Secretary Noble Expected to Leave Interior Post
The Post reports Secretary Noble has resigned from the Interior Department four months ago citing health as the cause. President Harrison has not acted, Noble has denied plans to depart, but sources say the resignation remains with the President and a cabinet exit is anticipated next winter with a possible judicial appointment.
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Harrison
Noble
Washington
United States Circuit
Post
Owen letter dispute over tin plate labor import policy
Secretary Foster repudiates Superintendent Owen interpretation on importing skilled tin plate workers. The official stance is that no regulations exist for the process and no opinion is given beyond the statute in force from February 26, 1885. The exchange addresses whether alien labor can be imported under contract for St Louis Stamping Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Owen
Foster
Niedringhaus
Treasury
Treasury Department
W. D. Owen
St. Louis
United States
District of Columbia
Spanish Treaty To Be Made Public Tomorrow In Morning Papers
The Spanish treaty will be printed in the morning papers Friday with copies distributed to press associations. The Dominican republic reciprocal trade treaty awaits a later public release to share credit for the administration. John W. Foster finalized details during a Sunday visit to the President and today at the State Department he arranged proclamation. The accord favors four key articles sugar hides tea and coffee and less favorable than the 1884 Spain treaty but should boost U S wheat flour provisions and some manufactured goods against Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S’riday
Dominican Republic
Cuba
John W. Foster
State Department
Foster
Spain
United States
Treasury Adopts New Distinctive Paper for U S Notes and Securities
The Secretary of the Treasury announces a new distinctive silk threaded paper for all new United States notes certificates national bank notes and securities excluding checks and drafts. Existing designs continue on 1885 paper until exhausted. The notice warns against possession of similar paper and cites legal penalties under the Revised Statutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
T. D
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
Postoffice Clerks Urged to Increase Manpower and Pay
Albert H. Scott chief of the salary and allowance division returns from Boston as a member of the postoffice commission. He notes heavy clerk work and favors rearranging duties, adding staff at stations, and raising salaries at the central office to ease workload. The commission report is not yet released pending full member input.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Postoffice
Albert H. Scott
Postoffice Department
Boston
New Postoffice Commission
Discharge of Census Clerks in Washington
About 1000 clerks from a 3200 person force working on the eleventh census have been discharged in Washington. Tomorrow about 900 more will sever ties, and on August 15 a 400 more reduction will leave fewer than 1000 clerks. Work completed or now manageable by a smaller force drives the cut. Mrs Joseph Chamberlain’s Bat A London gossip notes her at a Marlborough House garden party wearing a striking black hat.
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Washington
Joseph Chamberlain
London
Marlborough House
Cornwallis West
Treasury cites protest rights on duties payment opinion
Secretary of the Treasury referred a Board of General Appraisers ruling on payment of duties to Attorney General Miller. Miller's opinion says the Treasury has full power to instruct collectors to decline recognizing protests against duty assessments when duties are not paid in full within ten days after liquidation. The Secretary concurs with this view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of General
Labor to Push Convict Leasing Reform in State Legislature
Nashville reports say the legislature will convene soon to regulate convict labor. labor groups across Tennessee pledge to petition for repeal of convict leasing and challenge its legality in courts. Georgia legislators tour Dade county mines to assess conditions, noting the system’s inefficiencies and calls for reforms and possible leasing in other counties.
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Nashville
Tenn
Briceville
Coal Creek
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Georgia
Penitentiary Committee
Dade County
Senate
House of Representatives
William Clifton
Savannah
Jessees
Fearful Floods Devastate Mahooda Bhownugger Tragedy
In Bombay region severe rains flood Mahooda and Bhownugger, water breast high in streets. About three hundred people and countless livestock drowned as floods cut through the province of Gunerat.
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India
Bombay
Mahooda
Bhownugger
Gunerat
Subcription Night at Huntington Avenue Amphitheatre
Boston letters from 1891 discuss Friday July 1 as a special Subscription Night for The Last Days of Pompeii with unusual firework features by Pain & Sons. Acknowledgement letters praise the pyrotechnic spectacle and promise added displays including a tally ho coach representation and a portrait of a Boston celebrity, with Dietz replying for Pain & Sons.
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Boston
Mass
Pompeii
William E. Russell
Nathan Matthews, Jr
Francis W. Breed
Alan Potter
Oliver Ames
Henry M. Whitney
C O. Billings
John M. Graham
George G. Hall
John Shepard
Charles A. Coffin
Francis Peabody
John W. Candler
A. Shuman
W. C. Eustis
Couns Irving A. Evans
Wiliam A. French
Frank E. Dietz
Messrs
Messrs. Pain & Sons of London
James Pain & Song
London
Eng
Peculiar Woman Inspecting Residences Causes Chester Square Alarm
Residents in Chester square report a fortyish woman visiting homes and inspecting rooms, kitchens, sheds, and entrances. Neighbors fear a capper working with a gang of robbers, prompting a detective inquiry and police attention amid widespread unease.
