Murders and assaults puzzle Long Island and New Jersey
Reported in New York on March 10 three murders and many assaults in the Rahway to New Brunswick corridor spark fear as police link a masked assailant and a choked victim to a pattern of attacks on women. Names include Miss Kate McGuire of New Brunswick and Mary Sullivan of Paterson with multiple leads and a $5000 reward discussed.
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New York
Long Island
New Jersey
Rahway
New Brunswick
Kate McGuire
N. J
Joseph G. Palmer
College Place
Miss McGuire
College Avenue
Hamilton Street
Nicholas Cole
Miss von Riper
Mary E. Sullivan
Paterson
Mary Sullivan
Cole
Cole & Nightingale
Silk Throwsters
Kaul
Mary van Wyck
Passaic River
Zachariah
Thomas Sullivan
Providence
Miss Sullivan
Possible clue in Miss Sullivan murder from Paterson found in Philadelphia
Philadelphia report details a letter found with Patrol Sergeant Harvey Wilson, sister of Mary B. Sullivan, suggesting a suspect in the Paterson murder. The letter asks if Mamie Sullivan had a gentleman friend named William Meehl and promises to identify the killer.
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Philadelphia
Miss Sullivan
Paterson
N. J
Harvey Wilson
Mary B. Sullivan
South Second Street
Sullivan
Wilson
Mamie Sullivan
William Meehl
N. B. Williard
Dauphin Street
Philadelph'a
Penn
Williard
Wayne Junction
Wm. Meehl
11Th and
Pennsylvania
Manitoba Segeges into Separate Crown Colony Debate
Manitoba faces a potential secession from Canada over parochial schools with a possible move to form an independent crown colony under a Newfoundland-like constitution. Dominion legislation to restore school rights is seen, with resistance feared to lead to revolution though Premier Greenway aims for loyalty to the British crown.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Greenway
Confederation of Canadian Provinces
Newfoundland
Ottawa
Great Britain
United States
Dominion Confederation
New Use of the X Ray in Bacteriology
In Munich, experiments at the University Physical Institute tested Roentgen rays on typhus bacteria. Exposed cultures with lead shielding showed no clear change after 35 minutes, but Minck believed activity appeared on a second try. He suggested longer exposure, perhaps five hours, may yield better results.
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London
Munich
University Physical Institute
F. Minck
Minck
Massachusetts doctors face annual medical exam in 1896
Fifty seven physicians sat the written state examination in Room 15 at the State House as part of the 1896 process under the 1894 law. Five had previously failed and returned with $50 paid, while the board ponders results and mulls a pending bill to broaden the Board of Registration in Medicine powers.
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Massachusetts
State House
Commonwealth
Harvey
Post
Board of Registration In Medicine
Norfolk County Commissioners Seek 132 500 Budget
The county committee heard Norfolk County commissioners state the coming year expenses will total 132 500. Represented were Judge Grover Canton and Fred Joy with City Solicitor Paul R. Blackmur Quincy Judge French Braintree George W Wiggin Franklin and Selectman Codman Brookline. The hearing adjourned until Monday for remonstrants.
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Norfolk County
Grover
Canton
Fred Joy
Paul R. Blackmur
Quincy
French
Braintree
George W. Wiggin
Franklin
Selectman Codman
Brookline
Gladstone Arrives in London After Riviera Trip
London reports Mr Gladstone arriving in the capital today in excellent health following his visit to the Riviera.
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Gladstone
London
The
Riviera
Morgan Plan Aims to Take Railroads Bill from Committee
In Washington the Senate discusses Morgan's resolution to shift Pacific railroads policy from the committee. The proposal would authorize a government controlled plan with DC Supreme Court liens, 8 percent refinancing for thirty years, government directors, and penalties for non transfer of deeds.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Pacific Railroads
Huntington
Morgan
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Waterfront News: Mariners, Groundings, and Harbor Notes
Captain John Evans of the Warren steamer Cambroman, injured July 8, is discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital and visits Liverpool aboard Captain Jones’s steamer. Several vessels including the A. H. Harding and the Bangalore grounding prompt pilot-boat critique. The British steamship Brookline arrives late from Jamaica with multiple saloon passengers. A life-long coincidence brings Captains Cannell and Garthwaite together in the local custom house.
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John Evans
Warren
Cambroman
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jones
Custom House
Liverpool
Evans
A. H. Harding
Nash
Ipswich
Bangalore
Hampton Roads
John Thomas
Bertha Dean
Chesapeake Bay
Dean
Thomas
Relief
Boston
Baltimore
Gay Head
South Shoal
Maverick
Philadelphia
Cape Cod
Kate Jones
Samuel W. Tilton
Rhode Island
Yampa
Sherlock
Bermuda
West Indies
Brookline
Anderson
Jamaica
Agnes
Hastings
D. W. Lewis
Sarah W. Vaille
P. Plympon
L. H. Russell
E. Horr
E. Gacchi
Damon
Deer Isle
Waldoboro
Millard C. Mitchell
Millbridge
Cannell
Java
Garthwaite
Ashlands
Alexandria
Egypt
Salvation Of on Hand Cure All Aches and Pains Price 25 c
A brief ad notes Salvation Of on hand as a cure for aches and pains. It quotes a price of 25 cents, suggesting a portable remedy or patent medicine offered to readers.
