Harvard Class Day Weather Stirs Rain Soaked Festivities
Ninety three Harvard seniors celebrate Class Day amid heavy rain with tree climbing, carpet tugging, and a soggy parade of costumes and cheers. Governor Russell attends as students and alumni endure showers and toast the class with "Fair Harvard" amid festive yet wet revelry.
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Harvard
Russell
Memorial Hall
Lawrence
Appleton Chapel
Sanders Theatre
Billings L. Hand
Albany
William V. Moody
Lafayette
Ind
David S. Muzzey
Lexington
Sandwich Islands
Local Cigar Makers Elect Conference Delegates in Briennial Vote
Local Union 97 met at Type Hall to nominate four of the listed candidates for the regular convention. Officers were elected with Thomas F. Tracey as president and J A Cannon as vice president, Henry A Abrahams secretary, George J Miller financial secretary, and Aaron Pitten treasurer. The label of the clothing trades was endorsed and relief money approved for strikers in Richmond Virginia and Springfield Massachusetts.
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Cigar Makers’ Internation
Type Hall
Thomas F. Tracey
C. Claus
S. Levy
I. Park
Thomas L. Noonan
F. Tucobault
W. A. Yasinski
A. T. Silverstein
B. Smith
J. Jackobs
D. Benjamin
W. Stancombe
George Meadows
Sturtevant Blower Works
Richmond
Hod Ccarriers
Springfield
Mass
J. A. Cannon
Henry A. Abrahams
George J. Miller
Aaron Pitten
Farragut Statue Unveiling Plans Village Meeting Held
South Boston citizens executive committee met at Bethesda building to plan the Farragut statue unveiling next Wednesday. A five member group will invite district school children to Gray's Hall Monday at 2 PM to participate in a barge procession and surround Chief Marshal Ruddick. Girls from higher grammar classes urged to attend. The group also voted to have church sextons ring bells and to invite Governor Russell to attend. A three member committee was named to seek subscriptions from business men. Another meeting is scheduled for this evening.
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South Boston
Farragut
Bethesda
Broadway
Gray’s Hall
Marshal Ruddick
Russell
Ruddick
Humane Societies Plan Cruelty Evidence Efforts and Prizes
At a June meeting the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals voted to buy a kodak for documenting cruelty such as tight cheek-reins and to distribute bound volumes of Our Dumb Animals to hotels and reading rooms. The American Humane Education Society reported prizes totaling 1200 dollars for stories on kindness and cruelty and seven prizes totaling 700 dollars for humane education essays, plus a 100 dollar prize to H. C. Merwin for a horse care book.
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Massachusetts Society For the Prevention
American Humane Education Society
Angell
H. C. Merwin
Miss Borden Receives High Salary Museum Offer
Fall River June 23 report says Miss Borden has an offer to appear in a museum for a very heavy salary. The item echoes a separate note that Captain Philip Harrington was asked to join a millinery shop at 5000 dollars yearly.
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Fall River
Borden
Philip Harrington
Weekly Business Failures Reported Across Nations
Bradstreet's reports 360 U.S. failures this week compared with 159 a year ago and 20 Canadian failures versus 26 in the same week last year. The figures reflect the week's economic setbacks across the United States and Canada.
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New York
St Johnsbury Academy Graduation and Reunion Held
Commencement at Music Hall and class day exercises marked by a 48 member graduate class. Alumni re elected Professor James F Colby of Dartmouth president. Class of 83 raises 1000 dollars for scholarships and women graduates match with another 1000. Tonight the class of 91 hosts a reunion and banquet at the St Johnsbury House.
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ST. Johnsbury
St. Johnsbury Academy
Music Hall
James F. Colby
Dartmouth College
St. Johnsbury House
Juror George Potter Maintains Duty During Trial Visit
Fall River reports juror George Potter of Westport in town on a regular marketing call and to meet customers. He said he had not changed his opinion since learning of the case but swore to subjugate his personal views to the evidence and to follow the jury oath.
