Strikers Run Free Barges as Police Withdrawal Intensifies
A disrupted city contends with a street railway strike as 300 officers are pulled for rest. Strikers operate barges to Boston passengers free or cheap, claiming big profits while awaiting a municipal board meeting. Public sympathy and tensions rise at New Era Hall with speakers denouncing corporate control.
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South Boston
The
Cove
Board of Police
Boston
South Boston Company
Board of Aldermen
K-street
Coolidge
Sayaze
New Era Hall
E. M. Chamberlain
Broadway streetcar strike tests city’s patience and resolve
The article recounts a day of streetcar service on the Broadway route amid labor unrest. Vehicles ran at limited intervals with police and guards, a sick horse incident, arrests, and crowds shouting scab and rescue. By noon service resumed near normal, while strikers held meetings and sought outside support.
Cars on the Cambridge Line Opens Amid Crowd Fray
The Cambridge road began car service from Harvard to Bowdoin with 9 o'clock launch. A mounted police escort and crowd packed Murray street as a car started, halted by frightened horses and a damaged track after a brief run.
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Cambridge Road
Harvard Square
Bowdoin Square
Great Square
Bancroft
Murray Street
al Soule
Frank Powers
Quarrel Over Watch Trade Leads to Knife Attack
At Sanborn's Hall Walker Knight of Alfred and Howard L. Moulton of South Sanford fought over a watch trade. The dispute continued at David Cram's home where Knight attacked Moulton with a clasp knife, inflicting serious injuries. Knight was reportedly severely injured. no arrests yet.
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Sanword
Sanborn’s Hall
Walker Knight
Alfred
Howard
Moulton
South Sanford
David Cram
Knight
Reverend Newton to take call at Trinity Church Philadelphia
From Pittsfield reports it is understood the Rev W W Newton of St Stephen s Episcopal Church will soon accept a call to Trinity Church Philadelphia He came to Pittsfield from St Paul s Boston six years ago
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Springfield
Pittsfield
W. W. Newton
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
Trinity Church
Philadelphia
St. Paul’s Church
Boston
Young wife of stock broker spurns letter from Frank Smith
Downtown gossip notes the wife of a stock exchange member found a note signed Frank Smith after returning from a town visit. The letter suggested going to the theatre and peppering the town later. Smith, a hotel regular, had been a bachelor friend of her husband.
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The
Stock Exchange
Prince & Whitely
Decker, Howell & Co
Frank Smith
N. Y. Sun
Foraker and Lincoln Birthday Rally Grip New York Republicans
The Republican Club of New York marked Lincoln's birthday with a Delmonico dinner for 275. Highlights included speeches by Senators Hawley Harrison Aldrich and others and letters from Blaine Sherman and Lodge praising Lincoln and the party.
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Republican Club of
New York
Lincoln
Blaine
Maine
Republican Club
Abraham Lincoln
Delmonico
Hawley
Harrison
Aldrich
Oglesby
Ilinois
Foraker
Ohio
Lounsbury
Connecticut
Hiscock
Chauncey M. Depew
Husted
Noah Davis
Foster
Henry Cabot Lodge
Boston
Galusha A. Grow
Lehmair
Sapam
Augusta
Washington
Republican
Republican Party
Mr. Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln
Chicago
Obituary of Dr Ezra Dyer of Newport Rhode Island
Dr Ezra Dyer an eminent oculist died while en route from Savannah to New York to seek relief from illness. Born Boston October 17 1886 he studied at Harvard and abroad becoming a specialist in eye diseases. He served as assistant surgeon during the Civil War and practiced in Philadelphia before settling in Newport. He leaves a widow and one son with funeral in Newport Monday at 8 30 and burial in Cambridge Tuesday.
