Death of Gladys Perrington Ties Poison to Suicide
Gladys Perrington, a domestic of 79 Warren Street, was found dead in a Washington Street doorway. Medical Examiner Draper ruled death from carbolic acid poisoning and officials suspect suicide amid heart trouble concerns. the body to Wakefield for interment.
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Washington Street
Gladys Perrington
Warren Street
City Hospital
Tilton
Draper
E. F. O’brien
Hammond Street
Daniel Meghan
Harrison Avenue
Lewis A. Mann
Warren and
Dudley Streets
Mrs. Tilton
Maine
Wakefield
Boston
New York Legislature Opens With Tight House Majority
Albany January 2 The 1898 Legislature convenes at noon with the Senate in Republican control 36 to 14 and the Assembly Republicans holding a slim working majority of four votes including two Citizens' Union members. Democrats must aid veto-proof appropriations. Speaker-elect James M. E. O Grady from Rochester expected.
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Albany
N. Y
Capitol
Senate
Assembly
Citizens’ Union
New York City
James M. E. O'Grady
Rochester
US to convert 61 merchant ships into cruisers in four weeks
The U S government plans to turn sixty one American merchant vessels into auxiliary cruisers, arming them with heavy guns and reinforcing the navy to near British tonnage. Conversion could take four weeks per ship, with 14 000 seamen needed, and protections for engines to be added.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Navy Department
G. L. C. Arden
New York Journal
St. Paul
St. Louis
Secretary of the Navy
O'Neil
Washington
Auxiliary Navy
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Russia
Germany
France
Erben
Legacy of Edmund H. Bennett Noted Taunton Lawyer Dies
Edmund Hatch Bennett born Manchester Vermont April 6 1824 died near 74 after a long legal career in Taunton and Boston. He trained at Burr and Burton Seminary University of Vermont and Yale influenced by his Connecticut born father who served on the Vermont Supreme Court. He practiced in Taunton Bristol County, formed several partnerships and served as judge of probate and insolvency from 1858 to 1883.
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Edmund Hatch Bennett
Manchester
Connecticut
Yale
Vermont
Supreme Court of
Taunton
Edmund H. Bennett
Burr and Burton
Rock Point Academy
Burlington
University of Vermont
Boston
Suffolk
Bristol County
Nathaniel Morton
Henry Williams
Henry J. Fuller
Bennett & Hall
Notable Legal Scholar and Taunton Mayor Honored
From 1865 to 1867 he served as Taunton mayor and guided city affairs during his residence. He delivered the historical address at Taunton's 150th anniversary in 1889. Judge Bennett shaped legal literature and taught for decades, later serving as professor and dean at Boston University Law School. He edited major works and contributed to several journals, receiving an LL.D. from the University of Vermont in 1872.
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Taunton
Bennett
Harvard Law School
Boston University Law School
Judge Story
Equity
Cushing
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Digest
Brigham
Blackwell
Greenleaf
Goddard
Benjamin
Pomeroy
Indermaur
American Law Register
Albany Law Journal
Boston Law Reporter
University of Vermont
Judge Bennett Remembered As Longtime Republican Leader
The article profiles Judge Bennett as a long time Republican, former Whig, and active Protestant Episcopal church member in Taunton. It notes his roles as warden or vestryman at St. Thomas's, his diocesan and general convention delegations, and his involvement with the Old Colony Historic Society. His family includes son Samuel C. Bennett, professor at Boston University Law School, daughter Mary B. Conant, and a deceased Brown graduate son. He aided Boston University Law School since 1871, and a memorial portrait by Theodore Chartrain was hung there and later shown in the Paris Salon.
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Bennett
Protestant Episcopal Church
St. Thomas’s
Taunton
Old Colony Historic Society
Sally Crocker
Samuel L. Crocker
Samuel C. Bennett
Boston University Law School
Mary B. Conant
William M. Conant
Brown
Judge Bennett
Henry Bennett
Pittsburg
Penn
Europe
Women Smoking Question Embraced by Mrs. Ormiston Chant
Mrs. Ormiston Chant comments on women smoking, saying a single try was not encouraging yet sees no reason why women should not smoke if they wish to. She frames gender parity in smoking with a permissive view.
Russian official given full powers in Korea trade drive
M Kuril Alexeiff is invested with full powers to promote Russian Korean commercial relations in competition with Britain and Japan and to aid in building the Orthodox church at Seoul. Novoe Vremya notes he will act as advisor to Korea’s finance ministry while Brown remains a Korean customs official. Novosti warns Britain must maintain the status quo to keep Asiatic subjects from uprising if tensions rise.
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ST. Petersburg
M. Kuril Alexeiff
Russia
Corea
Seoul
Novoe Vremya
McLeagy Brown
M. Alexeiff
Brown
Corean
M. Alexieff
Corean Ministry of Finance
Novosti
England
Great Britain
Asia
American Wringer Co Repairs and Mail Orders
The American Wringer Company at 77 and 79 Franklin Street and 80 Arch Street repairs wringers man gies and carpet sweepers. Orders by mail or telephone will receive prompt attention.
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American Wringer Company
Franklin Street
Arch Street
Van Wyck appoints Wilson Jr and Whitney to statistical board
New York January 2 The inauguration of Mayor Van Wyck brings Richard T. Wilson Jr and Harry Payne Whitney into public service as the new Board of Statistical Commissioners. Both heirs to wealth and connections, they join the body to collect and publish city data without compensation.