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Fall River
George Potter
Westport
Prison transfer in Vermont for murder suspect Henry McDowell
Henry McDowell, charged with murder in Bennington, was moved to Windsor today to await a second trial in December after a hung jury in the recent proceeding. The state reportedly has new evidence to be used against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bennington
Henry McDowell
Charrett
John Crowley
Windsor
Hin
Burglars Loot Art Store In Birmingham Night
In Birmingham Connecticut June 238 James Bros art dealers slept in their store last night two masked burglars entered seized revolvers and searched their clothing stealing $20 and valuable papers before escaping.
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Birmingham
Conn
James Bros
Garden society awards list extends with numerous plant prizes
A lengthy catalog of awards and prizes is listed for horticultural entries. Winners include Bela F. Lincoln and E. S. Converse for cherries and foreign graves. Dr. C. G. Weld dominates specimens and orchids. multiple roses receive special and regular prizes from notable sponsors like Theodore Lyman fund and Hon. Joseph S. Fay.
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I. BE. Coburn
Haverland
G. Y. Fletcher
G. F. Wheeler
Bela F. Lincoln
Columbia
S. H. Warren
Weston, Cherries
O. R. Robbins
E. S. Converse
Tlack Hamburg
Winter Bros
Muscat
Alexandria
E. W. Gilmore
J. L. Gardner
A. McLaren
Ww. W. Lunt
Theodore Lyman Fund
Joseph S. Fay
C. G. Weld
N. T. Kidder
Magna Charta
J. S. Fay
William Patterson
J. Eaton, Jr
J. H. White
J. L. Fay
J.L. Gardner
Francis Brown Hayes
G. Weld
John L. Gardner
E. M. Gill
J. J. Gardner
B. G. Smith
George B. Gill
W. H. Cowing
Shady Hill Nursery Company
A. D. Wood
Future of the Reading Railroad in jeopardy over debts
The Reading Railroad's future dominated financial circles as receivers held a lengthy session. They face 1.5 million dollars in interest due July 1 plus 3 million owed to Speyer & Co, with collateral deteriorating. Rumors of court injunctions and potential extensions or buyouts circulated amid talks with Drexel & Co.
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Philadelphia
Reading Railroad Company
Reading
Speyer & Co
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Speyers
Drexel & Co
Lehigh Valley Company
Lehigh Valley
Garrett
Financial Banks in Distress Tie to West Coast Closure
The People's Home Savings Bank in San Francisco closed its doors and affiliated with Pacific Bank, which had closed the day before. Resources reportedly exceed liabilities. In New York Sheridan & Byrne face over 225,000 in liabilities and Abraham Steers receives an extension as creditors note 380,000 liabilities against 475,000 assets. Milwaukee Plankinton Bank statement shows president Day loans totaling nearly 450,000 with 278,000 to Day and 100,000 to Milwaukee Brass and Copper Works.
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San Francisco
Cal
People’s Home Savings Bank
Pacific Bank
New York
Sheridan & Byrne
Abraham Steers
Milwaukee
Wis
Plankinton
William Plankinton
Day
Milwaukee Brass and Copper Works
United States Tennis Championship Finals Held in Philadelphia
At Wissahickon grounds the final rounds of the national tennis championship were played. Miss Roosevelt and Mr Hobart won mixed doubles in a superb exhibition. Miss Terry of Princeton captured the ladies singles title by default as Miss Cahill did not defend. Larned of Cornell won the men’s singles and Miss Terry with Miss Butler won the ladies doubles.
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Philadelphia
Wissahickon Grounds
Roosevelt
New York
Hobart
Yale
Bankson
Wilson
Miss Terry
Princeton
Shultz
United States
Miss Cahill
Larned
Cornell
Colby
Miss Butler
Miss Shultz
Miss Stone
Whiskey Trust Secures Bonds to Meet Demands
President Greenhut announced the Whiskey Trust has sold bonds totaling 1,000,000 to cover special demands and calm rebate certificate holders with 2,500,000 in bonds. He cited W W Johnson & Co restoration as a warning to other distributors and indicated only slow evolving quowarantor actions remain.
