Legislative chaos at baseball grounds and sewer bill debate
Page 1 reports lawmakers retreat to baseball grounds amid passage of a sewage bill in the House while wholesale druggists express support. Senators take a junket as other pages note society meetings and city business, with upcoming entertaining plans and real estate notes.
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Society of Arts
the Fish and Game Protective Association
Hollis Street
Common Council
Allen
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Elects New Directors
The seventeenth annual stockholders meeting in Topeka elected directors Benjamin B. Cheney Alden Speare C K Holliday E B Purcell L Severy George Magoun Thomas Baring Oliver W Peabody George G Crocker Edwin H Abbott William Libby John J McCook and others. George C Magoun named chairman with Strong as president. bylaws align with New York Central. Executive finance committee formed. Strong to move office to Chicago.
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Torrexa
Kan
Srecrat
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company
Topeka
Harmony
Benjamin B. Cheney
Boston
Alden Speare
C. K. Holliday
E. B. Purcell
Manhattan
L. Severy
Emporia
George ©. Magoun
New York
Thomas Baring
Oliver W. Peabody
George G. Crocker
Edwin H. Abbott
Cambridge
Mass
William Libbey
John J. McCook
A. W. Nickerson
George O. Shattuck
I. T. Burr
Warren Sawyer
C. R. Codman
W. F. Wharton
Jay Gould
George C. Magoun
W. B. Strong
C. W. Smith
William B. Strong
Chicago
A. A. Robinson
Messrs
Magoun
Strong
Cheney
Speare
Baring
Peabody
Abbott
Atchison
America
West
Atchison System
United States
B. P. Cheney
Kidder, Peabody & Co
Wisconsin Central
Northern Pacific
William Libby
Erie Railroad
Rie Finance Committee
A.T. Stewart
Ohio & Mississippi Railroad
United States Trust Company
Our State Railroad Commission
Yale Sophomores Set Records at May Day Meet
Yale sophomores tied the school and intercollegiate records in the half mile and 120 yards hurdle. Event winners include N L Deming 100 yards dash John P Holton half mile E Lentilhon 440 yards J Floyd Jr mile H L Williams 220 yards hurdle and 220 yards run. Other victors: W W Weare two mile bicycle E D Ryder pole vault H L Williams running high jump and broad jump.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Holton
Williams
N. L. Deming
J. P. Holton
H. L. Williams
E. Lentilhon
J. P. Floyd, Jr
W. W. Weare
E. D. Ryder
Arrivals and Clearances of Steamers and Vessels at New York
New York details arrivals of steamers Galileo Hull HW Dimock Boston Wilkenbarre The Queen Liverpool brig B T Campbell Mt Desert schooners Charlotte Brown New Bedford Sallie V Ponder Taunton Francis Edwards Menawa Bangor Daniel Webster Helen Mary Jane Oasis Diadem Rockland A B Crabtree Sullivan E C Gates Calais Harvester Maud Franconia St John NB Kolon Shulee N ., Fleetwood Rockport Ring leader Thomaston Damon Deer Isle Union Bath Charles E Raymond Kennebec Me Sailed Rotterdam for Rotterdam Ilinois for Antwerp Wieland for Hamburg Ailsa for Port au Prince etc State of Nebraska for Glasgow City of Washington for Havana etc Santiago for Nassau Gen Whitney for Boston Ship Annie H Smith for Shanghai Frederick Billings for San Francisco Barks sylvan for Manila Havana for Havana brig Curlew for Port Natal May 9 Cleared steamers England Heeley Liverpool Jersey City Govier Bristol Enz Pollux Danders Antwerp Santiago Allen Nassau Alesia Vallat Marseilles Gen Whitney Iscarse Boston Trinidad Fraser Hamilton Her ships Theodor Fischer Harter Liverpool barks Talisman Delano Port of Spain Douglas Crosby St John N K Souverain Boudace Marseilles schooners Whistler O Keefe Taunton Lizzie W Matheson McKay Provincetown Mass Clifford Crabtree Carbarien Davida New comb Windsor NS
