Naval and political notes from Jan. 13 dispatches and talks
Reports discuss expanding the American fleet to five ships including Chicago, Essex, and Yantic to deter Chilean tensions. Notes cover underground telegraph lines for wartime use, Chilean relations improving, and Captain Schley’s final Baltimore inquiry report detailing anti American sentiment in Valparaiso and earlier interactions with Judge Foster.
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Chicago
Chile
Resent
Philadelphia
Concord
Earsarge
Port Au Prince
New York
Newark
Norfolk
Carlisle
Washington
War Department
London
Times
Santiago de Chile
United States
Schley
Baltimore
Valparaiso
Navy Department
Foster
Vaparaiso
Balmaceda
Thesident
VautEso
Cal
Junta
Medical Dispensary Officers Annual Meeting Report
The thirty sixth annual meeting of the Homeopathic Medical Dispensary was held at 950 Harrison avenue. The building committee reports $794969 still owed on the current structure. In the year 15108 patients were treated and 47990 prescriptions filled. since start 225368 patients and 598636 prescriptions. Chester Guild refused reelection as president. F O Dewson elected president with others as vice presidents, treasurer, secretary and trustees. Constitution and bylaws were revised.
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Homeopathic Medical Dispensary
Harrison Avenue
Chester Guild
F. O. Dewson
L. G. Lowe
H. P. Stanwood
J. W. Clapp
L. T. Talbot
G. H. Quincy
C. G. Chase
H. C. Clapp
Alonzo Booth
Somerville City Council elects leaders and approves parkway funds
Somerville's new bicameral government met last night electing Isaiah H. Wiley as Common Council president and Charles S. Robertson as clerk. An appropriation of 4500 for the Broadway Eropreee parkway was approved, and officers were elected including City clerk George S. Vincent, treasurer John F. Coles, auditor Charles S. Robertson, streets superintendent Thomas H. Eames, and library trustees J. Henry Flitner Elijah C. Clark and Charles A. West for three years.
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Somerville
Isaiah H. Wiley
Charles S. Robertson
Broadway
George S. Vincent
John F. Coles
Thomas H. Eames
J. Henry Flitner
Elijah C. Clark
Charles A. West
Run Over at Haymarket Station Leaves Man Fatally Injured
John Shaw a 30 year old Malden resident was struck by a Boston & Maine railcar as he attempted to board the 11 o'clock Haverhill train leaving Haymarket station. He suffered the loss of a left arm and extensive internal injuries. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital. doctors expect a likely death.
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Haverhill
Haymarket Square
Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts General Hospital
John Shaw
Malden
Police probe motive in Tena Davis case and Trefethen links
The Post outlines police theory in the Mystic tragedy, arguing against suicide and stressing the roles of Franklin Fox and Charles Davis. It questions Trefethen's claims, notes missing eyewitness testimony, and discusses forged date papers and disputed alibis as investigators seek who benefited from the girl's disappearance.
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Tena Davis
Tena
Franklin Fox
Davis
Charles Davis
Trefethen
Lena
Tyrefethen
Elena
Boston Post Office
Wellington Bridge
Smith
Boston
Emerton
Everett
Parkhurst
Somerville
Alteged
Whitney
Police deny witness tale linked to Everett murder case
Chief Emerton asserts no knowledge of the reported witness story and rejects any basis for the claim. Chief Parkhurst confirms only discussing December 23 high and low tides with a reporter, while Emerton reiterates he is not involved in the case.
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Chic Emerton
Everett
Emerton
Trefethen
Parkhurst
Reed Tactics in Hartford
In Hartford Conn on January 13 the House of Representatives faced repeated quorum issues as Democrats left the chamber twice prompting adjournments. Speaker power was debated over a rule enabling adjournment during no quorum, while a roll call showed no quorum and the session ended with a one week adjournment. The stalled report on seating John J. Phelan as Secretary of State and a separate elections bill were affected as the Senate adjourned to next Wednesday.
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Hartrord
Conn
House of Representatives
House
Judson
Stratford
Rep
Walker
House Conference Committee
Senate
John J. Phelan
Conference Committee
Phelan
Thayer
Forbes Buys Arion for Record Price of 150000
J Malcolm Forbes of Boston purchased the celebrated trotting horse Arion from Senator Stanford. The price is believed near 150000, the highest ever paid for a horse, with Axtell and St Blaise as next closest at 105000 and 100000. Forbes pursued the purchase after talks in Washington and Palo Alto, and Stanford indicated the exact price would be kept secret unless Forbes disclosed it.
