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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1889
Page
2
The Senate debated Payne's move to strike the Canada relations committee as overreach. Sherman urged a standing border panel, warning a looming rise of a northern power call for a standing army. Other leaders favored appointment. assembly adjourned after executive session.
Washington March 12 The President signed an order extending the railway mail service’s entry into civil service rules to May 1 1889 on the deputy commissioner’s view that readiness requires time. He said he would reform appointments to favor Territories Republicans and reduce political influence while ensuring fair exams and accountability, urging慎慎慎 slow progress before removals.
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company held its annual stockholders meeting in St Louis on March 12. Directors elected include Jay Gould Sidney Dillon Samuel Sloan Russell Sage and others with John P. Munn replacing R S Hayes. Officers to be chosen in New York after Gould party returns from the Southwest.
The Post publishes a full statement by M W B Berry former master of the South Boston house of correction. He defends his twenty two year record denies intoxication and argues board interference led to his removal amid charges of lack of discipline and extravagance. He recalls disputes with President Martin and other directors and asserts mismanagement by the board. Signals that pending legislation may abolish the board.
In St. Louis on March 12 the Wabash Western stockholders elected directors O. D. Ashley T. H. Hubbard E. T. Wells Cyrus J. Lawrence H. K. McHarg Peter B. Wyckoff Ettingham H. Nichols James F. Howe and Charles M. Hays. McHarg succeeds RK. H. Elmer, and Hays is added as general manager. The board will meet in New York on March 28 to elect officers.
Worcester reports the opening of the Grafton to Upton railroad with a special train leaving Gratton at 7 am. Upton greets the line with a town turnout led by the Upton Band. Battery B of Worcester fires a salute as the engine arrives. Addresses are given by Velorous Taft, George Ball, and Edward P. Usher.
The funeral for Richard W. Townshend, Illinois House member, was held at St. Matthew's Church Washington March 12. Floral tributes included white house roses from President and Mrs. Harrison. eight Capital police bore the casket. honorary pallbearers included Chief Justice Fuller and ex-Speaker Carlisle. Interment followed in Oak Hill cemetery vault.
Rumors swirl over the fate of Reverend Charles H. Smith who vanished last Saturday. Some say he wished to visit California and may have left in a deranged moment for the Pacific coast.
At yesterday’s town meeting J. M. Eaton Charles C. Sanborn and Enoch Saw yer were elected selectmen with Charles F. Peel named to the school committee. License vote passed Yes 58 No 98. Appropriations amount to 5160 dollars.
The Chicago wheat market plunged with major floor houses becoming free sellers. May wheat fell to 95% and 94% with a final close around 95% while July traded around 86% to 87% amid heavy volume and strong investment demand. Total May sales reached tens of millions of bushels and stock in store stood at 3,651,162 bushels as foreign markets remained bearish.
Norfolk county officials host an exhibition by Woodward Electric showing their system linking the jail to the Court House through a conduit for 220 incandescent lamps. The demonstration, using Sawyer & Mann motor technology, featured a 25 horsepower engine, 280 horsepower boilers, and a 110 volt, water-proof setup with no interference between devices. The trial reached 175 RPM steam pressure fifty five pounds and concluded with the system hailed as a great success.
The Court of Appeals reversed judgments in cases brought by John Jacob Astor Nathaniel H Smith and others against the New York Arcade railway. It held that legislation from 1868 to 1886 granting or seeking to grant powers to Beach Pneumatic Tube Company Breadway Underground Railway Company or New York Arcade Railway Company is unconditional and void. The 1881 Legislature overstepped by attempting to revive the May 20 1874 act. Opinions by Judges Earle and Gray.
Thomas Kenny a 17 year old was killed at Prospect Hill Somerville after jumping in front of an inbound express on the Lowell line while alighting from the 7 05 pm train from Boston. The incident occurred at the Prospect Hill station and Kenny died instantly.
In Saugus during a renewed burglar season a Charlie Ames poultry yard is robbed of fowls. A note on a shingle warns that a wounded burglar seeks vengeance and dynamite blows sky high. A suspect, James Hill, 35, is arrested in North Saugus with sixteen fowls. believed linked to recent hen coop thefts.
The Hon. Edwin Walden president of the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn railroad and head of Edwin Walden & Co. shoe makers of Lynn died at 424 Summer Street Lynn at 3 15 p m from blood poisoning after a right arm abscess. Born November 25 1818 in Lynn he built a long public and business career including councilman alderman mayor state senator and representative. He guided the Lynn water board and led the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn railroad as president at his death leaving a widow and five children.
Perry & Co stove makers of New York and Albany gain six to thirty month extensions on 330000 in liabilities. On Jan 1 the Perry Stove Company takes the plant and foundry with 500000 capital, unrelated to the old firm. Also, the Warren Tube Works will be sold at sheriff sale April 13 after receiver appointed. the plant cost 250000 but appraised at 30000.
Arthur Falkland Buchanan opened a series of readings at 2 Walnut Street with a selection from A Tale of Two Cities. He avoided exaggeration, delivering Paris to Chateau scenes in a direct, cultivated voice. Next Tuesday he plans Hugo selections.
Professor Benjamin F. Baker died in Boston at 78, a Salem native who helped shape local music education and edited widely used singing books. Jack L. Martin of Hawley Folsom & Martin died at 58 in Boston, leaving a widow and daughter. J Warren Derby of the Central National Bank died at 36 in Danvers from pneumonia. Rear Admiral John Lee Davis died in Washington at 64 from pneumonia. Ex-chief Justice John A. Campbell died in Baltimore at 78, famed for the State vs Louisiana case. Nelson D White, Winchendon manufacturer and former legislator, died in New York at 71.
The note lists new life size portrait of Dr Holmes by Houghton Mifflin, a second edition of Clarke's Robert Emmet, a translated Portuguese novel, Mary J Serrano Dragon's Teeth, March Ticknor volumes Forced Acquances and Under Green Apple Boughs, a Seward Atlantic Monthly article, Bowditch physiology guides, and a Southern reader's praise for John Fiske's The Critical Period. It quotes praise for pacification and unity in the South.
Charles A Moore aged 19 escaped yesterday from Concord Prison wearing prison clothes. He has blue eyes brown hair and a scar over the left eye. A $50 reward is offered for his capture.
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