National Fishery Convention Opens in Providence Port
The great national fisheries convention convened at the Pavilion Hotel with Luther Maddox presiding and George Steele named permanent chairman. Delegates from Virginia to Maine gathered to discuss unity of fishing interests and push for stronger protection and retaliation against Canadian policies harming American fleets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guaverstein
Pavilion Hotel
Luther Maddocks
George Steele
United States Oil, Menhaden and Guano Association
New York
American Fishery Union
W. A. Wilcox
American Fish Bureau
Charles Leys Woodbury
Fitz J. Babson
James Gifford
Provincetown
Daniel T. Church
Tiverton
Washington
United States
House of Representatives
Great Britain
England
Babson
Newfoundland
Cour Sea
Pergley
Canadian
Dominion
Canada
Minister of Marine and Fisheries of
Sylvester Cunningham
Gloucester
C. H. Pease
New Bedford
I C. Young
Wellfleet
D. T. Church
J. M. R. Sanford
S. Brown
Mystic Bridge
Conn
P. Benjamin
Fulton Market
George T. Tuttill
Greenpoint
N. Y
John Luce
Lewes
Del
F. Field
Egg Harbor
N. J
A. J
Eastport
Congress
Spencer F. Baird
United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries
Virginia
Maine
Cor
Ams
Hopkins Chosen as Miss Crocker Successor on School Board
At a board meeting the selection of a Crocker successor was decided with Mrs. Louisa P. Hopkins winning 17 of 22 votes. Also approved were teacher appointments, resignations, salary adjustments for truants, and requests for electric lighting and extended evening school sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucretia Crocker
Board of Supervisors
Louisa P. Hopkins
Sarah A. C. Bond
Susan Minns
Hopkins
Miss Minns
Bond
Committee On Accounts
Annie F. McMahon
Bunker Hill
Katherine W. Huston
George Putnam
Josephine Garland
Brimmer
Ida
Phabe H. Simpson
Lewis
Committee On
Assault on a Driver on North Avenue Leads to Arrest
A driver Hastings was knocked senseless on North avenue as a passenger attacked him with a sand bag or slingshot while Conductor Lewis brought the car to a stop. Officer Blinn arrested John Murphy, identified by the conductor, and Murphy will face arraignment.
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North Avenue
Lewis
Hastings
Porter’s
Porter’s Station
Harvard Square
Lucey
Station 1
Blinn
John Murphy
Murphy
Hawley
East Cambridge
Brighton Street
Boston
Portland Street
Grant
Webster Avenue
Cambridge
Bancroft
West Somerville
Worcester
Somerville
Thomas Keenan
Chelsea
Callahan
McElroy
Maee
Samuel Miller
Robert Miller
W. White
Jones
Linnell
Itis
Orentz
Walter van Si Yk
Thomas J. Durress
Francis J. McCarty
Charles McManus
Dennis Sheehan
John Collins
John Calhave
Edward Downey
William Coughlin
House of Correction
Warren Street
O'Connor
Mrs. Louisa P. Hopkins Chosen Supervisor
Mrs. Louisa P. Hopkins, newly elected supervisor, hails from Newburport and is about 50. She taught in Newburyport schools and has been a professor at Swain Free Academy in New Bedford teaching English literature and pedagogy. She has prepared teachers for public schools and authored notable works on education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisa P. Hopkins
Newburport
Swain Free Academy
New Bedford
City Notes Highlights From Evening Arts and Meetings
The Society of Arts meets at the Institute this evening with Dr F D Peters of Walpole presenting on copper mattes Bessemerizing. A temperance talk at Clarendon Street Church features Rev Mr Barnes on prison work. An Owen heater test occurs tomorrow at 11 before railroad commissioners in Fitchburg yard. William Ordway Partridge reads Keats at the Hotel Vendome with Albert Van Raalte assisting. next reading March 1 covers Shelley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of Arts
Institute
F. D. Peters
Walpole
Clarendon Street
Montgomery
Barnes
Massachusetts State Prison
Owen
Fitchburg Railroad Company
William Ordway Partridge
Keats
Hotel Vendome
St. Agnes
Partridge
Albert van Raalte
Shelley
The Late Albert Morse Remembered
At a February 21 1887 meeting of the Boston Merchants Association a funeral committee was named and resolutions adopted praising Albert Morse a longtime business man and friend The group expressed sympathy to his family and noted his nearly forty years in the same line of business
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Morse
Boston Merchants’ Association
Changes in the German Reichstag 1871 to 1884
The Pall Mall Gazette charts Reichstag party representation in 1871 and 1884. It lists Conservatives 57, Reichspartei 37, Liberals 30, National Liberals 125, Fortschrittpartei 46, Centrum 63, Poles 13, Social Democrats 2, Volkspartei 1, Guelphs 5, Autonomists 2, Danish party 1. By 1884 Conservatives 78, Reichspartei 28, Liberals 1, National Liberals 50, Freisinnigen 67, Centrum 99, Social Democrats 24, Poles 16, Volkspartei 7, Guelpis 11, Alsacers 15, Danish party 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pall Mall Gazette
