Brothers confess in Brookville murder of Mrs Maybee and daughter
New York reports Edward Tappan admits he and brother John killed Lydia and Annie Maybee in the Brookville farm barn on Nov 17. John is also jailed amid Townsend outrage suspicions. both men were brought to bail in Long Island City. The confession details the brutal choking and attempt on the elder Mr Maybee for a gold watch.
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New York
Brookville
L.I
Maybee
Edward Tappan
Townsend
Oyster Bay
L. I
John
Long Island City
Tappan
Lydia
Annie Maybee
Annie
Johm
Mr. Muaybee
Bold robbery hits Hampden treasurer in Springfield
Hampden county treasurer M Wells Bridge was robbed at the Springfield courthouse after three masked men overpowered him in the second floor office. They bound him and escaped with cash and undeposited checks totaling about 1 800 after a dramatic struggle, firing at a pursuing officer but leaving no clue.
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Smuingfield
Mass
Hampd Len County
M. Wells Bridge
Court House
Mr. Bridge
Halle
Evidence of Insanity Highlighted in Nutt Trial
In PriysBuURG Pa on Jan 18 the Nutt trial heard Drs Schumacher Battey and Kirker testify the defendant was insane at the time of shooting Dukes. They labeled the case emotional insanity and noted the prisoner’s desire to surrender to jail and sorrow over injury could not negate the mental defect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Priysbuurg
Nutt
Ribbon Weavers Strike Shifts With Partial Turnout
Paterson New Jersey reports a partial strike among 1200 ribbon weavers with less than half out by noon. Pelginin & Meyers and Doherty & Wadsworth mills see general strike action while 400 to 500 march downtown with brass bands to urge workers to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paterson
Va Bries
Senatorial Ballot Deadlock in Frankfort Ends with Glnckburn Support
In Frankfort the senatorial caucus shows six ballots with Williams 53 Blackburn 45 Sweeney 24. Ward meetings passed resolutions urging representatives to vote for Blackburn amid a near stalemate. In Annapolis Judge E R Wilson wins U S Senate on the sixth ballot in the Maryland legislature.
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Frankfort
Willams
Blackburn
Sweeney
Glnckburn
Annayoias
E.R. Wilson
United States
Atlantic Fleet Ships Sail North with Fine Herring Fleet
Long Harbor telegraphs report departure of another schooner loaded with frozen seine herring of excellent size and quality. They secured fares at New Harbor and Rencontre. Bay remains swarming with herring schools and before the 21st, the entire New England fleet will sail for home. crews are well and no accidents reported.
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Jopns
N. F
Long Harbor
New Harbor
Rencontre
New England
Alfred Pauze Absconds as Credit Fencier Lown Officer
Alfred Pauze secretary treasurer of the Credit Fencier Lown company has fled. Forged checks drawn on Peoples and Jacques Cartier banks total $10,000, with defalcations not yet fully known.
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Monmeal
Alfred Pauze
Credit Fencier Lown Company
Peoples
Jacques Cartier
English immigrant Thomas Midrich dies after self inflicted shooting
Waurworp Connecticut January 18 Thomas Midrich a 22 year old English immigrant employed as a farmhand in West Hartford shot himself intentionally. He cannot live long. No AUC assigned for the shooting.
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Waurworp
Conn
Thomas Midrich
England
West Hartford
City of Columbus wreck shocks Boston harbor
The City of Columbus steamship bound for southern ports ran ashore off Martha's Vineyard amid a southeast gale. Nearly 100 passengers and 25 crew were aboard as life boats were swamped and many were lost. Captain Wright, with 18 years on the Savannah line, is credited with a long, otherwise safe record.
