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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1900
Page
8
More than 4000 attendees filled the hall for Harvard graduates night. Banners with class years lined the hall as the Pops orchestra opened with Up the Street. A balcony banner was torn during intermission, triggering renewed class yells and glee club performances across the crowd.
Melrose Aldermen considered a petition bearing 600 signatures to repeal the ordinance restricting fireworks from midnight to 4 am on July 4 and banning cannon crackers. The document was referred to the police committee after three public hearing motions failed.
Thousands attend the elaborate Chinese funeral for Chin Shun Ying a wealthy merchant from 24 Harrison avenue. Masonic rites accompany the procession to Mt Hope Cemetery where incense rice and joss are used and two white doves are released.
Rosa Gilmore promised she will never be a tramp again and her father forgave her, taking her back to Mauch Chunk after a month of roaming in masculine clothes. She ran away from comfortable home, rode freight, slept outdoors, was arrested in Wilkes-Barre, spent time in a jail cell, and was cared for by the United Charities Society before choosing to return home.
Klondike miner James L. Hall sent ten thousand dollars to his wife Lillian Green then Miss Green, a vaudeville performer, to enjoy a Paris honeymoon. After a shipwreck near Selwyn and hardships in the Yukon, the couple wed in Daneon with Rev. Father Naylor blessing. Mrs Hall later traveled to San Francisco with kin, with funds for pocket money and Paris plans.
In New Haven Conn June business news reports by the will of Caroline Smith an elderly spinster Wilhelmina Pfister her servant and sole companion for years inherits most of an estate near 100000 dollars. The will lists a few grandchildren of Mr Graves a former business partner of her father as other beneficiaries.
Atlanta, June 2. Thirty-seven bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of the Southern train after a washout one mile and a half from McDonough Saturday night. Three more bodies were found today and charred pieces of two others were recovered. Many victims remain unidentified at undertakers awaiting claim by relatives, mainly negro section hands. The death total is expected to reach forty.
Luigi Storti faced murder charges before Judges Bond and Lawton at Pemberton square. The case concerns Michele Calucel, killed with an axe on November 7 in 67 Charter Street North End. The two men allegedly loved the same person, now in Italy, drawing a crowd in the crowded courtroom.
At the residence of Mr and Mrs Charles Albert Stedman 24 Laurel Street Dorchester the marriage of their daughter Efe to Mr Ooram Rensforth Yeo of New York was performed by Rev Wayne The bride wore a white frock and carried a shower bouquet of sweet peas Attending were little Coben Mabelle Bullar and Isabelle Frances Smith with Ma H ee as best man and ushers Herbert Vane Sheate and Vincent Bullasae in the room
Alexander Grant and David King, arrested here Saturday night on charges linked to the 1899 murder of John Reed and his sister, were given a hearing this morning and granted a continuance until July 6. Each pleaded not guilty and was represented by counsel who opposed the delay. The government said it was not ready to proceed.
Judge Mellen Chamberlain longtime Boston Public Library official and Chelsea historian died at his Washington avenue Chelsea home. He had retired a decade ago after a career as a municipal judge and legislator. Born Pem broke New Hampshire June 4, he earned Dartmouth College degrees and studied law at Cambridge. He was prominent in local literary circles and was writing a Chelsea history.
The Cunard steamship Ivernia, sister to the Saxonia and once billed as Boston’s largest ship, lies at Cunard wharf East Boston and sails next Tuesday. It will be open to the public Thursday and Friday with free tickets available at the goat company’s office, 98.
Both branches met and debated railroad leases with no vote. In the House Fitchburg lease amendments sought sublet restrictions and a railroad-commission tribunal, while Senate briefed Boston & Albany debate. Heat, restlessness, and fears of prorogation marked proceedings as lawmakers hint at postponing to next year amid possible Kansas City travel. No final decision reached.
In Essex Senator Attwill moved to renew an amendment allowing revocation of a lease for the Boston and Albany to the New York Central if court decrees are not met. The railroad committee endorsed it, and the measure passed unanimously. A separate motion by Parry would let railroad commissioners set tolls on application. The Senate adjourned still debating. Attwill also proposed a $100,000 highway reserve for the North Shore from Saugus to Commercial Lynn, which after lengthy debate was defeated 7 to 16, the bill then ordered to a third reading 18 to 6.
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