Congress Debates Hundreds of Pension and War Bills
As the Forty-ninth Congress nears six weeks, about 300 bills are introduced and sent to committees. Proposals include pensions for Mary McDonald and C. C. Bump, increased pay for Thomas Farrell and William Gibbons, bounty payment to Charles Thompson, and a ship name requirement for vessels over twenty tons.
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Washineton
Spscian.j
Mr. Lovering
Mary McDonald
James
Mass
New Hampshire
Josiah Davis
Massachusetts
Collins
Philadelphia
Whiting
C. C. Bump
First
Vermont
Ely
United States
William Gibbons
Company F
Nineteenth
Massachusetts Volunteers
Long
Martha H. Sanborn
Charles H
Third
United States Infantry
William O'Connor
Cable Railway Scheme Gains Ground in Washington
Washington delegates report growing support for a cable railway bill in Congress. The House narrowly made the measure a special order for January 27, signaling a likely majority vote. District travel remains limited, underscoring the need for improved transit facilities.
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Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Bill Debate in Senate Clarifies Fourth Section
In Washington the Senate debated the interstate commerce bill. Senator Cullom, supported by Beck, argued the fourth section prohibits charging a larger aggregate amount for shorter hauls, not a pro rata per mile rate. Hoar warned of Boston trade implications if local rates must rise, while Cullom defended potential rail fairness and noninterference with foreign trade.
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Washington
Senate
Beck
Cultom
Hoar
Cullom
Conference Committee
Boston
Massachusetts
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Chicago
Omaha
San Francisco
Congress
Dawes
Boston & Albany
St. Louis
Detroit
Court Views Freight Rates and Unjust Discrimination
The speaker argues freight rates by the Boston & Albany relate only to local business under unjust discrimination clauses. He says the bill's construction is reasonable and that courts and the commission would interpret it similarly.
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Boston & Albany
Cullom
Manning on American fisheries tariff interpretation
Secretary Manning answers House inquiries on the term fish fresh for immediate consumption and on American fisheries exemption from duty. He cites uniform port practice concerns, defines American fisheries by vessel compliance with U.S. law, and urges Canadian ports for landing and trade under treaty contexts.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Manning
United States
High Seas
Treasury Department
Privy Council
Governor-General
Canada
Obituary of John Roach the Ship Builder in New York
John Roach 71, Irish born ship builder, died at 8 30 am at 624 Fifth Avenue New York. Rise from poverty to founder of Neptune and Allaire works, built 115 iron vessels worth over 50 million dollars. government contracts included Trenton and Pensacola Dock. Despite failure in 1885 liabilities stood at 2.29 million with assets around 4.5 million. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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John Roach
New York
Fifth Avenue
Ireland
America
New Jersey
Howell Works
Jersey City
James Allaire
Allaire
Morgan Iron Works
Iron Works
Neptune
Franklin Forge
Allaire Works
Chester
Penn
Jeanny, Son & Archibald
Roach
Tokio
Pekin
Trenton
Tle
Pensacola Navy Yard
Spain
Dolphin
Boston
Atlanta
Chicago
Viking
Samuel J. Tilden
Ada
Boston gets new city officers and a flood of nominations
The newly formed Boston board of aldermen met with Patrick J. Donovan presiding as Walter H. French and Hugh E. Brady were named fire and street commissioners if the board concurs. The mayor submitted a large slate of appointments for boards and offices including city clerk, city engineer, cemetery trustees and health officials with terms ranging from one to five years set to begin in May or April 1887.
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Board of Aldermen
Patrick J. Donovan
Joseph H. O'Neill
Stephen Murphy
Patrick McDonald
Jeremiah H. Mullane
Eremiah J. Mullane
Edward B. Rankin
Thomas R. Matthews
Public Institutions
Benjamin Dean
Board of Park Commissioners
William P. Leavitt
James P. Braidrick
Benjamin F. Anthony
A. K. Tilden
George T. Chase
Mount Hope Cemetery
John W. MacDonald
Joshua S. Dunklee
John J. Murphy
Thomas T. Temple
Cedar Grove Cemetery
William Jackson
Nicholas A. Apollonio
Thomas W. Davis
Thomas J. Young
Walter H. French
Board of Fire Commissioners
James C. Tucker
William Doogue
Thomas J. Lane
George W. Forristall
Arthur H. Vinal
George E. McKay
Faneuil Hall
William F. Davis
Hugh J. Toland
Artholomew M. Young
James F. Babcock
William Mackin
William Taylor
Board of Health
Samuel H. Durgin
Hub E. Brady
Board of Street Commissioners
Isaac Hull Wright
Thomas I. Doherty
Boston Water Board
Frederic W. Lincoln
West Boston
Craigie’s
Prison Point Bridges
Edward P. Netttleton
Corporation
Andrew J. Bailey
A. C. Whitney
R. F. Keough
John E. Lynch
East Boston Ferries
John Curtin
Edward J. Flynn
James S. Hillard
City Board Minutes Outline Charges and Appointments
Five year average sums used to set next fiscal year taxes. A special committee on rules and orders named including Donovan Alien Sullivan Lee and Bromwich. Fire department salary increase referred. Joint committee to negotiate with the State on reservoir lot sale appointed with Maguire and W Smith. Battery A requests 800 for armory improvements referred to public buildings. Coasting on Bainbridge Street rescinded due to nuisance. Edison Electric asks to lay wires referred to underground wires committee. Donovan and Blume named directors of the Old South Association.
