More licenses granted at Revere
Revere selectmen at Town Hall Saturday evening granted three more summer liquor licenses by the judgment of Hon. John D. Long. The holders are John T. Russell for the Russell House J. J. O Keeffe for the Revere House and Los Isaacs for the Grand View Hotel. This brings the year total to fourteen licenses issued.
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Revere
John D. Long
John T. Russell
Russell House
J. J. O’ Keeffe
Revere House
Los Isaacs
Grand View Hotel
Honolulu Cable Project Aims at San Francisco Route
San Francisco June 16 J W Waterhouse a Honolulu capitalist arrived on the steamship Umatilla to form a company to construct a San Francisco to Honolulu cable at about 1 500 000 dollars The Hawaiian government will provide from 300 000 to 500 000 dollars with the balance to be raised in the United States by stock subscriptions
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San Francisco
Cal
J. W. Waterhouse
Honolulu
Umatilla
United States
Holliston Farmer John Henry Miller Found Dead at Home
Holiston reports John Henry Miller a well known Holliston farmer committed suicide by hanging from a tree at 6 o'clock this morning. The death is described as self inflicted and occurred near his residence.
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Holiston
John Henry Miller
Holliston
Woodruff’s Sudden New Confession in Cronin Case
Curiaco June 16 report outlines Woodruff’s latest tale claiming he was a Canadian militia member who aided Fenian spies during Canada raids. He recounts meetings with Coughlin Sullivan Williams and O'Sullivan, the Carlson cottage murder night, and a plan to fake Cronin’s death in London.
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Curiaco
Woodruff
Cronin
Canada
Chicago
South Port Avenue
Carlson
O’sullivan
Twenty-fourth
Kent Battalion
Chatham
Niagara
Adjutant’s Department
Clan-na-Gael
Dean
Coughlin
O'Sullivan
Iceman
Melville
Sol Vanpraeg
Fourth Avenue
California
Desmond
McCoy’s
McDougall
Northwestern Depot
Mac
Williams
West Side
Alexander Sullivan
Europe
South Clark Street
Lam
New Haven
Dean’s
Alexander Suullivan
Alexander Sullivan’s
Nevr
Sullivan
Mr. Williams
Einal
P. O’sullivan
Lincoln Avenue
Ashland
Lincoln Avenues
O'Shea
Mike McDougall
Lake Michigan
Lincoln Park
Edgewater
Dr. Cronin
London
Eng
Atlantic
Thames River
England
Toronto
Behring Sea Seizures Cause Diplomatic Friction
Washington reports rapid reaction to Ottawa’s claim of a U S Britain understanding on Behring Sea seizures. Officials deny any agreement, noting prior orders permitted seizures of all nations’ vessels. The piece explains English cruisers’ presence, aims, and impact on fur seal trade and animal survival, with fears of long term losses.
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Washincron
Sprcrar
Ottawa
H. Webb
British Columbia
England
United States
Behring Sea
Rush
Lear
San Francisco
Fairchild
Bayard
Great Britain
London
Grand jury probes Cronin case in fourth day session
Lifting the Evidence from Curacao Illinois reports the special grand jury in the Cronin case entering its fourth day of hearings with a focus on minute details. Officer Dan Brown testified on Clan na Gael charges while Dr Cronin papers and Clan records were reviewed. In New York Moroney and McDonald faced habeas corpus proceedings at the Tombs with Judge Andrews to rule Monday.
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Curacao
Cronin
Dan Brown
Stanton Avenue
Clan-na-Gael
United Brotherhood
Alexander Sullivan
Palmer
Thomas Murphy
New York
Supreme Court
Army and Navy Gazette Army orders notice
Washington June 16 Special Army orders: First Lieutenant Thomas C Woodbury Sixteenth Infantry relieved from recruiting duty and ordered to report August 1 to his regiment headquarters for appointment as regimental cartermaster. Captain N I Varney relieved from Rock Island Arsenal Ill and ordered to Watertown Arsenal. Captain Ira MacNutt relieved from Watertown Arsenal and ordered to Waterliet Arsenal New York. Captain Frank Baker detached from Frankford Arsenal Philadelphia and ordered to Rock Island Arsenal.
