Belvidere Wreck Off Cuba Raises Cuban Officials Involvement
The steamship Belvidere lies ashore near Cape Maysi Cuba after a grounding in treacherous tides. Crew and passengers, including Vice President of Cuba Domingo Capote, are missing with no clear rescue success yet. The Belvidere carried Boston Fruit Company cargo and crew of about twenty five and officers led by Captain E E Paine. Rescue efforts are being coordinated by the Boston Fruit Company and Jamaican authorities.
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Calera Point
Cape Beayel
Cuba
Belvidere
E. E. Paine
Port Antonio
Jamaica
Israel
Ethelred
Boston Fruit Company
Oeca
Boston
Cape Maysi
Philadelphia
Port Anton
Boston Fruit Court
Santiago de Cuba
Capote
Senor Domingo Mendez Capote
Kingston
Cabanas
Sen
Paine
Robert Crowell
Winthrop
Stanley Morrill
Brookline
Hians Johnson
Colin McDonald
Frank J. Leonard
East Boston
Nathaniel Stockdale
Colin McDonal
Thomas Main
Williamson
David Robbins
William Murray
Senor Capote
Horatio S. Rubens
Barnstable
Relwold
Ethelwold
Cape Hatteras
United States
Mr. Rubens
Cape Aysi
Flag Raising Tonight in Somerville by Boston Elevated Officials
Boston Elevated road employees will raise a flag at the stables corner of Summer and School streets Somerville this evening. A parade from Union square begins at 7 30 PM with a uniformed band postal employees provisional militia Highland Cadets G A R and railroad men. Speakers include Hon George A Bruce Franklin Phillips and James Devlin. A Maine survivor will unfurl the flag and twenty one guns will be fired.
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Boston
Summer
School
Somerville
Union Square
New Provisional Militia Company
Boys’ Brigade
Highland Cadets
George A. Bruce
Franklin Phillips
James Devlin
Maine
Professor Norton bids Harvard farewell after forty years
Professor Charles Eliot Norton, longtime Harvard art historian, delivered a near farewell lecture at the Fogg Art Museum as he steps down from the faculty. He will hold emeritus status and continue teaching Italian 4, while history of art courses pass to others. A bouquet and long applause greeted him. He recalled Scott's dying words, urging his son to be a good man.
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Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
Fogg Art Museum
Norton
Scott
Longstreet Enlists with Young Bride in New York Visit
General James Longstreet aged 77 arrived in New York with his new wife Helen Dortch of Gainesville Georgia. He serves as commissioner of railroads after being appointed by President McKinley in October to succeed Wade Hampton. He is noted as a hero of three wars and a West Point graduate from 1862.
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New York
James Longstreet
Helen Dortch
Gainsville
McKinley
Wade Hampton
West Point
Iceberg collision cripples Leyland steamship Cestrian in fog
The Leyland steamship Cestrian from Liverpool struck a 70 foot iceberg in dense fog off the Grand Banks, bending the bow and flooding forward compartments. She limped to Boston with no leaks, after temporary repairs and a planned return to Belfast for permanent fixes. Captain Trant, in command for 28 years, praised his crew for steady action as passengers and crew faced the danger.
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Leyland
Cestrian
Boston
Trant
William Waters
Liverpool
Belfast
Captain Trant
Waters
Theodore Fry
Dr. Longstreth
Misses Hastings
T. A. Perley
M. H. Perley
P. S. Moxom
Leyland Line
Reception for Boston Advance staff at Revere Street church
The Boston Advance held a Monday night reception for reporters, newsboys, and friends at Revere Street M. E. Church to mark the paper’s third anniversary. Speeches by E A Armistead I S Allen Joseph W Henderson and M A Addison praised the journal and supporters. A supper followed the event.
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Boston Advance
Revere Street
M. E. Church
The
Advance
E. A. Armistead
Allen
Joseph W. Henderson
New England Torchlight
M. A. Addison
the Courant
James M. Henderson
Boston Latin School Battalion drills for prizes at Mechanics Hall
Judges from the Second Regiment of the Boston School Regiment spent a long afternoon determining prize winners after a series of events at Mechanics Hall. About 2000 spectators watched Company D to Company A perform in orderly drills, drum corps, signal work, and an impressive arms manipulation contest before a final dress parade.
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Boston Latin School
Boston School
Mechanics’ Hall
R. M. Green
Drum Corps
Signal Corps
Philip Little
G. E. Symonds
Ernest Clarke
Second Corps
BF. F. O’dowd
W. H. Snow
E. W. C. Jackson
J. A. Munroe
G. F. Loughlin
W. F. Murray, Jr
HE. B. Horn
Green
Prizes Announced for Regimental Drill Examples
The report lists first prizes for Company BE under Captain W Snow and Company B under Captain A Seavey, plus honors for Campan H the pony company led by Captain E C Jackson. Individual awards go to Frederick H Corey of Company A and J E Kelly with others receiving honorary mentions as the crowd applauded. Lieutenant Clark noted the decisions were very close, with Company C near the winners.
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W Snow
We. A. Seavey
Campan H
E. C. Jackson
Frederick H. Corey
J. E. Kelly
Dana W. Drury
Clark
Company C
Reward Offered for Boston Bank Embezzler Moore
Chief Inspector Watts issued a $1000 reward poster for Fred T. Moore after an embezzlement at the National Bank of Commerce in Boston. The bank board approved the reward and he will be searched in New York, Europe, and likely Mexico, with Scotland Yard and Western detectives involved. Moore is believed to be on the move as investigations continue.
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Watts
Fred T. Moore
National Bank of Commerce of
Boston
Hallowell
Chief Watts
Harris
New York
Liverpool
London
Scotland Yard
Moore
Mexico
$900 Offered in Di Blasi Murder Case
Police broadcast circulars bearing a portrait of Antonio Di Blasi alias Antonio De Brose in the search for the street department foreman James M. Ellis killer. A $600 reward is offered and many Italian stool pigeons hunt the man alongside police. No breakthrough yet.
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Antonio di Blasi
Antonio de Brose
James M. Ellis
Police search for Ellis murder suspect in Italian town
In Westerly Rhode Island on May 31 police inspector W. A. Abbott and Boston special officer W. J. Gilmore searched Italian sections for the killer of J. M. Ellis, a Boston street foreman. No clue was found after a thorough sweep.
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Westerly
R. I
W. A. Abbott
W. J. Gilmore
Boston
J. M. Ellis
Runaway Two Upsets City Streets Collision
Frank S. Abbbott of 18 Lake Street Cambridge drove on Boylston near Station 16 when a traction bolt broke and the horse ran away with the front wheels. Abbott was thrown and slightly hurt as the horse dashed to Massachusetts Avenue then Beacon Street and struck Ward Hendersons undertaker wagon of Everett, which also upset.
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Frank S. Abbbott
Lake _ street
Cambridge
Boylston Street
Station 16
Abbott
Massachusetts Avenue
Beacon Street
Ward & Henderson
Everett
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Edward PB. Paine
Edward HE. Paine
Appleton Street
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Bedford St
Longstreet
Lytwen
OF Reber
East
Livfeom Pdla
C.ol Bet Bion
Gestrian
Grand Junction Docks
Cape [Aysi
National Bank of Commerce
DI Blasi
Ellis
Blasi
Wolcott
F. W. Peabody
Angelo Jannini
North Square
Peabody
Jannini
Thanet Prow
Washington St
Tor
Hanover
Ce TO
Navin
Kelly
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