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City of Columbus
Baston and Savannah Steamship Line
Nickerson
New England
F.W. Nickerson & Co
Wright
Devil’s Bridge
Gay Head
Martha’s Vineyard
Boston
I Tts
Messrs
Gate City
Savannah
Halifax
Prince Edward’s Island
Arthur C. Wade
South Shore
New Bedford
Loss of the steamer City of Columbus off Gay Head light
Captain Wright recounts the January 18 sinking after the City of Columbus left Boston with 50 persons aboard. The vessel struck near Devil's Bridge buoy in a gale, soon listed, flooded, and capsized. Lifeboats swamped. many passengers clung to rigging or boats. Dexter rescued twenty one survivors, with several dying aboard or after transfer. The captain asserts the ship struck outside the buoy and drifted inside while backing preferred.
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New Beptorp
Mass
Wright
City of Columbus
Boston
Gay Head Light
Devil’s Bridge
Gay Head
Dexter
New Bedford
Cross Lip
Nobska
Doat
Devil's Bridge
Rhodes
Kennedy
Eugene McGarry
Lieut. Rhodes
Lieut
Gabrielson
Sieut
A. EF. Pitwar
Boston Globe
N. J. Morton
Savannah
I. L. Hale
F. L. Hale & Co
Commercial Street
Pitman
Tibbetts
Somerville
Messrs
Brunswick
Mr. Cook
John Reach
Revenue Cutter
Terrible Disaster Accounts From City of Columbus Survivors
Survivors recount the steamer City of Columbus disaster off Gay Head after leaving Boston with 86 first class and 22 steerage passengers and a 45 crew. The ship faced a hurricane force wind Thursday night and capsized in heavy seas.
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New Beprorp
Nass
City of Columbus
Gay Head
Boston
Wreck of a Steamer Off Gay Head Toll at Sea
A northwest cane and heavy sea drove a steamer onto the reef by Devil's Bridge. The vessel listed and flooded, many passengers perished, 23 saved, 119 unaccounted for. The Dexter cutter rescued survivors, with four later dying, as crews recouped bodies and aided those aboard.
Wreck of City of Columbus Lands Survivors at New Bedford
The revenue cutter Dexter arrived at New Bedford with seventeen survivors and four dead from the City of Columbus wreck off Gay Head. Captain Gabrielson estimates ten lives lost. Names of the saved include Horace Waterhouse, John White, F. W. Fairbank, and others from Maine, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, and Charlottetown. Four bodies were brought in, all men.
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Providence
Dexter
New Bedford
City of Columbus
Gay Head
Gabrielson
Horace Waterhouse
Bath
John White
Prince Edwards Island
F. W. Fairbank
Gorham
Thomas O’ Leary
J. F. Briggs
Boston
Furber Hanson
A. A. Pitman
Brooklyn
Stewart
E. Wright
G. D. Whitcomb
Hudson
Mass
H. W. Farnsworth
Townsend
George W. Farnsworth
John L. Cook
Portland
H. Wiedman
Lawrence
Eugene McGarvey
Alias McCarthy
Somerville
H. A. Phillips
Madden
Charlottetown
KE. 1
T. R. Hammonds
Goldsboro
Passenger and Officer Lists for City of Columbus Disaster
The passenger list shows 51 aboard including W W Wright and others from Boston and Massachusetts with Turkish consul general Osgar Iasigi among steerage. Fire officers include Captain S E Wright first mate Edward Fuller and others. crew and survivors enumerate 33 seamen engineers stewards and cooks with many Boston natives.
