Senate Debates Key Bills as House Passes Liquor Law in DC
Washington reports a Senate session approving the naval appropriation bill after party-line votes. Debates over executive session and a Hudson River bridge bill failed, while the agricultural appropriation bill passed. The House moved through Alabama election controversy, pig tin tariff exemption, steel gauge standardization, and a Brown relief bill before adjourning.
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Washington
Senate
Sherman
Yeas
District of Columbia
Will
New York
Frye
Hill
Stewart
Kyle
Peffer
Allison
House
Alabama
McDuffie
Springer
Breckinridge
Ark
William W. Brown
Theological Feud Forces Resignation at Green's Farm Church
In South Norwalk Connecticut on February 28 the Rev Henry E Davies pastor of Green's Farm Congregational Church resigns after a year long factional fight. Sermons deemed unorthodox sparked conflict and neighbors became sworn enemies though conferences failed to restore harmony. Davies admitted tone drift but apologies did not placate the congregation which threatened to lock the doors if he stayed.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Henry E. Davies
Green’s Farm Congregational Church
Davies
KEEP HANDS OFF YOUR GAS DEALS AND BIG MONEY
A speaker defends a gas contract with a mayoral backing, arguing the Standard Oil backed group can supply gas at low cost and warning about higher future prices. He cites bonds and stock totals, mentions cities around Copley Square, and predicts substantial revenue from hotels and churches while urging the mayor to prevail.
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Addicks
Brookline
Vendome
Brunswick
Victoria
Copley Square
Oxford
Huntington
Kensington
Abbotsford
Charlesgate
School of Technology
J F Thayer Suicide Shocks Boston After Crisis
Samuel J F Thayer shot himself at 12 Worcester square ending his life. A note hinted The Boston of Today had done him justice. He left a widow and son, suffered ill health, and financial troubles. A prominent city builder, he also worked on Providence City Hall. he was about 50 and had recently been robbed on Worcester square.
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Samuel J. F. Thayer
Worcester Square
Boston
Shaver
Providence
Phelps Won’t Take Office and Heads for Behring Sea Talks
New Haven reports Professor E J Phelps will sail March 8 to Paris for the Behring Sea conference set to begin March 24. He will not resume Yale classes this year and may decline a ministerial post in England if offered again. He hopes to return to Yale in September.
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New Haven
Yale
E. J. Phelps
Cleveland
Harrison
Europe
Paris
Phelps
England
Grant Monument Association Progress in New York
The Grant Monument Association met in New York on February 28. President Horace Porter reported sufficient funds to complete the monument and that a contract with Maine and New Hampshire Granite Company covers the granite work. The project is expected to finish in autumn 1895, and General Porter was re-elected president.
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New York
Grant Monument Association
Horace Porter
Maine and
New Hampshire Granite Company
General Porter
The Queen Hosts Royal Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace
Queen Victoria presided over a drawing-room at Buckingham Palace with the dowager Empress Frederick Princess Beatrice and other royals in attendance. About 800 guests were presented including the American legation and Mrs William Waldorf Astor among the Americans.
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London
Queen Victoria
Buckingham Palace
Empress Frederick
Beatrice
Legation
William Waldorf Astor
Anthracite Coal Prices Stay Unchanged By Agents
New York February 28 Eastern and Western coal sales agents met separately and both groups agreed to keep anthracite coal prices unchanged.
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New York
Bridge upgrade ordered for Housatonic at Stratford
New Haven county and Fairfield county officials received notice from the War Department requiring construction of a larger higher draw bridge over the Housatonic River at Stratford by December 1 next. The project is projected to cost seventy five thousand dollars.
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New Haven
Fairfield County
United States War Department
Housatonic River
Stratford
New Court House Planned for Laconia
The Belknap county convention met in Laconia on February 28 and voted to build a new court house at a cost of 30000 dollars. The old court house will be torn down and construction on the new building is to begin in the spring.
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Laconia
N. H
Belknap County
Pope Lee's Physician Urges Rest for Holiness
Remy February 25 report states Dr Lapponi, the new body physician to Pope Lee, advises he must sleep more and hold fewer audiences and not exert his brain as much as before.
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Remy
Lapponi
Pope Lee
Democrats Dine at Quincy House Dinner
Colonel Moore of Walpole presided over the Democratic legislators dinner at the Quincy House. A large crowd, lively atmosphere, and warm tributes followed letters from Governor Russell and others. Speeches by Stevens, Fitzgerald, Callahan, Buckley, and several representatives lauded party unity and awaited Cleveland’s future appointments.
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Moore of Walpole
Quincy House
Moore
Russell
P. A. Collins
Josiah Quincy
James B. Carroll
Cleveland
Stevenson
Maine
California
Plains of
Bethlehem
Benjamin
Quincy
Collins
John T. McLaughlin
Stevens
Spencer
Colonel Moore
John KE. Fitzgerald
Callahan
Boston
Buckley
Holyoke
McEvoy, O'Neil
Gilbride
Hayes
Sullivan, Dolan
Mclaven
Dacey
Copeland Lectures On Reading Aloud In Boston Hall
Charles Townsend Copeland of Harvard delivered a lively talk on The Art of Reading Aloud before a full audience at Norcross Hall Boston Y M C A. He quipped about the difficulty of the task and critiqued Boston pronunciation and American women's voices, with readings from Shakespeare and others.
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Charles Townsend Copeland
Harvard
Norcross Hall
Boston Y. M. C. A
Boylston Street
Harvard Annex
Boston
Copeland
Shakspere
Three Flags to Lead Massachusetts Democratic Club
In Washington, the Young Men's Democratic Club of Massachusetts will carry three silk flags in the inauguration procession. Designed by City Surveyor Humbert, the flags are double silk, painted on both sides, with the State flag featuring arms, tepees, and landscape, encircled by the motto and forty four stars. The club banner shows an eagle on a national and state flag with thirteen blue stars.
