Grand Tennis Tour Opens with Harvard Yale Princeton Matches
The year starts with Boston hosting the grand tennis tour open and the Harvard championships kicking off the series. Princeton Yale and Columbia also stage tournaments today as a month of events promises record breaks and a new distribution of honors. Also noting a local clothing ad offering men trousers at five and six dollars with a money back guarantee.
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Boston
Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Fatal Runover of Hartford Rubber Works Official
In Hartford on Capitol avenue bridge A Melgert Vanderpoel 27 assistant superintendent of the Hartford Rubber Works was killed when a horse car struck him after he rode on the wrong side of the bridge. The head on collision crushed his skull and brains. He was engaged to Miss Bessie Morgan and a Trinity College graduate. Coroner Tainter to investigate.
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Hartford
Conn
A. Melgert Vanderpoel
Hartford Rubber Works Company
Pope Manufacturing Company
Capitol Avenue
Parkville
Will” Patterson
A. E. Patterson
Bach
Patterson
Varnerpoel
Mr. Vanderpoel
Bessie Morgan
William M. Morgan
Morgan
New York
Aaron J. Vanderpoel
Trinity College
Tainter
Vanderpoel
My Clothier's Boston May 5 1894 Summer Suits Promise
The weather looks fair as My Clothier in Boston proposes a summer suit wave. Blue and black cheviot becomes the universal choice with single or double breasted styles. The store touts blue serge suits at 70 dollars and other wool options, urging customers to view the $8 to $10 stock and special broken sizes.
Local Prizes Awarded at Boston Battalion Event
Massachusetts Clothing Company at 90 Hanover Street presents prizes to battalion winners led by Mayor Carter. Roster includes Lt Col Arthur T. Legg Adjutant Forrest Collier and other officers. Private F D Bosnick of Company A receives junior prize. Dancing follows the presentations until midnight.
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F. D. Bosnick
Carter
Arthur T. Legg
Forrest E. Collier
John A. Loud
F. L. Butters
George M. Babcock
Prize drill honors awarded in Charlestown Cadets event
The first annual prize drill under the Charlestown Cadets hosted at the cadet armory on Main Street Charlestown saw three prizes awarded to enlisted militia members. Sergeant Percy Sawyer won first for Company D Ninth, Sergeant Frank B. Gray took second for Company A Sixth, and Sergeant R. W. Daley earned third for Company C Fifth, with music by the Cadet Band and Clipper Trio.
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Charlestown
William H. Oakes
F. T. L. Magurn
Horace Parsons
Percy Sawyer
Frank B. Gray
R. W. Daley
Clipper
Weather forecast for New England and nearby states
Forecast for Saturday lists Maine showers early then showers in the east and fair in the west with warmer air in the east. New Hampshire and Vermont expect fair conditions after early morning showers with variable winds. Massachusetts and Connecticut forecast fair weather with warmer conditions in the east and variable winds.
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Washington
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Connecticut
American Line Cuts Emigrant Rates to Britain
The American line reduced emigrant fares to all Great Britain rail stations to 18 dollars with a 4 dollar agent commission. The move targets the Continental pool and counters North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American. Cunard, Anchor, and White Star may follow. A 14 gross 10 net Philadelphia cut is also set.
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New York
Great Britain
Lloyd and
Hamburg-American Packet Company
Cunard, Anchor
White Star
Philadelphia
First National Bank of Sedalia Suspends Payment
The First National Bank of Sedalia Missouri, a long established lender with capital of 20000 dollars and reserve fund of 25000 dollars, has suspended payment after a false telegram stirred panic. Depositors are expected to be paid in full.
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Sedalia
First National Bank
Missouri
Yachting Outfits Offered by G W Simmons Co Boston
Yachting and boating outfits advertised for the Atlantic coast fleet. The firm offers blue suits man-of-war breeches white duck trousers working suits blue flannel pantaloons duck suits shoes sailor hats and embroidered badges. Send for yachting circular from G W Simmons & Co 32 to 44 North St Oak Hall Boston.
