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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1887
Page
8
The executive committee of the South Boston street railway employees met President Hersey to present demands for a ten hour inside twelve day with an hour for dinner. A conference result is pending but a meeting is planned for tomorrow evening to decide on action. Public sentiment suggests the demands will be granted.
Boston aldermen discussed Hugo O Brien mayoral communication urging strict city penalties to stop wages assignment by city workers. They reviewed department wage assignments totaling 250 workers and 12 600 monthly and 151 200 yearly, with rules from the fire department cited as model. The board referred the matter to the ordinance committee and pursued wider measures including a possible legislative petition.
The committee on land will consider Nathan Matthews petition for reconveyance of lands west of West Chester park. James C. Tucker nominated for public buildings superintendent for one year starting April 1887, laid on the table. Walter H. French nomination for fire commissioner defeated 3 to 4. Harbor master and assistant harbor masters nominees confirmed. Finance reported on health board sewerage nuisance appropriation of 2000 dollars. Auditor authorized to transfer 5000 dollars to Common for greenhouse and Roxbury canal lands. Sewers ordered for several streets in West Roxbury and East Boston. 8000 dollars to repair armories. South Boston land formerly rented to house of correction to lunatic hospital custody. 8000 dollars to Harriet E. Fox for Sackville street damages. Salaries of assistant inspectors of buildings and clerk referred to Finance. Mayor asked to seek act to relocate Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany tracks in East Boston to avoid grade crossings. Adjourned.
Professor E. B. Woods of Harvard confirmed arsenic in the stomach of Oliver Sleeper exhumed from Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Sleeper is counted as Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson's seventh presumed victim. a Field case stomach analysis is planned. Trial date expected in February or April.
Two fires in Charlestown caused by a kerosene lamp topple at 43934 Main Street. The Curtis store stock burned from kerosene ignition. insurance covers losses. A downstairs tenant, Mrs Howe, was removed from the tenement with potential serious health impact. Fire alarms from Box 417 and 463 triggered quick responses. Incendiary origin suspected by Warden Russell.
The Rt. Rev. Matthew Harkins of Boston is named bishop elect of Providence Rhode Island. Born in Boston in 1847 he trained at Holy Cross Paris St Sulpice and served at St Malachi Arlington and St James Boston before leading a 12,000 member parish renowned for its social programs. His successor at St James remains undecided.
Fire at Metropolitan horse car stables near Brookline partially burned the waiting room and conductors room, destroying several cars while freeing about two hundred horses. Fire started likely from an overheated stove. estimated loss 5000 to 10000 with full insurance. A second alarm reported fire in a Burns schoolhouse on Cherry Street and another at Summit Avenue from a barrel of shavings.
At Mackinac Island Michigan a blaze destroyed Truscots saloon and several nearby structures including the Carson House Mackinac House and two general stores. Guests escaped but losses reach 60000 with no insurance. Other fires reported in Orrer Lake and Greenfield cause substantial damage and two injure workers.
A varied programme at Wells Memorial Hall last evening featured William J. Dillon under the Thin Space Associates. Performers included Charles E. Trask on piano, W A Casey on xylophone, Frank Hep billed as Americas greatest acrobat, Al Dugan on banjo, and comic turns by Quinn and Britt. The audience applauded all acts, with officers listed for the association including Charles Lynch as president and Scott L. Johnson as secretary and treasurer.
In Florida a man can earn a living easier than in any other state and capital can be better invested. Farming, orange, timber and grazing lands and town or city lots can be bought on easy terms through the Florida Southern Railway Company. The company owns several million acres in twenty counties and guarantees to all lands sold, a feature important to purchasers.
A Boston police telegram batch reports two stolen teams linked to Ford and Anderson were recovered after a Jan 12 theft. Arrests include Orrin T. Gilman in Brighton and Willliam H. Cushman in Cambridge. Officers found silverware, jewelry, and a smelting pot in Kinsman and Sullivan properties, with safes and stolen goods tied to multiple addresses.
Burglars robbed Boston and Maine stations at the Fells and Oak Grove Malden Sunday night with $6728 stolen at Fells plus stamps from the post office and about $75 from Oak Grove in cash and checks. A Melrose house under construction yielded chisels and a bitstock used in the break in. Additional burglaries across Melrose Quincy and Wollaston and Warrtham reported with small cash sums, watches, and apparel taken through unsecured windows.
