Revenue totals rise as tax changes cut yearly intake
Internal Revenue data for the year ending June shows total collections at 146,035,376 dollars, up 3,440,680 from the prior year. Breakdowns include spirits 83,335,963 dollars and fermented liquors 28,565,130 dollars, with tobacco down 1,162,720. The acting commissioner notes tax changes and shifted due dates reduced revenue by 5,367,587, while collection costs rose to about 4,193,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sprcran
Postr
Collector of Internal Revenue
Orcutt
Massachusetts
French
New Hampshire
Hutchinson
Connecticut
Congress
Internal Revenue
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Appointment of Dunham as assistant appraiser
The Cape May notice confirms General Thomas H. Dunham’s appointment as assistant appraiser at Boston, effective after presidential signature. Dunham rises from $1600 examiner pay to $2500, succeeding Odge and Stearns, with prior service since 1875 and a promotion under the Cleveland administration amid shifting political policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dunham
Cape May
Thomas H. Dunham
Boston
Treasury
Odge
Stearns
Dodge
Cleveland
German bid for Danish island tests U S policy
The article argues the State Department has not protested Germanys efforts to take St Thomas from Denmark. It cites Blaine and Phelps as inactive, notes the Monroe doctrine could justify defense against a German naval base near U S borders, and questions why Phelps has not reported or sought instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of State
Island of
St. Thomas
Denmark
Germany
State Department
American
Blaine
Phelps
Wharton
Cramp & Son win cruiser contract after Bath bid tie
Secretary Tracy awards Cruiser No. 13 to William Cramp & Son for 2,690,000 after Bath Iron Works bid matches but Cramp agrees to Bath figures. Speed and penalties drive the deal as the ship must reach 21 knots for four hours with premiums for excess speed and heavy daily fines for delays through December 31, 1893. The decision aims to expedite construction in case of emergency and reflects concerns about project timeliness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy
William Cramp & Son Ship and Engine Building Company
Bath Iron Works
Maine
Messrs. Cramp
Bath Company
Bath
United States Copper Output Report Highlights 1889 Production
The Census Office bulletin by Charles Kirchneff and David Day notes the U S as the world’s top copper producer in 1889 with 226 055 962 pounds and 113 028 short tons. It details first mortgage bonds of 58 000, a $400 000 deed of trust, a Lilinocis Trust & Savings Bank involvement, and bonds selling for only 15 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Census Office
Charles Kirchneff
David T. Day
Lilinocis Trust & Savings Bank
Laavitz
Consolidation Limits Liability For Preexisting Debt
A note explains that liabilities incurred before the consolidation remain the responsibility of the original entities and not of the merged, consolidated company. It clarifies that the newly formed entity will not assume those preconsolidation obligations.
Colored colonization plan for Mexican colony by American Colored Men
The Bureau of American Republics reports an association named The American Colored Men’s Mexican Colonization Company intends to establish a colony of black farmers from Mississippi and Tennessee in Sonora Mexico. They have arranged to buy 100000 acres about twenty miles south of Yuma along the Southern Pacific line near the former Lordo colony founded by G Andrade of San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colored Colonization Company
Bureau of American Republics
The
American Colored Men’s Mexican Colonization Company
Mississippi
Tennessee
Sonora
Mexico
Yuma
Ali
Southern Pacific Railroad
Lordo
G. Andrade
San Francisco
Attorney General Rules No Refund of Duties for LLOYD Steamship Claim
The Attorney General upholds Treasury department ruling denying refund of duties on two shafts and other machinery imported by the North German Lloyd Steamship Company in 1551 and 1885 to replace broken ship parts. The department was right to decline the refund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Lloyd Steamship Company
Department
Blindness of Colonists in Sequoia Park Timber Row
The Kaweah Company Operative Society within Sequoia National Park has gained a temporary advantage by continuing timber cutting despite a park ban. Troops were posted to enforce the prohibition, but the government agent is now ordered to stop interfering with the colonists until further orders.
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Kaweah Company Operative Society
Bellamyites
Sequoia National Park
California
Hindsight
Outrages Upon the Ballot
Judge Lippincott sentenced Jersey City election officials for ballot box outrages. Thirty defendants remain, with about forty still untried. Three officers Murray McGrath Egan got eighteen months each. Stringham Flynn Stumpf await next week’s sentencing. Writs of error freed three on bail pending appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jersey City
Lippincott
Murray
McGrath
Egan
Oliver E. Stringham
Martin J. Flynn
John Stumpf
Danvers Flower Show at Lunatic Hospital dazzles visitors
July 24 report notes Ettore Tassanari's Italian garden designs at Danvers Lunatic Hospital. East side displays a vast park like layout with a life size Indian figure of echeveria, Treasury seal, harp, horse shoe and other features. A pool and fountain attract numerous visitors.
