Naval battalion siege drill ends in mock torpedo assault
A detailed account of a naval training day describes prisoners in the maintop, crew roughhousing, and a mock attack on Newark, Atlanta, and Boston with torpedoes, rockets, and rapid-fire guns. Officers, Governor Soley, and militia observers participate as ships fire in staged engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evens
Casey
Norris
Mr. Norris
Mr. Casey
Ireland
Houston
Winder
Tappan
Bernardon
Wood
Newark
W. A. Underwood
Dilloway
Atlanta
Boston
Yorktown
Ward
Parsons
Lemp
O. Carter
Matthews
Soley
Wabash
de Blois
Paul
Bradbury
Parker
Winterhaiter
Chadwick
Naval Battalion
Delois
Wabasha
Navy Department
Theattalion
Deer Island
Electrical executions at Sing Sing praised as instantaneous
Dr. C. M. Daniels and Dr. A. P. Southwick described the Sing Sing electric executions as painless and instantaneous. They testified there was no burning or odor, the current caused immediate death, and noted one man spoke a syllable before dying. They advocated potential refinements but affirmed the method as humane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sing Sing
Dr. Southwick
Kemmler
New York
Smiler
Slocum
Wood
Manual Training Session Opens Institute in Bethlehem
The American Institute of Instruction met in Bethlehem New Hampshire with devotional songs by the Schubert Quartette. Calvin M Woodward read a paper on manual training school organization. Ray Greene Hulling of New Bedford was reelected president. Narragansett Pier favored for next year. Bowdoin President William Dewitt Hyde spoke on the Education of the Will. adjournment sine die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Greene Hulling
New Bedford
Narragansett Pier
William Dewitt Hyde
Bowdoin College
Welcoming Cleveland to Sandwich July 26
The July 9 Sand which town meeting in Hunt's Hall organized preliminary plans for a reception to be given to ex President Cleveland by Barnstable county residents on July 26. George T. McLaughlin chaired, W. D. Nye served as secretary, and committees of Cape Cod leaders and summer residents were formed. Officials may invite Governor Russell and staff, the Speaker of the House, the president of the Senate, and other prominent figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich
Hunt’s Hall
Cleveland
Barnstable County
George T. McLaughlin
W. D. Nye
Cape Cod
Russell
House
Senate
Ottawa Official Confesses Bribe In Jewelry Gift
Chief Engineer Perley of Ottawa Public Works testified before the Privileges and Elections Committee that Owen F Murphy former New York excise commissioner had given him jewelry valued at 1800 dollars. Murphy's public works firm was under bribery inquiry. Perley expressed remorse for the indiscretion and said he had planned to repay the jewelry though his salary barred it. Rumor says he has resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Ont
Perley
Public Works Department
Privileges and Elections Committee
Owen EF. Murphy
New York City
Murphy
Massachussetts
Suffolk
Boston
Holden
Lewis G. Farmer
Desire Chalumeau
New York
William H. Kennard
William S. Foster
Walter R. Goodnow
Boston Post
John F. Brown
Captain Andrews Off Highland Light in Race
Captain Silva of the schooner Maggie and Lilly reports that on June 23 at 10 AM, 60 miles northwest by north of Highland Light, Captain Andrews in the dory Mermaid refused to come aboard, saying he was racing and had no time. He appeared well and required nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrews
Highland Light
Gloucester
Silva
Maggie and
Lilly
Drew Must Resign Despite Request to Stay
Bank Examiner Drew has not resigned as demanded by the Comptroller of the Currency. He sent a letter asking the withdrawal of the demand and permission to remain in service. Washington conveyed the comptroller's firm stand that resignation is required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drew
Philadelphia
Penn
Comptroller
Washington
Mother and Son Die Trying to Save On Track
In Olney Illinois on July 9 Mrs Rebeccah Raymond and her son Arnold were killed by a train on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad. The deaf and dumb boy stood on the tracks and his mother rushed to save him but both were struck and killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olney, Lll
Rebeccah Raymond
Arnold
Ohio & Mississippi
Jefferson Lumber Company Collapse Shocks Texas
The Jefferson Lumber Company and J. H. Bemiss owe nearly a million dollars in debts. Creditors from across the country are gathering in Jefferson as litigation looms from the failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Jefferson, Tex