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Washington
J. Malcolm Forbes
Boston
Senator Stanford
Axtell
St. Blaise
Forbes
Mr. Forbes
Murdered by an insane man in Cariaco shooting
John Redmond, a former patient at Kankakee Asylum, shot and killed Dr. Flavius M. Wilder at 2719 South Park avenue after luring him with a false sick call. Redmond, known for his strength as a blacksmith, abducted his daughter Annie two years earlier, an episode that sparked widespread public attention and drove him to drink and insanity. The doctor died instantly. Redmond confessed the motive was Wilder's alleged destruction of his home.
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Cariaco
John Redmond
Annie Redmond
Kankakee Asylum
Flavius M. Wilder
South Park Avenue
Redmond
Wilder
Edmond
Connecticut Clergyman Dead at 72
Rev. George W. Wooding aged 72 died today at his New Haven home from acute bronchitis He belonged to the Southern New England Methodist Episcopal Conference and served in churches along the Connecticut River and in Rhode Island He was chaplain for ten years at the Connecticut State Prison at Wethersfield
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Connecticut
New Haven
Conn
George W. Wooding
Southern New England Methodist Episcopal Conference
Connecticut River
Rhode Island
Wetherfeld
Ice houses burned in Johnston blaze damages set
Four empty ice houses owned by Pocasset Ice Company James H and Thomas Walsh were destroyed by an incendiary fire in Johnston early this evening. Replacement costs total about 4000 with 2200 insured. Volunteer fireman Wellington Smith fell twenty two feet and was severely injured, possibly fatal.
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Providence
Pocasset Ice Company
James H
Thomas Walsh
Johnston
Wellington Smith
William B. Brown Dies in Marblehead at 70
Marblehead mourns William B. Brown a longtime town treasurer and school committee chairman who served in the State Legislature and as treasurer of the Boston water board He leaves a widow two daughters and one son obituary notice with his public service highlighted.
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Marblehead
William B. Brown
Boston Water Board
The Engraving Coupon Delays Series Return
The engraving coupon will not reappear until engravings are ready for delivery due to missing portraits and the need to avoid rushing high quality work. Hold complete coupon sets until the engraving is announced. incomplete sets can be finished when the coupon reappears.
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Puse
Troops Fortify Coal Creek Camp as Attack Feared
An officer at the Coal Creek State troop camp reports a warning that an assault was imminent within two days. Most of the force moved to the hill above the prison, earthworks built, a gatling gun and howitzer mounted for defense.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Coal Creek
Local News Briefs On Bank Probe And Trials
Snap shots report Alfred Ewer resuming his probe into Maverick National Bank affairs. A Salem man faces fraud charges over a lost diamond. A baby was thrown down stairs by Maria Doherty in Boston. child not badly hurt. Other items note society meetings, union growth, a petition to reinstate John Adams, juror drawing, lectures, and a new brewery opening.
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Gerhard W. Zedrew
Salem
Division 6
Maria Doherty
West First Street
Massachusetts Eclectic Medical Society
Thorndike
Regular Army and Navy Union
James I F. Roche
John Adams
Boston Postoffice
Washington
Wanamaker
Henry Cabot Lodge
Board of Aldermen
Traverse
Superior Civil Court
Boston Theosophical Society
Boylston Street
Hotel Brunswick
KE. B. Haskell
American Brewing Company
Heathstreet
Thorn dike meeting and club talks on politics and extension
The 85 member Boston Latin School class met at Thorn dike last evening with twenty present. Speakers included Goodwin Tonney Lee Maynard Batchelder Griswold and Cutler who discussed Recent Occurrences in Politics University Extension the Koch System and its Friends. The New England Railroad Club held a meeting at the United States Hotel with about twenty members discussing Locomotive Boilers and their Attachments. The Massachusetts Electric Medical Society met at the Thorndike for its thirty first semi annual meeting with President Forbush presiding. Essays read covered Purpura Hemorragica La Grieve Food Digestion and Indigestion Medical Microscopy and Antipyretic Value of Hot Water Used Externally.
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Boston Latin School
Charles Downer
Thorndike
United States
Massachusetts Eelectic Medical Society
A. W. Forbush
Purpura Hemotragica
James M. Congreve
Springfield
Massachusetts Temperance Home Society Meeting Report
The annual meeting was held at No 28 School street with Hon Frank D Allen presiding. Officers elected include Allen as president Hale Boa fish Beede Woods I A Scott Attwill Little and Scott as superintendent. Reports praised Robert Scott for yearlong management. 207 patients cared for and receipts of 884765 noted.
