Trade With Colombia Promising Market For American Goods
Washington May 12 A former U S consul Edmund P Smith says Colombia offers a large field for American enterprise including electric lights water works railroads and emigration aids The government promises 7 percent guarantees on water works and 25 year concessions He notes Colombia still mainly imports from Britain and Germany while American firms have little presence and outlines rich natural resources and potential for U S products and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Srverau
Republic of Colombia
Edmund P. Smith
United States
Carthagena
Hubbard Taylor Smith
Republic
Dr. Nunez
America
Colombia
New Orleans
New York
Mr. Smith
Belgium
India
Brazil
CLASSIFYING WORSTEDS WITH WOOLLENS
The worsted controversy nears an end as Secretary Windom may decide within a week. Collector Erhardt in New York sustained taxing worsted with woollens. Importers will appeal to the secretary, who will not hear further arguments. If Windom sides with the collector, the case goes to courts for tariff act interpretation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Erhardt
New York
Windom
Massachusetts Fourth Class Postmasters Named
Fourth class postmasters appointed in Massachusetts include John A. Woodsbury of Hopkinton John H. Hoyt of Newton Lower Falls Silas Newton of Oakdale and T H Deane of Somerset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
John A. Woodsbury
Hopkinton
John H. Hoyt
Newton Lower Falls
Silas Newton
Oakdale
T. H. Deane
Somerset
Funeral of W. D. OConnor Reveals Noted Writer Friend of Whitman
The funeral was held at his residence conducted by Dr Rush Shippen of All Souls. O Connor, a Bostonian by birth, served on the lighthouse board and later as chief clerk and assistant superintendent in life saving. He wrote for magazines and is known for Hamlet s Note Book. He supported Baconian theory and published the pamphlet after Rich ard Grant White s death. He died about 57 after long spinal troubles, leaving a widow formerly Miss Tarr of Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.D. O'Connor
W. D. O'Connor
Rush Shippen
All Souls
O'Connor
Tarr
Boston
Deserters from the Army Amnesty Talk Surfaces
Senator Plumb of Kansas reports securing a pledge from the President to grant general amnesty for regular army deserters since 1873. President Grant issued the first proclamation in 1873, with 40,000 desertions and 8,000 arrests cited. Some men allegedly desert and reenlist under assumed names multiple times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plumb
Kansas
Grant
Enlisted Men Desertion Noted In Personal Record
A personal record notes young men who enlisted and deserted, highlighting the seriousness of their offence and the impact on military discipline. The document emphasizes accountability and the need for apprehension of the crime.
REMAINS OF GENERAL HARNEY LAID TO REST AT ARLINGTON
The remains of General William Shelby Harney who died in Orlando Florida last Thursday were buried at Arlington National Cemetery this afternoon. Mrs Harney accompanied the funeral escort included two cavalry squadrons from Fort Meyer and eight of the oldest sergeants of the Third Artillery served as pallbearers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Harney
William Shelby Harney
Orlando
Fla
National Cemetery
Arlington
Supreme Court to Open Final Session Before Summer Recess
The Supreme Court will hold its last session before summer recess tomorrow and render several major decisions. Key cases include the challenge to the Scott Chinese exclusion law, the Myra Clark Gaines suit, two West Virginia cases on wartime responsibility, and a contempt proceeding from the Sharon will suit in California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Myra Clark Gaines
West Virginia
Sharon
California
Murder Charge in Colorado Connects to Hartford Agent
Henry Hatch, a Boston insurance agent for the Travellers' Insurance Co., is jailed in Burlington, Colorado, charged with murdering his uncle C. W. Hatch. A coroner's verdict says the uncle died from head trauma by a blunt instrument, while supporters call the case circumstantial with no motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Col
Henry Hatch
New England
Colorado
Burlington
C. W. Hatch
Boston
California
Birmingham
Mich
Young Hatch
Travellers’ Insurance Company
Hartford
Worthy Poor Helpers Mark 12th Anniversary At Park Street
The Boston Industrial and Appleton Temporary Homes celebrated their twelfth anniversary at Park Street Church with Mayor Hart, singers, and sermons. Superintendent Roberts released an annual report noting beds added, meals served, and ongoing improvements. The institution sought further donations to continue aiding residents and fund upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Appleton