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R. T. Wilson, JR
Harry Payne Whitney
Tammany
van Wyck
New York
Harry P. Whitney
Richard T. Wilson, Jr
Board of Statistical Commissioners
Vanderbilts
Duke of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Whitney
Standard Oil
Wilson
Christmas Tree Brightens St. Marys Infant Asylum
Dorchester facility welcomed about 1990 visiting ladies from multiple parishes for a Christmas tree gift event. Toys coats and comforts filled the rooms while refreshments were served. Foundling incidents noted. sister Mary Joseph and staff aided children as plans for a new building progress.
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St. Mary’s Infant Asylum
Everett Avenue
Dorchester
Hannah White
St. Peter’s
St. Joseph’s
Roxbury
St. Patrick’s
Mary Joseph
Patrolman Harrison Hero in Fatal West Newton Fire
In West Newton a kitchen fire caused by a light oil stove killed Mrs. Walter Fiske of Robinson's block Washington street. Patrolman Robert Harrison rushed to aid, wrapped her in his coat and blanket, but suffered severe burns as he saved her. she died at Newton Hospital four hours later from inhalation of flames.
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Newton
West Newton
Walter Fiske
Robert Harrison
Accused Thief Arrested in Boston on Lunenburg Watch Theft
Christopher Perry also known as Thomas Franklin of Lunenburg Mass was arrested in Boston yesterday by Inspectors Shields and Whitman on a larceny charge for a watch an overcoat and a hat valued at 66 dollars from Joseph Bushman of Lunenburg alleged to have occurred on November 5 1897. He was turned over to Officer James L Harrington of Lunenburg.
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Christopher Perry
Thomas Franklin
Lunenburg
Mass
Boston
Shields
Whitman
Joseph. Bushman
James L. Harrington
New City of New York Described as World’s Second City
The Sun extols New York as a young metropolis with unmatched size and scope. It touts vast tram networks, waterways, ferries, harbor craft, warehouses, manufacturing, retail, and offices while highlighting parks, forests, hospitals, charities, farms, dairies, and even prehistoric relics and zoological finds within its bounds.
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New York
Wages and the Bible in Lowell Sermon on Wage Cuts
The Rev. 8 M Dick preached on The 10 Per Cent Cut Down at First Congregationalist Church Lowell urging that wage reductions oppress workers and draw God’s swift witness. He cited Massachusetts labor costs versus the South and cautioned that wage cuts worsen overproduction. he advised against a strike.
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Lowell
M. Dick
First Congregationalist Church
Massachusetts
Charity Mayor Quincy Presided at Working Boys Home Event
A Boston Theatre gathering featured Her W Bourke Cockran speaking on Charity under the Working Boys Home benevolence. Mayor Quincy and civic leaders attended a pre lecture reception with O Neil as introducer, among a large audience of religious and business figures.
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Her. W. Bourke Cockran
Greater
New York
Boston
Working Boys’ Home
Cochran
United States
O’neil
Congress
Quincy
Thomas
Perry
Somerville
Sortwell
Cambridge
Bancroft
Collins
John F. Ford
T. J. Brosnahan
Boston College
D. J. O’farrell
St. Stephen’s Church
Dennis O’callaghan
St. Augustine’s Church
Father Dolan
H. P. Smyth
Hugh Roe O’donnell
KH. A. Sullivan
Cathedral
Father Patterson
South Boston
Joseph A. Conry
J. G. Fennessy
James A. McDonald
Henry F. Naphen
Thomas L. Jenks
P. O’riordan
Thomas F. Taff
B. F. Keith
Franz Hugo Krebs
James E. Cotter
W. J. Donovan
Salem D. Charles
J. H. Stone
James EB. Hayes
M. M. Cunniff
John Quinn
Henry Austin Adams
Daniel P. Toomey
Thomas F. Duffly
John Frawley
Mission Church
Mayor Quincy Introduces Bourke Cockran at Charity Lecture
Mr O Neill introduces Mayor Quincy as presiding officer. The mayor thanks the crowd and praises the Working Boys Home charity. He announces and welcomes the evening speaker, the Hon Bourke Cockran, noting his national reputation and eloquence.
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O’neil
Quincy
America
Boston
Bourke Cockran
Charity Makes Freedom Rise Says Cockran
Mr Cockran speaks on charity as the essential element of Christianity and democracy. He argues charity includes thoughts toward neighbors and has driven liberty and free government for 2000 years, linking Christian virtue to political progress and global liberty.
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Mr. Cockran
Calvary
Cesar
Fabiola
Christ
Speech Linking Flag, Christianity and Government
The speaker asserted that America's flag represents freedom and is as much a symbol of Christianity as the cross. He argued for enduring government and claimed charity is Christianity's gift to the civilized world.
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America
New Trial Call Grows Over Captain Dreyfus Case
Public opinion centers on Captain Albert Dreyfus, jailed on Devil's Island after a Paris court martial. The World sponsors a volunteer American military court to review all evidence, urging a rehearing and access to new findings. Colonel Albert A Pope voices support for a fresh trial.
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New York
Albert Dreyfus
Devil’s Island
Paris
Albert A. Pope
Samuel Dalton
Massachusetts
General Dalton on Captain Dreyfus Trial Fairness
Massachusetts Adjutant General Samuel Dalton argues that the Dreyfus case requires a full, public reexamination. He asserts rights in court martial procedures, critiques the process, and calls for transparency to resolve suspicions of unfairness.
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Dreyfus
Captain Dreyfus
England
Samuel Dalton
State of
Massachusetts
The Foolish Young Man sermon at Dudley Street
Dr Guronbart preached to youths at Dudley Street Baptist Church on the foolish young man. He warned that wilfulness and lack of seriousness lead toward harm and destruction, urging serious thoughtfulness while valuing will power managed wisely.
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Dudley Street Baptist Church
Guronbart
Dr. Gumbart
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