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Donovan
Alien
Sullivan, Lee and
Bromwich
Common Council
Messrs. Whitmore, Fottler
Short
Maguire
W. Smith
Battery A
Light Artillery
Newton Street
Bainbridge Street
N. G. Smith
Edison Electric
Park and
Beacon Streets
Blume
Old South Association
Waltham Government Names Police Chief and Officials
In Waltham on January 10, Narcy G. Burleigh was appointed chief of police at a city government meeting. Eliot A. Harrington won the city treasurer post by 11 to 10 over incumbent John C. Thorp. E. J. Sanderson was elected auditor and Thomas H. Armstrong city solicitor.
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Waltham
Wartham
Sprediau
Narcy G. Burleigh
Eliot A. Harrington
John C. Thorp
E. J. Sanderson
Thomas H. Armstrong
Book-keeper William Coyle Arrested for Embezzlement
Jan 10 Lyng reports William Coyle a book-keeper for Thomas Green morocco manufacturer at Federal street and Western avenue was arrested this afternoon by Detective one on embezzlement charges. He is described as a young man who has lived on his income.
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Lyng
Sprcra
William Coyle
Thomas Green
Federal Street
Western Avenue
Daily News of New York Delivers German English Paper
The Daily News of New York, printed in English and German and sold for 1 cent, issues the largest editions in the country. It features thirty five white two wheeled delivery wagons with flags and an illustrated calendar showing the delivery system set up by Manager Elliot in a picturesque fashion.
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Daily News of
New York
Gotham
Elliot
The Science of the Hand in Boston by Heron Allen
English cheirosophist Mr. Ed Heron Allen tested cheirosophy at Chickering Hall Boston. He claimed the hand reveals character through cheironomy and cheiromancy, detailing finger forms and joint meanings, and promised further lectures.
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Ed Heron-Allen
New York
Boston
Chickering Hall
Heron-Allen
Heron- Allen
Goethe
Helvetius
Pale Ale Mystery Hand Talk and Dante Skepticism
A reflective piece by L. D. Ventura on palmistry and the hand as a key to human character. The author satirizes modern discourse on Dante and proposes the hand as the ultimate measure of man, exploring love, gesture, and social status with wide cultural references.
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Miss Cleveland
Heron-Alien
E. E. Hale
Adams Denies Lobby Rumors Over Pacific Railroad Legislation
Charles Francis Adams of the Union Pacific issues a formal denial to Washington regarding corruption charges tied to pending railroad bills. He asserts no illegitimate spending, accuses blackmailers and stock jobbers of fabricating the rumors, and states the Union Pacific will accept either House or Senate measures despite asserting both overburden future resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
George F. Hoar
Charles F. Crisp
Washington
D. C
Congress
Central
Unionacific
Central Pacific
Union Pacific
Aes
Wall Street
House
Senate
Charles Francis Adams
Ice cutting under way in Waltham with large yield
The Waltham ice harvest has begun with an estimated 40 000 to 50 000 tons this season. Quality is excellent with crystal clear ice thirteen inches thick. Firms including C H North & Co Somerville pork dealers aim to harvest about 20 000 tons and other companies produce thousands more. The industry provides work for about 200 men while local customers visit R and J Gilchrist for bargain stock.
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Waltham
C. H. North & Co
Somerville
C. H. Packard
Winktey & Maddox
Boston
Joseph Peterson
John Totten
Amusements in Boston Theatres This Week
Evening showings include The Dutchman at the Boston Theatre and Patience at the Opera House. Miss Fortescue performs Moths at the Music Hall while Modernka in Mary Stuart headlines Hollis Street Theatre. My Partner plays at the Crescent and shows at 8 p.m. at Westmoreland.
