Her Last Lover: In New Orleans Hotel
In New Orleans on May 6 Dr Emil Hirart and Mrs Samuel P Swain of Plaquemine La checked into a Canal Street hotel as Mr and Mrs C J Smith After Mrs Swain and Hirart were found together Swain fired five shots Hirart fired six mortally wounding him Swain fled but was captured Mrs Swain 26 was held as a witness Swain claimed a long standing affair with Hirart and noted a prior shooting incident Hirart died shortly after hospital call A book titled Her Last Lover lay on the bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Emil Hirart
Samuel P. Swain
Plaquemine
Canal and
Liberty Streets
C. J. Smith
Swain
Hirart
Stranger on the Trail in Culver Case Near Clyde
Police pursue a clue from a mysterious letter writer dubbed the "Stranger" in Roy M. Culver's death. Coroner York expects arrest soon as the man linked to Culver's disappearance last seen in Newark and Lyons and tied to a Lyons store burglary attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Culver
Savannah
Clyde
Newark
Roy Culver
Syracuse
Lyons
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
William H. Walter
Walters
Booth
Mr. Walters
York
Destructive Forest Fires Hit Glen Hazel Elk County
May 5 Elk county reports destructive fires across the region with Glen Hazel hardest hit. A blaze near the village reached Delos Deliver's sawmill area and burned 10,000,000 feet of hemlock logs, 1200 feet of Erie railroad track, sixteen cars, and six houses. Loss estimated at $125,000. fire under control in Glen Hazel but burning in surrounding woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgeway
Fenn
Elk County
Glen Hazel
Bradford
Delos Deliver
Erie Railroad
Bouts At Woburn A C Mainly Local Ring Night
Woburn A C plans a Thursday rink meeting with prelims featuring Frank Cooper vs Ed Maher 8 rounds at 120 pounds George Potterdon vs Frank Reilly 8 rounds at 128 pounds and Jim Betts vs Buck Willis 8 rounds at 140 pounds The headline attraction is a ten round bout between Tom Carpenter of I and Tom Hannon of Roxbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woburn
Scarce jurors mark long New York trial lore and history
In New York on May 3 twelve jurors were seated for the McLaughlin case after a drawn out selection from 328 talesmen. The piece recalls historic juries and trials including Jake Sharp and Boss Tweed, noting lengthy selection times and notable juror circumstances across past poisonings and corruption cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William W. McLaughlin
Court of Oyer and Terminer
William P.durando
McLaughlin
Jake Sharp
Sharp
Broadway Railroad
Tweed
Carlyle W. Harris
Smyth
Harris
Henry C. ¥. Meyer
Ludwig Brandt
Alexander B. Low
Dr. Meyer
Talesmen
Alderman Kerr
Boodle Board
R. W. Buchanan
Buchanan
Carrol
Court of General Sessions
Webster
Indian Uprising Feared in Kalispell Valley Spokane
Settlers in Kalispell Valley clash with a band led by Big Sam. William Jared Bud Jarx and Oscar McLaughlin are attacked as they fence a quarter section. Jared is knocked down, fighting follows with knives and clubs until whites fire from a boat, killing one Indian. Indians retreat and return armed as settlers arm themselves to drive them out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Kalispell Valley
William Jared
Bud Jarx
Oscar McLaughlin
Big Sam
Jared
Tragedy at Hartford Gas Works Blaze Kills Worker
Eugene McQuirk 25 a laborer at Hartford City Gas Light Company died in an explosion at 4 30 this morning. He stood on a water tower when marsh gas ignited from his lantern. The tower crown and crowbar were hurled long distances. McQuirk born in New York leaves a brother in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Eugene McQuirk
Hartford City Gas Light Company
Ex Justice Bannister granted absolute divorce in Newburg
In Newburg on Saturday Judge Brown granted ex Justice William H. Bannister of Nyack an absolute divorce to Mrs Helen Bannister formerly Miss Helen Van Buren. She left him last summer with her daughter to live in Tarrytown then eloped with Thomas Christie and went West. they have since been in Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William H. Bannister
Nyack
Brown
Newburg
Coney Island
Senator Lexow
George A. Wyre
Bannister
Fire consumes frame house in Beverly blaze
A two and a half story frame house on Enon Street North Beverly owned by Mrs. Nettie Myers was completely destroyed by fire early today. Fire spread amid flying brands and shingles, threatening nearby homes but rain saved them. Loss estimated at 2000 on the house and 500 on furniture, with neighbors suspecting a repeat firebug activity in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly
Enon Street
North
Nettie Myers
Along the Tracks and City Rail Lines Reopened
Reconstruction routes for the City Point Harvard square line detail travel via Berkeley to Chambers and Tremont streets while westbound paths go through Cambridge Court Scollay and Tremont. W E Colby of the Grand Trunk office is ill at home. The Rialto notes Boston railroad men in the Sunday Post. Central Vermont windows show summer travel appeal. Fall River Line resumes Sunday trips. Priscilla and Puritan in service. Thorpe of Cooks tours predicts heavy European travel this summer.
