Speech on Chinese immigration warns of a grave peril
A speech in the Senate denounces Chinese immigration as a dangerous, inharmonious force threatening American law and society. It cites 2175 Chinese laundries in New York, 250,000 to 300,000 Chinese in the United States, and calls for treaties excluding Chinamen except diplomats and traders. The speaker endorses Mitchell’s bill and references presidential and international matters before noting the executive session and postponement of nominations.
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Congress
New York
Bedlam
Brooklyn
United States
California
Canada
Canadian Pacific
Pacific Coast
Stewart
Senate
General Grant
Great Britain
Mexico
Committee On Foreign Relations
Paris
Messrs. Lamar, Vilas and Dickinson
National Bank Note Expansion and Treasury Claims Limit
Washington reports on House actions including a bill to raise national bank circulation by up to 10 percent with Treasury bonds backing and a discussion of claims against the United States. The session also covers fishery commissioner salary, mailing class rules, and various senate resolutions and committee orders.
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Washington
Caswell
Wisconsin
Committee On the Judiciary
United States
Wilkins
Ohio
Committee On
Banking and Currency
Treasury
House
Senate
Blount
Georgia
Post Offices and Postroads
Paris
Tariff communications on sugar and molasses duty
Secretary Fairchild sent to the House correspondence to the Treasury Department about tariff revision. It includes a note from W. H. Emerson of Boston urging lower sugar duties and proposing free admission of molasses currently taxed at 4 cents per gallon.
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Wasumeron
Fairchild
House of Representatives
Treasury Department
W. H. Emerson
Boston
John C Benedict Taken for Sanity Examination
New York January 12 John C Benedict wealthy cotton overseer of Saco Missouri was taken from Harlem prison to Bellevue Hospital for examination as to his sanity.
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New York
John C. Benedict
Saco
Bellevue Hospital
Harlem
Senate and House Set Fall Session Tone with Small Changes
The General Court shows little action as sessions run largely formality. A $5000 annual library appropriation is proposed, daily journal printing eyed, and several committee clerks named including Fl of Boston and Towne of laynn. The Boston & Lowell petition seeks bank bond investments. minor leadership and treasurer changes noted.
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General Court
Senate
State Library
Boston
Towne
Laynn
Woodward
Wakefield
Eames
Lawrence
Carroll
Worcester
Miller
Needham
Gracey
Latean
Banks
Atherton
Saugus
Robinson
Springfield
House plenary shifts and petitions mark legislative session
The House announced committee changes with several members excused from assignments. Monitors and replacements included Calhan on monitor duty, Gracey and Keane on woman suffrage, Atherton and Mona han on banking and election laws, Russell on labor, Seavey on public health, with the speaker approving a revenue borrowing pause. Petitions cover Wilmington annexation requests, Delta Upsilon Williams College incorporation, and bonds for Hyde Park Street Railway among others. Various orders seek rail grade crossing abolition, Sunday hours for barber shops, and education inspection queries.
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Calhan
Boston
McEttrick
Gracey
Salem
Barrett
Melrose
Keane
Holyoke
Quincy
Atherton
Saugus
Brewer
Wilmington
Middlesex
Milton B. Whitney
James White
William R. Broughton
Lewis A. Jones
William W. Newell
Delta Upsilon Society
Williams College
Winchester
Ape
Hyde Park Street Railway Company
Bridgman & Smythe Company
William KE. Smythe Company
Boston & Lowell Railroad
Ferry
Springfield
Gile
Worcester
General Court
James Donovan
Wadlin
Reading
Bureau of Statistica of Labor
Story
Gloucester
Harbors
Walworth
Newton
State Board of Education
Wharton
House
McCooey
Blackstone
Massachusetts Agricultural College trustees accept Goodell resignation
The annual meeting chaired by President Henry H. Goodell accepted the president and treasurer reports and approved Goodell's resignation effective July 1. A search for a successor begins as committees on finance building course of study and faculty farm and horticultural departments were appointed with ex-officio president members.
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Massachusetts Agricultural College
Henry H. Goodell
Goodell
Daniel Needham
Groton
J. 5. Grin
Marlboro
E. W. Wood
Newton
J. H. Draper
Worcester
Woman on Mission Work Leads 20th Board Meeting Report
The second day at Mt. Vernon Church Ashburton Place featured Mrs Bowker presiding over the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Woman's Board of Missions. Speeches highlighted missionary work in America and abroad with Miss Edwards of Mount Holyoke and Miss Hartwell of Foochow stressing China and Japan missions alongside Holyoke and Smith College affiliations.