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Massachusetts Temperance Home Society
School Street
Frank D. Allen
Allen
Robert Scott
Ce Frank D. Allen
Hale
Namchow Disaster Sinks 414 as Chinese Panic Sparks Loss
A Hong Kong despatch reports the Namchow steamship foundered off Cupehi points after her shaft broke. All 414 aboard, mostly Chinese passengers, perished as panic prevented lifeboat use while European officers and crew died at their posts. The Namchow sank swiftly amid chaos, with both races fighting for survival in the water.
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London
Hong Kong
Meifoo
Cupehi Points
China Seas
Duke of Clarence Very Ill in London
Bulletin reports grave anxiety over the Duke of Clarence as both lungs become congested. Doctors differ on prognosis while the ill prince is cared for at Sandringham Hall with his mother and Princess May present and Sister Victoria nursing.
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London
Duke of Clarence
Sandringham Hall
Laking
Broadbent
Princess May
Miss Hallam
Sister Victoria
Cardinal Manning Dying in London as Health Fails
Doctors report Cardinal Manning cannot recover from bronchitis with lung congestion. He professed his faith this afternoon in a formal rite attended by the diocese canons, who stood around his bed as he blessed them. Telegrams were sent to the Pope and Cardinal Gibbons. He lies in a small Westminster bedchamber he has occupied since 1865.
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London
Manning
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal
Westminster
Berlin tobacco workers seek mark for Socialist boycott
In Berlin the tobacco factory hands vote to urge firms that accepted the Socialist wages tariff to stamp their brands. The move aims to allow Socialist party members to boycott rival firms, reflecting broad Socialist support in Germany. A conflagration in Moeslohe, Pomerania, burned three women and four children. Paris theater director M Chirac and a leading actress were sentenced to fifteen months for a scandalous performance, with two other actors getting two months.
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Berlin
Socialist Party
Germany
Moeslohe
Pomerania
M. Chirac
Paris
Anarchist Deganavioff Arrest Spreads Across London
London reports Deganavioff, the notorious Anarchist long sought by European police, arrested in Soho on suspicion of bomb making and distributing literature seized at the Wal sall socialist club raid. In Walsall, dynamite suspect William Ditchfield was detained, brought before a magistrate with John Westlee, arrested yesterday.
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London
Deganavioff
Europe
Soho
Socialist Club
Walsall
William Ditchfield
Ditchfield
John Westlee
Remarkable Leeds Fire Destroys Rail Station and Warehouses
A massive blaze at Leeds originated in Watson's warehouse under a railway station on arches over the River Aire. The conflagration, fed by soap, rosin, tallow, oil, benzoline, and tar, destroyed sheds and bridges, halted traffic, sank barges, and caused losses likely above £250,000. The station building fell burying Mr Schofield. his brother fainted.
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London
Leeds
Midland
Northeastern
Northwestern
Sheffield & Lincolnshire
Aire
Watson’s
Steamers Prudence and Siberian Incidents At Sea
The Prudence, ashore at Cape Ballard while en route from London to Philadelphia, faces unknown damage as a relief steamer goes to aid. In the Clyde, the Allan liner Siberian from New York to Glasgow collides with the barque Antoinette, damaging the barque while the steamer sustains minor harm. The Emilia, bound Cardiff to a Black Sea port, foundered with crew reaching Vigo.
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St. Jonns
N. F
Prudence
London
Philadelphia
Cape Ballard
Siberian
Allan Line
New York
Glasgow
Clyde
Emilia
Cardiff
Black Sea
Vigo
Seville Flood Closes Port and Stalls Trade
A despatch from Seville reports a sudden rise in the Guadalquivir that floods wharves and warehouses on the river’s left bank. Debris blocks the port, halting business and making shipping impractical.
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Maprio
Seville
Guadalquivir
Dartmouth Alumni Dine. Officers Elected at Tremont House
About two hundred members of the Dartmouth Alumni Association met at the Tremont House last evening. President J B Richardson presided and led the election of officers. Remarks covered college finances, needs, and athletics with advocacy for the Swedish system.
