Shipping Bounty Bill Faces House Conference Delay
Washington reports Speaker Reed delays the House conferrees on the international copyright bill after the Senate approved it. Congressman Simonds presses to move the bill from the table to the Conference Committee as the fate of the measure hangs on Reed’s timing. Delays threaten passage with Senate already crowded and opposition growing.
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Washington
Sprcint
Reed
Senate
House
Simonds
Connecticut
George William Curtis
James Russell Lowell
Carl Schurz
Shipping Bill Moves in House Amid Debate and Lobbying
The shipping bounty bill faces a Friday House vote after a 139 to 114 favoring order. debate starts tomorrow and runs two days. Congressman Candler of Massachusetts opposes the bill and proposes a substitute for a mail subsidy with free ships, hoping to sway GOP members though unlikely to defeat the measure. Senate fate hinges on conference talks with possible talks to death by opponents and a powerful lobbying effort shaping the outcome before March 4.
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House
Congressman Candler
Massachusetts
Candler
Conference
Post Office at Tarpaulin Cove Authorized
Congressman Randall secured a new post office at Tarpaulin Cove on Naushon Island with E. E. Howes as postmaster. The facility serves passing vessels and local residents, receiving and forwarding mail to Woods Hole. It aims to streamline communications for about 1800 anchoring vessels and 8000 passers in Vineyard Sound.
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Tarpaulin Cove
Randall
Postoffice Department
Vineyard Sound
Naushon Island
E. E. Howes
Woods Hall
Howes
Delver
Sound
Presque Island Club
Relief of the Supreme Court Bill Reaches Agreement
Conferees on the relief bill for the United States Supreme Court met this afternoon and reached an agreement. The bill provides for an additional United States circuit judge on each circuit and the creation of a Circuit Court of Appeals in each circuit with final jurisdiction in many cases now appealable to the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
United States
Circuit Court of Appeals
SMALL PLATES OF GLASS FOR SCIENCE IMPORT RULES
Assistant Secretary Spaulding informs the Springfield customs surveyor that small glass plates with natural history specimens attached for microscopic study may enter free when imported for cabinets or as scientific objects not for sale. If imported for sale they face 45 percent ad valorem duty as glass cut, and mail imports would be subject to seizure.
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Spaulding
Springfield
Direct Tax Bill Senate to Accept House Amendment
The Senate will likely agree to the House sole amendment to the direct tax bill, avoiding any need for a conference. The move signals smooth passage and aligns both chambers on the tax measure.
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Senate
House
Trade With the South and Chicago Exhibit Discussed
The Shoe and Leather Exchange at 126 Bedford Street debated expanding export trade with Central and South American republics and whether New England shoe interests should be represented at the Chicago World’s Fair. A committee was appointed to handle Chicago representation.
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Central and
South America
Shoe and Leather Exchange
Bedford Street
Claflin
F. W. Breed
Shoe
Chicago Exposition
W. B. Rice
E. 8
Converse
E. H. Cutler
V. A. Hunter
Asa Cushman
F. E. Emery
Williamb. Ulatiin
Thomas E. Proctor
J. R. Leeson
John Ruttle
Andrew G. Webster
Edward H. Dunn
G. H. P. Flagg
A. L. Coolidge
Daniel F. Murphy
New England
Kingston
Jamaica
Murphy
Boston
Caring for the Sick at Beacon Street District Nurses
At a yesterday annual meeting the district nursing group outlined a successful year. Nurses served seven of ten districts under Boston Dispensary physicians with two district managers each. Summary shows 2614 patients and 32 303 visits. 541 loaned articles with 30 lost or unusable. Finances: opening balance 110 433 dollars, receipts 389 766, expenditures 470 949. 5 500 dollars needed next year.
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Beacon Street
Boston
Otis Norcross
Marlborough Gereee
A. E. Wheelright
William Appleton
Mary Russell
Wiliam Endicott, Jr
Francis Minot
Charles D. Homans
5.T. Hooper
Vincent Y. Bowditch
Lewis William Tappan, Jr
George Wigglesworth
Storm Swept Voyage of the Samuel B Hale
The Portland bark Samuel B Hale arrived in Boston after a perilous passage from the river Platte. Capt Guptill reports bad weather from leaving the river until Point India, with gales and heavy seas. A sea swept the cabin, flooding the ship and creating a leak, and by Feb 22 a NW gale brought it within 37 miles of Martinique Light. Crew pumped continuously, exhaust marked arrival. docked at Morse’s yard for temporary leak fix before unloading cargo.
