Deaths and appointments from the era and regions
Notices list Daniel D. Warren a railroad contractor who died in Springfield at 65 Cyrus Wakefield treasurer of Wakefield Rattan Company died suddenly in Wakefield aged 8 John W Ross appointed postmaster of Washington Archbishop Williams of Boston may become a cardinal in March Baron Brassey Duke of Cambridge and Lord Beresford spoke on England coast defences New England congressmen seek river and harbor improvements Knights of Labor Assembly left in New Hampshire France Italy treaty negotiations ruptured College men form university baseball association Page 1.
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Daniel D. Warren
Springfield
Chicago
Knights of Labor District Assembly
New Hampshire
New England
John W. Ross
Washington
Rome
Williams
Boston
Baron Brassey
Duke of Cambridge
Charles Beresford
Chamber of Commerce
England
France
Italy
Weather and lectures fill city pages
Colder weather with rain or snow expected. George Willis Cooke lectured on Browning’s religious teachings. Mrs Bernard Whitman spoke on the United States of Colombia at the South Congregational Church. Caledonian Club celebrated Robert Burns at Odd Fellows Hall. The Home Market Club banquet set for Feb 9. Tremont Temple to host a public mass meeting next Wednesday. Tariff Reform League challenged by club reply. Stock market dull with underlying strength. Major J W Powell lectured on Savagery Barbarism and Civilization. Bar Association annual banquet at Vendome with Henry Hutchins presiding. Universalist Sabbath School Union delegate meeting discussed Aim and Method in Sunday School Teaching. President Eliot reported to Harvard overseers. Class of ’82 English high school held reunion at the Thorndike.
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George Willis Cooke
Browning
Bernard Whitman
United States of Colombia
South Congregational Church
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Caledonian Club
Robert Burns
Home Market Club
Tremont Temple
Tariff Reform League
Bar Association
Vendome
Henry ©. Hutchins
Universalist Sabbath School Union
Eliot
Harvard College
English High School
Robert Burns Anniversary Observed by Caledonian Club
The Caledonian Club marked the 120th birth anniversary of Robert Burns at Odd Fellows Hall with addresses by Chief William Strachan Governor Ames J Wemyss Jr and Dr D W Ward. Miss Gertrude M Rice Miss Annie Shirrett Miss Helene Clarkson Mr William Abercrombie Mr William Johnston Mr Alexander Pearson sang Burns songs. Dunbar's orchestra provided music and Hector McLean played the bagpipe. Afterward a supper was served followed by dancing with floor director James S Law assisted by J H Abercrombie J Macgregor R J Grant C Macdonald Alex Wilson and J H Stewart
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Robert Burns
Caledonian Club
Odd Fellows’ Hall
William Strachan
Governor Ames
J. Wemyss, Jr
D. W. Ward
Burns
Gertrude M. Rice
Annie Shirrett
Helene Clarkson
William Abercrombie
William Johnston
Alexander Pearson
Dunbar
Hector McLean
James S. Law
J. H. Abercrombie
J. Macgregor
R. J. Grant
C. Macdonald
Alex. Wilson
J. H. Stewart
East Boston Gaslight Company names board and officers
East Boston Gaslight Company stockholders elected a board of directors Stephen H. Whidden Thomas J. Whidden William L. Sturtevant John Thompson and Frederick Pease. The board organized electing Stephen H. Whidden president and Frederick Pease treasurer, with the officers remaining the same as last year.
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East Boston Gaslight Company
Stephen H. Whidden
Thomas J. Whidden
William L. Sturtevant
John Thompson
Frederick Pease
Ocean Passenger Movements and Arrivals Listed
Shipping news records numerous vessels with origins and destinations on January dates. Ships include Wuotan from New Orleans at Bremen. Bona for Philadelphia. Britannia from Calcutta to New York. Noordland from New York at Antwerp. City of Atlanta from New York via Havana. Australia from Honolulu. and several others stopping at Liverpool Glasgow Boston and future legs to Bremen Philadelphia and Mexico.
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Bremen
Wuotan
New Orleans
Gibraltar
Hexham
Bona
Philadella
Liverpool
Athens
West Point
Orsino
Prawle Point
Mandalay
Britannia
Calcutta
Newark
Antwerp
Noordland
New York
Glasgow
Anchoria
Havana
City of Atlanta
Mexico
San Francisco
Australia
Honolulu
Boston
Roman
le Ruyter
Lon the Lizard
Bosphorus
onClon
Dover
Elstew
Charleston
Clare
Mobile
Mentmore
Baltimore
Concordia
Thornhill
Progreso
Hokla
Copenhagen
Philadelphia
Karamoor
St Jago
Brixham
Ireland and Home Rule Proposals Stir Belfast Dail
Dust reports a Belfast argument that Irish Parliament power should protect linen and other industries, with Parnell’s Wicklow speech cited and Belfast News urging Nationalists to strike at linen trade. London notes Pyne and Tanner in London amid expected arrest warrants. Ejectment decrees rise in Gweedore as tenant-bailiff clashes loom. Rome discusses Irish prelate influence in American hierarchy and papal restraint on national preference claims.