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City of
Columbus
W. W. Wright
Boston
Ff. S. Rand
JT. K. Hae
Levi Lawrence
George H. Kellogg
H.C. Bartlett
Skeane
D. 8. Small
South Hampton
Mass
Miss Beach
Giban
Osgar Iasigi
A.J. Morton
Boston Globe
H. Grooks
A. Rand
Rand
Slade
B. Belyea
J. Atkinson
Ll. Davis
H. B. Kellogg
C. Richardson
Kk.t. Hutchinson
FP. Wanmond
Vance
Henry L. Batchester
Dorchester. Co
F. James
J. A. Merrill
Henry LL. Daniels
James Beal
Miss Beal
Whitcomb
D. W. Mitchell
HW. Tibbetts
John L. Cook
Mr. Sargent
H. Weidman
A. Cummings
N. D. Eaton
A. Chase
Hf. Durland
S. TI
Pinkhare
Lynn
W. Lapham
Thos. Hagan
G. R. Hammond
D. Ball
C. F. Frost
Joel Nourse
Steerage
Annie Kelly
Susie Smith
G. EK. Goddard
J. McCarty
E. McCarty
G. Hines
F. W. Fairbanks
H. W. Farnsworth
G. W. Farnsworth
C. Griffin
T. E. Geddings
W. E. Wright
August Pearson
J. R. Hebar
G. J. Whitcomb
C. A. Willett
Waterhouse
William Murray
Sesamen
John Madden
Lawart O’brien
Edward Leary
Robert W
Simon Grant
John White
Michael Kennedy
Thomas O'Leary
John Hines
Thomas Butler
Michael Smith
Thomas Carney
Oilers
Michael Day
John McKenna
James Lowe
John Roach
Alex
McGiggan
Cornelius O’leary
A. F. Pitman
Charles H. Howes
Teresa Smith
Cook
John Whitehead
Thomas Gallagher
Baker
Daniel McCarthy
Porter
Edward Briges
William Fitzpatrick
Frank Mahoney
Furber Hansson
Harry Moore
William Boardman
Richard Sullivan
Daniel Bigney
John McDonald
Daniel McDonald
Mess- Tran
The Lost Steamer City of Columbus Description
A historical description details the City of Columbus steamer built by John Roach & Son and later owned by the Boston and Savannah line. It notes length 270 feet, beam 38 feet 3 inches, tonnage 199% burden, 1500 hp compound engine, steam steering, grand saloon near 100 by 30 feet, social hall, separate forward saloon, six life boats and safety gear, air tight compartments, and luxury fittings. Passenger capacity 84 first, 45 second. valued at 300000 dollars, insured for 220000 with 170000 in English companies and 50 000 in American underwriters.
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City of Columbus
John Roach & Son
Chester
Ocean Steamship Company
Boston and Savannah Steamship Company
Axminster
Boston
New York
Great Western
Phoenix
India
The First Misfortune In Boston and Savannah Line
The Boston and Savannah steamship line, long popular with New Englanders, is praised for safety and service. The company controls Valifax and Prince Edward Island routes, carrying nearly 200,000 passengers in 15 years with no passenger or crew incidents. Boston agents will depart for New Bedford to tend the dead and wounded and recover and forward bodies washed ashore.
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Boston and Savannah Steamship Company
New England
Valifax and
Prince Edward Island Steamship Line
Boston
New Pedford
Coastings Claim Two Young Lives in Separate Accidents
In Worcester a 14-year-old daughter of William Cotter of North Brookfield died after a coasting accident when a double ripper collided with a team. She lived three hours. In Laconia New Hampshire a boy, 11, Frost, fatally injured while coasting at Concord Thursday night.
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Worcester
Mass
Denughter
Wm. Cotter
North Brookfield
Loxcamp
N. H
Frost
Corcord
Supreme court stays execution in Majors case in Santa Clara
News from Bair reports the California supreme court in San Francisco paused Geaig W. Majors death warrant upon his counsel's petition. The item notes Majors is a double murderer in Santa Clara and details local legal action awaiting further proceedings.
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Supreme Court
San Francisco
Geaig W. Majors
Santa Clara
Boston Gas Explosion Wrecks Building Killing Three
A gas explosion last evening in Boston's Hanover Street area destroyed a three story brick building and damaged many nearby structures. Three people died and several others were severely injured while a number of workers and residents were left trapped or displaced.
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Boston
Explosion Damage Closes Shops and Furies Streets
After the blast, scene on Salem Street shows light damage while Blackstone Street houses suffer shattered panes. Rogers and Medros barber shop loses almost all windows upstairs. Hanover Street fronts are blanketed by fire department covers to deter theft as crews search ruins by Ridgway’s calcium lights and steamers.