Park Street
Mayor Hart
E. Humphrey Allen
N. Allen
Mr. Hyde
A.J. Gordon
D.D
Thomas D. Roberts
Chilren
Aenemny
Matthew Cheney
Hart
Gregg
Park Street Church
Gordon
G W Simmons & Co Uniforms Headquarters in North Street
G W Simmons & Co offer broad uniform lines for military naval marine fire service police and domestic use. The firm specializes in making and supplying all descriptions at their address 32 to 44 North Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Marine
North Street
G. W. Simmons & Co
Charleston Trial Clears Way For Faster Battleship Progress
Santa Barbara May 11 The cruiser Charleston showed an average speed around eighteen and a quarter knots during a trial with 5500 horsepower and 107 engine revolutions. Starboard slides heated limiting full power and a second report confirmed the trial as a failure due to starboard engine issues. Officials expect further tests with improvements to reach nineteen knots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Barblara
Cal
Charleston
San Francisco
Union Iron Works
F. A. Wilson
Naval Examining Board
Washington
Tracy
Santa Barbara
Enham
Question Clubs Probe Congress on Taxes and Trade
Boston area question clubs with twenty three groups ask Senators Hoar and Dawes and Representatives Andrew and Candler about tariff tax on salt fish smoked herring potatoes coal iron ore and Nova Scotia resources. They seek motives revenue and impact on industry and jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Brookline
Hyde Park
Franklin
West Medway
Maynard
Milford
Mendon
Hoar
Dawes
Andrew and
Candler
Ifso
United States
Canada
Nova Scotia
Robert C Winthrop Celebrates Eightieth Birthday
The Boston born Robert C Winthrop, now at his Warren street Brookline summer home, was seen by a Post reporter. He appears in good health with only slight deafness and attended church yesterday morning. He joined a Historical Society meeting recently and returned from New York Centennial events. Callers brought bouquets in tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert C. Winthrop
Boston
Warren Street
Brookline
Post
Winthrop
The
Historical Society
New York
Sunday School Marks 73rd Anniversary at First Baptist
The First Baptist Sunday School on Commonwealth Avenue celebrated its seventy third anniversary with an organ prelude by Norman McLeod and a pro cessional hymn. Pupils including Howard Moxom Emily Apixe and others recited or read scripture while Superintendent I O Whiting noted an average attendance of 141 and $413 raised for charities. The pastor Rev P S Moxom offered encouragement to the pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist Sunday School
Commonwealth Avenue
Norman McLeod
Howard Moxom
Emily
Alice Cifre
Flossie Willis
Edith Moxom
Jennie Evans
Carlotta Justin
Jeannette Arnold
Tommy Harris
Grace Ingalls
I. O. Whiting
P.S. Moxom
Amusements listings across theatres with shows and times
The column lists various theatre bills and showings including Lottery of Love at Hollis and Piepe Theatre, Eason Ton on Museum ticket of leave man, Ban Theatre Captain Swift and Evening at 7 45, Globe Theatre A Dark Secret beginning Tuesday, M S Pinafore at Ton Theatre, Cyclorama Tremont Street Custer's Last Fight, Howard Atheneham Lost in New York, Grand Opera House Herminie with showtimes at 2 and 7 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollis
PIEPE
Eason Ton
Ban
Captain Swift
GLOBE
Tremont Street
Custer
Howard Atheneham
New York
Grand Opera House
Boston Museum
Hazel K KE
H. M. Pitt
Lord Fauntleroy
Auction Sales Today and Tomorrow
Frost Jona Auctioneers present Frost-Jona at 8 a m. Tomorrow Bigelow and Co. hold paints at 10 30 a m Horatio Harris and Co Real Estate sells at 4 p m Samuel Hatch and Co Real estate sale Oriental Rugs Carpets etc Lewis J Bird and Co 3 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frost—Jona. Bigelow & Co
Horatio Harris & Co
Samuel Hatch & Co
Lewis J.bird & Co
Market notes on bullish tilt and brokerage moves on State Street
Stocks held firm in New York with an uptick in prices and bullish sentiment. Talks of Southern and Copper stocks improving signaled by Atchison’s steady stance and trader confidence, while Oregon Improvement earnings declined sharply for March 1889. Clark Ward & Co. announce new Boston New York banking offices with H Victor Newcomb joining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Oregon
Messrs. Clark, Ward
Marriages Recorded in Boston and Nearby Cities
Marriages listed include Henry K Appleton and Lizzie A Sands in Boston on April 20 by Rev J W Winkley. Other couples shown include Clarence I Burr and Blanche M Amsden in Granby to South Framingham on May 8, Neil Doherty and Catharine Devlin in city on May 9.
