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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1895
Page
4
The Daily and Sunday Post list subscription terms with annual, six month, and three month rates. Instructions cover address changes, payments, and advance duty. The editor is KE A Grozier, and the Boston office is 259 Washington Street.
The country climbs toward prosperity as wages rise and industry expands. Railroads show a $12,250,000 gain in the last half year against a larger loss last year, bank clearings rise about two percent, iron furnaces post a June peak, and the nation anticipates a record cereal crop benefiting the American people.
The piece notes the British general election producing a large Tory majority with Salisbury possibly governing without Liberal Unionists. It compares the shift to past swings in 1888 and 1892 in the United States, arguing the fundamental principles of Gladstone endure despite an electoral landslide and a Liberal defeat.
A Boston Post rebuttal accuses a Republican mayor and finance commissioners of libel for claiming the city is heavily mortgaged and unfit for manufacturers. The paper argues debts are exaggerated, assets ignored, and warns the mayor’s panel has overstepped in demanding tax limits.
The article argues that haste in the final Senate and House caucus stage likely caused errors in the caucus act. It notes past repeated repeals and missteps, suggesting carelessness rather than deliberate trickery, and questions the process as the session ended.
Clergymen of Chio condemn reports that Mrs. Stanford plans to raise money for the university by selling a million gallons of brandy from her ranch. They criticize the publicity surrounding her actions, including earlier plans to sell jewels for the same cause, as the source of the controversy.
A harsh critique argues Stanford University and a Chicago institution were built on questionable funds from public pockets and maligned profits. It contrasts Standard Oil money with that from Mrs. Stanford's vineyards, urging discernment in views on philanthropy and corporate greed.
The city faces a dispute over net debt figures between the finance commissioners and the city auditor. Officials clash over whether to include loans authorized but not yet issued, a difference of about 14 million dollars. The auditor’s totals exclude water debt, favoring a lower net debt figure. The piece argues the city is not as insolvent as claimed and that manufacturing and workingmen may not need to leave Boston.
Augustin Daly and Ada Rehan with twenty in the Daly company were hosted by Sir Joseph Renals the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. Notables present included Ambassador Bayard Mrs Bayard Consul General Collins Beerbohm Tree and Edward Terry. The Lord Mayor toasted the Queen and the U.S. President and noted English hospitality in America. Meanwhile Father Lutz visited Mission Church Roxbury and Buffalo Bills Indians met him at Crazy Horse station. J H McAllister a veteran fireman of Steamer 15 is praised for skill and carries a worn dollar bill from a 1393 Broadway fire where two children were involved.
In 1895 a narrator recounts using mental concentration to summon phantoms. An anxious elderly man and a sad spirituelle young woman appear, seemingly drawn by the presence of David Groff. After sketches reveal the figures to Groff, he flees in fear, while the phantoms linger with a cautious hopeful gaze before vanishing.
Kennebunkport Me July 16 The diamond wedding of Mr Joseph Manuel and his wife Mrs Sarah Wildes celebrated today marking seventy five years since their marriage in 1817 when he was a Portuguese sailor later a fishing craft skipper They have ten children seven living and both enjoy unusual health despite limited means visited by townspeople and summer visitors at Ocean Bluff.
Sidney R. Smith of Provident Institution for Savings in Boston writes that Englishmen were not targeted by hisses at a Christian Endeavor meeting. He explains that an attempt to applaud sacred verses prompted the leader Dr Boynton to request omitting applause and that lingering clapping provoked hissed reactions from some in the audience, including on the platform, and that the claim of anti English sentiment is false.
A four person committee representing the Hamilton woollen mills strikers visited Amesbury to press grievances. They failed to meet directors, had talks with Treasurer Coleman who deferred to the company agent. Coleman later told a reporter the firm would rehire strikers as they applied, with many union men already returning and full operation possible in a few weeks.
In the Superior Criminal Court Judge Fessenden sentenced Philander B Hall to the House of Correction for four years for forgery after delays for appeals. He forged and uttered four jewelry orders last January. Additional sentences included Adolph H Granstein fined 200 for violation milk law Eugene Darrell two years for larceny William Meally fined 100 for keeping a house of ill fame and Henry Smith eighteen months for indecent exposure.
Joseph H. Bowen longtime Lynn resident and shoe tradesman died at 115 Fayette street in the evening. Born in Marblehead in 1821 he worked as a private watchman for banks and buildings in Central square and traced ancestry to John Rhodes Russell the first volunteer to row Washington across the Delaware River.
The Ericsson torpedo boat’s run course is now complete. Commander Bradford and the board’s officers departed New London today. The boat must average 24 knots, with builders hoping to exceed that. New cylinders were installed and larger propellers supplied during the stay.
In Bow Street Court today a writ was granted for the extradition to America of P. D. Taylor a clerk with Ellis Soulterman of New York who is wanted in New York for forgery.