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Box 17
Franks
Fourth Division
Blackstone Street
Hanover Street
Salem
Hanover Streets
Hanover
North Centre Streets
North Centre Street
Hanover and
Blackstone Streets
Cross Street
Endicott
Blackstone
Llanover
Hampden House
Haymarket Square
William Connelly
Maverick Street
Chelsea
Albert B. Blakely
Cherry Street
Massachusetts General Hospital
Samuel Orr
Kittridge
Barrett Brothers
Blackstone Clothing House
Thomas Gaffney
John Holman
E. S. Bliss
J. E. Nichols
G. W. Smith
Union Pacific Tea Company
8. W. Brown Furniture Company
Sidney Nevins
EK. R
Mannes
Farnham & Smalley
Boots and Shoes
E. B. Blackie
New England Furniture Exchange
Dr. Fairbanks
C.fisher
J. H. Crane
Rhodes Island
C. D. Bugbee
T. C. Newcomb
M. E. Howard & Co
Ashman’s Band
Portuguese Charitable Society
Hooper Boat Club
W. A. Huston
N. Schloss
Thomas McGowan
Henry N. Cass
Jenson Bros
Sing Kee
DeCarol& Brother
William Daley, Jr., & Co
Robertson House
John Miller & Co
J. Gallagher
Crossing Cross Street
Clinton Wiles
John Leavitt
J. C. Bean
Endicott Street
Salem Streets
M. Page & Co
Mongland
Q. Rankin
Opper
Salem Street
Rogers & Medros
Cross
Protective Department
Ridgway
Vaughan Building Fire Losses in Providence
Fire in the Vaughan building Providence Jan 18 caused roof collapse with intact walls. Building valued about 150 000 pounds, insured for 60 000 dollars. Numerous tenants including William R Walker & Son and Vin cent & Carpenter suffered losses. several others insured or partially insured. Minor arson-like reports follow in Boston vicinity and other small city fires with insured losses.
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Providence
R.J
William R. Walker & Son
Rathbone Gardner
Smithville
Ehnwood
Ashland
Patchogue and Suffolk County Bank Closes Amid Depositor Panic
The Patchogue and Suffolk County bank shut its doors at noon. Depositors face total loss of their funds as rumors of a collapse spread. Cashier Peck acknowledged speculation and failed attempts to borrow to avert a downfall. Patchogue village faces about $100 000 and Saville about $25 000 in losses.
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Parcinoguk
L. J
Patchogue
Suffolk County
Peck
Patchogue Village
Saville
Address by Meilen Chamberlain on John Adams the Statesman
Meilen Chamberlain spoke at the Webster Historical Society annual meeting in the Old South meeting-house. He praised John Adams as a single minded yet complex figure who helped forge independence and nationality, shaping state constitutions and later supporting national unity under the articles of confederation. He highlighted Adams's firm stand in Congress, his decisive but not personal political success, and his role in securing colonial fisheries and western boundaries during and after the war. The business meeting followed with financials, member rolls, obituaries, and new officers including President Joshua L. Chamberlain.
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Mellen Chamberlain
John Adams
Webster Historical Society
Old South
Wm. Cornell
D. D
Wm. C. Winslow
Meilen Chamberlain
Newfoundland
Mississippi
Great River
Ohio
Kennebec
St. Croix
Canadas
Congress
W. C. Winslow
Marshall Jewell
Paul A. Chadbourne
Wm. H. Wood
Plymouth
Holmes Amidon
Boston
George Washington Warren
Charlestown
Edward D. Morgan
Charles Austin White
Augustus Storey
William B. Stearnes
Idwin Martin Stone
Joshua L. Chamberlain
Maine
George C. Richardson
Massachusetts
Ww. M. Evarts
New York
John Wentworth
Illinois
Meury B. Anthony
Rhode Island
George F. Edmunds
Vermont
Stephen M. Allen
Edward F. Thayer
Nathaniel W. Ladd
Edmund H. Bennett
Albert Palmer
William End
Taft Hosts Fragrant Feast Menu for Cordage Official
Friday evening Mr. Taft presided over a complimentary dinner for Frederick Davis treasurer of Sewall Day cordage company as guests in the trade. The menu featured multiple courses with lavish French names and various wines including Chateau Latour Veuve Cliquot and Clos de Beze.
