Maine Senate Passes Amended Druggists License Bill
The Maine legislature moved to engross a bill restricting druggists licenses. towns without license may issue licenses to non druggists. A salary bill gained House support. Senate approved Boston & Maine Railroad purchase of Eastern Road with stock conversion limit and railroad-commission assent. Poll tax payments by political committees deemed inexpedient to prohibit.
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House
Senate
Boston & Maine Railroad Company
Committee On Election Laws
Legislature Acts and Committee Reports Summary
The Mercantile Affairs Committee reports leave to withdraw a petition for incorporation to buy sell lease and improve land. The Judiciary Committee favors expediting legislation to curb deception by pedl ers and hawkers and to penalize fire engineering rule violations with an amendment. Election Laws reports inexpedient to ban poll tax payments by political parties. Poison sale bill amended under suspension to limit antidote naming and exclude wholesale dealers and chemists. Senate revises Boston Maine railroad franchise acquisition and stock structure. Calendar items: various engrossed bills and authorizations including real estate for genealogical society, clams planting near Winthrop and Essex shores, proxy voting, tax assessments, and church name changes. House bill to alter Manufacturers Loan and Trust Company name laid on the table. Railroads committee report inexpedient to legislate..
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Committee On Mercantile Affairs
F. R. Barnes
Committee On the Judiciary
Boards of Fire Engineers
Committee On Election Laws
Senate
Boston & Maine Railroad
Eastern Railroad Company
Eastern Railroad
New Hampshire
Portsmouth, Great Fails
New England Historic Genealogical Society
Winthrop
Essex
East Stoughton
Manufacturers’ Loan and Trust Company
Committee On Railroads
Law Changes and Debates in State House Floor
The report on protecting grade crossings by electric signals favored amending existing law rather than creating a new one. Other measures were up for debate including clerk salaries, safe deposit firms, liquor licensing, and police tenure, with several bills indefinitely postponed or amended and sent to third reading.
Private School Question Hearings Highlight Education Debate
At the adjourned hearing Rev. C. A. Bartel addressed the committee replying to Colonel Higginson who argued the bill would be impossible to enforce and would choke those educational experiments.
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C. A. Bartel
T. W. Higginson
Parochial schools debate state control and religious instruction
Catholics defend parochial schools arguing literacy and parental rights must guide education. They support state inspection to prevent illiteracy but oppose strict state control or mandatory enrollment and say religion belongs in home and church as well.
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Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Higginson
India
New England
Charles Careton Coffin
MeckEttrick
Coffin
George P. Richardson
Boston
Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition
MecEttrick
Maginnis
Jamaica Plain
West Roxbury
Charles F. Donnelly
Brice
Evans
Railroad Retaliation Cuts Local Michigan Passenger Rates
Chicago and Grand Trunk will cut local passenger fares to Michigan stations Niles Kalamazoo Lansing and Battle Creek by 150 to 2. Michigan Central responds with rate reductions to Toronto Montreal and other Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific points. Through Chicago to Buffalo falls 50 cents with Detroit fare set at 50.
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Chicago
Chicago & Grand Trunk
Michigan Central
Montreal
Canadian
Michigan
Niles
Kalamazoo
Lansing
Battle Creek
Toronto
Grand Trank
Canadian Pacific
Detroit
Yale Defeats University In Season Opener at Philadelphia
Yale downed the University 4 to 2 on the University Athletic grounds in the season opener. The Univ was hampered by the absence of star pitcher J Hovey due to an arm abscess.
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Philadelphia
Penn
University Athletic Grounds
Yale
J. Hovey
University
Good Friday Services Held Across City Churches
Catholic churches including the Cathedral and Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help drew large congregations for Passion sermons on Good Friday. Other services occurred at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Boston Highlands First Church Unitarian and Trinity Church with 11 o'clock start and notable attendance.
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Church of the Immaculate Conception
Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Boston Highlands
First Church
Unitarian
Berkeley and
Marlboro Streets
Stopford Wentworth Brooke
Trinity Church
Phillips Brooks
Marble Workers Extend Strike as Funds Run Low
At a locked out marble workers meeting State Master Workman Crowley announced the state board voted the strike off due to funds. The group then voted to continue the fight for nine hours. Building Trades Council heard on marble workers benefit entertainment funds raised for cutters still on strike. Delegates from Somerville carpenters and Boston roofers attended.
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Crowley
Knights of Labor
Building Trades’ Council
Preble Hall
Marbie Cutters
Carpenters of
Somerville
Roofers
Boston
John Hi Pray Sons & Co Show New Carpet Styles
All the new spring carpet and upholstery styles are being shown by John Hi Pray, Sons & Co. at 668 and 560 Washington Street, inviting the public to view the latest home fabrics.