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Dartmouth Alumni Association
Tremont House
J. B. Richardson
A. A. Ranney
John Hopkins
M. O. Adams
J. H. Smith
Benjamin Tenney
C. Q. Tirrell
J. L. Brewster
Fletcher Ladd
J. P. ‘Tucker
Richardson
T. W. Proctor
Proctor
Dartmouth
Samuel C. Bartlett
Coles
F. 5. Streeter
Judge Maynard
J. K. Lord
C. W. Bartlett
J. L. Hildreth
Lewis G. Farmer
Corinthian Yacht Club Holds Annual Meeting at Parker House
The Corinthian Yacht Club met last evening with Vice Commodore Dexter presiding. About forty members attended as treasurer and committee reports were read and accepted. Rule 12 was amended to allow first class yachts two paid men and other classes one. Officers elected included Commodore Br. W. Crowninshield, Vice Commodore Charles H. W. Foster, Rear Commodore Davis C. Percival Jr., Secretary Everett Paine, Treasurer J.B. Rhodes, and judges Daniel Appleton G. W. Mansfield W. W. Merriam W. A. Hervey and Theodore Jones.
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Corinthian Yacht Club
Parker House
Dexter
House Committee
Regatta Committee
Br. W. Crowninshield
Charles H. W. Foster
Davis C. Percival, Jr
Everett Paine
J.B. Rhodes
John W.dunlop
W. S. Eaton, Jr
F. A. Seamans
W. P. Seale
G. W. Mansfield
John B. Paine
Henry Tageard
J. Way W
Cambridge Police Dance at Union Hall
Cambridge Police Mutual Aid Association held its twentieth annual ball in Union Hall Cambridgeport. About eighty seven officers traded helmets and clubs for dress suits and dancing shoes. The hall was packed with dancers and spectators, with many turned away as capacity was exceeded.
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Cambridge
Union Hall
Cambridgeport
Cambridge Police Mutual Aid Association
Theft reported as Brookline express team stolen
About six last night a Wein stein Brookline two horse express loaded with goods valued at 600 dollars was stolen from in front of 5 Union street. Police nabbed driver Charles Henry with the team in Park square at 6 30. Two suspects fled but Henry was arrested and taken to station.
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Weinstein
Brookline
Union Street
Cowboy and
Douglas
Station 4
Park Square
Charles Henry
Photographer Charles Beapv Found Dead in Studio
Charles E F Beapv a 57 year old photographer of 2238 Washington street was found dead in his studio by his brother Joseph E Beane. Medical Examiner Draper attributed death to heart failure aggravated by alcoholism. Undertaker Waterman took charge.
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Charles EF. Beapv
Washington Street
Joseph E. Beane
Mr. Beane
Braintree
Draper
Waterman
Strange brain case ties handedness to brain hemisphere
A Fall River woman struck on the left side of the head in Boston developed brain fever then became left handed. Three years later she cuts sews and writes with her left hand only while her right remains as ineffective, yet she moves gracefully and without awkwardness. The case supports Dr Andrew Wilsons theory that brain lobes govern opposite body sides and determine handedness.
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Andrew Wilson
London
Fall River Mass
Boston
Jay Gould Will Stay In
The Western Traffic Association advisory board adjourned to meet again in Chicago on April 1. Chicago & Alton Railroad’s non-membership was deemed unacceptable. Aldace S. Walker’s salary was fixed at 12000, though he has drawn 25000 under a prior three year contract. discussion expected at Chicago. Roswell Miller and officers were unanimously re-elected, and rumors of Gould’s withdrawal were unsubstantiated.
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Jay Gould
New York
Western Traffic Association
Chicago
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Aldace S. Walker
Interstate Commerce Association
Walker
Roswell Miller
Boston Capital Abroad Torch Fires Grand Rivers Plant
At 10:57 last night two modern charcoal iron furnaces at Grand Rivers Kentucky were ignited in front of a large crowd of New York New England and Kentucky notables. The two furnaces have a capacity of 150 to 200 tons daily and form the world’s largest complete charcoal iron plant costing about a million dollars. It opens with a year’s supply of raw materials worth 300000. The plant is owned mainly by prominent Boston capitalists.
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Geano Rivers
Grand Rivers
New York
New England
Kentucky
Boston
Fire starts in room. three story brick house at 48 Middlesex Street
A small fire caused a $500 loss on the first and second floors of the three story brick dwelling at 48 Middlesex Street. The alarm from Box 66 came in at 12:34 this morning. Origin unknown. The fire began in a room on the street floor and burned upward to the second floor. The building, owned by Mr Matthews, is occupied by Mary Booker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlesex Street
Matthews
Mary Booker
Brace Up for Our Navy Yard
From the South Boston News the piece criticizes national policy toward the Boston Navy Yard alleging economy measures harm the yard. It urges local citizens to demand fair funding, arguing agitation could create jobs for hundreds of idle workers and boost employment.
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South Boston News
Boston Navy Yard
War Department
Boston
Navy Yard
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Reed Tactics
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Ames Building
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Rehfpuse
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