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Chester Square
Tremont
Chester Sanare
Tremont Street
St Peter's Church Picnic Held at Highland Lake Grove
The St. Peter's Church parish picnic at Highland Lake Grove on Mesting House Hill featured various sports. John A. Desmond won the first prize for all round athletes, with James Flynn taking second under protest.
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ST. Peter’s Church
Mesting House Hill
Highland Lake Grove
John A. Desmond
James Flynn
Brewer Edward Penrose honored with gold watch in Roxbury
Workmen at Habick's brewery Roxbury presented Edward Penrose a gold watch with chain as he prepares to start his own brewery in Cohoes New York. The presentation speech was delivered by Edward J McCormick.
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Edward Penrose
Habick’s
Roxbury
Cohoes
N. Y
Edward J. McCormick
Sale of a fast trotter in Hartrorp Conn July 30
The roan gelding Harry McNair by Alleghany Boy was sold today to HH C Bingham of this city by Mr. McNair of Chambersburg Penn for $5000. McNair trotted a mile on Charter Oak Park track in 2:21.
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Hartrorp
Conn
Harry McNair
Alleghany Boy
HH. C. Bingham
McNair
Chambersburg
Penn
Charter Oak Park
Obituary of Charles Robinson ex Mayor of Charlestown
The Hon. Charles Robinson ex mayor of Charlestown and senior member of Robinson Blaney died at his West Newton home after apoplexy. Born 1829 in Lexington he trained in local schools and Lexington academy and studied law with Cobb in Charlestown. He served as Charlestown mayor 1865 66 and later held multiple civic roles in Somerville and Boston. He was a Democrat turned Republican, a Universalist, and long time trustee president of Tufts College. He left a family including wife Rebecca Ames and children Emma, Miner, and Sumner. Other deaths noted include Rev. Daniel Parish Kidder and John Fitch among others. the column also reports a large real estate sale in Dallas by United States Realty Co.
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Charles Robinson
Charlestown
George D. Robinson
Boston
Robinson & Blaney
West Newton
California
Charles and
Mary (Davis) Robinson
Lexington
Model School
Massachusetts
Cyrus Peirce
Groton
James D
Moses G. Cobb
Lufts College
Robinson
Franklin Pierce
Daniel Parish Kidder
Methodist Episcopal Church
Evantons
Ill
Darien
N. Y
Brazil
San Paulo
Amazon
New Jersey
Kidder
Sunday School Union
Church
Garrett Biblical Institute
Evanston
Madison
N. J
Drew Theological Seminary
Wesleyan University
John A. Fitch
Ballard, Burlston & Fitch
St. Albans
Mr. Fitch
Sheldon
Middlebury College
Vermont Volunteers
Highgate
Ballard & Burliston
Fitch
Swanton
Mary
Josiah Sweet
Augustus A. Whitney
North Cambridge
North Avenue
Mr. Whitney
Able
Susanna Whitney
Peter Whitney
Northboro
Cambridge
Firsh
Nathaniel G. Gilman
Exeter
N. H
Nathaniel Gilman
Maine
Emile Ernst Edward Pabst
Syracuse
Meura
Germany
University of Rudolstadt
Schwarzburg
America
Maurice Gally
Paris
Odeon
Bernhardt
D. B. Fisk
Chicago
D. B. Fisk & Co
United States
Fisk
Upham
Mass
William D. Brick
Rockland
Jessie Fothergill
Marriages In City and Nearby Towns
Dill and Wilcox wed in the city by Rev Canninghen. Edwards and Satterthwaite unite at Andover Church by Rev Frederic Palmer. Marshall and Gott wed in Rockport by Rev Israel Ainsworth. Page and Adams marry in this city. Woodward and Brown wed in Waltham by Rev Dr Young.
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Rockport
Page—Adams
Gordon P. Page
Marion de L. Adams
Woodward—Brown
Waltham
Dr. Young
Charles N. Woodward
Ida L. Brown
Obituaries and Deaths Noted in Cambridge and Nearby
Death notices and memorials from Jamaica Plain Charlestown Melrose Cambridgeport Somerville West Newton and Cambridge list Peter Bearens Mary Bowditch Sarah Holmes Mary Huntress George Partridge Charles Robinson and Augustus Whitney with ages and brief funeral detail for Robinson.