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John Hi. Pray
Pensions for Widows and Spain Exhibition Appropriation
The House passed a pension bill granting Mrs Logan 2000 dollars yearly by a large majority, with Republicans fully supporting and nearly forty Democrats voting yes. Massachusetts Democrat Russell voted no. The chamber approved a 25000 dollar appropriation to secure a proper U S representation at the Barcelona exhibition, aiming for Senate passage. If blocked it would worsen relations with Spain after its Centennial expenditure of 600000 dollars.
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Sorctan
Logan
House
Massachusetts
Russell
United States
Allen
Mississippi
Matson
Indiana
Senate
Spain
Washington
McCreary
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Empire
Brazil
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Barcelona
Davis
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New York
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Canby
Mead
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Stannard
Dockerey
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Union
Gockran
Yeas
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Biggs
Bliss
T. J. Campbell
Chipman
Cochran
Crain
Pension Bills for Logan and Blair Pass House Vote
In the House, the Logan pension bill at 2000 a year and the Blair bill increasing pensions to 2000 a year for General Blair were debated. Democrats defended the measures as fair and necessary for ex-soldiers, while opponents warned of class favoritism and constitutional concerns. Both bills advanced on party-line votes with substantial crossovers.
Lawmakers vote party line against motion in session
A list of names follows attribution of a negative vote to Messrs. Cheadle Flood and Wade and to Republicans. The record names Mansur McAdoo Randall Raynor Ashend Vance Lawler McDonald Mahoney McShane Merriman Outhwaite Iice Lowden Springer Tow Weaver Wilkinson Yoder and cites a party opposition from Republicans in the roll call.
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McAdoo
Randall
Raynor
Ashend
Vance
Lawler
McDonald
Mahoney
McShane
Merriman
Outhwaite
Iice
Lowden
Springer
Tow Weaver
Wilkinson
Yoder
Messrs
Cheadle
Flood
Wade
Providence Republicans nominate city ticket in March convention
The Providence Republicans named a new city ticket led by Charles Sidney Smith for Senator with B W Persons A C Barstow Jr Charles I Nichols Stillman White E C Pierce W H Barney James M Scott H Perkins John M Buffington Albert O Coates plus L B Mason John A Jenkins. The slate excludes the May deal element and faces a wary Democratic challenge. The May deal element was sidelined by wire pulling of Senator Aldrich.
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Charles Sidney Smith
B. W. Persons
A. C. Barstow, Jr
Charles I. Nichols
Stillman White
E. C. Pierce
W. H. Barney
James M. Scott
H. Perkins
John M. Buffington
Albert O. Coates
L B. Mason
John A. Jenkins
Post
Wis
Aldrich
Fire Rips Through Chicago Five Story Block
A fire at the corner of Peoria and Lake streets in Chicago destroyed a five story building and spread to nearby residences. One man is believed dead and several firemen were seriously injured. Losses and damage are estimated at about 300000 with multiple local companies listed as principal losers. An explosion on the fourth floor hampered efforts and caused injuries.
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Chicago
Peoria and
Lake Streets
Marshal Murphy
Davis & Rankin
Zimmerman Refrigerator Company
Linn, Weaver & Co
Goss Printing Press Company
Montreal
N. H. Rheaume & Bros
Drury
Giraux
Fire alarms report two incidents in city buildings
A basement fire alarm at the Electric Light Company basement 205 Congress street caused no damage. A second alarm at 2 30 pm from Box 36 was for a fire in the broker M Crosby office at 5 Congress square with damages listed at 100 dollars.
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Electric Light Company
Congress Street
M. Crosby
Congress Square
Memory lecture in Potsdam on the art of never forgetting
Professor A Loisette of New York lectured in Potsdam on memory defining it as the revival of impressions left on the mind by prior events. He classified memory types, praised Macaulay’s perfect memory, and criticized repetition and mnemonics while presenting his system of intellectual assimilation.
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Tremont Temple
A. Loisette
New York
E. H. Cooke
Normal School
Potsdam
N. Y
Loisette
Hogarth
Parr
Cobbett
Thurlow Weed
Isaac Newton
Cosmopolitan
Paul Je Schlicht
Europe
England
Berlin
America
Nuffy
Schlieht
Hotels Guests Listed From Commercial Towboat Session
The Commercial Towboat Company held a business session at Young's last evening. Notable hotel guests include Tremont’s Professor A. Loisette, William E. Newhall of Philadelphia, W. B. Laughlin of Pittsburgh, Adams guests H. W. Slocum Jr of Brooklyn J A Graft and J W Wardrop of New York G de N Hough of New Bedford, and Revere’s Francis L. Darley F M Prouty of Spencer. Young's hosts include William B. Durgin of Concord J L Brewster Jr of Wilmington John Hoyt of Manchester and F E Tufts of Lexington.
