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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 13, 1887

Page

8

Boston Wins Sharp Game Against New York and Philadelphia

Boston defeats Washington and Chicago in a night of baseball at South End grounds. Dupee Shaw pitched for New York, but Boston hitters led by Kelly and Shore set the pace with 22 hits and eight runs driven in by Kelly. Washington and Pittsburgh also posted wins as Chicago dominated Detroit in a high-scoring affair.

New York Philadelphia Chicago Pittsburg Boston South End Dupee Shaw the Wizard Dupee Bostons Kelly Wise Shock Gilligan Johnston Carroll Radbourn Washingtons Hines Myers Gillican Donnelly

On the Rio Grande for last shows at Boston Theatre

City notes report Boston Theatre performances of On the Rio Grande with evening and Saturday matinee and showtime final run. Also Herrmann to begin limited engagement with splendid programs. Local items include real estate sale at Dover street, parade delays, a boy found dead, a fatal accident on Harvard street bridge, Agassiz Association meeting notes, and civic appointments.

Rio Grande Boston Herrmann Boston Assembly of the Agassiz Association Amos T. Farrar Warren Avenue Tremont Street Smith City Hospital Navy Yard

Blues Defeated 12 to 1 in Home Victory at Lawrence

Lawrence May 12 The Blues lost 12 to 1 to the home team as Kiley pitched well for the winner Burke was hit freely by the bats. Moolic struck out three times while Jordan Moolic and Bradley, all Lawrence boys, received floral gifts as they stepped to the plate. Umpire Mahoney was knocked by a foul tip in the fifth and was replaced by Marsden. Score details show Lawrence producing 12 runs to 1 for Boston Blues with several players named in the box score.

Bostons Washingtons BILPO BeNt AL Ee Morrill O'Krety Burdock Ponnelly Johnston Myers Gilligan Radbourn Shaw Lestons Kreig Nash Johnson Iorning Kelly Hornung Wise Donnelly Bills Vowers Puapelrnia New Yorkers Phillies Ewing Ward Aplause Keefe Easley O'Rourke Dorgan Gore YORKS Philadelphias A. E. Gore Fogarty Ferenson Wirdis Offniy Conner Wood Ojrurrar Ollrwin Ign Hassian Yenley O McGuire Casey New Yorks Scacceeses McGuire Irwin Lensley Imteen Philadelphing Shrackout Hastian Ewi Connor Doyle Reese Ferguson Sirwin Perguson Amylie—Wison Pirrspure Penn Pittsburg Indianapolis Sixu Boyle Galvin Lawrence Blues Kiley Burke Moolic Jordan Bradley Mooney Marsden Lawrences Boston Blues PO. A Éamnanasb Urns Burke, If OU Moolic Vyelee IlBradley Earle,c Jordan Cf Murphy O'Burke Navamiston C Mpana Lettee Rarle Llues Ray Mahoney Havering Salems Haverhills

Portlands and Manchesters Heavy Hitting Tilt Report

The Portlands routed the Manchesters in a high scoring Texas league style contest. Andrus Canavan and Thayer fueled the attack with timely hits while Doffy Lutberry and Schoenck contributed multiple bases as Portlands posted eight earned runs. Manchester’s pitching faltered with several costly errors aiding the surge.

Portlands Manchesters Bhlpo K. Bhu Davin Menara Ef Oy Schoen Dann Doffy Tras Lufberry Reardon Barns Mcberm PortlAn Wis Seccerescesesoo-Bo Eees TOROS Shoenck Duffy Lutberry Canavan Carney Boyle McDermott Thayer Homerans Quinn Duty Carey Manelusters Andenus Jnens M. Me’ Ermott Canivan Doyle Dunn Mears O'Malley

Scored football results include Cincinnati and St Louis games

At Cincinnati Metropolitan s 19 to 6 for Cincinnatis. St Louis 22 to 14 over Baltimores. Louisville 4 to 2 over Athletics. Cleveland 17 to 12 over Brooklyn s. Providence 26 to 8 over Browns. Bowdoin 9 to 8 over Maine Medical College. Lynn 16 to 8 over Lowells.

