J. Reynolds John Quillin from Stoneham Patrick Hawes of Boston.
A sales note touts the 12 noon New England railroad train to New York arriving at 6 30 p m for dinner, with connections to South, West or suburban lines. Parlor and dining cars, always on time.
A review of Carl Lumholtz's Four Years in Australia notes the work blends travel detail with shocking cannibal anecdotes. It highlights his northern Queensland fieldwork, discoveries of new mammals, and stark accounts of native life, danger to whites, and harsh colonial policies.
The current New England Magazine opens with Dr. E E Hale explaining Christmas dates and roles of fifth monarchy men and discusses Christmas in Boston. It features Millet’s Angelus frontispiece, essays on Millet by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and on the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston by John B. Dwight.
The second number of the Arena devotes pages to Spots on the Sun a Boucicault essay on Shakspere mixing praise and critique. It notes his use of Saxon language slang puns and wild tropes and highlights scenes from various plays while naming contributors like Fréchette Pentecost Bridge Gronlund Bellamy and George.
The Arena offers Col Bob Ingersoll on religious liberty, Joaquin Miller's Comanche, and W H Murray's Mamelons about Saguenay mouth legends. Boucicault is the frontispiece while notes discuss The Present Shall We Continue to Kill Our Fellow Men and The Great Need of Ethical Culture. The brief summary notes the magazine appeals to varied tastes.
The new Poet Lore presents a lean table of contents with pieces on The Quair style and Henry IV chanson transcriptions by Francis Howard Williams, Stephen Temple and Charlotte Pendleton. Topics include Shakspere’s inheritance, Browning’s Luria, and memorial lines by Pendleton.
The January Saint Nicholas showcases Harriet Prescott Spofford Nora Perry Charles G D Roberts Katharine Pyle Walter Camp Laura G Richards and others. Highlights include Mrs Richards's Charles Mrs Kings ostrich ranch piece and RobertsTracked by a Panther with Spofford The Yule logs Song as the issue’s peak with Edwards and Foote illustrations.
Across the Northwest heavy snow slows trains as winter settings take hold. In Palmer a second failed attempt to break the New London Northern freight office safe ends with no success. Jerry O Neill and wife are shot in Mt Sterling Wisconsin. James A Figart, believed from San Francisco, dies by his own hand in San Mateo California. H Frederick W Stedefelder of Brooklyn is pistol wounded by ex employee Albert Maiser. Miss Sarah F Nichols, missing from Lowell since Christmas, found frozen in ice at Lawrence, presumed despondent suicide.
Petitioners state the Wellesley Ice Company is solvent and ceased operations with no debts. They request a court decree dissolving the corporation, listing 240 total shares held by officers including W. W. Russell and Charles Russell, with Edmund M. Wood as a director.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts orders petitioners to notify all interested parties by publishing an attested copy of the petition and this order once weekly for three weeks in the Boston News, with the final publication at least thirty days before the March first Monday. The notice to be posted in Boston. Clerk John Noble. December 41, 1889.
Townsend Clement of Boston petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for a divorce from Grace F Clement of New York City after three years of desertion since March 15 1883. They were married in Washington DC and have a daughter Grace V Clement born from the marriage.
The Suffolk Superior Court orders Grace F. Clement to appear in Boston on the first Monday of February. An attested copy of the libel and court order must be published in the Boston Post weekly for three weeks and mailed or served fourteen days before appearance to show cause why the libel should not be granted.
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