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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1891
Page
2
Terrible havoc by forest fires sweeps Michigan and Pennsylvania destroying villages mills and camps. London and Paris see volatile securities with Rothschild rumors and mixed gains on Wall Street as markets react to debt concerns and bank actions in Lisbon and Moscow.
On May 12 Walshineron reports Worcester post office officials met at the Treasury to discuss the new public building. Secretary Foster was away, but supervising architect Mr. Edbrooke welcomed proposed alterations to fit the current appropriation. A sketch of changes was requested to consider enlarging capacity without major cost increases. Postmaster Green secured several needed improvements afterward.
Across Michigan and Pennsylvania wildfires devastate towns and timber lands. Rail lines halt as engines burn, villages vanish, and thousands lose homes while crews battle blazes and fight to save mills and camps amid hundreds of burned acres and shifting winds.
The article describes a late night train overtaken by flames and a boil water creek escape. Firefighters jump into scorching water, many burned, five die and Superintendent Badger perishes. A rescue party searches the burnt area as 30 are badly injured and 15 expected to die. Forest fires along the Soo Line near Paminea Wisconsin threaten cedar lands due to two weeks of dry conditions.
A blaze at 1 20 this morning destroyed a barn on Pine Island near Swett and Albany streets. W W Dudley owned the structure housing about twenty work horses used by C S Lonereau a cellar and grading contractor. Firemen could not enter as flames and smoke were dense. Loss estimated at $4000 with little insurance. cause undetermined.
May 12 dispatches detail fires at Eagle Refining in Lima destroying the plant with about 75000 dollars loss from a lamp in the boiler room. Palmer reports a two story Central street building gutted affecting Hitchcock, Alexander & Co. and others with multiple insurance values and probable lightning. Marlboro notes Hose 1 stable fire destroying building and contents. Plymouth Campton Village store fire with partial salvage and 1500 dollars insurance.
Box 66 of the fire alarm telegraph system, installed at Chapman and Middlesex, rang at 2 17 pm when a backyard mattress fire at 40 Emerald Street caused the alarm with no damage reported. An earlier alert from Box 612 at 1 25 pm noted a small closet fire at 4 Everett Court, East Boston.
James M. Turner, the former Republican candidate for governor, is financially embarrassed and has filed a bill of sale covering nearly all his personal property to Detroit men in trust for Lansing banks to secure about 110000. He also filed trust deeds on his real estate. Turner presides over several businesses including Michigan Condensed Milk Company and Riverside Brick Company.
May 12 Lowell report: The Rev Horatio Wood died at Westford Street aged 83 pneumonia. Harvard graduate 1827 divinity 1832 active in Lowell ministry from 1844 to 1868 led Five Cent Savings Bank for years and known for charity. Survived by wife son daughter. In Manchester Vermont Rev Dr J D Wickham Yale oldest living graduate class of 1815 dies at 94 highly elderly faculties preserved.
A funeral service for the Rev G G Jones late of Brighton was held at Grace Episcopal Church Newton with many relatives and friends in attendance. Charles Ward Post 62 G A R attended in a body. The service was led by Rev George W Shinn with assistance from Rev George S Converse and Rev Thomas F Fales. The body was interred in Newton Cemetery receiving tomb.
The Nashua Board of Mayor and Aldermen granted a petition for a special election to adopt the Australian ballot system. The Mayor set June 16 as the election date, in line with the Legislature's act.
Reports from Tokyo and London confirm an assassination attempt on the Czarewitch. A Japanese attacker wounded the heir with a sword but left him alive and not in danger. Accounts place the incident near Kioto and Otsa on Lake Biwa, with details varying by dispatch.
London May 12 in the House of Commons Mr William Henry Smith moved to expel Captain Edmund H Verney MP for North Buckinghamshire after his one year sentence for conspiracy to procure a governess for immoral purposes The Speaker said Verney was convicted on his own confession and attendance was not needed The motion to remove him was supported by Henry Campbell Bannerman and passed in absolute silence
A main steam pipe burst at the Malden Electric Light Station around 10 pm causing engines to stop and blacking out the city. Repairs cannot restore power tonight but officials expect lights back by tomorrow evening with no injuries reported.
Several nations have notified Spain of readiness to negotiate renewal of commercial treaties. Spain replies negotiators must await the royal commission report on a new protection tariff. Spain will exclude colonies from treaties and reject favored nation provisions.
An explosion believed caused by a dynamite bomb rocked Lisbon amid a financial panic. The blast damaged the Ministry of the Interior and alarm spread as authorities withheld full details from the public.
About fifty people accompanied U S Commissioners to Cobbessee Pond in Gardiner Maine to observe a test of the Holmes graphite ring for projectiles. Commander N M Dyer oversaw the test at Portsmouth Navy Yard using a Moratt field piece. Seventeen shots weighed sixteen pounds each and fired at two ranges proved very satisfactory.
Newtonville Universalist Church members about 250 hosted a reception for Rev and Mrs R A White, the church pastor and wife, tonight. A short program featured readings by Miss Maud Lewis and soprano selections by Mrs E W French and a quartet.
Washington May 12 Commission Raum of the Pension Bureau reports a sharp drop in army pension outlays for the year. He estimates total payments will not exceed 116 million dollars against a 125.8 million dollar appropriation, leaving about 9.8 million unspent and urging agents to accelerate June vouchers to minimize year end carryover.