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Young
Tremont
A. Loisette
William E. Newhall
Philadelphia
W. 8. Laughlin
Pittsburg
Adams
H. W. Slocum, Jr
Brooklyn
J. A. Graft
J. W. Wardrop
New York
G. de N. Hough
New Bedford
Revere
Francis L. Darley
F. M. Prouty
Spencer
Young’s
William B. Durgin
Concord
J. L. Brewster, Jr
Wilmington
John Hoyt
Manchester
F. E. Tufts
Lexington
Freight Rates Too High Spurs regional manufacturer meeting
A group of manufacturers from Southington Unionville Planesville New Hartford Cheshire and other towns along the Northampton division of the New York and New Haven railroad gathered in New Haven to protest high freight rates. They voiced general dissatisfaction and warned that ongoing profiteering may force unprofitable business and push for relief measures.
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New Haven
Conn
Southington
Unionville
Planesville
New Hartford
Cheshire
Northampton
New York & New Haven Railroad
Army updates and transit rule reinstatement in March notices
Captain James M. Bell receives one month leave from the Seventh Cavalry while First Lieutenant John H. H. Peskine relinquishes disability leave and must rejoin his company. The President disapproves the San Francisco retiring board findings. West End Street Railway reinstates a strict no smoking on platforms rule for conductors.
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Washington
James M. Bell
Seventh Cavalry
John H. H. Peskine
Thirteenth Infantry
Army Retiring Board
San Francisco
West End Street Railway Company
Hearing in Mount Hope Cemetery Charges Resume
The aldermen's special committee reopened the Goward case with Hugh T. Kelly as star witness. Trustees and witnesses described addition costs, book-keeping flaws, and a cash shortage amid accusations of misused funds and employee pay disputes, with trial adjourned to Friday at 2 p.m.
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Board of Aldermen
Mount Hope Cemetery
Goward
Hugh T. Kelly
Meehan
N. Apollonio
Anthony
Apollonio
Galvin
W. H. Davis
Hall
David F. Sloan
French
Easter Music and Services Across City Churches
The Second Church in Copley Square holds 3 PM vesper services with infants christening, carols, readings, prayers, and sermons by Rev. E A Horton and Rev W S Rey of Old Boston, with Hon. George Hale assisting. Many churches list Easter morning and evening programs, organ recitals, anthems, solos, choirs, and benedictions.
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Copley Square
E. A. Horton
Rey
Old Boston
Eng
George
Hale
Church OF the Unity
Avia
Mendelssohn
Adams
Moses
Ormiol
Holden
Our Lord
Schnecker
W. F. Thomas
Burmah
Lazarus
Meyerbeer
Ruggies Street Church
Herbert QO. Johnson
William T. Meek
George H. Remele
George H. Clark
Redeemer
Kreutzer
ProspEct Hunt Congregational
Union Square
Somerville
Old Hundred
Etta Dow Stevens
Tuckerman Chorus Choir
W. 8. Pike
George Mendall Taylor
First RevLicious Society
Ty Roxbury
Largo
Haindel
Barnby
Rubinstein
Buck Gauging
Frank O. Nash
Emma C. Tuttie
M. A. Crossette
Clarence M. Collins
Frederick E. Kendall
Death of Rev Dr Eustis remembered pastor of Memorial Church
The Rev Dr William T Eustis aged 67 died yesterday. Born in Boston he led Chapel Street Church New Haven for 21 years before moving to Memorial Church Springfield in 1869. Survived by widow four daughters two sons and cousins of note. Funeral at Memorial Church Monday at 3 pm with Rev Dr Taylor likely officiating. Body to Boston for interment.
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Eustis
William T. Eustis
New England
Memorial Church
Springfield
Boston
Park Street Church
Yale
Andover Seminary
Chapel Street Congregational Church
New Haven
New Memorial Church
Andover
Louis Dwight
Boston, and Four Daugthers
Richard 8. Storrs
Brooklyn
Dr. Taylor
New York
Spring Suit Line Debuts at Spitz Bros and Mark
The New Spring suit displayed by Spitz Bros. and Mark features four button cutaway coats and Prince Albert styling. They offer worsted suits at prices of 15, 20, and 25 dollars. The large store at 508 Washington Street and 5 Bedford Street will stay open tonight until 10 o'clock.
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Messrs. Spitz Bros. & Mark
Washington Street
Bedford Street
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