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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1897
Page
8
Large sale offering multiple lots of ladies jackets wraps capes suits and dresses with deep discounts. Jackets regular 4 5 6 now 1 98 to 4 98. leather and silk lined pieces. capes priced 2 98 to 9 8. suits 4 98 to 10 00. waists gowns and skirts discounted for quick sale. Major items include high grade silk waists and crepon dress skirts.
Bills filed at the State House aim to fund water and gas utilities, underground wires, a state printing plant, and a large telephone and telegraph company. A gas safety bill targets hotels and lodging houses with required gas escape prevention devices by January 1, 1898.
Poston Typographical Union No 18 via Representative Innes urges a state printing bill. It creates a governor appointed four year superintendent to acquire buildings, equipment, and labor for a state printing office and bindery with a $1000 appropriation and a $1800 salary for a printing foreman.
John M. Bailey of Billerica proposes a Globe Telegraph and Telephone Company to serve Commonwealth buildings and state servants free of charge. It would install phones in public buildings and provide official communications free at pay stations. Rates cap at 36 dollars annually for business premises and 24 dollars for religious charitable educational institutions and homes. Telegraph rates: ten words or less up to 250 miles at 10 cents, longer distances 25 cents, plus 1 cent per extra word. Capital stock limited to 10 million dollars, divided into one million shares of ten dollars.
Representative Innes presented a bill for Edward B. March and associates to form the Commonwealth Gas Company with a capital of 1 000 000 dollars, potentially rising to 5 000 000. The bill grants authority to construct and operate gas systems and, with gas commissioners, to acquire or lease existing gas works and properties for illumination heating and other uses.
J. O. Emerson presses for free Boston water supply. A petition reached the House yesterday urging legislation to require the city to furnish water free of charge to all consumers and to empower the City Council to levy the cost elsewhere.
The Mayor of Boston and the Board of Aldermen filed multiple petitions yesterday. One seeks a gymnasium. another requests an act allowing the Mayor and Aldermen to form a board of arbitration for disputes between the West End Street Railway Company and its employees, effective upon City Council acceptance.
Representative John H. Butler introduces a bill in the House to appropriate 500000 dollars for a Suffolk county reformatory. The Mayor and Aldermen of Boston petition for similar legislation and seek authority to widen Pleasant and Washington streets at an additional cost of 100000 dollars.
Mr Clarke of Wellesley introduces a bill specifying city caucuses may open from 6 a m to noon and stay open at least three hours while town caucuses run 6 to 7 a m for two hours. F O Emerson seeks Boston caucuses from 8 a m to 9 p m with officers paid 6 dollars daily.
Representative Barnes reports a petition by the Chelsea mayor for an act authorizing the city to require electric wires be placed underground.
Bills introduced in Boston yesterday include a Citizens' Law and Order League backed plan for one liquor license per 1000 residents. Another measure aims to widen Boylston Street from Charles to Washington to 80 feet with abutter assessments. A third bill would levy a $50 per car assessment on street railways passing through cities or towns.
The committee on constitutional amendments approved reporting an amendment to strike the word male from the constitution, granting women full suffrage. No dissenters were recorded.
The judiciary committee reported a bill to authorize a fourth assistant clerk for Boston’s municipal civil court. The federal relations committee urged Congress to establish a Charlestown dry dock. The House rejected a one year mayoral term for Poston after backing down from referral to metropolitan affairs.
A male and two women were jailed on shoplifting charges from Houghton & Dutton and R H White stores. Mary Camella, Italian, North End resident, was caught thefting in Houghton & Dutton. Ellen Miller, Alliston resident, claimed English origins and jewelry, apparel, and many items were found. The male suspect was arrested in R H White & Co. theft in progress. They are due to appear in Municipal Court this morning.
Senator Frye's plan to spend 100000 for Pearl Harbor improvements in the Hawaiian Islands was favorably reported to the Senate by the foreign relations committee.