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Danvers
Danvers Lunatic Hospital
Ettore Tassanari
Treasury
Dr William R Harper Named Principal Of Chautauqua System
Dr William R Harper president of the University of Chicago and longtime leader of the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts is appointed principal of the entire Chautauqua system by Bishop Vincent who remains chancellor. Harper will decide before sailing for Europe next week. George R Vincent becomes vice principal and the chancellor’s assistant. Dr Adams of Johns Hopkins, offered head of liberal arts at the Columbian Exposition, has not decided and travels to Amherst for summer literary work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chautauqua
N. Y
William R. Harper
University of Chicago
Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts
Vincent
Harver
Europe
George R. Vincent
Dr. Adams
Johns Hopkins University
Amherst
Uncle Solon Predicts Maine Peoples Party Gathering
Bancor Maine July 24 Uncle Solon Chase of Chase's Mills longtime Greenback leader says a meeting of People’s party supporters will occur soon after farmers finish haying. He invites all opponents of the old parties and asserts the Greenback party may be reborn with limited silver coinage reform. He backs the Farmers' Alliance though deeming some aims impractical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Alliance
Salem District Court sentences two loiterers
In Salem on July 24, William Gorman and John Sherry were before Judge Safford and each jailed four months in the House of Correction. James E. Trask of Peabody faced embezzlement charges from Edson & Co. and was held for the October grand jury sitting with $500 bail. Cyrus C. Trevett of Lynn filed insolvency with about $3400 in liabilities, offering 10 cents on the dollar. Beverly assessors report 2944 polls, up 106 from last year.
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Salem
Post
William Gorman
John Sherry
Market Square
Safford
House of Correction
James E. Trask
Peabody
Edson & Co
Cyrus C. Trevett
Lynn
Beverly Assessors
Detroit Street Railway System Sold to New York Boston Syndicate
Detroit announces the sale of the entire street railway system, over eighty miles, to Waller Cook and Wagner representing a New York Boston syndicate for about five million dollars. The move is expected to end the ongoing street railway war in Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Detroit
Mich
Detroit Street Railways
Waller, Cook and Wagner
New York
J. M. Wade
Tremont Street
Telephone Suit Still On Against Ingham and Partners
The Tibbetts suit to recover stock payment from William A. Ingham Charles Glidden A A Coburn L L Downs and W H Bent continued before Judge Lowell. Burke testified the plaintiff bought 200 Cleveland Telephone shares for 18000 from a subpool and that Ingham and Glidden held ownership when misrepresentations were made. Judges overruled demurrers, allowed contract claim, and heard further defense from Mr Dickinson and Mr Ingham about secrecy and timing of stock purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry L. Tibbetts
Ene Telegraph & Telephone Company
William A. Ingham
Charles T. Glidden
A. A. Coburn
L. L. Downs
W. H. Bent
Lowell
John C. Burke
Glidden
Ingraham
Downes
Coburn
Downs
Ingham and
Mr. Richardson
J. C. Burke
Mr. Burke
Cleveland Telephone Company
Ingham
Plaintiff
Cleveland
Bennett
Burke
Huntoon
M. F. Dickinson, Jr
Cleveland Company
Dickinson
Mr. Dickinson
William Ingham
Tibbetts
Boston
Southwestern
Bid to Buy Cleveland Firm Promises $400000 Deal
A man reported that Mr. Madden of the Bell company said the Cleveland firm could be bought for 400000 if action was taken quickly. He was told this on June 14 and traveled to Cleveland on June 15 to secure the deal before rivals. The hearing was adjourned to today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Company
Madden
Bell Company
Cleveland
Obituary notices for Bancroft Carleton and Wicklow headlined
Obituary notices report Reading citizen John Hart Bancroft dying in his home at about 80. Other notices tell of Carleton killed in Maine after a carriage accident, actor Johnson Lowers death at 80, dramatist Edward Towers as son of the deceased, Stamford resident Mrs. Ainzi Scofield dying at 95. Cecil Ralph Howard sixth earl of Wicklow dies, with son Clonmore to succeed. Daniel Tracy of Waltham dies of paralysis at 64.
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John Hart Bancroft
Reading
John
Carleton
Bangor
Bucksport
Stamford
Cecil Ralph Howard
Green Connelly and Meagher Maloney Marriage Notices
In this city on the 21st inst by Rev J J Downey Patrick Green and Delia Connelly. In the city on the 21st inst by Rev N J Merritt John Meagher and Margaret Maloney.
Obituaries in Boston area dated July 23 24
A string of death notices from Boston area towns including Thomas in Boston Highlands Gwen Baker Bancroft in Reading Major in Cambridge Stoddard in Flymouth Gleason in South Boston McLeod in South Boston Rudolph in Jamaica Plain Bonner in Boston Highlands Crocker in this city Carlson in this city Richardson in Athol list ages from 1 year 5 months to 83 years with family details and dates. The notices name spouses parents and, in some cases, occupations or affiliations.
