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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1896
Page
2
Brown Hoisting Works reaches agreement on collective bargaining with the union. Both sides express satisfaction as the company agrees to recognize the union and its committee, ending a dispute with concessions and a peaceful settlement.
The Brown Hoisting and Conveying Works lock-out ends with an agreement to remove the blacklist and re employ all union men. The union is recognized and workers receive holidays and time and a half for overtime. Men to apply for work and be placed on by Superintendent Hess as work allows. Committees to be recognized for shared grievances. Both sides jubilant at settlement of the labor dispute.
In New York on July 27 striking tailors and their allied contractors press for union action. They threaten to settle with nonunion small contractors individually if they fail to attract all small contractors to join the union. A conference ends with a pledge to defer separate settlements as the union seeks broader participation.
In Fall River twenty nine New York and Brooklyn workers were sent home by the Plant Company dispute. Wasters Union agent Fred S. Carter aided their return, while non union contingents were expected from Maine and elsewhere. Plant plans a manifesto denying a lockout and cites a move to weekly pay rather than piece work. A union meeting and a proposed 10 cent weekly assessment aim to fund continued action.
John Hurley of the Knights of Labor was elected chief marshal for Labor Day by the three large labor groups. He appointed Fred Kneeland of the Building Trades Council as chief of staff. The Knights retain the right of line per established custom. The Master Builders' Association faced strong criticism from Carpenters' and Joiners' No. 23 at Dexter Hall for refusing dialogue with the Building Trades Council, condemned as fueling war rather than peace.
The Building Trades endorsed the move toward arbitration and conciliation. The Journeymen Bakers No 182 elected Jacob Rheinstadter delegate to the International Bakers convention at Evansville Indiana in October. Mr Balam of Cigarmakers Union spoke as fifteen new members joined. The committee reported more firms joined the early closing effort and proposed mass meetings in Cambridge Somerville and East Boston to promote organization and early closing.
At the regular meeting of R. of L. Ben Franklin Assembly No. 5463 five new propositions were received six reinstatements and five initiated. The picnic committee treasurer reported all bills paid and 509 dollars added to the treasury. The assembly passed a resolution that city money for Labor Day should be given to labor organizations and to them only.
Newton city officials in special session approve $4500 for furnishing the new Pierce school, $500 for Newtonville high school furniture removal, and other measures. They set Sept 8 hearings on turnout locations for Walnut Street and Centre Street widening, street railway franchise issues, and a main sewer on Austin Street.
The Watertown board of selectmen through the sewer sub committee announced awards for sewer materials. W. H. Pevear & Co. will supply 250000 hard burned brick at 8.50 per 1000, 760 barrels Rosendale cement at 1.00, H. A. George & Co. 20 barrels Portland cement at 2.07, and manhole sets to Waltham Iron Company at 7 per set. The sewer pipe contract was not awarded.
J A Morrison, a conductor on the West End railroad living at 4 Ringgold street Boston, reports to Cambridge police that Charles Clark is missing for eight weeks. Last heard he was working in Cambridge. Clark, a Nova Scotia native, had worked in Lewiston Maine before two months ago. He came to Boston seeking work. his wife and two children have returned to Nova Scotia.
The American steam yacht Illawarra, owned by Eugene Tompkins, arrived at Halifax from Boston via Bar Harbor with the owner and friends aboard to witness the carnival events.
Judge Humphrey rules C L Henderson died from injuries unlawfully inflicted by William Card. Card is under arrest for the crime in Quincy on July 27.
The article promotes a popular trip to Cottage City with a Friday July 31 excursion to Martha's Vineyard. Special train departs Kneeland Street at 8 a.m. and travelers get about five hours on the island. round trip tickets are priced to be affordable for all attendees.
Post reporters record Democratic stance on the fall campaign. Sul livan says he supports the party and nominees, favors majority rule, and will back George Fred Williams if he is the party’s governor nominee. Ward 3’s Marshal endorses the Chicago platform, laments late convention timing, and supports education on the silver issue. Wells, a gold bug, would have voted with the majority on Farley’s Chicago slate.
An evening paper reports George Fred Williams said he hoped the matter would not reach the press. He denies being refused a funeral ticket by ex-Governor Russell’s aides, says tickets were simply all used and he received no reply beyond that. Williams notes past political differences but recalls their supposed personal friendship.
In Gloucester on July 27 Carl J. Smith was fined $100 for keeping a liquor nuisance. Jeremiah J. Bulkley also received a $100 fine and three months in the House of Correction. Both appealed and were held in jail.
More than 2500 residents watched a blaze in the Boston and Maine railroad car shops at Prison Point last evening. The fire started around 7:30 in the second floor paint shop in a corrugated iron building, with two alarms from Box 118 Somerville and Box 419 Charlestown. Firefighters contained the flames. losses likely under $1000, with probable cause listed as spontaneous combustion.
A terrier stood vigil as a dead pug lay on Smithfield Street near the Volksblatt office all evening. The dog barked at passersby to deter disturbance, chased bootblacks and newsboys, and even dragged the body away from a car rail after a wagon clipped it. City officials feared for the terrier’s safety as two “Sootblacks” were hired to break up the vigil.