The New England Helping Hand Society holds its annual memorial service for Jennie Collins next Saturday at 4 P.M. at 124 Pembroke Street. Mrs. Esther Housh and others will speak.
Contractor Meehan explains why only seventy five men are at Tremont street subway work with sections opening gradually. He cites rain iron delays and lack of plans as obstacles, promises Public Garden section finished in two weeks and aims to end the wall on Boylston Street by August, hoping for extra time to complete Section 1 before snow. He notes risks near gas mains and water lines and vows careful handling of possible graves found in the Common.
Last evening's Mari tana at Castle Square drew a full house with improved performances and next week's Ratinitza announced. Tremont Theatre hosted another large Kismet crowd, while Lizzie Macnichol's souvenir matinee looms. Boston Symphony Eight at Keith's and Bessie Bonehill also drew. Austin Stone's Sansons and Alsarte wowed, Palace Theatre teased two sketches, Getlysburg building is old and smoky. Special Delivery set Bowdoin Square records with big receipts and two next season engagements.
Yesterday afternoon in New York City at 129 Warren Street, J E Caraker purser of the steamship City of Macon Savannah line and Miss Helen M Brewster wed. Rev. William S Kelsey presided with Mrs Charles Hooker as bridesmaid and F J Leonard as best man among close friends.
Catherine T. Dacey, six, daughter of Mrs. Catherine T. Dacey, who moved from Boston last December, was killed this morning in the North Adams Hospital. The child, playing in the corridors, leaned over the elevator shaft guard rail and started the elevator. No witness, body found shortly after the incident.
East Liverpool Ohio July 16 Knowles Company big potteries largest in the United States and works Cartwright Bros Burford Bros Wallace Chetwind Sebring Pottery East Liverpool Standard Pottery have resumed operations Three fourths of local potteries are in full operation others run part time It is expected every wheel in the city will be turning by Aug 1.
The Verdi Quartet featured at the Point of Pines concert last Sunday, delivering a pronounced hit across seventeen numbers. They performed My Dear Arline with band accompaniment, a piece by Philip Greely, manager of the quartet, and hopes rise for more Pines appearances.
Thomas Vaughan aged 44 of 61 Medford street Charlestown is at Massachusetts General Hospital with a broken right leg after being struck yesterday at about 5 pm while at work on the schooner N A W Weston at Mystic wharf. He was removed to hospital by Station 15 ambulance.
Arguments of counsel on the contempt petition against Dr. Michael C. Golden of Taunton and James H. Butler of Somerville in Maas versus Citizens Security Investment were completed in Superior Court before Chief Justice Mason. The court took the matter under advisement.
Buzzard's Bay July 16. A rainy, disagreeable day kept the President indoors at Gray Gables. He did not go fishing or carriage driving, choosing rest over outdoor activity.
Max Steele is identified as Henry T. Woodruff and David H. Fielding in New York custody. Inspectors Houghton and Harris report the arrested man is the forger who victimized the National Rockland Bank and the United States Trust Company for hundreds of dollars. Richard O. Davis, said crony, is at Charles Street Jail. Indictments allege forged checks of 4552, 5225, and 9500 dollars issued by the First National Bank of New Bedford.
A runaway horse struck Bradford Stockton’s express wagon on Massachusetts Avenue near Central Square Cambridgeport. Eight year old Henry Silva clung to the seat, the bakery team toppled, the boy escaped unharmed while Stockton suffered a dislocated shoulder and was taken to Cambridge Hospital. The horses and wagon remained uninjured.
Milford July 16 John Cunningham meat dealer driver was accosted by Mrs Maggie Dillon alleging her house was robbed by a Milford youth. A large roll of bills a gold watch and other items were taken Cunningham pursued captured the thief near the Hopedale line and recovered the items but allowed him to go free to avoid delaying his work Milford officers are seeking the thief.
A crew repairing a wall on Ellis street unearthed a human skeleton buried eight feet beneath the surface in a high bank overlooking the street. The remains appear to be that of a full grown man and the skull suggests an Indian origin. The ground above has not been disturbed for many years.
Philip L. McPartland a Worcester Mass newspaper man is in St Joseph Hospital Fort Wayne Indiana with temporary mental aberration after arriving from Chicago in a state of collapse He attributes his condition to a long succession of misfortunes in business and other personal affairs He is reported as improved today.
Boston becomes a party defendant in the subway suit after Judge Allen grants the city solicitor’s application in equity. The bill by F. C. Prince and others names the transit commissioners and Crocker, with the city added as a party.
In Haverhill on July 16 Henry Smith walked the main streets wearing only a shirt and wielding a stove poker. He threatened passersby until Patrolman Pearson restrained him and placed him in a padded cell at the station.
Patrick Bruce a laborer of Washington street was thrown to the platform while attempting to alight from the 8 20 outward bound train before it stopped He suffered a severe scalp wound and multiple cuts and bruises to head and face at Newton on July 16.
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