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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1879
Page
2
The ice industry shows vast scale as Hudson River producers plan for a 3,000,000 ton crop this season. Large storage houses line the banks, with excess ice stacked outside to last through summer and into fall as the industry expands over six years.
The three classes at Boston University School of Medicine passed voluntary resolutions supporting confidence in the administration, a move expected to influence lingering charges seen as shadowy.
The Naval Committee report accuses Robeson Hanscom Wood Bradford and others of acts within the penal laws over sale and disposition of government property and money. Senate action was quiet while the House passed the Burnside Army Commission bill abridgement. The Treasury called redemption of twenty million 5 20 bonds.
Moses H. Leonard of Glendale Elastic Fabric Co Easthampton resigns as treasurer after being found $12 000 short from 1876. Directors say he produced no cash, mortgages and a $10 000 life policy secured against losses, no prosecution planned. Leonard 55 and a deacon, had long served with rising salaries.
The jury examined the slain William B. Elliot of Glenburn and adjourned to Monday without testimony. Elliot's body was returned home for burial and no new clues emerged. The City Marshal continues to seek the man who drove Elliot's team to the depot after the crime.
At a rural Kentucky dance in western Versailles County a melee over a woman left Charles Williams with a throat wound from ear to ear. William Vinegar suffered a facial and back shot injury, Logan Reed a cut to the hand, Edward Bailey a head wound, and Sol Vinegar struck with a fence rail. No fatalities.
In House, Banning’s reorganization plan passed 101 to 91 amid heated exchanges on the Army bill and proposed transfer of Indian administration to the War Department. Garfield and Conger led Republican opposition on related amendments, while Democrats pushed retrenchment. Debate touched on Senate pace, sugar tariff plans, and a pending patent bill with procedural moves to favor its passage. Presidential nominations and a looming tobacco tax were also noted.
The Secretary of the Treasury announces the 87th call for redemption of five twenty bonds of 1865 consols of 67 totaling 20 million dollars. Ten million coupons and ten million registered bonds will be redeemed at the Treasury from May 6. Details include coupon bonds dated July 1 1867 with specific series and denominations and registered bonds redeemable after July 1 1872 with listed numbers and values.
In the House Mr Eden reported back the bill for payment of claims allowed by the Commissioners of Claims. Mr Waddell offered an amendment to bar future war claims being paid but Eden declined. The bill was finally passed.
Washington dispatch reports the Presidents request to withdraw Ebenezer Fox’s nomination to Bangor’s collector seat. Hamlin’s friends frame it as a rebuke for his openSenate vote against Burt. Navy updates note the Richmond’s safety and Gibraltar voyage.
William P Frost bought nine horse blankets from Robert Sanders for half value and found the barrel contained straw and manure. Sanders was discharged for simple breach of trust. Sugar samplers Knoblock Nugent Freeborn were cleared of fraud charges. Jabez A. Bostwick severely burned by a gasoline tank explosion. The Celtic liner delays blamed on engine trouble. No railway presidents meeting next week and pooling rates unlikely to change.
The official closing prices of mining stocks on February 6 in San Francisco show values for Alpha Grand Prize Hale & Norcross Julia Consolidated Best & Belcher Justice EOI Mexican bullion Northern Belle Caledonia Overman Chollar Raymond & Ely Consolidated Virginia Savage Crown Point Sierra Nevada Eureka Consolidated Union Consolidated Exchequer Yellow Jacket Goula & Curry and others with fluctuations across listed securities.
The fiftieth anniversary jubilee of Archbishop Henri’s priesthood drew nine bishops and 200 clergymen to Milwaukee. Arch bishop Purcell delivered the jubilee sermon. A Notre Dame convent visit featured banquet and entertainment. A monster torchlight procession in the evening drew over 5000 laity.