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New York
Galileo
Hull
Dimock
Boston
Wilkenbarre
the Queen
Liverpool
B.T. Campbell
Mt. Desert
Charlotte Brown
New Bedford
Sallie V. Ponder
Taunton
Francis Edwards
Menawa
Bangor
Daniel Webster
Helen
Mary Jane
Oasis
Diadem
Rockland
A. B. Crabtree
Sullivan
E. C. Gates
Calais
Harvester
Maud
City of Washington
Havana
Santiago
Nassau
Gen. Whitney
Annie H. Smith
Shanghai
Frederick Billings
San Francisco
Sylvan
Manila
Curlew
Port Natal
England
Heeley
Jersey City
Govier
Bristol
Enz
Pollux
Danders
Antwerp
Allen
Alesia
Vallat
Marseilles
Iscarse
Trinidad
Fraser
Hamilton
Her
Theodor Fischer
Harter
Talisman
Delano
Port of Spain
Douglas
Crosby
St. John
N. K
Souverain
Boudace
Whistler
O’keefe
Lizzie W. Matheson
McKay
Provincetown
Mass
Clifford, Crabtree
Carbarien
Davida
Newcomb
Windsor
N.S
Steamers Arrived and Departed Ports May 9 List
A long list shows multiple ships arriving at New York on May 9 from Hull Liverpool Baracoa St Kitts St Ann s Bay Jamaica Mexico Havana and Havana and from various ports including Bremen Hamburg and Baltimore. Other entries note sailings from New York for Amsterdam Glasgow London Liverpool and more with dates May 5 to May 9 and vessels such as Queen Victoria Italia Saratoga and Norw egian.
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New York
Galileo
Hull
the Queen
Liverpool
Victoria
Baracoa
Wiliam Coulman
Bluefields
Nic
Baltimore
Hermann
Bremen
Cape Henry
Maine
London
Havana
City of Alexandria
Montreal
Parisian
Quebec
Glasgow
Lord O’ Neill
P. Caland
Amsterdam
Havre
Nantique
Copenhagen
Island
Stectin
Dover
Hans & Kurt
Hamburg
Surdam
Fastnet
Germany
Gibraltar
St. Fillans
Rio Marino
Philadelphia
Braumwell
Port Royal
Pet
Italy
Liverpoo
Tower Hill
Laplace
Moville
Sarnia
Portland
Southampton
Trave
Parletow and Company Boat Makers Ad In Boston Listings
H V Parte low and Co advertise boats air canoes steam launches yacht tenders and boat hardware from a factory in Reading Massachusetts and a sales office at 428 Atlantic Avenue Boston mass.
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Ides
Mass
Pondane
Atlantic Avenue
Boston
Partelow
Rutland Music Festival Opens Under Favorable Conditions
Rutland Vermont May 9 The sixth annual Rutland Music Festival Association opens at Town Hall with six concerts conducted by Carl Zerrahn. Featured singers include Emma Judh Therese Herbert Foerster Helen Von Doenhoff Signor Jules Perotti James H Ricketson and Signor Campanari. The program features Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream overture and Elijah with grand arias and Victory. A 200 voice chorus and notable instrumentalists Adele Aus Der Ohe Max Bendix Victor Herbert perform throughout the afternoon and evening programs.
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Burland
Rutland
Rutland Music Festival Association
Town Hall
Carl Zerrahn
Emma Judh
Mme
Therese Herbert Foerster
Helen von Doenhoff
Signor
Jules Perotti
James H. Ricketson
Signor Campanari
D. M. Babcock
Adele Aus der Ohe
Max Bendix
Thomas Orchestra
Victor Herbert
Mendelssohn
Miss Judi
Gounod
Adele Otis der Obe
Helene von Doenhofff
Signor Guiseppe Campanari
Archbishop Walsh Testifies On Irish League Indiscretions
Archbishop Walsh told the Parnell commission that the Irish League showed a decline in crime and secret societies since 1866. He cited advice to tenants to avoid the Land Court after 1881 and noted one indiscretion a branch published a list of nonmembers before abandoning it.