Cincinnati Metropolitans Cincinnatis St. Louis Baltimores Louisville

Berlioz Faust to be performed by Cecilia at Music Hall

The Cecilia presents Berlioz The Damnation of Faust next Wednesday with soloists George Henschel Mrs Henschel George J Parker, directed by B J Lang. 150 voice male chorus and Boston Symphony Orchestra accompany. Box office on sale from Monday. Also Chickering Hall hosts Mrs Bertha Stockwell concert next Tuesday with Arthur Foote Leopold Lichtenberg and Georgia Learned.

Cecilia Berlioz Faust Music Hall George Henschel George J. Parker B. J. Lang Boston Symphony Orchestra Chickering Hall Bertha Stockwell Arthur Foote Leopold Lichtenberg Georgia Learned

Beverly Farms Incorporation Clears House Vote

The House passed the Beverly Farms incorporation bill after a long debate with three roll calls. A Senate decision awaits, while a petition for mercy for a Malden murder convict was heard, likely to be denied, and a mercantile committee report favors a telephone rate cap.

Beverly Farms House of Representatives Senate Ames House John Herty Fanny Coulter Malden Committee On Mercantile Affairs

Prohibition Amendment Hearings Open in State Capitol Room

The liquor law committee opened hearings on a proposed prohibitory amendment to the state constitution drawing about 200 women and several temperance workers. Leaders from WCTU and temperance groups urged submission to voters citing Republican support and public demand. Speakers argued constitutional prohibition as better than licenses with calls to place the issue above party labels. The session adjourned to Monday at 10 a.m.

Green Room E. S. Tobey Woman’s Christian Temperance Union E. C. Foster Iowa National League Lucia F. Kimball Chicago B. R. Jewell Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society E. P. Gordon Massachusetts Christian Temperance Union Hugh Montgomery Helen G. Rice E. S. Burlingame Providence Rhode Island Woman's Christian Temperance Massachusetts Plumb K. B. Johnson Waltham

Legislature Debates Bevy of Bills and Beverly Inquiry

Massachusetts Senate and House leaders clash over bills on debt for Lawrence bridge repairs and reform of private legislation. The Beverly Farms measure faces postponement amid accusations of paid lobbying and electioneering, with lawmakers split on refering it to the next General Court while other measures proceed.

Massachusetts Legislature Digest of Statutory Proposals and Reports

A compilation of measures and resolutions under consideration including references to the Boston Athletic Association and limits on married women's real estate disposal, arbitration compensation under Chapter 158, charter amendments for Gloucester Water Supply, insolvency commissioner appointments, land boundary determinations for Commonwealth lands at state facilities, printing of the Bursey bridge accident report, enlarging clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court duties in Suffolk, benefits for James B. Moore and the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Association, new laundry and repairs at the State workhouse in Bridgewater, a Palmer town favor, prison to State farm transfer at Bridgewater with lunacy board oversight, and a range of approvals and rejections by committees on banks, judiciary amendments, fisheries, and river pollution controls.

Boston Athletic Association Gloucester Water Supply Company Siward J. Jenkins Massachusetts Reformatory and Reformatory Bursey Supreme Judicial Court Suffolk James B. Moore Third Massachusetts Cavalry Association Bridgewater Palmer Commissioners of Prisons Massachusetts Reformatory State Farm State Board of Lunacy and Charity Committee On Banks Joint Committee On the Judiciary Committee On Fisheries and Game Merrimac

Paragraphs from a late 18th century legislative vote debate

A detailed roll call recount shows members debating a bill to divide Beverly and referring the measure to the next General Court. The session extended debate to 3:30 PM with divisions on refer to next Legislature and striking the enactment clause. Final passage: 98 yeas to 70 nays, with 25 pairs, reflecting absences and new pairings.

