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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1887
Page
8
The House weighs resolutions on coast defences and canal matters as Taft opposes legislative guidance. Senate poll tax debate looms. supporters urge clear aims from Bourne, Sandwich, and Bourne landowners. Canal disputes involve Fox and Lockwood, Old Colony Railroad, and landowner claims.
The House approved the Mayor of Newburyport's petition to amend the city charter to elect aldermen at large and to elect assessors. Debate covered coast defenses resolutions, Taft of Palmer opposing them and proposing amendments. The chamber also discussed the Dresser move to refer back to federal relations and the Battled buncombe rhetoric amid a 75 to 79 vote. The session also approved reports and measures related to water companies and archival records, and moved to engross the agricultural station bill.
Senator Hartwell reported to pass a bill authorizing official stenographers in Suffolk courts and setting their fees. A pole tax reading sparked a No vote chorus before President Boardman ruled the third reading carried. Gleason moved to take from the table and accept the First Medical College petition to confer medical degrees. Gloucester Street Railway bonds authorized. judiciary report on drunkenness penalties deemed inexpedient.
The House committee on harbors and public lands visits the Sandwich Cape Cod Ship Canal site and begins hearings on charter extensions for the Cape Cod Ship Canal Company and related incorporation petitions. Lawyers for multiple parties present summarized past schemes and the companys expenditures while noting local support and opposition.
The committee on taxation heard Representative Dillingham push for sworn personal property returns to curb tax dodging. Gamaliel Bradford blasted current inequities and urged taxes on real estate only, arguing personal property taxation harms prosperity and citing Boston land values and a new State Street building as examples. He warns against copying Philadelphia and New York practices and notes transition challenges before Vermont and New Hampshire ruin themselves.
The Democratic members dinner is postponed to one week from tomorrow due to absence of several brethren. Governor Ames agrees to a public reception on Washington's Birthday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. General Collings received a warm greeting in the House yesterday. A hearing is set for 10:50 a.m. tomorrow before the railroad committee on compelling railroads to improve heating and lighting in cars.
Dr FE W Wright of Saratoga Springs New York reports decades of use and asserts that Horsford's Acid Phosphate combines phosphates effectively treating digestive disorders.
Difficulties between the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company and the Boston District Messenger Company led to a District notice discontinuing service. B and O filed a bill of complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court seeking an order, while B O officials promised temporary interruptions would be brief and that alternative arrangements would provide improved service.
Boston District Telegraph Company vice president announces abrupt withdrawal from its contract with Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company claiming repeated violations. A temporary agreement is made with United Ones company, with potential suit to recover $20 000 damages.
Mayor O'Brien and the public safety department met in the mayor's office to discuss the police signal system and a request for 150000 more than the city would authorize. Dr. Durgin noted no smallpox danger from New York, and officials discussed hospital needs and still alarm experiments.
Danvers February 8. It is reported that C. C. Farwell & Co will discontinue its Methuen factory and transfer all help to the Danvers shop. Machinery stays until April 1 when the firm will close one factory depending on terms granted by the Knights of Labor.
The last winter excursions from Boston by Messrs. Raymond and Whitcomb will leave February 17 and March 10. Passengers may stop at Colton and proceed to Riverside San Diego and Los Angeles with first class accommodations and flexible return routes. Descriptive circulars on California trips via New Orleans March 7 and Mexico tours are available from W. Raymond at 296 Washington Street Boston.
The body of a newborn infant, wrapped in newspaper and cloth, was found in an alley behind a Sawyer street residence. A large temple wound is noted as the likely cause of death. A tall dark man in a long ulster and derby hat carried a newspaper parcel near 9 to 10 pm Monday, arousing suspicion amid similar recent cases.
Peter Rylands Liberal Unionist MP for Burnley has died at age 66. A longtime figure in the Home Rule campaign, he served twenty years in the House of Commons and critiqued national expenditures. Born 1820, educated at Warrington grammar, he pursued science and later became a director in several companies including Scottish Equitable. He founded iron works at Warrington and Wigan and held local offices in Warrington.
James C Adams secretary of the New Hampshire State board of agriculture died at his home in Boscawen after a stroke. Born June 5 1818 in East Concord he was a journalist in Manchester served in city government and in the State Legislature.
