Prohibitory amendment day set as legal holiday in House
The General Court debated secret ballot for the prohibitory amendment and then adopted an amendment making election day a legal holiday. Bills on liquor penalties and clerk salaries moved forward with votes 73 to 65 and a good majority respectively. A mass of finance and reform measures followed, including sewerage borrowing and civil service pay raises, with further talks on the Holyoke Water Power Company plan and a reform of the board structure.
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House
Barnes
Chelsea
Gracey
Salem
Coveney
Cambridge
Sanger
Brewer
Wyman
Hyde Park
McDonough
Boston
Senate bill to amend sea men advanced wages law read
A bill was reported in the Senate amending section 8 chapter 69 Public Statutes removing a clause on advanced wages for seamen and substituting a new prohibition on persuading a shipper to neglect voyage with a $100 forfeiture. Leave to withdraw granted on Rowley and Sudbury petitions to raise 500 dollars for 250th anniversary celebrations.
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Senate
Commonwealth
Rowley
Sudbury
Boston considers switch to three commissioners for public institutions
The Boston committee on cities held a hearing on replacing the board of directors for public institutions with a three member commissioners board. The plan, proposed by City Solicitor Bailey, would appoint three inhabitants for three two and one year terms with salaries of 3600 annually. Mayor Hart and supporters cited efficiency and relief for the current chairman who carries excess work.
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Bailey
Frederick Pease
Hart
J. J. McCarthy
Citizens’ Association
H. L. Harding
John B. Martin
House Committee On the Judiciary
Green Room
Buchanan
Moore
Boston
S. B. Allen
George Stearns
Noyes
Jacob
Esau
Massachusetts Medical Society
William Gaston
Suffolk
O'brien
Bay State Gas seeks subscriptions for 7 million 5 percent bonds
Investors are invited to subscribe to 7 million dollars of 5 percent bonds issued by the Bay State Gas Company to finance the purchase of city gas light companies. The issue places a first lien on deposited stocks with Mercantile Trust Co. of New York, securing a total security of 8.874 million dollars. Subscriptions open February 20 at 10 a.m. and close February 21 at 3 p.m. via Brown Bros. & Co. in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
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Bay State Gas Company
Boston
Mercantile Trust Company of
New York
Massachusetts
Bay State Gas Company of
Brookline
Cambridge
Charlestown
Chelsea
Dorchester
East Boston
Jamaica Plain
Malden
United
New Jersey
Boston Gas Light Company
Roxbury Company
South Boston Gas Light Company
London
Philadelphia
Messrs. Brown Bros. & Co
Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited
State Street
Railroad matters and consolidations near the Mississippi
In New York yesterday President Fish and Vice-President Harryman of the Illinois Central met with several directors and a Rothschild representative. No action was taken yet. the full board will decide Wednesday. C P Huntington leaves east of the Mississippi, retaining control of the Southern Pacific. The Newport News & Mississippi Valley, Chesapeake & Ohio, Cleveland Cincinnati Indianapolis, and Cincinnati Indianapolis St Louis Chicago lines will consolidate under a new system led likely by Ingalls. Chicago Burlington & Quincy cuts Iowa passenger service by 8000 miles monthly to cut costs aligned with Iowa rate reductions. other railroads may follow.
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Fish
Harriyman
Illinois Central Railroad Company
New York
Rothschilds
C. P. Huntington
Mississippi
Southern Pacific
Newport News & Mississippi Valley
Chesapeake & Ohio
Cleveland, Columbus
Cincinnati & Indianapolis
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis
Chicago
Ingalls
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Iowa
Meeting of Pacific Guano Company creditors set for Feb 28 1889
Mr John C. Ropes assignee schedules a creditors meeting for Pacific Guano Company Glidden Curtis John M Glidden and George W W Dove on Thursday Feb 28 1889 at 11 am at Glidden Curtis office Boston to surrender assets to creditor satisfactory party and discuss action. Creditors of George E Hutchinson builder Somerville vote to accept 30 cents on the dollar 16 cents cash and 16 cents in sixty day notes. Edward Hatch stock broker 41 Broadway New York assigned yesterday to Howard P Bell.