Jefferson Lumber Company
J. H. Bemiss
Louisville and Nashville declares dividend and stock offer
The Louisville and Nashville directors declare a regular semi annual dividend of 2 ½ percent in cash and plan to offer 4 800 000 of the 7 000 000 new stock to stockholders of record at 70 with a 10 percent subscription option. The fiscal year ending June 30 1891 shows a surplus over dividends of 482 340.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville & Nashville
New York
Louisville & Nashville Company
Hudson County Election Officers Sentenced in 1889 Fraud Case
Jersey City authorities report Judge Lippincott sentenced the fifth group of Hudson County election officers for fraud in the November 1889 election. Thomas Trotter Oscar L Freiburg Joseph H Buckridge and Harry Spears of the Third precinct First District known as the popcorn precinct received eighteen months in State prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
N.J
Trunk Line Association Restores Westbound Rates
The Executive Committee ordered a full restoration of west bound railway and lake rates to 54 cents per hundred for first class from Boston to Chicago. This level matched rates at the lake service opening and reflects a return to prior pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Trunk Line Association
Boston
Chicago
Victor Newcomb Declared Insane by Sheriff's Jury
In New York on July 9 a sheriff's jury before Commissioners Dr. Austin Flint A C Brown and Robert Maclay declared H Victor Newcomb insane. The case is deemed hopeless. Newcomb is affluent with personal property income of twelve thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR. Newcomb
New York
Austin Flint
A. C. Brown
Robert Maclay
H. Victor Newcomb
Smuggling Meat From Canada At Thousand Island Park
Kingston Ont July 9 considerable excitement at Thousand Island Park over alleged meat smuggling from Canada by well to do park residents. A L Shipman living on the Canadian shore has been arrested and his boat seized while attempting to smuggle dressed lambs into the park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Kingston
Ont
Thousand Island Park
A. L. Shipman
Cambridge YWCA Hall Dedicated in Public Library Building
The Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association dedicated its new quarters in the old Public Library last evening. A public meeting followed in Temple Hall, with a reception in the Association Hall. Miss Ella Danforth was appointed superintendent at a $700 yearly salary.
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Cambridge Y. W.C. A
Cambridge Young Women’s Christian Association
Temple Hall
Association
Ella Danforth
Salammbo and other new novels reviewed in depth
A long critical survey discusses Flaubert’s Salammbo as a historic imaginative work and critiques the English translation, compares it with Madame Bovary, and reviews Tourmalin’s Time Cheques and other recent novels including Lenora Bazin and Felicia by Fanny Murfree, An Old Maid’s Love, and Maartens translations. It notes merits, faults, and stylistic observations, emphasizing realism versus antiquity and the craft of translation.
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Gustave Flaubert
Salammbo
Macaulay
Flaubert
Mme. Sand
Ste. Beuve
Hlaubert
Marius
Carthage
Tourmalin
Mr. Anstey
Peter ‘Lourmalin
Mediterranean
Anstey
Peter
Raciol
Miss Murfrees
Carrer Ellis
Acton Bell
Brontés
Charlotte
Emily
Anne — Bronté
Miss Murfree
Fanny Murfree
Ronté
Sisters Murfree
Wildfell Hall
Jane Eyre
Villette
Felicia
Charles Egbert Craddock
Fanny Jurfree
Maarten Maartens
Joost Avelingh
Joost Avelinga
Miss Varelkamp
Susanna
Madame de Mongelas
Salambo
Chicago
Charles H. Sergel & Co
Tourmatin
F. Anstey
New York
D. Appleton & Co
Boston
Emilia Pardo Bazan
Mary Springer
Cassell Publishing Company
Cassell
Blue
W. B. Clarke & Co
Emile Richebourg
Benjamin Lewis
Fanny D. Maurfree
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Maia
John W. Lovell Co
Record of Fires at Jennings and Cincinnati Mills
A Cadillac dispatch reports a disastrous blaze at Mitchell Bros. Jennings mill complex destroying 18,000,000 feet of lumber, planing mill, saw mill, and 18 dwellings with a $200,000 loss and $25,000 insured. Cincinnati reports a Fourth and Elm fire burning a million dollars’ worth of property including Pape Bros. Moulding stock and M. Steinert pianos. total losses around $950,000 insured. London notes Holland & Co. distillery at Deptford burning for a $100,000 loss.