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Woman’s Board of Missions
Mt. Vernon Church
Ashburton Place
Bowker
Dr. Gracey
Buffalo
Methodist Church
Board of Missions
Miss Clark
Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
Woman’s Board of the Pacific
J. C. Smith
Annie FE. Johnson
Bradford Academy
Jones
Fisk University
Africa
Board of the Interior
Memphis
Philena McKeen
Abbott Academy
Mead
Abbott
Constantinople
Japan
India
Sandwich Islands
Corea
Syria
Cape Colony
Kate P. Williams
Rome
Mary C. Knox
Wellesley College
Wellesley
8. B. Capron
Madura
Miss Childs
Alman
Edwards
Mt. Holyoke Seminary
Board
Cause of Missions
M. A. Bolbrook
North China Mission
Marie F. Kapp
Smith College
Institution of Learning
Miss Edwards
Holyoke Seminary
Susan A. Wheeler
Eastern Turkey Mission
Miss Stanwood
Board of Interior Missions
A. Ellen Stanton
Wheaton Seminary
Miss E. Hartwell
Foochow Mission
China
Miss Hartwell
A. H. Bradshaw
Philadelphia
Burglary Report Stolen Lead Pipe and Adah Chamberlain Attire
The vacant 8 S. B. Whittemore house at 214 Northampton street was entered with false keys last evening and a large quantity of lead pipe stolen. A trunk with the wearing apparel of Adah Chamberlain of the Arabian Nights company at the Grand Opera House was taken from the building yesterday.
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S. B. Whittemore
Northampton Street
Adah Chamberlain
Grand Opera House
Record of Fires Across Several U S Cities
A series of local fires cause varying damage from minor blazes at the Old South Clothing House and a 107 Arch street electric box to a near total loss at 126 Cross street brass foundry. Other incidents include Mt Huggins hotel Swanzey fire, Senator Ingalls residence destroyed, Rumpf Bros cotton mill loss, and several insured fires in New England and Maine towns.
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J. K. Deane & Co
Old South Clothing House
Washington Street
Daniel Snow
Deane
Old South Clothing Company
Adams
Arcadia Streets
Moulton
Arcadia Street
Arch Street
William Howes
Milk Street
Cross Street
Morey & Phillips
Keen
N. H
Mt. Huggins
Swanzey
M. J. Sherman
Keene
Atchison, Kan
Senator Ingalls
Philadelphia
Rumpf Bros
Hancock and
Huntington Streets
SaccaRrazpa
Cumberland Mills
D. Warren & Co
Hartrorp
Conn
Union Baptist Church
New Reprorp
John R. Case
Second
Elm Streets
Creditors Meet for National Rubber Company Plan
A creditors meeting at the Astor House New York discussed a plan to acquire National Rubber Company assets after its October failure with about $1,000,000 in liabilities. The committee may circulate the plan for unsecured creditors’ assent and proceed once sufficient signatures are obtained, listing numerous insolvent firms and assignments across the region.
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National Rubber Company
Astor House
New York
H. A. Gould
Boston
W. H. Spooner
Bristol
Henry Friedman
BE. R. Quimby
Carpenter
Haverhill
Aaron Cohn
Kneeland
Albany Streets
Ferrance Adams
Tremont Street
Elbridge Rogers
Nashua
N. H
P. K. Whail
Hamden
Pattee Bros
Dover
George C. Gault
Bedford
P. Q
M. Berthraine & Co
Cleveland
F. H. Downey & Son
Veray
M. L. Harrison
St. John
N. B
Boxer Bros
Crockery
Montreal
Henry Zoller & Co
Baltimore
Foran & Co
Boots and Shoes
Ottawa
Ont
N. Marthe
Quebec
A. Rhodenhiser
Bridgewater
N. S
Cooke, White & Co
John A. Clune
Trenton
George C. Ridgeway
Mansfield
Walcott & Arnold
Providence
Anthony Wilke
Boots
Cincinnati
Mulhearn in Municipal Court over domestic shooting
Dennis Mulhearn was held in 25000 bail after a Wednesday shooting at the home of F. L. Ames. He told reporters he carried a revolver for protection after a dismissal threat, while the wounded woman’s condition worsened slightly.
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Dennis Mulhearn
F. L. Ames
Mulhearn
Mr. Ames
Widow of Rutland marble man killed near Hoosac Junction
Mrs. T. D. Manly widow of a Rutland Vermont marble man was killed at Hoosac Junction yesterday while trying to jump from a moving train. Smallpox is rising in San Francisco with 36 deaths since January 1 and 6 to 12 new cases daily. A whale was killed off Amagansett on Wednesday, the first of the season on Long Island, expected to yield about sixty barrels of oil.
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T. D. Manly
Hoosac Junction
San Francisco
Amagansett
L. L
Long Island
Medford Old Town Men Organize Campaign Front
Influential Medford citizens meet at Odd Fellows Hall to plan a division battle in the Legislature. Eleazar Boynton presides. committees named to guard old town interests. spending limited to three executive members and strictly legitimate costs.
