Conventions Clash Over Democratic Chairmanship in Boston
A fractured Boston Democratic meeting degenerated into heated clashes as Maguire and Cunniff factions clashed over organizer control. Speakers denounced each other, police cleared the hall, and leaders adjourned amid claims of party betrayal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Cunniff
Maguire
Cunniff
Mr. Maguire
Dwyer
Kennedy
Reilly
Donovan
Parker House
Barry
Calhan
Tremont House
Negotiating With Indians Over Red Lake Lands
Reports from White Earth Minnesota indicate the Nelson bill may fail to win two thirds consent of Chippewas for opening the Red Lake reservation. A committee of two educated mixed bloods seeks clarifications, with decisions delayed until next Tuesday. Land involved totals over three million acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Minn
White Earth
Red Lake Reservation
Minnesota
Red Lake
Northwestern Treaty Commission
Lhrre
Rocx
Ark
Indiana Territory
United States
Wilson
Hartranft
Fairchild
Talequah
Mayes
Ramblings on London Abbey and public life today
The author muses on Westminster Abbey as a grand stage for history and memory, noting how monuments honor both heroes and trivial figures. They contrast solemn tombs with lively contemporary events, from theater and gossip to royal appearances, wedding anticipation, and public amusements, while pondering time and fame.
Children Burned To Death In Oil Can Fire
Columbus, July 22 report two children Tommy and Agnes Williams aged five and three died after a coal oil can exploded as the mother briefly left home. A fire at Merwen damaged a boarding house and a grocer saloon, with one boarder escaping by a tree. Taunton barn fire caused about 2000 dollars loss. Paris, july 22 1000 people homeless and six dead from a town fire. Charlestown kerosene stove accident caused no damage then a fire in a Meridian street store with 300 loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cloudesley Shovel
Wolfe and Fox
Dean Stanley
England
Prior
Gay
Bloody Mary
Bess
Mary Tudor
Elizabeth
John Franklin
Tennyson
Edward Norris
St. Andrew’s Chapel
Edward
Old Parr
Marlowe
Randolph
Keats
Shelley
Nelson
Westminster
Cromwell
Byron
Gordon
Henry VI
Charles III
Isles
Joseph Addison
de Reszkes
Ella Russell
Bernhardt
Shaw
House of
Trafalgar Square
Lamb
Socrates
Athens
Paris
City Square
Charlestown
Chelsea Street
Joseph Cairo
Meridian Street
Beacon
Webster
Beacon Street
Prospect Avenue
Beacon and Tappan Streets
Winthrop Road
Summer Streets
Englewood Avenue
Chestnut Hill Reservoir
Reservoi
Boston
State Street
S. RB. Knights & CO
Washington Street
Oklahoma claim contest ends with forfeiture ruling
Register Line and Receiver Barnes ruled in the first Oklahoma claim contest that three claimants on the quarter section near the Santa Fe railroad right of way violated occupancy laws. Deputy U S Marshal White, Santa Fe employee C J Blanchard, and Vestal Cook with confederates were denied, forfeiting their homestead rights in the Indiana Territory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GuTaris
Register Line
Barnes
Land Office
Oklahoma
Santa Fe Railroad
Oklahoma City
United States
White
J. Blanchard
Vestal Cook
Messrs. Lille and Barnes
Indiana Territory
Harvard farmer beaten in alleged revenge attack
A 70 year old Harvard farmer Austin C Stratton was beaten last night by a former employee. The elderly man suffered a near skull fracture and loss of consciousness. The assault is believed to be in retaliation for a prior court fine. A warrant is out for the attacker’s arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayer
Mass
Austin C. Stratton
Harvard
Shun Imitations of Elastic Starch Take No Other
A brief consumer notice urges avoiding substitutes and sticking to Elastic Starch. It cautions buyers against imitations and emphasizes reliability and consistency in product use.
