War mood grips Charlestown Navy Yard and harbor defenses
A surge of enlistments and rush to readiness sweeps Boston area naval sites from the Charlestown Navy Yard to Fort Independence and Watertown Arsenal. Monitors Catskill and Lehigh are to be moved. drills for 10 inch guns show sharp proficiency. extensive gun and mine installations progress at Grover's Cliff and Fort Warren as war sentiment grows.
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Winthrop
Watertown Arsenal
Roosevelt
Massachusetts Naval Brigade
Catskill
Lehigh
League Island Navy Yard
Mitchell
Long Island Head
Fort Independence
Boston
Grover’s Cliff
Charlestown Navy Yard
Lancaster
Machias
Nxious
Niles
Simpson
Battery G
Fort Warren
Roosevelt secretary urges rush to man ships for possible war
Secretary Roosevelt informs Union firemen they will be called to support naval needs if war with Spain occurs. A Massachusetts naval reserve detachment may crew monitors Lehigh and Catskill heading from Teague Island to Boston Harbor. Captain Weeks notes readiness, with Lt Peck and Lt Hall to command the monitors during the Philadelphia to Boston voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Roosevelt
Massachusetts Naval Reserve
Lehigh and
Catskill
Teague Island Navy Yard
Boston Harbor
Eks
Naval Brigade
Naval Briade
Theinnesota
Uncle Sam
Philadelphia
Weeks
Peck
Hall
Boston
Massachusetts Naval Brigade
Dervishes Routed as Forts Shellacked by Gunboats
Anglo-Egyptian forces and gunboats attacked Shendy on the Nile. Forts were shelled and the town attacked in a flank movement. Dervish garrison suffered heavy losses while grain cattle and ammunition were seized and over 600 slaves freed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Shendy
Nile
Atbara
Monitors Lehigh and Catskill Ordered to Harbor
Captain Weeks of the Massachusetts Naval Brigade assigns crews for the monitors Lehigh and Catskill to sail from Philadelphia to this harbor. Lists executive officers navigators watch officers surgeons machinists water-tenders oilers and other crew for both ships with names of each assigned.
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Weeks
Massachusetts Naval Brigade
Lehigh
Catskill
Philadelphia
Dexter
Dillaway
Buffington
Fuller
Sughrue
Solomon
Allen
Blackden
Cochrane
Nye
Green
Pitcher
Hogan
Greer
Lynch
Sears
Navigator
Porter
Jones
Selfridge
Parker
Pierce
O’neil
Pierson
Armstrong
Wilson
Larkin
Nolan
Oilers
Hodges
Flint
Cardinal
Lowell free course closes at Memorial Hall
Wells Memorial Institute closes its evening classes and free lectures in Memorial Hall with ex United States District Attorney Sherman Hoar as guest. About 500 attendees heard resumés of steam engines psychology electricity and industrial history by noted instructors and students. Total winter registrations reached 1511.
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Lowell
Wells Memorial Institute
Memorial Hall
United States
Sherman Hoar
Institute
Robert Treat Paine
Francis Bara
Thomas Owley
State Inspector of Engines and Engineers
Wellesley
Anna G. Richardson
Kate D. Wood
Eva M. Martin
Egyptian forces crush Dervishes at Shendy in bold pursuit
The Egyptian and Anglo troops routed the Dervishes for twenty miles after Shendy fell. Dervishes retreating from Shendy are cut from their base and their reserve depot destroyed. At El Hilgi on the Atbara they suffer from hunger and subsist on palm nuts. News of a crushing Dervish defeat is anticipated hourly.
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Shendy
el Hilgi
Atbaraver
Explosion at Sycamore powder mills injures workers
An explosion at the Sycamore powder mills twenty five miles from Nashville at 2 0 a m injures several workers. One employee dies and three more are seriously hurt as four buildings are destroyed. Three thousand kegs of powder exploded and the cause is not known. The shock was felt in Nashville.
