Rice Bates Fight Ends Bates on Worcester Bank Board
At City National Bank in Worcester the annual stockholders meeting ousted M Bates from the board, replacing him with M Witter amid Rice Bates political feud. Bates received just 125 votes while other directors topped 1000. Bates alleged Rice influenced corporate holdings.
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Worcester
Sprcorar
City National Bank
Rice-Bates
Bates
W. W. Rice
O M. Witter
Mr. Bates
Rice
Inventory Reduction Sale at A Shuman and Go’s
A Shuman and Go’s announces an inventory reduction sale with limited stock across departments. Shoppers are invited to browse discounted merchandise and special pricing events during the sale period.
Capes Reduced From Fine Overcoats After Inventory
After annual inventory, Capes offers grouped broken and small lines of finer overcoats once sold at 20 to 42 dollars. Prices have been reduced as part of the season’s customary clearout, with reductions applied across the listed price points.
Fashionable winter fabrics and caps at reduced prices
The advertisement lists foreign and domestic fabrics and garments including Kerseys Melions Crombie Elysians Persian fur and more in blue brown tan olive and Oxford shades. Cape overcoats in Irish Super Tweeds Saxony finish Scotch Tweeds and Twowill patterns are offered. All items are latest style but marked down due to broken sizes.
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Crombie
Schnabel
Vienna
Boston Gloucester Hali But Dealership Expires After Five Years
The Boston and Gloucester fish dealers partnership for catching and selling hali but has expired by limitation after five years. Scarcity of fish and high costs of operating a large fleet led to non continuation. The T Wharf Fish Trust affairs, ended earlier, were settled privately and treasury funds distributed.
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Boston
Gloucester
T Wharf Fish Trust
Tata
Page Six Teeters On Edge of Election News
A fragmented OCR page hints at page navigation cues and scattered headlines from Page 2 and Page 6. The readable text offers little substantive detail but signals continued coverage across the issue.
Steamers Arrived and Departed Passages Listed in January
Shipping news records numerous vessels arriving and sailing with origins from Glasgow London New York and Havana. Entries include Austrian Circe Teutonia Scythia Lord Clive Gleneagles Arabic Bellenden and Pontiacs movements across Atlantic routes and Far East via Yokohama plus Havana via St Jago.
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Boston
Glasgow
Baltimore
Circe
Gibraltar
India
New York
Odeidah
Satweno
State of Georgia
Newark
Liverpool
Teutonia
Galveston
Van
New Orleans
Oregon
Porand
London
Kepler
Pomeranian
Queenstown
City of Berlin
Saim
Scythia
Lord Clive
Philadelphia
Yokohama
Japan
Gleneagles
Singapore
Hong Kong
Jupiter
Rio Grande
Pontiac
Mediterranean
Glendevon
Bona
Hawarden
Garrucha
San Francisco
Bellenden
Progreso
City of Alexandria
Havana
St. Croix
Barracouta
St. Kitts
Port-de-Paix
Wensleydale
Aspinwall
Muriel
Barcelona
Dracona
Savannah
Genoa
Peconic
Wakefield
Havre
Empress
Australia
Intrepid
Prawle Point
Sidonian
Brunacies
Antwerp
Helvetia
Saratoga
Stanley News From Congo Expe dition and Stanley
The Mouvement Geographique steamer Stanley may have brought word of Stanley from Stanley Falls to Leopoldville. It left the Falls for Stanley Pool on Sept 30 with Lieutenant Kerkhoven and the expedition guarding a camp on the Aruwhimi. The Chronicle says Henry M Stanley’s safety will be announced before Stevens expedition reaches the east coast of Africa and letters from Stanley will appear in London.
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Brussels
Mouvement Geographique
Stanley
Stanley Falls
Leopoldville
Falls
Stanley Pool
Kerkhoven
Aruwhimi
Banana
London
Henry M. Stanley
Thomas A. Stevens
Africa
the Chronicle
Landtag Opens As Emperor Seeks Peace And Reform
The Landtag opened with the Emperor declaring foreign relations favorable and peace likely. He highlighted improved finances with a 200 million mark rise in savings, tax reductions, and plans to raise clergy and teacher emoluments, expand railways, and aid flood victims. The Reichstag and Prussian Diet sessions proceed with cheers for the Emperor and reaffirmations of leadership.
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Brrown
Landtag
Germany
Posen
Prince Bismarck
Reichstag
Count von Ratiboo
Herr von Rachow
Hers Miguel
Dismissal of Lord Sackville sparks unprecedent history debate
London reports unearthed correspondence shows Lord Sackville claiming October talks with Secretary Bayard about the Murchison letter left him under the impression his explanation was satisfactory. He says no further word came before passports were sent on October 30, straining diplomacy and triggering political meddling amid Irish votes in New York. The St James's Gazette comments that Sackville erred in speaking out, yet Cleveland’s handling of the matter justified scrutiny of leadership.