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Cuicano
Cadillac
Mich
Mitchell Bros
Jennings
Cincinnati
Fourth and Elm Streets
Pape Sros
M. Steinert & Sons
Burkhardt
Henry Meiershofer & Co
Attna of
Hartford
Peoples
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Connecticut
National
Security of
New Haven
Mercantile
Boston
Pave Bros. Moulding Company
London
Distillery
Holland & Co. (Limited
Deptford
Result of Religious Insanity in Olmstead Town Shootings
Cairo Illinois July 9. Near Olmstead Manuel Welch a colored man shot and killed two colored men Eddie Davis and Columbus and a white boy of seventeen named Harry Odile. Welch claimed insane possession and said he was commanded by the Lord to drive out all devils. He was arrested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Olmstead, Ill
Manuel Welch
Eddie Davis
Columbus
Harry Odile
Welch
Lord
Westchester Tennis Tournament Champion Clears Five Wins
New York July 9 Clarence Hobart of the New York Lawn Tennis Club won the Westchester tournament with five victories over the best experts in the country. KR P Huntington Jr. took second place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Westchester
Clarence Hobart
New York Lawn Tennis Club
KR. P. Huntington, Jr
Bell Telephone absorbs rival in Canada monopoly
The Bell Telephone Company of Montreal has absorbed the Federal Telephone Company of this city, restoring and confirming a monopoly on the telephone business in Canada as of July 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell Telephone
Canada
Montreal
Bell Telephone Company
Federal Telephone Company
Wanted: City Portraits See Venice's Faliero Lesson
A Philadelphia Telegraph article compares Venice’s Marino Faliero to John Bardsley, a former Philadelphia Common Council president accused of betrayal and embezzlement. It suggests hanging Bardsley’s portrait with a black pall and an inscription denouncing his acts. The piece frames the proposed public memorial as a cautionary civic monument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Telegraph
Marino Faliero
Venice
Faliero
Byron
Grand Council of
Common Council Chamber
John Bardsley
Does It Pay A Fourth of July Celebration Report
A Brooklyn Eagle piece cites dozens killed, hundreds blinded or maimed, and thousands distressed by five hours of fireworks. Houses burned and about a million dollars wasted on crackers torpedoes bombs suggesting a public service value in restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Eagle
Unknown Man Drops Dead After Meal at Institute
At about 2 pm yesterday an unidentified man visited the Young Men’s Institute on Chardon Street asked for food, worked fifteen minutes chopping wood to pay for his meal, then collapsed and died. A card in his pocket read West End Homeopathic Hospital Dr. Gannon’s patient Riley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men’s Institute
No. 5
Chardon Street
West End
Opathic Hospital
Politician John Ryerson and Abel Bunker Die in Yacht Capsize
Sincoy Ont July 9 John W Ryerson prominent politician and leading lawyer and Abel Bunker Toronto salesman were fishing off Long Point when their yacht capsized Friday morning and both men drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sincoy
Ont
John W. Ryerson
Abel Bunker
Toronto
Long Point
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American Institute of Instruction
Owen E. Murphy
NEW Books
Michigan
S. Johnson & Co
Mass
Membrino Thorn
Kentucky
Swallow & Sumner
Beach Street
Roof of Representatives’ Chamber
Massachusetts State
Rouse Extension
Brigham & Spofford
Mt. Vernon St
Representatives’ Chamber
Massachusetts State House
John D. Long
Benj. D. Whitcomb
WM. Endicott, Jr
State House Construction Commission
Old Colony
Fall River Line
Shore Line
Stonington Line
Hopelor
Old State House
Central Division
Kneeland Street
Brockton
Afall
Anew Bedford
Anewport
Plymouth
Abington
Duxbury
Wauton
Central Station
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Sunneys
Cottage City
Nantucket
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Sunays
Woods Holl
Chatham Branch
Northern Division
Boston & Albany
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Leominster
Geo. L. Connor
Pass’r
J. R. Kendrick
Providence Division
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Radso Shore Line
United Express
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Fall River
Providence
Stonington
Dedham
West Roxbury
Readville
TD Dhall River
Byde Park
Onewport
Newport
Wickford Junction
Beadville
Staunton
Dom. Wrentham
Central Div. de Poat
Gul, L. Connor
J. Tt. Kendrick
Massachusetts
State House
Massachusetts’ State House
Commission
Board OF Fire Commissioners
Tremont Street
Board
Robert G. Fitch
Tefft Eouse
Franklin Street
Saratoca Springs
N.Y
Thad
T. Tefft
Fisher’s Island
N. Y
Long Island Sound
New London
Mannatawket
Mansion House
C. G. Sleeper
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Thomas H. McDonald
Beaton
Henry W. Folsom
Boston & Maine RR
City Ticket Office
Washington St
Corner State St
NEW Southern
Southern Diy
Station
Cause
City Street
Poughkeepsie Bridge
Poughkeepsie
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Balttimore
Baltimore
Western Div
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atSaim
Portland
Danville Junction
Poland Spring
Bar Harbor
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St. John
Halifax
Augusta
Haymarket St
Causeway St
Bangor
Weelays
Concorn
N. Bi
Upper Roadsa
Lewiston
Manchester
N. 14
Linlifax
the Provinces
Lake Winnipesaukee
Alton Kay
Welfeboro
Weirs
Centre Harbor
All White Mountains
North Conway
Intervale
Glen
Crawfords
Fabvans
Twin Mountain
Maplewood
Rofile Elouse
Whitefield
Jefferson
Lancaster
Maine Central
Grand Trunk
Knox & Lincoln BR
Wiscasset
Thomaston
Rockland
Krockland
Casttine
Deer Isle
Sedgwick
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Mar
Larbor
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Machiasport
Eastport
Calais
Southern Division
Causeway Street
Portland Street
Concord
N. H
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Claremont
St. Johnsbury
Sherbrooke
Quebec
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Hanover
Thetford
Bradford
Newbury
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Essex
Burlington
White River
Boston Air Line
M. Ht. B
Jas. T. Furber
D. J. Flanders
Jen
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