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Portland
Samuel B. Hale
Boston
Platte
Guptill
Point India
Martinicus Light
Morse’s Yard
East
National Dock
St Pauls Church to Remain on Tremont Street
At a Tuesday meeting of St Pauls Church proprietors the decision was made not to sell the Tremont street property. The vote ends a two year dispute and ensures the landmark church will stay put for at least a decade, with further action likely delaying any relocation or new construction.
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St. Paul’s Church
Tremont Street
Commander Veazey Adds Aides With Staff Appointments
General Orders No 16 from the Adjutant-General of the Grand Army of the Republic appoints named comrades as aides-de-camp to the Commander-in-Chief with reporting duties and instructions. It lists aides for multiple states and ends noting acting assignments and mourning orders for porters and generals.
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Grand Army OF the Republic
Rutland
Adjutant-General
Arkansas
Hubbard Stone
Fort Smith
W. F. Grove
Little Rock
California
George W. Hopkins
Arcata
Idaho
William H. Gussler
Shoshone
Charles A. Clark
Boise City
Illinois
E. F. Cleveland
Dundee
Iowa
John Hogarth Lozier
Mt. Vernon
Massachusetts
B. N. Adams
Boston
I F. Spach
Charles 5. Shattuck
Hatfield
William H. Lee
South Boston
Edgar J. Bliss
Beverly
W. M. Wires
Lynn
Charles C. Adams
Michigan
Tyler J. Wells
Napoleon Pepin
Detroit
R. A. Beach
Hudson
Swanton
West Virginia
Henry Raymond
Admiral Porter
General Sherman
Blaine Faces Britain Over Latin America Trade Powers
The Blaine reciprocity push under the McKinley tariff may falter as Britain’s wide network of Latin American treaties with most favored nation clauses limits concessions. Treaties with Argentina Bolivia Chile Colombia Costa Rica Equador Paraguay Uruguay Salvador and others grant reciprocal privileges, potentially constraining U S tariff aims and inviting British pressure at Southern capitals.
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Wasuteron
Latin America
United Provinces
Rio de la Plata
Bolivia
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Equador
Paraguay
Uruguay
Salvador
Great Britain
Mexico
British Foreign Office
England
United States
Blaine
A Worthy Cause Supports Boston Homeopathic Dispensary
Boston homoeopathic physicians met at the Medical College on East Concord Street led by Dr. J. T. Talbot. They urged public funds to complete the dispensary building, estimate $60,000 for full completion and a forty bed maternity wing, and planned a charity fair at Horticultural Hall from May 11 to May 16, 1891.
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Homœopathic Physicians of
Boston and Vicinity
Medical Collge
East Concord Street
J. T. Talbot
M. W. Turner
Horticultural Hall
Bei Aring
J. H. Payne
G. K. Southwick
A. B. Church
C. E. Gary
M. E. Mosher
N. W. Emerson
W. 8. Smith
A. H. Powers
Boston Vessel Kennard Lost at Fayal on Feb 10
A private cable reports the bark Kennard, of Boston, with her passengers and cargo, was wrecked at Fayal in a gale on February 10 during the bark's seventeenth voyage to the Azores. All hands saved. cargo and ship total losses, insured for $40,000. Passengers included Dr George A Craigin and others from Boston and Evanston. The Kennard, 592 tons, had just been reclassed. TREACY between Boston and the Azores remains the sole vessel.
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E. A. Adams
Kennard
Fayal
Western Islands
Boston
Azores
George A. Craigin
John Heard, Jr
John Leeds Heard
Charles N. Fairchild
Daniel Kimball
W. W. Nicholls
Roger L. Douglass
Florence Rodgers
Evanston
Ill
H. R. Frazer
New York
Sarah
Adams
Lectures and notices from Boston society events
A long list of Boston area lectures and events is reported. Prof Currie spoke on Browning, Rev Savage lectured on self improvement, and various societies held meetings and receptions at local venues including the Metropolitan Hotel and Roxbury Thorndike.
