Our New Navy shows Whitney push home industry
Barrmore, Feb. 24 The Sun reviews Secretary Whitney work in rebuilding the navy. He halted foreign armor and gun steel purchases and built a domestic plant program with Bethlehem Iron Company. By June 1, 1887 the United States would have a top armor and gun forgings facility. Guns are forged at the Washington Navy Yard and the Maine's construction proceeds in New York, with no scandal or favoritism cited as proof of naval department reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Whitney
Bethlehem Iron Company
United States
Maine
New York
Whitney
Washington Navy Yard
Navy Department
Panama Resolution Reaffirms Monroe Doctrine Policy
Washington reports the House foreign affairs committee majority backs adoption of the Edmunds Panama resolution. It warns against any European involvement in Panama or Nicaragua canals, warning of European domination and urging continued adherence to Monroe doctrine principles echoed since 1823. The note cites prior related resolutions and stresses national sovereignty, warns against colonial entanglements, and urges steadfast policy as canal projects proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
McCreary
Chipman
Ketcham
Phelns
Hitt
Rockwell
Morrow
Senate
Our Republic
Congress
Burnside
Crapo
Morgan
Central America
United States
Panama Canal
Nicarauga Canal
Europe
Colombia
Nicaraugua
Panama
Nicaragua
France
Great Britain
Central
South America
Monroe
Needs of the Indian in Dakota Territory
Bishop Hare of Dakota urges care for the Indians at St. Paul’s, praising the Dakota League of Massachusetts. He argues civilization has taken their independence, urges land reform with 160 acre allotments, schooling as social order, and Christian instruction to restore the Indian’s sense of manliness and faith. He cites 30,000,000 acres taken in ten years and calls for settlers to aid a self supporting, law abiding future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Church
Tremont Street
Bishop Hare
Dakota
Dakota League of
Massachusetts
Nathan
David
Uriah
Christ
Ewe Lamb
Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Promoted for Women's Health
An advertisement extols Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a health aid for women, claiming it strengthens body and mind when used in moderation. It asserts many American women, including ministers' wives and professors' wives, use it as medicine rather than a drink and warns to choose only genuine, pure product amid inferior imitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Election outrages debate over Louisiana 1888 election
Senator Hoar's resolution to probe alleged election violence and fraud, including Louisiana's April 16 1888 election, was debated in the Senate. Mr Daniel denounced the move as a attack on states rights and a challenge to republican government, while Hoar defended constitutional authority and urged inquiry into ballots, canvasses, and alleged conspiracies. The vote on postponing failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Louisiana
Harris
Gorman
Yeas
Daniel
New England
Chandler
Virginia
Reuben Cole
William Smith
Great Britain
Senate
New Hampshire
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Hoar
Congress
Tates
Dakota
South
Lousiana
Mr. Daniel
Massachusetts
Creek land cession ratified in House amid sparse attendance
In Washington on February 24 the House failed to set aside the 10 o’clock session, a quorum forming late. Chairman Peel won passage of a Senate bill ratifying a Creek nation land cession in Oklahoma with the president backing the treaty. Creeks to receive 2,280,857.10 dollars. Senate amendments to the Cox census bill expanded inquiries into veteran counts and racial classifications while detailing recorded indebtedness of private entities. The chamber then tackled the deficiency bill with several amendments, including a proposal for extra salaries for House staff and Capitol police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinctton
House
Peel
Arkansas
Committee On
Indian Affairs
Senate
Oklahoma
Cummings
Capitol
Congressional strain and adjournment honoring General Barnes
Members discussed Congress length and overwork with night sessions and casualties among staff. A resolution honored General Barnes of Missouri, followed by eulogies from several members. the House adjourned in respect to General Burnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
House
Committee On Appropriations
Mr. Cummings
Hatch
General Barnes
Missouri
Messrs. Dockery
Randall
Henderson
Breckinridge
Long
Sayers
Butterworth
Ryan
Holman
Burnes
Handel and Haydn Concert at Music Hall Review
The Handel and Haydn Society's second season concert drew a large audience at Music Hall last night featuring Verdi's Manzoni Requiem and Mendelssohn's Hear My Prayer motet. Soloists Miss Elizabeth C Hamlin Miss Clara Poole Mr Albert Lester King and Mr Giuseppe Campanari performed with mixed success amid notes of intonation and role-fit challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Handel and Haydn Society
Music Hall
Mendelssohn
Elizabeth C. Hamlin
Clara Poole
Albert Lester King
Giuseppe Campanari
Verdi
Lac
Mr. Campanari
Brahms and Liszt Program Promised for Early Week
Mr Otto Bendix unveils an engaging concert next week featuring a Brahms sonata two rhapsodies and a scherzo with works by Chopin Schumann and Liszt. Louis C Elson will provide analysis in a brief lecture. G W Chadwick is scoring a new orchestral piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Bendix
Brahms
Chopin
Schumann
Liszt
Louis C. Elson
Albani Returns to Headline Winter Concerts at Music Hall
Mme Albani, absent five years, stands among top living sopranos alongside Patti. She brings a London ensemble and a full orchestra under Signor Bevignani for Covent Garden quality performances in concert, opera, and oratorio. Tickets for evening and matinee are on sale at Music Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albani
Mme
Patti
Mme. Albani
London
Signor Bevignani
Covent Garden
Music Hall
Canadian Pacific Boston Express Delayed By Snow
The Boston express from Montreal ran 12 below zero and did not reach Montreal until just after noon. Passengers aboard, mainly Bostonians and locals, had eaten since 5 pm the previous day and complained about the delay caused by a locomotive accident at Newport. A formal complaint to the company is threatened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Spzer
Canadian Pacific Railway
Boston Expres
Newport
A Pew System Reform Question From Boston 1889
Letter to the editor argues the pew system should fund public worship fairly. It questions free offerings, urges broader, equal contributions from all worshippers, and seeks a practical reform for clergy independence and shared costs. Boston, February 16, 1889.