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Taft
Frederick Davis
Sewall & Day Cordage Company
Canada
Erie Teal
B. C. Clarke
Man fatally stabbed in hallway in Brooklyn case
George Allman a 32 year old cigar store clerk living on Dominick Street was stabbed and died of internal hemorrhage at 848 Staton Street as James Hardy claimed self defense saying Allman attacked him. Hardy later found with 230 dollars and reported intent to rob. A separate theft case reports Mrs Mary Hart pursuing James Smith after he stole jewelry worth hundreds of dollars.
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New York
George Allman
Bominick Street
Wag
Gyoim
Statson Street
James Hardy
Allman
Jtferdy
Hardy
James Smith
Mary Hat
Monroe Street
Smith
King Alfonso Calls Conservatives to Power
A political shift follows King Alfonso's decision to install conservatives, triggering a major response. A southern Dalmatia hurricane damages shipping, while Khartoum reports enemy fire near the city. Monsegnore Cesare is murdered in his bed, and the Chinese legation’s secretary meets with Earl Granville. Placards in Paris urge a popular demonstration, with Palais Bourbon guards on duty.
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Alfonso
Dalmatia
Khartoum
Monsignore Cesare
Marquis Tseng
H. McCartney
Legation
Earl Granville
Foreign Office
Paris
Palais Bourbon
Notable Legal and Society Updates
Miss Theodocia Gray of Darien amuses herself by filing her front teeth. Clarence Hale of Portland Maddison was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Henry Irving the actor is seriously indisposed in Chicago with fears of cancelled dates. Gen Negley of Pennsylvania heads more railroads than Vanderbilt. Judge Ephraim K Wilson of Snow Hill Maryland, 62, elected US senator after leaving Congress. He is a longtime judge in the first judicial district.
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Theodocia Gray
Darien
Clarence Hale
Portland
Ale
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Chicago
Henry Irving
Negley
Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt
Ephraim K.wilson
United States
Maryland
Snow Hill
Worcester County
Robes GT Man Trav a ss i Ben
A fragmentary item reports a person named Ben involved in a travel incident with unclear details and no full context available. The readable text hints at a traveler or traveler related matter but lacks concrete actions, dates, or locations for fuller reporting.
Fragmentary Financial Entry Shows Bonds and Stocks Totals
The fragment lists securities including United States bonds 403 586 53, Hoston city bonds 116 125 00, other NE city bonds, and bank stock along with railroad bonds and stocks totaling 399 100 50 and 19 200 00.
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United States
Hoston
N. E
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Sutt
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Imsane
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Northboro
G. Fred Chandler
Hyde Park
F. C. Richardson & Co
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Edward O'Brien
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Frank T. Sherwood
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Charles M. Sherwood
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Lil
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Naugatuck Valley Ice Company
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Ermaszigung
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von Selbst Empfehlen
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Damon
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Seidene Kleider
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Parner
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Reichstag
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Senate
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Bureau of Steam Engineering
Robert W. Sanfeldt
Alex. C. Rhind
Thomas Pattison
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Chalmers-Manning
House Committee On Naval Affairs
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Morse
Philadelphia
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General Hospital
Norfolk
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Edwin Killand
Massacusetts House of Refuge
J. G. B. Siegert
G. O. Taylor
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Baring Brothers & Co
London
G. Blanchard
William H. Hill
Baker McNear
Ransom B. Fuller
Thomas Danay
H. J. Boardman
F. H. Odiorne
Frank B. Dole
M.F. Pickering
James Mittlefield
George Hinman
Thomas H. Lord
Chas. F. Perry
Cyrus. Wakefield
Chas. C. Foster
Wn. H. Lincoln
Enos
Soule
Wm. C. Haskins
Emery
Nathan Crowell
Bahsomb. Fuller, Prest
Herbert Fuller
Thos, H. Lord
Ward Williams
SAM
WN. Fiske
State Street
Wall Street
le Salle Street
Baltimore
Chamber of
Commercéia
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