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Belfast
Lonpoy
Pyne
Waterford
Lissinny Castle
London
Tanner
Cork
Ireland
Gweedore
County Donegal
England's Defences Urged Strengthened Coaling Stations
Baron Brassey warned of weak coaling station defences in a chamber of commerce lecture. Duke of Cambridge endorsed the view noting empire security depends on free commerce, while Lord Beresford lamented naval funding tied to politics and said fortifications were outdated and inadequate.
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London
Charles Beresford
Admiralty
Naval Service
Lord Beresford
Paris Rome trade talks rupture as Italy rejects treaty articles
Paris January 25 negotiations between France and Italy for a commerce treaty have collapsed. Italy refused to accept over eighty nine of the 272 articles of the old treaty, and those only with tariff increases. The French Chamber of Deputies passed a bill to use Paris sewage to fertilize the Seine valley. The Terrenoire Lavourie et Bessages Iron Works of St Etienne has suspended payments and a judicial liquidation demand has been lodged with the Paris tribunal of commerce to keep the foundries operating to protect creditors and ensure employee pay.
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Paris
France
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Seine
Terrenoire Lavourie Et Bessages Iron Works
St. Etienne
Paris Tribunal of Commerce
Cardinal Prospects For Boston Archbishop In Rome Conclave
Baltimore Sun Rome dispatch reports major Vatican shifts in American church governance. Archbishop Williams of Boston is tipped for cardinalate in an upcoming consistory with possible coadjutor Bishop McMahon of Hartford and Bishop Byrne of Boston to follow as bishop. New Orleans archbishopric may move to Rev. P L Chappelle of Washington, D C, while Milwaukee split may place Bishop Ireland of St Paul in head role. O Connell of American College may be succeeded by Dr Farrelly as secretary remaining at Rome for American bishops. Pope Leo reportedly aims to strengthen American church ties amid Irish German Catholic tensions.
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Balttimore
Baltimore Sun
Rome
United States
Williams
Boston
Bodfish
Cardinal Gibbons
McMahon
Hartford
Spe
Milwaukee
Ireland
St. Paul
Keene
Richmond
Vatican
American University
Kr. O'Connell
American College
O'Connell
American Bishops
Farrelly
New York
the Sun
Pope Leo
United
Four Delegates Reported as NH Knights of Labor Dissolves
Dover New Hampshire January 25 One year after District Assembly 179 once a thriving Knights of Labor body in Straf ford Rockingham Belknap counties and York county Me dwindled to four delegates with no business conducted The district assembly will cease to exist and local assemblies may join District Assembly 124 Manchester The dissolution is blamed on internal dissensions
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Dover
N. H
Knights of Labor
Strafford
Rockingham
Belknap
York County
New England
Rich
Marston
Manchester
New Hampshire
Tariff Reform Club Formed in Brockton
In Brockton on January 25 a Tariff Reform Club was organized at Dr. H H Filoon's office with about twenty five professionals and businessmen in attendance. Dr Filoon elected president, the group adopting bylaws to study the US tariff and inform the public. The club plans meetings, a $0.50 sign up, a five member executive committee, and aims for rapid growth with over $500 already subscribed.
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Brockton
Srecrau
H. H. Filoon
United States
Treasury
Executive Committee
Charles Howard
Martin Wild
J. M. Day
Dr. H. H. Filton
C. W. Robinson
J. C. Snow
E. H. Reynolds
Edgar P. Howard
L. F. Holmes
E. L. Brown
R. C. Kimball
C. O. Patten
H. D. Kendrick
J. E. Bacon
M.D
William H. Doyle
W. E. Beals
James J. Dowd
Henry A. Ford
Judge Day
Daniel Donnelly
Filoon
Felows
Daniel Connelly
E. P. Howard
Filton
J. J. Dowd
Major Powell Debates Evolution in Lecture on Civilization
Major J W Powell director of the US Geological Survey delivered a second Marine Biological Laboratory lecture in Association Hall arguing against Spencerian evolution. He traced human progress from savagery to civilization, noting humans shape environments, not merely endure them, and cited shifts in art language religion society and ethics as pivotal steps in development.
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J. W. Powell
United States Geological Survey
Association Hall
Marine Biological Laboratory
Herbert Spencer
Major Powell
Barbariani
Lard Dealers Protest Discrimination Aimed at American Vessels
Washington Jan 25 report details a Dawes bill to tax adulterated lard at 2 cents per pound, backed by John P. Squire & Co. to shield them from Chicago Armour Company lard. Shippers admit lard uses hog fat, cottonseed oil, and tallow, claim purity. Debate notes likelihood of passage, parallels with oleomargarine bill, warnings from lawyers about government overreach to ruin an industry.
