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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 17, 1880

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2

New York Clergyman Skeptical on Universalism Growth

Dr Cha pin of New York doubts Universalism will grow numerically or statistically in the future. He cites its cardinal doctrine leavening other denominations and diminishing need for a separate organization. Open antagonism to the doctrine is less noticeable and liberalism increases. New Churchmen claim this signals the New Jerusalem coming down.

Chapin New York New Jerusalem

Senators Vote To Report Kellogg Seat Dispute

The Senate Committee on Elections reported by party lines that Kellogg is not entitled to his seat while Spofford is chosen as Louisiana's senator. The majority report harshly accuses Kellogg of fraud bribery and conspiracy. William D. Hilton confessed to issuing forged notes totaling 89000 with most holdings in Rhode Island. Hilton expects consequences but awaits arrest. A New York piano strike threatens labor unrest and higher wages. In Lynn a man named Lindsay fatally assaulted W A Baker and stole his watch before dying by suicide in this city. Three strikes in Lawrence mills saw wage gains for some workers. Denis Kearney was sentenced in San Francisco to six months confinement and a $1000 fine.

Senate Committee On Elections Rhode Island Hilton Lynn Lindsay W. A. Baker Boston Post Washington Senate Committee On Privileges William Pitt Kellogg United States Senate Louisiana Henry M. Spofford Kellogg Indorse Kellorge Senate Kellock Relchief State National Bank Judiciary Committee State National Bank of Boston Court of Claims Hartwell Robinson Massachusetts Department Garland Dem Arkansas House Kirkwood Rep Iowa Congress Booth California Mr. Davis West Virginia Maxey Davis Blaine United States Air. Davis Committee On Appropriations Plumb Kansas Mr. Edmunds Vermont Beck Postmaster General Treasury Congres Brady Texas Teller Colorado East Chicago New York Albert Weber Haines Bros Billings & Co Cranish & Bach James & Hohlestrom J. & C. Fisher Henry Bebuing J. & P. Hale W. Wheelock Ernest Gabler Pease & Co George Steck & Co Decker & On Lohmer & Co Bacon & Karr Freeborn G. Smith Diehlman & Funk Piano Makers’ Union Steinway Steck Behning Steinway & Sons Gabler Decker Bros KK. H. Harrington Frank Conuners Narvesen & Co Young & O Lindeman & Co Grovesteen & Fuller Christie & Co Laghte & Ernst William Schaeffer Calenberg, Vanpel & Co J. B. Nugent Josiah King & Co Manufacturers’ Association General Relief Fund the Protective Union New York Piano Manufacturers’ Society Socialistic Labor Party Lawrence Mass Pemberton Mills Washington and Pemberton Mills Washington Mills Mathe’s Hallsvile Washington Corporation City Agent Clarke Salem Clarke Mathe’s Hall Hallsville Turn Lowell Hodcarriers New England Alfred Berard Cincinnati Piedmont W. Va Cumberland and Piedmont Pittsburg Harrisburg Wareham

Weather outlook for New England with signals extended

For New England expect cloudy skies with light rain or snow, then improving fair weather. Cooler northwesterly winds develop as barometer rises. Cautionary signals persist from Macon to Woods Hall and shore signals from Breakwater to Sandy Hook remain in effect.

New England Macon Woods Hall Sandy Hook

Tibbles and Ponca controversy stirs Boston philanthropy

AGN in Washington recalls prior warnings about Tibbles and his Ponca case. Baxter P. Smith apologizes for misjudgments and disassociates, while calling for reassessment by high officials. The exchange highlights reputational scrutiny and alleged Indian ring accusations.

Senators Seek Law To Ban Oleomargarine Sale

Illinois Senator Davis introduces a memorial asking Congress to tie a law to prevent oleomargarine sales. Debate over committee referral ends with sending to the Territories and Pension Appropriations. The day also covers pension funding bills, indemnity fund returns, Arctic rescue funds, and various House actions.

Washington Davis Illnoi Congress Edmunds Supreme Court Naval Anthony Judiciary Conkling Committee On Territories Committee On the Judiciary Indian Territory Senate Pension Appropriations Atkins House Appropriations Committee Pension Bureau China Japan House Committee On Foreign Affairs Caldera United States Wyoming Takiary Bowman Massachusetts Leavitt Boston Illinois Chicago Day New York Great Lakes Maj. Reno

Flooding Dampens Virginia and Southern Rivers Reach New Heights

Rain has fallen for ten days across Petersburg and Farmville areas, with the Appomattox and Wyanoke rivers rising above flood stages. In Tennessee, the Bransford reports 290 miles of flooded lowlands and the Tennessee River threatening 47 feet. Rome and Selma in Alabama face rising waters and potential record floods, with Selma likely to be submerged.

