Towline Breaks In Gale Dooming Akaba On Hatteras Coast
A Boston Towboat Saturn failed to tow the British steamer Akaba from Turk's Island to New York. The hawser parted near Body Island in a northeast gale, leaving the Akaba by itself with a crew of thirty five. Saturn, crippled with a broken propeller, reached Newport News later. tugboats Underwriter and Taurus were sent to aid the stranded vessel. Body's Island lighthouse near Oregon Inlet stands as a nearby landmark.
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Saturn
Turk’s Island
New York
Marseilles
New Orleans
George W. Clyde
West Indies
Yeasel
Enterprise
Newport News
Cape Hatteras
Wylie
Norfolk
Body Island
Orion
Body’s
Taurus
Body’s Island
Albemarle
Roanoke Sounds
Atlantic
Oregon Inlet
United States
Fire trap schools in Boston facing deadly risk alarmed officials
A Post investigation exposes dire fire safety flaws in Pormort and Eliot schools. Four story layouts with single stairways and no safe fire escapes house roughly 275 to 700 pupils daily, raising questions of accountability and urgency for safeguarding children.
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Boston
Snelling Place
Hull Street
North End
Pormort
Pormort School
Chicago
Boston West End newsdealers thrive without monopoly
A survey of West End news stalls shows rich variety and steady trade. W A Smith’s fortune from newspaper distribution hints at limited monopolies. Cashin at Young’s Hotel, Chappell of Court House stand, Gallaher at Crawford House, Parkhurst at Bowdoin Street, and Brown at Cambridge Road all run enduring stalls. The Crawford House fire spurred the hotel bookstore. Proliferating stands serve thousands daily, with telegraph and phone added.
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W. A. Smith
Boston
Crawford House
Frederick H. Gallaher
Newcastle-on-Tyne
England
Newburyport
Gallaher
John F. Merrow
The
Revere House
Mysterious Double of Major Edgell Seen Then Vanished
A Boston Post item reports Mr Jarvis and detective Stillman pursuing a doppelganger of Major S W Edgell last seen in Neponset and Braintree. The one-armed man matching Edgell’s description vanished five weeks ago, leaving both men convinced Edgell may still be alive or a victim of mistaken identity.
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Edgell
Mr. Jarvis
Executive Department
Fitchburg
Major Edgell
State House
Messenger Whiting
Stillman
Neponset
Braintree
Doorkeeper
Marguerite Ashore After Collision Off Overfalls
The steamship Orion bound Dunkirk to Sandy Hook collided with the schooner Marguerite off Overfalls. Orion lost jibboom and masts and anchored at Newcastle. Marguerite went ashore at Fort Delaware. tugs to assist. Built in 1890 at Bath Maine, from Fall River.
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Orion
Dunkirk
Sandy Hook
Marguerite
Newcastle
Fort Delaware
Bath
Fall River
Waterbury Kidnapping Suspects Taken From Jail
Little Ward Waterbury Connecticut March 1 Charles Waterbury John McCann and Samuel Sutherland three men held for kidnapping Ward Waterbury were removed from jail today and privately examined at the Court House by State's Attorney Fessenden Fessenden has not announced whether he will turn Waterbury and McCann over to New York authorities or try them in this county
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Brinceport
Conn
Charles Waterbury
John McCann
Samuel Sutherland
Ward Waterbury
Hlouse
Fessenden
Waterbury
McCann
New York
Tried to Kill the Judge in Nagpur Trial Incident
A murder trial in Nagpur featured a native Indian attacker leaping from the dock with a hatchet. He struck Judge Venner, causing a severe scalp wound, before warders subdued him after several men suffered cuts. Captain James H. Jenkins of Barnstable is hospitalized with heart trouble.
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Bompay
Nagpur
India
Venner
James H. Jenkins
Barnstable
Massachusetts General Hospital
Typhus Strikes Arva as Hungary Faces Famine
Hungry Hungarians in Arva the northernmost Hungarian county suffer epidemics of typhus and famine. Inhabitants eat tree bark and pine cones to survive. The Austrian Diet president announced arrangements for relief to aid the distressed population.