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London
Walsh
Parnell Commission
League
Ireland
Atkinson
the Times
Newport success as Goldbecks play opens in London
Goldbeck's Newport drew a large audience at the Duke of Devonshire's house with duchesses and countesses in attendance. The work hailed as original and charming, with plans for future performances in Vienna and Berlin. In London the House of Lords rejected the deceased wife's sister bill 147 to 120, Prince of Wales voting with the minority. Berun reports widespread coal strikes forcing furnaces to extinguish. 70,000 miners on strike, Krupp to source coal from Upper Silesia and England to resume rail manufacture. Sydney reports the British cruiser Rapid raising the flag over Suwarrow Islands in the southern Pacific northeast of the Cook Islands.
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London
Goldbeck
Newport
Duke of Devonshire
Duchess of
Prince of Wales
Berun
Bochum
Krupp Works
Upper Silesia
England
No Sunday Excursions Proposed by Essex South Churches
The Essex South Conference of Congregational Churches adopted a resolution opposing Sunday excursion trains. The committee urged railroad commissioners to ban extra trains on the Sabbath and limit any regular trains to those absolutely necessary to preserve the day of rest and public order.
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Essex South Conference of Congregational Churches
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Rutland
Brooklyn
N. Y
Interstate Commerce Investigating Committee
New York
Senate Committee On
San Francisco
Buckingham
Que
Is Weldon extradition act retroactive in Canada
Ottawa May 9 Extradition law questions dominate legal circles as experts debate if the Weldon act is retroactive. Parliament removed retroactive language yet many say Canadian practice has treated extradition measures as retroactive. An order in council will bring the act into force in August with conditions suspendable by another order.
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Ottawa
Ont
Srecan
Weldon
Canada
John ‘Thompson
Danville Fire Destroys Downtown. 23 Buildings Lost
Fire swept the business district of Danville Vermont in one hour with no water supply. Twenty seven families are homeless and losses range from 40 to 50 thousand dollars, about half uninsured. Several public buildings and stores burned including the post office, town hall, libraries, and Masonic Hall.
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St. Johnspury
Danville
F. K. Kittredge
Town
Grand Army
Masonic Halls
North Star Newsaner
A. B. Hoyt
Vale’ Bros
Masonic Hall
Dole & Currier
Townall
Lynn
John D. Dennis
Broad Street
Belfast
John Berry
Cleveland
Bellaire
Findlay
Westcnester
N. Y
Scrub Oak
F. C. Darrow
Gilbert Darrow
Lee
Henderson & Co
Methodist Church
Manchester
N.C. Marshall
H. G. Ricker
A. Haraden
A. Richardson
Ho Insurance
Fire damages multiple sites including Chauncy Street shop
At 6 30 last evening a Box 54 alarm reported a fire on the third floor of 94 Chauncy Street occupied by Leventhal Watchmaker Co and suspender makers with $1000 damage. The second floor housing Walker & Co. suffered $100, building owned by A A Church. Fire likely started by rats and matches. An early morning Box 15 alarm noted a fire at 3 Commercial Wharf, J J Carrigan fish market, $10 damage. At 9 45 p m a fire in a elm tree cavity near Winter Street was extinguished by Engine 26. suspected arson.
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Chauncy Street
Leventhal, Watchmaker & Co
Walker & Co
A. A. Church
J. J. Carrigan
Winter Street
Testimony resumes in Andover case before ex Governor Robinson
In Springfield on May 9 testimony continued in the Andover case with ex Governor Robinson as commissioner. C H Barrows called H F Stebbins who said Dr Eustis consulted law books and a brief. President Seelye testified no opinion was expressed by Visitors and no bias shown against Smyth.