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Charles
Cambridge Streets
City Point
Harvard Square
Berkeley Street
Columbus Avenue
Boylston Street
Tremont Street
Scollay Square
Court, Green
Chambers Streets
South Boston
Cambridge Street
Court Street
Tremont
Boylston Streets
Clarendon Hill
Park Square
Leverett, Causeway
Portland
Sudbury Streets
Boylston
Court
Green
Stamford
Lowell
Brighton
Leverett
W. E. Colby
Grand Trunk
Colby
Rialto
Boston Railroad
Sunday Post
Railroad News
Central Vermont
Fall River
Thorpe
Cook’s Tours
Life Sentence For Blix t Accomplice In Ging Murder
Claus A. Blix t, linked to Harry Hayward in the Catherine Ging killing of Dec 4 1894, pleaded guilty and received a life term at Stillwater State Prison. His wife attended, and Blix t vowed to seek Christian reform. Hayward reacted by claiming innocence and anticipating hanging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Claus A. Blixt
Harry Hayward
Catherine Ging
Hayward
Stillwater
Blxt
Boston Steamer Wrecked and Seamen Rescued
Six seamen from the wrecked schooner William Smith of Boston arrived aboard the Santiago on the Ward line from Nassau. The Smith, sailing from Norfolk April 2 to Galveston, was driven ashore on Ginger Bread Ground in heavy weather. The crew escaped in boats to Great Isaacs then Nassau. the consul sent them home. Captain Donovan stayed in Nassau. The Smith, 445 tons, was built at Camden Maine in 1890.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ward Line
Santiago
Nassau
William Smith
Boston
Smith
Norfolk
Galveston
Bahamas
Isaacs
Donovan
Camden
Harvard Boylston prizes finalists named for public contest
Twelve finalists from Harvard will compete for the Boylston prizes in a public contest next Thursday. The 12 were chosen from a preliminary trial last Saturday with forty entrants. Finalists include Frank Washburn Grinnell Roxbury William Holden Riddle Lawrence Kan Louis Jacob Roess South Oil City Pa Francis Stuart Smith Halifax N S Rufus Whittaker Stimson Palmer Ernest Porte Williams Bellefontaine O7 William Sterling Youngman Williamsport Pa Harold Ethelbert Addison Chicago N Loring Thayer Hildreth Salem Frank Rudolph Steward Fort Missoula Mont Arthur Cheney Train Boston and Joseph Parker Warren Boston from the senior class and the junior class winners. Prizes consist of two first prizes of 60 dollars and three second prizes of 45 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boylston
Harvard
Frank Washburn Grinnell
Roxbury
William Holderman Riddle
Lawrence
Kan
Louis Jacob Roess
South Oil City
Penn
Francis Stuart Smith
Halifax
N. S
Rufus Whittaker Stimson
Palmer
Ernest Porte Williams
Bellefontaine
William Sterling Youngman
Williamsport
Harold Ethelbert Addison
Chicago
Loring Thayer Hildreth
Salem
Frank Rudolph Steward
Fort Missoula
Mon
Arthur Cheney Train
Boston
Joseph Parker Warren
Alfred M Reed Dies After Long Illness In Boston
Alfred M Reed of this city died yesterday morning from a complication of diseases led by heart disease He had been ill for two years He came from Augusta Maine fifteen years ago and became known to horse and carriage men He worked with W R Sargent Co and later with S A Stewart He leaves a widow and two sisters Funeral in Bowdoin Square Baptist Church Wednesday at 3 pm then body taken to Augusta Maine for interment in family lot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred M. Reed
Mr. Reed
Boston
Augusta
W. R. Sargent & Co
S. A. Stewart
Reed
Hiram Reed
Maine
Bowdoin Square Baptist Church
Paroled robber arrested for theft at Wesleyan professor home
Jean Carter, recently paroled from the State School for Boys in Middletown Conn, was arrested May 6 for stealing money from a Wesleyan professor's home. He will be returned to the school on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Conn