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Appleton—Sands
This
J. W. Winkley
Henry K. Appleton
Lizzie A. Sands
Boston
Mass
Burr
Amsden
Clarence I. Burr
Granby
Canada
Blanche M. Amsden
South Framingham
Doherty
Vdevlin
T. W. Wallace
Neil Doherty
Catharine Devlin
Grade—Krim
W. E. Huntington
Edward H. Sanborn
Philadelphia
Harriet M
Bradford K. Pierce
Newton
Obituary notices from Boston area May entries list many residents
Deaths and memorial notices across Medfield Dorchester South Boston Hyde Park and nearby towns dated May 9 to May 11 include Adams Boardman Berry Birch Burke Case Crowley Coffin Clapp Slougherty Donahue Dover Doole Everett Fitzpatrick Gross Harris Horan Hill Junier Sullivan Travis Vaughan Wilson Waitt Grace Helen Waitt child of Charles F and Annie T
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Medfield
George Fr. Adams
Boardman
Mary Ann
Edwin A. Boardman
Berry
South Boston
Dorothy Berry
John Berry
Birch
Needham
Charles W. Birch
Ene Burke
Dorchester
Adelia H
John C. Burke
Case
Hyde Park
Mass
Eliza Libby Case
Crowley
East Boston
Luke J. Crowley
Coffin
Susan G
Peter Coffin
Copeland Street
Roxbury
South Scituate
Clapp
West Roxbury
Rebecca Woodbridge
Stephen KR. Clapp
Slougherty
Thomas Hi. Clougherty
Donahue
Rochester Street
Timothy Donahue
Dover
Mary Dover
Doole
Mary Doole
Everett
Emeline A. Everett
Fitzpatrick
John B. Fitzpatrick
Gross
Oscar Gross
Harris
Irene Harris
Caleb Harris
Horan
Thomas T. Horan
Hill
Joseph
Francis
Mary Hill
Jun
Boston Nuisance Petition Hearings Set May 17 1889
Boston officials schedule a hearing May 17 at 10 a.m. at the health office 12 Beacon Street on the nuisance claim from stagnant water on vacant East Boston land. F G King and others petitioned for abatement. Board of Health supports granting the petition. FRIDAY, May 17, 1889, at 10 a.m. is the hearing time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
F. G. King
East
Paris Street
Decatur Street
Board of Health of
City of
Beacon Street
Co. E. Davis
Harvard Bridge
City Hall
Public School Teacher Certification Examinations Set in Boston
Candidates for regular and special teaching certificates in Boston public day and evening schools will be examined August 20 21 and 22 at the girls high school on West Newton street. Examinations start Tuesday at 9 a.m. and proceed Wednesday and Thursday at 830 a.m. Attendees must be present all days. Special certificates in French German drawing penmanship phonography sewing cookery and kindergarten will be examined with regular applicants. Send for circular with full details to PHINEAS BATES Secretary School Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Girls’ High School
West Newton Street
Phineas Bates
Taxpayers notice from Boston Assessors in 1882
City Hall Boston May 1 1882 notice urg ing taxpayers to file property tax returns early by 2 p m on Saturday June 15. Circular being distributed citywide. Per order of the Board of Assessors Joshua B Duncklee secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CiTy Hall
Boston
Board of Assessors
Joshua
Duncklee
Williams Sues for Divorce and Custody in 1889
