Shortage Found at Boston Custom House Storehouses
A Treasury Department inquiry reports widespread discrepancies in Boston warehouses with $18,000 missing at the Portland Street glass storehouse. The investigation, led by Chiefs Smith Wood and Hanlon, reveals tight controls yet suggests storekeepers may have let importers access and remove goods, despite bonds and strict permit rules.
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United States
Treasury Department
Boston Custom House
Portland Street
Special Commission
Boston
Smith
New England
Wood
Detroit
Hanlon
Philadelphia
Buckingham
O’niel
Bunn
Joseph O. Miller
Custom House
Commission
Warren
Customs Service
Cleveland
Treasury
Nessmore Brings Crew From Fireflooded Cleopatra
The British steamer Nessmore, sailing from Boston, arrived in London today with the rescued crew of the German steamer Cleopatra of Bremen. The Cleopatra, bound for New York, was abandoned April 22 after a fire reached dynamite in the hold and exploded. The crew escaped in a dingy as all lifeboats burned.
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London
Nessmore
Boston
Bremen
New York
Police link Lenox case to famed Gentleman Burglar
In Pittsfield on May 2 the police announced a major development in Michael Sherlock's Lenox robbery case. Detectives recovered two watches from Pinkerton files in New York tied to Stockbridge burglaries, including a diamond studded watch from Mrs. Dudley Field stolen in 1893. Authorities say the findings may confirm Sherlock as the famed thief, with New York officers pursuing further Stockbridge plunder as the Lenox case unfolds.
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Pittsfield
Michael Sherlock
Lenox
Stockbridge
Sherlock
Dougherty
Pinkerton
New York
Charles F. Southmayd
Dudley Field
David Dudley Field
Berkshire
Forest Fire Ignores Town North of Attleboro
A large forest fire started two miles north of Attleboro this afternoon and spread over 100 acres of land owned by Charles Parmenter. It crossed the New York New Haven and Hartford line and damaged over 100 cords of wood. Local landowners and 150 firefighters from Readville Dodgeville East Junction and Mansfield fought the flames until a heavy rain helped extinguish them. The standing timber damage runs into hundreds of dollars.
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Attleboro
Here
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Charles Parmenter
Readville
Dodgeville
East Junction
Mansfield
Unknown man found in harbor near Mt Washington Ave bridge
Harbor police recovered a decomposed body of a 60 year old man floating near the Mt Washington avenue bridge. He stood about 6 feet 8 inches tall and weighed around 160 pounds, dressed in a black cutaway coat, vest, mixed trousers, outing shirt, necktie, drawers, stockings, and congress boots. The body was taken to City Hospital morgue for identification and burial is planned tonight if unclaimed.
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Mt. Washington Avenue Bridge
Congress
City Hospital
Suit Over Alleged Alienation of Wife’s Affection
John B. Butterfield of Boston sues James A. Thompson of East Sumner in Paris Me for alleged alienation of his wife’s affections. Butterfield, a former Boston health official, alleges Thompson stayed nine years at the North Paris farm and influenced Mrs Butterfield to mortgage all of Butterfield’s property. Mrs Butterfield says the marriage strain came from abuse of her children, not Thompson.
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Paris
John B. Butterfield
Boston
James A. Thompson
East Sumner
Carrie E. Emery
John Butterfield
North Paris
Butterfield
Thompson
Search for Mrs Wotton Continues as Detective Aids
State Detective Ben son Mungan aided in a ten day missing person search for Mrs TM E Wotton. No clue found yet and officials expect possible river body rise today or tomorrow.
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Orange
Benson Mungan
E. Wotton
Coxey and Co on Bail in New Haven May Day Journey
A Wolverine style Coxey led march of Commonwealers from Guilford toward Washington is stalled by scenes of mockery and desertion in Branford and New London. Leaders like Fitzgerald Gannon and Dennis McDonnell face dwindling support as the parade endures heat and drinking at salt towns along the coast.
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Minneapolis
Great Northern
Montana
Debs
Howard
New Haven
Aurora Hall
Eli
Connecticut
Fitzy
Coxey
Haco
Guilford
Wrathy
Swift
Gannon
Catnip Joe
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Washington
Stony Creek
Marx
Branford
Dennis McDonnell
Equity Union
Fitzgerald
McDonnell
New London
New York
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Internal Revenue
G. W. Simmons
Robinson
New Engand
Ella FP
Byrne
Warren Ave
Brawning, King & Co
Washington St
Kneeland
C. Jolly & Son
East Twelfth Street
Leopold Donau
J. B. Bonnerrau
Leon Bouboir
Plgice GO
NYS
Dock Sq
Jordan, Marsh
C. H. Robinson & CO
Cleopatra
Doned
Hinsdale
Maud Raymond
Charles Dwyer
Amos Raymond
Dwyer
Hinsdale Bros.’ Mills
Allen Pye
New York State
Pye
Haverhill
John W. Tate
New Mall
WM. Read & Sons
Washington Street
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Washington and
Tremont Streets
F. E. Lovejoy
Essex Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Salem
Nes
Mitoses Mercantile
Spectal Azarda
Frank A. Colley
Exchange Place
J. Tt. Phelys
Biate Agt
Dev
Oston
Sparrell
Franklin ST
Atwood’s
North St
Tremont St
Whitman
Liverus Hull
Westfield
Charlestown
Hiram Hull
Boston University
Erro
J. H. Cutter
Surveyor’s Office
Surveyor’s, Marine and Naval Office
Post
Great Northern All Right
ST. Mary’s
Conn
Fayal
Azores
Lisbon
Gibraltar
Funchal
Madeira
Kentyn
Harv. Med. Sch
N. Kenison & Sons
Orton S
Plymouth Rock
Eliot St
Morrison
McKenzie
Coxey & CO
Britain
Boards
Paine’s Furniture
Canal ST
Fea Sass
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