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Medford
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Eleazar Boynton
Old Town
T. P. Dresser
B. F. Hayes
Samuel C. Lawrence
J. Henry Norcross
John C. Rand
D. W. Wilcox
Mr. Wilcox
Oynton
William L Williams editor and Melrose postmaster dies
Obituary for William Leonard Williams born March 16 1834 Newburyport who died yesterday from pneumonia after heart valve rupture. He moved to Melrose 1868 built Melrose Journal as editor proprietor and served as postmaster earning trust as a businesslike administrator. Survived by seven children. He was a longtime Democrat and active in Trinity Church veteran and literary circles.
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William Leonard Williams
Melrose
Melrose Journal
Mr. Williams
Newburyport
William C. Williams
Brown High School
Boston
Commission House of Gardner, Brewer & Co
House
Mason & Lawrence
Lawrence & Co
Cocheco
Trinity Church
Elizabeth F. Green
Democratic Party
Washington Council
American Legion of Honor
Bethlehem Council
Royal Arcanum
Roundabout Club
Captain Walter C Hall Lost At Sea On D Chapin
Captain Walter C Hall of the bark D Chapin, born Dennis Massachusetts January 10 1844, is reported lost at sea by cable from Sagua. A skilled seaman and ship master of several vessels, he leaves a wife and daughter in Dennis and belonged to the Boston Marine Society for twelve years.
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Walter C. Halil
D. Chapin
Cable
Sagua
Dennis
Mass
Thomas Prince Howes
Boston Pilot Commissioners
Alarm
Black Prince
John 8. Emery & Co
Boston
Moonlight
Jessie Rhynas
Barkentine Norah
Dennis, Moss
Boston Marine Society
Notable Deaths Across Fields From New York to Paris
The obituary list notes Rev. Alfred B. Patton editor of the Baptist Weekly died in Brooklyn at his son in law Walter Abbeys home. Frederick Mercur coal superintendent died in Wilkes Barre at 61. J D R Putnam ex New York Herald editor died in Brooklyn at 70. M Marcelin founder of Vie Parisienne died aged 59. M Eugene Yung founder of Revue Bleue died, previously a professor and Paris journalist.
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Alfred 8. Patton
The
Baptist Weekly
Brooklyn
N. Y
Walter S. Abbey
Suffolk
Eng
Frederick Mercur
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Sore Mahanoy
Snowshoe
Wilkesbarre
J. D. R. Putnam
New York Herald
M. Marcelin
Planat
Vie Parisienne
M. Eugene Yung
Revue Politique Et Littéraire
Revue Bleue
Paris
London Telegraph
Normal School
Journal Des Débats
Empire
Merchant Tailors Banquet in Boston at Vendome
About a hundred Boston merchant tailors gathered for the second annual banquet at the Vendome. William E. Jones, newly elected president, presided. Guests included Edward W. Kinsley railroad commissioner John J. Mitchell of the New York Fashion Reporter and A Kennedy Childs. Speeches covered old woollen trade fashions and tailoring history.
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Boston
Vendome
William E. Jones
Edward W. Kinsley
John J. Mitchell
New York Fashion Reporter
A. Kennedy Childs
Kinsley
Mr. Mitchell
Mr. Childs
Adam
Death of Frank Dolan Found After Drunk-Detention
Officer Copeland of Station 6 found a man in a doorway on Hingham Street at 2:30 pm. He was taken to the station and a doctor later identified the deceased as Frank Dolan of Norfolk Avenue.
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Yesterdy
Furs at a Bargain Close Out by H Crine
Mr. H Crine of 15 Avon Street announces a stock close out of lynx sets muff s boas collars capes sealskin jackets and fur lined coats regardless of cost. Garments are made in approved styles and quality guaranteed. Alterations of ladies garments are offered.
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Mr. H. Crine
Avon Street
Remarkable Boston Doctor Warns of Silent Kidney Disease
A prominent Boston physician warns that nine tenths of New England adults are diseased in some form and many suffer from early Bright's disease signs. He endorses Hunt's Remedy as a reliable cure and urges vigilance and early treatment to avert death.