Jean Carter
Wesleyan
Wealthy 15 Year-Old Fleees Haddam County Home
A fifteen year old girl escaped from Haddam county home and was last seen in Middletown. Believed to be headed home to Westfield, authorities seek her safe return and to determine her whereabouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Conn
Winthrop
Haddam
Westfield
Mystery Petrified Man Found at Big Four Freight House
A six plus foot Caucasian man in petrified condition lies at Cincinnati Big Four freight house on Third Street. Two months earlier a green mammoth box labeled stone was sent from Irving Illinois, contents unknown. The owner has not claimed the body. Authorities seek explanation from Irving officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Big Four Railroad
Third Street
Irving, Ill
Irving
Goodman Brothers in Legal Mix Up Over Wanamaker Debt
Elias P. Goodman broker of 139 Fifth Avenue and his brother Charles resemble each other closely. A suit by Wanamaker against Elias for 110 dollars clothing debt began in the Third District Court. Servants twice mistakenly served Charles, leading to adjourned hearings. Judge Bookstaver ordered both men to appear. Elias declined stating no notice and no plan to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Elias P. Goodman
Fifth Avenue
Charles
Philadelphia
John Wanamaker
Wanamaker
Malzer
Elias
Third
Goodman
Mazet
Elias Goodman
Wannamaker
Elias P
William R. Barrickle
Broadway
Bookstaver
Eight Hours Demanded as London May Day Parade
London May Day celebration in Hyde Park featured a trades union demonstration for an eight hour day with groups from all districts along the Thames embankment. Speakers included John Burns Dr Aveling and Ben Tillett as crowds approved resolutions for legal eight hour day unemployment relief and universal suffrage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hyde Park
Thames Embankment
John Burns
Tring
Dr. Aveling
Ben Tillett
Cuban arms sale charge linked to Fuentes in Guantanamo
A Key West cable reports Fuentes a New York newspaper correspondent arrested in Guantanamo on May 2 is charged by Spanish authorities with negotiating with Gomez and Marti to sell arms and ammunition. The dispatch notes scarce provisions for troops at Bayamo, the Pedro Pablo having become a transport, and insurgents controlling Manzanilla's fortifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Key West
Fuentes
New York
Guantanamo
Gomez and
Marti
Bayamo
Pedro Pablo
Manzanilla
Count Ito May Resign If Allowed to Do So
From Paris May 5 the European Herald reports Tokyo is stirred by Russia's stance. Russia ships depart Japanese ports for Vladivostok. The press awaits the tense response to the joint protest. Ito would resign if permitted. Japan seeks alliance with England if war ensues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
The
Herald
Russia
Japan
Vladivostok
Count Ito
England
Merrimack Mystery Body Found in River at Dracut
The body of a poorly clad woman was found this morning in the Merrimack River at Dracut. She appeared to have been dead briefly and to have lived in a poor farm setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dracut
Lowell
Merrimack River
Supple raid at Roxbury uncovers beer and whiskey storage
Officers from Division 10 with a search warrant raided the unlicensed premises of Annie Supple at 108 Heath Street Roxbury and seized 2634 gallons of lager beer and 112 gallons of whiskey. Later that day Matthew Supple, 27, was arrested for alleged illegal sale and 27 more bottles of lager beer were confiscated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supples
Roxbury
Division 10
Annie Supple
Heath Street