Revolution Faces in Civics Comprehension
Fragmentary phrasing presents a distorted view of civic understanding and revolutions. The text mentions Lovutsi Innocen Guiney in a gritty, unclear context, hinting at a portrait of troubled individuals shaping upheaval without clear events or locations.
Franklin Burned Off Jamaica to Boston Route Rescue
A Boston bananas shipment steamer Lorenzo D. Baker burned at sea near Port Antonio on July 15. Passengers and crew were rescued by the New Bedford whaler Franklin after a long, perilous ordeal. Captain Rose and his crew aided and will take survivors to New Bedford. One fireman drowned. Mrs. Elizabeth Sime of Dundee was the sole lady aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Rose
Lorenzo D. Baker
Boston
Jamaica
Boston Fruit Company
Standard Steam Navigation Company
Anthony
Customs Service
E. E. Waite
Pitman
Charlie
Sconer
Warren F. Wiley
Wellfleet
Mass
Port Antonio
Elizabeth Sime
Dundee
Scotland
Josiah Dillon
Iowa
Lorenzo D. Baker, Jr
Wellfreet
Jeremiah O’callaghan
Jeremiah C. O'Callaghan
Ernest_ Bb. Thine
Lynn
Lawrence Jensen
Peter Saxild
Thad
Gang Way
New Bedford
Captain Rose
Hugh Wylie
Liverpool
Eng
Ralph Robinson
Eizabeth Sime
Scot
Mayor Raymond Vetoes Key City Bills
In Salem on July 22 both city chambers debated mayoral vetoes. The mayor blocked funds for ashes collection and for filling South River flats with a street along them. He urged a full city sewerage and water plan and recommended abolishing the Board of Health. Aldermen failed to override. Common Council tabled the matter. The Naumkeag street railway received approval to erect poles under a $10,000 bond. The veto also halted a $2000 mill pond sanitary upgrade on Madison Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Sarera
Board of Health
Sewer Department
South River
Derby Street
Bowker’s Dock
Tierney
Marblehead
Common Council
Raymond
Naumkeag Street Railway
Madison Avenue
Race War Flares in Bastrop County Texas
Fearful scenes report a rising race conflict in Bastrop county after a white man Alf Litten was killed when a negro justice fired on him during a dispute at a cabin. Several others died and many were wounded as armed whites and blacks clashed. Wickes the black justice and a negro constable were among the dead. Over 100 shots were fired as vigilante whites gathered from surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bastrop
Tex
Cedar Creek
Wickes
Isaac Wilson
Alf Litten
Litten
Justice Wickes
Cowboys Hang Two After Gun Battle At Kelly
In Artoveurraeur New Mexico on July 22 three cattle and horse thieves, part of a notorious band, were captured by Deputy Sheriff Charles Lowens and a posse. In the ensuing battle the leader and Deputy Lowens were killed. Cowboys then stormed a house and hanged the remaining two prisoners, riddling their bodies with bullets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artoveurraeur
N. M
Charles Lowens
Kelly
Lowens
The Baker Fruit Trade Vessel Built at Bath
The Baker, built in 1884 by Goss & Sawyer of Bath Maine for business with Jamaica and Boston, measures 190 by 35 by 20 feet, 967 tons gross. Sister ship Jesse H Freeman, built 1888 also at Bath, now serves the Pacific Arctic whaling fleet. Freeman’s mizzenmast doubled as a smokestack. Baker later gained a standard smokestack. Captain Jesse H Freeman notes cargo value at 10,000 dollars insured for 5,000. ship valued at 75,000 dollars insured for 50,000 by F C Goodnow of American Insurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker
Jamaica
Boston
Goss & Sawyer
Bath
Jesse HH. Freeman
Pacific Coast
Arctic
Freeman
Jesse H. Freeman
Massachusetts Inspector-General of Fruit
Standard Steam Navigation Company of
F. C. Goodnow
American Insurance Company
Five Newton residents rescued from swift Grist Mill Creek