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Chicago
Greenhut
Whiskey Trust
W. W. Johnson & Co
Trust company win auction of Richmond Terminal bonds
The Central Trust Company secured a judge ordered sale by auction of all 6 per cent gold trust bonds and 5 per cent bonds of the Richmond Terminal Company. Interest on the bonds has defaulted. The bonds, once in 1887, now largely outstanding, have an aggregate face value near 15 million dollars.
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New York
Central Trust Company Today
United States
Lacombe
Richmond Terminal Company
Trust Company
Charles Harrington to Wind Up Leather Business
Salem reports Charles Harrington, oldest and among the largest leather manufacturers locally, will close his business due to ill health. He has entrusted Matthew Robson and H. O. Flint to wind down affairs. The move is not due to financial trouble. Harrington can pay all demands and still has a surplus.
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Salem
Charles Harrington
Matthew Robson
H. O. Flint
Harrington
Hair Mattresses Patent inquiry at A W Wheeler Co
An ad announces mantles and two pairs of hair mattresses offered by A W Wheeler & Co manufacturers at 63 and 65 Hanover Street Boston. It notes an opposite entrance and provides some pricing or order details in brief form.
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A.W. Wheeler & CO
Hanover
Boston
Epworth League Holds First International Conference in Cleveland
The Epworth League plans its first world conference in Cleveland from June 29 to July 2 with representatives from Methodist groups including the church South and Canada. Governor McKinley will give the welcome address as 15 nations send delegates and the organization since 1889 claims about 750000 members in 10500 chapters worldwide.
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Epworth League
Cleveland
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Church of Canada
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Wesleyan Methodist Church of England
William McKinley
A. W. Wilson
Church South
Bradford P. Raymond
Wesleyan University
Hugh Price Hughes
London
James Thoburn
India
John Wesley
England
Oxford League
Ohio
Byron
Herman
League For Children
Canada
Western fires threaten towns across Colorado ranges
Denver reports greenhorn mountains near Pueblo ablaze since Monday night. Beulah, a summer resort, dreads wind shifts or heavy rains. In Creede country bachelor and other towns face hourly destruction from fires near Golden Breckenridge Cripple Creek Anaconda and Fuller's Mill. Timber mills and mining cabins burned as Union Pacific railroad crews battle the blaze.
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Denver
Col
Greenhorn Mountains
Pueblo
Mt. Carlos
Beulah
Bachelor
Cripple Creek
Bald Mountain
Anaconda
Union Pacific Railway
Leadville
Schooner Robert McFarland Arrives After Damage in Gulf Stream
Newport Rhode Island June 23 The schooner Robert McFarland Captain Montgomery arrived at Dutch Island Harbor after fifteen days from St Simon s Island en route to Portsmouth New Hampshire The captain reports the main gaffe was carried away and the forward house galley fixtures washed out in the Gulf Stream on June 17 leaving only one day of fair wind after leaving St Simon s Island
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Newport
R. I
Robert McFarland
Montgomery
St. Simon's Island
Portsmouth
N. H
Dutch Island Harbor
Gulf Stream
Capes
Delaware
St. Simon’s
Bennett to build the largest yacht afloat
It is stated that James Gordon Bennett plans the largest yacht afloat to be built at Cramp's yard in Philadelphia. The vessel will be 340 feet long with engines capable of twenty three knots per hour.
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New York
James Gordon Bennett
Cramp’s Yard
Philadelphia
Northern Pacific President May Be Next Burlington Chief
Chicago dated June 23 President T F Oakes of the Northern Pacific has been offered and will likely accept the presidency of the Chicago Burlington and Quincey railroad. The salary would exceed his current pay. John M Forbes, chairman of the Burlington directors, seeks retirement and to pass chairmanship to President Perkins to suit his preferences.
