Amesbury carriage makers sue union in equity session
In the case of the carriage manufacturers of Amesbury against Local No 2 International Carriage and Wagon Workers Union et al heard in the equity session of the Superior Court yesterday afternoon counsel agreed to submit the points at issue to a master Judge Berry of Lynn. Judge Richardson conferred with counsel and a decree was issued acting as a restraining order preventing the union from using force or intimidation against present employees of the manufacturers. Witnesses were ready for trial but the case is postponed for now.
Judge Urges Quick Questions in South Danvers Bank Case
Judge Lowell urged counsel for both defendants to question the bank books during a resumed session to speed the hearing. John W. Dickinson and George M. Foster face charges of misusing bank funds in the South Danvers Bank case. Frank A. Taylor testified as a witness on the books and checks, with examination focusing on Foster's handwriting and the bank's receipts and entries. The hearing will resume at 10 o'clock with expectations of better progress.
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Lowell
United States Court
John W. Dickinson
George M. Foster
South Danvers Bank
Frank A. Taylor
Dickinson
Foster
Attorney Jones
Advertising contract at issue in third Mu session hearing
In the ongoing third session, the court examines an advertising contract under dispute. The proceedings focus on terms, obligations, and potential breaches by both parties, with legal arguments sparking broader questions about contract enforceability in advertising agreements.
Mansfield Woman Sues Railroad in Personal Injury Suit
Ellen Mahoney of Mansfield won a jury verdict of 6250 against the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad in the third Superior Court session yesterday. The suit, filed for injuries suffered when she slipped while alighting a Mansfield train in February 1899.
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Superior Court
Ellen Mahoney
Mansfield
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Bondsman Ordered to Pay in Municipal Court
In the first session of the Municipal Civil Court James Donaldson was defendant. He stood as bondsman for W F Kerrigan who failed to appear within 80 days to take the poor debtor’s oath. Creditors sued the bondsman and yesterday obtained judgment for 349.47 plus costs.
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James Donaldson
W. F. Kerrigan
Kerrigan
Mr. Donaldson
Milk dealer guilty of unmarked skimmed milk charge
In Superior Criminal Court yesterday William A Graustein a milk dealer faced a charge of shipping skimmed milk without proper labeling. The jury returned a verdict of guilty outlining the unmarked milk violation.
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Superior Criminal Court
William A. Graustein
Edward J Ader Case in Superior Court
Edward J Ader faced two charges after loans and security bonds. Elizabeth Houseman lent $35 and gave 18 foreign bonds valued at $20 each as security. Ader allegedly used a purchased typewriter bought on instalment. He was held in $800 bond.
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Edward J. Ader
Pemberton
Superior Court
Elizabeth Houseman
Dunning Bankruptcy Examination Set After Sheriff Served Capias
Deputy U S Marshal Waters served a capias on Sheriff Seavey directing Edward J Dunning a State Street broker to appear before Referee Gibbs for bankruptcy examination tomorrow. The hearing will proceed in Mr Gibbs office in the Tremont building.
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United States
Waters
Seavey
Edward J. Dunning
State Street
Gibbs
Mr. Gibbs
Tremont Building
Whiskey Sale to Boy Stirs Chelsea Court Case
In Chelsea Police Court Joseph Smith a bartender for Leonard and Stearns at 51 Broadway faced charges for selling a half pint of whiskey to 14 year old Charles Povolack. Smith pleaded not guilty and the case was continued for one week.
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Chelsea
Joseph Smith
Leonard & Stearns
Broadway
Charles Povolack
Smith
Pause in Venezuela talks threatens breach in alliance
Washington reports a halt in Venezuela negotiations as allies press for preferential treatment for their claims. Bowen consults Hay and may brief Castro, with options to yield or push the case to The Hague. Venezuela faces a choice between acceding to allied demands or risking an extended impasse.
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Washington
London
Bowen
Hay
State Department
Castro
Venezuela
Mr. Bowen
Hague Tribunal For Adjustment
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
France
Adventurous Morse Brothers Set for Blue Nile Expedition
Isidore and Tyler Morse of Boston plan a expedition up the Blue Nile through Africa with 100 camels 40 attendants and Abyssinian guards. They seek navigability of the river as a trade route from Central Abyssinia to the Mediterranean under Menelik's invitation.