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Atlantic Coast
G. W. Simmons & CO
North St
Oak Hall
Boston
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Plans May 9 Reception
The executive committee met at 3 Park Street and voted to host a reception for Frederick Douglass on May 9. Mrs Clara K Hill and Miss A M Lougee were named to supervise the arrangements. The group reported equal rights literature sent to 6110 public school teachers and that Rev Dr Rainsford of New York would speak at the suffrage festival with active work under way for the suffrage fair.
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Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Park Street
Frederick Douglass
Clara K. Hill
A. M. Lougee
Dr. Rainsford
New York
Cantabrigia Club Hosts Tea for Miller and Allen
The Cantabrigia Club held a charming tea and informal reception at Prospect Street Congregational Church Cambridgeport honoring Mrs. Olive Thorne Miller and Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen. Large attendance, brief addresses, cordial reception, and a floral, music filled scene guided by Mrs. William Jewell as chair.
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Cantabrigia Club
Prospect Street Congregational Church
Cambridgeport
Olive Thorne Miller
Elizabeth Akers Allen
William Jewell
Police Roll Call Tightens Duty Rules at Cambridge
At Cambridge roll call an order reprimanded Patrolman Butcher and fined him one day’s pay for staying in a drug store seventeen minutes while on duty. The order also transferred Patrolmen Butcher and McCann from Station 2 to 3, Hazlitt from 3 to 2, and Shaughnessy from 3 to 1.
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Cambridge
Butcher
McCann
Hazlitt
Shaughnessy
Boy Fred Scanion Dies From Spruce Street Runover
Six year old Fred J. Scanion died at 262 Spruce street Chelsea from injuries after being run over Thursday afternoon on Spruce street by Samuel Winslow of Maplewood. He died at 9 o clock last evening at his parents residence.
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Fred J. Scanion
Spruce Street
Chelsea
Samuel Winslow
Maplewood
Hewes Reed Manufacturer Dies in Biddeford at 68
Andrew W. Hewes of Saco died today at 68. A reed manufacturer, he served in Biddeford city government as assessor registrar and street commissioner. He leaves a wife and five children.
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Biddeford
Andrew W. Hewes
Saco
Guardian Co-operative Bank Holds Regular Meeting
The Guardian Co-operative Bank met at its Bromfield street office last evening to report a 6 cents premium per share on money lent to borrowers. A new series of shares was opened and sold readily.
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Guardian Co-operative Bank
Bromfield Street
Brick Falls on Harrison Man Fractures Skull
George C. Oliver, 40, of 88 Harrison avenue, was struck on the head by a brick from building No 33. He suffered a skull fracture and was taken to Emergency Hospital.
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Harrison Avenue
George C. Oliver
Nash Will Leaves 7200-Volume Library to Newhampton
The late Judge Stephen J. Nash is buried in Lynnfield and bequeaths his 7200 volume library to his native town Newhampton New Hampshire along with a fund to build a library building.
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Salem
Stephen J. Nash
Lynnfield
Newhampton
N. H
Tragic Death of Cigar Maker Miller at Waitt Bond Factory
Herman Miller, a 65 year old cigar maker from Saxony, Germany, employed by Waitt & Bond, died after leaping from an air shaft on the fifth floor of the factory. A note on his bench named his Jamaica Plain address and the Burkard family, supporting the theory of death by own action amid long subsistence and despondency. The body, found in a pool of blood, was sent to the morgue. funeral arrangements to be handled by the German Workingmen's Club of Roxbury.
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Ierman Miller
Waitt & Bond
Miller
Foreman J. H. Finney
Herman Miller
Marmion Street
Jamaica Plain
Boylston Station
Carl Burkard
Saxony
Germany
New York
Waitt & Bond’s
Dunn
Station 1
North Grove Street
Five Cent Saving Bank
Cigarmakers’ Union
German Workingmen’s Club
Roxbury
Man Found Dead in Lawrence Home at 382 Comoma Street
James Oakford, 45, was found dead in his bed in Lawrence at 382 Comoma Street this afternoon. Police indicate heart trouble as the probable cause.
