Liner Wormland Reaches Azores After Severe Atlantic Trials
The Swedish steamship Wormland of Helsingborg, captained by O. Anderson, arrived in Massachusetts Bay after a 28 day voyage from Newport News. Severe gales and heavy seas forced a southerly course toward the Azores to seek fuel, with coal running short and oil used to quiet the decks. First Officer Pearson describes a grueling passage marked by drifting ice and being blown off course by northeast gales.
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Wermland
Helsingborg
Atlantic
Rght
O. Y. Pierson
William Lundeburg
Eric Lundstrom
Axel Lindahl
E. Neilson
Wormland
Gibraltar
Newport News
O. Anderson
Oran
Africa
Pearson
Cape Cod
Azores
Hatteras
Secret Letter In Mitchell Case Surrenders Evidence
A letter from Senator Mitchell to Judge Albert H. Tanner was surrendered in Portland Oregon as evidence. The missive dated February 5 in Washington asserts no personal business interest in land matters and claims no knowledge of charges to the firm. It serves to support testimony desired before the grand jury in the partnership agreements case.
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Portland
Ore
Mitchell
Albert H. Tanner
Tanner
Harry C. Robertson
United States
Henry
Washington
Strychnine candy death in Vermont
In Bennington Vermont on February 12 Leslie Elwell age 3 died after eating strychnine tablets mistaken for candy. His brother Calvin age 5 is in critical condition with paralysis and numbness. Father D W Elwell had been taking the tablets under a physician's direction. The doctor warned Calvin could be crippled for life if he survives.
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Bennington
Leslie Elwell
Calvin
D. W. Elwell
Chinese gambling raid nets fourteen players in Lynn
Police led by Sergeant Allen raided 10 Oxford Street at 9 30 last night trapping 11 Chinese domino players and a professional gambler. The game of pieu was found in a basement room with dominoes and counters scattered amid a stampede. Earlier, another group of fourteens Chinamen were surprised and booked for gambling at 2112 Harrigan Avenue.
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Allen
Finnerty
Hughes
Oxford Street
Lynn
Harrigan Avenue
Garaing
Stalled Trains Plunge Halifax Into Snowbound Night
Snow drifts along the Intercolonial line stalled passenger trains leaving Halifax bereft of heat. Two engines failed as water ran out, passengers endured freezing cars with men shielding women and children. The Boston express ran late, reaching at midnight after a long stoppage, while westbound trains remained blocked since Friday.
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Halifax
N. S
Intercolonial Railway
Government Road
Boston Express
Dominion Atlantic Railway
Small But Mysterious Atlantic Avenue Fire
W A Adams reports leaving his restaurant at 285 Atlantic Avenue securely locked at 6 pm. An hour later he found thick smoke and flames from the pantries in the kitchen and dining room, damaging the business about 200 dollars before the fire department extinguished it.
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Atlantic Avenue
W. A. Adams
West Roxbury Pastor to Succeed Actor Preacher
The Rev. John H. Applebee, pastor of First Parish Church West Roxbury for six years, will preach his last sermon March 12. He has accepted a call to Pilgrims' Church Attleboro, recently vacant by Rev. Wilson Fritch’s resignation.
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West Roxbury
John H. Applebee
Applebee
Pilgrims’ Church of
Attleboro
Wilson
Fritch
Tucker Chamber Concert Opens Second Series at Chickering Hall
Mr H G Tucker launched the seventh chamber concert yesterday at Chickering Hall with the Longy Club performing works by Bernard Widor Handel Godard Gouvy Thuille. The audience praised the program and anticipates an even stronger next series with Staats Perabo Eaton and Ondricek set for the eighth concert.
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H. G. Tucker
Chickering Hall
Longy Club
Emile Bernard
Widor
Handel
Godard
Gouvy
Ludwig Thuille
Messrs. Staats, Perabo, Eaton and
Ondricek
Brick Attack Leaves Man with Fractured Skull in Boston
John Hazelton, 25, of 16 Chelsea Street East Boston, was struck by a brick during a crowd incident near Kneeland and Washington streets yesterday morning around 10. He suffered a fractured skull and was taken to the Relief Hospital after refusing police aid. Hazelton had confronted one man in a verbal exchange before the crowd escalated and a brick was thrown from the street.
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Kneeland
Washington Streets
John Hazelton
Chelsea Street
Boston
Relief Hospital
Hazelton
Washington Street
Victor
Hebrew bakers to supply free bread for immigrants
The Hebrew Master Bakers Association met at 122 Salem street and voted to supply free bread to the immigrants' home at 1 Causeway street as long as it exists. Over 200 people are fed daily and the cost is estimated at about $40 weekly.
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Hebrew Bakers
Hebrew Master Bakers’ Association
Salem Street
Causeway Street
A. Watsberg
H. Waisberg
D. Kasanof
M. Kasanof
J. Goodman
J. Hurvitz
B. Sher
J. Bicowsky
H. Cohen
Romanow-Rotstein
German Steamer Paros Seized Near Hokai Do
The German steamer Paros bound for Vladivostok was taken off Hokkaido on Friday. Its cargo included shipbuilding materials and foodstuffs as of 3 p m Tokio time on February 12.
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Tokio
Paros
Vladivostok
Hokaido
Catawissa Runs Ashore Near Cushing's Island
The tug Catawissa of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company ran ashore on the outer side of Cushing's Island while entering Portland harbor with two loaded coal barges from Philadelphia. Assistance from local tugs was sent, but nothing could be done until high tide tomorrow morning amid a heavy snow storm and southeast wind. The vessel had left Boston earlier that day with the Knickerbocker and Burnside barges, leaving a third behind.
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Portland
Philadelphia & Reading Coal Company
Philadelphia
Boston
Knickerbocker and Burnside
Fr Francis J O Neill at Rest
The Rev. Francis J. O Neil S J longtime Boston College figure died last evening at the Church of the Immaculate Conception rectory after a week's illness of pneumonia He was 67 native of Boston and 17 years chaplain at Boston City Hospital Funeral will be held Wednesday at 9 am at the Immaculate Conception Church Father Keelan was with him at death and recent efforts to converse ended minutes before the end The death prompted widespread sincere regret.
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Francis J. O'Neil
S. J
Boston College
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Harrison Avenue
Boston City Hospital
Father Keelan
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Henry B. Hyde
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Francis W. Jackson
H. R. Coursen
A. W. Maine
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J. G. van Cise
Rob’t Henderson
R. G. Hann
WM. A. Wheelock
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C. Ledyard Blair
Charles Stewart Smith
Marcellus H. Dodge
Board of Directors
James W. Gage E. Tarbell
William Alexander
H. R. Winthrop
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James H Geo. T. Wilson
Thomas D. Jordan
M. Murray
C. Bolling
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Arthur Pell
J. W. John A. Stewart
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J. J. Astor
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Marvin Hughitt
WM. H. McIntyre
M. Hartley
Dodg Brayton Ives
Bradish Johnson
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James J. Hill
Chas
Smith
Henry C. Frick
WM. Alexander
John J. McCook
H. C. Haarstick
David H. Mofrat
Sidney D. Ripley
John Sloane
ER. H. Harriman
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
T. Jefferson Coolidge
August Belmont
Sir WM. C. van Horne
Thomas T. Eckert
James B. Forgan
Joseph T. Low
N. B
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Equitable Building
Massachusetts
Brick
Man
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Washington St. Row
Sylvester Scovel
Shafter
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General Shafter
Havana
Catawissa
Francis J. O’neil
Seung
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