A. Emerson & Co. at No 38 Purchase Street sustained a major blaze in the upper story, causing about 5000 dollars in damage, fully insured. A separate alert at 9 40 p m warned of a cellar fire at 158 Salem Street, no damage reported. At 10 20 p m a second blaze in the second story of 183 Purchase Street damaged the Stearns Manufacturing Company stock and property, with minor losses to A L Tribble.
Creditors face cuts as George H. Clark & Co seeks Butterfield's insolvency while Cosgrove Brewing and Malting of Toronto and West London Commercial Bank fail. Numerous assignments and 40 to 70 percent settlements spread across Massachusetts Maine and beyond. Essex insolvency court holds third meetings. first meetings in several other local cases.
The Roanoke Island veterans marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the engagement at Roanoke Island with a Young’s Hotel gathering. Officers elected include General A B R Sprague as president and Colonel E H Haskell as secretary with a large slate of officers and an executive committee from multiple state regiments. General Otis defended against Colonel Hawkins Zouave claims, noting the Zouaves were distant and not active in the fort evacuation.
Quiet waterfront as no coal came in though barges are expected this week. Demonstration planned at Faneuil Hall to support New York strikers with speakers James A. Quinn Harrington Edward FitzWilliam and Frank B Pickett leading the effort.
The annual meeting at No 31 Milk Street elected directors Edward Atkin son F L Richardson Ezra Farnsworth Frederick Amory George Dexter Thomas J Borden Howard Stockton Charles E Whitin Jonathan Thace Charlies W Amory Henry Saltonstall Augustus Lowell and William H Bent. Auditors named George H Edwards and A M Newton.
Representatives of city rubber manufacturers met at Revere Rubber Company on Franklin Street to discuss a uniform price rise due to higher production costs. Presiding was E. J. Gage. Deliberations were secret and no definite action was taken, with many attendees favoring no binding agreement.
In Superior Criminal Court at Salem yesterday Charles H. Villiers of Haverhill was sentenced to two years and six months in the house of correction for breaking and entering at night. He asked for a three year term in State prison, a request the court said could be granted if repeated in the morning.
Ti advertisement highlights last week’s sale success and week attractions at G W Simmons Co. Notes odd pantaloons priced at 286 dollars and trousers made to order in the custom room at 485 dollars per pair. Sale will close Saturday. custom department praised as genuine.
Boston Superior Court first session lists cases including James O Brown et al v Boston Blower Co over 100 quadricycles with $15000 claimed damages, and long docket entries across many tort and replevin actions from 1870s to 1880s. Cases involve Roberts v White, Thompson v City of Boston, Barrett v South Boston Railroad, and others with verdicts and preliminary rulings noted.
In Middlesex Superior Court on February 8 Judge Thompson presided. The jury found for the plaintiff in the amount of 1816 dollars 66 cents in the case Fulton versus City of Cambridge. Swazey and Swazey appeared for the plaintiff with C J McIntire for the defendant. Also listed is Francis Hughes versus Jonathan P Lovering a tort action to recover damages for injuries sustained while employed by the defendant in a trench for a sewer.
Bates street Cambridge trench wall fell due to defendant negligence. Plaintiff, self represented as an expert digger, argues plaintiff should have notified defendant to brace trench and that injuries, if any, were caused by plaintiff's own negligence. Trial underway with C T and I H Russell for plaintiff and Stearns & Butler for defendant.
The Chauncy Hall School held its fifty third annual exhibition at Music Hall with a large audience of Bostonians. Readings were given by students including William H. Lewers and James Sturgis Pray. Medals awarded covered multiple classes and special prizes for punctuality scholarship and drill.
For 24 hours from 7 am Wednesday February 9 the area of New England and eastern New York is forecast to have fair weather with northerly winds and colder conditions, a cold wave. Cautionary offshore signals are changed to northwesterly from Sandy Hook to Eastport.
Observations up to 10 p m from all stations recorded at the same moment. The compiled data summarize temperatures humidity wind and notable weather conditions across locations, providing a snapshot of yesterday's atmospheric state for regional analysis.
New York reports the arrivals of several vessels including Eliza W. MecManemy and multiple schooners from St John N B Rockland and Gloucester. Halifax notes the steamer Wetherby from Antwerp to Boston arriving short of coal after twenty three days at sea with rough weather but no damage.
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