Meeting on new Masonic temple at Boylston site
Master Masons of Massachusetts convene at 2 p m in grand lodge to discuss rebuilding the temple damaged by fire at Boylston and Tremont streets on the present 8000 square foot site. Dedicatory ceremonies for two new Masonic halls at 18 Boylston street will be conducted by Grand Master Edwin B Holmes.
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St. Agnes
Humphreys Street
Dorchester
Friends of
St. Patrick
Boston
Aubrey Boucicault
Dan Daly
Polly Holmes
Nellie Waters
Kate Ryan
P. C. Shortis
Johnson Trio
Edmund T. Phelan
Kitty Mitchell
Henry Donlon
Bessie Gilbert
Massachusetts
Grand Lodge
Boylston Street
Boylston
Tremont Streets
Edwin B. Holmes
Holmes
Coffin Will Filed for Probate in Dedham
The will of Hon. C. C. Coffin of Brookline, wartime correspondent and author, filed in Norfolk registry. Codicil dated July 4, 1893 leaves bequests to the New England Historic and Genealogical Society and the Congregational Library Boston, with major estate to Sallie Coffin, widow, then heirs.
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Dedham
C. C. Coffin
Brookline
Norfolk
Deborah Fellows
Mary Fellows
Arthur Little
Calthea Swett
H. G. Carey
May Carey
Sallie Coffin
Webster
N. H
Riverdale Cemetery
New England Historic and Genealogical Society of Boston
Testator
Congregational Library
Beacon Street
Boston
Scrooby
Eng
William Brewster
Holland
Holman Sues West End Street Railway for Damages
Rufus Holman, partner in White Holman & Co. chair manufacturers, won a verdict of 11 088.33 for injuries after his express wagon was struck by an electric car on September 2, 1892, as he turned from Hanover into Parmenter street. The suit sought 50 000 damages in Superior Court before Judge Richardson.
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Rufus Holman
West Find
Patrolman Hawthorne on trial for neglecting route
Patrolman George E. Hawthorne faced a Board hearing after Sergeant William J. Sheehan accused him of leaving his beat for thirty seven minutes and failing to report. Hawthorne admitted leaving the route and entering a building citing sickness. the case was taken under advisement.
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George E. Hawthorne
Division 1
Board of Police
William J. Sheehan
Strangulation Killings Raise San Francisco Alarm
In San Francisco a third woman in a month was found strangled at 2:30 this morning. Bertha Paradis of 27 Saint Marys Street was discovered in bed with a handkerchief forced down her throat. no signs of a struggle or theft observed, room undisturbed.
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San Francisco
Cal
Bertha Paradis
St. Mary's Street
Fiegenbaum to Die in May Electrocution
New York March 10 Carl Fiegenbaum the man who killed Mrs Juliana Hoffman and was convicted of first degree murder has been resentenced to electrocution during the week beginning May 17 His counsel claim he is insane.
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New York
Carl Fiegenbaum
Juliana Hoffman
Court of Appeals
Broadway Notes Spark Boston Theatrical Scene
Kathryn Kidder heads the Boston Theatre in Mme Sans Gene while Playgoers Club hosts her. A Boston matinee fundraiser for Sweet Lavender is set for April 16 with Cast includes Ormonde Fry and Annie Clarke. Other acts tour London and Boston venues from Castle Square to Tremont Row.
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Kathryn Kidder
Mme, Sans Gene
Boston Theatre
Miss Kidder
Pinero
Boston
Eugene Ormonde
Emma Sheridan Fry
Annie Clarke
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Wayne
Mary
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Segede
Hayes
Edwin Curtis Fisher
Claremont
Harold Hayes
Carl F. P. Bancroft
Phillips Andover Academy
Leavitt Hunt
Chaplin
William Caleb Loring
Mr. Loring
Vermont
Mr. Morse
Mr. Hayes
Nina
Sunday Post
Board of Registration
Pacific
W F
John H. Woodbury
Winter St
NEW Masonic Temple
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S. Sat
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Nickelodeon
Wonderland
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Ysermaid
Demon of Fire
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Dan Dougherty
Ian of Mystery
P.M
Darby Black
Austin & Stone's
Trmont Theatre
Abbey, Schoeffel & Grau
Tomsht Baghree
George Edwardes
Lyric Theatre
W. S. Gilbert
Osmond Carr
Mme
Sarah Berubardt
Bowdoin Square Theatre
Charles F. Atkinson
Atkinson & Calder
Arthur Shirley
Ben Landeck
Joseph Murphy
Kerry Gow
Shana Bhue
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Mgr
Sardou
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Cor
Dover
Washington Sts
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Park Theatre
Neil Burcess
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Boston Museum
CGAY
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Isaac B. Rich
Marie Studholme
WERK
Hollis St
Irwin
Ruby Clark
Dolan & Dillon
GRAND
OPERA
Sergio
Mouule
Nana
Suchorowsky
Masonic Temple
Columbia Theatre
the Irish Alderman
the Mississippi
Portland
Bay State
India Wharf
FB. Williams
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