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Boston
New England
Bright
Hunt
Assignees Sale of Property in Samuel G. Snelling Case
Assignees auction property tied to judgment against James H. Diggles of New York for 250000 and costs. The listing includes numerous shares in Vienna Mining Co Nahant Steamboat Express Co Mall Treadle Co Ocean Mill Co Tremont Foundry Co Vale Mining Co Santa Rita Iron Co Boston & Roxbury Mill Pacifi c Mills Merrimack Mfg Amory Mfg Boston Cab Co Boylston Ins Co Clinton Mills Conn. & Pass. Rivers RR Co Natl City Bank Boylston Natl BR Everett Mills Cheshire RR pfd Consolidated RR of Vt pfd Burton Stock Car Co pfd Marquette Houghton & Ontonagon RR Detroit Lansing & Northern RR Sunes bees Boston Gas Syndicate Rich. Hill RR 7s 1910 Northern R. R. Co Middlesex Co Glendon Iron Co Lowell Machine Shop Cocheco Mfg. Co Boston Marine Ins. Co Pemigewasset N. B Middlesex Co Metropolitan N. Bk. etc. Auctioneer: R. L. DAY & COMPANY No. 51 State St. Boston. Sale date Jan 14 1888. Items listed under trustee and executrix orders including Eliot Fire Insurance Co Dwelling House Ins City of Albany bonds Natl City Bank Merchants Natl. Bank collateral Taunton Gas Light Co Portland & Ports Rd St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Rd ptd St. Johnsbury? Boston Belting Co Concord Rd St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Rd ptd Farmers' Loan and Trust Co Arkansas Valley Town and Land Co McKay & Bigelow Mach Assoc Vt & Mass Rd 5s May 1908 etc.
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Samuel G. Snelling
James H. Diggles
New York
Vienna Mining Co
Do Nahant Steamboat Express Co
Mall Treadle Co
Do Ocean Mill Co
Newburyport
Do Tremont Foundry Co
Do Vale Mining Co
Do Santa Rita Eee and Iron Co
Boston & Roxbury Mill Corp
Concord Rd
St. Johnsbury & Lake Champ. Rd
Executrix
Boston Belting Co
Natl. Bank
Eliot Natl Bank
Atlas Natl. Bank
Arlington Mills
Middlesex A
Cabot Ae
Weaene Mfc. Co
Portland
Rorenane Mills
Conn
Pass. Rivers Rd
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the Agricultural College
Woman IN
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William SL. Williams
Walter C. Hall
Merchant Tailors
Royal Boxing Powvek Co
Wall 8T
N.Y
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
State Street
Ex Steamship
Stockholm City
Steamship
Naranja
Palermo Oranges
Palermo
Fiske’s Wharf
Valencia Oranges
Valencia
Norseman
L. Foster Morse
Otice
Warren Street
Roxbury Central Wharf
South Bay
Swett Street
Garbett
Roxbury
William Fann
Sumner and Williams
Norfolk
Samuel Wait
South Cove Corporation
Walt
Samuel Little
Phineas B. Smith
Aaron D. Williams
A. M. Bates
Boston Carriage Repository
Maverhill Street
East Side
Boston & Maine
Bailey & Portland
A. F. Bates
Francis Henshaw & CO
No. Si State Street
Merchants’ Exchange
Steam AL
Boston Stock Exchange
Naumkeag Steam Cotton Co
Pacific Mills
Merrimack Mfg. Co
Amory Mfg
Boston Cab Co
Boylston Ins. Co
Clinton Mills Co
Pass. Rivers Rr, Co
Parisie Mille
City Bank
Boylston
Everett Mills
Cheshire RR
Consolidated RR. of
Burton Stock Car Co
Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon RR
Iveo
Detroit, Lansing & Northern RR
Sunes Bees
Boston Gas Syndicate
Rich. Hill RR
Republican Valley RR
Ie Isuuhares Northern R. R. Co
McKay & Bigelow ‘Heeling Mach. Ass
Middlesex Co
Glendon Iron Co
Lowell Machine Shop
Cocheco Mfg. Co
Jfoston Marine Ins
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Brookline
Rutland R
Boston & Cecil R. R
Little Rock & Ft. Petith
R. L. Day & Company
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State St
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First Fiocor
Eliot Fire Insurance Co
City of Albany
M. L
Lansing & Saginaw Ra
Serk
Salem & South Danvers Oil Co
Natl. Bank. Ag
Natl. City Bank
Taunton
Chelsea Gas Light Co
Wath Webster Bank
Portland, Saco & Ports
Admx
Blackstone Natl. Bank
Fitchburg Rd
Lake Champ
Little Rock Junction
Ry. Co
Florida So
Charlotte Harbor
Natl. Car Co
Lt. Rock & Ft. Smith Ry
Scrip
Gora
Fue Pon Inn., Sand, & Cleve
Waltham Natl, Bk
Waltham
New Eng. Natl
Dome and Leather
U. S
Suffolk Natl. Bank
Jamaica Plain Gas Light Co
McKay & Lbigeiow
Adm
City of Chicago
Donyuly
Ailso
City of Providence
R. I
W. la
Old Colony Id
Waltham Gas Light Co
Lombard Investment Co
Hoston & Maine
Westind
Saco & Ports, Rd
Albert Howe & CO
Market Street
Brighton
Warren Avenue
Daniel H. Burdett
Burdett & Dennis
Khurling Slip
Tillie
Erie Basin
A.S. Richards & CO
John C. Wilmerding
Wilmerding, Hoguet & CO
White St
Townsend & Montant
Leoenard Siren
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