Reichstag
Conservatives
Reichspartei
Liberals
National Liberals
Fortschrittapartei
Centrum
Social Democrats
Volkspartei
Guelphs
Alsace Party
Freisinnige
Fortschrittspartei
Liberal Party
Freisiningen
Volkspartel
Guelpis
Alsacers
No Strike Visible on South Boston Street Railway
Report states there is no evidence of a strike on the South Boston street railway. Cars operated on all regular lines through last night except the Federal street or white line which ran until 6 PM, with no police presence observed on cars yesterday or last evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay View Line
Fourth Street
Bay View
Broadway
Dover
Federal Street
O’ Day and Hayes
Station 4
John Maloney
Federal and
Kneeland Streets
Coolidge
South
Mather’s Juliet at Boston Theatre Receives Candid Critique
The Boston Theatre audience saw Miss Mather as Juliet with a faulted, fixed elocutionary style that hinders growth though flashes of ardor appear in key scenes. Paulding’s Romeo shines enough to cover notable flaws as the ensemble delivers a vivid production with lavish scenery and costumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juliet
Miss Mather
Boston
London Assurance
Mrs Langtry Returns to Boston Theatres for One Week
Mrs Langtry brings her new Boston engagement to the Boston Theatre for one week with Lady Clancarty on Monday. Robert B Mantell starts a short Globe Theatre run in Fangled Lives after a New York success. seats are selling briskly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue Theatre
New York
Antoinette Rigaud
Museum
Fin Mae Cool
Hollis Street
Kerry
Boucicault
Hollis Street Theatre
Fin Mac Cool
Public meeting on women workers in Tremont Temple
A Tremont Temple public meeting on March 1 at 7 30 PM will be held under the auspices of multiple reform groups including the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the New England Woman's Club to support employing women as police. Notable endorsers listed include Archbishop Williams Rev R R Meredith Rev EB Packard and Rev Phillips Brooks among others. A separate report notes a Pittsee Pennsylvania incident where a scaffold collapsed at Valentine's furnaces in Bellefort killing seven bricklayers who were all single men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Senate of the
Congress
Cogswell
Sam
New England
Fishery Union
Canadian
Washington
D. T. Church
Tiverton
R. J
R. C. Greene
Eastport
C. J. Morse
I. M. Russell
Virginia
National Fishery Association
Tremont Temple
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woman's Educational and Industrial Union
Moral Education Association
New England Woman's Club
Massachusetts Home For Intemerate Women
Moral Reform Society
Ladies’ Physiological Institute
New England Woman's Press Association
Wintering & Dixon of
Pittsee
Valentine’s Furnaces
Bellefort
Penn
Dominion of Canada election returns show Conservatives lead
Feb 28 Toronto report lists 110 Conservatives 86 Liberals 4 Independents. Provincial breakdowns show New Brunswick Prince Edward Island British Columbia totals with eleven constituencies still to be heard from. results expected to be about equally divided between Conservatives and Liberals.
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Toronto
Ont
Atives
Als
Pen’s. Ntn
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
British Columbia
Court cross libels over schooner collision near Chatham Light
United States District Court proceedings on February 23 arise from a collision on the night of March 9 1885 six miles off Chatham Light between the schooner Hanley bound from Rockland to New York laden with lime and the Woodbury from Boston to Washington with copper bolts. The Han ley suffered total loss. Attorneys W W Dodge for Cobb et al and C I Russell Jr for Woodbury represent the parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States District Court
Nelson
J. Francis Cobb
Nellie Woodbury
Woodbury
D. Hodges
Francis Cobb
Charles Hanley
Chatham Light
Hanley
Rockland
New York
Boston
Washington, D.C
W. W. Dodge
Cobb Et al
C. I. Russell, Jr
Superior Court First Session Docket and Trials Listed
The record lists cases heard and scheduled at the First Session on September 23, including George C. Rockwell et al. versus George F. Libby et al. for $309 on potatoes, various civil actions, insurance disputes, and takings damages. It notes defenses, verdicts, and attorneys for both sides across multiple dockets, with details of names, case numbers, and outcomes.
