Maine Snap Eagerly Sought by Thirty Lusty Woodchoppers
A Boston employment office drew a visiting Maine woodchopping agent who recruited about thirty eight men for jobs in Portland. The improvised recruiter pressed for cash, then vanished as the crowd waited for a return trip, leaving six or seven men to sail without him amid a police warrant.
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Blackstone Street
Maine
J. W. Bennett
Gilead
Boston
Post
Portland
Williams
Portland Steamship
Hold Suspect In Boston Bridge Stabbing Case
Police hold Michael Gibbons after a stabbing that killed Daniel Broughton on the Boston & Albany bridge. Gibbons, 43, of 5 Orange lane, is charged with simple assault and battery with a knife. Mrs Coleman, aka Minnie McCue, faces drunkenness. John Coleman is charged with assault. Broughton, hospitalized, remains on a dangerous list but may recover.
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Daniel Broughton
Boston & Albany
Harrison Avenue
Michael Gibbons
Orange Lane
Gibbons
John Coleman
Pine Street
Coleman
Minnie McCue
Broughton
Brown
Boston capitalists back $2 million Elliott square project
Boston investors led by Kidder, Peabody & Co. have supplied about $2,000,000 for a ten story store and office building on Elliott square, bounded by Main Washington Swan and South Division streets. The project total cost is $3,300,000 with Buffalo businessmen subscribing about one third.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Boston
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Ellicott Square
Main
Washington, Swan
South Division Streets
Dynamite Ties to Honolulu Royalist Revolt
San Francisco reports new facts in the Honolulu royalist uprising showing a dynamite plot aimed at government HQ. Vessels from Victoria carried arms and explosives landed near Diamond Head and moved into the hills where Wilcox and rebels fortified.
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San Francisco
Cal
Honolulu
Victoria
Diamond Head
Alameda
Wilcox
Man Struck by Norfolk House Car at Washington and East Dedham
Conductor Henry Page attempted to pull the belt cord as an inbound electric car hit Henry L. Brown at 6 30 pm while crossing from one sidewalk to the other. Brown, about 60, was taken to City Hospital conscious with numerous injuries not considered serious. No arrests. some blame inexperience of the spare conductor.
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Henry Page
Norfolk House
Henry L. Brown
Washington
East Dedham
Brown
Gillett
Carr
City Hospital
Read Street
Post
Silva
Page
Iselin orders new America’s Cup defender from Herreshoffs
Providence January 23 Mr C Oliver Iselin placed with the Herreshoffs an order for a boat to defend the America’s Cup. Details were scant but the craft is expected to resemble the Vigilant with improvements from Nat Herreshoff experiments. Tobin bronze plates may be used. work starts at once with Iselin overseeing from Providence.
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Providence
C. Oliver Iselin
Herreshoffs
Iselin
Ines
Nat Herreshoff
England
Gould
Tobin
Skeleton in the Snow Found Near Medford Farm
In Medford on January 23, Richard P. Newcomb discovers a badly decomposed skeleton buried under snow near the City Farm while chopping wood. The remains, dressed in overalls and jumper with a rock pillow, include an empty bottle nearby. Police and an undertaker retrieved the body to the High Street morgue. medical examiner Durrell says it has rested there since last summer.
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Medford
Richard P. Newcomb
F. N. Beals
High Street
Durrell
Somerville
Yale Junior Promenade Concludes Yale Social Week
The Yale junior promenade at the Second Regiment armory closes the social week with a grand march led by the junior committee. About 900 society members from nearly every state attended, with guests including Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard and Mrs. Burton Harrison.
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New Haven
Gorman Says He Is to Be Feared More Than Hoar
Upton January lecture by William Lloyd Garrison Jr., treasurer of the New England Free Trade League, attacked Senator Hoar and defended free trade. He argued protection harms New England, cited Horace Mann and Amasa Walker, and claimed wage-earners benefit from tariffs while criticizing Massachusetts’ leaders.
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Worcester County
New England Free Trade League
Senator Hoar
Massachusetts
Congress
Gorman
McKinley
Republican
Hoar
Home Market Club
Boston
Union
Fourneyman
New England
Washington
Sugar Trust
England
Commonwealth
Horace Mann
North
Horace Munn
Great Britain
South
Amasa Walker
Brooklyn Strife Ends in Another Fatal Wounding
A militia rifle wounded Thomas Carney on Hicks Street during the Atlantic Avenue line conflict in Brooklyn. Carney, unconnected to the strike, died of a thigh wound through the groin. Henry Ahns had died yesterday. Militia actions sparked terror. arrests followed as doors and windows were targeted and cars resumed service after the shooting.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Thomas Carney
Thirteenth Regiment
Austen
Hicks
Harrison
Hicks Street
Jacob Quinlan
Cole
John Meade
Corporal Platt
Long Island College Hospital
Carney
Kene
Seward
Assembly
Knights of Labor
Richardson
Workman
Connolly
Atlantic Avenue
School Board in turmoil over committee chairmanships
A heated battle over committee appointments at the School Board ends with resignations. Siren of conflict grows as Strange resigns chairmanships and threatens more departures while Pettigrove defends selections and denies undue influence. An investigation into the board and a Lexon appointment are anticipated.
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Pettigrove
Strange
Isaac F. Paul
E. C. Keller
Judge Fowler
Paul
James A. MacDonald
Keller
McDonald
Post
Committee On Rules
Dr. McDonald
Mr. Strange
Bishop Jules Cleret of Laval Dies at 59
Paris reports the death of Mgr Jules Cleret Bishop of Laval at age 59. Cleret led the Laval diocese and was a prominent church figure in France. His passing marks the end of a lengthy tenure serving the region and its Catholic community.
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Paris
Mgr
Jules Cleret
Laval
Boy 15 Hit by Electric Car on Tremont Street
Edward Hadley of 19 Mindora Street Roxbury was struck by an electric car at 8 30 last night on Tremont Street near Prentiss. He sustained a severe scalp wound, received first aid from Dr Williams, and was returned home.
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Edward Hadley
Mindora Street
Roxbury
Tremont Street
Prentiss Street
Dr. Williams
Tickets for All West Points On Sale at Boston City Ticket Office
Tickets for all points in the West are on sale at the Boston and Albany City Ticket Office located at 366 Washington Street.
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Boston & Albany City
Washington Street
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Boston Caledonian Club
Robsert Burns
Bold Fellows
M. Dallas
Herreshoff
Medford Almshouse
YALE
Lloyd Garrison
Senator
Brooklyn Strike
Norton
District Assembly No. 75
Atlantic Avenue Road
Mr. Norton
Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company
William Richardson
City of
New York
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Ridgewood
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Palmetto Street
Baldwin F. Strauss
Fulton Street
Gaynor
Supreme Court
McLeer
impriStrrea
Coart
Grant
Strauss
Appleton
Paul G. Defere
National Guard
Linemen’s Association
Oda Fellows’ Hall
Delos McCurdy
M. L. Towne
Joseph Loader
Brooklyn Heights Railroad
Seventeenth Ward
Frederick Loeser & Co
Abram & Strauss
Navy Yard
Ralph Avenue
Sumpter Street
Seventy-first Regiment
Tompkins Avenue
George Kanig
Alabama Avenue
Fourteenth Regiment
Thomas Connelly
Riously
Sumner Avenue
Broadway Ferry
Driggs Avenue
Halsey Street
the Sixty-Ninth
The
Sia
Paine’s Furniture CO
Canal ST
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