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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1881

Page

3

Public works and appointments sweep city business

A Salem city meeting discusses contracts for street lamp lighting with Thermo and Electric Gas Lighting company, noting lower prices and patent-backed operations since October. Other actions approve clerical hires for building surveillance, library committee reforms, snow removal duties, a Washing ton Birthday holiday with pay, and funding for Grand Army of the Republic posts decorations. Estimated expense listed at 250 dollars.

Thermo and Electric Gas Lighting Company Salem Committee On James M. Hubbard Mary McNiven Court House Derne Street Roxbury J.J. Hunsewell Washington John Reardon Boston Grand Army of the Republic Messrs Parkman New Orleans National Lancers Charlestown

Ice falls injure man on North street. boy narrowly survives fire

At 11 10 a m Monday a chunk of ice crashed from a roof at 122 North Street striking John McCarron on the head as he worked on the sidewalk. He was taken home to 22 Noyes Place. A five year old boy, son of James McKenna at 2 Melville Place, set his clothes alight trying to build a fire. a passerby extinguished the flames but the child likely died. Later, a sorrel mare attached to a sleigh carrying Bernard Moliver of 5 Hunneman Place and a companion bolted on Washington Street, overturning the sleigh near Pleasant Street. The horse, injured, was found on Howard Street and taken to the American stable. The sleigh and animal belong to John Peters of the Metropolitan Railroad Company.

Globe Theatre Genevieve Ward Miss Ward Stephanie London Great Britain Merrivale Grove Wallack’s New York Marquise de Mohrivart Paris Rose Verney Rose Rome Alice Verney Foly Europe Verney Sir Horace Welby Alice Marquis Sir Horace Horace Seophanic Horace Welby Frank Clements Bora S. Tanner Foley Laura le Claire Barrato Charles Dade Prince Mallecotti Horace Lewis Modjeska Miss Tanner No. 122 North Street John McCarron Noyes Place Chas. McKenna James McKenna Melville Place Spring Street Massachusetts General Hospital Bernard Moliver Hunneman Place Washington Street

Crime spree nets multiple arrests across city streets

Officer Burley of station 4 arrested William J. Clark alias Smith at No Bennett street on Monday for being part of a gang of house breakers. Three others Thomas Stanley George Wheeler and John Hart were nabbed Sunday with burglary tools found in their possession. In Scollay square a thief stole Elizabeth Herley’s purse of 453 dollars. John B. Harris 21 confessed and the money was returned. The lager beer saloon at 2165 Washington street was looted Sunday night with shutters pried and glass broken. about 360 cigars and whiskey were taken.

Burley Station 4 William J. Clark Smith Bennett Street Clark Thomas Stanley George Wheeler John Hart Sergt. Curran Station 5 Elizabeth Herley Carroll Street Chelsea Scollay Square John B. Harris Charles McCarthy Washington Street

Prominent 19th Century Sailor Dies in Danvers Asylum

Longtime Massachusetts shipmaster Capt. Devereux died at the Massachusetts Insane asylum in Danvers on February 6 at 79. A Marblehead resident, he sailed to major ports worldwide and was a Democrat donor. He left a widow and son Col. John H. Devereux of Cleveland. The obituary also notes other deaths in brief, including Eleazer Sherman and Benjamin Sands, with careers in banking and business.

Marblehead Massachusetts Insane Asylum Danvers Massachusetts London Liverpool Cadiz West Indies Devereux Andrew Jackson Col John H. Devereux Cleveland, C C., GC. and I Railroad Eleazer C. Sherman Marlboro Street Carver Mass Plymouth Gov. Andrew Old Colony National Bank Commonwealth National Bank of Boston Ths Head Benjamin F. Sands Sands & Fernald State Street Cambridge Mr. Sands John C. Sands Bowker & Edwards J. F. Edmands & Co Sands C. W. Fernald North Avenue Congregational Church

Spinners' union calls meeting on wage advance in mills

Proxy rumors say the spinners special committee may urge a strike at several mills. Secretary J H Stafford of the weavers union calls workers to gather Friday night under the banner Let Justice Be Done to discuss measures for a wage increase amid high mill profits and dividend payments.

America League Free America England Ireland Tuus. C. Kennedy Fasl River Mass Stafford The Weavers’ Union J. H. Stafford

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