Petersburg Appomattox Farmville Wyanoke Weldon N. C Cumberland Tennessee Nashville Tenns Bransford Sbore Armstrong Decatur Johnsonville Rome Selma Mobile Ala Register Battery Room Telegraph Company

Harvard students not suffering mass heart disorders claim

The Harvard Register notes a circulating claim that half of Harvard students have heart disorders from smoking and drink. Dr. Sargent examined hundreds. only two had serious heart troubles. Officials demand newspapers print this denial to protect the university’s students.

Harvard Register Harvard Sargent

Forger Hilton Confesses to $80,000 Indorsement Scam

Wm D Hilton, former Providence and Worcester Railroad official, confesses to forging Slater and Cook indorsements totaling about eighty thousand dollars to cover debts. The forged notes, held in Rhode Island by brokers and individuals, face rising totals with $40,000 notes already outstanding bearing genuine indorsements. No arrests yet.

Providence R. I William D. Hilton Providence and Worcester Railroad William S. Slater Lyman A. Cook Wm. D. Hilton Hilton Universalist William Slater Woonsocket Slater and Cook Messrs Cook Hlilton

California Communist Sentenced to Six Months and $1000 Fine

Denis Kearney was sentenced by the San Francisco Police Judge to six months in the House of Correction and a $1000 fine. He plans to appeal to the Superior Court likely via a writ of habeas corpus. The judge stressed the present offense and indicated no past-punishment bias.

San Francisco Denis Kearney House of Correction California Kearney Supreme Court Reid

Annual Report and Rail Orders From Multiple Lines

Pittsburg Cincinnati and St Louis reports 1599562 net earnings with 605480 profit after bond interest and rents. Leased lines yield 1467765 revenue but 1661245 rentals cause 103480 loss, netting 412000 across all lines. Lease ratified with Ohio Central. old board reelected. Ticket Agents meet in Cincinnati elect W B Shattuck as president and discuss rates. Winslow named president of St Louis and San Francisco. East Florida Railway to link Jacksonville and Savannah.

ColumbBus Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railroad P. C. and St. Louis Cincinnati and Mackinaw Valley Columbus and Sandy Creek Valley Ohio Central Railroad Ticket Agents’ Association Cincinnati National Association of Passengers and Ticket Agents W. B. Shattuck

Constellation to Carry Irish Provisions from Navy Yard

Work on removing bulkheads for the Constellation progresses at the Navy Yard. Carpenters and riggers labor day and night to ready the ship for the first shipment of food to starving Ireland. Donations of flour potatoes rice pork salt beef vegetables can be sent to the Navy Yard for loading. Mayor Cooper bars Salvation Army street preaching for non ordained minister. Legislature kills five cent fare bill for New York Elevated Railways.

New York Ireland United States Constellation Navy Yard Navy Department Cooper Salvation Army

Montreal Proclamation Threat Targets Irish and English

Police investigate letters demanding publication of a S P C proclamation that calls for driving Irish and English from the province and Manitoba with death as punishment for noninsertion. Also noted are Vermont excursionists heading to the Western States and bank creditors awaiting roughly 50 cents on the dollar from Mechanics Bank assets.

Montreal Manitoba Vermont Mechanics’ Bank

Fire loss hits several firms in New York and Ontario

New York on March 16 reports a Liberty street fire causing about 30000 dollars in damage to Stockwell Self-lighting Gas Burner Co L W Lawrence New York Underwriter Globe Stationery Manufactory and Juvenile Publication Co. Stratford Ontario also records a midnight blaze destroying dry goods stores Williamson Welsh Jeweler Nail & Co and Miss Burn with an estimated loss of 30000 dollars.

New York Liberty Street Stockwell L. W. Lawrence Globe Stationery Manufactory Juvenile Publication Company Stratford Ont J. Williamson & Co J. Welsh, Jeweler A. M. Nail & Co Miss Burn

Edmunds Proposes Bill to Regulate Elector Counting

In the Senate on March 16 Senator Edmunds sought leave to introduce a bill standardizing the electors meeting time and the process to count votes. The plan sets the electors’ meeting for the second Monday in January after the election and outlines joint session procedures, objections, and contingencies for multiple returns.

Senator Edmunds Washington Senate Edmunds United States Mr. Edmunds Congress

Gladstone Targets Midlothian Win Amid Liberal Tour

Gladstone announced in London he would win a Midlothian seat and push out other MPs as part of a Liberal election push. In Lambeth a Radical Association meeting to back Henry Labouciere ended in a free fight with lights out and furniture smashed.

Gladstone London Midlothian Scotland Radical Association of Lambeth Henry Labouciere The Truth

Global dispatches on Kharkoff, Berlin, and Greek affairs

Vienna sources praise Melikoff’s prompt business handling and social protection efforts in St Petersburg. Kharkoff’s municipal council rejects rural cooperative measures, citing limited public opinion and education flaws. Paris and Berlin reports discuss Turkish Greek boundary options, papal Vatican talks, Arctic royal betrothal hints, Greek brigand hostage negotiations, Orlofi recall, French Ferry Education bill, U S postal money order pact, and Madrid Court of Cassation rejecting Otero Gonzales appeal.