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Nashville
Tenn
Sycamore
American Bell Telephone Company Holds Annual Meeting
The annual meeting at Tremont Temple elected Charles Eustis Hubbard as clerk and William R. Driver as treasurer. Directors include Charles W. Amory Thomas B. Bailey Francis Blake George L. Bradley Alexander Cochrane T. Jefferson Coolidge Jr. J Malcolm Forbes Henry S. Howe John E. Hudson Charles E. Perkins Thomas Sanders Moses Williams. Surplus on hand Jan 1 1898 was 2 690 521.27 after 1897 dividends of 2 939 904.50 and 743 044.50. Net earnings for 1897 totaled 4 169 - with large construction and exchange investments reported. The report notes growth in exchange connections and adoption of measured service.
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American Bell Telephone Company
Tremont Temple
Charles Eustis Hubbard
William R. Driver
Charles W. Amory
Thomas B. Bailey
Francis Blake
George L. Bradley
Alexander Cochrane
T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr
J. Malcolm Forbes
Henry S. Howe
John E. Hudson
Charles E. Perkins
Thomas Sanders
Moses Williams
Rupert Romance Ends In Boston Conservatory Wedding
Edward Rupert a New England Conservatory violin and piano pupil from Pekin Illinois married Maud Cochran a Halifax Nova Scotia native and former clerk at Leighton’s creamery near Worcester Street. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Dr Blackburn at 1383 River Street with Rupert continuing his studies in Boston.
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Edward Rupert
Nowy
New England Conservatory of Music
Conservatory
Rupert
Maud Cochran
Nova Scotia
H. M. Leighton
Worcester Street
Washington
Illinois
Pekin
Boston
Leignton’s
Miss Cochran
West Newton Street
Post
Blackburn
Central Square Baptist Church of
Cambridge
River Street
Hale House Benefit Draws Fashionable Audience
The Hale House event at Hollis drew a large stylish crowd yesterday afternoon. Patrons enjoyed Dunducketty's Picnic and selections from The Queen of the Ballet and Bachelor's All, with the Bohemian Orchestra Club led by R. L. Scaife providing music. A substantial sum was raised. Hale House on Garland Street will be open for public inspection on Monday from 4 to 6 PM and 7:30 to 9:30 PM.
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Indle
Navy Department
Sturdy
Washington
Charlesown
Wabash
T. F. Tierney
Firemen’s Protective Union
Roosevelt
Washington Street
Boston
Navy
Sir
United States
Massachusetts
We Ney
Hollis
Dunducketty
Queen of the Ballet
Orchestr Club
R. L. Scaife
Hale House
Garland Street
Headlong Dive From Mt Washington Bridge Ends In Rescue
Lizzie Splaine an 18 year old resident of 46 Gold Street South Boston leaped from the Mt Washington bridge into the South Channel forty feet below. Bystanders watched as rescuers pulled her from the swift water and she was taken to City Hospital after initial treatment by Dr. Young. She later regained consciousness and rested comfortably.
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South Boston
Mt. Washington Bridge
South Channel
Lizzie Splaine
Gold Street
Boston
Thomas F. Clooney
Theoung
Miss Splaine
Dr. Young
Gargan speaks on Catholic summer school at Boston College
The Hon. Thomas J. Gargan addressed the John Boyle O'Reilly Reading Circle and friends of the Catholic summer school at Boston College hall last evening. Over 400 people attended as he described the school’s aims and lectures and urged continued interest and attendance next summer, showing views tied to President McKinley’s visit to the school last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Gargan
Boston College Hall
John Boyle O’reilly
Mr. Gargan
Gargan
President McKinley
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Chas. Lawrence & CO
Commercial St
Navy Yard
Woodruff
Bush
Esterday
Reilly
War Department
Washington St
Snow
Westminster Streets
Providence
Spain
Havana
Charlestown
Dr. Neilson
Dr. Richards
Professor Bennet
Sousa
King Cotton
Texas
T. Roosevelt
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Office of the Navy Deparement
Meee
Tiern ; Eee Tay Firemen’s Protective Union Mts
Allright
Brock‘on, Mass
C. F. Porter & CO
Toe Savey Hotel
Boston, Mass
Sportsmen’s
R. R
New England
Hawmui
Wells Memorial Hall
A Isaacson & CO
Wheelmen & Golfers
Victor
Shapleich Coffee Co
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Exchange 6
Petite Maud Cochran
Ce TO
Navin
Kelly
Washington &T
Grady
Prin
Tremont St
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