Matthew Supple
Memorial Service Held by Theodore Winthrop Post 35 G A R
The Theodore Winthrop Post 35 G A R held its annual Memorial service at the Universalist church in Chelsea on May 6. The Reverend R Perry Bush gave the commemorative address for fallen comrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chelsea
Theodore Winthrop
Universalist
R.perry Bush
Free Public Baths Movement Reaches Boston Vision
Boston weighs year round public baths to rival New York's system. Dr Durgin backs salt water showers, urging city action and noting New York's park bath houses with compact designs. Proponents cite daily capacity from 5090 to 800 bathers and call for legislative support to create a citywide bath network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Battery
Central Park
Society For
Baron de Hirsch Fund
Riverside Association
DeWitt
Boston
New York
Simon Baruch
Albany
Durgin
Health Board
Post
Rome
Pompeii
Skeleton Found Near Quarry Raises Suicide Possibility
In Biddeford Maine on May 6 a six foot six man in his sixties was found as a decayed skeleton near Pool Street granite quarry. Only shoes remain to aid ID. a handkerchief hanging from a tree suggests suicide. Coroner Warren to investigate. may be Frank Lewis who vanished five years ago while demented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford
Pool Street
Warren
Frank Lewis
May Magazines Highlight Moran Scenes and World Travel
The May Cosmopolitan features Thomas Moran mountain scenery in Colorado with a descriptive piece on Sixteen Hundred Miles of Mountain Railways by J. B. Walker. It also covers Rus sia’s Samarkand and Bokhara, stories My Goddaughter and A Charmer of Men, and articles on Saleswomen of the Great Stores and Is Polar Research Remunerative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Thomas Moran
J. B. Walker
Russia
Samarkand
Bokhara
England
Bill Nye
W. Clark Russell
Notable Contributors in The Atlantic May Issue
John B. McMaster discusses The Political Depravity of Our Fathers. Paul I. Ford recalls Dr. Rush and George Washington. Gilbert Parker advances The Seats of the Might. Percival Lowell treats Mars from an astronomer's view. Bradford Torrey tours Walden's Ridge Tennessee. T R Sullivan reviews A Standard Theatre. Agnes Repplier writes Shopping at Assuan and Olive Thorne Miller Tramps With an Enthusiast. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Eliza Orne White present A Faithful Failure. Richard Harding Davis profiled in New England in Literature and Art. Autographs, Le conte de Lisle, The American College and new books notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. McMaster
Paul I. Ford
Dr. Rush
George Washington
Gilbert Parker
Mars
Percival Lowell
Bradford Torrey
Walden’s Ridge
Tennessee
T. R. Sullivan
Agnes Repplier
Assuan
Olive Thorne Miller
Chicago
Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps
Eliza Orne White
Richard Harding Davis
New England
George Birkbeck Hill
Forum May number highlights Bismarck and critics
The May issue opens with Colonel Dodge on Bismarck as “The Strongest Personality Since Napoleon.” It includes John G. Bourinot on why Canadians do not favor annexation, Frederic Harrison on Trollope, Penni man on crowded public schools, Dr Chapin on health as factor, and features on revival of the Olympic Games and equality of opportunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Napoleon
Colonel Dodge
House of Commons
John G. Bourinot
Frederic Harrison
Anthony Trollope
Trollope
James H. Penniman
Peterson's May Issue Highlights Women Artists and National Council
