Boston visit warms visiting gungressmen with New England hospitality
A congressional party touring Boston and surrounding areas praised the city for hospitality. They toured sites from the Tongfellow homestead to the park system and harbor improvements. Members including Wheeler of Kentucky and King of Utah expressed favorable views and signed letters thanking local officials and the city for their reception.
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Henry
Texas
Mealls
Tongfellow Homestead
Boston
Brighton
Brookline
Quincy House
Knox
Conry
John A. Kelcher
Post
Wheeler
Kentucky
Old City
King
Utah
Roberts
Thomas N. Hart
Congress
New England
Fitzgerald and
Weaphen
Congressional Party
Washington
Powers Note Signed by Chinese Peace Commissioners
The joint note of the powers is signed by Chinese peace commissioners Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang. Li Hung Chang reportedly suffers Wright's disease, while Prince Ching objects to appointing Chang Chih Tung as plenipotentiary. Envoys are told negotiations should occur in Pekin for various reasons.
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Pekin
Prince Ching
Li Hung Chang
Wright
Chang Chih Tung
Townsend's Hubardston murder tip draws little belief
The rejected tip about the Asa Bennett murder in Hubbardston dated December 21, 1899 is met with skepticism. Chief Wade of the State police confirms Benjamin Townsend of Charles Town prison provided the information and says Murray is investigating with limited confidence.
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Asa Bennett
Hubbardston
Benjamin F. Townsend
Charlestown
Chief Wade
State Police
Murray
Townsend
John Shea Convalesces After Church Prayer Mention
At the Immaculate Conception Church many parishioners prayed for a John Shea whose illness was noted. Reports confirm the John Shea at Georgia Street is not the businessman but another local resident convalescing after a brief illness and now improving rapidly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of the Immaculate Conception Esse
John Shea
Georgia Street
James H. Carney
Post
Wallace Resigns From Somerville Church Pastorship
The Reverend Hubert W. Wallace, pastor of the Franklin Street Congregational Church in Somerville, announced his resignation in a letter read at morning service. His resignation takes effect April 21 after three years of service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Street
Somerville
Chiev
Hubert W. Wallace
Epidemic Death Toll Rises In New York January
The flu like epidemic accelerates across New York and the nation. George Blair reports private hospitals are overwhelmed and charity beds are full while discharges and home care rise. Board of Health shows thirty six deaths in the first five days, well above January 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George Blair
Blair
Board of Health
President Riding Indicates Quick Recovery At White House
President continues to improve and took a short ride with Mrs. McKinley as sunny weather aided his recovery. His doctor orders rest from official duties for at least a week while an outpouring of remedies arrives from sympathizers, physicians, and medicine manufacturers. The White House storeroom resembles an apothecary shop due to constant shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt Hunting Giants in Colorado Mountains
Col Theodore Roosevelt leads a hunting party from Keystone Ranch thirty six miles northeast of Meeker Colorado. Guides John Goff and a nine year old dog accompany the group as they spend fifteen days pursuing mountain lions wild cats and deer in Coyote Basin while enduring frigid weather and snow. The party stays at a log cabin and dines with Rev H A Handle at his rectory.
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Meeker
Allan Quartermain
Umslopogaas
Theodore Roosevelt
Animal Kingdom
Keystone Ranch
Here
John Goff
Coyote Basin
Roosevelt
H. A. Handle
Handle
Gloucester fishermen haul record catch of 10,000 pounds
Gloucester City January 13 John Quinn and Jeff Ayres caught about 10000 pounds of German carp white and yellow perch and catfish in a drag net in the creek in ten hours after the ice drifted away at low tide. The catch is the biggest ever recorded in the area and will go down in history as a record breaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloucester City
N. J
John Quinn
Jeff’ Ayres
Fire at Glover block in Salem causes $5000 loss
A fire at the Glover block 44 to 48 Lafayette Street in Salem around midnight caused about $5000 in total losses. Firefighters battled the flames through the night with damage confined to the block. No injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Glover
Lafayette Street
MISS FRENCH TO WED IN LAWN WEDDING AT FINE ESTATE
The article describes Miss French's wedding to Mr. Vanderbilt as a rustic lawn ceremony in a rural bower. Guests will pass through a floral hall into a front piazza reception with four themed rooms and a wedding breakfast featuring elaborate pieces including turquoise diamonds and family heirlooms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. French
Vanderbilt wedding toast ends with secret departure plan
After the wedding breakfast the health toasts are given for the newlyweds. Mr. Vanderbilt and his bride will leave for parts unknown on a wedding tour, with a rumored abroad trip for the London season.
