LAWYER CROWLEY'S FLIGHT AND BANKRUPTCY SCANDAL
Friends of John C. Crowley a Boston lawyer and school board member face a possible loss of about 76000 as more creditors appear. Crowley left without notice to his partner and clerk, amid accusations of looted trust funds from several estates including Mary Bolger and others. A deed to Maxwell and Russ for creditors is noted as investigators proceed, with a vacant school seat and new election likely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Crowley
Europe
Gray
Snelling
Whittier
Crowley
J. A. Maxwell
Union Institution For Savings
Mr. Maxwell
Augustus Russ
John Donovan
James McMahon
Boston
John Driscoll
South Boston
Lydia Callahan
East Boston
Mary Ryan
Lawrence
Catherine O'Connor
Cambridge
Mary Bolger
Pee
Loring on the tariff and agricultural interests
The New England Agricultural Society met at 45 Milk Street where President George J. Loring outlined a tariff debate. He argued protection expands the home market, keeps costs low for farmers, and reduces foreign demand, emphasizing home production and limited export reliance for American farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New England Agricultural Society
No. 45
Milk Street
George 3. Loring
Canada
Liverpool
Lowell
Manchester
Eny
America
New York City
Boston
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Florida
Georgia
New York
New England
England
Cobden Club
Protection Aids American Farmer And Industry
A long address argues that duties on imports protect farmers and domestic producers, rejecting free trade. It cites high domestic living and farm improvements in the West, mortgage data, and lower interest rates. It notes a Worcester Agricultural Society invitation and lists officers and attendees at the annual dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evee
Cobden Club
America
Atkinson
England
Ireland
Europe
Benjamin P. Ware
Loring
George W. Riddle
Daniel Needham
Worcester Agricultural Society
New England
George K. Loring
Salem
Mass
John Hall
Fort Berwick
Frederick Smythe
Manchester
N. H
S. B. Phinney
Barnstable
William E. Barrett
Providence
R. I
J. D. Wheat
Putney
B. H. Hyde
Stafford
Thieves Arrested for Burglary at Sargent's Wharf
Thomas J. Kelly and Patrick Gately are jailed for breaking and entering an office at No 5 Sargents wharf and stealing 50 dollars worth of canvas property of John Jeffers. Other burglaries include Frank Browns Rollins street room clothes and a watch valued at 30 dollars and two trunks stolen from John Donovan Harrison avenue. Lead pipe and faucets stolen from 95 Falmouth street. A satchel and coat valued at 15 dollars stolen from Mary Desmond’s Mather street home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Kelly
Patrick Gately
Sargent’s Wharf
John Jeffers
Frank Brown
Rollins Street
John Donovan
Harrison Avenue
Falmouth Street
Mary Desmond
Mather Street
C. Josser
Boston Wharf Company Directors Reelect Old Officers
Boston Wharf Company holds annual meeting at Youngs. Treasurer reports receipts 451401.02 and disbursements 438200.61, balance 13200.41. Officers reelected include President Charles Theodore Russell and Treasurer Joseph B. Russell. Also notes mass Fish and Game Association dinner Tremont House and various society meetings at Parker House and Youngs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Wharf Company
Young’s
Elisha Atkins
Joseph W. Clark
Charles Theodore Russell
Alex C. Washburn
John M. Clark
Eewin F. Atkins
Joseph B. Russell
Solon O. Richardson
Waldron Bates
J. Willard Pierce
J. Henry Sleeper
Arthur Hobart
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association
Tremont House
Irish Charitable Society
Parker House
Island Pond
Indignant Fire Laddies Provoke Town's Fire Collapse
Winthrop fire department members resign en masse after selectmen order apparatus to be known by number. Hose carriages had borne names of citizens friends to volunteers, triggering widespread withdrawal and leaving town without organized fire protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winthrop Fire Department
Philological Entertainment of Readings in Three Languages
Mr. L. D. Ventura presented a philological entertainment in Brunswick featuring readings in English, French, and Italian. The program mixed languages from Balzac to Hernani and Errico, with audiences divided yet engaged, and many ladies among the attendees as the event closed with Evricos Convalvale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ventura
France
Swinburne
C. Errico
la Belle
England
Mr. Ventura
Errico
Mass Press Association holds fifteenth annual meeting in Boston