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Ezra Dyer
Newport
R. I
New York
Savannah
Dyer
Ezra C. Dyer
Boston
Harvard College
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dublin
Rome
Vienna
Paris
London
Philadelphia
United States Army
Satterlee United States General Hospital
West Philadelphia
International
American Ophthalmatological Societies
The
Otological Society
American Medical
Europe
Harvard
Parker's
Cambride
Mrs Lucy Rockwell Dies at Lenox Home
Mrs Lucy W Rockwell wife of Judge Julius Rockwell and mother of Congressman Rockwell died at her Lenox home this morning aged 71 She was daughter of Judge W P Walker married in 1836 living first at Pittsfield then Lenox Her children include Nellie Bowditch Boston and Robert C Rockwell Eldest son Miles W Rockwell was killed in the war The Right Rev William Mercer Green longtime bishop of Mississippi died in Sewanee Tenn Mrs A C Richmond of Taunton died suddenly at home leaving two children Samuel C Cobb and Mrs Curtis Guild of this city
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Lucy W. Rockwell
Julius Rockwell
Congressman Rockwell
Lenox
W. P. Walker
Pittsfield
Nellie Bowditch
Boston
Robert C. Rockwell
Miles W. Rockwell
William Mercer Green
Episcopal Diocese of
Mississippi
Sewane
Tenn
A. C. Richmond
Taunton
Hlon
Samuel C. Cobb
Curtis Guild
Brooklyn Choir Boys Drown After Ice Break at Garden City Lake
Three Brooklyn boys ages 14 and 18, William Teed Eugene Gritzenger and Henry D McTighe, choir members at the cathedral, were drowned in Garden City Lake when ice broke beneath them.
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Garden City
L. I
William Teed
Eugene Gritzenger
Henry D. McTigh
Brooklyn
Garden City Lake
The New Library Building Hearing in Boston
A letter to the editor urges an informed hearing on February 15 at the State House. It argues enlarging or empowering the library trustees to control architect selection and plans, compares to a courthouse commission, and praises the trustees as capable, urging citizens to attend for a building the city can be proud of.
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Senate
New York
Lincoln
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
House of Representatives
Dominion of
Canada
John D. Long
Massachusetts
Washington
Republican Party
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Army
Sam
Warner Miller
Hamlin
P. H. Sheridan
Abraham Lincoln
Joseph R. Hawley
Connecticut
Gettysburg
Frank Hiscock
Empire State
Foraker
Ohio
Boston
Committee of Mercantile Affairs
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Court House
Supreme Judicial Court
A. D
Cambridge
Boston Post
Suffolk
John
Russell
Burlington
Missouri
Theo. C. Hurd
Theo. C Hurd
Norimonwealti
Massachidus
Setts
Ss.—Superior Court
Emil Delbermann
Lews VT
Commerich
State of New York
Copartners
Chester M. Foster
Charlies E. Foster
City of New York
Rk.c. Greenleaf
S. Johnson
Henry Woods
W. Endicott, Jr
Thomas Mack
C. Johnson
S. P. Mandell
G. L. Lovett
Newton
Middlesex
C. I. Hovey & Co
E. D. Jordan
J. C. Jordan
E. D. Jordan, Jr
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Ralph Hi. White
Jonathan A. White
Said Boston
H. A. Belcher
Randelph
County of Norfolk
Ralph H. White & Co
Warren Emerson
John F. Gratton
Chris
C. Blaisdell
M. J. Horan
Grattan
Klaisdel & Horan
A. B. Shaw
S. Applin
Shaw, Applin & Co
Andrew Lawrence
F PD. Wilde
William H. Fad
G. B. Darrow
Lawrences, Wilde & Co
George PF. Harrington
John Boyd
James Boyd
J.d. Boyd & Co
Kilburn Whitman
Kilburn Whitman & Co
Levi 8. Gould
Frank Ratch
S. M. Holmes Furniture Co
Fred I H. Cushman
Cushman Brothers & Co
Sheriff's Office
Conn Square
William J. Praey
Anderson
Bridge) Street
Calvin Baldwin
John Ritchie
Levi Boles
Charles Henry Parker
Said Parker
John Tracy
Dees
Willian J. Tracy
Seavey
New Book Review on James Schouler's Law of Wills
A new volume by James Schouler on the Law of Wills is praised as a practical compact working book. It covers capacity, formal requisites, revocation, wills for valuable consideration, and construction, with statutes, forms, index, and cases.