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Boston
Isidore
Tyler Morse
Blue Nile
Africa
Commonwealth Avenue
Leopold Morse
China
Japan
South Africa
India
Europe
Rocky Mountains
Himalayas
Tyler
Harvard
Law
New England
Beaver Brook
Puritan
Eastern Yacht Club
American Kennel Club
New England Kennel Club
Salem Country Club
Oakley
Misery Island
New York
London
Egypt
Abyssinia
Mediterranean
Morse Brothers
Menelik
Edward
Ras Mackennen
Godfrey
Hyde Park
J. L. Harrington
Menelik’s Court
Ww. N. MacMillan
St. Louis
MacMillan
Khartoum
White Nile
Rockefeller's Million Dollar Gift Funded Education Board
The General Education Board formed in Washington today with W. H. Baldwin Jr elected chairman. John D. Rockefeller pledged an annual gift of 100000 dollars for ten years to support educational advancement in the United States.
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Washington
General Education Board
Congress
United States
W. H. Baldwin, Jr
John D. Rockefeller
Freight Wreck Blamed on Fog Near Stillwater Station
A fog obscured train lights at Stillwater Station causing a rear collision between a local freight and a special freight on the Boston and Maine line. The engineer and fireman escaped uninjured. a brake man in the cab was injured with a crushed leg. Five hours of traffic interruption and about $10,000 in rolling stock damage were reported.
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Clinton
Boston & Maine
Stillwater Station
South Bay Union Opens in South End Tonight
South Bay Union, a new social settlement at Plympton and Harrison avenues, opens for public inspection costing 48000 dollars. The building includes a basement men’s reading and billiard area, first floor for women with hot dinners and rest, and a second floor guest hall and kindergarten for lectures, concerts, dances, and debates. The project aims for democratic governance with community control for the greatest good.
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South Bay Union
Social Settlement
South End
Plympton and
Harrison Avenue
Swedish Baptist Church to move into new Cambridge structure
The Swedish Baptist Church at Washington and Columbia in Cambridge plans a swift move into a new two story brick and wood church with 64 feet by 3% feet dimensions and 600 seating. Interior will feature Cypress mahogany and oak with a mirror polished floor and cathedral glass windows. Heating is hot air, lighting gas and electricity wiring. Builder John T. Mahaffy says completion by May 1, with the cornerstone laid on February 14, 1908, and the building cost estimated around a yet unspecified amount.
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Swedish Baptist Church
Washington and
Columbia Streets
Cambridge
Columbia Street
John T. Mahaffy
Bit by Mrs Jack Gardner's Dog Prompted Suit
Mary Callahan a 13 year old of 108 Conant street Roxbury claims a dog from Mrs Gardner's Venetian palace bit her right leg on the eve of January 11. The girl suffers insomnia convulsions fever and fear of dogs and may be left lame. Drs Pearl and Murphy attend. Burns Clarke Bar Representatives handle the case. Mrs Gardner denies the issue and has been referred to her attorney W F Wharton.
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Jack Gardner
Mary Callahan
Conant Street
Roxbury
Post
Venetian Palace
Mary Ryan
Fenway
Palace
Marya
Brookline
Wwe
Attorney Clarke
Body Found in Culvert Near Hastings Station
In Waltham on January 29 section hands recovered the body of Edward Fahey, missing for a week. The body lay under railroad tracks in a culvert near Hastings station with a severe cut above the left eye, and the medical examiner suspects a fall caused the death.
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Waltham
Edward Fahey
Hastings
Breathing Spell Promises From Scott's Emulsion
An advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion as relief for the consumptive. It claims nourishment strengthens the exhausted system, aids the lungs and body, and may help throw off the disease, urging readers to request a free sample from Scott & Bowne at 409 Peale Street.
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Scott
New College for the South Proposed by Peabody Board
In Washington on January 29 the Peabody education fund trustees adopted a plan to apply income to establish a teachers college named Peabody College for Teachers in the Southern States. A committee including Gilman Olney Hoar Morgan and Hoke Smith was named to implement. The fund now stands at 2,100,000 and a final dissolution is anticipated over several years.
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Washington
The
Peabody Education Fund
Board of Trustees
Teachers’ College
Peabody College For
Dr. Gilman
Richard Olney
Senator Hoar
J. Pierpont Morgan
Hoke Smith
Peabody Fund
Ten thousand workers strike in Reus Spain
A general strike has broken out in Reus Tarragona. About 10,000 workmen are affected. The event was reported from Madrid on January 29.
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Madrid
Reus
Tarragona
Prisoner Ovando Conde Charged With Knife Assault
Ovando Conde aged 27 of 19 Unity Street is held in Division 1 on charges of assault and battery with a knife against Secondino de Domenicis. His two brothers, said to have aided him, escaped. De Domenicis was treated by Dr Dunn at the police station and then moved to Relief Hospital.