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Currie
School of Expression
Browning
M. J. Savage
Norfolk and
Capen Streets
First
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery Association
Metropolitan Hotel
John Mitchell Galvin
Boston
Owen A. Galvin
P. F. McDonald
Union Hall
Charles Follen Adams
Vermont
Woodbury & Leighton
Washington Street
Welles Avenue
Walton Street
Roxbury Woman Suffrage League
Thorndike
New England Historic Genealogial Society
Somerset Street
W. C. Winslow
D.D
L.L.D
Holland
Winslow
Executive Council Nominates Two Officials at State House
At the State House meeting the Governor named Willard Allen of Boston for District Court of East Boston clerk and Elbridge Cushman of Lakeville to join the State Board of Agriculture, term to expire for Dr. George B. Loring. Both nominations laid over until next Council session. Steamer Valencia arrived from Matanzas via Newport News after a rapid fourteen day round trip, a record noted as seldom equaled. Mrs Piper, mother of Mrs Charles West, died in Somerville and her husband died of heart disease near Summer and School streets. Medical Examiner Durell viewed the remains.
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Executive Council
State House
Willard 8. Allen
Boston
District Court of
East Boston
Elbridge Cushman
Lakeville
State Board of Agriculture
George B. Loring
Valencia
Miller
Matanzas
Newport News
Piper
Charles West
Laurel Street
Somerville
Summer
School Streets
Durell
Brookline Police Shifts Remodeled With Duty Reassignments
B C Clark moves to day duty after years as night sergeant at Brookline police station. Charles McCausland, six months as day sergeant and prior as night mounted sergeant, shifts to night duty to relieve Sergeant Dear.
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B. C. Clark
Brookline
Charles McCausland
Dear
Obituary of Horatio J Perry and Other Deaths
Horatio Justus Perry died in Lisbon on the 23rd inst after a long US government career. Born in Keene New Hampshire, Harvard graduate 1844, he served as Secretary of Legation in Madrid and diplomat during the Civil War, helping neutralities with Spain and Cuba. He married in 1852 to Don Nicholas Coronado’s daughter, with two daughters survive. Other death notices include General Robert McAllister of New Jersey and Mrs Matilda Vose aged 102 of Hyde Park, plus several local obituaries and short notices from Dedham to Roxbury.
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Horatio Justus Perry
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Portugal
United States
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N. H
Harvard College
Francis Parkman
Leverett Saltonstall
Tappan E. Francis
Brookline
Benjamin A. Gould
George 8. Hale
Charles J. Capen
Boston Latin School
Perry
Dane Law School
General Shields
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Spain
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Sumter
Cadiz
Gibraltar
Mr. Perry
Don Nicholas Coronado
Badajoz
Robert McAllister
Belvidere
N.J
Juniata County
Penn
New Jersey Regiment
Bull Run
Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers
Kearney
Antietam
South Mountain
Gettysburg
Hatch’s Run
Appomattox
Lee
Matilda Vose
Hyde Park
Green Lodge
Dedham
Jesse Vose
Milton
Bush Hill Road
Vose
Maple Street
Mt. Neponset
Warsaw
Baronne de Kronenberg
Mlle
Josephine de Beazké
Jean
Edouard de Reszké
New York
B. Foster
East Main Street
Orange
First Congregational Church
Barton
Somerville
Mabel
G. E
J. Barton
Burgess
Cataumet
Mass
Mary
Aaron L. Burgess
Damon
Marshfield Hills
East Marshfield
Almira L
Calvin Damon
Franks
Rockford
Roxbury
Frederick Franks
Wilder
South Hingham
William C. Wilder
Johann Hoff Malt Extract Crowned Court Purveyor
The Empress Elizabeth’s recovery from illness with Johann Hoff's Malt Extract led to Emperor Francis Joseph appointing Hoff Purveyor to the Austrian Court and awarding him the Golden Cross and Crown. Hoff’s Extract became world famous with half a million bottles imported annually into the United States.
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Elizabeth
Austria
Johann Hoff
Francis Joseph
Wilaim
United States
Berlin
Bae Messrs, Eisner & Mendelson Co
Newark
Growing Old Gracefully In Old Age Health Card
Dr Gardner argues aging can be delayed with care and proper use of pure whiskey. He cites science and experience supporting alcoholic stimulants, recommending Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a safe, life renewing tonic when obtained from a trusted druggist.
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Dr. Gardner
Dr.Gardner
Duffy
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