Obituary of William Barbour City Engineer of Cambridge
William H Barbour longtime Cambridge city engineer died at his home No 14 Cottage Street He was born in Boston in December 1834 and moved to Cambridge as a boy He studied civil engineering at Lawrence Scientific School Harvard College and worked with W A Mason Co He specialized in horse railroad engineering and later led Cambridge's engineering office from 1876 until his death He married Julia Battis of Roxbury in 1862 and leaves two sons Fred F and Eddie H Barbour He belonged to Charles River Baptist Church Knights of Honor ASCE and New England Water Works Association
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William 8. Barbour
Cambridge
Cottage Street
Boston
Lawrence Scientific School
Harvard College
W. A. Mason
W. A. Mason & Co
Arthur Hodges
Mr. Barbour
Julia H. Battis
Roxbury
Fred F
Eddie H. Barbour
Charles River Baptist Church
The
Knights of Honor
American Society of Civil Engineering
New England Water Works Association
Deaths of Dr Horace Stevens and others in Cambridge and Lawrence
Dr Horace Stevens of Cambridge dies at his son's home after a long illness. Born in Plymouth New Hampshire in 1816 he trained at the University of Vermont and Dartmouth and practiced in Stanstead and Skowhegan before moving to Cambridge about a decade ago. Also noted are the deaths of Enoch Saville of Lawrence aged 46 from bowel cancer with lodge affiliations and Charles C Weeks, a retired Boston police officer who died at 50 in Dorchester after a long service starting in 1870.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Stevens
Cambridge
E. H. Stevens
Piermont
N. H
University of Vermont
Dartmouth College
Stanstead
Canada
Skowhegan
Stevens
First Maine Cavalry
Enoch Saville
Lawrence
Charles Street
Lawrence Lodge
Kentsarge
LO. O. F
Canton Agawam
Lawrence Lodge of Elks
Atlantic Mill
Charles C. Weeks
Granite Avenue
Dorchester
Boston
Mortgagee's Sale of Beckler Property in South Boston
Mortgagee John A Stetson will auction three parcels in South Boston on March 20 1889 at 11am under a power of sale from a 1887 Beckler mortgage. The properties include parcels on Thomas Park and East Sixth Street with multiple prior mortgages to Home Savings Bank John M Moore and Denis O Reilley and a second mortgage to Stetson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel W. Keckler
Boston
John A. Stetson
South
William Peer C.E
Suffolk
Keckler
John M. Porter
Eliot Five Cents Savings Bank
Daniel W. Beckler
Dee
William Kelley
C.E
N Street
Beckler
Sunfolk
John A Stetson
South Boston
Thomas Park
Walbridge
Gogin
Tosid Beckler
Thomas Gogin
Home Savings Bank
John M. Moore
Hamilton Mayo
East Sixth Street
K_ streets
Said Street
Conley
Said Beckler
Evans
Sarah H. Draper
K Steets
Denis O’reilley
Said Becker
Thomas Rayner
Oun
A. Sletson
Mortgazee
Arthur H. Stock
Alfred B. Wilton
Porchester
Mary W. Sumner
C. D. Capen
Tolman Street
J. W. Roberson
George K. Gannett
Mortagee
A. & J. R. Churchill
Devonshire Street
Municipal Court
Dorchester
City of
Thomas Arthur James
Charless H. Wetmore
John M. B. Churchill
Lund
William Veazie
Chipman Street
Jas. W. Currier
Cough Syrup and Salvation Oil Boon Priced at 25 Cents
A London era advert notes Dr Bull's Cough Syrup offered at 25 cents a bottle while promising relief and a boon to the afflicted. The promo mentions 10 mills per cent and 2% dimes as pricing shorthand in the sales pitch.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frow
Marlowe
Beethoven
Dvorak
J. Seb
L. v
Gluck
Bach
G. W. Chadwick
Musical Times of London
Touriée
Milan
Musical Times
Italy
di Murska
Gobba
Mme. von Czedik
Paderewski
Mme. Essipoff
Vienna
Meyerbeer
Nevada
Rome
Paris
Charles Halle
Newcastle
Weber
Arthur Weld
Wagner
Mme. Nordica
Walter Damrosch
Chickering Hall
Boston Theatre
William Ludwig
Adelaide Mullen
Anie Layton
Henry Beaumont
Heinrich Schuecker
Kendal Irwin
Ludwig
Schucker
Edward B. Berry
F. 8. Seeley
Erwin Z. Smith
Tremont School of Music
MR. Hoar
Hie
Mr. Perabo
Arthur Gordon Weld
Weld
Detroit
St. Thomas’s
New York & New England Railroad
Washington, D. C
Harrison
All Rail
Newbugh
Norwich
Washington St
Summer St
A. C. Kendall
Gen. Pass
E. P. Vining
W. S. Barbour
Richards & CO
Francis Sprague & CO
General Auctioneers
Milk Street
Hoosac Tunnel Dock
Water Street
Charles Town
Antwerp
Charles F. Libbie
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Steamship
Victoria
Sorrento Oranges
Palermo
Fruit Landing
Pier 2
Long Wharf
Florida Oranges
Snow & CO
North Market St
Fulton St
Almeria
Albert Howe & Co
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
J. P. Dunsmore
Herald
J.P. Dunsmore
CIT
Board OF Street Commissioners
Wachusett Street
West Roxbury
Roxbury Grammar School
John W. Morrison
Webster
Box 12
Station D
Waanfed
Major Tenace
Huckins & Coo
Horder Street
State St
Hroom
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