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Schouler
John Wilson & Co
Charles C. Soule
James Schouler
Boston
C.C. Soule
Price
Washburn on Real Property edited by Willard and Croswell
Review of the fifth edition of Emory Washburns Real Property detailing its history from 1860 to 1887. Notes emphasize preservation of original text, selective updates in homestead, and improved accuracy in citations. Three volumes published by Little, Brown in 1887, solidifying its status as American property law authority.
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Washburn
Emery Washburn
Dane Law School
Harvard University
England
Joseph Willard
Simon G. Croswell
Homestead
Emory Washburn
Boston
Little, Brown & Co
Cap and Bells by Samuel Minturn Peck a Southern poet
A review finds Cap and Bells a dainty volume of eighty five compact poems by Samuel Minturn Peck. It praises smooth versification pleasant sentiment gentle humor and warm Southern imagery likening Peck to Locker Praed and Holmes. The excerpt includes a tender lyric about roses and a lover’s pledge and notes the book’s New York publisher White Stokes Allen.
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Samuel Minturn Peck
Locker
Praed
Holmes
South
Cap
New York
White, Stokes & Allen
Prominent 19th Century Works Featured in March Releases
The March issue of Popular Science Monthly will publish a steel engraved portrait of the late Professor E L Youmans by Schlecht praised for vivid likeness and superior execution. Scribners announces Stevenson’s Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables. The Atlantic March offers a long verse criticism of Bates Scollard Adams Roche Perry Akers Thaxter and Cranch. Ticknor & Co publish new works including Forced Acquaintances and The Life and Works of Giordano Bruno. G W Wheeler editions and Clarke events also appear. Houghton Mifflin & Co release a revised Robadi Roma. Mrs Nathaniel Silsbee’s A Half Century in Salem nearly sold out. Epoch first volume arrives from New York publishers. The Epoch promises fresh daily journalism with thorough monthly magazine articles. The first…
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Popular Science Monthly
E. L. Youmans
Schlecht
Robert Louis Stevenson
Charles Scribnex
The
Atlantic
Arlo Bates
Clinton Scollard
Oscar Fay Adams
James Jeffrey Roche
Mrs. Pratt
Elizabeth Akers
Celia Thaxter
Margaret Deland
Nora Perry
Henry Bernard Carpenter
C. P. Cranch
Edith Robinson
Giordano Bruno
English and
Forei Philosophical Library
Arthur Bent
G. Wheeler
Dr. Clarke
Ticknor & Co
W. W. Story
Rome
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Nathaniel Silsbee
Salem
Messrs
Houghton, Miffin & C
Anarchists in San Domingo to dodge Chicago trials
N Neef, a Chicago anarchist turned state's evidence, was in the city last week buying back numbers of a German weekly. He plans to sail to Santiago de los Caballeros, San Domingo, to join a Chicagoan colony there and avoid a second trial with Pinkerton still pursuing others.
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Sun O. Neef
Chicago
Santiago de Los Caballeros
San Domingo
Spies
Haymarket
Malden Woman Seeks Divorce from Missouri Desertion and Adultery
MINNIE RUSSELL of Malden files suit in Middlesex County Court seeking dissolution of marriage to JOAN C. RUSSELL. She alleges desertion in November 1883 after he moved to Maine, later Missouri, and alleges repeated adultery with Mollie Sammon and other women since 1885. She asks restoration of her maiden name Minnie F. Russell.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Middlesex
Minnie ¥. Russell
Malden
Joan C. Russell
Said
John
Ressell
Maine
Burlington
Matden
John C
Missouri
Belton
Cass
Mollie Sammon
Raymore
Minnie F. Russell
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Wilmerding, Hoguet & CO
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Lake Champ
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State St
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Norseman
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Arnold A. Rand
Albert Howe & Coo
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Souris
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