At West Point on February 10 two troopers John Leahy and Perry Howard fought a duel over Miss Kate Medlar. Howard’s sabre severed Leahy’s lip, leaving him bleeding and hospitalized. also a violent street attack on Danaher left him with a fractured skull and the assailant at large.
Metuchen Presbyter ian Church Improvement Guild ran a sock and garment darning event inviting bachelors to bring undarned socks and other repairs to the lecture room for mending. The evening drew crowds, with maidens at work, promising future matches and a shift to cooking demonstrations after mending all items.
Mrs Frank Danaher of 222 East 125th Street is seriously ill after a fierce struggle with a maniac in New York on February 10. Police report she fought off the attacker and sustained injuries during the assault.
In Cochecton New York on February 10 a cleverly built effigy of Miss Alice Trumble was placed in her bed to fool her mother and hide an elopement with Albert Snow. The ruse failed to stop the marriage as the mother discovered the deception and eventually forgave the couple.
Senator Morgan withdrew the Nicaragua naval bill and said he would reintroduce it at the extra session. He attacked perceived British influence and warned against administration complacency. The agricultural appropriation bill passed, granting $3,212,902 with a $30,000 seed purchase item.
Several youths are reported missing across Jamaica Plain Worcester and Waltham with belief they fled to the Hub. Miss Mary Griswold 14 Knoll street Jamaica Plain Sarah Vaughn 15 from the Female Orphan Asylum and others including Jane Stephenson 472 Blue Hill avenue William S Marston 61 Rutland street and Margaret Kilihan 79 Emerald street are all unaccounted for. Authorities urge watch for the group in the fifth precinct.
Judge Grant of the Suffolk Superior Court named Revs. Charles W. Duane S. W. Brooke and N. K. McLennan as trustees to manage about 400000 in the Franklin fund. Four additional trustees to be named, following petitions by the Attorney General. The Attorney General and Travis supported the petition, and other requests were dismissed.
Tufts College freshmen accuse sophomores of breaking an agreement over the 1900 debate. They express dissatisfaction that the event was dropped and vow to challenge the sophomores again to settle the dispute.
Two cottages on Atlantic avenue in Green Hill belonging to Mrs Charles Bates and a Mr Lakeman were burned to the ground this morning. Loss estimated between 1500 and 2000 dollars.
Five ships take positions to blockade Charleston with Marblehead guarding the harbor entrance and Maine anchored southwest. York, Amphitrite, and Columbia cover channels while Indiana, Massachusetts and others expected to arrive. Vesuvius and torpedo boats may attempt to slip in unseen as preparations resume after a storm.
Moody's Tremon Temple services stressed trust in God as the path to salvation. He urged immediate action, warned agnostics, and urged revivalists to keep temperance work burning while challenging wives and husbands about confidence and Sabbath observance. He also discussed sowing and reaping and the lasting consequences of parental influence.
The Paint and Oil Club of New England hosted its ninety ninth dinner at Young’s last night with nine clergymen present. Rev Leighton Parks denounced the Bradley Martin ball as unfit for civilization, drawing vigorous applause. Speakers included Dr Howard Everett Hale who urged a permanent tribunal to replace flawed arbitration. Other clergy and Rabbi Hirshberg, Rev Albion, and Rev Hall attended.
Charleston dispatch reports on February 10 that First Sergeant Wagner and Privates Seaman and Hardin were loading a one pound gun of the Maine's secondary battery when a cartridge exploded. Wagner lost flesh from his right hand, Hardin was struck in the leg with the shell fragment not yet removed, and Seaman sustained facial injuries. The injuries are described as painful but not serious.
The annual S O O FE of Massachusetts encampment met with about 250 delegates. Grand Patriarch Sumner P Lawrence led the session and urged support for the Odd Fellows Home. Elections totals reached 10864 members and 136683.16 invested funds with 49006.61 total receipts.
In the fourth jury session before Judge Blodgett, Lena Israel wins $212 against Rose Baker and Jacob Baker is awarded $1 in a separate slander suit. The actions sought $600 damages each for alleged defamation.
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