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Thomas
Boston Highlands
Gwen Baker
David
Ellen Thomas
Bancroft
Reading
John Hart Bancroft
Major
Cambridge
Abigail
Daniel Major
Stoddard
Flymouth
Isaac N. Stoddard
Plymouth National Bank
Gleason
Boston
Frank J
Delia
John Gleason
McLeod
Beatrice Cathering
John H
Elizabeth McLeod
Rudolph
Jamaica Plain
Frederick Rudolph
Bonner
Remy P
P. J
Mary Bonner
Crocker
Clara E. Garrison
Albion
Carlson
Charlotte
August Carlson
Richardson
Athol
Martha Ann
Nathan Henry Richardson
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Judge Lippincott
Ettore Tassinari
DR. Harper
Uncle Solon
People’s Party
Greenback Party
WM. A. Ingham
Fendants’ Demurrer
Scribner’s Magazine
Stevenson
Piccadilly
Mountain View Hotel
Dilmantonan
N.H
John &. Stoddard
Switzerland
Tyrol
Pyrenees
Gilmanton
Frank McAuliffe
N. HE
HOTEL
Churchill
Brant Rock, Mass
H. Nlandrews
Brant Rock
Mass
Atlantic
General Sherman
Joan C. Ropes
Henry James
Senate
Wendell P. Garrison
St. Paul and
Seneca
Harriet Waters Preston
Louisie Dopge
Epvrin M. Thomas
E. C. Stephan
Aanes RepPlier
the Lady of
Fort St. John
Mary H. Catherwood
Mr. Stockton
Olive Thorne Miller
C. G. D. Roberts
H. C. Lea
Alice Morse Earle
W. D. McCrackan
Houghton, Mifflin & CO
Mary J. Holmes
Marguerite
Lena Rivers
Tempest
G. W. Dillingham
Black Rock House
Jerusalem Road
Nantasket
Rowe Annex
South Shore
Hotel Bellevue
Beacon Street
S. R. Smith
Surf Side
Nantucket
Sherburne
Bay View
J. Patterson & Son
Proprietors
Rprass
Ny. E
H. W. Bigelow Company
Washington St
Wolfboro
N. H
Kingswood House
Lake Winnipiseocee
New England
G. I. Stimpson
Raymond’s
Yellowston National Park
Mt. Shasta Houte
Santa Fe
Keston
Yellowstone
Pacific Northwest
Canadian Pacific Railway
Raymond & Whitcomb
School St
Irving House
Marblehead
Neck
E. E. Wilbur
Irving
Moosilaure House
Warren
Concord
Montreal
R. R. Telegraph and Post
Mount Moosllanke
G. H. L. Uead
Warren, N. He
Saratoga Springs, N. Y
Congress Hall
Saratoga Springs
Lakewood
H. S. Clement
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Metropolitan
Chelsea
Everett
Board of Metropolitan Sewerage Commissioners
Lincoln Street
Ank
Aron the
Dge
R Howard A
Tilly Haynes
Berrson
Board of Metropolitan Sewerage , Commissioners of IT
Davis
Huestis
South Broadway
W. B. Huestis
Fitchburg Railroad
Hoosac Tunnel
Saratoga
Loosac
Unner Rowe
Washington Street
Fitchburg
Causeway Street
J. Rd. Watson
Cedar Bluff Hotel
Saratoga Lake
Bridge
Cedar Lull
S. EX
Piaullips
Congress Park House
Congress Spring Park
LH. W. Slocum
Ss. Graves & Son
Newt Balish
Allen Brothers
West Newton
Abby H. Johnson
Newbury Street
Highland Military Academy
Worcester
J.a.shaw
A.M
Uranus
Tremont Temple
Egypt
Temple
Tremont Place
City OF
City Hal
Committee On Health Department
City Hall
Winthrop Junction
Martin Regan
James F.C. Hyde
Milk
John Jeffries & Sons
GENTS
Devonshire St
E.G. Morris & 60
Sudbury St
Boston & Albany RR
Legant
E. Cc. Morris & CO
Pompeii
Huntington Avenue
West Chester Park
Monster Circus
Boston Museum
R. M. Field
Abbott & Teal
Curiosity Hall
Ke Willis
State Street
Boylston Street
Down Town
Fort Hill
High
Startford Sts
W. BP. Weeks
Norwell
Hanover Depot
Price
Jane Delano
St. Mark Ave
Brooklyn, N. Y
Liberty Square
Cor
Kiley and
Water Streets
James & AS Klot
Brookline
Corey Hill
J. W. Tuckermar
Bevonshire St
Poston
Beacon
Washington Sts
Payson Park
Belmont
Payson Park Land Co
Stock Exchange
Dexter & Curtis
Devonshire Street
Summer Street
Walter Baker
Sammer St
Chauncy St
B. W. Harris
Amos Binney
Exchange Building
Brice S. Evans
Equitable Building
S. H. Hooper
State Stree
T33 Exchange Building
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