The Somerville school committee fixed James Riker’s janitor salary at 200 dollars and accepted Miss Alice Gage’s resignation while electing Miss Adelaide Hill at 600 dollars. The board drafted a memorial praising ex Mayor John A. Cummings for four years as chairman and directed the message be filed and sent to his widow and family.
Medical Examiner Thomas M. Durell ruled the infant died from abandonment and freezing after an autopsy on the body recovered from an ash heap near Union Square Somerville.
Mrs. Lemuel D. Jordan of Ellsworth Maine drowned herself yesterday. Charles L Churchill age 13 son of Eben Churchill of Hanson drowned in Drink Water River Sunday. A New Hampshire Lincoln Republican Club banquet set for February 15 at the Eagle Hotel Concord to mark Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Daniel Donovan freed by Governor Butler from Massachusetts State Prison and now jailed in Saco Maine on three liquor indictment counts, attempted escape detected by the jailer.
In United States v. Clement H. Hall, the Supreme Court affirms that Hall, a clerk of the District Court, need not account for naturalization fees to the treasury, following prior rulings by Judges Colt and Nichol.
Two actions heard together. The first, a bill in equity by the assignee of Michael H. Brennan to recover five Phenix Brewing Company shares claimed by Smith & Engle as illegally withheld. The second, a petition by Smith & Engle to revise a decree refusing expungement of their secured claim. The bench holds the secured claim may be expunged but allows the petition in the second case. J. W. Keith and Frank Paul argued.
A record of cases before Chief Justice Brigham and Aldrich listing verdicts and trials. Dorey v Boston and Providence Railroad alleges assault and false arrest. Beardman v Boston Marine Insurance concerns policy total loss for the schooner Theresa. multiple docketed actions follow with cross actions and suits over contracts, damages, and defective drainage.
The record shows Ellen M. Murdock vs City of Boston noted as on trial for injuries from a January 15 1886 fall on Harrison Avenue. Attorneys for plaintiffs include L J Thomas M C Adams F C Lowell R L Lowell. defendant represented by T M Babson.
Superior Court in Middlesex County reports cases including Steinkrauss versus Cambridge Railroad, Fulton versus City of Cambridge, Harvard et al. versus Attna Insurance Co, Hughes versus Lovering, Hayes versus Bullard et al, Henfield versus Inhabitants of Wakefield, Regan versus Goodhue, Mahoney versus Goodhue, and Lombard administrator versus Morse with hearings ongoing.
The report details street department expenses for general repairs totaling 697 601 35 with allocations across city areas and Beacon Street Brookline Avenue leading special appropriations at 237 618 85. It notes balances and March extra funds and presents the winter snow and ice removal debate centered on horse railroad ploughs stopping track clearance to prevent slush turning to ice.
General N B McLaughlin died in Middletown New York and was buried in Worcester. He joined the army as a private in 1850 and rose to captain in the Fourth Cavalry. He led as colonel of the First Massachusetts and Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, earned five brevets for bravery, and retired after over thirty years of service as brevet brigadier general commanding the first brigade of the Ninth Army Corps.
Charles P Isley, an early Maine journalist and founder of the Portland Transcript in 1887, died at his Cambridge residence aged 81. A native of Portland, he shaped the paper’s literary tone and authored Forest and Shore. Also reported: Dr. William Thorndike dies in Milwaukee. Iva Doe, New Hampshire Odd Fellow leader, dies at 60 in Rochester. Captain Robert Otis Patterson of the Mount Waldo dies in Belfast. George H. Smith, Maine lawyer, dies in Chicago. Elder N H Felt, Salem native, dies in Salt Lake City. note on cranberry vine planting in Barnstable meadowlands.
For 24 hours starting 7 a m Tuesday February 1 winds shift from northerly to westerly. Colder with fair weather anticipated across New England and eastern New York.
Observations taken up to 10 p m at all stations record uniform time stamps and comparable measurements. The report compiles temperature, humidity, wind direction and speed, barometric pressure, and precipitation notes from each location to present a synchronized snapshot of yesterday's weather.
On January 31 arrivals include the Prince Frederick from Rio Janeiro and several other vessels such as the Treasurer Antwerp City of Montreal Rotterdam Inger Bordeaux Avonport Amanda Genoa brig Carib Truxillo schooners William Cobb Boston City of Augusta Boston Anne E Moore Providence Nellie Parker St John Theresa St John Dreadnaught Boston Augustus J Fibens Rockland.
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