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Army and Navy
Washineton
Army
Thomas C. Woodbury
Sixteenth Infantry
N. I. Varney
Ordnance Department
Rock Island Arsenal
Lil
Watertown Arsenal
Ira MacNutt
Waterliet Arsenal
New York
Frank Baker
Frankford Arsenal
Philadelphia
Dissensions Hit Berkeley Strike After Settlement News
Providence dispatch reports split among Berkeley strikers as about half return to work after an arbitrator Wilde announced settlement. Workers say terms were cut and a meeting last night declared the strike off. Secretary Tennyson accuses Wilde and the strike leaders of betrayal, causing renewed confusion.
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Providencer
Berkeley
Tennyson
Wilde
Wholesale Sugar Swindle Exposed in New York
Three-year scheme ends with the arrest of George Cogswell a truck driver for Brooklyn Sugar Refinery Colin Valentine grocer of 37 Spring Street New York and Henry Mahler a clerk with Austin Nichols Co wholesale grocers New York charged with stealing over 850 barrels of sugar valued at 8000 from Austin Nichols Co The trio used receipts to cover missing sugar and were paid 10 to 12 dollars per barrel The case involved whole truckloads and the defendants confessed to the crime.
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New York
Aost
George Cogswell
Brooklyn
Colin Valentine
Springstreet
Henry Mahler
Austin, Nicholas & Co
Cogswell
Austin, Nichols & Co
Valentine’s Grocery
Mahler
Valentine
Valentine’s
New Hampshire Public Printer Fight Heats Up
In Concorp New Hampshire a caucus this week will nominate state treasurer secretary of state and public printer. Ira C. Evans faces John B. Clarke for public printer as a long standing fight over patronage returns to the floor with veteran lawmakers and party maneuvering. Clarke has held the post ten years and profits exceed $200,000. Evans is a veteran with a storefront office near the Capitol.
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Concorp
N. H
Solon A. Carter
A. B. Thompson
I. W. Hammond
Major Thompson
Ira C. Evans
Manchester
John B. Clarke
Monitor
Concord
Union
Clarke
Mirror
Chandler
Evans
New Hampshire Volunteers
Hodgden
Portsmouth
House
Severe lightning strikes hit New York area churches and industry
A powerful electrical storm on June 16 caused a lightning bolt to strike the Roman Church of the Immaculate Conception in East Fourteenth Street New York splintering its wooden cupola while leaving the cross intact. Additional damage occurred to an oil tank in Communipaw and to Woodhouse & Co. in Jersey City a stable and adjacent factory. The storm also damaged a streetcar line in Bancro, mills and barns in Centre Mills Sumina New York and lighting struck poles in Hopkinton New Hampshire with several washouts and property damage reported.
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New York
Woodhouse & Co
Jersey City
Bancor
Sumina
N. Y
Centre
Canasonanie
Mohawk Valley
West Shore
Tragic Accidents Claim Two Men in Connecticut
New Haven reports Jacob Wood ward of Philadelphia, aged 28, dying after being crushed by a horse cart in Bridgeport. In Shelton, 23 year old Otto Meyers drowned while bathing in the Housatonic River today.
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New Haven
Conn
Jacob Woodward
Philadelphia
Bridgeport
Otto Meyers
Shelton
Housatonic
Dynamite Blasts Ruin Johnstown Wreck Area
Johnstown Penn June 16 150 barrels of oil were poured and ignited on the drift after blasts from clearing the raft wreck. Cambria Tron Company manager John Fulton protested to Governor Beaver that mills and offices were damaged and that Hastings ignored requests to stop. The fire burned for yards but no bodies were found among the debris.
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Johnstown
Penn
John Fulton
Cambria Tron Company
Beaver
Hastings
Phillips
Johnstown Relief Fund Reaches $132642 55 for Sufferers
Dorchester children send five dollars via Boston mayor for Johnstown milk aid after floods. Arthur Young Weld Ware Percy Young and Harold Young with Rev W A Cooper recount aid trip and collection at the Home for Little Wanderers chapel and Tremont Street Church to Johnstown children’s relief office.
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Dorchester
Hart of
Boston
Johnstown
Penn
Arthur Young
Weld Ware
Percy Young
Harolip Young
W. A. Cooper
Little Wanderers
Children’s Aid
Tremont Street
Cooper
Captain Roder Fails In Harbor Jump Attempt
Newmoort R L June 16 Captain John W Roder Fourth United States Artillery attempted death by jumping from a wharf into the harbor. His clothes were found on the wharf and Oder's head seen nearby. He was rescued and revived after hours of medical care at police station and boarding house. Despondency is cited as a probable cause.