Democratic Party Publican Fales Milford Beverly Dresser Boston Smith Andover Quincy Mr. Kent By & Hess Yeas Messrs Adams Allen Arnold Bailey Bartett Batchelder Bennink Boardman Brady Breed Carpenter Clark Lynn Collison Conlin Darling Bavlin Day Dennis Dodge Doherty Medford Daniea Norwood Farren Floyd Flynn Fossitt Garfield Gile Hamilton Tarris Slastings Hathorne Hunt Kent Lally Larabee Lovell Maguire McEttrick Nic O'Brien O’hearn Perry Quinn Fall River Reardon Roberts Rowell Mith Athol Stanley Stephenson Story Sullivan Symonds Teele Turner Walker Wardwell Wharton Whitcher Wood Newton Nays Messie Armstrong Barney Belcher Bennett Fairhaven Agawam Bird Bottom Boyden Brandes Brigham Brockbank Brooks Brown Burteh Butler Callan Carman Champlin North Brookfield Conant Conroy Copsand Crosby Cutter Desmond Dexter Dillingham James Donovan Eanes Wele Field Fisk Fitzgerald Ganswell Garity Gaylord Mclnntosh Miller Springfield Chelsea Milliken Milne Morey Morin Morrill Morton Moseley Murphy Noonan Orcutt Owen Parker Parkman Perkins Pinkerton Post Pray Provin Ray Ready Reynolds Sanderston Sandland Scully Sillars Smart Southard Spellman Stockwell Buck Gardner Brewster Dover E. J. Donovan Taft Uxbridge Colby Freeman Connor McCarthy Foss Wilde Weet Godfrey Hitchings Thompson Peirce Add Holyoke Knight Pear Pool Young Downer Veas Bartlett Carmen Darlin Dennie Stevenson Weele Whiteher Woodward Burtch Calnan Copeland Cutler J. Donovan Eames Fetch Gamwell Fitchburg Garrity Giddings Gleason Goodell Graves Greenwood Gunn Gurney Hagerty Haggerty Southbride Hall Handy Harlow Hayes Heasley Harris Hersey Hinchcliffe Ofmer Hlowe Shrewsbury Jacques Jennings Kiearn Kemp Ladd Lang Leach Lincoln Linton Lynch McCue Winkerton Previn Sanderson Kesedy Bray Wadlin Wilkins Finney Atwood Noyes Backup Carney Wakefield Dame Yes O Connor Hervey Godfrey Judd Loring Hutchings

Insolvency Court Handles First Creditors Meetings in Suffolk

In Suffolk county Insolvency Court Judge McKim presided over first creditors meetings for bankrupts to prove debts and select assignees. Thomas Flaherty's piano business named George Everett as assignee. Washington L. & C.J. Prescott’s firm chose James H. Young as assignee. Boot and shoe jobbers Thomas P. Randall, Daniel D. Gile, Edward M. Shaikes, with Lewis Tenney and Henry H. Tucker as assignees. A warrant issued for George E. Cochnower, former railroad equipment dealer. Henry H. Pike & Son filed a creditors petition. Composition hearing for Waldo H. Blake continued to the 10th. Robert L. Ide, once unpaid for a year with $50,000 liabilities, settled with creditors and resumed trading on the Boston Stock Exchange. Martinelli and Henry J. Altman cafe owners at 5 Bowling Green, New York, face judgments totaling $453 and $50,521 for glassware and loans, with heavy expenses including $7,000 rent.

Suffolk County McKim Thomas Flaherty Tremont Street George Everett Washington L. & C.J Henry H. Pike & Son Cambridge Waldo H. Blake Eliot Street Robert L. Ide Broer Boston Bachan E. . Martinelli Henry J. Altman No. 5 Bowling Green New York Sheraf L. Altiuan

Three days' sale of library collection opens at Libbie rooms

The auction of Rev. Conyers Francis and Lydia Marin Child's libraries began yesterday at Charles F. Libbie & Co. catalog lists standard works and rare items. Prices for Emerson first editions reached up to 276 and more while engravings and etchings sold for various sums, the sale continuing today and tomorrow.

Dyce Raffaello Morghen Raphael F. Muller Achille Lefevre Murillo L. Masasard Saint Jerome Coelemanns Luxembourg Rubens

Collision off Cape Cod sinks Merwin near shore

The Warren steamship Iowa and the schooner General E. Merwin collided about thirteen miles southeast of Cape Cod Light. The Merwin sank after a flare lit the scene. crew fled to the Iowa and the Merwin's crew mostly lost possessions. The Iowa, badly damaged with a twenty by six foot hole, reached East Boston under sail after the wreck.

Warren Iowa Walters Liverpool East Boston Cape Cod General E. Merwin New Haven O’brien Boston Baltimore Burwise Oregon

Uncontested Divorce and Boston Court Docket Details

The Supreme Judicial Court lists uncontested divorce cases for Friday May 12. Superior Court first session includes multiple civil suits, verdicts, and appeals such as Maher vs Eaton for breach of warranty and Hoar vs Dinin on appeal from a poor debtor hearing. A second session covers tort actions against Boston Cooperative Building and other defendants over stream pollution near Harvard Street, with a jury disagreement in one case and various pleadings and trial notes continuing through the docket.