Peterson's Magazine presents May day themed content with illustrations of American women painters and portraits of women newly prominent from the National Council of Women. It features Odette Tyler drama sketches, Ella Wheeler Wilcox on The New Woman, and pieces on Hard Times and the Railroads plus The American Locomotive alongside other sketches and stories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Murderous Assault at Lynn Shocks Neighborhood
At 158 Boston Street in Lynn, John Flynn attacked his wife after returning home intoxicated. He beat her with kicks and heavy boots, leaving her with head wounds and a severely injured ear. She was found unconscious in the kitchen and taken to hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Boston Street
John Flynn
Rail and Steamer Lines Schedule Listing
Eastport Calnia St Andrews St John HB steamer from Portland Mondays and Thursdays 12 30 and 1 pm For Castine Deer Isle Sedgwick Southwest Bar Harbor Millbridge Jonasport Machias port trains leaving Boston 830 and 900 am Thursdays connect at Rockland with steamer Frank Jones
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington St
Corner State
Union Station
Portland
Augusta
Bar Harbor
Concord
N. H
Upper Roads
Lewiston
Manchester
St. John
Halifax
Provinces
Wiscasset
Thomaston
Rockland
Eastport
Calnia
St. Andrews
Castine
Deer Isle
Sedgwick
Southwest
Bar Harbors
Millbridge
Jonasport
Machiasport
Boston
Frank Jones
Train Schedules for New England and Chicago Lines Published
The bulletin lists departure times for Southern Division routes from Manchester Concord Plymouth Franklin Bristol Claremont Norwich Hanover and Montpelier Burlington and Montreal lines. It includes times to White River Junction Quebec Sherbrooke and Montreal with daily and Sunday service notes and notes D J Flanders as general passenger agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Concord
N. H
Plymouth
Faiyane
Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Bristol
Claremont
M. St. Johnsbury
Newport
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Norwich
Hanover
Thetford
Bradne
Newbury
Oy Nom
Montpelier
Burlington
Montreal
Boston Air Line
Chicago
the West
G. T. Ry
C. P. Ry
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Sunav
Sootine
D. J. Flanders
Gen
Pas R
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Roy M. Culver
Nervease
R.D. Bibber
Rath
A L. Farwell
M. D
Allston
Mass
Nervease CO
Lexon
BLIXT
Wirthrop
Wanamaker VS. Twins
Merrimack
Winthrop Post Memorial Service
Bates
New York City
MAY Magazines
the Cosmopolitan
the Atlantic
the Forum
Peterson's Magazine
Air Line
Norwich Line
Erie R.R
Fishkill-on-Hudson
Hopewell Junction
Poughkeepsie
Brewster
Waterbury
Beochville
Willimantic
Putnnan
New London
Southbridge
Blackstone
Weoensocket
Providence
Pawtucket
Valley Falls
Milford
Wealpele
Central Division
Boston & Albany Railroad
Needham
Highlandville
Upper Falls
Millis
Medway
West Medway
Weonsecket
W. B
ST. John's, Charlestown
St. John’s Church
Charlestown
Philo W. Sprague
Episcopal Church
Arthur Sewall Hyde
Boston & Mainer.a
Causeway Street
Hoosac Tunnel
Fitchbare
North Adams
Williamstown
Troy
Saratoga
Utica
Binghamton
Hornellsville
Elmira
Rochester
Watertown
Buffalo
Falls
Hamilton
Toronto
Detroit
Cleveland
Cincimnati
St. Louis
Points Wear
Fast Express
Niagara Falls
Pacific Express
Lake Champlain
Fitchburg
Keene
Bellows Falls
White River Jet
Souane
Platteburgh
Adirondacks
Kans
Malone
Aioe
Ottawa
Veermont
Canada
Green Mountains
St. Albans
Washington Street
Beaton
J Watson
L. S
New Haven
Springfield
Bestos
Kneeland St
Hanson
Shore Line
Sunidays
Stonington
Baltimore
Washington
Maryland
Cottage City
Nanasket
Kneeland Street
Abington
Duxbury
New Bedford
Provincetown
Chatham
Myannis
Gods Hall
Huston & Albany
Marlboro
Leominster
Old State House
Park Law
Kneelan Street
L. H. Palm
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