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Bupa-Pestu
Arva
Hungary
Mrs Blaine Likely Not Petitioning Name Change
From the Troy Press, it is highly probable that Mrs. James G Blaine Jr will not seek a petition to alter her name. Her notoriety is largely attributed to her former father in law.
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Troy Press
James G. Blaine, Jr
Russia plans new ironclad fleet and largest cruiser afloat
By order of the Czar a 10 928 ton ironclad cruiser like the Rurick will be launched this spring at St. Petersburg along with three other ironclads of 11 000 tons and several coast vessels. The two gunboats Otvajay and Greminstchy will be launched as thaw opens. The Rurick, under construction, will be the largest cruiser afloat at 426 feet, speed 18.5 knots, capable of Baltic to Vladivostok under steam at 10 knots. Armament includes eight and six inch guns and four torpedo tubes with ten inch waterline armor. Launch expected next autumn.
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St. Petersburg
London Engineering
Otvajay
Greminstchy
St. Petersbur
Baltic
Vladivostock
Eddie Field in mental condition inquiry at Oyer and Terminer
New York March 1 judge Van Brunt and a jury resumed the inquiry into the mental condition of Edward M Field head of Field Lindley Wiechers Co. He is indicted on forgery counts. Field appeared with his brother Cyrus W Field Jr and a deputy sheriff. Dr Landen Gray testified Field suffers melancholia with other symptoms and has delusions including the belief that Jay Gould would bribe jail staff to poison him.
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New York
van Brunt
Court of Oyer and Terminer
Edward M. Field
Cyrus W. Field
Field, Lindley, Wiechers & Co
Field
Landen ©. Gray
Jay Gould
Ludlow Street
Old State House as Boston transit hub for Shore Line trains
No 3 Old State House under Mr L H Valmer is a popular transportation hub in Boston. Tickets or drawing-room car seats for the Shore Line express trains or the Colonial Express between Boston and Washington can always be secured here.
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Old State House
L. H. Valmer
Boston
Shore Line
Washington
Promoting G. O. Taylor Old Bourbon and Rye Whiskey
In Nebraska a farmer’s hogs ride rough roads and lose appetite. The ad claims to restore appetite with G. O. Taylor Old Bourbon or Pure Rye Whiskey, described as pure and medicinal and suitable for invalid and social use. Chester H. GenVae & Sons, Boston, sole proprietors.
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G. O. Taylor
Chester H
GenVae & Sons
Boston
Bookkeeper Foljambe Ends Twenty Year Battle Quietly
Samuel Foljambe 40, bookkeeper at Converse Stanwood & Co., was found dead in a cellar vault with a bullet wound to the brain. Police deem the suicide premeditated, caused by temporary mental aberration from a grip illness. He leaves a wife. his accounts show a missing dollar possibly his fault.
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Samuel M. Foljambe
Converse, Stanwood & Co
South Street
Foljambe
Carverse, Stanwood & Co
Long Catalog of Court Cases From March Term in CLVIL Courts
A dense list from the March term of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals plus Superior and Probate courts records. It records numerous case numbers and names such as Adams v Cartwright and Waters v Hilliard, with verdicts and for plaintiff or defendant, followed by October lists and fifth session notes. It also lists civil actions for damages in Middlesex and Cambridge, with administrations and wills filed in probate court.