Rev Dr Warren editor of the Christian Mirror reports findings on the Barron case. He says the defalcation centers on a $2000 entry charged to no account, cleared by the editor's note secured by life insurance and $1600 with a $500 bond, and suggests robbers obtained the bond. Alterations in the books amounted to including the note omitted during the examination.
Harrisburg report indicates the 1853 loan was over issued by 122000 dollars though only 26000 dollars in over issued bonds were presented for redemption.
The Potter Committee resumed sessions in New York with Col. Pelton detailing cipher keys and telegrams tied to Weed Marble and the Returning Board. He admitted destroying the cipher key and claimed he acted alone, while denying full memory of documents and asserting that Governor Tilden opposed the scheme.
The testimony details accusations of a stolen election and disbursement of funds. Questions target the source of money, including claims of $8000 from Jordan and anticipated support from Scott and the National Democratic Committee. Pelton, Stenger, Reed, and Hiscock press for answers on motives and approvals. The session ends with an adjournment and a directive to Pelton to stay available.
The mile dash was won by Egypt in 1.49 with Hattie F. second. In the Hampton stake two mile heats for four year olds Gov. Hampton beat Judge Hampton, the favorite, in 3.43 and 3.44. The mile heats for all ages were won by Little Red in 1.49 and 1.47 1-2, Pioneer second.
Anna Carter of Ballston Spa reportedly remained alive until Tuesday night but was later pronounced dead. The physician says she was in a trance and she will be buried tomorrow morning at Fort Edward.
Providence reports losses from fire and water at Blanding's estimated between 5000 and 10000 dollars. The property is insured by sixteen companies for about 40000 dollars. In Randolph New Hampshire the House of Clovis Lowe burned today. some furniture saved and likely insured.
Advice from Samoa signals imminent civil conflict while Chester tax collector W P Lukers vanishes and 1500 pounds short in his accounts. Nevada and Ohio suspects face arrests for murder and poisoning. Multiple legal actions, rail deals, shipwrecks, and a long stream of court outcomes fill the dispatches.
Capt Prince of Bath pleaded guilty to pension frauds and was jailed in Portland. Alice E Neill of Calais pleaded guilty to forging a signature and was fined 200. D Kempton Phillips injured by a falling tree in Farmington logging swamp with paralysis risk. Henry Abbott found guilty of forging a $100 note in Lewiston Supreme Court. Frank Hobbs found guilty of larceny in Mechanic Falls. John A Barnes of Pittsfield opened a Post Office letter and took $10. $1000 bond set. Two prisoners in Portland jail removed bricks to escape, clothes hidden over hole.
Domenic Castellini a Lebanon Italian in the country six years is ordered to return home to serve in the army and promises to think it over. In Lyme Lewis Dimick survived an attempted self harm in a barn, found suspended and rescued. family troubles and liquor cited as causes. he is 60 with a wife and four children. Emma R Seavey of Hillsboro Bridge, a 20 year old, is identified as the victim tied to a Nashua boarding house death following an operation for childbirth. the supposed husband is said to have another wife and disappeared. Moses P Page, 84, of the Gilmanton iron works, donates 10000 to the American Missionary Association for freedmen education via L D Stevens of Concord who received the receipt. Page is a known liberal donor. his wealth from frugality and industry is noted.
Fairfield couple Mr and Mrs Jesse Bush marked their fifty years of marriage on January 29 in Fairfield. Henry Tucker was killed Friday in Bristolast by a falling tree, leaving a wife and two children. Gen. 8. B. Hazeltine of Bakersfield died Monday at 88 after 56 years as Town Clerk. A bogus nun hoodwinked Catholics in Middlebury and Vergennes. a priest exposed her and she fled with the money. D. T. Turner formerly of Augusta, a St Johnsbury granite worker, was injured in betting incident. his leg was amputated and he is recovering.
