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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1887
Page
2
A May 8 banquet in Lonpox featured Lord Spencer and other British MPs. Mr Gladstone spoke on Home Rule and Times charges, noting American sympathy for Ireland. St George's electors honored Mr Goschen with Marquis of Salisbury in the chair, debating clerical clauses and Ireland's divided nation.
The steamer La Champagne returning from New York collided with Ville de Rio in fog near Havre. Ville de Rio sank. fifteen Italians clung to a capsized life boat were saved while thirty five drowned in the panic. La Champagne ran aground to save remaining passengers.
A scorching sirocco swept Hungary for a week burning towns and destroying churches and homes. At Toroczo 800 houses burned and four people died. Rustberg saw a church and 37 houses go up in flames. Meregyo suffered many fires. Eperies incinerated churches public buildings and the cemetery. Losses may top 2.5 million dollars. Nogaykaroly fire sparked wind storms destroying 400 houses and displacing 5000 people. inmates at a convent and school are missing and several girls perished leaping from windows. Rain has begun to fall. Insurance firms across Hungarian and Austrian houses are invalid.
At the American exhibition opening tomorrow the Grenadier Band will perform the American and British national airs. Archdeacon Farrar offers prayer, Lord Ronald Gower gives a welcome address, and Sir Charles Russell replies. Miss Lillian Nordica sings Star-Spangled Banner and Rule Britannia.
Maprio May 8 reports the Chamber of Deputies passed a trial by jury bill by 209 to 50 amid talk of filibuster action in Cuba. Other items note a fatal pistol duel in Perth. a request from the Porte to explain Spain’s Red Sea coaling station. a Moravian village Jew riot quelled by troops. melinite experiments deeming powder useless. and papal Russian talks on Greek Latin church reunion with mixed expectations.
Murat Halstead of the Commercial Gazette will publish a critique of Jefferson Davis's remarks on Fredericksburg. He argues Davis erred by implying two Federal armies defended Burnside, clarifying Hooker led a division under Burnside and detailing Franklin and Sumner. He notes Hooker ordered Humphreys to press the attack and recalls Stonewall Jackson’s alleged counsel.
New York May 8 big hotels closed bars today to curb drunkenness while guests with room supplies over Sunday faced no deprivation. Street drunkenness was reportedly down compared with ordinary days.
A Boston circular signed by a metal working trades committee and many clergy and business leaders asks employers to grant a half holiday on Saturdays. It argues reduced hours lower production costs through improved methods, cites tariff protections, and notes similar reforms in New York Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Signers include Rev. Clarke Brooks Hale and ninety other leaders.
John H. Osgood longtime Boston auctioneer died Saturday in Dorchester after a brief pneumonia. Born 1807 in Westford he built J. J1. & J. Osgood into a leading dry goods house and later a renowned auctioneering business with partners Hale and Frost. He led Chelsea Savings Bank for 28 years and served in the Legislature in 1852. He lived in Chelsea then Dorchester with daughter Mrs. Monroe and left four children George L. Osgood Josiah Osgood Hamilton Osgood.
William Welch a renowned minstrel died in New York on Saturday at age 38. Born at sea in 1849 his career spanned Sam Sanford Buckley Skiff and Gaylord troupes and Dockstader’s minstrels where he served as stage manager. He authored songs like Old Kentucky Home and The Picnic and leaves a wife and young son. His mother and two siblings live in Harrisburg Pennsylvania. Also dying were George S. Howe longtime St Johnsbury railroad master mechanic and the Rev John Waldron Chicago priest and parish pastor for over thirty years.
Lexincron Kentucky May 8 reports D Swigert conducted Elmendorf farm yearling sales yesterday totaling forty two head sold for $49,930 an average of 119.41 dollars per head.
Augustus E. Soper, second mate of a West Indies schooner, died en route from Newport to New York. Companion Captain McKinnon claimed Soper fell ill after a possible indigestion. No violence or vomit seen. A few dollars found, Marblehead address noted, Boston links uncertain. Medical examiner reported no marks of violence. Further inquiry pending in Boston and by Dr. Dwelly.
The article extols thorough daily skin cleansing and vigorous post bath rubbing with a cocoanut-fibre brush to release heat, improve circulation, and firm muscles. Weekly hot bath with alternating cold splash is claimed to prevent colds, relieve headaches, and create a youthful vitality.
In New York on May 8 a group of about two hundred Irishmen sailed the bay on a steamboat to greet William O Brien, noted editor and agitator, as the Umbria, expected with him, failed to arrive by night. The men cruised in fog, returned hungry and disappointed.
Buffalo Bill savoring London life with dinners at the Garrick and Lyceum, comparing theatrical shows, and meeting the wild West figures in Drury Lane crowd. Notables including Mr. Whistler, Nate Salsbury, Buck Taylor, and Sir Oswald Ames witness the curious blend of frontier figures and stage pageantry amid a carriage collision injuring Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Lewis in Roxbury.
Miss Anderson debuts as Perdita in The Winter's Tale at the Theatre Royal Nottingham. The crowd fills the streets and stage, with Forbes Robertson and Macklin in key roles. Anderson’s performance shifts from motherly Hermione to radiant daughter form, drawing applause for the playful scene with Perdita and Florizel.
Edwin A. Abbott is identified as the author of The Kernel and the Husk. Mrs. Margaret J. Prestyn prepares Colonial Ballads and Other Verses. J. Elliot Cabot’s Emerson biography arrives in autumn with Glimpses of Emerson's Boyhood in May Atlantic. A NY critic hails Bishop's Golden Justice as a top recent novel. Raskin plans a brief autobiography ending 1875. Cable finishes Au Large sequel and will visit southern Louisiana for plot, then finalize the manuscript.
A letter from The Critic of Paris Bois describes springtime life in the Bois de Boulogne, praising its beauty while lampooning the décorés. The piece shifts to Mrs. E. M. Gosse discussing women's influence, then notes the discovery of an unknown male body, about 25, 5 feet 9, 170 pounds, found at Lewis's Wharf in dark clothing.
At the Revere House Maine leaders and national figures attended a Pine Tree State Club dinner. Ex-Senator Bradbury and Congressman Reed received praise, with Maine’s leadership role extolled. Reed delivered a humorous, pointed speech on eloquence, Maine, and national politics.
R H White of Boston, head of a vast wholesale house on Washington Street, and Frank Jones of New Hampshire, a former pedler turned brewer, are traced as parallel early fortunes. White, modestly dressed, runs a 2000-employee enterprise with broad New England reach, while Jones shifted from dry goods to ale brewing after a wagon era.
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