Boston Guests to Attend Vanderbilt French Wedding
About forty guests from Boston are hidden to attend the Vanderbilt French wedding. They will travel in special cars by a train leaving South Station at 8 42 this morning and arrive at Newport at 11. The Boston contingent is smaller than planned with only twenty invitations issued rather than five hundred.
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Boston
South Station
Newport
Chased Runaway Horses by Back Bay Mounted Patrol
Mounted Patrolmen Howland Connolly and Toland of Division 16 Back Bay stopped a runaway polo pony after it threw its rider J I Fagan at Roxbury. Howland and Connolly pursued through several streets. Howland was briefly injured when his horse fell. Police recovered the pony. both owners and riders escaped serious harm. A sleigh horse attached to a sleigh carrying Mr and Mrs James Steward then ran away following the incident.
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Howland
Connolly
Toland
Division 16
Back Bay
J. I. Fagan
Williams Street
Roxbury
Flyntington Avenue
Brookline Street
St. Botolph Street
Blackwood Street
James Steward
Temple Street
Type Union 13 to Deliver Ultimatum to Master Printers
Labor news in Boston reports Typographical Union No 18 pressing for $18 weekly wages and end to piece work. Masters offer $1 more to $16 weekly. union rejects and plans a week end strike potentially affecting about 800 workers. The issue now moves to the International Typographical Union with President Lynch en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Type Union 13
Boston
Wells Memorial Hall
Ecale
Lynch
International Typographical Union
International Organization
Building Trades Council Endorses $1.5 Million for School Houses
Delegates at yesterday’s regular Building Trades Council meeting endorsed the plan to appropriate 1.5 million dollars for new school houses. Charges were raised by some delegates that contractors overseeing the erection of the new Emergency Hos- pital projects may be inflated costs.
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Building Trades Council
Bride Presented to the Queen as Duchess of Marlborough Requests
The article notes that the bride will be presented to the Queen at the request of the Duchess of Marlborough. The move reflects royal expectations and noble influence surrounding the wedding.
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Duchess of Marlborough
Costly Vanderbilt French bridal party to wear somber gray
Newport reports elaborate Vanderbilt French wedding attire chosen in mourning for the bridegroom’s family. Bridesmaids wear pearl gray crepe de chine gowns with gold embroidery, hats of pearl gray velvet, and clusters of American Beauty roses. The bride’s gown, ivory white satin with three yard train, features lace from Mr. Edward Tuck and a Brussels point veil. The bridal bouquet is white orchids and lilies of the valley. no jewels. attire includes a gray cheviot going away coat and chinchilla trim.
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Newport
Maid of Honor
Edward Tuck
Paris
Brussels
Bessie French
General Eaton
England
Million Dollar Wedding Gifts Given to Miss French
Newport January 13 a stunning display of gifts to Miss French includes jewels gold and silver works of art valued at about 500000 Mrs Cornelius Vandertilt presents a tiara and necklace while Mr and Mrs Edward Tuck give a collarette and rope of pearls and rubies Mrs William K Vanderbilt Sr contributes a diamond collarette and Lord Cheylesmore a diamond and emerald chain
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Newport
William K. Vanderbilt, Sr
Lord Cheylesmore
Gayneral Eaton
Animal capture at Boston crossroads ends chase
Patrolman Toland chased and captured the animal at the corner of Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue, near Beacon Street and Huntingdon Avenue. The incident concluded at the Dartmouth and Huntington intersection after a brief pursuit.