About 150 members and guests attended at the United States Hotel. Officers elected include President G. A. Marden and vice presidents H. N. Hastings R. W. Waterman L. N. Clark Benjamin Anthony G. W. Prescott recording secretary W. A. Woodward corresponding secretary C. S. Parker treasurer J. L. Smith auditor G. A. Hall historian G. H. Proctor. Dinner at 8 followed talks praising journalism and rural papers. evening at the Boston Theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts Press Association
United States
G. A. Marden
Lowell Courier
H. N. Hastings
The
Lynn Item
R. W. Waterman
Athol Chronicle
L. N. Clark
Westfield Times
Benjamin Anthony
New Bedford Standard
G. W. Prescott
Quincy Patriot
W. A
Samuel B. Noyes
Canton
George W. Prescott
Quincy
Charles E. Lee
Pawtucket
R. I
E. N. Walters
Salem
H. H. McQuillin
Dedham
Association
Ames
O’brien
George 8. Merrill
Merrill
Boston
Unique healing exhibition at Tremont Temple by Dr Geismardo
Dr. A E Geismardo presented a public healing display in Tremont Temple. Notable cases included Dr J W Snow of Melrose Highlands who recovered speech and mobility after garroting injuries, a rheumatic fever patient walking with aid, a blind young woman distinguishing colors, and a deaf patient hearing a ticking watch. The doctor claims to achieve results by touch with no medicines. The event was the sole public demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tremont Temple
A. E. Geismardo
J. W. Snow
Melrose Highlands
Bowker Street
Snow
Geismardo
Grade crossing at Pleasant Street Winthrop rejected
Middlesex county authorities and the board of railroad commissioners studied a plan to extend the Boston Winthrop Shore line crossing Pleasant street and Washington avenue in Winthrop. The board refused a grade crossing at Pleasant street citing urban growth, sight line risks, and feasibility, while approving Washington avenue crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex County
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Railroad
Pleasant Street
Washington Avenue
Winthrop
Board of Railrad Commissioners
Boston, Winthrop & Shore Road
Buchanan Street
Ocean Spray
Pleasant Stree
Pleasant
Buchanan Streets
Buchanan
Pleasant Streets
Shirley Street
Sunnyside Avenue
Gloucester Relief Association Aims Aid For City Poor
The Gloucester Relief Association formed Jan 26 aims to aid the poor after careful review of applications by a ladies and gentlemen consent committee. It will provide visits and words of sympathy to those grieving sickness or loss. Officers include William M. Gaffney president Levi F E McLean secretary Charles Gardner treasurer John T Knight chairman of investigating committees. Contributions of money provisions clothing or other articles are gratefully received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester
Petersen Recital Delights Boston Audiences at Steinert Hall
Mme Dory Petersen’s second Steinert Hall recital drew a larger crowd and earned high praise. Critics praised her Beethoven rendering as faithful yet lively, Schumann Carnival as clear and expressive, Liszt transcriptions for light grace, and Rubinstein pieces for brilliance, noting her growing recognition in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Petersen
Mme
Dory Burmeister
Petersen
Steinert Hall
Schumanna
Schubert
Liszt
Walid Guraals
Cuong Caan Ha Eae Rae
Kullaka
Schumann
Boston
Adele
Juchard
Cambridge Aldermen OK Eminent Domain for City Hall Site
At a regular Cambridge board meeting an order was adopted to take by eminent domain a 48 464 square foot lot bounded by Main Inman and Bigelow streets extending 250 feet along Inman and Bigelow for a City Hall to be built by F H Rindge. The assessed value is about 82000 dollars. Mayor nominated Michael Culhane as police officer replacing the late James W Wright. A special meeting was set for Feb 14 to consider taking land at Broadway and Felton street for a new English high school site. The common council also met and transacted concurrent business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge Board of Aldermen
Main
Inman
Bigelow
F. H. Rindge
Michael Culhane
James W. Wright
Broadway
Felton Street
Will provisions honor donors and preserve memorials
The will of Margaret A Elton leaves family letters and documents to the Massachusetts Historical Society and fossils and minerals to the Boston Society of Natural History and Bowdoin College with strings to keep them in place. It also gifts amounts to the American Home and Church Missionary Society and others to the Association for the Advancement of Women and the Needlewomen's Friend Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret A. Elton