In Watertown today Mr and Mrs Henry Elliot their guest and a child, five people total, capsized from a small rowboat in Grist Mill Creek. They narrowly avoided the bridge and adjacent buildings as Hollingsworth Whitney mill employees pulled them to safety. The creek runs about twenty feet wide and four feet deep. Mrs Elliot was carried home in an hysterical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
Henry Elliot
California Street
Newton
Hollingsworth & Whitney Company
Boston Woman Injured in Train Wagon Collision
Mrs. Bartlett of Boston broke her ankle when frightened horses jolted by passing cars caused her to jump during a drive near St. Johnsbury Vermont on July 22. The Bartletts were traveling with A G Bartlett and family. horses reared but did not fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sr. Johnspury
A. G. Bartlett
Boston
Rye Beach Visitors and a Proposed New Beach Road
A summer scene at Rye Beach New Hampshire notes a wet week delaying occupancy while a 40 member New Hampshire Legislature visit assesses a proposed long discussed beach road that could boost local real estate values. Guests at Farragut Sea View Straw's Point and Little Boar's Head cottages include many from Boston Philadelphia New York and St Louis among others. Reverend H P Dewey Mrs A R Meyer and Miss Ethelyn Friend are also noted as staying or entertaining transient guests along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rye Beach
N. H
New Hampshire
Farragut
W. H. Winans
Kansas City
Frank
Dame
Hartford
Conn
F. B. Peabody
A. S. Peabody, Jr
Chicago
Frank Brownell
New York
H. C. Slavens
M. R. Walter
Baltimore
O. E. Chase
Haverhill
E. H
Trowbridge
New Haven
F. W. Clapp
Framingham
F. W. Burbank
Dorchester
M. Sheaf
Milton
E.von Winkle
Paterson
N. J
KE. S. Brewer
Hamilton B. Rogers
McCummock
Sea View
E. ©. Wells
James R. Wells
Quincy
P. W. Dusenberry
W.S. Pope, Jr
Charles H. Fish
Rising Sun
Emmons Philbrick
Bruce Fenno
Philadelphia
George ‘Thompson
Boston
M. H. Hyman
W. C. Strawbridge
Little Boar’s Head
H. P. Dewey
A.R. Meyer
Hobb’s Cottage
Seaview
John K. Holmes
St. Louis
A. H. Nichols
Rye
Tom Thumb
Ethelyn Friend
Man Overboard From Eastern Packet Pier in Drunken Fall
Samuel Clough, intoxicated, fell overboard from the Eastern packet pier last evening. He was rescued by Officer O'Brien of Station 1 and Special Officer Murphy of T Wharf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Clough
Eastern Packet
O’brien
Murphy
T Whart
Attempted seizure of Port-au-Prince and Croix des Bouquets
The Alene reports Hippolyte tried to take Port-au-Prince on July 11 with attacks on the 12th but was repulsed each time with loss. He retreated to Croix des Bouquets, nine miles from Port-au-Prince, where he now camps. The Dominican consul says Port-au-Prince is well protected and government troops are centered there. no further details on losses are available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alene
Hayti
Hippolyte
Port-au-Prince
Croix Des Bouquets
Newport Notes From Newport July Visit By Navy Officers
Commander Higginson and Commander Goodrich visited the Austrian corvette Saida at the training and torpedo stations. The New Hampshire band played as social events drew a large crowd, including Austro officer guests in uniform. Vanderbilt party sailed on the Alva for Newark, while the Casino hop featured a brilliant turnout of young people and vigorous dancing in warm weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Higginson
United States Training Station
Goodrich
United States Torpedo Station
Saida
United States
New Hampshire
W. K. Vanderbilt
Alva
Newark
Visitors Told Of French Fleet Prospect At Bar Harbor
Bar Harbor Me July 22 Rev Father John W Murphy V G of Portland and other clergy arrived for vacation. Interest centers on a possible visit by the French fleet with minister Roustan aiming to bring them to Bar Harbor. If successful a squadron member will escort the naval visitors. Malvern hop drew large yacht fleet attendance with many ashore for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bar Harbor