The Hartland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast is heavily damaged by fire, with losses exceeding one million dollars. About 8000 workers face temporary unemployment as vast portions of the yard burn. An accompanying railway disaster near Bombay to Delhi claims fifty lives as a train derails, most victims being natives.
Jennie Stevens aged 30 of 67 Cypress Street Brookline was arrested yesterday afternoon by Inspector Cleary for larceny of a pair of shoes valued at 1 25 in Houghton and Dutton store and for the alleged larceny of a waist valued at 75 cents from R H White and Co.
Marjory Christie, missing from Brighton last week, has been heard from at Niagara Falls. She is en route to her grandmother's home in Paris Canaan and promises to send full trip details in a few days.
An East Boston man Mr. Robert Bossardt praises Dean's Kidney Pills after back and kidney pain improved quickly. He bought them from B F Bradbury's Pharmacy and endorses the product for others. Mrs Bossardt also notes improvement and plans to try the pills. Sold 50 cents per box or six for $2.50 by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
Judge Dewey continued the case of H A Davis H C Hathaway and Lindsey Oliver charged with conspiracy to defraud creditors. Witness William Mee testified about irregular transfers of bills of lading and unentered shipments including 10 000 cigars. He noted meetings among the three defendants in November at Davis shop. Adjourned until Wednesday.
At a Lynn school committee meeting the Huey Bros. Boston engineers bill for 99.95 was excluded from the approved list because the finance committee had not initially approved it. The panel cited a $14,000 overrun on teachers' salaries and decided to approve only bills from local firms. The finance committee was later instructed to approve the bill, and the board upheld it with the other bills.
William Gider a teamster living on Fellows street and employed by P Downey was thrown from a wagon after a collision on Boylston street near Washington street. The wagon ran over his right arm chest and face breaking four ribs and dislocating his right shoulder. He is in critical condition at the Emergency Hospital.
Tomorrow National day events at Lakeview include a eulogy by Judge Advocate General Champlin for the late Governor Greenhalge. A platform meeting led by Department Commander William P. Derby of the GAR will feature veterans from many posts and orders. Professor Booker T. Washington will speak at 8 p.m. after a service of songs and a band concert.
Yesterday afternoon burglars entered dwelling No 67 Brighton street for the second time in three months ransacking the place and stealing two dresses two sacks and other wearing apparel belonging to Miss Mary Kiley.
Police and post office inspectors report the arrest of Henry F. Thurgate for six months of mail box thefts in Chicago. He was caught robbing the mailbox at the Masonic Temple yesterday and faces charges in connection with the spree.
A thief captured on Jackson Street confessed at Central Station, revealing a room at the Queen Hotel filled with goods valued around 3000 dollars. He admitted stealing stamps from packages, earning about 1.50 dollars daily. Jennie Clifton, who guided officers to his room, was not detained. He paid 1.75 dollars found on him and gave 25 cents to the woman living with him to obtain morphine.
Thurgate, a waiter born in Boston, testified that his constitution is ruined by morphine and he will die without relief. He has stolen stamps to fund the habit, has worked on lake steamers and in Chicago restaurants, and has lived in the city about a year. He offered no plea beyond claiming responsibility shifted by addiction.
South Boston branch of the Irish National Federation, chaired by Edward Tracey, voted to hold a public meeting Monday at 8 p m in St Augustine's Hall to elect delegates to the Irish national convention in Dublin on September 1. In Municipal Criminal Court Walter L Hood, a Boston policeman, had larceny of rags from City Hall valued at 25 dollars not pressed. Angus Campbell held in 1200 dollars for August grand jury on breaking and entering a vessel and stealing twenty six fishing lines. Fred Sanford, a teamster of 1899 Washington street, was struck by a tip cart on Norway street breaking his left leg. A rowboat owned by Boston & Maine at Prison Point was stolen with chisels and carpenters tools. A West End repair wagon on Brookline street Cambridge had a pot of thirty pounds solder stolen.
An underground gas blast at Bear Ridge colliery in Pottsville area killed Michael Brazier Preston Hill and William Quinn fire boss of Conner's patch. Injured James Mahaney of Girardville, possibly fatally.
In St Joseph Michigan two children died from sewer gas at the West Michigan Children's Home. Another child two nurses and the matron Mrs Clark are in precarious condition. Plumbing investigation found several pipes left disconnected. the home has been abandoned temporarily.
W Merton Robinson a Boston bank official and Lynn citizen died at his home shortly before noon from an overdose of morphine. He had been ill and his illness and recent European trip suggest partial mental unbalance. A Harvard 1879 graduate and former Lynn School Board member, he worked at the New England Bank Boston.
The Chicago obituary notes William Henry Smith former Western Associated Press general manager and ex collector of customs under Hayes, plus his Ohio secretary of state role and authorship of state history. London reports Mrs Mahlon Sands daughter of Hart Pence, a friend of the Princess of Wales, and death by heart disease. Boston and Rockland obituaries follow for John Quinn and Captain Daniel Low, with details on families and careers, while Greenfield honors Joseph Hollister long jewelry business owner and church member.
The American Wringer Company offers all kinds of wringers and Bissell carpet sweepers at 13 and 15 Broadway extension and 29 and 31 Corn Hill Boston. Repairs called for and delivered without extra charge. Write or telephone Tremont 764.
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