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Beacon Street
Huntington Avenue
Pattrolman Toland
Dartmouth Street
George A. Boardman Dies at 83 in Calais Maine
The Hon. George A. Boardman a wealthy Calais resident and longtime naturalist died at his home Friday morning aged 83 He was born February 5 1818 in Newburyport Massachusetts and moved to Calais with his parents in 1828 He held life memberships in major natural history societies and was a close friend of leading figures at the Smithsonian Institution and other scientific circles.
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George A. Boardman
Calais
Newburyport
Mass
Natural History Societies
Boston
London
Eng
Baird and Cowles
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Dr. Brewer
Charles Hallock
New York
Ice Floes Threaten St John’s Port Barricade
Northern ice floes drift along the Atlantic coast and threaten to block St. John’s. The coast steamer Virginia was forced to abandon her voyage due to thick ice. Floes sweep outward toward transatlantic routes and may reach Cape Race latitude next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. John's
N. F
Atlantic
St. John’s
Virginia
Cape Race
Wagensund Improves After Memory Loss Recovery
William Wagensund known as the Boston engraver was found in Albany hospital with total memory loss. He was brought back to Boston by Dr. Vogel and placed in the care of Albert Becker whose Winthrop home is his base. Becker reports improvement and friends expect recovery in a few days.
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William Wagensund
Boston
Albany Hospital
Vogel
Albert Becker
Oliver Street
Winthrop
City council investigates non citizen labor in Haymarket square
A council committee will probe charges that pias in Haymarket square employed non citizens over Boston residents. The Iron Moulders label is endorsed as new delegates join unions including Carpenters 386 625 488 441 442 Asbestos Workers Paper Hangers Wood Workers 24 Wire Workers Painters 11 Lathers Steam Fitters Electrical Constructors Plasterers Tenders and Branch 1 of the Amalgamated Carpenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pias
Haymarket Square
Boston
Carpenters’ Unions
Painters’ Union No
Lathers’ Union
Amalgamated Carpenters
Building Laborers Elect Officers at Regular Meeting
Building Laborers No. 15 elected officers: President Jere Dacey, vice president Michael Crowley, corresponding secretary John Keohane, financial secretary Timothy Hart, assistant financial secretary Patrick Donohoe, treasurer Peter Collins, sergeant at arms Timothy Sexton. Dacey and Keohane were chosen as delegates to the International convention in Paterson, New Jersey, on the first Tuesday in February.
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Building Laborers No. 15
Jere Dacey
Michael Crowley
John Keohane
Timothy Hart
Patrick Donohoe
Peter Collins
Timothy Sexton
Dacey
Building Laborers’ Convention
Paterson
N. J
Garrity to Introduce Bill on Public Work Wages
President Richard W. Garrity of the Central Labor Union and legislator from Ward 17 will submit a bill guaranteeing contractors on public work pay workers at least the Commonwealth rate and hours matching local law in every city county and town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard W. Garrity
The
Central Labor Union
Ward 17
Commonwealth
Labor Notes Opens Union Applications in Boston Area
At an open meeting the Brotherhood of United Teamsters and Helpers of Boston received a large batch of membership applications. In Lynn engineers formed a local union, while Boston and nearby unions plan an entertainment in Union Park Hall for the late George T. Wescott's widow and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brotherhood of United Teamsters and Helpers of
Boston
Lynn
George T. Wescott
Boston Coopers’ Union
Union Park Hall
Fire incidents and injuries in city dwellings and streets
An overturned alcohol lamp caused a $10 fire at 52 Rutland Square. Elvira H. Wiggin occupies the building. John K. E. Walsh of 92 Blue Hill Avenue suffered burns while trying to extinguish a house fire at 7:39 p.m. caused by a child with a lit candle. A separate fire on the first floor of 106 Everett Avenue Chelsea did slight damage at 7:07 p.m. Martin Garrity, 61, at 22 Chestnut Street, fell at 1:20 p.m. yesterday in a restaurant at 86 Cambridge Street, breaking his left leg and being taken to City Hospital.