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Lawrence
James Oakford
Comoma Street
Local resident attempts suicide by laudanum use
Burt White of 22 Indiana place attempted self harm by swallowing laudanum about 7 30 last evening. Dr A W K Newton treated him for an hour and a half and left him in a comfortable condition. No motive given.
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Burt White
Indiana Place
A. W. K. Newton
White
Lynch Threat Looms as Marshal Shoots Striker
A mob forms in Virginia Minnesota after a courier reports that Marshal Free shot a striker. Officials fear an attempted lynching as townsfolk rally against the marshal.
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Virginia
Minn
Iron Mountain
Marshal Free
Free
Authors' Guild in Salem to Attend May Breakfast
Salem May 4 Preparations for the Authors' Guild reception by the Thought and Work Club are complete. The hall is decorated in heliotrope under Ross Turner’s direction. Governor Greenhalge and staff Lieutenant Governor Wolcott and other literary guests will be received in the Cadet reception room with a visitors register. Puritan maidens in gray will lead guests to the table where 800 plates are set for a noon breakfast. Essex Institute will keep open house all day for visitors.
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Salem
Authors’ Guild
Thought and Work Club
Ross Turner
Greenhalge
Wolcott
Essex Institute
Raid at Kirkland Street Unlicensed Liquor Premises
Early today officers from Division 4 conducted a raid on Cyrus Walker's unlicensed 27 Kirkland Street premises under a search warrant for intoxicating liquors. The operation recovered a gallon of whiskey two gallons of lager beer twenty glasses trays and other articles used in liquor sales.
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Division 4
Cyrus Walker
Kirkland Street
Bread and Bed Swiftites Rally in New York Disorder
One day in New York reveals Swift's industrial army drifting into drink and theft as crowds at Populist and Socialist venues feed, ferry fares, and bread while leaders stay scarce. The mob, boisterous and hungry, begs reporters, drinks, and plans travel to Washington for profit.
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Swift
East Tenth Street
Napoleon
Hast Tenth Street
Socialist Labor Club
East Fourth Street
Adams
Fitzgerald
Harlem
Tenth Street
Germania
Washington
Dr. Swathwort
Newark
Coxey and Aides On Trial For Capitol Banner Incident
In Washington on May 4 Coxey Carl Browne and Christopher Columbus Jones faced City Police Court on charges of displaying a banner in the Capitol grounds and damaging shrubs. The defense argued the underlying law violated constitutional rights to petition, but the judge overruled the motion to quash and a jury was sworn. Evidence included witnesses from Coxey's army and police officials detailing permits and conduct during the May 1 events. The case was set to continue the next day with six prosecutors and twelve defense witnesses slated.
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Washington
Coxey
Carl Browne
Christopher Columbus Jones
United States
Capitol
Andrew Lipscomb
House
Senate
Alexander Mullowney
United States District Attorney
Mr. Lipscomb
Coxey, Browne and Jones
Allen
Congress
Mullowney
Browne
Jones
Hyman
Miller
Horn
Hancock
Edward Howe
Lipscomb
Capitol Steps
Sweetland Stays At Bridgeport With Coxey Army
Sweetland's Connecticut Coxey delegation of forty eight stays in Bridgeport through May 4 and plans to depart for South Norwalk tomorrow. They could not arrange boat transport. Sweetland will not recruit more men, saying he has all he can handle.
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Bridgeport
Sweetland
Connecticut
Coxey Army
Norwalk
Massillon man told to bring Coxey's son to Washington
A Massillon man received a telegram from Coxey requesting him to take the general's two year old son to Washington at once. The express company refused to handle the child.
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Chicago
A. Massillon
Z. T. Shoemaker
Coxey
Washington
Express Company
Governor loses hope for Kelley army transport
In Des Moines Indiana on May 4 the governor abandoned plans to move the Kelley army by transport from the city as the troops refuse to walk further and are expected to disband here drawing concern from labor officials.
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Des Moines
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