The Lowell barbers have been notified to close their shops on Sundays going forward. The Amherst College Seniors elected Francis McKie Thayer of Troy New York as class prophet. A boy, Joel A., son of Andrew Badger, broke his leg after coasting into a tree. In Worcester Patrick Flaher ty suffered severe arm and head injuries when his sleeve caught in a derrick gearing. Gloucester sees a new city treasurer Edward Dolliver and his band approved by the mayor and aldermen. Southtorpe young ladies form an Aid Society to support Boston City Missionary Society work. Cape Ann Advertiser notes the schooner Lettie at Port Mulgrave with no American vessels present last fall. Cunard missing and presumed lost with fifteen crew. Boston Barre Gardner Railroad directors elected and a lease talks with Fitchburg and Boston and Albany Railroads underway. Gambetta inaugurated as President of the Deputies in Paris with a guarded program for national unity and reform.
Mason Peckham of North Swanzey dies from lockjaw linked to a foot wound. Michael Sullivan of Providence, about eight, confesses setting Gen Palmer's stable fire causing $1500 loss. In East Providence Officer Clement fires at a dog. a bullet hits Andrew Gray, fatally injuring him as he stood nearby.
William L. Palmer of Stonington who shot Policeman Furniss of New York has been declared insane and will be sent to an asylum. In New Haven Charles F. Bennett, a Sylvan avenue grocer, reports his wife missing and suspects she fled with Emerson B. Evarts, a former Union street restaurant keeper. Evarts reportedly has a wife and children in the city, and Bennett notes his wife took about 150 dollars of his money.
James W. Hayden former Black Rock House landlord dies at 58 after years at United States Hotel. He left a sister Silas Berkeley Hazeltine of Bakersfield Vermont. Also reported are deaths Wesley Sawyer Moses S Leach Dr W C Lyman Elizabeth Leroy Daniel J Manning and Samuel S Powell with brief life notes and family details.
Berlin reports bitter Austrian accusations over plague precautions seen as hostile to Russia and harming trade. Trieste cites a telegraph from Salonica noting disease near Xanthi Thessaly with bubonic features, prompting quarantine for ships from Turkish Algerian ports. Rome tightens port quarantine to twenty days and bans some imports.
The Bermondsey master tanners withdraw wage reduction notice and London engineers refuse concessions affecting about two thousand workers. London laborers head to protests while Glasgow crews plan to move to Liverpool for relief and dock work. Liverpool houses arrange relief seekers to docks. one firm says none needed. Three thousand coal heavers join the strike in Liverpool in support of cock laborers. steamer sailings continue.
Berlin reports submitted with Bismarck's approval to tax imported farm goods. Proposals set duties of 25 pfennigs per cwt on rye, 50 pfennigs on barley oats and wheat, 20 pfennigs per head on cattle, and one mark per horse. The Tariff Commission adjourned awaiting further arguments from the mover acting for Prince Bismarck.
Cable from Calcutta says Mahomed Khan, son of Whali Mahomed, has been imprisoned by Ya koob Khan. Sirdars property in Cabul now at Jellalabad was plundered by Yakoob Khan's orders. Snow blocks Infeidkoh and Ghilsegi Passes as Viceroy notes reduced shelling of Kizilbash Cabul area due to uprisings.
Capetown reports Governor Bartle Frere clarifies that the British are at odds with Seteways, not the Zulu nation. A January 12 engagement under Col. Gyn yielded trifling British losses as Zulus offered light resistance and withdrew inland amid advancing troops. Skirmishes continue at several points.
St Peters burg Feb 6 report Lord Dufferin is named British Ambassador to Russia replacing Lord Loftus who is recalled London Feb 6 Lord Augustus Loftus becomes Governor General of New South Wales A St Petersburg dispatch denies czar health reports
In Haverhill Charles A Harriman completed a five hour exhibition walk covering 29 12 miles with a best mile of 22 seconds 9 min 3 sec. In the evening T H Armstrong of New York walked 10 miles in 1 hour 23 min 20 sec. Harriman plans to depart for New York on Tuesday after improving his style.
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