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Washington
Sproar
Senate Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
Senator Dawes
Dawes
John P. Squire & Co
Chandler-Hoar
Senate
House
Virginia Democrats find speakers and visiting guests
Shire will deliver an address before the Virginia Democratic Association Friday night. John F. Dever and Mrs Dever are here on a brief pleasure trip, and Colonel N W Bingham is here on department business. Mrs Senator Hoar cannot receive tomorrow and will host on Thursdays for the rest of the season.
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Shire
Virginia Democratic Association
John F. Dever
Senator Hoar
University ball team forms to play Eastern circuit
A group of college graduates met at a Carcago hotel and organized a university baseball association led by A. L. Packard as president F. B. Parker as vice president and F. M. Tilden as treasurer The nine listed players include Tilden Parker Plummer Packard Burker Gardner Yale Hibbard and Allen They plan an amateur Eastern tour beginning May or earlier to face leading colleges and clubs.
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Carcago
A. L. Packard
F. B. Parker
F. M. Tilden
Fred M. Tilden
Harvard
F. H. Parker
Dartmouth
C. W. Plummer
Northwestern University
Ast Packard
Ann Arbor
H. F._ Burker
Oberlin
W.A. Gardner
Yale
Hubbard
Allen
Hibbard
Copper market slips on London news and strong export pace
New York opened about fifteen points lower as spot copper moved 16.40 cash down on first call. Futures traded at 16.65 March 16.70 April 16.35 July with heavy cash demand and exports surpassing 10 million pounds this month. London market weakness and French syndicate pressure kept prices weak at 74 15s per ton for spot Chile bars. Lead stayed firm amid heavy early trading and tin was dull on 36 14 to 37 spot with futures quoted around 83 to 83 1 2.
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New York
Wall Street
London
Havre
Weather Indications for New England and Coastal Areas
Washington signals show colder air moving into New England with rain or snow followed by fair weather and brisk southeasterly winds along the coast turning northwesterly inland. Eastern New York similarly colder with rain then clearing, winds brisk. Cautionary signals from Atlantic City to Eastport. Blue Hill Observatory notes snow in southeastern New England tonight, then warmer with falling temperatures, and summarizes recent barometer shifts across the lakes and northeast.
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Washincton
New England
New York
Atlantic
Atlantic City
Eastport
Blue Hill Observatory
Lake
Lakes
Vermont
Nova Scotia
Observations Across Stations At Same Moment
Observers record synchronized observations at multiple named stations, noting identical timing and conditions. Details describe uniform data points gathered concurrently across locations, indicating coordinated measurement and shared reference frame.
Lawyers at Dinner at Vendome Endorses Legal Reforms
A Boston Bar Association dinner at the Hotel Vendome drew about 250 lawyers including Chief Justice Morton and Judge Barker. The seventh annual legal spree featured speeches, songs, and a review of court reforms, noting the shift to two forms of action contract and tort, the rise of equity work, and support for an additional judge to handle equity in the courts.
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Clement K Fay
Mr. Fay
Hotel Vendome
Suffolk St
Supe
the Bar Association
City OF Boston
Bar Association
City of
Boston
Plantiff
Henky C. Hutchins
C. H. Greenleaf & Co
Henry C. Horcurss
Henry C. Hutchins
Morton
Field, Devens
William Allen
Knowlton
Supreme Judicial Court
George A. Gordon
Old South Church
Hammond
Superior Court
Nettleton
Colt
United States
Circuit Court
Lowell
Pitman
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Parmenter
Municipal Court
Adams
Curtis, Hardy
Bolster
Municipal
Stevens
Causten Browne
Darwine. Ware
A. 5. Wheeler
Benjamin Kimball
Solomon Lincoln
Nathan Morse
Robert M. Morse, Jr
H. D. Hyde
Augustus Russ
H. W. Putnam
Osborne
G. H. Norcross
James B. Thayer
Cambridge
Joseph Willard
A. H. Crocker
Arthur Lincoln
H. E. Ware
M. F. Dickinson, Jr
Henry M. Rogers
Harvey N. Shepard
Samuel Hoar
Elmer E. Howe
Moses Williams
Frank Peabody, Jr
L. D. Brandeis
L. L. Scaife
E. B. Southard
E. B. Hagar
G. A. O. Kernst
H. L. Harding
C. G. Fall
L. P. French
A. D. Foster
W. W. Vaughan
J. Russell Kread
Hazard Stevens
Godfrey Morse
P. Greenough
A. A. Strout
J. J. Myers
H. W. Chaplin
George C. Crocker
W. P. Blake
C. E. Grinnell
Tyler K. King
Hutchins
Mr. Hutchins
Brethren of the Bar
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Supreme
General Sessions
Stephen M
Essex
Berkshire
Bette
Geo
Bevis
Thomas Russell
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