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Ovando Conde
Unity Street
Division 1
Secondino de Domenicis
de Domenicis
Dunn
Relief Hospital
May tie up the central Springfield strike
In West Springfield the Boston and Albany railroad officials met with a Boilermakers Union committee to settle a strike by 40 workers. The union demands the discharge of a member accused of working against the union, or they threaten to disable boiler making and repair shops from Boston to Buffalo on the New York Central line.
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Springfield
Boston & Albany Railroad
West Springfield
Boston
Buffalo
New York Central
Leather Workers Union Organizer Addresses Boston Meeting
National Organizer M R West of the Leather Workers Union spoke to a large Boston leather industry gathering on reducing hours, boosting output, and raising standards. At the close, 45 applications for membership were received.
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M. R. West
Leather Workers’ Union
Boston
Sixty Shoemakers Strike at McElwain Shoe Factory
Sixty employees in the treeing edgesetting lasting and slugging departments at the McElwain shoe factory in Manchester New Hampshire walked out by order of District Organizer Mc Dougal of Haverhill Massachusetts of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union after Superintendent H A Trull refused to consider a wage scale. Trull says the firm will keep the shop running as before even if only 16 pairs are produced daily and he has hired about 25 men to fill vacancies.
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Manchester
N. H
McElwain Shoe Factory
McDougal
Haverhill
Mass
Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union
H.A. Trull
Trull
Mill and Bench Hands Form Union in Boston Area
A meeting of the Mill and Bench Hands of Boston and vicinity held in Labor Hall at 45 Eliot Street decided to form an organization under the American Federation of Labor.
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Mill and Bench Hands
Boston
Labor Hall
Eliot Street
American Federation of Labag
Brewers Gone West to Cincinnati for Convention
Brewery Workers delegates depart Boston for the international convention in Cincinnati where eight hour movement and union matters will be discussed. The group includes Edmond F. Ward James Dempsey John Harney and others from Union 29 14 122 plus Providence Union 166 Portsmouth Union 127.
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Brewery Workers
Cincinnati
Boston
Edmond F. Ward
James Dempsey
John Harney
Brewery Workers’ Union 29
J. Emil Lieber
Edward Briebenbach
Brewery Workers’ Union 14
J. P. Weigel
F. O. Bowers
Bottlers and Drivers’ Union 122
Peter Skeffington
John Weiss
Brewery Workers’ Union
Providence
Timothy Conners
Cornelius Driscoll
Portsmouth
N. H
Union hosts first annual concert and ball at Deacon Hall
The Hoisting and Portable Engineers Local 4 held its inaugural concert and ball at Deacon Hall last night. About 40 members were in the union, with at least 100 people attending the event.
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Deacon Hall
Miners yield on one point in coal strike hearing
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron negotiators told the coal strike commission the southern fields cannot have coal weighed by the yard due to pitching veins. John Maguire described mine conditions and denied a backlist. He argued an eight hour day would cut output and blamed figures like Mitchell and Fahy for recent tensions.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Company
Coal Strike Commission
Reading Company
John Maguire
Pottsville
Reading
Mitchell
Fahy
Mr. Fahy
Democratic plan of anti trust bill debated in House
A minority report from Democratic members of the House judiciary committee proposes amendments to the anti trust bill. It would extend applicability to existing corporations, deny mail and telegraph use to violators, deem watered stock grounds for bankruptcy, tax corporations with capital over $200,000, and place certain steel and manufactured goods on the free list including agricultural implements paper glass salt and related items.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Took a Straw Vote on Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
An advertising agent in Pittsburg observed nine of twenty three traveling men using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after meals. He noted personal stories of relief from indigestion irregular meals and gas, claiming the tablets enable eating freely and safely. The ad touts pepsin diastase and herbal ingredients as a radical cure, sold by druggists everywhere.
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New York
Pittsburg
Stuart
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Berry
Amesbury
Joseph Middleby, Jr
Charles Middleby
Jeremiah McCarthy
Thomas Dooley
Martin
Bond
J. K. Berry
McCarthy
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Providence Telegram
Albert H.hayes
Judge Lowell
Capias
E. J. Dunning
Rockefeller
Plympton Street
New Baptist Church
Meihe Ty
NEW College For the South
Spain
West
Brewers
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Boylston Street
Mutual Coal Relief Ffice
Warren St
Charlestown
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