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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
8
Amid broad market unease from spreading labor strikes and potential large gold shipments, stocks weakened after an early strength. Sugar led gains while Steel and Iron, Tennessee Coal and Iron fell. Bell Telephone slid to new lows as traders pared positions.
Saronhy requests 200 shares of Van Choange preferred stock at the lowest price quoted. Offer details include a price floor and terms with potential assignment to an interested party.
Washington reports Rev Ida C Hutlin an Unitarian minister divides the Church of All Souls over her bid for pastorate. Trustees split on hiring with sect support questioned. Hutlin prefers not to trigger a split and may not return to the pulpit during her visit. Congregational vote on the plan expected next week.
Mrs Kate Cobb requests clemency from the Connecticut Board of Pardons for life imprisonment in the 1878 murder of her husband by arsenic tainted tea. The sensational case also involved Wesley W Bishop, who killed his wife for the same man’s affection, with both deaths occurring within hours of each other.
The Senate passes debate on the legacy tax and corrupt practices bills while the tax schedule details a tiered transfer levy. Boston lawmakers push through sections defining rates from one to ten percent across value thresholds, with the House advancing the legacy tax proposal offered by Mr Dean of Wakefield.
The House adopted a taxation ordinance by 109 to 48 with 18 pairs amid sharp exchanges between Worcester and Boston members. The session featured heated remarks on inheritance taxes, prison labor laws, and a referendum proposal while senators advanced a gas price limit bill and street railway freight provisions.
Boston reports highest and lowest prices, with May wheat at 65 percent and July at 67 percent as futures in New York gain on English cables. Crop news stable to bearish despite frost, with private stocks down 984000 bushels weekly. provisions plunge on stampede selling while packers liquidate.
Washington report says hundreds of young women and girls in schools smoke cigarettes with at least thirty in the city addicted. Willis J. Brown of the Anti Cigarette League cites laws barring sales to minors and notes men often buy cigarettes for youths. He adds an embalming green claim to argue against smoking.
The painter Albion H. Bicknell opened a two week spring show at his Malden studio on Parker Street featuring thirty two paintings. The collection includes cattle landscape and Venetian subjects with several works already sold. Open to the public May 3 5 8 10 and 12 from 2 to 6 pm.
Patrolman Frank J Gallagher of Division 4 was dismissed from the police force in an order issued last evening by the Board of Police. He was charged with intoxication.
A mischief-maker whitewashed the old clock on the Unitarian church in Harvard Square. Investigators found the act from inside the building with an open parish house window and a hidden passage to the belfry. The intruder climbed to the clock dial to apply the white coating through a small aperture.
Washington May 2 The War Department announced that the revised series shall go into operation in June.
Ground was broken Friday for a new library at Con way New Hampshire dedicated to the memory of Dr. Thomas L. Jenks. George EB Tufts, son of contractor George M. Tufts of Boston, removed the first sod. The edifice will cost about 0000 with furniture tower clock and bell. Construction proceeds rapidly and dedication is planned for early autumn. A site donation by citizens plus additional land for a park will adjoin and extend the library grounds.
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James R. Carter and Jerome Jones spoke for leasing the Fitchburg railroad to the Boston and Maine line. Fred H. Williams contended against the lease. Nine Fitchburg directors, bound by stockholder mandate, refuse to appear before the committee on railroads yesterday.
The Cove street bridge over Fort Point Channel goes to a War Department board of engineers in a 11 AM meeting in Room 917 Winthrop Building. Congressman Henry F. Naphen of South Boston advocates the project and says the review may take three to four days.
The three masted schooner Navarino owned by John E. Emery & Co. arrived after sixteen days from Ponce Puerto Rico. It was towed by the Nellie to Boston wharf for unloading. Sebago arrived the same night aiding about a thousand dollars in molasses duties. The report notes a close share for Navarino and references the Dingley tariff impact.
Supreme Court upholds lower court on $30000 plus costs for John C. Haynes owners. Thames Towboat Co. of New London correct misidentification. Boston Towboat Co. had no stake. Fourteen fishing boats dock with 250000 pounds of fresh fish as haddock sells at 2 to 2.50 per pound. Eureka tug to Nantasket Roads strikes buoy No. 9 and returns for repairs. Leyland Steam Ship Co. may not amalgamate with Atlantic Transport Co. A three masted schooner expected at Central wharf with onions from Bermuda. Eva survey progresses. repairs bid by New York firms may lead to transfer of work. Local port calls for larger repair capability noted. Norge arrives at Louisburg with 4000 tons coal and completes round trip in five days twenty one hours. Gossip of Gloucester sold to R. Brooks. Grand Bankers cargo and stores anchored nearby. Captain Lermond orders 3000 ton four-masted schooner. Captain Publicover fined $5000 in Baltimore for missing supplementary bill after contact with Montevideo. Publicover commands British schooner Fred H Gibson, delayed at Baltimore from Paysandu. Port authorities continue strict fines for negligence.
Arrivals list multiple steamers and schooners at various ports with cargoes, passengers, and ballast. Vessels include Nantucket George W Clyde City of Bangor Muriel Navarino Childe Harold Adler H M Whitney and many tied to Norfolk, Baltimore, Portland, and Boston routes. Towage and sailings detail tug connections and barges bound for Lynn Portsmouth Nantucket Shoals and New Jersey ports.
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