Toupon Vienna Melikoff St. Petersburg Golos Kharkoff Paris Prince Orlofi Hartmann Senate United States Court of Cassation At Madrid Francisco Otero Gonzales Alfonso

Piano Makers Lockout Sparks National Labor Tension

New York reports show 10 000 workers locked out as piano manufacturers suspend operations across multiple firms including Steinway rivals. The unions vow solidarity with mass meetings and relief payments while German Socialists collect funds for locked out members. Separate strikes flare in Lawrence Massachusetts with wage demands and rescinded increases. Lowell bricklayers brace for a New England league.

Ex-Governor Garcelon Testifies On December Extra Police Bills

Ex Governor Garcelon explains payments for extra police in December and January after leaving office. He claims no law authorized warrants but acted on common sense and council advice. He notes $538 in bills paid post term and asserts no knowledge of forgeries or conspiracies.

Maine Garcelon Maine Investigation Committee Fogg Council Foster Alonzo Garecelon Augusta

Women police proposed to aid New York shelters

A New York reader argues for policewomen in large cities, noting about 30 station houses sheltering 1,000 nightly residents, a third being women. She says women need female attendants to tend, restrain, and comfort ill or intoxicated inmates, aiding humanity and decency.

New York

Dangerous $20 Treasury note found in Chicago

Treasury officials report a counterfeit $20 United States note, series 1875 letter C, printed on imitation fibre paper. The shading under United States is darker than genuine, though overall appearance is convincing.

Washington Treasury Department United States Treasury Chicago United States

Montery Ky Kill and Other Crime and Fire News

In Monterey Kentucky William Wise killed M J Pearson in a Monday night quarrel and escaped. A Clarksville Arkansas merchant John F Hill’s safe was broken and $4000 stolen on Sunday night. Russian born painter Henry O Neale AR A died, born 1817 in St Petersburg. Frank Griswold's house at South Nyack New York burned. his daughter Ruth 3 pest old died in the blaze from kerosene lamp fire. Grant and Sheridan visited Pachuca mines in Mexico and went to Pucla. Grant’s return route through Galveston San Antonio Leadville. Col Foster sails on same packet. At Turtle Creek Pennsylvania Thomas Coughlin and Joseph Huff 14 quarreled. Huff bit Coughlin on leg, Coughlin struck Huff with a coupling pin, fracturing skull. Huff likely to die, Coughlin arrested. The New York Pennsylvania Ohio Railway Company incorporated in Cleveland. Henry B Payne Jephtha H Wade Rufus P Ranney John H Devereux Jarvis M Adams corporators. Pennsylvania auxiliary to be incorporated in Philadelphia.

Monterey Wm. Wise M. J. Pearson Wise John F. Hill Clarksville Ark Henry O’neal St. Petersburg Russia Frank Griswold South Nyack New York Ruth Grant Sheridan Pachuca Mexico Pucla Galveston San Antonio Leadville Col. Foster Turtle Creek Thomas Coughlin Joseph Huff Huff Coughlin New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway Company Atlantic and Great Western Clevyeland Henry B. Payne Jephtha H. Wade Rufus P. Ranney John H. Devereux Jarvis M. Adams Pennsylvania Philadelphia

Navy officers moved to Const el lation and related duties

Lieut. William I. Low and Lieut. Newton F. Mason detach to the Constellation. Lieut. Albron V. Wadhams and Lieut. John K. J. Kelly shift between duties on the experimental battery and the Nipsic. Paymaster Luther G. Bulings and Assistant Surgeon Charlies W. Gravatt reassigned to the Constellation. Engineers and sailors also detaching to the Constellation from various ships and yards. The Constellation awaits cargo for Ireland from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with masts and rigging removed and bulkheads installed to convert for use as a relief ship.

William I.’. Low Colorado Constellation Newton F. Mason St. Louis Albron V. Wadhams Nipsic John K. J. Kelly Luther G. Bulings New York Posse Charlies W.gravatt Naval Hospital Norfolk A. G. Dixon Edward Bonsall Navy League Island William R. Brown A.C. Keston Nicholson

Mining stock prices and dividend noted in San Francisco market

Closing prices listed for numerous mining stocks led by AIDDE and Belcher with Belcher at 83 percent. The Union Consolidated Mining Company declared a dividend of 30 cents a share amid a mixed session with many names including Mammoth, EOG, Crown Point, Sierra Nevada, and Independence appearing in the report.

San Francisco AIDDE Julia Consolidated Noodgay Boston Consolidated ODOIT Overman California Polosi Raymond & Ely Savare Crown Point Sierra Nevada Consolidated Pacific South Bulwer the Caledonia Sen Oh Eureka Consolidated Syndicate Ccc Eee Lig Goula & Curryv FID Union Consolidated Hare & Norcross Wales Cces Union Consolidated Mining Company

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