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John C. Ropes
Pacific Guano Company
Glidden & Curtis
John M. Glidden
George W. W. Dove
Congress Street
Boston
George E. Hutchinson
Somerville
Edward Hatch
Broadway
New York
Howard P. Bell
Servants Mave Rights One Arduous Labor Lightened
A fragment notes servants obtain rights to ease labor with lighter duties. It implies reforms or protections reducing workload for workers. Authorities or employers mentioned are not clear in the readable text.
Possible Boston Lectures Propose Health and Hospitality Reforms
The talk by Rev. Edward Hale in the Old South series urges cleaner living and urban reforms. He argues Boston’s death rate could fall with better sewerage, disease control, and a mobile sea air program for children, plus a coastal sanctuar y for consumption cases and a district clergy network.
Boston to expand industrial education beyond current programs
The text envisions Boston enlarging its education system with definite industrial education, moving past current decorative or fancy work to a more practical program. It implies a broader set of agencies and organized effort to carry out this expansion.
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Boston
Italian murderer Ruffoni arrested after Italian murder
The case recalls the May 28 killing near Messina when Guisseppi Ruffoni shot Marsolo during a duel over a wealthy widow. Ruffoni fled to Genoa then the United States, was found in New York and Brooklyn, and finally arrested in Boston. He awaits Italian government action after being jailed in Charles Street.
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Italy
Guisseppi Ruffoni
Messina
Ruffoni
Natale de Petro
Guiseppi Marsolo
Hey
Marsolo
Dondito
Rossatto
South Street
Ruttoni
United States
Charles Street
City Truckers Plan Remonstrance Against Wagon Wheel Law
The truckmen opposed to broad rimmed wagon wheels appoint L. K. Putney Frank Mason A. L. Flanders S. Johnson and Thomas Whipple to speak before the legislative committee and invite others in trucking to join. Seph Hamilton recaptured in Boston and returned to Portland Jail. Roxbury Woman Suffrage League forms a committee for a May Historical Pageant tableau. Samuel Hatch & Co sold 65 Winthrop Street Charlestown for 7650 cash to G. F. Williams. Guano Company to meet February 28 at 11 am. Hon. F. O. Willey to lecture Thursday on Business Depressions Cause and Cure at Tremont Temple. One hundred fifty Riley Nye Twains tickets bought by Chamber of Commerce members.
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Legislative Committee
L. K. Putney
Frank Mason
A. L. Flanders
S. Johnson
Thomas Whipple
Seph Hamilton
Portland
Boston
Roxbury Woman Suffrage League
Hollis Street Lheatre
Samuel Hatch & Co
Winthrop Street
Charlestown
G. F. Williams
Pacific Guano Company
Congress Street
F. O. Willey
Tremont Temple
Taverner and the Navy Yard Travel Quandary in Charlestown
A Boston note details a traveler from Newport who, misled by confusing streetcar signs and conductor guidance, struggles to reach the Navy Yard from the Charlestown station. The account cites main line cars labeled Monument and Navy Yard while the yard itself remains hard to locate, prompting suggestions for a new geographic map to aid travelers.
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Navy Yard
Charlestown
Myriapod
East Somerville
Bunker Hill Street
Main Street
Bunker Hill
Boston
Chelsea
Monument
Congressm Burnett III Struck Down by Pneumonia in Washington
Washington February 18 Congressman Edward Burnett is seriously ill with pneumonia at his Seventeenth Street home. He fell ill Saturday and has been treated by two physicians. A consultation today said he was as well as could be expected. Mrs Burnett arrived this morning. He is under the care of the doctors who attended General Sheridan in his last illness.