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London
Sackville
Lord Salisbury
Lord Sackville
Bayard
Murchison
New York
Cleveland
London’s Ancient s Demand War Office Inquiry
A meeting of the Honourable Artillery Company approved a resolution calling the War Office to investigate charges of insubordination. It was announced that the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Portland resigned their membership and commissions.
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Lonpox
Jar
Honourable Artillery Company
War Office
Prince of Wales
Duke of Portland
Music at Waterford sparks clash after demonstra tion
Fourteen men sentenced to one month in Waterford for taking part in a Manchester martyrs demonstration were escorted to the jail by police and a music band when a crowd followed. Police charged the crowd with clubs, a clash erupted and several people were badly hurt.
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Dustin
Waterford
Manchester
Unpublished Maximilian Letters Stir Debate on Fate
From Madrid to Vienna Tagblatt comes hitherto unpublished correspondence on Maximilian's Mexican reign. A letter from Archduchess Sophia advises Maximilian to die like a good Hapsburg among Mexicans if the French abandon him, reflecting royal expectations and peril.
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London
Maximilian
Mexico
Vienna Tagblatt
Madrid
Sophia
Hapsburg
Mexican Imperial Power Play Amid Abdication Talk
A letter from Mexico shows a push to bring the emperor home with his family and abdicate to Augustin Iturbide. Another missive by Empress Carlotta from Vera Cruz dated June 18, 1866, before she sails to Europe, pledges trust that Napoleon will understand the truth and that the mission will succeed.
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Mexico
Augustin Iturbide
Carlotta
Vera Cruz
Europe
Napoleon
Eugénie
Navy orders Pacific fleet to Samoa to safeguard interests
Secretary of the Navy directs Rear Admiral Kimberly aboard the Trenton to proceed to Samoa to protect American interests as tensions rise on the Isthmus. The Trenton rests at Panama while the Vandalia and Mohican fit out, and Atlanta may be sent to Aspinwall to bolster presence.
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Theodore C. Bates
City National Bank of
Worcester
Senate
West Virginia
Miles
New York
Bayard
Kimberly
Samoa
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Pacific
United States
Trenton
Panama
Isthmus
San Francisco
Atlanta
Aspinwall
Possin
Duped Detective In Ireland Papers Scandal At New York
Burrato New York Jan 14 The Courier published thirteen letters claiming to expose Charles Stewart Parnell links to Irish crime and a Scotland Yard detective named Kirby working for the Times The letters show Kirby was sent to the US to solicit forged proofs and offered two Irish men farms and life protections for expected papers Two men were to be paid 500 each for alleged Parnell letters and proof notes in England
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Burrato
N. Y
Courier
Charles Stewart Parnell
Scotland Yard
London ‘Times
Kirby
Cavendish
Burke
Times
New York
The
England
Eight Die As Train Collides With Broken Freight Near Tallmadge
A New York Chicago line wreck near Tallmadge Ohio leaves eight dead and a dozen injured when passenger No 8 collides with a freight section that split in two. Names include engineer Robert Huntington and express messenger William Lundy. Details describe the crash, fire, and rescue amid fog and derailment, with Mary Ann Lyon among the victims. The railroad loss is put at about 15000 while valuables aboard are reported burning.
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Cleveland, O
New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
Robert Huntington
Galion, O
J. ¥. Rushford
Galion
William Lundy
Salamanca
N. Y
Wells, Fargo & Co
Mary Ann Lyon
Idaho
Cherry Creek
N.Y
William Walters
David Thomas
Robert Owen
Kent
Samuel Douglas
James Boyd
Paterson
N. J
George Shaw
Thomas Fairfax
Cleveland
Akron
Tallmadge
James Bradley
Tallmadge Siding
Plagran Bradley
Fannes
Walters
Edward Peltzer
New York
Mary
Express
Governors Inaugurated In Indiana And Illinois In Joint Ceremonies
January 14 reports from Indianapolis and Springfield note Governor Hovey inaugurated at the English Opera House as General Harrison and Governor Gray attended. cheers greeted the entrance of General Harrison in the box. In Springfield, Joseph W. Fifer was inaugurated governor at 2 30 PM in a joint session of the House and Senate.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hovey
Harrison
Gray
Opera House
Springfield
Joseph W. Fifer
House
Senate
Pacific National Bank Case At Supreme Court Over Insolvency
The Pacific National Bank of Boston sues Peter Butler receiver in error before the U S Supreme Court. Directors voted to liquidate on May 20 1882 and a cashier deposited checks for 11008 with National Security Bank for collection. Receiver seeks to recover alleging a disallowed post insolvency payment to favor one creditor. District court and Circuit Court ruled for plaintiff. The Supreme Court takes the case on writ of error.