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Newmoort
R. L
John W. Roder
United States Artillery
Oder
Train accident cuts off leg near Waterford station
Peter Welch, about 23, attempted to board a train when his foot was caught in the rail. The cars passed over his right leg, severing it near the hip. He died in the station about half an hour later. Welch was unmarried and from Millville.
Inventor A Wales to Visit Quincy House Event
Hr A Wales of Bridgeport Connecticut inventor of an invisible hearing device will be at the Quincy House on Tuesday and Wednesday attracting wide attention in this country and Europe.
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Hr. A. Wales
Bridgeport
Conn
Quincy House
Senate urges immediate proceedings in Boulanger case
Paris June 15 The Senate has sent a report to the public prosecutor on General Boulanger and urges that proceedings be started at once. Letters from the general to the Boulangist national committee found in Mine. Benlow’s horse remain unread.
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Paris
Senate
General Boulanger
Boulangist National Committee
Benlow
Forecast for New England and eastern New York showers
Washington forecasts indicate fair weather for New England and eastern New York until 8 p m Monday with showers spreading to Vermont and eastern New York. Warmer temperatures expected and southerly winds.
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Washington
New England
New York
Vermont
Shipping arrivals and departures list from transatlantic ports
A compiled timetable of vessels arriving at and sailing from New York, Boston, Liverpool, Montreal, Havre, and other ports on various June dates. The entries name ship names, origins, and destinations such as Liverpool, Boston, Montreal, London, Bermuda, Kingston, and New York, with scattered notes on routes and transfers.
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Boston
Cephalonia
Liverpool
New York
Etruria
New York City
London
Triniana
Bermuda
Seilly Islands
Rugia
Newark
Prow Head
Canopus
Montreal
Sardinian
Baltimore
Nova Scotian
Bothnia
City of Chicago
Celtic
Ludgate Hill
Laormina
Hamburg
Thingvalla
Copenhagen
Havre
Geographique
Umbria
Stettin
Polynesia
Caspian
Toronto
Bremen
Weser
Altimore
Greenock
Caledonia
Michigan
City of Berlin
Avonmouth
Columbia
Andrean
New Orleans
Caripbean
Gibraltar
Lero
Mediterranean
Philadelphia
Bracadaile
Stuart Prince
Malta
Limerick
Sir Garnet Wolseley
Maritime Departures From New York and British Ports
Loxpon reports steamers Arizona and Aurania sailing from Queenstown to New York, and Virginian leaving Liverpool for Boston. June 16 highlights include ships Larnica Rio Janeiro Pansy Charles 5 Whitney Vandacira Calcutta and others sailing to various destinations. Glengarry to London Brooklyn City to Bristol Kelair to Guadaloupe Vortia to Halifax J W Gildermeister to Melbourne and Emanie Mainette to Batavia. Multiple barks and brigs also noted among departures.
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Loxpon
Arizona
Aurania
Queenstown
New York
Virginian
Liverpool
Boston
Anchor
Moville
Larnica
Rio Janeiro
Pansy
Charles
Whitney
Manila
Vandacira
Calcutta
Barks
Cheshire
Manilla
Daisy Reed
Matanzas
Sullivan
St. Croix
Daisy Boynton
Demerara
Scud
Port Spain
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Wachusett
Crombie
Millners & Athlones
G. W. Simmons & CO
North St
Post Office Department
Underwood
Civil Service Commission
Census Bureau
Civil Service Rules
Grand Jury
Chicano
Johns Hopkins
Sarah Holt
Timothy Crawley
Newton
Starvard
Tufts
Berkeley Steikore
New Hampshire
Newport
Arthur
Lake Maranacock
Grocers
Lee
Naples
Chauncy Hall School
Henry Barnard
Hartford
John Gilbert
Hewins & Hollis, Outfitters
Hamilton Place
America
Sears’ Bulag
Washington ST
Ana
WATE
Libs Ins. CO
J. T. Phelps
State Agt
Dev
Fuller’s Block
Springfield
Mass
Channev Hall
Boylston Street
Martin
Albion
Joseph Engel
Montserrat
Evans, Sons & CO
Hanover St
Lompdon
Evans, Lescher & Webb
Evans & Sons (Limited
E. C. Rich Company
State Street
H. V. Partelow & CO
Ftaloe
Auturndale
Office and Co
Atlantic Avenue
Partelow
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Hart
Gompaly
Tramont Street
Custer
Chiefs Gall
Crazy Horse
Boulanger
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