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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1892
Page
2
A Boston Post report details slow progress of the Russian Bread Fund as Philadelphia’s efforts gain attention. Treasurers Kidder, Peabody & Co. say subscriptions come in but vaults lack pressure, with funds around 3000 dollars and little public excitement.
Dr. J. Mott-Smith of Boston has been appointed minister resident of Hawaii at Washington, filling a role created after Minister Carter’s illness and death. A veteran of Hawaiian affairs since 1851, he will not relocate to Washington, though he has extensive Hawaiian interests and past cabinet positions. The note explains sugar tariff shifts under McKinley and potential treaty changes affecting Hawaii.
The Mail and Express reports from Washington that Grover Cleveland plans to refrain from acting as a bolter. He will urge his former treasurer not to press a May convention and will instead back delegates from other states to Chicago while sustaining anti-Hill efforts in New York.
The Post’s candle puzzle draws Wiley numbers from readers including Dr Sherman of Camden Maine and Hill School students who mail in coupon entries for a first prize. Readers submit time estimates ranging from hours to seconds with names and locations such as Medford Massachusetts East Blue Hill Maine Northampton Massachusetts Fall River and Lynn.
A long wax candle six feet high and beeswax weighs fifty six pounds. The wick is three eighths inch, socket three inches deep. The candle will be lit at 14 o'clock noon on March 1 with time keepers present. Readers are invited to guess its burn time for prizes to Chicago World’s Fair excursions. Governor Russell estimates seven hundred hours and Mayor Matthews six hundred.
The Berlin unrest centers on a mass mob marching to the castle gates shouting to the castle and singing the Marseillaise. Police clash with rioters in hand to hand fighting as women and children join the fray, and authorities arrest several leaders amid fears of a broader uprising.
The Boston Common Council debated whether to investigate Mayor Matthews’s handling of Deer Island disturbances. Norris, Quinn, and others pressed for inquiry to uncover alleged missteps, while some council members urged honoring the mayor’s veto and avoiding further upheaval. The session echoed tensions between executive action and legislative oversight amid ongoing public concerns about institutional conditions.
A Boston backed prospectus asserts that New England investors should trust Cotton Picker stock due to endorsements from Boston chamber officials and 250 leading citizens, though the factory is in Waco Texas. The claim: machines cut costs 85 percent and produce cleaner cotton, saving southern growers nearly a hundred million dollars yearly. Shares are sold at 31 Milk Street office.
Get the Best Dedham and Albany Streets Boston Veterinary Hospital treats and boards horses at $1.50 per day. Dr Edwarda C Beckett, DOCS, Ue Daniel Db. Lier 50c. Dr Wilbert Soule attends seeing forge at regular rates. Calls answered day and night by telephone 092 Tremont. Attending Surgeons
The record states passage of the order with the Mayor's veto disregarded. Yeas numbered 29 and Nays 42, listing members Banks Bates Boyd Briggs Burrage Clark Cressy Doherty N Doherty Draper Everett Folsom Hallstrom Hariey Lynch McGuinness Norris O'Hara Parker J P Patterson Pierce J Quinn N Quinn Ratshesky Robbins A C Smith Weston Young among the Yeas, with Arthur Barry Callahan Carroll Cochrane Curley Dean Dolan Donovan Farrell Finneran Fitzgerald Flynn Forbush Goodenough Gore Gormley Graham Healy Riggins Keenan Lyons McClellan McLaughlin Merrill Murphy O'Brien A J Patterson Proctor Reinhart Ricker Scates P Smith Spring Stalker Sullivan Sullivan Talbot Teeling Toland Welch absent and not voting: Beiler Coughlin Daunt Tierney.
Alfred Martin aged 38 is held at Station 1 for stealing an overcoat and a dress coat owned by E R Nutter of 16 Mills Street. Martin was nabbed after letters belonging to Nutter were found in a coat he attempted to pawn, revealing the crime before the victim knew of the loss.
A young man named William Cohn has been missing from 43 Wall Street since last Friday. His friends fear for his safety as he has been in the country about three weeks and speaks little English. It is feared he may have harmed himself due to unemployment desperation.
Beruin reports Aveling, the suspect in the murder of Alice Manders, was arrested at Munster after a struggle. He fired two shots, injuring a policeman slightly, and faces murder charges.
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