In New Orleans on May 12 Chevalier Pasqual Corte received Rome’s order to return home and report the uprising. He plans to depart soon and reassures the public of conciliatory aims. Vice Consul Poma will arrive in a few days to serve in his absence. The grand jury released a report on the Italian Consul’s criticism of the Hennessy case and parish prison affair, deeming it inconsistent with official dignity.
Weather forecast from The Weather Indications Washington on May 12. Generally fair conditions across New England and eastern New York through Wednesday evening with coastal showers possible and stable temperatures. Cautionary signals extend from Norfolk to Boston, excluding New Haven New London and Newport areas.
Northern New England shows fair warm weather with light westerly winds and cool evenings. Southern New England near clear skies with possible coastal clouds and slightly higher temperatures. Thursday looks fair with southwest winds and rising temperatures. Continuous regional clarity prevails, with showers confined to some areas yesterday.
An investigative feature by the Boston Globe details a public scrutiny of claims about a supposed discovery. The piece recounts a staged encounter with Dr. A. W. K. Newton at 528 Tremont Street, including a doctor’s mock prescription and the reporter’s attempt to expose unsubstantiated statements.
A reporter recounts doctors and prominent individuals endorsing Paine's Celery Compound. It highlights physician testimonials about grippable seasons, personal health gains, and public demonstrations of the remedy's alleged benefits as a cure all and nerve and blood tonic.
Cambridge Aldermen voted to rescind the prior limit of one sixth class liquor license per druggist. The vote 4 to 2, with Parry and Doyle in favor, Aylward Clary and Fairbairn opposed. Licenses committee to report petitions from W C T U and Father Mathew Society. Also, West End Street Railway noted pole removal but reserved rights. Ducy as chief inspector and Harriman as inspector confirmed. In Common Council pensioning aged officers defeated 13 to 6.
San Francisco May 12 Professor Brigham reports a major collapse at Kilauea in the Sandwich Islands. The fire area is gone replaced by a pit crater about 2500 by 3000 feet with 600 foot walls and a rapid refill by molten lava after three weeks.
Brookline park officials settled land damage claims from Riverdale Park construction. Hugh Murray Jr received 2600 square feet valued at 2600 dollars including stable removal. James Hanlon got 125 square feet for 500 dollars with removal of a building. Ann Hanlon earned 75 square feet at 75 cents per foot. Charles H Stearns and Walter C Cabot were compensated for 560 square feet at 420 dollars.
The English High School Association holds its annual meeting at the school house on Montgomery street this Wednesday at 8 o'clock. In addition to routine business and officer elections, attendees will hear short addresses on the topic When I Was at School by W. H. Lord M. A. Aldrich Francis Boyd and Curtis Guild, with years 1880 1890 183Q 1840 noted.
London May 13 The hot weather yesterday seems to have eased the influenza outbreak. Sir John Lubbock and Mr Burdett Coutts are ill but improving. It is expected Mr Gladstone will travel to Hawarden on Saturday, and fumigation of the Parliament building has begun.
The Maine Horse Breeders Association met in Lewiston on May 12 to establish a permanent organization selecting officers. H. G. Staples of Augusta was named president, Appleton F Webb of Waterville secretary, B. M. Hamilton of Biddeford treasurer, and trustees include Ke... Obh ter of Skowhegan, F. Briggs of Auburn, J. P. Bass of Bangor, and D. M. Foster of Canton.
The Riverside Boat Club of Cambridge held its first regular monthly meeting in the new clubhouse on the Charles River with over sixty members present. Six candidates were admitted. regatta sanctions were debated and a July 4 Boston event conflicted with local oarsmen. Junior crew to Newark on Memorial Day. James Frew entered in the NEAAU meet at Irvington Oval May 21. Open handicap games to be held at Spy Pond on a future Saturday.
Liston May 12. Government issues decree due to alarming financial state allowing sixty day delay in payment of all obligations.
Walla Walla Wash May 12 Six soldiers belonging to a troop have been arrested for complicity in the recent lynching of Hunt the Gambier.
Late ship news from Rockport May 12 reports brig Jennie Hubert Harris sailing to Charleston and several schooners bound for Morehead City Boston and other ports. Vessel Edward S. Stearns Heal to Morehead City Mary Hawes Grinnell to Boston Annie Wilder Greenlando East Wind Pressy 40 William Norcross Robinson to do.
Medical writers praise the imported Carlsbad Sprudel Salt as an appiant laxative and diuretic with remarkable value. The Carlsbad Sprudel Spring is famed for real worth, and buyers are urged to secure only the genuine product.
Patrolman Rankin of Division 2 arrested Joseph J Reynolds on a charge of robbing Charles R Schoolcraft of Concord of a gold watch valued at 150. Schoolcraft was directed to his rail road station and met Reynolds who claimed his train had gone. He was taken to the Crawford House and robbed in a dark stair way. Patrolman Burns of Division 1 arrested James Closson and James Doherty for the larceny of a gold watch and chain from Michael J Downey at Pierce and Causeway streets. The property was recovered.
Samuel Hatch & Co sold yesterday the brick dwelling at 142 Huntington Avenue for 17000 dollars and tax to Godfrey Morse Esq. The transfer records show the sale completed with payment to the firm and conveyance to Morse in the city property ledger.
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