Bar Harpor
John W. Murphy
V.G
Portland
Daniel Murphy
Dover
N. H
J. E. Barry
Concord
E. M. O'Callaghan
Portsmouth
N.H
M.roustan
Newport
Malvern
Summer events at Newcastle Massachusetts? Wentworth hosts concerts and tennis
Newcastle New Hampshire July 22 Besides the Wentworth grounds and beauty the town offers Blaisdeil orchestra of fourteen pieces for afternoon and evening concerts The Schubert Concert Company performs Friday A lawn tennis tournament runs July 30 to August 4 weather permitting Courts are prepared Ex Governors and notable travelers from Manchester New York Boston and Chicago are seen at the Wentworth social scene including Frederick Smyth L Schuyler Hamilton M V B Edgerly Weston Lewis and Dexter P Bowman
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcastle
N. H
New Hampshire
Wentworth
Blaisdeil
Schubert Concert Company
Chicago
Frederick Smyth
Manchester
N.B
L. Schuyler Hamilton
New York
Snow
Boston
M. V. B. Edgerly
Springfield State Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Weston Lewis
Dexter P. Bowman
Gaffney Arrested for Stealing Watch and Chain in Cambridge
Yesterday afternoon Officer McGuire of Station 3 arrested Thomas Gaffney for stealing a silver watch valued at 25 dollars and a chain valued at 7 dollars from John B. McGolland of Cambridge on Leverett Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGuire
Station 3
Thomas Gaffney
John B. McGolland
Cambridge
Leverett Street
Ayer's Pills Promote Safe Travel and Health
The ad claims Ayer's Cathartic Pills prevent constipation and stomach derangements for travelers by land or sea. It asserts the pills are prompt, safe, vegetable, sugar-coated and effective for all ages, with a testimonial of overcoming eight years of constipation after taking them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayer
Amin
C. E. Clark
Tewksbury
Massachusetts
W. R. Woodson
Fort Worth
Texas
Capt
Mueller
Felicia
New York City
Jules Haniel
Perfumer
Philadelphia
Public Auction at Kilby Street Room
Item to be sold by public auction in the room of Goal Exchange at No 71 Kilby Street on Tuesday July 23 at 1 o clock A M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Room of Goal Exchange
Kilby Street
S. R. Knights & Co
Washington Street
Boston
Marion Street
Mab Salesroom
State Street
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Jenkins
O’neil
Matthew Keany
Matthew Keany. Both Propositions Were Rejected By Mr. Cunniff
John A. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Democratic Party
State Central Committee
John H. Sullivan
Sullivan
Gunniff
Representative McDonough
McDonough
New England
M. M. Cunniff
Ories
Henry V. Cunningham
Westminster Abbey
Mary
Queen Bess
Parr
Becurest
Lvuuch
Legitime
Brilliant
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
California Fruit
Bartlett Pears
Richards & CO
R. Knights & Co
Washingvton St
Keoster
Main St
Cambridgeport
West End Land Company
Beacon, Webster, Park, Marion, Tappan and
Road No. 8
Brookline
Marion
H. J. Jaquith
Mortgageel
Alfred A. Marcus
County of
Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Reuben Sherburne
Edward C. Sherburne
First National Bank of Boston
Peleg W. “Hindler
Taylor and
George O. Shattuck
Shattuck
Sherburne
Warren Institution For Savings
Charles Albert Prince
Thomas W. Tuttle
Mast Streets
Bostor
East Street
City of
Frank M. Frost
Albert G. Frost
M. Parker
South Street
Horatio Harris & Co., Auctioneers and Commission Merchants
Steamship
Howick
Palermo
Palermo Oranges
Fruit Landing
Pier 2
South Boston
North Side Central Wharf
Charles L. Bly
Stearns & George
Telegraph & Telephone Line
Pearl ST
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