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Middlesex, Ss
Cambridge
Bonn
Clara A. Joy
Rice Inlets
Win Vy
Same
Chester
Washington Street
T. E. Grover
Fred Joy
S. J. Elder
Boyce Vy
City of Boston
Braley
Middlesex
Hollis Hastings
Bramingham
Dana Parker
Reading
Johan W. Cutting
Ashby
Harriet Hopkins
Lowell
Samuel Jeffrey
North Reading
George W. Wilson
Malden
Bernard Lovely
Newton
Mary A. Bancroft
Deborah 5S
Cheever
Somerville
Eliza L. Crocker
Medford
Harrison Eames
Framingham
Mary E. Ilweil
Arlington
Samuel P. Emerson
Waltham
Silas Jeffrey
Rufus W. Kendall
Susan G. Rowe
Stoneham
Charles A. Savage
Napoleon B.stone
Ashland
Mariella E. Fagin
Ann E. Brown
Mary Cunningham
Henry A. Hawkes
Joseph N. Baratta
Los Angeles
Cal
Ann Maguire
Administrations
Jeremiah Gearin
Ellen R. Hanson
Catharine Long
Hopkinton
Joseph W. Ripley
Ann
Woodbury
Hudson
Mary D. Whiting
Wakefield
William Tuck
Chelmsford
Abigail Tuck
Sarah A. Doherty
Henry L. Gurney
Delia M. Kirby
Marlboro
Uriah Oakes
Everett
Josiah M. Shaw
Jeremiah Mahoney
Julia P. Brown
Belmont
Sarah Harper
Hannah S. Lane
John Pepper
Abbie 5
Weymouth
William Clark
Groton
Lucy P. Lewis
Maiden
Mary A. Greenlaw
James Curry
Lincoln
Sewell H. Littlefield
Holliston
Simon Blanchard
Acton
Alice E. Hawkes
William B. Thomas
Otis L. Woods
Sarah A. James
Maynard
Erama S. Whitney
Penelope Macdonald
Benjamin F. Holbrook
Natick
Hannah Connell
Augustus Richardson
Maria E. Harding
John Donohue
Lexington
Emily T. Kretschmar
Allen v Russo custody bid over seven year old son
Supreme Judicial Court hears petition by a divorced husband seeking custody of his seven year old son Eso. The court finds no grounds to grant custody based on religious differences and dismisses the bill with costs to the respondent. Protests over habeas corpus and confinement at State Farm discussed. decision reserved.
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Gerard Russo
P. H. Hutchinson
J. D. Thomson
Jeremiah Kailber
T. E. Grover
G. C. ‘Travis
Commonwealth
Massachusetts Superior Court Dockets Involving Damages and Contracts
Suffolk Is March session lists verdicts and ongoing actions across multiple dockets. Bridget Maher as administratrix seeks $5000 for decedent Peter Mabr with a $4500 verdict. numerous other tort actions and contract matters noted, including damages and service fees.
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Alpucnh
Bridget Maher
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Peter Mabr
Back Bay Park
L. M
Twombly
West
Walcott
Same
Ena
Williams
Sane
Cohen
West End
Dunn
Craven
Thaxier
Foster
Letis
Boston
Fisk
Fitch
Proctor
Stone
Walson
Rox
Gas
Cox
Loudi
Lt. Co
Sharkey
Devine
Karberry
Driscoll
McNally
Whitaker
Odelle
Cutting
Sbrown
Clark
Ell
Corcoran
Faton
Debarred Belfast MP Faces New Writ
A new writ was issued today in the case of Edward 8S De Cobain once MP for East Belfast who was expelled from the House of Commons for failing to appear to answer charges of gross immorality.
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London
Edward
de Cobain
East Belfast
House of Commons
Switchmen Strike Halts Illinois Central Trains at Caro
March 1 report from Caro says switchmen walked out on the Illinois Central at 7 pm yesterday causing no trains to depart. Officials remain on site negotiating to settle the dispute.
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Caro
March Scribner's and Homiletic Review features
The March issue highlights James Russell Lowell’s final poem on Grant, plus Apthorp with Paris theatres, Forney on locomotives, and Coffin on American art. Bishop Coxe’s Healing of Divisions argues for unity in faith, while Nelson and Edson urge building the body and caution fiscal excess. Reed and Holman assess Uncle Sam’s spending and defend the Billion-Dollar Congress.
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Ople
Paris
William F. Apthorp
Opera
Opera-Comique
Conservatoire
A N. Forney
Railroad Andngineering Journal
Spain
Italy
Coxe
Cyrus Nelson
North American Review
Edson
T. B. Reed
W. S. Holman
Uncle Sam
Reed
House of Representatives
House
Congress
Committee On Appropriations
The colonial express day train to Washing ton is the success of the season.
An old style notice proclaims the colonial express day train to Washington a season success while also endorsing Beecham's Pills as a remedy for a disorderly liver.
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Colonial Express
Washington
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