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Rutland Square
Elvira H. Wiggin
John KE. Walsh
Blue Hill Avenue
Everett Avenue
Chelsea
Massachusetts Women Lawyers Urge Hearings Before Committal
The Portia Club meeting in The American House discussed the Etta A. White case showing a woman can be confined to an asylum without a prior court hearing. Massachusetts women lawyers urged revising laws to grant hearings, ensuring equal safeguards with men. Notable attendees included Mrs. Clara H. Nash, the first woman admitted in New England courts, along with Miss Helen Knowlton, Miss Agnes M. Robinson, Miss Belle Ashton, Mrs. Harriet R. Shattuck, and Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor.
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Massachusetts
Etta A. White
Westboro
Portia Club
American House
Law Courts
New England
Alice Parker Lesser
Boston
Clara H. Nash
Maine
Helen Knowlton
Rockland
Agnes M. Robinson
Sherman
Belle Ashton
Sanford
Harriet R. Shattuck
Elizabeth Taylor
Police raid nets thirteen Chinatown gamblers in Sunday roundup
Captain Cain led a Sunday raid in Chinatown targeting illegal gambling. At 6 Oxford Place officers arrested Gong Fong and Moy Fong, seizing dice cups cards and a fan-tan setup. A second sweep at 38 Oxford and 4 Oxford yielded five more arrests, with six more detained at 31 Harrison Avenue.
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Chinatown
Cain
Station 4
Oxford Place
Gong Fong
Gong
White Gong
Oxford Street
Moy Fong
Hugut
Harrison Avenue
Fire Alarm After Dual Chelsea Tenement Fires
A fire in two locations within Samuel Goldstein’s Chelsea tenement at 1066 Everett Avenue prompted an early alarm. Firefighters contained two flames in closets and beneath a kitchen window, restricting damage to 125 dollars and prompting a Fire Marshal investigation.
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Chelsea
Samuel Goldstein
Everett Avenue
Chelsea Department
Whitcomb
Beaten to Death in Gorham Maine Farmhouse Raid
In Gorham near the Westbrook line two men forced entry to the Moshier home around 7 30 pm killing Thomas Clifford Moshier aged 2 and assaulting his mother Mrs Rufus Moshier 72. The attackers looted the house then left toward Portland. A negro suspect described by Mrs Moshier was later identified. William Hands a negro about 20 was arrested in Scarboro with blood stained items and money. The wounded mother gave a detailed account while Coroner Eben Perry and police investigated.
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Portland
Thomas Clifford Moshier
Rufus Moshier
Gorham
Moshier
Westbrook Line
Portland & Rochester
William Hands
Scarboro
Fred Newcombe
Union Station
Cumberland Countil
Armer
Moshier Farm
Wera
McLean
Boston
Portsmouth
Hands
Pardons Committee Yet To Act On Webster Post Office Robbery
Lieutenant-Governor Bates said the pardon request for James Thompson, serving in state prison for robbing the Webster Post Office, has not yet been presented to the committee. He noted Governor Bates is reviewing the case and the application is in the Governor's hands.
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Bates
James Thompson
State
Webster Post Office
Syrian and Greek New Year Observances Begun in Boston
Last evening churches at 6 Oxford Street and Kneeland Street held short masses for the Syrian and Greek New Year celebrations. Today, according to the shared calendar, New Year’s Day is observed with similar religious rites as a week earlier, with a few representatives from Moravian and other communities in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oxford Street
Kneeland Street
Boston
Robert Goelet Comes Into Estate Cash At Age
Robert Goelet reached his majority and received 500000 in cash plus accumulations from his father Ogden Goelet estate valued at about 6.77 million dollars. The trust will hold his share until he reaches 25, with full possession then. The Harvard alumnus gained attention after a Brookline Country Club steeplechase mishap last May.
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New York
Robert Goelet
Ogden Goelet
Harvard
Country Club
Brookline
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