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Chicago
T. F. Oakes
Northern Pacific
Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Railroad
John M. Forbes
Burlington
Burlington Stock
Perkins
The
Body Found Adrift Near Atlantic Beach
The decomposed body of a man was found in the water at the foot of Appleton street Atlantic Beach by boating youths. The remains showed extensive decay with parts of limbs missing. a blue flannel shirt trousers a knife a two foot rule and a wet 1891 diary were recovered. A name resembling Potter appears on the fly leaf.
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Quincy
Appleton Street
Atlantic Beach
Fire at Murray Nickels plant in Chicago causes $50,000 loss
A blaze at the Murray and Nickels drug and spice manufacturing plant in Chicago inflicts about 50 000 dollars in damage. William Fuhrwerk is believed burned to death with four other workers seriously injured. The fire spread quickly, giving many workers narrow escapes.
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Chicago
Murray & Nickels Drug and Spice Manufacturing Company
William Fuhrwerk
Harvard Baseball Quietly Rested at Wellesley After Class Day
The Harvard baseball team did not participate in the class day exercises yesterday. They rested quietly in Wellesley away from the university celebrations and commotion of the day.
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Harvard
Wellesley
University
Body Found in Charles River Near Lowell Bridge
Hugh Ford, the draw tender at the Lowell railroad bridge, discovered a dead laborer floating in the river at the draw last night. The man, about 55, 5 feet 8 inches, 158 pounds, sandy mustache, slightly bald, wore a dark suit a cutaway coat blue flannel shirt and brogan shoes. No identity given. body taken to North Grove Street morgue. Medical Examiner Harris notified.
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Hugh Ford
Lowell
North Grove Street
Harris
Morton on Silver Policy and Currency Reform
Secretary Morton voices hope for Sherman law repeal by the next Congress and suggests freeing coinage of silver and gold if their legal tender status is removed. He sees no farmer or laborer benefit to excess cheap money and links recent gold tide to wheat sales and the need for cash.
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Washington
Morton
Ke Rt
The Cowboy Rage
Waterloo Iowa June 23 Agent Tatro of the Humane Society Harvey Weir of Chadron Neb and Major Burke of Chicago arrived to meet the cowboy race leader Berry Jones is favored to win with a fresh horse and weight advantage riders have ridden about seven hundred miles daily averages sixty five miles most of the ten starters will finish the distance and no interference has occurred by the Humane Society agent
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Waterloo
Tatro
the Humane Society
Minneapolis
Harvey Weir
Chadron
Neb
Major Burke
Chicago
Berry
Jones
Bank closures hit San Bernardino and Seattle on June day
The First National Bank in San Bernardino California closed after a five day run. In Seattle a New Whatcom dispatch reports the Columbia National Bank shut its doors with assets of 226 762 and liabilities not exceeding 100 000.
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San Bernardino
Cal
First National Bank
Seattle
Wash
New Whatcom
Columbia National Bank
Fire at Titcomb Dry House Destroys Mill Shop
A noon blaze swept the roof of F. W. Titcomb's dry house near his hardwood lumber mill in Houston Missouri. The building and machinery were damaged with\nclapboards and floor boards destroyed while the main lumber mill was saved. Loss around 3000 dollars, partially insured.
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Houston
F. W. Titcomb
Man With Broken Leg After Soda Cask Incident
Patrick Delay aged 50 was sent to City Hospital after a soda cask fell on him at the Providence division of the Ola Colony railroad Thursday afternoon. He walked home to 15 Swan Street South Boston not realizing his leg was broken.
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Patrick Delay
Providence
Ola Colony
Delay
Swan Street
South
Boston
Woman Struck by Cambridge Electric Car Injures Shoulder
Mrs Annie Hayes aged 26 was crossing Cambridge street near North Grove when an electric car struck her at 5 15 pm. She sustained injuries to her right shoulder and back and was taken to her home at 10 North Grove Street West End.