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Springfield
Andover
Robinson
C. H. Barrows
Smyth
H. F. Stebbins
Eustis
Murdock
Julius H. Seelye
Boston
Seelye
Army and Navy Orders From Washinatox May 9
Army orders grant Major Charles H. Hoyt four months leave with permission to go beyond seas Captain William A. Thompson of the Fourth Cavalry on sick leave to lead a recruit detachment from New York to the Arizona department Thirty recruits assigned to the Seventh Infantry First Lieutenant Samuel W. Miller of the Fifth Infantry receives three months extension of leave Naval orders assign Passed Assistant Engineer A G Bates to the receiving ship Minnesota Lieutenant David Peacoe detached from the Jamestown with three months sick leave and assign Charles P Howell to duty as a member of the board of inspectors of merchant steamers at New York. H B Ross also to duty with the same board and with the United States steamship Baltimore.
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Washinatox
Charles H. Hoyt
William A. Thompson
Fourth Cavalry
New York
Department of Arizona
Seventh Infantry
Samuel W. Miller
Fifth Infantry
A. G Bates
Minnesota
David Peacoe
Jamestown
Charles P. Howell
H. 8. Ross
Day
United States
Baltimore
Brooklyn Tax Collector Confesses to 20000 Shortage
Special City Tax Collector Michael J. Bourke admits a forty more mystery deficit of twenty thousand dollars in city accounts and is believed to have left town. His bondsmen cover the loss and the case prompts city officials to review safeguards.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Michael J. Bourke
Hotel Flower Garners Praise for Dining and Dinners
The Hotel Flower has gained popularity among clubs and entertainers for dinners luncheons and private dining. Recent events praise the private dining hall parlors service and cuisine as creating an enviable reputation. Manager E E Marden personally oversees these dinner parties. The hotel also offers attractions for ladies card parties.
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Flower
E. E. Marden
Flower Turkish Baths Offers Lunches and Tickets
The Flower Turkish Baths bills itself as the most magnificent bath house in New England. It lists lunch options with baths and ticket packages, 1 bath or six tickets for five dollars, twelve tickets for nine dollars. Ladies hours are mornings except Sat/Sun, with added Thursday and Sunday slots. Gentlemen hours run afternoons, with Thursday and Sunday extensions and Saturday all day hours.
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New England
Abyssinian Victory and Royal Wounding Amid Mass Casualties
Count Antonelli reports Abyssinians won the first day of fighting with the Negus wounded and ordering executions. The next day the king led his forces again, was wounded in the neck, and the army fled leaving about 80,000 dead amid legends and rumors of divine election.
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Rome
Antonelli
Rasalula
Tariff Debate Sparks Leather Industry Talk in Woburn
A small tariff reform club in Woburn met to discuss the impact of tariffs on the leather trade. Captain John P. Crane argued that free hides boosted exports and lowered raw material costs, enabling local factories to compete with England and boost productivity with modern machinery. Ramsdell endorsed the points and members asked questions on the matter.
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Wobvurn
Woburn
Samuel W. Meachum
John P. Crane
England
Lynn
Massachusetts
Ramsdell
Weather Forecast Summary for Northeast States
Washington area forecast for May 9 8 p.m. to May 10 describes Maine and New Hampshire slightly warmer with fair skies and southwesterly winds, cooler on Saturday. Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut see fair weather with slight temperature changes and southwest winds. Vermont cooler with westerly winds. Eastern New York fair with warmer south regions and cooler north areas.
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WashingTon
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Vermont
New York
Warm Weather Continues With 92 Degree Reading
IT WILL BE WARM TODAY Wasuinotox May 9 A warm wave has prevailed over this section of the country. By 2 o'clock today the thermometer registered 92 and was still climbing upward. Lieutenant Dunwoody predicts the torrid weather will last at least until Friday night. A storm in Texas moving northeastward offers hope of relief.
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Wasuinotox
Dunwoody
Signal Service
Texas
Brigands Operetta Debuts at Casino in Crowded Premiere
New York May 9 The operetta The Brigands with libretto by Gilbert and music by Offenbach opened at the Casino. Three acts with beautiful scenery drew a full house and stronghearted applause for the leading players.
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New York
Gilbert
Jacques Offenbach
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