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Washinaton
Pacific National Bank of Boston
Peter Butler
United States Supreme Court
Russell Gray
J. E. Coombs
A. A. Ranney
Pacific National Bank
National Security Bank of Boston
Pacific Bank
National Security Bank
District Court
Circuit Court of the United States
Supreme Court
West Virginia Senate Deadlock Continues With Filibuster
Charleston January 14 The West Virginia Senate remains in deadlock as filibustering persists. By 3 30 o'clock two ballots for president had produced no result and members adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
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West Virginia
Charleston
W. Va
Senate
Development of accident insurance in the United States
An analysis of last year's business shows rapid growth in accident insurance with four home and two foreign companies, plus assessment concerns, operating in the United States. The Travelers of Hartford leads, writing over 111,000 travellers’ accident policies in 1888, with more than one seventh of claims for injury totaling about $1,000,000.
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Sree
Willard Marcy
G. A. Litchfield
W. G. Corthell
Litchfield, Asat
New York
United States
Hartford
Ships Arrive and Sail From New York in January Listing
New Yorke Jan 14 Arrived steamers Helvetia London Saratoga Havana Mars Boston Van dalla Antwerp J Spyer Edich Bremen Adele Lisbon Romanoff Montevideo Levuka Antwerp schooners Lulu William L Burroughs Mary Welling ton Boston P G Thompson New scarford American Chief Hyannis etc. Sailed Steamships Thingvalla for Copenhagen Ptolemy for Liverpool Habana for Havana brig Harry and Aubrey for Macorts Cleared Steamships Thingvalla Larsin Stettin Portia Ash Halifax Wisconsin Worrall Liverpool Habana Vila Havana Caroline Miller Miller Montecristi bark Carrie E E Pickering Marshall St Thomas schooners K E Merriam Merriam Basse Terre Eva Maud Holder Funchal R Flint Brown Georgetown Demn Thomas N Stone Matthews Kia-Vabae
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Helvetia
London
Saratoga
Havana
Mars
Boston
Vandalla
Antwerp
J. Spyer
Barks Edich
Bremen
Adele
Lisbon
Romanoff
Montevideo
Levuka
Lulu
William L. Burroughs
Wellington
P. G Thompson
New Scarford
Hyannis
Wildfire
Richard Hill
Fpomaston
Mary K. Amsden
Sarah Laton
K. Lo Tey
Esthates
Calais
Centennial
W. B. Glen
Galatea Genesta
Cathie
C. Berry
Annie A. Booth
St. John
N. B
Ella Francis
Rockland
William C. French
Windsor
N. S
Florida
Jogging
N.S
Lilla
Jennie
Grand Menon
Lynia
Halifax
Brockton Aldermen Appoint Library Trustees and Fire Force
Brockton aldermen approved Loring W. Puffer Frank E. Packard and Dr. Wallace C. Keith as Public Library trustees for three years. Herbert L. Whitcomb joined the fire department call force. Bonds for City Marshal Chase and City Clerk Packard were accepted. Tax Collector Keith reported $506,572 uncollected for 1887 and $32,209.23 for 1888. Eighteen druggists’ liquor license applications were defeated. City Treasurer’s bond set at $50,000. Police force pay petition referred to higher regalary.
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Brockton
Loring W. Puffer
Frank E. Packard
Wallace C. Keith
Herbert L. Whitcomb
Chase
Packard
Keith
Charges Against Somerville Superintendent Refuted
Washington reports Postmaster General Dickinson will forward a Senate report dismissing charges against the Somerville postal station superintendent over the renting of new quarters. Inspectors, including Nichol, examined needs, and the quarters were leased in the usual manner. The location is near Union Square, with no shown misconduct by the superintendent.
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Washington
Sororan
Dickinson
Senate
Somerville
Nichol
General Corse
Whittemore
Sheerin
Union Square
Run on a Bank Shuts Rumor Down in Essex Savings
Lawrence January 14 There was a run on the Essex Savings Bank this morning amid rumors of insolvency. Depositors presented their books and were paid promptly. Treasurer James H Eaton declares the bank prosperous and solvent with deposits between five and six million dollars and a surplus of 471000. Those who withdrew funds lose the interest since last October.
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Lawrence
Sorcrau
Essex Savings Bank
James H. Eaton
Eaton
Weather Indications for New England and Eastern New York
Washington January 14 8 p m for twenty four hours New England and eastern New York expect fair weather with nearly stationary temperatures and variable winds.
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Washington
New England
New York
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