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Boston
Edward E. Hale
Society For Promoting Good
Canton
Board of Health
Board of Heath
Scarlatina
Jacksonville
Hale
New York
Bay
Angel of Light
Boards of Relief
Florida
New England
Massachusetts
United States Army
Ponce de Leon
Christian Church
Congressman Burnett III
Washington
Edward Burnett
Seventeenth Street
Superior Court
Charles H. Bonelli
Edward J. Arens
E.J. Cook
E. F. Stevens
H. W. James
Rosanna McDevitt
Ellen Marshall
Maverick Street
East
J. Thomas
P. Sampson
McDevitt
J. W. O’brien
Marshall
Bonelli
Arens
Willimantic L. Co
Bleckenderfer
Vy. Hodgesseechney
Church
Johnson
Russell
Raymond
Sstorrs
Streight
Neme
Same
Waterman
Lode
Bell
Chelsea
Griffin
Duncey
Old Colony
Nason
Lawton
Wiswall
N. Y
Vick- N.E. RR
Flynn
Mass
Phenix Dgrewery
Ren. Ass. Co
Breen
Y Powers
Connelly
F. Melntire
H. H. Mather
Clark J. Small
James Loveland
A. J. Pratt
J. L. Bates
Mary Harrington
Cornelius Casey
Fourth and
Eighth Streets
C. A. McIntosh
E. B. Callender
Early Morning Fires Strike Concord House and Tenement
A 3 o'clock blaze at the Concord House area of the Boston and Lowell freight depot on Brighton street damaged merchandise worth several thousand dollars and the building for about $600, both insured. An alarm from Box 6 and later Box 65 at 12 12 this morning reported a fire at 333 Harrison avenue kept by Wyzanski, causing about $50 damage.
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Concord
Boston & Lowell
Brighton Street
Harrison Avenue
Wyzanski
Auction Offer for 34 Road Horses at Richardson Stable
Persons looking to purchase a horse should attend the sale on Wednesday at J. C. Richardson's stable located at 243 and 245 Friend Street. Thirty four head of horses suitable for road family or coach use will be sold in matched pairs or as single drivers, personally selected by Mr. Richardson during a recent Western States trip.
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J. C. Richardson
Friend Street
Mr. Richardson
Aldermen Vote on Appointments and City Orders
The Boston board of aldermen met to nominate J Edwin Jones as superintendent of streets and confirm several tax assessors and officials. Mayor Hart named other officers as meetings discussed flags, bells, and citizen requirements for city jobs amid a Chicago electric show invitation. Jones, a Jamaica Plain resident, has a long civil engineering background including work on Roxbury and West Roxbury projects.
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Hart
Edwina Jones
Board of
Fitchburg
Chicago
Rogers
Wilson
Boston Electric Light Company
O’brien
J. Edwin Jones
Henry Fox
Frank W. Flint
Revere E. Atwood
James C. Tucker
Yeas
George E. McKay
Faneuil Hall
Thomas Hills
Frank A. Drew
John M. Maguire
John Pierce
Benjamin Cushing
Isaac Fenno
Patrick Maguire
Alderman Smith
Charles Morton
Common Council
Dorchester
St. Patrick’s Day
Boston
Eddy
Charles J. Bateman
City Hospital
Fifth
Roxbury
Roxbury High School
Long Island
Jones
Jamaica Plain
Harvard College
United States Navy Yard
Portsmouth
N. H
North American
Bangor
Oldtown
Bureau of Sewers
Croton
New York City
Thomas W. Davis
West Roxbury
Street Department
Charles Harris
Henry M. Wightman
Arnold Arboretum
Franklin Park
Cambridge Society Discusses Street Improvements and Meetings
The Cambridge Club held its monthly meeting at Young's with sixty four members, led by James M. W. Hall, debating street improvements. The Charitable Irish Society met at Parker's with fifty attendees, elected three new members and formed a committee to nominate officers, and planned the March 18 annual meeting. Notable arrivals include Dr. C. Craig and William H. Morrell of New York.
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Cambridge Club
Young’s
James M. W. Hall
Cambridge
Charitable
Irish Society
Parker's
William H. Morrell
New York City
Parker’s
Boston
Michigan
Revere
C. _Craig
Rochester
N. Y
David A. Floyd
Yankton
Oak
B. Atwood
Portland
Edward Barker
Philadelphia
W. D. Malley
Lewiston
Unitarian Society Holds First Monthly Meeting
The Unitarian Society gathered yesterday afternoon at the Second Church parlor for its first monthly meeting. Mr. Francis S. Colburn presented a paper on Primary Instruction in the Sunday School, followed by additional papers from other teachers on the same topic. An evening collation was served.