Massachusetts Historical Society
Boston Society of Natural History
Martin Gay
Bowdoin College
Museum of Finerts
Ann C. Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Amg Church Missionary Society
Protestant Episcopal Church
Anne Pomeroy
Association For the Advancement of Women
Needle Women
Lviend Society
Gardner S. Burbank Dies at Age 78 in Fitchburg
Gardner S. Burbank prominent Fitchburg businessman died of catarrhal consumption yesterday morning at age seventy nine. Born July 22 1809 in Montpelier Vermont he helped build regional paper mills and served in the Massachusetts Legislature in 1849 and 1860. He partnered with Crocker in 1851 forming Crocker and Burbank later retiring after fifteen years of work. He was a director of Fitchburg National Bank and trustee of Fitchburg Savings Bank. He married twice and left a widow and three children who had died earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gardner S. Burbank
Fitchburg
Mr. Burbank
Montpelier
Silas and
Bathsheba
Emery) Burbank
Abijan Burbank
Millbury
Worcester County
Massachusetts
Abijah Burbank
Leonard Burbank
Caleb Burbank
Worcester
Elijah Burbank
Russell
Cyrus W. Field
Atlantic
Marshall Fales
Burbank
Alvah Crocker
Crocker & Burbank
C. J. Crocker
George F. Fay
8. E. Crocker
Fitchburg National Bank
Fitchburg Savings Bank
Board of Investment
Kitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Deaths of David T. Bunker and Others Shown
David T. Bunker United States consul at Deme rara died of yellow fever after years of planning a Boston Guiana fruit steam line. Dr Simon Mudgett Dexter Missourian postmaster and physician died yesterday. James W Jenkins Barre native and former legislator died aged about twenty. he served as a trial justice and held bank and library roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David T. Bunker
United States
Demerara
Boston
Guiana
Simon Mudgett
Dexter
James W. Jenkins
Barre
First National Bank
Free Public Library
City Notes on Water Use and Sewer Plans
January water consumption averages over 56 million gallons daily with about 30 million wasted. Sewer committee seeks funding for suburban sewer construction after conference with Mayor O'Brien. Plans to review present sewers before further action. Also reports on a death by laudanum, baseball contract news, sugar refinery officers, beacon hill fraud inquiry, a lecture on Seeds, and a tailor moving to Beacon Street near the Atheneum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Jackson
Board of Aldermen
O’brien
Parker House
Henry Schacht
Cross Street
Minnesota
Billings
Boston Baseball Association
Tom Brown
Pittsburg
Indianapolis
Continental Sugar Refinery
Walter S. Jones
Edward Whitney
Silas Pierce
Charles E. Moody
George H. Allen
Joseph B. Thomas
Beacon Hill
A. J. Tuttle & Co
Association Hall
Boylston and
Berkeley Streets
Goodale
Harvard College
J. C. Littlefield
Beacon Street
Boston Atheneum
New asteroid reported by European astronomers
A cable from the European Union of Astronomers announces asteroid No. 272 discovered by Professor Charlois at Nice. The last observed position is given as February 4d 6h 241m Washington mean time with Rizhlet ascension 10h 1m 10s and declination 19 20h 22m. Daily motion is 13m in right ascension and 5m south in declination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
European Union of Astronomers
Charlois
Nice
Washington
Memorial Pulpit for Mrs Judge Abbott Placed in Church
A fine oak pulpit has been installed this week in St Mary s Church Newton Lower Falls in memory of Mrs Judge Abbott by her children A memorial service will be held Sunday morning next at the church
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Church
Newton Lower Falls
Judge Abbott
Court ruling finds Birkenhead spindle patent infringed
United States Circuit Court February 7 holds Eureka Spindle infringes the reissued Birkenhead patent on spindle bearings for spinning machines. The court grants relief to Col J Sawyer Spindle Company with T Livermore for plaintiff and J Lowell for defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Circuit Court
CoLt
J. Sawyer Spindle Company
Eureka Spindle Company
Bill
J. Birkenhead
Birkenhead
T. Livermore
J. Lowell
Libel Involving Schooners Chicorua and Joseph O
United States District Court on February 7 hears libel by George A. Clement against the fishing schooner Joseph O for a collision with Chicorua and Joseph QO on George's Banks in the morning of February 20, 1887. Damages claimed amount to 1500 dollars. Hearing unfinished. Attorneys: FB Dodge and E B Dodge for the libellant. L Dabney and W A Pew for the claimants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson
Boston Superior Court First Session February Proceedings
The record covers multiple cases in the Boston Superior Court during sessions on February 7 and subsequent days. It lists case numbers and parties including Ann Murray versus Maverick Oil Co and Frank M Maine versus Peter V Ludy, with verdicts and counsel. It notes trials across First Second and Fourth Sessions, highlighting damages awarded and attorneys involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Murray
Maverick Oil Comny
Cambridge
D. J. Gurpan
P. M. Keating
S. H. Tyng
Levy
Whitte
Drain
Mclean
Nore
Kelly
Selwell
Bradley
Kittredge
Hood
Harlow
Devine
Sullivan
Barker
Frank M. Maine
Peter
Ludy
Tremont Street
E. B. Hale
H. E. Swasey
J. H. Burke
Stephen Grady
George W. Upton
F. Paige
C. W. Bartlett
Ehlbridge G. Davis
John G. J. Mumiler
Charlestown
A. H. Briggs
A. Chester
Charles J. Bateman
Dodge vs Ayers attachment case finding for plaintiff
In Essex County Superior Court on Feb 7 Judge Thompson records a finding in the tort action Dodge v Ayers. Plaintiff awarded 775 52 for value of goods taken on attachment and sold under the attachment. A divorce lis pendens grants Marianna A Carr divorce from Hosea Carr for desertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dodge Vs. Ayers
Marianna A. Carr
Hosea Carr
Court records note mixed verdicts in Middlesex actions
In Middlesex Superior Court cases Terry versus Cambridge Railroad Company ends with a verdict for the defendant. William Clark versus City of Cambridge involves a personal injury claim on De Woit Street with verdict for the defendant. Other case numbers listed include Perkins v City of Newton and Simms v B and A RR Co, among several.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terry
Cambridge Railroad Company
Child & Powers
S. Hoar
William Clark
City of Cambridge
de Woit Street
Said Street
E. A. Snow
C. J. McIntire
Perkins
City of
Simms
Mr Goodell Address Describes Brattle Street Meeting House Move
A report in yesterday's Post omits paragraphs from Abner Goodell Jr.'s commemorative address on the adoption of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts. The omitted section explains the shift from Brattle Street to Long Lane meeting house for the convention, notes Hancock and Bowdoin donations, recalls Dr. Samuel Cooper's death, and mentions a cannon-ball memento from Cambridge. It also covers the crowd size, Kibridge Gerry's anticipated speech, and Belknap Channing era leaders. The WEEKLY Post will print Goodell's full address Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Abner ©. Goodell, Jr
Goodell
Brattle Street
Society of Presbyterians
Long Lane
Federal Street
Hancock and Bowdoin
Samuel Cooper
Cambridge
Kibridge Gerry
Rew
Jeremy Belknap
Massachusetts Historical Society
Dr. Popkin
William Ellery Channing
Old State House
Weekly Post
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Anguages
Mendine
Cambridge City Government
Gardner
United States District Court
Superior Court
Mason, J
Tate
Donovan
Bateman
Goething
Gould
Puede
Capello
Same
Corinche
Murray
State Line & Sullivan KR. v. Emer
Dewey, J
Bragg
Dooley
Kandlett
O’birine
Picanco
Wilson
McCarthy
Fletcher
Gallivan
McDonald
Copeland
Moore
Barrett
Feeley
Shaw
Simpson
Myers
Gurney
Craby
Barnard
Blaney
Planet Milling Co
Smith
Kennedy
Packard
Drake
Harding
Hussey Burns Co
Cochnower
Harkins
Keyes
Dempsey
Mosely
Burkhaurdty
Seavey
Pelonsky
Frankenstein
Babcock
Littlefield
Collins
Hervey
Adams
Fitchburg RR
Hammond
Richard Wing
Frederick W. Dahl
C. P. Weston
H. N. Shepard
John H. Sherman
Margaret W. Thompson
Hi. E. Swasey
J. A. McGeough
Sherman v. Thompson
Matherson v. Mulgan
Sampson Vv
Orne. v. Fitchburg
Vowers
Casey
Norton
Madden
Mulligan
Hanover Fire Ins. Co
Phenix Ins
Crue
Osgood
West
sogo—Barwick
Boston & Maine RR
Noon
Ene Sae
Queen Ins
Donaldson
Core Son
Donahoe
Clark
Newton
Laker
Dewing
Darling
Hall
Pike
Mason
Inds
Winchester
Parker
Robinson
AEA
Rover Rer MH
Graves & Sons
Akin Owde A Ouh
Royal 4Aking Powder Co
Wall St. N.Y
Paris
Baker’s
W. Baker & CO
Dorchester
Augusta Solomon
Court Street
Bay State
Haynes Excelsior
Wm. B. Tilton
Haynes
Crosby
J.C. Haynes & CO
Court St
Raro Hamilten Place
Reo
South End Industrial School
Mary Hemenway
J. W. Andrews
Sarah E. Hooper
Anna H. Clarke
William H. Varney
Mary J. May
John Sweetser
William Wilkins Warren
Amy Morris Homans
John Capen
Mary M. Wetherell
Frances A. Waters
Edward R. Tyler
Abbie C. Jackson
J. Q. A. Brackett
M. E. Wilmarth
GC. R. Eliot
George H. Young
E. A. Horton
MR. Goodell
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