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Bearens
Jamaica Plain
Peter
John
Mary Bearens
Bowditch
Charlestown
Mary
Benjamin F. Bowditch
Holmes
Melrose
Sarah W. Holmes
Philip B. Holmes
Greenland
N. H
Partridge
Somerville
George E. Partridge
Hyde Park
Robinson
West Newton
Charles Robinson
Chestnut Street
Whitney
Cambridge
Augustus A. Whitney
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Custom House
Europe
Huntington Avenue
Winthrop Junction
City Hall
Alderman Sullivan
East Boston
Whitman
Boston Land Company
Bolles
Melvill O. Adams
Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad
Durgin
Board of Health
H. N. Carter
Sullivan
Land Company
Polgsa
Bre Dent Bolles
M. V. Livingston Cycle Manufacturing Company
Westboro
Young’s Hotel
John Herbert
J. S. Leng & Sons
New York
S. Y. L’hommedieu
Columbia Rubber Works
E. B. Harbery
United States Realty Company
Dallas
Tex
Exall
North ‘Texas National Bank
Mountain View Hotel
Gilminton
New Hampshire
John L. Stoddard
Switzerland
Tyrol
Pyrenees
Gilmanton
Frank McAuliffe
Gilmanton, N. H
HOTEL
Churchill
Brant Rock
H. N.andrews
Surf Side Hotel
Nantucket, Mass
Sherburne
Bay View
J. Patterson & Son
Proprietors
Wolfboro
N. W
Kingswood House
Lake Winnipiseocee
New England
G. R. Stimpson
Pine Clift
Lake Warren
Alstead
N. Hi
Keene, N
Bellows Falls
EO. E. Newman
Saratoga Springs, N
Congress Hall
Saratoga Springs
Lakewood
H. S. Clement
Huestis
South Broadway
W. B. Huestis
Cedar Bluff Hotel
Saratoga Lake
Bridge
Cedar Lut
Fitchburg
Phillips
Congress Park House
Congress Spring Park
Saratoga
H. W. Slocum
Commonwealth OF Massachussetts
Suffolk
Margaret Reddy
Annle M. Reddy
The
Boston Post
Joan W. McKim
Esquire
Elijah George
Register
Massachs
Julia Delea
Delay
John J. Delea
Massachus
Hannah Oppenhelmssr
Hannah Oppenheim
Rosa Oppenheimer
Elijai George
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
James Bayley
Leveret
S. Tuckerman
Emmeline LD
Whipnle
N. A. Thompson Coal CO
Congress St
Boston & Maine
R.R
Canada
Provinces
Poughkeepsie Bridge
South
Excu
Loston
M. F. Sweetser
CITY
Washington St
State St
Nantasket
Brooks’ Military Band
Els Brooks
Wit
Conocerts
Walter Emerson
Downer Landing
Eamands
Rowe's Wharf
Hull
Pemberton Landing
Hell
Y. C. Pier
Lan Wee
Hing Hani
Nantaskbet
da Pos Varon
Eburn
Melville Garden
Cushing
Boston Wharf Co
J. B. Russell
I4state Street
Charlesgate
Beacon Street
Hack Kay
Charles River Basin
Cara
Temple Place
Park
Bacon Street
Commonwealth Avenue
River Basin
J. Murray Howe
School Street
State Street
Washington and
Devonshire Streets
R. E. Townsend
School St
South Street
Campobello Island
Tyn-Y-Coed Hotel
International Line
Commercial Wharf
Eastport
Portland
T. A. Barker
Alex
Porter
Exchange Building
Achelders
Bath
Somerset and Puritan Club
John Jeffries & Sons
GENTS
Devonshire St
R. M. Mp
Nagee
Abbott & Teal
Comedy Company
Curiosity Hall
West Chester Park
Tally-Ho
Norwell
Hanover Depot
D.C. Fi. R
Jane Delano
St. Mark Ave
Brooklyn
Tremont Temple
Isis
Arbages
Egypt
Temple
Tremont Place
American Insurance Co
Ofice
Kilby Street
George Croshaw & CO
W. Field
Henry 8. Bean
Prescott & CO
Devonshire Street
REW
York
Philadelphia
Fuston
Naw
William St
Commissioners
D. C
Commissioners of
W. B. Powell
Penile
13Th and
K Streets
Washington, D.C
District
1St Street
Bann C Streets
J. W. Douglass
J. A. Ross
H. M. Robert
Watertown
Epen
John KK. Stickney
Town of Wi
Uwesleyan Academy
Wilbraham
Esleyan Academy
G. M. Ste . Pritts
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