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Unitarian Society
The
Francis 5. Colburn
Supreme Court docket notes and early case lists
Equity assignments and court sessions outline cases and parties including Hildreth vs Fottler Draper vs Draper McKissock vs Sawyer Mason vs Sever Hill vs Stadtmuller QO r ien vs Kiernan Robbins Winslow vs Boston 8 D Tr Co Jones Welch vs Adams Deshon vs Wood Empire Steamboat Co dissolution. several civil actions numbered 3858 2323 2178 1412 8648 4143 4085 561 etc. First and Second Sessions list numerous verdicts and ongoing trials with plaintiff and defense attorneys noted. Second Session SHERMAN J and Third Session LATHROP J include torts contracts and municipal cases with Boston area parties.
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Supreme Judicial Court
Devens
Equity
Hildreth
Fottler
Draper
McKissock
Sawyer
Middlesex
Mason
Empire Steamboat Co
Stone
Reed, Cassidy
Charlestown Savings Bank
Decker
Bonitz Manning Co
Superior Court Docket Feb 18 Violations and Cases
HamMonD J Anna Learson fined 50 plus costs for liquor law violation. Fred E Wilson jailed for larceny at Massachusetts reformatory. Margaret Finerty fined 126 plus costs for liquor law violation. Docket lists 595 Commonwealth vs Clifton breaking and entering 474 same vs Brown adultery 4856 Same vs Foy breaking and entering 412 Same vs Ellison breaking and entering 505 Same vs Boomhauer breaking and entering 219 Same vs Sullivan larceny 460 Same vs Brooks assault and battery 606 Same vs Burgess violating liquor law.
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Superior Criminal Court
Hammond
J. Anna Learson
Fred E. Wilson
Massachusetts Reformatory
Margaret Finerty
Commonwealth
Clifton
Same
Brown
Foy
Ellison
Boomhauer
Sullivan
Brooks
Burgess
Harpy Vignaux Charged With Eight Larceny Counts
Municipal Court records for February 18 cite J Henry Vignaux son of a noted New Hampshire physician facing eight larceny charges, with the case detailing alleged thefts and related proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpy
J. Henry Vignaux
New Hampshire
Civil list entries for voters and cases listed in order
A compiled civil list shows pairs of names and identifiers in sequence such as Ochrosky versus Fallon and Krozen versus Hurnett. Additional matchups include Matley versus Sulloway along with OCon nelI versus Kendall and Sampson versus Marsh.
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Huperor
Quimby
Pratt
Upham
Lovett
Curtis
Monk
Riney
Burgen
Conniff
Shieves
Moody
Probate Court List Highlights Wills and Administrations
Essex County Probate Court on February 18 proved wills for Jonathan Boyce Lynn Samuel Conant Ipswich William H Cross Beverly Clara T Dow Haverhill Joseph P Folsom Georgetown Sarah D Griffin Groveland John Hawson Gloucester Edwin T Jones Lynn Joshua D Lefavour Marblehead Hannah McDonald Salem William Nelson Georgetown John E Webster Lynn Helen E Woodman Amesbury Letters of administration granted for Hannah Elwell Rockport Bartholomew O Connor Rockport Laura A Taber Haverhill Enoch G Currier West Newbury Ann Dias Haverhill Johanna Donovan Newburyport Elizabeth Emerson Newburyport Solomon A Friend Gloucester Eien Hanlon Lynn Russell M Little Cleveland Angela B E Putnam Danvers George A Radford Peabody Mary Rich Lynn Hiram A Tenney Newburyport Patrick Degnan Lawrence John d Quill Ipswich Joseph H Quill Ipswich Ariel Cook Salem Inventories filed Eben Stocker Lynn 7254 98 Timothy A Alley Lynn 5643 82 Asa Marston Salem 80218 92 same in trust for William Marston and others 79553 05 James A Emmerton Salem 57598 26
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Essex County
Harmon
Jonathan Boyce
Lynn
Samuel Conant
Ipswich
William H. Cross
Beverly
Clara T. Dow
Haverhill
Joseph P. Folsom
Georgetown
Sarah D. Griffin
Groveland
John Hawson
Gloucester
Edwin T. Jones
Joshua D. Lefavour