Supreme Judicial Court Devens. J Andrew J. Maher Albert F. Eaton E. B. Callender P. S. Maher Jer . R. Lund Charles Hi. Welch Benjamin B. Hoar Richard A. Dinin J. E. Butler C. G. Keyes Catherine Allerton Boston & Maine Lawrence Malden Station Charles G. Fales Job Lincoln Badger Annie M. Morris City of Boston Kingston Summer Streets Thomas Curley R. W. Neda Fabery South Boston R. R. Co Gustin Lincoln Clapp Mass Ben. Ass Shrines Bay State Clark Va Same Kehoe Boston & Albany R. R Welch Norton Osborne Newsome Pearson Hanford Herbert Boston & Albany R. R. Co Gaston Allen Newhall Davis Train King Bloopgett Charles H. Greenwood Boston Cooperative Building Company Joseph P. B. Carleton Dorchester New York & New England Railroad Harvard Street S. B. Allen J. F. Wheeler Russell Gray H. W. Swift John Meehan John M. Reber Spring Lane I. R. Clark F. Ranney T. J. Gargan W. E. Boynton Rhoda N. Linton Frank D. Allen Oak Bluffs FL. Hesseltine William Gaston Harley O'Leary Doherty Kinsman Sharp Slorm Learned Carroll Watts Ilehill Holmes Gilligan Walsh Word Earl Mead Boylston Cong. Church Crockett Cook Tilton Boston & Maine RR Cawley

Jury Clears Defendant in Bastardy Case and Docket of Suits

In crowded docket, the jury found the defendant not guilty in a bastardy action. P B Kiernan led for the plaintiff with D C Allen for the defense. Other cases listed include Charles P Barnard versus Charles H Moore over a $92,020 contract claim and associated board charges, Amory versus Old Colony Railroad for $5,000 in a tort claim, plus numerous civil suits against various defendants and corporations.

P. B. Kiernan D. C. Allen Charles P. Barnard Charles H. Moore Maverick House J. W. Pickering George E. Abbott Frank Pain George W. Amory Old Colony Railroad Company W. W. Gooch J. H. Benton, Jr Amory Old Colony R.R. Co Connor Lamb Ahearn O'Rourke Hamilton Richardson Roberts Austin Kenney N. Y W. E. RR Cragrin Masterson Abbott Randall Cole Corr Knowles

Juries Excused. Court Adjourns to Monday at 9:30 A.M.

The court adjourns to Monday morning at 9:30 for jury waived cases listed, including Roberts versus City of Cambridge and Hassan versus Town of Natick, among many others. Attorneys and parties named in the docket are noted with case numbers such as 2256 and 1977, across multiple cities and facilities.

Same Hassan Town of Natick Carter Lechmere Read’s Co Alphen Alden Town of Stoneham Russell Jeffrey Noxon Pratt Rouse Sci. Fac Titus Gregory Stewart Clark Gately Saci. Fac Conant Sci Toohey Haynes

Margaret Ryan vs City of Boston damages suit over sidewalk defect

Action for damages for injuries from a supposed sidewalk defect on Havre Street East Boston February 2 1886. Defence argues no defect and lack of due care. plaintiffs represented by J L Eldridge and defendant by R W Nason.

Margaret Ryan City of Boston Havre Street East J. L. Eldridge R. W. Nason Peter Bertrand Amos Churchill Quincy W. H. Oventt E. C. Bumpus Tirrell Austin McLaughlin

Society of Arts Receives Weather Bureau Support Remarks

The Society of Arts annual meeting at the Institute of Technology heard Professor Niles advocate stronger weather bureau support from public and state. A H Kendall outlined Martin-Wilson automatic fire alarm principles while Martin demonstrated its operation with Wison assisting. H C Nutt and Carlton H Lee were elected, Linus Faunce re elected secretary. The executive committee includes Woodbury Blodgett Howe Carpenter Tutts.

Society of Arts Institute of Technology C. J. H. Woodbury Niles Weather Bureau A. H. Kendall Martin-Wilson Martin Wison H. C. Nutt Carlton H. Lee Linus Faunce C. J. H Woodbury G. W. Blodgett H. M. Howe G. O Carpenter J. W. Tutts

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