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Boston
Miss Fortescue
Boston Theatre
National Ac Company
Ak Boebestre
Hollis Reet
Modjenka
Mary Stuart
WECM
Hollis Street
Isaac B. Rich
Modjeska
Daniela
Cday
Camille
Auctions and Sales Schedule Today and Wednesday
Real estate sales listed for L Foster Morse at 1.350 p m and Samuel Hatch Co at 12 m with Horatio Harris handling fruit at 12 m Wednesday morning. Stocks for R L Day Co at 11 30 a m and Francis Henshaw Co at 12 m with Horatio Harris again at 12 a m.
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L. Foster Morse
Samuel Hatch & Co
Horatio Harris
R. L. Day & Co
Francis Henshaw & Co
Marriages Listed in Early January Ceremonies
The notice records three wedding events. Fanny M. Cartwright of Boston wed Charles A. Cooley of Lee at Shawmut Avenue Universalist Church in Boston. William J. Walsh wed Mary Hayden in Boston. Fred Stark Pearson married Mabel Ward in Lowell at the bride’s father residence with Tufts College President Capen officiating.
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4. M. Greene
Lowell
Fred Stark Pearson
Mabel Ward
Death notices from area city confirms multiple obituaries
Obituaries list includes Mrs E M Adams of Derry NH aged 79 11 months Mrs Appleton aged 70 4Emeline Ripley wife of John J Dyer aged 57 Charles C Everett Alliston aged 728 years 8 months Mrs E J Mitchell Chelsea aged 65 widow of Frederick W Mitchell Mary Ann E Saunders Cambridge Jan 7 Cornelia B Skinner Somerville Jan 9 Abby Rusfin New York City Jan 8 aged 745 years 7 months
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Frederick W. Mitchell
Saunders
Cambridge
Mary Ann E. Saunders
Skinner
Somerville
Cornelia B. Skinner
Cross Street Universalist Church
Woods
New York City
Abby Rusfin
Mary Lewis
Daniel Woods
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District of Columbia
American Fisheries
Aldermen
Hugh E. Brady
Mr. Heron-Allen
Niagara
Jamaica Plain Pond
Providence
Globe
John Stetson
Abbesse de Jouarre
Johns Hopkins University
Brown
Saveur
Dante
Beatrice
Jay Gould
Ingersoll
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Wagner
Button
Chesnut
Glover
Ion
Bismarck
Mamma
Papa
Heron Allen
Lenzee
Boston University
Institute of Technology
Mozart
Associated Charities of
Pilate
L. D. Ventura
Adams
R. & J. Gilchrist
Gedney
Harvard College
Fischer
Oliver Ditson & CO
Washington Street
Silver Springs Park
Florida
R. R
James T. Drown
Atlantic National Bank
L. N. Mowryw
Washington St
Old South
Hurch
Eugene Tompkins
American Opera
National Opera Company
Theodore Thomas
Charles E. Locke
Emma Juch
Mathilde Phillipps
Messrs Ludwig
Whitney
Bassett
Fessenden
Lohengrn
Martha
Aida
Delibes
Coppelia
Gilbert and Sullivan
New_York Lyceum Theatr
Boston Ac
Ees
J. R. M. Field
William Gillette
Bijou Theatre
Bridget
Howard Athenaum
Louis Aldrich
Alex Pope
Emil Carlsen
Noyes, Cobb & CO
Noyes & Blakeslie
Tremont Street
Corporation Notices
Prescott Insurance Company
Congress Street
W. C. Harris
Massachusetts Hosptal Lipe Insurance Company
State Street
C. Braman
Boylston Insurance Company
Kilby Street
National Bank OF Commerce OF Boston
Sears
G. H. Harris
State Sation ES
Bank OF Bos
Geo. B. Warren
Suffolk National Bank
Boatoon
Saffolk National Bank of Boston
Tyler
Arkwright Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Milk Street
E. H. Sprague
NEW England National Bank OF Boston
Devonshire Street
Charles F. Swan
Boston National Bank
Faneuil Hall National Bank OF Boston
South Market Street
T. G. Hiler
Iowa Loan and Trust Company
Chemical National Bank
Freeman A. Smith
Tremont Temple
St. Paul
Kansas City
J. Henry Brooks & CO
J.henry Brooks
Edward W. Gilbert
Gola
John Jeffries & Sons
Baeder, Adamson & CO
Summer Street
Horace S. Crowell
Aaron BR. Gay & CO
Ashton
Ashton’s
Merchants Row
SHAW
D. M. Hodgdon & CO
A . Bright
H. W. Rosenbaum
Exchange Place
N. A
Isis
Gorham Rogers & CO
Dundee
Atrect
American Society For Psychical Research
Boston Society of Natural History
Berkeley Street
Edw. G. Gardiner
Sec’y
Industrial School
Joy Street
F. RB. Morse
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