Marblehead
Hannah McDonald
Salem
William Nelson
John E. Webster
Helen E. Woodman
Amesbury
Hannah Elwell
Rockport
Bartholomew O’connor
Laura A. Taber
Enoch G. Currier
West Newbury
Ann Dias
Johanna Donovan
Newburyport
Elizabeth Emerson
Solomon A. Friend
Eien Hanlon
Russell M._ Little
Cleveland
Angela BE. Putnam
Danvers
George A. Radford
Peabody
Mary Rich
Hiram A. Tenney
Patrick Degnan
Lawrence
John, d. Quill
Joseph H. Quill
Ariel Cook
Eben Stocker
Timothy A. Alley
Asa Marston
Same
William, Marston
James A. Emmerton
Stackpole v Fenton tort action in Essex Court
The Superior Court in Essex County on February 18 hears Annie Stackpole's action for damages from injuries after being run over by the defendant's team. The defendant pleads a general denial with counsel J F Sisk H F Hurlburt for plaintiff and T J Emery for defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
Essex County
Mason
Jdl
Superior Court Hears Local Liquor Sentences
In Essex County on February 18, Judge Bishop sentenced several Lawrence residents for liquor offenses. Joseph Root paid $100 fine with $25 costs. Bernard Kelly $75 with $25 costs. John Lee $200 and $90 costs plus four months in the house of correction. Kate Cook $100 with $38 costs. Catherine O Connor $100 with $45 costs and six months. John E. King of Haverhill $100 with costs and three months in the house of correction. Ellen Daley six months in the house of correction. G W Simmons & Co advertises English waterproof overcoats at 32 to 44 North Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Criminal Court
Essex County
Bishop
Joseph Root
Lawrence
Bernard Kelly
John Lee
House of Correction
Kate Cook
Catherine O’connor
J . P John E. King
Haverhill
Ellen Daley
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Public Service Committee
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Taunton Lunatic Hospital
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Holyoke Water Power Company
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Suffolks
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America
Paris
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Lathrop
Mary A. Zahn
Boston & Albany Railroad
Joseph E. Zahn
North Grafton
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Ed Cox
John T. Wilson
Samuel Hoar
Melissa H. Ward
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R. W. Nason
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J. Q. A. Hubbard
Charles M. McFarland
Frederick J. Mann
James H. Ward
London Illustrated News
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W. A. Gaston
C. B. Southard
Pearin
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McFarland
Marn
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Fairbanks
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Cable Rubber Co
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Greer
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Terrell
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Burdick
Woodbury
H. A. Prentice Co
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Towsle
Whittle
James
Boston & Providence
loggn—Sawyer
Grant
Slattery
Greif
Goldman
Ayer
T. E. Hastings
Baltimore
John W. Brown
Oceana
Wanderlich
Scranton
T. P. Brown
Chester
G. W. Bowman
East Main St
Cnarlisle
Thomas F. Adams
Holly Springs, Texas
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Burton-on-Trent
England
John Fennell
Wevonshire
Bostome
South End
Doherty
Oriental Coal Co
Hand
Suffolk County
Meniat
J. Wills
John C. McDonald
George Davis
John McDonald
Mary Kelly
Ann Simpson
Emily A. Miller
Charles B. Shepard
Mathew Crawshaw
Abraham Jackson
Caroline Tuck
Annie Dupuy Ellis
Joseph T. Paul
Edward W. Brown
Shepherd F. Wilson
Emma F. Goodman
Caroline P. Leserve
Henry F. Clinton
John, Cronin
Helen C. James
Anna P. Boyce
Asbury F
G. W. Simmons & Co
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