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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 07, 1889

Page

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Caste Question Divides Sacred Local Congregations

Saratoga reports on the American Missionary Society extra session addressing Southern white churches seeking fellowship. Resolutions welcome them and pledge aid, with calls for unity with Georgia Congregational bodies and funds to support building and current work. Also notes a lavish wedding of Bessie Shuman to Alexander Steinert with a large reception and notable guests.

Saratoga N. Y American Moie Missionary Society Georgia Congregational Conference Georgia Congregational Association Jane Cobb American Congregational Union Kinkaid Pennsyvania Monatiquot F. J. Hayes Lexington American Home Missionary Society Governor Goodell New Hampshire Concord Johnstown Alexander Sullivan Cronin Invest

City of Seattle in Flames Hawes School Girls Reunion

Long article details a second annual Hawes School Girls Association reunion in South Boston with 150 attendees at Masonic Hall, followed by a major Seattle fire report. The blaze destroys vast commercial districts, with millions in losses, and dispatches for aid from Tacoma, Victoria, and Portland.

Hawes School Girls’ Association Masonic Hall E Street Broadway Boston Hawes School Boys’ Association S. Agnes Loring Sprague Sherman Ford San Francisco Cal Richard Monks Longwood Rs. Beers Bartlett Curtis Lucas R. Pope Hawes School Boys’ Association A. Shuman Bessie Shuman Alexander Steinert Boylston Club Massachusetts College of Pharmacy Harvard College Young Men’s Democratic Club Massachusetts Dental Association Huntington Hall Brunswick John Gilbert

Johnstown Death and Debris Clearing Efforts Expand

Thousands labor to bury and remove dead in Johnstown after the flood. Health officials stress sanitation, cremation, and rapid clearance while crews fight through debris near the stone bridge. Authorities warn of disease risk, urge orderly relief, and anticipate ongoing, lengthy recovery efforts.

Steamers Arrived and Departed Ports Report

Maritime notices list vessels arriving at Boston New York Philadelphia and Liverpool on June 5 6 with ships from Liverpool Antwerp Baracoa Paris Newport News New Orleans and Boston including names such as Egypt Carl Konow Bertha Cearense and City of New York in transit or arrival statuses disclosed alongside routes to Rotterdam Newcastle and Dublin among others.

Boston Roman Liverpool New York Egypt Carl Konow Baracoa Bergenland Antwerp Nevada Bertha Belguland Cearense Paris City of Chicago Fastnet Germanic Liverol Port Brow Head Frutera Savannah Garston Hekla Copenhagen Glasgow London Buffalo Polynesia Lisbon Burgundia

Flood relief reports downplay disease fears in Philadelphia

A Johnstown correspondent for Medical News reports from Johnstown that major hospitals show few illnesses despite flood dangers. Most patients are injured from the flood, not disease, with few pneumonia cases and no measles epidemic. Caution urged on second hand clothing to prevent contagions. malaria danger deemed unlikely due to lack of conducive conditions as floodwaters swept the valley.

Johnstown Phiadelphia Penn Daily Papers Lsaw

Bodies recovered in Johnstown flood toll rise and spread

Report from Johnstown Pennsylvania on June 6 describes widespread recovery efforts in the flood’s lower town area. Early morning finds include two Hoffmann children and a 16 year old girl among the identified and unidentified victims, with about a dozen bodies at the receiving church and more arriving from debris in Kernville and other districts. Cremation and grave procedures noted, with frequent tearful relatives at morgues and grave sites. Authorities note the absence of an inquest and state law does not require one, while survivors tally ongoing losses and the challenge of identification amid severe decomposition. Rubber gloves in short supply as workers handle the fragile remains.

Johnstown Hollidaysburg Sand Patch Flynn State Board of Health Pennsylvania Railroad Gross Health Board Lee Pittsburg City Hall Morrell Toase G. G. Cross State Board of Health and Sanitary Inspectors J. Guy McCandless Mineral Point Baltimore & Ohio Somerset Valley Hastings Fourteenth Regiment Somerset Penn B. Hoffmann Minnie Presbyterian Church Laura Frank Miss Brinker Henry St. Columbia’s Catholic Church Cambria City Kernville Josephs Nora Potter Larry Hines Reese Frank Beaman Lizzie Wagner Laura Jessie Jones Grand View Bradiinger Grand View Cemetery Conemaugh Valley Canemaugh Lake

Flood at Lock Haven devastates city and county

The June flood reached Lock Haven on Friday evening and poured into homes. Five foot depths, twelve foot in spots, boats used for travel as logs drifted. Many buildings destroyed, arson drowned, twenty eight deaths countywide. Merchants lose heavily as mud, wreckage, and debris gray the streets. Farmers suffer crop and livestock losses. county damage runs to millions.

Lockhaven Penn

Behring Sea tensions rise as British officials warn US over seizures

A Victoria interview with an ex cabinet minister and a Vancouver source describe British plans to contest US seizures in Behring Sea. They claim warlike British Columbia mood and naval intentions to protect Canadian sealers, with captains prepared to resist capture and seek reunified action if needed.

Montreat Que Ottawa Behring Sea Post Victoria Pacific United States British Columbia Sesson Ont Vancouver

Cronin Inquest Testimony Details Lester & Co Loss

In the Cronin inquest at Curiaco on June 6, J W Moore cashier for John T Lester & Co brokers testified Sullivan paid the firm 133800 between June 1882 and April 1883 and drew out 115318 in checks and stock worth 14000 leaving an approximate net loss of 4500 A Lester & Co bookkeeper then read an abstract of Sullivan's stock transactions during the period the list was long and unclear.

Curiaco Cronin J. W. Moore John T. Lester & Co.e Alexander Sullivan Che Ks Lester & Co Sullivan

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