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Annie Hayes
Cambridge Street
North Grove
North Grove Street
West End
Disaster at Sea as Victoria Sinks After Collision
Reports detail the Victoria sinking after a collision with the Camperdown off Tripoli. 718 aboard, 430 feared lost.Interview with Lord George Hamilton discusses ram damage and bulkhead failure as the likely cause.
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Gladstone
Lord George Hamilton
Camperdown
Lord Hamilton
Col. Carrington
Tryon
Tyron
Malta
Admiral Bryan
Daily News
America
New York
the Times
Mediterranean
Victoria
Elswick
W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell& Co
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Tyne
England
C. Johnstone
Duke of Edinburgh
William
Lord Brassey
Admiralty
Rail unions push schedule changes for summer service
Fireworks and band concert postponed from June seventeenth to last night and again to this evening. A further benefit from the merger of the New York New Haven and Hartford with the Old Colony railroads is the start of a five hour limited express between Boston and New York on Monday June 26, with departures from both ends at 10 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Old Colony Railroad
Boston
New York
The Second Ballots In German Elections Riots And Returns
Berlin reports Socialists rioting in Lübeck after a second Reichstag ballot that defeated Johann Schwartz by Goertz. Leipsic reelects Hasse over Pinkau. Harm re-elected in Elberfeld. Schmidt retains in Frankfort, Schumacher wins in Solingen. SDP gains cited with 1890 comparisons.
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Berlin
Lubeck
Johann Schwartz
Herr Goertz
Breitestrasse
Leipsic
Hasse
Herr Pinkau
Fhe
Elberfeld
Friedrich Harm
Ernst Dahm
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Wilhelm Schmidt
Dr. Oswalt
Solingen
Georg Schumacher
Herr Roemer
Social Democracy
BAD BOYS QF WORCESTER
A Worcester offense report describes three youths driving a horse and carriage down Boylston street. They fled when challenged. the team was placed in a stable. John Mealey, 14, admitted with two others to stealing the horse and carriage from George Perkins’s Worcester stable, then taking it to Boston. Worcester police and Perkins plan to retrieve the boy and horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Division 16
Boylston Street
Division 4
Albany
Worcester
John Mealey
Washington Street
George Perkins
Boston
Mealey
Perkins
North Shore Traction Directors Deny Beverly Line Purchase
In Lynn on June 23 the Philadelphia New York and Lynn directors discussed a Beverly Essex and Gloucester Street Railway purchase rumor. General Manager E C Foster said talks were routine and no formal offer or route or Wakefield Lynn plan was discussed. Director A I Breed noted freight service would need 50 000 more capital and the company would delay such expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Philadelphia
New York
North Shore Traction Company
Salem
Beverly, Essex & Gloucester Street Railway
Wakefield
Boston
Gloucester
North Shore
Lynn & Roston Company
E. C. Foster
Beverly, Essex & Gloucester
A. I. Breed
North Shore Company
New England
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Hemenway Gymnasium
Quincy Street
Beck Hall
Prescott
Weyoushire St
SION
the Humane Societies
Lizzle Borden
M'Dowell
Browning, King & CO
Salem Leather Man
Epworth
Helman
J. N Fitzgerald
Colorado
C., B. & Q. Presidency
Charles River
Cowboy
Pacific Slope Troubles
Maine
Fort
Cambridge Electric
Itoda
Vrnce
All News
Ashburton Place
Beyfoot
Tripoli
Mediterranean Sea
Montreal
H. M. S. Victoria
Hood
Geremany
BAD Boys
North Shore Traction
Masons
Building Trades’ Council
E. F E. Strout
Strout
Blake Street
Tynn,Gas and Electric Company
Suffolk County Hibernian
Boston Theatre
Hanover Street
John Boyle O'Reilly
Natick
Hibernian Rides
Sarsfield Guards
Order
Norfolk
Essex
Middlesex
Father Murphy
Graves
Dr. Graves
Chelsea
Halivax
N. S
Alice Wrayton
William Thurston
Camden Street
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