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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1891
Page
2
Washington and San Francisco reports detail a major anti trust push with possible novel legal questions as prosecutors pursue smaller trusts while hoping for convictions. Separately explorers reveal a vast Oregon cavern near Kerby with vast passages, stalactites, a water fall, and a mammoth cave scale seen as large as Mammoth Cave.
A condensed page list highlights sermons by Dr. Banks on the sweating system, a death aboard a yacht, preachment at Park Street Church, a banquet for Squadron of Evolution officers, a Newton tennis result, Dr. King of New York’s speech on public schools, two sailors from the Newark, a fatal gas incident, Republican Club members sharing fall campaign views, a Supreme Judicial Court decision affirming Herring Pond Indians rights, Vermont Editors’ Association visit and annual meeting at Plymouth and Nantasket, and Cadets camp at Hingham with sermon by Rev S Price Collier.
Iny yard Haven July 11 ships and barks bound for Boston New York Ipswich Augusta Gardiner Philadelphia Eastport and Port Johnson listed with multiple vessels in tow. Sailed steam tugs and steamboats to Portland Calais Bangor and Ogton. Captain Wm M Randall contracts for four masted Louise Randall schooner to be built in East Boston and Newport with Reynolds Line stakeholding shipyard plans recorded.
Faux River July 12 There was an unusually high death rate in this city last week totaling sixty one deaths. Fifty were under five years old and twenty three died from cholera infantum.
A Midland railroad collision at Aspen Junction last night scalded thirteen passengers, five men seven women and a child, after a road engine crashed into a rear coach. Names of the dead include A B Rogurs and AMNiz PHELAN, with several residents of Glenwood and Aspen among the injured.
New York July 12 The Hon M Weston of Michigan ex chairman of the Democratic Committee says Michigan Democrats are overwhelmingly for nominating Cleveland. He notes 95 percent would name him today and that tariff remains the main issue with silver a side topic. He cites disappointment with McKinley tariff benefits, especially higher wool duties failing to raise prices.
P W Barney, superintendent of the Lake George and Lake Champlain Transportation Co, drowned near Kenesaw Fourteen Mile Island on Lake George while saving his son who had fallen into the water. He was about 46, a man of strong character. His body was to be transported to Burlington Vermont. Flags were lowered to half mast along the lakes. Mellin's pod ad text follows the obituary note.
BRET SUGAR EXPERIMENT Pomona Calif July 12 The opening of the Chinese beet sugar factory and refinery here Aug 1 is awaited by capitalists and farmers. A Chicago syndicate backed by $7,000,000 foresees three large Los Angeles county factories in the next two years. Wood and Noble expect orders for German machinery and a new US plant with $2,000,000 capital. They claim California beets yield the finest sugar and can stay in the ground longer with less sugar loss, marking a potential era in beet sugar making.
Captain Joseph Perry of the Hustler arrived in ParrispurG Maine recounting a long voyage. After wreck on a sunken rock near Nassau Bay the crew rowed to Ushurvia where English missionaries and an Argentine relief station aided them. Five men were seized by natives but escaped after a gunfight. They traveled to Buenos Ayres Southampton England New York then Maine.
Timothy Sheedy a noted burglar and card sharp appeared in Tombs Court handcuffed to Troy chief and Troy police superintendent. He is accused of robbing Mansion House Troy Wednesday night and fleeing to New York with loot. Police traced him to Fourteenth Street and arrested him. satchel in his Morton House room held silver spoons watches rings bracelets and $30. He has prior burglaries in Troy Utica and other towns and recently released from Trenton State Prison after ten years.
New York report says Mrs Flora Roach wife of Isaac Roach a Newport Goelet groom was arrested on Broadway for begging. She was released after explaining her husband deserted her leaving two young children without food. She claims to be Thomas Parker's daughter of New Rochelle and that her husband is Dave Roach's brother of the New York Athletic Club.
In Haverhill on July 12 a giant snake exhibited at the New Orleans Museum escaped last night and is believed to have slithered into an adjacent store. The keeper is away and managers wait her return to plan a capture. If loose, the reptile could cause trouble in streets.
Henry Bagley a Peabody farmer was drowned when his fishing boat capsized in the Essex River off Horse Pasture Point. The body was recovered shortly after the incident reported by Spretra to the Post.
A bulleted roster lists ships and origins from July arrivals across major ports. Vessels include Kepier from the Mediterranean to Boston, Grimm from Hamburg via Halifax to Boston, Yesse from Hamburg to Boston, Neustria from Marseilles to New York, Buffalo from all ports to New York, Rossmore from Liverpool to Baltimore, Fuerst Bisammares from Hamburg to New York, Sorrento from Hamburg to New York, Panama from Bordeaux to New York, Polynesian off Dunnet Head en route to Stettin, Corean from Montreal to Glasgow, and many other lines showing cargo routes and interport movements in July.
Edward Burgess, renowned yacht designer of international renown, died at his Beacon street home at 4 pm after a lingering typhoid illness. Born 1848 in West Sandwich, he studied at Harvard, taught entomology, and built a celebrated naval collection and a private mansion on Beacon street. He married Caroline Sullivant, mother of two sons, and his funeral will be private on Wednesday.
A portrait of Edward Burgess as a yacht designer and naval architect who reshaped American yachting. From his early shift from study to yacht design to the Puritan, Mayflower, and Volunteer cup defenders, his steel Volunteer and rivalry with Genesta and Thistle boosted Boston’s status. A public reception in Faneuil Hall crowned his achievements.
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The German Emperor and Empress attended a forenoon service at St Pauls and visited Hatfield House with the Prince and Princess of Wales. They later departed for Wimbledon for a grand parade, witnessing 16,000 volunteers and regulars under the Duke of Cambridge, with over two million spectators along the grounds.
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