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Superior Court
Brigham
George C. Rockwell
George F. Libby
C. Moulton
F. C. Loring
F. W. Qua
G. Bement
Watson
Webster
Locke
Porter
Corrugated W. F. Co
Packard
Carr
Boston & Maine Railroad Co
Guernsey
Sebley
Fenno
Gay
McCaffrey
Jennings
Pray
Bird
Ferris
Crane
Mattison
Doe
Hanson
Same
Hay
Metropolitan Railroad Company
Gallivan
Brothers
Lease
Gaylord
Digney
Hall
Daley
Aldrich
J. No
Nashua Savings Bank
Quincy Inst
Fire Insurance Company
Savin Hill
T. J. Gargan
C. W. Bartlett
B. W. Harris
Mary E. R. Jones
City of
Boston
Utica Street
W.H. H. Emmons
R. W. Nason
Patrick Donnelly
Boston Catholic Cemetery Association
Calvary Cemetery
West Roxbury
John McDonald
McDonald
J. L. Eldredge
Co. L. B. Whitney
Morgan
Wright
Fame
Kelley
Boston & Albany
Hood
Cambridge
Finn
Neagle
Phillips
Sears
Johnson
Hale
Seary
Fanning
Clark
Samie
Smith
Pillsbury
Burns
Duntfy
Horn
Charter Oak L. Ins. Co
Blackstone Natl. Bank
McNeeley
Donnelly
Church
Smith & Anthony Shoe Co
Reynolds
Lerner
Cunningham
McGinnis
Cummings
McHale
Wood
Mallemore
Pettengill
Com
Sense Fert. Co
Furness
Bennett
Barker
Supreme Court Rescripts Issue in Essex County Case
Feb. 23 reports from Salem show the Supreme Judicial Court delivering rescripts to the clerk in Essex County. In the case John Hogan versus John Barry the court orders judgment on the verdict as entered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Judicial Court
Essex County
Supreme Court
Salem
John Hogan
John Barry
Plaintiff's Easement Case Denies Contract Claim
In Perry v Hale the plaintiff asserts an easement but the defendant did not erect the nuisance. Facts show no request to remove it and the court directs judgment on the verdict, ruling the plaintiff cannot maintain a contract action against the defendant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kelly
Kilduff
Wiggin
Scoville
Jones
S. J. Elder
H. K. Brayley
F. Hunt
Augustine H. Goelet
Anna Atherton
E. B. Callender
Lewis Gerardin
T. J. Homer
Jury Awards and Court Docket at February Session
In Reagan versus Goodhue and Maloney versus the same, juries ruled for the plaintiffs, one awarding 1000 dollars and the other 500, with counsel F. L. Washburn and S. K. Hamilton, respectively. Several cases waived for February 24, 1352 through 1756, listed with parties. Meanwhile Washington’s birthday songs delighted wards of Mutdock Free Surgical Hospital for Women, performed by Lewis, Short, and Smart and Rice. The West End boys receive twenty new library volumes donated by Mrs. C. A. Slack, a lasting reminder of the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reagan
Goodhue
Maloney
Same
F. L. Washburn
S. K. Hamilton
McLaughlin
Murphy
Cobb Et al
Guyer
Nichols
Burbank
Laker
Parsons
Partridge
Rev
Rice
Wood
Spinney
Count
Currie
Hazlett
Exley
Kendrick
Daniels & Trs
Herrick
Dyer
Mut Dock Free Surgical Hospital
Washington
Charles L. Lewis
James Short
Clara E.smart
Emma Rice
Barnaby
Heaven
Reinberger
Woodbird
West End
C. A. Slack
Unusual Stir in Kingston Over Hunts Remedy Endorsed
A Kingston correspondent reports that Hunt's Remedy, praised by Jere Smith and his father Cornelius B. Smith, sparked broad local discussion. Kingston Freeman manager W H Winton and several druggists confirm widespread belief in the medicine’s life-saving qualities and rising demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Globe
Globe
Jere Smith
Cornelius B. Smith
State Insurance Department
Kingston Freeman
W. H. Winton
Smith
Mr. Winton
Hunt
Jera Smith
Edwin H. Fasset
Kingston
Wm. D
Brennier
Messrs. Cooper
Winchell
Winthrop
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Miss Crocker
Board of Supervisors of Schools
City Notes
the Theatres
Hialion S. Hugh O’ Brien
Mayo
F. O. Prince
Williams
R. R. Meredith
EB. N. Packard
A. A. Miner
Joshua P. Bodfish
Cathedral
J. W. Ballentine
Rabbi Schindler
Phillips Brooks
Frederic Courtney
George A. Gordon
Philip 8
Moxom
John Boyle O'Reilly
Caleb D. Bradlee
Kk. E. Hale
James Reed
Thomas J. Gargan
George O. Shattuck
William Gaston
James L. Little
John Mason Little
Thomas Mack
Frank B. Sanborn
E. J. Osborne
TR. M. Pulsifer
Charles H. Taylor
W.E. Barrett
Dominion of Canada
Fendants
Mary E. White
North Russell Street
IT. M. Babson
Dame
Kempster
Alien
McKenna
Lockhart
Kern
Goelet
Athertor
McLean
Keene Granite Co
Winters
Dodge
Greene
Toohey
Keeler
Connelly
Lyons
Fay
Burt
Morton
Holt
Cudworth
Martin
Ames
Osgood
Harris
Iune
Laimson Cash Railway
North River Bank
Kiernan. ‘Evidence Railroad. ' Co. Vs
Same. Fairbanks
Tercsipe
Missouri Trust Company
Cleveland, Whitney & Co Bankers and Brokers
Exchange Place
Bostok