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Young Men’s Democratic Club of
Massachusetts
Jordan, Marsh & Co
Young Men’s Democratic Club
Washington
Humbert
The
Calais Man Fatally Injured In Sleigh Accident
Montfrecier Vermont February 25 George Shores aged 45 of Calais was thrown from a sleigh and fatally injured when run over this afternoon.
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Montfrecier
George Shores
Calais
Dover Hearing Details Firehouse Alarms and Suspected Drinking
State Health Board testimony at Dover on the county asylum fire of February 9 covered Chloral use allegations, drunkenness among staff, and facility dangers. Witnesses described tank levels, hose shortages, and unsafe construction as they urged improvements before reporting to the Legislature.
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Dover
N. H
State Board of Health
Wilbur S. Chesley
Driscoll
Frank P. Morrison
James Catton
Bridget Noland
Mr. Demeritt
Laura E. Morrison
Noland
William T. Wentworth
Cuttyhunk Heroes Relief Fund Nears Goal
The treasurer of the citizens committee aiding families of the five men who died in the Cuttyhunk wreck reports receipts of 2280 dollars. Contributions are welcomed and acknowledged by Hon. John Simpkins at 225 Wahington street.
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Citizens’ Committee
Cuttyhunk
John Simpkins
Wahington Street
Barre brakeman injured in railroad coupling accident
Barre Vermont February 28 Charles Blanchard a brakeman on the Barre railroad was caught between the couplings of the cars this morning and broke his collar bone.
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Barre
Charles Blanchard
Indictment Dismissals Overruled in Cash Register Trust Case
Judge Putnam upheld four counts of the National Cash Register anti trust indictment while quashing fourteen for lacking statutory form. He warned the government to file special demurrers on remaining counts and indicated selective trials to avoid overbroad reach of the statute. District Attorney Allen and counsel H W Chaplin attended. Elihu Root argued for the government.
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National Cash Register Company
Putnam
Allen
Elihu Root
New York
H. W. Chaplin
Congress
No GoY Hearing On Coy Case In 1893
Letters to Governor Council ask for a hearing for William Coy who faces a death sentence. Acting Lt Governor Wolcott denies new hearing unless Coy's counsel files with sufficient cause. Coy is reported dangerously ill in jail with neuralgia grip and mental distress, uncertain if he will hang Friday.
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Hamlin
Pittsfield
Mass
Executive Council
William Coy
William Wilberforce Newton
St. Stephen’s Church
Joseph Ward Lewis
Wolcott
Coy
Seld
Hin
Starving in Boston frames a bizarre vagrant case
A strikingly dressed man named Samuel H Bertschingere, born 1861 in Zurich, claimed vast credentials from Bonn and the Swiss army and said he arrived in New York in December. He sought shelter in Boston after weeks of hardship, alleged unpaid work for Hoyt and Diman's Hotel, and earlier overdosed. Authorities debunked his tale, noting no Hoyt connection and no debt to the company. He was fed and detained as investigations continued.
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Watts
Samuel H. Bertschingere
Zurich
Switzerland
University of Bonn
Prussia
New York
United States Marine Corps
Bertschingere
Dasher
Mass
Boston
August Blowers
Hoyt
Peter Blow
Temperance Town
Shawmut Avenue
Jordan Marsh & Co reorganizes departments for better space
Jordan, Marsh & Co announces major store rearrangements to improve room, light, and convenience. Second floor partitions removed create an uninterrupted space from Summer to Avon, uniting woollen, boys and ladies clothing into a single department for family shopping. The dress goods section is greatly enlarged, possibly the world’s largest. The gentlemen’s hat shop moves beside the furnishing department. A new contract and house furnishing department offers complete fitting for hotels churches lodges public buildings clubs ships and more with samples, estimates and expert advice.
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Jordan, Marsh & Co
Summer Street
Avon Street
Gentlemen’s Hat
Gentlemen’s
New England
Yale Crew Begins Training Table Ahead of New London Race
Yale crew to start dieting at the training table tomorrow for the annual New London race. Fourteen rowers will be taken, with the squad lined up as Stroke Gallaudet, No.7 Beard, No.6 Goetchins, No.5 Cross, No.4 Paine, No.3 Van Huyck, No.2 Johnson, Bow Rogers. Captain Ives rows, with Little as the coach.
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New Haven
Yale
New London
Gallaudet
Beard
Goetchins
Cross
Paine
van Huyck
Johnson
Rogers
Ives
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Ayer
J. Wilmot Payne
Monrovia
Liberia
J.C. Ayer
Old Colony
J. F. Thayer
Grant
Democrats
Wheeler & CO
Manyfederals
Hanoversi
American House
Cuttyhunk Heroes
Hood’s
Susie C. Rumvrilt
Royalton, Vf
Rumrill
Hood
Warranter
Loy
Golid
Keene
C. D
H Watch Store
Washington St
Sample Dept
Boston, Mass
C.O.D
Jordan, Marsh & Co.’S
Brookline Gas Light
Brookline Gas Light Company
City of
Roxbury
Hampden Street
Blue Hill Avenue
Brighton
Jencon St
Robert Amory
Salvator Beer
Burkhardt Brewing Co. Bottling Dept
Hallock Street
Tel
Rox
Federal ST
Columbia Bicycles
Pope Mfg. CO
Cena
Columbus Ave
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
State House
Bostour
Henry S. Milton
Parr J. Farer
Committee On Fisheries and Game
Fairhaven
Smith
Connousy
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