Eugenie Idella Williams of Chelsea petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for divorce from Daniel Morgan Williams of Leavenworth Kansas after more than three years of desertion since December 22, 1885. She seeks custody of their two children Eugene Webster Williams born June 4, 1883 and Charles Heanes Williams born February 23, 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth OF Massachussetts
Suffolk
Superior Court
Boston
Eugenie Idella Williams
Chelsea
Daniel Morgan Williams
Leavenworth
Kansas
Charlestown
Daniel
Iibel Jant
Eugene Webster Wiliams
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W. D. O’connor
Hatch
Hatch & Woodman
Pacific Coast
Flagler
Woodman
C. M. Beal
F. Woopman
Boston Industrial and
State Street
Bears
Southwestern
Gould
Atchison Board of Directors
Atchison
Bell Telephone
Tam
Messrs. Baring Bros. & Co
Bank of England
Bell Telephone Company
Missouri
Bell Company
Illinois
Oklahoma Territory
Frisco
R. I
Woods’s
F. C. Sturtevant
Conn
Faxon, Seedsman
South Market Street
Watts & Willis
Quincy Market
Baldwin & Cheney
Coffin & Henry
Iowa
State of
Des Moines
Austin Flint
Bellevue
J. M. Cornwall
Duffy
Duffy’s
North Market Street
P. O
Court and
Tremont Streets
Roundy & Hobbs
Court Street
Mitocatigon
Office Boston Post
Fruit Trade Journal Co
State St
N. Y
K. L. Young
John Shaw
Auburndale
P. O. Box
Abram French & CO
Franklin Street
Columbus Avenue
City Notices
Office OF the Board OF Health
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
County of
Boston Post
Daniel Sae Williams
Country Homes
Methuen
Lawrence
Haverhill
Merrimac
Geo
Merrill
Ins
H. C. Haven
Beacon St
P. Adley
Central Wharf
Quincy
Alleyn Terrace
Hancock and
Alleyn Streets
E. Stoddard
Bromfield Street
Elm Hill
Cheever New Hall
Magnolia St
Bird St
New York & New England RR
J. H. Pierce
Pearl St
John Jeffries & Bons
Boston and Vicinity
Devonshire Et
Cumberland Coal
Charles Moron
City Hospital
Harvard
Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad Company
Kittery
F. R. Barrett
Portland
S.S. Pierce & CO
John Gilbert, Jr., & Co
Tighe & Burke
C. B. Fessenden
F. C. Lord & Co
Newton & Frost
Ware & Hastings
Nash & Bowers
Cobb, Bates & Yerxa
Globe Theatre—Extra
George Hosmer
Captain Andrews
Boston Theatre
Eugene Tompkins
Corcoran
D. M. Babcoo
Joseph Porter Beeei
Digby
Ralph Rackstraw
Wm. H. Fessende
Little Buttercup
Laura Joyce Bel Josephine
Georgine von Januschowsky
Annie Bell Hinckley
Dick Deadeye
J. C. Miron
Bill Bobstay
Lon F. Brine
R. M. Fielf
Hollis Isaac B. Rich
Augustin Daly
Samson and del A
Howard Atheneum
Gericke
Wilhelm Gericke
Music Hall
Cyclorama and Indian Musee
Gettysburg
Proctor & Mansfield
William Redmund
Thomas Barry
Harmanie
Redmund-Barry
State House
Francis W. Qua
William H. Presse
Root B
A. m Francis W. Qua
William H. Preble
Copartnership Notices
Wiliam H. Ward
Charles W. Wilder
W. H. Ward & Co
Wm. H. Lloyd
WM. H. Ward
Calvin A. Richards
Edgar W. Anthony
Frank B. Wilder
Ex’ors Will
Chas. W. WilDer
Kennedy
Iyad
Jan Ans
Boston Safety Vapor Stove Co
High ST
E. van Noorden & CO
Harrison Ave
Masa
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